In fact, it will become federal LAW that you MUST prostitute yourself
I recognize an attempt at a joke, but...
Not gonna happen. The United States had a little tiff about involuntary servitude back in 1865, resulting in a couple amendments to its constitution, one of which allows "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude" on United States soil.
MSNBC, on the other hand, is the only major American cable news outlet not affiliated with an MPAA member. Microsoft could even spin the story to push Windows Media over DVD as a "stronger digital restriction solution".
I'd love to be able to pick up an occasional movie "rental" when I stop for gas or groceries, without having to worry about returning it by such-and-such a date.
That is, unless your grocery store is next door to a video store that offers 7-day rentals.
So we encode other protocols for a replacement to work on port 80. Regular http would be rejected.
So then they put a caching proxy in the way that rejects anything but RFC-conforming HTTP. And you can't tunnel through HTTP because all incoming ports are blocked, and tunnels don't work from one firewalled computer to another firewalled computer.
Does the GB Player allow for GC/GB connectivity? For example, if I have Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Advance, can I transfer my Chao (tamagotchi raisable thingy) from a GB cartridge to the Gamecube game and vice-versa?
Future versions of these games will be able to access the Game Boy Player hardware, just as they accessed the Transfer Pak back on the N64. For now, you can link a GCN with a game to a GCN with a GB Player.
but I guess someone could write software to create four separate GBA sessions on a single GC
No. It's not emulated. There is only one piece of GBA hardware in the GB Player accessory.
The proper way to run four-player Mario Kart Super Circuit on TVs is LAN-party style. Get four TVs, four GameCube systems and four GB Player accessories (or four GCN/GB Player bundles), four copies of the game (most games artificially limit what is available with one cartridge), and a 4-player link cable. Then connect the link cable to each GB Player, making sure the short plug is in the GB Player that starts the game.
How do I know this? Anybody who reads Nintendo Power can be as knowledgeable about Nintendo's plans as alleged troll Dr. Samir Gupta claims to be.
The Game Boy Player, like any other GBA compatible hardware, does not support the original GB/GBC carts' analog sound connector. Thus Pocket Music for Game Boy Color won't run.
The Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Color, and GBA don't have the original (large) Game Link connector. The Workboy PDA conversion kit requires this connector.
How long before someone finds a way to use them as cheap ROM dumpers?
They already are. Just connect any GBA, GBA SP (with the light turned off; otherwise you get power issues), or GCN Game Boy Player to a PC with the MBV2 cable (which Nintendo still lets Lik Sang sell even after the lawsuit), and then exercise your Betamax fair use right with mb -1 file.gba -w 300. (Not available in Australia, whose copyright laws consider fair use a much narrower exception.)
How would you propose to route radio signals without line-of-sight? And because the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that the First Amendment's protection on freedom of speech does not strictly apply to radio communication, what's to stop the FCC from banning wireless ISP services offered to the public without a license?
private leased lines
Crossing whose real property?
This time, we own it.
Until "we" become the target of a hostile takeover.
Open Zaurus still has a long way to go before it can be used by the masses, telling people to use it at its current state is just dishonest and makes open source look bad in general.
Likewise, popular desktop GNU/Linux distributions still have a long way to go before it can be used by the masses, telling people to use it at its current state is just dishonest and makes open source look bad in general.
you can't open a PC CDROM drive while the PC is turned off...
Xbox neither. If I remember correctly (I own only a GameCube), the Xbox console's power-on button opens the drive door. Quite a few home stereos are like that as well.
The point, IMHO, is to run it on a machine without an HDD.
So are you requiring each player to have a USB keychain to save his or her progress in the game? Or will you require players in a game to have a network connection and save their progress to a server that does have a HD?
I dont think the gameboy really cares what it runs.
I know it doesn't care; all it needs is the header. However, the way to get code running on this device may be different from the way to get code running through the more common interfaces (flash cartridge or multiboot). Though the BIOS of the Game Boy Advance itself does not require a cryptographic signature, the BIOS of this device might.
OT? Perhaps let me reword the question more clearly:
Will it be possible for a purchaser of this device to write a computer program designed for the GBA platform and then use this device to run said program on a GBA system without having the specific program approved by Nintendo or by the manufacturer of this device?
"new" patents get "filing + 20" (plus "injury time" if the PTO takes over 3 years to process the patent)
Plus up to five years more "injury time" if the Food and Drug Administration or another federal regulator takes too long to approve an invention for marketing to the public.
No where does it say that a "real" i686 must have cmov, the compiler should check for cmov before using it.
The cmov instruction is used in tight loops. Would you really want to branch around cmov at run time based on the cpuid? It'd completely defeat the purpose of cmov. I say define "i686" as an ia-32 CPU with cmov and leave it at that.
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Why give a Subject: line textbox that won't let me use all of it?
Because your browser is using a proportional font. Would you want the box to resize, triggering a reflow, every time you type a character? Even with the user-code performance improvements of the GCC 3.x series, the median user would still get lag.
you can't argue that the os overhead would be over 400mb's
On my machine, Windows 2000 Professional takes up at least 128 MB with no apps running and everything non-essential closed out of the tray. I've read reports that XP takes even more.
or that theres some optimization magic whizzbang that just makes storing textures and models on xbox extra easy because it's a 'console'
Though the Xbox has only 64 MB of RAM and the CPU and GPU share RAM (as on the Apple II and C=64), textures on the Xbox take up 1/4 of the memory they would on a PC because they're half as big in each direction because while most PC games are designed to run in 1024x768 pixels or thereabouts, an NTSC television set has a resolution closer to 640x480 pixels.
In addition, because all Xbox consoles come with the rough equivalent of a GeForce 3 GPU, developers don't have to still target the TNT2, and they can implement texture compression in a pixel shader. (The GameCube also has texture compression, but the PS2's graphics suffer because it has none.)
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In fact, it will become federal LAW that you MUST prostitute yourself
I recognize an attempt at a joke, but...
Not gonna happen. The United States had a little tiff about involuntary servitude back in 1865, resulting in a couple amendments to its constitution, one of which allows "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude" on United States soil.
And all it would take is for someone major like FOX News to do a story
You'd be more likely to get a coverup than a story out of Fox "We distort, you comply" News because Fox News's parent company owns a major American movie studio.
MSNBC, on the other hand, is the only major American cable news outlet not affiliated with an MPAA member. Microsoft could even spin the story to push Windows Media over DVD as a "stronger digital restriction solution".
I'd love to be able to pick up an occasional movie "rental" when I stop for gas or groceries, without having to worry about returning it by such-and-such a date.
That is, unless your grocery store is next door to a video store that offers 7-day rentals.
So we encode other protocols for a replacement to work on port 80. Regular http would be rejected.
So then they put a caching proxy in the way that rejects anything but RFC-conforming HTTP. And you can't tunnel through HTTP because all incoming ports are blocked, and tunnels don't work from one firewalled computer to another firewalled computer.
Does the GB Player allow for GC/GB connectivity? For example, if I have Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Advance, can I transfer my Chao (tamagotchi raisable thingy) from a GB cartridge to the Gamecube game and vice-versa?
Future versions of these games will be able to access the Game Boy Player hardware, just as they accessed the Transfer Pak back on the N64. For now, you can link a GCN with a game to a GCN with a GB Player.
How will [GBC tilt games] translate to the GameCube adapter?
Poorly.
That is, unless Nintendo adds a function to the driver disc that emulates the tilt sensor's signals using the C stick.
but I guess someone could write software to create four separate GBA sessions on a single GC
No. It's not emulated. There is only one piece of GBA hardware in the GB Player accessory.
The proper way to run four-player Mario Kart Super Circuit on TVs is LAN-party style. Get four TVs, four GameCube systems and four GB Player accessories (or four GCN/GB Player bundles), four copies of the game (most games artificially limit what is available with one cartridge), and a 4-player link cable. Then connect the link cable to each GB Player, making sure the short plug is in the GB Player that starts the game.
How do I know this? Anybody who reads Nintendo Power can be as knowledgeable about Nintendo's plans as alleged troll Dr. Samir Gupta claims to be.
The Game Boy Player, like any other GBA compatible hardware, does not support the original GB/GBC carts' analog sound connector. Thus Pocket Music for Game Boy Color won't run.
The Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Color, and GBA don't have the original (large) Game Link connector. The Workboy PDA conversion kit requires this connector.
How long before someone finds a way to use them as cheap ROM dumpers?
They already are. Just connect any GBA, GBA SP (with the light turned off; otherwise you get power issues), or GCN Game Boy Player to a PC with the MBV2 cable (which Nintendo still lets Lik Sang sell even after the lawsuit), and then exercise your Betamax fair use right with mb -1 file.gba -w 300. (Not available in Australia, whose copyright laws consider fair use a much narrower exception.)
Publicly available spectrum
How would you propose to route radio signals without line-of-sight? And because the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that the First Amendment's protection on freedom of speech does not strictly apply to radio communication, what's to stop the FCC from banning wireless ISP services offered to the public without a license?
private leased lines
Crossing whose real property?
This time, we own it.
Until "we" become the target of a hostile takeover.
When http and port 80 become nothing but a vast marketing wasteland, we can make something new.
And what makes you think residential ISPs won't become WSPs (Web service providers), charging extra for access to ports other than 80 and 443?
Open Zaurus still has a long way to go before it can be used by the masses, telling people to use it at its current state is just dishonest and makes open source look bad in general.
Likewise, popular desktop GNU/Linux distributions still have a long way to go before it can be used by the masses, telling people to use it at its current state is just dishonest and makes open source look bad in general.
How is it any different?
you can't open a PC CDROM drive while the PC is turned off...
Xbox neither. If I remember correctly (I own only a GameCube), the Xbox console's power-on button opens the drive door. Quite a few home stereos are like that as well.
The point, IMHO, is to run it on a machine without an HDD.
So are you requiring each player to have a USB keychain to save his or her progress in the game? Or will you require players in a game to have a network connection and save their progress to a server that does have a HD?
most people refered back to the classic accoladeVSsega case. (or was it acclaim?).
Read the opinion here: Sega v. Accolade
I dont think the gameboy really cares what it runs.
I know it doesn't care; all it needs is the header. However, the way to get code running on this device may be different from the way to get code running through the more common interfaces (flash cartridge or multiboot). Though the BIOS of the Game Boy Advance itself does not require a cryptographic signature, the BIOS of this device might.
OT? Perhaps let me reword the question more clearly:
Will it be possible for a purchaser of this device to write a computer program designed for the GBA platform and then use this device to run said program on a GBA system without having the specific program approved by Nintendo or by the manufacturer of this device?
When we buy a CD or a DVD what exactly are we buying ?
??AA response: You're buying rights to view/listen or a piece of plastic, whichever dies first.
Will this device allow unsigned code to run on the Game Boy Advance system?
Pirates! still remains the ultimate pirate game.
As a pirate game, is Pirates! more fun than KaZaA?
Would you like to:
- purchase Pirates when it comes out?
- do nothing?
- pirate it?
"new" patents get "filing + 20" (plus "injury time" if the PTO takes over 3 years to process the patent)
Plus up to five years more "injury time" if the Food and Drug Administration or another federal regulator takes too long to approve an invention for marketing to the public.
No where does it say that a "real" i686 must have cmov, the compiler should check for cmov before using it.
The cmov instruction is used in tight loops. Would you really want to branch around cmov at run time based on the cpuid? It'd completely defeat the purpose of cmov. I say define "i686" as an ia-32 CPU with cmov and leave it at that.
Why give a Subject: line textbox that won't let me use all of it?
Because your browser is using a proportional font. Would you want the box to resize, triggering a reflow, every time you type a character? Even with the user-code performance improvements of the GCC 3.x series, the median user would still get lag.
you can't argue that the os overhead would be over 400mb's
On my machine, Windows 2000 Professional takes up at least 128 MB with no apps running and everything non-essential closed out of the tray. I've read reports that XP takes even more.
or that theres some optimization magic whizzbang that just makes storing textures and models on xbox extra easy because it's a 'console'
Though the Xbox has only 64 MB of RAM and the CPU and GPU share RAM (as on the Apple II and C=64), textures on the Xbox take up 1/4 of the memory they would on a PC because they're half as big in each direction because while most PC games are designed to run in 1024x768 pixels or thereabouts, an NTSC television set has a resolution closer to 640x480 pixels.
In addition, because all Xbox consoles come with the rough equivalent of a GeForce 3 GPU, developers don't have to still target the TNT2, and they can implement texture compression in a pixel shader. (The GameCube also has texture compression, but the PS2's graphics suffer because it has none.)