So, you're asserting that the platform is a factor in whether or not a game is good, and that being a PS3 exclusive somehow sucks any previously percieved fun out of the game? No, I think GP is asserting that Sony bias (and bias alone) will cause sinking review scores.
Regardless of whether it's true or just marketing tactics, I think we can all agree Sony needs all the excluses it can muster in this generation in order to not go down as a joke.
Besides the 15 grand they paid for these "legally" aquired emails, one wonders what else they offered Mr. Anderson... Not that complicated. $15K for the emails, $15K for the judge or member of the judiciary (or a congressman with the power to redraw judicial districts).
Just the cost of doing business. And to think when Valenti died there were actually some who thought the MPAA might start growing a conscience.
While I'm with you...
1 year after sony has finished it's console they're starting to release some good games. Unfortunately, that seems to be par for the course for even as far back as the PS2, Gamecube, and XBox.
Whenever a statement made by law enforcement officials about an alleged criminal act is broadcast, it should be quoted in the voir dire process to screen out the rubberstampers. Even if LE watched their tongues, the media would fill in the gaps for them. They bury an "allegedly" in the text and now it's free reign to spout whatever they want, really.
"Innocent until proven guilty" has long been gone from the mob vigilante justice world of public opinion. God help you if you're ever accused of anything.
The ulterior motive is to quantify how expensive it would be for the economy if a flu pandemic hits. That data could be used in cost-benefit analysis for vaccinations and vaccine stockpiles.
Though, that's not much of an ulterior motive. It sure beats releasing diseases into the populace to find out, that's for sure.
I mean, come on, nobody could be THAT evil.
(oblig. scene of Mr. Burns laughing at a worker hanging on for dear life outside his window)
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One upside: AT&T says doing away with time would enable the creation of about 300,000 new phone numbers in California beginning with the 853 or 767 prefixes. Great, just what I need if I get one of those new numbers: questions about what time is it. Yes, my refridgerator is also running and there's no need to catch it, either.
There's simply no reason that our government should get into the business of becoming ISP's. Unless they want a first-chance lookie-look at your traffic. Just shout "terrorism" and millions will be devoted to setting it up and very few of those who fit the bill will care.
Internet traffic via cell and private hot spots are fine... snooping and raising taxes are the only motivators I can think of for a city-wide WiFi.
Sure, but there are people out there who would have picked up these drives instead of the 10K rpm WD drives explicitly because of the better performance for less heat/energy usage.
It's the return of the old "specifications subject to change without notice". Haven't seen an abuse of that one for a while.
So the law may allow hackers to unlock iPhones they purchased and use them anywhere in the world. Wow, cool, there are laws that protect the consumer after all!
Hackers also unlock video game consoles with mod chips to play backups of the games they purchased* and play games from anywhere in the world, yet they get raided by the FBI and their international equivalents.
I guess TFS was right to say "for once." Because evidently one law is all we get to protect ourselves from companies happily selling us things that we can't use the way we see fit.
* if you steal, you're a thief and that's another completely different crime, btw.
Well, hold it one second, agribusiness is huge. Top executives in that industry, like others, are making several thousand more in salary than their workers. Tomatoes don't have to cost $4/lb even with paying fair wages and being environmentally conscious.
People in the western world don't go "Oh, made in China... GOODIE!" It's the companies and the people in charge of them that see China as a cheap place to maximize their profits that wind up causing these problems.
Great. I happen to agree that putting things in networked services just for the sake of having it in networked services is a waste of resources. But since Dvorak came right out and said it now I haven't got a argumentative leg to stand on. It's like a child molester agreeing with me that we ought to have more public parks.
Next thing you know he'll declare how much he likes pizza, completely undermining my fondness of it.
They already had it. The RSAC. Seems they evolved into a web-ratings organization instead.
Ultimately it came down to LAZINESS. It didn't have an age rating on it, so lazy parents couldn't be bothered to know their children, look at the scales, and figure out what they can and can't handle.
That system exposed game content for the world to see and evidently it didn't make a big enough splash.
After all, who cares about the Constitutionally protected rights to control distribution? Obviously we here do, and the ability to ammend the constitution to correct problems was built in for a reason.
The real problem is that Congress (and States' Congresses, most members with aspirations for greater office) are in the pockets of industry and would dare not impose changes to the patents or copyrights that may make their purse-holders angry.
Perhaps if they weren't shills for MAFIAA we'd have a freedom more free. Perhaps we'll never know for sure.
I'd imagine similar is true for high-bandwidth users... many of them have figured out how far they can push it. Except going against the odds consuming bandwidth gets you cut off completely, while going against the odds speeding means you get a ticket... they don't impound your car and immediately revoke your license.
Hiding from the API is pretty important, actually. That's done by pulling the rug under the pointers to the functions that retreives lists of files/directories. If that's not a Windows rootkit, what is?
And much like their last rootkit, this one can easily be used to cloak files on your system and is pretty much a fantastic place to put your virus. Way to really push the limits, guys.
If a rule doesn't always make sense, then change it. So I wonder, why DynDNS and the others are just doing it without going through the effort of having it changed?
It's easier to get forgiveness than permission, I suppose.
Not sure how exactly it works, not being a big DB guy myself, but if I were forced to implement a database application without locking tables I'd probably do it by insulating the transactions from each other using shadowing and just settling things down at COMMIT, sort of how CPUs can issue instructions that play with the registers out-of-order.
It's called the law of diminishing returns. It's worth paying, say, 10% more for a benefit of 30% on the performance. Would it be worth paying 1000% for that last 1%? 10000% for that last 0.1%?
Audiophiles either have extremely sensitive hearing (which I would consider a curse considering how much audio is around us that isn't pristine and perfect), or they're liars with too much money to blow.
I'm with you. I would wager that most security companies around the world have manuals on crowd/riot control.
Really, though, even within the politics section, I ought skip summaries altogether that have "Posted by kdawson " under the title. When we have a Democrat president, though, I may have to check them out anyway to see if we get the same kind of inflammatory articles about the Executive branch.
Our in-house applications don't get built around performance at all (personally I find it disappointing but I don't write the rules... yet). We generally scale outwards: replicated databases, load distribution systems, etc.
Many of the code guidelines we have established are to aid in this. Use transactions, don't lock tables, use stored procedures and views for anything complicated, things like that.
I guess my answer is that we delegate it to the server group or the dba group and let them deal with it. I guess this means the admins there are pretty good at what they're doing.:)
This really shouldn't be much of a surprise. If a government essentially makes your business illegal, you've got three options. Close shop, move, or go underground.
I have empathy for the Germans, but, let it happen. Let the gaming entertainment industry leave. Let the nanny-state take over. Then pay attention as crime doesn't go down, as youths don't magically become better adjusted, as tax receipts go down due to industry lost.
Look how long it took for Prohibition in the US to be tossed out the window. Look at what the War on Drugs STILL hasn't managed to succeed in. And, compared to gaming, these two examples are MUCH more important.
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Regardless of whether it's true or just marketing tactics, I think we can all agree Sony needs all the excluses it can muster in this generation in order to not go down as a joke.
Just the cost of doing business. And to think when Valenti died there were actually some who thought the MPAA might start growing a conscience.
What if the game knows that you know that the game knows you're going to jump, and might not do it?
Ow my head.
"Innocent until proven guilty" has long been gone from the mob vigilante justice world of public opinion. God help you if you're ever accused of anything.
'Twas a joke. Er, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. ;)
The ulterior motive is to quantify how expensive it would be for the economy if a flu pandemic hits. That data could be used in cost-benefit analysis for vaccinations and vaccine stockpiles.
Though, that's not much of an ulterior motive. It sure beats releasing diseases into the populace to find out, that's for sure.
I mean, come on, nobody could be THAT evil.
(oblig. scene of Mr. Burns laughing at a worker hanging on for dear life outside his window)
Internet traffic via cell and private hot spots are fine... snooping and raising taxes are the only motivators I can think of for a city-wide WiFi.
Sure, but there are people out there who would have picked up these drives instead of the 10K rpm WD drives explicitly because of the better performance for less heat/energy usage.
It's the return of the old "specifications subject to change without notice". Haven't seen an abuse of that one for a while.
So the law may allow hackers to unlock iPhones they purchased and use them anywhere in the world. Wow, cool, there are laws that protect the consumer after all!
Hackers also unlock video game consoles with mod chips to play backups of the games they purchased* and play games from anywhere in the world, yet they get raided by the FBI and their international equivalents.
I guess TFS was right to say "for once." Because evidently one law is all we get to protect ourselves from companies happily selling us things that we can't use the way we see fit.
* if you steal, you're a thief and that's another completely different crime, btw.
Replace: several thousand more
with: several thousand times more
Well, hold it one second, agribusiness is huge. Top executives in that industry, like others, are making several thousand more in salary than their workers. Tomatoes don't have to cost $4/lb even with paying fair wages and being environmentally conscious.
People in the western world don't go "Oh, made in China... GOODIE!" It's the companies and the people in charge of them that see China as a cheap place to maximize their profits that wind up causing these problems.
Great. I happen to agree that putting things in networked services just for the sake of having it in networked services is a waste of resources. But since Dvorak came right out and said it now I haven't got a argumentative leg to stand on. It's like a child molester agreeing with me that we ought to have more public parks.
Next thing you know he'll declare how much he likes pizza, completely undermining my fondness of it.
They already had it. The RSAC. Seems they evolved into a web-ratings organization instead.
Ultimately it came down to LAZINESS. It didn't have an age rating on it, so lazy parents couldn't be bothered to know their children, look at the scales, and figure out what they can and can't handle.
That system exposed game content for the world to see and evidently it didn't make a big enough splash.
The real problem is that Congress (and States' Congresses, most members with aspirations for greater office) are in the pockets of industry and would dare not impose changes to the patents or copyrights that may make their purse-holders angry.
Perhaps if they weren't shills for MAFIAA we'd have a freedom more free. Perhaps we'll never know for sure.
Hiding from the API is pretty important, actually. That's done by pulling the rug under the pointers to the functions that retreives lists of files/directories. If that's not a Windows rootkit, what is?
And much like their last rootkit, this one can easily be used to cloak files on your system and is pretty much a fantastic place to put your virus. Way to really push the limits, guys.
And wanting to make an "unnatural" looking movie about a "unnatural" looking cartoon is a bad thing because __________?
It's easier to get forgiveness than permission, I suppose.
Not sure how exactly it works, not being a big DB guy myself, but if I were forced to implement a database application without locking tables I'd probably do it by insulating the transactions from each other using shadowing and just settling things down at COMMIT, sort of how CPUs can issue instructions that play with the registers out-of-order.
It's called the law of diminishing returns. It's worth paying, say, 10% more for a benefit of 30% on the performance. Would it be worth paying 1000% for that last 1%? 10000% for that last 0.1%?
Audiophiles either have extremely sensitive hearing (which I would consider a curse considering how much audio is around us that isn't pristine and perfect), or they're liars with too much money to blow.
I'm with you. I would wager that most security companies around the world have manuals on crowd/riot control.
Really, though, even within the politics section, I ought skip summaries altogether that have "Posted by kdawson " under the title. When we have a Democrat president, though, I may have to check them out anyway to see if we get the same kind of inflammatory articles about the Executive branch.
Our in-house applications don't get built around performance at all (personally I find it disappointing but I don't write the rules... yet). We generally scale outwards: replicated databases, load distribution systems, etc.
:)
Many of the code guidelines we have established are to aid in this. Use transactions, don't lock tables, use stored procedures and views for anything complicated, things like that.
I guess my answer is that we delegate it to the server group or the dba group and let them deal with it. I guess this means the admins there are pretty good at what they're doing.
This really shouldn't be much of a surprise. If a government essentially makes your business illegal, you've got three options. Close shop, move, or go underground.
I have empathy for the Germans, but, let it happen. Let the gaming entertainment industry leave. Let the nanny-state take over. Then pay attention as crime doesn't go down, as youths don't magically become better adjusted, as tax receipts go down due to industry lost.
Look how long it took for Prohibition in the US to be tossed out the window. Look at what the War on Drugs STILL hasn't managed to succeed in. And, compared to gaming, these two examples are MUCH more important.