Nowadays, most EULAs on mass-market proprietary software have a notice on the box along the following lines: "Your use of the Software is governed by a License inside this box. If you do not agree to the terms, you may return the content of this box to the vendor." Through your SIGNATURE on your charge card slip, both you and the store agree to these terms. And it's recently been ruled binding.
So, no, there's no alternative [to the cable monopoly]. (Just far enough away for off-the-air to suck, too many trees for satellite)
According to what some of the Slashbots claim in articles about the unavailability of cable and DSL service, your local real estate company has the alternative: Move to a different house with better service. Move to a different city if necessary.
What if what I want is "out of print"? Should everybody who wants a copy be forced to buy a hundred thousand copies just to create enough volume demand to make the publisher think that it is reasonable to run another lot?
If what you are paying for doesn't provide what you want, stop buying it.
"What I am paying for" with tax money includes poor representation in Congress of the rights of the consumer. If I stop buying that, I go to jail for tax evasion.
someone is willing to provide almost any service for a price.
PocketNES is a NES emulator that runs on the Gameboy Advance.
I knew that. I was making a comment on how hard it is to obtain legitimate ROM dumps.
Considering that classic NES games can be purchased for under $10 from Ebay or used game stores... you can legally own and use the roms with PocketNES as long as you own the original cart.
Except how is a fellow going to copy the games he bought from his Game Paks to his PC in order to put them in a PocketNES package? One needs an NES cart reader for that, as well as the GBA flash hardware.
4.4kilobytes is 35.2 kilobits... lets assume no error correction, just to simplify things (though I am sure they use some). Thats about 36,000 dots for 8 square inches, or at least 4500 DPI. ok, guys, your 300dpi scanner can't read that
Are you sure? 300 dpi is 90,000 dots per square inch.
Each card has about five linear inches of data. Assuming that the strip is 1/8" wide (a guess based on the photos), each card holds 0.625 square inches of data. A 300 dpi scanner would be able to extract 300 x 300 x 0.625 = 56250 bits of data. At 10 bits per byte (taking into account error correction), that's about 4.4 KB. Then upgrade to a 600 dpi scanner for a better margin of error.
Would having the cards then make the ROM on your computer legal?
Only if somebody figures out how to use a scanner and image processing software to turn the cards into ROM files. Then you're the "owner of a copy" according to the backup law. You have to rip your own copy of a cartridge or an e-card; you can't just download them from Romz-R-Us.
Hot Seat Harry is 1023 bytes in size. (It's padded to 16 KB with zeroes because the iNES file format supports only 16K chunks for code.) Find it here.
Xbox and PS2 hard drives don't cut it
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The XBOX has a "hard drive."
It's much easier to carry a memory card or floppy disk from one location to another than it is to lug a whole Xbox console. No, don't say "remove the hard drive and put it in another machine" because each hard drive is keyed to an individual Xbox system through ATA authentication.
PS2 has a hard drive too. You can get it as part of the "Linux" kit.
The Linux kit for PlayStation 2 needs a blank memory card to store the kernel, so you're not saving any money. In addition, PS2 games can't use a memory card or hard drive formatted for Linux.
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but when I rebooted again, none of the changes were saved to the floppy.
Either read the documentation to find the proper way to save your changes, or complain to the game publisher that the game doesn't support saving.
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drop by a local library, university, or retailer, pop in a Knoppix cd, cruise the 'net and send a few emails, then pop out the cd and reboot the machine.
That is, unless the machine's case is locked in a cabinet so that the user can't use outside software. The library would claim that outside software may contain viruses. Besides, how are you going to fit drivers for every single network card and every single modem, including winmodems, on one CD?
So every time I boot up the cd to play it I'm going to have to set my Player name, my character model, my screen resolution, configure my mouse and keyboard, and all the other preferences?
You don't have to do that on three out of the four currently popular video game consoles (GameCube, PS2, Xbox), which also store their software on read-only media. They have something called a "memory card" used to store game settings. (The fourth popular console is the Game Boy Advance system, which puts both read-only and read-write storage in each cartridge.)
Know what? PCs have "memory cards" as well. Just stick a FAT12 formatted disk in the floppy drive.
Why do people copy, or want to copy, proprietary software illegally when they can legally obtain copies of Free and Open Source software more easily
Because the features essential for their work are patented, and the patent holders do not license the patents for use in free software. That's one reason why GIMP doesn't support CMYK, Pantone, or GIF writing and why the LAME project does not distribute binaries.
It's a contract and you agreed to it, plain and simple.
A contract where one or more of the parties has no bargaining power, a "take it or leave it" contract, is called a "contract of adhesion". Many jurisdictions limit what rights can be waived in such a contract.
So it could be claimed that he learned how to write his code from looking at the GPL code.
You can't copyright an idea. United States copyright law, 17 USC 102, states that "[i]n no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work".
Perhaps artists would look to sign with a label with more competitive expenses
Such as have somebody like Bad_CRC, Neil Cicierega or Veloso make their video. If it worked for "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" by TLMOM featuring Toaplan, "Hyakugojyuuichi" by Nintendo, and "Yatta" by Happatai, it'll work for any song.
Except this is an electronic device that can easily be reverse engineered and copied.
But Tori Amos herself can't be copied as easily. So in effect, this thread suggests that performers should use live concerts more often to promote record sales.
it just needs to know whether the client is asking for.html or.htm.... right?
It needs to know if the request for a.png or a.zip came from within the site or from outside. That's only possible with HTTP's Referer: header. However, the Referer: header could be improved: reveal only the referring hostname, not the referring page.
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Isn't that the exact definition of EULAs ?
Nowadays, most EULAs on mass-market proprietary software have a notice on the box along the following lines: "Your use of the Software is governed by a License inside this box. If you do not agree to the terms, you may return the content of this box to the vendor." Through your SIGNATURE on your charge card slip, both you and the store agree to these terms. And it's recently been ruled binding.
So, no, there's no alternative [to the cable monopoly]. (Just far enough away for off-the-air to suck, too many trees for satellite)
According to what some of the Slashbots claim in articles about the unavailability of cable and DSL service, your local real estate company has the alternative: Move to a different house with better service. Move to a different city if necessary.
What are your advantages to using this?
The advantages to the cable companies of using digital restrictions management include at least the following:
The cable companies are desperately holding on to their right to show movies.
If you want something pay for it.
What if what I want is "out of print"? Should everybody who wants a copy be forced to buy a hundred thousand copies just to create enough volume demand to make the publisher think that it is reasonable to run another lot?
If what you are paying for doesn't provide what you want, stop buying it.
"What I am paying for" with tax money includes poor representation in Congress of the rights of the consumer. If I stop buying that, I go to jail for tax evasion.
someone is willing to provide almost any service for a price.
Not necessarily. AOL Time Warner refuses to license Speedy Gonzales at any price.
Extending [the backup right of software] to other digital media isn't a stretch at all.
In practice, the backup right existed until October 1998, when this was passed.
PocketNES is a NES emulator that runs on the Gameboy Advance.
I knew that. I was making a comment on how hard it is to obtain legitimate ROM dumps.
Considering that classic NES games can be purchased for under $10 from Ebay or used game stores... you can legally own and use the roms with PocketNES as long as you own the original cart.
Except how is a fellow going to copy the games he bought from his Game Paks to his PC in order to put them in a PocketNES package? One needs an NES cart reader for that, as well as the GBA flash hardware.
4.4kilobytes is 35.2 kilobits... lets assume no error correction, just to simplify things (though I am sure they use some). Thats about 36,000 dots for 8 square inches, or at least 4500 DPI. ok, guys, your 300dpi scanner can't read that
Are you sure? 300 dpi is 90,000 dots per square inch.
Each card has about five linear inches of data. Assuming that the strip is 1/8" wide (a guess based on the photos), each card holds 0.625 square inches of data. A 300 dpi scanner would be able to extract 300 x 300 x 0.625 = 56250 bits of data. At 10 bits per byte (taking into account error correction), that's about 4.4 KB. Then upgrade to a 600 dpi scanner for a better margin of error.
Why not use something like PocketNES http://nes.pocketheaven.com/ and run all of the game?
Because NES cartridge backup devices are very hard to come by. The only one I've seen is Kevin Horton's CopyNES.
Would having the cards then make the ROM on your computer legal?
Only if somebody figures out how to use a scanner and image processing software to turn the cards into ROM files. Then you're the "owner of a copy" according to the backup law. You have to rip your own copy of a cartridge or an e-card; you can't just download them from Romz-R-Us.
IIRC, the original Zelda ROM is 32K
Metroid and The Legend of Zelda were each 128 KB. Super Mario Bros. was 40 KB. The maps on those early games were highly compressed.
Donkey Kong is 24k in size.
Hot Seat Harry is 1023 bytes in size. (It's padded to 16 KB with zeroes because the iNES file format supports only 16K chunks for code.) Find it here.
The XBOX has a "hard drive."
It's much easier to carry a memory card or floppy disk from one location to another than it is to lug a whole Xbox console. No, don't say "remove the hard drive and put it in another machine" because each hard drive is keyed to an individual Xbox system through ATA authentication.
PS2 has a hard drive too. You can get it as part of the "Linux" kit.
The Linux kit for PlayStation 2 needs a blank memory card to store the kernel, so you're not saving any money. In addition, PS2 games can't use a memory card or hard drive formatted for Linux.
but when I rebooted again, none of the changes were saved to the floppy.
Either read the documentation to find the proper way to save your changes, or complain to the game publisher that the game doesn't support saving.
drop by a local library, university, or retailer, pop in a Knoppix cd, cruise the 'net and send a few emails, then pop out the cd and reboot the machine.
That is, unless the machine's case is locked in a cabinet so that the user can't use outside software. The library would claim that outside software may contain viruses. Besides, how are you going to fit drivers for every single network card and every single modem, including winmodems, on one CD?
So every time I boot up the cd to play it I'm going to have to set my Player name, my character model, my screen resolution, configure my mouse and keyboard, and all the other preferences?
You don't have to do that on three out of the four currently popular video game consoles (GameCube, PS2, Xbox), which also store their software on read-only media. They have something called a "memory card" used to store game settings. (The fourth popular console is the Game Boy Advance system, which puts both read-only and read-write storage in each cartridge.)
Know what? PCs have "memory cards" as well. Just stick a FAT12 formatted disk in the floppy drive.
Why do people copy, or want to copy, proprietary software illegally when they can legally obtain copies of Free and Open Source software more easily
Because the features essential for their work are patented, and the patent holders do not license the patents for use in free software. That's one reason why GIMP doesn't support CMYK, Pantone, or GIF writing and why the LAME project does not distribute binaries.
Or because the proprietary software uses a proprietary encrypted file format. In the United States, it's a crime to distribute software that decrypts a proprietary encrypted file format.
where can I find software like PhotoShop, but free/open source for Windows?
Where did you find Windows?
Anyway, GIMP (equivalent to Paint Shop Pro or to Photoshop Elements) works on Windows.
Where can I find Nero?
Bundled with your CD burner. CD burners are hardware, and hardware can't be duplicated easily with current technology.
Where can I find Adobe Premiere?
VirtualDub isn't as powerful, but it should fulfill basic video editing needs.
Instead of Microsoft Office, try this.
Well Aunt Mable decides to run the product and I happen to look over her shoulder. Can I still reverse engineer?
"You may not permit a third party to access the Software in any way except subject to this License." Aunt Mable is liable for your breach.
It's a contract and you agreed to it, plain and simple.
A contract where one or more of the parties has no bargaining power, a "take it or leave it" contract, is called a "contract of adhesion". Many jurisdictions limit what rights can be waived in such a contract.
So it could be claimed that he learned how to write his code from looking at the GPL code.
You can't copyright an idea. United States copyright law, 17 USC 102, states that "[i]n no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work".
There's windows binarys on the site but I couldn't compile the source on my linux box (no windows.h !!!).
You can get a working windows.h (and supporting libraries) for Linux here. It's called Winelib.
Perhaps artists would look to sign with a label with more competitive expenses
Such as have somebody like Bad_CRC, Neil Cicierega or Veloso make their video. If it worked for "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" by TLMOM featuring Toaplan, "Hyakugojyuuichi" by Nintendo, and "Yatta" by Happatai, it'll work for any song.
Or you could just drink Ritalin like most Dance Dance Revolution players do.
Except this is an electronic device that can easily be reverse engineered and copied.
But Tori Amos herself can't be copied as easily. So in effect, this thread suggests that performers should use live concerts more often to promote record sales.
It would be quite funny seeing her carrying around a whole piano though
An 88-key MIDI controller plus a synth module isn't all that heavy.
Carry this!
it just needs to know whether the client is asking for .html or .htm .... right?
It needs to know if the request for a .png or a .zip came from within the site or from outside. That's only possible with HTTP's Referer: header. However, the Referer: header could be improved: reveal only the referring hostname, not the referring page.