As showing a nipple or add nudity to a game will definitely make it be rated A for adult only and thus not sellable.

For the people who think this footage is not something to argue about because it's a 'game', consider a game where you have to shove as much jews as possible in a gas chamber. Yes, horrific and the lowest possible taste possible, but it's for the sake of the argument: it's then too just 'a game', however people will (and rightfully so) be horrified and declare it unacceptable.

What I then wonder is: why is this 'a game' and 'fantasy', and another example 'unacceptable' ?

The problem is that anything can install such a listening service on XP making it instantly vulnerable. That XP SP2/3 isn't vulnerable by default is a 'mitigating factor' in MS Security bulletin lingo, not a reason not to patch.

I don't understand why they're dragging their feet, as sooner or later something installs a listening service (or the user already has such a service) and it's over.

I don't really care about speed, all browsers are pretty fast. The main issue I have with for example Opera is that it doesn't always render HTML correctly (even in 10 RTM), and sometimes hangs when you resize windows. I rather like a correctly rendered page which is done in 0.012ms than a badly rendered page which is rendered in 0.003ms

These issues are still not fixed in 10.0 RTM:

- VMWare server 2.0 interface doesn't render properly in 10.0: Select a VM and at the right you don't see any info appear.
- '#' local links are resolved after everything is loaded: e.g. http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=277142&page=14#comment3054845 , this is slow, as all icons first have to be loaded before the local jump is made. This is annoying at forum sites
- On Windows XP, Checkbox in webpage isn't styled but looks like Windows 95 checkbox. This is particularly present here at /., where all checkbox controls are rendered as windows 95 checkboxes.
- Cookies set in javascript where the name has a ' ' in the name are not persisted.
- Sometimes a combobox is rendered as a windows 95 combobox instead of a Windows XP / themed combo box, e.g. when you set the options like: Pink
- In the default skin, on Windows XP, when you hover over the scrollbar at the right, the scrollbar is highlighted... pink
- Bittorrent client is really really slow compared to Vuse for example

ref: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/09/ten-tips-for-slightly-less-awful-resume.html

I think you and your team should start focusing on developing software for the client you have to write the software for, i.o.w. back to square 1 of Software Engineering. You and your team seem to have moved yourselves into an organizational mess which takes more time to manage than the actual software development.

Mind you, your client doesn't give a hoot HOW you created the software, which language it is written in, or that you eat 1001 bags of blue M&Ms during the making, all they care about is if the software does what they need it to do. So you should go write that software, how is up to you, but if that 'how' process is actually taking more time and energy than the software itself, you should perhaps abandone that process you called 'agile' and go back to Common Sense Software Engineering principles, like defining what functionality should be implemented and actually DO that.

I would have upmodded you but I already replied elsewhere. I didn't know it was a kort geding, as indeed there it's very important to show up. TPB should really get a better lawyer. OTOH, they might get sued in a lot of countries, so it's for them undoable to visit each and every one of them to go to a court hearing, I think.

I don't believe Brein has a good case against ISPs as they're not involved in the lawsuit: if Brein orders them to block a certain site, they can simply say they (ISPs) aren't ordered to do so because the site has to block the NL visitors, not an ISP, it would otherwise come down to censorship for the entire population ordered by civil court, which can never happen, as Brein is a civil organisation.

But with dutch judges, one never knows...

- if they appear in The Netherlands, they can be arrested.

No that's not true, it's not a criminal charge, it was in civil court. You can only be arrested if you have committed a crime. If they're not paying, according to the court, and they appear in the netherlands, the court could order to confiscate their belongings till the sum they have to pay is fulfilled, but that's about it. So i.o.w.: it's likely they just don't give a toss about this ruling.

if they continue to not block the Dutch, then BREIN may have a case for Dutch -ISPs- to block TPB as alternative means of getting TPB blocked.

No, as BREIN isn't associated with the public ministry (Openbaar Ministery) which is the authority which sues people/legal identities in criminal court. BREIN is a civil organisation like any other company or foundation, and therefore has no authority to order anything from anyone. An ISP isn't involved in this (otherwise phone companies should also be held liable when a criminal tells a mate to commit a crime) and therefore can't be ordered to do anything.

The judge is clearly not aware of what internet is. This is common among judges btw. I also find it weird that a civil organisation can censor the internet (through civil court) for people who aren't involved in the lawsuite.

I recall bank secrecy, I recall flight information etc. And isn't it so that a US law is seen as 'valid' across the globe in the US? If not, how can it be that people who have never visited the US are demanded by the US to be brought to them for 'justice' because they violated a US law. ?

and I can't upgrade my Windows XP box to 7 because there's no upgrade path either. This means that I have to upgrade to vista first, and then to 7. Like I have nothing better to do.

The other thing is that on my core 2 quad with 2gb ram, I never really run into delays of switching between processes, windows XP feels snappy (and 'feeling snappy' is mostly a user interface trick anyway), as the major bottleneck of all things done on a system is the harddisk.

I.o.w.: upgrading to 7 (if it were possible) will not give me much better hardware usage anyway than win XP does now. And no, I hate the 7 taskbar (as I have to fight with hidden settings to get my beloved quicklaunch back and I hate the grouping of icons).

Are you nuts? You can say what you want, with one restriction: our laws are mandatory over the ground rule that you can say what you want. So you can't insult someone because it's your opinion or discriminate one.

If I look at the 'Telegraaf' (the biggest newspaper) which is more and more moving towards PVV-level rightwing, I don't see how free speech is limited to the left side, on the contrary.

Your other remarks are also not true in the way you stated them. I agree with the PVV being anti-islam but I don't think they'll be the next government nor that they'll sent people back to morocco, simply because it's against the law (european law) and they're is no 'back', these people are born here so are legal dutch citizens

The Dutch government didn't state it wants any of this thing. The minister of education and culture asked a committee (with non parliament members!) how newspapers could be supported so they don't go bankrupt but at the same time the government isn't messing with how the papers run their company. He has 8 million euros for that. The committee calculated that that's not enough and advised to tax internet usage a bit so the total sum is larger.

That's it. It's an advice of a committee to a minister who then has to think about what to do with it. As the minister is a well known scientist and well aware of what internet etc. is, I don't think this advice will be made law.

Because Microsoft says they are? PS2 + ps3 combined still outsells the 360, month over month in the US. The Ps3 alone doesn't, but they still sell the Ps2 and there are still games coming out for the Ps2.

Across the globe, Sony isn't doing bad at all. Sure, I think they really would have liked to be outselling the 360 with the PS3 alone at this moment, but alas, it didn't happen. Big deal, they keep on selling the ps2 and look, it still works. Not everyone looks at the US as the center of the world: the rest of the world also counts, hell, in south america for example, all next-gen consoles are simply too expensive for the majority of the people.

Sony makes money for activision, so why should activision drop sony? It makes them money. So dropping the platform would LOSE them money, so they won't do that. Sony also knows that and I'm pretty sure they don't even pay attention to this nonsense.

The problem is more, like your comment, that a certain group of people think sony is in a tough spot and really on the brim to keel over and keep on repeating that whenever they can. That's the real problem for sony at the moment. Not activision's CEO whining about some licenses he has to pay for (which prices he knew up front).

Though Sony has the solution for this in-house: their own large group of 1st and 2nd party studios. The games they're creating and will create in the coming 2 years are going to make Sony enough money and will sell enough consoles that people who keep on repeating that they're in a tough spot and ready to keel over are not believed anymore.

In that light, MS has bigger problems. But that's an umpopular statement in gaming world with the large group of very vocal 360 followers online. ;)

Windows 7 doesn't seem to have an upgrade mechanism from XP, so you're kindly asked to repave your disks and install Windows 7 on it. Or upgrade to Vista first of course.

So Gartner, how are all these business suppose to forget about Vista if they're then stuck with a situation where no upgrading is possible?

(yes I know about images, and centralized software installation management, but think about all those smaller businesses with 4-5 computers for example... )