Wake up and smell the roses. In this world you don't have to be original to make money. If anything, you are penalised for creating something original; daring to be different is often suicidal.
That is unfortunately why Nintendo has a hard time these days. They are actually trying to innovate and "revolutionize" gaming, which should theorically be a good thing, but just like you said, people don't like what is innovative...
Your right, looking at the screenshots, you wouldn't notice that it was a parody until you were reading the articles.
If you don't read the articles, then you think it's a legitimate WalMart website. Then what? Since the images are WalMart's own images, it doesn't harm WalMart that you see those images, does it?
It's only the content of the articles that could potentially harm WalMart, but when you read them, you quickly realize that it is a parody, therefore it's no longer copyright infrigement.
Either way, there's no harm done to WalMart, or at least not in a way that their lawyers can work on.
All this almost makes me want to switch to a Mac, if only they were not so bloody expensive. I just can't get myself to pay $1500+ for a computer. I've never spent more than $500 on any machine I have ever owned, with the exception of my laptop.
Tim Collin's Laws of Software Maintenance:
First Law : Other people's code tends to look like undecipherable junk.
Second Law : Your own code will look like someone else's code after six months.
Talk about an invasion of your privacy and a HUGE hole to reveal corporate IP.
And it wouldn't even surprise me that, hidden somewhere in there, there's a license agreement that mentions that you give all the rights to the content you send to Microsoft somehow, or give them an unlimited royalty-free license... just like you do everytime you attach a file on Hotmail.
From the Hotmail Service Agreement:
by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you are granting Microsoft, its affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses including, without limitation, the rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; and to publish your name in connection with your Submission.
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After covering the videogame industry for years, I absolutely love when a truly innovative game comes out with poor to no graphics and takes the world by storm.
I don't want to sound rude or anything, but on several occasions, I have noted that most of the "diluted" games that have cool graphics but no gameplay are usually american games, while those truly innovative games come from Japan. We have reached a point in technology where graphics can't make a game better anymore.
Different culture and different market, but Japan doesn't care about graphics, it just wants to have fun, and that's where innovation comes from. It is really sad that so few japanese games actually make it to America, because they have a way of making games over there that could indeed revolutionize gaming. No wonder Nintendo, which is massively powerful in Japan, wants to revolutionize gaming with consoles that offer less graphics, but more innovations.
Also, I seem to remember that the reverse-engineering bit of the PC BIOS re-implementation process was done by analyzing the copyrighted BIOS code. You can't really expect a person that has seen, read and understood the code to provide new code with the same functionality and free of copyright issues.
I do believe you missed the point here. Clean-room reverse-engineering is exactly the opposite. The one who looks at the code is not the one who writes the new code. And the ones that wrote the new code never saw the original code.
If i remember correctly, adblock just sets the property of the blocked area to hidden, or an equivalent.
There are actually two options... one is to hide the ads (loading it but not showing it), and the other is to block the ad (not load it at all). In the latter case, the 1x1 gif might not work.
Sure, I can accept that homosexuality occurs in nature - but I don't see a whole lot of it. At least not on the scale it occurs in human society.
That's because animals are aware that they need to procreate, and more often than not, they consider the survival of the race as more important as the survival of one member.
Humans (from the West) today don't really care about that. In America, we'd rather have fun right here right now than care about the survival of the spieces. Just look at how America pollutes everything they can without caring about the future generations who'll have to clean it all up. Same goes for homosexuality. Gay humans don't care about reproduction, so they are more tempted to actually act gay. Gay animals still need to procreate, so they probably get females just for reproduction's sake.
On another note, we always talk about gay animals... are there lesbian animals too? Never heard of it...
But the BIOS was reverse-engineered the Right-Way(TM). From this article:
In most jurisdictions, reverse engineering must be performed in a clean-room context. The people performing the reverse engineering may create documentation on the file formats and APIs, and the re-implementation must be performed by a team which has no direct contact (other than the documentation) with the first team. This is how, for example, the original IBM PC BIOS was reverse engineered.
Someone who is an employee of a high-profile licensee of the software in question clearly does not fulfill this requirement.
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And when your dog hits it?!?!
Well that's why you sit down with your dogs and educate them about the 911 system...
They should lose the rights if it's not available to buy. Copyright encourages people to produce things because they're guaranteed royalties on them. That's the idea, that's the entire purpose of copyright. If the copyrighted thing is "out of print", copyright isn't encouraging things to be produced. Copyright should lapse if the product is not available at a reasonable price for 5 years or so.
Why in God's name should a municipality be in the business of delivering IP service to you?
Right... and why in God's name should a municipality be in the business of delivering water to you? I don't drink water, why should I have to pay for yours?
Actually, I don't really pay for your water, because I don't live in the US, but I just like the me-myself-and-I attitude that you have over there. Who cares about the greater good, if it doesn't benefit BIG-OL'-ME, nobody should have it.
As a game developer and as a parent I have to say I'm very pleased with the rating system. It informs the parent's of the content as well as rewards developers for limiting the amount of graphic violence, sex, etc. by informing the public and letting them decide what they want to play.
That's all true, but the AO (Adult Only) rating is ridiculous. I totally understand the difference between E (Everyone) and T (Teen), as a 13 years old is slighly more mature than an 8 years old. Same goes for the difference between T (Teen) and M (Mature), since from 13 to 17, one does mature. However, the difference between M (Mature) and AO (Adult Only) is ridiculous. What happens in the magical year between 17 and 18 that makes you eligible for much much more violent/sexual games that you just couldn't handle a year before?
I agree, 40 years is actually pretty short. Most common math was proven hundreds to thousands of years ago.
However, most common math does not involve some physical matter that shrinks exponentially. It's really the exponential part that is impressive. Exponential growth over a couple of year is not such a big deal, but 40 years is huge. The 1965's chip had 60 devices (transistors + resistors) and today's chip have 1,700,000,000 transistors... if that's not impressive growth, I don't know what is.
Wouldn't it be much less complicated to just drop DST altogether, and make the work day an hour earlier? Instead of working from 9 to 5, work from 8 to 4 and voilà, you have an extra hour of daylight in the evening.
You'd rather piss away another 10,000 barrels of oil a day because fixing a bunch of software would be a pain in the ass? Don't you want jobs?
The DST code change will be offshored to India anyway, so it doesn't matter. But to make sure they get it right, we'll have to offshore the daylight to India too. That will create a light deficit in America, while India will see its crops burn from too much sunlight...
you probably just never noticed a dead pixel on such a large monitor. Dead pixels ARE common with LCD screens.
They used to be common for all LCD screen, but today, quality LCD screens have none of them. Where I work, everybody has a 17 inch LCD and nobody has a dead pixel. And it's not because we don't notice it, we test them all, first with a white screen (to see dark pixels), then with a black screen (to see bright pixels).
People shoud stop saying dead pixels are common to all LCD's, that is soooo 1999...
Yes... But as long as the replacement works without dead pixels who cares.
I would... You pay the full price for a brand new PSP, and a week later they replace it with a refurbished one... sounds like a pretty crappy solution to me.
At the office, I work on a 17 inches LCD screen that has 1280x960 (that's 1,228,800) pixels, and not a single dead one. And all of my coworkers have the same thing. Contrary to what Sony says, dead pixels are not common to all LCD screens, they just happen to lower-quality ones. Heck, my NDS has two screens without a single dead pixel. Sony didn't want to have a price tag of $500 for the PSP, so they put a cheaper screen instead of going for quality.
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That is unfortunately why Nintendo has a hard time these days. They are actually trying to innovate and "revolutionize" gaming, which should theorically be a good thing, but just like you said, people don't like what is innovative...
If you don't read the articles, then you think it's a legitimate WalMart website. Then what? Since the images are WalMart's own images, it doesn't harm WalMart that you see those images, does it?
It's only the content of the articles that could potentially harm WalMart, but when you read them, you quickly realize that it is a parody, therefore it's no longer copyright infrigement.
Either way, there's no harm done to WalMart, or at least not in a way that their lawyers can work on.
And you can get a high-end PC for $500? Please tell me where... The video card alone on my high-end system is more than half that...
Welcome to the world of the MacMini.
Tim Collin's Laws of Software Maintenance:
First Law : Other people's code tends to look like undecipherable junk.
Second Law : Your own code will look like someone else's code after six months.
It's unfortunately so true... :-(
It's the current one.
And it wouldn't even surprise me that, hidden somewhere in there, there's a license agreement that mentions that you give all the rights to the content you send to Microsoft somehow, or give them an unlimited royalty-free license... just like you do everytime you attach a file on Hotmail.
From the Hotmail Service Agreement :
I don't want to sound rude or anything, but on several occasions, I have noted that most of the "diluted" games that have cool graphics but no gameplay are usually american games, while those truly innovative games come from Japan. We have reached a point in technology where graphics can't make a game better anymore.
Different culture and different market, but Japan doesn't care about graphics, it just wants to have fun, and that's where innovation comes from. It is really sad that so few japanese games actually make it to America, because they have a way of making games over there that could indeed revolutionize gaming. No wonder Nintendo, which is massively powerful in Japan, wants to revolutionize gaming with consoles that offer less graphics, but more innovations.
I do believe you missed the point here. Clean-room reverse-engineering is exactly the opposite. The one who looks at the code is not the one who writes the new code. And the ones that wrote the new code never saw the original code.
There are actually two options... one is to hide the ads (loading it but not showing it), and the other is to block the ad (not load it at all). In the latter case, the 1x1 gif might not work.
That's because animals are aware that they need to procreate, and more often than not, they consider the survival of the race as more important as the survival of one member.
Humans (from the West) today don't really care about that. In America, we'd rather have fun right here right now than care about the survival of the spieces. Just look at how America pollutes everything they can without caring about the future generations who'll have to clean it all up. Same goes for homosexuality. Gay humans don't care about reproduction, so they are more tempted to actually act gay. Gay animals still need to procreate, so they probably get females just for reproduction's sake.
On another note, we always talk about gay animals... are there lesbian animals too? Never heard of it...
I wasn't talking about the legality of the process as much as the morality of the process. Some things are perfectly legal but goddam immoral.
But the BIOS was reverse-engineered the Right-Way(TM). From this article:
In most jurisdictions, reverse engineering must be performed in a clean-room context. The people performing the reverse engineering may create documentation on the file formats and APIs, and the re-implementation must be performed by a team which has no direct contact (other than the documentation) with the first team. This is how, for example, the original IBM PC BIOS was reverse engineered.
Someone who is an employee of a high-profile licensee of the software in question clearly does not fulfill this requirement.
Well that's why you sit down with your dogs and educate them about the 911 system...
Damit... has none of you ever heard of the Classic NES Series?
They *are* selling those games at this very instant, so *yes*, they are losing revenue from those pirated copies.
Oh, but they *are* still selling them.
Thing is... they *are* available to buy. So your argument is null.
Right... and why in God's name should a municipality be in the business of delivering water to you? I don't drink water, why should I have to pay for yours?
Actually, I don't really pay for your water, because I don't live in the US, but I just like the me-myself-and-I attitude that you have over there. Who cares about the greater good, if it doesn't benefit BIG-OL'-ME, nobody should have it.
That's all true, but the AO (Adult Only) rating is ridiculous. I totally understand the difference between E (Everyone) and T (Teen), as a 13 years old is slighly more mature than an 8 years old. Same goes for the difference between T (Teen) and M (Mature), since from 13 to 17, one does mature. However, the difference between M (Mature) and AO (Adult Only) is ridiculous. What happens in the magical year between 17 and 18 that makes you eligible for much much more violent/sexual games that you just couldn't handle a year before?
However, most common math does not involve some physical matter that shrinks exponentially. It's really the exponential part that is impressive. Exponential growth over a couple of year is not such a big deal, but 40 years is huge. The 1965's chip had 60 devices (transistors + resistors) and today's chip have 1,700,000,000 transistors... if that's not impressive growth, I don't know what is.
What's so hard about that?
The DST code change will be offshored to India anyway, so it doesn't matter. But to make sure they get it right, we'll have to offshore the daylight to India too. That will create a light deficit in America, while India will see its crops burn from too much sunlight...
That just can't be good...
Ah crap... never mind, it's a 1280x1024 LCD... it's my second screen (CRT) which is 1280x960, I always get those 2 resolutions mixed up... my bad.
Still... all of the 1280x1024 pixels are fine...
They used to be common for all LCD screen, but today, quality LCD screens have none of them. Where I work, everybody has a 17 inch LCD and nobody has a dead pixel. And it's not because we don't notice it, we test them all, first with a white screen (to see dark pixels), then with a black screen (to see bright pixels).
People shoud stop saying dead pixels are common to all LCD's, that is soooo 1999...
I would... You pay the full price for a brand new PSP, and a week later they replace it with a refurbished one... sounds like a pretty crappy solution to me.
At the office, I work on a 17 inches LCD screen that has 1280x960 (that's 1,228,800) pixels, and not a single dead one. And all of my coworkers have the same thing. Contrary to what Sony says, dead pixels are not common to all LCD screens, they just happen to lower-quality ones. Heck, my NDS has two screens without a single dead pixel. Sony didn't want to have a price tag of $500 for the PSP, so they put a cheaper screen instead of going for quality.