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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Whats acceptable in reverse engineering the various ff games
« on: 2002-03-05 13:32:00 »
And in many cases, what's written in the software license or EULA is not legal in the country it is sold in. For instance Norway guarantees two years of guarantee on electronical products (hardware, not software). Even if the joystick manufacterer prints "AS IS, NO GUARANTEE" in big letters all over the box they are still forced by law to provide me two years of guarantee.

Microsoft state everywhere (including in their EULA, I think) that you cannot resell their software: If you pick up a copy (or license, as they call it) to XP in a store you cannot sell it on to your neighbour. I don't think this has been tried in court yet but there are postings on the net about Microsoft breaking the law in a lot of countries by this clause (effectively making that section invalid).

(I cannot guarantee for the correctness of any of the 'facts' above, I'm probably remembering a lot wrong I'm just trying to demonstrate some principles about law).
[edited] 15 2002-03-05 14:32

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Complicated Texture compression...
« on: 2002-03-05 13:24:00 »
Last time I checked, disassembling programs was protected by law in EU for educational purposes. Don't take everything Microsoft tells you for granted...

Agreeing with your decision to disallow it on this board though.

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Checksum
« on: 2001-12-24 08:47:00 »
In fact you'd be hard-pressed to optimize better than the compiler (except when using MMX and other extensions).

And about "powerful languages"...I guess you don't think C and C++ is powerful then because it does NOT allow it (except through compiler extensions that vary between compilers, and then you're not really dealing with C or C++ any longer). I think this is a good thing though.

(Going away for some days now so I won't reply more to this)

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General Discussion / LOTR movie then
« on: 2001-12-22 21:23:00 »
It wasn't in the book, but it might be in "History of Middle-Earth", which is a complete release of all his unreleased material (perhaps "Sauron Defeated"). I think it's ok to build on that. I haven't read all of the History though so I can't tell you for sure (Elrond was fighting with or close to Isildur in the battle, that much I know).

Gollum looks good, but Lorien didn't...I mean, it looks *good* but it isn't Lorien...

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General Discussion / FORUM MOVE COMPLETE
« on: 2001-12-22 13:49:00 »
Isn't it time to..ehmm...deannounce this thread now? Just a thought...

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General Discussion / Introducing a weird parody... Don't get mad Qhimm.
« on: 2001-12-21 15:14:00 »
Ehmm, no! Read the definition again. Saying that your page is a parody of a parody means that it's not a parody at all (it was badly put but I wanted to play on the wordlist definition).

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General Discussion / Introducing a weird parody... Don't get mad Qhimm.
« on: 2001-12-21 11:56:00 »
It was meant as an explanation to Intel. Using definition 2 there, I must really say Intel, your page is a parody of a parody.

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General Discussion / Introducing a weird parody... Don't get mad Qhimm.
« on: 2001-12-21 10:47:00 »
parody (pr-d)
n. pl. parodies

1. a) A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule. See Synonyms at caricature.
   b)The genre of literature comprising such works.

2. Something so bad as to be equivalent to intentional mockery; a travesty: "The trial was a parody of justice."

3. Music. The practice of reworking an already established composition, especially the incorporation into the Mass of material borrowed from other works, such as motets or madrigals.

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General Discussion / LOTR movie then
« on: 2001-12-19 20:35:00 »
Just back from the theatre....watched you-know-what...

There are spoilers in here. Things you don't want to read unless you have watched the movie. So go watch it and then read. And no, I'm not talking about spoilers as in "spoiling the plot", that would have been a joke... what I will do is discuss how I think the movie fared, and you should be able to watch it without prejudices. It's actually more of a spoiler if you've read it 50 times than if you have never read it...
Spoiler: show


I actually haven't fully decided whether I like it or not. Perhaps the doubt speaks for itself: It isn't perfect. However I think I will reach the conclusion that I liked it. I mean, for a film it is *really* good!, but as LOTR...well...

The negative things first.

My main problem with it is that it doesn't communicate the feeling of them being on a journey. It is simply rushed. We knew this of course, I mean it couldn't be any other way. I guess I had to experience it to fully believe it though.

Concrete things...well...Galadriel looks completely foolish when Frodo offers her the ring. The film is simply over-effectized on a lot of areas. They could really have spared themselves the massive blast when Sauron was defeated in the second age, it was unnecesarry and little tasteful. The computer-animated Legolas is horrible jumping down from the trolls back...

Personally I would have preferred more weight on the journey...the hiking if you will, and make Aragorn site some poems as in the books...and less weight on the forces of the ring, which is when it comes down to it less central in the book.

The action is of course over-focused as well. The action scenes is incredible, but there are something like six battles in the film, and it does become repetetive (first fight the Nazguls, then a troll, then a balrog, then a uruk-hai...they all get a game-boss feel really, reading the books I at least never dreamed of comparing an uruk-hai and an balrog)

On the other hand, if you ignore the ending (Titanic soundtrack? In LOTR? Aaargh...) then they avoided the Hollywood traps. My worst fear was that it turned out into something like Gladiator. In that respect I guess it kind of overachieved, it's (thankfully) nothing like Gladiator, I mean it's closer to art-films than Hollywood.

This is also a reason that I cannot see the mainstream Britney-digging, American Pie-loving crowd fall in love with this movie. From what I can judge, this film won't bring Tolkien any more mainstream than it was.

Many many people are going to come out disappointed over this movie, simply because it's different from all expectations (the ones I have come across at least). But, all in all, I enjoyed it ("many many people" also loved Gladiator). If I hadn't read the books I'd probably say it was the best movie I'd ever seen. I mean, this feeling was predicable right?

This might not have come all that clear through, after all I'm still making up my opinions here.

To get on topic to *this* board, let me conclude with saying that as they walked into Moria and Gandalf stops to ponder what way to choose, I got a real Final Fantasy dungeon-walking feel. A good thing.

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General Discussion / Something stupid
« on: 2001-12-19 14:41:00 »
Getting it to four pages is not a goal by any means, there's threads with, what, eight or nine or ten or something pages in this forum. ?Been there, done that.

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General Discussion / Something stupid
« on: 2001-12-18 10:42:00 »
We tried hard to get him to disappear the first couple of months...said much nastier things than what has even remotely touched this board the last half year. So I wouldn't keep my hopes too high...
[edited] 15 2001-12-18 11:42

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General Discussion / Playstation 2 emu isn't possible!
« on: 2001-12-18 10:19:00 »
PS2 emulation is *possible*, but much much harder than anything else done in emulation until now. The hardware between a PC and a PS2 is just so different....PC relies on much memory on the gfx card, while PS2 only have 4MB of memory but has a totally awesome bus that can push through all the textures and geometry needed. If you see a PS2 emulator sometime, it's because the bus (or the on-card hardware) has improved so much on the PC, because right now nothing in programming could make it happen.

This has all been discussed here before somewhere. Good luck finding it though, just saying this because it will probably explain the techies lack of interest in this topic (it might even be deleted as it was about a year ago I think...around the PS2 release date)

I will refrain from commenting about PurpleSmurf not thinking there's anything wrong with another Joey on the board.

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General Discussion / Something stupid
« on: 2001-12-15 10:40:00 »
Great.... *sigh*

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General Discussion / Something stupid
« on: 2001-12-14 13:02:00 »
Yeah, exactly how is VB a more real language than Casio and TI languages? Technically they're the same, interpreted script languages designed for doing a limited number of things (performing numerical calculations vs. boosting script kiddie self-images), though one might argue that the Casio and TI languages are more logically constructed than VB.

(I'm beating a dead horse here though, this will be my last I think)

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General Discussion / Something stupid
« on: 2001-12-13 19:06:00 »
My eyes! MY EYES!!! What was that up there?

If "message" must be an implicit variable, much like "result" in Delphi...so that only the last assignment to message in the function is shown, and not until the function exits...then *perhaps* it could pass as a "good-intention-that-failed" thing. I fear that that is not the case though, in which case it's the stupidest syntax I've seen until now.

On the positive side, more features like this means the gap between VB-programmers and us grows bigger for every day. Making me even more lucky I'm on the right side of that gap.

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General Discussion / Linux or Windows?
« on: 2001-12-13 18:56:00 »
You should also know about http://www.linuxdoc.org

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General Discussion / Linux or Windows?
« on: 2001-12-13 18:54:00 »
Ehmm...you are totally confusing things. Telnet has very little with servers to do. Telnet is simply a protocol, just like HTTP (web-pages) and NNTP (usenet, newsgroups). If you really want telnet access to your computer (trust me, you don't, if you need remote administration then use SSH as it is encrypted) then Linux comes with a telnet server as default. DOS is definitely NOT coming with a telnet server as default, neither is windows (though it does come with a telnet client, of course linux has a dozen variants of those as well).

You might want to do some reading on the subject...let me find something for you:
http://www.networkcomputing.com/unixworld/tutorial/013/013.part1.html

(haven't read it but it looks promising)

And you can always try searching for "howto set up a linux server" (the real option for windows would be Windows 2000 Server, which won't run on your hardware and costs several hundred dollars => not a good option). With all due respect, asking which is better as a server of "telnet" and "linux" is not the best starting point so try to learn a few more things before starting off...

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General Discussion / Linux or Windows?
« on: 2001-12-13 15:06:00 »
If it is going to be a server, I don't see why you would want to have dual boot (as it would have to stop being a server while you're using win98).

About linux size......you can strip a distribution with everything you need for a server to about 50MB with no problems, probably you can have it functioning at as low as 20 MB. So it's not right to say that "linux takes 150MB".

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General Discussion / FORUM MOVE COMPLETE
« on: 2001-12-13 14:00:00 »
Joey: The others in here don't seem to be very helpful, I'll try to explain. What Qhimm meant was that your comment was kind of not needed, because it is obvious that "spoiler" means a big black box, after all Saint put up a big black box after the words! So while correct it didn't add anything to the conversation...

Keep it up and I'm sure you'll become a moderator soon.


(Seriously, this whole thread gave me quite a good laugh)

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General Discussion / Something stupid
« on: 2001-12-12 20:33:00 »
So, you could do that? Hmm..I'm curious. How exactly would you implement TForm.EndGalaxyButtonClick(Sender: TObject)?

:wink:

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General Discussion / Software bundle free!
« on: 2001-12-04 20:38:00 »
Well, of course you could have just picked up a distribution of...

....nah, should resist the urge this time. Way to go, congratulations on your new software. BTW, all OEMs can buy a huge box full of Microsoft CDs directly from microsoft for around $200 (including close to everything Microsoft has ever published) with five licenses for each CD. I happen to do a little part-time-coding for a firm that is also on the OEM list...so personally I have even better deals (free use).

But, none of my posts are complete without a little political statement: It isn't your school paying for these products. They have special deals with Microsoft. And Microsoft aren't doing this to be nice... (contrary to the scientific facts, Bill Gates believe that there is no such thing as a free lunch)
[edited] 15 2001-12-04 21:39

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General Discussion / Nightmare's beginning song delayed!
« on: 2001-12-01 18:00:00 »
Heh, it was supposed to be a joke...kinda...

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / There might be some FFSF problems for some days...
« on: 2001-11-30 12:37:00 »
....I have renamed some of the files on the Legacy server to something else so some links will be broken (JP got a traffic excess and I don't want to hurt his bank account).

Once I get around to set up my own server (which should have been many months ago, I keep delaying it, it's a lot of work) things should be in order.

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General Discussion / Nightmare's beginning song delayed!
« on: 2001-11-29 18:05:00 »
Plug the electric guitar right into the computer. Then make sure the recording volume level is set to max. This will chop off the top of many sound waves because they become too loud and so create a distortion effect (a truly awful distortion effect, but distortion nevertheless...)

Using a digital amplifier-simulator should probably give you good enough results while plugging it straight into the computer though.

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General Discussion / 100 Greatest movies.
« on: 2001-11-27 20:59:00 »
No post editing possible? Strange...anyway, being a little more harsh this time:

To sum up: Scary Movie is like all the teenage-targeted commercials of the last decade, concentrated into one package, without even trying to sell you a product! (Notice BTW how Sprite "obey-your-thirst" tries to tell you how to be unique by drinking what a commercial tells you? This commercial wants us all to be unique by all drinking the same soft drink! Bill Watterson had some great fun with that aspect of modern society...anyway, that is the exact same irony and logic that I applied to Scary Movie above)

THAT should conclude my hate campaign against that movie. If you want to hurt me back, saying ugly things about the Lord of the Rings movie is bound to work...

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