It would be absolutely legal for Ford to do so. And you are under no license requirement regarding what you do with your xbox. You can run any software you want that you can. The embargo on what you can run is entirely a technical one and not a legal one.
1 is fundamentally incorrect. Legally microsoft can do nothing of the sort. They do it technologically. If you can get around their tech embargo, running the game is completely legal.
That's the opposite of reality. If you are good enough to make your xbox game run uncertified, it will perform exactly as you intend on an unmodified xbox. It is exactly like the mustang case, just a more difficult engineering challenge.
In fairness, the events depicted in this family-unfriendly game are pretty unlikely to be the type that actually result in families. Recreational sex and procreation are not the same thing.
I assumed/hoped they were just the type who wanted the wealthy to be able to dominate the rest of us, hoping to join them one day. I guess I was hoping for a different delusion, e.g. hoping for a very small probability event, vs just not understanding at all the world they live in.
I gave up on WH13 when they introduced the nerd girl and it became a teenybopper show. I gave up on Eureka the third time they reset reality, and I decided I didn't care about any of the characters any more because they'd just decided to change their natures unilaterally again.
Indeed. I really wonder about ghost hunters. I don't know anyone who watches that. Even if the production budget is like $500 / episode, how do they make that up in advertising?
People are already trying the web-first model. It isn't going well for them yet, basically because people don't seem to be willing to pay the cost/episode that it takes to get a new series off the ground with a small (100K) initial viewership.
God is speaking through me today: #1 is exactly why I forbade it in this universe when I created it. In older versions of the universe some asshole time traveler was always killing my son, and thus un-saving the souls of billions of people throughout history. The bookkeeping and transfers between heaven and hell were an absolute mess.
Rodney was exactly like Sam except: He was less competent, casting scientists in a bad light (go go sci fi channel appeal to nerdy science types) He was male (go go appeal to sci fi male viewers!) He never grew, personally (go go appeal to nerdy types)
He was Sam, with all the good parts removed, and a dose of embarrassing nerd caricature thrown in.
I'm pretty sure it's all about budget. From what I hear the budget on a Eureka/Haven is 10% of the cost of a SGU. That's a drastically lower threshold for advertising profitability. The cost / episode of WWE is even lower.
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It would be absolutely legal for Ford to do so.
And you are under no license requirement regarding what you do with your xbox. You can run any software you want that you can.
The embargo on what you can run is entirely a technical one and not a legal one.
1 is fundamentally incorrect. Legally microsoft can do nothing of the sort. They do it technologically. If you can get around their tech embargo, running the game is completely legal.
That's the opposite of reality. If you are good enough to make your xbox game run uncertified, it will perform exactly as you intend on an unmodified xbox. It is exactly like the mustang case, just a more difficult engineering challenge.
One sometimes results in the other, but that doesn't make them the same thing.
Obviously it wouldn't be, that would require trademark access. It would just be a game that runs on modified/developer xboxes.
No, only the second was dull enough to put me to sleep.
You absolutely can distribute an uncertified xbox game. It just wont run on the xbox.
Right. But it's not like they didn't have the choice. They're still free to do what they'd like, as Microsoft was free to certify/not certify.
In fairness, the events depicted in this family-unfriendly game are pretty unlikely to be the type that actually result in families. Recreational sex and procreation are not the same thing.
Except that ThriXXX is actually free to make and market this game. It just won't be certified.
Watched it all the way through actually, but you're right about the sucking part.
I assumed/hoped they were just the type who wanted the wealthy to be able to dominate the rest of us, hoping to join them one day. I guess I was hoping for a different delusion, e.g. hoping for a very small probability event, vs just not understanding at all the world they live in.
Bummer, I really wanted to believe they weren't idiots.
Who on earth thought GOP/TP represented regular people?
No, I watched it through to the bitter end. I was glad they finally gave up on SGA, frankly.
I gave up on WH13 when they introduced the nerd girl and it became a teenybopper show. I gave up on Eureka the third time they reset reality, and I decided I didn't care about any of the characters any more because they'd just decided to change their natures unilaterally again.
Indeed. I really wonder about ghost hunters. I don't know anyone who watches that. Even if the production budget is like $500 / episode, how do they make that up in advertising?
People are already trying the web-first model. It isn't going well for them yet, basically because people don't seem to be willing to pay the cost/episode that it takes to get a new series off the ground with a small (100K) initial viewership.
You can hand in your slashdot ID at the door on the way out, thanks.
We don't cotton to sports round 'ere!
Well, wrastlin involves physics, and fiction, so science fiction it is!
I'm pretty sure that people who are inventing FTL are inventing single-clock universes as well.
God is speaking through me today:
#1 is exactly why I forbade it in this universe when I created it. In older versions of the universe some asshole time traveler was always killing my son, and thus un-saving the souls of billions of people throughout history. The bookkeeping and transfers between heaven and hell were an absolute mess.
Rodney was exactly like Sam except:
He was less competent, casting scientists in a bad light (go go sci fi channel appeal to nerdy science types)
He was male (go go appeal to sci fi male viewers!)
He never grew, personally (go go appeal to nerdy types)
He was Sam, with all the good parts removed, and a dose of embarrassing nerd caricature thrown in.
I'm pretty sure it's all about budget. From what I hear the budget on a Eureka/Haven is 10% of the cost of a SGU. That's a drastically lower threshold for advertising profitability. The cost / episode of WWE is even lower.
SyFy canceled Caprica a while ago. So they now officially have zero shows I'll be tivoing.