IMAL. You'd just have to look at the notes. You cannot trademark / copywrite "look and feel". Well, with IP, its getting that way, but as of right now, you cannot.
If I've looked at the source for opening a word document, but I do it differently, they have no case. If Word documents had a patent, then that would be different, but until they do, I don't believe they'd have a case.
Of course, if I signed a NDA, it might be different.
Then don't buy the game and you won't have to deal with the 'limits'.
Are you saying that instead of buying the games, steal them and get the benifits of a stolen game that runs faster?
Most games make most of their money within the first 45 days of release, after 180 days, there is almost no reason to have physical security measures(code keys I can understand). By that time, almost every game gets cracked and everyone who wants the game, has it. There is little reason to put in my CD for Theif I or GTA3. It's not going to stop anyone from getting it and its a big pain to me to find it.
My mom lives in a town with one stoplight, 80 miles from the nearest metropolitan area, and she has several ISPs to choose from. Can you really not dial an 800 number from wherever you live?
Although your mom might live in a one stoplight town, she prolly doesn't own a major buisness that needs lots of bandwidth, correct?
You must sign contracts to run large websites, and to move them, you'd have to break that contract. On top of that, you'll have to worry about breaking something during the transfer. Plus, what happens if the new ISP you've just moved to is put on SPEWS? Then you'll have to move again.
A company can't run like that, and a popular fan site, like maddox, seanbaby, something aweful, X-entertainment, fark, etc, just doesn't have the cash/time to move around whenever it feels like.
Blogging is dying in the greater sense. Like indepentant music, or internet porn, it is getting harder and harder seperate the wheat from the chaff. With millions of blogs, and millions more expected, how am I going to find a new, *good* blog?
Overall, blogging seems to be becoming like thousands of nameless porn sites, barely scrapping by, while the established few continue to make money, baised on name alone.
It is little more than a port. Which is sad, because the original GTA was an excellent PC game. It supported the wheel and it supported both multiplayer Deathmatch and race modes. You can say it was only 2d, but it ran fine on non-accelerated SVGA card
But the biggest disapointment is its inability to be mod'ed. Sure, people have hacked GTA3 to mod it, but a mod should be transparent, like pretty much every other simular game on the market. I don't need to modify the EXE to play a Half-life mod. I'd love to try out new cars, without using a HEX editor!
Their support is horrible. On their FAQs, they say that Gravis game pads don't work, but it was corrected with the patch. Key configurations don't work correctly. If I try to remap the keys, I cannot use the "target next" / "target Prev" on a gamepad. I guess its to protect me, but at least use an error message! Instead of wasting a half hour of my time looking through FAQs, and then by accident finding out that those options are the only two not assignable to a joystick.:-/
Unless these issues are delt with in Vice City, even though I enjoyed GTA3, I don't think I'll waste my money...
Besides being rathar Shady, I doubt your trick may work.
The advertiser can set a limit where Google stops placing their advertisements, hence stops any click thrus...
Tracking IPs is pretty much standard for Click Thrus pricing.
Billing is done thru CPM, which means amount of views / 1000, so as long as you don't exactly match the stopping point, the advertisement will get more views, lowering the cost of the ad.
Of course, this seems to imply more to women(i.e. the original poster) than men, but Osteoporosis usually does, until about age 50, then its pretty much 50/50...
Sounds like an urban legend, but it isn't. At least, thats why they told us to take it off the shelf when I worked at BBV. It was harmful to eyes, because of all the red, BUT it took an hour and a half exposure to become a real danger.
Luckly, all the games sucked enough players didn't have to worry, they'd surely end the game way before the dreaded hour and a half...
Don't play your Virtualboy for too long:), you do realize that they were taken off the market because they BURN YOUR EYES, and perminetly DAMAGE THEM???
FlatLand! Flatland is a great way to visualize geometric shapes and concepts in 0d, 1d, 2d, 3d, and it begins to talk about 4d. Of course, 4d wasn't really understood when this book was written, but its a great and fun start.
It was an add-on for a suite of office management tools, simular to a PDA. It was rather popular too, for those kinda activities. Being expensive as it was, it was still cheap compared to other products at the time(and still is), the only thing that kept it back was the fact that carrying a GB isn't buisness-like.
Its coolest feature was an autodialer. You just selected a number, hold the GB's speaker to the phone, and it would dial for you.
What you would want in emulation vernacular is a "mod boy"
It's a cartrage that fits into your gameboy and accepts 3 1/4 floppy disks. That will prolly be the only way to do it on a RL system, because a GB with a cartrage doesn't have a way to store lots of data, or an easy way to interface with a computer.
On a side note, GB did have a keyboard. If you could find one of those, then a GB OS might be a fun little toy.
Sorry, I was very tired, the no-gaijin signs. If you visit a tourist attaction, you're pretty safe from them, but if you go off the beaten path, watch out:)... A quick account
I believe I heard the UN asked Japan to crack down on no-gaijin signs, but they replied that no-gaijin stuff would just go underground, it wouldn't stop it.
How wide spread are they? I'm unsure, the only accounts I have are from US soldiers comming back from Japan, and a first year Japanese student who went to Japan and wandered a while. Not highly reliable, but since the internet seems to also tell of the same problems, I feel its safe to assume some of it is true.
The acient art of glassworking was lost and rediscovered. Embalming was lost and rediscovered. The number zero disappeared, and was reinvented.
Maybe the battery wasn't used to its full potental, but there are lots of fun and interesting things batteries can do, and I see no reason why someone acient person accidently discovered electricity, and then used it for entertainment, or starting fires.
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People read 30% slower online then they do in paper form.
I am not a laywer. The N got erased!
IMAL.
You'd just have to look at the notes. You cannot trademark / copywrite "look and feel". Well, with IP, its getting that way, but as of right now, you cannot.
If I've looked at the source for opening a word document, but I do it differently, they have no case. If Word documents had a patent, then that would be different, but until they do, I don't believe they'd have a case.
Of course, if I signed a NDA, it might be different.
I can't wait to find some source code I can call my own.
Then don't buy the game and you won't have to deal with the 'limits'.
Are you saying that instead of buying the games, steal them and get the benifits of a stolen game that runs faster?
Most games make most of their money within the first 45 days of release, after 180 days, there is almost no reason to have physical security measures(code keys I can understand). By that time, almost every game gets cracked and everyone who wants the game, has it. There is little reason to put in my CD for Theif I or GTA3. It's not going to stop anyone from getting it and its a big pain to me to find it.
My mom lives in a town with one stoplight, 80 miles from the nearest metropolitan area, and she has several ISPs to choose from. Can you really not dial an 800 number from wherever you live?
Although your mom might live in a one stoplight town, she prolly doesn't own a major buisness that needs lots of bandwidth, correct?
You must sign contracts to run large websites, and to move them, you'd have to break that contract. On top of that, you'll have to worry about breaking something during the transfer. Plus, what happens if the new ISP you've just moved to is put on SPEWS? Then you'll have to move again.
A company can't run like that, and a popular fan site, like maddox, seanbaby, something aweful, X-entertainment, fark, etc, just doesn't have the cash/time to move around whenever it feels like.
Blogging is dying in the greater sense. Like indepentant music, or internet porn, it is getting harder and harder seperate the wheat from the chaff. With millions of blogs, and millions more expected, how am I going to find a new, *good* blog?
Overall, blogging seems to be becoming like thousands of nameless porn sites, barely scrapping by, while the established few continue to make money, baised on name alone.
It is little more than a port. Which is sad, because the original GTA was an excellent PC game. It supported the wheel and it supported both multiplayer Deathmatch and race modes. You can say it was only 2d, but it ran fine on non-accelerated SVGA card
:-/
But the biggest disapointment is its inability to be mod'ed. Sure, people have hacked GTA3 to mod it, but a mod should be transparent, like pretty much every other simular game on the market. I don't need to modify the EXE to play a Half-life mod. I'd love to try out new cars, without using a HEX editor!
Their support is horrible. On their FAQs, they say that Gravis game pads don't work, but it was corrected with the patch.
Key configurations don't work correctly. If I try to remap the keys, I cannot use the "target next" / "target Prev" on a gamepad. I guess its to protect me, but at least use an error message! Instead of wasting a half hour of my time looking through FAQs, and then by accident finding out that those options are the only two not assignable to a joystick.
Unless these issues are delt with in Vice City, even though I enjoyed GTA3, I don't think I'll waste my money...
I thought the one and only cheat is at
Homstarrunner.com
Besides being rathar Shady, I doubt your trick may work.
The advertiser can set a limit where Google stops placing their advertisements, hence stops any click thrus...
Tracking IPs is pretty much standard for Click Thrus pricing.
Billing is done thru CPM, which means amount of views / 1000, so as long as you don't exactly match the stopping point, the advertisement will get more views, lowering the cost of the ad.
Adword Pricing info
I found lots of links
Lots of risks
This one is teen girls
Of course, this seems to imply more to women(i.e. the original poster) than men, but Osteoporosis usually does, until about age 50, then its pretty much 50/50...
opps, I should research more before posting...
Virtual Boy can cause eye damage for children 7 years old and below...
Everyone else may experiance eye strain, headaches, nausea, dizziness, blurred vision and discomfort.
I know whenever I played it, I experianced eye strain, dizziness, and blurred vision...
Sounds like an urban legend, but it isn't. At least, thats why they told us to take it off the shelf when I worked at BBV. It was harmful to eyes, because of all the red, BUT it took an hour and a half exposure to become a real danger.
Luckly, all the games sucked enough players didn't have to worry, they'd surely end the game way before the dreaded hour and a half...
Don't play your Virtualboy for too long :), you do realize that they were taken off the market because they BURN YOUR EYES, and perminetly DAMAGE THEM???
Although, Calling DOS a Operating system is a lot like calling HTML a Programming Language. It is in the acedemic sense, but just barely...
FlatLand!
Flatland is a great way to visualize geometric shapes and concepts in 0d, 1d, 2d, 3d, and it begins to talk about 4d. Of course, 4d wasn't really understood when this book was written, but its a great and fun start.
If my memory serves me correctly, when Wolf3d came out, I remember buying the trilogy for $25 or $35 dollars...
:)
I still have it, I just don't have a 5 1/4 drive to read the disks
yes and no, its called the "work boy"
This site claims to have specs, but the link didn't work Jeff Frohwein's GameBoy Tech
This site has some info, a illustration and a publisher. emulation zone
It also seems that sony makes a info red keyboard, that is compatable with GBC.
It was an add-on for a suite of office management tools, simular to a PDA. It was rather popular too, for those kinda activities. Being expensive as it was, it was still cheap compared to other products at the time(and still is), the only thing that kept it back was the fact that carrying a GB isn't buisness-like.
Its coolest feature was an autodialer. You just selected a number, hold the GB's speaker to the phone, and it would dial for you.
What you would want in emulation vernacular is a "mod boy"
It's a cartrage that fits into your gameboy and accepts 3 1/4 floppy disks. That will prolly be the only way to do it on a RL system, because a GB with a cartrage doesn't have a way to store lots of data, or an easy way to interface with a computer.
On a side note, GB did have a keyboard. If you could find one of those, then a GB OS might be a fun little toy.
So now, instead of being four months late reporting a story, now it's four months PLUS a week.
Sorry, I was very tired, the no-gaijin signs. If you visit a tourist attaction, you're pretty safe from them, but if you go off the beaten path, watch out :)...
A quick account
BigDaiKon Look at section II.
I believe I heard the UN asked Japan to crack down on no-gaijin signs, but they replied that no-gaijin stuff would just go underground, it wouldn't stop it.
How wide spread are they? I'm unsure, the only accounts I have are from US soldiers comming back from Japan, and a first year Japanese student who went to Japan and wandered a while.
Not highly reliable, but since the internet seems to also tell of the same problems, I feel its safe to assume some of it is true.
Sorry to be racist, but sadly, Japan is only a nice place to live if you are Japanese...They have signs right out there that say, "No non-Japanese"
The acient art of glassworking was lost and rediscovered. Embalming was lost and rediscovered. The number zero disappeared, and was reinvented. Maybe the battery wasn't used to its full potental, but there are lots of fun and interesting things batteries can do, and I see no reason why someone acient person accidently discovered electricity, and then used it for entertainment, or starting fires.
Are you sure eunuchs are good in bed...
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