Considering how people generally don't (most people still think it's a law anyway), I'd say it is a great system. It's working quite well, even if it doesn't sound like it would.
Well, sorta. Theatres generally don't sell the tickets to kids, but kids can generally get in with a ticket (on the assumption that an adult responsible for the child bought the ticket). Generally speaking, theatres trying to keep up good appearances (most of them) won't allow kids in.
Is the rating system a law?
No, the rating system is strictly voluntary and carries no force of law
and
Who enforces the ratings?
While the decision to enforce the rating system is purely voluntary, the National Association of Theatre Owners estimate that the majority of theaters observe the Classification and Rating Administration's guidelines
Sounds pretty clear to me that the ratings are not enforced by law in any way. This includes the actual rating of the movies and the actual enforcement of the ratings.
Wow, how did this get modded 3:Interesting while the post before it is modded -1:troll? At least the so-called "troll" used valid points/arguments. (*mutter*onlyon/.*mutter*)
I mean, ignore your biases for a moment, and think about his argument.
"A new controller isn't going to make anything new." As proven by the analog stick on the N64... It has the possibility to make new stuff easily.
"And oooh - it has a lightstick thingy like the old gun in duck hunt. We all know how well *those* things work" Because a technology from 15 years ago will accurately reflect the performance of a slightly similar technology of now and everything...
"I'll be buying the 360 and the PS3 at launch and I might be buying the Revolution after it has been out for a year or so and the price drops." Nothing inherently wrong with this, though it's interesting that one would wait for the cheap console to price drop instead of the expensive ($400+) consoles...
I think the moderators accidentally reversed the scores...
I'm not a karma-whore by any means. I am honestly frustrated by today's phones that add in low quality features that suck up a disproportionate amount of the battery life. I cannot see the benefit of having low quality games taking up the majority of my cell phone's battery life as opposed to a relatively cheap handheld system with much higher quality games that don't use my cell phone's battery.
... to the days where cell phones had one function: making and taking phone calls?
Sure, some features of cell phones are good, some aren't, but I think that people are trying too hard to just add features to be different. I mean, do we really need cell phones that can take pictures, play music and games, and surf the Internet? Especially when such features are usually of low quality?
If I want mobile gaming, I'll grab the latest handheld from Nintendo. Their games are much better than anything I've ever seen on a cell phone, not to mention that they won't drain the batteries on my cell phone, causing me to miss a vital call when the batteries run out.
Okay, I don't really care about being modded up or anything (wouldn't even get me Karma if I wanted it...), but how is this redundant? It's the first post I see that mentions the 10,000,000 years...
This is where the question of "how realistic is too far?" comes in. I mean, there are plenty of people who would love no more than to have bullets take a bit of time and arc a bit, to be sniping and have to adjust for distance and wind.
On the other hand, this will just serve to confuse a lot of people, or make it difficult. In an effort to find a happy medium between the super-realistic people and the just-make-it-easy-to-pick-up crowds, I think modern FPSs aren't too horrible.
(Though, I would love a more realistic system, personally, but I don't think hyper-realism is for the masses.)
Nintendo "lost" in the last round? Sure, they were far from market dominance, but the way I remember it they were the ones who were making all the money while MS and Sony were losing money or making minimal profit. Nintendo has their niche market and makes the money. I think Nintendo wins.
I just want to know how you think Nintendo's games aren't fun and innovative, but Microsoft's and Sony's are.
Ah, finally I get to share the wonder with the world. A friend of mine e-mailed this to me months ago, and I've shared it with a few friends, but now I hope Slashdot can enjoy.
This kinda reminds me of the old "Animorphs" book series. They had the Yeerks, who were parasitic gray slugs that could read and control the minds of their hosts.
I hope this means I get morphing powers to defeat these parasites....
Another one of the reasons people switched away from Altavista/Lycos/etc to Google was because Google's service was actually superior.
Unfortunately today, Digg falls far short of this. The dupes are far worse than at Slashdot. Way worse. The amount of non-tech, non-news, and general crap is usually a lot greater than the amount of releveant tech news. A lot greater. We may complain about Slashdot, but at Digg the problems are worse. And to say that they don't have any ad submissions hit front page is laughable (this, for example, is currently front paged and it's no different from this post except the software). Of course, even if there were a complete lack of ads, it would be far overshadowed when you have a story like Bill Gates's House on Google Maps. And, of course, the comments there are hardly worthwhile.
So, sure, Digg is a nice little curiosity. But as a Slashdot replacement it fails in far short. Complain about Slashdot all you want, but the reality is that it is not as bad as we say, and it's nowhere near as bad as Digg.
Sorry, the AC did a horrible misquote of a Seinfeld episode. It wasn't actually asking that question.
Oh, for the record, the quote (an audio clip of which can be found here) is "Why do they call it Ovaltine? The mug is round, the jar is round. They should call it Roundtine."
It matters because they were losing money for most of the time since the XBox was released. The Japanese market is essential if they want to stay in the game, because they're just losing money otherwise.
Last time I checked the Gamecube had support from all of these, too...
Square Enix: Final Fantasy: Crystal Chrnoicles
Konami: Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
Capcom: Resident Evil Zero
Namco: Tales of Symphonia
Of course, that's by no means a complete listing of the support from each, but it is enough to prove there is support. (In a side note, I think at least some of the Nintendo handhelds had support from all of them, too, but I don't wanna find all those).
(NOTE: This is just to point out that his list is incomplete, not to validate or invalidate his claim nor to make any claims about the Gamecube other than that it had support from those developers. God, I sound like a lawyer....)
Finally! I was beginning to worry that our proximity to Mordor^H^H^H^H^H^H Redmond was going to completely screw over any chances of Open Source spreading around here. I mean, I knew about OSU's heavy support and involvement in OSS, but that's completely different from getting the government to back it. Actually, one of the local school districts has a policy banning the use of Linux in any way at school. Not well enforced, thank God, but it has been enforced in the past.
Maybe this will also lead to loosening up on other Microsoft bindings, too. Nearly all colleges in the state, for example, do only Microsoft certification. Apparently, there is only one college that does non-MS certification. Let's hope that changes soon!
Olympic, Olympics, Olympiad, Olympiads, Olympian Olympians, 'Citius Altius Fortius', 'London 2012', London2012.com
I'm in big trouble now.
But seriously, this is kind of ridiculous. I am now no longer allowed to post on a blog "I hope to be an Olympian in the London 2012 Olympic games."? (If you say it only applies to businesses, like the headline says, check the London2012.com Olympic Marks guidelines. That definitely sounds like it applies to anybody.) That's a little extreme. If they can do that, I want a law saying that nobody can say 'masterzora' or any derivative thereof unless they give me lots of money. I mean, if they can do it, I can, right?
Great, just what we need. More fuel for Jack Thompson. How long do you think it will take for him to latch on to this showing the "evils of video games"?
If you do notice, it is WAY better than Google's start page too - you can actually drag the various sections on the page and place them anywhere on the page.
Yes, and last I checked (which was, in fact, every day for the past couple weeks), http://www.google.com/igdoes allow you to move sections by dragging, in addition to allowing you to enter your own sections, and loading much faster. What part of that says "MS does it better"?
Our options really are to cut down the population or to increase the area we live in (unless we/want/ to live with 300 people per square nanometer). So, either let people die or explore space and colonize other planets and/or moons. I'm just pointing out which one we're more capable of.
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Considering how people generally don't (most people still think it's a law anyway), I'd say it is a great system. It's working quite well, even if it doesn't sound like it would.
Well, sorta. Theatres generally don't sell the tickets to kids, but kids can generally get in with a ticket (on the assumption that an adult responsible for the child bought the ticket). Generally speaking, theatres trying to keep up good appearances (most of them) won't allow kids in.
Is the rating system a law?
No, the rating system is strictly voluntary and carries no force of law
and
Who enforces the ratings? While the decision to enforce the rating system is purely voluntary, the National Association of Theatre Owners estimate that the majority of theaters observe the Classification and Rating Administration's guidelines
Sounds pretty clear to me that the ratings are not enforced by law in any way. This includes the actual rating of the movies and the actual enforcement of the ratings.
I mean, ignore your biases for a moment, and think about his argument.
"A new controller isn't going to make anything new." As proven by the analog stick on the N64... It has the possibility to make new stuff easily.
"And oooh - it has a lightstick thingy like the old gun in duck hunt. We all know how well *those* things work" Because a technology from 15 years ago will accurately reflect the performance of a slightly similar technology of now and everything...
"I'll be buying the 360 and the PS3 at launch and I might be buying the Revolution after it has been out for a year or so and the price drops." Nothing inherently wrong with this, though it's interesting that one would wait for the cheap console to price drop instead of the expensive ($400+) consoles...
I think the moderators accidentally reversed the scores...
I'm not a karma-whore by any means. I am honestly frustrated by today's phones that add in low quality features that suck up a disproportionate amount of the battery life. I cannot see the benefit of having low quality games taking up the majority of my cell phone's battery life as opposed to a relatively cheap handheld system with much higher quality games that don't use my cell phone's battery.
Sure, some features of cell phones are good, some aren't, but I think that people are trying too hard to just add features to be different. I mean, do we really need cell phones that can take pictures, play music and games, and surf the Internet? Especially when such features are usually of low quality?
If I want mobile gaming, I'll grab the latest handheld from Nintendo. Their games are much better than anything I've ever seen on a cell phone, not to mention that they won't drain the batteries on my cell phone, causing me to miss a vital call when the batteries run out.
Okay, I don't really care about being modded up or anything (wouldn't even get me Karma if I wanted it...), but how is this redundant? It's the first post I see that mentions the 10,000,000 years...
I think you hit the wrong reply button...
Would this include indexing the Ultimate Question? Because last time I checked, that would take 10,000,000 years in and of itself.
WTF? How in the world did this get modded insightful? It's a flippin' joke without a bit of insight at all. Mod it up funny!
For example, using Ctrl-F instead alt-E > F. Or you could set the option to start finding when you start typing.
I've used both of those and have never had a single problem on any webpage including Wikipedia.
On the other hand, this will just serve to confuse a lot of people, or make it difficult. In an effort to find a happy medium between the super-realistic people and the just-make-it-easy-to-pick-up crowds, I think modern FPSs aren't too horrible.
(Though, I would love a more realistic system, personally, but I don't think hyper-realism is for the masses.)
Nintendo "lost" in the last round? Sure, they were far from market dominance, but the way I remember it they were the ones who were making all the money while MS and Sony were losing money or making minimal profit. Nintendo has their niche market and makes the money. I think Nintendo wins.
I just want to know how you think Nintendo's games aren't fun and innovative, but Microsoft's and Sony's are.
Ah, finally I get to share the wonder with the world. A friend of mine e-mailed this to me months ago, and I've shared it with a few friends, but now I hope Slashdot can enjoy.
s t-6-full.html
An explanation of micropayments and how they can change the web for the better: http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/ic
This kinda reminds me of the old "Animorphs" book series. They had the Yeerks, who were parasitic gray slugs that could read and control the minds of their hosts.
I hope this means I get morphing powers to defeat these parasites....
Another one of the reasons people switched away from Altavista/Lycos/etc to Google was because Google's service was actually superior.
Unfortunately today, Digg falls far short of this. The dupes are far worse than at Slashdot. Way worse. The amount of non-tech, non-news, and general crap is usually a lot greater than the amount of releveant tech news. A lot greater. We may complain about Slashdot, but at Digg the problems are worse. And to say that they don't have any ad submissions hit front page is laughable (this, for example, is currently front paged and it's no different from this post except the software). Of course, even if there were a complete lack of ads, it would be far overshadowed when you have a story like Bill Gates's House on Google Maps. And, of course, the comments there are hardly worthwhile.
So, sure, Digg is a nice little curiosity. But as a Slashdot replacement it fails in far short. Complain about Slashdot all you want, but the reality is that it is not as bad as we say, and it's nowhere near as bad as Digg.
Oh, for the record, the quote (an audio clip of which can be found here) is "Why do they call it Ovaltine? The mug is round, the jar is round. They should call it Roundtine."
It matters because they were losing money for most of the time since the XBox was released. The Japanese market is essential if they want to stay in the game, because they're just losing money otherwise.
Last time I checked the Gamecube had support from all of these, too...
Square Enix: Final Fantasy: Crystal Chrnoicles
Konami: Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
Capcom: Resident Evil Zero
Namco: Tales of Symphonia
Of course, that's by no means a complete listing of the support from each, but it is enough to prove there is support. (In a side note, I think at least some of the Nintendo handhelds had support from all of them, too, but I don't wanna find all those).
(NOTE: This is just to point out that his list is incomplete, not to validate or invalidate his claim nor to make any claims about the Gamecube other than that it had support from those developers. God, I sound like a lawyer....)
Finally! I was beginning to worry that our proximity to Mordor^H^H^H^H^H^H Redmond was going to completely screw over any chances of Open Source spreading around here. I mean, I knew about OSU's heavy support and involvement in OSS, but that's completely different from getting the government to back it. Actually, one of the local school districts has a policy banning the use of Linux in any way at school. Not well enforced, thank God, but it has been enforced in the past.
Maybe this will also lead to loosening up on other Microsoft bindings, too. Nearly all colleges in the state, for example, do only Microsoft certification. Apparently, there is only one college that does non-MS certification. Let's hope that changes soon!
I'm in big trouble now.
But seriously, this is kind of ridiculous. I am now no longer allowed to post on a blog "I hope to be an Olympian in the London 2012 Olympic games."? (If you say it only applies to businesses, like the headline says, check the London2012.com Olympic Marks guidelines. That definitely sounds like it applies to anybody.) That's a little extreme. If they can do that, I want a law saying that nobody can say 'masterzora' or any derivative thereof unless they give me lots of money. I mean, if they can do it, I can, right?
Great, just what we need. More fuel for Jack Thompson. How long do you think it will take for him to latch on to this showing the "evils of video games"?
If you do notice, it is WAY better than Google's start page too - you can actually drag the various sections on the page and place them anywhere on the page.
Yes, and last I checked (which was, in fact, every day for the past couple weeks), http://www.google.com/ig does allow you to move sections by dragging, in addition to allowing you to enter your own sections, and loading much faster. What part of that says "MS does it better"?
you can't build a computer if state information is going to evaportate in a second or less. Why not? We Windows users are used to it...
Our options really are to cut down the population or to increase the area we live in (unless we /want/ to live with 300 people per square nanometer). So, either let people die or explore space and colonize other planets and/or moons. I'm just pointing out which one we're more capable of.