"The video game industry has *not* taken care of this itself. It apparently refuses to."
Care to back that up? Actually, yeah, there's no gaming lobby trying to win favors from those in power. The shakeup from government into the gaming sector is pretty much the same as a shakedown to see what sort of money will fall out from them in the end.
Do we really need that kind of visual, considering fanbois' well-documented oral fixation with everything Apple? Oral fixation? What else does one do with an apple other than eat it?
Although, all those 20G models they had recalled could most likely be easily retrofit to 60G versions. Either way, yeah, it's probably a side effect of overestimating demand.
The sad part is that the Japanese have been able to enjoy HD use in their PS2s for more than just Final Fantasy XI. Many games had options on the main menu to install themselves onto the hard drive and run off of there. Just about every new game of the year the HD was introduced had that option. When the slim PS2s came out, there were official external hard drives that could be plugged in to them.
US releases of those games had that functionality disabled for some reason. Tragic.
Unofficially, there is a hack called HDLoader that lets you dump games onto any IDE hard drive that physically fits the connectors on the network adapter: including games that aren't normally hard drive aware. Compatibility is pretty good (not 100%, though) and once you've played PS2 games off a hard drive it's difficult to go back to barbaricly streaming data off optical disc.
Don't know if there's one for slim PS2's that don't have a HD bay, but I assume there must be.
It's too bad. I wanted to wait until the new process with the hopes that the system would be quieter overall. I guess I'll just have to wait for people to discover the rollout and report in the usual places.;)
I wonder, then, if there will ever be an alignment of the law to judge actual impairedness and not an absolute percentage of alcohol in the blood.
Not to be on the side of drunk drivers, mind you. I'd rather the laws were tailored so that no amount of impairment is acceptable and leave the BAC alone.
Switzerland has about 36% gun ownership, USA 32%. Why doesn't Switzerland have 4% more crime, then?
Who are you going to rely on? That's the question to this. Rely on the criminal to not take advantage? Rely on the black market to not sell firearms to felons? Rely of the police to be around? How fast is your 911? Typical times in the US are around 20 minutes. "Don't shoot me, Mr. Criminal, I'm just going to pull my cell out, call 911, and stall you for 20 minutes until the cops get here where I immediately become a hostage to a standoff."
If that's not enough, consider: police carry guns. Bodyguards that protect important people carry guns. Why aren't you worth reliable protection? (Hint: it's more than just packin' heat. You gotta train yourself, too. If you ask me, gun control legislation ought to include training courses.)
Thing is there can't be an arms race on a personal scale. Dead is dead, and you can do with with a 22 or an assault rifle. It then becomes an issue of distance, and then the line between robbery/rape and psychopath is crossed. Sniping people at 300 yards is pretty good in an arms race: not so much if you were just after a wallet or a car.
Well, if a society values freedom of speech none of those things are acceptable. The only thing that could be done, I guess, would be to discredit those who use doctored videos as truth... and we all see how Fox News and the Reutgers still manage to each get away with what they do even without video.
The premise of The Running Man isn't as far-fetched an idea anymore than when that movie came out (or book from which it was based);)
It's funny how people choose which races to recognize and which ones not. You could've replaced the unspoken with 'and he's Scottish', which is an equally valid statement. But you didn't, and why it seems obvious that you didn't is the heart of the issue. If GP is anything like me, he had no idea he's Scottish.
The point I think that was trying to be conveyed was a suggestion. How about this: how about we judge a person on the person and not the lineage from which they descend? How about we judge a person on the person and not the gender to which they belong?
Next thing you know they'll be targeting educational materials to fat people by using less word problems involving apples and more word problems involving Baconators.
While the video is clearly tongue-in-cheek and advertising driven, it's slightly disturbing the novices who cut their teeth on this stuff and evolve their skills in the advertising world could go out and "find" video of just about anything they wanted to engineer in the media. Who would be able to stop them?
Since this thing is going to be in all communication devices, does that mean I have to register my voice as adults-only since I might say a few swears?
How long before we get Demolition Man style naughty language fines?
1. 1. You may review these Materials only (a) as a reference to assist You in planning and designing Your product, service or technology ("Product") to interface with a Microsoft product, specification, service or technology Mac/Linux/BSD? Nope Where do you see that exclusion? If you're downloading details on HD Photo, that's a Microsoft specification. Your product, service, or technology will be interfacing with a steam of binary data which is expected to be in the proper format i.e. adhering to specification.
You may not (i) duplicate any part of these Materials Okay I won't. But how does my engineering group work with the spec if I can't duplicate it? "Hey, guys, go to http://microsoft.com/really_neat_spec and download it for review."
any Feedback you voluntarily provide may be used in Microsoft Products Okay, I won't provide any feedback. It was once believed that developers were Microsoft's focus. Apparently not anymore. *sigh* In this litigious society, some smart-ass might report a bug or request an enchancement. Microsoft might get it and implement a fix or the added feature. Smart-ass might get the brilliant idea of filing suit against Microsoft for stealing his idea. It's a CYA move.
There's PLENTY wrong with Microsoft spearheading a format and being very active in getting it consumed as a world standard. We'd do well to avoid it since it's basically steps two and three of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish." Why should they embrace something when the rest of the industry will handle the leg work of getting the Embrace phase down?
It's bad on it's merits alone. FUDing it up doesn't help anyone.
Would Nintendo license the DS to another company to do exactly what it does now plus run Linux on it? I don't think that's very likely. It isn't like the DS hardware licensing is on the market like Blu-Ray is.
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The subtle wordplay in the statement that perhaps wasn't entirely obvious is that a dishonest person, dedicated enough, could break/pick/destroy the lock anyway.
The problem is that the DMCA does not make the distinction between bypassing a copying mechanism because it's a hardware-enforced possibly unconscionable company-imposed territorial profit-maximizing restriction and bypassing a copying mechanism because it makes piracy simply possible.
It is if you want to be taken seriously; the GP seems a bit like the pot calling the kettle black. Isn't a black kettle black?
. . . all we have is some troll labeling everything he doesn't like "liberal." Nah, the question is raised about bias and the reasoning should then be evidence, and the lack thereof, of bias. Not a "troll" ad hominem attack.
So, who's this clean and pure individual with no opinions or personal convictions on anything important with whom we are to confer with to find out if there's bias or not?
Or was that original post modded troll simply because of moderators did not agree with the accusation of bias and chose to attach a label of "troll" instead of forfeit their points for this discussion and dispute him on facts? How exactly is this is different from labeling everything he doesn't like "liberal?"
Not that it even matters... the firehose has spoken to select the good stuff, after all.
The idea wouldn't be to stop just the perp but to enbolden them. See who they refer, follow the path of files downloaded as they are redistributed by interested parties. Corrolate time spent hunting for that stuff with time they are on their home computer with the lights off and the curtains closed. Package together a completely undeniable case against them. And if they don't distribute or become brave enough to upload their stash (for the sake of image-hash generating algorithms to quickly let software find kiddie porn), they still pretty much got them anyway. It's a win-win.
And with any luck they might actually catch a real pedophile instead of some poor shlub that had a virus planted on his machine to explicitly go to those sites without his knowledge for the intentional purpose of getting them busted by the feds. But that's never really been a concern, of course, since that would be bad for the numbers that show the program works.
many of the articles posted by Mr. Dawson are so obviously (left-)biased Right; you surely would brook no bias... Neutrality is not a requirement to point out bias. If it's there it's there. Nobody has never done anything wrong: does that mean we all revoked the right to criticise doing things which are wrong?
That said, I'd rather have articles "obviously biased" than "subversively biased".
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Care to back that up? Actually, yeah, there's no gaming lobby trying to win favors from those in power. The shakeup from government into the gaming sector is pretty much the same as a shakedown to see what sort of money will fall out from them in the end.
Although, all those 20G models they had recalled could most likely be easily retrofit to 60G versions. Either way, yeah, it's probably a side effect of overestimating demand.
The sad part is that the Japanese have been able to enjoy HD use in their PS2s for more than just Final Fantasy XI. Many games had options on the main menu to install themselves onto the hard drive and run off of there. Just about every new game of the year the HD was introduced had that option. When the slim PS2s came out, there were official external hard drives that could be plugged in to them.
US releases of those games had that functionality disabled for some reason. Tragic.
Unofficially, there is a hack called HDLoader that lets you dump games onto any IDE hard drive that physically fits the connectors on the network adapter: including games that aren't normally hard drive aware. Compatibility is pretty good (not 100%, though) and once you've played PS2 games off a hard drive it's difficult to go back to barbaricly streaming data off optical disc.
Don't know if there's one for slim PS2's that don't have a HD bay, but I assume there must be.
It's too bad. I wanted to wait until the new process with the hopes that the system would be quieter overall. I guess I'll just have to wait for people to discover the rollout and report in the usual places. ;)
No, but I get told "SKU YOU!" all the time these days. :'(
I wonder, then, if there will ever be an alignment of the law to judge actual impairedness and not an absolute percentage of alcohol in the blood.
Not to be on the side of drunk drivers, mind you. I'd rather the laws were tailored so that no amount of impairment is acceptable and leave the BAC alone.
Switzerland has about 36% gun ownership, USA 32%. Why doesn't Switzerland have 4% more crime, then?
Who are you going to rely on? That's the question to this. Rely on the criminal to not take advantage? Rely on the black market to not sell firearms to felons? Rely of the police to be around? How fast is your 911? Typical times in the US are around 20 minutes. "Don't shoot me, Mr. Criminal, I'm just going to pull my cell out, call 911, and stall you for 20 minutes until the cops get here where I immediately become a hostage to a standoff."
If that's not enough, consider: police carry guns. Bodyguards that protect important people carry guns. Why aren't you worth reliable protection? (Hint: it's more than just packin' heat. You gotta train yourself, too. If you ask me, gun control legislation ought to include training courses.)
Thing is there can't be an arms race on a personal scale. Dead is dead, and you can do with with a 22 or an assault rifle. It then becomes an issue of distance, and then the line between robbery/rape and psychopath is crossed. Sniping people at 300 yards is pretty good in an arms race: not so much if you were just after a wallet or a car.
Well, if a society values freedom of speech none of those things are acceptable. The only thing that could be done, I guess, would be to discredit those who use doctored videos as truth... and we all see how Fox News and the Reutgers still manage to each get away with what they do even without video.
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The premise of The Running Man isn't as far-fetched an idea anymore than when that movie came out (or book from which it was based)
Not to mention if you don't like the price of bottled water, your tap provides gallons for pennies.
Even if you don't drive and use a bicycle, you're still paying the extra energy costs passed down to consumers through the logistics chain.
Like comparing apples to cute orange flip-flops.
The point I think that was trying to be conveyed was a suggestion. How about this: how about we judge a person on the person and not the lineage from which they descend? How about we judge a person on the person and not the gender to which they belong?
Next thing you know they'll be targeting educational materials to fat people by using less word problems involving apples and more word problems involving Baconators.
Maybe not, but the heavenly smell is basically a SSID broadcast of their existance to those interested in finding them.
Even over the last 10 years video alterations have been getting more and more sophisticated. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAFp4CaeDqU
While the video is clearly tongue-in-cheek and advertising driven, it's slightly disturbing the novices who cut their teeth on this stuff and evolve their skills in the advertising world could go out and "find" video of just about anything they wanted to engineer in the media. Who would be able to stop them?
It's not freedom if it's at the point of a gun, which all "government mandates" essentially boil down to.
Since this thing is going to be in all communication devices, does that mean I have to register my voice as adults-only since I might say a few swears?
How long before we get Demolition Man style naughty language fines?
Don't you mean "Microsoft product, specification, service or technology"
Learn what commas do.
There's PLENTY wrong with Microsoft spearheading a format and being very active in getting it consumed as a world standard. We'd do well to avoid it since it's basically steps two and three of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish." Why should they embrace something when the rest of the industry will handle the leg work of getting the Embrace phase down?
It's bad on it's merits alone. FUDing it up doesn't help anyone.
Would Nintendo license the DS to another company to do exactly what it does now plus run Linux on it? I don't think that's very likely. It isn't like the DS hardware licensing is on the market like Blu-Ray is.
The subtle wordplay in the statement that perhaps wasn't entirely obvious is that a dishonest person, dedicated enough, could break/pick/destroy the lock anyway.
The problem is that the DMCA does not make the distinction between bypassing a copying mechanism because it's a hardware-enforced possibly unconscionable company-imposed territorial profit-maximizing restriction and bypassing a copying mechanism because it makes piracy simply possible.
Modded flamebait, that is, not troll. Curse my blue-haired wishing-troll capped pencil. :)
So, who's this clean and pure individual with no opinions or personal convictions on anything important with whom we are to confer with to find out if there's bias or not?
Or was that original post modded troll simply because of moderators did not agree with the accusation of bias and chose to attach a label of "troll" instead of forfeit their points for this discussion and dispute him on facts? How exactly is this is different from labeling everything he doesn't like "liberal?"
Not that it even matters... the firehose has spoken to select the good stuff, after all.
The idea wouldn't be to stop just the perp but to enbolden them. See who they refer, follow the path of files downloaded as they are redistributed by interested parties. Corrolate time spent hunting for that stuff with time they are on their home computer with the lights off and the curtains closed. Package together a completely undeniable case against them. And if they don't distribute or become brave enough to upload their stash (for the sake of image-hash generating algorithms to quickly let software find kiddie porn), they still pretty much got them anyway. It's a win-win.
And with any luck they might actually catch a real pedophile instead of some poor shlub that had a virus planted on his machine to explicitly go to those sites without his knowledge for the intentional purpose of getting them busted by the feds. But that's never really been a concern, of course, since that would be bad for the numbers that show the program works.
That said, I'd rather have articles "obviously biased" than "subversively biased".