if you don't believe step 5, put in Animal Crossing, wait til the title screen comes up, take out the disc, and press reset.
And if you STILL don't believe it, get a game to crash (I had Metroid Prime do it while using a transport - prolly scratched disk) to where you get that buzz coming from the speakers (seen Xbox games [Morrowind] do this as well) and then try to reset the game. For those of us who are lazy, it won't work. ^_^
They don't need to, as long as we keep sufficient cars that work fine in garages somewhere and keep copying them. Of course, this is strictly adhering to cars and doesn't apply to music.
Does "in-class essay" mean anything anymore?
There's no way to use a computer on those things.
Au contraire, mon ami. It's called a laptop, a floppy, and the teacher's printer:) The;aptop (my own, they're not really allowed but NONE of my teachers have made an issue of it because I don't play games and stuff during class) is also used for taking notes much faster than the rest of the class =D
Incidentally, you know people who DO do their math homework on the computer? What program?
Particularly in 6th grade, cursive was heralded as "the Script of God" (I'm paraphrashing). All assignments in sixth grade had to be turned in in cursive to "prepare" us for junior high and high school, where, supposedly, teachers' expectations were similar. Wa-bam, we hit junior high, and I haven't used cursive since. Incidentally, I now take the very laptop I'm writing this on to school as a faster, neater method of taking notes. (high school, not college)
Well, there's being in it for the money...and there's needing to make enough to get along. Since these guys (girls? haven't listened) are indies I think we should cut them some slack, especially since the complaint is ZERO sales.
Except, ideas are non tangible. They have zero resource expenditure
Au contraire, there is at the very least the time spent coming up with the idea, which is a resource. Not to mention any effort publicizing the idea or putting it into effect...
Ok, so these laws deal with interfering with the operation of a game by taking actions that disturb the game world itself without going through the set mechanics of the game. Well, "pursuit of happiness" is supposedly an inalienable right in this country (U.S), and if people enjoy building houses and selling them to people (capitalism says I can sell what I want to if people will pay for it) and someone interferes with this process in a way that is NOT an accepted risk/part of the process, then they are clearly interfering with the right to pursuit of happiness, so legal action is justified.
charged with criminal assault for starting a brawl in a Greyhawk tavern as Zorgo the Rogue
This wouldn't really be a valid accusation, as you haven't REALLY damaged anything (healing potions), nor have you interfered with anyone's inalienable rights. Also, when you enter a virtual world, it is (usually, depending on the game) done with the expectation or even assumption that your character may be harmed, etc.
If this company were to go under, they have no reason to hold onto those profiles
does not mean individual properties are saved, which is what people would want to save
Why would anyone want to save their character/house/Widget Mark IV after the world the world it exists in has ceased to exist? Obviously, without a world to exist in there is no use for that particular file. This isn't wrong, just a fact of "life". The same sort of thing happens in the stock market; if a company goes under all your stock certificates revert to toilet paper.
Actually, 100 - 180 = -80, an 80 dollar loss for Microsoft, assuming those numbers are correct.
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So institute a policy of metal detectors or something at the doors of places that serve alcohol. You simply surrender your weapon upon entering and pick it up when you're sober. Then you pass through the detector a la the airport to make sure you didn't just say you didn't have a gun. Of course someone determined to bring a gun in can use a ceramic weapon, (no different from now) but this would keep guns and drunks relatively separated.
Gaim has plugins that allow command execution by prefacing a message (sent by you) with "/exec". Couple that with a remote control plugin, hop on AIM/MSN/IRC/Jabber/whatever and presto, you can run command-line things that don't require you to move around the directory tree in no time flat!
The Segway verifies that the key's code matches a code stored in the Segway, they are encoded with each code used once per million Segways, so the odds are really small that even your buddy's keys would activate another Segway. By the way, there are 3 keys, each activating a different max speed. (Source for all this: guy came to school to demo the Segway =D )
it wouldn't be a problem if the hardware looked the same
Yes, exactly. You need a computer that has a spare "Xbox-unit" of processing power AFTER booting, loading the OS and any startup cruft (firewall, anti-virus), AND running the emulator. You couldn't run an Xbox-emulator on an Xbox running Linux, for example. Hence my statement that you need at LEAST a tippy-top-of-the-line computer to run a not-quite-optimized Xbox emu, and I think the requirements get higher the less optimzed it is (think development builds).
To use your example of the nvidia card and intel processor, on a PC the card and processor are already busy processing the Spiffy Desktop (TM) and the basic overhead of the operating system.
Ethics don't save any money/get free stuff. They're just self-imposed limitations on personal gain in order to feel like one is "a good person". To echo Mr. Johnathon Swift, no matter your ethics/breeding/birth/nobility/state-of-being-Jesu s-Christ-himself, you're still full of shit. (literally)
Since the xbox uses an intel processor, with stripped down windows (from what I know) why not make an xbox emulator for the pc.
It's a bare-bones Win2k kernel, meaning less overhead. The Xbox [which is the RIGHT way to spell it, by the way] gets much better performance for its specs than an "equivalent" Windows PC would because it doesn't have the overhead of Windows itself - the GUI, system processes, etc. I'm approximating here, but a top-notch computer might not even be sufficient to run an Xbox emulator, especially one that wasn't fully optimized yet...(think 1.0)
Hey, $20 not spent on a PSX is good money, plus money for games if you want to go down that road, and I'd really like to see a.ISO get scratched up and unplayable over time =P
Ah, you have a point, but it WAS easy to copy, and DRM would be an explicit effor to make it more difficult to copy, thus restricting the previous fair use privileges. (IANAL)
Re:I still don't see how P2P is infringement.
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Well, IANAL, but the hole here appears to be that these CD backups, unless perpetually (or at least frequently, I doubt that sections of libraries aren't allowed to close sometimes) in drives that are shared over a P2P network, are not usually "publically accessible".
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Yes, it was exactly that transport. Ok, so the disk isn't scratched =)
if you don't believe step 5, put in Animal Crossing, wait til the title screen comes up, take out the disc, and press reset.
And if you STILL don't believe it, get a game to crash (I had Metroid Prime do it while using a transport - prolly scratched disk) to where you get that buzz coming from the speakers (seen Xbox games [Morrowind] do this as well) and then try to reset the game. For those of us who are lazy, it won't work. ^_^
They don't need to, as long as we keep sufficient cars that work fine in garages somewhere and keep copying them. Of course, this is strictly adhering to cars and doesn't apply to music.
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Does "in-class essay" mean anything anymore? There's no way to use a computer on those things. Au contraire, mon ami. It's called a laptop, a floppy, and the teacher's printer :) The ;aptop (my own, they're not really allowed but NONE of my teachers have made an issue of it because I don't play games and stuff during class) is also used for taking notes much faster than the rest of the class =D
Incidentally, you know people who DO do their math homework on the computer? What program?
Particularly in 6th grade, cursive was heralded as "the Script of God" (I'm paraphrashing). All assignments in sixth grade had to be turned in in cursive to "prepare" us for junior high and high school, where, supposedly, teachers' expectations were similar. Wa-bam, we hit junior high, and I haven't used cursive since. Incidentally, I now take the very laptop I'm writing this on to school as a faster, neater method of taking notes. (high school, not college)
The KGB is arrested by YOU!
Well, there's being in it for the money...and there's needing to make enough to get along. Since these guys (girls? haven't listened) are indies I think we should cut them some slack, especially since the complaint is ZERO sales.
Except, ideas are non tangible. They have zero resource expenditure
Au contraire, there is at the very least the time spent coming up with the idea, which is a resource. Not to mention any effort publicizing the idea or putting it into effect...
Ok, so these laws deal with interfering with the operation of a game by taking actions that disturb the game world itself without going through the set mechanics of the game. Well, "pursuit of happiness" is supposedly an inalienable right in this country (U.S), and if people enjoy building houses and selling them to people (capitalism says I can sell what I want to if people will pay for it) and someone interferes with this process in a way that is NOT an accepted risk/part of the process, then they are clearly interfering with the right to pursuit of happiness, so legal action is justified.
charged with criminal assault for starting a brawl in a Greyhawk tavern as Zorgo the Rogue
This wouldn't really be a valid accusation, as you haven't REALLY damaged anything (healing potions), nor have you interfered with anyone's inalienable rights. Also, when you enter a virtual world, it is (usually, depending on the game) done with the expectation or even assumption that your character may be harmed, etc.
If this company were to go under, they have no reason to hold onto those profiles
does not mean individual properties are saved, which is what people would want to save
Why would anyone want to save their character/house/Widget Mark IV after the world the world it exists in has ceased to exist? Obviously, without a world to exist in there is no use for that particular file. This isn't wrong, just a fact of "life". The same sort of thing happens in the stock market; if a company goes under all your stock certificates revert to toilet paper.
Ok, a point for you, it's closer to $300 - $180 ^_^;
Actually, 100 - 180 = -80, an 80 dollar loss for Microsoft, assuming those numbers are correct.
So institute a policy of metal detectors or something at the doors of places that serve alcohol. You simply surrender your weapon upon entering and pick it up when you're sober. Then you pass through the detector a la the airport to make sure you didn't just say you didn't have a gun. Of course someone determined to bring a gun in can use a ceramic weapon, (no different from now) but this would keep guns and drunks relatively separated.
Gaim has plugins that allow command execution by prefacing a message (sent by you) with "/exec". Couple that with a remote control plugin, hop on AIM/MSN/IRC/Jabber/whatever and presto, you can run command-line things that don't require you to move around the directory tree in no time flat!
The Segway verifies that the key's code matches a code stored in the Segway, they are encoded with each code used once per million Segways, so the odds are really small that even your buddy's keys would activate another Segway. By the way, there are 3 keys, each activating a different max speed. (Source for all this: guy came to school to demo the Segway =D )
That has GOT to look pretty funny...Just imagine tapping your buddy's head and watching it explode...*POKE*
OMG H4X!!!!!!!!!11111111
it wouldn't be a problem if the hardware looked the same
Yes, exactly. You need a computer that has a spare "Xbox-unit" of processing power AFTER booting, loading the OS and any startup cruft (firewall, anti-virus), AND running the emulator. You couldn't run an Xbox-emulator on an Xbox running Linux, for example. Hence my statement that you need at LEAST a tippy-top-of-the-line computer to run a not-quite-optimized Xbox emu, and I think the requirements get higher the less optimzed it is (think development builds).
To use your example of the nvidia card and intel processor, on a PC the card and processor are already busy processing the Spiffy Desktop (TM) and the basic overhead of the operating system.
Ethics don't save any money/get free stuff. They're just self-imposed limitations on personal gain in order to feel like one is "a good person". To echo Mr. Johnathon Swift, no matter your ethics/breeding/birth/nobility/state-of-being-Jesu s-Christ-himself, you're still full of shit. (literally)
Since the xbox uses an intel processor, with stripped down windows (from what I know) why not make an xbox emulator for the pc. It's a bare-bones Win2k kernel, meaning less overhead. The Xbox [which is the RIGHT way to spell it, by the way] gets much better performance for its specs than an "equivalent" Windows PC would because it doesn't have the overhead of Windows itself - the GUI, system processes, etc. I'm approximating here, but a top-notch computer might not even be sufficient to run an Xbox emulator, especially one that wasn't fully optimized yet...(think 1.0)
Hey, $20 not spent on a PSX is good money, plus money for games if you want to go down that road, and I'd really like to see a .ISO get scratched up and unplayable over time =P
Ah, you have a point, but it WAS easy to copy, and DRM would be an explicit effor to make it more difficult to copy, thus restricting the previous fair use privileges. (IANAL)
Well, IANAL, but the hole here appears to be that these CD backups, unless perpetually (or at least frequently, I doubt that sections of libraries aren't allowed to close sometimes) in drives that are shared over a P2P network, are not usually "publically accessible".