The grandparent post's point is that Nintendo knows exactly which parts of the emulation they need to implement and which parts can make assumptions about the code running, because the emulator is only designed to run just the one ROM (as it's rebuilt for each N64 game they ship).
Also witness how in "the scene" you can rip the emulator and package it with other N64 ROM's, but how well they work (if at all) is extremely inconsistent. If it were a true emulator, all ROM's would work perfectly without modification.
The discs would probably not work because of digital signing, but thanks to court cases such as Sega v. Accolade, it would not be illegal to sell them.
Flame me, if you will, but I found EVE amazingly dull. I never seemed to ever meet other real people, and I couldn't find anything to do except mine asteroids. The whole thing felt like a sort of glorified IRC client.
Now, I'm probably going to get flamed about how it's so amazingly better now. (I'm sure it is, and I may even try out their month trial one of these days.) Or how I just didn't do "foo" or "bar". (If I can't figure a game out after a week or two of play, I think it has some serious design issues.) And so on...
(Completely unscientific, but I have a few friends who agree -- awesome concept, pretty awesome graphics, dull, dull, dull.)
To get somewhere closer to back "on-topic" (even though this is all way off-topic for the article): Yes, the case where someone appropriates the source code of a GPL'ed project, and secretly uses it in their own product without telling, is plenty illegal.:-)
No, you are perfectly within your rights to sell GPL'ed products. You are almost encouraged to by the FSF. How else do you explain things such as Red Hat Linux? However, you must provide full and complete source code to anybody who has a right to ask for it, at no charge to them. Also, you can not place any restrictions on what they do with the source code after they receive it.
If the consumer feels that you don't add enough value and chooses to download the GPL'ed product for free, or buy it from someone else, or turn around and sell it themselves (assuming that the entire product they received from you was GPL'ed and contained no proprietary material, such as your own manuals or the like)---that's their prerogative.
I think this is one of the biggest misconceptions about the GPL. Nowhere does it have any non-commercial clauses, like some so-called open source academic licenses do. Some people may argue that being required to disclose your source code is anti-commercial, but it isn't explicitly non-commercial.
You know, Nintendo is basically Apple: Can whip up a storm of interest in their keynotes or coolness factors, but where the rubber hits the road the public gives them the cold shoulder. Nintendo has learned to harness the reality-distortion field.
It's human interest and it has national appeal. You always (for some reason) want to have some human interest in your news coverage to give it that "awwwwww" effect. Probably to distract people from wondering if what you're covering in other news is accurate and/or comprehensive. And if it's a slow day, weird stuff like this is always apropos. And the fact that everybody in the nation can load eBay over the Internet just makes it more attractive.
As I understand it, the Saturn had no real 3D hardware to speak of and it was mostly done in software. The Saturn however, had vastly superior 2D handling -- another reason the arcade fighter ports were so easy.
If you follow the FSF's advice in applying the GPL, you will use the following clause:
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the license, or (at your option) any later version.
Which means no authors will be required to rerelease their software at all.
It should be noted that a year or two ago, Linus removed this clause from the Linux copyright notices, since he feared what RMS might do in GPL 3. Others in the community may have followed suit, but I think it would be safe to say that a vast majority of GPL 2'd software won't have any issues working together with GPL 3.
In the Japanese Manga, Video Game, and Anime, the world is already using tiny little robot girls to eliminate the insect population of the world with giant weapons. And you can dress them up in cute doll clothes!
I disagree. I think the term "blog" has come to imply a degree of "connectedness" to your audience. Specifically through feedback/comments on entries and the author responding in kind in subsequent entries.
What they have is more of a "production diary" or just plain "news".
We have these different terminology for a purpose.
It's hip to have a blog, isn't it? Of course, it is. That's why when launching a new movie Hollywood thinks they must put up a blog as part of the promotional mix.
Of course, Hollywood appears to know about as much about what a blog is as what the Heart of Gold is really supposed to look like. Just because you take your standard production news site run by some faceless intern with no community feedback features and CALL it a blog, doesn't make it a blog...
I imagine it depends on the community. In my experience, I would agree with the parent post as most Wiki FAQ's I run into seem like afterthoughts somebody threw up so they could say they had a FAQ. The same holds true for sites that have forums as afterthoughts or conversely forums that have a website that isn't updated in centuries.
It doesn't matter what technology you use if nobody's going to answer the question either way.
Aside from the blatant mistakes in MIT's data, the listings for Oregon schools is terrible. Of the three major universities (UO, OSU, and PSU) the survey only lists University of Oregon and three other small universities. WTF? OSU is one of the core members of the Internet2 project and it's not even considered? PSU has one of the only permits in Portland to dig up the street and lay fiber--we even have fiber to our parking garages! Nevermind that the engineering department works relatively closely with Intel and some of the research here may show up in the network gear you use.
I am reminded that asking the users what they want on their cars led to the era of useless chrome fins.
You'll get dozens of answers of features people insist they need, but really don't. Try asking something like: "What features do you think your Boss actually needs?"
(For the record, I'm still very happy with my Palm Vx.)
I use one of the original Antec Performance cases with a door. With no external 3.5" drives (such as a floppy drive), I have 6 internal drive bays. At the moment, I'm only using one of the 4 5.25" drive bays, but you could use something such as two of PC Power and Cooling's BayCools to house another 6 3.5" drives.
Next, I'm using a 3ware 7810, which is an 8 port PATA/100 RAID controller. I'm currently using 7 ports with 120GiB Seagate drives for 3/4 a terrabyte of storage. (I want to put a hot-spare on the 8th port when I can afford it.)
Including a beefy Antec power supply, the case, the drives, and the RAID controller, it all comes in in the neighborhood of $1000. (Don't forget to add in mainboard, CPU, RAM, Network, etc. in your calculations.)
Overall, I'm extremely happy, although being as how it's PATA it's a bit cramped in their with all the cables, but I've done some work ensuring there's no excessive amounts of ribbons around the case. Likewise, I've mounted thermally controlled fans on exhaust and high-range stealth fans on intake everywhere so things keep reasonably cool. However, while the Seagates I chose for low noise and despite adding some sound dampening as well, it's still not a quiet box.
See, the online test is frustrating: you roll over the links and they're all dummies telling you not to click. Being able to see the actual link target is at least half the technique in spotting phish mails. Otherwise you're just looking for questionable policy claims or spelling errors, since these days the graphic design of phish mails is impeccable.
Oh come on. If your statement were fully accurate they'd be changing sockets every speed step. Core revisions are bound to either require different bus interfaces or introduce cost reduction. (E.g., Socket 370 was significantly cheaper to manufacture than Slot 1.) Are you saying you'd like to run your P4 in an 8086 DIP package?
And as a post pointed out next to mine, newer mainboards typically have plenty of other nice features.
If you're complaining about how much it costs to upgrade each time -- then don't. Especially these days, you really don't need the fastest and latest. I'm still using a 64MiB Radeon 8500 and I still don't see any compelling need to upgrade. (Although in my favor, I really don't care for Doom 3.)
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Also witness how in "the scene" you can rip the emulator and package it with other N64 ROM's, but how well they work (if at all) is extremely inconsistent. If it were a true emulator, all ROM's would work perfectly without modification.
The discs would probably not work because of digital signing, but thanks to court cases such as Sega v. Accolade, it would not be illegal to sell them.
Now, I'm probably going to get flamed about how it's so amazingly better now. (I'm sure it is, and I may even try out their month trial one of these days.) Or how I just didn't do "foo" or "bar". (If I can't figure a game out after a week or two of play, I think it has some serious design issues.) And so on...
(Completely unscientific, but I have a few friends who agree -- awesome concept, pretty awesome graphics, dull, dull, dull.)
To get somewhere closer to back "on-topic" (even though this is all way off-topic for the article): Yes, the case where someone appropriates the source code of a GPL'ed project, and secretly uses it in their own product without telling, is plenty illegal. :-)
If the consumer feels that you don't add enough value and chooses to download the GPL'ed product for free, or buy it from someone else, or turn around and sell it themselves (assuming that the entire product they received from you was GPL'ed and contained no proprietary material, such as your own manuals or the like)---that's their prerogative.
I think this is one of the biggest misconceptions about the GPL. Nowhere does it have any non-commercial clauses, like some so-called open source academic licenses do. Some people may argue that being required to disclose your source code is anti-commercial, but it isn't explicitly non-commercial.
For more information, see this FSF page
You know, Nintendo is basically Apple: Can whip up a storm of interest in their keynotes or coolness factors, but where the rubber hits the road the public gives them the cold shoulder. Nintendo has learned to harness the reality-distortion field.
All the more reason that Nintendo *should* have bundled Luigi's Mansion. Oh well.
Of course, the art is not lost on Codemasters who wants you to pay for codes in their Colin McRae titles. Ugh.
It's human interest and it has national appeal. You always (for some reason) want to have some human interest in your news coverage to give it that "awwwwww" effect. Probably to distract people from wondering if what you're covering in other news is accurate and/or comprehensive. And if it's a slow day, weird stuff like this is always apropos. And the fact that everybody in the nation can load eBay over the Internet just makes it more attractive.
I predict a mighty slashdotting of edge.org.
As I understand it, the Saturn had no real 3D hardware to speak of and it was mostly done in software. The Saturn however, had vastly superior 2D handling -- another reason the arcade fighter ports were so easy.
Which means no authors will be required to rerelease their software at all.
It should be noted that a year or two ago, Linus removed this clause from the Linux copyright notices, since he feared what RMS might do in GPL 3. Others in the community may have followed suit, but I think it would be safe to say that a vast majority of GPL 2'd software won't have any issues working together with GPL 3.
In the Japanese Manga, Video Game, and Anime, the world is already using tiny little robot girls to eliminate the insect population of the world with giant weapons. And you can dress them up in cute doll clothes!
What they have is more of a "production diary" or just plain "news".
We have these different terminology for a purpose.
Of course, Hollywood appears to know about as much about what a blog is as what the Heart of Gold is really supposed to look like. Just because you take your standard production news site run by some faceless intern with no community feedback features and CALL it a blog, doesn't make it a blog...
Remember that PS2 has MIPS-based core. Does this make it exactly the same as a Nintendo 64? I didn't think so.
It doesn't matter what technology you use if nobody's going to answer the question either way.
Aside from the blatant mistakes in MIT's data, the listings for Oregon schools is terrible. Of the three major universities (UO, OSU, and PSU) the survey only lists University of Oregon and three other small universities. WTF? OSU is one of the core members of the Internet2 project and it's not even considered? PSU has one of the only permits in Portland to dig up the street and lay fiber--we even have fiber to our parking garages! Nevermind that the engineering department works relatively closely with Intel and some of the research here may show up in the network gear you use.
Definitely agree with your sarcasm, though.
I think the original poster is more concerned that the process of digesting the flies will require more energy to perform than the energy produced.
Why isn't this called the Systems Laboratory for Autonomous Intelligent Robots? Then it would be about SLAIR's!
You'll get dozens of answers of features people insist they need, but really don't. Try asking something like: "What features do you think your Boss actually needs?"
(For the record, I'm still very happy with my Palm Vx.)
Next, I'm using a 3ware 7810, which is an 8 port PATA/100 RAID controller. I'm currently using 7 ports with 120GiB Seagate drives for 3/4 a terrabyte of storage. (I want to put a hot-spare on the 8th port when I can afford it.)
Including a beefy Antec power supply, the case, the drives, and the RAID controller, it all comes in in the neighborhood of $1000. (Don't forget to add in mainboard, CPU, RAM, Network, etc. in your calculations.)
Overall, I'm extremely happy, although being as how it's PATA it's a bit cramped in their with all the cables, but I've done some work ensuring there's no excessive amounts of ribbons around the case. Likewise, I've mounted thermally controlled fans on exhaust and high-range stealth fans on intake everywhere so things keep reasonably cool. However, while the Seagates I chose for low noise and despite adding some sound dampening as well, it's still not a quiet box.
See, the online test is frustrating: you roll over the links and they're all dummies telling you not to click. Being able to see the actual link target is at least half the technique in spotting phish mails. Otherwise you're just looking for questionable policy claims or spelling errors, since these days the graphic design of phish mails is impeccable.
And as a post pointed out next to mine, newer mainboards typically have plenty of other nice features.
If you're complaining about how much it costs to upgrade each time -- then don't. Especially these days, you really don't need the fastest and latest. I'm still using a 64MiB Radeon 8500 and I still don't see any compelling need to upgrade. (Although in my favor, I really don't care for Doom 3.)