I should say that I've never owned any PlayStation, only played a few games and seen some videos/screenshots for ones that looked interesting.
I remember all the stuff about Sega Saturn and what a nightmare it was for the three processors.
But it does sound like the PlayStations could have been easier to code for. I remember reading how Sony didn't provide as much help or documentation as they could have to the developers. I have no doubt that there are some technically amazing games for PlayStation, but I still think it was from developers that went above and beyond to get everything they could out of the system.
I thought all the PlayStations were difficult to program for. I remember reading somewhere this was a reason why games didn't advance all that much over it's lifespan. I imagine it takes a lot more work to squeeze out all the power.
Do you ever drop your business card in those little buckets at restaurants for the chance to get a free lunch, and then when the burly man behind you is up to order, he glances at your title and decides to thank you in the parking lot by pounding you in the face until all you see in your vision is cryptic text on a solid blue background? Does he then call you at all hours of the day asking if you want to refinance your home or see barely legal girls naked? Does he make you give him an activation code to leave you alone?
Alright, seriously though... do you, as the VP of Security at Microsoft, ever find yourself laughing maniacally?
I find it annoying that if you go to download Quicktime for an XP box, it makes you install iTunes as well. Wouldn't it be malware then ("Malware is software designed to infiltrate...")?
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"Sorry Timmy, there won't be a Christmas this year... Santa's list got Slashdotted."
This Bukkakevich is such a pain. Every time I glance at the paper it's him or Daley coming up with creative ways to make money off the citizens. Things will never be right around here because then they'd be out of a job.
That's the point of a leadership position isn't it? To see how much money you can walk away with?
I think more people should say "no" to the government. They don't have as much power over us as they want us to believe. I wish more people knew their rights.
But my original post didn't have to do with the government. My point was that you should (opinion) take every chance you can get at educating parents (or anyone for anything within your abilty, thank you for the reference, by the way).
What if you worked for an adult video store? A mature 12 year old can come in and purchase some material? I know I had my hands on this stuff at that age and I had no problems handling it, and I wouldn't deny it to anybody. However, if I were in that situation, I would take a second to educate this person that what they are seeing is a work of fiction. People do not act like this, and this is not what females are looking for in a sexual relationship.
Accepting responsibility for yourself is a great thing. But there is so much out there for you to learn and other things to accept. I just think time would be better spent educating people and then we wouldn't have all these questions about what a child can or cannot do, should or shouldn't know.
Obiously, parents should be doing their job, but we all have things we need to take care of. Parents can't watch their child 24 hours a day and I don't think it's too much to ask for help from someone who may know more about the subject.
Say a polite, "normal" child comes in with their parent and wants to purchase a game that's been getting much negative attention in the media and the parent parrots back to the child what they heard from the "teevee." I think it's reasonable to educate the parent in this situation as well. Obviously, it may come off as biased as you're the one selling the game, but they should know that what is presented in the media about this form of entertainment is generally untrue.
I don't have a problem with this issue, but I can't imagine how scary it is to be a parent. I know I would take every opportunity for discussion about a topic that would affect my child.
Easy there, Mr. Hyperbole. I didn't mean to imply the kid was leading a second life, but it is fact that the kid was putting a low amount of money towards the purchase of a "M" rated game. Although a good lesson in delayed gratification, I doubt he also purchased the equipment necessary to play the $50 game in the same fashion.
Since we're making wild guesses, I would say A) the parents are unconcerned, and they don't care what games he plays, who he hangs out with, what he does after school, etc... or B) the parents have established a life for themselves and are doing well, and that they know their child will not go shooting at police or prostitutes because it was "glorified" in the game. (One sure way to tell politicians and lawyers have never played this game, as either of these actions are discouraged in the game.)
But the point of my original post was that the kid was using his allowance (assumption) to eventually purchase this game. His parents were not present, and asking your benefactor for $50 to purchase an "M" rated title that's also getting negative attention in the media is different than his parents handing him his weekly chore money, with no questions as to how he spent it.
So I guess the point of this post is that assumptions can be made either way and there's a lot of variables to consider. I think it's wrong to make the blanket statement that "violent/sexual games are bad for children." It should most certainly be in the hands of parents and the concern of the community.
And lastly, I agree with you. Any two idiots can get together and make some babies, but it doesn't qualify them as parents. You'd think nature would want to sterilize these people, for preservation of the species. I'd rather that than government approved entertainment.
I don't think it's an issue of force. I agree with you that you should not be forced to ID your customers, but it shouldn't be an issue in the first place.
Now, you just posted about being a model Christian, but your oversimplification of "My job is to meet my customers' demands," sounds like worship of the almighty dollar. This is not meant to be inflammatory, I won't even assume you meant you're a gaming retailer.
What's the harm in educating these heathen parents? Or telling these kids to come back with an (informed, ideally) parent? Those ESRB ratings are plastered all up the down the store, it wouldn't be hard to take a second to explain them. They sell magazines in the store usually, and I'm sure they have some left over. Why not tear out game reviews / previews and maybe laminate them and put them in a binder for parents to browse through. You could put up posters for gaming sites where they could get info.
All I'm saying is that there are tons of ways we could solve this as a community, and we're letting government take over. We're laying blame on the developers, the ESRB, and the clerks who make $6.50/hour.
I completely agree that we don't need government or nanny groups or anyone censoring, well, anything. I don't think we should hide these things from our children, but we should take the time to properly explain them. I think the main goal should be education. If it was common knowledge that these parent groups were wackos, how much power would they have?
I have nothing but good things to say about hardware support for Linux.
When I installed my wireless NIC (basic Linksys G from your favorite retail store), XP had a hard time with the install. Maybe a faulty CD that came with it, but autorun didn't pick up on it at all, and even manually executing the binary didn't do a thing. I had to go through the driver wizard and it worked fine after that.
I recently installed Ubuntu 5.10 and it could not have possibly been easier. I knew it wouldn't have a problem with the card, I used a Knoppix and an Ubuntu live CD and it worked fine on both. During the install process, it asked me what the SSID was and maybe the channel or the gateway IP, but that was it. It had access to the Internet on first boot. No driver install. No wizards.
Correct, hence the "...because I didn't like the all-in-one browser/mail/etc."
I thought M2 was decent, but I didn't really give it enough time to "settle in." I remember being impressed the with IRC client.
I would certainly try it out (for Linux this time, I don't recommend it for XP) if I could get it simply as a browser (plus the browser features mentioned previously). But I do think it's a fine program. Very impressed with all the features, even if I didn't need them so much.
I jumped on the Opera bandwagon when it went free (8.5?) and I thought it was great.
I ultimately went back to Ff because I didn't like the all-in-one browser/mail/etc. It had some issues on XP (install/uninstall oddities). It also crashed when I repeated the same word using Speak (like 100 times), but I should have seen that coming.
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I should say that I've never owned any PlayStation, only played a few games and seen some videos/screenshots for ones that looked interesting. I remember all the stuff about Sega Saturn and what a nightmare it was for the three processors. But it does sound like the PlayStations could have been easier to code for. I remember reading how Sony didn't provide as much help or documentation as they could have to the developers. I have no doubt that there are some technically amazing games for PlayStation, but I still think it was from developers that went above and beyond to get everything they could out of the system.
I thought all the PlayStations were difficult to program for. I remember reading somewhere this was a reason why games didn't advance all that much over it's lifespan. I imagine it takes a lot more work to squeeze out all the power.
Do you ever drop your business card in those little buckets at restaurants for the chance to get a free lunch, and then when the burly man behind you is up to order, he glances at your title and decides to thank you in the parking lot by pounding you in the face until all you see in your vision is cryptic text on a solid blue background? Does he then call you at all hours of the day asking if you want to refinance your home or see barely legal girls naked? Does he make you give him an activation code to leave you alone?
Alright, seriously though... do you, as the VP of Security at Microsoft, ever find yourself laughing maniacally?
27. Canada: 4319 registered users, 139.25 users/Mpop
28. Ireland: 514 registered users, 133.82 users/Mpop
30. Australia: 2337 registered users, 120.84 users/Mpop
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These numbers are good, but not great. I propose a new marketing campaign:
Linux: More Money for Booze
Nowhere to go but down when you're #1.
I find it annoying that if you go to download Quicktime for an XP box, it makes you install iTunes as well. Wouldn't it be malware then ("Malware is software designed to infiltrate...")?
"Sorry Timmy, there won't be a Christmas this year... Santa's list got Slashdotted."
Did you have any other questions?
This article can kiss my ass.
Polly want a cracker?
This Bukkakevich is such a pain. Every time I glance at the paper it's him or Daley coming up with creative ways to make money off the citizens. Things will never be right around here because then they'd be out of a job.
That's the point of a leadership position isn't it? To see how much money you can walk away with?
I think more people should say "no" to the government. They don't have as much power over us as they want us to believe. I wish more people knew their rights.
But my original post didn't have to do with the government. My point was that you should (opinion) take every chance you can get at educating parents (or anyone for anything within your abilty, thank you for the reference, by the way).
What if you worked for an adult video store? A mature 12 year old can come in and purchase some material? I know I had my hands on this stuff at that age and I had no problems handling it, and I wouldn't deny it to anybody. However, if I were in that situation, I would take a second to educate this person that what they are seeing is a work of fiction. People do not act like this, and this is not what females are looking for in a sexual relationship.
Accepting responsibility for yourself is a great thing. But there is so much out there for you to learn and other things to accept. I just think time would be better spent educating people and then we wouldn't have all these questions about what a child can or cannot do, should or shouldn't know.
Obiously, parents should be doing their job, but we all have things we need to take care of. Parents can't watch their child 24 hours a day and I don't think it's too much to ask for help from someone who may know more about the subject.
Say a polite, "normal" child comes in with their parent and wants to purchase a game that's been getting much negative attention in the media and the parent parrots back to the child what they heard from the "teevee." I think it's reasonable to educate the parent in this situation as well. Obviously, it may come off as biased as you're the one selling the game, but they should know that what is presented in the media about this form of entertainment is generally untrue.
I don't have a problem with this issue, but I can't imagine how scary it is to be a parent. I know I would take every opportunity for discussion about a topic that would affect my child.
Easy there, Mr. Hyperbole. I didn't mean to imply the kid was leading a second life, but it is fact that the kid was putting a low amount of money towards the purchase of a "M" rated game. Although a good lesson in delayed gratification, I doubt he also purchased the equipment necessary to play the $50 game in the same fashion.
Since we're making wild guesses, I would say A) the parents are unconcerned, and they don't care what games he plays, who he hangs out with, what he does after school, etc... or B) the parents have established a life for themselves and are doing well, and that they know their child will not go shooting at police or prostitutes because it was "glorified" in the game. (One sure way to tell politicians and lawyers have never played this game, as either of these actions are discouraged in the game.)
But the point of my original post was that the kid was using his allowance (assumption) to eventually purchase this game. His parents were not present, and asking your benefactor for $50 to purchase an "M" rated title that's also getting negative attention in the media is different than his parents handing him his weekly chore money, with no questions as to how he spent it.
So I guess the point of this post is that assumptions can be made either way and there's a lot of variables to consider. I think it's wrong to make the blanket statement that "violent/sexual games are bad for children." It should most certainly be in the hands of parents and the concern of the community.
And lastly, I agree with you. Any two idiots can get together and make some babies, but it doesn't qualify them as parents. You'd think nature would want to sterilize these people, for preservation of the species. I'd rather that than government approved entertainment.
Parents shouldn't give their kids money if they're concerned.
I was waiting in line in a GameStop behind this kid (maybe 10 - 12), who was putting another $5/$10 down on his copy of San Andreas.
I don't think for a second that San Andreas would corrupt a young one, but I also don't think that kid's parents knew where his allowance was going.
I don't think it's an issue of force. I agree with you that you should not be forced to ID your customers, but it shouldn't be an issue in the first place.
Now, you just posted about being a model Christian, but your oversimplification of "My job is to meet my customers' demands," sounds like worship of the almighty dollar. This is not meant to be inflammatory, I won't even assume you meant you're a gaming retailer.
What's the harm in educating these heathen parents? Or telling these kids to come back with an (informed, ideally) parent? Those ESRB ratings are plastered all up the down the store, it wouldn't be hard to take a second to explain them. They sell magazines in the store usually, and I'm sure they have some left over. Why not tear out game reviews / previews and maybe laminate them and put them in a binder for parents to browse through. You could put up posters for gaming sites where they could get info.
All I'm saying is that there are tons of ways we could solve this as a community, and we're letting government take over. We're laying blame on the developers, the ESRB, and the clerks who make $6.50/hour.
I completely agree that we don't need government or nanny groups or anyone censoring, well, anything. I don't think we should hide these things from our children, but we should take the time to properly explain them. I think the main goal should be education. If it was common knowledge that these parent groups were wackos, how much power would they have?
I have nothing but good things to say about hardware support for Linux.
When I installed my wireless NIC (basic Linksys G from your favorite retail store), XP had a hard time with the install. Maybe a faulty CD that came with it, but autorun didn't pick up on it at all, and even manually executing the binary didn't do a thing. I had to go through the driver wizard and it worked fine after that.
I recently installed Ubuntu 5.10 and it could not have possibly been easier. I knew it wouldn't have a problem with the card, I used a Knoppix and an Ubuntu live CD and it worked fine on both. During the install process, it asked me what the SSID was and maybe the channel or the gateway IP, but that was it. It had access to the Internet on first boot. No driver install. No wizards.
I don't miss Windows a bit.
Correct, hence the "...because I didn't like the all-in-one browser/mail/etc."
I thought M2 was decent, but I didn't really give it enough time to "settle in." I remember being impressed the with IRC client.
I would certainly try it out (for Linux this time, I don't recommend it for XP) if I could get it simply as a browser (plus the browser features mentioned previously). But I do think it's a fine program. Very impressed with all the features, even if I didn't need them so much.
I jumped on the Opera bandwagon when it went free (8.5?) and I thought it was great.
I ultimately went back to Ff because I didn't like the all-in-one browser/mail/etc. It had some issues on XP (install/uninstall oddities). It also crashed when I repeated the same word using Speak (like 100 times), but I should have seen that coming.
I even had to go grab Auto Refresh, Mouse Gesture, and QuickNote (with the All-in-One Sidebar, of course).