Intel 8086 in the old XT is a 16-bit CPU. When I want to run 8-bit processes (read: NES games), I pull out LoopyNES on my Pentium laptop. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
With inexpensive ($2 ea) CDRW media, you can erase and rewrite the media. Good for development (it's like the EPROMs used in cartridge game development) but also good for piracy. Rent a game, burn it, play it for a month without paying late fees. Rent another game, burn it, play it for half a year. Also replace "rent" with "borrow from a friend". <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
The ConScript Registry is defining meanings for character codes in Unicode's private use area. Tengwar, Klingon, and several other scripts are represented. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
ISPs could advertise that "we fight for you." They could offer a "Colorado-based mail server" and an "experienced legal team" to customers, with a class action suit perhaps every three months. Time Warner (roadrunner, AOL) has the money for it. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
My senior project in high school was to clone the SameGame (aka ksame; Same GNOME). What resulted was Insane Game for Linux, DOS, and Windows. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
any more than Wine is an emulator. Programs execute in a native x86 environment directly on the processor; the "emulator" simply provides access to a different OS's ABI. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
Tetris is a registered trademark of The Tetris Company LLC. Slashdot once ran a story on one developer's legal problems, which have since been overcome, freeing me to create the ultimate clone and release it for Linux, DOS, and Win32 under GNU GPL: freepuzzlearena. I figured out how to add depth to Tetris without adding too much more complexity: gravity combos. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
Netscape Communicator is to Mozilla as Navigator is to the Galeon browser. Galeon is a stripped down Gecko-based browser for GNOME, without WYSIWYG HTML editing and mail, news, and AIM clients. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
I'm a ROM developer. Before you insult, look at my NES work: GNOME vs. KDE is a GPL'd game; Who's Cuter? is what you get when you cross Precious Moments with a Rorschach inkblot. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
Fonts are copyrighted as computer programs. The glyph shapes themselves are uncopyrightable (the longest English word that doesn't repeat a letter). <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
any old joe can encode using... low bit rate blade/lame... but if I can get Frau. encoded mp3's
Remember, the LAME encoder is thought to be as good as Fraunhofer's and it's Free (but may be illegal because certain necessary and irreplaceable algorithms for creating MP3 data are patented).
Short: It's legal. The use of the bit pattern that produces the name Nintendo is termed "fair use." Long story:
Search google.com for [Sega trademark security system lawsuit ] to read about a test case for requiring certain IP to be in every ROM. The court ruled Accolade was not liable, as Sega's technique attempted to bring copyrights to the scope of patents.
C:\>mount ata primary master partition 2 as L: ATA primary master partition 2 is formatted as extended-2 filesystem. This version of Windows cannot read this filesystem type. However, Windows 2001 can. Credit card number? visa>_ <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
For example, creating something as simple as a calculator was a monumental feat because every variable was called "IT" so "put IT into clipboard" could be seen all over the place.
Before I found QBasic, I was writing HyperCard games. HyperTalk didn't call all variables it. The variable it was one of two global variables that held the result of some functions that were declared as procedures (this was a common pascal practice back when functions were thought of as having NO side effects). (The other was named theresult (yes, it did have a space). There were shortcuts to put variable contents into it and the result: get foo = put foo into it or in C, it = foo. return foo = put foo into theresult or in C, the_result = foo.
That would only move files with a dot in the name.
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In long filename systems (Windows 9x, Windows NT), the pattern a*.* would match advantage_cheat.exe and aspirin.html but it would miss authors because it doesn't match the pattern of "a, 0 or more characters, dot, 0 or more characters". a*.* was necessary in old DOS because the * refused to match dots. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
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Intel 8086 in the old XT is a 16-bit CPU. When I want to run 8-bit processes (read: NES games), I pull out LoopyNES on my Pentium laptop.
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Look ^^^ up ^^^ a few comments to #73.
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There is an NES game floating around that pits a GNOME mascot against a KDE mascot in a vicious game of Bingo.
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You now have an IP address with which to do what you will: spamming, DDoS/SlashDoS, etc.
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With inexpensive ($2 ea) CDRW media, you can erase and rewrite the media. Good for development (it's like the EPROMs used in cartridge game development) but also good for piracy. Rent a game, burn it, play it for a month without paying late fees. Rent another game, burn it, play it for half a year. Also replace "rent" with "borrow from a friend".
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The ConScript Registry is defining meanings for character codes in Unicode's private use area. Tengwar, Klingon, and several other scripts are represented.
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ISPs could advertise that "we fight for you." They could offer a "Colorado-based mail server" and an "experienced legal team" to customers, with a class action suit perhaps every three months. Time Warner (roadrunner, AOL) has the money for it.
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My senior project in high school was to clone the SameGame (aka ksame; Same GNOME). What resulted was Insane Game for Linux, DOS, and Windows.
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I wrote an NES game that pits a GNOME mascot against a KDE mascot. Play it then tell me what you think.
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here i whore
google.com:"burn all gifs" | gnu.org:"Why no GIFs" | programming-freedom.org:"GIF Controversy" | google:"league no gifs" | libPNG.org:"PNG Home Site"
here i bird
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Microsoft QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System; no, really) is dead (Win2k; Whistler). Lineo and the free software community make two DOS operating systems now. IBM also makes its own PC DOS 2000.
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any more than Wine is an emulator. Programs execute in a native x86 environment directly on the processor; the "emulator" simply provides access to a different OS's ABI.
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freepuzzlearena for GNU/Linux, DOS, and Windows is the premier open-source Tetris clone for PC.
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Tetris is a registered trademark of The Tetris Company LLC. Slashdot once ran a story on one developer's legal problems, which have since been overcome, freeing me to create the ultimate clone and release it for Linux, DOS, and Win32 under GNU GPL: freepuzzlearena. I figured out how to add depth to Tetris without adding too much more complexity: gravity combos.
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Many news portals don't bother to update their news at all.
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Netscape Communicator is to Mozilla as Navigator is to the Galeon browser. Galeon is a stripped down Gecko-based browser for GNOME, without WYSIWYG HTML editing and mail, news, and AIM clients.
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It would be trivial for Napster to prevent transferring illegally stolen music: simply prevent transferring any file with a valid MP3 header.
It would be even more trivial to break this.
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I'm a ROM developer. Before you insult, look at my NES work: GNOME vs. KDE is a GPL'd game; Who's Cuter? is what you get when you cross Precious Moments with a Rorschach inkblot.
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Fonts are copyrighted as computer programs. The glyph shapes themselves are uncopyrightable (the longest English word that doesn't repeat a letter).
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Mozilla is short for "Mosaic killer." Mosaic was forked into IE (no less).
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any old joe can encode using ... low bit rate blade/lame ... but if I can get Frau. encoded mp3's
Remember, the LAME encoder is thought to be as good as Fraunhofer's and it's Free (but may be illegal because certain necessary and irreplaceable algorithms for creating MP3 data are patented).
<O
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XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
Short: It's legal. The use of the bit pattern that produces the name Nintendo is termed "fair use."
Long story:
Search google.com for
[Sega trademark security system lawsuit ]
to read about a test case for requiring certain IP to be in every ROM. The court ruled Accolade was not liable, as Sega's technique attempted to bring copyrights to the scope of patents.
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C:\>mount ata primary master partition 2 as L:
ATA primary master partition 2 is formatted as extended-2
filesystem. This version of Windows cannot read this filesystem
type. However, Windows 2001 can. Credit card number?
visa>_
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For example, creating something as simple as a calculator was a monumental feat because every variable was called "IT" so "put IT into clipboard" could be seen all over the place.
Before I found QBasic, I was writing HyperCard games. HyperTalk didn't call all variables it. The variable it was one of two global variables that held the result of some functions that were declared as procedures (this was a common pascal practice back when functions were thought of as having NO side effects). (The other was named theresult (yes, it did have a space). There were shortcuts to put variable contents into it and the result: get foo = put foo into it or in C, it = foo. return foo = put foo into theresult or in C, the_result = foo.
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XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
In long filename systems (Windows 9x, Windows NT), the pattern a*.* would match advantage_cheat.exe and aspirin.html but it would miss authors because it doesn't match the pattern of "a, 0 or more characters, dot, 0 or more characters". a*.* was necessary in old DOS because the * refused to match dots.
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