Yeah, but it's an awkward sentence. I can make a very minor modification and make it flow much better:
In recent times, it seems that many Police Departments believe that recording them doing their work is an act of war, with police officers destroying the tapes, phones or cameras while arresting the folks doing it. In a surprising twist, the US Justice Department has sent a letter to attorneys for the Baltimore Police Department, who have been quite heavy handed in enforcing their 'Don't record me bro!' mantra.
With the people amongst whom this would cause a controversy, there is no way to avoid one. It's the same basic reason why you can't click on a map in Windows to set your time zone (well, one reason of many). If they call it "Persian Gulf", they piss off the Arabs. If they call it "Arabian Gulf", they piss off Iranians. If they use their last option and call it nothing, they still piss off the Iranians (as we see here) and they also probably piss off the Arabs as well.
I said it was a bit weak of an out, no need to get adversarial. For the record, I'm a big fan of Nintendo's work, just not a fan of some of their policies and legal wranglings over the years.
Would you be appeased if I said "handheld gaming console" which at best is a subset? When people hear the term "game console" they inherently tend to think of something that hooks up to an external display device, which handhelds tend not to do (but there have been a few) but even in those circumstances, controls are often internal to the system itself, and not externally attached (even here there are exceptions, the Virtual Boy is one off the top of my head).
It is possible to make custom note charts and import custom audio, modify all of the text, modify many of the settings of the game engine, and modify most of the graphics. It's also possible to do advanced stuff like altering the UI flow but that is a little closer to requiring actual programming skill (I myself have done this to the two existing GH2 demos in order to unlock menus that were locked away). None of this requires touching the main game executable (with the exception of the hack I developed to make the game use a different save file on the memory card than normal, and to give it a different name to show up in the PS2 browser).
It does help that the tools required to do this were made by others, but this is still not unheard of for other games.
Wii games are also regularly hacked, I can think of two projects right off-hand.
Finally, there's one critical element that makes PC gaming, which is what's targeted by these services primarily, unique: the games can be modified.
That's not unique to PC gaming, in fact I'm pretty sure there are people modding current-gen console games, and I know for a fact people mod games for previous generations (I myself have hacked Sega Genesis games and also hack around on Guitar Hero II on the PlayStation 2). There hasn't been a single generation of gaming consoles that's not been hacked or modded in some way regarding the software running on the system.
This is really the ultimate in DRM as far as I'm concerned. You don't actually get the game binaries, nor is your own hardware even running the game code. This is "streaming gaming", where it's essentially a virtual monitor cable and input device connection, across the Internet, to a remote system that is actually running the game.
Do game developers really want their games to be lost to history when they're not offering authentication, or in this case keeping the massive server farm it would require just for one game, never mind hundreds? It sure sounds like it nowadays, and that's sad, because we've already seen short-sightedness destroy thousands of audio, video, and film recordings. Here we are in 2012 and I'm pretty much watching the same thing happen to gaming and computing, with heavy-handed copyright laws that ensure that by the time it's actually legal to freely distribute antique software, there won't be many authentic copies surviving. I salute those who have chosen to tread the fine line between fair use and infringement in archiving and preserving confirmed authentic copies of original media, and preventing the situation where the only surviving media is hacked or otherwise modified in some way.
Interestingly, I think that actually is their goal. The more people they push to infringement, the more they get to say "See? We need these laws because more people are infringing than ever!" I just shudder to think about what other annoyance schemes they could come up with.
I agree, especially since it doesn't seem that Optus is emphasizing the ability to watch football matches, but merely the ability to watch any FTA channel, regardless of content. Seems like they could get around the ruling by using the football schedule to block specific channels from being viewed at those times. That way, they can't claim "hey, you're streaming our football matches without license!" because they're not streaming the football matches.
Yeah! And while you're at it, quit working on any other hobby and grow up! People shouldn't have fun in life once they reach adulthood, they should just work and work and die.
Fuck you Richard Browne, just like I said fuck David Braben when he said that shit. It's partially on the head of the console manufacturers, they demand a large chunk of money and games have to cost $50-$60 just to make any profit at all, so no wonder why people buy used. Funny how every other form of recorded media (books, music, movies, TV shows, etc) have been perfectly fine out there with people able to sell used. Why is it only game devs that can't handle it?
I understand that game devs need to get paid. However, restricting the rights of people regarding your product is the wrong approach to take.
Yeah, but it would be up to her to file suit again, and given the Australian case, I'm pretty sure that could be used, not as binding precedent but of proof that Bell indeed is the copyright holder. At this point either she has a ton of money that she wants to burn or she's just trying to screw him over for whatever reason (maybe she wanted to fuck and he rebuked her? Pure speculation, but it wouldn't surprise me if it were true). Either way, she'll end up getting burnt and he should prevail, given that he already has once.
Nobody in this thread said anything about being on the Internet through Compuserve in 1983, or indeed anything about the Internet whatsoever during that time frame. The claim was that CIS did not exist in 1983, which I refuted, albeit with a different name (but the Wikipedia page didn't date the name change and I can't be arsed to look it up at 3am). CIS, previously known as MicroNET, goes back further than 1983.
Nope. It was LOAD"*",8,1 to load the most recently loaded file (or on first load, the first file on disk) at it's original load address. The reason you have to leave the,1 off when fetching a directory with $ was that for backwards compatibility and code re-use, the drive sent a load address of $0401. This was fine on the PET and on a Vic-20 expanded with 3K RAM, but on the C64 $0400-$07FF is by default screen memory, and so LOAD "$",8,1 on a C64 will display the raw bytes as if it were screen code, which is incorrect. Leaving off the,1 forces C64 BASIC to load it to normal BASIC RAM (located at $0801), so that you can then LIST it like a BASIC program.
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Yeah, but it's an awkward sentence. I can make a very minor modification and make it flow much better:
In recent times, it seems that many Police Departments believe that recording them doing their work is an act of war, with police officers destroying the tapes, phones or cameras while arresting the folks doing it. In a surprising twist, the US Justice Department has sent a letter to attorneys for the Baltimore Police Department, who have been quite heavy handed in enforcing their 'Don't record me bro!' mantra.
With the people amongst whom this would cause a controversy, there is no way to avoid one. It's the same basic reason why you can't click on a map in Windows to set your time zone (well, one reason of many). If they call it "Persian Gulf", they piss off the Arabs. If they call it "Arabian Gulf", they piss off Iranians. If they use their last option and call it nothing, they still piss off the Iranians (as we see here) and they also probably piss off the Arabs as well.
I said it was a bit weak of an out, no need to get adversarial. For the record, I'm a big fan of Nintendo's work, just not a fan of some of their policies and legal wranglings over the years.
Would you be appeased if I said "handheld gaming console" which at best is a subset? When people hear the term "game console" they inherently tend to think of something that hooks up to an external display device, which handhelds tend not to do (but there have been a few) but even in those circumstances, controls are often internal to the system itself, and not externally attached (even here there are exceptions, the Virtual Boy is one off the top of my head).
The racism (although I hesitate to call it racism as it's not targeted to my ethnicity, but my national heritage).
No, it didn't add anything to the discussion, but /. shows I got +3 on that post (not counting my bonus) , strangely. Not that I need it ;)
It is possible to make custom note charts and import custom audio, modify all of the text, modify many of the settings of the game engine, and modify most of the graphics. It's also possible to do advanced stuff like altering the UI flow but that is a little closer to requiring actual programming skill (I myself have done this to the two existing GH2 demos in order to unlock menus that were locked away). None of this requires touching the main game executable (with the exception of the hack I developed to make the game use a different save file on the memory card than normal, and to give it a different name to show up in the PS2 browser).
It does help that the tools required to do this were made by others, but this is still not unheard of for other games.
Wii games are also regularly hacked, I can think of two projects right off-hand.
Wow, fuck you dude. Just fuck you.
Ok, I missed that one. My out is that I said "gaming consoles" and not "handheld gaming systems".
Yeah, a bit weak. Still, outside of the 3DS, my point stands. Even the Vita can at least run PSP homebrew.
Hacking Guitar Hero II on the PS2 requires no hardware modification and no programming skill.
Finally, there's one critical element that makes PC gaming, which is what's targeted by these services primarily, unique: the games can be modified.
That's not unique to PC gaming, in fact I'm pretty sure there are people modding current-gen console games, and I know for a fact people mod games for previous generations (I myself have hacked Sega Genesis games and also hack around on Guitar Hero II on the PlayStation 2). There hasn't been a single generation of gaming consoles that's not been hacked or modded in some way regarding the software running on the system.
This is really the ultimate in DRM as far as I'm concerned. You don't actually get the game binaries, nor is your own hardware even running the game code. This is "streaming gaming", where it's essentially a virtual monitor cable and input device connection, across the Internet, to a remote system that is actually running the game.
Do game developers really want their games to be lost to history when they're not offering authentication, or in this case keeping the massive server farm it would require just for one game, never mind hundreds? It sure sounds like it nowadays, and that's sad, because we've already seen short-sightedness destroy thousands of audio, video, and film recordings. Here we are in 2012 and I'm pretty much watching the same thing happen to gaming and computing, with heavy-handed copyright laws that ensure that by the time it's actually legal to freely distribute antique software, there won't be many authentic copies surviving. I salute those who have chosen to tread the fine line between fair use and infringement in archiving and preserving confirmed authentic copies of original media, and preventing the situation where the only surviving media is hacked or otherwise modified in some way.
That will also reduce the overall quality of the video stream as I-frames are by definition larger than predictive frames.
Because I don't generally make posts like this :)
Well, fuck you too! You're probably the one who downmodded me. Luckily, one piddly-ass -1 means bupkus to me.
Have a nice day!
You mean, "My eyes! The goggles do nothing!"
If you're gonna quote a line of dialogue, next time try to make sure it's an actual quote.
Interestingly, I think that actually is their goal. The more people they push to infringement, the more they get to say "See? We need these laws because more people are infringing than ever!" I just shudder to think about what other annoyance schemes they could come up with.
I agree, especially since it doesn't seem that Optus is emphasizing the ability to watch football matches, but merely the ability to watch any FTA channel, regardless of content. Seems like they could get around the ruling by using the football schedule to block specific channels from being viewed at those times. That way, they can't claim "hey, you're streaming our football matches without license!" because they're not streaming the football matches.
You do know that iOS is moving towards "PC-free" which means you won't need any software on your PC?
more specifically, the right side of the Republican party
So the left side of the Democrats are innocent?
News flash - if you're not moderate, you're part of the problem.
No, the MPAA is trying to protect you from good movies so that you don't know that the majority of their dreck is made up of bad movies.
Yeah, not really working well either, except within the unwashed masses.
Yeah! And while you're at it, quit working on any other hobby and grow up! People shouldn't have fun in life once they reach adulthood, they should just work and work and die.
Fuck you Richard Browne, just like I said fuck David Braben when he said that shit. It's partially on the head of the console manufacturers, they demand a large chunk of money and games have to cost $50-$60 just to make any profit at all, so no wonder why people buy used. Funny how every other form of recorded media (books, music, movies, TV shows, etc) have been perfectly fine out there with people able to sell used. Why is it only game devs that can't handle it?
I understand that game devs need to get paid. However, restricting the rights of people regarding your product is the wrong approach to take.
18 hours of raws for a porno? U mad bro?
Yeah, but it would be up to her to file suit again, and given the Australian case, I'm pretty sure that could be used, not as binding precedent but of proof that Bell indeed is the copyright holder. At this point either she has a ton of money that she wants to burn or she's just trying to screw him over for whatever reason (maybe she wanted to fuck and he rebuked her? Pure speculation, but it wouldn't surprise me if it were true). Either way, she'll end up getting burnt and he should prevail, given that he already has once.
Nobody in this thread said anything about being on the Internet through Compuserve in 1983, or indeed anything about the Internet whatsoever during that time frame. The claim was that CIS did not exist in 1983, which I refuted, albeit with a different name (but the Wikipedia page didn't date the name change and I can't be arsed to look it up at 3am). CIS, previously known as MicroNET, goes back further than 1983.
Nope. It was LOAD"*",8,1 to load the most recently loaded file (or on first load, the first file on disk) at it's original load address. The reason you have to leave the ,1 off when fetching a directory with $ was that for backwards compatibility and code re-use, the drive sent a load address of $0401. This was fine on the PET and on a Vic-20 expanded with 3K RAM, but on the C64 $0400-$07FF is by default screen memory, and so LOAD "$",8,1 on a C64 will display the raw bytes as if it were screen code, which is incorrect. Leaving off the ,1 forces C64 BASIC to load it to normal BASIC RAM (located at $0801), so that you can then LIST it like a BASIC program.