No, movies are different. A movie is all about watching. It's entirely passive. There's no gameplay, or control, in a movie. Everything you listed goes into making the audio and visual elements of it. A game on the other hand is also interactive. If that interactivity is sub-par the game will fail regardless of the quality of the graphics and sound. Consider the games Pac-Man, and Tetris. Immensely popular, but neither had particularly stellar graphics. How about Sword of Sodan? For it's time the graphics were very good, but that was all it had going for it.
Not true. There are bootable Windows CDs. Do a google search for "BartPE".
I also remember seeing a web page describing how to install Windows 95 onto a cdrom. I remember the boot process copied the registry files to a ram drive before windows was started but I can't recall anything else and I no longer have the URL.
I used to play Planetside also. For the record, foot soldiers can shoot down the light fighter crafts. Bolt drivers (if I remember the gun's name correctly) were good for this. Granted it was a slow single shot weapon which you had to reload after each shot and it took many shots, but it definitely got their attention when you started putting holes in their armor. Of course you *had* to find good cover when trying this tactic.
There are updates for the DVD software for the PS2. I've seen two different products for the PS2 update this software. The DVD remote from Sony has an update for the DVD software, and so does the system disk that shipped with the hard drive.
The software is saved on the first PS2 memory card. It is used instead of the built-in DVD software as long as the memory card is in the first memory card slot.
Granted this isn't exactly a firmware update, but it basically works the same way. It also has the advantage of being able to roll back the update by delete a file, or simply unplugging the memory card.
On the remote chance someone might do this, DON'T. You will get shocked. Picture tubes build up a considerable charge. If you aren't careful (or pull that wire from the side of the tube) you are likely to find that out the hard way.
How, exactly, is it unethical to take small snippets of code from a fork? Remember, to start the fork the spin-off team took the original project's entire codebase. All of it. You are not in the wrong here. The fork has to maintain the GPL license (or completely rewrite all the pre-existing code). Given that the GPL made it ok for them to take your project's codebase and start a fork, they can not claim foul when you do the same thing to them.
This is all about someone's ego. Squash it or not as you see fit.
In other words, do *you* care what they think of your use of their code. In this situation, that is about all that really matters.
I saw that too. It makes me wonder why they didn't just use the same hardware, and preinstall linux instead of windows. I suppose it could be that Windows XP is too "bloated" for the C3, or perhaps it allows them enjoy a increase profit margin...
Regardless, it seems to me they'd sell more of these if the hardware was equivalent to the Windows laptops they sell. Just because linux will run on lower performance computers doesn't mean that most linux users *want* lower performance hardware.
True, but they can't force you to have a battery in your cell phone all the time. If you're really paranoid about this, just take out your battery when you aren't using your phone.
I've had similar advice from BestBuy. I was told by one of their people to insert a video card after booting so I could flash the bios of the card. (The video card bios would hang at bootup. The only other video card I had was the built-in video and inserting a video card disabled it.)
I asked him if he was certain about this. He said that he was. Needless to say, I ended the phone call. I might not have been an expert on computer hardware at the time, but even I knew that was an incredibly stupid idea.
I'm not an expert either, but I wanted to say that I agree about the Memorex Black line. They have been some of the best CDRs I've used. They are listed on the web site by the way. Here
Indeed. If one has a virtual machine (vmware, etc.), this is an easy way to track down IRC trojans. It doesn't matter how cleverly the host, channel, and password are encrypted/hidden. I've done this in the past with a Litmus trojan.
Set your nick to one similar to the trojan before logging in, just in case they are already in the channel. Then you can lurk in the channel logging everything. Logs are a wonderful thing to have available when you report them.
"Roger Wilco sucks because it uses TCP/IP instead of UDP/IP"
To the best of my knowledge, Roger Wilco uses UDP for voice data, and TCP for channel data.
On the other hand, the problems you mentioned are frequently reported on the support forums. GameSpy, who purchased Roger Wilco from HearMe/Resounding doesn't seem to be helping matters either. Each release after Mark1c, the last one before GameSpy bought it, has been buggier than the last.
But is there really much of a difference between buying a used cart than just downloading the ROM?
Yes, there is a difference.
A used cartridge was part of a series of some number of cartridges. The copyright holder, for better or worse, decided to make that many copies of their work. No matter how many times that used cartridge is resold, the copyright holder authorized the original production of that cartridge. There will always be, at most, the original number of that particular cartridge. Thus there are no unauthorized copies. (Ignoring the possibility of counterfeit copies.)
Speaking as someone who has worked in the Loss Prevention dept. of a credit card company, it isn't that simple (assuming of course the fraudster has the common sense of at least a turnip).
In all likelihood they will never submit a charge to your account for the penis enlarger/whatever. It is far more likely that they will use your card number to purchase easily liquidated items from other merchants. It wouldn't be that difficult. After all, you just gave them all the information that any legitimate merchant would need. I'd be more concerned about identity theft. That is a pain to get resolved.
Easy way to do this is with VMware. Setup a firewall on your test computer which logs all IP traffic going in or out. Then install VMware on it. Setup a virtual machine and install Windows on it. Set the virtual machine's file system so that changes are lost when it is powered off. Start it up and launch the virus inside the virtual machine. All network traffic from the virtual machine will be in your firewall's logs. SMTP (and IRC too, btw) is plain text. Just look for an unfamiliar hotmail address.
This works well for tracking down IRC trojans too.
True, but as any physicist could tell you the ball is already being acted on by gravity. The force (the "crime") which will cause it to fall has already been applied.
It doesn't matter how much one plans to kill someone. Until one acts on them those plans cannot cause someone to die. Therefore it follows for a psychic to "see" you kill someone in the future, you must be free to act in the future. Being arrested in the present precludes this.
It would make far more sense to take steps to protect the victim. This of course would still change what the psychic would see. However if the psychic saw someone get shot and the victim was wearing a special bullet-proof vest for example, they should be able to deduce that the police needed to make sure the victim is wearing one of those vests on the day in question. (And of course to arrest the would-be murderer.)
It's actually worse than that. If they are arresting you for a crime that a psychic "saw" you commit in the future, thus preventing you from committing said crime, how can the psychic "witness" the act which will now never occur?
I find that most people I've discussed this issue with tend to say something similiar to this: Since I wouldn't/couldn't pay for it, pirating the program doesn't hurt them because they wouldn't have received any money from me anyway.
Of course this completely ignores the fact that they are still thieves. Basically you just have to assume that anyone who can steal something will. The internet is especially bad considering the anonymity it provides.
You don't have to be rude about it though in shareware registration schemes or otherwise. Always try to be polite. (Besides, sometimes it's kinda fun to be obnoxiously polite to individuals who annoy you.;-) )
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Nah, those things are bolted down pretty good at Best Buy.
This is too true. I work as a receiving clerk at a warehouse (company name withheld for obvious reasons), an executive recently (about a year ago) instituted a new program to "simplify" yard management. That's a fancy way of saying "Where the heck is that trailer?" It is completely worthless, if anything it slows everything down. Trailers are almost never where it says they are. (I could go on like this for some time, but I'll spare everyone.) But since this was someone's pet project, it'll probably be here longer than I will.
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No, movies are different. A movie is all about watching. It's entirely passive. There's no gameplay, or control, in a movie. Everything you listed goes into making the audio and visual elements of it. A game on the other hand is also interactive. If that interactivity is sub-par the game will fail regardless of the quality of the graphics and sound. Consider the games Pac-Man, and Tetris. Immensely popular, but neither had particularly stellar graphics. How about Sword of Sodan? For it's time the graphics were very good, but that was all it had going for it.
Not true. There are bootable Windows CDs. Do a google search for "BartPE".
I also remember seeing a web page describing how to install Windows 95 onto a cdrom. I remember the boot process copied the registry files to a ram drive before windows was started but I can't recall anything else and I no longer have the URL.
I used to play Planetside also. For the record, foot soldiers can shoot down the light fighter crafts. Bolt drivers (if I remember the gun's name correctly) were good for this. Granted it was a slow single shot weapon which you had to reload after each shot and it took many shots, but it definitely got their attention when you started putting holes in their armor. Of course you *had* to find good cover when trying this tactic.
There are updates for the DVD software for the PS2. I've seen two different products for the PS2 update this software. The DVD remote from Sony has an update for the DVD software, and so does the system disk that shipped with the hard drive.
The software is saved on the first PS2 memory card. It is used instead of the built-in DVD software as long as the memory card is in the first memory card slot.
Granted this isn't exactly a firmware update, but it basically works the same way. It also has the advantage of being able to roll back the update by delete a file, or simply unplugging the memory card.
On the remote chance someone might do this, DON'T. You will get shocked. Picture tubes build up a considerable charge. If you aren't careful (or pull that wire from the side of the tube) you are likely to find that out the hard way.
How, exactly, is it unethical to take small snippets of code from a fork? Remember, to start the fork the spin-off team took the original project's entire codebase. All of it. You are not in the wrong here. The fork has to maintain the GPL license (or completely rewrite all the pre-existing code). Given that the GPL made it ok for them to take your project's codebase and start a fork, they can not claim foul when you do the same thing to them.
This is all about someone's ego. Squash it or not as you see fit.
In other words, do *you* care what they think of your use of their code. In this situation, that is about all that really matters.
I saw that too. It makes me wonder why they didn't just use the same hardware, and preinstall linux instead of windows. I suppose it could be that Windows XP is too "bloated" for the C3, or perhaps it allows them enjoy a increase profit margin...
Regardless, it seems to me they'd sell more of these if the hardware was equivalent to the Windows laptops they sell. Just because linux will run on lower performance computers doesn't mean that most linux users *want* lower performance hardware.
True, but they can't force you to have a battery in your cell phone all the time. If you're really paranoid about this, just take out your battery when you aren't using your phone.
I've had similar advice from BestBuy. I was told by one of their people to insert a video card after booting so I could flash the bios of the card. (The video card bios would hang at bootup. The only other video card I had was the built-in video and inserting a video card disabled it.)
I asked him if he was certain about this. He said that he was. Needless to say, I ended the phone call. I might not have been an expert on computer hardware at the time, but even I knew that was an incredibly stupid idea.
I'm not an expert either, but I wanted to say that I agree about the Memorex Black line. They have been some of the best CDRs I've used. They are listed on the web site by the way. Here
Indeed. If one has a virtual machine (vmware, etc.), this is an easy way to track down IRC trojans. It doesn't matter how cleverly the host, channel, and password are encrypted/hidden. I've done this in the past with a Litmus trojan.
Set your nick to one similar to the trojan before logging in, just in case they are already in the channel. Then you can lurk in the channel logging everything. Logs are a wonderful thing to have available when you report them.
"Roger Wilco sucks because it uses TCP/IP instead of UDP/IP"
To the best of my knowledge, Roger Wilco uses UDP for voice data, and TCP for channel data.
On the other hand, the problems you mentioned are frequently reported on the support forums. GameSpy, who purchased Roger Wilco from HearMe/Resounding doesn't seem to be helping matters either. Each release after Mark1c, the last one before GameSpy bought it, has been buggier than the last.
But is there really much of a difference between buying a used cart than just downloading the ROM?
Yes, there is a difference. A used cartridge was part of a series of some number of cartridges. The copyright holder, for better or worse, decided to make that many copies of their work. No matter how many times that used cartridge is resold, the copyright holder authorized the original production of that cartridge. There will always be, at most, the original number of that particular cartridge. Thus there are no unauthorized copies. (Ignoring the possibility of counterfeit copies.)
Speaking as someone who has worked in the Loss Prevention dept. of a credit card company, it isn't that simple (assuming of course the fraudster has the common sense of at least a turnip).
In all likelihood they will never submit a charge to your account for the penis enlarger/whatever. It is far more likely that they will use your card number to purchase easily liquidated items from other merchants. It wouldn't be that difficult. After all, you just gave them all the information that any legitimate merchant would need. I'd be more concerned about identity theft. That is a pain to get resolved.
Easy way to do this is with VMware. Setup a firewall on your test computer which logs all IP traffic going in or out. Then install VMware on it. Setup a virtual machine and install Windows on it. Set the virtual machine's file system so that changes are lost when it is powered off. Start it up and launch the virus inside the virtual machine. All network traffic from the virtual machine will be in your firewall's logs. SMTP (and IRC too, btw) is plain text. Just look for an unfamiliar hotmail address.
This works well for tracking down IRC trojans too.
Ok, so it isn't hacking but it gets the job done.
A gander is male. A goose is female. Therefore the the expression translates to "What's good for the female is also good for the male."
I prefer the term "Sheeple". ;-)
(That's a joke. I included the smiley this time.)
True, but as any physicist could tell you the ball is already being acted on by gravity. The force (the "crime") which will cause it to fall has already been applied.
It doesn't matter how much one plans to kill someone. Until one acts on them those plans cannot cause someone to die. Therefore it follows for a psychic to "see" you kill someone in the future, you must be free to act in the future. Being arrested in the present precludes this.
It would make far more sense to take steps to protect the victim. This of course would still change what the psychic would see. However if the psychic saw someone get shot and the victim was wearing a special bullet-proof vest for example, they should be able to deduce that the police needed to make sure the victim is wearing one of those vests on the day in question. (And of course to arrest the would-be murderer.)
It's actually worse than that. If they are arresting you for a crime that a psychic "saw" you commit in the future, thus preventing you from committing said crime, how can the psychic "witness" the act which will now never occur?
Only if you are wearing a red shirt. ;-)
I find that most people I've discussed this issue with tend to say something similiar to this:
;-) )
Since I wouldn't/couldn't pay for it, pirating the program doesn't hurt them because they wouldn't have received any money from me anyway.
Of course this completely ignores the fact that they are still thieves. Basically you just have to assume that anyone who can steal something will. The internet is especially bad considering the anonymity it provides.
You don't have to be rude about it though in shareware registration schemes or otherwise. Always try to be polite. (Besides, sometimes it's kinda fun to be obnoxiously polite to individuals who annoy you.
Nah, those things are bolted down pretty good at Best Buy.
Human blood contains iron.
Actually it will. But only if you pay them. :-(
This is too true. I work as a receiving clerk at a warehouse (company name withheld for obvious reasons), an executive recently (about a year ago) instituted a new program to "simplify" yard management. That's a fancy way of saying "Where the heck is that trailer?" It is completely worthless, if anything it slows everything down. Trailers are almost never where it says they are. (I could go on like this for some time, but I'll spare everyone.) But since this was someone's pet project, it'll probably be here longer than I will.