Does that mean OCaml isn't type-safe? Not in any meaningful sense of the word, because to get this unsafe behaviour you have to deliberately make use of a function for which the only documentation is "Not for the casual user".
Have you seen how good babelfish and google translating is now? *impressed*
To check this claim, I tried feeding Babelfish with "you're pretty easily impressed, aren't you?" in Japanese, then having it translate it into English.
The result: The bean jam passing, don't you think?
No, I really don't think human translators have anything to fear yet.
My LCD monitor is 1280x1024. It's also taller compared to its width than most CRT screens. End result? Convenient workspace, with everything in easy reach, unlike those horrible "widescreen" displays Apple are pushing where you have to spend half an hour pulling the mouse to the left to get the pointer from one side to the other.
Second, please show me the progressive disclosure on my automobile's interface. As near as I can tell, every driving control is initially displayed, and remains displayed for the duration of my driving.
That's the basic simple interface.
The configuration is what you get when you open the hood, or swap out the radio, or check the fuse box, or change your tires. Note that none of these interfaces are visible by default, and casual drivers don't need to worry about them very often.
The advanced configuration is when you interface directly with the car's computer, or start tuning the engine, or adjusting the shock absorbers. 99.9% of drivers will never do any of these things, and therefore the auto maker generally makes no effort to simplify these tasks, but a sufficiently advanced user can read the manuals, learn the tools, and make these changes themselves.
See? The automobile interface exhibits progressive disclosure.
Perhaps the concept of progressive disclosure isn't a basid human interface design.
What are you going to do to ensure that EVERY child in this country recieves a nominal education if their parents CAN'T afford private schooling?
Had you considered that the government is not the only body capable of providing free schooling?
Put simply, it is in the selfish interests of the rich for America not to have an underclass of unemployable illiterates. Because if everyone in America is employed productively, America gets richer, and rich Americans get richer still. Not to mention that there seems to be some sort of correlation between crime and lack of education...
Therefore, in a Libertarian America, I presume you would see something pretty similar to what you had before the state began to provide education. Wealthy philanthropists would pay for scholarships and endow schools. Companies would pay for their employees' children's schooling, just as today they pay for health insurance and sometimes housing. And for the children of the unemployed, the unfortunate, or - yes - the lazy, there will always be charities and religious organisations ready to provide basic schooling.
Lest you mistake me for a Libertarian zealot, allow me to add that I'm a left-winger who believes in publicly owned services, a welfare state, and tax increases (where necessary) to pay for them. Hmm... not exactly Badnarik's idea of heaven, eh? But the fact that I disagree with their policies doesn't automatically mean I have to believe that a Libertarian society would be worse than hell. As a thought experiment, it's actually quite fun to look at something near the opposite end of the political spectrum now and again and try to see past your ideology and work out where they're coming from. You should try it.
Obscure names like 'yylex()' and stuff don't really help.
And I don't need lessons on yacc and bison.
I think you probably do need lessons on yacc and bison, if you think "yylex()" is an obscure name. It's the totally standard name for the lexer callback used in yacc and most of its clones. And the relevant section of the Bison manual is the third hit when you google for it -- so much for "no decent documentation"!
Methinks you could have chosen a better example...
Anecdotes mean jack shit. Testimonials are quite useful.
A testimonial IS an anecdote. A page of testimonials is a page of anecdotes with the negative ones filtered out, thereby removing any possible balance or objectivity that the full set of anecdotes might have been able to provide.
In what sense is that useful, other than to the people marketing the product in question?
Again, you are wrong. Although you seem to believe it, SVG isn't the first vector graphics format in existance. Not by a long shot. (PostScript is from 1984) Nor is Avalon the first device-independent 2D-graphics API.
However, you are missing the point. Of course Avalon isn't the first vector graphics library. It is, however, the first mainstream GUI toolkit to be 100% vector-based.
The license of bsdiff, inconvenient as it is, is irrelevant to the discussion at hand, for the simple reason that bsdiff is not the only binary diff utility in the world. In my personal experience, xdelta normally does nearly as good a job, and that's GPL - and already available on most Linux systems. And doesn't plain old rsync use delta compression anyway?
There are also various other alternatives, like jojodiff (also GPL), which I prefer over xdelta because it's more portable, simpler to incorporate into another application, and also produces marginally smaller deltas on the specific data sets I tend to be modifying.
Name me a method of perception that would change the number of continents on Earth or planets in our solar system.
You could not have chosen worse examples if you had tried.
Continents? Completely arbitrary. Why is the European-Asian-African land mass divided into three "continents" plus what's commonly called "the Indian subcontinent"? Are the Americas one continent or two? Is Oceania a continent or just a bunch of big islands?
Planets? You must have missed all the arguments over whether Pluto is a planet or not. You will not be able to come up with a "number of planets in the solar system" which is accepted by everyone on Slashdot, let alone everyone in the world; why do you assume that aliens will not, for example, count every one of Jupiter's moons as a planet too?
Sorry, but I think you need to rethink your argument. Maths with real objects is always arbitrary (why is a tree a singular object, when it's really a mass of leaves and branches, which are masses of cells, which are masses of atoms?). Maths is only absolute in the abstract, and it has not been shown that it is inevitable that aliens will choose to represent those abstract concepts in a way we are capable of recognising.
Simple filters should be as easy as a XML transform.
This is a popular fallacy. But XML only says how the data is stored - it says absolutely nothing about what data is stored.
Consider how you might store a table layout in XML. There are literally thousands of ways you might go about it. The chances of you and someone else even choosing to store the same bits of information, let alone with a similar structure, are, frankly, pretty slim. So, no, it's not "easy as an XML transform". The only advantage of XML is that it makes it easier to read the data -- but the tricky part is interpreting it, and XML does nothing to help there.
If you want all the nice Java libraries, strong static type-checking, and compilation to JVM bytecode, why not try Nice or Scala? Both provide everything Java has, including the ability just to use arbitrary Java classes and APIs completely transparently - and they add many of the best features of functional programming, and have terser syntaxes than Java too.
Do you insist on treating snakebites with treacle? Would you agree if I told you bread was a kind of meat?
No?
Then you must concede that the meaning of a word is determined by how it is used today, not by what it once meant. And by today's definition, the effect your parent identified does indeed count as "ironic". You may not like that the meaning of the word has changed in recent years, but that it has is indisputable - given which, it cannot but be valid to use it with its new meaning.
The Cygwin.dll library that does all of the translation from Unix to Windows system calls is under the GPL. NOT the LGPL. This means that if you write an application and build it against the Cygwin libraries and plan to distribute it, the only license you can legally put your software under is the GPL. This is the only case of the "virulent" nature of the GPL that we've witnessed firsthand and I must say it is a particularly nasty one.
This is NOT TRUE.
"In accordance with section 10 of the GPL, Red Hat permits programs whose sources are distributed under a license that complies with the Open Source definition to be linked with libcygwin.a without libcygwin.a itself causing the resulting program to be covered by the GNU GPL.
"This means that you can port an Open Source(tm) application to cygwin, and distribute that executable as if it didn't include a copy of libcygwin.a linked into it. Note that this does not apply to the cygwin DLL itself. If you distribute a (possibly modified) version of the DLL you must adhere to the terms of the GPL, i.e. you must provide sources for the cygwin DLL."
But they're not even trying to estimate how many of those are legit. Yeah, I know, making it available's not legit.
Oi, hang on a second, it sounds like you're still buying into the FUD there. What do you mean, making a song available's "not legit"? It's legit, 100%, absolutely and indisputably, if either the recording in question is in the public domain, or you are or have the permission of the copyright holder.
The RIAA want us to think that everything in MP3 format is a stolen CD, and the MPAA want us to think that everything in DivX format is a stolen movie. But that's a lie, plain and simple. Don't go saying things that make it sound like truth, because the moment the public starts believing their lies, the public domain is dead.
Now we need a patch like this for Wing Commander Privateer. Every year or so I get to itch to want to play it again, but it hates XP too.
This is for the Windows/DirectX remakes of the games - Privateer was only ever a DOS game, so it won't be patched so easily. However, DosBox should be able to emulate it soon if it doesn't already.
Actually, a great hacker would have said ++Java;).
No, a great hacker would have run a quick test to see whether Java++ generates the same code as ++Java in cases where the return value is not being used, to determine whether the sacrifice of the more elegant postfix operator would provide any increase in efficiency.
So I figure I got a moral right to download x-wing as I once paid for it. If you never bought it then you have no right to it. Buy a compilation CD and if that is not available then that doesn't give you any moral let alone legal right to download it.
Nobody's denying that going and downloading a copy, if there's no way on earth to buy one, is illegal, but you're going to have trouble convincing people that it's morally wrong. It's like taking stuff from a skip - technically that's theft, but who's going to believe it's wrong to steal junk that someone just threw away? Who's going to stick up for the other guy and say "he wanted that junk to go to the landfill, what right do you think you have to turn it into something useful instead?"
As it is, we have companies saying "there is no economical way for us to sell these games, therefore we won't sell you a copy even if you beg us to. But don't download them or we'll sue." That's fine in the law, but I doubt you'll find many people who agree it's just.
For an interesting counter-argument, look at Nintendo's rereleases of old Famicom games on GBA. These are some of the same games which the emulation scene had been saying should be in the public domain because they'd never be sold again. Nintendo have proven that old games aren't necessarily economically non-viable. At that point, the skip of my analogy becomes a freezer - the companies aren't sitting on games because they're mean, they're sitting on them because they're not sure whether they'll become profitable again or not.
But if they want us to believe that, it would be nice if they occasionally did release something when it became obvious that it wouldn't ever be profitable again. Bethesda made a nice gesture when they released Arena recently; more concessions like that would go some way towards convincing me that copyright on old games is worth respecting.
I get a feeling they think that no matter what shit they release, put some big tits in the ads and on all the female characters and people will still buy it.
Yup, I think that's a fair assessment.
Remember Battlecruiser 3kAD (or whatever it was called)? You know, the freeform "Elite meets Star Trek" thing that sank without trace after years of hype, when everyone involved suddenly realised that they were never going to get enough bugs out to make it playable.
Remember the ad campaign, though? IIRC it featured a leggy blonde in skimpy leather, sitting down with her legs open wide, hugging a copy of the game box to her crotch.
To this day I haven't heard a convincing explanation of what was going on in the mind of the guy who designed that ad. Er... I mean, okay, I can guess, but I don't know why he thought it was going to make up for the barrage of negative publicity.
I too roll my eyes when I hear Microsoft apologists claim "...Windows and IE as the easiest way to get something done and (somewhat reliably) working." This is flat out wrong. OSX is the easiest way for 'average users' to perform any 'average' task. Period.
Elvis is alive, he was taken by aliens. Period.
Note the thing our claims have in common? Both are completely unsupported by any citations or other evidence, and both are believed religiously by a tiny minority of the world's population.
I'm not denying that there are usability studies that have suggested that OS X has advantages over Windows, but I'd suggest you at least mention their existence if you want to argue for OS X's superiority. As it stands, I can trump your unsupported assertion merely by providing a single anecdote about my aged grandmother (who finds her PC perfectly usable, but is completely unable to get to grips with Macs). That's statistically meaningless, but it's infinitely better than supporting your claim with "Period".
Build was probably the best 2.5D engine out there (it even supported room stacking, which was pretty fly for 2.5D), but the move to real 3D was a huge leap.
I'd take issue with that - IMO the best 2.5D engine was the one used for Dark Forces.
Build has the advantage that it can use higher resolutions, but the Dark Forces engine not only supports stacked rooms, but also some pretty arbitrary geometry modifications, and (best of all) true 3D objects. The raised walkways in Build look like flat textures, because that's what they are, but raised walkways in Dark Forces look like raised walkways. And the TIE fighters flying overhead look like they've come straight out of a true 3D game like TIE fighter, largely because they did. When I made it to the roof of the first level and my ship came in to pick me up... well, that was one of the defining moments of the mid-90s.
Hmm... thinking about it more, Build had sloped floors, didn't it? Okay, maybe they were about even then...
By your #2, I can "get something surreptitiously" by, say, putting on a disguise and going to an adult bookstore and buying a video; is that theft? Seems like it is by your definition, though I didn't steal anything and nobody's been wronged. . . . I submit that your definition is not just flawed, but wrong.
You didn't steal anything, but you did steal: you stole into the shop. Remember, kids, some words mean more than one thing.
(Note for those who are unable to distinguish meanings based on context: "kids" in the above sentence refers to the offspring of humans, not goats. And "sentence" here refers to a string of words, not the punishment for a crime.)
looking at the japanese page there's serveral releases that are japanese specific (I've forgotten all my kanji, but one of them looks like a dating sim or something).
You're probably looking at one of the Famicom Tantei Kurabu titles there. They're not dating sims, they're high-school detective adventure games, and pretty good ones too.
...okay, there is a romantic subplot between the protagonist and Ayumi, but she's not the main point of the games.
I do wish they were rereleasing the Nintendo Power remake of the second one instead of the original Famicom Disk System version, though; when they already have remastered graphics and music in an appropriate form for the GBA, it's a real pity they're not going to use them.
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Not necessarily. For example, OCaml (one of the most popular dialects of ML) is universally considered strongly typed, but it still has loopholes.Oops!
Does that mean OCaml isn't type-safe? Not in any meaningful sense of the word, because to get this unsafe behaviour you have to deliberately make use of a function for which the only documentation is "Not for the casual user".
And yet the loophole exists.
Have you seen how good babelfish and google translating is now? *impressed*
To check this claim, I tried feeding Babelfish with "you're pretty easily impressed, aren't you?" in Japanese, then having it translate it into English.
The result: The bean jam passing, don't you think?
No, I really don't think human translators have anything to fear yet.
My LCD monitor is 1280x1024. It's also taller compared to its width than most CRT screens. End result? Convenient workspace, with everything in easy reach, unlike those horrible "widescreen" displays Apple are pushing where you have to spend half an hour pulling the mouse to the left to get the pointer from one side to the other.
Second, please show me the progressive disclosure on my automobile's interface. As near as I can tell, every driving control is initially displayed, and remains displayed for the duration of my driving.
That's the basic simple interface.
The configuration is what you get when you open the hood, or swap out the radio, or check the fuse box, or change your tires. Note that none of these interfaces are visible by default, and casual drivers don't need to worry about them very often.
The advanced configuration is when you interface directly with the car's computer, or start tuning the engine, or adjusting the shock absorbers. 99.9% of drivers will never do any of these things, and therefore the auto maker generally makes no effort to simplify these tasks, but a sufficiently advanced user can read the manuals, learn the tools, and make these changes themselves.
See? The automobile interface exhibits progressive disclosure.
Perhaps the concept of progressive disclosure isn't a basid human interface design.
Perhaps you're looking in the wrong places.
Human: What sayeth thee?
ALICE: Searching...Searching...Please stand by.
Well, no wonder it got confused - your grammar is way off. The English version of what you were trying to ask is "what sayest thou?"
What are you going to do to ensure that EVERY child in this country recieves a nominal education if their parents CAN'T afford private schooling?
Had you considered that the government is not the only body capable of providing free schooling?
Put simply, it is in the selfish interests of the rich for America not to have an underclass of unemployable illiterates. Because if everyone in America is employed productively, America gets richer, and rich Americans get richer still. Not to mention that there seems to be some sort of correlation between crime and lack of education...
Therefore, in a Libertarian America, I presume you would see something pretty similar to what you had before the state began to provide education. Wealthy philanthropists would pay for scholarships and endow schools. Companies would pay for their employees' children's schooling, just as today they pay for health insurance and sometimes housing. And for the children of the unemployed, the unfortunate, or - yes - the lazy, there will always be charities and religious organisations ready to provide basic schooling.
Lest you mistake me for a Libertarian zealot, allow me to add that I'm a left-winger who believes in publicly owned services, a welfare state, and tax increases (where necessary) to pay for them. Hmm... not exactly Badnarik's idea of heaven, eh? But the fact that I disagree with their policies doesn't automatically mean I have to believe that a Libertarian society would be worse than hell. As a thought experiment, it's actually quite fun to look at something near the opposite end of the political spectrum now and again and try to see past your ideology and work out where they're coming from. You should try it.
Obscure names like 'yylex()' and stuff don't really help.
And I don't need lessons on yacc and bison.
I think you probably do need lessons on yacc and bison, if you think "yylex()" is an obscure name. It's the totally standard name for the lexer callback used in yacc and most of its clones. And the relevant section of the Bison manual is the third hit when you google for it -- so much for "no decent documentation"!
Methinks you could have chosen a better example...
Anecdotes mean jack shit. Testimonials are quite useful.
A testimonial IS an anecdote. A page of testimonials is a page of anecdotes with the negative ones filtered out, thereby removing any possible balance or objectivity that the full set of anecdotes might have been able to provide.
In what sense is that useful, other than to the people marketing the product in question?
Again, you are wrong. Although you seem to believe it, SVG isn't the first vector graphics format in existance. Not by a long shot. (PostScript is from 1984) Nor is Avalon the first device-independent 2D-graphics API.
However, you are missing the point. Of course Avalon isn't the first vector graphics library. It is, however, the first mainstream GUI toolkit to be 100% vector-based.
The license of bsdiff, inconvenient as it is, is irrelevant to the discussion at hand, for the simple reason that bsdiff is not the only binary diff utility in the world. In my personal experience, xdelta normally does nearly as good a job, and that's GPL - and already available on most Linux systems. And doesn't plain old rsync use delta compression anyway?
There are also various other alternatives, like jojodiff (also GPL), which I prefer over xdelta because it's more portable, simpler to incorporate into another application, and also produces marginally smaller deltas on the specific data sets I tend to be modifying.
Name me a method of perception that would change the number of continents on Earth or planets in our solar system.
You could not have chosen worse examples if you had tried.
Continents? Completely arbitrary. Why is the European-Asian-African land mass divided into three "continents" plus what's commonly called "the Indian subcontinent"? Are the Americas one continent or two? Is Oceania a continent or just a bunch of big islands?
Planets? You must have missed all the arguments over whether Pluto is a planet or not. You will not be able to come up with a "number of planets in the solar system" which is accepted by everyone on Slashdot, let alone everyone in the world; why do you assume that aliens will not, for example, count every one of Jupiter's moons as a planet too?
Sorry, but I think you need to rethink your argument. Maths with real objects is always arbitrary (why is a tree a singular object, when it's really a mass of leaves and branches, which are masses of cells, which are masses of atoms?). Maths is only absolute in the abstract, and it has not been shown that it is inevitable that aliens will choose to represent those abstract concepts in a way we are capable of recognising.
That'll bite you in the ass as well, at least in languages other than English.
In English, too.
Commonly said to Word's grammar checker: "I do not agree that that sentence is ungrammatical."
Simple filters should be as easy as a XML transform.
This is a popular fallacy. But XML only says how the data is stored - it says absolutely nothing about what data is stored.
Consider how you might store a table layout in XML. There are literally thousands of ways you might go about it. The chances of you and someone else even choosing to store the same bits of information, let alone with a similar structure, are, frankly, pretty slim. So, no, it's not "easy as an XML transform". The only advantage of XML is that it makes it easier to read the data -- but the tricky part is interpreting it, and XML does nothing to help there.
If you want all the nice Java libraries, strong static type-checking, and compilation to JVM bytecode, why not try Nice or Scala? Both provide everything Java has, including the ability just to use arbitrary Java classes and APIs completely transparently - and they add many of the best features of functional programming, and have terser syntaxes than Java too.
Worth considering, anyway.
Do you even know the meaning of the word?
Do you insist on treating snakebites with treacle?
Would you agree if I told you bread was a kind of meat?
No?
Then you must concede that the meaning of a word is determined by how it is used today, not by what it once meant. And by today's definition, the effect your parent identified does indeed count as "ironic". You may not like that the meaning of the word has changed in recent years, but that it has is indisputable - given which, it cannot but be valid to use it with its new meaning.
This is NOT TRUE.(Source: http://cygwin.com/licensing.html)
But they're not even trying to estimate how many of those are legit. Yeah, I know, making it available's not legit.
Oi, hang on a second, it sounds like you're still buying into the FUD there. What do you mean, making a song available's "not legit"? It's legit, 100%, absolutely and indisputably, if either the recording in question is in the public domain, or you are or have the permission of the copyright holder.
The RIAA want us to think that everything in MP3 format is a stolen CD, and the MPAA want us to think that everything in DivX format is a stolen movie. But that's a lie, plain and simple. Don't go saying things that make it sound like truth, because the moment the public starts believing their lies, the public domain is dead.
Now we need a patch like this for Wing Commander Privateer. Every year or so I get to itch to want to play it again, but it hates XP too.
This is for the Windows/DirectX remakes of the games - Privateer was only ever a DOS game, so it won't be patched so easily. However, DosBox should be able to emulate it soon if it doesn't already.
Actually, a great hacker would have said ++Java ;).
No, a great hacker would have run a quick test to see whether Java++ generates the same code as ++Java in cases where the return value is not being used, to determine whether the sacrifice of the more elegant postfix operator would provide any increase in efficiency.
So I figure I got a moral right to download x-wing as I once paid for it. If you never bought it then you have no right to it. Buy a compilation CD and if that is not available then that doesn't give you any moral let alone legal right to download it.
Nobody's denying that going and downloading a copy, if there's no way on earth to buy one, is illegal, but you're going to have trouble convincing people that it's morally wrong. It's like taking stuff from a skip - technically that's theft, but who's going to believe it's wrong to steal junk that someone just threw away? Who's going to stick up for the other guy and say "he wanted that junk to go to the landfill, what right do you think you have to turn it into something useful instead?"
As it is, we have companies saying "there is no economical way for us to sell these games, therefore we won't sell you a copy even if you beg us to. But don't download them or we'll sue." That's fine in the law, but I doubt you'll find many people who agree it's just.
For an interesting counter-argument, look at Nintendo's rereleases of old Famicom games on GBA. These are some of the same games which the emulation scene had been saying should be in the public domain because they'd never be sold again. Nintendo have proven that old games aren't necessarily economically non-viable. At that point, the skip of my analogy becomes a freezer - the companies aren't sitting on games because they're mean, they're sitting on them because they're not sure whether they'll become profitable again or not.
But if they want us to believe that, it would be nice if they occasionally did release something when it became obvious that it wouldn't ever be profitable again. Bethesda made a nice gesture when they released Arena recently; more concessions like that would go some way towards convincing me that copyright on old games is worth respecting.
I get a feeling they think that no matter what shit they release, put some big tits in the ads and on all the female characters and people will still buy it.
Yup, I think that's a fair assessment.
Remember Battlecruiser 3kAD (or whatever it was called)? You know, the freeform "Elite meets Star Trek" thing that sank without trace after years of hype, when everyone involved suddenly realised that they were never going to get enough bugs out to make it playable.
Remember the ad campaign, though? IIRC it featured a leggy blonde in skimpy leather, sitting down with her legs open wide, hugging a copy of the game box to her crotch.
To this day I haven't heard a convincing explanation of what was going on in the mind of the guy who designed that ad. Er... I mean, okay, I can guess, but I don't know why he thought it was going to make up for the barrage of negative publicity.
I too roll my eyes when I hear Microsoft apologists claim "...Windows and IE as the easiest way to get something done and (somewhat reliably) working." This is flat out wrong. OSX is the easiest way for 'average users' to perform any 'average' task. Period.
Elvis is alive, he was taken by aliens. Period.
Note the thing our claims have in common? Both are completely unsupported by any citations or other evidence, and both are believed religiously by a tiny minority of the world's population.
I'm not denying that there are usability studies that have suggested that OS X has advantages over Windows, but I'd suggest you at least mention their existence if you want to argue for OS X's superiority. As it stands, I can trump your unsupported assertion merely by providing a single anecdote about my aged grandmother (who finds her PC perfectly usable, but is completely unable to get to grips with Macs). That's statistically meaningless, but it's infinitely better than supporting your claim with "Period".
Build was probably the best 2.5D engine out there (it even supported room stacking, which was pretty fly for 2.5D), but the move to real 3D was a huge leap.
I'd take issue with that - IMO the best 2.5D engine was the one used for Dark Forces.
Build has the advantage that it can use higher resolutions, but the Dark Forces engine not only supports stacked rooms, but also some pretty arbitrary geometry modifications, and (best of all) true 3D objects. The raised walkways in Build look like flat textures, because that's what they are, but raised walkways in Dark Forces look like raised walkways. And the TIE fighters flying overhead look like they've come straight out of a true 3D game like TIE fighter, largely because they did. When I made it to the roof of the first level and my ship came in to pick me up... well, that was one of the defining moments of the mid-90s.
Hmm... thinking about it more, Build had sloped floors, didn't it? Okay, maybe they were about even then...
By your #2, I can "get something surreptitiously" by, say, putting on a disguise and going to an adult bookstore and buying a video; is that theft? Seems like it is by your definition, though I didn't steal anything and nobody's been wronged. . . . I submit that your definition is not just flawed, but wrong.
You didn't steal anything, but you did steal: you stole into the shop. Remember, kids, some words mean more than one thing.
(Note for those who are unable to distinguish meanings based on context: "kids" in the above sentence refers to the offspring of humans, not goats. And "sentence" here refers to a string of words, not the punishment for a crime.)
looking at the japanese page there's serveral releases that are japanese specific (I've forgotten all my kanji, but one of them looks like a dating sim or something).
...okay, there is a romantic subplot between the protagonist and Ayumi, but she's not the main point of the games.
You're probably looking at one of the Famicom Tantei Kurabu titles there. They're not dating sims, they're high-school detective adventure games, and pretty good ones too.
I do wish they were rereleasing the Nintendo Power remake of the second one instead of the original Famicom Disk System version, though; when they already have remastered graphics and music in an appropriate form for the GBA, it's a real pity they're not going to use them.