Too bad the people in positions of power are infested with stage 3 and 4 (most damagingly, stage 4). If there was suddenly a law passed making it illegal to consume yellow apples, a large portion of the population would roll over and throw out their yellow apples.
Stations have done weekly EAS tests, initiated locally, for years, All this means is that EAS tests can be initiated automatically on a nationwide level. EAS doesn't "cut off" a TV broadcast, it is a superimposed crawl and audio alarm. I honestly don't understand why people are making such a big deal about this.
You're a fucktard for equating states' rights with racism. As if the fact that one set of laws were overturned as unconstitutional has any bearing on whether states' rights is a valid concept in its own right.
Looks like it's time for a VPN that uses stego. Sure, it might slow the connection down quite a bit, but if it's the difference between no access and (ideally almost undetectable) access, it'll have to do.
This is not "abandonware". Certainly not when it comes to open source software that is still freely available and not at all hard to acquire. "Abandonware", traditionally, has referred to closed source software that, over time, either has no known copyright holder (but is not public domain so is still illegal to redistribute) or has literally been "abandoned" by the copyright holder (but is also not public domain so is still illegal to redistribute). Thus making the ability to find a legitimate copy of the software much tougher than it needs to be, and (ignoring abandonware sites and other such forms of "piracy-preservation") increases the likelihood of a work being lost forever.
Yes, of course, I also left a slew of people out. To clarify, I was merely speaking about the US market, as that's where my experience lies (hence why I didn't mention Sir Clive, as much respect as he deserves, since the TS1000 sold like crap over here - I simply admit to having no real knowledge of the UK scene). I did unintentionally leave Roberts out. However, as influential as the Altair 8800 was, it was not directly part of the mass home computer revolution (I would posit there were far more Apple II machines in homes than there were 8800s), thus my omission is not nearly that grave. I consider the HCC to be more or less the catalyst for what became the mainstream industry. At that time, computing was still either a big business or a hobbyist niche. The guys of the HCC were the ones to pioneer computing for the masses, I agree wholeheartedly.
That list is inaccurate anyway, it leaves off a whole slew of people. Even just regarding managerial and founding positions, you have Jobs, Wozniak, Gates, Allen, Tramiel, and Bushnell just off the top of my head. I would also include Don French, John Roach, and Steve Leininger of/for Tandy in this list. I would posit that Commodore, Atari, and Tandy had as much to do with "computing for the masses" as did MS and Apple.
Remember, it's not the "big three", it was really the "big four" - Commodore, Atari, Apple, Tandy - that started out the idea of "computing for the masses". IBM's 5150 PC was designed as a business machine, not primarily as a machine one would have at home (although there were certainly 5150s in homes, I would posit there were far more Apples, Commodores, Ataris, and TRS-80s, even if you only look at one of those four lines).
Nowhere in this list should Torvalds be included - he's a very intelligent man, and he was a visionary in how he handled Linux in the early days, but the computing industry was already going long before he arrived on the scene, he "merely" helped to popularize FOSS (which is an achievement in itself, by all means). Before the aforementioned people, there really was no such thing as "personal computing", in a practical sense.
Did you search through the US trademark database? The system names are not trademarked. The only one that ever was (that is relevant to this discussion) was the 2600, and that mark has been dead for years.
The TIA is in no way a "video ROM". And emulators obviously do "use" the TIA, or at least clone the functionality of it, else you'd get no video output. But, thanks to Coleco, cloning the TIA is legal as a settled matter of case law, even if the patents were still active.
The VCS never had a BIOS. Coleco proved that it was legal to clone the 2600 way back then with Expansion Module #1 that you reference. Atari sued them for patent infringement and lost because Coleco used off-the-shelf parts. And this happened when Atari's patents were active.
Cloning the 2600 is legal, which means that emulation is legal (on top of later court rulings that showed emulation itself to be legal).
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The latter is quite illegal and immoral. The former is only illegal.
Too bad the people in positions of power are infested with stage 3 and 4 (most damagingly, stage 4). If there was suddenly a law passed making it illegal to consume yellow apples, a large portion of the population would roll over and throw out their yellow apples.
No, instead they'll just sue the fuck out of you.
Never seen 1-liter bottled soft drinks?
You're an idiot. Please remove your foot from your mouth, I can't imagine that tastes good.
Stations have done weekly EAS tests, initiated locally, for years, All this means is that EAS tests can be initiated automatically on a nationwide level. EAS doesn't "cut off" a TV broadcast, it is a superimposed crawl and audio alarm. I honestly don't understand why people are making such a big deal about this.
So now, we take the one thing in the DMCA that is arguably good (when the rest of the DMCA is taken into context) and they want to gut that?
"Tens of thousands" is not considered a "higher volume commercial application". Think millions.
Way to ignore the second half of my comment, troll.
Turn back the clock 60 years ago:
"Another study finds no link between tabbaco and cancer (again)"
"Another study finds no link between the ability to speak and real intellegence" FTFY.
Also, TOBACCO
Also, INTELLIGENCE
How's that foot taste?
It needs to be the Politicalist threat. Such a scourge of human existence.
You're a fucktard for equating states' rights with racism. As if the fact that one set of laws were overturned as unconstitutional has any bearing on whether states' rights is a valid concept in its own right.
Slashdot needs a (-1, Stupid) mod option.
Preferably one that damages the poster's karma.
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Looks like it's time for a VPN that uses stego. Sure, it might slow the connection down quite a bit, but if it's the difference between no access and (ideally almost undetectable) access, it'll have to do.
This is not "abandonware". Certainly not when it comes to open source software that is still freely available and not at all hard to acquire. "Abandonware", traditionally, has referred to closed source software that, over time, either has no known copyright holder (but is not public domain so is still illegal to redistribute) or has literally been "abandoned" by the copyright holder (but is also not public domain so is still illegal to redistribute). Thus making the ability to find a legitimate copy of the software much tougher than it needs to be, and (ignoring abandonware sites and other such forms of "piracy-preservation") increases the likelihood of a work being lost forever.
Yes, of course, I also left a slew of people out. To clarify, I was merely speaking about the US market, as that's where my experience lies (hence why I didn't mention Sir Clive, as much respect as he deserves, since the TS1000 sold like crap over here - I simply admit to having no real knowledge of the UK scene). I did unintentionally leave Roberts out. However, as influential as the Altair 8800 was, it was not directly part of the mass home computer revolution (I would posit there were far more Apple II machines in homes than there were 8800s), thus my omission is not nearly that grave. I consider the HCC to be more or less the catalyst for what became the mainstream industry. At that time, computing was still either a big business or a hobbyist niche. The guys of the HCC were the ones to pioneer computing for the masses, I agree wholeheartedly.
That list is inaccurate anyway, it leaves off a whole slew of people. Even just regarding managerial and founding positions, you have Jobs, Wozniak, Gates, Allen, Tramiel, and Bushnell just off the top of my head. I would also include Don French, John Roach, and Steve Leininger of/for Tandy in this list. I would posit that Commodore, Atari, and Tandy had as much to do with "computing for the masses" as did MS and Apple.
Remember, it's not the "big three", it was really the "big four" - Commodore, Atari, Apple, Tandy - that started out the idea of "computing for the masses". IBM's 5150 PC was designed as a business machine, not primarily as a machine one would have at home (although there were certainly 5150s in homes, I would posit there were far more Apples, Commodores, Ataris, and TRS-80s, even if you only look at one of those four lines).
Nowhere in this list should Torvalds be included - he's a very intelligent man, and he was a visionary in how he handled Linux in the early days, but the computing industry was already going long before he arrived on the scene, he "merely" helped to popularize FOSS (which is an achievement in itself, by all means). Before the aforementioned people, there really was no such thing as "personal computing", in a practical sense.
Because they presumably own the hardware to play the game on, and they presumably may buy certain games brand new. Why does Sony hate freedom?
Add-On Compatibility Reporter. Use it.
By the time hand calculators were coming out, they already had key/button pads.
False.
Did you search through the US trademark database? The system names are not trademarked. The only one that ever was (that is relevant to this discussion) was the 2600, and that mark has been dead for years.
The TIA is in no way a "video ROM". And emulators obviously do "use" the TIA, or at least clone the functionality of it, else you'd get no video output. But, thanks to Coleco, cloning the TIA is legal as a settled matter of case law, even if the patents were still active.
The VCS never had a BIOS. Coleco proved that it was legal to clone the 2600 way back then with Expansion Module #1 that you reference. Atari sued them for patent infringement and lost because Coleco used off-the-shelf parts. And this happened when Atari's patents were active.
Cloning the 2600 is legal, which means that emulation is legal (on top of later court rulings that showed emulation itself to be legal).
Um, did you ignore me? I searched and found no active marks for any of the specific model numbers, except for a dead mark for "Atari 2600".