It's not a trojan - the article uses the wrong word. It's really a worm since it spreads through use of security exploits, not through user intervention.
Not to mention the fact that this "development kit" was designed for use with a Nintendo product which, by law, Nintendo owns all rights to, including the ability to deny and/or approve of who can develop for it.
WHAT law? They have rights to all the standard libraries, sure, but if someone were to write code for the machine from the ground up, make carts, and sell them, Nintendo couldn't do a damn thing (provided that there was no use of Nintendo seals on packaging, etc.). See all the public-domain ROMs for reference, or Feet of Fury for the Dreamcast.
Good! I'd like to point out that a) communism != socialism, communism is an EXTENSION of socialism, and b) socialism is compatible with a free market, while communism is not. Socialists will still pay you for working, but they will exercise complete control over the methods of production, etc. etc. etc. Before you get scared off by "complete control", note that socialists believe in a huge deal of active participation in the system by the people, so the "government" is the people, in their capacity of running things.
Well, I guess if you can handle Ctrl-F to move your cursor to the right...gvim handles arrow keys nicely and it doesn't mangle tabs like emacs does, so I use that. In defense of emacs, I think it could be made to behave, but gvim has an option for tabsize right in the menus, so I use that.
Remove players or add Xboxen or use normal TVs (widescreen TVs stretch the picture quite often) or put your TV in 4:3 mode or use the proper video cables for your HDTV or whatever.
Mod chips do not interfere with copyright laws.
This is correct. When sellers of modchips get busted (under U.S. law, anyway) it's because they were including or otherwise supplying hacked version of the Microsoft BIOS for the Xbox with the chips, not because modifying your hardware is illegal.
When someone rips off the GPL, everyone is up in arms, but a game that is cracked? TOTALLY COOL, RIGHT?
We like openness. Cracking a game creates more openness; GPL violations generally create less openness.
While we're on the subject, I recommend the RedOctane Ignition Pad 2.0. 2 inches of foam = not nearly as much slippage as flimsy soft pads, which you can wear out within a couple months.
My EMSUSB adapter works fine - it fits two controllers and gets mapped as one huge ass joystick - I just modprobe joydev and I'm good to go with ZSNES.
However nice that would be for Nintendo, this is such a fine legal point that they probably won't raid your house over it. Also, it even seems perfectly ethical to me if you bought the game already. Point being that grandparent can go ahead and get his PocketNES fix.
Kid bugs 50 people for, say, one second each. Kid is then subjected to a [good] five- to ten-minute lecture on why he shouldn't do this. Kid has been paid back at least 5 to 10 times. Three-day suspension? I think not.
Saying that one wishes death on the president is against the law.
What?! If I thought it would be really great if Mr. Bush had a heart attack tomorrow, I couldn't say so? Uh...maybe in YOUR country, but I live in the U.S.
You know, your comment about the PS2 getting MGS3 first got me thinking. This console generation is so good that I'm just going to herald the release of the next generation as a welcome price drop. I'll finally buy the GTA double pack and MGS3 for my Xbox when the next generation comes out...^_^
How are arcade game prices in Canada? 50 cents seems to be the absolute minimum at a "real" arcade in the States that still takes coins - 25 cents for Galaga, etc. Maximum acceptable price is usually $1.00 here.
Yeah, because your all-knowing MP3 player can tell that you've used another copy of the song before and will smite you if you get another version. Well, maybe WMP will...
It's not the same thing at all - we think that everyone should get the unlimited bandwidth he or she paid for - the bottom 99% have purchased the same privileges as the top 1% (limiting to a single ISP and plan, as we are).
Three years later [1989], Sega took another shot at the home videogame market with the Sega Genesis, a 16-bit next generation system far superior to the NES. At launch, the Genesis (sold as the 'Mega Drive' in Europe and Japan) was $189 and came packaged with one controller and Altered Beast. The "Power Base Converter," an adapter that allowed Sega Master System games on the Genesis was immediately released and Sega planned to release a modem and possibly a keyboard for the system by the end of the year.
Although NEC's TurboGrafx-16 had beaten the Genesis to market by over four months, the Genesis was backed up by strong third-party support (Electronic Arts being the most significant), great marketing, good timing, and popular games. It wasn't until the release of the Super NES in late 1991 that Sega faced stiff competition, but by then the Genesis had amassed a large user-base and was releasing blockbuster games like Sonic the Hedgehog.
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It's not a trojan - the article uses the wrong word. It's really a worm since it spreads through use of security exploits, not through user intervention.
Blasted trolls...Parent down, grandparent whatever.
Not to mention the fact that this "development kit" was designed for use with a Nintendo product which, by law, Nintendo owns all rights to, including the ability to deny and/or approve of who can develop for it.
WHAT law? They have rights to all the standard libraries, sure, but if someone were to write code for the machine from the ground up, make carts, and sell them, Nintendo couldn't do a damn thing (provided that there was no use of Nintendo seals on packaging, etc.). See all the public-domain ROMs for reference, or Feet of Fury for the Dreamcast.
Good! I'd like to point out that a) communism != socialism, communism is an EXTENSION of socialism, and b) socialism is compatible with a free market, while communism is not. Socialists will still pay you for working, but they will exercise complete control over the methods of production, etc. etc. etc. Before you get scared off by "complete control", note that socialists believe in a huge deal of active participation in the system by the people, so the "government" is the people, in their capacity of running things.
Well, I guess if you can handle Ctrl-F to move your cursor to the right...gvim handles arrow keys nicely and it doesn't mangle tabs like emacs does, so I use that. In defense of emacs, I think it could be made to behave, but gvim has an option for tabsize right in the menus, so I use that.
Remove players or add Xboxen or use normal TVs (widescreen TVs stretch the picture quite often) or put your TV in 4:3 mode or use the proper video cables for your HDTV or whatever.
Mod chips do not interfere with copyright laws.
This is correct. When sellers of modchips get busted (under U.S. law, anyway) it's because they were including or otherwise supplying hacked version of the Microsoft BIOS for the Xbox with the chips, not because modifying your hardware is illegal.
I am the finder robot. Humans must be helped. Helping will protect you. Helping will protect you from the terrible secret of space. pak chooie unf...
You're pretty close when you park or walk outside that handy restaurant with WiFi...
You can't get cell phone reception in a metal dumpster.
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Takes too long...GNU shred will do as many overwrites and other things as you like though.
When someone rips off the GPL, everyone is up in arms, but a game that is cracked? TOTALLY COOL, RIGHT?
We like openness. Cracking a game creates more openness; GPL violations generally create less openness.
While we're on the subject, I recommend the RedOctane Ignition Pad 2.0. 2 inches of foam = not nearly as much slippage as flimsy soft pads, which you can wear out within a couple months.
the new (if any at all) wave of "legal" p2p networks.
Hey, Mr. FUD Monkey? P2P networks aren't illegal, but some of the activity on them is.
My EMSUSB adapter works fine - it fits two controllers and gets mapped as one huge ass joystick - I just modprobe joydev and I'm good to go with ZSNES.
However nice that would be for Nintendo, this is such a fine legal point that they probably won't raid your house over it. Also, it even seems perfectly ethical to me if you bought the game already. Point being that grandparent can go ahead and get his PocketNES fix.
Kid bugs 50 people for, say, one second each. Kid is then subjected to a [good] five- to ten-minute lecture on why he shouldn't do this. Kid has been paid back at least 5 to 10 times. Three-day suspension? I think not.
Saying that one wishes death on the president is against the law.
What?! If I thought it would be really great if Mr. Bush had a heart attack tomorrow, I couldn't say so? Uh...maybe in YOUR country, but I live in the U.S.
You know, your comment about the PS2 getting MGS3 first got me thinking. This console generation is so good that I'm just going to herald the release of the next generation as a welcome price drop. I'll finally buy the GTA double pack and MGS3 for my Xbox when the next generation comes out...^_^
How are arcade game prices in Canada? 50 cents seems to be the absolute minimum at a "real" arcade in the States that still takes coins - 25 cents for Galaga, etc. Maximum acceptable price is usually $1.00 here.
Yeah, because your all-knowing MP3 player can tell that you've used another copy of the song before and will smite you if you get another version. Well, maybe WMP will...
Uh...females have pubes. O_o
It's not the same thing at all - we think that everyone should get the unlimited bandwidth he or she paid for - the bottom 99% have purchased the same privileges as the top 1% (limiting to a single ISP and plan, as we are).