Now, the problem lies in the fact that a computer liscence would require government intervention... I'm all for preventing stupid people from doing stupid things, but government intervention just hands more power to corrupt politicians. It's a troublesome situation if you do set up a computer liscence. How do you enforce it? Too many people have computers to monitor, and to actively search would probably violate a lot of privacy. Secondly, how do you grade someone's computer usage? Do you have to enforce usage of a firewall, for the good of all, or do you teach it to them and hope they practice it? Does being able to get online equate to being capable of using the internet? There's just too many loopholes and flaws in the idea of a computer liscence. The technology has grown faster than anyone can manage it at, and now we have a huge number of problems stemming from it. Not to mention the poor tech support guys...
Some people still can't get their head around analogue control... and he's right, it WAS difficult - I had to do many, many retries on levels, but I still completed it with every Shine. I think your definition of "difficult" might be different to his.
There's just too much fun to be mad spawning in a tank and wrecking everything in a mile radius. Especially when the police/military finally destroy your tank and you spawn ANOTHER right on top of their cars...
But the "Twin Paradox" is, and is clearly named as such. Many people have extended the word "paradox" to cover the entire anti-aging effect, as it TRIGGERS many paradox-scenarios.
I was going for humourous, not patronising, but tone is usually misinterpreted on the internet... and I had no way of knowing that you are an active participant, as am I, but I find the horrible mess behind the scenes in the "talk" subarticles actually leads to a suprisingly good number of articles. Yes, the aspect of the highest mods leads to a hellish hierarchy. Yes, there's a small voting system to get user concensus... and yes, the mob rule aspect, such as calling in forum members to swarm-edit, does exist. But the final articles, as we all know, tend to be reasonably high-quality, full of information, and more-or-less reliable.
But all that's besides the point, since I was trying to make a joke in the first place. Sorry. ^^
Hey, I quoted a few examples. I didn't claim that "Sony sucks!" at any point, simply that, at this current moment in time and many times before, they have made greivous errors. CD was co-made with Phillips, and Sony's 3-1/2" was, ironically, only a success due to leveraging Apple. ["Things changed dramatically in 1984 when Apple Computer selected the format for their new Macintosh computers, thereby forcing it to become the standard in the United States." - Wiki] I don't know about Hi8, but S/PDIF is a system, not a medium like Beta or Blu-Ray. All these points taken into consideration, I am not backing Blu-Ray. While your point is valid that they HAVE had successes, most notably the 3-1/2", did that have DRM on it? Did it prevent the user from copying another file, possibly copyrighted material, onto it? I don't wish to argue. I'm just here to state a case against Sony. There's a difference.
Wikipedia is inverse Communism. Communism looks great in theory, and horrible in practice. Wikipedia looks horrible in theory, but in practice, it does work.
Pfft, everyone knows that frog story is a debunked myth. Find a better proverb to use, or risk your argument falling flat on its face in an actual debate.
Maybe for you - don't cast your opinion on all gamers. I read books too, but not to get away from real life. I play games for the same reason I read books - either as a mental exercise (Ikaruga, Starcraft) or for an amazing story (Kingdom Hearts, FFVII, Starcraft) and sometimes both (Starcraft). Adverts would be intuitive in a game like GTA, which is meant to be realistic, and Full Auto makes sense too. As long as they're not intrusive, and they stay to realistically-placed billboards, vending machines, a few posters and loading screens, I'm happy. Besides, a McDonalds poster might remind me that I need to eat when playing.
If you actually do that search on MAIN Google as opposed to images, you can actually find sites that mention the atrocity, ie. they haven't attempted to delete the controversy from history. However, they usually portray the protests in a negative light; still, this doesnt prevent Chen Yong (China's Joe Smith) from forming his own opinion, and the facts may be missing in a few places. Don't forget that Tiennamen Square isn't JUST the site of the controversy as it is here in the west; it's a normal, everyday place for most people. So your 'case study' is somewhat flawed, but it does get your point across.
I really can't see that working... Sony has been falling behind recently, with countless scandals (DRM-related), errors, stock losses (Merryl Lynch report) and format warring; given their back-record for format wars, I'm not backing Blu-Ray. (see: beta, minidisc, memory sticks and one other I think)
On the other hand, Apple has been doing really well with the exception of the stupid hype over the iPod leather case and boombox. Maybe backwards?
I can't really comment on the Cell, the idea is nice with them both using it, but Apple+Sony seems as likely as Google+Amazon. Maybe they'll share a few things here and there, like Google Search + A9, but I really, really doubt this.
Novels that promote promiscuous (see: antisocial) behaviour need to be banned; maybe you should've been on the jury when "Lady Chatterly's Lover" was on trial.
Remember that society is just "the way things are now", and that "slippery slope" is the same as "logical fallacy".
Having said that, and I apologise if I came across as offensive, I do support clearer labelling for games and educating parents about the danger a violent game presents to a young psyche. Banning, however, has never been the solution to any media-issues. Prevention is for crimes and crimes alone, where I define crime as a malicious act that affects a non-consenting person.
Just because I own a hammer doesn't mean I should have to varnish it to prevent me getting splinters, it should already do that if I've paid well for it.
Actually, I'd argue that war is very beneficial to humanity; think of the huge technology increases that occured as a result of world wars I, II, and the Cold War. Admittedly, the Cold War never got underway, but it was a war nonetheless: a militaristic competition on the nation-wide scale.
Pope is only for Catholicism, and even a large number of Catholics don't follow the Pope perfectly. Technically, the Vatican endorses evolution... try explaining that to certain Catholics!
Actually, MD does have a reasonably large following in Japan. Excuse the fact I'm too lazy to do full research, but the Wiki says "Although MiniDisc has had some success, it has not caught on in the US and Europe as well as Sony had hoped, though in Japan it is extremely popular." So they've probably got a tiny revenue stream there.
Heresy. There should be far more Quiche! Quickly, before the sound files get all... smooshed up and compressed into some evil database of games-programming-soundness.
What about a seperate class, ie. Philosophy or "Religious Studies", that teaches about multiple religions, arguments, and the scientific theory and suchlike within schools? This is how it's done in England, and I don't see any Creationists having a fit over here.
If you hit me with the "It's unconstitutional to teach religion in schools" line, I'm not suggesting the schools TEACH religion. I'm suggesting the schools guide the STUDY OF religion, ie. "Faith A does this and this. This is because they believe x and y and z. How does this compare and contrast to Faith B?"
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I would give you all the mod points in the world if I had them.
Now, the problem lies in the fact that a computer liscence would require government intervention... I'm all for preventing stupid people from doing stupid things, but government intervention just hands more power to corrupt politicians.
It's a troublesome situation if you do set up a computer liscence. How do you enforce it? Too many people have computers to monitor, and to actively search would probably violate a lot of privacy. Secondly, how do you grade someone's computer usage? Do you have to enforce usage of a firewall, for the good of all, or do you teach it to them and hope they practice it? Does being able to get online equate to being capable of using the internet?
There's just too many loopholes and flaws in the idea of a computer liscence. The technology has grown faster than anyone can manage it at, and now we have a huge number of problems stemming from it. Not to mention the poor tech support guys...
Some people still can't get their head around analogue control... and he's right, it WAS difficult - I had to do many, many retries on levels, but I still completed it with every Shine. I think your definition of "difficult" might be different to his.
After all, 680k ought to be enough for anybody.
Average Joe will find a way to fill that storage space.
Boktai. Has a solar sensor that is inappropriately placed for an GBA SP/NDS.
Bloody genetic elitists. Remember, memetics is just as important as genetics.
There's just too much fun to be mad spawning in a tank and wrecking everything in a mile radius. Especially when the police/military finally destroy your tank and you spawn ANOTHER right on top of their cars...
But the "Twin Paradox" is, and is clearly named as such. Many people have extended the word "paradox" to cover the entire anti-aging effect, as it TRIGGERS many paradox-scenarios.
I was going for humourous, not patronising, but tone is usually misinterpreted on the internet... and I had no way of knowing that you are an active participant, as am I, but I find the horrible mess behind the scenes in the "talk" subarticles actually leads to a suprisingly good number of articles. Yes, the aspect of the highest mods leads to a hellish hierarchy. Yes, there's a small voting system to get user concensus... and yes, the mob rule aspect, such as calling in forum members to swarm-edit, does exist. But the final articles, as we all know, tend to be reasonably high-quality, full of information, and more-or-less reliable.
But all that's besides the point, since I was trying to make a joke in the first place. Sorry. ^^
Hey, I quoted a few examples. I didn't claim that "Sony sucks!" at any point, simply that, at this current moment in time and many times before, they have made greivous errors.
CD was co-made with Phillips, and Sony's 3-1/2" was, ironically, only a success due to leveraging Apple. ["Things changed dramatically in 1984 when Apple Computer selected the format for their new Macintosh computers, thereby forcing it to become the standard in the United States." - Wiki]
I don't know about Hi8, but S/PDIF is a system, not a medium like Beta or Blu-Ray.
All these points taken into consideration, I am not backing Blu-Ray. While your point is valid that they HAVE had successes, most notably the 3-1/2", did that have DRM on it? Did it prevent the user from copying another file, possibly copyrighted material, onto it?
I don't wish to argue. I'm just here to state a case against Sony. There's a difference.
Wikipedia is inverse Communism. Communism looks great in theory, and horrible in practice. Wikipedia looks horrible in theory, but in practice, it does work.
In Soviet Russia, Wikipedia edits You.
In Wikipedia, In Soviet Russia is editable.
Pfft, everyone knows that frog story is a debunked myth. Find a better proverb to use, or risk your argument falling flat on its face in an actual debate.
That give, I agree with you ^^
And the worst thing is, they'll still make a profit, Uwe Boll style.
Maybe for you - don't cast your opinion on all gamers. I read books too, but not to get away from real life. I play games for the same reason I read books - either as a mental exercise (Ikaruga, Starcraft) or for an amazing story (Kingdom Hearts, FFVII, Starcraft) and sometimes both (Starcraft).
Adverts would be intuitive in a game like GTA, which is meant to be realistic, and Full Auto makes sense too. As long as they're not intrusive, and they stay to realistically-placed billboards, vending machines, a few posters and loading screens, I'm happy. Besides, a McDonalds poster might remind me that I need to eat when playing.
If you actually do that search on MAIN Google as opposed to images, you can actually find sites that mention the atrocity, ie. they haven't attempted to delete the controversy from history. However, they usually portray the protests in a negative light; still, this doesnt prevent Chen Yong (China's Joe Smith) from forming his own opinion, and the facts may be missing in a few places. Don't forget that Tiennamen Square isn't JUST the site of the controversy as it is here in the west; it's a normal, everyday place for most people. So your 'case study' is somewhat flawed, but it does get your point across.
I really can't see that working... Sony has been falling behind recently, with countless scandals (DRM-related), errors, stock losses (Merryl Lynch report) and format warring; given their back-record for format wars, I'm not backing Blu-Ray. (see: beta, minidisc, memory sticks and one other I think)
On the other hand, Apple has been doing really well with the exception of the stupid hype over the iPod leather case and boombox. Maybe backwards?
I can't really comment on the Cell, the idea is nice with them both using it, but Apple+Sony seems as likely as Google+Amazon. Maybe they'll share a few things here and there, like Google Search + A9, but I really, really doubt this.
Novels that promote promiscuous (see: antisocial) behaviour need to be banned; maybe you should've been on the jury when "Lady Chatterly's Lover" was on trial.
Remember that society is just "the way things are now", and that "slippery slope" is the same as "logical fallacy".
Having said that, and I apologise if I came across as offensive, I do support clearer labelling for games and educating parents about the danger a violent game presents to a young psyche. Banning, however, has never been the solution to any media-issues. Prevention is for crimes and crimes alone, where I define crime as a malicious act that affects a non-consenting person.
Just because I own a hammer doesn't mean I should have to varnish it to prevent me getting splinters, it should already do that if I've paid well for it.
I misread that as "geek a hooker up".
Wireless in brothels next, maybe...?
Actually, I'd argue that war is very beneficial to humanity; think of the huge technology increases that occured as a result of world wars I, II, and the Cold War. Admittedly, the Cold War never got underway, but it was a war nonetheless: a militaristic competition on the nation-wide scale.
Pope is only for Catholicism, and even a large number of Catholics don't follow the Pope perfectly. Technically, the Vatican endorses evolution... try explaining that to certain Catholics!
Actually, MD does have a reasonably large following in Japan. Excuse the fact I'm too lazy to do full research, but the Wiki says "Although MiniDisc has had some success, it has not caught on in the US and Europe as well as Sony had hoped, though in Japan it is extremely popular."
So they've probably got a tiny revenue stream there.
Heresy. There should be far more Quiche! Quickly, before the sound files get all... smooshed up and compressed into some evil database of games-programming-soundness.
What about a seperate class, ie. Philosophy or "Religious Studies", that teaches about multiple religions, arguments, and the scientific theory and suchlike within schools?
This is how it's done in England, and I don't see any Creationists having a fit over here.
If you hit me with the "It's unconstitutional to teach religion in schools" line, I'm not suggesting the schools TEACH religion. I'm suggesting the schools guide the STUDY OF religion, ie. "Faith A does this and this. This is because they believe x and y and z. How does this compare and contrast to Faith B?"
Smile molds are too friendly to be Chris Buttars.