I'm fairly sure "parallel importing" of games is legal. I know it is for music. I also know it's legal in New Zealand. Region coding is illegal in New Zealand. If you think Nintendo is doing something wrong in your region, you really should be talking to your polititions in an attempt to get parallel importing protected. It should be your right to get products from wherever you want, as it should be your local store's right to do the same. The Global Economy doesn't just mean that companies can use slave labour in one country without any fear of their products being blocked in other countries, it means (or should mean) you can buy whatever you want from wherever you want too.
Except now they'll just rename the.scr file to.doc, and tell their friends on the other side to rename it back.
+1 Funny.
These are the same people that open an image in Word rather than inserting it?
Seriously, the people I work with now are decent, knowledgable, competent people -- not like the real-estate agents I worked for before. But their use of computers is application-based, not file based. They use Word, Outlook and our main database package. Some use Excel. With only a couple of exceptions, that's it. I'm the only one coding, I'm the only one exposed to an OS other than Windows and that's not very often. Sure, we get some false positives, but they're resolved very easily. Meanwhile, we haven't even nearly been infected by a virus since I arrived (and it did happen before).
do the users know that openme.doc.scr is more likely to be a virus than flowerbox.scr?
Which is why all.pif,.scr,.exe files are blocked at the email server, in or out. And why anything with double-barreled extensions (.doc.pdf) are also killed, or anything with heaps of whitespace in the name. The message is in place of the attachment.
Strangely, our business can continue to operate without problems or delays even if the staff can't email screensavers to their friends.
I've got a GBA and a GBAsp. The former is modified with a TV-out. On the whole, they're cool devices, but I haven't found a game for the GBA that pulls me away from Diablo2:LoD yet. That said, I have a friend who had to finish Golden Sun, then Golden Sun 2.
As a side note, much as I typically say that I enjoy 2D over 3D, I've been enjoying the simpler flat-shaded, minimal texture mapping 3D of such games as Super Monkey Ball Jr and Robot Wars: Extreme something...
An "application specific optimisation" still displays a picture that is of adertised quality, still crunches all the numbers. A "cheat" drops the quality to bump up the frame rate when it sees a particular application running, without reporting the drop in quality.
Nvidia's card produces the advertised quality at all times, it just understands what 3Dmark2003 is trying to do and knows how to do it particularly well. It's a fine line they didn't cross.
There are already plenty of "secure" sites that don't work for me in Mozilla, though I'm happy to say that my on-line banking isn't one of them.
My solution is to have both Mozilla and IE installed on my PC (*gasp*). I browse the general stuff in Mozilla, heavily filtered, and if it doesn't work I decide if I care enough (and trust enough) to power up IE. I can even drag-and-drop links from one to the other.
Since I also do development, having two browsers is a handy double check. More accurately, since all the other developers in the team use IE and I use Mozilla, our code, eventually, works on pretty much everything without any of those stupid browser detection scripts.
Oh pish, people just want whatever gets them the most money. Advertisers want self regulation so that they can lie, music and movie companies want stricter IP controls so they can release the same crap over and over with no competition, big business wants a high barrier to entry, small business wants no barrier to entry, companies that give out stock options want no regulation on stock options, cigarette companies want their toxic products not to be banned. Everybody wants an uneven playing field with them at the top. I just thought I'd highlight one particular example of hypocrasy.
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Here's a thought. All the IP laws are a form of market regulation. Businesses are all "regulation is bad". So, why don't we get rid of copyright, trademarks and patents just so big business can have the totally unregulated market they so desire?
I don't think the case can/has been made that finding a loophole in a game is computer intrusion. If something like that was illegal, I'd be risking prison every time I did something with a peice of software that the creators didn't think of.
We will be bringing all the Shadowbane servers down for an emergency client and server patch. This patch will optimize the login server process and extend the length of time-out messages. This patch will also close down several teleport and summoning exploits. We estimate that this patch maintenance will cause the servers to be offline for one hour.
Seriously, why would someone use something so complicated as the basis for a limited-function embedded system? Can't anyone program in assembler anymore?
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I also enjoyed a pic of French Stewart with a name tag saying "Hi, my name is Gary".
I'm fairly sure "parallel importing" of games is legal. I know it is for music. I also know it's legal in New Zealand. Region coding is illegal in New Zealand. If you think Nintendo is doing something wrong in your region, you really should be talking to your polititions in an attempt to get parallel importing protected. It should be your right to get products from wherever you want, as it should be your local store's right to do the same. The Global Economy doesn't just mean that companies can use slave labour in one country without any fear of their products being blocked in other countries, it means (or should mean) you can buy whatever you want from wherever you want too.
These are the same people that open an image in Word rather than inserting it?
Seriously, the people I work with now are decent, knowledgable, competent people -- not like the real-estate agents I worked for before. But their use of computers is application-based, not file based. They use Word, Outlook and our main database package. Some use Excel. With only a couple of exceptions, that's it. I'm the only one coding, I'm the only one exposed to an OS other than Windows and that's not very often. Sure, we get some false positives, but they're resolved very easily. Meanwhile, we haven't even nearly been infected by a virus since I arrived (and it did happen before).
Strangely, our business can continue to operate without problems or delays even if the staff can't email screensavers to their friends.
Windows Screensavers are often used to hide viruses (157a.pdf.scr)
As a side note, much as I typically say that I enjoy 2D over 3D, I've been enjoying the simpler flat-shaded, minimal texture mapping 3D of such games as Super Monkey Ball Jr and Robot Wars: Extreme something...
Stan deserves a better chance this time. Best of luck to him.
Were cnet the people who destroyed winfiles.com? Anyone know an alternative to gamefaqs?
Do we really care about the opinions of someone who has the phrase "with his hair cut like a homosexual mushroom" in the opening paragraph?
Lexa Doig, really? I knew she was hot, but I hadn't realised she was [i]that[/i] hot. Now I get to see something new ever time I look at my wallpaper.
An "application specific optimisation" still displays a picture that is of adertised quality, still crunches all the numbers. A "cheat" drops the quality to bump up the frame rate when it sees a particular application running, without reporting the drop in quality.
Nvidia's card produces the advertised quality at all times, it just understands what 3Dmark2003 is trying to do and knows how to do it particularly well. It's a fine line they didn't cross.
Much as I might like to think that all the female readers of /. are lesbians, I think you need to include a man in there.
My solution is to have both Mozilla and IE installed on my PC (*gasp*). I browse the general stuff in Mozilla, heavily filtered, and if it doesn't work I decide if I care enough (and trust enough) to power up IE. I can even drag-and-drop links from one to the other.
Since I also do development, having two browsers is a handy double check. More accurately, since all the other developers in the team use IE and I use Mozilla, our code, eventually, works on pretty much everything without any of those stupid browser detection scripts.
Oh pish, people just want whatever gets them the most money. Advertisers want self regulation so that they can lie, music and movie companies want stricter IP controls so they can release the same crap over and over with no competition, big business wants a high barrier to entry, small business wants no barrier to entry, companies that give out stock options want no regulation on stock options, cigarette companies want their toxic products not to be banned. Everybody wants an uneven playing field with them at the top. I just thought I'd highlight one particular example of hypocrasy.
You'll never make a monkey out of me...
Here's a thought. All the IP laws are a form of market regulation. Businesses are all "regulation is bad". So, why don't we get rid of copyright, trademarks and patents just so big business can have the totally unregulated market they so desire?
It has a CF slot, so this device might help.
Have they fixed the "arrays don't deep copy" problem yet? Man, that bites.
I don't think the case can/has been made that finding a loophole in a game is computer intrusion. If something like that was illegal, I'd be risking prison every time I did something with a peice of software that the creators didn't think of.
New Zealanders are wondering why you're just saying the same word over and over...
The Swatch Access watch has been able to do this sort of stuff for ages. Here are my old pages from way back.
So, how much does it cost to be a beta tester these days?
"Well, Your Honour, I gamed a game and now the people who own the game want to game the law."
I guess it means more photos like this and this.
Seriously, why would someone use something so complicated as the basis for a limited-function embedded system? Can't anyone program in assembler anymore?