'Freedom' fanatics are putting spin on this. Yahoo didn't do something because it wasn't illegal and they wanted to do it. Yahoo turned over the information against their will because the law of that country required it. To do anything other than what they did -would- break a law and result in the consequences to individuals in the company, not just Yahoo itself.
In other words, NOT to have turned over this information would have been at least as 'morally reprehensible' as turning it over because individuals would suffer for it -and- they would be breaking the law.
Really, other than avoiding having the information in the first place, Yahoo had very little choice.
I think maybe 'clued' is the wrong word. 'Driven' maybe. 'Not willing to settle for the minimum' maybe.
They exist at every school. It's impossible to stop them from learning more than the system provides because they are too curious and will just look it up at home if they are blocked at school.
Obviously, I feel I'm one of them.
In high school, we had a 'video' class where we were to learn to use the equipment and put on a morning news show (5 min long, max) each morning. The problem? No equipment. It was on order, but all we had until then was a VCR, TV, and home camcorder. Luckily, I had gotten bored a few years prior and knew how to edit from vcr to vcr, on non-professional equipment. It was about half the school year that we proceeded like that. I ended up doing the majority of the work until then, but it wasn't -hard-, just a bit tedious. Eventually, we got the professional equipment and the job fell to someone else to learn, and I got to relax the rest of the year.
I was also the one who figured out you could 'hack' the boot floppies for the IBMs and display messages when someone booted, and still allow them access to the program afterwards. I was also the one who figured out that you could have it erase the message so they couldn't show the teacher afterwards, if you were clever enough. I was also the one that showed how to fix everything when the teachers had no clue.
Could I have run a Linux server and terminals? It wouldn't have been easy, but I think I could have learned. Now, it's easy enough that I -know- I could learn if I were that age again.
I wouldn't rely on there being a stupid who can handle it, but if there was, I would use that as a learning opportunity for the few who had the inclination. Take them as 'apprentices' and show them how to maintain the system. Only those-who-want-to need apply.
I don't know how common it is, but our small high school didn't have 'clubs'. There were a few sports teams, and band, and Hi-Q (like Jeopardy), but -nothing- else. There was no opportunity for learning computers or art other than the minimal classes offered as electives. No chance to get together with others that have the same passion you do. These clubs would be perfect for things like this... Students who don't care, don't apply. Those who do, work hard at it.
Unfortunately, I think schools will continue to be a decade behind as students become the teachers and fix the problems they experienced. Other than putting a lot more effort and money into a nation-wide system for schooling, I don't see a solution. The minimum requirements are pretty much the same nation-wide, but the methods differ greatly, and it all depends on the local people and their limited pool of knowledge.
-looks down at the soapbox- Whoops. That's enough.
The USPS -already- guarantees your mail -won't- be delivered if you don't pay their fees. (Stamps?) However, in addition, they also offered higher-priced services (first-class mail) that has a better chance of being delivered. Third-class mail has -no- guarantee.
I think you're the one that misunderstands. The lossy audio compression makes music with dynamic range compression sound worse. The DRC is used to make the music 'sound better' according to the record studios, but the LAC then destroys that hard work and it sounds like crap again.
At least, that's what they are claiming. When they went and claimed that EMI upped the quality on the MP3s to counteract that, well, they lost all credibility. IF that were true, they'd insist on the rest of their music having higher quality on iTunes as well.
So you're saying that 'we have no plans' means they don't have any plans? Wow, genius.
This is EXACTLY what they said, and it's how it should have been interpreted. They never said they won't be doing it, that was the Media trying to put spin on the quote. I believe the quote was "There's nothing on the books." It's means exactly that. They haven't written anything down, they aren't currently working on anything, they have no plans. Period. No more, no less.
I can't see how this is even slightly newsworthy. This must be Slashdot's version of a retraction.
If nothing they did was 'good' or 'bad', how can eating the fruit be bad? They simply reacted, like animals... And ate food that was in front of them.
No, it's quite clear that man was sentient and could understand that his actions had consequence. THAT is what 'good' or 'bad' means.
The only way they could have committed a sin was to understand that it was bad to begin with, and make that choice deliberately.
It's the same for children. When they are born, nothing they do is 'sin' because they couldn't possibly know better yet. Once they are old enough to understand, then it's sin.
You can't have it both ways... Either they're able to sin before eating the fruit, or eating the fruit was not a sin.
Hah, too right. My first thought was 'That'd be cool, but having to watch my mouth/actions around all the kids won't be much fun.' I tend to watch it anyhow when playing MMOs, but at least with the adult ones, if I slip, it's 'Oh well, their parents let them play knowing that could happen.' With this, the onus is on me, instead.
(I assume all the profanity filters and such will be in place, but still.)
If Lego had not already produced several "Lego" games that had nothing at all to do with building, I might agree with you.
But Lego Star Wars 1 and 2 were good games and sold very well. The Bionicle games are also quite well done and enjoyable.
This is probably just going to be another in that line of gaming. I somehow doubt you'll be able to actually design stuff, but instead will only be able to put together things they've approved. Especially since children are 'protected' and they won't want people making crude statues.
Aye, I didn't RTFA and didn't know the name of it when I posted that.
Did you play that SC-clone City Life that had the 6 different colors for different classes of people, and you had to plan the city to have them get along? 'Societies' makes me think they are trying to add that concept to Sim City.
I suspect we are all just being hopeful and the game will stink, though. -sigh-
XXX ? O_o I think I've been missing out on the simulators lately.
Seriously, though, as others have point out, they are changing the name. I've seen a lot of the slightly-renamed spinoffs lately and I don't view them with dis-favor. They are rarely as good as the originals, but they definitely entertain. Mario is a good example, with all the spinoffs from that... Including the major one, Super Mario Bros. (Mario Bros was before that, for those who have forgotten.)
I have to wonder... Did they take a poll beforehand and notice that 90% of the Marketing peeps would leave if they moved, and scream 'jackpot!' ? Maybe they -want- a shakeup in that department, without the mess of actually firing anyone.
Or maybe there was a good reason and this is just icing on the cake.
Right on. I used to feel -exactly- as you do. After all the ugliness in the last couple years, though, I tend to look on the LGPL with a bit of favor, even if I still intensely dislike the GPL (2/3/whatever) itself.
I have a hard time imagining WHAT the game will be, if not a 'realistic urban simulation'... FPS? RPG? 'unrealistic urban simulation'?
I tend to think the last one has to be it... It's going to be a tycoon game, rather than a simulator.
I personally had more fun with the first SC than any of the others. SC2K was a close second, and the others were just too complex to be -fun- for me. I don't enjoy micro-managing every single water line. Taking the game back to the core, and simulating the fun stuff instead of -everything- is what I'd like to see.
I am -very- disappointed that Maxis thought they couldn't handle it, though... and that someone else could do it better. That or 'sell out' is the only way to look at it.
Granted, it doesn't mean 100% of them chose not to vote against it, but that doesn't mean there were 'likely only three Senators in the room'. You're apparently taking the bar exam soon, so you should know the importance of knowing what you're talking about, instead of just making stuff up. Was there really nowhere you could have checked to see the attendance at the time? Having actual data would make your point very strong, because it's likely you are on the right path.
The 'only for nVidia' license wouldn't pass any of those things, no... But then, their current drivers don't either. Big corporations rarely make major moves that don't appear to gain them much. That's how nVidia sees this right now.
If they can be convinced to take this little step, and the community shows their support and makes their driver ever better, they'll have reason to seriously consider a more permissive license.
Idealism is great, but you have to be careful how you present things. If you just say 'open source or nothing!' then you'll get nothing. If you say 'see what this step can do for you?' you are much more likely to be persuasive.
Again, if this were the only training, that would be correct. This is designed to give them the overall picture, and clarify their portion of it. One of the benefits from that is that in a real situation, the person doesn't stop to think 'Why are they telling me to do that?' and be tempted to question the decision. They'll already -know- why and just do it.
Phobias aren't 'fear', they're 'irrational fear'. The kind of fear that makes you lock up and do -nothing- or do the wrong thing, instead of keeping a level head and dealing with the situation.
Personally, I don't think it's possible to 'get over' a phobia. I think you can control it, and learn to make yourself control the situation instead of letting the situation control you, but a pyrophobe will -never- stop being afraid of fire.
I love how they blame search engines for obeying the law. Like they have a choice somehow that they can continue operating in those countries if they choose to the 'right thing' and not censor. There's not a shred of blame laid on every single other type of media in those same countries, it's just the search engines that are at fault for censorship.
"But those media aren't on the internet!" No, but if the local newspapers didn't censor information, would the government even bother trying to censor Google? Not a chance.
It's nice to have a scapegoat for something that's screwed up when you can't blame the actual cause: The government demanding the censoring, in this case. Might as well get angry at the store clerk that won't sell your son the Mature-rated game because he's 8 years old. (Yes, I know people do that, and it's just as useless.)
Yeah, because the Wii has -so- much more storage capacity than the 360.
While it's unlikely we'll see a true FF on the 360 (partially for your reason), it's possible we'll see spinoffs like the FFCC and the like, retro titles revamped, or new titles with 'hard core' gameplay without so many movies and more actual action. (I'm hoping for this, personally... Not holding my breath, though.)
'Blank page' doesn't mean 'never', it just means 'no current plans'... That's about a minimum of a year, if they decide to do a port, or 3 years if they decide to innovate. Minimum, mind. Not average or mean.
Nintendo had been the sole Final Fantasy Console for years when Sony stepped in and took it. Now Nintendo has FF titles again (weak ones, but still...) so there's nothing stopping them from doing the 360. They are probably fishing for a big check from everyone's favorite monopoly first.
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'Freedom' fanatics are putting spin on this. Yahoo didn't do something because it wasn't illegal and they wanted to do it. Yahoo turned over the information against their will because the law of that country required it. To do anything other than what they did -would- break a law and result in the consequences to individuals in the company, not just Yahoo itself.
In other words, NOT to have turned over this information would have been at least as 'morally reprehensible' as turning it over because individuals would suffer for it -and- they would be breaking the law.
Really, other than avoiding having the information in the first place, Yahoo had very little choice.
I think maybe 'clued' is the wrong word. 'Driven' maybe. 'Not willing to settle for the minimum' maybe.
They exist at every school. It's impossible to stop them from learning more than the system provides because they are too curious and will just look it up at home if they are blocked at school.
Obviously, I feel I'm one of them.
In high school, we had a 'video' class where we were to learn to use the equipment and put on a morning news show (5 min long, max) each morning. The problem? No equipment. It was on order, but all we had until then was a VCR, TV, and home camcorder. Luckily, I had gotten bored a few years prior and knew how to edit from vcr to vcr, on non-professional equipment. It was about half the school year that we proceeded like that. I ended up doing the majority of the work until then, but it wasn't -hard-, just a bit tedious. Eventually, we got the professional equipment and the job fell to someone else to learn, and I got to relax the rest of the year.
I was also the one who figured out you could 'hack' the boot floppies for the IBMs and display messages when someone booted, and still allow them access to the program afterwards. I was also the one who figured out that you could have it erase the message so they couldn't show the teacher afterwards, if you were clever enough. I was also the one that showed how to fix everything when the teachers had no clue.
Could I have run a Linux server and terminals? It wouldn't have been easy, but I think I could have learned. Now, it's easy enough that I -know- I could learn if I were that age again.
I wouldn't rely on there being a stupid who can handle it, but if there was, I would use that as a learning opportunity for the few who had the inclination. Take them as 'apprentices' and show them how to maintain the system. Only those-who-want-to need apply.
I don't know how common it is, but our small high school didn't have 'clubs'. There were a few sports teams, and band, and Hi-Q (like Jeopardy), but -nothing- else. There was no opportunity for learning computers or art other than the minimal classes offered as electives. No chance to get together with others that have the same passion you do. These clubs would be perfect for things like this... Students who don't care, don't apply. Those who do, work hard at it.
Unfortunately, I think schools will continue to be a decade behind as students become the teachers and fix the problems they experienced. Other than putting a lot more effort and money into a nation-wide system for schooling, I don't see a solution. The minimum requirements are pretty much the same nation-wide, but the methods differ greatly, and it all depends on the local people and their limited pool of knowledge.
-looks down at the soapbox- Whoops. That's enough.
The USPS -already- guarantees your mail -won't- be delivered if you don't pay their fees. (Stamps?) However, in addition, they also offered higher-priced services (first-class mail) that has a better chance of being delivered. Third-class mail has -no- guarantee.
So what does the 'mob' have to do with this?
Nooo! It was intelligently designed! Wait... Why are those opposites now?
I think you're the one that misunderstands. The lossy audio compression makes music with dynamic range compression sound worse. The DRC is used to make the music 'sound better' according to the record studios, but the LAC then destroys that hard work and it sounds like crap again.
At least, that's what they are claiming. When they went and claimed that EMI upped the quality on the MP3s to counteract that, well, they lost all credibility. IF that were true, they'd insist on the rest of their music having higher quality on iTunes as well.
That was 2000 years ago! It's improved since then. Have him try it again.
So you're saying that 'we have no plans' means they don't have any plans? Wow, genius.
This is EXACTLY what they said, and it's how it should have been interpreted. They never said they won't be doing it, that was the Media trying to put spin on the quote. I believe the quote was "There's nothing on the books." It's means exactly that. They haven't written anything down, they aren't currently working on anything, they have no plans. Period. No more, no less.
I can't see how this is even slightly newsworthy. This must be Slashdot's version of a retraction.
I'm gonna bite on this one.
If nothing they did was 'good' or 'bad', how can eating the fruit be bad? They simply reacted, like animals... And ate food that was in front of them.
No, it's quite clear that man was sentient and could understand that his actions had consequence. THAT is what 'good' or 'bad' means.
The only way they could have committed a sin was to understand that it was bad to begin with, and make that choice deliberately.
It's the same for children. When they are born, nothing they do is 'sin' because they couldn't possibly know better yet. Once they are old enough to understand, then it's sin.
You can't have it both ways... Either they're able to sin before eating the fruit, or eating the fruit was not a sin.
Noooo, God reached down his noodly appendage and made them healthy!
;)
You thought I was going to say something else, didn't you?
Hah, too right. My first thought was 'That'd be cool, but having to watch my mouth/actions around all the kids won't be much fun.' I tend to watch it anyhow when playing MMOs, but at least with the adult ones, if I slip, it's 'Oh well, their parents let them play knowing that could happen.' With this, the onus is on me, instead.
(I assume all the profanity filters and such will be in place, but still.)
If Lego had not already produced several "Lego" games that had nothing at all to do with building, I might agree with you.
But Lego Star Wars 1 and 2 were good games and sold very well. The Bionicle games are also quite well done and enjoyable.
This is probably just going to be another in that line of gaming. I somehow doubt you'll be able to actually design stuff, but instead will only be able to put together things they've approved. Especially since children are 'protected' and they won't want people making crude statues.
Please, do a little research before you try to correct someone.
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Aye, I didn't RTFA and didn't know the name of it when I posted that.
Did you play that SC-clone City Life that had the 6 different colors for different classes of people, and you had to plan the city to have them get along? 'Societies' makes me think they are trying to add that concept to Sim City.
I suspect we are all just being hopeful and the game will stink, though. -sigh-
XXX ? O_o I think I've been missing out on the simulators lately.
Seriously, though, as others have point out, they are changing the name. I've seen a lot of the slightly-renamed spinoffs lately and I don't view them with dis-favor. They are rarely as good as the originals, but they definitely entertain. Mario is a good example, with all the spinoffs from that... Including the major one, Super Mario Bros. (Mario Bros was before that, for those who have forgotten.)
I have to wonder... Did they take a poll beforehand and notice that 90% of the Marketing peeps would leave if they moved, and scream 'jackpot!' ? Maybe they -want- a shakeup in that department, without the mess of actually firing anyone.
Or maybe there was a good reason and this is just icing on the cake.
Right on. I used to feel -exactly- as you do. After all the ugliness in the last couple years, though, I tend to look on the LGPL with a bit of favor, even if I still intensely dislike the GPL (2/3/whatever) itself.
I have a hard time imagining WHAT the game will be, if not a 'realistic urban simulation'... FPS? RPG? 'unrealistic urban simulation'?
I tend to think the last one has to be it... It's going to be a tycoon game, rather than a simulator.
I personally had more fun with the first SC than any of the others. SC2K was a close second, and the others were just too complex to be -fun- for me. I don't enjoy micro-managing every single water line. Taking the game back to the core, and simulating the fun stuff instead of -everything- is what I'd like to see.
I am -very- disappointed that Maxis thought they couldn't handle it, though... and that someone else could do it better. That or 'sell out' is the only way to look at it.
Granted, it doesn't mean 100% of them chose not to vote against it, but that doesn't mean there were 'likely only three Senators in the room'. You're apparently taking the bar exam soon, so you should know the importance of knowing what you're talking about, instead of just making stuff up. Was there really nowhere you could have checked to see the attendance at the time? Having actual data would make your point very strong, because it's likely you are on the right path.
The 'only for nVidia' license wouldn't pass any of those things, no... But then, their current drivers don't either. Big corporations rarely make major moves that don't appear to gain them much. That's how nVidia sees this right now.
If they can be convinced to take this little step, and the community shows their support and makes their driver ever better, they'll have reason to seriously consider a more permissive license.
Idealism is great, but you have to be careful how you present things. If you just say 'open source or nothing!' then you'll get nothing. If you say 'see what this step can do for you?' you are much more likely to be persuasive.
Again, if this were the only training, that would be correct. This is designed to give them the overall picture, and clarify their portion of it. One of the benefits from that is that in a real situation, the person doesn't stop to think 'Why are they telling me to do that?' and be tempted to question the decision. They'll already -know- why and just do it.
Phobias aren't 'fear', they're 'irrational fear'. The kind of fear that makes you lock up and do -nothing- or do the wrong thing, instead of keeping a level head and dealing with the situation.
Personally, I don't think it's possible to 'get over' a phobia. I think you can control it, and learn to make yourself control the situation instead of letting the situation control you, but a pyrophobe will -never- stop being afraid of fire.
I love how they blame search engines for obeying the law. Like they have a choice somehow that they can continue operating in those countries if they choose to the 'right thing' and not censor. There's not a shred of blame laid on every single other type of media in those same countries, it's just the search engines that are at fault for censorship.
"But those media aren't on the internet!" No, but if the local newspapers didn't censor information, would the government even bother trying to censor Google? Not a chance.
It's nice to have a scapegoat for something that's screwed up when you can't blame the actual cause: The government demanding the censoring, in this case. Might as well get angry at the store clerk that won't sell your son the Mature-rated game because he's 8 years old. (Yes, I know people do that, and it's just as useless.)
The first thought I had when I saw this article was 'At Soviet Microsoft, Chair throws you!' ;)
Yeah, because the Wii has -so- much more storage capacity than the 360.
While it's unlikely we'll see a true FF on the 360 (partially for your reason), it's possible we'll see spinoffs like the FFCC and the like, retro titles revamped, or new titles with 'hard core' gameplay without so many movies and more actual action. (I'm hoping for this, personally... Not holding my breath, though.)
'Blank page' doesn't mean 'never', it just means 'no current plans'... That's about a minimum of a year, if they decide to do a port, or 3 years if they decide to innovate. Minimum, mind. Not average or mean.
Nintendo had been the sole Final Fantasy Console for years when Sony stepped in and took it. Now Nintendo has FF titles again (weak ones, but still...) so there's nothing stopping them from doing the 360. They are probably fishing for a big check from everyone's favorite monopoly first.