might i add, beyond this stunt being quite ingenious on nintendo's part, but the game is actually good. i haven't played a zelda since II (which was a complete waste of time) and after about four trials with the first round, i finally was able to save my game. much niceness.
while everyone else was in line to grab their ps2s, i scooted ahead and grabbed the zelda.
as a side note, the color of the cartridge is not the same as the original, as supposed. as another side, it also isn't the same color as the pokemon gold cartridge.
isn't the mall industry involved in a type of over-selling in an effort to rectify any unwanted merchanidice lifting? what do they do to make sure that these known occurences do not effect their current standings?
they add to the current prices to which we buy. have you ever bought a few VHSs from the local walmart? they seem a little overpriced, don't they? case in point.
industries inflate prices (somewhat) due to the likelyhood that someone will confiscate their merchanidice in an unlawful fashion.
is this happening with the current CD and DVD sales? i doubt it, but it doesn't mean that it isn't why they are doing such things already.
civil disobedience is when one knows that a law is enacted and goes against that law in a knowingfull way but is totally willing to dealing to with the society's rules against such a crime. usually civil disobediants protest knowing that they are breaking the law and are willing to get the consequences for doing such an act in an effort to show that the law against such an action might throw a wrench in the works to enable a change.
most of those that use napster do not do so for such an action. i cannot presume to know why those do use the service (other than my own, which is to find out what other folk artists are around and then buy their albums if i like their work).
in general, the use of napster and all other types of media exchanges are not the act of civil disobedience, but are the acts grown from getting things for free.
if i were to to create a blockade on all mp3 transactions on the Internet, this action would be an act of civil disobedience. if i were to create a free medium to grant mp3 transaction and grant my own personal information for arrest, that would be an act of civil disobedience.
an anonymous act of downloading would not be an act of civil disobedience, any more than an anonymous undisclosed bombing of a federal building to show that the federal govenment of the USA is corrupt. in the USA, we call that terroism.
``Program creators expect their digital content over cable systems to be protected, or they won't make it available,'' said Robert Sachs, head of the National Cable Television Association.
Wow, think how grand that would be if the music industry felt the same way... Or if the movie industry felt, oh, wait, they do feel that way.
"You've bought the Air Jordans from Nike. But, weren't they missing that extra 'umph' that we're all looking for? Well, we've fixed that problem with new Nike DNAir Jordans. That's correct, now you'll have Michael Jordan with you at all times, helping you out with his own genetic material. Buy them now."
spam filtering is a nice thing and should be considered at all costs. for the ISP users not to get spam would be a great thing.
in this hayday of lawsuits though, is it a wise thing. assume that you are the mail admin of an ISP and you put a spam filter on all incoming mail. sounds good.
one of your users gets some pedo file from a subscribed to list and gets caught. the lawyer for said person finds out that you filter spam. thw lawyer then points out that the ISP could have filtered out the pedo files from those email, but chose not to. forget the cost involved of putting in a machine that filters jpgs of certain titles (or even crazier, filters on content filtered by some other strange contstraints), you are shown to be a non-carrier, and are thus shown to be acceptible of pr0n of children but not of get rich schemes.
at that point, the lawyer might take this a bit further and go to town and get the perv off (from a guilty verdict).
remembering, offering only transport gives your company the ability to say "what our users do is their own business".
this aruguement is nothing new. that being said, a large number of fibre runners in the US are now thinking that they might be considered a carrier for this medium of illegal media and wish to distance themselves from it.
digital media offers something that the normal analog media cannot offer, control. yes, those companies that can completely control what traverses their network are now voicing something so that they are not, in the future, construed as the facilitators of this medium. they are covering their butts. nothing more.
if someone were in control of the radio waves, and the FCC does not count, they might have had the same difficulties back in the 20's or 30's. due to physics, however, no one is in control of radio waves in the US other than some legal stuff that the FCC puts out every once in a while. hence, no one can sue the medium of transport for what goes along its tenues. in the realm of data transport along fibre and copper, someone is in control and can be sued.
good move by those folks to be rid of that possibility.
that's a pretty dumb idea to go to college. i went and put my time in mostly so that i could spend four years geeking out, partying, and generally having a good time on credit. you pay for it later, but paying for a college education in this business is easy.
so, if you're debating on whether or not a college degree will help you in your life, it won't really. but you'll have a great time and you could also spend time taking classes outside of the realm of computering (blasphemy, i know).
from the posts thus far, i've seen two major points of view: it is legal to have an emulator or consult a lawyer. neither povs have any real new merit other than normal common sense arguments.
so, in an effort to be helpful, here goes my 2 cents:
okay, so you've violated the eula by reverse engineering the udp packet codes (requests and answers) to make something compatible with the eq user's client program. according to the same eula, what can they do to you? revoke your account. you've just nullified those bucks paid for the proggy.
still assuming that the eula is completely legal and will hold in a court of law, it states that the laws of the state of california apply in all instances where the eula might be in dispute. now, since you have been writing this emulator in another country, international law also applies, in so much as getting government agencies to work together to force you to be liable for the "crimes". kind of akin to killing someone in one country then running for the border.
so, right now, verant has to do the following.
a) cancel your eq account with verant servers
b) contact california law to start a case (filing the case against you)
c) contact your country's own legal system and negotiate some sort of forceful response (assuming that you don't comply with their requests at this time)
d) assuming either of the above cases come about, the case will be held according to california law (which i have no clue what might come about from that: cease and desist, compensation, etc.)
and not to mention that anyone that connects to your servers (and how you intend on that working might also change the any ruling that might come about) will also have their accounts cancelled, if caught.
so, yes, get a hold of a lawyer.
and one final consideration. is it worth verant to pursue this? i'm sure verant isn't going to do a cost analysis and just assume that it would.
okay, so someone who's bought the eq software wants to connect to a free server. the writing and running of a different eq server is not against any law that i know of.
how does the current eq client that the user has know to connect to the non-verant server instead of the ones off in cali? i'm assuming one of two things need to happen:
a) an eqclient.exe wrapper is going to be created so that the server connections can be rerouted
b) a couple of hexs are changed in eqclient.exe before runtime to enable a change of login server addy.
in the first case, no harm is done, and all seems cheery and happy. altering the eqclient.exe file, on the other hand, is a direct breach of contract, and the purchaser of eq can be terminated from further service.
from what the hackersquest page has said in the faq, seems as if it might just be up to the user to change how they connect, thus not making the programmers liable for anything.
making a news writer liable for what s/he writes, the content that is, seems to be a little bit like moving towards a F451 future. people stop writing about important issues in their field because they don't want to be sued by another party, not for lible, but for spreading information.
wait, isn't that what a news writer is supposed to do?
lighting is a necessity, but not that heavy white light that we are all used to in the work place. an ambient soft yellow/white is best for the eyes that are accustomed to staring at various colour schemed screens throughout the day.
desk space is nice, but what is necessary is either a personal bookcase or shelving enough for the various manuals that come my way. (i've currently got about fifteen manuals sitting in a box near my desk for a new software system that i'm trying to get working, ugh.)
music or no music? doesn't matter to me, apart from a basic idea that i don't want to listen to gangsta rap while trying to parse out bell switch statistics. within an environment where the company purchases computers with sounds cards in all computers, a no noise environment would be best, i.e. if another person can either hear your music or be disturbed by it, turn it off or find another alternative.
and frankly, desks don't matter to me more than their surface area. what does matter is chairs. if one has an uncomfortable chair, all hell could break lose and that i'll do is get upset instead of being relaxed and fixing the situation.
now these issues only deal with the physical surroundings and not the social atmosphere of the office. for those of you in the sysadmin arena (either nt, bsd, sol, etc...), you have to deal with user's needs. the battle that we fight against them to not stand over our shoulder to make us fix a problem(?) is one that we won't win. and the various social problems in offices cannot be addressed within a single post. yet, physical problems aside, most problems that the sysadmin community faces belongs to the social genre.
the model described in the article is an old one, yet still a valid assumption. that is all that it is though, an assumption.
the biological process of decerning colour is one thing. yet, the brain's process for interpreting these signals is another matter entirely. one could take the dual-colour approach, or the tri-colour approach, or any other and quite easily model them into a perceptual system which could be hardcoded into a series of chips or just tested in a simulation.
these tests do not add any credability to said assumption other than giving some more evidence either for or against a certain perceptual model.
the mentioned article tells about a model of a rather specific perceptual model and should be seen as such, an experiment in human cognition, nothing more.
if all software movements got their own tld, we'd all live in an utopian society. heck, let's get a.unx, a.lnx, a.bsd, etc ltd all setup. wait, hasn't that already been done for those of us who really care? isn't that called nntp groups? remmeber those? wait, try gopher sites? any of those alive yet beyond.edu's? just because something is new and "37337" (if i remember the number correctly), does that mean that it is a means for the 'geeks' to get together and use it, or are UUCP addy's truely gone?
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while everyone else was in line to grab their ps2s, i scooted ahead and grabbed the zelda.
as a side note, the color of the cartridge is not the same as the original, as supposed. as another side, it also isn't the same color as the pokemon gold cartridge.
isn't the mall industry involved in a type of over-selling in an effort to rectify any unwanted merchanidice lifting? what do they do to make sure that these known occurences do not effect their current standings?
they add to the current prices to which we buy. have you ever bought a few VHSs from the local walmart? they seem a little overpriced, don't they? case in point.
industries inflate prices (somewhat) due to the likelyhood that someone will confiscate their merchanidice in an unlawful fashion.
is this happening with the current CD and DVD sales? i doubt it, but it doesn't mean that it isn't why they are doing such things already.
civil disobedience is when one knows that a law is enacted and goes against that law in a knowingfull way but is totally willing to dealing to with the society's rules against such a crime. usually civil disobediants protest knowing that they are breaking the law and are willing to get the consequences for doing such an act in an effort to show that the law against such an action might throw a wrench in the works to enable a change.
most of those that use napster do not do so for such an action. i cannot presume to know why those do use the service (other than my own, which is to find out what other folk artists are around and then buy their albums if i like their work).
in general, the use of napster and all other types of media exchanges are not the act of civil disobedience, but are the acts grown from getting things for free.
if i were to to create a blockade on all mp3 transactions on the Internet, this action would be an act of civil disobedience. if i were to create a free medium to grant mp3 transaction and grant my own personal information for arrest, that would be an act of civil disobedience.
an anonymous act of downloading would not be an act of civil disobedience, any more than an anonymous undisclosed bombing of a federal building to show that the federal govenment of the USA is corrupt. in the USA, we call that terroism.
There is a line, which isn't that fine.
``Program creators expect their digital content over cable systems to be protected, or they won't make it available,'' said Robert Sachs, head of the National Cable Television Association.
Wow, think how grand that would be if the music industry felt the same way... Or if the movie industry felt, oh, wait, they do feel that way.
"You've bought the Air Jordans from Nike. But, weren't they missing that extra 'umph' that we're all looking for? Well, we've fixed that problem with new Nike DNAir Jordans. That's correct, now you'll have Michael Jordan with you at all times, helping you out with his own genetic material. Buy them now."
spam filtering is a nice thing and should be considered at all costs. for the ISP users not to get spam would be a great thing.
in this hayday of lawsuits though, is it a wise thing. assume that you are the mail admin of an ISP and you put a spam filter on all incoming mail. sounds good.
one of your users gets some pedo file from a subscribed to list and gets caught. the lawyer for said person finds out that you filter spam. thw lawyer then points out that the ISP could have filtered out the pedo files from those email, but chose not to. forget the cost involved of putting in a machine that filters jpgs of certain titles (or even crazier, filters on content filtered by some other strange contstraints), you are shown to be a non-carrier, and are thus shown to be acceptible of pr0n of children but not of get rich schemes.
at that point, the lawyer might take this a bit further and go to town and get the perv off (from a guilty verdict).
remembering, offering only transport gives your company the ability to say "what our users do is their own business".
this aruguement is nothing new. that being said, a large number of fibre runners in the US are now thinking that they might be considered a carrier for this medium of illegal media and wish to distance themselves from it.
digital media offers something that the normal analog media cannot offer, control. yes, those companies that can completely control what traverses their network are now voicing something so that they are not, in the future, construed as the facilitators of this medium. they are covering their butts. nothing more.
if someone were in control of the radio waves, and the FCC does not count, they might have had the same difficulties back in the 20's or 30's. due to physics, however, no one is in control of radio waves in the US other than some legal stuff that the FCC puts out every once in a while. hence, no one can sue the medium of transport for what goes along its tenues. in the realm of data transport along fibre and copper, someone is in control and can be sued.
good move by those folks to be rid of that possibility.
that's a pretty dumb idea to go to college. i went and put my time in mostly so that i could spend four years geeking out, partying, and generally having a good time on credit. you pay for it later, but paying for a college education in this business is easy.
so, if you're debating on whether or not a college degree will help you in your life, it won't really. but you'll have a great time and you could also spend time taking classes outside of the realm of computering (blasphemy, i know).
from the posts thus far, i've seen two major points of view: it is legal to have an emulator or consult a lawyer. neither povs have any real new merit other than normal common sense arguments.
so, in an effort to be helpful, here goes my 2 cents:
okay, so you've violated the eula by reverse engineering the udp packet codes (requests and answers) to make something compatible with the eq user's client program. according to the same eula, what can they do to you? revoke your account. you've just nullified those bucks paid for the proggy.
still assuming that the eula is completely legal and will hold in a court of law, it states that the laws of the state of california apply in all instances where the eula might be in dispute. now, since you have been writing this emulator in another country, international law also applies, in so much as getting government agencies to work together to force you to be liable for the "crimes". kind of akin to killing someone in one country then running for the border.
so, right now, verant has to do the following.
a) cancel your eq account with verant servers
b) contact california law to start a case (filing the case against you)
c) contact your country's own legal system and negotiate some sort of forceful response (assuming that you don't comply with their requests at this time)
d) assuming either of the above cases come about, the case will be held according to california law (which i have no clue what might come about from that: cease and desist, compensation, etc.)
and not to mention that anyone that connects to your servers (and how you intend on that working might also change the any ruling that might come about) will also have their accounts cancelled, if caught.
so, yes, get a hold of a lawyer.
and one final consideration. is it worth verant to pursue this? i'm sure verant isn't going to do a cost analysis and just assume that it would.
okay, so someone who's bought the eq software wants to connect to a free server. the writing and running of a different eq server is not against any law that i know of.
how does the current eq client that the user has know to connect to the non-verant server instead of the ones off in cali? i'm assuming one of two things need to happen:
a) an eqclient.exe wrapper is going to be created so that the server connections can be rerouted
b) a couple of hexs are changed in eqclient.exe before runtime to enable a change of login server addy.
in the first case, no harm is done, and all seems cheery and happy. altering the eqclient.exe file, on the other hand, is a direct breach of contract, and the purchaser of eq can be terminated from further service. from what the hackersquest page has said in the faq, seems as if it might just be up to the user to change how they connect, thus not making the programmers liable for anything.
that decss song that's flitting about + good enough voice recognition software = source code in compileable form.
so, how far will this thing go now?
it's jelly for crying for crying out loud. and stop trying to convince me to change from apricot.
oh wait, wrong inane discussion.
making a news writer liable for what s/he writes, the content that is, seems to be a little bit like moving towards a F451 future. people stop writing about important issues in their field because they don't want to be sued by another party, not for lible, but for spreading information.
wait, isn't that what a news writer is supposed to do?
anyone try to install napster on a vaio yet?
hehe.
i guess sony can't even firewall their own products against it.
lighting is a necessity, but not that heavy white light that we are all used to in the work place. an ambient soft yellow/white is best for the eyes that are accustomed to staring at various colour schemed screens throughout the day.
desk space is nice, but what is necessary is either a personal bookcase or shelving enough for the various manuals that come my way. (i've currently got about fifteen manuals sitting in a box near my desk for a new software system that i'm trying to get working, ugh.)
music or no music? doesn't matter to me, apart from a basic idea that i don't want to listen to gangsta rap while trying to parse out bell switch statistics. within an environment where the company purchases computers with sounds cards in all computers, a no noise environment would be best, i.e. if another person can either hear your music or be disturbed by it, turn it off or find another alternative.
and frankly, desks don't matter to me more than their surface area. what does matter is chairs. if one has an uncomfortable chair, all hell could break lose and that i'll do is get upset instead of being relaxed and fixing the situation.
now these issues only deal with the physical surroundings and not the social atmosphere of the office. for those of you in the sysadmin arena (either nt, bsd, sol, etc...), you have to deal with user's needs. the battle that we fight against them to not stand over our shoulder to make us fix a problem(?) is one that we won't win. and the various social problems in offices cannot be addressed within a single post. yet, physical problems aside, most problems that the sysadmin community faces belongs to the social genre.
the model described in the article is an old one, yet still a valid assumption. that is all that it is though, an assumption.
the biological process of decerning colour is one thing. yet, the brain's process for interpreting these signals is another matter entirely. one could take the dual-colour approach, or the tri-colour approach, or any other and quite easily model them into a perceptual system which could be hardcoded into a series of chips or just tested in a simulation.
these tests do not add any credability to said assumption other than giving some more evidence either for or against a certain perceptual model.
the mentioned article tells about a model of a rather specific perceptual model and should be seen as such, an experiment in human cognition, nothing more.
if all software movements got their own tld, we'd all live in an utopian society. heck, let's get a .unx, a .lnx, a .bsd, etc ltd all setup. .edu's?
wait, hasn't that already been done for those of us who really care?
isn't that called nntp groups? remmeber those? wait, try gopher sites? any of those alive yet beyond
just because something is new and "37337" (if i remember the number correctly), does that mean that it is a means for the 'geeks' to get together and use it, or are UUCP addy's truely gone?
hm