Remember Marathon? It's an old game that Bungie originally made for Apples. Halo is basically a much more popular, much more up-to-date version with a giant engine/graphics overhaul.
b) You cannot "ban all torrents within America" or anywhere else by simply passing laws. It's already illegal, exactly how would making it "more illegal" stop it?
Torrents are legal, any illegal content provided by a given torrent is what's illegal. That's how sites like TorrentSpy stay online. It's a bit of a legal minefield, but technically they're not doing anything illegal. It's up to the end user to choose to violate copyright laws. And for that matter, it's a bit difficult to ban a filetype given the fact that they're so abstract compared to, say, copied CDs.
You might not be aware but here in Australia we recently got a whole bunch of American laws passed because Bush wanted us to have them. Bush is able to affect what laws are passed in Australia, despite the fact that Australia is a democracy and not a single Australian voted for him. So yeah, it's definitely likely that the RIAA buy a law banning bittorrents in America, Bush doesn't veto it but instead coerces other democracies (such as Australia) into passing similar laws.
That seems to be more your problem than ours. A government should be strong enough to make its own decisions than let another country do it for them. And I mean that along the lines of a STABLE government, so don't try and bring Iraq into this. The only reasonable explanations would be 1) your government already agreed with laws we passed or 2) your government is -- forgive my terminology -- stupid enough to fabricate a belief that we'll attack Austrailia for not doing what we say. Just like the subject at hand, the latter case would be someone else to consider next time your election comes around.
I find the phrase "Digital Rights Management" fundamentally flawed. If I have a right to whatever they're trying to regulate, then they shouldn't be regulating it. The correct term would be "Digital Privilage Management."
I think our distinguished colleague is speaking of fanboys and how the average modern gamer will go for a franchise game well before trying anything new. This becomes painfully obvious when you tell a 13 year old game that Pacman and Donkey Kong are good games.
I really want to know the procedure used to put a number to Pacman's "violence." Mario is probably up in the 80% region.
He jumps on creatures to kill them.
Kicks most likely endangered turtles
Throws fire at living creatures
In Mario 64, he punches and kicks poor, innocent animals and bombs
- Incites random attacks on royalty.
- Kill moles and attempts to block their homes.
- Chases and attacks monkies.
The PSP is just too damn fragile. One little slip and, whoops! Corrupted firmware. Sony (and Microsoft) needs to realize that homebrew software is a good thing in that it gives people excuses to buy their hardware.
I don't use Live (I play online via XBConnect), but you most likely have to agree to terms and conditions when you sign up for Live. And I'm sure that's one of those aformentioned terms and/or conditions.
And the new version has a better music database than before. You can add directories to the list, tell it to scan and boom: tree view of all your music organized by anything you want to organize it by.
The problem is that software engineers are getting greedy. I for one would probably find teaching a programming class more fun than being a code monkey for a big company. But the big company pays much better than teacher. That's the root of the problem.
I'm not too sure that anyone would cover this story as the average person most likely doesn't care about it. Large networks care more about ratings than diverse topics.
Completely untrue. The article's title identifies the committee as "Republicans," not "politicians." And the line "...that would have guaranteed fair access..." is very obviously written to spin the article against Republicans. (ie, Who doesn't want free access?)
Those two points easily spin this post against the right.
This is one of the problems plaguing modern gaming.
DeadMilkman, a person's gaming preference is pure opinion, not fact. So the game got bad reviews and scores, so what? A lot of gamers have at least one game in their collection that they enjoy that got a bad review.
Also, I noticed you left out the Final Fantasy games from the NES.
This is probably the best guess, since video games are quickly becoming the "trendy" fad these days. Just look at how they're represented on TV (i.e., the Spike Video Game Awards, the entire G4 channel).
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Radio Shack still uses them to do employee discounts and certifications. Bank of America uses them to login to online banking.
Remember Marathon? It's an old game that Bungie originally made for Apples. Halo is basically a much more popular, much more up-to-date version with a giant engine/graphics overhaul.
So YOU'RE the HR guy that EA hired...
That has to be about the dumbest thing I've ever seen here on Slashdot. And, of course, you got modded insightful.
The name "Outlook" might not be that great. We've been told for years now by our Magic 8 Balls that "Outlook not so good."
I find the phrase "Digital Rights Management" fundamentally flawed. If I have a right to whatever they're trying to regulate, then they shouldn't be regulating it. The correct term would be "Digital Privilage Management."
I think our distinguished colleague is speaking of fanboys and how the average modern gamer will go for a franchise game well before trying anything new. This becomes painfully obvious when you tell a 13 year old game that Pacman and Donkey Kong are good games.
I really want to know the procedure used to put a number to Pacman's "violence." Mario is probably up in the 80% region.
He jumps on creatures to kill them.
Kicks most likely endangered turtles
Throws fire at living creatures
In Mario 64, he punches and kicks poor, innocent animals and bombs
- Incites random attacks on royalty.
- Kill moles and attempts to block their homes.
- Chases and attacks monkies.
The PSP is just too damn fragile. One little slip and, whoops! Corrupted firmware. Sony (and Microsoft) needs to realize that homebrew software is a good thing in that it gives people excuses to buy their hardware.
I don't use Live (I play online via XBConnect), but you most likely have to agree to terms and conditions when you sign up for Live. And I'm sure that's one of those aformentioned terms and/or conditions.
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Thread over.
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And the new version has a better music database than before. You can add directories to the list, tell it to scan and boom: tree view of all your music organized by anything you want to organize it by.
The problem is that software engineers are getting greedy. I for one would probably find teaching a programming class more fun than being a code monkey for a big company. But the big company pays much better than teacher. That's the root of the problem.
This article is exactly right. I think the nail was hit squarely on the head.
I'm not too sure that anyone would cover this story as the average person most likely doesn't care about it. Large networks care more about ratings than diverse topics.
Completely untrue. The article's title identifies the committee as "Republicans," not "politicians." And the line "...that would have guaranteed fair access..." is very obviously written to spin the article against Republicans. (ie, Who doesn't want free access?)
Those two points easily spin this post against the right.
/b/tards? On my Slashdot?
To jump off topic real quick...
Final Fantasy had a crossover with Mario RPG (Culex and the Crystals that parent was talking about). More things like this need to be done.
This is one of the problems plaguing modern gaming. DeadMilkman, a person's gaming preference is pure opinion, not fact. So the game got bad reviews and scores, so what? A lot of gamers have at least one game in their collection that they enjoy that got a bad review. Also, I noticed you left out the Final Fantasy games from the NES.
This is probably the best guess, since video games are quickly becoming the "trendy" fad these days. Just look at how they're represented on TV (i.e., the Spike Video Game Awards, the entire G4 channel).
It seems the DNF team noticed that Mother 3 got a release date and didn't want Itoi to steal their thunder.