Its the South Australian Attorney-General who is the problem. All the others have agreed to an R18 rating, but it has to be unanimous. That said, lately he has (slowly) been backing down and I have hopes that it won't be too long before it gets through.
Of course, then the console manufacturers also have to allow R18 games to be run...
There will be a war. The humans will win. The robots will live somewhere else for a while. Then they will launch a surprise attack, wiping out the vast majority of the human race, with the survivors spending years searching for Earth... ah crud!
Indirectly you could say so. Since most businesses (development businesses anyway) want their software to be closed. Obviously the term is a stretch, and could similarly be stretched to say that BSD is anti-end user.
A specific method of payment is not the issue here.
Essentially, eBay gets paid twice for the same auction. THAT is where people are getting (rightfully) peeved.
Well I obviously can't speak for everyone, but I'm more worried about the former rather than the latter. It hinders competition, resulting in higher prices.
Because most people don't have the millions of dollars needed to buy enough shares to make a difference. And if they did, then they'd buy the shares and not vote to change anything because they would stand to benefit in the form of increased share value.
Where did this "personally" meme come from? Just say "I think people use the "for one" thing to look like they're bucking the crowd." See how easy that is? No extraneous words, it's brilliantly simple.
So that parents can have some idea of the content in the games they buy their children. And stores can implement policies preventing the sale of violent games to minors independent of the government.
I didn't know about this being built either, though I do remember seeing a very similar looking proposal to be built near Mildura in the newspaper about 5 years ago.
We're complaining that - if we were to buy this game - we would be unable to play it without an internet connection. If it did perform a CD check in the absence of an internet connection, that would have the convenience of not normally needing a CD, and still being able to play in offline situations.
A thief walks into a fine winery and takes a bottle without paying for it. Just walks out the door. Two days later, the thief comes back and asks what food might go well with the wine he stole. The store, shocked and appalled at how brazen thieves are becoming, puts locks on the cabinets and asks that people contact an employee, who is nearby and ready to help at any time, to get wine out of the case. Or rather, the store put locks on the corks of the bottles, and don't give out the keys when they sell the bottle. Rather, they require the customer to come back to the store and have the clerk open the bottle and pour a glass for them, and lock the bottle up again.
Of course, I run a mac and an ubuntu rig, so I'm not in the target market for many game companies anyway. That puts you in the market for this game company.
I don't think I've ever seen milk with vitamin D. Not that I've looked for it or anything. Why would they add it? Or maybe Australia is sunny enough that nobody worries about it?
I have no idea what 'zeitgeist' or 'petard' mean
But I can't think about that now, I have definitions to look up. For those too lazy to look it up, we have:
Zeitgeist - the spirit of the time; general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time. Petard - hoist by or with one's own petard, hurt, ruined, or destroyed by the very device or plot one had intended for another.
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I blame the Victorians
Actually its the South Australian Attorney-General holding out on the R18 classification.
Its the South Australian Attorney-General who is the problem. All the others have agreed to an R18 rating, but it has to be unanimous. That said, lately he has (slowly) been backing down and I have hopes that it won't be too long before it gets through.
Of course, then the console manufacturers also have to allow R18 games to be run...
There will be a war. The humans will win. The robots will live somewhere else for a while. Then they will launch a surprise attack, wiping out the vast majority of the human race, with the survivors spending years searching for Earth... ah crud!
Indirectly you could say so. Since most businesses (development businesses anyway) want their software to be closed. Obviously the term is a stretch, and could similarly be stretched to say that BSD is anti-end user.
Unbelievably cool would be if it came with a pony.
What, you didn't get yours?
A specific method of payment is not the issue here.
Essentially, eBay gets paid twice for the same auction. THAT is where people are getting (rightfully) peeved.
Well I obviously can't speak for everyone, but I'm more worried about the former rather than the latter. It hinders competition, resulting in higher prices.
Because most people don't have the millions of dollars needed to buy enough shares to make a difference. And if they did, then they'd buy the shares and not vote to change anything because they would stand to benefit in the form of increased share value.
Yeah you wish that's where he was.
Well I guess I'll see you in the geonanoblogosphere then!
Where did this "personally" meme come from? Just say "I think people use the "for one" thing to look like they're bucking the crowd." See how easy that is? No extraneous words, it's brilliantly simple.
PSOGC
Phantasy Star Online for the Gamecube for those of us left baffled.
So that parents can have some idea of the content in the games they buy their children. And stores can implement policies preventing the sale of violent games to minors independent of the government.
For what it's worth, I'd put 8.04 right now as more stable than 7.04 was
7.06
Interesting to see the lack of all the anti-solar/wind posts back then. How times change.
Perhaps thats why the site is slashdotted so hard.
I didn't know about this being built either, though I do remember seeing a very similar looking proposal to be built near Mildura in the newspaper about 5 years ago.
We're complaining that - if we were to buy this game - we would be unable to play it without an internet connection. If it did perform a CD check in the absence of an internet connection, that would have the convenience of not normally needing a CD, and still being able to play in offline situations.
I don't think I've ever seen milk with vitamin D. Not that I've looked for it or anything. Why would they add it? Or maybe Australia is sunny enough that nobody worries about it?
Zeitgeist - the spirit of the time; general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time.
Petard - hoist by or with one's own petard, hurt, ruined, or destroyed by the very device or plot one had intended for another.
Courtesy of Dictionary.com Unabridged (v1.1)
Even if it were free, there'd be quite a furor if it was GPL'd code that was used.
Not quite. -40 is the convergence point
I can't say I like watching someone coding up search functionality in a program either.