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This is incredibly awesome work, and I envy students who can actually take a course in this stuff! However it makes me realize in what kind of weirdly antagoni

This is incredibly awesome work, and I envy students who can actually take a course in this stuff! However it makes me realize in what kind of weirdly antagonistic society we live. In an ideal universe, you could just ask the Nintendo engineers for the chip layouts, or for the boot ROM. It reminds me of a documentary I saw the other day where they tested the chicken content of chicken salad. Again, in an ideal universe, you could just ask the manufacturer. Of course that would be naive in the real world, since manufacturers and consumers have different interests. Most of the time we don't notice anything weird about this. A bit of competition is usually considered a good thing. But every now and then I have a WTF moment... Why are we working against each other? How much productivity do we loose through duplication of effort? Are the losses from this smaller or bigger than the gains from healthy competition? I have no great answer for that... Oh and sorry for hijacking the comment area for a rant about the world and so on ;-).

dubfan 13y ago
In an ideal world, nobody would steal chip designs and boot ROMs to create counterfeit products.
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y ago
  In an ideal world, DS piracy wouldn't have been as rampant and Nintendo wouldn't have needed to add DRM.
  - TheZenPsycho 13y ago
    No one ever "needs" to add DRM. That is just an arbitrary business strategy among many possible strategies which may or may not actually work.
- aspensmonster 13y ago
  In an ideal world, we'd all be living in a post-scarcity economy with Basic Income and no IP laws and no "currency" to speak of. In an ideal world. An ideal world sounds really cool! The implementation details might get a little crazy though.
  - aspensmonster 13y ago
    An hour goes by and no one has called me on this? "Basic Income" and "no 'currency' to speak of" seem contradictory. I'd go for no currency rather than BI now that I think of it. Replicators for everyone!

dubfan 13y ago

In an ideal world, nobody would steal chip designs and boot ROMs to create counterfeit products.

TazeTSchnitzel 13y ago
In an ideal world, DS piracy wouldn't have been as rampant and Nintendo wouldn't have needed to add DRM.
- TheZenPsycho 13y ago
  No one ever "needs" to add DRM. That is just an arbitrary business strategy among many possible strategies which may or may not actually work.
aspensmonster 13y ago
In an ideal world, we'd all be living in a post-scarcity economy with Basic Income and no IP laws and no "currency" to speak of. In an ideal world. An ideal world sounds really cool! The implementation details might get a little crazy though.
- aspensmonster 13y ago
  An hour goes by and no one has called me on this? "Basic Income" and "no 'currency' to speak of" seem contradictory. I'd go for no currency rather than BI now that I think of it. Replicators for everyone!