That way you could buy software the same way you do now with an EULA, or for an extra $10-$25, you can have a version that you can do whatever you want with (except copy, of course).
Except they wouldn't charge $10-$25 more for the EULA-less version but rather a million dollars per seat because there's no EULA to restrict reverse engineering.
if you don't agree to the terms of the EULA, you have the right to resell the software, but not to use it. You still have to agree to the EULA if you want to use the software.
In the United States of America, use of software is a right that comes along with ownership of a copy under 17 USC 117. If you own a copy, you can use it unless using it requires circumventing copy protection. However, in a sotware rental situation, the lessee is not the "owner of a copy" (the lessor still owns the copy, and by 17 USC 109(b), the lessor has to be authorized by the copyright owner), and some courts are more likely to apply the rental rules than others.
Will Creative Commons maintain a staff of lawyers to work license infringment cases pro-bono?
Be careful! If you use the term "pro bono" instead of "for free," you appear to support the 95-plus year copyright term granted by the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. (No U2 jokes please.)
it's would be just as revelutionary if somebody would make a flatscreen with a real colour pixels, instead of the RGB dots
On a color liquid-crystal display, having the red, green, and blue dots side-by-side is actually better than having them in front of one another. The slight misregistration of side-by-side dots allows for text and line-art rendering with nearly three times the horizontal dot placement accuracy of traditional displays. See also these articles about sub-pixel rendering.
I would never seriously consider paying to have a Donkey Kong arcade machine. It's old, clunky, and probably smells of whatever bar or grease-pit it's been rotting in for the last 2 decades.
A new display and cabinet would fix that.
To download the rom for free, (and illegally), gives me a great deal of satisfaction playing a old, great game I would not otherwise ever engage in.
So would buying a legit copy of the software for ten bucks at Amazon and playing it on your Game Boy.
However, I don't think it should be wrong to connect a cartridge dumper to your computer and play games of which you own a legitimate copy through an emulator, no matter what Nintendo says.
Even if Roe vs. Wade were overturned tomorrow, few states would pass anti-abortion laws, meaning that all anyone has to do to get an abortion is cross over to a state where it's legal.
United States law has all sorts of laws "It is a felony to cross state lines to commit crimes A, B, or C."
When your head is 1/3 of your full body mass, it's very is to trip and fall down with your nose on the ground.
That's one reason why the nose will be reduced to a small bump in future humans, the forehead will be enlarged, there will be thicker hair to cushion the fall, and the eyes will be shaped like teardrops. In other words, we'll look like Precious Moments figurines. And yes, the pelvis will evolve a larger opening.
A human uses all of his brain in a given day, just not all at the same moment. In a way, the human brain is built like a Pentium 4 processor: the brain has functional units for everything, but not all of them can be fed at one time. Also, like the P4, the brain has power supply and heat dissipation issues that keep it from full utilization; people are said to undergo "burnout" after heavy mental exertion.
soon every child would have to be delivered through a cesaerian because men would evolve to grow bigger heads. Heads too big to fit through the female pelvis are the main concern.
In that case, if a larger head were really an evolutionary advantage, the pelvis would evolve in parallel. Heck, in eight or so kilocenturies, the head might get so big that we look like those Precious Moments figurines.
A team of scientists working in secret in Antarctica have announced the successful trial run of the Temporal Manipulation Device, a.k.a. the "Time Machine"
Perhaps somebody can go to the year 802701 and save the Precious Moments people from the Morlocks?
The costs of retraining, cutting over, and so forth for even a 100 person organization would likely come to more than $40K
That comes to $400 per person. Thus, if switching to GNU/Linux would save at least $400 per seat in royalties, GNU/Linux would have a lower total cost of ownership.
When making web pages, I like to make people's emails on the page a a small.png file instead of text with no mailto: link. This prevents that these programs can pick it up.
It also prevents that blind people using a speech reader can pick it up, which may be a violation of your jurisdiction's disability code.
If a sales associate or a CEO takes the configuration you recommend, they would lose out on a number of new contacts. They would have to manually enter in an email _before_ it is actually sent to the address.
Or they could just click through the link in the bounce message and be added to the whitelist.
Awesome, so the software also let's me carry my PC in my pocket
If somebody ports the emulator to Pocket PC, that's correct. You can (hire somebody to) port one of the Free console emulators to Windows CE, and then you can take it with you.
I meant the games [for calculators]. If you go to an electronics store and see a rack of calculator games next to gameboy games, then it's direct competition.
Dozens of games come on the CD that comes with the TI-GRAPH LINK cable, and dozens more are available on the Internet. I find it difficult not to infer that you and others in this thread believe that only proprietary commercial software can compete directly with proprietary commercial software.
We banned Gameboy's and Cybiko's from the classroom area, even between classes, but did not notice an upswing of kids playing games on their calculators.
We banned Napster's and Scour's from the internet area, even for exchanging authorized live recordings, but did not notice an immediate upswing of Internet users pirating music on KaZaA. In other words, it takes a while for an alternative to catch on. Besides, you've probably never seen the calculator gaming epidemic at FWCS high schools. The kids in study hall have had LAN parties on their calculators.
I assume "keying" is what we dumb consumers typically know as "blue screening" or "green screening"
That is, unless they use Windows 9x regularly;-)
but this lets you do the same without a solid background
Actually, use of a still (non-solid) background would help even this technique, as post-processing can massage the background vs. foreground using traditional MPEG motion compensation for an even more accurate contrast between a background moving in one direction and a subject moving in the other.
That said, it's not as if you can go out and claim any programming job without a degree, unless you are coding web scripts for Amazon. This is NOT programming. It's scripting. And frankly, anyone can learn to Script in 21 days.
What's the precise difference between programming and scripting? It's not whether the program needs to be compiled from a human-readable form into a binary file before it's run, is it?
Just wait for the result. It works? It has been finished on time? It looks bug-free? Ok. So why yell because the guy used his favorite tools instead of arbitrary recommended ones?
Because the system it runs on happens to have a conflict with the client's hardware or other installed software. Oops...
The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to:... (xviii.) Copyrights, patents of inventions and designs, and trade marks
Unlike the U.S. Constitution, this doesn't even specify a weak "limited times" guarantee. Therefore, Australia's Parliament has the right to pass a perpetual copyright on a given work.
Also it is a reasonably common enough occurance for the Commonwealth to convince all the states to pass a law, in effect making a commonwealth law that they are not supposed to make.
The US does this too, saying in effect "Pass these laws, or we take away your highway construction money." It puts a new spin on the term "highway robbery."
GT == Gran Turismo. GTA == Grand Theft Auto. Yes, they do tend to be released in pairs (GT a couple months before the GTA with the same number) but they're not related.
how may car races have you seen where there are two opposing lanes of traffic?
In Cruis'n USA, sometimes you have to avoid oncoming traffic.
Just like PC games and Console games are in a different catagory.
Not anymore, thanks to the Flash Advance Linker which lets you copy binaries from legitimately purchased games into a computer, and VisualBoyAdvance which lets you play them.
I don't think you can really count calculators and palmtop software as direct competitors until you see it on Toys R Us and Funcoland racks
Why would TU need to carry TI-89 calculators? Students probably already have them.
and you start to see crossover software.
On this page alone I see clones of Mario, Zelda, T*tr*s, Asteroids, Beetle Mania (from SMRPG), Breakout, Bomberman, Boulder Dash, Bust-A-Move (Puzzle Bobble), Command & Conquer, Doom, Final Fantasy, Mario Kart, Memory, Minesweeper, Pong, SameGame, Simon, Sokoban, Streets of Rage, Taipei, Worms, Yahtzee, baseball, blackjack, checkers, chess, light cycle, labyrinth, poker, reversi, snake, solitaire, and more. Is this not an extensive library?
(Tony Hawk for TI, yes!)
And yes, there is a skateboard game; it just doesn't have Tony Hawk®'s name on it.
The point is that you can carry these into class with you, which can't be said of a Game Boy.
I don't think the fact that a kid has a badass calculator would keep him from asking his parents for a GBA for christmas.
Likewise, I don't think the fact that a kid has a badass PS2 would keep him from asking his parents for a GameCube for christmas.
Go to Toys R Us and tell us how many GBA games they're selling. Then tell us how many Palm, WinCE and TI-89 games.
OK... I go to Amazon ToysUs.com. Right next door in the same Amazon e-mall are Amazon Electronics, which carries the popular TI-89 advanced graphing calculator, which unlike a Game Boy can be brought to class, and Amazon Computers, which carries PCs that you can use to download games from ticalc.org. Besides, TI has some exclusive titles such as Drug War (a text adventure) that exists for TI calculators but not for the GBA (that is, unless I write a clone and release the ROM as free software).
Time between first successful test of a replicator and entry of a bullet in the back of the creator's head? I estimate 5 minutes. No capitalist government in the world can allow such a device to exist.
But if you log all your plans on Freenet, you might be able to circumvent that. Unless capitalist governments start killing all people who know anything about technology in some sort of Butlerian Jihad, once the plans are out there, they're out there.
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That way you could buy software the same way you do now with an EULA, or for an extra $10-$25, you can have a version that you can do whatever you want with (except copy, of course).
Except they wouldn't charge $10-$25 more for the EULA-less version but rather a million dollars per seat because there's no EULA to restrict reverse engineering.
if you don't agree to the terms of the EULA, you have the right to resell the software, but not to use it. You still have to agree to the EULA if you want to use the software.
In the United States of America, use of software is a right that comes along with ownership of a copy under 17 USC 117. If you own a copy, you can use it unless using it requires circumventing copy protection. However, in a sotware rental situation, the lessee is not the "owner of a copy" (the lessor still owns the copy, and by 17 USC 109(b), the lessor has to be authorized by the copyright owner), and some courts are more likely to apply the rental rules than others.
Will Creative Commons maintain a staff of lawyers to work license infringment cases pro-bono?
Be careful! If you use the term "pro bono" instead of "for free," you appear to support the 95-plus year copyright term granted by the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. (No U2 jokes please.)
yes, but if the sub-pixels were all real pixels it would be even better (no colour distortions).
Not only would cost three times more, but your text would be tiny because many existing applications are hard-coded to work at a specific DPI.
it's would be just as revelutionary if somebody would make a flatscreen with a real colour pixels, instead of the RGB dots
On a color liquid-crystal display, having the red, green, and blue dots side-by-side is actually better than having them in front of one another. The slight misregistration of side-by-side dots allows for text and line-art rendering with nearly three times the horizontal dot placement accuracy of traditional displays. See also these articles about sub-pixel rendering.
I would never seriously consider paying to have a Donkey Kong arcade machine. It's old, clunky, and probably smells of whatever bar or grease-pit it's been rotting in for the last 2 decades.
A new display and cabinet would fix that.
To download the rom for free, (and illegally), gives me a great deal of satisfaction playing a old, great game I would not otherwise ever engage in.
So would buying a legit copy of the software for ten bucks at Amazon and playing it on your Game Boy.
However, I don't think it should be wrong to connect a cartridge dumper to your computer and play games of which you own a legitimate copy through an emulator, no matter what Nintendo says.
one of the greatest barriers to human evolution is the size of brain that can be birthed successfully
The pelvis would evolve. See my earlier comment.
Even if Roe vs. Wade were overturned tomorrow, few states would pass anti-abortion laws, meaning that all anyone has to do to get an abortion is cross over to a state where it's legal.
United States law has all sorts of laws "It is a felony to cross state lines to commit crimes A, B, or C."
When your head is 1/3 of your full body mass, it's very is to trip and fall down with your nose on the ground.
That's one reason why the nose will be reduced to a small bump in future humans, the forehead will be enlarged, there will be thicker hair to cushion the fall, and the eyes will be shaped like teardrops. In other words, we'll look like Precious Moments figurines. And yes, the pelvis will evolve a larger opening.
AFAIK we still don't use most of our brains
A human uses all of his brain in a given day, just not all at the same moment. In a way, the human brain is built like a Pentium 4 processor: the brain has functional units for everything, but not all of them can be fed at one time. Also, like the P4, the brain has power supply and heat dissipation issues that keep it from full utilization; people are said to undergo "burnout" after heavy mental exertion.
soon every child would have to be delivered through a cesaerian because men would evolve to grow bigger heads. Heads too big to fit through the female pelvis are the main concern.
In that case, if a larger head were really an evolutionary advantage, the pelvis would evolve in parallel. Heck, in eight or so kilocenturies, the head might get so big that we look like those Precious Moments figurines.
A team of scientists working in secret in Antarctica have announced the successful trial run of the Temporal Manipulation Device, a.k.a. the "Time Machine"
Perhaps somebody can go to the year 802701 and save the Precious Moments people from the Morlocks?
The costs of retraining, cutting over, and so forth for even a 100 person organization would likely come to more than $40K
That comes to $400 per person. Thus, if switching to GNU/Linux would save at least $400 per seat in royalties, GNU/Linux would have a lower total cost of ownership.
this module now gives them a chance to have the superpositioned crash: your computer is both crashing and still alive.
Linux can already do that, and it turns out to be useful for firewalls with static rules.
When making web pages, I like to make people's emails on the page a a small .png file instead of text with no mailto: link. This prevents that these programs can pick it up.
It also prevents that blind people using a speech reader can pick it up, which may be a violation of your jurisdiction's disability code.
If a sales associate or a CEO takes the configuration you recommend, they would lose out on a number of new contacts. They would have to manually enter in an email _before_ it is actually sent to the address.
Or they could just click through the link in the bounce message and be added to the whitelist.
Awesome, so the software also let's me carry my PC in my pocket
If somebody ports the emulator to Pocket PC, that's correct. You can (hire somebody to) port one of the Free console emulators to Windows CE, and then you can take it with you.
I meant the games [for calculators]. If you go to an electronics store and see a rack of calculator games next to gameboy games, then it's direct competition.
Dozens of games come on the CD that comes with the TI-GRAPH LINK cable, and dozens more are available on the Internet. I find it difficult not to infer that you and others in this thread believe that only proprietary commercial software can compete directly with proprietary commercial software.
We banned Gameboy's and Cybiko's from the classroom area, even between classes, but did not notice an upswing of kids playing games on their calculators.
We banned Napster's and Scour's from the internet area, even for exchanging authorized live recordings, but did not notice an immediate upswing of Internet users pirating music on KaZaA. In other words, it takes a while for an alternative to catch on. Besides, you've probably never seen the calculator gaming epidemic at FWCS high schools. The kids in study hall have had LAN parties on their calculators.
Microsoft's plan to take over the
I assume "keying" is what we dumb consumers typically know as "blue screening" or "green screening"
That is, unless they use Windows 9x regularly ;-)
but this lets you do the same without a solid background
Actually, use of a still (non-solid) background would help even this technique, as post-processing can massage the background vs. foreground using traditional MPEG motion compensation for an even more accurate contrast between a background moving in one direction and a subject moving in the other.
That said, it's not as if you can go out and claim any programming job without a degree, unless you are coding web scripts for Amazon. This is NOT programming. It's scripting. And frankly, anyone can learn to Script in 21 days.
What's the precise difference between programming and scripting? It's not whether the program needs to be compiled from a human-readable form into a binary file before it's run, is it?
Just wait for the result. It works? It has been finished on time? It looks bug-free? Ok. So why yell because the guy used his favorite tools instead of arbitrary recommended ones?
Because the system it runs on happens to have a conflict with the client's hardware or other installed software. Oops...
The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to: ... (xviii.) Copyrights, patents of inventions and designs, and trade marks
Unlike the U.S. Constitution, this doesn't even specify a weak "limited times" guarantee. Therefore, Australia's Parliament has the right to pass a perpetual copyright on a given work.
Also it is a reasonably common enough occurance for the Commonwealth to convince all the states to pass a law, in effect making a commonwealth law that they are not supposed to make.
The US does this too, saying in effect "Pass these laws, or we take away your highway construction money." It puts a new spin on the term "highway robbery."
last i checked GT3 is a racing game
GT == Gran Turismo. GTA == Grand Theft Auto. Yes, they do tend to be released in pairs (GT a couple months before the GTA with the same number) but they're not related.
how may car races have you seen where there are two opposing lanes of traffic?
In Cruis'n USA, sometimes you have to avoid oncoming traffic.
Just like PC games and Console games are in a different catagory.
Not anymore, thanks to the Flash Advance Linker which lets you copy binaries from legitimately purchased games into a computer, and VisualBoyAdvance which lets you play them.
I don't think you can really count calculators and palmtop software as direct competitors until you see it on Toys R Us and Funcoland racks
Why would TU need to carry TI-89 calculators? Students probably already have them.
and you start to see crossover software.
On this page alone I see clones of Mario, Zelda, T*tr*s, Asteroids, Beetle Mania (from SMRPG), Breakout, Bomberman, Boulder Dash, Bust-A-Move (Puzzle Bobble), Command & Conquer, Doom, Final Fantasy, Mario Kart, Memory, Minesweeper, Pong, SameGame, Simon, Sokoban, Streets of Rage, Taipei, Worms, Yahtzee, baseball, blackjack, checkers, chess, light cycle, labyrinth, poker, reversi, snake, solitaire, and more. Is this not an extensive library?
(Tony Hawk for TI, yes!)
And yes, there is a skateboard game; it just doesn't have Tony Hawk®'s name on it.
The point is that you can carry these into class with you, which can't be said of a Game Boy.
I don't think the fact that a kid has a badass calculator would keep him from asking his parents for a GBA for christmas.
Likewise, I don't think the fact that a kid has a badass PS2 would keep him from asking his parents for a GameCube for christmas.
Go to Toys R Us and tell us how many GBA games they're selling. Then tell us how many Palm, WinCE and TI-89 games.
OK... I go to Amazon ToysUs.com. Right next door in the same Amazon e-mall are Amazon Electronics, which carries the popular TI-89 advanced graphing calculator, which unlike a Game Boy can be brought to class, and Amazon Computers, which carries PCs that you can use to download games from ticalc.org. Besides, TI has some exclusive titles such as Drug War (a text adventure) that exists for TI calculators but not for the GBA (that is, unless I write a clone and release the ROM as free software).
Time between first successful test of a replicator and entry of a bullet in the back of the creator's head? I estimate 5 minutes. No capitalist government in the world can allow such a device to exist.
But if you log all your plans on Freenet, you might be able to circumvent that. Unless capitalist governments start killing all people who know anything about technology in some sort of Butlerian Jihad, once the plans are out there, they're out there.