From what i've read, the GBA Micro won't play original GB or GBC games either. The explanation given was that the micro would just look odd with the large catridge protruding out of it.
As long as corporations perceive that people are stealing from them, they're going to defend their property with everything they have.
The impression i get from their actions is that they equate 'people are stealing, which means they're not giving us their money' with 'people are not giving us their money, which means they're stealing'.
I'm amazed that someone has yet to come up with a combination of archival-grade photographic film or paper for storage and an optical 'reader' for truly long-term archiving...
Wouldn't it be ironic if paper backups were to become the way of the future.
I preferred 'The Speed of Dark' by Elizabeth Moon. (Adult autistic characters are more interesting to me, as an adult autistic, than autistic children characters)
I believe it was because they found they couldn't claim IP rights to numbers such as '486' in order to prevent other manufacturers releasing products with the same name.
You'd prefer something more enlightened? Another series of Survivor, perhaps?
If you don't like it, don't watch it. Some of us do like it, and are doing something proactive to see if we can keep it around for at least another season.
A lot of Enterprise fans are unable to watch the show, because they live in countries where it's not being screened. (Such as New Zealand, where i live - i don't think S2 has screened on public TV) So we download the shows. And become fans who 'don't count', because our numbers aren't being tracked. (Well, maybe by those shadowy figures who track p2p downloads, but that's different...)
Btw, i'll agree about Farscape being an example of great writing, but i disagree about BG. (Great writing? Maybe. But it's not BG, just something else that's wearing the trappings without the spirit of the original series)
There's something appealingly disturbing about a keyboard with 'Super' and 'Hyper' keys... I'm not too sure about the 'Rub Out' key - although it might help keep the whiteout off the screen...
The problem is things that are dependant on IE (windows update does comes to mind, but i doubt there aren't others), and then there are the other interdependent vulnerabilities - but interdependencies are the way MS keeps itself in power. But I'm fond of XPlite myself.
Fixing IE would involve such a substantial change to both itself and windows that it won't happen. You've seen how long it took to provide the 'fixes' in SP2 for XP, and in the end it diverted staff from development of Longhorn. Imagine that applied to something even more fundamental to windows, like redesigning ActiveX to be easier to manage, or making IE an optional windows component.
That kind of work would be probably be even harder than writing Longhorn, and we've seen how long that's taking. And that would most likely require a development team as big as that of Longhorn, if not bigger. And they wouldn't be getting paid for it - so what do you thing the chances are of MS doing that?
So i could use that, or just use eMule the same way and not get the eXeem advertising? Somehow the benefit of this amazing new and improved product that's trading on the Suprnova name escapes me...
The first couple of episodes of season 4 were not bad (for all it just felt like "evil-time-travelling-aliens, now with added nazis!", the sfx sequence of the Enterprise flying low over 40s-era New York to attack the hidden alien base was awesome), but ep3 was a nice (if short) end to the grand adventure of season 3.
Brent Spiner's appearances in the next three-parter didn't do a great deal for me (just felt like 'more of the same,' storywise, and his character's parting lines didn't feel they were anything other than forcing a connection to his TNG characters), but the Vulcan 'civil war' three-parter that has just finished was one of the most interesting and appealing storylines i've seen so far from Enterprise.
Having said that, i just hope they're able to finish this season and come back for a 5th.
That was definately true of the last demo i played, for Evil Genius. Without the 'World Domination' section the demo wasn't representational of the whole game. (Okay, the game was fun, just not as much fun as the demo suggested)
If there was more than one store in the city that rented PC games that might be an option. (And that store is two buses from where i live, so it's not worth the travel time)
I've found game reviews are a great help. What i do is visit somewhere like GameRankings.com and read the lowest-rated reviews, and take careful note of the negative points that are raised.
It might just be me, but "It's nothing new, but the implementation is ok and kind of fun, i guess" is not 90+% material.
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So, any money on how long before the DRM is cracked, and the textbook is "Available now, on a P2P Network near you!"
Unfortunately there is no profit (or at least no quick-rich scheme) in possessing a conscience, so i can't see that happening anytime soon.
From what i've read, the GBA Micro won't play original GB or GBC games either. The explanation given was that the micro would just look odd with the large catridge protruding out of it.
As long as corporations perceive that people are stealing from them, they're going to defend their property with everything they have.
The impression i get from their actions is that they equate 'people are stealing, which means they're not giving us their money' with 'people are not giving us their money, which means they're stealing'.
I'm amazed that someone has yet to come up with a combination of archival-grade photographic film or paper for storage and an optical 'reader' for truly long-term archiving...
Wouldn't it be ironic if paper backups were to become the way of the future.
Well, they've sure picked the wrong country for that...
I'm sure Clark Kent's tailor would disagree...
I preferred 'The Speed of Dark' by Elizabeth Moon. (Adult autistic characters are more interesting to me, as an adult autistic, than autistic children characters)
I believe it was because they found they couldn't claim IP rights to numbers such as '486' in order to prevent other manufacturers releasing products with the same name.
You'd prefer something more enlightened? Another series of Survivor, perhaps?
If you don't like it, don't watch it. Some of us do like it, and are doing something proactive to see if we can keep it around for at least another season.
A lot of Enterprise fans are unable to watch the show, because they live in countries where it's not being screened. (Such as New Zealand, where i live - i don't think S2 has screened on public TV) So we download the shows. And become fans who 'don't count', because our numbers aren't being tracked. (Well, maybe by those shadowy figures who track p2p downloads, but that's different...)
Btw, i'll agree about Farscape being an example of great writing, but i disagree about BG. (Great writing? Maybe. But it's not BG, just something else that's wearing the trappings without the spirit of the original series)
Well, you had to read the parent to get the joke...
[shrugs]
Yes, that's their target market...
More like...
5. Get laughed out of the market.
"Seriously, Dvorak is a standard."
Satisfied?
There's something appealingly disturbing about a keyboard with 'Super' and 'Hyper' keys... I'm not too sure about the 'Rub Out' key - although it might help keep the whiteout off the screen...
The problem is things that are dependant on IE (windows update does comes to mind, but i doubt there aren't others), and then there are the other interdependent vulnerabilities - but interdependencies are the way MS keeps itself in power. But I'm fond of XPlite myself.
Fixing IE would involve such a substantial change to both itself and windows that it won't happen. You've seen how long it took to provide the 'fixes' in SP2 for XP, and in the end it diverted staff from development of Longhorn. Imagine that applied to something even more fundamental to windows, like redesigning ActiveX to be easier to manage, or making IE an optional windows component.
That kind of work would be probably be even harder than writing Longhorn, and we've seen how long that's taking. And that would most likely require a development team as big as that of Longhorn, if not bigger. And they wouldn't be getting paid for it - so what do you thing the chances are of MS doing that?
So i could use that, or just use eMule the same way and not get the eXeem advertising? Somehow the benefit of this amazing new and improved product that's trading on the Suprnova name escapes me...
Massive 'B00Bies'? No, what you want is 'Duke Nukem Whenever: The Movie'
I thought mainstream media was busy giving media a bad name?
The first couple of episodes of season 4 were not bad (for all it just felt like "evil-time-travelling-aliens, now with added nazis!", the sfx sequence of the Enterprise flying low over 40s-era New York to attack the hidden alien base was awesome), but ep3 was a nice (if short) end to the grand adventure of season 3.
Brent Spiner's appearances in the next three-parter didn't do a great deal for me (just felt like 'more of the same,' storywise, and his character's parting lines didn't feel they were anything other than forcing a connection to his TNG characters), but the Vulcan 'civil war' three-parter that has just finished was one of the most interesting and appealing storylines i've seen so far from Enterprise.
Having said that, i just hope they're able to finish this season and come back for a 5th.
That was definately true of the last demo i played, for Evil Genius. Without the 'World Domination' section the demo wasn't representational of the whole game. (Okay, the game was fun, just not as much fun as the demo suggested)
If there was more than one store in the city that rented PC games that might be an option. (And that store is two buses from where i live, so it's not worth the travel time)
I've found game reviews are a great help. What i do is visit somewhere like GameRankings.com and read the lowest-rated reviews, and take careful note of the negative points that are raised.
It might just be me, but "It's nothing new, but the implementation is ok and kind of fun, i guess" is not 90+% material.