No, but you are required to be in actual possession of at least a binary copy before you gain any rights under the GPL. If you can't find someone that will just give you a copy out of the goodness of their hearts, you might well have to pay for it.
Simple solution: Rearrange one or more GPU constant maps (register IDs, video modes, ?) based on the state of the trust chain, and have the firmware and OS capable of operating in either state. This should be easy to do in silicon. Any decent commercial game will end up with those values hardcoded all over the engine and would require extensive patching to correct for it. When authoring, just set a compiler flag to choose which map to use. So homebrew stays homebrew in untrusted space but with full hardware access, and commercial games stay commercial in trusted space.
Hmm, I've got mod points but I can't find the -1, Wrong entry on the menu. So I'll just point out here that you're wrong. The internet has not magically caused everyone to use your particular dialect of English.
We've taken this route as well. It's not worth the hassle (much less being treated like a criminal) and we've discovered that a lot of the country is really pretty to drive through. I do hope that someday this all gets fixed, but my vote's always been an outlier and I don't expect that to change. I'll charter a flight or drive, and since I can't afford a chartered flight I'm paying for gas and auto maintenance instead of airline tickets.
Sheesh. Dude, I'm not pulling random text out of the ass-end of the Internet and parroting it (are you projecting maybe?). I was a 3D engine programming lead at Midway for years. One of the platforms I did way too much work on was the PS2. I can assure you from a combination of personal experience and Sony's developer docs for the CPU and its associated hardware that the PS2 is, in actual fact, a 128-bit system in pretty much every way you might want to approach it - register width, bus width, instruction support and the function of various arithmetic and vector units.
The PS2 was a 128-bit machine. The main CPU had a nice selection of SIMD opcodes, and you could use most of VPU0 via inline coprocessor instructions. It was almost as awesome as it was complex and cumbersome to code for.
That depends on what you mean by "running fine." There's a major difference between "this works well enough we could charge a couple bucks for the app" and "this works well enough we're going to hype up the next version of our flagship hardware with it."
Was the ZX-81 the same as the TS-1000, or was it the same as the one that came after?
The TS1000 had a slightly different motherboard, with an NTSC RF modulator and twice the RAM (2K!) built in. If I remember correctly, you couldn't get TS1000 kits either.
I can't speak for Atilla there, but my answer would be that the folks who are exaggerating the problem are much more damaging to any hope of an appropriate solution than the folks in complete denial. After I watched that pile of mealy-mouthed self-serving propaganda, I came away convinced that global warming was a money grubbing con job, and I took a lot of my friends and family with me. It took years and the perusal of mountains of data from people without (I hope) any direct or indirect financial incentive in the matter to convince me that something might actually be going on. And I'm still not entirely convinced. Because Al Gore is an asshat.
Why? Most of those are all fairly obvious abstractions of stuff that goes on around us all the time. Calculus is a bit more abstract and less obvious, but is still pretty well grounded in the world as we all experience it. With so many fantastic tutorials available online to help him learn how other people have labeled those relationships, it's believable that a kid with a better pattern-matching engine than anyone else's could just pick it up.
Recording where there are signs conspicuously placed warning you not to record erodes some "fair use" claims.
Citation needed.
The context of a recording usually has nothing to do with the validity of copyright infringement claims brought by a copyright owner against the person making the recording. Moreover, the issue at hand has nothing to do with copyright at all - the girl is being charged with criminal use of a motion picture exhibition, a felony that is entirely independent of copyright law.
Please explain, with supporting references, why this might be a good thing and how it compares and contrasts with other innovations in modern education.
'Cause I'm interested but can't be bothered to figure it out myself.
I actually really like the dextromethorphan/guaifenesin combo. I used to get really nasty colds a few times each year, (they stopped about the same time I stopped smoking - suspicious, that) and found that neither alone was as effective. Guaifenesin alone would help clear out the gunk, but I'd be miserable with recurring bouts of dry hacking, and dextromethorphan alone would stop the wild coughing but leave me with half-full lungs.
With the combination, I would - at least sometimes - end up just coughing enough to clear things out.
Do you think philosophical and scientific advancement would be possible if we were all required to be able to grow our own food / make our own clothes / build our own houses / etc? ... For that matter, if we all needed to understand the technology we use daily, do you think we'd have time left over for new developments?
Well, it would certainly be happening more slowly. But having no understanding of these things seems dangerous to me.
For example, how can a democracy (excuse me, republic) work when an understanding of the issues is beyond the capacity (at least the realized capacity) of the voters? This is happening now - macroeconomics is so far beyond the "common man's" touch that the U.S. government has essentially a free hand. Making no comment whatsoever on whether they're doing the right thing, it scares me that most people aren't even equipped to tell one way or the other. There are similar issues with copyright law, health care, network infrastructure, international trade, and more.
Without even a little bit of knowledge, you become reliant on the opinions of others to make critical decisions. And these days, those "others" are probably going to be folks with impressive titles who were chosen by [insert media conglomerate/government agency here] to present their desired outcome as though it were scientific fact.
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No, but you are required to be in actual possession of at least a binary copy before you gain any rights under the GPL. If you can't find someone that will just give you a copy out of the goodness of their hearts, you might well have to pay for it.
That got modded flamebait? Really??? Hey moderators: WHOOSH!
Wow. It's rare that you can actually see sarcasm dipping from a comment.
Simple solution: Rearrange one or more GPU constant maps (register IDs, video modes, ?) based on the state of the trust chain, and have the firmware and OS capable of operating in either state. This should be easy to do in silicon. Any decent commercial game will end up with those values hardcoded all over the engine and would require extensive patching to correct for it. When authoring, just set a compiler flag to choose which map to use. So homebrew stays homebrew in untrusted space but with full hardware access, and commercial games stay commercial in trusted space.
Thou'rt a-prick with grammar.
These were Japanese fullsets, so BFD isn't "missing", it's just not relevant.
More like: "Since some people don't respect themselves, law enforcement can't be bothered to respect anyone."
Sounds like a crock to me.
Hmm, I've got mod points but I can't find the -1, Wrong entry on the menu. So I'll just point out here that you're wrong. The internet has not magically caused everyone to use your particular dialect of English.
We've taken this route as well. It's not worth the hassle (much less being treated like a criminal) and we've discovered that a lot of the country is really pretty to drive through. I do hope that someday this all gets fixed, but my vote's always been an outlier and I don't expect that to change. I'll charter a flight or drive, and since I can't afford a chartered flight I'm paying for gas and auto maintenance instead of airline tickets.
Sheesh. Dude, I'm not pulling random text out of the ass-end of the Internet and parroting it (are you projecting maybe?). I was a 3D engine programming lead at Midway for years. One of the platforms I did way too much work on was the PS2. I can assure you from a combination of personal experience and Sony's developer docs for the CPU and its associated hardware that the PS2 is, in actual fact, a 128-bit system in pretty much every way you might want to approach it - register width, bus width, instruction support and the function of various arithmetic and vector units.
The PS2 was a 128-bit machine. The main CPU had a nice selection of SIMD opcodes, and you could use most of VPU0 via inline coprocessor instructions. It was almost as awesome as it was complex and cumbersome to code for.
That depends on what you mean by "running fine." There's a major difference between "this works well enough we could charge a couple bucks for the app" and "this works well enough we're going to hype up the next version of our flagship hardware with it."
Was the ZX-81 the same as the TS-1000, or was it the same as the one that came after?
The TS1000 had a slightly different motherboard, with an NTSC RF modulator and twice the RAM (2K!) built in. If I remember correctly, you couldn't get TS1000 kits either.
I can't speak for Atilla there, but my answer would be that the folks who are exaggerating the problem are much more damaging to any hope of an appropriate solution than the folks in complete denial. After I watched that pile of mealy-mouthed self-serving propaganda, I came away convinced that global warming was a money grubbing con job, and I took a lot of my friends and family with me. It took years and the perusal of mountains of data from people without (I hope) any direct or indirect financial incentive in the matter to convince me that something might actually be going on. And I'm still not entirely convinced. Because Al Gore is an asshat.
That's why.
Not as odoriferous as Uranus.
retrofitting a tricycle to make it supersonic.
I like your ideas. Do you have a newsletter I could subscribe to?
Why? Most of those are all fairly obvious abstractions of stuff that goes on around us all the time. Calculus is a bit more abstract and less obvious, but is still pretty well grounded in the world as we all experience it. With so many fantastic tutorials available online to help him learn how other people have labeled those relationships, it's believable that a kid with a better pattern-matching engine than anyone else's could just pick it up.
Scary as all hell, but believable.
They've learned that fear can be converted directly into money, by way of voters. Who do you think is going to be selling you that coal?
Recording where there are signs conspicuously placed warning you not to record erodes some "fair use" claims.
Citation needed.
The context of a recording usually has nothing to do with the validity of copyright infringement claims brought by a copyright owner against the person making the recording. Moreover, the issue at hand has nothing to do with copyright at all - the girl is being charged with criminal use of a motion picture exhibition, a felony that is entirely independent of copyright law.
Please explain, with supporting references, why this might be a good thing and how it compares and contrasts with other innovations in modern education.
'Cause I'm interested but can't be bothered to figure it out myself.
I actually really like the dextromethorphan/guaifenesin combo. I used to get really nasty colds a few times each year, (they stopped about the same time I stopped smoking - suspicious, that) and found that neither alone was as effective. Guaifenesin alone would help clear out the gunk, but I'd be miserable with recurring bouts of dry hacking, and dextromethorphan alone would stop the wild coughing but leave me with half-full lungs.
With the combination, I would - at least sometimes - end up just coughing enough to clear things out.
Then maybe they can ask the nice wolves down the street to look after our hens while we're on that vacation.
should have rang
*twitch*
Actually, I've done all of those things. TVs are almost impossible to fix without specialized tools and OEM parts these days, though. It sucks.
Do you think philosophical and scientific advancement would be possible if we were all required to be able to grow our own food / make our own clothes / build our own houses / etc?
...
For that matter, if we all needed to understand the technology we use daily, do you think we'd have time left over for new developments?
Well, it would certainly be happening more slowly. But having no understanding of these things seems dangerous to me.
For example, how can a democracy (excuse me, republic) work when an understanding of the issues is beyond the capacity (at least the realized capacity) of the voters? This is happening now - macroeconomics is so far beyond the "common man's" touch that the U.S. government has essentially a free hand. Making no comment whatsoever on whether they're doing the right thing, it scares me that most people aren't even equipped to tell one way or the other. There are similar issues with copyright law, health care, network infrastructure, international trade, and more.
Without even a little bit of knowledge, you become reliant on the opinions of others to make critical decisions. And these days, those "others" are probably going to be folks with impressive titles who were chosen by [insert media conglomerate/government agency here] to present their desired outcome as though it were scientific fact.