Emulation of hardware is NOT NOT NOT NOT illegal!! Now downloading the ROMs to play on the emulator is, since it is a violation of copyright. Nintendo however hates emulators because they facilitate pirating of ROMs. Essentially they want to make a DMCA-like argument, since emulators can be used to break the law, they should be illegal themselves. However emulators do have other uses, namely amatuer development for a platform. Of course I doubt more than 1% of emulator users use them legally, but that doesn't negate the fact that if I want to learn how to program the GBA I should be able to use an emulator to teach myself.
That ignores the entire POINT of patents! Patents are there so that inventors disclose their inventions to the public, with the reward of having exclusive rights to the invention for a certain period of time. I agree that there should be laws to deal with this sort of thing, maybe bringing some of trademark laws, enforce of loose it restrictions in.
However if you get rid of patents, we just end of in a world full of 100x as many trade secrets, and progress would slow down drastically IMHO.
Ummm, well you need the modules and data files for the server to serve to the clients. How exactly does the Half-life server, serve maps wihout the appropriate data files? You see if Bioware distrubuted the appropriate data files with the server for d/l, there would be no need to buy the game for people who use Linux, because they would have everything they need for free.
Exactly, that is why Luke failed. However considering Yoda is an 800 year old Jedi Master, don't you think he would be beyond that? I mean he would no longer have the preconception that there is a difference between moving a planet with the force, than a speck of dust.
Well it is surely not going to be one test, with one set of cages. The test will be repeated my multiple scientists. Any false positives should be easily detected.
That is how ATOC was done. Theatres had the movie streamed to them from a central server. This was for security reasons supposedly. I read this in an article somewhere, but can't remember where currently, ref anyone?
Umm, what is your point? That deals with NDA's and trade secrets. Patents are totally different.
In fact the whole POINT of patents is to get inventors to disclose their discoveries to the public, for temporary exclusive rights to it.
I don't think that AOTC is really dealing with the Clone Wars. It deals more with, the VERY beginning of the Clone Wars (which I am assuming is going to be a war between the Republic and the Sepratists)
I REALLY liked the return of the Imperial theme in AOTC, when all the clones are marching around like stormtroppers...sent chills down my spine hearing that music again.
Good point. Commercials really were once a part of our culture, even at the age of 22 I remember when they were.
But the quality has really gone down, not in the sense that those old commercials were much better, but there are SO many more now that there is alot more room for VERY crappy commercials.
Nowadays commercial breaks are for me to do my homework:)
The difference is that the parking sign is based on a city ordinance, A LAW! A EULA is not a law.
The use DID buy the software, it was SOLD to them at the store. It is the EULA which trys to remove that distinction. Remove it and you should still have normal rights to use it under Copyright law. Of course, I still think the DMCA applies in this case, as stupid as it is. This program would be considered as illegal as DeCSS.
Maybe their memory has been wiped. It is a standard practice afterall. I don't think they would have stopped having their memories flushed occasionally until Luke bought them.
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We do have First Sale rights with software. In fact I beleive a judge recently ruled (ref anyone?) that portions of a EULA that restrict rights given to a person at First Sale (when you bought it in the store) are invalid. For example, if you buy a peice of shrink wrapped software, and the EULA says "You may not resell this software". That is non-enforcable because it restricts a right that you have simply from buying the product at the store.
Happened to me at work this summer too. One of the student employees decided to uninstall IE from one of the Win9x boxes in the office. Our policy is to use Netscape and we usually just delete all references to IE from users desktops and Start Menu. However for some reason this version of Windows let him go through the uninstall process. The system ran like molassas afterwards, all sorts of problems started cropping up. So, we tried reinstalling IE5. Only got through 50% of the install process and just STOPPED dead. We tried it about 10 times and sometimes it would get all the way to 52% but never more. IIRC we eventually just reformatted the computer and reinstalled Windows. Blah what a mess.
Nope, it is called "good faith" If you bought the item from the store in good faith that doing so was legal, you have not committed a crime. Now whether or not the store has.... I don't know if they can really claim "good faith" in buying an object from someone off the street if the cops came around.
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Umm, the Constitution does not specify 14 years.
It gives Congress the mandate to specify the term of copyright, and Congress intially set it to 14 years. Now whether the Constitution allows them to extend the initial term is another matter....
Hmmm if 2/3 of his constituents are in high-tech areas, they could get really pissed off by this.
Maybe if people there really want to play rough they could start a recall petition. Those have a tendency to make a rep tread carefully even if it doesn't pass. This is of course assuming that a large number of his constituents really would be pissed. (maybe Burbank has more people...)
Nope he was right, it's an ultraviolet explosion.
That UV Bomb toasted lots of Reapers. Amazingly it was powerful enough to turn light into some sort of flaming plasma that bends around corners too, but I'm not gonna get started on that...
I absolutely shuddered when I saw that preview.
The crap Hollywood puts out nowadays. Of course maybe it will kick ass. I've certainly seen trailers that were cool and then the movie sucked.
But somehow I doubt it.
There is no way that big businesses, which are the MAIN customers for MP's, would do this. Doing stuff that could easily break your equipment just isn't good business practice.
Oh Please! Yes, there are plenty of better singers than Dave, but putting down on the same level as Spears is insane. His newer stuff hasn't been very good (mainly because of studio demands IMHO) but if you look at some of his older stuff, it is really good. Under the Table and Dreaming is still one of my favorite CD's
Even though the user interface took some getting used to I thought it was a great modelling and animation program (although the renderer left alot to be desired.) Hopefully a company will buy it that will continue development. Its a slim hope, but its better than the hope of them releasing the source.
Gahh! I wrote that after a whole night of writing a paper, to little sleep to get my point across coherently.
I meant of course that it is illegal, and in addition it facilitates illegal activity.
Also a point I thought of after making my intial post was, since the broadcasting companies COULD use their equipment to do such a thing, what would the RIAA/MPAA say if software companies wanted a law that would require that the recording devices, and data transmission networks they used to verify they were not sending copyright infringing material. I can't see any real difference in terms of what they are asking.
Then again, I havn't slept yet so maybe there is a difference.
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Emulation of hardware is NOT NOT NOT NOT illegal!! Now downloading the ROMs to play on the emulator is, since it is a violation of copyright. Nintendo however hates emulators because they facilitate pirating of ROMs. Essentially they want to make a DMCA-like argument, since emulators can be used to break the law, they should be illegal themselves. However emulators do have other uses, namely amatuer development for a platform. Of course I doubt more than 1% of emulator users use them legally, but that doesn't negate the fact that if I want to learn how to program the GBA I should be able to use an emulator to teach myself.
That ignores the entire POINT of patents! Patents are there so that inventors disclose their inventions to the public, with the reward of having exclusive rights to the invention for a certain period of time. I agree that there should be laws to deal with this sort of thing, maybe bringing some of trademark laws, enforce of loose it restrictions in.
However if you get rid of patents, we just end of in a world full of 100x as many trade secrets, and progress would slow down drastically IMHO.
Well the difference with NWN is that you don't need the module to play on someones server, everything is streamed to you during play.
Ummm, well you need the modules and data files for the server to serve to the clients. How exactly does the Half-life server, serve maps wihout the appropriate data files? You see if Bioware distrubuted the appropriate data files with the server for d/l, there would be no need to buy the game for people who use Linux, because they would have everything they need for free.
I think the article is incorrect, the Quantum Entanglment interactions are instantaneous, not delayed.
Exactly, that is why Luke failed. However considering Yoda is an 800 year old Jedi Master, don't you think he would be beyond that? I mean he would no longer have the preconception that there is a difference between moving a planet with the force, than a speck of dust.
Well it is surely not going to be one test, with one set of cages. The test will be repeated my multiple scientists. Any false positives should be easily detected.
Parent topic: quick! buy the originals now!
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before all you can find are the "improved" version! Time to go fire up gnutella and start looking for A New Hope . .
I wonder if the irony was intentional...
That is how ATOC was done. Theatres had the movie streamed to them from a central server. This was for security reasons supposedly. I read this in an article somewhere, but can't remember where currently, ref anyone?
Umm, what is your point? That deals with NDA's and trade secrets. Patents are totally different. In fact the whole POINT of patents is to get inventors to disclose their discoveries to the public, for temporary exclusive rights to it.
I don't think that AOTC is really dealing with the Clone Wars. It deals more with, the VERY beginning of the Clone Wars (which I am assuming is going to be a war between the Republic and the Sepratists)
I REALLY liked the return of the Imperial theme in AOTC, when all the clones are marching around like stormtroppers...sent chills down my spine hearing that music again.
Good point. Commercials really were once a part of our culture, even at the age of 22 I remember when they were. But the quality has really gone down, not in the sense that those old commercials were much better, but there are SO many more now that there is alot more room for VERY crappy commercials. Nowadays commercial breaks are for me to do my homework:)
The difference is that the parking sign is based on a city ordinance, A LAW! A EULA is not a law. The use DID buy the software, it was SOLD to them at the store. It is the EULA which trys to remove that distinction. Remove it and you should still have normal rights to use it under Copyright law. Of course, I still think the DMCA applies in this case, as stupid as it is. This program would be considered as illegal as DeCSS.
Maybe their memory has been wiped. It is a standard practice afterall. I don't think they would have stopped having their memories flushed occasionally until Luke bought them.
We do have First Sale rights with software.
In fact I beleive a judge recently ruled (ref anyone?) that portions of a EULA that restrict rights given to a person at First Sale (when you bought it in the store) are invalid. For example, if you buy a peice of shrink wrapped software, and the EULA says "You may not resell this software". That is non-enforcable because it restricts a right that you have simply from buying the product at the store.
Happened to me at work this summer too. One of the student employees decided to uninstall IE from one of the Win9x boxes in the office. Our policy is to use Netscape and we usually just delete all references to IE from users desktops and Start Menu. However for some reason this version of Windows let him go through the uninstall process. The system ran like molassas afterwards, all sorts of problems started cropping up. So, we tried reinstalling IE5. Only got through 50% of the install process and just STOPPED dead. We tried it about 10 times and sometimes it would get all the way to 52% but never more. IIRC we eventually just reformatted the computer and reinstalled Windows. Blah what a mess.
Nope, it is called "good faith"
If you bought the item from the store in good faith that doing so was legal, you have not committed a crime. Now whether or not the store has.... I don't know if they can really claim "good faith" in buying an object from someone off the street if the cops came around.
Umm, the Constitution does not specify 14 years. It gives Congress the mandate to specify the term of copyright, and Congress intially set it to 14 years. Now whether the Constitution allows them to extend the initial term is another matter....
Hmmm if 2/3 of his constituents are in high-tech areas, they could get really pissed off by this. Maybe if people there really want to play rough they could start a recall petition. Those have a tendency to make a rep tread carefully even if it doesn't pass. This is of course assuming that a large number of his constituents really would be pissed. (maybe Burbank has more people...)
Nope he was right, it's an ultraviolet explosion. That UV Bomb toasted lots of Reapers. Amazingly it was powerful enough to turn light into some sort of flaming plasma that bends around corners too, but I'm not gonna get started on that...
I absolutely shuddered when I saw that preview. The crap Hollywood puts out nowadays. Of course maybe it will kick ass. I've certainly seen trailers that were cool and then the movie sucked. But somehow I doubt it.
There is no way that big businesses, which are the MAIN customers for MP's, would do this. Doing stuff that could easily break your equipment just isn't good business practice.
Oh Please! Yes, there are plenty of better singers than Dave, but putting down on the same level as Spears is insane. His newer stuff hasn't been very good (mainly because of studio demands IMHO) but if you look at some of his older stuff, it is really good. Under the Table and Dreaming is still one of my favorite CD's
Even though the user interface took some getting used to I thought it was a great modelling and animation program (although the renderer left alot to be desired.) Hopefully a company will buy it that will continue development. Its a slim hope, but its better than the hope of them releasing the source.
Gahh! I wrote that after a whole night of writing a paper, to little sleep to get my point across coherently. I meant of course that it is illegal, and in addition it facilitates illegal activity. Also a point I thought of after making my intial post was, since the broadcasting companies COULD use their equipment to do such a thing, what would the RIAA/MPAA say if software companies wanted a law that would require that the recording devices, and data transmission networks they used to verify they were not sending copyright infringing material. I can't see any real difference in terms of what they are asking.
Then again, I havn't slept yet so maybe there is a difference.
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