How do you figure this is an apple hardware bug? Apple's cdrom drive is designed to play cd's this so called cd does not conform to the cd standards thus the problem. It's obviously the manufacturers of the disk fault. They should put big warnings on these things that they may damage your equipment. I can't see how the RIAA thinks this will stop the spread of piracy since now I know these disks may jack up my equipment I am even less likely to buy one and I'm more likely to got to kazaa, imesh, or bearshare and download, so I don't hose up the equipment that I spent money on. The only people this copy protection hurts are the people who were spending money on CD's in the first place. This is the most jacked up approach to stopping piracy and what is the most jacked up is at the end of the year when record sales have gone down again they will blame it on file swapping software and not this copy protection technology and thier poor treatment of thier customers.
What your experiencing may not be a bad thing. If the software your producing is designed for business users then your probably just filtering out a lot of the home users or people looking for a software to complete a one time task. Most businesses don't have a problem filling out an information form if they are truthfully interested. Now if you believe people can't understand the full value of your product without downloading it and using it, you should look at starting online public demos where people can anonomously view your product in action. Your current method is common for most business applications. The only thing you may want to try is to shorten the time it takes for the key to arrive.
If your product is geared towards home users your best bet is do away with the information form and let people download the demo with a key ingredient disabled to make it unusable. A good example of this would be adobe illustrator. You can do everything in the demo you can do in the full version except save. Thus people can use the product and see what it can do but not benefit your product without paying for it. 30 day expirations are useless for home users for a couple of reasons. First if it's a good peice of software someone will hack the demo and turn it into a full version. A good example of this is take a look at how many hacks are out there for macromedia software to turn it into the full version. Second most home users want the software for a short term issue. An example would be when I needed a peice of software to ghost a drive. I downloaded it, used it for what I needed it for and deleted it. Third is depending on how you write the demo and how smart the user is they can uninstall and reinstall every 30 days.
The reason students buy more software is because at places like IU you get the software for as little as $5.(for microsoft products) Which is the approach all software companies need to make in regards to students and home use. Because there is no reason for a version of office that I use at home like one day a week, I should have to pay as much as a business. But currently the entire system works opposite of that. Where home users pay more than business users. Till this changes there will always be piracy. Like with development software, like I'm going to buy a full version of macromedia flash to play with it at home and learn it if I can download a crack for the demo version and learn it for free. And me doing this is not hurting macromedia if anything it's helping them. Because at the next job I have they may say oh you know flash and buy a copy to use. Where if i didn't crack the demo and learn it they'd never have sold that copy at all. Because if you look at software that is pirated heavily it's usually business software because home users can't afford it.
It applies to importing counterfeit goods. Basically it gives customs the right to seize counterfeit goods. Link to law It has nothing to do with the DMCA. Thier argument really makes no sense. I can't find any ruling that link the DMCA to this law.
Yea, this is just intimidation. They can't do anything to zophar.net for a number of reasons. First off they aren't producing the product. They are a reseller. They can go after the manufacturer and then they can in turn pull the product. But Nintendo has no legal footing in going after the reseller. If they had already successfully sued the manufacturer and won they'd have some footing but since they haven't they have none. Also it is of little worry because the supreme court has already ruled that any product no matter how slight has legal purposes is protected from the DMCA, thus that is why CDR's and vcr's are legal. Mainly all he needs to do is respond and let Nintendo go from there. He probably won't even hear from them again unless they successfully sue the manufacturer. I'm not a lawyer and I'd still seek the help of professional legal counsel. I'm sure you can go to your local Law school and find someone to represent you for free or at least draft your reply for a low cost.
You come into work and they've cut every last possible person they can. But they still need cut backs. Next cut, the electric company. The company figures it can save money while keeping it's employees in shape. So 2 of these at every desk. Your required to pump 2 hours a day at first so you can work. It will be raised to 4 or 5 though because the executives will decide they don't want to do it and make you do thier pumping for them. We'll all still be skinny or overweight geeks but well have thighs and calves of steel.
Could this thing give you the ability to run a ddos attack completely anonymously? So much so that it would be impossible to shut down. If you can't detect who is sending it or it keeps sending different IPs, it would be impossible to stop the attack. Also it could shut down everyone on peek-a-booty. They may have made that impossible to do but since I can't find anything on it I have to leave it open as a possiblity. If it is possible, once the peek-a-booty network was going the whole web could be taken down. I like the idea of this thing but it was developed by hackers for hackers so I am a little warey.
What your forgetting here is all i need is a start node to connect to the network. From there I'll know the location of more and more nodes. So ip address 10.9.0.1 is the first node and I'm able to connect. After I know where that node is I know where the other 1000 nodes connected to it are. Then if someone blocks access to that node I connect to one of the others. Then anyone I know can initially connect to me. The idea is the network will have a spider web effect similar to how the internet works now. So if one route goes down there are other routes to go through. And the spider web just gets bigger and bigger where it's impossible to take it down without totally disconnecting you from the internet. It's not a hard concept the network just needs to be created.
Can't strip down the code that's a huge joke. They've already proved that they can do this. Look at the xbox with it's 28k kernel(it might be more or less but it's around there)of windows 2000. You can always strip down code. The only way you couldn't strip the code down anymore if the code was a single off bit. Then I'd have to side with microsoft and say it couldn't be stripped down anymore. Microsoft though will probably win and not have to show thier code. I don't think the coke acronymn though is right. It is like asking coke whats the minimum amount of ingredients you can combine to still have coke. The awnser is exactly what is in there, with windows the answer is obviously a heck of a lot less than there is in there now.
I like juliet canales better. But a question I have for anyone who might know. Is the $.02 per hour charged per download or sell of mpeg4 video or is a flat rate on any video produced. If it's per download which it probably is that could get ugly and they'd end up paying a lot of money for nothing. I don't know how many times I've downloaded 650mb video only to find it to be corrupt especially with mpeg4 and divx. Then I download it a second time and it worked. With this license the content provider would have to pay $.04 because I got a bad download. Or what happens if I download it and half way through my connection drops and I have to start all over. Do the content providers still have to pay the $.02 even though I got unusable video the first time? I mean $.02 doesn't sound like a lot till your streaming a database of a 1000 movies to a million users with bandwidth charges it might not even be affordable to use. I mean if your streaming a 100 movies a month to each of your 1 million users that is a $2 million dollar a month charge which is pretty hefty. I agree they need to re look at the licensing terms.
Maybe if my parents would have done this I would have some social skills. And maybe my company wouldn't stick me in the closet and make me code all day. Maybe I'd have friends not on slashdot. Wait who'd want that.
I thought I could only get so much internet porn a day. Now, I can get it while I drive, go to the bathroom, and attend church. Technology is so great. I thought I was going to have to sign up for the playboy service that sends dirty pictures to your cell phone to get my daily fix, this is gonna be great.
What do you think the odds are of being able to choose a name like Luke Skywalker or Han Solo in the game? They Probably are already taken before the game even starts. Now how many Luke Skywalker113978723 do you think there will be? Then if you were able to get the name Luke Skywalker and work him up to level 40 how much do you think you could get for him on Ebay. I think it would bring the auctions up to a whole new level for virtual world stuff. You probably won't even be able to be Luke Skywalker12148098432 you'll end up being jfdsalkj123342089787 because it will be so big that will be the only name left. Oh well, It will probably be a good game, Lucas will probably make a fortune, and I'll probably go blind playing it.
Immersion says they started work on this in 1993 and pretty much brought about force feedback. There were force feedback arcade games prior to this. Hard Drivin was force feedback and so was Afterburner. Hard Drivin was released in 1990 and Afterburner was released in the 80's. Both prior to 1993. Maybe they own a patent for handheld devices containing force feedback, if so that would explain why they couldn't sue nintendo for the rumble pack as it was not contained in the handheld gaming device it was a seperate unit that was atttached. Anyways they didn't invent force feedback and should not act like they did.
After they switched the network over I was trying to get my VPN to my place of work going again. With absolutely no success. The wackiest thing was when I'd try to ping my internal network at work, I'd get responses back from comcasts internal network. You can test it on your machine, ping a 10.9.0.0, 10.11.0.0, or a 192.168.0.0 network which aren't used outside and watch errored packets come back from comcast. I've already contacted them and they said if I want this fixed I have to pay the $100+ a month for business grade service. What a load of crap dsl is getting installed soon.
Need to calm down a little bit. Your getting a little too excited. But I'm with you I hope it sticks true to what it originally was and doesn't try to be a 3-d polygon machine. This game is such a classic it would be ashame to release something that would make you think of it as something less. I still remember the bar in the first one and how many times I used the F word trying to race that cruiser thing through the desert. And the most amazing thing is how long I was able to play a game that if I recall right fit on a single 5 1/4 disk. I do though look forward to seeing what they come up with.
The intent of the law is good. I'm all for protecting people's intellectual property. The problem is how it's being applied. It shouldn't be used to prosecute people who break encryption and reverse engineer software. It should be used and changed to punish people who use that research for illegal purposes. I like to know that someone can go out and try to hack different types of encryption. That way researches and good people can share that with everyone else so it's not a problem. It makes software companies keep working to make things more secure and strong. All we need is for more companies to get lazy like microsoft and have Code Reds running all over the place. So basically to sum up if you do the research then use it for illegal purposes that should be a crime not just doing the research.
The game manufacturers will see this and decide to monopolize this market themselves. You don't want to work up to level 10 then send us $20 and boom your level 10. Don't have enough cash in the game well for every $1US you give us we'll give you 100 gold. They can beat any auctioneer's price because it doesn't cost them anything. Then once this happens it will ruin every game and they won't be fun at all to play.
If you want a plug in and work solution almost any of these things will work. You will definately need 2 of these things in case you have a problem. Since they aren't just regular computers you can't just throw new parts in them. This is a big set back for using them. Personally I'd just Buy a computer and stick Windows 2000 server on it. And buy a copy of exchange for that small of an organization you could easily do it for under the $3000 mark. You should also make sure you buy an internal tape backup for the computer. It's kind of confusing awnsering your question because you didn't mention what you may already have. If you have some sort of router, that may be able to be used for the dhcp. You get IIS when you buy Windows 2000 server. Also with windows you will have no problem getting your printers to work. Plus this solution is sure fire for expandability and upgrading later on. The nicest thing about going with the Windows solution is that if there is a problem you can always find someone to come out and fix it. I'd say to use linux but in a small organization it's been my experience that it's too hard to find qualified people to come out and work on them and any money you'd save on software you'd spend on tech support.
Cost breakdown
Computer with Pentium 3 1Ghz, 2 X 80 gig hardrives, 768mb pc133 ram and tape backup $1200
Windows 2000 server 20 user $680
Exchange $1100
Those are ball park figures but they should be close.
I agree with the fact that books seem to go from different extremes. Personally now I've been programming for quite a few years what I want is a book that doesn't over explain things to me. It needs to be simple. I know what most basic programming constructs are. I buy a book to use as a reference when I'm starting something new. I don't want a tutorial. I want to quickly be able to flip through the book and find what I'm looking for. What this means is grouping similar things together or giving me a way to cross reference them in the book. So put all my math methods and classes in the same place. Keep the descriptions short, show me the syntax and multiple examples if it can be used multiple ways or one example if it can be used one way. You can have a book that goes really indepth and explains things in fine detail but then it's not for reference and I don't need code examples I'm reading it to learn something new in a general sense not apply it immediately from the book.
I have a problem with the controller because I'm a big sissy. You must be kidding me if you don't think that thing is big and klugey. And you proved my point exactly that games worth playing should only cost $50 not every game out for the system. When playstation 2 has games that are bad and aren't selling they get discounted.
I don't know about any of you but I buy(I use buy loosely here) and play games for fun. When it becomes a job why bother? If the game sucks so bad that you have to be on level 40 for it to be interesting it's time to ditch it and find a new one. Not go out and spend hundreds of dollars to get to level 40. That's just crazy talk. Say you want to listen to a CD are you doing to go out and buy every peice of equipment just so it can be louder and sound better? Oh wait this is slashdot so yea I do. But anyways I think you should play a game to play it not be on level 40.
java sucks you love C#? Yea, you love it while microsoft doesn't rule the world with it. But eventually they will find a way to use it against you. My Guess is that they will rob your grandma and kick you dog. Or at least it will feel like that.
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How do you figure this is an apple hardware bug? Apple's cdrom drive is designed to play cd's this so called cd does not conform to the cd standards thus the problem. It's obviously the manufacturers of the disk fault. They should put big warnings on these things that they may damage your equipment. I can't see how the RIAA thinks this will stop the spread of piracy since now I know these disks may jack up my equipment I am even less likely to buy one and I'm more likely to got to kazaa, imesh, or bearshare and download, so I don't hose up the equipment that I spent money on. The only people this copy protection hurts are the people who were spending money on CD's in the first place. This is the most jacked up approach to stopping piracy and what is the most jacked up is at the end of the year when record sales have gone down again they will blame it on file swapping software and not this copy protection technology and thier poor treatment of thier customers.
What your experiencing may not be a bad thing. If the software your producing is designed for business users then your probably just filtering out a lot of the home users or people looking for a software to complete a one time task. Most businesses don't have a problem filling out an information form if they are truthfully interested. Now if you believe people can't understand the full value of your product without downloading it and using it, you should look at starting online public demos where people can anonomously view your product in action. Your current method is common for most business applications. The only thing you may want to try is to shorten the time it takes for the key to arrive. If your product is geared towards home users your best bet is do away with the information form and let people download the demo with a key ingredient disabled to make it unusable. A good example of this would be adobe illustrator. You can do everything in the demo you can do in the full version except save. Thus people can use the product and see what it can do but not benefit your product without paying for it. 30 day expirations are useless for home users for a couple of reasons. First if it's a good peice of software someone will hack the demo and turn it into a full version. A good example of this is take a look at how many hacks are out there for macromedia software to turn it into the full version. Second most home users want the software for a short term issue. An example would be when I needed a peice of software to ghost a drive. I downloaded it, used it for what I needed it for and deleted it. Third is depending on how you write the demo and how smart the user is they can uninstall and reinstall every 30 days.
The reason students buy more software is because at places like IU you get the software for as little as $5.(for microsoft products) Which is the approach all software companies need to make in regards to students and home use. Because there is no reason for a version of office that I use at home like one day a week, I should have to pay as much as a business. But currently the entire system works opposite of that. Where home users pay more than business users. Till this changes there will always be piracy. Like with development software, like I'm going to buy a full version of macromedia flash to play with it at home and learn it if I can download a crack for the demo version and learn it for free. And me doing this is not hurting macromedia if anything it's helping them. Because at the next job I have they may say oh you know flash and buy a copy to use. Where if i didn't crack the demo and learn it they'd never have sold that copy at all. Because if you look at software that is pirated heavily it's usually business software because home users can't afford it.
A company called Bung Enterprise lossed a previous lawsuit for a device that did the same thing for regular gameboy games.
It applies to importing counterfeit goods. Basically it gives customs the right to seize counterfeit goods. Link to law It has nothing to do with the DMCA. Thier argument really makes no sense. I can't find any ruling that link the DMCA to this law.
Yea, this is just intimidation. They can't do anything to zophar.net for a number of reasons. First off they aren't producing the product. They are a reseller. They can go after the manufacturer and then they can in turn pull the product. But Nintendo has no legal footing in going after the reseller. If they had already successfully sued the manufacturer and won they'd have some footing but since they haven't they have none. Also it is of little worry because the supreme court has already ruled that any product no matter how slight has legal purposes is protected from the DMCA, thus that is why CDR's and vcr's are legal. Mainly all he needs to do is respond and let Nintendo go from there. He probably won't even hear from them again unless they successfully sue the manufacturer. I'm not a lawyer and I'd still seek the help of professional legal counsel. I'm sure you can go to your local Law school and find someone to represent you for free or at least draft your reply for a low cost.
You come into work and they've cut every last possible person they can. But they still need cut backs. Next cut, the electric company. The company figures it can save money while keeping it's employees in shape. So 2 of these at every desk. Your required to pump 2 hours a day at first so you can work. It will be raised to 4 or 5 though because the executives will decide they don't want to do it and make you do thier pumping for them. We'll all still be skinny or overweight geeks but well have thighs and calves of steel.
Could this thing give you the ability to run a ddos attack completely anonymously? So much so that it would be impossible to shut down. If you can't detect who is sending it or it keeps sending different IPs, it would be impossible to stop the attack. Also it could shut down everyone on peek-a-booty. They may have made that impossible to do but since I can't find anything on it I have to leave it open as a possiblity. If it is possible, once the peek-a-booty network was going the whole web could be taken down. I like the idea of this thing but it was developed by hackers for hackers so I am a little warey.
What your forgetting here is all i need is a start node to connect to the network. From there I'll know the location of more and more nodes. So ip address 10.9.0.1 is the first node and I'm able to connect. After I know where that node is I know where the other 1000 nodes connected to it are. Then if someone blocks access to that node I connect to one of the others. Then anyone I know can initially connect to me. The idea is the network will have a spider web effect similar to how the internet works now. So if one route goes down there are other routes to go through. And the spider web just gets bigger and bigger where it's impossible to take it down without totally disconnecting you from the internet. It's not a hard concept the network just needs to be created.
Can't strip down the code that's a huge joke. They've already proved that they can do this. Look at the xbox with it's 28k kernel(it might be more or less but it's around there)of windows 2000. You can always strip down code. The only way you couldn't strip the code down anymore if the code was a single off bit. Then I'd have to side with microsoft and say it couldn't be stripped down anymore. Microsoft though will probably win and not have to show thier code. I don't think the coke acronymn though is right. It is like asking coke whats the minimum amount of ingredients you can combine to still have coke. The awnser is exactly what is in there, with windows the answer is obviously a heck of a lot less than there is in there now.
I like juliet canales better. But a question I have for anyone who might know. Is the $.02 per hour charged per download or sell of mpeg4 video or is a flat rate on any video produced. If it's per download which it probably is that could get ugly and they'd end up paying a lot of money for nothing. I don't know how many times I've downloaded 650mb video only to find it to be corrupt especially with mpeg4 and divx. Then I download it a second time and it worked. With this license the content provider would have to pay $.04 because I got a bad download. Or what happens if I download it and half way through my connection drops and I have to start all over. Do the content providers still have to pay the $.02 even though I got unusable video the first time? I mean $.02 doesn't sound like a lot till your streaming a database of a 1000 movies to a million users with bandwidth charges it might not even be affordable to use. I mean if your streaming a 100 movies a month to each of your 1 million users that is a $2 million dollar a month charge which is pretty hefty. I agree they need to re look at the licensing terms.
Maybe if my parents would have done this I would have some social skills. And maybe my company wouldn't stick me in the closet and make me code all day. Maybe I'd have friends not on slashdot. Wait who'd want that.
I thought I could only get so much internet porn a day. Now, I can get it while I drive, go to the bathroom, and attend church. Technology is so great. I thought I was going to have to sign up for the playboy service that sends dirty pictures to your cell phone to get my daily fix, this is gonna be great.
What do you think the odds are of being able to choose a name like Luke Skywalker or Han Solo in the game? They Probably are already taken before the game even starts. Now how many Luke Skywalker113978723 do you think there will be? Then if you were able to get the name Luke Skywalker and work him up to level 40 how much do you think you could get for him on Ebay. I think it would bring the auctions up to a whole new level for virtual world stuff. You probably won't even be able to be Luke Skywalker12148098432 you'll end up being jfdsalkj123342089787 because it will be so big that will be the only name left. Oh well, It will probably be a good game, Lucas will probably make a fortune, and I'll probably go blind playing it.
Immersion says they started work on this in 1993 and pretty much brought about force feedback. There were force feedback arcade games prior to this. Hard Drivin was force feedback and so was Afterburner. Hard Drivin was released in 1990 and Afterburner was released in the 80's. Both prior to 1993. Maybe they own a patent for handheld devices containing force feedback, if so that would explain why they couldn't sue nintendo for the rumble pack as it was not contained in the handheld gaming device it was a seperate unit that was atttached. Anyways they didn't invent force feedback and should not act like they did.
After they switched the network over I was trying to get my VPN to my place of work going again. With absolutely no success. The wackiest thing was when I'd try to ping my internal network at work, I'd get responses back from comcasts internal network. You can test it on your machine, ping a 10.9.0.0, 10.11.0.0, or a 192.168.0.0 network which aren't used outside and watch errored packets come back from comcast. I've already contacted them and they said if I want this fixed I have to pay the $100+ a month for business grade service. What a load of crap dsl is getting installed soon.
Need to calm down a little bit. Your getting a little too excited. But I'm with you I hope it sticks true to what it originally was and doesn't try to be a 3-d polygon machine. This game is such a classic it would be ashame to release something that would make you think of it as something less. I still remember the bar in the first one and how many times I used the F word trying to race that cruiser thing through the desert. And the most amazing thing is how long I was able to play a game that if I recall right fit on a single 5 1/4 disk. I do though look forward to seeing what they come up with.
The link in the story is bad. Don't lower my Karma for pointing this out.
The intent of the law is good. I'm all for protecting people's intellectual property. The problem is how it's being applied. It shouldn't be used to prosecute people who break encryption and reverse engineer software. It should be used and changed to punish people who use that research for illegal purposes. I like to know that someone can go out and try to hack different types of encryption. That way researches and good people can share that with everyone else so it's not a problem. It makes software companies keep working to make things more secure and strong. All we need is for more companies to get lazy like microsoft and have Code Reds running all over the place. So basically to sum up if you do the research then use it for illegal purposes that should be a crime not just doing the research.
The game manufacturers will see this and decide to monopolize this market themselves. You don't want to work up to level 10 then send us $20 and boom your level 10. Don't have enough cash in the game well for every $1US you give us we'll give you 100 gold. They can beat any auctioneer's price because it doesn't cost them anything. Then once this happens it will ruin every game and they won't be fun at all to play.
If you want a plug in and work solution almost any of these things will work. You will definately need 2 of these things in case you have a problem. Since they aren't just regular computers you can't just throw new parts in them. This is a big set back for using them. Personally I'd just Buy a computer and stick Windows 2000 server on it. And buy a copy of exchange for that small of an organization you could easily do it for under the $3000 mark. You should also make sure you buy an internal tape backup for the computer. It's kind of confusing awnsering your question because you didn't mention what you may already have. If you have some sort of router, that may be able to be used for the dhcp. You get IIS when you buy Windows 2000 server. Also with windows you will have no problem getting your printers to work. Plus this solution is sure fire for expandability and upgrading later on. The nicest thing about going with the Windows solution is that if there is a problem you can always find someone to come out and fix it. I'd say to use linux but in a small organization it's been my experience that it's too hard to find qualified people to come out and work on them and any money you'd save on software you'd spend on tech support. Cost breakdown Computer with Pentium 3 1Ghz, 2 X 80 gig hardrives, 768mb pc133 ram and tape backup $1200 Windows 2000 server 20 user $680 Exchange $1100 Those are ball park figures but they should be close.
I agree with the fact that books seem to go from different extremes. Personally now I've been programming for quite a few years what I want is a book that doesn't over explain things to me. It needs to be simple. I know what most basic programming constructs are. I buy a book to use as a reference when I'm starting something new. I don't want a tutorial. I want to quickly be able to flip through the book and find what I'm looking for. What this means is grouping similar things together or giving me a way to cross reference them in the book. So put all my math methods and classes in the same place. Keep the descriptions short, show me the syntax and multiple examples if it can be used multiple ways or one example if it can be used one way. You can have a book that goes really indepth and explains things in fine detail but then it's not for reference and I don't need code examples I'm reading it to learn something new in a general sense not apply it immediately from the book.
I have a problem with the controller because I'm a big sissy. You must be kidding me if you don't think that thing is big and klugey. And you proved my point exactly that games worth playing should only cost $50 not every game out for the system. When playstation 2 has games that are bad and aren't selling they get discounted.
I don't know about any of you but I buy(I use buy loosely here) and play games for fun. When it becomes a job why bother? If the game sucks so bad that you have to be on level 40 for it to be interesting it's time to ditch it and find a new one. Not go out and spend hundreds of dollars to get to level 40. That's just crazy talk. Say you want to listen to a CD are you doing to go out and buy every peice of equipment just so it can be louder and sound better? Oh wait this is slashdot so yea I do. But anyways I think you should play a game to play it not be on level 40.
java sucks you love C#? Yea, you love it while microsoft doesn't rule the world with it. But eventually they will find a way to use it against you. My Guess is that they will rob your grandma and kick you dog. Or at least it will feel like that.