Hmm... you've answered your own question. I would think motivated missonaries would love to convert the people on mars, and make sure they know about the glory of [insert religious figure].
To my knowledge, the game boy systems have no region coding, so there would be no issue there. For other systems, you would tend to need a boot disk, or a modchip to play out of region games. From what I hear, a lot of tv's sold in the PAL region can accept NTSC signals, so you have a good chance of being ok.
As long as you pay your import taxes, you should be fine on legality as well. There are some high profile companies are built on games import/export, and they don't get in trouble for it.
You might want to check out Lik-Sang, they've got some operations in the EU, which will probably be convenient in terms of shipping and taxes.
That depends on who you ask. Nintendo says no, but I don't know of any court decisions that discuss the legality of such a thing.
In any event, it would be of about the same legality as running the game in a emulator on your computer, albeit you have to consider the emulation patent that nintendo was granted recently.
17 x 17 is old... the new one is 12 x 12... it looks like it uses laptop parts, and isn't terribly modular. 1 sodimm memory slot, and 1 mini-pci slot. Has a lot of crap built in though.
My Bank's newer atms (with the graphical woopdido) let you pick from one of 8 options when making a withdrawl....
20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 200, ??, other
The numbered options tend to make up the bulk of my withdrawling, so i don't recall if it makes you put in the 00 bit... i do think it has a decimal point button though, so you can hit 1 5 . and skip the 00s
if the server does all the work, then you can't run as many players off one server.
you're going to need more bandwidth.
latency and packet loss are going to make the game suck more (goes with the bandwidth increase)
it'd be interesting, and probably more cpu intensive, to have a game which varried it's trust of the clients, if it detected apaprently inconsistent client actions, or if the clients were behaving....
That way non/clever cheaters would get a better experience than obvious cheaters.
This may not be a popular assumption, but I had assumed that the firm referenced on the CA gov't page was not the firm this Mark Maughan works for. The NBC page doesn't give any geographic info other than the nicely vague 'South Bay'. One of the two cities listed on the CA page is in what I'd call the south bay area, but the other isn't... so it's a tough call.
Names, even in combinations of two are not unique.
Well that makes sense. It still limits what virus writers will be able to use to get past virus scanners. I have enough faith in people not to install legitimate encryption/decryption software, just so they can get a virus, at least for the next 3 months or so.
while strong(er) encyrption is coming to zip files, the existing widely supported password protection is trivially weak. They've been making zip password crackers that work for a damn long time. The truly caring email virus scanner would spend the time to crack the zip file and check it for viruses.
AFAIK, Microsoft does not include support for sending or recieving strongly encrypted files through email in Outlook; you have to get 3rd party tools, and that's outside the scope of a lot of people's desire to care.
The restriction about commerciality is that if it's a noncommercial distribution, company Y would be entitled to extend Company X's offer to their distributees.
But in this case, you're buying a router that contains the GPLed code, which is obviously commercial, and thus Company X's offer wouldn't (shouldn't) filter down to Company Y's customers.
Your parent is incorrect about point 3. But you're also incorrect. The GPL does not require that you give the source to the public, it requires that either you transmit the source with the object code or you make an offer to give the source to any third party.
But it's hard to take someone up on an offer you haven't received. And company Y is not distributing the object code noncommercially, so they have to either provide their customers with the source code, or provide their own offer. Customers of company Y would not know of the offer of the source from Company X.
Your parent is incorrect with his point 3, because the GPL compels Company X to distribute the source and object codes under the GPL. Thus, Company Y must agree to those terms, and it's bound to include the source code with the object code, or offer the code.
In past court cases, emulators have been fine, so long as they do not distribute copyrighted code in the hardware, such as bios images, without permission.
Furthermore, it has been held to be legitimate to copy copyrighted code, or statements about licensing in software required for interoperability. See Sega v. Accolade.
If Nintendo were to patent the entire operation of the Gameboy, it might be possible to sue emulators for patent infringement, but the novel parts of a Gameboy are going to be the circuit implementation and electric specs, which aren't emulated at a level that would be infringing.
The reason I hate the bluish headlights, is when they're not uniformly colored... so when they're behind you on a not terribly smooth road, they do all sorts of cool color changing effects as your viewing angle changes... which is distracting.
I notice you say people sue doctors for the most minor things; not that people get judgements against doctors for the most minor things.
I can't recall hearing of a large judgement against a doctor, hospital, or HMO recently where the case was minor.
Yes, it's unfortunate that doctor's have to defend their actions in court, but it's not hard to defend your actions if you follow best practices, and have a good paper trail.
As a side effect, following best practices tends to reduce actionable incidents.
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Hmm... you've answered your own question. I would think motivated missonaries would love to convert the people on mars, and make sure they know about the glory of [insert religious figure].
Genocide would work too.
To my knowledge, the game boy systems have no region coding, so there would be no issue there. For other systems, you would tend to need a boot disk, or a modchip to play out of region games. From what I hear, a lot of tv's sold in the PAL region can accept NTSC signals, so you have a good chance of being ok.
As long as you pay your import taxes, you should be fine on legality as well. There are some high profile companies are built on games import/export, and they don't get in trouble for it.
You might want to check out Lik-Sang, they've got some operations in the EU, which will probably be convenient in terms of shipping and taxes.
That depends on who you ask. Nintendo says no, but I don't know of any court decisions that discuss the legality of such a thing.
In any event, it would be of about the same legality as running the game in a emulator on your computer, albeit you have to consider the emulation patent that nintendo was granted recently.
Well I know I have a local government. But I'm not sure i have a local telco. SBC and Verizon are both national telcos.
I don't think there's such thing as an easy repair on a sattelite. Manned spaceflight is way more expensive then sending up another sattelite.
17 x 17 is old... the new one is 12 x 12... it looks like it uses laptop parts, and isn't terribly modular. 1 sodimm memory slot, and 1 mini-pci slot. Has a lot of crap built in though.
My Bank's newer atms (with the graphical woopdido) let you pick from one of 8 options when making a withdrawl....
20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 200, ??, other
The numbered options tend to make up the bulk of my withdrawling, so i don't recall if it makes you put in the 00 bit... i do think it has a decimal point button though, so you can hit 1 5 . and skip the 00s
It's a tradeoff.
if the server does all the work, then you can't run as many players off one server.
you're going to need more bandwidth.
latency and packet loss are going to make the game suck more (goes with the bandwidth increase)
it'd be interesting, and probably more cpu intensive, to have a game which varried it's trust of the clients, if it detected apaprently inconsistent client actions, or if the clients were behaving....
That way non/clever cheaters would get a better experience than obvious cheaters.
This may not be a popular assumption, but I had assumed that the firm referenced on the CA gov't page was not the firm this Mark Maughan works for. The NBC page doesn't give any geographic info other than the nicely vague 'South Bay'. One of the two cities listed on the CA page is in what I'd call the south bay area, but the other isn't... so it's a tough call.
Names, even in combinations of two are not unique.
hey, he's a certified public accountant... that's gotta count for some public figure... maybe.
Imagine if AIDS never killed anyone but instead turned its victims into immortal zombies under the total control of $EVIL_ORGANIZATION_OF_YOUR_CHOICE.
wow, AIDS would be like TV
fdisk /mbr will not magically resurrect your partition table.
Lock down the bios*, so it only boots from the hard drive. Password protect your lilo.
Yes, you can open the case, and fiddle with the lose bios settings jumper, but one hopes you'ld notice when they open the case.
*Many bioses have a backdoor password, make sure yours doesn't, or at the least it's not a common one.
How does that connect to your computer? USB? Serial? Ethernet?
Is it supported in Linux?
Well that makes sense. It still limits what virus writers will be able to use to get past virus scanners. I have enough faith in people not to install legitimate encryption/decryption software, just so they can get a virus, at least for the next 3 months or so.
while strong(er) encyrption is coming to zip files, the existing widely supported password protection is trivially weak. They've been making zip password crackers that work for a damn long time. The truly caring email virus scanner would spend the time to crack the zip file and check it for viruses.
AFAIK, Microsoft does not include support for sending or recieving strongly encrypted files through email in Outlook; you have to get 3rd party tools, and that's outside the scope of a lot of people's desire to care.
The restriction about commerciality is that if it's a noncommercial distribution, company Y would be entitled to extend Company X's offer to their distributees.
But in this case, you're buying a router that contains the GPLed code, which is obviously commercial, and thus Company X's offer wouldn't (shouldn't) filter down to Company Y's customers.
Your parent is incorrect about point 3. But you're also incorrect. The GPL does not require that you give the source to the public, it requires that either you transmit the source with the object code or you make an offer to give the source to any third party.
But it's hard to take someone up on an offer you haven't received. And company Y is not distributing the object code noncommercially, so they have to either provide their customers with the source code, or provide their own offer. Customers of company Y would not know of the offer of the source from Company X.
Your parent is incorrect with his point 3, because the GPL compels Company X to distribute the source and object codes under the GPL. Thus, Company Y must agree to those terms, and it's bound to include the source code with the object code, or offer the code.
In past court cases, emulators have been fine, so long as they do not distribute copyrighted code in the hardware, such as bios images, without permission.
Furthermore, it has been held to be legitimate to copy copyrighted code, or statements about licensing in software required for interoperability. See Sega v. Accolade.
If Nintendo were to patent the entire operation of the Gameboy, it might be possible to sue emulators for patent infringement, but the novel parts of a Gameboy are going to be the circuit implementation and electric specs, which aren't emulated at a level that would be infringing.
Since when does open source mean free hardware??
The reason I hate the bluish headlights, is when they're not uniformly colored... so when they're behind you on a not terribly smooth road, they do all sorts of cool color changing effects as your viewing angle changes... which is distracting.
0. Doctor performs inappropriate care.
I notice you say people sue doctors for the most minor things; not that people get judgements against doctors for the most minor things.
I can't recall hearing of a large judgement against a doctor, hospital, or HMO recently where the case was minor.
Yes, it's unfortunate that doctor's have to defend their actions in court, but it's not hard to defend your actions if you follow best practices, and have a good paper trail.
As a side effect, following best practices tends to reduce actionable incidents.
So now, in addition to having to live with the results of the malpractice, they can't get reasonable medical treatment ever again?
That's all the people wanted in the first place.
What are you supposed to do when your doctor significantly fucks up while you're in surgery?