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Except it's not a CIRCUMVENTION tool, it's an ACCESS tool. For your house door, a lockpick is a circumvention tool, a key is an access tool.
It's the same code that a player uses. If you bought a HD-DVD player, you own exactly the same key. Location (inside the player or on your T-shirt) is completely irrelevant. And no provision disallows you from spreading it.
Sure there are circumvention tools which are useless without it. But if the key is illegal, all HD-DVD players containing it are illegal too. There are no "legal inside, illegal outside" provisions.
I find it exceptionally cruel. Worst world's criminals don't deserve such end, and he didn't even partially meet the... oh wait... he wasn't executed? Pity.
Part of educating children is to make them realise that as responsible citizens, they do not have the automatic right to do and say just as they please - in other words, respect for everyone else.
Part. Which shouldn't get in the way of normal learning. Common disciplinary action against the prankster is in order, because it's about teaching responsibility, not about taking full revenge like against an adult. Suspend him for a few days or such, okay. do NOT sue him. Meantime cancelling classes because of a silly prank is clearly a violation of rules.The principal should be fired.
More likely, download a "pirate key" off the net and get your player to play all the torrent releases, without ever worrying about your key getting revoked, and never bothering with originals (which won't play in your player anymore anyway).
As the standard gets more common - expected key lifetime: 1 week. Constant key revoke-upgrade cycles pissing off legal equipment owners to no end will kill the legal side of the system. The illegal side will flourish. Until the whole standard gets replaced with something that makes more sense.
I have to agree. I have a friend who bought a new laptop, with Vista preinstalled. He absolutely loathed the Vista. So did I. I thought of switching him over to Linux, but I found out he's a heavy gamer - and not very skilled with computers too. Sorry, Tux Racer is not the way to go for him. So I got him XP, Firefox, OOo, several other good programs of free software, and he was quite satisfied.
Not sure about C64, but on Atari there were two games:
- "Montezuma" a.k.a. "Preliminary Monty 48k" which had no startup screen whatsoever and lots of maps separated by the the "green" sequence with pipes, The game was fun and quite playable but seemed definitely unfinished. It seems the game would go on indefinitely, spawning new maps - likely infinite number. I once modded the game for infinite lives and didn't reach anything resembling an end after several hours of gameplay and good 10 maps.
-"Montezuma's Revenge" which had just one map, which was bigger than any single map of Monty, but much smaller than Monty in its entirety. It also had startup music, startup screen, Montezuma in the deepest levels and some more shine and polish not present in Monty. It seemed like a sequel/final version. But either nobody could find it, or I didn't learn of any - there seemed to be no ending of the game. There was the item duping trick, but after killing every available skull and spider, there was nothing to be done.
Right-click the blank space of the menu bar, pick Customize. Ignore the newly opened window, drag the "Bookmarks Toolbar Items" bar (now displaying the name instead of bookmarks) to the white space right of the menus, between the menus and the throbber. Click OK. Disable "Bookmarks toolbar" from view->toolbars - it's empty now.
If you're working on a high resolution screen, you can move ALL of the buttons and navigation to the menu toolbar, then disable the "Navigation toolbar" too.
Montezuma's Revenge, AtariXL/XE. What likely was a bug made into a feature by the authors.
When you got to the Montezuma's room, there was a blue door on the upper floor. You didn't want to open it (despite posessing the key). Instead, you'd enter the middle level and climb a ladder to the top level, which ended right below the door. So you'd continue climbing - climbing the door, like a ladder. Which leads to... the score box. So now you're in the small box with your score on the right side of the screen. You exit it right, and you land in the previous room, but on corresponding level - in your inventory box! And now the best part, as you jump up to reach an item in your inventory, it's added to your inventory - a copy of it, that is! Instant item duplication trick! Then you go back to Montezuma's room, stand above the door, then let Montezuma's stomping push you back into the door. (This seems like an added feature to make exploiting the above bug feasible:) And then you could walk out of the door, go use your newly-gained items and then come back for more. Once I managed to kill every single skull and spider within reach, by duplicating a single-use sword enough times:)
Blah. No upper limit on mostly anything potion-related, including efficiency/time multiplier resulting from fortify intelligence boost resulting from drinking the potion... so: make potion, drink, make (stronger), drink, make (stronger) and in matter of minutes you had int at 68371 out of 100 max, and making other potions that lasted days instead of seconds and gave thousands of points boost.
So say I've developed a new solar battery which produces 90% as much energy as the old ones, but requires 10% of the resources of the old ones to make. By quality, it is the worst product on market, by a small margin. By cost, it is the cheapest, by far. Installing 100 of my batteries could be cheaper than installing 50 ones by the competitors, and produces more energy total. Still, I'm not allowed to reduce the unit price below the fixed level set by the competitors, leaving me out in the cold, with a product nobody wants to buy, because they can get better ones for the same price?
AMD would never have grown to be a serious Intel competitor.
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Except it's not a CIRCUMVENTION tool, it's an ACCESS tool. For your house door, a lockpick is a circumvention tool, a key is an access tool.
It's the same code that a player uses. If you bought a HD-DVD player, you own exactly the same key. Location (inside the player or on your T-shirt) is completely irrelevant. And no provision disallows you from spreading it.
Sure there are circumvention tools which are useless without it. But if the key is illegal, all HD-DVD players containing it are illegal too. There are no "legal inside, illegal outside" provisions.
Even easier.
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http://www.mpaa.org/?09F911029D74E35BD84156C56356
Will show up in the apache.log
"Right now, we're on a not very powerful Windows box," Couglin said. "We definitely are wanting to go to Unix when we go to System 9."
No. You get modded as a troll because you are a troll.
I find it exceptionally cruel. Worst world's criminals don't deserve such end, and he didn't even partially meet the...
oh wait...
he wasn't executed?
Pity.
Oh well, release the laptop for $250 to nerds, and each unit sold to a nerd will reballance the price of the unit for a kid.
> Also, since most /.ers will read an article summary and REJECT its value without reading the whole article,
If I was paid to read the whole article, I'd make sure to read it. And my boss would be free to fire me for slacking if I didn't.
Boundary detection problems will appear next.
:)
Yeah? They've been reported decades ago, and the exploits are out in the wild and in common use (tunnel diode, tunneling microscope and so on).
Will these pesky scientists be surprised when the next batch of patches comes.
I tried to RTFA but no info, and Google won't be much of help with a common word like that.
Part of educating children is to make them realise that as responsible citizens, they do not have the automatic right to do and say just as they please - in other words, respect for everyone else.
Part. Which shouldn't get in the way of normal learning. Common disciplinary action against the prankster is in order, because it's about teaching responsibility, not about taking full revenge like against an adult. Suspend him for a few days or such, okay. do NOT sue him. Meantime cancelling classes because of a silly prank is clearly a violation of rules.The principal should be fired.
More likely, download a "pirate key" off the net and get your player to play all the torrent releases, without ever worrying about your key getting revoked, and never bothering with originals (which won't play in your player anymore anyway).
As the standard gets more common - expected key lifetime: 1 week. Constant key revoke-upgrade cycles pissing off legal equipment owners to no end will kill the legal side of the system. The illegal side will flourish. Until the whole standard gets replaced with something that makes more sense.
I have to agree.
I have a friend who bought a new laptop, with Vista preinstalled. He absolutely loathed the Vista. So did I. I thought of switching him over to Linux, but I found out he's a heavy gamer - and not very skilled with computers too. Sorry, Tux Racer is not the way to go for him. So I got him XP, Firefox, OOo, several other good programs of free software, and he was quite satisfied.
Well, in most users impression, Gimp is, well, a gimped Photoshop.
Get directions from New York, ny to Paris, France using Google Maps -> Directions.
Interesting...
Google Maps AI rules.
See point 23
Plug the keyboard and monitor into the company's mainframe and use it as your desktop :P
http://mapy.atari8.info/l-o/montezuma.png
Not sure about C64, but on Atari there were two games:
- "Montezuma" a.k.a. "Preliminary Monty 48k" which had no startup screen whatsoever and lots of maps separated by the the "green" sequence with pipes, The game was fun and quite playable but seemed definitely unfinished. It seems the game would go on indefinitely, spawning new maps - likely infinite number. I once modded the game for infinite lives and didn't reach anything resembling an end after several hours of gameplay and good 10 maps.
-"Montezuma's Revenge" which had just one map, which was bigger than any single map of Monty, but much smaller than Monty in its entirety. It also had startup music, startup screen, Montezuma in the deepest levels and some more shine and polish not present in Monty. It seemed like a sequel/final version. But either nobody could find it, or I didn't learn of any - there seemed to be no ending of the game. There was the item duping trick, but after killing every available skull and spider, there was nothing to be done.
Autocompletion bit me more than once.
I want to delete all READ*. So I press rm R[TAB]* and see: rm README *
Right-click the blank space of the menu bar, pick Customize.
Ignore the newly opened window, drag the "Bookmarks Toolbar Items" bar (now displaying the name instead of bookmarks) to the white space right of the menus, between the menus and the throbber.
Click OK.
Disable "Bookmarks toolbar" from view->toolbars - it's empty now.
If you're working on a high resolution screen, you can move ALL of the buttons and navigation to the menu toolbar, then disable the "Navigation toolbar" too.
Montezuma's Revenge, AtariXL/XE. What likely was a bug made into a feature by the authors.
:) And then you could walk out of the door, go use your newly-gained items and then come back for more. Once I managed to kill every single skull and spider within reach, by duplicating a single-use sword enough times :)
When you got to the Montezuma's room, there was a blue door on the upper floor. You didn't want to open it (despite posessing the key). Instead, you'd enter the middle level and climb a ladder to the top level, which ended right below the door. So you'd continue climbing - climbing the door, like a ladder. Which leads to... the score box. So now you're in the small box with your score on the right side of the screen. You exit it right, and you land in the previous room, but on corresponding level - in your inventory box! And now the best part, as you jump up to reach an item in your inventory, it's added to your inventory - a copy of it, that is! Instant item duplication trick! Then you go back to Montezuma's room, stand above the door, then let Montezuma's stomping push you back into the door. (This seems like an added feature to make exploiting the above bug feasible
Blah.
No upper limit on mostly anything potion-related, including efficiency/time multiplier resulting from fortify intelligence boost resulting from drinking the potion...
so: make potion, drink, make (stronger), drink, make (stronger) and in matter of minutes you had int at 68371 out of 100 max, and making other potions that lasted days instead of seconds and gave thousands of points boost.
This morning's fav:
"Are you sure you want to cancel the operation?"
[OK] [Cancel]
So say I've developed a new solar battery which produces 90% as much energy as the old ones, but requires 10% of the resources of the old ones to make. By quality, it is the worst product on market, by a small margin. By cost, it is the cheapest, by far. Installing 100 of my batteries could be cheaper than installing 50 ones by the competitors, and produces more energy total. Still, I'm not allowed to reduce the unit price below the fixed level set by the competitors, leaving me out in the cold, with a product nobody wants to buy, because they can get better ones for the same price?
AMD would never have grown to be a serious Intel competitor.
Grow up, AC. Sign your posts.