Those with long enough memories to remember the Game Genie may remember that Galoob got out of the game enhancer business long before the DMCA was passed.
However, the continued existence of the makers of the Game Shark would seem to indicate that such devices are either not in violation of the DMCA or the game makers, quite reasonably, don't consider the devices a threat to their sales.
And, just for a little bit of hypocrisy, they use (similarly targeted) google ads on that very site. I guess the fact that they might be linking to a competitor isn't as much of a problem though if they get the ad click-throughs, though.
Oh, I agree that the industrial materials are all there for the taking, and that the gravity well is the best in the inner solar system for launches.
But unless everything's done by maintenance-free robots, you're going to have to ship up most of the supplies for long-term life support, so you still have to deal with Earth's gravity well for a lot more than just crew changes.
I'd love to see a permanent space presence on another body (be it the Moon, Mars, Titan, or elsewhere), but unless we develop an urgent need for He-3 for fusion power, I don't see it happening anytime soon.
Metals aren't hard to find on the moon; silicon, titanium, aluminum, iron, magnesium, calcium, and sodium were all found in oxide forms in the rock and regolith samples brought back by the Apollo missions.
What's rare on the moon are the elements vital to life, primarily hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen, with less essential elements like sulfur and phosphorus not exactly on the plentiful side, either.
The statement says "no previously unannounced DRM". That's a far cry from saying "no DRM whatsoever", which the submitter (and editor) seems to take it as.
They've mentioned TCPA-style hardware DRM before; it's just been a while. So, for that matter, have AMD and Via, so running to them won't help much.
On the flip side, the console's capabilities will be fully exploited by developers from day one, instead of waiting 2-3 years for today's bleeding edge capabilities to trickle down to the mainstream products.
Mixing things up is the fact that after the Pentium MMX, all Pentiums are capable of doing SIMD on integer arrays, but can't do it on floating point numbers.
Everything else you said is right, but CPUs have had SIMD floating point instructions for quite a while now (in the forms of 3DNow, SSE, and SSE2). SSE (and possibly 3DNow as well; I can't find any explicit statement either way) is single-precision only though.
I guess they might kill off the author so they can adapt a screenplay and make a movie after the copyright expires, but you just can't make laws to prevent conspiracies that are that involved.
Yes you can. Ever heard of conspiracy to commit murder?
And anyways, if the work's that good, and the author isn't completely unreasonable, wouldn't it be better, in the long run, to want to keep them alive so that you could get more movie deals out of him?
That's basically what I was thinking, too. It'd be ideal if you could sink the chips and power supply to the case, like car amps do, and completely eliminate the need for fans.
In a workshop environment, removable media shouldn't be necessary once the machine is set up. Setting it up as a thin client of some sort is preferable, but a regular desktop setup would suffice, too.
For input devices, some sort of optical mouse and a rubber keyboard is the way to go. The latter is kinda weird to type on at first, but you get used to it. For the former, a wireless mouse might be preferable, as you can stash it in a drawer when you don't need it, which should help minimize its dust consumption.
The monitor problem has me a bit stumped though, unless you want to go to the expense and/or effort to mount it behind/under glass.
That's admittedly an unlikely example, but I've had Spybot give me false positives on folder-name-matching only before. It thought that a folder with just some text files with large numbers in them was something from Brilliant Digital. I had been fooling around with brilliant numbers, and had named the folder 'brilliant', but that's still a dumb way to detect spyware.
That argument didn't work very well for stopping the War on (Some) Drugs.
The problem is, noone with any credibility wants to see it go down the tubes because they came out against a badly-done band-aid on a purported problem, and noone who can do anything about it will listen to those who don't have much (or any) credibility.
It'd be nice if it's different this time, but it'll take an awful lot of grandmothers and 12-year-olds going to jail over it to get the attention of Joe Sixpack.
But spyware treads close enough to the wrong side of wiretapping laws that real software companies don't want to risk having it thrown out of a case that hinges upon it, nor being forced to reveal in court the fact that they spy on their customers (which could leave them wide open for countersuits from the defendants and class-action lawsuits from legitimate customers, not to mention the enormous amounts of bad PR it would generate).
I wonder if Congress ever bothers to look at SEC filings. It'd clear up an awful lot of this mess, as all the members of the RIAA, MPAA, and BSA are publicly traded companies, and intentionally misleading filings to the SEC are quite illegal.
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Those with long enough memories to remember the Game Genie may remember that Galoob got out of the game enhancer business long before the DMCA was passed.
However, the continued existence of the makers of the Game Shark would seem to indicate that such devices are either not in violation of the DMCA or the game makers, quite reasonably, don't consider the devices a threat to their sales.
And, just for a little bit of hypocrisy, they use (similarly targeted) google ads on that very site. I guess the fact that they might be linking to a competitor isn't as much of a problem though if they get the ad click-throughs, though.
Oh, I agree that the industrial materials are all there for the taking, and that the gravity well is the best in the inner solar system for launches.
But unless everything's done by maintenance-free robots, you're going to have to ship up most of the supplies for long-term life support, so you still have to deal with Earth's gravity well for a lot more than just crew changes.
I'd love to see a permanent space presence on another body (be it the Moon, Mars, Titan, or elsewhere), but unless we develop an urgent need for He-3 for fusion power, I don't see it happening anytime soon.
Metals aren't hard to find on the moon; silicon, titanium, aluminum, iron, magnesium, calcium, and sodium were all found in oxide forms in the rock and regolith samples brought back by the Apollo missions.
What's rare on the moon are the elements vital to life, primarily hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen, with less essential elements like sulfur and phosphorus not exactly on the plentiful side, either.
They've mentioned TCPA-style hardware DRM before; it's just been a while. So, for that matter, have AMD and Via, so running to them won't help much.
On the flip side, the console's capabilities will be fully exploited by developers from day one, instead of waiting 2-3 years for today's bleeding edge capabilities to trickle down to the mainstream products.
You could always alias apt-dump $program (or something similarly sensible) to apt-get remove $program.
The same could be said for emerge unmerge $program, too.
Annoyance leads to anger. Anger leads to the dark side. You're a sith, aren't you?
Not to mention those of us that seem to be stuck in Wingdings mode.
(Seriously, all I use paper for anymore is math. And even that gets hard to read sometimes.)
Or at least the 38-minute limit.
No, the space elevator was only in Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040. The type 33-S boomers only appeared in the 5th OVA episode.
Maybe I watch too much anime....
And anyways, if the work's that good, and the author isn't completely unreasonable, wouldn't it be better, in the long run, to want to keep them alive so that you could get more movie deals out of him?
You must've missed yesterday's User Friendly.
Well, you can do that with windows explorer, which is at least skinned a little differently than IE....
They do that here, too.
That's basically what I was thinking, too. It'd be ideal if you could sink the chips and power supply to the case, like car amps do, and completely eliminate the need for fans.
In a workshop environment, removable media shouldn't be necessary once the machine is set up. Setting it up as a thin client of some sort is preferable, but a regular desktop setup would suffice, too.
For input devices, some sort of optical mouse and a rubber keyboard is the way to go. The latter is kinda weird to type on at first, but you get used to it. For the former, a wireless mouse might be preferable, as you can stash it in a drawer when you don't need it, which should help minimize its dust consumption.
The monitor problem has me a bit stumped though, unless you want to go to the expense and/or effort to mount it behind/under glass.
Well, there's always hoping for this to happen....
Correction: the build of X-Chat linked to above seems to not be timebombed. The official windows build at xchat.org is, however.
That's admittedly an unlikely example, but I've had Spybot give me false positives on folder-name-matching only before. It thought that a folder with just some text files with large numbers in them was something from Brilliant Digital. I had been fooling around with brilliant numbers, and had named the folder 'brilliant', but that's still a dumb way to detect spyware.
That argument didn't work very well for stopping the War on (Some) Drugs.
The problem is, noone with any credibility wants to see it go down the tubes because they came out against a badly-done band-aid on a purported problem, and noone who can do anything about it will listen to those who don't have much (or any) credibility.
It'd be nice if it's different this time, but it'll take an awful lot of grandmothers and 12-year-olds going to jail over it to get the attention of Joe Sixpack.
But spyware treads close enough to the wrong side of wiretapping laws that real software companies don't want to risk having it thrown out of a case that hinges upon it, nor being forced to reveal in court the fact that they spy on their customers (which could leave them wide open for countersuits from the defendants and class-action lawsuits from legitimate customers, not to mention the enormous amounts of bad PR it would generate).
If you're trying to do that, you might as well put a Prescott cluster in there.
I wonder if Congress ever bothers to look at SEC filings. It'd clear up an awful lot of this mess, as all the members of the RIAA, MPAA, and BSA are publicly traded companies, and intentionally misleading filings to the SEC are quite illegal.