perhaps thats evolution at work. Disturbing our sleep to get us used to working on less. Now that we no longer need sleep for the possible reason it developed, perhaps we're moving away from it.
and leaving them vague leaves it open to abuse from the other side. I guess that depends on whether you'd like to see an innocent man go to jail or a guilty one go free.
Which may be fine for a private company. I don't think its appropriate for a people's government to operate with that type of vagueness. Leaves it to open to abuse by a corrupt administration.
I think a judgment like that should be made on condition. The condition being the legislature sees an immediate problem with the wording of the law and fixes it. You get a free pass on spirit the first time. If the law isn't clarified, you don't. Otherwise just make a law "If you do anything bad you goto jail!" the spirit of it is obvious, but the scope is ridiculous.
You can't back up any virtual console games you've purchased and they are tied to the console itself. So any points you'd bought and any games would be lost. Nintendo is requiring you send in the unit, and they'll work some magic to ensure you don't lose that.
3-4 days to ship an entire Wii, yet 4-10 to ship a label?? They should be sending these things express and overnight/1-2 day them. Luckily my Wii updated without issue, but I'd be raising holy hell if I'd camped out, laid down the money, then had to spend 20+ days without it because they want to save a few bucks on shipping.
Intervening doesn't mean moving directly to the taser which they they did. Its hard to tell from the video but they had at least 3-5 officers there with an individual who wasn't being threatening physically. Intervening at that point is initially having 1 or 2 officers attempt to handcuff him and grab him by the arms and drag him out. They didn't do that. They're trained to handcuff people using passive resistance and laying on the ground. Next time a cop asks you to move along and you hesitate I hope he blows you away so you get the point of inappropriate response. There were many intervening steps on the force chart (yes police have them) before arriving at tasers. Attempts at physical restraint would have been number one in that situation since he wasn't waving a knife or taking a swing at them. They might have also tried using a pressure point to get him up once they had their hands on him. They're trained to do that too. All appropriate first steps. Its very clear they started tasering though before they even attempted to handcuff him.
Yes, he may still have screamed, but they didn't have to make it worse by responding inappropriately to his behaviour. Its their job not to do that. They failed at their job and should be held accountable for that.
Unless it appears people are respond to him no. In the beginning a crowd gathered (natural when something is going on). However they didn't become unruly until the Police overstepped their bounds. Had they just arrested him quietly in the overwhelming numbers they had, then this wouldn't have occurred.
It was their poor choice that lead to the escalation of the situation and the danger it created. The guy acted like an asshole, they're trained to deal with it. They chose to obviously ignore that training and throw caution to the wind and go with the most violent and reaction inducing method out there short of shooting him or beating him.
If a police officer grabs you for no good reason then its assault and/or false arrest/confinement. Just because they're police officers doesn't mean they can go around grabbing whoever they want for whatever reason just because they feel like it.
He may have told the security guard he wasn't going to leave, but he was in the process of leaving when the police arrived and grabbed him. As far as I understand trespass law, if he was making his way towards the nearest exit, he should have been fine.
or so they claim. Its funny these accounts are turning up now. Not a few days ago. A few days ago when the campus paper was first writing about this, they couldn't find anyone who remotely backed up the police's story and the video doesn't support it either. He's done nothing in that video to indicate he's a threat and justify their behaviour. End of story. He could be the biggest asshole on the planet, but if he's not being physically threatening it doesn't justify that response.
Citizen's arrest. If a cop is committing a crime (which abuse of power and unnecessary force are) its indictable and they could be arrested for it. i'm not sure what the citizen's arrest covers in the US, but in Canada were you to witness a police officer committing an indictable offense you could arrest them if you had the balls to do it.
No. With superior numbers and someone who wasn't being violent they should have quietly arrested him and carried him from the library if he wouldn't stand up. The number one rule of being a cop is just because you have all those weapons doesn't mean you ever want to or should use them.
Its like a cop blowing off my knee cap from 50 yards for jaw-walking. its a completely inappropriate response to what was going on. Not only was it abuse of their power, it put everyone's lives in danger as they riled up the crowd. Another jolt or two and they could have had a riot on their hands.
I've been pointless modded down in the past by the same phantom mods. However in this case it is informative. Sony doesn't have very long to turn this around. If they don't become proactive and quickly fix things they'll lose it all to the 360 and the Wii.
Here in Calgary, there were smart people and stupid people. I got up at 7 and went to Futureshop, there were 100 people in line for 96 Wiis, 30 minutes later there were 150. Out in the cold -6 I believe it was at the time. That is Celsius. 400 feet away in the nearby mall, I was seventh in line at EBGames which had 35 Wiis. I waited 2.5 hours and was through the interal line pretty quick once they let us in. I had a heck of a time finding the Nunchuck. Everywhere was sold out. Best buy, Futureshop, Toys r Us, the local EBgames it was tough.
and as a prequel to the other 3 movies, it needs to have the same vision. Sure some elitists like to get their panties in a bunch and say the movies sucked, others don't think so. Peter Jackson gave LOTR his feel and vision. Giving the helm to another director would take The Hobbit in another direction and give it a different feel. It wouldn't flow well with the other movies.
Don't be so kind. This was a completely botched released. Sony has shot themselves in the foot. Maybe not the foot, Upper-thigh and with a shotgun is more accurate. They can recover from it, but they've got about 5 seconds to stop the bleeding.
As I said, I don't pretend to understand the nitty gritty, but if he says its bad, and knowing what I've seen from big publishers, I don't see it coming to a good conclusion.
I'm not sure how approachable he is, and he's currently working on Spore, but you could try getting in contact with him if you're interested in more details on why he feels this way: http://www.d6.com/users/checker/ He's left an e-mail address on that page.
We can talk about what might be theoretically possible, but we have practical experience to tell us that that won't happen. Inefficient is the key here. The impression I got from what was said in the article wasn't that dedicating a core just to the AI would solve the problem. It seems like it will be fundamentally more difficult to write the AI in the first place. We know that publishers don't typically want to make difficult games. I was perhaps harsh in saying the cell processor has no place, but its place is limited in scope. As the sole processor in a gaming system, I think its going to result in a negative effect on the quality of games.
The issue is the type of processing, not the amount of processors. If you read the link I provided in my original comment you'll see what is said about the cell processor. Its an in-order processing model and this makes writing good AI more difficult. The amount of sequels and other things we've seen show that the gaming industry isn't really interested in hard work. So even if good AI is theoretically possible on that type of processor we likely won't see it. I don't pretend to understand all the nitty gritty of it, but I also don't believe Chris Hecker pulled that information out of his ass just to create FUD. I think an ideal system would not only have multiple cores, but different types of cores. He did say that Cell cores were good for making things shiny and handling physics. So you may see multicore systems that has 2 cell cores and 2 of the current cores which do out of order processing.
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Who cares, I don't live in a country which recognizes the DMCA. Lesson 1: America's laws are not the world's laws.
perhaps thats evolution at work. Disturbing our sleep to get us used to working on less. Now that we no longer need sleep for the possible reason it developed, perhaps we're moving away from it.
It was modded funny, but I was serious.
and leaving them vague leaves it open to abuse from the other side. I guess that depends on whether you'd like to see an innocent man go to jail or a guilty one go free.
Which may be fine for a private company. I don't think its appropriate for a people's government to operate with that type of vagueness. Leaves it to open to abuse by a corrupt administration.
I think a judgment like that should be made on condition. The condition being the legislature sees an immediate problem with the wording of the law and fixes it. You get a free pass on spirit the first time. If the law isn't clarified, you don't. Otherwise just make a law "If you do anything bad you goto jail!" the spirit of it is obvious, but the scope is ridiculous.
You can't back up any virtual console games you've purchased and they are tied to the console itself. So any points you'd bought and any games would be lost. Nintendo is requiring you send in the unit, and they'll work some magic to ensure you don't lose that.
3-4 days to ship an entire Wii, yet 4-10 to ship a label?? They should be sending these things express and overnight/1-2 day them.
Luckily my Wii updated without issue, but I'd be raising holy hell if I'd camped out, laid down the money, then had to spend 20+ days without it because they want to save a few bucks on shipping.
Intervening doesn't mean moving directly to the taser which they they did. Its hard to tell from the video but they had at least 3-5 officers there with an individual who wasn't being threatening physically. Intervening at that point is initially having 1 or 2 officers attempt to handcuff him and grab him by the arms and drag him out. They didn't do that. They're trained to handcuff people using passive resistance and laying on the ground.
Next time a cop asks you to move along and you hesitate I hope he blows you away so you get the point of inappropriate response. There were many intervening steps on the force chart (yes police have them) before arriving at tasers. Attempts at physical restraint would have been number one in that situation since he wasn't waving a knife or taking a swing at them. They might have also tried using a pressure point to get him up once they had their hands on him. They're trained to do that too. All appropriate first steps. Its very clear they started tasering though before they even attempted to handcuff him.
Yes, he may still have screamed, but they didn't have to make it worse by responding inappropriately to his behaviour. Its their job not to do that. They failed at their job and should be held accountable for that.
Of course its not. How many times have you seen the superior product fail because of the marketing power of the inferior one? 50%? 75%? 99%?
I never said it was right, just how I'd go about it.
Unless it appears people are respond to him no. In the beginning a crowd gathered (natural when something is going on). However they didn't become unruly until the Police overstepped their bounds.
Had they just arrested him quietly in the overwhelming numbers they had, then this wouldn't have occurred.
It was their poor choice that lead to the escalation of the situation and the danger it created. The guy acted like an asshole, they're trained to deal with it. They chose to obviously ignore that training and throw caution to the wind and go with the most violent and reaction inducing method out there short of shooting him or beating him.
If a police officer grabs you for no good reason then its assault and/or false arrest/confinement.
Just because they're police officers doesn't mean they can go around grabbing whoever they want for whatever reason just because they feel like it.
He may have told the security guard he wasn't going to leave, but he was in the process of leaving when the police arrived and grabbed him. As far as I understand trespass law, if he was making his way towards the nearest exit, he should have been fine.
or so they claim. Its funny these accounts are turning up now. Not a few days ago. A few days ago when the campus paper was first writing about this, they couldn't find anyone who remotely backed up the police's story and the video doesn't support it either. He's done nothing in that video to indicate he's a threat and justify their behaviour. End of story. He could be the biggest asshole on the planet, but if he's not being physically threatening it doesn't justify that response.
Citizen's arrest. If a cop is committing a crime (which abuse of power and unnecessary force are) its indictable and they could be arrested for it. i'm not sure what the citizen's arrest covers in the US, but in Canada were you to witness a police officer committing an indictable offense you could arrest them if you had the balls to do it.
No. With superior numbers and someone who wasn't being violent they should have quietly arrested him and carried him from the library if he wouldn't stand up. The number one rule of being a cop is just because you have all those weapons doesn't mean you ever want to or should use them.
Its like a cop blowing off my knee cap from 50 yards for jaw-walking. its a completely inappropriate response to what was going on. Not only was it abuse of their power, it put everyone's lives in danger as they riled up the crowd. Another jolt or two and they could have had a riot on their hands.
Do it violently and make sure you get the job done.
It could be given to Uwe Boll.
I've been pointless modded down in the past by the same phantom mods. However in this case it is informative. Sony doesn't have very long to turn this around. If they don't become proactive and quickly fix things they'll lose it all to the 360 and the Wii.
Here in Calgary, there were smart people and stupid people. I got up at 7 and went to Futureshop, there were 100 people in line for 96 Wiis, 30 minutes later there were 150. Out in the cold -6 I believe it was at the time. That is Celsius.
400 feet away in the nearby mall, I was seventh in line at EBGames which had 35 Wiis. I waited 2.5 hours and was through the interal line pretty quick once they let us in. I had a heck of a time finding the Nunchuck. Everywhere was sold out. Best buy, Futureshop, Toys r Us, the local EBgames it was tough.
and as a prequel to the other 3 movies, it needs to have the same vision. Sure some elitists like to get their panties in a bunch and say the movies sucked, others don't think so.
Peter Jackson gave LOTR his feel and vision. Giving the helm to another director would take The Hobbit in another direction and give it a different feel. It wouldn't flow well with the other movies.
Don't be so kind. This was a completely botched released. Sony has shot themselves in the foot. Maybe not the foot, Upper-thigh and with a shotgun is more accurate. They can recover from it, but they've got about 5 seconds to stop the bleeding.
Agreed. It would be like making Star Wars 7 and not having Lucas remotely involved. It is just not a good idea period.
As I said, I don't pretend to understand the nitty gritty, but if he says its bad, and knowing what I've seen from big publishers, I don't see it coming to a good conclusion.
I'm not sure how approachable he is, and he's currently working on Spore, but you could try getting in contact with him if you're interested in more details on why he feels this way:
http://www.d6.com/users/checker/
He's left an e-mail address on that page.
We can talk about what might be theoretically possible, but we have practical experience to tell us that that won't happen. Inefficient is the key here. The impression I got from what was said in the article wasn't that dedicating a core just to the AI would solve the problem. It seems like it will be fundamentally more difficult to write the AI in the first place. We know that publishers don't typically want to make difficult games. I was perhaps harsh in saying the cell processor has no place, but its place is limited in scope. As the sole processor in a gaming system, I think its going to result in a negative effect on the quality of games.
The issue is the type of processing, not the amount of processors. If you read the link I provided in my original comment you'll see what is said about the cell processor. Its an in-order processing model and this makes writing good AI more difficult. The amount of sequels and other things we've seen show that the gaming industry isn't really interested in hard work. So even if good AI is theoretically possible on that type of processor we likely won't see it. I don't pretend to understand all the nitty gritty of it, but I also don't believe Chris Hecker pulled that information out of his ass just to create FUD. I think an ideal system would not only have multiple cores, but different types of cores. He did say that Cell cores were good for making things shiny and handling physics. So you may see multicore systems that has 2 cell cores and 2 of the current cores which do out of order processing.