The TNT2 desiring game (neverwinter nights) did have some ATI card listed on the box but not S3 or other manufacturers. The alt-tab restriction was from another game that I got a demo of this week (which also requires to be run as admin, since it stores its save files in the Program Files directory tree).
I bought a GameCube game instead (I was at the games shop for lunch, hence reading the system requirements). At least there is a better than 50% chance of it working once I get home.
And a couple of days ago I was at a conference where microsoft was telling games developers how to write for windows (not requiring admin rights to run, allowing ALT-TAB to work without crashing the PC, etc.). The afternoon of the conference was cancelled due to lack of interest (the speakers outnumbered the attendees).
What is this DirectX? On most games today it says "runs on either Nvidia card xxx or ATI card yyy". Portability doesn't exist. I bought a new PC and new games won't run on it. Heck, old games won't run on it either:
"Requires Nvidia TNT2 or better. Must be running as admin. Don't press alt-tab." (ok the last bit is in the readme not on the box). So my non-nvidia card won't help me even though DirectX 9.0c claims to be running fine.
(old coot) I remember when Windows 95 came out and Microsoft claimed that this would let games run on more than a couple of graphics cards. It seems they've given up on that recently (/old coot).
Obviously you all are from before the invention of PCM synthesisers:-)
And judging by your website, before the invention of ALT tags. You don't look Tongan though! Mmmm Jonah Lomu
I'm tempted by your review of those piano books, but (bad segue) I notice you haven't reviewed "Aunt Nancy and Old Man Trouble" on amazon.com. When I saw the cover of that book in a real-world shop I was really surprised; it looks rather similar to certain 1930s posters IIRC.
Congrats on playing with those large organs, and on your wedding.
Ah, I thought that would be the West Point organ but that is only 23236 pipes compared to 28000 pipes. I wouldn't mind hearing Saint-Saens on it though:-)
So where can we get OSS easy updates from then? After I downloaded firefox, I had to download it a couple of days later for a security fix. The upgrading interface is way less integrated than Microsoft's has got recently (or some other companies e.g. the antivirus companies who have got their acts together).
As other posters have noted, you still need to work on your grammar:-)
A cute feature of google is that you can type "define:effect" into it to get a definition of that word. The 8th meaning listed, "act so as to bring into existence", is the one intended by the post to which you were replying.
I try to remember the rule that "ice is a noun; is is a verb" for license/licence and practice/practise, but I have heard that US usage is different anyway:-(
Connecting to a USB piece of hardware screwed up (most of the time, not all, so its not a security thing) on our main development tool at work. So we had to uninstall it (and the app works again now, thank goodness uninstall works).
Ouch - a 75Mbyte path. And now I am downloading the 10 Mbyte patch to that patch already! (.net) And have to download huge patches to various software (e.g. Nero, 70Mbyte or so) to make them work with XP SP2... argh.
Well, I've heard of 10 of the artists, and 1 of the songs... (the one that was compulsory for everyone in Pop Idol to sing; you would think people would be sick of it by now). But I don't listen to the radio.
And what's the betting those preferred creditors just happen to be the upper management team, hence them asking for chapter 7 instead of 11?
I somehow doubt my stock will be worth anything, but it's those employees who claim that their pensions have been *ahem* lightened (let alone their wages not being paid) who I feel sorry for. If their claims are accurate I guess Mirrorsoft and Enron didn't teach the authorities anything. But I guess it will all come out in the wash.
The rest of that judgement is also sad, for example s30. "One of the advantages of CDs and DVDs is that they are robust and cannot be wiped clean. There is no necessity, as required by s 50A, to make back ups. " and
"Since there is no necessity to make a back up, there is no justification for having one. Playing such a disc is unauthorised and the resultant creation of transitory copies of the program (or other data) in RAM is unauthorised."
(also, since when did Sony make replacement DVDs as they claim? Can I get them to replace the copy of "Heart of Darkness" I bought which no longer works?)
OK, it was an English judge.
Sony Vs. Ball
See especially section 13 ("He says that a RAM chip containing a copy of the whole or a substantial part of Sony's copyright works is not such a tangible substance.") and 15 ("I do not accept this argument. The silicon RAM chip is an article. When it contains the copy data, it is also an article.").
So yes, in England and Wales at least, running a program without permission is an act of copyright infringement. I think this is very sad.
Since IIRC the EU courts at least have concluded that loading something into RAM for the purposes of displaying it or running it comprises an act of copying.
In my block anyone could open anyone elses door just using a credit card. I didn't have anything missing but sometimes I had a few unpleasant additions (and once someone tossed a girl into my room tied up in a sleeping bag).
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The TNT2 desiring game (neverwinter nights) did have some ATI card listed on the box but not S3 or other manufacturers. The alt-tab restriction was from another game that I got a demo of this week (which also requires to be run as admin, since it stores its save files in the Program Files directory tree).
And a couple of days ago I was at a conference where microsoft was telling games developers how to write for windows (not requiring admin rights to run, allowing ALT-TAB to work without crashing the PC, etc.). The afternoon of the conference was cancelled due to lack of interest (the speakers outnumbered the attendees).
"Requires Nvidia TNT2 or better. Must be running as admin. Don't press alt-tab." (ok the last bit is in the readme not on the box). So my non-nvidia card won't help me even though DirectX 9.0c claims to be running fine.
(old coot) I remember when Windows 95 came out and Microsoft claimed that this would let games run on more than a couple of graphics cards. It seems they've given up on that recently (/old coot).
Well the eidolon (1985) was almost an FPS, and rather pretty for a c64/atari!
And there I was thinking that Lode-runner (1983) was popular because of all the mod-levels you could create for it.
Didn't they have a war or two between vietnam and china after the americans were kicked out?
Um, Capcom is a Japanese company. And its hit games 1942 and 1943 are about the player as a lone US pilot shooting up loads of Japanese planes.
And judging by your website, before the invention of ALT tags. You don't look Tongan though! Mmmm Jonah Lomu
I'm tempted by your review of those piano books, but (bad segue) I notice you haven't reviewed "Aunt Nancy and Old Man Trouble" on amazon.com. When I saw the cover of that book in a real-world shop I was really surprised; it looks rather similar to certain 1930s posters IIRC.
Congrats on playing with those large organs, and on your wedding.
Ah, I thought that would be the West Point organ but that is only 23236 pipes compared to 28000 pipes. I wouldn't mind hearing Saint-Saens on it though :-)
Except for this site which often looks screwed up in firefox with various columns of text overwriting each other.
So where can we get OSS easy updates from then? After I downloaded firefox, I had to download it a couple of days later for a security fix. The upgrading interface is way less integrated than Microsoft's has got recently (or some other companies e.g. the antivirus companies who have got their acts together).
A cute feature of google is that you can type "define:effect" into it to get a definition of that word. The 8th meaning listed, "act so as to bring into existence", is the one intended by the post to which you were replying.
I try to remember the rule that "ice is a noun; is is a verb" for license/licence and practice/practise, but I have heard that US usage is different anyway :-(
Connecting to a USB piece of hardware screwed up (most of the time, not all, so its not a security thing) on our main development tool at work. So we had to uninstall it (and the app works again now, thank goodness uninstall works).
Ouch - a 75Mbyte path. And now I am downloading the 10 Mbyte patch to that patch already! (.net) And have to download huge patches to various software (e.g. Nero, 70Mbyte or so) to make them work with XP SP2... argh.
Well, I've heard of 10 of the artists, and 1 of the songs... (the one that was compulsory for everyone in Pop Idol to sing; you would think people would be sick of it by now). But I don't listen to the radio.
And what's the betting those preferred creditors just happen to be the upper management team, hence them asking for chapter 7 instead of 11? I somehow doubt my stock will be worth anything, but it's those employees who claim that their pensions have been *ahem* lightened (let alone their wages not being paid) who I feel sorry for. If their claims are accurate I guess Mirrorsoft and Enron didn't teach the authorities anything. But I guess it will all come out in the wash.
Well, about 30 games developers have gone bust in the UK alone in the last 18 months...
and the producer (barg) was a real-life scaffolder foreman! Now though he is one of the 20 producers credited on the last EA harry potter game...
India, uprisings against UK (1919-38) - 23,000 Indian civilians killed.
After the british left:
Bangladesh (1971): 1,000,000-1,250,000 killed.
Yeah, I know I'm shallow.
(also, since when did Sony make replacement DVDs as they claim? Can I get them to replace the copy of "Heart of Darkness" I bought which no longer works?)
So yes, in England and Wales at least, running a program without permission is an act of copyright infringement. I think this is very sad.
IIRC it was to do with Sony and mod chips
Since IIRC the EU courts at least have concluded that loading something into RAM for the purposes of displaying it or running it comprises an act of copying.
In my block anyone could open anyone elses door just using a credit card. I didn't have anything missing but sometimes I had a few unpleasant additions (and once someone tossed a girl into my room tied up in a sleeping bag).