These games still have commercial value. If rights holders turned a blind eye, they would be effectively permitting commercial exploitation of the ROMs (and yes, people still pay to play them). Good news for some, perhaps, but bad for the few remaining amusement companies operating licensed machines, and bad for the rights holders who will find themselves facing competition from their own games. Also, if they don't defend the trademark violations they could find their properties in the public domain. While I'd love to be able to legally print and sell Pac Man t-shirts without licensing, I can't see that happening.
Oh, and if historical value mattered, Disney wouldn't still be successfully enforcing their copyright over the Silly Symphonies.
Whoever it ws at IA that thought 'oh, they won't care' is in for a rude awakening I suspect...
The real story-behind-the-story is developers threatened to test their abilities on launch and quit if the tests failed.
Which they are well within their rights to do. But it wouldve meant many apps wouldnt have worked without connectivity for example, which would have been bad for the ecosystem.
iOS is a different case, with a richer demographic and more paid apps. Free Android app developers need that usage data, not necessarily to sell it, but to be agile.
Sure there's sometimes blatant abuse but that's better solved with refinements in the Google Play agreement (particularly regarding fine location data.)
It's not the guys who say this, depressingly I've found it's women (at least down here in Australia) that commonly lament that they (feel they) are mentally incapable of tackling programming. =/ Of course, typically nobody challenges those assertions.
I suppose what's needed is a bit of public education. Sure, coding is a logical thing at its core, but a whole lot of creativity goes into producing great code as well.
Maybe the solution is to popularise pair programming more?
With zero chance of facing a ground invasion for at least the last 50 years, but at times a very high risk of death from above, Americans (and to a lesser extent Canadians) were forced to empower themselves by looking for "the enemy within" typically in the form of spies, unlikely to ever repel an invading soldier themselves.
When terrorism made that enemy within even more insidious, the paranoia spreaded, and it wasn't long before "scope creep" set in, causing large sections of the population to mistrust each other not as terrorists, but for simply not sharing each other's interests, for the potential to change their "way of life".
Learning to code teaches children valuable logic and conceptualisation skills. Algorithms are the most straight-forward and unambiguous way to demonstrate a number of extremely useful real-world concepts.
The intention is not that every child will grow up to be a programmer (although there may be a few prodigies who would have been undiscovered had they not been introduced to coding early.) The intention is that the skills introduced and nurtured by learning to code will help the child in other areas in adolescence and adulthood -- decision making, problem solving, logistics.
These principles can be taught as part of other disciplines, such as mechanics, but coding is far less messy, and requires virtually no resources. You can build an 'engine' without needing oil or gasoline; you can demonstrate interactions without risking chemical accidents; you can 'dissect' an algorithm without needing to purchase hundreds of pickled toads.
To fail to see the advantages in teaching children to code is pure ignorance.
The submitter implied Google was not suitable with the remark "making data siphoning easy for the NSA".
How is FireHost significantly less vulnerable to the NSA when "The Letter" arrives? From what I see FireHost has significant infrastructure in USA, a CEO with US ties, many employees living in the USA.
If the NSA is not a worry to the asker, then there are many solutions, FireHost possibly being one of them. If the NSA is an issue then it becomes trickier...
Yeah, exactly. I'm not sure why this was modded troll, or offtopic, or whatever -- it's on topic and not trolling (unless you work for the FireHost mob, then you'd probably think it is...)
Just to note here that we shouldn't confuse emotional depression with physical depression.
People who suffer from so-called 'atypical' physical depression can't 'cure' themselves with happiness -- although granted it sure helps with coping, coping is all people with atypical depression can realistically do.
Being happy won't solve your fatigue, anxiety etc. But it'l make it a bit more tolerable to be sure.
This might be news on domestic flights but a few years back, arriving in LA from Australia, I was actually directly offered to step out of the international queue (I'm Canadian, but was with my Australian partner) to go into the US queue _without identifying myself_, that is I was directly solicited without volunteering any information about my nationality first.
Sure, they could have overheard my accent. But, on several other occasions I and my Australian partner arrived at the same time, with the same itineraries and the same bookings, and she always got SSSS and I didn't. I don't think I just got a pass for being Canadian. There has to have been more to it than that.
The problem is proponents of flow-based programming propose that non-technical people will be able to create world-facing production applications such as web-apps and mobile applications, which although theoretically possible is completely impractical....and someone in the business will always want customisation anyhow.
This has been tried over, and over again many times over the last 30 years.
It just plain-old doesn't work. You get inefficient, bloated code at the best of times, and 99% of the time you need some sort of custom function that still requires conventional software development.
So, no, flow-based programming's time has _NOT_ arrived.
> Tossing programming courses in the curriculum is a wise idea, but now one has to balance the value add across the entire group if you're going to remove things like foreign language skills or music, both of which I see offering a considerable challenge to the value argument.
Why does anything need to be removed? And shouldn't parents be given the option to decide if their child learns to learn music, a foreign language, or computer programming?
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Even if IA has some bizarre exception to copyright law, you don't, so seeding that embedded copy of MK4 or Time Crisis is not completely without risk.
To clarfy:
These games still have commercial value. If rights holders turned a blind eye, they would be effectively permitting commercial exploitation of the ROMs (and yes, people still pay to play them). Good news for some, perhaps, but bad for the few remaining amusement companies operating licensed machines, and bad for the rights holders who will find themselves facing competition from their own games. Also, if they don't defend the trademark violations they could find their properties in the public domain. While I'd love to be able to legally print and sell Pac Man t-shirts without licensing, I can't see that happening.
Oh, and if historical value mattered, Disney wouldn't still be successfully enforcing their copyright over the Silly Symphonies.
Whoever it ws at IA that thought 'oh, they won't care' is in for a rude awakening I suspect...
it's no less 'legal' than the archive.org copy. That said, I've seen Capcom take down MAME arcades so it won't be up there long I'm sure...
tbh most flaky ubuilds are because of bad static electricity mitigation, bad CPU mounts or bad grounding.
its more complicated than you think.
...that this story was followed with "can you trust your router" -- my router can't kill me!
F**k GitHub.
I don't care if the project's a joke -- that's not their call.
A bunch of trolls thought GitHub could be provoked to take sides and guesswhat? they did!
Great job.
The real story-behind-the-story is developers threatened to test their abilities on launch and quit if the tests failed.
Which they are well within their rights to do. But it wouldve meant many apps wouldnt have worked without connectivity for example, which would have been bad for the ecosystem.
iOS is a different case, with a richer demographic and more paid apps. Free Android app developers need that usage data, not necessarily to sell it, but to be agile.
Sure there's sometimes blatant abuse but that's better solved with refinements in the Google Play agreement (particularly regarding fine location data.)
Enough said, really...
It's not the guys who say this, depressingly I've found it's women (at least down here in Australia) that commonly lament that they (feel they) are mentally incapable of tackling programming. =/ Of course, typically nobody challenges those assertions.
I suppose what's needed is a bit of public education. Sure, coding is a logical thing at its core, but a whole lot of creativity goes into producing great code as well.
Maybe the solution is to popularise pair programming more?
I suspect 'meatless' doesn't include fish.
This has been tried before and the frailty to the model (now as in the past) is people are not consistent.
We change. Some of us change several times each day, not schizophrenia-like but still distinctly. But not necessarily consistently.
Not a great authentication method. Sorry kids.
Great to see the occasional selfless act once in a while.
...hey, if it buys us a hundred years to figure this pollution shit out, I ain't gonna look a gift horse in the mouth.
Are you?
I'm not a fan of Glass, but not every camera person covering an event is always with the press.
With zero chance of facing a ground invasion for at least the last 50 years, but at times a very high risk of death from above, Americans (and to a lesser extent Canadians) were forced to empower themselves by looking for "the enemy within" typically in the form of spies, unlikely to ever repel an invading soldier themselves.
When terrorism made that enemy within even more insidious, the paranoia spreaded, and it wasn't long before "scope creep" set in, causing large sections of the population to mistrust each other not as terrorists, but for simply not sharing each other's interests, for the potential to change their "way of life".
Learning to code teaches children valuable logic and conceptualisation skills. Algorithms are the most straight-forward and unambiguous way to demonstrate a number of extremely useful real-world concepts.
The intention is not that every child will grow up to be a programmer (although there may be a few prodigies who would have been undiscovered had they not been introduced to coding early.) The intention is that the skills introduced and nurtured by learning to code will help the child in other areas in adolescence and adulthood -- decision making, problem solving, logistics.
These principles can be taught as part of other disciplines, such as mechanics, but coding is far less messy, and requires virtually no resources. You can build an 'engine' without needing oil or gasoline; you can demonstrate interactions without risking chemical accidents; you can 'dissect' an algorithm without needing to purchase hundreds of pickled toads.
To fail to see the advantages in teaching children to code is pure ignorance.
The submitter implied Google was not suitable with the remark "making data siphoning easy for the NSA".
How is FireHost significantly less vulnerable to the NSA when "The Letter" arrives? From what I see FireHost has significant infrastructure in USA, a CEO with US ties, many employees living in the USA.
If the NSA is not a worry to the asker, then there are many solutions, FireHost possibly being one of them. If the NSA is an issue then it becomes trickier...
Yeah, exactly. I'm not sure why this was modded troll, or offtopic, or whatever -- it's on topic and not trolling (unless you work for the FireHost mob, then you'd probably think it is...)
She ends up on a bum IP and ends up getting hopelessly indecipherable gibberish as the verification for paying her electric bill?
Not sure blacklisting is the best way to go about this...
Just to note here that we shouldn't confuse emotional depression with physical depression.
People who suffer from so-called 'atypical' physical depression can't 'cure' themselves with happiness -- although granted it sure helps with coping, coping is all people with atypical depression can realistically do.
Being happy won't solve your fatigue, anxiety etc. But it'l make it a bit more tolerable to be sure.
This might be news on domestic flights but a few years back, arriving in LA from Australia, I was actually directly offered to step out of the international queue (I'm Canadian, but was with my Australian partner) to go into the US queue _without identifying myself_, that is I was directly solicited without volunteering any information about my nationality first.
Sure, they could have overheard my accent. But, on several other occasions I and my Australian partner arrived at the same time, with the same itineraries and the same bookings, and she always got SSSS and I didn't. I don't think I just got a pass for being Canadian. There has to have been more to it than that.
The problem is proponents of flow-based programming propose that non-technical people will be able to create world-facing production applications such as web-apps and mobile applications, which although theoretically possible is completely impractical. ...and someone in the business will always want customisation anyhow.
This has been tried over, and over again many times over the last 30 years.
It just plain-old doesn't work. You get inefficient, bloated code at the best of times, and 99% of the time you need some sort of custom function that still requires conventional software development.
So, no, flow-based programming's time has _NOT_ arrived.
Also, font-awesome is not awesome!
Please don't change font sizes inside articles =/
> Tossing programming courses in the curriculum is a wise idea, but now one has to balance the value add across the entire group if you're going to remove things like foreign language skills or music, both of which I see offering a considerable challenge to the value argument.
Why does anything need to be removed? And shouldn't parents be given the option to decide if their child learns to learn music, a foreign language, or computer programming?