The "article" (which is actually a forum thread) says, and I quote, "The State of Homebrew On All Consoles", which is a complete lie. What's missing from the forum thread?
Atari 2600? Check. NES? Check. Game Boy pre-GBA? Check. Sega Master System? Check Sega Genesis? Check.
And there are probably some that I've forgotten as well, but at least I'll admit it.
"Because we are the only dedicated Homebrew Network on the web covering just about all scenes"? STFU and GTFO, you suck.
The Wii has absolutely nothing to do with B&M stores reducing or ceasing their intake of older games. Many chains had already done this with 8- and 16-bit stuff long before we even knew of the name "Revolution", never mind the whole Virtual Console thing. There comes a time, after a system is commercially dead, that it becomes no longer profitable to put manpower into sorting and pricing the old items.
Even if Nintendo had never decided to do a Virtual Console, I would guarantee you that some shops would stop carrying PSX and N64 stuff by now. Just like the fact that, a few more generations down the road, we'll be talking about stores discontinuing sales of PS3 and XBox360 stuff.
Creation of anything that is legally considere copyrightable is automatically copyrighted, even if the creator then chucks it away in a drawer for eternity. You don't have to publish to receive copyright status. You have to register to be eligible for statutory damages in court, but not to take action against copyright infringement.
But copyright law doesn't prop up all of these other restrictions that are placed in EULAs after the point of sale. What gives THOSE terms legal weight? Sure, I can't take and redistribute the content without permission, but there are a lot of other things that we do have the legal right to, that EULAs still purport to remove - such as terms that forbid reselling of legally-purchased media, contrary to the doctrine of first sale.
No, he's saying that the season box sets should come out the day after the last episode in the season airs, more or less. For some shows that might not be practical, but a lot of the non-topical shows are in the can before the season even begins, giving the production company plenty of time to massage the video into DVD MPEG-2 and wrap some menus, subtitles, and extra features around them.
They owned the company, not the servers. The customers own the servers, or at the very least the entirety of the data on them. This is like, if someone is selling drugs from a single apartment, then going around and searching every other resident at the same apartment complex - after all, they're all owned by the same people.
I'm of the belief that EULAs are considered contracts, at least with regards to our broken legal system. If they don't fall under contract law, then just what law gives EULAs force? Without something to go behind it, EULAs are meaningless.
You forget one thing - the non-premium TV industry is the advertising industry. If it wasn't for advertising, you'd be paying for a subscription to each and every channel that is currently on basic/extended cable, or you wouldn't have them. In short, if TV wasn't so intertwined with advertising, you would probably already have a la carte.
Even in the beginning of the modern TV industry, advertising was intertwined. In the old days, entire shows were sponsored by a company who would then plaster their logo and name all over the show (even in the title of the show itself, in some cases).
Bullshit. The shim is GPL, and source code is provided. The binary-only driver is not specific to Linux. nVidia, being the original copyright holders to the shim, can allow use of it with the binary-only part (since this is not an added restriction above those the GPL already imposes, it doesn't violate the GPL).
It's some dumbass guy who's trying to trademark it so that Walmart would have to pay millions. Neither one of them should have it, as it's such a generic icon by now.
I'm of the understanding that they actually applied the male texture to the female mesh, which is why it isn't quite right. If that's the case, then Jack's really arguing against male toplessness, which as far as I know hasn't been made taboo yet. After all, to make it impossible for people to appropriate the male texture in such a fashion, you have to make them less anatomically correct or just cover them up completely.
Although on the screen, they appear to be using the old AmigaDOS 1.x font (probably the TTF version called "November"), instead of the actual charset generated by the IMSAI. I don't think it's quite the same voice though, the inflection sounds slightly different.
Agreed. While Kega Fusion is quite accurate, it's not cycle-accurate. I've written Genesis code designed to change the backdrop color mid-scanline, and on emulators it just displayed a black screen.
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The Genesis also has a version of KGS, called Fatal Rewind IIRC. The music wasn't quite as good, but I feel it played just as good as the original.
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The "article" (which is actually a forum thread) says, and I quote, "The State of Homebrew On All Consoles", which is a complete lie. What's missing from the forum thread?
Atari 2600? Check.
NES? Check.
Game Boy pre-GBA? Check.
Sega Master System? Check
Sega Genesis? Check.
And there are probably some that I've forgotten as well, but at least I'll admit it.
"Because we are the only dedicated Homebrew Network on the web covering just about all scenes"? STFU and GTFO, you suck.
The Wii has absolutely nothing to do with B&M stores reducing or ceasing their intake of older games. Many chains had already done this with 8- and 16-bit stuff long before we even knew of the name "Revolution", never mind the whole Virtual Console thing. There comes a time, after a system is commercially dead, that it becomes no longer profitable to put manpower into sorting and pricing the old items.
Even if Nintendo had never decided to do a Virtual Console, I would guarantee you that some shops would stop carrying PSX and N64 stuff by now. Just like the fact that, a few more generations down the road, we'll be talking about stores discontinuing sales of PS3 and XBox360 stuff.
Oh yeah, I'm sure Nintendo bends over backwards for "unauthorized" emulation.
What's so wrong with sacrificing a few human lives to save millions?
The Internet regularly transfers terabytes of data every day, and they're worried that a little bit of piddly-ass streaming is going to kill it?
Creation of anything that is legally considere copyrightable is automatically copyrighted, even if the creator then chucks it away in a drawer for eternity. You don't have to publish to receive copyright status. You have to register to be eligible for statutory damages in court, but not to take action against copyright infringement.
And if the suspect is the apartment owner?
But copyright law doesn't prop up all of these other restrictions that are placed in EULAs after the point of sale. What gives THOSE terms legal weight? Sure, I can't take and redistribute the content without permission, but there are a lot of other things that we do have the legal right to, that EULAs still purport to remove - such as terms that forbid reselling of legally-purchased media, contrary to the doctrine of first sale.
No, he's saying that the season box sets should come out the day after the last episode in the season airs, more or less. For some shows that might not be practical, but a lot of the non-topical shows are in the can before the season even begins, giving the production company plenty of time to massage the video into DVD MPEG-2 and wrap some menus, subtitles, and extra features around them.
They owned the company, not the servers. The customers own the servers, or at the very least the entirety of the data on them. This is like, if someone is selling drugs from a single apartment, then going around and searching every other resident at the same apartment complex - after all, they're all owned by the same people.
I'm of the belief that EULAs are considered contracts, at least with regards to our broken legal system. If they don't fall under contract law, then just what law gives EULAs force? Without something to go behind it, EULAs are meaningless.
Wow, isn't that the whole argument against EULAs? That there's no consideration?
Either this ruling or EULAs will be overturned. Anything else is a double standard.
You forget one thing - the non-premium TV industry is the advertising industry. If it wasn't for advertising, you'd be paying for a subscription to each and every channel that is currently on basic/extended cable, or you wouldn't have them. In short, if TV wasn't so intertwined with advertising, you would probably already have a la carte.
Even in the beginning of the modern TV industry, advertising was intertwined. In the old days, entire shows were sponsored by a company who would then plaster their logo and name all over the show (even in the title of the show itself, in some cases).
I said nutbag environmentalists. You know, a subset?
FUCK ALL OF YOU NUTBAG ENVIRONMENTALISTS.
Thank you for listening, have a nice day.
"Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING."
Yes, I know. I was fucking WANTING to yell, assholes.
Bullshit. The shim is GPL, and source code is provided. The binary-only driver is not specific to Linux. nVidia, being the original copyright holders to the shim, can allow use of it with the binary-only part (since this is not an added restriction above those the GPL already imposes, it doesn't violate the GPL).
It's some dumbass guy who's trying to trademark it so that Walmart would have to pay millions. Neither one of them should have it, as it's such a generic icon by now.
No, because if he buys into that mindset, then he would want to be denigrated by the ACLU.
I mean in the commercial, not the original movie. Duh.
I'm of the understanding that they actually applied the male texture to the female mesh, which is why it isn't quite right. If that's the case, then Jack's really arguing against male toplessness, which as far as I know hasn't been made taboo yet. After all, to make it impossible for people to appropriate the male texture in such a fashion, you have to make them less anatomically correct or just cover them up completely.
Oh, you forget, the mindset on the right-wing side is that the ACLU are a bunch of godless commies who are out to destroy the US.
Although on the screen, they appear to be using the old AmigaDOS 1.x font (probably the TTF version called "November"), instead of the actual charset generated by the IMSAI. I don't think it's quite the same voice though, the inflection sounds slightly different.
Agreed. While Kega Fusion is quite accurate, it's not cycle-accurate. I've written Genesis code designed to change the backdrop color mid-scanline, and on emulators it just displayed a black screen.
The Genesis also has a version of KGS, called Fatal Rewind IIRC. The music wasn't quite as good, but I feel it played just as good as the original.