Making stuff illegal just drives it further underground.
And driving it further underground makes it that much harder for Joe Sixpack to access, which is exactly what they want. Nintendo (or any other company hitting hard on pirates) aren't dumb. They know that piracy will always exist, but they want to drive it underground, really deep underground. So deep most people won't know about it.
A standard set of requirements isn't going to happen either. While Sony and Nintendo are happy to work with OpenGL, for example, it'll be a very cold day before you see Microsoft embracing modern OpenGL support alongside their DirectX baby.
And that is exactly why EA should put their money where their mouth is. If you really want open standards to develop on, then realize that OpenGL is just that for the PC, and stop releasing games that require DirectX. As long as a company won't do that, I won't believe their "We want open standards" bullshit.
Uppercase letters do not have the accents, lower case letters have. What character should I type for a given domain name?
I hate to break it to you, but here, uppercase letters have accents : É À Ù Ë Ü Ô Î Û Â Ç È À
In the French language, uppercase characters have always had accents. The only reason why text didn't use accents on uppercase letters until the late 20th century is because of technical limits of typewriters, not because of any spelling rule that forbade it.
Sounds like something that the Canadian government would embrace. There's rules for government websites that the url must be bilingual, so the directory path and file names must be mirrored to create the same structure in both French and English. The loophole in the rules is that you don't have to provide multiple directories and folders where the name isn't linguistic, such as calling your file 1243.html, or ESADOFE.html.
Ah, but that's where you're wrong my friend. Like it or not, "1234.html" can be expanded to "1 2 3 4 . HyperText Markup Language", which can then be translated to "1 2 3 4 . Langage Balisé HyperTexte" and then back to "1234.lbht", so you can't even escape the bilingual requirements with non-words html files.
Unless of course you make your website using only PHP scripts, which is lucky because it's a palindrome (and a recursive one like we geeks all like our acronyms), and the "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor" translates to "Préprocesseur Hypertexte PHP" and then back to PHP, so 1234.php would be ok. PHP is a bilingual recursive acronym, making it Canada-proof.
Don't get me started on.cgi,.asx and.pl, cause things could get ugly.
I have yet to see any store not sell a rated M game to someone who wants to buy one. of course the same could be said for a fair amount of the movies these stores stock.
That's too bad for you. On several occasions, while I was loitering in an EBGames store, I heard a clerk either refusing to sell GTA to a kid (saying "come back with your mom and I will sell it to you"), or explaining to the mom who was obviously there to buy the game for the kid about the content of the game, and making sure the mom was aware of what she was buying.
So not only did they not sell the game to a kid, but they didn't blindly sell it to the mom either, they made sure the mom knew what her kid would be playing. There are clerks who do a pretty good job at this.
If I am playing a video game on a set-top PC, I could plug the keyboard into the USB port next to the gamepads.
If you want to play games on a PC and at the same time refuse to have a keyboard plugged into that same PC, while also remapping your controller which doesn't have any obvious button labeling scheme, then you're shit out of luck buddy. Get a console.
It's like you want to have the milk and the milk money, as well as the cow, the barn and the whole farm.
So how can which form a "set of axes"? Some USB joysticks do not report their hat switches as such but instead as a set of four buttons. And you still haven't answered the other question: how does the PC game know which button on the USB joystick is Start?
Top-left corner of your keyboard. It's called "Esc".
after all, what the hell do you keep on your home computer that REALLY can't deal with being formatted and reloaded anyway? That's what those prolific stacks of backup CD's that you don't have are for (and it's about time you started looking at NEW porn anyway):P
I don't care if an attack makes me lose the data I have. However, I do care if the attack makes someone else have the data he didn't have. If the attacker can rummage through my files and get my quicken files or tax reports, the damage can be far greater than simply losing my files through a reformat.
Does this include the ~45% of Americans that didn't actually bother to vote?
Yes, because many people consider voting to not be a right but a responsibility, and the "right to vote" is tied to the "right to complain". If you didn't vote, shut up and swallow the pill.
And I'll be saving the occasional Canadian quarter. Thanks George Bush.
There was a time when, whenever I got an american coin in my change, I would say (only half-seriously) "Woohoo! I'm rich!". Now it'll be more like "Hey! Are you trying to screw me?"
My thoughts exactly. Nobody is going to shell out $300 for something they don't expect to ever use. So it's a great invention, but it won't be saving many lives after all.
You know what? You're right. Why should I buy a first-aid kit when I don't expect to get hurt. Why did I pay a little more for my car so it would have airbags when I don't expect to run into a wall. Why would I buy fire insurance when I don't expect my house to burst into flames? Heck, why even get life insurance as I don't expect to die anytime soon?
That having been said, this applies to pr0n only. If it's AO because of dismemberments with chainsaws, I don't think the parents would change their current behaviour.
That's what I meant. When GTA got re-rated AO, why did it get pulled off the shelves? It's the same game, and as you mentionned, parents won't care more. Manhunt 2 might be rated AO, but Rockstar might try to get it M. It will still be the same game, and only details will change between M and AO. I can't understand the AO not being available.
If available parking is reduced, people are more likely to park in no parking zones (which is what the spots would be turned into, right?) and presumably the fines for that are higher than the fines for overstaying a meter, so its win-win
Far fewer people will park in a no-parking zone (especially if it's marked with yellow stripes) than slightly overstay their parking meter. Parking meters are still the best way to collect fines.
It seems someone at the city has missed a way to make a buck, and fix their traffic problem.
The city didn't miss an opportunity to make money. Apple wanted to pay the equivalent of the parking fares for the next 5 years. However, the city makes way more money from parking tickets than from parking meters.
I think you're right that people would be willing to buy AO games (especially if they weren't _too_ porny, just a flash here and there), the problem is that lots of stores wouldn't sell them, and you would be locked out of the lucrative console market entirely.
I wonder though, why don't store sell them? I might understand Walmart's excuse for not selling adult stuff, but about game shops like EBGames and such? They're already asking for ID (or at least, they do over here) when they sell a M-rated game, why would it be any harder to ask for that same ID for AO-rated games?
Voyager One won't continue functioning for much longer, but as a piece of space junk it'll outlast the Pyramids. That puts it solidly in Wonder of the World material.
A wonder it may be, but it is now so far away (and keeps getting further) that I truly doubt we can consider it part of our world anymore. At least the pyramids are still part of the planet we live on.
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Your cartridge falling apart due to faulty construction is covered by the warranty, so you have zero need for a backup there.
And driving it further underground makes it that much harder for Joe Sixpack to access, which is exactly what they want. Nintendo (or any other company hitting hard on pirates) aren't dumb. They know that piracy will always exist, but they want to drive it underground, really deep underground. So deep most people won't know about it.
And that is exactly why EA should put their money where their mouth is. If you really want open standards to develop on, then realize that OpenGL is just that for the PC, and stop releasing games that require DirectX. As long as a company won't do that, I won't believe their "We want open standards" bullshit.
MarioScooter could be kind of fun though.
Ok, this one I really have trouble deciphering...
Help me on this one...
I hate to break it to you, but here, uppercase letters have accents : É À Ù Ë Ü Ô Î Û Â Ç È À
In the French language, uppercase characters have always had accents. The only reason why text didn't use accents on uppercase letters until the late 20th century is because of technical limits of typewriters, not because of any spelling rule that forbade it.
Ah, but that's where you're wrong my friend. Like it or not, "1234.html" can be expanded to "1 2 3 4 . HyperText Markup Language", which can then be translated to "1 2 3 4 . Langage Balisé HyperTexte" and then back to "1234.lbht", so you can't even escape the bilingual requirements with non-words html files.
Unless of course you make your website using only PHP scripts, which is lucky because it's a palindrome (and a recursive one like we geeks all like our acronyms), and the "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor" translates to "Préprocesseur Hypertexte PHP" and then back to PHP, so 1234.php would be ok. PHP is a bilingual recursive acronym, making it Canada-proof.
Don't get me started on .cgi, .asx and .pl, cause things could get ugly.
That's too bad for you. On several occasions, while I was loitering in an EBGames store, I heard a clerk either refusing to sell GTA to a kid (saying "come back with your mom and I will sell it to you"), or explaining to the mom who was obviously there to buy the game for the kid about the content of the game, and making sure the mom was aware of what she was buying.
So not only did they not sell the game to a kid, but they didn't blindly sell it to the mom either, they made sure the mom knew what her kid would be playing. There are clerks who do a pretty good job at this.
It's like you want to have the milk and the milk money, as well as the cow, the barn and the whole farm.
Top-left corner of your keyboard. It's called "Esc".
I don't care if an attack makes me lose the data I have. However, I do care if the attack makes someone else have the data he didn't have. If the attacker can rummage through my files and get my quicken files or tax reports, the damage can be far greater than simply losing my files through a reformat.
Correction: MS has helped the IT security industry more than any other company. Only because of MS are Norton or McAfee in business.
I know this is slashdot, and we don't read the articles. But did we really need to mod a comment which merely quotes the article as "Informative"?
Yes, because many people consider voting to not be a right but a responsibility, and the "right to vote" is tied to the "right to complain". If you didn't vote, shut up and swallow the pill.
There was a time when, whenever I got an american coin in my change, I would say (only half-seriously) "Woohoo! I'm rich!". Now it'll be more like "Hey! Are you trying to screw me?"
Gaaahhh! It's not a law, it's a theorem. Stop using words when you don't know their meaning!
You know what? You're right. Why should I buy a first-aid kit when I don't expect to get hurt. Why did I pay a little more for my car so it would have airbags when I don't expect to run into a wall. Why would I buy fire insurance when I don't expect my house to burst into flames? Heck, why even get life insurance as I don't expect to die anytime soon?
I'm sorry, I didn't get the chance to select the country in which I was born. How did you manage to do that?
Are they rated for 20 nanometers, or 0.2 microns? Because they aren't the same. 1 micron is 1000 nanometers.
20 nanometers is 0.02 microns, which is probably enough for filtering out viruses
0.2 microns is 200 nanometers, which won't filter any viruses.
That's what I meant. When GTA got re-rated AO, why did it get pulled off the shelves? It's the same game, and as you mentionned, parents won't care more. Manhunt 2 might be rated AO, but Rockstar might try to get it M. It will still be the same game, and only details will change between M and AO. I can't understand the AO not being available.
Far fewer people will park in a no-parking zone (especially if it's marked with yellow stripes) than slightly overstay their parking meter. Parking meters are still the best way to collect fines.
The city didn't miss an opportunity to make money. Apple wanted to pay the equivalent of the parking fares for the next 5 years. However, the city makes way more money from parking tickets than from parking meters.
And what keeps those very same employees from screwing up with M-rated titles?
I wonder though, why don't store sell them? I might understand Walmart's excuse for not selling adult stuff, but about game shops like EBGames and such? They're already asking for ID (or at least, they do over here) when they sell a M-rated game, why would it be any harder to ask for that same ID for AO-rated games?
A wonder it may be, but it is now so far away (and keeps getting further) that I truly doubt we can consider it part of our world anymore. At least the pyramids are still part of the planet we live on.