Comparatively, one might argue that multiplayer games are different because the "toon" that you are mowing down or cleaving with a 2-handed sword is really another person. Well, I say the same thing to that, its a game, and I know I'm not causing actual physical harm to those people directly.
Now if you or the other player is a cheater or griefer....
The only way you void your warranty is if in upgrading your computer, you damage it or the parts you add damage the computer. Any damage you do is not covered, but anything else should still be covered.
And so the warranter will declare the damage was caused by the non-factory parts you added and not investigate further.
What I want to know is if the two firmware updates Apple pushed to fix Boot Camp problems also blocked this type of upgrade, like they did to the Blue & White G3s to prevent their easy upgrade to a G4.
So it isn't feasible to analyze the executable binary to find all the content included on the disk, but how about analyzing how the binary is executed and what data is actually accessed, mapping out the data determining what got executed, what didn't, and what data was accessed? Then go to the game maker and ask what is in the areas that weren't accessed or executed and how to trigger their execution. Instead of analyzing the code, you analyze what the code does and track disk accesses to memory storage and associating subsequent memory access back to the disk.
Shouldn't that give them a way to ensure full disclosure of content? They should be able to demand all console makers provide to them a runtime (and real time) analysis platform that will gather this data; if they don't, no games for that platform will get rated by the ESRB and thus no games for that platform will be carried at Walmart and other must-be-rated stores.
In fact, developers should have access to such analysis machines as well so as to better audit their own code and assist the ESRB.
The idea stems from a truism about system security, which (according to Google) apparently I'm the first to coin as a phrase: "The lowest code owns."
And getting the system to render the left and right views mirror-imaged so they come out correctly in the attached mirrors is just a software problem.
Actually, I'd be surprised if they didn't already sell privacy barriers for laptops that double as screen protectors when the laptop is closed, with a bonus panel for the top to cut down on glare from overhead lighting. The closest I've found is this laptop hood (scroll down) that folds like those collapsible windshield sunscreens.
You know, if they made them in yellow, you'd look like you're about to be eaten by a Pac-Man.
(The ones for camera LCD screens will make you look like you're pointing it the wrong way.)
I will not spend $1 for a song that sucks.... But you have accused me of being a thief when I actually have only legal MP3s without DRM.
According to the RIAA, that makes you a thief. You're a thief if you buy used music. You're a thief if you buy music on sale. You're a thief if you buy any recordable media other than Music CD-Rs, and you're a thief if you use them for music. And even with DRM, you're a thief if you bought it from iTunes and a thief if you bought a CD (you bought music; you must like to steal it too, so here's a free rootkit so we can keep an eye on you). You're a thief if you listen to the radio, you're a thief if you hum or whistle, you're a thief if you can sing, play an instrument, or keep a beat, until they sign you to a label(*) and they can start stealing back from you.
And you're a thief if you don't buy enough new music every 10 minutes.
Basically, everyone's a thief. You've stolen profits they could have had if you'd just bought more.
You haven't lined their pockets enough.
(*) I'm only kidding on that point. They don't sign people who can sing, play instruments, or keep a beat; they have machines to fix that now. It's easier to keep a perfomer if all their talent actually comes from the label's hardware. (They're still working on supplanting physical beauty; lip-syncing stand-ins aren't working well enough.)
I care that cars still come with such old technology as a cassette player. I'd have thought CDs and CD-Rs had taken over the pre-record and home-record cassette markets by now.
I'm not that big a fan of commercial music. I'm no audiophile. My CD collection is very small. I have no interest in filling a drive with MP3s or AACs or whatever. I'd use an iPod to record conversations or as a portable alternative boot drive.
My Honda Fit Sport came with a CD player that can also play MP3-CDs, and has an aux-in jack (which I'll probably only use with a portable TV when parked, maybe the cell phone). There is an optional iPod accessory, but I don't have an iPod so I wouldn't know if it is in fact the same Honda Music Link referred to earlier. Lately I just burn MP3-CDs of This Week in Tech.
I have no need to install a system that vibrates the whole car's body and annoys people in a three-block radius.
You don't READ the library. You don't even read the cover. You read the book.
Still, a library in a lightless, stairless basement unkempt restroom that keeps its books locked in filing cabinets tend not to its books read. The signage warning of large feline carnivores doesn't help either.
If the book is horribly laid out with gray text on black paper so it is hard to read...
The reason for such things is copy protection to make it difficult to impossible to make a legible photocopy. This was typical of some old computer game manuals and games that would make you look up a word at a particular location on a page of the manual to continue, or which came with spell books and maps for use in the game. And, as with DRM, it often makes it unusable for even its intended non-infringing use.
And it seems a lot of sites revel in such design choices, perhaps thinking it keeps them on the "down low". "Nothing to see here, don't consider attempting to highlight all." That, along with putting files in passworded archives with cryptic names you're expected to solve to determine not only what is in the archive but also the password, tech lower than captchas to keep them under the radar of the copyright cartel.
Since some people really will want to play left-handed (I'm a lefty only when writing and eating, so not me), why not just make it a configurable option?
Indeed, or even automatically switchable during game play when it detects you moving your Wiimote from one hand to another for your own little "The Princess Bride" moment.
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Comparatively, one might argue that multiplayer games are different because the "toon" that you are mowing down or cleaving with a 2-handed sword is really another person. Well, I say the same thing to that, its a game, and I know I'm not causing actual physical harm to those people directly.
Now if you or the other player is a cheater or griefer....
So it exploits Firefox. What about Mozilla? Or the other browsers from the same source?
The only way you void your warranty is if in upgrading your computer, you damage it or the parts you add damage the computer. Any damage you do is not covered, but anything else should still be covered.
And so the warranter will declare the damage was caused by the non-factory parts you added and not investigate further.
What I want to know is if the two firmware updates Apple pushed to fix Boot Camp problems also blocked this type of upgrade, like they did to the Blue & White G3s to prevent their easy upgrade to a G4.
The antonym of international waters is airport security checkpoint.
Would you rather I spell it "0wnz0rs"?
Even though I'm normally a fan of Opt-In systems, I'll mute my complaints if a hammer allows me to Opt-Out.
Don't be surprised if doing that may opt you into a special gated community in Guantanamo Bay.
Read the lyrics to "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who.
So it isn't feasible to analyze the executable binary to find all the content included on the disk, but how about analyzing how the binary is executed and what data is actually accessed, mapping out the data determining what got executed, what didn't, and what data was accessed? Then go to the game maker and ask what is in the areas that weren't accessed or executed and how to trigger their execution. Instead of analyzing the code, you analyze what the code does and track disk accesses to memory storage and associating subsequent memory access back to the disk.
Shouldn't that give them a way to ensure full disclosure of content? They should be able to demand all console makers provide to them a runtime (and real time) analysis platform that will gather this data; if they don't, no games for that platform will get rated by the ESRB and thus no games for that platform will be carried at Walmart and other must-be-rated stores.
In fact, developers should have access to such analysis machines as well so as to better audit their own code and assist the ESRB.
The idea stems from a truism about system security, which (according to Google) apparently I'm the first to coin as a phrase: "The lowest code owns."
And getting the system to render the left and right views mirror-imaged so they come out correctly in the attached mirrors is just a software problem.
Actually, I'd be surprised if they didn't already sell privacy barriers for laptops that double as screen protectors when the laptop is closed, with a bonus panel for the top to cut down on glare from overhead lighting. The closest I've found is this laptop hood (scroll down) that folds like those collapsible windshield sunscreens.
You know, if they made them in yellow, you'd look like you're about to be eaten by a Pac-Man.
(The ones for camera LCD screens will make you look like you're pointing it the wrong way.)
Case in point: according to this study, if you own a computer, you're stealing music.
I will not spend $1 for a song that sucks.... But you have accused me of being a thief when I actually have only legal MP3s without DRM.
According to the RIAA, that makes you a thief. You're a thief if you buy used music. You're a thief if you buy music on sale. You're a thief if you buy any recordable media other than Music CD-Rs, and you're a thief if you use them for music. And even with DRM, you're a thief if you bought it from iTunes and a thief if you bought a CD (you bought music; you must like to steal it too, so here's a free rootkit so we can keep an eye on you). You're a thief if you listen to the radio, you're a thief if you hum or whistle, you're a thief if you can sing, play an instrument, or keep a beat, until they sign you to a label(*) and they can start stealing back from you.
And you're a thief if you don't buy enough new music every 10 minutes.
Basically, everyone's a thief. You've stolen profits they could have had if you'd just bought more.
You haven't lined their pockets enough.
(*) I'm only kidding on that point. They don't sign people who can sing, play instruments, or keep a beat; they have machines to fix that now. It's easier to keep a perfomer if all their talent actually comes from the label's hardware. (They're still working on supplanting physical beauty; lip-syncing stand-ins aren't working well enough.)
It hurts them in that it doesn't line their pockets enough.
Well, its more useless to have one big pie chart with no slices that says "Goverment Spending: $476B - 100%"
Especially when you don't get to see what's in the other pie. What is it... Shadow-Government Spending?
Yes, I think the government is keeping two pies, one of them cooked.
But won't all the people searching this database clog the tubes?
This could get messy.
I'm mostly with Leo on this one, podcast is and always has been a lousy word
So am I (and know whom of you speak), and this might just drive the adoption of a better generic term.
And it also may make dictionaries think more carefully about declaring a new word with a trademark within it as Word of the Year.
I care that cars still come with such old technology as a cassette player. I'd have thought CDs and CD-Rs had taken over the pre-record and home-record cassette markets by now.
I'm not that big a fan of commercial music. I'm no audiophile. My CD collection is very small. I have no interest in filling a drive with MP3s or AACs or whatever. I'd use an iPod to record conversations or as a portable alternative boot drive.
My Honda Fit Sport came with a CD player that can also play MP3-CDs, and has an aux-in jack (which I'll probably only use with a portable TV when parked, maybe the cell phone). There is an optional iPod accessory, but I don't have an iPod so I wouldn't know if it is in fact the same Honda Music Link referred to earlier. Lately I just burn MP3-CDs of This Week in Tech.
I have no need to install a system that vibrates the whole car's body and annoys people in a three-block radius.
you can just stick a tape in that connects right to your ipod
New cars still come with tape players?
I for one am not keen on letting Joe Public wave high current charging equipment around.
So, there will still be no "pumping" your electricity in New Jersey and Oregon?
You don't READ the library. You don't even read the cover. You read the book.
Still, a library in a lightless, stairless basement unkempt restroom that keeps its books locked in filing cabinets tend not to its books read. The signage warning of large feline carnivores doesn't help either.
If the book is horribly laid out with gray text on black paper so it is hard to read...
The reason for such things is copy protection to make it difficult to impossible to make a legible photocopy. This was typical of some old computer game manuals and games that would make you look up a word at a particular location on a page of the manual to continue, or which came with spell books and maps for use in the game. And, as with DRM, it often makes it unusable for even its intended non-infringing use.
And it seems a lot of sites revel in such design choices, perhaps thinking it keeps them on the "down low". "Nothing to see here, don't consider attempting to highlight all." That, along with putting files in passworded archives with cryptic names you're expected to solve to determine not only what is in the archive but also the password, tech lower than captchas to keep them under the radar of the copyright cartel.
Since some people really will want to play left-handed (I'm a lefty only when writing and eating, so not me), why not just make it a configurable option?
Indeed, or even automatically switchable during game play when it detects you moving your Wiimote from one hand to another for your own little "The Princess Bride" moment.
So Sony keeps drinking their own kool-aid and failing to notice its effects. What else is new?
Perhaps the phrase will change to "staring into the Blu-Ray".
If you have access to the power brick you have access to an outlet so why not charge them from one.
Depends how many power bricks for each device an international traveller wants to carry (and whether or not they'll get confiscated at the airport).
OK, no more about batteries unless its something like new AA cell is rated at 1200may. (note thats years, not hours).
With your lack of capitalization for the units, I have to ask: do you mean milli-amp years or mega-amp years?