No. FCC licensing is only required for devices available for sale in the United States. Gray market items like Japanese PS2's are a gray area... However, they are probably okay considered that even though the Japanese PS2 doesn't have an FCC sticker on the bottom (why would it?), it will undoubtedly pass the FCC tests required for them to sell in the US, if it hasn't passed those tests already.
Don't forget Connectix. Sony also sued them for making the Virtual Game Station, another PlayStation emulator. They got screwed over far worse than Bleem did. They were prohibited from selling their product for something like 6 months. The court injunction given to Sony against Connectix was recently overturned.
What are you talking about? When you buy something, whether it's a car or a CD player or a DVD player or a TV or a computer or whatever you have a right to do what you want with it (at least you used to). That means you can take it apart or throw it against the wall or make it into something else if you want to. Of course, you can't call their technical support asking them for help putting it back together... for that you're probably on your own. I hope you were being cynical.
Anyone who thinks that TPM was even "okay" should think back to the couple of minutes when they were outside the theater after seeing TPM for the first time, on opening day. There were hundreds of star wars fans dressed in star wars costumes standing around talking trying really hard not to be disappointed. Hell, I played that game too. I tried to "look on the bright side". But it didn't work. You can only lie to yourself for so long.
I support independant movies and Japanese anime on DVD.
I made an exception for The Matrix... Is that bad?
One thing that really bugs me about DVD players is that they sometimes disable the fast forward and skip buttons when they're in the FBI warnings or the movie company logo/intro things. That just sucks. I want a DVD player that will ignore those requests from the disc. I want to be able to fast forward through those things.
Part of the big problem with U9 on Windows is that the memory management system in Windows isn't up to the task of allocating and deallocating lots and lots of small chunks of memory. I have a feeling Linux would be more suited to the task as well...
All the Nintendo and Super Nintendo ones you can play via the emulators iNes and snes9x. These emulators run on Linux, btw. Check www.emuhq.com or www.emuunlim.com for the emulators.
It is interesting to note that on Japanese keyboards, traditionally there has been no \ key... instead that key generates a yen (currency) symbol. When looking at a path like C:\windows\system\ on a Japanese machine, the system displays C:(YEN)windows(YEN)system(YEN).
Sorry Bruce, you can't force people to be ethical. When businesses see that they can make a whole lot of money by exploiting news about a security hole to sell their product, they will do it.
I think difficult solution to the problem is educating consumers and media professionals so that they don't get taken advantage of in these ways.
So, what are we going to do with the empty malls? One person has suggested housing. I'm not exactly sure how I'd feel about living in a space that used to be a Gap, especially if it didn't have a bathroom. Also, malls are creepy enough during the day. At night, they are downright scary.
Someone else suggested using them for large installation art spaces. I like this idea.
Anyway, I think it will be neat. We have all these big buildings with their neighbouring concrete parking structures that no one really needs anymore.
Maybe the malls will become a super internet cafe, a place where you can buy a capuccino and browse the web for a while, maybe play an online game or two. Perhaps untethered from the need to sell lots of physical stuff, the malls could become the new entertainment centers.
Ah, don't forget the joy of trying to understand a set of several dozen objects when a procedure with maybe a couple of loops and arrays would suffice.
Which would you rather buy? A disc that you can only play on certain players and you couldn't make a copy of to a tape to take to your friend's house who doesn't have a DVD player? Or would you rather have one that you can play on ANY dvd player, anywhere in the world?
Yes, this is true. Also, console DVD players have been modified to play out-of-region DVD's and to disable Macrovision.
However, being able to decode and then re-encode the DVD will enable the removal of such region coding and macrovision flags FROM THE DISCS THEMSELVES, without modification of the player.
The real usage for this is to take movies which are "region coded" and make a new version which does not have that restriction. Pirates in Hong Kong and Taiwan have already been able to make a bit-for-bit copy of American DVD disks. However, because of the region-lockout, these disks are still playable only on American DVD players. By decrypting the bitstream, they can then master a new disk which has the territory lockout removed.
The real usage for this is to take movies which are "region coded" and make a new version which does not have that restriction. Pirates in Hong Kong and Taiwan have already been able to make a bit-for-bit copy of American DVD disks. However, because of the region-lockout, these disks are still playable only on American DVD players. By decrypting the bitstream, they can then master a new disk which has the territory lockout removed.
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No. FCC licensing is only required for devices available for sale in the United States. Gray market items like Japanese PS2's are a gray area... However, they are probably okay considered that even though the Japanese PS2 doesn't have an FCC sticker on the bottom (why would it?), it will undoubtedly pass the FCC tests required for them to sell in the US, if it hasn't passed those tests already.
Don't forget Connectix. Sony also sued them for making the Virtual Game Station, another PlayStation emulator. They got screwed over far worse than Bleem did. They were prohibited from selling their product for something like 6 months. The court injunction given to Sony against Connectix was recently overturned.
What are you talking about? When you buy something, whether it's a car or a CD player or a DVD player or a TV or a computer or whatever you have a right to do what you want with it (at least you used to). That means you can take it apart or throw it against the wall or make it into something else if you want to. Of course, you can't call their technical support asking them for help putting it back together... for that you're probably on your own. I hope you were being cynical.
Well, PS2 does have USB, so....
Anyone who thinks that TPM was even "okay" should think back to the couple of minutes when they were outside the theater after seeing TPM for the first time, on opening day. There were hundreds of star wars fans dressed in star wars costumes standing around talking trying really hard not to be disappointed. Hell, I played that game too. I tried to "look on the bright side". But it didn't work. You can only lie to yourself for so long.
I made an exception for The Matrix... Is that bad?
One thing that really bugs me about DVD players is that they sometimes disable the fast forward and skip buttons when they're in the FBI warnings or the movie company logo/intro things. That just sucks. I want a DVD player that will ignore those requests from the disc. I want to be able to fast forward through those things.
You're absolutely right. If you don't try to run any programs on Windows, then it probably won't crash.
Part of the big problem with U9 on Windows is that the memory management system in Windows isn't up to the task of allocating and deallocating lots and lots of small chunks of memory. I have a feeling Linux would be more suited to the task as well...
All the Nintendo and Super Nintendo ones you can play via the emulators iNes and snes9x. These emulators run on Linux, btw. Check www.emuhq.com or www.emuunlim.com for the emulators.
That's why we need pre-fetching and cacheing, TiVo style.
It is truly disorienting for a couple of minutes.
Moonlight3d is not open source.
Dude, you'll be happy to know that the Gimp 1.1 unstable series has tear off menus. These will be in the next stable releases (1.2).
Nah, Mutt is the best text interface... or maybe vim. But definately not Pine.
Gee... the findings of fact came out over a month ago. It took them that long to come up with a response?
I think difficult solution to the problem is educating consumers and media professionals so that they don't get taken advantage of in these ways.
So, what are we going to do with the empty malls? One person has suggested housing. I'm not exactly sure how I'd feel about living in a space that used to be a Gap, especially if it didn't have a bathroom. Also, malls are creepy enough during the day. At night, they are downright scary.
Someone else suggested using them for large installation art spaces. I like this idea.
Anyway, I think it will be neat. We have all these big buildings with their neighbouring concrete parking structures that no one really needs anymore.
Maybe the malls will become a super internet cafe, a place where you can buy a capuccino and browse the web for a while, maybe play an online game or two. Perhaps untethered from the need to sell lots of physical stuff, the malls could become the new entertainment centers.
Ah, don't forget the joy of trying to understand a set of several dozen objects when a procedure with maybe a couple of loops and arrays would suffice.
Which would you rather buy? A disc that you can only play on certain players and you couldn't make a copy of to a tape to take to your friend's house who doesn't have a DVD player? Or would you rather have one that you can play on ANY dvd player, anywhere in the world?
Actually, it's for an embedded system.
However, being able to decode and then re-encode the DVD will enable the removal of such region coding and macrovision flags FROM THE DISCS THEMSELVES, without modification of the player.
The real usage for this is to take movies which are "region coded" and make a new version which does not have that restriction. Pirates in Hong Kong and Taiwan have already been able to make a bit-for-bit copy of American DVD disks. However, because of the region-lockout, these disks are still playable only on American DVD players. By decrypting the bitstream, they can then master a new disk which has the territory lockout removed.
The real usage for this is to take movies which are "region coded" and make a new version which does not have that restriction. Pirates in Hong Kong and Taiwan have already been able to make a bit-for-bit copy of American DVD disks. However, because of the region-lockout, these disks are still playable only on American DVD players. By decrypting the bitstream, they can then master a new disk which has the territory lockout removed.