A 73-year-old bar manager who illegally performed copyrighted tunes by the Beatles and other artists on the harmonica was arrested...
They're going after the manager, who just happens to be the performer as well. The parent's point is valid, however the article doesn't go into enough detail regarding exactly what Toyoda was arrested for. Despite the assumption that Japanese law is similar to US law in the ways the parent has mentioned, the arrest can still be construed as legitimate.
As an amateur Nintend DS developer:
In the "good old days" one could buy a device called a PassMe (a glorified device that performs a JMP into the GBA cartridge's ROM thus executing unencrypted code. They come in several variations such as the PassMe and the SuperPass). Nintendo was not happy with the PassMe and made all the recent DS systems (after and including firmware 4.0) and made the handshaking between the DS and the DS cartridge a bit more complicated and on a game-by-game basis. Now, one needs a device called a PassMe2 which essentially pretends to be a game. Beyond this, there are "NoPass" devices which don't have to do the handshaking with the DS.
As it stands you can't use the rumble addon like the article implies, largely because both slots on the DS are taken up with the current state of homebrew (a GBA cart containing the code you want to run and a PassMe-like device in the DS slot). The DS section of this article is misleading. For more information, I suggest DualScene.net and MaxConsole.net for information on homebrew games and programs. One can check DSLinux.org for information on, appropriately, DS Linux, and one can check GBADev.org for information on DS and GBA development.
I must preface this by saying I am in high school. I am a graduating senior, and will be attending a good school next year. In my experience, gaming in the classroom has been very effective, though it is entirely based on the quality of the gaming. Here are two examples (both of which I worked on, so this is a shameless plug).
1. EscalationSim - This is a Vietnam war simulation game, or more an interactive interface. However, it allows students to choose their actions and see the reactions in the Vietnam war. I administer this at the moment. From the students I have asked regarding it, they have all been very fond of it and preferred it to lectures, homework, and essays. Beyond this, a good portion of the students (those that accept that school can be fun on occasions) truly had a good time with the game.
2. Industrial Revolution - The game was simple, it was essentially a test on the Industrial Revolution. However, again, the students I spoke with preferred this game (shorthand is IndRev) over some of the other activities of the class. This game won Kevin O'Reilly, the teacher of it, the NASDAQ national teaching award of economics (the link, as the IndRev game isn't available online).
In both of these cases, the students preferred the games to the other options. However, I must say this. The quality of the game is important (it must be reasonably designed and accessible), the students must be willing to learn and not just have fun or ignore the game altogether, and the teacher must have a passion for learning (as should be the case in any classroom).
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That's just what they want you to think.
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My fiance and I both play games, and in fact, I've been doing so far longer than he has. So yes, it can and does happen.
Wait... there are women who read slashdot?
But cheap shots aside, what Murphy said stands true. In the current state of society, instant gratification is taught from a young age. This is supplied, and as such addictions form because doing something else "takes too long." I admit I'm addicted to this computer and haven't written a snail-mail letter to a friend in roughly four years (everyone I know has e-mail).
I am a teenager, roughly 17 years old. I am frequently on the computer.
I was raised on the computer. I turned the computer on by myself at age 3 and made ran a program my father had found called Mandala (effectively pretty changing colors). I have been playing video games since the late 2's. My mother and father both worked involving computers for a fair while, and thus it has worn off on me, but they have shown them to me as a choice.
I spend a good amount of time on the computer, and most of it is spent either doing work or chatting with friends. I design websites as my form of teenage employment. This has been encouraged by both of my parents, because it is something I enjoy doing and is something I can make money doing.
My point of this is as such; regardless of what your children do you should support them (to the degree of morality, do not support their use of drugs, underage drinking, etc). If a teenager feels support and respect (as in the parents do not help them) by their parents towards something, they will likely accept it (they may not rebel, but might anyway).
I have many good friends, and we frequently go out and have good times, such as driving up to New Hampshire and running into a field shooting off fireworks (which is legal there). Computers aren't my life, but they play a big part because my parents let me choose (though they introduced them to me) if and how they were to be my life. This does not just apply to computers; a friend of mine plays music not because he was encouraged by his parents from a young age, but because it was his choice to play.
Simply put, support your children and let them be individuals.
This is an e-mail I just got from PlayStation Underground. (The removed stuff generally has e-mail and other things that I'd rather you didn't click on like "unsubscribe"). Enjoy.
Dear PlayStation(R) Underground Member,
You are scheduled to receive the Holiday 2004 Demo Disc including the playable Viewtiful Joe 2 - please take note. It has just been brought to our attention that there is a glitch in this demo which will erase all of your saved files from your Memory Card(s). If you have not yet played the Viewtiful Joe 2 demo, please remove your Memory Card(s) from your PlayStation(R) 2 computer entertainment system before you load the Holiday 2004 Demo Disc.
Sony Computer Entertainment America would like to express our sincerest apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
http://playstation.mx0.net/r?[removed]
"PlayStation" and the "PS" Family logo are registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. The Sony Computer Entertainment logo is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation.
Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. 919 East Hillsdale Boulevard, Foster City CA 94404
All freezing does is slow down the electrons. I've had lots of success with old hard disks (pre-1996) when the electronics was still quite buggy. Seriously, I'm using my old Conner CP-30100 scsi drive on an Amiga right now.
I was playing with my trusty Amiga 2500, with which I had a joystick that could also be used as a mouse, and thus had two plugs for it. For a reason no longer apparent to me I decided to plug both of those plugs in at the same time despite the warning messages on it. The computer immediately crashed with my favorite guru meditation error, but after a quick resolder of a few shorted wires in the joystick port (which while resoldering I discovered was actually connected to the mouse port in some twisted way), it worked fine. The computer still works perfectly except for some bad sectors on the fifteen year old scsi hard drive.
We have the first server that apologized for being slashdotted...
My server is getting quite overloaded at the moment due to lots of publicity (more than quadruple my usual traffic), resulting in access problems and errors for a lot of people. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience, and I'm working on improvements - if you're having trouble checking out the site, please visit again soon when everything should be back to full working order. Thanks...
I would suggest VideoLAN VLC. It is a low footprint video player that can use the common codecs when they are installed (ie you have to install the Divx for Linux and a third party DVD Decoder). It's open source and has been ported to multiple distributions of Linux.
activity-data taken invasively right from the brain surface
I don't think that extra millisecond of response time in your favorite videogame is worth invasive brain surgery.
My point is, this sounds incredible, however the topic is slightly misleading; this is not yet ready as a practical application because it does require brain surgery, and I for one am not in the mood to have an assortment of wires placed on the surface of my brain.
It is likely the case that certain countries have a "special touch" in a video game, however the cause is likely not attributable to the country itself. Some of the commonly assumed attributes of countries have very little correlation to what would normally be assumed about the country.
I suspect that it is the way certain people play in a country that spreads the "special touch." I am an avid gamer, and have found myself playing in a certain style because all my peers play in a similar fashion, and they seem to be effective players. Thus, the "special touch" is caused by how effective the player's peer's style's of gaming are.
If you could create/connect a DDR pad keyboard to your computer, and made people use it... people would have to play it well. That'd give "Mario Teaches Typing" a whole new twist.
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They're going after the manager, who just happens to be the performer as well. The parent's point is valid, however the article doesn't go into enough detail regarding exactly what Toyoda was arrested for. Despite the assumption that Japanese law is similar to US law in the ways the parent has mentioned, the arrest can still be construed as legitimate.
Mod parent up.
As an amateur Nintend DS developer:
In the "good old days" one could buy a device called a PassMe (a glorified device that performs a JMP into the GBA cartridge's ROM thus executing unencrypted code. They come in several variations such as the PassMe and the SuperPass). Nintendo was not happy with the PassMe and made all the recent DS systems (after and including firmware 4.0) and made the handshaking between the DS and the DS cartridge a bit more complicated and on a game-by-game basis. Now, one needs a device called a PassMe2 which essentially pretends to be a game. Beyond this, there are "NoPass" devices which don't have to do the handshaking with the DS.
As it stands you can't use the rumble addon like the article implies, largely because both slots on the DS are taken up with the current state of homebrew (a GBA cart containing the code you want to run and a PassMe-like device in the DS slot). The DS section of this article is misleading. For more information, I suggest DualScene.net and MaxConsole.net for information on homebrew games and programs. One can check DSLinux.org for information on, appropriately, DS Linux, and one can check GBADev.org for information on DS and GBA development.
I must preface this by saying I am in high school. I am a graduating senior, and will be attending a good school next year. In my experience, gaming in the classroom has been very effective, though it is entirely based on the quality of the gaming. Here are two examples (both of which I worked on, so this is a shameless plug).
1. EscalationSim - This is a Vietnam war simulation game, or more an interactive interface. However, it allows students to choose their actions and see the reactions in the Vietnam war. I administer this at the moment. From the students I have asked regarding it, they have all been very fond of it and preferred it to lectures, homework, and essays. Beyond this, a good portion of the students (those that accept that school can be fun on occasions) truly had a good time with the game.
2. Industrial Revolution - The game was simple, it was essentially a test on the Industrial Revolution. However, again, the students I spoke with preferred this game (shorthand is IndRev) over some of the other activities of the class. This game won Kevin O'Reilly, the teacher of it, the NASDAQ national teaching award of economics (the link, as the IndRev game isn't available online).
In both of these cases, the students preferred the games to the other options. However, I must say this. The quality of the game is important (it must be reasonably designed and accessible), the students must be willing to learn and not just have fun or ignore the game altogether, and the teacher must have a passion for learning (as should be the case in any classroom).
That's just what they want you to think.
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
The perfect line to see on my ADSL line...
Plus for the hardcore, "I ate pizza all night", bathroom breaks.. you can take the game with you D:
So "taking the game with you" is what they use for an excuse these day to go into a bathroom with a computer.
And the English version of that french guide is at
This site
My fiance and I both play games, and in fact, I've been doing so far longer than he has. So yes, it can and does happen.
Wait... there are women who read slashdot?
But cheap shots aside, what Murphy said stands true. In the current state of society, instant gratification is taught from a young age. This is supplied, and as such addictions form because doing something else "takes too long." I admit I'm addicted to this computer and haven't written a snail-mail letter to a friend in roughly four years (everyone I know has e-mail).
My personal favorite was searching for china is evil
First link: UN is Evil
I am a teenager, roughly 17 years old. I am frequently on the computer.
I was raised on the computer. I turned the computer on by myself at age 3 and made ran a program my father had found called Mandala (effectively pretty changing colors). I have been playing video games since the late 2's. My mother and father both worked involving computers for a fair while, and thus it has worn off on me, but they have shown them to me as a choice.
I spend a good amount of time on the computer, and most of it is spent either doing work or chatting with friends. I design websites as my form of teenage employment. This has been encouraged by both of my parents, because it is something I enjoy doing and is something I can make money doing.
My point of this is as such; regardless of what your children do you should support them (to the degree of morality, do not support their use of drugs, underage drinking, etc). If a teenager feels support and respect (as in the parents do not help them) by their parents towards something, they will likely accept it (they may not rebel, but might anyway).
I have many good friends, and we frequently go out and have good times, such as driving up to New Hampshire and running into a field shooting off fireworks (which is legal there). Computers aren't my life, but they play a big part because my parents let me choose (though they introduced them to me) if and how they were to be my life. This does not just apply to computers; a friend of mine plays music not because he was encouraged by his parents from a young age, but because it was his choice to play.
Simply put, support your children and let them be individuals.
Mod parent up, support is parenting teenagers.
This is an e-mail I just got from PlayStation Underground. (The removed stuff generally has e-mail and other things that I'd rather you didn't click on like "unsubscribe").
Enjoy.
Dear PlayStation(R) Underground Member,
You are scheduled to receive the Holiday 2004 Demo Disc
including the playable Viewtiful Joe 2 - please take note.
It has just been brought to our attention that there is a
glitch in this demo which will erase all of your saved files
from your Memory Card(s). If you have not yet played the
Viewtiful Joe 2 demo, please remove your Memory Card(s)
from your PlayStation(R) 2 computer entertainment system
before you load the Holiday 2004 Demo Disc.
Sony Computer Entertainment America would like to express
our sincerest apologies for any inconvenience this may have
caused you.
http://playstation.mx0.net/r?[removed]
"PlayStation" and the "PS" Family logo are
registered trademarks
of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. The Sony Computer
Entertainment logo is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation.
Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc.
919 East Hillsdale Boulevard, Foster City CA 94404
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All freezing does is slow down the electrons. I've had lots of success with old hard disks (pre-1996) when the electronics was still quite buggy. Seriously, I'm using my old Conner CP-30100 scsi drive on an Amiga right now.
Another fun instance of frozen hard drives resides at BBSpot.com Labs - Ice
The server seems to be taking the slashdotting fairly well.
Obligatory: I bet you can't guess what system the server's running on.
I was playing with my trusty Amiga 2500, with which I had a joystick that could also be used as a mouse, and thus had two plugs for it. For a reason no longer apparent to me I decided to plug both of those plugs in at the same time despite the warning messages on it. The computer immediately crashed with my favorite guru meditation error, but after a quick resolder of a few shorted wires in the joystick port (which while resoldering I discovered was actually connected to the mouse port in some twisted way), it worked fine. The computer still works perfectly except for some bad sectors on the fifteen year old scsi hard drive.
We have the first server that apologized for being slashdotted...
My server is getting quite overloaded at the moment due to lots of publicity (more than quadruple my usual traffic), resulting in access problems and errors for a lot of people. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience, and I'm working on improvements - if you're having trouble checking out the site, please visit again soon when everything should be back to full working order. Thanks...
It may have been a bad idea to submit a hash along with the website...
Looks like many a person decided to add f3789b3c1be47758203f9e8a4d8c6a2a to test it.
http://passcracking.com/Good_values_list.asp
Your new Spam E-Mail:
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I would suggest VideoLAN VLC. It is a low footprint video player that can use the common codecs when they are installed (ie you have to install the Divx for Linux and a third party DVD Decoder). It's open source and has been ported to multiple distributions of Linux.
You can get it at http://videolan.org
It also runs on Windows.
If i recall, a gorilla was able to learn sign language and express emotions a bit ago by the name Koko. I think that qualifies as comprehension.
http://www.koko.org/ (after googling)
activity-data taken invasively right from the brain surface
I don't think that extra millisecond of response time in your favorite videogame is worth invasive brain surgery.
My point is, this sounds incredible, however the topic is slightly misleading; this is not yet ready as a practical application because it does require brain surgery, and I for one am not in the mood to have an assortment of wires placed on the surface of my brain.
It is likely the case that certain countries have a "special touch" in a video game, however the cause is likely not attributable to the country itself. Some of the commonly assumed attributes of countries have very little correlation to what would normally be assumed about the country.
I suspect that it is the way certain people play in a country that spreads the "special touch." I am an avid gamer, and have found myself playing in a certain style because all my peers play in a similar fashion, and they seem to be effective players. Thus, the "special touch" is caused by how effective the player's peer's style's of gaming are.
If you could create/connect a DDR pad keyboard to your computer, and made people use it... people would have to play it well. That'd give "Mario Teaches Typing" a whole new twist.
challenged the FBI and SS agents to a game of Half Life.