There's also PyDance (written in Python, of course, and is available as a Debian package). It's not quite as polished as StepMania (they're, of course, looking for more help), but it runs a hell of a lot smoother on my PII-350 then bloated StepMania does.
And you can d/l every DDR song from DDR:UK (well, all but the 2 newest ones available off xbox-live). (You can get them in groups by mix via bittorrent, or d/l them one at a time as.zips.)
Should I bother releasing my patch to AALib? Replaces the monochrome buffer with a 32bpp RGB- buffer, uses a much more tuned colour-selection system than libCACA appears to.
As has been said for some other films, it had large amounts of CG, but they were so well done that you didn't even notice. If I recall correctly, the liftoff scene was CG. Even though it appears to be the same old footage you've seen a million times on the discovery channel, it's not (for one, it's a lot cleaner than that 30-ish year old footage).
Charging for bytes transfered can be messy, because you can't control what's sent to you (you end up paying for spam, or someone could just throw random packets at you). You could go buy bytes sent.
Given the increased cost to produce and distribute copyrighted works, Congress has tried to keep pace with what it has believed is necessary to continue to incentivize creators and publishers. Congress also was concerned that American creators should not have less copyright protection than is commonly provided abroad, and they therefore extended the term to match the copyright term in Europe and elsewhere. -M.O.
ExCUSE me? Are you trying to tell me that economies of scale have completly failed to decrease these costs? Are you trying to tell me that the RIAA and it's members have been continuing to spend more and more despite an INCREASE in per-unit cost? BS. Are you trying to tell me that most copyrighted material doesn't make 95% of it's profit within 14 years, and that quintupling the duration of copyrights to squeze out another 2 to 4 percent is FAIR to citizens? Or that some works aren't simply DISAPPEARING, never to enter the public domain because the only copies decayed waiting for copyright to expire? BS. And saying that US laws were changed to be inline with European copyrights is just a bald-faced lie. Quite the opposite; once the RIAA bought US terms up, it used that as leverage to do the same in Europe. Most of "The RIAA guy's" responses turned my stomach, but this one... oh, it makes me feel sick.
If it's really Free Software (with a capital "F"), then you won't care: you'll let it rise into public domain. But that's isn't what you're asking; you're asking "If I write a piece of software and liscense it under the GPL, I'll have to pay $1 per year..." And the answer to that question is: Yes.
And isn't that the point? If you want to play the IP game, you play by the same rules as everyone else; the GPL doesn't get special dispensation.
Ah, I mistook your argument. I thought you were defending Puffy and saying he shouldn't have to pay the $1.5m for not getting permission for this sample. (Post you replied to said "yes, Puffy should pay", you posted something disagreeing with it; you see why I'd be confused?) Yes, he USUALLY does get permission, but in this case he did not.
So, do we agree that we agree?
Puffy essentially steals all the music from a song and sets different lyrics to it... like Wierd Al.
Weird Al has to get (well, he may not HAVE to, but he alwasys does, just to avoid this kind of problem) has to goet permission from the original artist to do his parodies. Would you like to try again?
MS has certianly used BSD code. And you can check for yourself on your own MS box. Are you familiar with the program "strings", which will find and display all character strings in a file? Try running it on:
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\finger.exe
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\nslookup.exe
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\rcp.exe
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\rsh.exe
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\FTP.EXE
(FYI, "Regents of the University of California" = U C Berkley = where BSD came from, and, yes, they encourage this sort of thing.)
Where did you see MS deny they had done this?
(I got that list from this page, since I'm too lazy to boot back to windows to check again myself.)
Actually, the founding fathers DID anticipate it, and were certainly AGAINST it. Here's a good primer on the the topic, and a host of links from google about it, mostly of public interest groups opposed to corporate personhood.
Don't just limit yourself to just music. For example, is it ethical to charge hundreds of dollars for AIDS medicine for people living in a poor 3rd-world nation, when the marginal cost to produce it is close to nothing?
It's the same question: what's a fair price for IP, and when (if ever) is it ethical to steal it, but, for me at least, people's lives seem to be more important than listening to Metallica.
Actually, AMD has reported upto 15% improvements from recompiling 32-bit code to take advantage of just those extra registers. Even with all those virtual registers, being able to remove all the instructions to spill-and-fill can be a great boost.
Wait a second. I thought that the proported reason the extension was to bring the US inline with the European Copyright laws. At least that was the justification the Supreme Court used...
This is part of the propaganda, but of course it's false. (I doubt it's in the supremes' opinion.)
You'll be sad to hear then that it is, on page seven.
Rather, the court noted, the CTEA "matches" the baseline term for "United States copyrights [with] the terms of copyrights granted by the European Union."
So it seems that even the supreme court fell for the propaganda:(
Reminds me of an article I read a few years ago about a similar system in Japan, except the information was made available on a website. It seems it was canceled after only a few weeks of service. A few irate housewives had checked on the husband's location when they claimed to be working late at the office.... they weren't even CLOSE to the office;)
Just a nit-pick, but you can't reconstruct the patterns in a person's eyeball with their DNA, for the same reason that identical twins have different fingerprints. It's not something that's in the genes.
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No mention of the movie sequel? I mean, come on, it's Disney... why would they be invovled if this wasn't part of a movie tie in, right?
..you are'nt going to be pounded for weeks on end for advertisments
Need I remind you: there were _advertisements_ hyping the _trailer_ (which was, of course, brought to you by Pepsi).
In other words, I'll believe it when I see it (which _won't_ be after waiting in line in desperate anticipation).
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...but the costs of getting all the building materials to the moon, having people on the moon to run it, and then getting the power back down to the earth would make lunar power well nigh impossible.
Unless we used self-replicating robots to manufacture and maintain it. I remember an article I read on that possibility a few years ago, intended for use in Earth's deserts, not on the moon, but it should translate. Just give me a second to find it... ah, here it is, "Robot, Build Thyself", Oct '95, Discover Magazine. This way, you would only have to deliver one (or at least, just a few) robots to the moon, and wait.
No, the intent of the Nuclear Test Ban treaty was to force nations that could not afford systems such as this to cease nuclear weapons research, guaranteeing the US's continued superiority. So yes, it is hypocritical. But that was the intent.
They're also working on a laser based system (Wired article, Sep) at Los Alamos. For other fiber-based systems, MagiQ is working on a similar system in New York City, while BBN is working on a link in the Boston area.
The laser-based system hopes to eventually bounce the signals off mirrors on satelites, sending keys anywhere in the world. (For a price... good for diplomats and military I suppose.)
The fiber systems are still in need of a repeater-like device before they can get more significant distances.
A lot of work has gone into virtual memory to make it look like you only have ONE HUGE memory block, with code at one end and a stack at the other with return data and return addresses. And you only have the one stack pointer...
So, you could change it... but you'd need to make a new CPU, new controlers, rewrite virtual memory... it's be a lot of work.
I don't know if it would be more or less effort to do that than it would be for sloppy programers to stop writing code that's vulnerable to buffer overflows.
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There's also PyDance (written in Python, of course, and is available as a Debian package). It's not quite as polished as StepMania (they're, of course, looking for more help), but it runs a hell of a lot smoother on my PII-350 then bloated StepMania does. And you can d/l every DDR song from DDR:UK (well, all but the 2 newest ones available off xbox-live). (You can get them in groups by mix via bittorrent, or d/l them one at a time as .zips.)
Umm... Hell Yeah!
As has been said for some other films, it had large amounts of CG, but they were so well done that you didn't even notice. If I recall correctly, the liftoff scene was CG. Even though it appears to be the same old footage you've seen a million times on the discovery channel, it's not (for one, it's a lot cleaner than that 30-ish year old footage).
It was state tax breaks; the IRS has no reason to be involved.
Charging for bytes transfered can be messy, because you can't control what's sent to you (you end up paying for spam, or someone could just throw random packets at you). You could go buy bytes sent.
ExCUSE me? Are you trying to tell me that economies of scale have completly failed to decrease these costs? Are you trying to tell me that the RIAA and it's members have been continuing to spend more and more despite an INCREASE in per-unit cost? BS. Are you trying to tell me that most copyrighted material doesn't make 95% of it's profit within 14 years, and that quintupling the duration of copyrights to squeze out another 2 to 4 percent is FAIR to citizens? Or that some works aren't simply DISAPPEARING, never to enter the public domain because the only copies decayed waiting for copyright to expire? BS. And saying that US laws were changed to be inline with European copyrights is just a bald-faced lie. Quite the opposite; once the RIAA bought US terms up, it used that as leverage to do the same in Europe. Most of "The RIAA guy's" responses turned my stomach, but this one... oh, it makes me feel sick.
And isn't that the point? If you want to play the IP game, you play by the same rules as everyone else; the GPL doesn't get special dispensation.
Ah, I mistook your argument. I thought you were defending Puffy and saying he shouldn't have to pay the $1.5m for not getting permission for this sample. (Post you replied to said "yes, Puffy should pay", you posted something disagreeing with it; you see why I'd be confused?) Yes, he USUALLY does get permission, but in this case he did not. So, do we agree that we agree?
Weird Al has to get (well, he may not HAVE to, but he alwasys does, just to avoid this kind of problem) has to goet permission from the original artist to do his parodies. Would you like to try again?
- C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\finger.exe
- C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\nslookup.exe
- C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\rcp.exe
- C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\rsh.exe
- C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\FTP.EXE
(FYI, "Regents of the University of California" = U C Berkley = where BSD came from, and, yes, they encourage this sort of thing.)Where did you see MS deny they had done this?
(I got that list from this page, since I'm too lazy to boot back to windows to check again myself.)
Then you don't understand many Open Source developers. You do know that Window's TCP stack is based on BSD, right?
Actually, the founding fathers DID anticipate it, and were certainly AGAINST it. Here's a good primer on the the topic, and a host of links from google about it, mostly of public interest groups opposed to corporate personhood.
It's the same question: what's a fair price for IP, and when (if ever) is it ethical to steal it, but, for me at least, people's lives seem to be more important than listening to Metallica.
Actually, AMD has reported upto 15% improvements from recompiling 32-bit code to take advantage of just those extra registers. Even with all those virtual registers, being able to remove all the instructions to spill-and-fill can be a great boost.
Reminds me of an article I read a few years ago about a similar system in Japan, except the information was made available on a website. It seems it was canceled after only a few weeks of service. A few irate housewives had checked on the husband's location when they claimed to be working late at the office.... they weren't even CLOSE to the office ;)
Just a nit-pick, but you can't reconstruct the patterns in a person's eyeball with their DNA, for the same reason that identical twins have different fingerprints. It's not something that's in the genes.
No mention of the movie sequel? I mean, come on, it's Disney... why would they be invovled if this wasn't part of a movie tie in, right?
imdb Tron 2.0 entry
Need I remind you: there were _advertisements_ hyping the _trailer_ (which was, of course, brought to you by Pepsi).
In other words, I'll believe it when I see it (which _won't_ be after waiting in line in desperate anticipation).
Unless we used self-replicating robots to manufacture and maintain it. I remember an article I read on that possibility a few years ago, intended for use in Earth's deserts, not on the moon, but it should translate. Just give me a second to find it... ah, here it is, "Robot, Build Thyself", Oct '95, Discover Magazine. This way, you would only have to deliver one (or at least, just a few) robots to the moon, and wait.
Phones have lots of uses. So does Google. Although I imagine xs4all has more uses than just posting anarchist links, and they lost, so what do I know.
No, the intent of the Nuclear Test Ban treaty was to force nations that could not afford systems such as this to cease nuclear weapons research, guaranteeing the US's continued superiority. So yes, it is hypocritical. But that was the intent.
The laser-based system hopes to eventually bounce the signals off mirrors on satelites, sending keys anywhere in the world. (For a price... good for diplomats and military I suppose.)
The fiber systems are still in need of a repeater-like device before they can get more significant distances.
So, you could change it... but you'd need to make a new CPU, new controlers, rewrite virtual memory... it's be a lot of work.
I don't know if it would be more or less effort to do that than it would be for sloppy programers to stop writing code that's vulnerable to buffer overflows.