Those disc games that do not require activation, or which allow telephone activation instead of Internet activation, can be installed offline. In addition, even those disc games that do require Internet activation install much more quickly on a slow or capped Internet connection than multi-gigabyte downloadable games because a patch is usually smaller than the entire game.
Steam is one of the few that lets you play (almost) anything offline, when Steam is offline. I've tried on Origin and others, and if you were to come home to a fiber cut and have no Internet, you can't get online to "authorise" offline play. While Steam will let you restart in offline mode and play almost any offline game.
When Steam first came out years ago, it had that exact same problem of needing to be online in order to go offline. In which year did Valve fix that, so I can tell how many years the other PC paid download platforms are behind Steam?
Kids these days don't even understand the concept of a machine that's not on the Internet, programs that don't just download and install at the touch of a button, or things like serial keys.
But they do understand things like "running out of data for the month".
PCs now have less than 50% of the internet market in general, and I suspect smartphones and other devices' share will only grow in future
Last I checked, most "smartphones and other devices" had only a flat sheet of glass and an accelerometer as their only input devices, and this setup was highly non-optimal for many game genres. Good luck playing a Mega Man-style game or a Metroidvania on a phone. Among devices with a web browser and a physical keyboard or gamepad, what's the usage share of PCs? And what's the share of "smartphones and other devices" with a USB or Bluetooth gamepad connected?
First, to use the single-player, same-screen, or LAN portions of the game during a long Internet outage lasting months or more, such as military deployment. Second, to install a 15 GB game as a subscriber to cellular or satellite Internet with a 10 GB per month data allowance. Third, to use the single-player, same-screen, or LAN portions of the game after its publisher has gone out of business.
Even at the most basic telemetry level in Windows 10 home or Pro, Microsoft still sees a list of all applications and device drivers installed on a machine, as well as the IMEI of the aircard if one is installed. This information can be used to incriminate a user if a prosecutor or civil plaintiff gets a judge to approve a subpoena for it. If you want, I can describe more specific hypothetical cases that could arise.
Just get a regular Chromebook, unlock it and install Linux.
That depends on whether the unlocking process also disables the firmware's "security feature" of begging the user to reenable "OS verification", which wipes the drive and reinstalls the stock OS. If someone unwittingly activates a wipe, you lose all uncommitted work and the use of the laptop until you return home to the recovery media.
What digital restrictions management is there in Chrome other than HTML5 EME (which can be turned off) and the DRM in Flash Player (which can also be turned off)?
One difference between video games and ball sports is that unlike ball sports, video games are subject to an exclusive right to perform them publicly. A game's publisher holds copyright that it can use and in some cases has used to ban leagues from publicly performing its games. Blizzard, for example, has had a spat with KeSPA from 2008 through 2011. This doesn't bode well for potential competitors to Blizzard's league.
If the National League held copyright on baseball, the American League, Negro National League, and Negro American League could never have formed. (The NL and AL eventually merged to form MLB, and most NNL and NAL players were signed to MLB teams after World War II.)
If the National Football League held copyright on gridiron football, the American Football League could never have formed. (They eventually merged to form the present NFL.)
If the National Basketball League held copyright on gridiron football, the Basketball Association of America and American Basketball Association could never have formed. (The NBL merged with the BAA and ABA to form the NBA.)
Tengen lost in the Federal Circuit (Atari Games v. Nintendo) because it defrauded the Copyright Office to get the 10NES source code. But Nintendo lost the other lockout-related lawsuits. And had Tengen not defrauded the Copyright Office, it probably would have won, per the reasoning of the subsequent (and post-DMCA) Lexmark v. Static Control Components.
There is nothing a FPGA brings to the table, simulation-wise, that cannot be implemented with plain old software.
I can think of one lack of latency. That's one of the advantages of the Hi-Def NES mod by Kevin Horton. Because its upscaler stores only 2 ms worth of the NES PPU's video output, latency can be one frame less than with the frame buffer used in almost every major video game platform since the Sega 32X. Even one frame can have a huge effect on the perceived responsiveness of twitchy games such as Punch-Out!!.
Downloading ROM images from the Internet is copyright infringement in most notable* cases. Even if you own the cartridge, cartridge readers are illegal under anti-circumvention statutes in some countries.
If the short controller cords on this are like those on the original Famicom, Famicom AV, and Super Famicom, then perhaps the console is meant to sit on the coffee table or kotatsu with a long HDMI cord to the TV.
Not until someone *who owns one of these* requests the source code.
That's true for GPLv3, but GPLv2 is slightly different in that the offer for a copy of the source code must be valid for "any third party". From GPLv2 3b, with my emphasis:
Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange
And from GPLv3 6b, with my emphasis:
Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product (including a physical distribution medium), accompanied by a written offer, valid for at least three years and valid for as long as you offer spare parts or customer support for that product model, to give anyone who possesses the object code either (1) a copy of the Corresponding Source for all the software in the product that is covered by this License, on a durable physical medium customarily used for software interchange, for a price no more than your reasonable cost of physically performing this conveying of source, or (2) access to copy the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge.
But I imagine that for GPLv2-or-later software, Nintendo is choosing the GPLv2 option because of the effect on Tivoization. The GPLv2 requires distribution of "the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable," but many believe this condition is substantially weaker than the "Installation Information" condition in its successor.
So if Nintendo turns you down for not possessing a copy of the object code, you can assume they're relying on GPLv3, and you can request Installation Information.
In British English, it's common practice to put the full stop outside quotation marks when the full stop isn't quoted. Even in American English, technical writing tends to follow the same practice.
Nintendo's in-house emulator may not be up to bsnes accuracy
"If it's not bsnes, it's just bs" aside, rumors on the Internets say it isn't even up to FCEUX accuracy. I'd hope it's at least more accurate than NESticle X, the last NESticle release before people started switching to LoopyNES.
Think big! These countries have much less people than the others
But if my entire development team speaks only English, how are users in countries where English is not a common first or even second language expected to be able to understand text in the application? And even if I exclude all Five Eyes countries and instead sell to users in those countries, I'm still liable because I live on the soil of a software patent country and hold no other country's work visa.
an acquaintance of mine went to Ireland to work for MS
Unlike a micro-ISV, Microsoft is large enough to negotiate the bureaucracy of sponsoring a work visa.
alternate between editing and previewing (preferably easily like with Alt+Tab or clicking on a single icon).
In the past, alternating between a maximized editor window and a maximized output window has proven very distracting for me, in part because of the digital analog of the doorway amnesia phenomenon. I thought PC users left the "all maximized all the time" paradigm behind back when they switched from MS-DOS to Windows or from Linux with text console to Linux with XFree86.
Also, just saw a link about multiwindow support in the upcoming Android 7:
I addressed that.
A more serious problem is how to interact with such small images -- even in tablets: you cannot just select with your finger, you'll have to get some sort of BT mouse.
A 7" tablet is big enough for two phone-sized apps, a 10" for four, without any change in the size of touch targets. The problem is the assumption baked into Android 3 through 6 that an application's window size will not change after installation, other than through interchange of horizontal and vertical dimension.
Well, if you want multiwindow for your line of work, such hurdles can be overcome -- by simply buying one modern smart phone
Is there anything that supports it other than a Pixel phone on a Verizon post-paid contract? (The Pixel is premium-priced and exclusive to Verizon in the United States, and I hold no work visa for any other country.)
And to develop for Android, the go-to platform is Linux which I already use
Again, the discontinuation of 10" laptops.
http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/working-on-android/
From the article: "Nexus 10" These are also discontinued.
From the article: "JuiceSSH SSH client to access my remote Linux server". But because buses in my home town do not provide Wi-Fi, JuiceSSH won't work while on the bus unless I buy a data plan with a tethering rider.
From the article: "For offline development I have an installation of Terminal IDE that allows me to run Linux utilities like vim and git locally." But from the Google Play Store page:
** INCOMPATIBLE WITH ANDROID 5.0 LOLLIPOP AND VERSIONS PAST THAT **
** ONLY USE WiTH ANDROID 4.4 OR BELOW.. **
** ( Sorry - but new PIE restrictions break everything in later versions ) **
In the cleartext HTTP case, there was no security to erode anyway. And clients you don't control would connect to a separate subnet not behind the caching proxy.
1, 2, 4, and 5 will probably end up solved by some information security appliance manufacturer.
If a phone that is not stolen cannot connect to the network on grounds of having been stolen, subscribers will blame the carrier. And if the carrier insists that the same device that you've always been using on that account has been stolen, despite your possession of the device in the carrier's local store and showing photo ID whose name matches that of the subscriber, ultimately the "stolen" message could be considered slander of title.
Then have your office's Squid proxy act as a man in the middle for HTTPS, and install its root certificate on all devices authorized to connect to the network.
Thus the inclusion of WebRTC and Fullscreen in the Secure Contexts proposal, currently a W3C Candidate Recommendation, is one big handout to domain registrars. Ten million homes with NAS devices means 10 million domains that need to be registered and renewed annually, to the tune of $100 million a year for registrars. At least it's not quite as bad as it'd be without Let's Encrypt, in which it would have been a handout to both the registrar racket and the CA racket.
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Those disc games that do not require activation, or which allow telephone activation instead of Internet activation, can be installed offline. In addition, even those disc games that do require Internet activation install much more quickly on a slow or capped Internet connection than multi-gigabyte downloadable games because a patch is usually smaller than the entire game.
Steam is one of the few that lets you play (almost) anything offline, when Steam is offline. I've tried on Origin and others, and if you were to come home to a fiber cut and have no Internet, you can't get online to "authorise" offline play. While Steam will let you restart in offline mode and play almost any offline game.
When Steam first came out years ago, it had that exact same problem of needing to be online in order to go offline. In which year did Valve fix that, so I can tell how many years the other PC paid download platforms are behind Steam?
Kids these days don't even understand the concept of a machine that's not on the Internet, programs that don't just download and install at the touch of a button, or things like serial keys.
But they do understand things like "running out of data for the month".
PCs now have less than 50% of the internet market in general, and I suspect smartphones and other devices' share will only grow in future
Last I checked, most "smartphones and other devices" had only a flat sheet of glass and an accelerometer as their only input devices, and this setup was highly non-optimal for many game genres. Good luck playing a Mega Man-style game or a Metroidvania on a phone. Among devices with a web browser and a physical keyboard or gamepad, what's the usage share of PCs? And what's the share of "smartphones and other devices" with a USB or Bluetooth gamepad connected?
First, to use the single-player, same-screen, or LAN portions of the game during a long Internet outage lasting months or more, such as military deployment. Second, to install a 15 GB game as a subscriber to cellular or satellite Internet with a 10 GB per month data allowance. Third, to use the single-player, same-screen, or LAN portions of the game after its publisher has gone out of business.
Even at the most basic telemetry level in Windows 10 home or Pro, Microsoft still sees a list of all applications and device drivers installed on a machine, as well as the IMEI of the aircard if one is installed. This information can be used to incriminate a user if a prosecutor or civil plaintiff gets a judge to approve a subpoena for it. If you want, I can describe more specific hypothetical cases that could arise.
When you were a kid, how often did your parents let you use premium phone services, such as long distance and three-way calling?
Just get a regular Chromebook, unlock it and install Linux.
That depends on whether the unlocking process also disables the firmware's "security feature" of begging the user to reenable "OS verification", which wipes the drive and reinstalls the stock OS. If someone unwittingly activates a wipe, you lose all uncommitted work and the use of the laptop until you return home to the recovery media.
What digital restrictions management is there in Chrome other than HTML5 EME (which can be turned off) and the DRM in Flash Player (which can also be turned off)?
One difference between video games and ball sports is that unlike ball sports, video games are subject to an exclusive right to perform them publicly. A game's publisher holds copyright that it can use and in some cases has used to ban leagues from publicly performing its games. Blizzard, for example, has had a spat with KeSPA from 2008 through 2011. This doesn't bode well for potential competitors to Blizzard's league.
If the National League held copyright on baseball, the American League, Negro National League, and Negro American League could never have formed. (The NL and AL eventually merged to form MLB, and most NNL and NAL players were signed to MLB teams after World War II.)
If the National Football League held copyright on gridiron football, the American Football League could never have formed. (They eventually merged to form the present NFL.)
If the National Basketball League held copyright on gridiron football, the Basketball Association of America and American Basketball Association could never have formed. (The NBL merged with the BAA and ABA to form the NBA.)
Tengen lost in the Federal Circuit (Atari Games v. Nintendo) because it defrauded the Copyright Office to get the 10NES source code. But Nintendo lost the other lockout-related lawsuits. And had Tengen not defrauded the Copyright Office, it probably would have won, per the reasoning of the subsequent (and post-DMCA) Lexmark v. Static Control Components.
Laws in other countries may vary.
There is nothing a FPGA brings to the table, simulation-wise, that cannot be implemented with plain old software.
I can think of one lack of latency. That's one of the advantages of the Hi-Def NES mod by Kevin Horton. Because its upscaler stores only 2 ms worth of the NES PPU's video output, latency can be one frame less than with the frame buffer used in almost every major video game platform since the Sega 32X. Even one frame can have a huge effect on the perceived responsiveness of twitchy games such as Punch-Out!!.
Downloading ROM images from the Internet is copyright infringement in most notable* cases. Even if you own the cartridge, cartridge readers are illegal under anti-circumvention statutes in some countries.
* Freeware NES games made by hobbyists exist, but few if any been reviewed by multiple reliable sources.
If the short controller cords on this are like those on the original Famicom, Famicom AV, and Super Famicom, then perhaps the console is meant to sit on the coffee table or kotatsu with a long HDMI cord to the TV.
What's so "badly designed" about retrousb.com, other than merely being out of fashion?
Not until someone *who owns one of these* requests the source code.
That's true for GPLv3, but GPLv2 is slightly different in that the offer for a copy of the source code must be valid for "any third party". From GPLv2 3b, with my emphasis:
And from GPLv3 6b, with my emphasis:
But I imagine that for GPLv2-or-later software, Nintendo is choosing the GPLv2 option because of the effect on Tivoization. The GPLv2 requires distribution of "the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable," but many believe this condition is substantially weaker than the "Installation Information" condition in its successor.
So if Nintendo turns you down for not possessing a copy of the object code, you can assume they're relying on GPLv3, and you can request Installation Information.
In British English, it's common practice to put the full stop outside quotation marks when the full stop isn't quoted. Even in American English, technical writing tends to follow the same practice.
Nintendo's in-house emulator may not be up to bsnes accuracy
"If it's not bsnes, it's just bs" aside, rumors on the Internets say it isn't even up to FCEUX accuracy. I'd hope it's at least more accurate than NESticle X, the last NESticle release before people started switching to LoopyNES.
Less space than a nomad.
That entirely depends on how big of an SD card you have plugged into the EverDrive in your Sega Nomad.
Think big! These countries have much less people than the others
But if my entire development team speaks only English, how are users in countries where English is not a common first or even second language expected to be able to understand text in the application? And even if I exclude all Five Eyes countries and instead sell to users in those countries, I'm still liable because I live on the soil of a software patent country and hold no other country's work visa.
an acquaintance of mine went to Ireland to work for MS
Unlike a micro-ISV, Microsoft is large enough to negotiate the bureaucracy of sponsoring a work visa.
alternate between editing and previewing (preferably easily like with Alt+Tab or clicking on a single icon).
In the past, alternating between a maximized editor window and a maximized output window has proven very distracting for me, in part because of the digital analog of the doorway amnesia phenomenon. I thought PC users left the "all maximized all the time" paradigm behind back when they switched from MS-DOS to Windows or from Linux with text console to Linux with XFree86.
Also, just saw a link about multiwindow support in the upcoming Android 7:
I addressed that.
A more serious problem is how to interact with such small images -- even in tablets: you cannot just select with your finger, you'll have to get some sort of BT mouse.
A 7" tablet is big enough for two phone-sized apps, a 10" for four, without any change in the size of touch targets. The problem is the assumption baked into Android 3 through 6 that an application's window size will not change after installation, other than through interchange of horizontal and vertical dimension.
Well, if you want multiwindow for your line of work, such hurdles can be overcome -- by simply buying one modern smart phone
Is there anything that supports it other than a Pixel phone on a Verizon post-paid contract? (The Pixel is premium-priced and exclusive to Verizon in the United States, and I hold no work visa for any other country.)
And to develop for Android, the go-to platform is Linux which I already use
Again, the discontinuation of 10" laptops.
http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/working-on-android/
From the article: "Nexus 10" These are also discontinued.
From the article: "JuiceSSH SSH client to access my remote Linux server". But because buses in my home town do not provide Wi-Fi, JuiceSSH won't work while on the bus unless I buy a data plan with a tethering rider.
From the article: "For offline development I have an installation of Terminal IDE that allows me to run Linux utilities like vim and git locally." But from the Google Play Store page:
that contract said no such thing about enforced recalls cutting your connection.
Prove it.
In the cleartext HTTP case, there was no security to erode anyway. And clients you don't control would connect to a separate subnet not behind the caching proxy.
1, 2, 4, and 5 will probably end up solved by some information security appliance manufacturer.
If a phone that is not stolen cannot connect to the network on grounds of having been stolen, subscribers will blame the carrier. And if the carrier insists that the same device that you've always been using on that account has been stolen, despite your possession of the device in the carrier's local store and showing photo ID whose name matches that of the subscriber, ultimately the "stolen" message could be considered slander of title.
Then have your office's Squid proxy act as a man in the middle for HTTPS, and install its root certificate on all devices authorized to connect to the network.
Thus the inclusion of WebRTC and Fullscreen in the Secure Contexts proposal, currently a W3C Candidate Recommendation, is one big handout to domain registrars. Ten million homes with NAS devices means 10 million domains that need to be registered and renewed annually, to the tune of $100 million a year for registrars. At least it's not quite as bad as it'd be without Let's Encrypt, in which it would have been a handout to both the registrar racket and the CA racket.