The MDI model mightn't be necessary in Linux. I know with modern window managers it's easy to isolate all my Netscape windows away from everything else. But in Windows95, that ain't easy.
Hopefully, this will be configurable. If so, I know I'll try it both ways.
What's the problem with a commercial app using QT? That's what QT was designed for...
No problem at all. In fact, I was wondering if we'd ever see a real commercial app using Qt! I'll willingly pay for an Opera/Linux license. I've already paid for an Opera/Win32 license.
What's the problem with a commercial app using QT? That's what QT was designed for...
No problem at all. In fact, I was wondering if we'd ever see a real commercial app using Qt! I'll willingly pay for an Opera/Linux license. I've already paid for an Opera/Win32 license.
It doesn't stop the local resellers putting a huge mark-up on the product!
Example: I wanted to buy an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite a year or so ago. In the local store it was AU$400. On Ensoniq's web site, it was US$170 or so. But they wouldn't sell to me over the web 'cause they had an Australian distributor. Who wouldn't sell retail! My choice: Pay the AU$400 or physically go to the US and buy it there!
Whilst your comments regarding resellers are valid, certainly the prices should be comparable. If the reseller's prices are hugely higher for no apparant reason, then we have a middle-man effect that the vendor should probably have look at in the interest of their own customers.
Note: I have not done any recent research into this!
Holograms are created from the interference patterns between light reflected from the object and a reference beam (that's why coherent light must be used). I also know you use ASA 5 film, which means really really tiny silver-halide crystals, obviously down in the size of the wavelengths.
So. Is anyone working on a) getting enough computing power together to actually create these interference patterns properly? and b) building a suitably high-resolution screen to display them on?
(FWIW, I've theorised that holograms work because the interference pattern makes the light you're looking at it by directional. The net effect of which is you see a different image for each eye.)
It is possible to produce a real, full-colour hologram by holographically photographing the object with red, blue and green coherent light. You have to get the angles right, however, for the different diffraction of the different wavelengths.
Saw it described in a big book about holography many years ago.
From Opera Software. It has an easily changed setting (one keypress!) for loading or not loading graphics. Plus it has a third setting for showing loaded graphics, but not loading new ones, which I often use.
I usually don't need to do this at SlashDot, though.
There was a discussion over this somewhere else on the web. I'll see if I can find it. Basically, the EULA defines "Software Product" to mean just the software. Once that is defined, the EULA is solely about licensing the "Software Product". Besides, unless you didn't purchase the hardware, you don't need a license agreement to use it (a warranty is a separate issue).
I couldn't find the discussion, but you can read the EULA itself, if you like. The definition and the refund information is in the first paragraph.
It shouldn't be hard for Sony to combat MP3 on it's own turf, almost. The most straight-forward way would be to release ATRAC encoding and decoding software, but that would probably fall foul of patent laws. A better solution would be thus: 1) resurrect the MD-Data drive, but without hiding audio tracks from the PC; 2) release a PCI ATRAC encoding/decoding card (but there's no reason the MD-Data drives couldn't decode only straight to audio). To my mind, this would achieve several good things: 1) encourage the use of MiniDisc 2) compete with MP3 with an already properly licensed algorithm and 3) provide much-needed competition for Iomega:-), which would be a bit of a bonus, actually.
But I think Sony is currently a little hamstrung with MD; sure, ATRAC gets you about 5:1 compression, but ATRAC II (which is a few years old now) gets you between 10:1 and 20:1. I don't know what the sound quality is like, BTW, but it compresses the bands a little differently than ATRAC and differently than MPEG Layer III, too. Unfortunately, there's all those MiniDisc players and recorders that can't understand anything but ATRAC. So MD version 2 would be a disaster in most of the world at the moment.
I've seen on packets of balloons something along the lines of "Do not inflate balloons by mouth" which, when I pointed it out and asked about it, slightly baffled the store staff (it was in a party supply store). The only reasonable explanation we could come up with is that that brand is American and it was a disclaimer put on by the legal department. FWIW, packets of Asian balloons don't have that line on them... Says something about American society, doesn't it?:-)
It would take too long to really explain why this was one of the best TV shows of '98, so I'll be quick: Complex characters and persistent story-lines.
Saturday Nights, 8:30. SBS are showing two episodes each week. Yeah, it's '99 already, but it hit Australian video stores a few months back, so could kinda qualify:-)
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Hopefully, this will be configurable. If so, I know I'll try it both ways.
- What's the problem with a commercial app using QT? That's what QT was designed for...
No problem at all. In fact, I was wondering if we'd ever see a real commercial app using Qt! I'll willingly pay for an Opera/Linux license. I've already paid for an Opera/Win32 license.What's the problem with a commercial app using QT? That's what QT was designed for...
No problem at all. In fact, I was wondering if we'd ever see a real commercial app using Qt! I'll willingly pay for an Opera/Linux license. I've already paid for an Opera/Win32 license.
Example: I wanted to buy an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite a year or so ago. In the local store it was AU$400. On Ensoniq's web site, it was US$170 or so. But they wouldn't sell to me over the web 'cause they had an Australian distributor. Who wouldn't sell retail! My choice: Pay the AU$400 or physically go to the US and buy it there!
Whilst your comments regarding resellers are valid, certainly the prices should be comparable. If the reseller's prices are hugely higher for no apparant reason, then we have a middle-man effect that the vendor should probably have look at in the interest of their own customers.
Holograms are created from the interference patterns between light reflected from the object and a reference beam (that's why coherent light must be used). I also know you use ASA 5 film, which means really really tiny silver-halide crystals, obviously down in the size of the wavelengths.
So. Is anyone working on a) getting enough computing power together to actually create these interference patterns properly? and b) building a suitably high-resolution screen to display them on?
(FWIW, I've theorised that holograms work because the interference pattern makes the light you're looking at it by directional. The net effect of which is you see a different image for each eye.)
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Saw it described in a big book about holography many years ago.
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I usually don't need to do this at SlashDot, though.
I couldn't find the discussion, but you can read the EULA itself, if you like. The definition and the refund information is in the first paragraph.
But I think Sony is currently a little hamstrung with MD; sure, ATRAC gets you about 5:1 compression, but ATRAC II (which is a few years old now) gets you between 10:1 and 20:1. I don't know what the sound quality is like, BTW, but it compresses the bands a little differently than ATRAC and differently than MPEG Layer III, too. Unfortunately, there's all those MiniDisc players and recorders that can't understand anything but ATRAC. So MD version 2 would be a disaster in most of the world at the moment.
And Lucy Lawless really can sing.