Well, record collectors have the luxury of not having to worry about imperfect emulation.
I just replaced my broken NES, and have it alongside an SNES, Sega Master System,a Playstation 2 (For Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, and Mega Man), and a Game Boy Advance. Being able to have everything plugged into the television with one pair of wires, and plugged into the outlet with one cord, would be VERY convenient for me.
I handle the controller mess now by putting away the ones I'm not using, but there's no getting around the RCA jack and outlet headaches.
Sure, it'd be nice to have perfect emulation, but at present it's more likely that a picky fan of the old games can simply buy replacement consoles and games if they break, than to read the NES-related patents, reverse engineer what's not documented, then write a perfect emulator.
Worse, that would have to be re-done for every console in the unit. Don't forget that the unit in the article has more than the NES and SNES.
Er, so you're saying that "indie" has been co-opted by a bunch of arrogant RIAA thralls to mean somethign entirely different from its obvious meaning: a musician or group working INDEPENDENTLY, not for some company.
The music companies have always been good at this, I guess: manufacturing rebellion and selling it to the weak minded.
There's no deception. The readership loves this stuff. Why do you think they whine so much about the awesome power of the MPAA and RIAA? The Slashdot readership is under their spell.
The big corporation would be Sun. Back in the day, so many slashdot posters were saying KDE is dead because it doesn't have backing of someone like Sun.
What market, by the way? To my knowledge, KDE and GNOME give everything away. There is no economic transaction involved.
I reported it 9 months ago. After waiting a good 6 months and getting no word back, let alone seeing a fix, I just added a hack.
And yes, I imagine it would take one line of code to treat application/xhtml+xml the way text/html is treated, but clearly they just don't feel like it.
Yes, and that's why at the summit this week the linux-kernel crowd finally admitted they're not even going to care about stability anymore. If you want something that works you have to go to Red Hat or SuSE or somebody.
Who says hiring them would stop them? Most of KDE's work was done by people playing around on nights and weekends.
(That's of course why so many ex-MS customers prefer GNOME -- they prefer something backed by a big corporation -- but that's another matter)
Microsoft would try some special employment contracts, I'm sure, but it'd take a lot of money to hire up every KDE contributor for enough money to buy their loyalty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, just to see new contributors spring up to replace them.
Buyouts only work for corporate competitors, not communities.
Let's see what the MS apologists have to say about that. If their browser is so great, why can't they handle docs that use the W3C-recommended mime-type?
Of course, I'd like to see what the people who call Google a great, loving, standards-obeying company would say to the fact that Google can't handle application/xhtml+xml either?
Before I added a special-case hack to send my pages go Google as text/html (thus violating the W3C mime-type recommendation), Google would not read the content of my pages, and would offer to show an "HTML version" of my XHTML which was actually blank.
Or forget New York... have you noticed what percentage of the frauds take place in the USA?
(Think for a minute: NY is what, either the second or third most populous state. It is expected that NY would have more frauds than, say, Rhode Island)
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People who like how their old records sound are capable of making lossless copies, though. "mp3" is a red herring.
Well, record collectors have the luxury of not having to worry about imperfect emulation.
I just replaced my broken NES, and have it alongside an SNES, Sega Master System,a Playstation 2 (For Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, and Mega Man), and a Game Boy Advance. Being able to have everything plugged into the television with one pair of wires, and plugged into the outlet with one cord, would be VERY convenient for me.
I handle the controller mess now by putting away the ones I'm not using, but there's no getting around the RCA jack and outlet headaches.
Sure, it'd be nice to have perfect emulation, but at present it's more likely that a picky fan of the old games can simply buy replacement consoles and games if they break, than to read the NES-related patents, reverse engineer what's not documented, then write a perfect emulator.
Worse, that would have to be re-done for every console in the unit. Don't forget that the unit in the article has more than the NES and SNES.
zsnes and snes9x are playable, but the graphics and sound aren't perfect.
Yes, it matters if you're one who really appreciate the graphics and sound of the games.
It's rare that an emulator even gets the sound and picture right for the NES! XMESS isn't close yet, for example.
Plus, you can't even accurately emulate all the games.
1. Emulation doesn't get you the original controllers
2. Emulation doesn't get you your saves on your real cartridges
3. Emulators of many systems only gets the games playable. It doesn't get you perfect sound and picture of the original.
Er, so you're saying that "indie" has been co-opted by a bunch of arrogant RIAA thralls to mean somethign entirely different from its obvious meaning: a musician or group working INDEPENDENTLY, not for some company.
The music companies have always been good at this, I guess: manufacturing rebellion and selling it to the weak minded.
OK, you linked to your kernel (for now... those guys are giving up on making stable releases for users as of this week). But what OS are you running?
You left out a word, which I include here in caps: "...that's to make sure PROPRIETARY libs and apps work everywhere."
There's no deception. The readership loves this stuff. Why do you think they whine so much about the awesome power of the MPAA and RIAA? The Slashdot readership is under their spell.
Yes, what takes place in the movie is the revenge.
The title doesn't say "Attack of the Jedi," it says "Revenge of the Sith." The Sith now, in Episode III, complete their revenge on the Jedi.
People who want something they know works.
Cute lie of a nickname by the way.
The big corporation would be Sun. Back in the day, so many slashdot posters were saying KDE is dead because it doesn't have backing of someone like Sun.
What market, by the way? To my knowledge, KDE and GNOME give everything away. There is no economic transaction involved.
I reported it 9 months ago. After waiting a good 6 months and getting no word back, let alone seeing a fix, I just added a hack.
And yes, I imagine it would take one line of code to treat application/xhtml+xml the way text/html is treated, but clearly they just don't feel like it.
Yes, and that's why at the summit this week the linux-kernel crowd finally admitted they're not even going to care about stability anymore. If you want something that works you have to go to Red Hat or SuSE or somebody.
Yeah, Debian only stays a year or two out of date, while the developers fight harder about their copyrights than Microsoft's lawyers do.
Who says hiring them would stop them? Most of KDE's work was done by people playing around on nights and weekends.
(That's of course why so many ex-MS customers prefer GNOME -- they prefer something backed by a big corporation -- but that's another matter)
Microsoft would try some special employment contracts, I'm sure, but it'd take a lot of money to hire up every KDE contributor for enough money to buy their loyalty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, just to see new contributors spring up to replace them.
Buyouts only work for corporate competitors, not communities.
Let's see what the MS apologists have to say about that. If their browser is so great, why can't they handle docs that use the W3C-recommended mime-type?
Of course, I'd like to see what the people who call Google a great, loving, standards-obeying company would say to the fact that Google can't handle application/xhtml+xml either?
Before I added a special-case hack to send my pages go Google as text/html (thus violating the W3C mime-type recommendation), Google would not read the content of my pages, and would offer to show an "HTML version" of my XHTML which was actually blank.
Excuuuse me for mixing up the various tentacles of the beast. Fine, we should have arrested Roosevelt.
Anyway, what did Johnson pass? Medicare?
Or forget New York... have you noticed what percentage of the frauds take place in the USA?
(Think for a minute: NY is what, either the second or third most populous state. It is expected that NY would have more frauds than, say, Rhode Island)
Yes, ponzi schemes are popular, tet they never arrested Lyndon Baines Johnson alias LBJ for the biggest operation of the kind ever: "Social Security."
Yes, and that's how the FSF would put it. They want the recipients to have their rights independently of the authors.
I just don't think the FSF's position is helped by people who claim that code has rights.
So the rights of real, living, breathing people must be diminished to assign rights to an inanimate thing?
The way you portray them, Brian, the FSF comes off worse than PETA.
No, they'll have an hour and a half of biographical drivel, then a half hour of gymnastics.
Covering an event for pay per view costs money. Last time they tried that, with the "olympic triplecast" they lost money.