btw, there's nothing illegal about emulating games that you already own,
Its only legal if two things are true. One, that you personally backed up the game with a flash advance linker, rather than downloading it from a ROMs site, and two, that Nintendo's EULA stating backups are illegal period doesn't hold up in court.
Whether or not its morally wrong is a different question though.
I admit, it took me about 5 hours to really truely get the hang of using the two buttons in conjunction, learning not to press them in all the way (they do different things at different levels, you know...)...
Thats ridiculous, any game that forces you to play it for more than 30 minutes just to get the hang of the controls before you can enjoy it is crap.
But since you're an unskilled sack of shit, you're naturally just pissed off because the game wasn't easy enough for you to play.
Complaining because the game isn't easy enough to beat is one thing. If the grandparent had been doing that, then you certainly would have cause to call him an unskilled hack. But complaining about it not being easy enough to play is something completely different. Game designers should *never* increase the difficulty of the game by fubaring the controls. If you can't place the controls in a way that works well and is intuitive, you need to redesign the interface.
I had a similar thing happen to me about a month ago. My brother's iMac started smelling really funny and then stopped booting. I pulled out the hard drive and saw a dime sized patch of melted surface mount chip material stuck to the hard drive carrier. Upon further examination, I found the head of a termite sticking out of a crevasse in the drive.
That did ruin it. I was looking forward to seeing the expression on my little brothers' faces (who haven't read the books yet) when they realized that Gandalf wasn't actually dead. I mean, that would be like showing the part of "The Sixth Sense" where you realize that Bruce Willis is a ghost in the trailer!
That's pretty funny, since I though proving the absolute non-existence of something was a logical impossibility.
Thats only true if your evidence was gained through observation of the natural world. If however, you evidence was gained through a logical examination of the concepts involved, for example finding a logical contradiction in the definition of God, then its certainly possible. One such piece of evidence that applies to most of the popular Christian definitions of God is the fact that omniscience and omnipotence are logically inconsistent with each other.
Its the aiming of the laser that requires precision. It doesn't matter where you put the target recognition and aquiring logic, the farther away the target is, the more precise your aiming servos have to be.
It is likely that any deployed system will have a range vastly greater than artillery. These things can be miles behind the front or even in the air.
Just because the laser has essentially a limitless range doesn't mean the targeting systems do. Remember, the precision needed for hitting a specified target increases as the square of the distance between the laser and the target does. The curvature of the earth also presents difficulties when targets are at far distances. For every mile the target is away, the laser must be 25 feet higher in the air than the object targetted. This essentially precludes ground based long range attacks. The mounting of the laser on an aircraft presents even more difficulties in getting accuracy and precision out of the targeting system due to the movement of the aircraft.
right now you should be able to get 6-8 episodes of a tv series on a DVD instead we get 2
Bull-fucking-shit. If you are talking about half-hour (broadcast time) episodes, you almost always get at least 3 episodes on a disc, if not 4 or 5. If you are talking about hour long (again, broadcast time) there is no way in hell you are going to get 6 episodes on a single disc, let alone 8. Hell, you'd barely be able to get 8 half-hour episodes onto a disc, and if you tried, the quality would surely suffer.
As I posted in another thread, I believe that the firmware region locking only affects reading the disc as DVD-Video like most software players do. VLC reads it as UDF and decodes the VOBs itself.
I believe that hardware locking only affects reading the disc as DVD-Video. VLC gets around this by reading the DVD as UDF and decoding the VOBs itself. Thats why it can play a VOB off of your hard drive as well.
Then again, this is upstate NY that I'm talking about, and some of those people have money to throw out the window.
Oh, that explains everything. Upstate NY is one of the wealthiest regions in the entire US. The wages you will get in that region are completely ridiculous. The fact that you could get $30/hr working for a high school just illustrates the point. In my area, the teachers don't even get paid that much.
The people who are advertising in the paper are probably not getting very much business. It is incredibly hard to get business without a storefront, especially for computers. They may be charging $25/hr, but when you only get work for 15 hours/week at the most, it isn't that much. You also don't get to do retail for all the parts you will need to replace.
Dude, if you're only bringing back 1,500 a month as a programmer, webmaster, admin and techsupport, you're working for the wrong people. Doing techsupport alone, you should be able to find people willing to pay $25 an hour (hell CompUSA will charge $30 an hour, just for labor. That's $100 in 4 hours, or roughly 60 hours to earn what you made in a month.
Where the hell do you live? Where I live (western WA) $1500/month for tech support is pretty typical. You'd be pretty damn lucky to find a job that pays $20/hr for tech support, let alone $25.
And you are an idiot if you think that anywhere near the full $30/hr CompUSA charges for labor goes to the people actually doing the labor. I worked at a local computer store that charged $60/hr for labor and the highest paid tech only got $10/hr. The rest of that money goes to support the costs of owning a business.
Any pirating-prevention schemes that were developed for each OS should still work with combined media.
Actually, its quite a bit easier to pirate CD based apps on a mac because SafeDisc and its relatives don't work on a mac. All you have to do on a mac to copy a CD based app is pop the CD in, open up Toast and make a image from device, and pop a blank in and write it right back.
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Because it rains half the fucking year here, thats why.
Its only legal if two things are true. One, that you personally backed up the game with a flash advance linker, rather than downloading it from a ROMs site, and two, that Nintendo's EULA stating backups are illegal period doesn't hold up in court.
Whether or not its morally wrong is a different question though.
No you don't. You just need a Flash Advance Linker and an NES emulator for the GBA. Then the games are free.
Thats ridiculous, any game that forces you to play it for more than 30 minutes just to get the hang of the controls before you can enjoy it is crap.
But since you're an unskilled sack of shit, you're naturally just pissed off because the game wasn't easy enough for you to play.
Complaining because the game isn't easy enough to beat is one thing. If the grandparent had been doing that, then you certainly would have cause to call him an unskilled hack. But complaining about it not being easy enough to play is something completely different. Game designers should *never* increase the difficulty of the game by fubaring the controls. If you can't place the controls in a way that works well and is intuitive, you need to redesign the interface.
"Mundane" is just as derogatory as "muggle" is, just ask anyone that has dealt with the Psi-Corps.
I had a similar thing happen to me about a month ago. My brother's iMac started smelling really funny and then stopped booting. I pulled out the hard drive and saw a dime sized patch of melted surface mount chip material stuck to the hard drive carrier. Upon further examination, I found the head of a termite sticking out of a crevasse in the drive.
Its not genocide, its insecticide :D
That did ruin it. I was looking forward to seeing the expression on my little brothers' faces (who haven't read the books yet) when they realized that Gandalf wasn't actually dead. I mean, that would be like showing the part of "The Sixth Sense" where you realize that Bruce Willis is a ghost in the trailer!
Wasn't Arthur Levine one of the characters in Michael Chrichton's "Sphere"?
Thats only true if your evidence was gained through observation of the natural world. If however, you evidence was gained through a logical examination of the concepts involved, for example finding a logical contradiction in the definition of God, then its certainly possible. One such piece of evidence that applies to most of the popular Christian definitions of God is the fact that omniscience and omnipotence are logically inconsistent with each other.
Move immediately! Its the only way to save any intelligence you might have left.
Satellite providers have to carry local channels. Call DirecTV or Dish or whoever you have to see how to get them.
Its the aiming of the laser that requires precision. It doesn't matter where you put the target recognition and aquiring logic, the farther away the target is, the more precise your aiming servos have to be.
It was the "movie" but thats the same thing as the series. The movie was just the Toonami translation of the series. All four episodes are there.
Just because the laser has essentially a limitless range doesn't mean the targeting systems do. Remember, the precision needed for hitting a specified target increases as the square of the distance between the laser and the target does. The curvature of the earth also presents difficulties when targets are at far distances. For every mile the target is away, the laser must be 25 feet higher in the air than the object targetted. This essentially precludes ground based long range attacks. The mounting of the laser on an aircraft presents even more difficulties in getting accuracy and precision out of the targeting system due to the movement of the aircraft.
What? I have Blue Sub No 6. all on one disc. I've never seen it sold any other way.
Bull-fucking-shit. If you are talking about half-hour (broadcast time) episodes, you almost always get at least 3 episodes on a disc, if not 4 or 5. If you are talking about hour long (again, broadcast time) there is no way in hell you are going to get 6 episodes on a single disc, let alone 8. Hell, you'd barely be able to get 8 half-hour episodes onto a disc, and if you tried, the quality would surely suffer.
As I posted in another thread, I believe that the firmware region locking only affects reading the disc as DVD-Video like most software players do. VLC reads it as UDF and decodes the VOBs itself.
I believe that hardware locking only affects reading the disc as DVD-Video. VLC gets around this by reading the DVD as UDF and decoding the VOBs itself. Thats why it can play a VOB off of your hard drive as well.
Oh, that explains everything. Upstate NY is one of the wealthiest regions in the entire US. The wages you will get in that region are completely ridiculous. The fact that you could get $30/hr working for a high school just illustrates the point. In my area, the teachers don't even get paid that much.
The people who are advertising in the paper are probably not getting very much business. It is incredibly hard to get business without a storefront, especially for computers. They may be charging $25/hr, but when you only get work for 15 hours/week at the most, it isn't that much. You also don't get to do retail for all the parts you will need to replace.
Where the hell do you live? Where I live (western WA) $1500/month for tech support is pretty typical. You'd be pretty damn lucky to find a job that pays $20/hr for tech support, let alone $25.
And you are an idiot if you think that anywhere near the full $30/hr CompUSA charges for labor goes to the people actually doing the labor. I worked at a local computer store that charged $60/hr for labor and the highest paid tech only got $10/hr. The rest of that money goes to support the costs of owning a business.
Actually, its quite a bit easier to pirate CD based apps on a mac because SafeDisc and its relatives don't work on a mac. All you have to do on a mac to copy a CD based app is pop the CD in, open up Toast and make a image from device, and pop a blank in and write it right back.
Wow, MacAMP is still around? Damn, that takes me back. I thought it was renamed to MacCAST or something like that?
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Lord of the Rings? Now handled by J.R.R. Tolkien's son, Brian Tolkien. Thats Christopher Tolkien, not Brien Tolkien.