If you put it in the bank, the bank can fail and take your deposits with it
No, it can't, at least not in the United States. Under the FDIC, depositors are protected by the federal government for up to $250,000 even if the bank goes bust. The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which established the FDIC, was passed specifically to prevent this kind of scenario from happening, which it previously had done with some regularity. (Glass-Steagall also banned some dangerous practices like commingling retail and investment banking; unfortunately, by the 1990s, people had forgotten why these regulations were a good idea, and they were repealed, setting the stage for the financial crisis of 2008.)
Well, sure, it's the law. Until it's repealed and no longer the case. As you noted, Glass-Steagall had been continually weakened. You'd bet your bottom [fiat] dollar that if global economic collapse were ever to become imminent these, and all sorts of other laws, would be tossed out to make sure those on the top stay there so that those on the bottom stay where they are.
Nah, trackpoint sucks dude. Gestures are pretty useless on it, and it is nowhere near as fast or accurate.
Like anything else, practice makes perfect. I've seen some trackpoint slingers in some meeting presentations whose cursor precision makes my mousing look like I've got Parkinsons.
It just comes down to which PHB put in place the guidelines for the ground troops. I'd like to think my company has a healthy mix of paper-cert hires and experience hires (and some of both!), which I think brings some needed breadth into a company's technology group.
I'm quite surprised the PC game hardware makers, Microsoft, Logitech, Thrustmaster, Saitek, (and others?) haven't formed an alliance of some kind to sort all that out.
I haven't personally messed with OpenGL in a long while. What I remember is that while the core was standard, all the really cool stuff is always via vendor-specific calls that had to be discovered via enumeration (and no guarantee that Nvidia's version worked the same way as ATI's version).
So, you bought a Kindle DX because it has a 9.7" screen, and then you had regrets because you could have gotten a Kindle 3 with a giant 6" screen.
Me? No, size drives my decision, so any small factor Kindle is off the table. Although it would have been nice to get improved pdf rendering. I'm referring to rabble I see to recall right here on/. , but this was what, 2 years ago?
To be fair, most companies keep selling the old one until the new product is actually available though. Some even continue to sell the old model afterwards as a budget model.
I remember there was a lot of grumbling when the Kindle 3 came out like a week after the Kindle DX (based on the Kindle 2) did.
Meanwhile, back in the days when Apple products were announced AND were available in stores immediately, any pending orders would get upgraded to the new models automatically, which was pretty cool of them.
BOTH sides had patents they were trying to enforce. He could easily have sided with Samsung with respect to their patents, but he didn't.
The fact that he held patents at all means he should have been dismissed. There's a reason why, for example, in Oracle v Google, potential jurors that are in the technology sector or had used Java were excused. That reason: because only evidence brought into trial is supposed to be used to determine the outcome. By having patents in his head, he has information that he can't avoid tapping into during deliberation. Lawyers typically screen for that kind of thing and it's surprising they didn't. Perhaps because modern-day patents are all about corporate ownership, and the idea that an individual could hold one is outside their understanding.
That he wasn't dismissed turned out to be a gamble for Apple and a blunder for Samsung. Further reading here. Choice quote:
The foreman told a court representative that the jurors had reached a decision without needing the instructions.
The machismo aside, I still can't imagine why anyone would willingly want to repeatedly perform such touchy and precise control manipulations. These are clearly a machine or computer's job. I mean, I respect folks who do it, and I can understand it being "fun", it's just so impractical.
I mean, nobody using a modern computer does an IPL by hand when they turn their computer on anymore.
You don't see Apple suing Amazon over the Kindle Fire, or Nokia over the Lumia.
Of course not, those would be harder to prove. This ruling sets precedent and, in addition to over a billion dollars, provides ammo for future action. If you think this is Apple's last suit, you're quite mistaken.
It makes sense that, if success tomorrow requires a win today, that you would start with the easiest to win and the proceed up the ladder.
Looks like the Government is tired of this 3D printing business, so they got some yahoos to start printing guns.
Interestingly, this is EXACTLY how 3D printing was shut down in the Cory Doctorow book "Makers".
Life imitates art!
Heh, that the first thing I thought when I saw this article. They created this fake initiative to have justifications to create a bunch of new laws and restrictions, basically stealing technology out of the hands of the people.
I'm definitely going to check out that book, thanks for the lead!
The retard got what he deserved. He chose to wear a shirt to get attention and didn't like the attention he got as a result. That's up there with thinking it's a great idea of wearing a gay pride shirt and prancing around making an ass of yourself at a country fried rock concert to get attention for your political slant, cause, or moral views and being surprised when you get your ass beat by all the rednecks around you. Save that kind of shit for the appropriate venue, like your blog, with your like minded friends, or gay pride parades, places where you're not on enemy soil surrounded by the enemy itself. If you're determined to go to where the enemy lives, there is safety in numbers, don't be stupid and do that shit solo or you will get the attention you're looking for and you won't like it.
Clearly anyone who disagrees with the erosion of rights and the ever ballooning tyranny of the government should be treated shabbily.
That said I really can't see paying $200 for the thing when I was able to get my dad a nice 4 camera system for his shop with 500Gb DVR for just $230 shipped from Tiger....At least with that if someone does break in we'll have a nice vid to hand the cops.
Awesome. That should definitely be helpful. "This is an APB. We're looking for a white or not white male or female, age 14 to 65, approximately 5' 6" to 6' tall. Suspect wearing dark clothing and a ski mask."
Suspect breathes air, I repeat, suspect breathes air
A lighter and a bic pen can make a suitable conforming screwdriver for most security bits of appropriate size. For other sizes, other sizes of polycarbonate pens / barrels / rods will do.
Exactly my thoughts as well. I was one of those Wii owners who was NOT rewarded for a 5 year wait between Zelda games because I was so bored by the end of Twilight Princess from all the rehashed crap that I never even bothered to play Skyward Sword. Twilight Princess looked like a shameless rehash from the start, but glowing reviews assured me that it only seemed that way and was really quite excellent. It wasn't. When glowing reviews for Skyward Sword appeared to be (quite ironically) rehashing the exact same language from the LoZ:TP reviews, I chose to pass.
The problem with Zelda is that Nintendo is catering to the fanbois, the ones that dress up in costumes and buy cheap reproduction weapons from convention booths. It's almost like it's cult mentality over the characters of the franchise instead of the game experience proper. These are the folks that are more concerned with Link not looking like a cartoon than the game actually being fun. That crowd goes crazy for lots of hidden things and secrets but none of those things actually add to game play, they only add to trivia and esoterica. Ocarina of Time started this downward slide, IMO. While there are hidden things and secrets in Link to the Past, they all had a gameplay purpose. Mostly along the lines of "if you have the gear, and you can figure it out, you get this slight increase to your health bar." Zelda has turned into the paradigm, possibly even a parody, of gated gameplay. Tease the player with tons of gates (cracked walls, locked doors, characters that require a McGuffin to talk to you and give you something) and dispense the keys slowly, and use backtracking as a time sink to disguise the fact that the game proper is only about 5 hours long. That's what the megafans want, after all, to explore the fantasy world instead of actually playing a game.
In the interest of developing meaningful stories to drive the game, they've really taken over as the purpose of the game, which I think is unfortunate.
It's their loss. When you make it painful to stay legal and compliant, they just drive people to piracy anyway. If your $130 OEM copy isn't legal you might as well pay $0.
They should just go back to the "good" old days and just charge a flat price and be done with it. Incidentally, those were the monopoly days, too, so obviously something was going well for Microsoft with that plan.
Holy water is a tangible item that can at least can delivered, even if its supposed quality can not be proven.
A hex or prayer can not be shown to be delivered, leading to a higher rate of contested payments.
Bingo. This needs to be rated up well above the other people trying to make this to be some conspiracy.
Holy Water: Ordered a vial of water, get a vial of water
Order a Spell: Receive a piece of paper saying it was cast.
Can people really not see why EBay would treat these differently?
What if the sellers were sending a video of themselves casting the spell, in whatever ritual/dance it required? Maybe a built in "hi reddit!" style sign to ensure they're not using the same video over and over.
I don't know who Ebay's got working for them, but it seems to me that if spiritual issues cause so many problems during disputes, shouldn't they just disallow disputes and put disclaimers on those pages? That way you can keep the believers, collect commissions, and wash your hands of the metaphysical. No hate or line drawing required.
But, if you don't mind the politics and the guns (whether or not you get shot; you just need to not mind being around guns), there's a lot of nice folks there and a lot of opportunity.
Funny you should mention that. I really wish there was a country with a truly progressive political ideology in place that still lets me play with my guns. It's one of my few hobbies that I truly love but I wince when I hear politicians barking about "defending marriage" and such things that should be behind the civilized world by now.
The Unicomp's not really a reproduction. They basically licensed the tech and bought the plant from Lexmark when Lexmark decided to get out of the keyboard business.
They may have licensed the technology, but they're not deploying it to it's original specs. I'd call that a reproduction, close and licensed, but still a reproduction.
Thankfully, I'm not picky with keyboards. Just like not having the golden ear, I save a lot of money that way.
Have they advertised this as an open console? I didn't get that impression at all. Do we know that they aren't going to require a signed OS? Will I be able to run my own ROM? I haven't been able to find that information.
You're right, at least in that we only have their words that it will be open. Ultimately, it's a preorder, sight unseen, and nobody that has a working unit is willing to talk about these details. It's no different from Makerbot selling their 3D printer, claiming it's open source, without releasing any source until they finish building and shipping the first batch. At least in that case, we now know they lied: only cherry picked documentation is available and "source" released is the software equivalent to someone releasing object code and calling it source because it's the source for your executable file.
That said, it's Android, no doubt that dedicated folks will hack it for rooting, even without Ouya's approval or help. The smart thing for them to do is just not get in the way because it's really inevitable.
Actually, I can't understand why so many people are behind this. Both from a gamer's perspective and from a developer's this seems like a non-starter. Open platforms can sometimes overcome the lack of a customer base by virtue of their openness, but we don't seem to have that here. It's underpowered compared to other consoles, the 30% cut that they want for selling games through their store is huge - I've never heard of Nintendo or Sony taking more than 20%, though Microsoft jacked up their cut on XBLA after a while - and that plus the small potential customer base means there's no financial reason to develop for this thing.
Don't forget the barrier to entry: none. To develop on Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft (on non-gimped "indie" sandboxes) you have to spend major upfront costs for a dev kit. Doesn't matter if hackers and homebrew devs can do it on the cheap, you'd better believe they're not going to accept a homebrew app built on hacked hardware into their ecosystem.
I also somewhat resent their business model. They're funding development of their product through donations, at no risk to themselves, and then demanding 30% of all sales. That's rent-seeking if I've ever seen it.
Complete agreement. I find it odd that this Kickstarter raised $8.5M... but they couldn't find other VC without having the Kickstarter campaign? What do the angel investors know that the 63K that donated don't? If they ran off with the cash, I think they'd wind up shot, but it doesn't change the fact that Kickstarter is ripe for fraud.
What 3rd party tool? That's the android SDK, and you can just build and push whatever tools you want. Certainly more convenient running Busybox but by no means required.
Well, then you criminalize the actual CRIME - driving while impaired
When has criminalizing something actually stopped it from happening? Criminalizing and sentencing only exists to give victims some sense of justice, after it's all over and can never be undone.
This is about *prevention*.
So? Illegal drugs are illegal now, yet there are still people that get high and get behind the wheel and cause accidents. Lots of prevention those laws are doing, they are. Lots of people being denied the right to own their bodies as a result, too.
I think it's even worse than religion. At least the goal of religious organization (ideally, without the greed and corruption) is about people as a group trying to find a spiritual part of themselves. We could argue whether such a part exists or not, but sports organizations really aren't about anything positive for the individual, only idolatry towards freaks of nature, those within the top 0.1% of humans with such levels of athletic ability made possible by genetics, and distracting people from doing things like work or caring about politics and their future or education or gaining skills or even taking a moment to be introspective.
Just about everything in 3D printed is patented. RepRap people just don't care about it. It's very hard to sue a community. Even the name for the most commonly used 3D printing method is trademarked. (Fused deposition modeling(tm) by Stratasys)
Patents related to FDM-style printing have been expired for years. "Fused Deposition Modeling" is a trademark, but that's just a name for the technology, not the technology itself. An open name for describing the technology is "Fused Filament Fabrication" which sounds silly but it avoids that whole trademark business.
That's a project I've been investigating the feasibility of recently, using a microcontroller or FPGA to emulate cartridges for use with real console hardware. Most ROM-only cartridges could probably be handled by a microcontroller with sufficient memory, but the 16 bit era in particular brought a lot of on-cartridge coprocessors (SNES's SuperFX being the most well known) which would probably bump those firmly up in to FPGA territory.
The catch of course is that the consoles that would be easiest to do this with are also those that are best emulated. I'm pretty sure there were recent articles about a SNES emulator (maybe simulator in this case) which on paper should be literally perfect, though it has much higher CPU requirements than others due to its exacting simulation of the individual chips rather than taking shortcuts where available.
Existing products like Everdrive and Powerpak (and more I may not know about) do exactly that. While you're slightly late, the idea is interesting and implementations can differ widely, so please don't quit and you might produce something far superior to these. For example, VRC7 is not supported by the NES Powerpak, hardware acceleration chips like SuperFX aren't supported on the SNES Powerpak, and certain game save types aren't supported by Everdrive 64
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If you put it in the bank, the bank can fail and take your deposits with it
No, it can't, at least not in the United States. Under the FDIC, depositors are protected by the federal government for up to $250,000 even if the bank goes bust. The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which established the FDIC, was passed specifically to prevent this kind of scenario from happening, which it previously had done with some regularity. (Glass-Steagall also banned some dangerous practices like commingling retail and investment banking; unfortunately, by the 1990s, people had forgotten why these regulations were a good idea, and they were repealed, setting the stage for the financial crisis of 2008.)
Well, sure, it's the law. Until it's repealed and no longer the case. As you noted, Glass-Steagall had been continually weakened. You'd bet your bottom [fiat] dollar that if global economic collapse were ever to become imminent these, and all sorts of other laws, would be tossed out to make sure those on the top stay there so that those on the bottom stay where they are.
Nah, trackpoint sucks dude. Gestures are pretty useless on it, and it is nowhere near as fast or accurate.
Like anything else, practice makes perfect. I've seen some trackpoint slingers in some meeting presentations whose cursor precision makes my mousing look like I've got Parkinsons.
It just comes down to which PHB put in place the guidelines for the ground troops. I'd like to think my company has a healthy mix of paper-cert hires and experience hires (and some of both!), which I think brings some needed breadth into a company's technology group.
I'm quite surprised the PC game hardware makers, Microsoft, Logitech, Thrustmaster, Saitek, (and others?) haven't formed an alliance of some kind to sort all that out.
I haven't personally messed with OpenGL in a long while. What I remember is that while the core was standard, all the really cool stuff is always via vendor-specific calls that had to be discovered via enumeration (and no guarantee that Nvidia's version worked the same way as ATI's version).
Is that still the case?
So, you bought a Kindle DX because it has a 9.7" screen, and then you had regrets because you could have gotten a Kindle 3 with a giant 6" screen.
Me? No, size drives my decision, so any small factor Kindle is off the table. Although it would have been nice to get improved pdf rendering. I'm referring to rabble I see to recall right here on /. , but this was what, 2 years ago?
To be fair, most companies keep selling the old one until the new product is actually available though. Some even continue to sell the old model afterwards as a budget model.
I remember there was a lot of grumbling when the Kindle 3 came out like a week after the Kindle DX (based on the Kindle 2) did.
Meanwhile, back in the days when Apple products were announced AND were available in stores immediately, any pending orders would get upgraded to the new models automatically, which was pretty cool of them.
nonsense.
BOTH sides had patents they were trying to enforce. He could easily have sided with Samsung with respect to their patents, but he didn't.
The fact that he held patents at all means he should have been dismissed. There's a reason why, for example, in Oracle v Google, potential jurors that are in the technology sector or had used Java were excused. That reason: because only evidence brought into trial is supposed to be used to determine the outcome. By having patents in his head, he has information that he can't avoid tapping into during deliberation. Lawyers typically screen for that kind of thing and it's surprising they didn't. Perhaps because modern-day patents are all about corporate ownership, and the idea that an individual could hold one is outside their understanding.
That he wasn't dismissed turned out to be a gamble for Apple and a blunder for Samsung. Further reading here. Choice quote:
The foreman told a court representative that the jurors had reached a decision without needing the instructions.
The machismo aside, I still can't imagine why anyone would willingly want to repeatedly perform such touchy and precise control manipulations. These are clearly a machine or computer's job. I mean, I respect folks who do it, and I can understand it being "fun", it's just so impractical.
I mean, nobody using a modern computer does an IPL by hand when they turn their computer on anymore.
You don't see Apple suing Amazon over the Kindle Fire, or Nokia over the Lumia.
Of course not, those would be harder to prove. This ruling sets precedent and, in addition to over a billion dollars, provides ammo for future action. If you think this is Apple's last suit, you're quite mistaken.
It makes sense that, if success tomorrow requires a win today, that you would start with the easiest to win and the proceed up the ladder.
Looks like the Government is tired of this 3D printing business, so they got some yahoos to start printing guns.
Interestingly, this is EXACTLY how 3D printing was shut down in the Cory Doctorow book "Makers".
Life imitates art!
Heh, that the first thing I thought when I saw this article. They created this fake initiative to have justifications to create a bunch of new laws and restrictions, basically stealing technology out of the hands of the people.
I'm definitely going to check out that book, thanks for the lead!
The retard got what he deserved. He chose to wear a shirt to get attention and didn't like the attention he got as a result. That's up there with thinking it's a great idea of wearing a gay pride shirt and prancing around making an ass of yourself at a country fried rock concert to get attention for your political slant, cause, or moral views and being surprised when you get your ass beat by all the rednecks around you. Save that kind of shit for the appropriate venue, like your blog, with your like minded friends, or gay pride parades, places where you're not on enemy soil surrounded by the enemy itself. If you're determined to go to where the enemy lives, there is safety in numbers, don't be stupid and do that shit solo or you will get the attention you're looking for and you won't like it.
Clearly anyone who disagrees with the erosion of rights and the ever ballooning tyranny of the government should be treated shabbily.
That said I really can't see paying $200 for the thing when I was able to get my dad a nice 4 camera system for his shop with 500Gb DVR for just $230 shipped from Tiger. ...At least with that if someone does break in we'll have a nice vid to hand the cops.
Awesome. That should definitely be helpful. "This is an APB. We're looking for a white or not white male or female, age 14 to 65, approximately 5' 6" to 6' tall. Suspect wearing dark clothing and a ski mask."
Suspect breathes air, I repeat, suspect breathes air
A lighter and a bic pen can make a suitable conforming screwdriver for most security bits of appropriate size. For other sizes, other sizes of polycarbonate pens / barrels / rods will do.
Exactly my thoughts as well. I was one of those Wii owners who was NOT rewarded for a 5 year wait between Zelda games because I was so bored by the end of Twilight Princess from all the rehashed crap that I never even bothered to play Skyward Sword. Twilight Princess looked like a shameless rehash from the start, but glowing reviews assured me that it only seemed that way and was really quite excellent. It wasn't. When glowing reviews for Skyward Sword appeared to be (quite ironically) rehashing the exact same language from the LoZ:TP reviews, I chose to pass.
The problem with Zelda is that Nintendo is catering to the fanbois, the ones that dress up in costumes and buy cheap reproduction weapons from convention booths. It's almost like it's cult mentality over the characters of the franchise instead of the game experience proper. These are the folks that are more concerned with Link not looking like a cartoon than the game actually being fun. That crowd goes crazy for lots of hidden things and secrets but none of those things actually add to game play, they only add to trivia and esoterica. Ocarina of Time started this downward slide, IMO. While there are hidden things and secrets in Link to the Past, they all had a gameplay purpose. Mostly along the lines of "if you have the gear, and you can figure it out, you get this slight increase to your health bar." Zelda has turned into the paradigm, possibly even a parody, of gated gameplay. Tease the player with tons of gates (cracked walls, locked doors, characters that require a McGuffin to talk to you and give you something) and dispense the keys slowly, and use backtracking as a time sink to disguise the fact that the game proper is only about 5 hours long. That's what the megafans want, after all, to explore the fantasy world instead of actually playing a game.
In the interest of developing meaningful stories to drive the game, they've really taken over as the purpose of the game, which I think is unfortunate.
It's their loss. When you make it painful to stay legal and compliant, they just drive people to piracy anyway. If your $130 OEM copy isn't legal you might as well pay $0.
They should just go back to the "good" old days and just charge a flat price and be done with it. Incidentally, those were the monopoly days, too, so obviously something was going well for Microsoft with that plan.
Bingo. This needs to be rated up well above the other people trying to make this to be some conspiracy.
Holy Water: Ordered a vial of water, get a vial of water
Order a Spell: Receive a piece of paper saying it was cast.
Can people really not see why EBay would treat these differently?
What if the sellers were sending a video of themselves casting the spell, in whatever ritual/dance it required? Maybe a built in "hi reddit!" style sign to ensure they're not using the same video over and over.
I don't know who Ebay's got working for them, but it seems to me that if spiritual issues cause so many problems during disputes, shouldn't they just disallow disputes and put disclaimers on those pages? That way you can keep the believers, collect commissions, and wash your hands of the metaphysical. No hate or line drawing required.
But, if you don't mind the politics and the guns (whether or not you get shot; you just need to not mind being around guns), there's a lot of nice folks there and a lot of opportunity.
Funny you should mention that. I really wish there was a country with a truly progressive political ideology in place that still lets me play with my guns. It's one of my few hobbies that I truly love but I wince when I hear politicians barking about "defending marriage" and such things that should be behind the civilized world by now.
The Unicomp's not really a reproduction. They basically licensed the tech and bought the plant from Lexmark when Lexmark decided to get out of the keyboard business.
They may have licensed the technology, but they're not deploying it to it's original specs. I'd call that a reproduction, close and licensed, but still a reproduction.
Thankfully, I'm not picky with keyboards. Just like not having the golden ear, I save a lot of money that way.
Have they advertised this as an open console? I didn't get that impression at all. Do we know that they aren't going to require a signed OS? Will I be able to run my own ROM? I haven't been able to find that information.
You're right, at least in that we only have their words that it will be open. Ultimately, it's a preorder, sight unseen, and nobody that has a working unit is willing to talk about these details. It's no different from Makerbot selling their 3D printer, claiming it's open source, without releasing any source until they finish building and shipping the first batch. At least in that case, we now know they lied: only cherry picked documentation is available and "source" released is the software equivalent to someone releasing object code and calling it source because it's the source for your executable file.
That said, it's Android, no doubt that dedicated folks will hack it for rooting, even without Ouya's approval or help. The smart thing for them to do is just not get in the way because it's really inevitable.
Actually, I can't understand why so many people are behind this. Both from a gamer's perspective and from a developer's this seems like a non-starter. Open platforms can sometimes overcome the lack of a customer base by virtue of their openness, but we don't seem to have that here. It's underpowered compared to other consoles, the 30% cut that they want for selling games through their store is huge - I've never heard of Nintendo or Sony taking more than 20%, though Microsoft jacked up their cut on XBLA after a while - and that plus the small potential customer base means there's no financial reason to develop for this thing.
Don't forget the barrier to entry: none. To develop on Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft (on non-gimped "indie" sandboxes) you have to spend major upfront costs for a dev kit. Doesn't matter if hackers and homebrew devs can do it on the cheap, you'd better believe they're not going to accept a homebrew app built on hacked hardware into their ecosystem.
I also somewhat resent their business model. They're funding development of their product through donations, at no risk to themselves, and then demanding 30% of all sales. That's rent-seeking if I've ever seen it.
Complete agreement. I find it odd that this Kickstarter raised $8.5M ... but they couldn't find other VC without having the Kickstarter campaign? What do the angel investors know that the 63K that donated don't? If they ran off with the cash, I think they'd wind up shot, but it doesn't change the fact that Kickstarter is ripe for fraud.
What 3rd party tool? That's the android SDK, and you can just build and push whatever tools you want. Certainly more convenient running Busybox but by no means required.
Well, then you criminalize the actual CRIME - driving while impaired
When has criminalizing something actually stopped it from happening? Criminalizing and sentencing only exists to give victims some sense of justice, after it's all over and can never be undone.
This is about *prevention*.
So? Illegal drugs are illegal now, yet there are still people that get high and get behind the wheel and cause accidents. Lots of prevention those laws are doing, they are. Lots of people being denied the right to own their bodies as a result, too.
I think it's even worse than religion. At least the goal of religious organization (ideally, without the greed and corruption) is about people as a group trying to find a spiritual part of themselves. We could argue whether such a part exists or not, but sports organizations really aren't about anything positive for the individual, only idolatry towards freaks of nature, those within the top 0.1% of humans with such levels of athletic ability made possible by genetics, and distracting people from doing things like work or caring about politics and their future or education or gaining skills or even taking a moment to be introspective.
Just about everything in 3D printed is patented. RepRap people just don't care about it. It's very hard to sue a community. Even the name for the most commonly used 3D printing method is trademarked. (Fused deposition modeling(tm) by Stratasys)
Patents related to FDM-style printing have been expired for years. "Fused Deposition Modeling" is a trademark, but that's just a name for the technology, not the technology itself. An open name for describing the technology is "Fused Filament Fabrication" which sounds silly but it avoids that whole trademark business.
That's a project I've been investigating the feasibility of recently, using a microcontroller or FPGA to emulate cartridges for use with real console hardware. Most ROM-only cartridges could probably be handled by a microcontroller with sufficient memory, but the 16 bit era in particular brought a lot of on-cartridge coprocessors (SNES's SuperFX being the most well known) which would probably bump those firmly up in to FPGA territory.
The catch of course is that the consoles that would be easiest to do this with are also those that are best emulated. I'm pretty sure there were recent articles about a SNES emulator (maybe simulator in this case) which on paper should be literally perfect, though it has much higher CPU requirements than others due to its exacting simulation of the individual chips rather than taking shortcuts where available.
Existing products like Everdrive and Powerpak (and more I may not know about) do exactly that. While you're slightly late, the idea is interesting and implementations can differ widely, so please don't quit and you might produce something far superior to these. For example, VRC7 is not supported by the NES Powerpak, hardware acceleration chips like SuperFX aren't supported on the SNES Powerpak, and certain game save types aren't supported by Everdrive 64