Toy Story 2 and 3 both are great games (never played the original, if there was one). I think most Disney games over the years have been pretty decent, but I enjoy the Toy Story games a lot. I was ~16 when I played TS2, but I still enjoy TS3 at 27.
Lego Star Wars is also just plain fun, and it's merchandising for two franchises at once!
I'd rather at least read the manual so that I know how to control my character. Knowing as much as the main character knows about their own abilities and their goal in the game seems sensible. Some games like fl0w are designed for you to just figure out on your own, but games like beat'em'ups really suck if you don't know the controls (as I found out at new year when playing a few drunken rounds of SSB). Even after years of playing there might still be some combos you haven't discovered, and so anyone who actually knows a character's moves will swiftly kick your ass.
Some people reckon the entire Pacific Ocean basic and the moon were a result of asteroid impact.. the moon is actually a bunch of material ejected from the earth when the asteroid(s) hit.
Yeah I probably should have replied to the OP, my post was a little offtopic by that point.
Nevertheless, you're breaking the DMCA when you circumvent copyright protection measures. It's legal to tune an ECU, but there are only a few cases so far where breaking the DMCA has been declared legal. It doesn't matter if he was being paid by someone else to do it, he was performing an illegal act.
The point is that it's not legal, since the DMCA makes it illegal. From what I've read of it in the past, the act of circumventing copyright protection mechanisms is currently illegal, no matter the intended use. I think specific allowances have been made for stuff like iPhone jailbreaking, but not for 360 jailbreaking so far.
It doesn't matter that the law is unjustified, right now it only matters that he broke it. There are plenty of laws that I think are silly or unjust, and I sometimes break them. But it's my own fault if I get caught doing so.
If he can get some kind of exemption by proving that he had no intention of people using the jailbroken 360s for illegal purposes, that's great. But if he goes to jail, it's his own fault for breaking the law - especially since he was making a profit from it. I seriously doubt he expected all his customers to just be using the jailbreak for backups.
I've only used Vista and 7 a couple of times, they seemed the same to me apart from the dock style taskbar in Win7, which is definitely an improvement over XP.
I already gave you a link of an app that can change both the corner and display time of the notifications. Or, you could leave the mouse in the upper right hand corner if you're busy scripting and then the notifications would only fade in slightly, so you'd be able to see both the system tray and the notifications.
Try and claim a new engine under warranty if you blow your engine after doing a "PERFORMANCE CHIP UPGRADE". I don't think the manufacturer will be very willing to help you out. When you make modifications to your car on that level it invalidates your engine warranty, same as modding your Xbox will get your cut off from Xbox Live. I'm not saying you shouldn't do this, I've had it done on one of my cars. I'm just pointing out how manufacturers do not approve of third party modifications.
You are allowed to modify hardware if you want, just don't go crying if you get busted for installing a mod to get around copyright, or if the manufacturer refuses to serve you further.
Microsoft aren't going to be very upset if you do some case mods to your 360. Not exactly very analogous to customising your device's firmware.
Remapping your ECU or swapping in a bigger engine will void your warranty and could put you over legal emissions limits depending on what you do (but it is fun!). Very similar to installing custom firmware.
they have my money, and I have their product. Our relationship should there be at an end.
So you don't want driver or firmware updates? You don't want access to the Apple Store or Xbox Live? Fair enough.
I'm pretty sure that's how things already work though. You can do what you want with the hardware, but don't expect to get their services any more if you've broken their terms.
It's definitely the case that many people are too tight to buy stuff at all and therefore no sales are being lost to them, but many people still pay for pirated physical copies of DVDs and computer games. Chances are if there was no other option, they would eventually pay for the real things once they came down in price.
I won't pay the launch price of a game these days unless I know it's very good.
Yep that's how I store all my dates. In fact I just have users enter the date in this format, though they can use a graphical calendar pop-up if they prefer.
The pop-ups I mentioned *never* go away unless you click on them. And some of them come back unless you know how to disable them.
Comparing system notifications to pop ups is like comparing your log files to spam mail.. they're there for good reason, but you can turn them off if you are really bothered by them.
The point with the disappearing is to make them less obnoxious rather than to frustrate you. Several times in Windows I've just wanted to get a notification out of the way, only for it to open up yet another Windows when I click on it:/
Most OSes would do the same thing, but I like Ubuntu's philosophy that notifications should simply be notifications, safe to be ignored if necessary.
Some apps don't make use of the built in notification system, they have their own obnoxious notifications.. I wish they wouldn't. For example the aMSN notifications stay on screen if your mouse happens to be over the notification area when they pop up. They stay there until you manually click close to get rid of them - like a damn Windows pop up balloon. I hate those things. You get them every time you create a new account on XP - would you like to take the tour? Oh no, you don't have any firewall/anti-virus! You have unused desktop icons, would you like me to put them in a folder for you, or just keep annoying you? Bleh.
It didn't take long to get used to the Ubuntu system at all. I don't try to click on the notifications, and I simply ignore them if I'm busy doing something else. This is made easy by the fact that mousing over makes it fade..
I suppose the exception is when competing against an intelligent adversary, who constantly strives to give you worst-case problems and where a small margin of victory is a victory nonetheless.
Avant was the first program I used, it's very good on features, but I found it slightly buggy too. I think it sometimes just died when switching desktops. I had it set to only display tasks on the current desktop, which meant it had to rearrange itself constantly..
You might have had something in 2004 that looked like Ubuntu, but it wouldn't have had at least one feature I can think of. I like how they changed the notifications in Ubuntu to be simply notifications, you can't click yes/no/whatever on them, they just appear in the corner, and they fade out if you mouse-over, so that you can see what you're wanting to see in the system tray. Little touches like that are what makes Ubuntu great to use.
It's funny how people always want the latest Apple toys even though the interfaces or experience often undergo changes. Apple makes a big deal about the changes and people want them after such a big deal has been made. If people are given something completely new without warning then they will complain, but if you market it to them as the best thing that ever happened (even tho stupid things like the iPhone getting multitasking really just bring it up to date with 1980s home computing), they will love it.
Same with Windows 7. Everyone seems to love it just because it was well marketed, even though it is essentially the same as Vista, which people still complain about!
If you are fed up of looking through menus, use Gnome Do, it's pretty nice. Though personally I like what Ubuntu have done with their menus over the years - they're clean and sensibly organised.
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Toy Story 2 and 3 both are great games (never played the original, if there was one). I think most Disney games over the years have been pretty decent, but I enjoy the Toy Story games a lot. I was ~16 when I played TS2, but I still enjoy TS3 at 27.
Lego Star Wars is also just plain fun, and it's merchandising for two franchises at once!
I'd rather at least read the manual so that I know how to control my character. Knowing as much as the main character knows about their own abilities and their goal in the game seems sensible. Some games like fl0w are designed for you to just figure out on your own, but games like beat'em'ups really suck if you don't know the controls (as I found out at new year when playing a few drunken rounds of SSB). Even after years of playing there might still be some combos you haven't discovered, and so anyone who actually knows a character's moves will swiftly kick your ass.
I thought it was more that the games he mentions are all multi-player oriented games, with some crappy single player levels tacked on.
MW2 on my PS3 was an awful single player experience compared to what I'm used to from years of PC gaming, but the multiplayer is hella fun.
Some people reckon the entire Pacific Ocean basic and the moon were a result of asteroid impact.. the moon is actually a bunch of material ejected from the earth when the asteroid(s) hit.
Even better, I typed that post out on a touchscreen keyboard.
I don't think it's MS's fault that it's illegal, it's the WIPO that advocated it. What he did is definitely illegal in the US anyway.
Note that I think the DCMA is stupid, but the fact remains that this guy broke the law.
Yeah I probably should have replied to the OP, my post was a little offtopic by that point.
Nevertheless, you're breaking the DMCA when you circumvent copyright protection measures. It's legal to tune an ECU, but there are only a few cases so far where breaking the DMCA has been declared legal. It doesn't matter if he was being paid by someone else to do it, he was performing an illegal act.
The point is that it's not legal, since the DMCA makes it illegal. From what I've read of it in the past, the act of circumventing copyright protection mechanisms is currently illegal, no matter the intended use. I think specific allowances have been made for stuff like iPhone jailbreaking, but not for 360 jailbreaking so far.
It doesn't matter that the law is unjustified, right now it only matters that he broke it. There are plenty of laws that I think are silly or unjust, and I sometimes break them. But it's my own fault if I get caught doing so.
If he can get some kind of exemption by proving that he had no intention of people using the jailbroken 360s for illegal purposes, that's great. But if he goes to jail, it's his own fault for breaking the law - especially since he was making a profit from it. I seriously doubt he expected all his customers to just be using the jailbreak for backups.
I've only used Vista and 7 a couple of times, they seemed the same to me apart from the dock style taskbar in Win7, which is definitely an improvement over XP.
I already gave you a link of an app that can change both the corner and display time of the notifications. Or, you could leave the mouse in the upper right hand corner if you're busy scripting and then the notifications would only fade in slightly, so you'd be able to see both the system tray and the notifications.
Try and claim a new engine under warranty if you blow your engine after doing a "PERFORMANCE CHIP UPGRADE". I don't think the manufacturer will be very willing to help you out. When you make modifications to your car on that level it invalidates your engine warranty, same as modding your Xbox will get your cut off from Xbox Live. I'm not saying you shouldn't do this, I've had it done on one of my cars. I'm just pointing out how manufacturers do not approve of third party modifications.
You are allowed to modify hardware if you want, just don't go crying if you get busted for installing a mod to get around copyright, or if the manufacturer refuses to serve you further.
Microsoft aren't going to be very upset if you do some case mods to your 360. Not exactly very analogous to customising your device's firmware.
Remapping your ECU or swapping in a bigger engine will void your warranty and could put you over legal emissions limits depending on what you do (but it is fun!). Very similar to installing custom firmware.
they have my money, and I have their product. Our relationship should there be at an end.
So you don't want driver or firmware updates? You don't want access to the Apple Store or Xbox Live? Fair enough.
I'm pretty sure that's how things already work though. You can do what you want with the hardware, but don't expect to get their services any more if you've broken their terms.
Using software designed to get around copy protection is breaking the law though.
It's definitely the case that many people are too tight to buy stuff at all and therefore no sales are being lost to them, but many people still pay for pirated physical copies of DVDs and computer games. Chances are if there was no other option, they would eventually pay for the real things once they came down in price.
I won't pay the launch price of a game these days unless I know it's very good.
In the spirit of the above comment, I'd like to point out that I don't type on a typewriter, newspaper, carpet, the wind, or indeed, a pink zebra.
Or the law aided by lawyers with iPhones and who don't give a crap about the original Xbox
Yep that's how I store all my dates. In fact I just have users enter the date in this format, though they can use a graphical calendar pop-up if they prefer.
The pop-ups I mentioned *never* go away unless you click on them. And some of them come back unless you know how to disable them.
Comparing system notifications to pop ups is like comparing your log files to spam mail.. they're there for good reason, but you can turn them off if you are really bothered by them.
The point with the disappearing is to make them less obnoxious rather than to frustrate you. Several times in Windows I've just wanted to get a notification out of the way, only for it to open up yet another Windows when I click on it :/
Most OSes would do the same thing, but I like Ubuntu's philosophy that notifications should simply be notifications, safe to be ignored if necessary.
Some apps don't make use of the built in notification system, they have their own obnoxious notifications.. I wish they wouldn't. For example the aMSN notifications stay on screen if your mouse happens to be over the notification area when they pop up. They stay there until you manually click close to get rid of them - like a damn Windows pop up balloon. I hate those things. You get them every time you create a new account on XP - would you like to take the tour? Oh no, you don't have any firewall/anti-virus! You have unused desktop icons, would you like me to put them in a folder for you, or just keep annoying you? Bleh.
It didn't take long to get used to the Ubuntu system at all. I don't try to click on the notifications, and I simply ignore them if I'm busy doing something else. This is made easy by the fact that mousing over makes it fade..
You can configure the notifications positioning and timeout using this app http://www.webupd8.org/2010/05/new-notifyosdconfiguration-version-gui.html
I suppose the exception is when competing against an intelligent adversary, who constantly strives to give you worst-case problems and where a small margin of victory is a victory nonetheless.
You mean like when using Windows?
Now if the salesman was given a helicopter to move like the bee does, the problem would be reduced to a basic optimization problem.
Or he could start running drugs - risky, but with much more potential reward!
Just imagine what we could have accomplished in computing if we'd stuck with B instead of moving on to C!
Avant was the first program I used, it's very good on features, but I found it slightly buggy too. I think it sometimes just died when switching desktops. I had it set to only display tasks on the current desktop, which meant it had to rearrange itself constantly..
Docky is very simple, but hey it works well :)
You might have had something in 2004 that looked like Ubuntu, but it wouldn't have had at least one feature I can think of. I like how they changed the notifications in Ubuntu to be simply notifications, you can't click yes/no/whatever on them, they just appear in the corner, and they fade out if you mouse-over, so that you can see what you're wanting to see in the system tray. Little touches like that are what makes Ubuntu great to use.
It's funny how people always want the latest Apple toys even though the interfaces or experience often undergo changes. Apple makes a big deal about the changes and people want them after such a big deal has been made. If people are given something completely new without warning then they will complain, but if you market it to them as the best thing that ever happened (even tho stupid things like the iPhone getting multitasking really just bring it up to date with 1980s home computing), they will love it.
Same with Windows 7. Everyone seems to love it just because it was well marketed, even though it is essentially the same as Vista, which people still complain about!
If you are fed up of looking through menus, use Gnome Do, it's pretty nice. Though personally I like what Ubuntu have done with their menus over the years - they're clean and sensibly organised.