Now now, violence is not the answer. Public humiliation is much more fun. I can't wait til his supporters realize what a whacko he is:
"In 2006, two Michigan gamers began a project dubbed "Flowers for Jack", soliciting donations to deliver a massive floral arrangement to Thompson's office. The flowers were delivered in February along with a letter aimed at opening a dialogue between Thompson and the video gaming community. Thompson responded by forwarding the flowers to some of his industry foes, with such comments as "Discard them along with the decency you discarded long ago. I really don't care. Grind them up and smoke them if you like."
In 1992 Thompson faced disbarment over allegations that he lied while making accusation against prominent Dade County lawyer Stuart Grossman. He'll do whatever he has to in order to accomplish his goals.
The man is ignorant, uncooperative, and a lawyer... but he can still be broken -- if he became disbarred, lost his fandom, and studies were released proving that there is no link between videogames and violence... that would be a fate for him worse than death.
P.S. If you do want to shoot him, don't add fuel to the fire -- get a hitman who's never played a videogame:) thank you
Things sure are odd... sex is much more natural than gunshots to the face, but "oh noes think of the children, we don't want them to see nature (well, okay, cumshots don't really happen in nature, but you know what I'm getting at) but gunshots are okay". With whackos like Jack Thompson running around trying to make things "better", of course things are fudged up. My preference is to just sit back and enjoy the world as it slowly kills my brain.
As we all learned in business class -- brand is key! This could actually work for Apple -- no long-standing company (no, the Sony Treo doesn't count, that's a piece of crap) has a good foothold in the market (BlackBerry is king but they are n00bs). Apple expanding its product line to include a mobile device would probably work. People are genuinely interested in Apple once again... when I walked by the local Apple store the other day, it was one of the most packed stores in the mall. I can see people shelling out extra $ just for the Apple name ("Pay up, sheep" uhhh... I mean "Think Different").
It doesn't matter to me who wins in the HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray battle. Why? Because regular DVD's look great! High definition looks better than non-HD, but not THAT much better (especially considering the costs). Sony says the ps3 will cost less than a blu-ray player... that's at $600! You can get an amazing DVD player for $150 with all the bells and whistles. When HD-DVD/Blu-Ray come to market and start to popularize, you can bet plain old DVD prices will drop. From a financial sense, DVD's trump HD-DVD and Blu-Ray DVD....not to mention that yargh, I'm a pirate matey, and I like to rip/burn DVD's -- something that'll be nerfed with Blu-Ray/HD-DVD.
I'm glad that women aren't denied jobs because of their gender, but I don't see why people are trying to force women into IT roles -- women can do what they want and it seems to be there's general disinterest on there part. If people want to change that, the best place isn't here in the work world, it's during the whole experience known as life -- especially childhood. Want women to be more IT savvy??? How about some more non-gendered video games (what girl wants to play "I'm a big strong man with a gun, oh look at me I saved the world"). Let's give Barbie a BlackBerry and a desktop running Linux? If you want to get people to be interested in something, hook 'em while they're young! I wish there were more girls interested in IT -- I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to cuddle after a nice LAN (especially if I've been pwn3d). I believe there are less than 10 female OMIS (operations management and information systems) majors in my class. Lame!
"The group claims the industry is turning media into a rent system, rather than a purchase system."
Uh oh, I hope they don't give out late fees (knowing Sony, they probably would). Or "ripped the songs and shared them all over the internet" fees.
Can't we just send over a bunch of people who compete in the Battlebot tournaments? Yeah, the wedge robots would need a little upgrading, but I can imagine that Nightmare (the big blade a'spinnin') would help out. In the British version of Battlebots (Robot Wars?) they're allowed to use flame weapons. Go go gadget killing machine!
Hmmmm, Lenovo ditching Linux and partnering solely with Microsoft?...Microsoft being full of security holes... oh look, the US gov't predicted this: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/22/04 36250. Of course, now I see! If they're going to bug PC's, it would be easiest to do through Windows... those crafty Chinese!
Really though... why are they doing this? Seems like they would lose a decent amount of customers considering they're not sold to no-speaky-tech people at Walmart/Circuit City... isn't Linux gaining market share?... Seems to me if a market is growing, you should capitalize on it rather than shun it.
The **AA are a bunch of greedy ass-spelunkers. The videos PROMOTE their artists, giving the public more interest in an artist... thus creating an influx of new fans, eager to buy CD's, posters, and all sorts of other merch (generating more money for the **AA [a lot more money is made off the sale of a $20 CD than the pennies made from selling space for ads before music videos]). Some sites host these videos without ads and don't make any money off those videos -- the **AA wants to FORCE the videos to be a source of money so they can funnel off the profits (they sure do love that stuff). As previous users have commented -- these videos aren't DVD quality "omg so good I'm gonna throw it up on my media center and show all my friends" videos, they're grainy and poor... if anything -- videos with good content will make people want to see the video in high quality -- increasing the influx of users to the **AA's video sites where they can force people to sit through all the merry-old ads they want and get as much money as their hearts desire (oh wait, they don't have hearts).
I think it's great that they're going to hold a study on this topic -- the study will PROVE that violence in video games does NOT cause people to be violent. HEY GOVERNMENT, GOOD JOB... now if only you could do things like NOT spend my tax dollars on studies to find out things I could already tell you.
That must've been embarassing... trouble is, I don't know whether it's more embarassing for the laptop designers or for Kofi: "In the blue corner we have the new inexpensive laptop being developed for 3rd world children; it is $100, flexible in usage, and most imporantly is designed to be durable. In the red corner we have college-educated Kofi Annan, head of the U.N. *ding ding* the opponents take their marks... Annan grabs lappy's crank, he turns it, lappy starts to feel the juice... OHHHH, and Kofi has broken lappy's crank, this is one of the quickest knockouts in Man vs Machine history!"
Rawr. Vigilante justice can be fun, but I don't see why they went after the police website (maybe it was the easiest target?). The police were just doing their jobs (albeit I don't see why they needed 50 officers to take away 2 computer nerds) -- the REAL perpatrators of injustice are (from what I understand) your choice of the Swedish gov't, the US gov't, or the MPAA [or all three!]. It would be nice to see the MPAA's site DoS'ed... or to see all the MPAA lawyers attacked by real pirates. "Yargh matey, eat sabre!".
I'm not a lawyer, but I have taken several business-law classes... forgive me if I'm wrong, but in order to be considered "defamation", doesn't the defaming information have to be untrue? Ah, wikipedia, you are my true love: "the tort or delict of publishing (to a third party) a false statement that negatively affects someone's reputation." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibelWell, it seems like they had credible evidence, i.e. it wasn't based on false statements -- I don't see how the website was then in violation of anything. Well then, FUCK CANADA (not really, any country in the world is full of corrupt assholes... except Squirreltopia)!
How did the dinosaurs get here? It is my theory that they rode in on that meteor, bringing with them the advanced technologies that our government is still unearthing today (Al Gore "invented" the internet by digging it up from an ancient dinosaurian city). Also, "rawr" I'm a dinosaur.
Or Mac only games that blew the face off PC games... like Marathon! I was saddened when MS bought Bungie... even more saddened when Halo was released and it was complete garbage compared to the Halo that was near production for Mac/PC... and finally even MORE saddened when no one who played Halo played Marathon, so as I pointed all the references out they were like "what?". I remember spending countless hours engaged in the wonderous Marathon world. Thankfully Bungie released the source code and some nice people ported it to the PC http://source.bungie.org/get/. Woo! Now I can play through the whole trilogy again.
Interesting... maybe if they DIDN'T LOSE BUNGIE they would be okay. I don't see why Apple didn't try to put up a fight when MS offered to buy Bungie. Halo was pretty complete (I used to drool over game-videos) and pretty amazing!... then MS had it scrapped and remade for the Xbox and it became crap (if you saw what it originally was suppossed to be, you would know what I mean).
What able needs to do is go back to the day of Mac clones -- back then you could get a decently powerful Mac for cheap -- Apple cut back to a proprietary-only when they stopped making as much on hardware. Back then, Macs were pretty good gaming machines -- all it would take is opening up Mac OS to run on non-Apple hardware... or as you said, for Apple to start making machines geared towards gaming.
What about the Marathon Trilogy? The game was (and still is) awesome. Great gameplay, engaging story, and basically the most advanced FPS of its time. I'm now a PC gamer, but I do miss the good 'ol days of Marathon on my old Mac... thankfully I've discovered this: http://source.bungie.org/get/. Yeah, Bungie released the source code and people modded it for the PC. There's even texture upgrade packs and such... woo!
Hahaha, my sentiments exactly. Why was this published?! No vendor WANTS bugs -- they just happen. Vendors go through extensive testing proccesses, but some bugs still manage to escape -- there's nothing that can be done about that! To get programs made in a timely manner, most vendors can't afford to have a program sit in testing for 5 years -- even if they did, most likely there would still be bugs! Want payback for a bug? DON'T BUY FROM THAT VENDOR... duhhhhh. Vendors exist to profit off YOUR money, so if you aren't happy with that vendor, MOVE ON -- any good vendor tries their best to please the customer.
I get the feeling a lot of people misunderstand what RFID chips do. RFID chips do NOT "track" people. They're nothing like GPS -- all it does is allow a RF-reader (which would have to be in VERY close proximity because these implanted chips would be passive, meaning they don't power themselves) to read the data written on the chip. These are great for ID purposes -- you can't have it stolen / lose it like a passport or driver's license. I'm not sure why they're proposing putting them in immigrants, as these are legal immigrants -- I wouldn't mind having one (no more "George from Seinfield" wallet syndrome due to credit cards and other ID's). Putting them in pedophiles isn't going to do anything except allow parole officers to make sure the pedophile's identical twin isn't trying to impersonate him.
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Now now, violence is not the answer. Public humiliation is much more fun. I can't wait til his supporters realize what a whacko he is: :) thank you
"In 2006, two Michigan gamers began a project dubbed "Flowers for Jack", soliciting donations to deliver a massive floral arrangement to Thompson's office. The flowers were delivered in February along with a letter aimed at opening a dialogue between Thompson and the video gaming community. Thompson responded by forwarding the flowers to some of his industry foes, with such comments as "Discard them along with the decency you discarded long ago. I really don't care. Grind them up and smoke them if you like."
In 1992 Thompson faced disbarment over allegations that he lied while making accusation against prominent Dade County lawyer Stuart Grossman. He'll do whatever he has to in order to accomplish his goals.
The man is ignorant, uncooperative, and a lawyer... but he can still be broken -- if he became disbarred, lost his fandom, and studies were released proving that there is no link between videogames and violence... that would be a fate for him worse than death.
P.S. If you do want to shoot him, don't add fuel to the fire -- get a hitman who's never played a videogame
Things sure are odd... sex is much more natural than gunshots to the face, but "oh noes think of the children, we don't want them to see nature (well, okay, cumshots don't really happen in nature, but you know what I'm getting at) but gunshots are okay". With whackos like Jack Thompson running around trying to make things "better", of course things are fudged up. My preference is to just sit back and enjoy the world as it slowly kills my brain.
As we all learned in business class -- brand is key! This could actually work for Apple -- no long-standing company (no, the Sony Treo doesn't count, that's a piece of crap) has a good foothold in the market (BlackBerry is king but they are n00bs). Apple expanding its product line to include a mobile device would probably work. People are genuinely interested in Apple once again... when I walked by the local Apple store the other day, it was one of the most packed stores in the mall. I can see people shelling out extra $ just for the Apple name ("Pay up, sheep" uhhh... I mean "Think Different").
It doesn't matter to me who wins in the HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray battle. Why? Because regular DVD's look great! High definition looks better than non-HD, but not THAT much better (especially considering the costs). Sony says the ps3 will cost less than a blu-ray player... that's at $600! You can get an amazing DVD player for $150 with all the bells and whistles. When HD-DVD/Blu-Ray come to market and start to popularize, you can bet plain old DVD prices will drop. From a financial sense, DVD's trump HD-DVD and Blu-Ray DVD. ...not to mention that yargh, I'm a pirate matey, and I like to rip/burn DVD's -- something that'll be nerfed with Blu-Ray/HD-DVD.
I'm glad that women aren't denied jobs because of their gender, but I don't see why people are trying to force women into IT roles -- women can do what they want and it seems to be there's general disinterest on there part. If people want to change that, the best place isn't here in the work world, it's during the whole experience known as life -- especially childhood. Want women to be more IT savvy??? How about some more non-gendered video games (what girl wants to play "I'm a big strong man with a gun, oh look at me I saved the world"). Let's give Barbie a BlackBerry and a desktop running Linux? If you want to get people to be interested in something, hook 'em while they're young! I wish there were more girls interested in IT -- I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to cuddle after a nice LAN (especially if I've been pwn3d). I believe there are less than 10 female OMIS (operations management and information systems) majors in my class. Lame!
"The group claims the industry is turning media into a rent system, rather than a purchase system." Uh oh, I hope they don't give out late fees (knowing Sony, they probably would). Or "ripped the songs and shared them all over the internet" fees.
Can't we just send over a bunch of people who compete in the Battlebot tournaments? Yeah, the wedge robots would need a little upgrading, but I can imagine that Nightmare (the big blade a'spinnin') would help out. In the British version of Battlebots (Robot Wars?) they're allowed to use flame weapons. Go go gadget killing machine!
Web 2.0: even more porn!
The **AA are... I can't even think of a word bad enough to describe them. They don't benefit the artists and they fuck over the consumer. This sums them up pretty well: http://www.nata2.info/?path=humor%2Fpictures&img=r iaa.jpg
Hmmmm, Lenovo ditching Linux and partnering solely with Microsoft? ...Microsoft being full of security holes... oh look, the US gov't predicted this: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/22/04 36250. Of course, now I see! If they're going to bug PC's, it would be easiest to do through Windows... those crafty Chinese!
Really though... why are they doing this? Seems like they would lose a decent amount of customers considering they're not sold to no-speaky-tech people at Walmart/Circuit City... isn't Linux gaining market share?... Seems to me if a market is growing, you should capitalize on it rather than shun it.
The **AA are a bunch of greedy ass-spelunkers. The videos PROMOTE their artists, giving the public more interest in an artist... thus creating an influx of new fans, eager to buy CD's, posters, and all sorts of other merch (generating more money for the **AA [a lot more money is made off the sale of a $20 CD than the pennies made from selling space for ads before music videos]). Some sites host these videos without ads and don't make any money off those videos -- the **AA wants to FORCE the videos to be a source of money so they can funnel off the profits (they sure do love that stuff). As previous users have commented -- these videos aren't DVD quality "omg so good I'm gonna throw it up on my media center and show all my friends" videos, they're grainy and poor... if anything -- videos with good content will make people want to see the video in high quality -- increasing the influx of users to the **AA's video sites where they can force people to sit through all the merry-old ads they want and get as much money as their hearts desire (oh wait, they don't have hearts).
I think it's great that they're going to hold a study on this topic -- the study will PROVE that violence in video games does NOT cause people to be violent. HEY GOVERNMENT, GOOD JOB... now if only you could do things like NOT spend my tax dollars on studies to find out things I could already tell you.
That must've been embarassing... trouble is, I don't know whether it's more embarassing for the laptop designers or for Kofi: "In the blue corner we have the new inexpensive laptop being developed for 3rd world children; it is $100, flexible in usage, and most imporantly is designed to be durable. In the red corner we have college-educated Kofi Annan, head of the U.N. *ding ding* the opponents take their marks... Annan grabs lappy's crank, he turns it, lappy starts to feel the juice... OHHHH, and Kofi has broken lappy's crank, this is one of the quickest knockouts in Man vs Machine history!"
Rawr. Vigilante justice can be fun, but I don't see why they went after the police website (maybe it was the easiest target?). The police were just doing their jobs (albeit I don't see why they needed 50 officers to take away 2 computer nerds) -- the REAL perpatrators of injustice are (from what I understand) your choice of the Swedish gov't, the US gov't, or the MPAA [or all three!]. It would be nice to see the MPAA's site DoS'ed... or to see all the MPAA lawyers attacked by real pirates. "Yargh matey, eat sabre!".
I'm not a lawyer, but I have taken several business-law classes... forgive me if I'm wrong, but in order to be considered "defamation", doesn't the defaming information have to be untrue? Ah, wikipedia, you are my true love: "the tort or delict of publishing (to a third party) a false statement that negatively affects someone's reputation." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibelWell, it seems like they had credible evidence, i.e. it wasn't based on false statements -- I don't see how the website was then in violation of anything. Well then, FUCK CANADA (not really, any country in the world is full of corrupt assholes... except Squirreltopia)!
How did the dinosaurs get here? It is my theory that they rode in on that meteor, bringing with them the advanced technologies that our government is still unearthing today (Al Gore "invented" the internet by digging it up from an ancient dinosaurian city). Also, "rawr" I'm a dinosaur.
nope, this roommate didn't want it "stored on his computer" -- apparently he didn't understand caching.
or the creepy roommate who watches ass-porn while I'm sitting 3 feet away from him in the cramped dorm room will now be 3 INCHES away.
Or Mac only games that blew the face off PC games... like Marathon! I was saddened when MS bought Bungie... even more saddened when Halo was released and it was complete garbage compared to the Halo that was near production for Mac/PC... and finally even MORE saddened when no one who played Halo played Marathon, so as I pointed all the references out they were like "what?". I remember spending countless hours engaged in the wonderous Marathon world. Thankfully Bungie released the source code and some nice people ported it to the PC http://source.bungie.org/get/. Woo! Now I can play through the whole trilogy again.
Interesting... maybe if they DIDN'T LOSE BUNGIE they would be okay. I don't see why Apple didn't try to put up a fight when MS offered to buy Bungie. Halo was pretty complete (I used to drool over game-videos) and pretty amazing!... then MS had it scrapped and remade for the Xbox and it became crap (if you saw what it originally was suppossed to be, you would know what I mean).
What able needs to do is go back to the day of Mac clones -- back then you could get a decently powerful Mac for cheap -- Apple cut back to a proprietary-only when they stopped making as much on hardware. Back then, Macs were pretty good gaming machines -- all it would take is opening up Mac OS to run on non-Apple hardware... or as you said, for Apple to start making machines geared towards gaming.
What about the Marathon Trilogy? The game was (and still is) awesome. Great gameplay, engaging story, and basically the most advanced FPS of its time. I'm now a PC gamer, but I do miss the good 'ol days of Marathon on my old Mac... thankfully I've discovered this: http://source.bungie.org/get/. Yeah, Bungie released the source code and people modded it for the PC. There's even texture upgrade packs and such... woo!
SanDisk is the second most popular mp3 player? I thought Creative held that (with about a 5% market share).
Hahaha, my sentiments exactly. Why was this published?! No vendor WANTS bugs -- they just happen. Vendors go through extensive testing proccesses, but some bugs still manage to escape -- there's nothing that can be done about that! To get programs made in a timely manner, most vendors can't afford to have a program sit in testing for 5 years -- even if they did, most likely there would still be bugs! Want payback for a bug? DON'T BUY FROM THAT VENDOR... duhhhhh. Vendors exist to profit off YOUR money, so if you aren't happy with that vendor, MOVE ON -- any good vendor tries their best to please the customer.
I get the feeling a lot of people misunderstand what RFID chips do. RFID chips do NOT "track" people. They're nothing like GPS -- all it does is allow a RF-reader (which would have to be in VERY close proximity because these implanted chips would be passive, meaning they don't power themselves) to read the data written on the chip. These are great for ID purposes -- you can't have it stolen / lose it like a passport or driver's license. I'm not sure why they're proposing putting them in immigrants, as these are legal immigrants -- I wouldn't mind having one (no more "George from Seinfield" wallet syndrome due to credit cards and other ID's). Putting them in pedophiles isn't going to do anything except allow parole officers to make sure the pedophile's identical twin isn't trying to impersonate him.