Didn't the Cartoon Network pretty much pay for the 2nd season of Big O?
Yes. They're even listed in the closing credits. Time-Warner mentioned producing 3 anime shows. IGPX is one, PPGZ is another. I don't think we know what the third one is yet.
Maybe you and your friends are big on downloading fansubs, but the majority of people aren't. Most people get their anime on TV, some from the DVD rack at the store and a small minority from BitTorrent. And since TV exposure has a huge impact on popularity and DVD sales, what the Cartoon Network is airing matters.
He tries to revoke the license just for them retroactively. I don't think that is possible, is it?
You can't violate the terms of the license, come into compliance when called on it and pretend as if nothing has happened. That's not how the law works. It's akin to shoplifting and then offering to pay when caught.
Unfortunately, the PSP's small amount of RAM means a lot of Neo Geo and CPS-2 titles simply won't fit. But it's a moot point anyway since the PSP's encryption would need to be broken first to enable homebrew gaming of any sort.
I read that book and reviewed it for class credit. My conclusion is that it's a book which simply fails to assert its premise that computers are bad for kids and their education. It features lots of touchy-feely dialogue about how Mr. Stoll's childhood was so much better without computers in there messing it up, but features very little hard evidence about how computers are harmful.
Maybe kids really do better without computers, but I feel "High Tech Heretic" doesn't make a convincing case.
FC3 allowed me to rip CDs to FLAC, only to discover there was no player included that could handle the format.
FC3 includes the xmms-flac plugin which adds FLAC playing support to xmms. If you've compiled xmms by hand (for mp3 support), just move the single.so file in xmms-flac to your xmms input plugins directory and it'll work just fine.
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From his website: "Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study."
Does the GPL have full legal respect in court or will the courts treated it as a "delete your evaluation copy in 24 hours" readme file?
The GPL is the only thing that gives other people the right to modify/distribute the code. If it's found to be invalid in some way, then these CherryOS guys have no rights to modify/distribute the PearPC code at all. Thus, they'd be in just as much trouble for copyright infringement as they are now.
I'm wondering why this hasn't been picked up and subbed by any groups that I know of yet since its been out in Japan now.
Fansub groups traditionally don't work on licensed anime - many include "stop distributing this once it's licensed"-style disclaimers in the opening credits. Since Steamboy is already licensed, the reputable ones will leave it alone.
Also, is this series in continuity with the previous series?
Continuity was never Doctor Who's strong point to begin with. But according to the FAQ it's not going to be a reboot of the series. Though judging by the first episode, they're referencing the show's roots only in superficial ways.
It's got promise. Christopher Eccleston does a fine job of mixing alien and eccentric into a personality the Doctor is known for. The TARDIS interior is modeled after the short-lived dark brown "antique" set used for Tom Baker's gothic horror season (13?). The episode is set up as a horror story featuring an old Pertwee era adversary, the Autons. It moves at a brisk pace and certainly isn't any worse as a story than "An Unearthly Child" was. I'm willing to give it a shot.
Cell is going to be great for gaming and rendering and such, but you won't see scientific applications running on it any time soon.
Considering Sony's previous chips, I expect the Cell won't even be that great for gaming. More likely it'll be an overhyped, underperforming CPU that won't even match the power of other contemporary consoles, much less that of a general purpose PC CPU.
No sir, that would be ~82% since ~18% are already Macs, Linux, and others. By end of the year between 25% and 30% are expected to be Mac/Linux/other OSs.
I know that, and you know that, but Macrovision isn't going to care about accurate OS usage stats when trying to sell a product. They just want it to look effective.
I expect the discs will contain auto-running Windows software that'll do its best to disable DVD copiers. It won't matter that it can be trivially disabled. All that matters is that the studios will pay Macrovision to add it to the discs.
Monkey's Audio tends to compress better by a few percentage points. But it decompresses much slower, it's still a lot less portable and isn't as well documented.
Full ID3-like info support, but with lyrics as well (might already have most of this, too)
As of right now, FLAC goes up to 8 independent audio channels (with room for expansion), 24bits/96kHz audio support (also with room for growth), it uses Vorbis comments for text tags (track name, artist name, etc.) and has room for additional metadata (lyrics sheets, etc.). There's even stores that'll give/sell FLAC files right now. But the lack of any onerous DRM schemes will likely hinder its growth for any sort of mainstream music distribution.
More "noisy" tracks tend to compress a lot worse than usual. I recently encoded a bunch of piano solo tracks and was getting.30 of the original size or better. Over the course of my collection it seems to average out to about 50-55%, but YMMV.
But beyond the lossless compression, I've found FLAC nice for its ample checksumming, tagging facilities and ReplayGain support (so I don't have to lunge for the volume slider when going from a quiet track to a loud one). Still, I tend to reserve it for audio I would have a hard time replacing should I lose the original CDs.
All that someone would have to do is create a dedicated FLAC decoding chip.
That's probably overkill. FLAC decoding is all integer ops so you could do it on some cheap ARM chip without any problem. The ease of it is likely why FLAC is already supported on various bits of hardware.
I mean, at first glance, I thought: "hey, this is a great use for FLAC". Then I realized that because FLAC takes so much CPU time to decompress, CD players that could play it don't exist (if they did, they'd be more expensive).
FLAC actually takes very little CPU power to decompress; less than MP3, certainly. But they only compress to about 50% so a CD full of them could only hold two albums instead of one, which isn't gaining a whole lot. So I tend to leave my FLACs at home and convert them to something lossy to take with me.
If you buy a Mac I'll support you for FREE for LIFE. You ain't ever gonna call.
That's what worked for my mother. Now that she's got a Mac I don't have to swing by every couple of months for computer repair. It might've been a little more expensive, but I figure Windows machines are cheaper only if your time is worthless.
I think you're onto something. My 60 year-old mother, whose sole video gaming experience is NES Tetris and Windows freecell, can't stop playing Zoo Keeper for the DS. She'll play it for hours. When I see that, I know Nintendo made the right decision with the touch screen and have little doubt about the DS' success.
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Yes. They're even listed in the closing credits. Time-Warner mentioned producing 3 anime shows. IGPX is one, PPGZ is another. I don't think we know what the third one is yet.
Maybe you and your friends are big on downloading fansubs, but the majority of people aren't. Most people get their anime on TV, some from the DVD rack at the store and a small minority from BitTorrent. And since TV exposure has a huge impact on popularity and DVD sales, what the Cartoon Network is airing matters.
The whole thing is 141MB, but 110 of it is the optional voice package. It's quite nice, though I play it mostly for the melee nowadays.
You can't violate the terms of the license, come into compliance when called on it and pretend as if nothing has happened. That's not how the law works. It's akin to shoplifting and then offering to pay when caught.
Unfortunately, the PSP's small amount of RAM means a lot of Neo Geo and CPS-2 titles simply won't fit. But it's a moot point anyway since the PSP's encryption would need to be broken first to enable homebrew gaming of any sort.
Maybe kids really do better without computers, but I feel "High Tech Heretic" doesn't make a convincing case.
FC3 includes the xmms-flac plugin which adds FLAC playing support to xmms. If you've compiled xmms by hand (for mp3 support), just move the single .so file in xmms-flac to your xmms input plugins directory and it'll work just fine.
From his website: "Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study."
The GPL is the only thing that gives other people the right to modify/distribute the code. If it's found to be invalid in some way, then these CherryOS guys have no rights to modify/distribute the PearPC code at all. Thus, they'd be in just as much trouble for copyright infringement as they are now.
Fansub groups traditionally don't work on licensed anime - many include "stop distributing this once it's licensed"-style disclaimers in the opening credits. Since Steamboy is already licensed, the reputable ones will leave it alone.
Continuity was never Doctor Who's strong point to begin with. But according to the FAQ it's not going to be a reboot of the series. Though judging by the first episode, they're referencing the show's roots only in superficial ways.
It's got promise. Christopher Eccleston does a fine job of mixing alien and eccentric into a personality the Doctor is known for. The TARDIS interior is modeled after the short-lived dark brown "antique" set used for Tom Baker's gothic horror season (13?). The episode is set up as a horror story featuring an old Pertwee era adversary, the Autons. It moves at a brisk pace and certainly isn't any worse as a story than "An Unearthly Child" was. I'm willing to give it a shot.
Let's issue standard cel phones to one group, placebo cel phones to another and see if there's any difference in cancer rates.
Considering Sony's previous chips, I expect the Cell won't even be that great for gaming. More likely it'll be an overhyped, underperforming CPU that won't even match the power of other contemporary consoles, much less that of a general purpose PC CPU.
If iSearch really is spyware, labeling it as such can't be libel.
I know that, and you know that, but Macrovision isn't going to care about accurate OS usage stats when trying to sell a product. They just want it to look effective.
I expect the discs will contain auto-running Windows software that'll do its best to disable DVD copiers. It won't matter that it can be trivially disabled. All that matters is that the studios will pay Macrovision to add it to the discs.
Monkey's Audio tends to compress better by a few percentage points. But it decompresses much slower, it's still a lot less portable and isn't as well documented.
As of right now, FLAC goes up to 8 independent audio channels (with room for expansion), 24bits/96kHz audio support (also with room for growth), it uses Vorbis comments for text tags (track name, artist name, etc.) and has room for additional metadata (lyrics sheets, etc.). There's even stores that'll give/sell FLAC files right now. But the lack of any onerous DRM schemes will likely hinder its growth for any sort of mainstream music distribution.
But beyond the lossless compression, I've found FLAC nice for its ample checksumming, tagging facilities and ReplayGain support (so I don't have to lunge for the volume slider when going from a quiet track to a loud one). Still, I tend to reserve it for audio I would have a hard time replacing should I lose the original CDs.
That's probably overkill. FLAC decoding is all integer ops so you could do it on some cheap ARM chip without any problem. The ease of it is likely why FLAC is already supported on various bits of hardware.
FLAC actually takes very little CPU power to decompress; less than MP3, certainly. But they only compress to about 50% so a CD full of them could only hold two albums instead of one, which isn't gaining a whole lot. So I tend to leave my FLACs at home and convert them to something lossy to take with me.
That's what worked for my mother. Now that she's got a Mac I don't have to swing by every couple of months for computer repair. It might've been a little more expensive, but I figure Windows machines are cheaper only if your time is worthless.
I think you're onto something. My 60 year-old mother, whose sole video gaming experience is NES Tetris and Windows freecell, can't stop playing Zoo Keeper for the DS. She'll play it for hours. When I see that, I know Nintendo made the right decision with the touch screen and have little doubt about the DS' success.
That's been done too.