I accept that this may be an important issue for US slashdotters, but please understand that this is a very, very, very US centric story, that really belongs in the Slashdot politics section, not in the science section and certainly not on the main page.
Just wait for the US to invade your country in the name of spreading creationism;)
Its not just you and me as ISP customers, businesses don't get bandwidth for free, they pay their ISPs who will have peering agreements with everyone their connected to. The notion that there's this poor man in the middle who's not getting paid is absurd. This is extortion, plain and simple and is likely (as many have pointed out) a reaction to VOIP more than anything else.
Though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has a huge friendly penguin as its mascot.
It's not like voice talent sells games, its currently a novelty at best to have SAG actors doing voices in games. The only games that go to trouble to point it out are usually doing to distract us (cough * EQ2 * cough).
The only thing that developments like this are going to acomplish is a reduction in the use of SAG "talent" in games.
Is the adoption (or lack thereof) of DVD-Audio/SACD due to format competition? Nope. Much like CDs, DVDs provide more than acceptable quality to the masses.
How hard would it have been to had both? Movie and television content already does this (although the thermometers are descriptive instead of numeric).
Give it an overal rating for marketing, use the same system that people are already familiar with in movies to keep it simple.
In addition to that, put the thermometers clearly on the front of the box, clearly in the installer (for games that require installing, you don't give you 8 year old admin access do you?) and clearly on the splash screen when the game starts. This gives parents no excuse to not be aware of what their kids playing even if they have only a casual interest in their childrens activities.
It certainly wouldn't hurt for next gen consoles and operating systems to allow password protection on adult games. This, like TV and DVD locks, is generally to prevent accidental viewing of the disk that was left in the device, not as a substitute for supervision. Take Tivo for example, you can require a password on a particular rating and/or on a particular category. If you don't want you kids to see nudity, you can do that.
They probably bawked at the prospect of a 30 second commercial ending with, "contains level 5 violence, level 5 language, level 3 sexual content, level 2 nudity, level 5 drug use" instead of saying "this game has been rated R".
How could they not go for it, can you imagine how much pr0n will need to be viewed to determine the difference between level 4 and level 5 sexual content?
The scary thing is that the conservatives are probably going to be more outraged that a tit was exposed than government becoming more involved in "parenting". Hillary likely saw this as an opportunity to lead a bipartisan attack on this travesty of home grown American values...
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Yeah, Rockstar's statement is damage control bullshit.
You can modify the save game of the PS2 version to unlock the same content. Everything is in the shipping game, nude textures and all.
One of the reasons that everyone is jumping on the multicore bandwagon is actually to lower power consumption. One dual core processor uses substantially less power than two single core processors and should also use less power than a single core processor running at twice the clock speed of the dual core (so same instructions/sec).
Damn straight! The benefits of research being put towards more useful research are enough to make me sick. I was going to buy an Enzo with this weeks royalties for my patent on "pointing at something to indicate a desire purchase it", but I guess I'll settle for another 430 and hire some more lawyers to fight this travesty of justice.
Once Subversion 1.2 is released (very soon) the only thing that Perforce has on Subversion is merge tracking (which they're looking at adding in 1.3).
I'd characterise Perforce as a Visual Source Safe replacement more than anything else. You have to ask the server for permission to edit files in your sandbox (there are ways around this but its not the norm) which basicaly means that unless your development environment is tightly integrated with Perforce you're going to spending a lot of time playing with the Perforce client instead of doing work.
CVS/SVN on the other hand are great because you can go nuts and do your own thing, then update/commit when you're done.
There's also the small matter of licensing, if you have a large development shop Perforce can get expensive.
To be an evil monopolistic you need to have a monopoly. If Apple controlled 95% of the desktop market they'd have to decouple their products too. It is humurous that Safari, Mail, iTunes, iMovie, iCal can all be uninstalled from a Mac and it still runs!
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e) All games should use Miis for storing profile information.
I think you're confusing the actual terms of use with the disclaimer on ebay auctions.
two words ... "metric system"
that would be 40 tonnes :)
I accept that this may be an important issue for US slashdotters, but please understand that this is a very, very, very US centric story, that really belongs in the Slashdot politics section, not in the science section and certainly not on the main page.
;)
Just wait for the US to invade your country in the name of spreading creationism
Its been a while, but wasn't a "low volume" mode added to Walkmans that essentially capped the maximum volume at a "safe" level?
Its not just you and me as ISP customers, businesses don't get bandwidth for free, they pay their ISPs who will have peering agreements with everyone their connected to. The notion that there's this poor man in the middle who's not getting paid is absurd. This is extortion, plain and simple and is likely (as many have pointed out) a reaction to VOIP more than anything else.
Though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has a huge friendly penguin as its mascot.
At 7 metres per minute they better get started. :)
100,000km will take more than 27 years at that rate
lol, video decoding is something that the cell processor kicks butt at ... http://channels.lockergnome.com/hardware/archives/ 20050502_toshiba_shows_a_video_of_a_demo_of_cell_d ecoding_48_mpeg2_video_streams_at_once.phtml
I knew I should have invested in the "Jump to Conclusions Mat"
external ports? just use wifi! :)
It's not like voice talent sells games, its currently a novelty at best to have SAG actors doing voices in games. The only games that go to trouble to point it out are usually doing to distract us (cough * EQ2 * cough).
The only thing that developments like this are going to acomplish is a reduction in the use of SAG "talent" in games.
Is the adoption (or lack thereof) of DVD-Audio/SACD due to format competition? Nope. Much like CDs, DVDs provide more than acceptable quality to the masses.
How hard would it have been to had both? Movie and television content already does this (although the thermometers are descriptive instead of numeric).
Give it an overal rating for marketing, use the same system that people are already familiar with in movies to keep it simple.
In addition to that, put the thermometers clearly on the front of the box, clearly in the installer (for games that require installing, you don't give you 8 year old admin access do you?) and clearly on the splash screen when the game starts. This gives parents no excuse to not be aware of what their kids playing even if they have only a casual interest in their childrens activities.
It certainly wouldn't hurt for next gen consoles and operating systems to allow password protection on adult games. This, like TV and DVD locks, is generally to prevent accidental viewing of the disk that was left in the device, not as a substitute for supervision. Take Tivo for example, you can require a password on a particular rating and/or on a particular category. If you don't want you kids to see nudity, you can do that.
They probably bawked at the prospect of a 30 second commercial ending with, "contains level 5 violence, level 5 language, level 3 sexual content, level 2 nudity, level 5 drug use" instead of saying "this game has been rated R".
How could they not go for it, can you imagine how much pr0n will need to be viewed to determine the difference between level 4 and level 5 sexual content?
The scary thing is that the conservatives are probably going to be more outraged that a tit was exposed than government becoming more involved in "parenting". Hillary likely saw this as an opportunity to lead a bipartisan attack on this travesty of home grown American values ...
Yeah, Rockstar's statement is damage control bullshit.
You can modify the save game of the PS2 version to unlock the same content. Everything is in the shipping game, nude textures and all.
Yeah, well, so do Intel and AMD. Why does IBM think they have the inside track all of a sudden?
Supplying the processors for every next gen console doesn't count as the inside track?
Nah, the reason that games are written in C++ is because game programmers spend their "free" time playing games instead of learning new languages :)
Did you read the article?
Don't tell us, tell Bjarne!
C++ language features
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/evol-issues.html
C++ standard library features
http://lafstern.org/matt/wishlist.html
One of the reasons that everyone is jumping on the multicore bandwagon is actually to lower power consumption. One dual core processor uses substantially less power than two single core processors and should also use less power than a single core processor running at twice the clock speed of the dual core (so same instructions/sec).
Damn straight! The benefits of research being put towards more useful research are enough to make me sick. I was going to buy an Enzo with this weeks royalties for my patent on "pointing at something to indicate a desire purchase it", but I guess I'll settle for another 430 and hire some more lawyers to fight this travesty of justice.
Once Subversion 1.2 is released (very soon) the only thing that Perforce has on Subversion is merge tracking (which they're looking at adding in 1.3).
I'd characterise Perforce as a Visual Source Safe replacement more than anything else. You have to ask the server for permission to edit files in your sandbox (there are ways around this but its not the norm) which basicaly means that unless your development environment is tightly integrated with Perforce you're going to spending a lot of time playing with the Perforce client instead of doing work.
CVS/SVN on the other hand are great because you can go nuts and do your own thing, then update/commit when you're done.
There's also the small matter of licensing, if you have a large development shop Perforce can get expensive.
its covered by HID of course
To be an evil monopolistic you need to have a monopoly. If Apple controlled 95% of the desktop market they'd have to decouple their products too. It is humurous that Safari, Mail, iTunes, iMovie, iCal can all be uninstalled from a Mac and it still runs!