But now you want to include Tetris, you have to go and figure out who has the copyright on the code itself and see if they're around
If Nintendo had the rights, it would include its own version of Tetris, not the version produced by Tengen (now part of WB Games) when the licensing was still a mess. The credit screen for Nintendo's version of Tetris for NES and Tetris & Dr. Mario for Super NES lists only two copyright owners: Nintendo and Elorg. Based on my experiences in the Tetris fan scene from 2006 through roughly 2009, this leaves me with two likely possibilities:
A. The Tetris Company wants too much money per copy. B. The Tetris Company doesn't want to ship products that don't include the new rules since the 2001 reform that added hold piece, Super Rotation System, infinite spin, and "bag" randomizer to the base game.
It has been discovered nintendo used the.nes format
Like the Zip format, the iNES format has no exclusive rights. It's just a 16-byte header that specifies how large the PRG ROM and CHR ROM are and how the rest of the hardware on the Game Pak's PCB is wired.
and very likely sources their roms from the already pirated versions
If Nintendo contracts a company to produce an emulator, and the emulator happens to accept iNES format ROM images as input, Nintendo can make its own ROM images in the correct format by dumping the ROM from Game Paks kept in its library in Redmond, Washington, and prepending a correctly constructed header. I'd be very interested to see evidence otherwise.
What makes the NES Classic Edition not "pathetic" is that it comes with authentic copies of notable* games. This distinguishes it from emulators on a Raspberry Pi 3 that do not. Either they don't come with games at all because they can't score any licenses, or they come with non-notable freeware like Thwaite and Nova the Squirrel and Gruniozerca 2.
The NES Classic Edition isn't getting any new games (officially). It has no (Nintendo approved) update mechanism.
But the original Nintendo Entertainment System is getting plenty of new indie games. If you haven't heard of them, then perhaps the developers of platformers like Twin Dragons and The Curse of Possum Hollow and Lizard need to step up their advertising.
I don't see anything Nintendo could have done about it if The Tetris Company doesn't want Tetris included in large bundles anymore. When Nintendo originally announced Virtual Console for Wii, Tetris was one of the games it called out as too expensive to license (along with GoldenEye, whose rights at the time were split between Activision and Microsoft).
Windows is trying to avoid conflicts that arise from a "mixed binary" situation, where different running processes are linking to different versions of a system library. It's the same reason Ubuntu got a bunch of "reboot-required" notifications a few years back, when OpenSSL was being updated rapidly to fix a whole bunch of newly discovered vulnerabilities.
Generate a root certificate, have your clients trust it, and have your MITM proxy issue certificates that chain back to it so that it can decrypt and reencrypt these packets.
By "AC radios" you mean running a Wi-Fi AP over unlicensed spectrum (such as 2.4 or 5 GHz), correct? Would that interfere with use of Wi-Fi within the subscribers' residences?
And, wireless has gotten to the point that offering competitive "broadband" speeds works well if you have the terrain to support it.
Peak speeds or sustained speeds? With the ongoing monthly caps on cellular tethering, and analogous "fair usage policies" among satellite Internet providers, I don't see how providing even OS updates and SD video to a multi-PC household over wireless can be made affordable.
Unless all you want is a bunch of robots easily programmable by FOX/CNN.
Of course I want robots programmable by Foxconn. Automating assembly of electronic devices would at least help alleviate the sweatshop conditions in Chinese factories.
Oh wait, you said "FOX News Channel and CNN", didn't you?
Last I read, only a Chromebook in developer mode can sideload APKs, and in developer mode
You should read more often: ["These are the Chromebooks that can run Android and Linux apps" by Jerry Hildenbrand]
Nothing in that article says anything about support for "sideloading" or "Unknown sources". Instead, it describes which Chromebooks can download and run apps from Google Play Store.
More and more I'm leaning towards wanting a browser that permits per-website Javascript white/black listing. Safari added some great per-website settings controls, and just needs to add Javascript blocking to be perfect.
I don't seem to have trouble getting the supermajority of my edits to stick on the first try. One thing that helps is being willing to discuss reverts in a civil manner and then take into account constructive criticism when retrying your edit a week later.
But then I have years of experience on that platform, and I know getting used to Wikipedia's content policies can be tough for new users. Could you link diffs of your edits that got reverted so that others can help you?
If you’re used to Android, you know that you need to enable the “Unknown Sources” option to install apps that aren’t available in Google Play. However, this option is hidden and not normally available on Chrome OS.
To access this option, you’ll need to put your Chromebook into developer mode [...] If you don’t see the Unknown Sources option here, your Chromebook isn’t in developer mode. This option only appears here when your Chromebook is in developer mode, so try going through Step One again.
app sideloading's been available since the rollout of Android app support on the platform, but it currently requires enabling Developer mode. However, this might be changing very soon, according to a code commit spotted in Chrome OS. [...] easier Chrome OS sideloading won't come to consumer devices right away -- the commit references enterprise Chromebooks such as those in businesses and schools. When the feature is live, Chrome OS administrators will be able to toggle APK sideloading on and off on fleets of devices with a simple switch.
It's not certain yet whether Google will roll sideloading support out to regular, consumer Chromebooks in the near or far future.
Could you explain further what you mean by this? Early in the school year, I would read ahead in the textbook between the end of the lecture and the end of the class period. But later in the school year, I have finished the textbook, and this is no longer effective.
Or walk around the school as a type of exercise?
In schools in most states of the United States, leaving the classroom during a class period without a hall pass would result in disciplinary action against the student for truancy. Do schools in France have different customs compared to schools in the United States with respect to under what conditions a teacher is willing to grant a hall pass?
prepare for the next class?
Could you explain further what you mean by "the next class"? Do you mean the next meeting of the same class, or the different class next period?
It's not that long time (5-10 minutes) to control yourself.
What prevents a teacher from finishing the lecture even earlier than that?
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I am using the Tracking Protection feature of Firefox, not an ad blocker. I guess I can add one more to the list of sites that deliberately treat privacy tools no differently from ad blockers instead of falling back to different ads that respect viewers' privacy.
Chromebooks can function offline and sync when Wifi is available just fine.
Provided that the web application that you are using on your Chromebook uses Service Workers to work offline. How widespread is full support for Service Workers? This topic claims that things like Amazon Cloud9 IDE don't support it.
I've seen iPad users suggest using an online IDE as well. But it wouldn't work well for working on hobby projects while riding transit to and from your day job.
C. Pay beaucoup bucks to a cellular ISP (on top what you already pay to your home ISP) for connecting to a server that you access remotely D. Access a server remotely through Wi-Fi or wired Ethernet and be unable to get any work done during the commute
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But now you want to include Tetris, you have to go and figure out who has the copyright on the code itself and see if they're around
If Nintendo had the rights, it would include its own version of Tetris, not the version produced by Tengen (now part of WB Games) when the licensing was still a mess. The credit screen for Nintendo's version of Tetris for NES and Tetris & Dr. Mario for Super NES lists only two copyright owners: Nintendo and Elorg. Based on my experiences in the Tetris fan scene from 2006 through roughly 2009, this leaves me with two likely possibilities:
A. The Tetris Company wants too much money per copy.
B. The Tetris Company doesn't want to ship products that don't include the new rules since the 2001 reform that added hold piece, Super Rotation System, infinite spin, and "bag" randomizer to the base game.
And at that point, "Don't turn me off" becomes a single-digit-year-old's plea of "I don't wanna go to bed".
It has been discovered nintendo used the .nes format
Like the Zip format, the iNES format has no exclusive rights. It's just a 16-byte header that specifies how large the PRG ROM and CHR ROM are and how the rest of the hardware on the Game Pak's PCB is wired.
and very likely sources their roms from the already pirated versions
If Nintendo contracts a company to produce an emulator, and the emulator happens to accept iNES format ROM images as input, Nintendo can make its own ROM images in the correct format by dumping the ROM from Game Paks kept in its library in Redmond, Washington, and prepending a correctly constructed header. I'd be very interested to see evidence otherwise.
You will be sued, and you will lose.
Source: "US District Court: Game Elements In Tetris Clone Infringe Tetris Co.'s Copyright" (June 2012)
What makes the NES Classic Edition not "pathetic" is that it comes with authentic copies of notable* games. This distinguishes it from emulators on a Raspberry Pi 3 that do not. Either they don't come with games at all because they can't score any licenses, or they come with non-notable freeware like Thwaite and Nova the Squirrel and Gruniozerca 2.
* I use "notable" in Wikipedia's sense: significant coverage in three or more independent reliable sources.
The NES Classic Edition isn't getting any new games (officially). It has no (Nintendo approved) update mechanism.
But the original Nintendo Entertainment System is getting plenty of new indie games. If you haven't heard of them, then perhaps the developers of platformers like Twin Dragons and The Curse of Possum Hollow and Lizard need to step up their advertising.
I don't see anything Nintendo could have done about it if The Tetris Company doesn't want Tetris included in large bundles anymore. When Nintendo originally announced Virtual Console for Wii, Tetris was one of the games it called out as too expensive to license (along with GoldenEye, whose rights at the time were split between Activision and Microsoft).
But how do you dump an authentic copy of BotW from the Game Disc to your PC for use in Cemu? The official docs say you need a Wii U anyway.
Skyrim is already available for PC and PlayStation 3. It runs playably even on Intel graphics all the way back to Ivy Bridge.
I'd like to see how Microsoft would get around blocking all Internet access other than through the proxy.
I'm so fucking done with Slashdot...
Lets start a new open source version, that doesn't compromise and doesn't sell out...
Would it look anything like SoylentNews? Some people had the same idea as you during the "Buck Feta" era.
Windows is trying to avoid conflicts that arise from a "mixed binary" situation, where different running processes are linking to different versions of a system library. It's the same reason Ubuntu got a bunch of "reboot-required" notifications a few years back, when OpenSSL was being updated rapidly to fix a whole bunch of newly discovered vulnerabilities.
Generate a root certificate, have your clients trust it, and have your MITM proxy issue certificates that chain back to it so that it can decrypt and reencrypt these packets.
By "AC radios" you mean running a Wi-Fi AP over unlicensed spectrum (such as 2.4 or 5 GHz), correct? Would that interfere with use of Wi-Fi within the subscribers' residences?
And, wireless has gotten to the point that offering competitive "broadband" speeds works well if you have the terrain to support it.
Peak speeds or sustained speeds? With the ongoing monthly caps on cellular tethering, and analogous "fair usage policies" among satellite Internet providers, I don't see how providing even OS updates and SD video to a multi-PC household over wireless can be made affordable.
Unless all you want is a bunch of robots easily programmable by FOX/CNN.
Of course I want robots programmable by Foxconn. Automating assembly of electronic devices would at least help alleviate the sweatshop conditions in Chinese factories.
Oh wait, you said "FOX News Channel and CNN", didn't you?
Last I read, only a Chromebook in developer mode can sideload APKs, and in developer mode
You should read more often:
["These are the Chromebooks that can run Android and Linux apps" by Jerry Hildenbrand]
Nothing in that article says anything about support for "sideloading" or "Unknown sources". Instead, it describes which Chromebooks can download and run apps from Google Play Store.
More and more I'm leaning towards wanting a browser that permits per-website Javascript white/black listing. Safari added some great per-website settings controls, and just needs to add Javascript blocking to be perfect.
Firefox supports the "JavaScript Switcher" extension by Suraj Jain. It allowed access to the site.
I don't seem to have trouble getting the supermajority of my edits to stick on the first try. One thing that helps is being willing to discuss reverts in a civil manner and then take into account constructive criticism when retrying your edit a week later.
But then I have years of experience on that platform, and I know getting used to Wikipedia's content policies can be tough for new users. Could you link diffs of your edits that got reverted so that others can help you?
I reread today.
From "How to Sideload an Android App From an APK on a Chromebook" by Chris Hoffman:
I concede that this article was published two years ago. Let's try a more recent article from January 2018, "You'll Soon be Able to Sideload Android Apps on your Chromebook Without Developer Mode" by Arol Wright:
Has this gone live on non-enterprise Chrome OS yet? It appears not, as "Load apps on Chromebooks" from the official Android documentation still states as of today:
Study?
Could you explain further what you mean by this? Early in the school year, I would read ahead in the textbook between the end of the lecture and the end of the class period. But later in the school year, I have finished the textbook, and this is no longer effective.
Or walk around the school as a type of exercise?
In schools in most states of the United States, leaving the classroom during a class period without a hall pass would result in disciplinary action against the student for truancy. Do schools in France have different customs compared to schools in the United States with respect to under what conditions a teacher is willing to grant a hall pass?
prepare for the next class?
Could you explain further what you mean by "the next class"? Do you mean the next meeting of the same class, or the different class next period?
It's not that long time (5-10 minutes) to control yourself.
What prevents a teacher from finishing the lecture even earlier than that?
From the linked page:
I am using the Tracking Protection feature of Firefox, not an ad blocker. I guess I can add one more to the list of sites that deliberately treat privacy tools no differently from ad blockers instead of falling back to different ads that respect viewers' privacy.
Chromebooks can function offline and sync when Wifi is available just fine.
Provided that the web application that you are using on your Chromebook uses Service Workers to work offline. How widespread is full support for Service Workers? This topic claims that things like Amazon Cloud9 IDE don't support it.
I've seen iPad users suggest using an online IDE as well. But it wouldn't work well for working on hobby projects while riding transit to and from your day job.
C. Pay beaucoup bucks to a cellular ISP (on top what you already pay to your home ISP) for connecting to a server that you access remotely
D. Access a server remotely through Wi-Fi or wired Ethernet and be unable to get any work done during the commute
But if you do have mobile with data connection then
...you're probably paying your cellular ISP the equivalent of the price of a laptop every year.