Set up something with a list of the candidates in office and running for office and their offenses, at least from a/.er's point of view. Very handy to consult come voting time. "Ok, this bastard, this bastard, and this bastard voted for the DMCA..."
I say Dreamcast launched late, given SEGA's history. The Genesis launched to compete with the NES and got stomped on by the SNES. I seem to remember the Sega CD competing with the SNES, just during its late years, and the 32X/add-on du jour/Saturn had to compete with the Playstation, but the Saturn came out around the same time as the PlayStation. Sega's smoked a lot of crack around release time, I guess. Thusly, the Dreamcast was Sega's PSX killer, but Sony started pumped the PS2, and lots of people decided to wait. The Dreamcast does have a thriving (ish) emulation and homebrew scene due to a homemade devkit and a lack of need for a modchip. Software includes DCBlast, my (crappy) baby.
Even better - get a PSX to USB adapter, buy a pair of Dual Shocks, and play on your PC. Good controller for SNES emulation, obviously the best for PSX emulation, and comparable to the "fit" of the Xbox controller for everything else.
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There are churches that say you have to be born into the faith? Have they ever read the Great Commission? "Go forth and make members of all nations..." Oh, right, they're Christian - they can pick and choose parts of the Bible to ignore. (see Leviticus)
You know, software is licensed, and you'll find the occasional company (my old copy of X-Wing Vs. TIE Fighter claimed this) that WILL give you another copy at reduced price if you send the scratched one in, but no one makes this ridiculous statement that you don't own the physical media the licensed software is on.
If Kazaa and others were gone I would probably be forced to buy the music instead.
I love having friends like this - "Hey, can I borrow your CDs for a minute?"
Catholics are Christian; they aren't Protestant. (Protestants being those sects who decided the Catholics were a bunch of fuckheads and separated; "everyone else" in the Christian world)
It can't list SPECIFIC acts since then we'd get into things like the difference between a butcher knife and a butter knife - it'd have to say things like "dismemberment", which is actually fine as long as these games aren't BANNED, since loads of games contain this sort of thing. (They're usually rated for "Blood and Gore")
If you don't know *why* an action is being attempted you have no means to know *if* it should be allowed.
For example, if you don't know *why* someone wants to crash an airplane into a building, you have no means to know *if* it should be allowed.
You're also free not to eat, as long as you don't mind dying. The premise of GTA is such that you're forced into illegal behavior - you're already a criminal on the run, right? The game would be what you made of it if it allowed alternate methods of completion, like standing in line for the supermarket, and the ability to shoot at passing cars with a sniper rifle and cause all that GTA mayhem was just one option.
When Microsoft uses this as a DRM motivator, keep in mind that this doesn't have to be strict DRM. All you need is a really really obvious "This is uncertified software, are you sure you want to install? *click* Are you really sure?" warning to deter spyware. The EFF or some other benign organization could easily provide this certification.
So is it possible to complete the game "legally"? If not, the game isn't exactly "inherently benign", as completion requires at least some offensive or "corrupting" actions.
Additionally, I have a problem accepting that jets would scramble fast enough to be able to do so...
No jets need to be scrambled to launch a surface-to-air missile - it's launched from the surface, and it goes to the air.
Both homebrew and commercial games can be burned and booted without any modification to your Dreamcast. Note that you won't have any success with simply placing a Dreamcast game in your CD drive and trying to copy it - they're special discs called GD-ROMs. People dumped the games over the Dreamcast's serial port/broadband adapter, downsampled the movies, and put up selfbooting ISOs all over IRC. If the disc you get does not have two tracks (audio/data or data/data), you'll need to use the Utopia Boot CD. That homebrew boot CD might work as well - no guarantees.
He's right about heroin - withdrawal is extremely unpleasant, and the drug changes the brain so as to cause the user to crave it. According to an article on caffeine addiction, "Nearly everybody -- 98 percent of the U.S. population1 -- regularly uses caffeine, an addictive drug with a withdrawal syndrome that often includes severe headache and nausea/vomiting." It's not as simple as "Stop taking it, you moron!", but it IS as simple as "Don't start."
You could soon carry a stripped-down operating system in your pocket to boot any machine to look like yours.
can anyone imagine normal users doing that?
Not to mention the part where computers have different hardware...
Uh, Urban Dictionary disagrees with you on some of the finer points.
"fo shizzle ma nizzle" is a bastardization of "fo' sheezy mah neezy" which is a bastardization of "for sure mah nigga" which is a bastdardization of "I concur with you whole heartedly my African american brother"
I've played it - it doesn't do any tracking of rhythm. All your shots are released on beat, and you get a musical sound effect when you hit things. Your performance doesn't affect the music outside of those effects - the prerecorded tracks just get faster and more involved as the level goes on. Extremely trippy and fun, nevertheless. =)
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Set up something with a list of the candidates in office and running for office and their offenses, at least from a /.er's point of view. Very handy to consult come voting time. "Ok, this bastard, this bastard, and this bastard voted for the DMCA..."
I say Dreamcast launched late, given SEGA's history. The Genesis launched to compete with the NES and got stomped on by the SNES. I seem to remember the Sega CD competing with the SNES, just during its late years, and the 32X/add-on du jour/Saturn had to compete with the Playstation, but the Saturn came out around the same time as the PlayStation. Sega's smoked a lot of crack around release time, I guess. Thusly, the Dreamcast was Sega's PSX killer, but Sony started pumped the PS2, and lots of people decided to wait. The Dreamcast does have a thriving (ish) emulation and homebrew scene due to a homemade devkit and a lack of need for a modchip. Software includes DCBlast, my (crappy) baby.
Even better - get a PSX to USB adapter, buy a pair of Dual Shocks, and play on your PC. Good controller for SNES emulation, obviously the best for PSX emulation, and comparable to the "fit" of the Xbox controller for everything else.
What?
Ubisoft is under no obligation to do anything at all with that URL, he's just open to selling the domain. He could easily refuse to sell.
There are churches that say you have to be born into the faith? Have they ever read the Great Commission? "Go forth and make members of all nations..." Oh, right, they're Christian - they can pick and choose parts of the Bible to ignore. (see Leviticus)
You know, software is licensed, and you'll find the occasional company (my old copy of X-Wing Vs. TIE Fighter claimed this) that WILL give you another copy at reduced price if you send the scratched one in, but no one makes this ridiculous statement that you don't own the physical media the licensed software is on.
You CAN mail the band a check, you know...or perhaps they have a Paypal account? Just download/rip and cut out the middleman.
If Kazaa and others were gone I would probably be forced to buy the music instead.
I love having friends like this - "Hey, can I borrow your CDs for a minute?"
Catholics are Christian; they aren't Protestant. (Protestants being those sects who decided the Catholics were a bunch of fuckheads and separated; "everyone else" in the Christian world)
It can't list SPECIFIC acts since then we'd get into things like the difference between a butcher knife and a butter knife - it'd have to say things like "dismemberment", which is actually fine as long as these games aren't BANNED, since loads of games contain this sort of thing. (They're usually rated for "Blood and Gore")
If you don't know *why* an action is being attempted you have no means to know *if* it should be allowed.
For example, if you don't know *why* someone wants to crash an airplane into a building, you have no means to know *if* it should be allowed.
OK - how about when the pilot starts losing fingers? toes? an ear? Need I go on?
You're also free not to eat, as long as you don't mind dying. The premise of GTA is such that you're forced into illegal behavior - you're already a criminal on the run, right? The game would be what you made of it if it allowed alternate methods of completion, like standing in line for the supermarket, and the ability to shoot at passing cars with a sniper rifle and cause all that GTA mayhem was just one option.
When Microsoft uses this as a DRM motivator, keep in mind that this doesn't have to be strict DRM. All you need is a really really obvious "This is uncertified software, are you sure you want to install? *click* Are you really sure?" warning to deter spyware. The EFF or some other benign organization could easily provide this certification.
So is it possible to complete the game "legally"? If not, the game isn't exactly "inherently benign", as completion requires at least some offensive or "corrupting" actions.
Additionally, I have a problem accepting that jets would scramble fast enough to be able to do so...
No jets need to be scrambled to launch a surface-to-air missile - it's launched from the surface, and it goes to the air.
I guess...two sessions implies two tracks, so I'm definitely correct either way =P
Both homebrew and commercial games can be burned and booted without any modification to your Dreamcast. Note that you won't have any success with simply placing a Dreamcast game in your CD drive and trying to copy it - they're special discs called GD-ROMs. People dumped the games over the Dreamcast's serial port/broadband adapter, downsampled the movies, and put up selfbooting ISOs all over IRC. If the disc you get does not have two tracks (audio/data or data/data), you'll need to use the Utopia Boot CD. That homebrew boot CD might work as well - no guarantees.
He's right about heroin - withdrawal is extremely unpleasant, and the drug changes the brain so as to cause the user to crave it. According to an article on caffeine addiction, "Nearly everybody -- 98 percent of the U.S. population1 -- regularly uses caffeine, an addictive drug with a withdrawal syndrome that often includes severe headache and nausea/vomiting."
It's not as simple as "Stop taking it, you moron!", but it IS as simple as "Don't start."
You could soon carry a stripped-down operating system in your pocket to boot any machine to look like yours.
can anyone imagine normal users doing that?
Not to mention the part where computers have different hardware...
I'm pretty sure a game like the one I described above would not be allowed to be sold in Canada.
And I'm pretty sure lots of Canadians who wanted to play it would just "pirate" it.
I've played it - it doesn't do any tracking of rhythm. All your shots are released on beat, and you get a musical sound effect when you hit things. Your performance doesn't affect the music outside of those effects - the prerecorded tracks just get faster and more involved as the level goes on. Extremely trippy and fun, nevertheless. =)
Rhythm is important in Rez?! What?! Where's the rhythm come in? Incidentally, Amplitude is kinda nifty too ^_^