IANAL, but I think the reason they lost is not based on whether 1GB is decimal or binary but because they did not specify the system they used to count it. If they said it was 1GB in decimal so 1GB = 1000MB and made that clear, then they probably would have been ok. But since they did not, 1GB = 1024MB was easier to demonstrate as a better, more common, and more readily accepted definition due to the way it was shown in the OS, and there was nothing on the packaging to negate this.
So make sure if you use numbers, you say exactly what they are supposed to be.
The idea of sending a player somewhere boring for punishment is nothing new like the article suggests. I remember Ultima Online used to have its own thing where players would be sent to a jail for a certain period instead of just banning them.
We got 13th place out of 26 if I remember correctly.
I also remember putting a piezo buzzer on it just so it would beep when you moved the arm because it was cool.
Well obviously video games are the cause because well it involved that there "intarweb" thing and these new fangled computers and then some good old violence in real life and therefore by the age old equation
Internet + Violence = Blame goes to video games
If a company decides to drop supportor get rid of a game or console for any reason, in doing so I feel that they should also lose all rights to it, such as distrobution, copyright, development, and marketing as holding on to the rights but not the game is wrong and unrightfully witholds it from the public, as it is no longer around and yet noone else can enjoy it either.
I bet he just made it in Visual Basic, and got the line count from the number of lines inside the OCXs he used when he opened them up in notepad. He probably just used the Internet Explorer and Media Player OCXs and for the speed, he probably had them stored locally, or on a lan and used the Windows hosts file to change domain names.
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IANAL, but I think the reason they lost is not based on whether 1GB is decimal or binary but because they did not specify the system they used to count it. If they said it was 1GB in decimal so 1GB = 1000MB and made that clear, then they probably would have been ok. But since they did not, 1GB = 1024MB was easier to demonstrate as a better, more common, and more readily accepted definition due to the way it was shown in the OS, and there was nothing on the packaging to negate this. So make sure if you use numbers, you say exactly what they are supposed to be.
The idea of sending a player somewhere boring for punishment is nothing new like the article suggests. I remember Ultima Online used to have its own thing where players would be sent to a jail for a certain period instead of just banning them.
We got 13th place out of 26 if I remember correctly. I also remember putting a piezo buzzer on it just so it would beep when you moved the arm because it was cool.
Well obviously video games are the cause because well it involved that there "intarweb" thing and these new fangled computers and then some good old violence in real life and therefore by the age old equation Internet + Violence = Blame goes to video games
If a company decides to drop supportor get rid of a game or console for any reason, in doing so I feel that they should also lose all rights to it, such as distrobution, copyright, development, and marketing as holding on to the rights but not the game is wrong and unrightfully witholds it from the public, as it is no longer around and yet noone else can enjoy it either.
I bet he just made it in Visual Basic, and got the line count from the number of lines inside the OCXs he used when he opened them up in notepad. He probably just used the Internet Explorer and Media Player OCXs and for the speed, he probably had them stored locally, or on a lan and used the Windows hosts file to change domain names.