A large proportion of minors do not buy the games themselves, relying on getting their parents to buy it for them, i believe from several conversations I have had with game shop staff that most parents think games are 'only games' and buying little jimmy the latest goreland 7 video game is perfectly acceptable, totally disregarding the age ratings. With a movie for a minor to see the latest release he has to get through the cinema staff, which is a major barrier, and if getting a parent to hire a movie, they tend to be a lot stricter adhering to the recommended age ratings. The education of the parents as to the age system is what the industry should concentrate on.
I think trying to directly compare the Movie and video game age ratings is unfair, you are talking about comparing, for example, waqtching someone being killed by a murderer to actually playing out the part of the murderer yourself.
But keep writing to any company you think may fit. A lot of the bigger firms do placements. I'm sure IBM or MS could accomodate you. BTW if you do get to an interview they're not like they used to be, every company is obsessed with you being a team player to the degree that they turn down perfectly able interviewees, in your CV interview cover sheet everything stress you love teams and are a team player. I have who worked for IBM on a placement for a year did a fantastic job running grids AIX servers and all sorts of stuff, must have saved them a fortune - he single handedly ported one of their products to Linux from windows and was then told in the interview for a graduate place that he wasn't enough of a team player, i'm not talking about being socially inept - which he totally isn't, he just didn't shout team team team for 30 minutes.
It's very nice to have one machine that does everything. I would be interested in seeing if Nintendo did anything special for the GB and GBC games playing environments like they did for for the GBA.
I wonder if they are going to phase it in as the GBA is slowly phased out.
Is the GB and GBC hardware actually used by the DS to support anything else, ala MegaDrive (Genesis for my american friends) and its sounds processor being the old mastersystem processor?
Anyone else realise that today is the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Playstation?
Computer and video games have a small article
here . It'll be interesting to see how they compete with the DS as the last ten years have shown they are rather good at this. Personally speaking i wouldn't touch the PSP, the screen is begging for a good scratching and i seem to recall battery life (and size) where what killed the sega game gear. I still love Sonic 2 though.
I hate to think of those people on their 14.4k modems receiving the latest patches. Also if i had a computer fast enough to run the game, alas my gforce 2 can hardly handle DoD, i'm behind a big old university firewall, does that mean i'd be more or less forced to hack the game to play it, and get my head bitten off if i my machine ever wanders outside my dorm? I don't believe there is any other way to deactivate it bar lugging it round a friends who has a dsl line. Seeing as studies have shown that most people who pirate stuff never had any intention of paying for it in the first place doesn't this piss a lot of legitimate people off?
does that name ring a bell? And the lucky people in the states got 56k modems us Europeans were treated to 33k modems. To be honest they should have sold it as an add on over here, there were a host of games that didn't even go online whilst the US versions did, i think UT was one of them and they never even released Bomberman in the UK, i had to get it on import.
I got fed up a few years back of the sheer amount of consoles i had sitting under my tv (nes, snes, mega drive, mastersystem, saturn, N64), the wires were getting some what cumbersome. These individual controllers go a long way to solving the problem but the best solution now adays seems a unit like the xbox or a tiny computer. to be honest i wouldn't play any new games on it, bit of a retro fan, i would mainly stick with emulators, offers a host more functionality, i.e. saving games, screen shots, four player support, and you can more or less drag and drop games as and when you like. For the moment my 300+ cartidges and cd's are very much retired to the loft. Is there really a need for these fancy game console controllers for anyone with a reasonable budget?
I always loved 6 degrees of separation, and i love wiki, truly a match made in heaven
cool, i own the domain already. I've been thinking of a wikigame for a while now, i.e. actually programming/designing/compiling/testing/documentin g a computer game (or any other software) using only a wiki interface, pushing those open source paradigm boudaries to the anarchic limits. Will it work or just tie itself up in a big messy ball, it'll be fun finding out.
Sorry this was abit of a nothing post, but i needed to get it off my chest
The multiplayer sounds sucky, i'm just waiting for an update of perfect dark multiplayer (never been surpassed on a console IMHO). Are there bots? for us non live players even 7 player can feel a bit lonely let alone 4 player on those huge maps.
Very true and makes a very scary point, if the americans can conquer the tactical side so decisively, then what other options do other forces have? Will it push them towards more extreme methods of war? How can we rely on the USA to be a world 'policeman' if it appears to be politically rotten (character + money = politics!?!?)
I think the point is maybe they wouldn't need to kill innocents if they had other options which the technological advances have cancelled out .
Also what happens if heaven forbid the USA with its technology, happened to be doing something wrong and the people couldn't defend themselves. What options are they left with?
I don't think they are looking for a 'saviour' in China just something to counter balance (-their words)
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A large proportion of minors do not buy the games themselves, relying on getting their parents to buy it for them, i believe from several conversations I have had with game shop staff that most parents think games are 'only games' and buying little jimmy the latest goreland 7 video game is perfectly acceptable, totally disregarding the age ratings. With a movie for a minor to see the latest release he has to get through the cinema staff, which is a major barrier, and if getting a parent to hire a movie, they tend to be a lot stricter adhering to the recommended age ratings. The education of the parents as to the age system is what the industry should concentrate on. I think trying to directly compare the Movie and video game age ratings is unfair, you are talking about comparing, for example, waqtching someone being killed by a murderer to actually playing out the part of the murderer yourself.
talking about plug in architecture.... With regards to the guys at B3ta whose image i tidied up a bit
That .NET Passport signin broke for me the first time i used it with ebay and then i was unable to set up an ebay account for an entire month.
But keep writing to any company you think may fit. A lot of the bigger firms do placements. I'm sure IBM or MS could accomodate you. BTW if you do get to an interview they're not like they used to be, every company is obsessed with you being a team player to the degree that they turn down perfectly able interviewees, in your CV interview cover sheet everything stress you love teams and are a team player. I have who worked for IBM on a placement for a year did a fantastic job running grids AIX servers and all sorts of stuff, must have saved them a fortune - he single handedly ported one of their products to Linux from windows and was then told in the interview for a graduate place that he wasn't enough of a team player, i'm not talking about being socially inept - which he totally isn't, he just didn't shout team team team for 30 minutes.
It's very nice to have one machine that does everything. I would be interested in seeing if Nintendo did anything special for the GB and GBC games playing environments like they did for for the GBA. I wonder if they are going to phase it in as the GBA is slowly phased out. Is the GB and GBC hardware actually used by the DS to support anything else, ala MegaDrive (Genesis for my american friends) and its sounds processor being the old mastersystem processor?
Anyone else realise that today is the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Playstation?
Computer and video games have a small article here . It'll be interesting to see how they compete with the DS as the last ten years have shown they are rather good at this. Personally speaking i wouldn't touch the PSP, the screen is begging for a good scratching and i seem to recall battery life (and size) where what killed the sega game gear. I still love Sonic 2 though.
I hate to think of those people on their 14.4k modems receiving the latest patches. Also if i had a computer fast enough to run the game, alas my gforce 2 can hardly handle DoD, i'm behind a big old university firewall, does that mean i'd be more or less forced to hack the game to play it, and get my head bitten off if i my machine ever wanders outside my dorm? I don't believe there is any other way to deactivate it bar lugging it round a friends who has a dsl line. Seeing as studies have shown that most people who pirate stuff never had any intention of paying for it in the first place doesn't this piss a lot of legitimate people off?
does that name ring a bell? And the lucky people in the states got 56k modems us Europeans were treated to 33k modems. To be honest they should have sold it as an add on over here, there were a host of games that didn't even go online whilst the US versions did, i think UT was one of them and they never even released Bomberman in the UK, i had to get it on import.
I got fed up a few years back of the sheer amount of consoles i had sitting under my tv (nes, snes, mega drive, mastersystem, saturn, N64), the wires were getting some what cumbersome. These individual controllers go a long way to solving the problem but the best solution now adays seems a unit like the xbox or a tiny computer. to be honest i wouldn't play any new games on it, bit of a retro fan, i would mainly stick with emulators, offers a host more functionality, i.e. saving games, screen shots, four player support, and you can more or less drag and drop games as and when you like. For the moment my 300+ cartidges and cd's are very much retired to the loft. Is there really a need for these fancy game console controllers for anyone with a reasonable budget?
I always loved 6 degrees of separation, and i love wiki, truly a match made in heaven cool, i own the domain already. I've been thinking of a wikigame for a while now, i.e. actually programming/designing/compiling/testing/documentin g a computer game (or any other software) using only a wiki interface, pushing those open source paradigm boudaries to the anarchic limits. Will it work or just tie itself up in a big messy ball, it'll be fun finding out.
Sorry this was abit of a nothing post, but i needed to get it off my chest
The multiplayer sounds sucky, i'm just waiting for an update of perfect dark multiplayer (never been surpassed on a console IMHO). Are there bots? for us non live players even 7 player can feel a bit lonely let alone 4 player on those huge maps.
Very true and makes a very scary point, if the americans can conquer the tactical side so decisively, then what other options do other forces have? Will it push them towards more extreme methods of war? How can we rely on the USA to be a world 'policeman' if it appears to be politically rotten (character + money = politics!?!?)
I think the point is maybe they wouldn't need to kill innocents if they had other options which the technological advances have cancelled out
.
Also what happens if heaven forbid the USA with its technology, happened to be doing something wrong and the people couldn't defend themselves. What options are they left with?
I don't think they are looking for a 'saviour' in China just something to counter balance (-their words)