...authors or artists who leak their own material ahead of time to build hype? If they have signed a contract with a record company, would they not then be subject to these pentalties for leaking their own stuff?
B******! What about Automator? What about Core Image/Core Data? What about VoiceOver?
You may want to notice another blurb later on in the article:
Once you get past Spotlight and Dashboard, Tiger is chock full of a wide range of small new applications and updates to existing applications and technologies. In this section, I'll highlight a few of those minor updates.
But with Windows 95, Microsoft finally got its act together
Wow... I don't think I would quite say they got it together in 95. Maybe you could say that about 2000 or XP... but 95? That had to be one of the buggiest operating systems I ever used.
I don't think these politicians or other concerned parties typically try to limit the purchase of these games by adults who want to play the game... but they do want to make sure that minors do not get the game without their parents knowing. At that point it is the partents concern. However, parents do need to be educated as to what is in some games, such as GTA3, so they can make good decisions regarding whether or not they want it influencing their children. I agree it is the parent's repsonsibility to instill morals in their kids, but we should still make sure that kids can't get games that are adult oriented.
One question I do have... would a parent be charged with anything if they knowingly bought and showed porn to a his or her child, who is a minor? I am thinking not, in which case the choice of what games a kid is allowed to play should be up to the parent, not the kid.
To you people who are getting all worked up about trying to ban pr0n... please actually understand what this law is about. It said you could REQUEST to have pr0n sites blocked for your account (persumably so your account is not abused, or to protect yourself). It DID NOT say that they were trying to stop people who had an account from looking at pr0n if they really wanted to. Those are two completely different issues.
On the other hand, this seems like an almost impossible notion. It seems like a waste of time and effort, because I don't see how they are going to enfore it. Are they going to block p2p software too?
You are probably right, but regardless of what they are trying to accomplish, they have now caused me to not want to ever download anything from them... no matter how "spy-ware free" they claim it to be. Then again, I probably considered weather bug to be spy-ware. It was sad how upset my "redneck" uncle was when I re-installed windows and he couldn't find weather bug. Oops... I just called my uncle redneck... and since I can't retract this after I click submit, he can send cease and desist letters all he wants;). If he can figure out how to write one...
In other news, I find the topic of the affect of a game on a person's actions to be a rather interesting one. First, as a job I help develop training software... simulations that teach people how to act in real-world simulations, so obviously we have faith, to some extent that exposing someone to extensive game-play will lead them to have the ability to do what they did in the game. The big question is not will it give you the ability to, or the desire to, but rather will it cause you to have an urge to do it that you can't resist... I say no.
On another note, I barely missed having an accident last weekend, and had I not played a lot of driving games on video game systems I am not sure I would have been able to react in time and in such a way to avoid a collision (some guy hit the guy in front of him, then started to slide over in my lane directly in front of me). I could be wrong, but I would think that games would train you to react appropriately in situations that you have little time to plan a reaction. More or less a reflex perhaps. But still, I don't feel this forces someone to go out and commit murder (or any other crime).
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First we hear that the Opera CEO is going to swim the ocean... and now that Microsoft will "just work." What's next?
...authors or artists who leak their own material ahead of time to build hype? If they have signed a contract with a record company, would they not then be subject to these pentalties for leaking their own stuff?
Yeah well... mine has been working since... Oh nevermind.
Not to mention that the people who use ad blockers are probably the most likely to not buy even if the ads were shown.
I think that those ads are disturbing the peace, among other criminal-like behavior.
You may want to notice another blurb later on in the article:
Once you get past Spotlight and Dashboard, Tiger is chock full of a wide range of small new applications and updates to existing applications and technologies. In this section, I'll highlight a few of those minor updates.
Wow... I don't think I would quite say they got it together in 95. Maybe you could say that about 2000 or XP... but 95? That had to be one of the buggiest operating systems I ever used.
...for the Russians to approve The Simpson's for kids, saying that it wasn't "morally degenerate".
... popcorn recommendations?
Isn't that typically called a two-edged sword, as opposed to a sword that cuts both ways?
I don't think these politicians or other concerned parties typically try to limit the purchase of these games by adults who want to play the game... but they do want to make sure that minors do not get the game without their parents knowing. At that point it is the partents concern. However, parents do need to be educated as to what is in some games, such as GTA3, so they can make good decisions regarding whether or not they want it influencing their children. I agree it is the parent's repsonsibility to instill morals in their kids, but we should still make sure that kids can't get games that are adult oriented. One question I do have... would a parent be charged with anything if they knowingly bought and showed porn to a his or her child, who is a minor? I am thinking not, in which case the choice of what games a kid is allowed to play should be up to the parent, not the kid.
To you people who are getting all worked up about trying to ban pr0n... please actually understand what this law is about. It said you could REQUEST to have pr0n sites blocked for your account (persumably so your account is not abused, or to protect yourself). It DID NOT say that they were trying to stop people who had an account from looking at pr0n if they really wanted to. Those are two completely different issues. On the other hand, this seems like an almost impossible notion. It seems like a waste of time and effort, because I don't see how they are going to enfore it. Are they going to block p2p software too?
How long until code.yahoo.com?
Suddenly a cat hair infested scroll mouse becomes a feature.
To where did the launch it? The Moon?
I, for one, welcome our new dot-com overlords. To the few, the proud... those who didn't burst with the dot-com bubble.
You are probably right, but regardless of what they are trying to accomplish, they have now caused me to not want to ever download anything from them... no matter how "spy-ware free" they claim it to be. Then again, I probably considered weather bug to be spy-ware. It was sad how upset my "redneck" uncle was when I re-installed windows and he couldn't find weather bug. Oops... I just called my uncle redneck... and since I can't retract this after I click submit, he can send cease and desist letters all he wants ;). If he can figure out how to write one...
Since when is it a crime to classify something as spyware?
In other news, I find the topic of the affect of a game on a person's actions to be a rather interesting one. First, as a job I help develop training software... simulations that teach people how to act in real-world simulations, so obviously we have faith, to some extent that exposing someone to extensive game-play will lead them to have the ability to do what they did in the game. The big question is not will it give you the ability to, or the desire to, but rather will it cause you to have an urge to do it that you can't resist... I say no.
On another note, I barely missed having an accident last weekend, and had I not played a lot of driving games on video game systems I am not sure I would have been able to react in time and in such a way to avoid a collision (some guy hit the guy in front of him, then started to slide over in my lane directly in front of me). I could be wrong, but I would think that games would train you to react appropriately in situations that you have little time to plan a reaction. More or less a reflex perhaps. But still, I don't feel this forces someone to go out and commit murder (or any other crime).
Does the anti-spyware tool remove IE? If not, someone needs to support the security hole.