They'd need evidence that he disassembled anything, "he couldn't have known otherwise" doesn'T seem to be a defense since you regularly see companies sue each other for infringement on things you couldn't really know without disassembling the software.
I already tried to look it up, no entry. Wouldn't be surprised if it had been a copy-paste with the names changed. It's pretty US centric (and written from 1881 to 1906) so there are entries for Mormons and such but not Muslims.
There have been a crapload of laws trying to enforce some kind of age limit, every single one was struck down. There was a list on Wikipedia I think. One specific case is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_Software_Association_v._Foti but I can't find a comprehensive list at the moment. I wasn't referring to stores deciding not to sell to minors BTW, only laws forcing them to obey any ratings. Why it's legal for porn to be restricted but not violence I don't know.
Donkey Kong had a great spinoff in the '94 SGB version. That had a sequel in Mario vs Donkey Kong for the GBA which IMO didn't live up entirely to the standard of its predecessor since the way switches worked in it kinda limited what was possible in the level design compared to DK '94. The new switches were a nice idea but should have been in addition to the old system instead of replacing it. Also I think MvDK was missing the placeable elements (in DK'94 there were items that would let you place ladders, platforms, walls, etc with a cursor). Overall I'd say both DK'94 and MvDK are pretty good games by modern standards (except DK'94 looks dated, doesn't play that much different from MvDK though).
Of course you meant the original arcade game but I think the '94 one compares reasonably with SMG.
If you want another game that didn't hold up at all, try Metroid. That game is horrible if you've played Super Metroid or Zero Mission (which has the advantage of the quick missile button but the disadvantage of less interesting level design compared to SM) before trying it.
It's from Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary.
Christian, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbour. One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
It's simply a requirement by the HD media license, the DRM must be built into the OS otherwise no playback software running on it can comply with the license requirements. MS didn't want to end up with an OS that cannot play back HD movies when Apple could put it into OSX and leave MS behind in that respect. Sure, there is no law requiring MS to implement (except maybe laws regarding the need of a corporation to maximize its profits) but there are features they simply cannot offer without that DRM. MS chose to let you choose if you want to play DRMed media on your system, if you don't want to the DRM won't affect you.
Streaming music sounds like a horrible idea, that stuff isn't big and local storage conserves bandwidth and reduces the possible points of failure, never mind it's compatible witht he other locally stored music.
From what I read they're just publicity stunts, the radiation is very weak and useless, it's jsut the thought of "OMG RADIATION" that makes the area uninhabitable.
...which would explain why Hawking had to recant a 30-year-old theory...
Which is progress, invalid theories are discarded. Faith would be if he had held the belief despite evidence proving him wrong.
While they may have medical uses now, leeches were "state of the art" when they were used. Doctors were convinced of the science behind them... and killed one of our Founding Fathers in doing so. It's all science, right?
Yeah and once we learned it doesn't work right the idea was abandoned. Again, we do things to the best of our knowledge and if we learn new facts we stop doing things we might have done before. That is not a bad thing, sometimes we have to act with limited knowledge because we can't just sit idly until we have all the facts together but if we fail to adjust our plan once the facts become known we are just thickheaded. "Staying the course" is not a positive attribute, it can mean your original plan was good enough that it didn't need adjustment or it can mean that you fail to make the necessary adjustments and are progressing towards an avoidable error....which is what I'm asking for... If I happen to believe that a Master Engineer started the whole shebang off, fine. I'm asking for evidence otherwise.
The problem with that claim is that it's unsubstantiated. You're faking knowledge where there is none. The biggest problem is that people who have such unfounded claims often pass them on to other people in order to make those believe the same claim (while often neglecting to mention that it's just a wild guess, many state unfounded claims as if they were facts) and especially children are very vulnerable to such influence. Sometimes this is so strong that even once the unknown becomes known through new evidence the person will still cling to his beliefs.
I will not make a claim about the unknown, rather I question the need for such a claim. I don't see a benefit to making wild guesses about something. If we know nothing about it that's it, we know nothing. We shouldn't create an illusion of knowledge* because an illusion is at best useless and at worst harmful. I cannot prove or disprove your beliefs but I can prove that they are useless, if they had a use that use could be shown or fail to be shown which would support or disprove your claim. The lack of anything that can disprove a hypothesis implies the lack of anything the hypothesis is good for.
*= It's an illusion of knowledge because, no matter how true or false it is, you don't actually know it is, you just picked one option and chose to believe in it.
Some material is judged to be dangerous, especially material that serves to incite hate or violence. I suppose Manhunt was above that threshold. At that point it becomes "protecting the wellbeing of society".
Depending on how the engine was written the necessary steps could very well have been redesigning the whole thing from scratch to fit the PS3 architecture. No idea how much EA was willing to spend but making an engine from scratch would surely cost a LOT.
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They'd need evidence that he disassembled anything, "he couldn't have known otherwise" doesn'T seem to be a defense since you regularly see companies sue each other for infringement on things you couldn't really know without disassembling the software.
I already tried to look it up, no entry. Wouldn't be surprised if it had been a copy-paste with the names changed. It's pretty US centric (and written from 1881 to 1906) so there are entries for Mormons and such but not Muslims.
There have been a crapload of laws trying to enforce some kind of age limit, every single one was struck down. There was a list on Wikipedia I think. One specific case is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_Software_Association_v._Foti but I can't find a comprehensive list at the moment. I wasn't referring to stores deciding not to sell to minors BTW, only laws forcing them to obey any ratings. Why it's legal for porn to be restricted but not violence I don't know.
Especially when those people think nothing could possibly happen to them.
You're forgetting that back then games were often tech demos too. The effects were just less pretty.
play donkey kong and compare it to Mario Galaxy.
Donkey Kong had a great spinoff in the '94 SGB version. That had a sequel in Mario vs Donkey Kong for the GBA which IMO didn't live up entirely to the standard of its predecessor since the way switches worked in it kinda limited what was possible in the level design compared to DK '94. The new switches were a nice idea but should have been in addition to the old system instead of replacing it. Also I think MvDK was missing the placeable elements (in DK'94 there were items that would let you place ladders, platforms, walls, etc with a cursor). Overall I'd say both DK'94 and MvDK are pretty good games by modern standards (except DK'94 looks dated, doesn't play that much different from MvDK though).
Of course you meant the original arcade game but I think the '94 one compares reasonably with SMG.
If you want another game that didn't hold up at all, try Metroid. That game is horrible if you've played Super Metroid or Zero Mission (which has the advantage of the quick missile button but the disadvantage of less interesting level design compared to SM) before trying it.
1.) He tries to put the ESRB in court for selling games to minors. But the ESRB has nothing to do with selling games to minors.
Additionally there is no law that prevents selling M rated games to minors and it has been ruled unconstitutional to enforce that.
It's from Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary.
Christian, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbour. One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
I recall such a thing from when I was a child. Didn't have one myself but saw ads for it and wanted one (you know how kids are).
Stores enforce minimum ages for alcohol, tobacco and firearms? Sure, they could get away without checking ages but then they can't legally sell those.
It's simply a requirement by the HD media license, the DRM must be built into the OS otherwise no playback software running on it can comply with the license requirements. MS didn't want to end up with an OS that cannot play back HD movies when Apple could put it into OSX and leave MS behind in that respect. Sure, there is no law requiring MS to implement (except maybe laws regarding the need of a corporation to maximize its profits) but there are features they simply cannot offer without that DRM. MS chose to let you choose if you want to play DRMed media on your system, if you don't want to the DRM won't affect you.
I've seen french road signs depicting an exploding car with the letters "GPL" written below it.
All I see the opensource community do is make clones of successful games and improve them, innovation in terms of basic design doesn't seem to exist.
With the darts being small models of ICBMs?
I'd also make sure to hand a copy to the FTC and the IRS, just in case.
Streaming music sounds like a horrible idea, that stuff isn't big and local storage conserves bandwidth and reduces the possible points of failure, never mind it's compatible witht he other locally stored music.
The US ighnores many treaty provisions at their own leisure anyway, I don't think there'd be much of a response.
Do you understand the difference between harmless and less harmful than thought? Less harmful than thought means they thought you'd die.
From what I read they're just publicity stunts, the radiation is very weak and useless, it's jsut the thought of "OMG RADIATION" that makes the area uninhabitable.
Wait, C++ doesn't have vertical functions?
Reprocessing does not convert the whole thing, nuclear isn't a perpetuum mobile. You'll still have waste even if you can reduce the amount of output.
So you're saying that a book can never incite violence or hatred, no matter what was said?
...which would explain why Hawking had to recant a 30-year-old theory...
...which is what I'm asking for... If I happen to believe that a Master Engineer started the whole shebang off, fine. I'm asking for evidence otherwise.
Which is progress, invalid theories are discarded. Faith would be if he had held the belief despite evidence proving him wrong.
While they may have medical uses now, leeches were "state of the art" when they were used. Doctors were convinced of the science behind them... and killed one of our Founding Fathers in doing so. It's all science, right?
Yeah and once we learned it doesn't work right the idea was abandoned. Again, we do things to the best of our knowledge and if we learn new facts we stop doing things we might have done before. That is not a bad thing, sometimes we have to act with limited knowledge because we can't just sit idly until we have all the facts together but if we fail to adjust our plan once the facts become known we are just thickheaded. "Staying the course" is not a positive attribute, it can mean your original plan was good enough that it didn't need adjustment or it can mean that you fail to make the necessary adjustments and are progressing towards an avoidable error.
The problem with that claim is that it's unsubstantiated. You're faking knowledge where there is none. The biggest problem is that people who have such unfounded claims often pass them on to other people in order to make those believe the same claim (while often neglecting to mention that it's just a wild guess, many state unfounded claims as if they were facts) and especially children are very vulnerable to such influence. Sometimes this is so strong that even once the unknown becomes known through new evidence the person will still cling to his beliefs.
I will not make a claim about the unknown, rather I question the need for such a claim. I don't see a benefit to making wild guesses about something. If we know nothing about it that's it, we know nothing. We shouldn't create an illusion of knowledge* because an illusion is at best useless and at worst harmful. I cannot prove or disprove your beliefs but I can prove that they are useless, if they had a use that use could be shown or fail to be shown which would support or disprove your claim. The lack of anything that can disprove a hypothesis implies the lack of anything the hypothesis is good for.
*= It's an illusion of knowledge because, no matter how true or false it is, you don't actually know it is, you just picked one option and chose to believe in it.
Some material is judged to be dangerous, especially material that serves to incite hate or violence. I suppose Manhunt was above that threshold. At that point it becomes "protecting the wellbeing of society".
Depending on how the engine was written the necessary steps could very well have been redesigning the whole thing from scratch to fit the PS3 architecture. No idea how much EA was willing to spend but making an engine from scratch would surely cost a LOT.