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he says could last two to three years might drive rich countries to cut back spending on health aid for the developing world.

 

 

 

i have now added some 22 years old game cartridges to my collection.

there is a page on my popfly, new video's on youtube, and here one large picture of one cartridge.

 

for instance on wikipedia the discussion of the artwork is not so interesting, for instance

to figure out about the certain graphical style.

there, pages like "tool assisted walkthrough", or short "speedrun" can be found!

it is a special technique.

 

-grab ROM files from brazil (for instance), and load them into a software emulator.

-activate special codes to switch off collision detection, and have unlimited lives!

 

so keen freaks can master the classical 8bit titles in just a few minutes.

on wikipedia, this is known as "walkthrough".

sure only a small scene, and not the core team of wikipedia,

but this is just one more tiny special population group, which they have attracted,

and which is not seen much at other places, merely using wikpedia as a springboard.

 

i am dramatizing because there are some videos on youtube, and it is merely bad gaming manners,

and not caused, or endorsed by wikipedia.

but it is no wonder to me that the explanation of the subject can be found on wikipedia.

what explanation? it is simply cheating.

 

here the normal way to go:

 

-get a Nintendo NES or super nintendo, or SEGA master system/mega drive.

-buy original game cartridges from people who do not need them anymore.

-play through like kids did in the 1980s. no save, no cheats, no software patching (tough this

existed on the homecomputer scene).

 

if young students collect a lot of ROMs, and then also use cheating techniques, found on wikipedia,

they will not get a good job. so it is encouraging bad bahaviour, and damaging the economy.

every little helps!

they simply can not bloat wikipedia with three times the amount of policies they already have in power.

so for this reason, it is not censored at all, at least, not for hacking and cheating.

the emulation scene is a grey area, for instance SEGA manuals have never been released to amateur's,

so most existing emulators have possibly been created using stolen documents.

does wikipedia care about this special situation (japanese 1980s society)?

not at all, even if it would be little boys.

it is evident they have no sense of etiquette in that manner.

at least the situation should be disclaimed.

but it showed early, that no cooperation with wikipedia is possible about the subject

of disclaiming widely prefered social expectations.

no, on wikipedia, rudeness and absence of law&order is given preference.

kids of nowadays look up the 1980s heritage for instance video games, and think, cool,

there is emulator software, cheating techniques, that's the way to go, i can do this too.

 

OK in the 1980s most kids used stolen software. but it was never officially allowed, by a administration shiftwork

spanning the whole globe, and having a large network of policies.

it was all done privately, in the bedrooms of teenage boys, the place where they maintained their

computers, and floppy disk collections!

i can remember it well.

however- most of them regularily went to shops to buy new, original software.

it was just a way to have "more" games.

 

on wikipedia, teenagers of today will never find this autenticity of the 1980s, together

with the unimitable honky-tonk sound of sega master system titles (and yet, in the 1980s,

no one was clever enough to pirate the cartridges, this only happened later in the 1990s in south america).

 

daily evidence not to use wikipedia, an attempt to replace the internet as such, and to silence the masses.

not to forget, to save the third world, india, singapore, and other rubbish dump scaveing countries,

where J Wales can become superhero quite easily, and will force partipants to smile as well,

a la NIKE sweatshop. all cloud computing participants have to be happy, and say pro-wikipedia things, or to get out.

and neutral point of view please. CHEATING? I'm unaware of the situation (did i play any games for real in my youth?)

 

i would be eager to read a tiny list of such games, and what he thinks about them nowadays.

the formula "tool assisted walkthrough" could be read again, and maybe it has more meanings?

maybe some people just walk through university, and have it more easy than others, for various reasons.

 

i am angry about that SEGA closed in 2001. maybe there is some sort of american rowdy mentality.

maybe it is something related only to the japanese.

there are various rumours for the reasons!

so the situation that SEGA simply closed down in 2001 indicates there is something going wrong.

it is not true that all adults  behave correctly. there are serious problems within the society.

and i think, wikpedia is one of them.

what will close down because of wikipedia?

maybe difficult to say, could be many things.

in the words of J Wales, he predicted the disappearance of service providers,

they would have to adapt to the situation, in order to survive, or to disappear (paper publications).

soon there will be tons of video casts, mp3 casts, all of it cloud generated and copyright free.

no one will read books anymore, or buy movies.

well in his wildest dreams maybe, he'll going to replace whole hollywood, AFP, FOX, IGN, and the like.

don't forget, always without advertising.

i think he would not care if tomorrow, IGN, FOX and AFP will close down, and all goes into the hands of volunteers

at http://nowpublic.com

and some other collaboration sites.

well NOWPUBLIC is not owned by wikipedia, or associated with them.

but you can take a look, and get an idea of the replacement plans.

he's going into India's muddy corners, and this is going to happen for real!

who needs commercial information, entertainment, or commercially produced game titles.

playing games is not good for you?

well that's "neutral point of view" maybe.

if you cheat, you can just walk through, and the whole thing is like a short movie, maybe a slightly demented one!

 

if that ever worked on the ATARI 2600!

it was stupid, pointless, boring, terrible, the controllers a nuisance, but still fun.

and you never just "walked through", "assisted by a tool".

 

is this english: "walking through ATARI 2600 cartridge", "tool assisted"?

 

in the GREMLINS movie they explicitely said "do not expose to water".

so you have been warned of that!

 

i've been harassed by wikipedia, so they'll get everything back, including some interest.

if that's causing their end, i'm not the one "crying about programming that is so beautiful that people will cry".

or forcing people to smile a la NIKE.

well only the paid workers please. they get money for it.

the customers of NIKE do not have to smile all day.

just to behave.

 

like this one maybe:

 

 

  

 

edit: i have juound this: http://www.pythian.com/blogs/1311/open-source-and-the-economy

 

i think wikipedia is stealing workforce from people.

if they have a real world police like the administrators on wikipedia,

they would be behaving like these cuties in the above video.

 

wikipedia is a lawless zone! yet its founder travels around the world, and gives interviews,

issues his concerns about government getting hold of people's privacy.

i think he would be interested to tamper with private lifes of people, and use the wikipedia

for many purposes, not just encyclopedia, but university, web collaboration, and international police.

harassing people through communities.

 

the truth is that a while ago, they had pretty nifty user boxes, and if he thinks that is forgotten,

it is remembered well.

 

there is an easy solution: do not visit the wikipedia websites. do not even look.

 

what makes me really angry, not to say hating wikipedia and the founder J Wales is the fact

they are against HTML. people should not use HTML, but preconfigured cloud computing pages.

whoever owns the data, it will not be individual users.

if you write something they (the admins) do not like, it will be blocked.

that's the real idea behind it. to gain total control.

he does not like HTML because it gives freedom of expression to people, use graphics on remote sites,

create tables, embedd multimedia etc.

and even to save content, and to republish it.

not so in the world of wikipedia.

you add a link to a tiny custom page you created yourself, with additional information,

and you will become criminalized.

 

i think it is just completely wrong attitudes. no wonder they force people to submit under GDFL (GNU).

one time, they abused GDFL in the following way: they prohibited me from removing annoying comments, and from editing

my own writing. argumentation was, that GDFL would be equal to ammend all copyright, and the general public now owns

copyright on the textual discussion.

 

it was just a couple of lines. well that's the way it goes with law in florida.

it is not me who owns or controls the writing on my user page, or the articles.

 

just for the records, some people can make better descisions about content, and they are called administrators.

so no one owns the data, but some own it more.

 

it is now called "the largest distributed bureaucracy in the world".

 

my call is not to use wikipedia.

to speak up that the act of collaborative editing is theft of workforce.

there are no security disclaimers, wikipedia is fully unsafe.

and anonymous people can edit.

because of the collaborative system, they can hide out perfectly.

 

in the cause, most articles are useless.

i read a lot of technical articles myself, about computers and electronics.

do you think there is just one useful article?

or it could be edited in a way that it becomes really useful?

 

no they are not written for people who really apply the knowledge.

they are written for ordinary people who know nothing, and after reading wikipedia,

they know something, what they call "a starting point".