I'm not sure how UMD-to-flash transfer helps people copy pirated games. I mean, the pirated games are disk images on flash memory. An actual physical UMD isn't involved.
Either nobody at Sony realized piracy involves desktop computers and the internet, or they're just using this as an excuse to increase their profit margins. Care to take a guess?
Also, appear to have just found a.pdf with a huge list of ebook sites (and one for how to swear in all languages!). Haven't tried any of them, but go for it:
Hey, I found this cool Linux ISO:
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And the penalty for identity theft should be the same as the penalty for taking someone's life (because that's what the do, sort of), at least if it's done for criminal reasons.
Taking life is penalized so harshly because it's irreversible.
For software of any appreciable size, Perl has unfortunately died in industry. People just aren't using it for anything more than 10-line throwaway scripts.
Wasn't that the whole point of Perl? Perhaps we should be ashamed for doing large projects with it in the first place.
CHANGE THE LAW. Keeping the bible in Latin worked only for the priests and keeping the law in legal speak is working only for the lawyers.
Sigh. Another round of religion-bashing.
Keeping the bible in Latin worked because 1) Latin was the language of literacy throughout Europe, much like English is the language of commerce and international communication today worldwide; 2) none of the peasants could read anyway; 3) back then, it took years of work to copy a book, preserving all the artwork by hand - you might as well made sure everyone could read it when you're done; 4) most of the languages weren't exactly ready for these kinds of translations.
To rephrase your argument: Keeping the API in English worked only for the programmers.
This kills price competition and used game sales in one fell swoop, while also making owners of any original PSP games unable to play them on the new hardware.
There is free support for Linux via the newsgroups, forums, Wiki sites, HOWTOs, Man pages, and many other things.
Here we go again. You'll have all the documentation you could ever need, but none of them address your problem. You won't find anyone who can help you, since they read the same manuals. And the fun part: unless you describe in great detail all the fucking things you tried, you'll be blamed for not getting useful answers, and if you ask again, for having the problem in the first place.
Before you mod me down, go ahead and find the answer to the following example: I have a laptop (1280x800) and an external screen (1680x1050). How do I 1) enable both screens at full resolution, 2) enable only the external screen when it's connected, 3) disable Xinerama when it's not connected?
And this goes on for about 2,200 more lines of cryptically-written text. Yikes. That's a lot of options. Most users (myself included) have only used 3 or 4 for day-to-day use. If you're piping into sed/awk, some of the others can be useful, although scrolling through the whole damn manpage to find 'ls -l' or somesuch is maddening. The 80-20 principle [wikipedia.org] definitely needs to somehow be applied here.
Did you try `ls --help`? That's there exactly for the quick stuff.
I had one of those experiments in college, a whole semester of it. Introduction to programming for math teacher students. (Turbo Pascal in 2004!)
They mostly just sat there and stared at the blackboard, trying to figure out what all those thingies are, and wrestled with the concept of arrays and keyboard input.
On the other hand, I found out that college girls are easily impressed by a tic-tac-toe implementation I wrote to avoid falling asleep.
There is one big difference, though: MUDs had a player base of computing professionals (by default, since they were the ones with access to computers).
They had the tools, the knowledge, and the source code to make a difference. Also, the gameplay encouraged thinking, not just endless grinding for quest items and prof materials.
Today's gamers are, well, not like that. Do you think a 3D Nethack would sell enough subscriptions to keep them in business?
I strongly suspect the same concepts would apply to computers
Unless there are viruses around that attack random IP's. There's no biology equivalent to that. And with p2p (and implicitly pirating) these attacks might not even be detectable. If your computer makes and receives 50-100 network connections per minute legitimately, who's going to notice a couple more?
Why is that sad? You expected the people who made the laws 100 years ago to predict the existence of a satellite-based global positioning system with modules small enough to be placed on a vehicle to track it anywhere on the planet? THOSE MORONS!
Note how the judge had to classify that "seizure" to ban it. If you need a new law, why not write a new law?
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I'm not sure how UMD-to-flash transfer helps people copy pirated games. I mean, the pirated games are disk images on flash memory. An actual physical UMD isn't involved.
Either nobody at Sony realized piracy involves desktop computers and the internet, or they're just using this as an excuse to increase their profit margins. Care to take a guess?
Unfortunately they still don't understand it.
Also, appear to have just found a .pdf with a huge list of ebook sites (and one for how to swear in all languages!). Haven't tried any of them, but go for it:
Hey, I found this cool Linux ISO:
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Why do you think it took so long for the Beatles to be on iTunes?
They had some lyrics that could be interpreted to be about fruit?
No, hopefully they will realize it's illegal before the EU helps them on their way.
Yeah, it's only a matter of decades now.
Good job on not responding to the CopyPasta troll.
And the penalty for identity theft should be the same as the penalty for taking someone's life (because that's what the do, sort of), at least if it's done for criminal reasons.
Taking life is penalized so harshly because it's irreversible.
For software of any appreciable size, Perl has unfortunately died in industry. People just aren't using it for anything more than 10-line throwaway scripts.
Wasn't that the whole point of Perl? Perhaps we should be ashamed for doing large projects with it in the first place.
CHANGE THE LAW. Keeping the bible in Latin worked only for the priests and keeping the law in legal speak is working only for the lawyers.
Sigh. Another round of religion-bashing.
Keeping the bible in Latin worked because 1) Latin was the language of literacy throughout Europe, much like English is the language of commerce and international communication today worldwide; 2) none of the peasants could read anyway; 3) back then, it took years of work to copy a book, preserving all the artwork by hand - you might as well made sure everyone could read it when you're done; 4) most of the languages weren't exactly ready for these kinds of translations.
To rephrase your argument: Keeping the API in English worked only for the programmers.
No, you need to fire the managers who gave the specifications to the designers.
Actually, you need to rethink the whole decision structure.
Do we expect anything other than a locked-down proprietary anti-consumer mess out of Sony?
Yeah! Apple wouldn't do anything like that! Let's all buy iPhones!
This kills price competition and used game sales in one fell swoop, while also making owners of any original PSP games unable to play them on the new hardware.
Translation: they killed the PSP.
There is free support for Linux via the newsgroups, forums, Wiki sites, HOWTOs, Man pages, and many other things.
Here we go again. You'll have all the documentation you could ever need, but none of them address your problem. You won't find anyone who can help you, since they read the same manuals. And the fun part: unless you describe in great detail all the fucking things you tried, you'll be blamed for not getting useful answers, and if you ask again, for having the problem in the first place.
Before you mod me down, go ahead and find the answer to the following example: I have a laptop (1280x800) and an external screen (1680x1050). How do I 1) enable both screens at full resolution, 2) enable only the external screen when it's connected, 3) disable Xinerama when it's not connected?
And this goes on for about 2,200 more lines of cryptically-written text. Yikes. That's a lot of options. Most users (myself included) have only used 3 or 4 for day-to-day use. If you're piping into sed/awk, some of the others can be useful, although scrolling through the whole damn manpage to find 'ls -l' or somesuch is maddening. The 80-20 principle [wikipedia.org] definitely needs to somehow be applied here.
Did you try `ls --help`? That's there exactly for the quick stuff.
Unless this thing has its own built-in power plant, you'll have to plug it in somewhere.
Solar power is ok for a calculator, but it's not enough here.
Being the geeks that we are, we tend to think most humans are intelligent and curious enough to learn at least some programming.
Unfortunately that's not true. They're users. Just think of the printers you have to install for all your relatives, or read some Youtube comments.
Because real laptops cannot possibly run games.
I must be getting old.
Nevertheless, how do you take legal action against people you don't even know what country they're in?
I had one of those experiments in college, a whole semester of it. Introduction to programming for math teacher students. (Turbo Pascal in 2004!)
They mostly just sat there and stared at the blackboard, trying to figure out what all those thingies are, and wrestled with the concept of arrays and keyboard input.
On the other hand, I found out that college girls are easily impressed by a tic-tac-toe implementation I wrote to avoid falling asleep.
There is one big difference, though: MUDs had a player base of computing professionals (by default, since they were the ones with access to computers).
They had the tools, the knowledge, and the source code to make a difference. Also, the gameplay encouraged thinking, not just endless grinding for quest items and prof materials.
Today's gamers are, well, not like that. Do you think a 3D Nethack would sell enough subscriptions to keep them in business?
But modding Wii consoles harms nobody.
That's what they said about Skynet.
The biology equivalent would be if someone sneezed in Beijing and you got the flu in Denver.
I strongly suspect the same concepts would apply to computers
Unless there are viruses around that attack random IP's. There's no biology equivalent to that. And with p2p (and implicitly pirating) these attacks might not even be detectable. If your computer makes and receives 50-100 network connections per minute legitimately, who's going to notice a couple more?
Why is that sad? You expected the people who made the laws 100 years ago to predict the existence of a satellite-based global positioning system with modules small enough to be placed on a vehicle to track it anywhere on the planet? THOSE MORONS!
Note how the judge had to classify that "seizure" to ban it. If you need a new law, why not write a new law?
54% of people in Washington DC are of African descent. 40% are of European descent. 9% Hispanic descent. 3% Asian descent.
We seem to be doing just fine.
Tell that to the Native Americans.