It should be well documented by now that nobody believes we are capable of doing this. Every government representative or corporate executive seems to think that we need guidance. And they might have a point.
If there are so many incidents, then clearly there is some sort of issue, correct? It's all well and nice to say that we should supervise or self-censor, but how many people really do that effectively?
At the age of eleven, I was surfing pornography on the world wide web. At age twelve, I was playing highly violent videogames. I was enthralled by Grand Theft Auto 3 at fourteen. I may not have acted upon what I was seeing and playing, but I was still being exposed to it.
I'm not trying to say that we should censor the internet becuase parents don't know how. What I'm saying is that maybe there is a reason behind why everyone tells us we should have this censorship and guidance. Many government debates are started just to make an issue come to light, not necessarily to actually make huge reforms like this one happen.
That's funny. I had the same feelings about SuSE for quite some time. It's the only Linux system I'd run for more than a week without deleting. I had it as my exclusive system for a good month and a half with very pleasant results.
This weekend I picked up a Mac, and all that has changed. Now I don't want to use Windows or Linux. Mac OS X is too good, too slick, and truly does just work.
It's operating systems like OS X and SuSE that work intuitively to just about anyone willing to spend a small amount of time with it that will lead to Windows becoming an obsolete choice. I'd rather use OS X than SuSE, but I'd rather use SuSE than Windows.
I would assume that it would look exactly like The Simpsons does, since they're just airing a redubbed first season of the show. It's not an entire recreation of it, it's literally the same episodes with a new script, new character names, and post-production revisions. The animation would be identical.
His new email address, which works, is greytop@comcast.net
I think he just wants to be left alone by the majority of the people now. Unfortunately, that means if you have a real problem with him, you can't get in touch as easily.
Oh, and I got the email address from a previous post in the Jack Thompson commentary yesterday.
Since VGCats were the ones who posted all his contact information, wouldn't it make more sense to go after them? Penny Arcade, who are not really a company lack Jack insists they are, really only recounted a story about Jack and nothing more.
You don't. The clay would disintigrate. According to the BBC, they didn't have their studio burn down, but their storage warehouse for things like storyboards and wooden sets that they used. That is the stuff that got burned. They've lost their original Wallace & Gromit storyboards.
The actual film prints for their work are located at another site, and their studio itself is at a completely different one.
And people thought that teaching furbies to swear was a bad enough influence on children...
That's not the only fun you can have with a Furby. If you drop one from a high enough height, and it lands right, it will start going insane, eyes blinking uncontrollably, and making excited little noises. It's actually pretty scary. The only way to make it stop is to open it up and tear out the batteries.
But more to the point, about the hackable robots. Surely this is something we need to expect, is it not? I mean, the more we venture into technology, the more likely we are to find out flaws and exploits, and the more likely it is that someone will abuse something created with good intentions. The reason killer robots are so common in fiction is not just because it makes an interesting story, but because it is a very likely outcome. It's really just a matter of time.
To have only one price point is not fair to our artists
That's all well and nice, but raising the price of a song by ten or twenty cents means that your local artist may now receive another half-cent! Don't you feel like you're helping out now?
Clearly, like so many here, you are not familiar with the law of the masses. People will not defect when they have no idea something exists. They have their computers, they know their Windows, and they will upgrade and spend their money if they think it is the way to go.
I can top that. I ran the first release of XP on my old Hitachi laptop with 133MHz processor, 3GB hdd, and 92MB of RAM, while also dualbooting with Red Hat 7.1. And I did this when I was 14.
The computer actually ran quite well, and I used it for months. Ended up dropping it down a flight of stairs and busted the power supply. It'll charge its mostly dead battery for fifteen seconds, which lets it shut itself off right when it hits the XP boot screen.
I personally do not feel particularly comfortable if I go to bed at night knowing I've done nothing worthwhile during the day!
And within that line is the key. Most kids feel they put enough work into their day, sitting through up to eight hours of class and doing what is a full day for any person. Coming home and doing four hours of excess work can lead to a feeling of very little personal time. This is why people procrastinate - it gives them a sense that they actually have control over the situation.
In high school I did very little homework. I remember one class that I did one math problem for all year, slept through half the classes (literally by the end), and didn't even open a book to study for the last two tests. I passed while getting above the class average.
What ended up happening was I got into university, brought the same mentality, and had things work for awhile. Then it all came tumbling down on you. In university, if you're not an engineer, you can make class and homework into an 8-hour day. Thing is, if you weren't disciplined enough during your early years, you will have a more difficult time doing it in your later years. This was a mistake for me.
There's a point being missed here, which saddens me. I've come close a few times, as have many other people, but I didn't for the very reason you plead for people not to.
Nevertheless, I have a friend who tried several times, and I don't know why. I loved her, but in order to deal with it she tried really hard to break off all those connections. She wanted to die with people hating her. She wanted to go without anyone caring. Suicide is something that few can undersand unless they actually are the ones coming to that point.
A friend of mine did commit suicide this year, about two weeks after I moved away for school. I didn't even like him all that much, but it still messed me up a great deal for some time. Suicide is like that, though. If the person knew what their killing themselves would do to other people, would they do it? Yes. Why would they? Because at that point they figure all is lost anyway, and why bother prolonging your own suffering so everyone else can continue to be happy.
As someone else mentioned earlier, though it's worth repeating, in order to stagger the downloads and not overload the servers the update feature from within Firefox will not be enabled for roughly a week.
It seems to me like it would be fairly impossible for there to be any benefit to the customer if there are only two main options available. It's been that way for a number of years, and I don't feel like I'm paying much less for quality than I did a few years ago.
Consider it to be like the operating system wars. On the top of the consumer charts there is Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X as the two most commonly known choices to the public. Now, nobody could actually argue that having the Mac challenger has made Microsoft decide that Windows should be cheaper: if anything, it's made them rise their prices. While this argument has flaws, including the different hardware architecture, it's still a case of the two horse race.
If both ATI and nVidia can make money off of the current price level of their cards, why should they change? For that matter, ATI seems to be really adept at making decent cash off of older hardware (like the 9200s), and from what I have read here nVidia isn't the most well-run company, and so until they get their act together they won't pose much of a challenge to anyone.
When you inundate the market with another choice beyond ATI and nVidia, you might see a bigger difference.
There's a difference between creativity and marketing. Creativity is what spawned the ideas in the first place and led to many of the games we love today (Mario, Zelda, Final Fantasy, etc). Marketing is how something sells.
Many designers get stuck in a rut with what they've initially created. When something sells once, it's very difficult to walk away and not try to continue cashing in on it. So, the designers often get put on the same product series again and again. This leads to a lack of creativity, as their primary goal is to redesign a concept within heavy restrictions.
A developer like Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto, for instance, is constantly being put in the chair of developing his Zelda series. There's only so much he can be innovative with and still push the title as a Zelda game. As a result, the end product will tend to not have the same drastic impact upon the gaming world. It'll be a reworked, more-of-the-same type of game, if you will.
There are still creative products being put out there, it's just that the series effect tends to hinder further innovation.
You want to run...they gave you the power pad. You want to punch...they gave you the power glove. You want to shoot...they gave you the light gun. You want to play music...they gave you the Konga bongos.
Those first three were from the NES era. Only the bongos were recent, and they really weren't all that innovative or immersive. It was essentially Drum Mania. Your point is kind of moot given the fifteen year time lag.
That still does not explain how nobody has captured the video since then. I mean, he had the tape still. And a Betamax casette player is not that hard to find.
I'm just curious, but why did it take 20+ years for this to surface? Especially since it's about Macs, systems renowned for video abilities. One would figure that it would have come out sooner.
Perhaps Nintendo will decide that in order to gain back market share it needs a revolution in the type of games they release.
The latest Nintendo console was fun to play on, but even given the cheap price I could find very little software that I wanted to buy. Everything halfway decent that got offered was either first-party mascots or available on another console. To me, this is really the way Nintendo needs to revolutionize itself.
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It should be well documented by now that nobody believes we are capable of doing this. Every government representative or corporate executive seems to think that we need guidance. And they might have a point.
If there are so many incidents, then clearly there is some sort of issue, correct? It's all well and nice to say that we should supervise or self-censor, but how many people really do that effectively?
At the age of eleven, I was surfing pornography on the world wide web. At age twelve, I was playing highly violent videogames. I was enthralled by Grand Theft Auto 3 at fourteen. I may not have acted upon what I was seeing and playing, but I was still being exposed to it.
I'm not trying to say that we should censor the internet becuase parents don't know how. What I'm saying is that maybe there is a reason behind why everyone tells us we should have this censorship and guidance. Many government debates are started just to make an issue come to light, not necessarily to actually make huge reforms like this one happen.
*cough* From the actual person who supposedly has an iPod (yes, I know him), "yes, that'd be a camera, this was 2000."
This weekend I picked up a Mac, and all that has changed. Now I don't want to use Windows or Linux. Mac OS X is too good, too slick, and truly does just work.
It's operating systems like OS X and SuSE that work intuitively to just about anyone willing to spend a small amount of time with it that will lead to Windows becoming an obsolete choice. I'd rather use OS X than SuSE, but I'd rather use SuSE than Windows.
I would assume that it would look exactly like The Simpsons does, since they're just airing a redubbed first season of the show. It's not an entire recreation of it, it's literally the same episodes with a new script, new character names, and post-production revisions. The animation would be identical.
His new email address, which works, is greytop@comcast.net
I think he just wants to be left alone by the majority of the people now. Unfortunately, that means if you have a real problem with him, you can't get in touch as easily.
Oh, and I got the email address from a previous post in the Jack Thompson commentary yesterday.
Since VGCats were the ones who posted all his contact information, wouldn't it make more sense to go after them? Penny Arcade, who are not really a company lack Jack insists they are, really only recounted a story about Jack and nothing more.
You don't. The clay would disintigrate. According to the BBC, they didn't have their studio burn down, but their storage warehouse for things like storyboards and wooden sets that they used. That is the stuff that got burned. They've lost their original Wallace & Gromit storyboards.
The actual film prints for their work are located at another site, and their studio itself is at a completely different one.
But she's still with you, isn't she? It's not the size that counts, it's how you play the games. :)
And people thought that teaching furbies to swear was a bad enough influence on children...
That's not the only fun you can have with a Furby. If you drop one from a high enough height, and it lands right, it will start going insane, eyes blinking uncontrollably, and making excited little noises. It's actually pretty scary. The only way to make it stop is to open it up and tear out the batteries.
But more to the point, about the hackable robots. Surely this is something we need to expect, is it not? I mean, the more we venture into technology, the more likely we are to find out flaws and exploits, and the more likely it is that someone will abuse something created with good intentions. The reason killer robots are so common in fiction is not just because it makes an interesting story, but because it is a very likely outcome. It's really just a matter of time.
That's all well and nice, but raising the price of a song by ten or twenty cents means that your local artist may now receive another half-cent! Don't you feel like you're helping out now?
Clearly, like so many here, you are not familiar with the law of the masses. People will not defect when they have no idea something exists. They have their computers, they know their Windows, and they will upgrade and spend their money if they think it is the way to go.
I can top that. I ran the first release of XP on my old Hitachi laptop with 133MHz processor, 3GB hdd, and 92MB of RAM, while also dualbooting with Red Hat 7.1. And I did this when I was 14.
The computer actually ran quite well, and I used it for months. Ended up dropping it down a flight of stairs and busted the power supply. It'll charge its mostly dead battery for fifteen seconds, which lets it shut itself off right when it hits the XP boot screen.
I beleive that would be girls' phone numbers. Don't correct if you can't get it right.
And within that line is the key. Most kids feel they put enough work into their day, sitting through up to eight hours of class and doing what is a full day for any person. Coming home and doing four hours of excess work can lead to a feeling of very little personal time. This is why people procrastinate - it gives them a sense that they actually have control over the situation.
In high school I did very little homework. I remember one class that I did one math problem for all year, slept through half the classes (literally by the end), and didn't even open a book to study for the last two tests. I passed while getting above the class average.
What ended up happening was I got into university, brought the same mentality, and had things work for awhile. Then it all came tumbling down on you. In university, if you're not an engineer, you can make class and homework into an 8-hour day. Thing is, if you weren't disciplined enough during your early years, you will have a more difficult time doing it in your later years. This was a mistake for me.
Perhaps they should delay the switchover if they're not ready.
18 in Quebec and Alberta. Besides, older friends are a good thing.
There's a point being missed here, which saddens me. I've come close a few times, as have many other people, but I didn't for the very reason you plead for people not to.
Nevertheless, I have a friend who tried several times, and I don't know why. I loved her, but in order to deal with it she tried really hard to break off all those connections. She wanted to die with people hating her. She wanted to go without anyone caring. Suicide is something that few can undersand unless they actually are the ones coming to that point.
A friend of mine did commit suicide this year, about two weeks after I moved away for school. I didn't even like him all that much, but it still messed me up a great deal for some time. Suicide is like that, though. If the person knew what their killing themselves would do to other people, would they do it? Yes. Why would they? Because at that point they figure all is lost anyway, and why bother prolonging your own suffering so everyone else can continue to be happy.
As someone else mentioned earlier, though it's worth repeating, in order to stagger the downloads and not overload the servers the update feature from within Firefox will not be enabled for roughly a week.
It seems to me like it would be fairly impossible for there to be any benefit to the customer if there are only two main options available. It's been that way for a number of years, and I don't feel like I'm paying much less for quality than I did a few years ago.
Consider it to be like the operating system wars. On the top of the consumer charts there is Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X as the two most commonly known choices to the public. Now, nobody could actually argue that having the Mac challenger has made Microsoft decide that Windows should be cheaper: if anything, it's made them rise their prices. While this argument has flaws, including the different hardware architecture, it's still a case of the two horse race.
If both ATI and nVidia can make money off of the current price level of their cards, why should they change? For that matter, ATI seems to be really adept at making decent cash off of older hardware (like the 9200s), and from what I have read here nVidia isn't the most well-run company, and so until they get their act together they won't pose much of a challenge to anyone.
When you inundate the market with another choice beyond ATI and nVidia, you might see a bigger difference.
Don't Panic!
There's a difference between creativity and marketing. Creativity is what spawned the ideas in the first place and led to many of the games we love today (Mario, Zelda, Final Fantasy, etc). Marketing is how something sells.
Many designers get stuck in a rut with what they've initially created. When something sells once, it's very difficult to walk away and not try to continue cashing in on it. So, the designers often get put on the same product series again and again. This leads to a lack of creativity, as their primary goal is to redesign a concept within heavy restrictions.
A developer like Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto, for instance, is constantly being put in the chair of developing his Zelda series. There's only so much he can be innovative with and still push the title as a Zelda game. As a result, the end product will tend to not have the same drastic impact upon the gaming world. It'll be a reworked, more-of-the-same type of game, if you will.
There are still creative products being put out there, it's just that the series effect tends to hinder further innovation.
Those first three were from the NES era. Only the bongos were recent, and they really weren't all that innovative or immersive. It was essentially Drum Mania. Your point is kind of moot given the fifteen year time lag.
That still does not explain how nobody has captured the video since then. I mean, he had the tape still. And a Betamax casette player is not that hard to find.
I have one in my basement.
I'm just curious, but why did it take 20+ years for this to surface? Especially since it's about Macs, systems renowned for video abilities. One would figure that it would have come out sooner.
Did the guy just not have a Betamax player?
Perhaps Nintendo will decide that in order to gain back market share it needs a revolution in the type of games they release.
The latest Nintendo console was fun to play on, but even given the cheap price I could find very little software that I wanted to buy. Everything halfway decent that got offered was either first-party mascots or available on another console. To me, this is really the way Nintendo needs to revolutionize itself.