Yes, not to mention the fact that the idea behind open source is that you can CHANGE it to behave how you want it to behave. If I don't want it to nag me, it won't. Let the sysadmins make the call. Make it strictly opt in at compile time.
Okay, my solution to reverse engineering Tim is to drown him in a vat of superfluous He at.001 K. Leave him in there for a few hours. Get the jaws of life out of your trunk (stupid place to keep them, I know) and open Tim up like a fish being fileted. Any chemicals that would normally erode Tim's innards would be likely disabled and we would have a good idea of how Tim was designed. Using this fabled futuristic technology, we will take ROM dumps from all of Tim's non-chemical parts and use futuristic simulation software to design a new and improved Tim that counteracts the old Tim by sticking Tim2's fingers into Tim's ears and Tim2's vibrating pelvic antennae into Tim's shiny hiny. Thank you.
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I agree with you completely. The way our government is set up is completely tyranical. They should have no right to regulate the way that I use my computer provided that I am not breaking any laws. Crowbars are used for burglarly, but they are still sold uncrippled in home depot. The point is that congressmen are ignorant, unsympathetic and many who have contributions and perks thrown at them are in no need or want of anything. If they break a CD it gets replaced. If their data gets wiped from their hard drive, they have assistants to set it back up. They just don't have to worry about fair use because their share is more than fair. The middle class are the ones that get ripped off. This is the way of the world.
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I'd expect that PC manufacturers will make this protection easy to disable, either by bypassing a chip or removing it, etc... A little solder and or ingenuity and PRESTO! we'll all be modding our PC's! "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless, 1992
-- The same thing applies to hackers and pirates. They will find a way.
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
-- Ayn Rand
"Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
-- Abraham Lincoln
If you replace "prohibition" with DMCA, the whole thing still makes sense.
Why should the GPL be any less credible than any other software license out there? If it fails, it seems that there would be an implication that other restrictive licenses should fail as well (read: anti-reverse engineering clauses and the like).
Nintendo emulators are useful in more than just piracy. If I was a developer for a Pocket-PC (which I have been). I would use the emulator that comes with the SDK to test out my proggie on a real machine with debugging and a keyboard and mouse and all that other jazz. Emulators are just that - a software tool used in testing developed code for compatibility on a hardware platform. It is not necessarily used for piracy. THANK YOU.
How is the GBA cartridge protected? Is it the fact that it is stored on a non-standard media type? I'm not sure that qualifies as protected. Protected is what happens as a result of heavy encryption and password protection and hardware security checkpoints (like bad block addressing in PS games, laserlok, etc...). Go to megagames.com to find out about "protected". This is just a backup tool for legitamately purchased software. Our rights are "protected".
Actually, that is a pretty bad algorithm for factoring primes. You can get at least a 50% performance increase by testing 2, starting at 3 and then incrementing by 2. You can gain another 50% by stopping at test=floor(sqrt(i)).
My university has similar restrictions, I believe the quota is 1 GB/week or so and 400 MB upstream. However internal bandwidth is not counted so with a little help from Direct Connect. We were all sharing a lightning fast connection to a P2P system with approximately 5-6 TB of files! In fact, We have almost every movie, song, and video game on this server with little or no remote queueing. In fact, the university not only turns a blind eye to this type of behavior, but I've been told by some of the higher ups that it is the best thing that could have happened to the university financially. Legality is hardly an issue because only university computers can connect to the server. It's a great system.
For the same reason that I won't charge you for the bandwidth required to read your post.
Would that be because he isn't slashdot and is therefor not paying anything for you to read his post (except the cost of the initial submission...)? Otherwise you should check your logic on that one.
President Bush has been involved in similar research claiming that he has long needed a good fix of ethanol to get going in the morning.
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But if you buy it and smash it, they make back a small percentage of their loss. If you boycott them and resfuse to buy a PS2, they lose all the money it took to produce the game, the game makers start to lose money, they stop licensing with Sony and sony loses MORE money. Don't buy a PS2! If I wanted to screw them over, why would I smash it when I could just pirate the games?
My TI89 can do that many calculations in about 15 seconds as well... 842! will do exactly what you just claimed was 842 calculations. I doubt anyone could even TYPE the numbers 1-842 with no spaces or enter keys, etcetera on a computer keyboard in under 15 seconds, even 2+2+2+2... is a stretch.... If this guy can do what he claims, I would really love to see an MPEG... there should be a new category in the Guinness Book of World records.
The TI89's do indeed do real time rotation as I am doing them right now. If you are thinking of the 92 which does not, that is a big difference but the 92+ model does. The only lacking feature of the 89 is RPN and yeah, it might be nice, but I find that even the buttons are more comfortable on the 89. And BTW, I do in fact own both calculators.
Of course you can do 842 calculations in 15 seconds if you mindlessly press 2 [ENTER] 2+2+ 2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2... I mean how hard is that? But I find that the CAS in the HP series could use some SERIOUS work. I hate that damn equation editor. I hate the stupid menus that you need to do almost everything. My TI-89 can handle things just fine. If you happen to have a short term memory and can't figure out where to put your parenthesis they make PRETTY PRINT for that! I admit that RPN has some nice features and that yes, the 49G can switch between the two systems, but c'mon the 89 is at least as technically advanced as the 49G.
If you had to drop anything, Tom was the way to go. That would have added about 35 minutes of strangeness that added little to the story, IMHO. I enjoyed reading it very much, but if they were going to make the movie fit into one sitting, dropping him was the way to go.
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Yes, not to mention the fact that the idea behind open source is that you can CHANGE it to behave how you want it to behave. If I don't want it to nag me, it won't. Let the sysadmins make the call. Make it strictly opt in at compile time.
Okay, my solution to reverse engineering Tim is to drown him in a vat of superfluous He at .001 K. Leave him in there for a few hours. Get the jaws of life out of your trunk (stupid place to keep them, I know) and open Tim up like a fish being fileted. Any chemicals that would normally erode Tim's innards would be likely disabled and we would have a good idea of how Tim was designed. Using this fabled futuristic technology, we will take ROM dumps from all of Tim's non-chemical parts and use futuristic simulation software to design a new and improved Tim that counteracts the old Tim by sticking Tim2's fingers into Tim's ears and Tim2's vibrating pelvic antennae into Tim's shiny hiny. Thank you.
Step 2: "autistic paraplegic donkey porn"
Step 3: I'm feeling lucky
Step 4: Google Whack
I suppose it was meant to be ambiguous...
... besides with a Big Bang?
I agree with you completely. The way our government is set up is completely tyranical. They should have no right to regulate the way that I use my computer provided that I am not breaking any laws. Crowbars are used for burglarly, but they are still sold uncrippled in home depot. The point is that congressmen are ignorant, unsympathetic and many who have contributions and perks thrown at them are in no need or want of anything. If they break a CD it gets replaced. If their data gets wiped from their hard drive, they have assistants to set it back up. They just don't have to worry about fair use because their share is more than fair. The middle class are the ones that get ripped off. This is the way of the world.
I'd expect that PC manufacturers will make this protection easy to disable, either by bypassing a chip or removing it, etc... A little solder and or ingenuity and PRESTO! we'll all be modding our PC's! "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless, 1992 -- The same thing applies to hackers and pirates. They will find a way.
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." -- Ayn Rand
If you replace "prohibition" with DMCA, the whole thing still makes sense.
Why should the GPL be any less credible than any other software license out there? If it fails, it seems that there would be an implication that other restrictive licenses should fail as well (read: anti-reverse engineering clauses and the like).
Nintendo emulators are useful in more than just piracy. If I was a developer for a Pocket-PC (which I have been). I would use the emulator that comes with the SDK to test out my proggie on a real machine with debugging and a keyboard and mouse and all that other jazz. Emulators are just that - a software tool used in testing developed code for compatibility on a hardware platform. It is not necessarily used for piracy. THANK YOU.
How is the GBA cartridge protected? Is it the fact that it is stored on a non-standard media type? I'm not sure that qualifies as protected. Protected is what happens as a result of heavy encryption and password protection and hardware security checkpoints (like bad block addressing in PS games, laserlok, etc...). Go to megagames.com to find out about "protected". This is just a backup tool for legitamately purchased software. Our rights are "protected".
Actually, that is a pretty bad algorithm for factoring primes. You can get at least a 50% performance increase by testing 2, starting at 3 and then incrementing by 2. You can gain another 50% by stopping at test=floor(sqrt(i)).
Yeah, but I'm waiting for a portable version so I can play it on the crapper.
CORRECTION: That would be NEO-MODUS.
My university has similar restrictions, I believe the quota is 1 GB /week or so and 400 MB upstream. However internal bandwidth is not counted so with a little help from Direct Connect. We were all sharing a lightning fast connection to a P2P system with approximately 5-6 TB of files! In fact, We have almost every movie, song, and video game on this server with little or no remote queueing. In fact, the university not only turns a blind eye to this type of behavior, but I've been told by some of the higher ups that it is the best thing that could have happened to the university financially. Legality is hardly an issue because only university computers can connect to the server. It's a great system.
Oh sorry, I got that mixed up... He should be charging YOU otherwise to read his post.
Would that be because he isn't slashdot and is therefor not paying anything for you to read his post (except the cost of the initial submission...)? Otherwise you should check your logic on that one.
President Bush has been involved in similar research claiming that he has long needed a good fix of ethanol to get going in the morning.
But if you buy it and smash it, they make back a small percentage of their loss. If you boycott them and resfuse to buy a PS2, they lose all the money it took to produce the game, the game makers start to lose money, they stop licensing with Sony and sony loses MORE money. Don't buy a PS2! If I wanted to screw them over, why would I smash it when I could just pirate the games?
My TI89 can do that many calculations in about 15 seconds as well... 842! will do exactly what you just claimed was 842 calculations. I doubt anyone could even TYPE the numbers 1-842 with no spaces or enter keys, etcetera on a computer keyboard in under 15 seconds, even 2+2+2+2... is a stretch.... If this guy can do what he claims, I would really love to see an MPEG... there should be a new category in the Guinness Book of World records.
The TI89's do indeed do real time rotation as I am doing them right now. If you are thinking of the 92 which does not, that is a big difference but the 92+ model does. The only lacking feature of the 89 is RPN and yeah, it might be nice, but I find that even the buttons are more comfortable on the 89. And BTW, I do in fact own both calculators.
Of course you can do 842 calculations in 15 seconds if you mindlessly press 2 [ENTER] 2+2+ 2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2... I mean how hard is that? But I find that the CAS in the HP series could use some SERIOUS work. I hate that damn equation editor. I hate the stupid menus that you need to do almost everything. My TI-89 can handle things just fine. If you happen to have a short term memory and can't figure out where to put your parenthesis they make PRETTY PRINT for that! I admit that RPN has some nice features and that yes, the 49G can switch between the two systems, but c'mon the 89 is at least as technically advanced as the 49G.
After you get past all of that "crap" the story really takes off. Patience, Young Skywalker...
If you had to drop anything, Tom was the way to go. That would have added about 35 minutes of strangeness that added little to the story, IMHO. I enjoyed reading it very much, but if they were going to make the movie fit into one sitting, dropping him was the way to go.