this, there was an article a while back about a rash of small cafes ripping out their wall outlets so people could only use their laptops so long. I doubt it was widespread though.
Do they really? I think speedruns are great, but I don't think that doing that is in any way superior to just playing a game to have fun. In fact, it's really just having fun by abusing the game mechanics to their absolute limits.
In fact, when you play a game normally and when you sequence break and glitch your way across the finish line in record time, it's a totally different experience. Different things stick out and different things matter. This is true even if you do your speedruns live.
Actually, I did ask for this. I read the bill, there's no kill switch, the people saying otherwise are morons, and I'd rather have clean water than live as a serf in a neo-feudalistic plutocracy run by anarcho-capitalists anyday thankyouverymuch.
You mean like the bill already on the books that lets the government shut down any communications system they want in the US if there's a "threat of war" that requires less red tape than this one and has never been used?
Also, if you have an internet-connected computer and one on a physically separated network in enough proximity that a person could conceivably use both of them that air gap isn't going to do jack as the existing physically separated network has shown.
The Civilian net does alright but this is for when what it does now isn't good enough, or when something like anti-collusion laws would prevent something like one company in the same industry protecting another from attack for some reason.
If that scares you, wait until you hear what the bill REALLY does.....oh, it just creates a department (like FEMA or DHS) to help coordinate companies that hold key pieces of our nation's infrastructure in defending them from network-based attacks? And that the "kill switch" everyone is talking about is just the ability to ask congress for the ability to isolate a vulnerable or infected network segment for an incredibly limited amount of time? And there are specific wordings in the law that says the departments goal is to always choose the defense method that causes the least disruption of network services no matter what? MY GOD WILL THEY STOP AT NOTHING?
Or it would basically weigh them down with so much bureaucracy that they can't have the intended effect. Not that this is a bad thing sometimes, but when you want agility in a government function you need to give it the power to make judgement calls they can be held accountable for later.
You totally can, which is why it's too bad this actually waters down existing legislation in favor of letting the government do something useful with it (like create an office to coordinate defense against large-scale and technologically sophisticated attacks.)
Wouldn't blame that on Smaller boxes entirely. even the larger boxes usually came mostly empty, with nothing but a corrugated reinforcer, the game discs in paper sleeves (or if you were really lucky, a jewel case with no booklet! joy!) and a little slip of paper that had hastily typed instructions for installing the game. there are still nice manuals being shipped with some games, but the number shipped with nothing at all is definitely very high. I think that having a good manual helps a user feel good about a purchase, even if there's really nothing to explain. The Doom 3 Manual was nice, and it was exactly like a console game manual, for instance.
I would agree that insane Copy-Protection schemes are hurting just as much as piracy, and is even contributing to it. However, I don't get all the Steam hate on/. it seems like the most sensible solution to me, by keeping track of the games you own. It also allows you to install games without the CD after the first time, and even though it does have bugs, most of them seem minor, and are intermittent things. It doesn't stop pirated copies of Half-Life 2 leaking out, but for people who go legit, they get all kinds of support, in addition they provide all sorts of free content. I'd like to see more major publishers jump onto steam myself. The truth is that DRM isn't so bad itself, publishers do have a right to try and keep their content from being pirated. However, the DRM models themselves are so problematic, that they encourage piracy. It would be better to have something that's less hard, like validating a CD key online, or even just watermarking a copy of something in such a way that they can track who a pirate copy came from, instead of making everything such a pain in the ass that nobody wants to use it.
The Cartridges aren't cross-compatible because of the pinout difference, and the difference in physical shape. However, to get an adaptor, the easiest thing to do is unassemble some of the ealiest carts, like excitebike, which was a famicom cart with an adaptor. then just stick the whole thing in a plastic shell. However, since this was a disk system title (like the two famicom Zelda games, and Super Mario Bros,and I belive kid icarus, etc...) there might not be a cartridge version available. it might be best to emulate it, if you're looking for the closest experience, but disk games need the FDS Bios, and it can be hard to get it to work with some emulators. You'd probably get off better just grabbing a Super NES, or waiting and getting a Wii For the Virtual Console deal.
that would be assuming you live in a magical world where good games sell. sometimes they do, but let's face it, quality is no guarantee of commercial success these days.
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this, there was an article a while back about a rash of small cafes ripping out their wall outlets so people could only use their laptops so long. I doubt it was widespread though.
it's a good thing they can't get pirated books then. Also paranoia.
That was my favorite too. I wonder if that's where they got wall-jumping and triangle jumping from.
Do they really? I think speedruns are great, but I don't think that doing that is in any way superior to just playing a game to have fun. In fact, it's really just having fun by abusing the game mechanics to their absolute limits. In fact, when you play a game normally and when you sequence break and glitch your way across the finish line in record time, it's a totally different experience. Different things stick out and different things matter. This is true even if you do your speedruns live.
it totally does take more time, and yes, that is tool-assisted walking.
Actually, I did ask for this. I read the bill, there's no kill switch, the people saying otherwise are morons, and I'd rather have clean water than live as a serf in a neo-feudalistic plutocracy run by anarcho-capitalists anyday thankyouverymuch.
You mean like the bill already on the books that lets the government shut down any communications system they want in the US if there's a "threat of war" that requires less red tape than this one and has never been used? Also, if you have an internet-connected computer and one on a physically separated network in enough proximity that a person could conceivably use both of them that air gap isn't going to do jack as the existing physically separated network has shown. The Civilian net does alright but this is for when what it does now isn't good enough, or when something like anti-collusion laws would prevent something like one company in the same industry protecting another from attack for some reason.
If that scares you, wait until you hear what the bill REALLY does... ..oh, it just creates a department (like FEMA or DHS) to help coordinate companies that hold key pieces of our nation's infrastructure in defending them from network-based attacks? And that the "kill switch" everyone is talking about is just the ability to ask congress for the ability to isolate a vulnerable or infected network segment for an incredibly limited amount of time? And there are specific wordings in the law that says the departments goal is to always choose the defense method that causes the least disruption of network services no matter what? MY GOD WILL THEY STOP AT NOTHING?
Or, it could be the bill is actually useful and important and doesn't do any of the bullshit that the lobbyist-funded FUD says it does.
Or it would basically weigh them down with so much bureaucracy that they can't have the intended effect. Not that this is a bad thing sometimes, but when you want agility in a government function you need to give it the power to make judgement calls they can be held accountable for later.
You totally can, which is why it's too bad this actually waters down existing legislation in favor of letting the government do something useful with it (like create an office to coordinate defense against large-scale and technologically sophisticated attacks.)
they actually have several e-book readers at market, and a lot of the old PDAs serve that Purpouse. of course, the problem is that no one buys them.
Wouldn't blame that on Smaller boxes entirely. even the larger boxes usually came mostly empty, with nothing but a corrugated reinforcer, the game discs in paper sleeves (or if you were really lucky, a jewel case with no booklet! joy!) and a little slip of paper that had hastily typed instructions for installing the game. there are still nice manuals being shipped with some games, but the number shipped with nothing at all is definitely very high. I think that having a good manual helps a user feel good about a purchase, even if there's really nothing to explain. The Doom 3 Manual was nice, and it was exactly like a console game manual, for instance.
I would agree that insane Copy-Protection schemes are hurting just as much as piracy, and is even contributing to it. However, I don't get all the Steam hate on /. it seems like the most sensible solution to me, by keeping track of the games you own. It also allows you to install games without the CD after the first time, and even though it does have bugs, most of them seem minor, and are intermittent things. It doesn't stop pirated copies of Half-Life 2 leaking out, but for people who go legit, they get all kinds of support, in addition they provide all sorts of free content. I'd like to see more major publishers jump onto steam myself. The truth is that DRM isn't so bad itself, publishers do have a right to try and keep their content from being pirated. However, the DRM models themselves are so problematic, that they encourage piracy. It would be better to have something that's less hard, like validating a CD key online, or even just watermarking a copy of something in such a way that they can track who a pirate copy came from, instead of making everything such a pain in the ass that nobody wants to use it.
The Cartridges aren't cross-compatible because of the pinout difference, and the difference in physical shape. However, to get an adaptor, the easiest thing to do is unassemble some of the ealiest carts, like excitebike, which was a famicom cart with an adaptor. then just stick the whole thing in a plastic shell. However, since this was a disk system title (like the two famicom Zelda games, and Super Mario Bros,and I belive kid icarus, etc...) there might not be a cartridge version available. it might be best to emulate it, if you're looking for the closest experience, but disk games need the FDS Bios, and it can be hard to get it to work with some emulators. You'd probably get off better just grabbing a Super NES, or waiting and getting a Wii For the Virtual Console deal.
that would be assuming you live in a magical world where good games sell. sometimes they do, but let's face it, quality is no guarantee of commercial success these days.