The law says you can make backups.
It does not say that Nintendo is required to provide you a way to restore you backups to Nintendo's media. It does not say Nintendo is required to let 3rd party software companies create software to emulate Nintendos products.
(Altho I don't know much about laws regarding software that emulates another companies software/hardware)
I fail to see how allowing people to backup their games and play them with 3rd party software is in Nintendos best interest.
I'm sure Nintendo is smart enough to know that MOST (not all) people only want to backup their games so that they can provide them for free on the internet, and that MOST people who use these emulators use them to play illegal roms. (I know that isn't the case some of the time)
Perhaps if there was a way to verify that the ROMS were legally backed up and owned by you before it allows you to play them, but I dono't see how that would be possible. (and it would be easily cracked anyway).
Besides you won't be able to legally back up most games these days anyway if they have copy protection.
So anyway. What was the point of your post again? Besides stating the obvious that is?
Just because you can legally backup your game cart doesn't mean Nintendo HAS to give you a way to restore it to another cart OR emulate it with other software.
I'm sure most people use that 3rd party software to play illegal ROMS not the legal ones they backed up.
Sure. I pretty much knew most of that. I thought you were saying the -R format was technically better than +R which doesn't seem true based on what I've read about both.
That's funny. One example. Is that the best you can do? I can think of a lot of other people who probably don't like you also. There's a reason you will probably never be rich and it is because you assume that the only way you will get rich is by getting lucky. People with your poor person attitude will never get rich for that exact reason. Most people DO NOT GET RICH BY GETTING LUCKY.. They work their fucking asses off for it. OF course there are people who get lucky and get rich but they are far out numbered by the people who actually worked for it.. BTW haven't you ever heard the saying work smarter not harder? Hmmmm...
Oh you're a genius? That's funny. Just by telling me that pretty much proves that you are not. A genius would never go around telling people he is a genius.
Get a life. God I hope you come back and read this.
Just because it doesn't get posted on the news or in slashdot doesn't mean they are not there. Most big companies start out as little guys. They found the laws and used them to their advantage. That's how the game works. Laws that protect a companies product don't only apply to big companies. There are a lot of laws out there that help small companies and I am sure that more get made every day.
Who knows? Why don't you go figure it out on your own? They are out there but you aren't going to find them by sitting here doing nothing. The extent of your knowledge is based on what has been posted on Slashdot.
You're an idiot. You think people get rich by sitting on their asses? You think actors did not have to work their asses off to get where they are at? And you think that creating a 1/2 hour TV show is as easy as it looks?
I fucking hate people like you. You need a serious reality check. Maybe you shouldn't talk about shit you don't know anything about. If it is so easy then why aren't you doing it? For that matter why isn't everybody doing it? Maybe because it isn't so easy? Hmmm well no shit.
I can't speak for everybody else, but for me? No. Not at all. I am already different than everybody else in the world. I don't need clothes or to act like a geek or anything else to set me apart.
When I go shopping I buy what I like and what I (and other people) think looks good on me. Regardless if it is a name brand or not.
Although I do tend to chose the name brands with the higher quality stuff for the price. Some name brands are just that. A good name on a peice of shit product.
Do you avoid buying Sony monitors because it is a name brand? I doubt it:)
Personally I think going out of your way to avoid name brands and going out of your way to be a geek is JUST as STUPID as people who go out of their way to buy name brand clothes to be cool. It's the same freakin concept. I don't see why one way is right and one way is wrong?
Like companies really care what a few geeks think compared to the rest of the world LOL. This is about making money:)
I guess nobody here noticed but MOST companies are coming out with nicer looking cases every year. Even dell has designer looking cases now. I bet there are even cases with snap on color peices like they have for most cell phones now:)
BTW what is the point of going out of your way to be a geek? That reminds me of those people who go out of their way to be goth or skater just so they can claim they are different, just like everybody else:)
I hate to say it but I have too because this is driving me insane. lol.
This is just my opinion, but I'm starting to think Cowboy Bebop is one of the most over rated Anime I have ever watched. (Dont get me wrong. I love the show but...)
Every anime fan (and I do mean *every*) I talk too rants and raves about how awesome the story line in the show is..
Ok so the show has some bad ass animation (most of the time) and some pretty sweet music if you like the blues, but story line??!! There almost isn't one. I have the first 3 disks of the 6 disk set and I have seen 50++% of the later sessions on Cartoon Network. Aside from bits and peices carried over from one session to the next there really isn't anything tying them all together. I'd have to say that half the sessions are just filler and have no point at all.
I haven't seen *every* session yet so I could be wrong. Maybe they tie all of these bits and peices from every other session together to make a story, but I still wouldn't say it was much of one. It's decent but not great.
I personally think Outlaw Star beats Cowboy Bebop hands down as a series, even though the animation might not be quite as good (but in some eppisodes it is just as good if not better), and the music quality might not be as good (but personally I'm not a big fan of the blues so I could care less). I love the story AND the characters a lot better in Outlaw Star (except Spike who seems pretty cool, but not as cool as Gene heh...)
I still love Cowboy Bebop (one of my fave anime series), but I'm getting sick of all this hype. Its giving me a headache. I'd probably like the show more if there was more story line OR less filler crap.
Oh btw try not to bash me too much for my opinion:)
Nothing happened really. Just stopped getting online for a while. Got into building cars and riding sport bikes. Plus I've been too lazy to open my IRC client:)
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Good come back. Did your mom help you with that one?
Good Now we no how to push You're buttons
Perhaps, but it rolls off the tongue quite nicely doesn't it?
How big would the ark have to be in order to house 2 of every species of living creature on the planet?
I agree. I wish they would make some coffee mugs or something instead of just the shirt.
The law says you can make backups. It does not say that Nintendo is required to provide you a way to restore you backups to Nintendo's media. It does not say Nintendo is required to let 3rd party software companies create software to emulate Nintendos products. (Altho I don't know much about laws regarding software that emulates another companies software/hardware) I fail to see how allowing people to backup their games and play them with 3rd party software is in Nintendos best interest. I'm sure Nintendo is smart enough to know that MOST (not all) people only want to backup their games so that they can provide them for free on the internet, and that MOST people who use these emulators use them to play illegal roms. (I know that isn't the case some of the time) Perhaps if there was a way to verify that the ROMS were legally backed up and owned by you before it allows you to play them, but I dono't see how that would be possible. (and it would be easily cracked anyway). Besides you won't be able to legally back up most games these days anyway if they have copy protection. So anyway. What was the point of your post again? Besides stating the obvious that is?
Just because you can legally backup your game cart doesn't mean Nintendo HAS to give you a way to restore it to another cart OR emulate it with other software.
I'm sure most people use that 3rd party software to play illegal ROMS not the legal ones they backed up.
Which makes you a 14-year-old immature high school brat, right?
Are you stupid?
If everybody had an attitude like yours rockets might not have ever been invented in the first place.
When you work out a lot you need to eat a lot of Protein.
There IS a very good point to protein bars/mixes/shakes.
On the other hand. I'm not quite sure about those fat burners, energy pills, memory pills etc..
Sure. I pretty much knew most of that. I thought you were saying the -R format was technically better than +R which doesn't seem true based on what I've read about both.
Just curious.
Can you explain why -R is technically superior to +R?
I haven't read too much on the formats, but what I have seen leads me to believe that +R was a better format.
I guess I need to research this.
I think that movie was way under rated. People have too high of expectations. It wasn't the best movie in the world, but it was still pretty sweet.
Maybe if it wasn't called Final Fantasy and wasn't based on the game more people would have liked it (lower expectations).
The only thing I didn't care about it was that the acting was a bit dull.
He said copies not installs.
That's funny. One example. Is that the best you can do? I can think of a lot of other people who probably don't like you also. There's a reason you will probably never be rich and it is because you assume that the only way you will get rich is by getting lucky. People with your poor person attitude will never get rich for that exact reason. Most people DO NOT GET RICH BY GETTING LUCKY.. They work their fucking asses off for it. OF course there are people who get lucky and get rich but they are far out numbered by the people who actually worked for it.. BTW haven't you ever heard the saying work smarter not harder? Hmmmm...
Oh you're a genius? That's funny. Just by telling me that pretty much proves that you are not. A genius would never go around telling people he is a genius.
Get a life. God I hope you come back and read this.
Just because it doesn't get posted on the news or in slashdot doesn't mean they are not there. Most big companies start out as little guys. They found the laws and used them to their advantage. That's how the game works. Laws that protect a companies product don't only apply to big companies. There are a lot of laws out there that help small companies and I am sure that more get made every day.
A few?
Who knows? Why don't you go figure it out on your own? They are out there but you aren't going to find them by sitting here doing nothing. The extent of your knowledge is based on what has been posted on Slashdot.
You're an idiot. You think people get rich by sitting on their asses? You think actors did not have to work their asses off to get where they are at? And you think that creating a 1/2 hour TV show is as easy as it looks?
I fucking hate people like you. You need a serious reality check. Maybe you shouldn't talk about shit you don't know anything about. If it is so easy then why aren't you doing it? For that matter why isn't everybody doing it? Maybe because it isn't so easy? Hmmm well no shit.
I can't speak for everybody else, but for me? No. Not at all. I am already different than everybody else in the world. I don't need clothes or to act like a geek or anything else to set me apart.
:)
When I go shopping I buy what I like and what I (and other people) think looks good on me. Regardless if it is a name brand or not.
Although I do tend to chose the name brands with the higher quality stuff for the price. Some name brands are just that. A good name on a peice of shit product.
Do you avoid buying Sony monitors because it is a name brand? I doubt it
Personally I think going out of your way to avoid name brands and going out of your way to be a geek is JUST as STUPID as people who go out of their way to buy name brand clothes to be cool. It's the same freakin concept. I don't see why one way is right and one way is wrong?
Like companies really care what a few geeks think compared to the rest of the world LOL. This is about making money :)
:)
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I guess nobody here noticed but MOST companies are coming out with nicer looking cases every year. Even dell has designer looking cases now. I bet there are even cases with snap on color peices like they have for most cell phones now
BTW what is the point of going out of your way to be a geek? That reminds me of those people who go out of their way to be goth or skater just so they can claim they are different, just like everybody else
I hate to say it but I have too because this is driving me insane. lol.
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This is just my opinion, but I'm starting to think Cowboy Bebop is one of the most over rated Anime I have ever watched. (Dont get me wrong. I love the show but...)
Every anime fan (and I do mean *every*) I talk too rants and raves about how awesome the story line in the show is..
Ok so the show has some bad ass animation (most of the time) and some pretty sweet music if you like the blues, but story line??!! There almost isn't one. I have the first 3 disks of the 6 disk set and I have seen 50++% of the later sessions on Cartoon Network. Aside from bits and peices carried over from one session to the next there really isn't anything tying them all together. I'd have to say that half the sessions are just filler and have no point at all.
I haven't seen *every* session yet so I could be wrong. Maybe they tie all of these bits and peices from every other session together to make a story, but I still wouldn't say it was much of one. It's decent but not great.
I personally think Outlaw Star beats Cowboy Bebop hands down as a series, even though the animation might not be quite as good (but in some eppisodes it is just as good if not better), and the music quality might not be as good (but personally I'm not a big fan of the blues so I could care less). I love the story AND the characters a lot better in Outlaw Star (except Spike who seems pretty cool, but not as cool as Gene heh...)
I still love Cowboy Bebop (one of my fave anime series), but I'm getting sick of all this hype. Its giving me a headache. I'd probably like the show more if there was more story line OR less filler crap.
Oh btw try not to bash me too much for my opinion
Why Anonymous?
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Nothing happened really. Just stopped getting online for a while. Got into building cars and riding sport bikes. Plus I've been too lazy to open my IRC client