Sure, if you count a vector image as a series of thick parallel lines. If that's the case, all printers are vector printers, unless they raise the cartridge between pixels, which would be silly.
RIAA and MPAA were limiting themselves so that they wouldn't have the publicity generated by suing over a thousand defendants at once. They must have known that that looked just a bit like extortion.
Anyway, I'm glad they did this, now the country can decide whether they want to spend their time on federal lawsuits of importance, like civil rights, or on this bullshit.
Unfortunately I'm also convinced that the answer is the latter.
Sorry, what you said is more bullshit. Companies can pay for propaganda, votes can't. Propaganda wins votes. This has been scientifically proven. Therefore, the smart money is on the companies, not the individuals.
The way to prevent this is radical election and finance reform, but lord knows you won't see any Congresspeople or Senators putting that idea forward.
I highly doubt that the majority of Slashdot, who are largely developers who rely on copyright's protections for their income, say that copyright should not exist. Software patents, however, are a different matter. Get it right.
Sure, but there was a time where it was technically possible to do full digitized audio while developers continued to use synthesized audio. I'm not saying that fully digitized cards were always around, but about halfway through that video the CD quality sound starts to become possible but not done because of limitations in storage at the time.
This is great that people are pushing to force governments to drop their censorship. But it's not going to work, at least, not in the short term. The reason? Pakistan will be able to find at least a few people or companies that will build local versions of social networking sites, search engines, etc. that comply with their censorship requests. It's how capitalism works, only the government is saying "we've made you a captive market if you only play by our rules".
Ultimately censorship will be killed by end to end encryption and onion routing.
It's interesting; the evolution of PC audio was mostly bottlenecked by storage. We had the ability to playback full waveform sound back in the day, but we didn't have the storage capacity for it until larger hard drives and CD-ROMs came about.
The reason that cards like Adlib were popular and in widespread use is because storing the notes of a song and using whatever music banks were available on the user's card was cheaper (storage-wise) for game developers than storing a full waveform audio track and playing it. We had waveform sound effects, of course, because they're short and thus small (though some early soundcard-using games even simulated that through the card's music banks).
If it's a third party hardware, a requirement stating that the hardware is required should be enough. If it's from the same company and it's just an antipiracy dongle, I'd say they'd have to include that in the free trial otherwise there really is no free trial.
(I am not a lawyer, this is not to be considered legal advice.)
I'm surprised that there aren't hacks available yet that would take care of that issue.
There are, they're just not kosher to Nintendo. Once you've got homebrew running, you can do all sorts of things with your channels and savegames, including move them between consoles.
Pirates will still figure it out. And all it takes is one person to crack it on their system and post the method, and the jig is up.
Obfuscate it all you want, but in order to let people play the software, Nintendo has to let them decrypt it at some point in the chain, which means there's always a weakness, no matter what.
...and once set it motion it pulverizes, sanitizes and dries the material in the diapers and then forms it into small pellets that contain 5000 kcal of heat per kilogram...
Somehow I doubt that the energy stored in those pellets is more than the energy used to create them.
I guess it might be better than putting them in a landfill, but if that's the main reasoning behind this, we should be looking more into making the diapers biodegradable than wasting energy in a somehow "green" process.
Given the exception at the end, I would guess that it also means you don't have to encrypt the names, just the account numbers, which is what any e-commerce package worth its salt (pun not intended) does anyway.
There's one thing I think should be interesting about forced firmware updates: Are they atomic? If not (and I doubt they are), what happens if a customer loses power in a non-customer-initiated firmware update?
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Sure, if you count a vector image as a series of thick parallel lines. If that's the case, all printers are vector printers, unless they raise the cartridge between pixels, which would be silly.
RIAA and MPAA were limiting themselves so that they wouldn't have the publicity generated by suing over a thousand defendants at once. They must have known that that looked just a bit like extortion.
Anyway, I'm glad they did this, now the country can decide whether they want to spend their time on federal lawsuits of importance, like civil rights, or on this bullshit.
Unfortunately I'm also convinced that the answer is the latter.
I'm the one not living in reality when you are willfully ignorant of the business model of the most highly successful software companies in existence?
This is the broken window fallacy, for those who didn't know this has been repeatedly disproven. Destruction results in a net loss, by definition.
(Also, the Fifth Element is an excellent movie.)
Sorry, what you said is more bullshit. Companies can pay for propaganda, votes can't. Propaganda wins votes. This has been scientifically proven. Therefore, the smart money is on the companies, not the individuals.
The way to prevent this is radical election and finance reform, but lord knows you won't see any Congresspeople or Senators putting that idea forward.
I highly doubt that the majority of Slashdot, who are largely developers who rely on copyright's protections for their income, say that copyright should not exist. Software patents, however, are a different matter. Get it right.
Quick, add Slashdot as a citation!
Oh, don't get me wrong, I never said it wasn't horrible what they're doing.
Seriously. Where is all this pressure to bypass warrants coming from?
Sure, but there was a time where it was technically possible to do full digitized audio while developers continued to use synthesized audio. I'm not saying that fully digitized cards were always around, but about halfway through that video the CD quality sound starts to become possible but not done because of limitations in storage at the time.
This is great that people are pushing to force governments to drop their censorship. But it's not going to work, at least, not in the short term. The reason? Pakistan will be able to find at least a few people or companies that will build local versions of social networking sites, search engines, etc. that comply with their censorship requests. It's how capitalism works, only the government is saying "we've made you a captive market if you only play by our rules".
Ultimately censorship will be killed by end to end encryption and onion routing.
As a side note, I'm going to have the Monkey Island theme stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
Doo doo, dee do do do, doo...
It's interesting; the evolution of PC audio was mostly bottlenecked by storage. We had the ability to playback full waveform sound back in the day, but we didn't have the storage capacity for it until larger hard drives and CD-ROMs came about.
The reason that cards like Adlib were popular and in widespread use is because storing the notes of a song and using whatever music banks were available on the user's card was cheaper (storage-wise) for game developers than storing a full waveform audio track and playing it. We had waveform sound effects, of course, because they're short and thus small (though some early soundcard-using games even simulated that through the card's music banks).
*head explodes*
Some of the fundraiser money should be spent on new leadership.
Fixed that for you. The hard drives won't help if they're not willing to change their policies.
If it's a third party hardware, a requirement stating that the hardware is required should be enough. If it's from the same company and it's just an antipiracy dongle, I'd say they'd have to include that in the free trial otherwise there really is no free trial.
(I am not a lawyer, this is not to be considered legal advice.)
I'm surprised that there aren't hacks available yet that would take care of that issue.
There are, they're just not kosher to Nintendo. Once you've got homebrew running, you can do all sorts of things with your channels and savegames, including move them between consoles.
Further, Nintendo's proprietary way of doing this has also been leaked, and basically they just change the WiiID of the new console to match the old, so the Wii Shop Channel believes it's the same console and allows free redownload.
I would imagine in a lot of US states, in your situation the child would then be charged with truancy and the parents fined.
Of course, if that's not enough to make you reconsider Warhammer Online, the fact that they recently charged many of their customers for more than a year of usage all at once might.
I'll never give my credit card to a company shown to be so incompetent.
Pirates will still figure it out. And all it takes is one person to crack it on their system and post the method, and the jig is up.
Obfuscate it all you want, but in order to let people play the software, Nintendo has to let them decrypt it at some point in the chain, which means there's always a weakness, no matter what.
...and once set it motion it pulverizes, sanitizes and dries the material in the diapers and then forms it into small pellets that contain 5000 kcal of heat per kilogram...
Somehow I doubt that the energy stored in those pellets is more than the energy used to create them.
I guess it might be better than putting them in a landfill, but if that's the main reasoning behind this, we should be looking more into making the diapers biodegradable than wasting energy in a somehow "green" process.
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Oh yeah, it'll totally prevent loss...
> act shifty
You are quickly shot by a secret service agent.
Given the exception at the end, I would guess that it also means you don't have to encrypt the names, just the account numbers, which is what any e-commerce package worth its salt (pun not intended) does anyway.
There's one thing I think should be interesting about forced firmware updates: Are they atomic? If not (and I doubt they are), what happens if a customer loses power in a non-customer-initiated firmware update?
My guess: lawsuits.