In that case, I default to the first amendment of the United States consitution-the supreme law of the land. Politicians who are looking for scapegoats along with "parental watchdog groups" seem to think that they can censor video game content. Actually, if you think about it, all of this started with the ongoing Puritannical fear of dealing with the topic of sex-or simulated sex, since politicians didn't get in an uproar until the "hot coffee" mod was made known to them, even though the game had been on the market for a while before that happened (I do not sympathize with the way Rockstar games handled the situation, just to be clear). Leland Yee (who launched an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to regulate purchasing habits by trying to legally discriminate that minors do not have the same speech rights as adults), didn't gain ANY significant traction in his anti-video game crusade until after the "hot coffee" incident happened. In each time where the pro-censorship folks have convinced one or more politicians that they are correct, the industry fights it in the form of a lawsuit, and then multiple federal judges from multiple circuit courts have sided with the industry, and leave a very detailed explanation as to why the politician-and ultimately the person(s) possibly behind the politicians are wrong. You will note that when the industry wins, and the politician loses, they "dig in" by talking shit, and NOT citing the fact that they lost based on constitutional first amendment grounds. One might think that these pro-censorship types would learn a few things by now, but apparently not
The pro-censorship (and people who feel that government's role is to raise your child) types often cite that there is a real problem going on with video games directly causing violence, but the evidence is non-existent, save hyperbole and political posturing. Like Nomad says from Star Trek:TOS, "Non-sequitur. Your facts are uncoordinated." What is more likely is that we have a disconnect with politicans (with an average age of 55) and some realities of this situation. All of this does not give legitimacy to this NIMF-sponsored "what can we do next to censor video games" summit.
I do not work for the industry, and I like XMAME, but as a military employee and a part time public school teacher, I find this witch hunt to try to censor the first amendment disturbing to say the least. Since when did the first amendment of the U.S. Constutition become unimportant? It never did. It has been whittled down a little bit since it was created, but for the most part, the majority of what it stands for and does is fully intact. The 14th amendment protects the 1st amendment from being heavily modified, so that failsafe mechanism has yet to be truly tested.
Finally, where is the evidence that an ESRB "M" rated game will cause panic in the streets? To me, the ESRB is the first form of censorship...
For the first time, the Linux Flash player is coming out before the next IDE, Flash 9 is. Flash 7 came out nearly 18 months after the IDE did on the last release...
Flashblock is NOT a Flash client-it blocks the Flash client from rendering the SWF component in a page. Why would Adobe make a feature to block Flash from excecuting? They haven't. It IS Javascript, and it's pretty good, if you only want to see some Flash content and not everything all the time.
In the pure form, the only legitimate points you have is "get you in shape" and "get you laid." Video games, many, will teach teamwork, leadership, commitment. Teamwork, leadership and commitment can be found in everything from America's Army to True Combat Elite, to Warcraft 3/TFT/WOW among countless other games.
If teamwork was to mean, "play with others", leadership was to mean "lead by example" and commitment to mean "dedication" then even some of the oldest titles such as Atari's Warlords would qualify for that.
Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004, Quake 3, Quake 4 and Doom 3 on Linux do not require the CD while playing. I would expect Enemy Territory Quake Wars to be the same way.
Fully legit, fully working.
Linux can be cool in very surprising ways sometimes.
China is the next world superpower? Funny, I swear I've heard this said about India too, with their math-friendly culture...
If nothing else, we'll have *several* super power-like nations, but it won't simply be because of China and others rising up as time goes on. The U.S. will contribute to it's own defeat, with DRM, overbroad software patents, litigiate-to-scare-your-competitors-if-you-have-en ough-money attitude, the DMCA, militant right wing Christians aggressively pushing their ideas of morality to the masses and so on. A "lockdown" pattern has already started to occur inside the U.S. in the last 15 or so years, and if it keeps up, innovation and the spirit of introducing new ideas which is a significant driving factor to the economy will be the casualty in the end.
I'd add to this speculation, that the lawsuit would come in the form of a software patent...and considering how Microsoft launched a lengthy, unsuccessful attack on Linux via proxy with Caldera International...
Despite their link saying they are working on it, I'm a little skeptical about a Flash 9 player as well. At least until a beta is released anyway. Sun Microsystems helped develop Flash 7 for Linux, nearly 18 months after the Flash 7 IDE was released, so I don't think Adobe is doing what they could with this.
I won't give any names away, nor e-mail addresses (because I don't really care so much anymore), but there is a guy I used to know who is a young 32 year old parent with a 3 year old son (as of right now). He strongly feels that video games need to be legislated. However, his conclusions are illogical, and when I tried to explain to him all the fallacies in his argument, he basically replied over and over again, "...something needs to be done." He's a contractor manager at Lockheed Martin, and his personality type is a "government needs to run society" type.
I think there was a phrase I recently read that stated something to the effect of, "Those who arrive to conclusions not based on logic, cannot have their reasoning changed by logic." He's got a 4 year college degree, so he's not a complete idiot, but he could never accept the facts relating to this topic-I found it amazing. He's just biased against video games-not that every single male in the world loves video games of course. I know other parents, and he's the only one that thinks like this, considering his age.
Swap out "comic books" for video games and you have this, which is a repeat of history.
Adobe Flash is useful in this way too...
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Adobe Flash can also handle results from a web service (WSDL, SOAP, XML). If the native web service communication mechanism isn't good enough for you, you can boost your communication speed with Adobe's proprietary binary found in Flash Remoting MX. For example, you could use a.NET 2.0 web service for the "heavy lifting" and then the finished results are displayed in the Adobe Flash front end, thus giving you the best of both worlds.
Also, I do like the fact that many websites that use Adobe Flash can be viewed on the Sony PSP thanks to the native Flash 6 support in the 2.70 firmware update. Finally Actionscript 2.0 (I haven't tried version 3 yet) is modeled closely after EMCA-262.
Adobe Flash isn't the solution to everything, but for a web presentation technology component, IMHO, it is unmatched.
Unfortunately, there will be another issue sometime that will raise the ire of people who can't deal with the topic of human sexuality openly.
I wonder what it would take for this country will ever "grow up?"
So the local teachers union objects...no surprise, as they don't want to be marginalized, or even threatened, if this union is anything like the California teachers union.
As for home schooling, "...lead to some serious problems when they are finally turned out into the world" is not universally true-it depends on a lot of factors, from the parent and child's personality, their ability to learn, what they are taught and so forth. Applying a blanket statement to home schooling without considering additional details has the same meaning as applying a blanket statement to pretty much anything...partial or complete ignorance.
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In that case, I default to the first amendment of the United States consitution-the supreme law of the land. Politicians who are looking for scapegoats along with "parental watchdog groups" seem to think that they can censor video game content. Actually, if you think about it, all of this started with the ongoing Puritannical fear of dealing with the topic of sex-or simulated sex, since politicians didn't get in an uproar until the "hot coffee" mod was made known to them, even though the game had been on the market for a while before that happened (I do not sympathize with the way Rockstar games handled the situation, just to be clear). Leland Yee (who launched an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to regulate purchasing habits by trying to legally discriminate that minors do not have the same speech rights as adults), didn't gain ANY significant traction in his anti-video game crusade until after the "hot coffee" incident happened. In each time where the pro-censorship folks have convinced one or more politicians that they are correct, the industry fights it in the form of a lawsuit, and then multiple federal judges from multiple circuit courts have sided with the industry, and leave a very detailed explanation as to why the politician-and ultimately the person(s) possibly behind the politicians are wrong. You will note that when the industry wins, and the politician loses, they "dig in" by talking shit, and NOT citing the fact that they lost based on constitutional first amendment grounds. One might think that these pro-censorship types would learn a few things by now, but apparently not
The latest politician who is an example of this is Fred Morgan, from Oklahoma. Quote: "I am very disappointed in the industry that continues to challenge any type of restrictions on their games without being responsible enough to work with legislators to try to solve the problem."
The pro-censorship (and people who feel that government's role is to raise your child) types often cite that there is a real problem going on with video games directly causing violence, but the evidence is non-existent, save hyperbole and political posturing. Like Nomad says from Star Trek:TOS, "Non-sequitur. Your facts are uncoordinated." What is more likely is that we have a disconnect with politicans (with an average age of 55) and some realities of this situation. All of this does not give legitimacy to this NIMF-sponsored "what can we do next to censor video games" summit.
I do not work for the industry, and I like XMAME, but as a military employee and a part time public school teacher, I find this witch hunt to try to censor the first amendment disturbing to say the least. Since when did the first amendment of the U.S. Constutition become unimportant? It never did. It has been whittled down a little bit since it was created, but for the most part, the majority of what it stands for and does is fully intact. The 14th amendment protects the 1st amendment from being heavily modified, so that failsafe mechanism has yet to be truly tested.
Finally, where is the evidence that an ESRB "M" rated game will cause panic in the streets? To me, the ESRB is the first form of censorship...
For the first time, the Linux Flash player is coming out before the next IDE, Flash 9 is. Flash 7 came out nearly 18 months after the IDE did on the last release...
Flashblock is NOT a Flash client-it blocks the Flash client from rendering the SWF component in a page. Why would Adobe make a feature to block Flash from excecuting? They haven't. It IS Javascript, and it's pretty good, if you only want to see some Flash content and not everything all the time.
Love your ethnocentric viewpoint.
In the pure form, the only legitimate points you have is "get you in shape" and "get you laid." Video games, many, will teach teamwork, leadership, commitment. Teamwork, leadership and commitment can be found in everything from America's Army to True Combat Elite, to Warcraft 3/TFT/WOW among countless other games.
If teamwork was to mean, "play with others", leadership was to mean "lead by example" and commitment to mean "dedication" then even some of the oldest titles such as Atari's Warlords would qualify for that.
Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004, Quake 3, Quake 4 and Doom 3 on Linux do not require the CD while playing. I would expect Enemy Territory Quake Wars to be the same way.
Fully legit, fully working.
Linux can be cool in very surprising ways sometimes.
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China is the next world superpower? Funny, I swear I've heard this said about India too, with their math-friendly culture...
n ough-money attitude, the DMCA, militant right wing Christians aggressively pushing their ideas of morality to the masses and so on. A "lockdown" pattern has already started to occur inside the U.S. in the last 15 or so years, and if it keeps up, innovation and the spirit of introducing new ideas which is a significant driving factor to the economy will be the casualty in the end.
If nothing else, we'll have *several* super power-like nations, but it won't simply be because of China and others rising up as time goes on. The U.S. will contribute to it's own defeat, with DRM, overbroad software patents, litigiate-to-scare-your-competitors-if-you-have-e
You lose the edge of the discusssion when you start swearing because you don't really have a point to make. That speaks volumes.
And the facts support your allegation can be found where exactly? None? That speaks volumes.
I'd add to this speculation, that the lawsuit would come in the form of a software patent...and considering how Microsoft launched a lengthy, unsuccessful attack on Linux via proxy with Caldera International...
Despite their link saying they are working on it, I'm a little skeptical about a Flash 9 player as well. At least until a beta is released anyway. Sun Microsystems helped develop Flash 7 for Linux, nearly 18 months after the Flash 7 IDE was released, so I don't think Adobe is doing what they could with this.
I won't give any names away, nor e-mail addresses (because I don't really care so much anymore), but there is a guy I used to know who is a young 32 year old parent with a 3 year old son (as of right now). He strongly feels that video games need to be legislated. However, his conclusions are illogical, and when I tried to explain to him all the fallacies in his argument, he basically replied over and over again, "...something needs to be done." He's a contractor manager at Lockheed Martin, and his personality type is a "government needs to run society" type.
I think there was a phrase I recently read that stated something to the effect of, "Those who arrive to conclusions not based on logic, cannot have their reasoning changed by logic." He's got a 4 year college degree, so he's not a complete idiot, but he could never accept the facts relating to this topic-I found it amazing. He's just biased against video games-not that every single male in the world loves video games of course. I know other parents, and he's the only one that thinks like this, considering his age.
I think analog hacking just might be taking on a new meaning...
Actually, the timeline was *when* Flash is coming is not known, specifically. Could be 2007, 2008 or...
John Bruce Thompson is just Fredric Wertham all over again.
Swap out "comic books" for video games and you have this, which is a repeat of history.
Adobe Flash can also handle results from a web service (WSDL, SOAP, XML). If the native web service communication mechanism isn't good enough for you, you can boost your communication speed with Adobe's proprietary binary found in Flash Remoting MX. For example, you could use a .NET 2.0 web service for the "heavy lifting" and then the finished results are displayed in the Adobe Flash front end, thus giving you the best of both worlds.
Also, I do like the fact that many websites that use Adobe Flash can be viewed on the Sony PSP thanks to the native Flash 6 support in the 2.70 firmware update. Finally Actionscript 2.0 (I haven't tried version 3 yet) is modeled closely after EMCA-262.
Adobe Flash isn't the solution to everything, but for a web presentation technology component, IMHO, it is unmatched.
Are you sure you aren't thinking about GOBOTS? They were far less memorable, comparitive speaking.
Unfortunately, there will be another issue sometime that will raise the ire of people who can't deal with the topic of human sexuality openly. I wonder what it would take for this country will ever "grow up?"
When I see Microsoft clean up their act about Samba 3 interoperability, I'll take them more seriously about playing nice with others.
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So the local teachers union objects...no surprise, as they don't want to be marginalized, or even threatened, if this union is anything like the California teachers union.
As for home schooling, "...lead to some serious problems when they are finally turned out into the world" is not universally true-it depends on a lot of factors, from the parent and child's personality, their ability to learn, what they are taught and so forth. Applying a blanket statement to home schooling without considering additional details has the same meaning as applying a blanket statement to pretty much anything...partial or complete ignorance.