So you're saying a routine written natively in well-optimized assembly code will be faster than one written in a higher-level language and then compiled down? WOW!
how many serious gamers who own both ACTUALLY spend more hours per week playing 1970s/1980s games than post 1990 ones over long periods
This, of course, assumes that the enjoyment of a game can be measured by number of hours played. If this were the case, Everquesties must live in a state of constant orgasm.
The Sims was the culmination of a long line of Sim* products, Sega's Dreamcast had individual displays in the controllers long before there was a Gamecube or a GBA, Pikmin's an evolution of the real-time strategy genre, Animal Crossing feels a lot like Zelda 3 to me, only without the directive gameplay of a "quest" one has to fulfill.
A 7200rpm drive might max out out at ~66MB/s, but there can be two ATA devices on a common bus. If both master and slave on an ATA100 bus are trying to run at full capacity, they won't be able to, because the combined throughput would be ~132MB/s -- but ATA133 would have just enough juice to do it.
any Game Boy emulator first published on the Internet before November 28, 2000, is prior art that a reasonably-funded defendant could use to invalidate most or all of this patent.
Aspects of the GameBoy's hardware system were already covered by patents (#5,184,830 and #5,095,798) at the time the first GB emulator was written. Your "prior art" has prior art -- the emulators are nothing more than unlicensed implementations of Nintendo's patented designs.
Or to change the emphasis of your sentence, *YOU* are allowed to make backups and fair-use copies.
You are NOT allowed to obtain a copy made by someone else. So unless you own a GBA cart reader and are using that to create ROM images, it is a violation of copyright to obtain them.
On the other hand, we have an O/S that works with X86, and now works on everything from calculators and old gaming consoles to some of the largest supercomputing clusters in the world.
So?
I don't have a supercomputing cluster, and I frankly don't care if my PC, calculator, and gaming console all run the same core OS or not.
Anybody who says that Linux isn't inherently more robust and flexible at the critical core areas is living their life under a rock.
Sure, it is, no argument there. But to the average consumer, why is that important?
Piracy is what brought Windows to +90% of all PCs.
No, the fact that Windows came preinstalled on +90% of PCs sold during the 1990's, whether the buyer asked for it or not, is what brought Windows to +90% of all PCs.
Piracy is just the reason why people could upgrade for free when new versions of the OS they were already using were released.
I suppose you think Ralph Nader should never have raised a stink about the "unsafe at any speed" Corvair and prompted the automotive industry to clean up its act.
I mean, a metal box powered by combustion, hurtling down the road at high speed, is inherently unsafe, right? No one should even BOTHER trying to address design flaws that, if fixed, would improve safety. People take a risk every time they get into a car, if several thousand die every year from manufacturer carelessness, that's acceptable.
We have pilots who are in charge of a 320 million dollar airframe but can't figure out Outlook.
Maybe this just means Outlook is a shitty choice for an email client? I'm sure officers used a nice textmode client for their electronic communications in the days before desktop PCs and GUIs. Why wouldn't something like pine be just as appropriate now?
When bird flu was found in Delaware and the EU banned imports of US poultry due to safety concerns, the US "retaliated" and banned certain European imports.
To alter a familiar quote: It's the economics, stupid.
The ban had the effect of changing the level of exports out of the US. Unless the level of imports into the US was adjusted to compensate, a trade imbalance would result.
This wasn't petty revenge, it was a considered effort to maintain trade equity.
I'm worried about the precedent this sets. Who knows what other things will bring the 'death penalty' from the ISPs? What ports will be shut down because 'you don't need them'?
Short answer: whatever the ISP network admins and policy wonks decide is acceptable process.
It's the cable companies' network, thus it's their rules. If you don't like it, have MCI run a T3 to your house.
Lucky for me I live in that bastion of individual freedom: the U.S. of A.! Hang on, someone is knocking at the door...
One of the nice things about life in these United States is that when non-police Copyright Goon Squads bust down the door to your home, you're within your rights to grab your shotgun and open fire on them...
Do people really want to pay $20 purely to get a skin for their pocketPC, that has less functionality(only mp3's) than something they can download for free.
You have to remember, people who bought PocketPCs are already in the habit of throwing their money away...
Quite fair, since the movie companies are too lazy to sell the movies in handheld-friendly files.
A 2-mm-thin, 12-cm-diameter, optical disc isn't handheld-friendly?
Handheld DVD players with integrated LCD screens have been available for a couple of years now. You can even get some models for under $200 at present. It's not a PocketPC, but no, it doesn't have to be.
I can't play DVDs in my VCR, either, but does that give me free and clear permission to dub all my DVDs to VHS tape?
As you've said, web spiders typically work by following links from one page to another.
But "a href" is not the only way to get from page to page on the Web. There are also form submits, DHTML, and a hundred varieties of Javascript tricks and techniques.
Deep-linking would presumably try to simulate human interaction well enough to take advantage of these more complex methods. For closed-ended systems, eg select one option from this pull-down menu, deep-linking will probably work well, but for more open-ended interfaces, eg type a 250-word essay on why you love Skippy peanut butter, problems of scalability and usefulness will arise.
it would be much better to have google.com talk XML in a standard method to the news site's content management system, and have ALL the data there for a search.
Then what would be the user's motivation to come to the news site, and spend any time there? They could just go to Google and leech all the same content for free.
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So you're saying a routine written natively in well-optimized assembly code will be faster than one written in a higher-level language and then compiled down? WOW!
how many serious gamers who own both ACTUALLY spend more hours per week playing 1970s/1980s games than post 1990 ones over long periods
This, of course, assumes that the enjoyment of a game can be measured by number of hours played. If this were the case, Everquesties must live in a state of constant orgasm.
we're going to see Half Life 2 bundled with new graphics cards to encourage you to buy 400 - 500 dollar upgrades.
Hmm... should I spend this $500 on a new accessory for my PC, or should I buy all three 5th-generation consoles instead?
Of course C is dead! Konami abandoned that naming convention and returned to using "Contra" for the series at least 10 years ago.
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The Sims was the culmination of a long line of Sim* products, Sega's Dreamcast had individual displays in the controllers long before there was a Gamecube or a GBA, Pikmin's an evolution of the real-time strategy genre, Animal Crossing feels a lot like Zelda 3 to me, only without the directive gameplay of a "quest" one has to fulfill.
A 7200rpm drive might max out out at ~66MB/s, but there can be two ATA devices on a common bus. If both master and slave on an ATA100 bus are trying to run at full capacity, they won't be able to, because the combined throughput would be ~132MB/s -- but ATA133 would have just enough juice to do it.
Or am I misinformed?
any Game Boy emulator first published on the Internet before November 28, 2000, is prior art that a reasonably-funded defendant could use to invalidate most or all of this patent.
Aspects of the GameBoy's hardware system were already covered by patents (#5,184,830 and #5,095,798) at the time the first GB emulator was written. Your "prior art" has prior art -- the emulators are nothing more than unlicensed implementations of Nintendo's patented designs.
Or to change the emphasis of your sentence, *YOU* are allowed to make backups and fair-use copies.
You are NOT allowed to obtain a copy made by someone else. So unless you own a GBA cart reader and are using that to create ROM images, it is a violation of copyright to obtain them.
Ad Revenues are based off click-through rates, not page impressions.
This hasn't been universally true since the late 1990's, if ever. Lots of web advertising is sold by the impression rather than by click-through.
On the other hand, we have an O/S that works with X86, and now works on everything from calculators and old gaming consoles to some of the largest supercomputing clusters in the world.
So?
I don't have a supercomputing cluster, and I frankly don't care if my PC, calculator, and gaming console all run the same core OS or not.
Anybody who says that Linux isn't inherently more robust and flexible at the critical core areas is living their life under a rock.
Sure, it is, no argument there. But to the average consumer, why is that important?
Piracy is what brought Windows to +90% of all PCs.
No, the fact that Windows came preinstalled on +90% of PCs sold during the 1990's, whether the buyer asked for it or not, is what brought Windows to +90% of all PCs.
Piracy is just the reason why people could upgrade for free when new versions of the OS they were already using were released.
I suppose you think Ralph Nader should never have raised a stink about the "unsafe at any speed" Corvair and prompted the automotive industry to clean up its act.
I mean, a metal box powered by combustion, hurtling down the road at high speed, is inherently unsafe, right? No one should even BOTHER trying to address design flaws that, if fixed, would improve safety. People take a risk every time they get into a car, if several thousand die every year from manufacturer carelessness, that's acceptable.
We have pilots who are in charge of a 320 million dollar airframe but can't figure out Outlook.
Maybe this just means Outlook is a shitty choice for an email client? I'm sure officers used a nice textmode client for their electronic communications in the days before desktop PCs and GUIs. Why wouldn't something like pine be just as appropriate now?
When bird flu was found in Delaware and the EU banned imports of US poultry due to safety concerns, the US "retaliated" and banned certain European imports.
To alter a familiar quote: It's the economics, stupid.
The ban had the effect of changing the level of exports out of the US. Unless the level of imports into the US was adjusted to compensate, a trade imbalance would result.
This wasn't petty revenge, it was a considered effort to maintain trade equity.
Apple's got the kind of fan base that might make that tactic popular.
That's like saying Ralph Nader has enough supporters to become President of the United States.
I for one do not want to get cut off because of the incompetence of the ISP.
Then I advise you not to give your business to an incompetent ISP.
She is best off downloading updated definitions for her old version of symantec, and letting AV take care of it. how do you do that with no intarweb?
I'm sure the ISP would be happy to send a technician to her home with a CD-R full of updated virus definitions -- for a service call fee, of course.
I'm worried about the precedent this sets. Who knows what other things will bring the 'death penalty' from the ISPs? What ports will be shut down because 'you don't need them'?
Short answer: whatever the ISP network admins and policy wonks decide is acceptable process.
It's the cable companies' network, thus it's their rules. If you don't like it, have MCI run a T3 to your house.
Lucky for me I live in that bastion of individual freedom: the U.S. of A.!
Hang on, someone is knocking at the door...
One of the nice things about life in these United States is that when non-police Copyright Goon Squads bust down the door to your home, you're within your rights to grab your shotgun and open fire on them...
(Laws my vary by locale)
No thanks, Apple should make a PDA and put PocketPC and Palm OS out of thier respective miseries
Maybe they could call it the iNewton.
although as phones evolve I would guess the whole standalone Palm thing is near death as is.
The hardware aspect, maybe, but Palm the OS is still going strong on the Treos and such.
Do people really want to pay $20 purely to get a skin for their pocketPC, that has less functionality(only mp3's) than something they can download for free.
You have to remember, people who bought PocketPCs are already in the habit of throwing their money away...
CSS isn't copy protection, it's playback protection.
If you make a disk image of a DVD you own and play the image with a licensed player, you haven't done anything unlawful.
Players built using DeCSS, obviously, are not licensed.
Quite fair, since the movie companies are too lazy to sell the movies in handheld-friendly files.
A 2-mm-thin, 12-cm-diameter, optical disc isn't handheld-friendly?
Handheld DVD players with integrated LCD screens have been available for a couple of years now. You can even get some models for under $200 at present. It's not a PocketPC, but no, it doesn't have to be.
I can't play DVDs in my VCR, either, but does that give me free and clear permission to dub all my DVDs to VHS tape?
As you've said, web spiders typically work by following links from one page to another.
But "a href" is not the only way to get from page to page on the Web. There are also form submits, DHTML, and a hundred varieties of Javascript tricks and techniques.
Deep-linking would presumably try to simulate human interaction well enough to take advantage of these more complex methods. For closed-ended systems, eg select one option from this pull-down menu, deep-linking will probably work well, but for more open-ended interfaces, eg type a 250-word essay on why you love Skippy peanut butter, problems of scalability and usefulness will arise.
it would be much better to have google.com talk XML in a standard method to the news site's content management system, and have ALL the data there for a search.
Then what would be the user's motivation to come to the news site, and spend any time there? They could just go to Google and leech all the same content for free.