I thought so at first myself, but right now I am running "Luigi's Mansion" in a window
Well, I ran Super Mario 64 in a window... on a Macintosh Performa 6230 with a 75 MHz PowerPC processor. The N64 has a 93 MHz MIPS processor plus a 60 MHz Reality Coprocessor.
Most college students don't need to play games why would they need ms windows?
"Games" don't need Windows. You can hook up a linker from lik-sang, copy all your Game Boy cartridges into your computer, and then run them on VisualBoyAdvance. You can also get the ROMs for many Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and Super NES games at pe2000 and edgeemu; pick up emulators at Zophar's Domain.
What if Win2k/XP doesn't support your sound/video card?
It's more likely that Windows will support a card than FreeBSD simply because many manufacturers consider the size of the market for devices that attach to FreeBSD workstations negligible compared to the size of the market for devices that attach to Windows workstations, and they spend driver development money accordingly.
you get a different card, or try something else.
Sometimes, there exists no acceptable different card. What if a company has an effective monopoly on a type of device (e.g. video cards designed for PCs) and refuses to release specs to developers of operating systems less popular than Windows?
Server != production server; other reasons
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why... would anyone seriously want to run Windows as a server
Because server != production server, and a fellow often has valid reasons for running server software on a workstation. Some users like to share a small number of files from their workstations and need more flexibility than AIM and MSN provide. Others develop web sites using tools that run on Windows and prefer to test their designs initially on localhost. If FreeBSD doesn't support your network card, your video card, or your sound card, what are you supposed to run on your workstation?
Still other organizations have an exclusive contract with Microsoft for operating system software or hard-bummed bosses who won't take UNIX for an answer.
Servers timesharing with workstations
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Organizations don't run web servers on workstations
Some organizations use their workstations as backup capacity for servers in case of a slashdotting or for large static files that demand very little CPU.
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Too bad we can't moderate articles... even I recognize this article as a troll.
Users can moderate articles, but not on a Slash site. Go to Kuro5hin or any other Scoop site and moderate as many submitted articles as you want.
I find their admin utilities to be absolutely frustrating, in that I often make a change, and then open up the panel later, and it's back to the "default" setting.
This is a common problem with preferences in many applications. You have to make sure that the application writes its preferences to disk, and many apps don't do this until you close the app. So much for five nines.
So, your code must produce the Nintendo logo when it starts? Why not just have that done by ROM then?
The code runs from the BIOS, but it reads the bit pattern from the cartridge, throws it up on the display, and then compares it to the stored copy in the BIOS. The Game Boy BIOS has done it this way since the GB Color. (The first GB BIOS, used in GB and GB pocket, contained a loophole: It read the cart once to throw the logo up, and then read it again when verifying the header. Some unlicensed carts would send all 0's to the logo-drawing code but then bankswitch in the logo before header verification; these carts do not work on GBC or GBA, both of which use the GBC BIOS.)
Why did nintendo do this? Any loose connection between the cart and the system shows a distorted logo, this system doubles as a way to detect whether something needs cleaning. It's also an attempt to force software houses whose lawyers haven't heard of Sega v. Accolade to become official licensed publishers.
Something that is completely documented via reverse engineering is NOT open...Fool!
Check your verb tense. "Something that is completely documented via reverse engineering" had been not open, but U.S. trade secret law states that once it's open, it's open forever, and any dissemination of the operations of the machine is free press. (This does not take into account copyrights on particular expressions of the operation of the machine or patents on making or selling such a machine.)
I checked my box of Total Annihilation. Copyright 1997. That means 4-5 years old
Five is less than ninety-five. A company that Infogrames bought created the code; therefore, <sarcasm>Infogrames deserves the right to it for ninety-five years, and the public benefits immensely from receiving the source code at the end of this copyright term</sarcasm>. If you disagree, do something about it: vote those eresponsible out of office.
Assuming that you're a United States citizen who voted in the 1996 elections, the representative and senators that you elected voted for the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. It was a voice vote, and nobody objected enough to demand even a mere head count. Next time, vote for leaders that won't take away Americans' right to a rich public domain. In the meantime, fax your representatives in whatever national government you happen to be under. To paraphrase U.S. President Bush, if you're not for copyright reform, you're against it.
I pay $30 a month for my cable modem... I'd suggest you use an antenna.
Is the $30 because you get a discount for also subscribing to at least one premium channel? Some cable companies charge cable modem customers extra for line maintenance if they don't also subscribe to at least the most basic cable television programming package.
My prediction is that, unless antitrust legislation in the U.S. gets some teeth between now and then, the PC will become a Gameboy within fifteen years. Enjoy computers while they last.
Game Boy is a bad example. The Game Boy Advance is an open system, fully documented to the point that anybody with GCC can write software and run it on the GBA without taking a vow of silence or paying the big N. The only things the GBA checks before running your code are 1. the very simple checksum on the header and 2. a bit pattern that produces the Nintendo logo but is legal to copy under the Sega v. Accolade precedent. So go get GCC for ARM and an MBV2 cable from lik-sang.com and get hacking.
$article =~ s/become a Gameboy/become an XBox/; and it becomes more accurate.
Yes, now we can see if that was the embrace before the extend.
Sure, Microsoft will be able to embrace and extend Perl and Python, but because those programs are copylefted, Microsoft will have to release the source code to any modifications the company makes, preventing the third step (extinguish) from happening.
if the new laws that Bush and Ashcroft want, get passed, stuff in the public domain will be able to be re-copyrighted.
But that stuff fell out of copyright due to a technicality, not expiration; Congress is simply correcting the balance. No copyright is being enacted on works whose copyright has expired. The Uruguay Round treaty simply recognizes the same "limited" copyrights that other countries recognized.
The only thing Phillips could do is demand that the copyprotected CD's not carry the "CD" label.
And run smear ads against the RIAA labels accusing them of not producing CDs. (RIAA will attempt to sue Philips for libel, but in the US, the truth cannot constitute libel.) Make like the dairy industry: "If you want real CDs, look for the logo."
RIAA is an association of music distrubuters et al, they don't sell CDs.
Common Slashdot practice accepts "RIAA" as shorthand for "RIAA member labels" in appropriate contexts.
The irony of that would be that there'd be no new music left to trade since the over produced modern pop crap is always the most popular.
*NSHIT fans will just have to find new music such as independent punk or electro.
Patents last three and a half years after being granted but can renewed to 7 1/2 after grant, 11 1/2 after grant, and 20 after filing by paying maintenance fees.
Copyrights last 95 years unless you're a freelancer creating works on or after 1 Jan 1978, in which case they last life plus 70. (To renew a copyright for 20 years, simply stuff millions of dollars into the pockets of both parties in the United States and all major parties in the European Union.) Either way, they last additionally until December 31.
A registered trademark lasts five years. After that, the owner files an affidavit of continued use, which buys another five years; then the trademark can be renewed for ten years at a time until a court decides that the trademark has become too generic to maintain.
I assume you refer to the standard name of a Windows installer program. Those may become obsolete, as Microsoft and other vendors shift to.msi packages that use the Windows Installer.
All of previous human law is about to become terribly outdated and unable to deal with robots and cyborgs
At least this'll get Congress to reduce the copyright term from life + 70, as if "life" can be perpetual, a copyright term longer than "life" flies in the face of the "for limited times" limitation of the Copyright Clause even more than repeated copyright term extensions do.
If company A has exclusive distribution rights for area X and company B for area Y, then this should only affect the supply of to shops in areas X & Y.
If a consumer in area X finds that it is cheaper to purchase from area Y (paying postage charges, customs duty, import taxes etc)
Region lockout is possibly meant to segment the market such that an amount of money that would otherwise go to governments in the form of taxes instead goes straight to the studios.
And then there's the problem of quality control for a given title across NTSC, PAL, PAL-M (i.e. PAL at 60 Hz), and SECAM video systems.
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I thought so at first myself, but right now I am running "Luigi's Mansion" in a window
Well, I ran Super Mario 64 in a window... on a Macintosh Performa 6230 with a 75 MHz PowerPC processor. The N64 has a 93 MHz MIPS processor plus a 60 MHz Reality Coprocessor.
(All 6220s and 6230s had video input.)
Most college students don't need to play games why would they need ms windows?
"Games" don't need Windows. You can hook up a linker from lik-sang, copy all your Game Boy cartridges into your computer, and then run them on VisualBoyAdvance. You can also get the ROMs for many Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and Super NES games at pe2000 and edgeemu; pick up emulators at Zophar's Domain.
The answer: you go to the computer store and buy compatible hardware for FreeBSD
OK, so a fellow goes into Best Buy and looks for video card with a BSD daemon on the box. He doesn't find one.
Then he walks up to a salesperson in the department and asks "What's the best video card for a PC running FreeBSD?"
"What's FreeBSD?"
What if Win2k/XP doesn't support your sound/video card?
It's more likely that Windows will support a card than FreeBSD simply because many manufacturers consider the size of the market for devices that attach to FreeBSD workstations negligible compared to the size of the market for devices that attach to Windows workstations, and they spend driver development money accordingly.
you get a different card, or try something else.
Sometimes, there exists no acceptable different card. What if a company has an effective monopoly on a type of device (e.g. video cards designed for PCs) and refuses to release specs to developers of operating systems less popular than Windows?
why ... would anyone seriously want to run Windows as a server
Because server != production server, and a fellow often has valid reasons for running server software on a workstation. Some users like to share a small number of files from their workstations and need more flexibility than AIM and MSN provide. Others develop web sites using tools that run on Windows and prefer to test their designs initially on localhost. If FreeBSD doesn't support your network card, your video card, or your sound card, what are you supposed to run on your workstation?
Still other organizations have an exclusive contract with Microsoft for operating system software or hard-bummed bosses who won't take UNIX for an answer.
Organizations don't run web servers on workstations
Some organizations use their workstations as backup capacity for servers in case of a slashdotting or for large static files that demand very little CPU.
Too bad we can't moderate articles ... even I recognize this article as a troll.
Users can moderate articles, but not on a Slash site. Go to Kuro5hin or any other Scoop site and moderate as many submitted articles as you want.
--Pinocchio
I find their admin utilities to be absolutely frustrating, in that I often make a change, and then open up the panel later, and it's back to the "default" setting.
This is a common problem with preferences in many applications. You have to make sure that the application writes its preferences to disk, and many apps don't do this until you close the app. So much for five nines.
So, your code must produce the Nintendo logo when it starts? Why not just have that done by ROM then?
The code runs from the BIOS, but it reads the bit pattern from the cartridge, throws it up on the display, and then compares it to the stored copy in the BIOS. The Game Boy BIOS has done it this way since the GB Color. (The first GB BIOS, used in GB and GB pocket, contained a loophole: It read the cart once to throw the logo up, and then read it again when verifying the header. Some unlicensed carts would send all 0's to the logo-drawing code but then bankswitch in the logo before header verification; these carts do not work on GBC or GBA, both of which use the GBC BIOS.)
Why did nintendo do this? Any loose connection between the cart and the system shows a distorted logo, this system doubles as a way to detect whether something needs cleaning. It's also an attempt to force software houses whose lawyers haven't heard of Sega v. Accolade to become official licensed publishers.
Something that is completely documented via reverse engineering is NOT open...Fool!
Check your verb tense. "Something that is completely documented via reverse engineering" had been not open, but U.S. trade secret law states that once it's open, it's open forever, and any dissemination of the operations of the machine is free press. (This does not take into account copyrights on particular expressions of the operation of the machine or patents on making or selling such a machine.)
I checked my box of Total Annihilation. Copyright 1997. That means 4-5 years old
Five is less than ninety-five. A company that Infogrames bought created the code; therefore, <sarcasm>Infogrames deserves the right to it for ninety-five years, and the public benefits immensely from receiving the source code at the end of this copyright term</sarcasm>. If you disagree, do something about it: vote those eresponsible out of office.
Assuming that you're a United States citizen who voted in the 1996 elections, the representative and senators that you elected voted for the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. It was a voice vote, and nobody objected enough to demand even a mere head count. Next time, vote for leaders that won't take away Americans' right to a rich public domain. In the meantime, fax your representatives in whatever national government you happen to be under. To paraphrase U.S. President Bush, if you're not for copyright reform, you're against it.
I pay $30 a month for my cable modem ... I'd suggest you use an antenna.
Is the $30 because you get a discount for also subscribing to at least one premium channel? Some cable companies charge cable modem customers extra for line maintenance if they don't also subscribe to at least the most basic cable television programming package.
I think it is unfair to lambast AOL/TW for the AOL part and look past the benefits of the TW part.
"Benefits" including lobbying for the DMCA and the Bono Act?
since many copyrights are held by corporations, and corporations don't die, when does that expire?
Ninety-five years (plus Dec 31) is the current copyright term in the United States for works for hire.
My prediction is that, unless antitrust legislation in the U.S. gets some teeth between now and then, the PC will become a Gameboy within fifteen years. Enjoy computers while they last.
Game Boy is a bad example. The Game Boy Advance is an open system, fully documented to the point that anybody with GCC can write software and run it on the GBA without taking a vow of silence or paying the big N. The only things the GBA checks before running your code are 1. the very simple checksum on the header and 2. a bit pattern that produces the Nintendo logo but is legal to copy under the Sega v. Accolade precedent. So go get GCC for ARM and an MBV2 cable from lik-sang.com and get hacking.
$article =~ s/become a Gameboy/become an XBox/; and it becomes more accurate.
Now, let's add Windows...$99
full official version of Red Hat 7.2...$70. It's as easy to install as any version of Windows I've tried.
an office suite $150
Even a Windows office suite doesn't cost $150. You can get OpenOffice.org suite for only the cost of downloading 48 MB (three hours over a 56K modem).
anti-virus software, $59...
Don't overpay. Here's Norton AV 2002 for $20.
We've almost immediately doubled the price of the machine by merely adding functionality.
$55 for a radeon? Are they ... nuts?
Last time I checked, you could get a ATI Radeon video card starting at $39.
--"pine in gap" is NOT an innuendo
you're trusting everything2 for accurate data [on the Bono Act]?
You mean like this?
Yes. I'm trusting myself and my sources (which include the Library of Congress web site and Open Secrets) for accurate data.
Yes, now we can see if that was the embrace before the extend.
Sure, Microsoft will be able to embrace and extend Perl and Python, but because those programs are copylefted, Microsoft will have to release the source code to any modifications the company makes, preventing the third step (extinguish) from happening.
if the new laws that Bush and Ashcroft want, get passed, stuff in the public domain will be able to be re-copyrighted.
But that stuff fell out of copyright due to a technicality, not expiration; Congress is simply correcting the balance. No copyright is being enacted on works whose copyright has expired. The Uruguay Round treaty simply recognizes the same "limited" copyrights that other countries recognized.
The only thing Phillips could do is demand that the copyprotected CD's not carry the "CD" label.
And run smear ads against the RIAA labels accusing them of not producing CDs. (RIAA will attempt to sue Philips for libel, but in the US, the truth cannot constitute libel.) Make like the dairy industry: "If you want real CDs, look for the logo."
RIAA is an association of music distrubuters et al, they don't sell CDs.
Common Slashdot practice accepts "RIAA" as shorthand for "RIAA member labels" in appropriate contexts.
The irony of that would be that there'd be no new music left to trade since the over produced modern pop crap is always the most popular.
*NSHIT fans will just have to find new music such as independent punk or electro.
Can't patents be renewed
Patents last three and a half years after being granted but can renewed to 7 1/2 after grant, 11 1/2 after grant, and 20 after filing by paying maintenance fees.
Copyrights last 95 years unless you're a freelancer creating works on or after 1 Jan 1978, in which case they last life plus 70. (To renew a copyright for 20 years, simply stuff millions of dollars into the pockets of both parties in the United States and all major parties in the European Union.) Either way, they last additionally until December 31.
A registered trademark lasts five years. After that, the owner files an affidavit of continued use, which buys another five years; then the trademark can be renewed for ten years at a time until a court decides that the trademark has become too generic to maintain.
The one true package format: setup.exe
I assume you refer to the standard name of a Windows installer program. Those may become obsolete, as Microsoft and other vendors shift to .msi packages that use the Windows Installer.
All of previous human law is about to become terribly outdated and unable to deal with robots and cyborgs
At least this'll get Congress to reduce the copyright term from life + 70, as if "life" can be perpetual, a copyright term longer than "life" flies in the face of the "for limited times" limitation of the Copyright Clause even more than repeated copyright term extensions do.
If company A has exclusive distribution rights for area X and company B for area Y, then this should only affect the supply of to shops in areas X & Y.
What if the law of one of the areas does not recognize the right to resell genuinely produced copies?
If a consumer in area X finds that it is cheaper to purchase from area Y (paying postage charges, customs duty, import taxes etc)
Region lockout is possibly meant to segment the market such that an amount of money that would otherwise go to governments in the form of taxes instead goes straight to the studios.
And then there's the problem of quality control for a given title across NTSC, PAL, PAL-M (i.e. PAL at 60 Hz), and SECAM video systems.