70% is simply not good enough. Imagine if you only made correct change 70% of the time, or tried to get into college with a 70% average. More evidence that our government is incompetent.
Well, in at least one sense, the source IS the software. Continuing with the car analogy, (although it's not perfect, of course) you can tinker with your car, even if you have only very basic knowledge what you're doing, as in "This is a wrench. It loosens bolts when you turn it." Likewise, source allows someone who can say "Hey, look at this line in 'Space Blaster 2.0'. Hmm, 'starting_shields=100;' probably stands for my health. Maybe I could change that to 200 and double my health?" to do so. Never mind that the company should have included a difficulty feature, we all know that software makers aren't perfect.
It'd cost a lot more to "own" a piece of software, and it wouldn't make good business sense. If you owned a piece of software, you'd have full rights to do whatever you wanted with it, and you'd probably have to be provided with source code. This would allow you to distribute copies of the software for free, modify the software and redistribute it while taking credit, etc. Hence the licensing system we have today.
I (only occasionally, for reasons about to be explained) use my broadband service for gaming on Xbox Live. There are ~100,000 gamers using this service, which has to represent some significant portion of U.S. broadband users. (The service REQUIRES broadband, there's your legitimate use.) From personal experience, I can safely say that "even" cable access simply is not fast enough, because there is STILL lag, and you can barely host games.
I actually wrote a crappy Dreamcast game, constituting yet another use for the DC, along with all the other (much better) homebrew games out there. (Wow, way to plug that POS game, self!) Seriously, you can't effectively use Linux (no hard drive and it's slow, but there IS a Dreamcast keyboard), and CD-Rs wear out the Dreamcast's laser faster than the GD-ROMs "normal" games are on. FWIW, there are other homebrew emulators besides NES, including MAME, Genesis, and SNES.
It's not a LOT of noise, but it's not silent (mostly when loading from the DVD). My friend's Xbox has something wrong with it and it actually will start to "chirp" occasionally, quite loudly in fact.
My school district's security system (Foolproof) won't let students run any downloaded programs. This would include the AIM installer. Also, the filtering software (Bess) will not allow access to the AIM website (along with just about any other site anyone might actually want to go to >_). Evidently security is rather lax at the bomb threat school if they don't notice/don't care kids are running AIM, and if the second is true, they're obviously not completely "there to learn".
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70% is simply not good enough. Imagine if you only made correct change 70% of the time, or tried to get into college with a 70% average. More evidence that our government is incompetent.
Oh, and that would do wonders for the quality of the recording. (DTMF tones are used in telephones for tone dialing, it's the sound the buttons make)
In the Crunch candy offices: "Great news, guys! That king-size candy bar we've been working on won't kill us all like we thought!"
The only people who would have anything against this would be those who download music they haven't paid for. Right, so why does anyone care? :P
Great. Now will Microsoft search my hard drive for files without this tag and call the FBI?
Well, in at least one sense, the source IS the software. Continuing with the car analogy, (although it's not perfect, of course) you can tinker with your car, even if you have only very basic knowledge what you're doing, as in "This is a wrench. It loosens bolts when you turn it." Likewise, source allows someone who can say "Hey, look at this line in 'Space Blaster 2.0'. Hmm, 'starting_shields=100;' probably stands for my health. Maybe I could change that to 200 and double my health?" to do so. Never mind that the company should have included a difficulty feature, we all know that software makers aren't perfect.
It'd cost a lot more to "own" a piece of software, and it wouldn't make good business sense. If you owned a piece of software, you'd have full rights to do whatever you wanted with it, and you'd probably have to be provided with source code. This would allow you to distribute copies of the software for free, modify the software and redistribute it while taking credit, etc. Hence the licensing system we have today.
I think it's a moot point. What if I'm buying my first OS? How then will I read the EULA?
I (only occasionally, for reasons about to be explained) use my broadband service for gaming on Xbox Live. There are ~100,000 gamers using this service, which has to represent some significant portion of U.S. broadband users. (The service REQUIRES broadband, there's your legitimate use.) From personal experience, I can safely say that "even" cable access simply is not fast enough, because there is STILL lag, and you can barely host games.
You contradicted yourself. If a user can run ANY program they want, they can run a keyboard sniffer or format the hard drive.
Wow, another post on basic netiquette. Would you like a cookie?
Actually, a skinned Xbox looks pretty sweet. My personal choice is the chrome.
I actually wrote a crappy Dreamcast game, constituting yet another use for the DC, along with all the other (much better) homebrew games out there. (Wow, way to plug that POS game, self!) Seriously, you can't effectively use Linux (no hard drive and it's slow, but there IS a Dreamcast keyboard), and CD-Rs wear out the Dreamcast's laser faster than the GD-ROMs "normal" games are on. FWIW, there are other homebrew emulators besides NES, including MAME, Genesis, and SNES.
It's not a LOT of noise, but it's not silent (mostly when loading from the DVD). My friend's Xbox has something wrong with it and it actually will start to "chirp" occasionally, quite loudly in fact.
the Patriot act repeals YOU!
My school district's security system (Foolproof) won't let students run any downloaded programs. This would include the AIM installer. Also, the filtering software (Bess) will not allow access to the AIM website (along with just about any other site anyone might actually want to go to >_). Evidently security is rather lax at the bomb threat school if they don't notice/don't care kids are running AIM, and if the second is true, they're obviously not completely "there to learn".