Your description of Nintendo's argument against Game Genie is very similar to MS's argument against mod-chips (stability, unauthorized games). You are right though, DMCA does change anything, even though only real diff between Game Genie and a mod chip (from a user point of view) is that you don't need to open up your NES to install the Game Genie.
Still, it could be used as an example of how this stuff has been around for a while, heck, same thing existed for the Commodore 64...anybody remember the SnapShot or SuperSnapShot cartridge? I think I'm showing my age:-)
What's to stop people from cheating on-line if the XBOX can read games with modified binaries?
I thought that argument was put to rest when those gameshark cartridges came out for the NES. Maybe I'm thinking about the wrong thing, but I could have sworn lawsuites were filed and gameshark won in the long run.
Whatever. Enemies of your friends also include CmdrTaco, CowboyNeal, JohnKatz (whatever happened to him, or did I just start filtering his posts?), CleverNickName, Hemos and ChrisD amongst others.
I know you're trolling but it was him, not me. And yes, it is entirely my friend's fault that HD warranties now suck.
He's also been known to download MP3s off the net and even the odd DivX. Oooooh. People bitch about the rules being too strict all the time and then never do anything about it, well at least he's doing something, even if it's bending/breaking them.
That has been my philosophy since about 1996, and it has served me well. Having a notebook also helps to making sure that important data is duplicated.
I buy a new HD about every 18 months, it usually gives me enough room to dump my (full) previous HD, and still have an equivalent amount of free space. It takes me about 18 months anyways to fill up what's left on the new hard drive.
My friend's trick is to buy small sized hard drives from a big retailer that gives the 'premium' warranty, which is usually good for 2-3 years. When the warranty is almost out, he backs up his data, takes the drive out of the case and drops it from waist height onto the floor. He brings it in, and thanks to Moore's law, gets a new drive that is usually about twice as big as what he originaly had, since HD manufacturers stop making the small sized drives with time.
Five years ago in downtown Montreal (Canada) there used to be five different cinemas, with prices ranging from $8.00 CAD to $2.50 CAD (the lower price was for movies just about to come out on video).
Now there are only 2 theatres (new ones that didn't exist back then, the others, all shut down), and the price for a ticket is somewhere between $11.00 CAD and $13.00 CAD.
I used to go and see between one and two movies a week five years ago, now I'll see one movie every month or two, at best.
I undertand that in England $13.00 CAD is only 5.75 GBP, but over here that type of price is plain extortion. I wish easyCinema the same success as their airline venture.
- they're not something I want you to mess with (e.g., I don't want you to access that object list directly, because then you have to use the accessor methods I wrote, and those methods can handle things like cache management or logging that access to a remote system, etc).
That's exactly what I'm talking about. Something I don't want others to mess with is private. If people can mess with blocks of code marked private, then how can I guarantee my product will work for them? As for security, I mean security as in SCOPE, not as in "you'll never see my code 'cause all my methods are private".
I am curious as to how much code you write. This isn't an undocumented feature, this is a serious security issue. An undocumented feature would be having access to a method that was not described in an API, but which is still public. When it is private, the developer does not wish you to have access whatsoever.
It's one thing to be duped by someone from a country half-way around the world, where they use a different language and a different alphabet, and aren't known for their openess.
It's a completely different thing when the person comes from your own coutry, where even the most basic of background checks would have shown that the guy had spent only a fraction (11/91) of a year in the military, and had never been an officer.
And in the case of the Russian officer, at least he really was a Russian officer, but had not actually served in Chechnya. I don't think it's fair to show those two mistakes in the same light.
KrisplyKringle wrote:Well, they make up stories, but thats an exception (well, they and Fox).
And then newwave wrote:Is this just a swipe at a news channel simply because they actually include a conservative point of view, or do you have something to back this up?
And then I wrote: Fox doesn't make up stories, they just spread rumours that most other news sources would ignore. Oh wait a minute, Fox news does make up stories, but only when they support a conservative point of view. The rest of the time they are busy just manipulating the public. But of course, in the US, that is perfectly legal!.
Well, looking at strickly the rock'n'roll genre, I'd have to agree, G can turn to D only so many times until you've heard it all before. But like the Sloan lyrics go:
It's another song in this key Yeah but this one's about me
So like it or not people will keep pumping out the same stuff over and over, but it will sound 'new' to them. But I am sure there will always be a percentage of people who think they are in the 'know' and will only appreciate renditions of the originals. I'm sure there were other composers in the 18th century that did songs similar to Beethoven, but any discerning classical music fan would rather hear interpretations of Beethovon. Those are the die-hards, and those are the rock markets of tomorrow.
What? I thought they finally put a headphone jack on there. Could you elaborate?
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I agree with you entirely and I find it interesting to read your comment since last evening myself and a few friends were discussing how the rock genre is in the process of dying and that an inevitable void that will occur when bands such as the Rolling Stones finally disapear for good.
We came to the agreement that a market would exist for bands to emulate the stones, led zepp and others and be quite successful at it since current 'original' bands just don't cut it and fail to properly carry the legacy. Already existing examples we could thing of included The Back Doors and Bjorn Again both of whom are able to draw a crowd of 2,000 at almost any given moment.
So, how long will it be until officially sanctioned cover bands step in to replace the Stones once they get too old to tour, but are still a profitable commodity?
I've given up buying CDs since it's illegal anyway to copy the music to my computer or mp3 player.
It's not illegal yet. And with an 'I give up' attitude like that you're not helping those who haven't given up yet and are still trying to defend their rights.
PR tool? Please. Businesses run on Java, businesses make money from Java, it's a lot more than just a PR tool. In your context you could say that Visual Basic is a PR tool for Microsoft to fight non-Windows specific languages. But we both know that they are both a lot more than that. No wonder you posted as an AC.
So pick your posion. If JAVA isn't perfect, that dosen't make it horrible. JAVA is a good language by most standards, but be honest by stating that it isn't good by your standards.
My biggest reason for liking JAVA is that it forces people to stop writing bad C code. Which is exactly what it was designed to do.
Somebody mod this guy up, those are the best lines I've seen all night.
I don't do python, so i can only recommend text editors for you, but I believe ActiveState has a Python IDE and it its as good as their Perl one you should be happy with it, built in regex tools and stuff.
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Game Genie, that was it, thank you.
Your description of Nintendo's argument against Game Genie is very similar to MS's argument against mod-chips (stability, unauthorized games). You are right though, DMCA does change anything, even though only real diff between Game Genie and a mod chip (from a user point of view) is that you don't need to open up your NES to install the Game Genie.
Still, it could be used as an example of how this stuff has been around for a while, heck, same thing existed for the Commodore 64...anybody remember the SnapShot or SuperSnapShot cartridge? I think I'm showing my age :-)
What's to stop people from cheating on-line if the XBOX can read games with modified binaries?
I thought that argument was put to rest when those gameshark cartridges came out for the NES. Maybe I'm thinking about the wrong thing, but I could have sworn lawsuites were filed and gameshark won in the long run.
hehe, i don't know if that was a joke or if i'm missing the cyrillian (sp?) language pack, but it was funny either way, thanks!
Now I see why you're an enemy of a friend.
Whatever. Enemies of your friends also include CmdrTaco, CowboyNeal, JohnKatz (whatever happened to him, or did I just start filtering his posts?), CleverNickName, Hemos and ChrisD amongst others.
Looks like I'm in good company.
I know you're trolling but it was him, not me. And yes, it is entirely my friend's fault that HD warranties now suck.
He's also been known to download MP3s off the net and even the odd DivX. Oooooh. People bitch about the rules being too strict all the time and then never do anything about it, well at least he's doing something, even if it's bending/breaking them.
Bite me, bite him, bite yo'self, fool.
In soviet russia colonel compiles you!
That has been my philosophy since about 1996, and it has served me well. Having a notebook also helps to making sure that important data is duplicated.
I buy a new HD about every 18 months, it usually gives me enough room to dump my (full) previous HD, and still have an equivalent amount of free space. It takes me about 18 months anyways to fill up what's left on the new hard drive.
My friend's trick is to buy small sized hard drives from a big retailer that gives the 'premium' warranty, which is usually good for 2-3 years. When the warranty is almost out, he backs up his data, takes the drive out of the case and drops it from waist height onto the floor. He brings it in, and thanks to Moore's law, gets a new drive that is usually about twice as big as what he originaly had, since HD manufacturers stop making the small sized drives with time.
Five years ago in downtown Montreal (Canada) there used to be five different cinemas, with prices ranging from $8.00 CAD to $2.50 CAD (the lower price was for movies just about to come out on video).
Now there are only 2 theatres (new ones that didn't exist back then, the others, all shut down), and the price for a ticket is somewhere between $11.00 CAD and $13.00 CAD.
I used to go and see between one and two movies a week five years ago, now I'll see one movie every month or two, at best.
I undertand that in England $13.00 CAD is only 5.75 GBP, but over here that type of price is plain extortion. I wish easyCinema the same success as their airline venture.
My point exactly. Thank you.
- they're not something I want you to mess with (e.g., I don't want you to access that object list directly, because then you have to use the accessor methods I wrote, and those methods can handle things like cache management or logging that access to a remote system, etc).
That's exactly what I'm talking about. Something I don't want others to mess with is private. If people can mess with blocks of code marked private, then how can I guarantee my product will work for them? As for security, I mean security as in SCOPE, not as in "you'll never see my code 'cause all my methods are private".
I am curious as to how much code you write. This isn't an undocumented feature, this is a serious security issue. An undocumented feature would be having access to a method that was not described in an API, but which is still public. When it is private, the developer does not wish you to have access whatsoever.
It's one thing to be duped by someone from a country half-way around the world, where they use a different language and a different alphabet, and aren't known for their openess.
It's a completely different thing when the person comes from your own coutry, where even the most basic of background checks would have shown that the guy had spent only a fraction (11/91) of a year in the military, and had never been an officer.
And in the case of the Russian officer, at least he really was a Russian officer, but had not actually served in Chechnya. I don't think it's fair to show those two mistakes in the same light.
Oh, and just to poke a bit more fun at Fox, do you remember the time they hired a retired lieutenant-colonel as a military specialist and then found out he had only spent 44 days as a private!
KrisplyKringle wrote: Well, they make up stories, but thats an exception (well, they and Fox).
And then newwave wrote: Is this just a swipe at a news channel simply because they actually include a conservative point of view, or do you have something to back this up?
And then I wrote: Fox doesn't make up stories, they just spread rumours that most other news sources would ignore. Oh wait a minute, Fox news does make up stories, but only when they support a conservative point of view. The rest of the time they are busy just manipulating the public. But of course, in the US, that is perfectly legal!.
Ahhh, that's the kind of stuff they don't tell you on the box :-) Thanks for the tip!
can't do MP3
What? I thought they finally put a headphone jack on there. Could you elaborate?
We came to the agreement that a market would exist for bands to emulate the stones, led zepp and others and be quite successful at it since current 'original' bands just don't cut it and fail to properly carry the legacy. Already existing examples we could thing of included The Back Doors and Bjorn Again both of whom are able to draw a crowd of 2,000 at almost any given moment.
So, how long will it be until officially sanctioned cover bands step in to replace the Stones once they get too old to tour, but are still a profitable commodity?
I've given up buying CDs since it's illegal anyway to copy the music to my computer or mp3 player.
It's not illegal yet. And with an 'I give up' attitude like that you're not helping those who haven't given up yet and are still trying to defend their rights.
PR tool? Please. Businesses run on Java, businesses make money from Java, it's a lot more than just a PR tool. In your context you could say that Visual Basic is a PR tool for Microsoft to fight non-Windows specific languages. But we both know that they are both a lot more than that. No wonder you posted as an AC.
So pick your posion. If JAVA isn't perfect, that dosen't make it horrible. JAVA is a good language by most standards, but be honest by stating that it isn't good by your standards.
My biggest reason for liking JAVA is that it forces people to stop writing bad C code. Which is exactly what it was designed to do.
Somebody mod this guy up, those are the best lines I've seen all night.
I don't do python, so i can only recommend text editors for you, but I believe ActiveState has a Python IDE and it its as good as their Perl one you should be happy with it, built in regex tools and stuff.
Unless it's the premium stuff that comes from monkey asstart berries.
Download BitTorrent and use the Doom 3 .torrent link. That's what it's there for (was getting 140K/sec).
And as always, don't forget to keep your download window open for a few minutes after finishing.
"Want in one hand and spit in the other and see which one fills up first." - My Dad
That's the best original quote I've seen in a long time. Cheers!