If you remember, a particularly interesting person said a while ago that religion is like pot. Now someone with the same political views says it is video games, the new religion masses believe is the new pot.
He also says video games promote the need for cigarettes, alcohol and drug, which is capitalism, the road to hell. OK, capitalism is all about smoking pot and getting drunk. There is also hell?
PS: I don’t play games with gang or drug related story as its main theme.
Aegis Mobility, a Canadian software company, says it has developed software that will detect whether a cell phone is moving at car speeds. When that happens, the software will alert the cellular network, telling it to hold calls and text messages until the drive is over.
What?
How about the other passengers in the car? Will they be able to make a call? Can the service detect if the driver is making the call or a passenger?
There is an interesting and intelligent conversation going on at this blog. I wish they had come out earlier in a more mainstream way (MSDN caters mostly to software developers). There are lot of people who listen to the haters and nodd their head because they don’t know any better. If they had half of the information that is imparted on this blog, they would have stopped the haters in their track.
There are lots of annoyances about Windows Vista. But there are more annoyances on other OS’es out there. I wouldn’t even want to discusss about the completely closed architectures.
After the open source community, the software company that I trust most is Microsoft. I never had a reason, at least any major concern about Microsoft snooping at my personal information. Even with their almost monopolistic hold on the market for operating system. I say almost because we do have real alternatives for an OS.
Some talk about the DRM stuff on Vista. I think it is because the content industry is arm twisting every software company out there to include crippleware. Vista in its quest to provide media capability probably had to sacrifice some dignity because of this arm twisting.
Will they be able to do better in Windows 7? May be some. DRM? I don’t think so. The content industry is getting stronger with more and more power wielding at the centers of power. RealDVD is just the latest example.
What that means? In many other places it means that it will be sold under unrated rating or something like that. But in Australia and some EU countries it means you cannot sell the game. Lot of the game communities in other parts of the world are “outraged” by the draconian system. Well, that’s their country and their system. And it is a democracy. If they don’t like it, they will change it. Video games are just getting to the mainstream. Once it gets the same level of attention as TV or Movies, rating system will change. Look at the movies and TV stuff. They have far more violent and creepy content than most video games. Aren’t they being shown and sold in Australia. I think so.
