They don't just shoot more people. They shoot massively more people. We're talking orders of magnitude. That means that dealing with US police officers - especially for people of color - is significantly more dangerous in the US than in other countries. Thus why they would not want to call them in a crisis situation.
The phrase is "A few bad apples spoil the barrel". Not "A few bad apples don't count against the others". Defending their worst members makes the entire blue gang complicit.
There's plenty of jobs more dangerous than being a cop, but you don't see those getting the supposed "respect" for the danger. Besides that, nearly half of all cop deaths are from their own reckless driving, not from any kind of violence. US police are massively under-trained and over-excitable compared to any other industrialized nation.
Best part is, GGP was most likely a sarcastic remark. A tongue in cheek reference to the fact that valve has talked about a mass-produced Steambox for years now, yet nothing has hit the market.
And isn't likely to happen in the near future, either, considering that they basically canned their entire hardware department for over a corporate culture conflict.
I have nothing at all against devs making this decision. I meant that *law enforcement* should be doing something about this. If someone made these threats over the phone, they'd be arrested. People need to get it through their skulls that the internet is not a free pass to do anything.
So start treating these as actual threats and prosecuting. This isn't 'obvious joke' territory like the stupid kid with a facebook post about eating hearts. Treat threats as threats. Maybe some actual consequences will clean up BS like this.
I am not an economist so I may be missing something obvious, but it sounds like your model has two possible economic models: 1) Take large personal losses for what is essentially a "labor of love" and shows you no return on your time... OR 2) Magic. I would actually love to be corrected here. What community are you speaking of and where do the funds to support it come from?
Fallout had the different Pipboy screens mapped to F1-3. Better than just tab, but only a little. Unfortunately, you needed mods to extend that any further.
If you want to make a damned movie, get in the movie business! If you want to make GAMES then make them FUN!
There's nothing inherently wrong with cinematic games, though. Compare a snore-fest like LA Noire to the Mass Effect series. Both are very cinematic, but in Mass Effect, what you're doing feels like it matters. you're having fun because you're playing it. LA Noire was a barely-interactive 20 hour movie which ground onward inevitably with or without you.
This can easily be extended - with just as much basis in reality - that profit corrupts, regardless of the source. Or, to put it in a more classic phrasing, "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil." Microtransactions are just the latest variety of profit that can be turned to profiteering.
Chance+opportunity+rationalization-risk = criminal action. Even a weak rationale is better than none. "I deserve this more than they do" "It's a big business, they won't miss a little profit" "I'm not actually hurting anyone"
See: Software piracy on that last point. And yes, I'm referencing personal experience.
I have absolutely no problem with a console that just plays games. Indeed, I say "good for them" in this decision, especially if it actually lowers end cost to consumers.
The problem with the Wii was never that it didn't play DVDs. The problem was that its catalog of games was lousy. Seriously, look at which games are still selling at full price, and which dropped like a rock two weeks after release. Hint: Twilight Princess is still one of the top-selling Wii games... and it was a GameCube game. They won't get anywhere without developer support.
Okay, I will admit, they rewrote the book on hype and mass-marketing, this generation. That, combined with actually making a profit on hardware sales, put them solidly in the black. I'm not sure the "Nintendo iPad" will manage the same feat, though. That controller is going to cost a pretty penny.
The speed-picking "delta" robots are a very specialized application. The same would be very difficult - or impossible - to apply to jobs like plumbing where the action is highly dependent on context.
The problem is that the intimidation tactics are working. It's getting more difficult to find a copy of the hack. Out of curiosity (I don't even own a PS3), I started looking for a copy of the file. It took me a good 10 minutes to locate a link to a good download. Now, you can say I suck at searching, and that may have some truth, but it means that Sony has made strides in preventing Average Joe Luser from jailbreaking his or her console.
It occurs to me after the fact that I should have probably been searching torrents instead of looking for a download from a website. Indeed, that search takes all of five seconds to bear fruit.
Did you play the DS re-release of Chrono Trigger? They added some new sidequests to it. Compare the production quality side-by-side, of the old content to the new in the same game, and it's shocking to see how low-quality and slipshod the modern content is. Square-Enix has simply lost the ability to make quality game content.
It's saddening that after 15 hours of XIII, I found myself missing X-2. Then I went back and played XII and reminded myself what real characters and storyline-depth were. Pity about that faux-victorian speech impediment they all seemed to have.
The problem is, Locke2005 wasn't talking about random games that you can find a dozen copies of with a simple torrent search. "As an engineer" he said. We're talking about the $1500-per-copy specialized software that nobody ever bothers to crack, so there's no recourse if the licensing servers go down, other than to look for some other company to shell out more money to.
Admittedly, half the time, with the company gone, you'll be looking for another vendor anyway, because you rely on the company's support line too regularly to continue using the software without them anyway.
"False Advertising" doesn't even begin to cover it. The parallel that any smart plaintiff should be making in court is this:
"Imagine if you just bought a brand new Toyota Prius. Now, you're buying it because it's a hybrid car; that's its primary function. However, it also has things like "stereo" and "air conditioning" which factored into your decision to purchase it. Now imagine that a year or so after you purchase your car, it's summer, and you're quite happy that you have air conditioning, and in fact have come to rely on this to make your long hot commutes livable. All of a sudden, a Toyota representative comes by your house, uses the special skeleton key that lets him get into any Prius they've manufactured, and pulls out your AC unit. You tell him to stop, but he shows you that the contract you signed when "purchasing" the car states that you don't actually own it, and that Toyota can still do whatever they want with it. He also tells you that if you'd known about it ahead of time, you could have changed your locks, but that would've voided your car's lifetime warranty and also stopped you from driving on the highway.
Slashdot Mirror
They don't just shoot more people. They shoot massively more people. We're talking orders of magnitude. That means that dealing with US police officers - especially for people of color - is significantly more dangerous in the US than in other countries. Thus why they would not want to call them in a crisis situation.
The phrase is "A few bad apples spoil the barrel". Not "A few bad apples don't count against the others". Defending their worst members makes the entire blue gang complicit.
There's plenty of jobs more dangerous than being a cop, but you don't see those getting the supposed "respect" for the danger. Besides that, nearly half of all cop deaths are from their own reckless driving, not from any kind of violence. US police are massively under-trained and over-excitable compared to any other industrialized nation.
And we're 5-10 times higher than any other industrialized nation. Why are we comparing murder rates in the USA to third-world countries?
When it comes to law enforcement, the USA statistically looks like a third-world country.
Props for not posting anon, at least. Be proud of your backwards social stance. Cry it out loud, so people can better avoid you.
You want to know some of the biggest FPS gamers around? Deployed soldiers.
Best part is, GGP was most likely a sarcastic remark. A tongue in cheek reference to the fact that valve has talked about a mass-produced Steambox for years now, yet nothing has hit the market.
And isn't likely to happen in the near future, either, considering that they basically canned their entire hardware department for over a corporate culture conflict.
I have nothing at all against devs making this decision. I meant that *law enforcement* should be doing something about this. If someone made these threats over the phone, they'd be arrested. People need to get it through their skulls that the internet is not a free pass to do anything.
So start treating these as actual threats and prosecuting. This isn't 'obvious joke' territory like the stupid kid with a facebook post about eating hearts. Treat threats as threats. Maybe some actual consequences will clean up BS like this.
I am not an economist so I may be missing something obvious, but it sounds like your model has two possible economic models: 1) Take large personal losses for what is essentially a "labor of love" and shows you no return on your time... OR 2) Magic. I would actually love to be corrected here. What community are you speaking of and where do the funds to support it come from?
Fallout had the different Pipboy screens mapped to F1-3. Better than just tab, but only a little. Unfortunately, you needed mods to extend that any further.
If you want to make a damned movie, get in the movie business! If you want to make GAMES then make them FUN!
There's nothing inherently wrong with cinematic games, though. Compare a snore-fest like LA Noire to the Mass Effect series. Both are very cinematic, but in Mass Effect, what you're doing feels like it matters. you're having fun because you're playing it. LA Noire was a barely-interactive 20 hour movie which ground onward inevitably with or without you.
This can easily be extended - with just as much basis in reality - that profit corrupts, regardless of the source. Or, to put it in a more classic phrasing, "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil." Microtransactions are just the latest variety of profit that can be turned to profiteering.
Chance+opportunity+rationalization-risk = criminal action. Even a weak rationale is better than none. "I deserve this more than they do" "It's a big business, they won't miss a little profit" "I'm not actually hurting anyone" See: Software piracy on that last point. And yes, I'm referencing personal experience.
The complaint was mostly on the scale of the transactions (i.e. anything but "micro"). But it was also fairly offtopic. And so is this, I guess.
I have absolutely no problem with a console that just plays games. Indeed, I say "good for them" in this decision, especially if it actually lowers end cost to consumers.
The problem with the Wii was never that it didn't play DVDs. The problem was that its catalog of games was lousy. Seriously, look at which games are still selling at full price, and which dropped like a rock two weeks after release. Hint: Twilight Princess is still one of the top-selling Wii games... and it was a GameCube game. They won't get anywhere without developer support.
Okay, I will admit, they rewrote the book on hype and mass-marketing, this generation. That, combined with actually making a profit on hardware sales, put them solidly in the black. I'm not sure the "Nintendo iPad" will manage the same feat, though. That controller is going to cost a pretty penny.
West USA... go to Nevada?
The speed-picking "delta" robots are a very specialized application. The same would be very difficult - or impossible - to apply to jobs like plumbing where the action is highly dependent on context.
The problem is that the intimidation tactics are working. It's getting more difficult to find a copy of the hack. Out of curiosity (I don't even own a PS3), I started looking for a copy of the file. It took me a good 10 minutes to locate a link to a good download. Now, you can say I suck at searching, and that may have some truth, but it means that Sony has made strides in preventing Average Joe Luser from jailbreaking his or her console.
It occurs to me after the fact that I should have probably been searching torrents instead of looking for a download from a website. Indeed, that search takes all of five seconds to bear fruit.
Did you play the DS re-release of Chrono Trigger? They added some new sidequests to it. Compare the production quality side-by-side, of the old content to the new in the same game, and it's shocking to see how low-quality and slipshod the modern content is. Square-Enix has simply lost the ability to make quality game content.
It's saddening that after 15 hours of XIII, I found myself missing X-2. Then I went back and played XII and reminded myself what real characters and storyline-depth were. Pity about that faux-victorian speech impediment they all seemed to have.
I'm assuming that AC up there missed the memo.
The problem is, Locke2005 wasn't talking about random games that you can find a dozen copies of with a simple torrent search. "As an engineer" he said. We're talking about the $1500-per-copy specialized software that nobody ever bothers to crack, so there's no recourse if the licensing servers go down, other than to look for some other company to shell out more money to.
Admittedly, half the time, with the company gone, you'll be looking for another vendor anyway, because you rely on the company's support line too regularly to continue using the software without them anyway.
"False Advertising" doesn't even begin to cover it. The parallel that any smart plaintiff should be making in court is this:
"Imagine if you just bought a brand new Toyota Prius. Now, you're buying it because it's a hybrid car; that's its primary function. However, it also has things like "stereo" and "air conditioning" which factored into your decision to purchase it. Now imagine that a year or so after you purchase your car, it's summer, and you're quite happy that you have air conditioning, and in fact have come to rely on this to make your long hot commutes livable. All of a sudden, a Toyota representative comes by your house, uses the special skeleton key that lets him get into any Prius they've manufactured, and pulls out your AC unit. You tell him to stop, but he shows you that the contract you signed when "purchasing" the car states that you don't actually own it, and that Toyota can still do whatever they want with it. He also tells you that if you'd known about it ahead of time, you could have changed your locks, but that would've voided your car's lifetime warranty and also stopped you from driving on the highway.