Then do a little dissection into the game. Is it a shooter. some of the best are running on their own created engines, so if you are making models, you usually need an understanding of sculpture, painting, lighting, human anatomy. weaponry needs physics for reactions, math for mass and damage.

Gaming is a damn sight more then just computer programming. you need a lot of other interdisciplinary skills. i know one of the earlier ID employees and Kens skill was sculpting monsters. you need more then just programming. I bet you find the games they like the best are the ones that are the top titles, and they are made to look like complete worlds. so you need to understand how the real world works. get out there and explore it, because if you expect to help create a digital version of it, you better understand how it works.

Its used in Vancouver to keep the gang bangers out, because right now they are all at war to take control of the blossoming drug trade. In Victoria its used to keep out the small cadre of drunks an malcontents who go from bar to bar to bar just getting more drunk. Its a private bar. If you don't like the fact that you have to provide ID then dont go. You dont have a right to go to the bar. no bar owner gives a shit who you are demographically, they care if you have already been tossed out of another bar this eveining for being a drunk dickhead.

We have an explosion of people in BC who wont accept any responsibility for being dumb. You don't have a right to go out, get drunk, piss on the doorway of someones downtown business, or start keying someones car because you don't like the way it works, or a hundred other complaints we get every weekend evening here.

And i mean here, because i live in Victoria. we just don't have a drunk tank big enough to deal with all of the late night idiots. We are pushing some of the responsibility back on the bars, and this is what they came up. The data is encrypted so its not easy to get to.

Too bad if you think you right to privacy has been violated. GO HOME AND SOBER UP

A long time ago i used to recommend Norton products. About 2002 / 03 you needed to use a special tool to remove their products in case they failed to operate. That was the point that hidden files kept screwing you up all the time. And they have looked back from that philosophy. I used to do a local radio show, and the phone calls were always " How do i fix this damn thing " Years of bad practices tell use one thing most of all. Stop using any norton product. They will never listen until they take a giant hit to their revenue. Maybe if they return to making real software, instead of spending all this time creating just another update cycle for a revenue stream, they will not change. Your time has a lot of value. Stop wasting it. Dump Norton.

OK someone needs to do some checking on this before its blindly reported. 1/ The Songwriters association of Canada, is another collective front for the CRIA, the Canadian RIAA. They are a wing of the RIAA so they are just the record companies constant whine about losing money to thieves. A lot of actual recording artists in Canada have left the CRIA becuase they concider them to be greedy corporate trolls, and not helpful to their careers. 2/ Music downloading in Canada is already legal. A leavy is paid on all blank DVDs, CDs, and cassettes, that goes back to the music artists already. except that money is diverted to another group run by the CRIA, and artists see very little of it. The courts have ruled that file downloading of music is already legal, so this arguement is already over. So once again, the recording executives are trying to save their dying industry without actually doing anything for the consumer or the real artist. Trust me, this idea is bullshit, and the folks in the know wont let this turkey go anywhere.