If they give their kids Ritalin to keep them calm so they don't have to watch them, they'd be able to log on to the computer and see stuff. But if they don't give their kids Ritalin, the kids can't log on to the computer so they won't see bad things but the parents would have to pay attention to them.
I'd think if they were going to ship a product that was horribly flawed they would notice it before they spent millions of dollars to bring it to market.
Yeah, or if someone were to like ship a bunch of systems that got really hot and caused all sorts of problems and negative feedback. That'd be stupid!
Probably because it's always been that way. IRQs are prioritized with lower numbers getting higher priority (except for the peskiness that ensues with 8-15 being tied back to IRQ 2). Someone probably decided a long time ago that it made sense (do 1, then 2, then 3, etc.) and it's stuck.
But signed bits may play into it as well.
Have they done a similar study for movies? My contention has been that actors and actresses tend to put a lot of money in politicians pockets, so that branch of the entertainment industry gets a free ride. I'd like to know if underage people are able to get into R-rated movies and/or buy parental warning lyrics-labeled CD's with the same frequency. As far as I know, movie theaters tend to do some checking but buying CD's is a free-for all.
Isn't this just the sort of thing the EFF likes to get involved in? I would think any suit like this would get a lot more traction with their backing (even if it's just adding some whitepapers/briefs in the mix).
Wouldn't the people that can do it, assuming they're out there, most certainly not do it on a machine that can be used to identify their methods? After all, if they were doing it for security research legitimately, they would've already told Apple...or the entire Internet if they felt Apple wasn't being responsive enough.
If they were to say that, as a whole, MMORPGs teach that time > skill, I'd be willing to agree with them 100%. Trying to say that WoW teaches it is sort of unfair. I learned that time > skill back in EQ, and nothing's happened to change that lesson.
But then I read: Murray said the law, which restricts access to mailing addresses, doesn't extend to e-mail addresses, as the city's attorneys contended. She said the city must turn over either a copy or an electronic copy of the list.
While I'm all for the government not being able to hide this kind of stuff (and it sounds like they weren't really, they gave the kid a chance to make his own copy, so they were making it difficult), I'm not sure I like the idea of someone being able to send a note to city hall and get copies of email addresses. Sure, your physical address gives people a lot more opportunities to abuse it, but I don't want my email address being handed out either.
Or at least I wouldn't if I'd ever given the government my email address. I figure if it's that important, they can eat the cost of bulk postage and send me a letter:)
My guess would be that she had conflicting information and went ahead with what the parents had told her.
And my guess would be she had conflicting information and decided that it would sell better if she uncovered some horrible problem that proved the children needed saving. I'd say her mistake was 100% intentional, regardless of how you look at it. Either she had conflicting stories and went ahead to boost her career knowing she was likely wrong, or she had conflicting stories and decided not to dig any deeper before going forward with the story. Either way, she was wrong.
I know he was scheduled to run Dungeon Siege into the ground, too. Did he get the Far Cry stuff before or after it?
I dunno that it matters a whole lot, I'm not sure either movie would earn my money. It will be nice to start bashing a brand new director of craptastic movies.
If you refuse or claim you have forgotton and they don't believe you, then it's two years in gaol for you sonny jim.
I'm not saying I like the idea of MS actually intentionally putting a back door in their OS, what with all the ones that are in it by accident. But I can see them trying to justify it. After all, depending on what you're likely to get busted for, two years locked up may be a cakewalk to what you'd get if they could get your data.
Of course this will only help catch stupid criminals. At least until it becomes a criminal offense to install encryption that doesn't have a nift key for concerned governmental authorities to use. Personally, I see it as a big overstep of government power. Privacy rights and all.
I see where you're coming from, but most nations already have laws restricting whom one can and can't do business with. Typically it's about militarily significant technologies being exported to countries that might want to use it for something other than agriculture or making really neat CG movies. So the idea is nothing new. Stretching it to this point is pretty silly/pointless, though.
A lot of those companies may not have their own servers in the nations in question, but they license technology to partners in the region to handle their day-to-day stuff. For example, Yahoo has a partnership with Alibaba.com. Let's say Google say "ok, we won't move our servers there." But they license everything out to a regional partner, and help them set it up. Is this a law that has a very clear loophole prior to even getting going? As such, does it make it another "feel good" law, the kind that we seem to be getting over the last 15 years or so?
You can't call shenanigans. My broom is in the shop.
Obviously the new HALO that's going to be Vista only is going to ramp up the FPS market! And...ummm...Does MS even do MMORPGs anymore? AC will be even...shardier?
This isn't very different than when Windows 95 came out. Of course, 95 and Windows 3.1/DOS really were incredibly different. I don't see Vista doing much, except possibly requiring an OS upgrade a year or two after it ships when DirectXbox360PCI-E-Enhanced becomes unusable on XP.
One day, companies who control the "intellectual property" behind music, movies, games, and books (and other similar things) will realize that we only want to pay for the "content" once. Period.
They may realize it, but they're not going to have the motivation to change their business model until people STOP buying every oddball (to use your example) Beatles release out there. Besides, the companies have it down now. Paying $20 for that Lord of the Rings DVD looked real good, until the mondo extended version came out two months later. I know several people who bought the regular versions of the movies knowing the extended versions weren't far off, plus the extended versions once they came out. Lord only knows how many copies of different books they bought (I've got two or three Lord of the Rings trilogy books/book sets, I'm as guilty as anybody)
Until we stop buying the new five extra seconds of footage DVDs after buying the oringinal (no, I'm not talking about the Lord of the Rings DVDs in this instance), they'll keep bundling them slightly differently in the hopes that we buy 'em all.
Personally, I like my hard-copies
* a) if it's good, the manual is dead handy, and looks prettier than anything I could print off (if I even had a printer a.t.m.)
* b) it's a definite proof of purchase, right there, in my hand. Reassuring.
Don't get me wrong, I like the hard copies too. But I have to admit that the idea of still being able to play my game after my first disk got damaged, the little red piece of paper that had my CD key got thrown away because it's trash on my desk (thanks hon!), or any of the other things that can happen, do.
Of course, part of it may be me presuming that if game manufacturers do away with game discs, I'd still be able to burn a copy of the download (although not on an Xbox) to save the download time. Plus I'd think they could choose to cut the price to reflect the money they save in shipping, printing manuals and disks, etc. Of course, sometimes I'm too optimistic.
I get sick of having my first CD damaged, so I can't play a game without taking extraordinary measures. At the same time, though, I don't want to not be able to play my games locally because my ISP managed to drop the entire block.
WoW has become so ubiquitous that most people where I work have at least played it, if they're not currently playing it. It makes transition to new groups/coworkers a little bit easier (some common ground outside work), and can act in place of the typical sports conversations that we used prior to MMORPGs.
I have friends that I've played MMORPGs with for years (and RPGs before we all got real jobs and ended up scattered to the winds), and we find MMORPGs are a fun way to keep in touch that allow us all to talk and burn off steam together. Takes the place of meeting up for a beer, although drinking tends to be involved.
I don't see it ever being a complete replacement. After all, everybody has their favorite passtimes. But in terms of providing some common ground to help people relate, there's no reason WoW can't take the place of any number of other discussion points.
Look for Yahoo to start passing the buck to their regional partner soon. Taken from this site.
"In October, Yahoo formed a partnership with Alibaba.com, which has responsibility for complying with Chinese authorities' requests for information going forward"
It had a more far-reaching effect for me. I used to buy FPS, FSPv2.0, FPSv2.1 now with On-line play! and all those sorts of games. Same for RPGs. Then I got hooked on Everquest and played that for a long time. During that time, I stopped playing other games (like you mentioned). Once I quit Everquest because the game play was repetitive and a lot of it was gigantic time sinks just for the sake of being time sinks, I started examining other games with the same view that I looked at Everquest.
When a new FPS comes out that says they have 30 levels and 600 hours of gameplay, I look a little deeper. I don't want to spend 600 hours shooting the same five things in slightly different environments using the same gameplay mechanics that I used in Rise of the Triad years ago. When a new RPG comes out, and it bosts insane hours of gameplay, I do the same thing. I've become a smarter game consumer, and unless companies offer things that are really innovative, I'm not going to bother buying it.
Actually, this is right in step with the Affirmative Action laws. Affirmative Action states that you can't hire less of some specific group (race, gender, whatever) that you have reasonably available (well, not really, but that's the way it gets interpreted generally). The best way to determine the availability of qualified applicants for the job is to keep a list of what applicants come in on what percentage of race.
So if you have a position, and 10% of the qualified applicants (people that met all posted qualifications) are Martian but your workforce for that job is only 5% Martian, there's a good chance that the EEOC will come down on you for not meeting affirmitave action criteria.
And, of course, all that contradicts the statements that affirmative action is not there to set quotas. Basically it's a big ol' gray area that can cause lots of headaches for employers, and it's in their best interest to do whatever they can to back themselves up against discrimination lawsuits. This site has an overview that's not filled with too much legalese.
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That'd make for tough parenting choices.
If they give their kids Ritalin to keep them calm so they don't have to watch them, they'd be able to log on to the computer and see stuff. But if they don't give their kids Ritalin, the kids can't log on to the computer so they won't see bad things but the parents would have to pay attention to them.
I'd think if they were going to ship a product that was horribly flawed they would notice it before they spent millions of dollars to bring it to market.
Yeah, or if someone were to like ship a bunch of systems that got really hot and caused all sorts of problems and negative feedback. That'd be stupid!
Probably because it's always been that way. IRQs are prioritized with lower numbers getting higher priority (except for the peskiness that ensues with 8-15 being tied back to IRQ 2). Someone probably decided a long time ago that it made sense (do 1, then 2, then 3, etc.) and it's stuck. But signed bits may play into it as well.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you funny. It was meant to be funny, right?
Have they done a similar study for movies? My contention has been that actors and actresses tend to put a lot of money in politicians pockets, so that branch of the entertainment industry gets a free ride. I'd like to know if underage people are able to get into R-rated movies and/or buy parental warning lyrics-labeled CD's with the same frequency. As far as I know, movie theaters tend to do some checking but buying CD's is a free-for all.
Isn't this just the sort of thing the EFF likes to get involved in? I would think any suit like this would get a lot more traction with their backing (even if it's just adding some whitepapers/briefs in the mix).
Wouldn't the people that can do it, assuming they're out there, most certainly not do it on a machine that can be used to identify their methods? After all, if they were doing it for security research legitimately, they would've already told Apple...or the entire Internet if they felt Apple wasn't being responsive enough.
It would've never occurred to me that people that take an active role in their childrens life lead to better adjusted children!
Also, can anyone tell me why eating high calorie food day in and day out for my entire life without excercise is making me gain weight?
If they were to say that, as a whole, MMORPGs teach that time > skill, I'd be willing to agree with them 100%. Trying to say that WoW teaches it is sort of unfair. I learned that time > skill back in EQ, and nothing's happened to change that lesson.
But then I read:
:)
Murray said the law, which restricts access to mailing addresses, doesn't extend to e-mail addresses, as the city's attorneys contended. She said the city must turn over either a copy or an electronic copy of the list.
While I'm all for the government not being able to hide this kind of stuff (and it sounds like they weren't really, they gave the kid a chance to make his own copy, so they were making it difficult), I'm not sure I like the idea of someone being able to send a note to city hall and get copies of email addresses. Sure, your physical address gives people a lot more opportunities to abuse it, but I don't want my email address being handed out either.
Or at least I wouldn't if I'd ever given the government my email address. I figure if it's that important, they can eat the cost of bulk postage and send me a letter
My guess would be that she had conflicting information and went ahead with what the parents had told her.
And my guess would be she had conflicting information and decided that it would sell better if she uncovered some horrible problem that proved the children needed saving. I'd say her mistake was 100% intentional, regardless of how you look at it. Either she had conflicting stories and went ahead to boost her career knowing she was likely wrong, or she had conflicting stories and decided not to dig any deeper before going forward with the story. Either way, she was wrong.
Laying people off so the stock price inflates is hardly novel.
I know he was scheduled to run Dungeon Siege into the ground, too. Did he get the Far Cry stuff before or after it?
I dunno that it matters a whole lot, I'm not sure either movie would earn my money. It will be nice to start bashing a brand new director of craptastic movies.
If you refuse or claim you have forgotton and they don't believe you, then it's two years in gaol for you sonny jim.
I'm not saying I like the idea of MS actually intentionally putting a back door in their OS, what with all the ones that are in it by accident. But I can see them trying to justify it. After all, depending on what you're likely to get busted for, two years locked up may be a cakewalk to what you'd get if they could get your data.
Of course this will only help catch stupid criminals. At least until it becomes a criminal offense to install encryption that doesn't have a nift key for concerned governmental authorities to use. Personally, I see it as a big overstep of government power. Privacy rights and all.
I see where you're coming from, but most nations already have laws restricting whom one can and can't do business with. Typically it's about militarily significant technologies being exported to countries that might want to use it for something other than agriculture or making really neat CG movies. So the idea is nothing new. Stretching it to this point is pretty silly/pointless, though.
A lot of those companies may not have their own servers in the nations in question, but they license technology to partners in the region to handle their day-to-day stuff. For example, Yahoo has a partnership with Alibaba.com. Let's say Google say "ok, we won't move our servers there." But they license everything out to a regional partner, and help them set it up. Is this a law that has a very clear loophole prior to even getting going? As such, does it make it another "feel good" law, the kind that we seem to be getting over the last 15 years or so?
You can't call shenanigans. My broom is in the shop.
Obviously the new HALO that's going to be Vista only is going to ramp up the FPS market! And...ummm...Does MS even do MMORPGs anymore? AC will be even...shardier?
This isn't very different than when Windows 95 came out. Of course, 95 and Windows 3.1/DOS really were incredibly different. I don't see Vista doing much, except possibly requiring an OS upgrade a year or two after it ships when DirectXbox360PCI-E-Enhanced becomes unusable on XP.
One day, companies who control the "intellectual property" behind music, movies, games, and books (and other similar things) will realize that we only want to pay for the "content" once. Period.
They may realize it, but they're not going to have the motivation to change their business model until people STOP buying every oddball (to use your example) Beatles release out there. Besides, the companies have it down now. Paying $20 for that Lord of the Rings DVD looked real good, until the mondo extended version came out two months later. I know several people who bought the regular versions of the movies knowing the extended versions weren't far off, plus the extended versions once they came out. Lord only knows how many copies of different books they bought (I've got two or three Lord of the Rings trilogy books/book sets, I'm as guilty as anybody)
Until we stop buying the new five extra seconds of footage DVDs after buying the oringinal (no, I'm not talking about the Lord of the Rings DVDs in this instance), they'll keep bundling them slightly differently in the hopes that we buy 'em all.
Personally, I like my hard-copies * a) if it's good, the manual is dead handy, and looks prettier than anything I could print off (if I even had a printer a.t.m.) * b) it's a definite proof of purchase, right there, in my hand. Reassuring.
Don't get me wrong, I like the hard copies too. But I have to admit that the idea of still being able to play my game after my first disk got damaged, the little red piece of paper that had my CD key got thrown away because it's trash on my desk (thanks hon!), or any of the other things that can happen, do.
Of course, part of it may be me presuming that if game manufacturers do away with game discs, I'd still be able to burn a copy of the download (although not on an Xbox) to save the download time. Plus I'd think they could choose to cut the price to reflect the money they save in shipping, printing manuals and disks, etc. Of course, sometimes I'm too optimistic.
I get sick of having my first CD damaged, so I can't play a game without taking extraordinary measures. At the same time, though, I don't want to not be able to play my games locally because my ISP managed to drop the entire block.
WoW has become so ubiquitous that most people where I work have at least played it, if they're not currently playing it. It makes transition to new groups/coworkers a little bit easier (some common ground outside work), and can act in place of the typical sports conversations that we used prior to MMORPGs.
I have friends that I've played MMORPGs with for years (and RPGs before we all got real jobs and ended up scattered to the winds), and we find MMORPGs are a fun way to keep in touch that allow us all to talk and burn off steam together. Takes the place of meeting up for a beer, although drinking tends to be involved.
I don't see it ever being a complete replacement. After all, everybody has their favorite passtimes. But in terms of providing some common ground to help people relate, there's no reason WoW can't take the place of any number of other discussion points.
The server farm is playing Taps again. It's going to be a LONG weekend.
Look for Yahoo to start passing the buck to their regional partner soon. Taken from this site.
"In October, Yahoo formed a partnership with Alibaba.com, which has responsibility for complying with Chinese authorities' requests for information going forward"
It had a more far-reaching effect for me. I used to buy FPS, FSPv2.0, FPSv2.1 now with On-line play! and all those sorts of games. Same for RPGs. Then I got hooked on Everquest and played that for a long time. During that time, I stopped playing other games (like you mentioned). Once I quit Everquest because the game play was repetitive and a lot of it was gigantic time sinks just for the sake of being time sinks, I started examining other games with the same view that I looked at Everquest.
When a new FPS comes out that says they have 30 levels and 600 hours of gameplay, I look a little deeper. I don't want to spend 600 hours shooting the same five things in slightly different environments using the same gameplay mechanics that I used in Rise of the Triad years ago. When a new RPG comes out, and it bosts insane hours of gameplay, I do the same thing. I've become a smarter game consumer, and unless companies offer things that are really innovative, I'm not going to bother buying it.
Actually, this is right in step with the Affirmative Action laws. Affirmative Action states that you can't hire less of some specific group (race, gender, whatever) that you have reasonably available (well, not really, but that's the way it gets interpreted generally). The best way to determine the availability of qualified applicants for the job is to keep a list of what applicants come in on what percentage of race.
So if you have a position, and 10% of the qualified applicants (people that met all posted qualifications) are Martian but your workforce for that job is only 5% Martian, there's a good chance that the EEOC will come down on you for not meeting affirmitave action criteria.
And, of course, all that contradicts the statements that affirmative action is not there to set quotas. Basically it's a big ol' gray area that can cause lots of headaches for employers, and it's in their best interest to do whatever they can to back themselves up against discrimination lawsuits. This site has an overview that's not filled with too much legalese.