At least for the PS1, it was possible to create mod chips that didn't allow backups (or internet downloaded ISOs) to be played, but did allow playing games from other regions. I prefer the other kind, because I will be having children one day, and there's no way I'm letting them get their uncoordinated grubby hands on my original discs that cost so much. I *will* make backups of my games, and I *will* do whatever is necessary to let my children play the backups. If they snap a DVD-R, or smear it with sandwich filling, I can repair the damage by burning a new copy for $1. I'm glad I don't live in the UK at this point.
The judge is right (to an extent) - he is making a ruling consistent with the law. He's being rather narrow-minded, assuming that the lawmakers have done their job properly, but ultimately it's the law that is wrong - it lumps legal and morally acceptable activity together with illegal activity.
I'm amused by the actions of the experienced unix guy, because this is *exactly* what I do, every time I sit down in front of a linux desktop (and the first thing I did trying out MacOS X in a store):
Opens terminal
'ls' in home
(On MacOS X, step 1 was the hardest, because there's either no console icon by default, or the store had removed it)
It doesn't matter what I'm trying to achieve, I always do this. Does anyone else do the same?
You're right that software is the place to make a difference...
but what good is software that you can't test, because you don't have a wearable device? The place software is going to make the biggest difference in wearable computing is in the user interface, and that absolutely must be tested without using a keyboard and mouse setup, otherwise you're writing desktop software.
Their "rating" is just a subjective opinion anyway. There's no info in either review to explain how the 3.5 and 4 ratings were given. In fact, there's no reference to the rating at all. I had a hard time even spotting the 3.5 and 4 scores that I read about, because it just looked like page decoration.
Basically, the scores are meaningless, and the reviews just say both are great browsers (which means I don't have to go trolling slashdot over how Opera should have scored better than Firefox).
Also, can someone tell me where this session management in Firefox is? I can't seem to see it. Is it brand new to 0.9.1, or is it an add-on I haven't installed?
I'm not sure what you mean by 'valid', but I'm going to go with 'useful'.
Say you have a database with multiple tables that all require user data entry. You can write code for each and every data entry screen (apparently the "visual basic" school of thought), or you can write a generic data-entry screen and include pieces of code for specific field validation in the database itself - so in effect, based on structural tables, the program builds the correct code for each screen. This also saves having to distribute a new version of your app every time you update or add a new table.
Another good reason might be embedding pieces of code in an XML document or some such, but that seems a little less useful than the database idea.
My favourite thing is languages that can execute strings of their own code.
For example, clipper can do this via blocks:
cVar:= &("{ || nVar += 43")
Python has the same thing via "exec":
>>> b NameError: name 'b' is not defined >>> exec "b=2" >>> b 2
This means you can build up strings of code at runtime and execute them, or store field-specific database logic in another database table, and fetch it when needed.
C# is not quite so convenient - you have to build up a complete class and compile it, but it can all be done in memory at runtime so it's just a little more work. Clipper and python can both affect the current scope directly (which can be both bad or good, I suppose).
I believe ruby has blocks similar to clipper (probably better), but I don't use it, so I'm not sure. I also don't use perl, so I have no idea if it supports this...
Sure! Close Opera and edit the search.ini file (closing Opera may not be a requirement, but it often is for other ini files, so it's better to be safe). There are multiple copies of this file strewn about, so which one you edit depends on whether you asked Opera to use the same settings for every user. If so, use the file in programs\Opera, otherwise use the file in your profile's application data\Opera folder.
I've removed every default item they gave me (except google of course), and added items for IMDB, dictionary.com, google images, and more. I think Opera just had trouble coming up with a nice UI for editing these - most users aren't going to like or be capable of adding URLs with variable placeholders.
This article is about the level of uselessness I've come to expect from a Gamespy article.
Claiming that nostalgia is somehow to blame for lame knockoffs is as retarded as claiming Richard Simmons is responsible for bombing Iraq (well, maybe he is, that PRICK).
The "90% of everything is crap" rule certainly applies to old games, but we didn't waste our childhoods on the crap games, so we don't get nostalgic about them.
Yep, that's fine. I think it's safer to use a space than a semicolon as DOS usually separates it's arguments by spaces, but I just tried a quick test and it worked fine.
For multiple subdirs, if you want EVERY subdir, you can use FOR/R %x in (c:\Rootdir\*.jar), but do the loop with an echo first to make sure the output is what you expect - this loop will give you a fully explicit pathname, not a relative one.
Check out CMD/? and SET/? for the details - you need delayed expansion turned on for this to work. The problem is that without it, %CLASSPATH% would be expanded before the loop executes, altering the in-loop command line. Turn on the delayed expansion (CMD/V:ON) and do this:
IF %CLASSPATH%x==x THEN SET CLASSPATH=(space) FOR %x in (C:\SomeDir\*.jar) DO (
SET CLASSPATH=%x:!CLASSPATH! )
The first line is needed, because for some %&$&^#&* reason, CMD will use the literal "!CLASSPATH!" if that variable doesn't exist:(
But then inevitably the question would arise whether the Visual C++ Standard license allowed you to write commercial software and for some reason the answer was never very clear. Most people thought the answer was no (see Google Groups), but MS's website never managed to include that most frequently asked question in its FAQ, despite year after year of people asking the question.
You can download, completely for free, the command line compilers and the runtime, and use them to create software that you can sell or give away as you see fit.
The 'Visual (x) Standard's are little more than pumped up text editors. Do you really think Microsoft want to sell you Notepad+.exe and then turn around and tell you they have some kind of claim to the content you just wrote? Even the license agreement for the standard edition restricts itself to the product and packages that come with it - no claim is ever made about ownership of a product YOU create.
Sorry to have to appeal to logic, but when I investigated this issue (our company wanted to know whether shelling out for VS was necessary over purchasing a few copies of the much much cheaper standard edition) I did find the answer to that question in a FAQ on Microsoft's site, and the answer was "Yes, you can most certainly sell your own work".
Unfortunately, as always seems the case with microsoft.com, now that I need to find that info the pages have been re-arranged and I can't find it.
Oh, you can't push them both at once with your THUMB? So how often are you pressing circle+square on your PS controller using only your thumb? If you can do that with more than 33% accuracy, I'll give you the "Longest Skinniest Thumb Ever" award.
Funny, I never agreed to any license before downloading the file. I also never agreed to a license before I installed it, because I used a command line install.
So if the license fell in a forest, installed successfully, and no-one ever saw it, does it really exist? Or is it maybe just a crooked lawyer's wet dream with no legal backing whatsoever?
That was what I thought too... but when I was looking for the URL for my post above, both Firefox and Opera were fed broken HTML that shows a blank screen, after which nothing happens >:(
This happened visiting windowsupdate.microsoft.com and www.windowsupdate.com using FF 0.9 and Opera 7.11 (on XP). I'm not keen enough to try multiple systems/browser versions...
I feel your pain... sometimes it does seem they don't want you to download things directly. I got a little sick of constantly being directed to the windowsupdate site, especially when I'd already been there and they'd told me I couldn't use it without IE.
For DirectX, look near the bottom of the page for the link to "DirectX 9b Redist".
The Media Player 9 download is the only one linked in the download section - it's 13Mb, so I'm pretty positive it's not one of their stub downloaders.
For IE6... XP comes with it, so that shouldn't be a problem. SP1 for IE6 is bundled in with XP SP1.
If you go to the Microsoft download center, you can download every patch with (almost?) any browser. I downloaded service pack 1 and every patch after that using nothing but Opera.
It was less convenient than using WindowsUpdate/IE, but it would still have worked on a linux machine. The best part is, when friends give me their computers to reinstall XP, I don't need to spend four hours downloading patches from scratch.
You'll note the default action for mixed CDs is to prompt the user to pick an action - when was the last time you were prompted to install your Beastie Boys DRM, or to run your application's SETUP.EXE? Never - it always does it, regardless of what you set any of those options to.
The controls Microsoft gave you to control Autoplay behaviour do not apply to actual autorun data CDs (or data tracks on mixed CDs).
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The original was my fav non Final Fantasy RPG in recent memory, so I can't wait for this one.
Ha ha, Final Fantasy an RPG! Nice one, CmdrTaco!
At least for the PS1, it was possible to create mod chips that didn't allow backups (or internet downloaded ISOs) to be played, but did allow playing games from other regions. I prefer the other kind, because I will be having children one day, and there's no way I'm letting them get their uncoordinated grubby hands on my original discs that cost so much. I *will* make backups of my games, and I *will* do whatever is necessary to let my children play the backups. If they snap a DVD-R, or smear it with sandwich filling, I can repair the damage by burning a new copy for $1. I'm glad I don't live in the UK at this point.
The judge is right (to an extent) - he is making a ruling consistent with the law. He's being rather narrow-minded, assuming that the lawmakers have done their job properly, but ultimately it's the law that is wrong - it lumps legal and morally acceptable activity together with illegal activity.
(On MacOS X, step 1 was the hardest, because there's either no console icon by default, or the store had removed it)
It doesn't matter what I'm trying to achieve, I always do this. Does anyone else do the same?
You're right that software is the place to make a difference...
but what good is software that you can't test, because you don't have a wearable device? The place software is going to make the biggest difference in wearable computing is in the user interface, and that absolutely must be tested without using a keyboard and mouse setup, otherwise you're writing desktop software.
If perl is your friend, then python is your girlfriend's hot cousin.
Their "rating" is just a subjective opinion anyway. There's no info in either review to explain how the 3.5 and 4 ratings were given. In fact, there's no reference to the rating at all. I had a hard time even spotting the 3.5 and 4 scores that I read about, because it just looked like page decoration.
Basically, the scores are meaningless, and the reviews just say both are great browsers (which means I don't have to go trolling slashdot over how Opera should have scored better than Firefox).
Also, can someone tell me where this session management in Firefox is? I can't seem to see it. Is it brand new to 0.9.1, or is it an add-on I haven't installed?
I'm not sure what you mean by 'valid', but I'm going to go with 'useful'.
Say you have a database with multiple tables that all require user data entry. You can write code for each and every data entry screen (apparently the "visual basic" school of thought), or you can write a generic data-entry screen and include pieces of code for specific field validation in the database itself - so in effect, based on structural tables, the program builds the correct code for each screen. This also saves having to distribute a new version of your app every time you update or add a new table.
Another good reason might be embedding pieces of code in an XML document or some such, but that seems a little less useful than the database idea.
Err, oops, cVar wouldn't really have any value after that block executes - that'll teach me to change my example halfway through...
My favourite thing is languages that can execute strings of their own code.
:= &("{ || nVar += 43")
For example, clipper can do this via blocks:
cVar
Python has the same thing via "exec":
>>> b
NameError: name 'b' is not defined
>>> exec "b=2"
>>> b
2
This means you can build up strings of code at runtime and execute them, or store field-specific database logic in another database table, and fetch it when needed.
C# is not quite so convenient - you have to build up a complete class and compile it, but it can all be done in memory at runtime so it's just a little more work. Clipper and python can both affect the current scope directly (which can be both bad or good, I suppose).
I believe ruby has blocks similar to clipper (probably better), but I don't use it, so I'm not sure. I also don't use perl, so I have no idea if it supports this...
Sure! Close Opera and edit the search.ini file (closing Opera may not be a requirement, but it often is for other ini files, so it's better to be safe). There are multiple copies of this file strewn about, so which one you edit depends on whether you asked Opera to use the same settings for every user. If so, use the file in programs\Opera, otherwise use the file in your profile's application data\Opera folder.
I've removed every default item they gave me (except google of course), and added items for IMDB, dictionary.com, google images, and more. I think Opera just had trouble coming up with a nice UI for editing these - most users aren't going to like or be capable of adding URLs with variable placeholders.
(although it isn't infinitely configurable like Firefox)
Can you explain what you mean by this? I've not had any trouble adding new search engines, or using them as defaults...
Fuck you!
Love,
500000+
I recognise that white spot... that's a specular fucking highlight! They're using POVRay!
Man, first they faked the moon landing, and now they're faking satellite pictures... bastards!
Except Gamespy is pushing the 90% envelope pretty hard :P
This article is about the level of uselessness I've come to expect from a Gamespy article.
Claiming that nostalgia is somehow to blame for lame knockoffs is as retarded as claiming Richard Simmons is responsible for bombing Iraq (well, maybe he is, that PRICK).
The "90% of everything is crap" rule certainly applies to old games, but we didn't waste our childhoods on the crap games, so we don't get nostalgic about them.
FOR %x in (C:\SomeDir\*.jar;C:\SomeDir\*.zip)
/R %x in (c:\Rootdir\*.jar), but do the loop with an echo first to make sure the output is what you expect - this loop will give you a fully explicit pathname, not a relative one.
Yep, that's fine. I think it's safer to use a space than a semicolon as DOS usually separates it's arguments by spaces, but I just tried a quick test and it worked fine.
For multiple subdirs, if you want EVERY subdir, you can use FOR
Except I keep seeing File Not Found at the end of it, even though it appears to work.
/s/o/b jars ; dir /s/o/b jars2`
I think your problem is this:
`dir
DOS doesn't use the semicolon to separate commands, so you're effectively running one DIR command with 4 or 5 parameters. Change the semicolon to &&
Check out CMD /? and SET /? for the details - you need delayed expansion turned on for this to work. The problem is that without it, %CLASSPATH% would be expanded before the loop executes, altering the in-loop command line. Turn on the delayed expansion (CMD /V:ON) and do this:
:(
IF %CLASSPATH%x==x THEN SET CLASSPATH=(space)
FOR %x in (C:\SomeDir\*.jar) DO (
SET CLASSPATH=%x:!CLASSPATH!
)
The first line is needed, because for some %&$&^#&* reason, CMD will use the literal "!CLASSPATH!" if that variable doesn't exist
But then inevitably the question would arise whether the Visual C++ Standard license allowed you to write commercial software and for some reason the answer was never very clear. Most people thought the answer was no (see Google Groups), but MS's website never managed to include that most frequently asked question in its FAQ, despite year after year of people asking the question.
You can download, completely for free, the command line compilers and the runtime, and use them to create software that you can sell or give away as you see fit.
The 'Visual (x) Standard's are little more than pumped up text editors. Do you really think Microsoft want to sell you Notepad+.exe and then turn around and tell you they have some kind of claim to the content you just wrote? Even the license agreement for the standard edition restricts itself to the product and packages that come with it - no claim is ever made about ownership of a product YOU create.
Sorry to have to appeal to logic, but when I investigated this issue (our company wanted to know whether shelling out for VS was necessary over purchasing a few copies of the much much cheaper standard edition) I did find the answer to that question in a FAQ on Microsoft's site, and the answer was "Yes, you can most certainly sell your own work".
Unfortunately, as always seems the case with microsoft.com, now that I need to find that info the pages have been re-arranged and I can't find it.
you cant push B and X at the same time
Sure you can. What kind of crap talk is that?
Oh, you can't push them both at once with your THUMB? So how often are you pressing circle+square on your PS controller using only your thumb? If you can do that with more than 33% accuracy, I'll give you the "Longest Skinniest Thumb Ever" award.
Funny, I never agreed to any license before downloading the file. I also never agreed to a license before I installed it, because I used a command line install.
So if the license fell in a forest, installed successfully, and no-one ever saw it, does it really exist? Or is it maybe just a crooked lawyer's wet dream with no legal backing whatsoever?
That was what I thought too... but when I was looking for the URL for my post above, both Firefox and Opera were fed broken HTML that shows a blank screen, after which nothing happens >:(
This happened visiting windowsupdate.microsoft.com and www.windowsupdate.com using FF 0.9 and Opera 7.11 (on XP). I'm not keen enough to try multiple systems/browser versions...
I feel your pain... sometimes it does seem they don't want you to download things directly. I got a little sick of constantly being directed to the windowsupdate site, especially when I'd already been there and they'd told me I couldn't use it without IE.
For DirectX, look near the bottom of the page for the link to "DirectX 9b Redist".
The Media Player 9 download is the only one linked in the download section - it's 13Mb, so I'm pretty positive it's not one of their stub downloaders.
For IE6... XP comes with it, so that shouldn't be a problem. SP1 for IE6 is bundled in with XP SP1.
The only problem is you need a computer with IE.
If you go to the Microsoft download center, you can download every patch with (almost?) any browser. I downloaded service pack 1 and every patch after that using nothing but Opera.
It was less convenient than using WindowsUpdate/IE, but it would still have worked on a linux machine. The best part is, when friends give me their computers to reinstall XP, I don't need to spend four hours downloading patches from scratch.
That's not what "mixed content" does, either.
You'll note the default action for mixed CDs is to prompt the user to pick an action - when was the last time you were prompted to install your Beastie Boys DRM, or to run your application's SETUP.EXE? Never - it always does it, regardless of what you set any of those options to.
The controls Microsoft gave you to control Autoplay behaviour do not apply to actual autorun data CDs (or data tracks on mixed CDs).