Orson Scott Card: "Enders Game" Dan Simmons : "Hyperion", "The Fall of Hyperion", "Endymion" Clarke: "Rendezvous with Rama", "The end of the childhood" (maybe not for a 13y person) Cj Cherry: "RimRunners" Kim Stanley Robinson : The full series of the mars novels. Jules Verne: From earth to moon, The experiment of Dr. Ox HG Wells: evrithing, specially The war of the worlds. David Zindell: "Neverness" and "The broken God" Carl Sagan: "Contact" Gregory Bendford: The cicle of the galactic center (5 novels) Neal Stephenson: "The diamond Age" and "Snowcrash" Asimov: The robot series, specially Bicentennial Man The strugasky brothers. "The power of god"
Sun is big company but it's propietary OS (Solaris7) it's not at the same height has linux. If solaris has to survive it has to compete with Linux, and one thing Sun can do to make people use Slowaris7 is to buy stardivision and to stop the production of it's linux line. Same they're doing with Netscape.. so to me this sounds more than a dangerous thing than a good one.
The argument of any emulator being illegal because it was done taking a look at the original (reverse enginniering) it's only applicable to the EEUU, not in Europe, since it's legit to do so if its in the benefit of public mases , and emulators fail in that category because they broaden the access of people to certain programs and games.
I really had the same view like you, but with NINTENDO and SONY harassing people for products they no longer sell or support I've changed my mind. Also while NINTENDO has a right to be pissed, people has a right to code as they like, and while this my be a perjudice to nintendo, IT's not illegal per se, also if NINTENDO was smart enough they'll get a fair benefit selling their games in cd's along with the cartidges. If they don't think that, that's their problem, they have the opportunity of broading their market and they're breaking it down, also they're getting a really bad reputation on the retrogamming circles.
Although I'm not a lawyer, I think that actually nearly every emulator is completely legal, the recent disposition of a EEUU tribunal declaring software as a language and thus protected by the free speech amend of the constitution takes down avery other legal argument. Also Nintendo is a big Sucker that only wants you to pay the highest price for a game, if they suffer from high piracy they better lower their prices; In spain there's a gaming company that has a very low piracy index, why? all the games sold by them are at 25$ or less, at this price I reather buy their game tahn copy. Also emulation deals mainly with older products not with actual ones.
Maybe he did Unix and a lot of great things, but if it says that linux is worse than MS it really needs an oculist. While it's true that there's a variation on cuality from parts to parts of the linux kernel , in overall is fairly better than any mS thing around. I also tested it on non intel platforms and it's rock solid, fairly more stable than native os for them in most cases. Maybe he suffers from envy, or he needs medical assistance.
That's what it's, in spain we also had a media telling that it was internet fault that those sick boys killed so many. They did forgot that getting a weapon in the USA it's easier than getting the driver license. If there're so many weapons in one moment or another they'll be used and someone will be killed. That's the truth, it's not internet, it's education and the guns.
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Mi list will be something like:
Orson Scott Card: "Enders Game"
Dan Simmons : "Hyperion", "The Fall of Hyperion", "Endymion"
Clarke: "Rendezvous with Rama", "The end of the childhood" (maybe not for a 13y person)
Cj Cherry: "RimRunners"
Kim Stanley Robinson : The full series of the mars novels.
Jules Verne: From earth to moon, The experiment of Dr. Ox
HG Wells: evrithing, specially The war of the worlds.
David Zindell: "Neverness" and "The broken God"
Carl Sagan: "Contact"
Gregory Bendford: The cicle of the galactic center (5 novels)
Neal Stephenson: "The diamond Age" and "Snowcrash"
Asimov: The robot series, specially Bicentennial Man
The strugasky brothers. "The power of god"
Sun is big company but it's propietary OS (Solaris7) it's not at the same height has linux. If solaris has to survive it has to compete with Linux, and one thing Sun can do to make people use Slowaris7 is to buy stardivision and to stop the production of it's linux line. Same they're doing with Netscape.. so to me this sounds more than a dangerous thing than a good one.
yes, but emulation doesn't deal about code copying, when you do a emulator you don't copy any source code.
The argument of any emulator being illegal because it was done taking a look at the original (reverse enginniering) it's only applicable to the EEUU, not in Europe, since it's legit to do so if its in the benefit of public mases , and emulators fail in that category because they broaden the access of people to certain programs and games.
I really had the same view like you, but with NINTENDO and SONY harassing people for products they no longer sell or support I've changed my mind. Also while NINTENDO has a right to be pissed, people has a right to code as they like, and while this my be a perjudice to nintendo, IT's not illegal per se, also if NINTENDO was smart enough they'll get a fair benefit selling their games in cd's along with the cartidges. If they don't think that, that's their problem, they have the opportunity of broading their market and they're breaking it down, also they're getting a really bad reputation on the retrogamming circles.
Although I'm not a lawyer, I think that actually nearly every emulator is completely legal, the recent disposition of a EEUU tribunal declaring software as a language and thus protected by the free speech amend of the constitution takes down avery other legal argument. Also Nintendo is a big Sucker that only wants you to pay the highest price for a game, if they suffer from high piracy they better lower their prices; In spain there's a gaming company that has a very low piracy index, why? all the games sold by them are at 25$ or less, at this price I reather buy their game tahn copy. Also emulation deals mainly with older products not with actual ones.
Maybe he did Unix and a lot of great things, but if it says that linux is worse than MS it really needs an oculist. While it's true that there's a variation on cuality from parts to parts of the linux kernel , in overall is fairly better than any mS thing around. I also tested it on non intel platforms and it's rock solid, fairly more stable than native os for them in most cases. Maybe he suffers from envy, or he needs medical assistance.
That's what it's, in spain we also had a media telling that it was internet fault that those sick boys killed so many. They did forgot that getting a weapon in the USA it's easier than getting the driver license. If there're so many weapons in one moment or another they'll be used and someone will be killed. That's the truth, it's not internet, it's education and the guns.