Windows is likely to disappear from the face of the earth sometime in 2004
MS-DOS lived from 1981 to 2002. It is no longer maintained; instead, a GPL clone is maintained by the community.
The first good version of Microsoft Windows (Windows 3.x) appeared around 1990. I don't see the product surviving past 2020, let alone the 2080's when the copyrights begin to expire.
A lot of the GBA games are just ports of older SNES games.
If Super NES games are no longer sold new, and neither Half.com nor my local used game store has the particular Super NES title I want, then that shouldn't make a difference. Besides, only one of the four GBA games I own (Puyo Pop) is a direct Super NES port (of Kirby's Avalanche); the others (Mario Kart Super Circuit, Tetris Worlds, and Pinobee) are new games in the Super NES style.
If you own the game cartridge, download the ROM files then copy them to an SMC card.
That's exactly what I asked. Given 1. that I can easily buy a SmartMedia drive for my PC and 2. that I own cartridges for NES, Game Boy Color, and Super NES, how do I download the ROM files from my cartridges into the PC?
Carlo Collodi imagined it for you, in a novel called The Adventures of Pinocchio. An intelligent puppet is built (Spielberg's A.I. was based partly on this and partly on "Supertoys"), and a lie detector is implanted in the nose.
I've considered the GP32, but I couldn't find any native GP32 titles on the shelves of Wal*Mart or Best Buy.
It runs SNES, GBC, C64, NES, 2600, etc. emulators
A fellow can hook the C64 to a PC with a cheap serial cable and copy those programs that don't use some sort of copy protection, but the GP32's controller still has much fewer keys than the C64's keyboard. And where does one get the cart readers for SNES, GBC, NES, 2600, etc. games? Remember that you can't use a GBA cart reader with a GBC game because they use a different cartridge edge bus.
Hah, try transcribing "Huckleberry Finn", or any Dr. Seuss
No. Boycott Dr. Seuss. His estate submitted an amicus brief in favor of the Bono Act. Now that Project Gutenberg uses distributed proofreading, the Bono Act is the biggest barrier to the growth of PG.
The sad part is, in 2050 proprietary s/w like Virtual PC or SoftPC still won't be public domain yet.
But if it's out of print, copying it may be fair use in the United States, as taking a work out of print may amount to an admission by the copyright owner that the work has so little value that any unauthorized use would not reduce its value.
If you know of any precedents otherwise, please respond.
This would mean that every video/audio/image should have it's own decoder attached.
In what programming language would you write the decoder? You'd have to store the specification for that language as well.
HTML files would have the HTML spec.
I'd assume the HTML spec would be written in Unicode text in the English language. The Unicode specification is also written in the English language. So how would you store the specification of the English language itself?
Now, this doesn't help for executables (currently, anyway)
All you'd have to store for an executable is a description of the virtual machine it runs on, that is, an emulator. But then, you have to write the description in some language...
OK, so developing automated unit tests, possibly even before writing the code that will be tested, is usually straightforward and almost always a good idea.
But how can anybody design automated integration tests for applications that are intended and designed to have pseudorandom behavior, such as interactive entertainment software?
I think it might have something to do with the GBA being portable, and having virtually no competition in that respect
Even though the NGPC, the Wonderswan, and the lovely GP32 never sold well here in the States, what about Palm? What about Pocket PC? What about cellphones?
Another angle: Why is the handheld GBA tying the three dvd consoles combined in units sold, if Joe Sixpack considers 2D games categorically inferior to 3D games?
I cannot reproduce the text here, but suffice it to say that Australian copyright law's "fair dealing" exemption is limited primarily to "research or study" and does not apply to home video taping of a copyrighted work of the sort commonplace in the United States of America after Sony v. Universal established the "Betamax Doctrine".
It may actually be considered fair under copyright law to trade in unauthorized copies of copyrighted works that are out of print. See my armchair analysis.
do i: 1. spend $30, 2. spend $30, or 3. pirate it?
4. Spend 13 USD (20 CAD) at a store that doesn't charge $30 for an album. If you don't boycott Amazon over patent issues, Amazon has several affordable copies.
How do you know you won't like the other ~15 songs? For example, I bought The Eminem Show and found I liked "White America" best of all the tracks.
(First time only) Options > Settings. In the Encoder pane, choose Ogg Vorbis and set your quality factor. In the Remote CDDB pane, enter anonymous_coward@slashdot.org into "E-mail address". Click OK.
Insert your CD.
Get the track names: CDDB > Read Remote CDDB
Select all tracks and click the (mislabeled) MP3 button on the right side.
Eject your CD and close CDex.
Now you can play your.ogg files in AOL's Winamp 2.80 or later.
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Windows is likely to disappear from the face of the earth sometime in 2004
MS-DOS lived from 1981 to 2002. It is no longer maintained; instead, a GPL clone is maintained by the community.
The first good version of Microsoft Windows (Windows 3.x) appeared around 1990. I don't see the product surviving past 2020, let alone the 2080's when the copyrights begin to expire.
check it out to see how other compressors are doing (FLAC is not included, though).
If you want to see how FLAC performs vs. Shorten, Monkey's Audio Codec, and other popular lossless waveform codecs, read this page.
A lot of the GBA games are just ports of older SNES games.
If Super NES games are no longer sold new, and neither Half.com nor my local used game store has the particular Super NES title I want, then that shouldn't make a difference. Besides, only one of the four GBA games I own (Puyo Pop) is a direct Super NES port (of Kirby's Avalanche); the others (Mario Kart Super Circuit, Tetris Worlds, and Pinobee) are new games in the Super NES style.
If you own the game cartridge, download the ROM files then copy them to an SMC card.
That's exactly what I asked. Given 1. that I can easily buy a SmartMedia drive for my PC and 2. that I own cartridges for NES, Game Boy Color, and Super NES, how do I download the ROM files from my cartridges into the PC?
What am I actually paying the government for in relation to how much money I spend on merchandise and services?
Your state income tax pays for at least the following:
Imagine if they were 100% perfect!
Carlo Collodi imagined it for you, in a novel called The Adventures of Pinocchio . An intelligent puppet is built (Spielberg's A.I. was based partly on this and partly on "Supertoys"), and a lie detector is implanted in the nose.
Anytime someone lies, this program will tell you so!
But your program has too many false positives. Thus, it's not 100 percent accurate as you suggest.
Frankly, the gp32 blows the GBA away:
I've considered the GP32, but I couldn't find any native GP32 titles on the shelves of Wal*Mart or Best Buy.
It runs SNES, GBC, C64, NES, 2600, etc. emulators
A fellow can hook the C64 to a PC with a cheap serial cable and copy those programs that don't use some sort of copy protection, but the GP32's controller still has much fewer keys than the C64's keyboard. And where does one get the cart readers for SNES, GBC, NES, 2600, etc. games? Remember that you can't use a GBA cart reader with a GBC game because they use a different cartridge edge bus.
Hah, try transcribing "Huckleberry Finn", or any Dr. Seuss
No. Boycott Dr. Seuss. His estate submitted an amicus brief in favor of the Bono Act. Now that Project Gutenberg uses distributed proofreading, the Bono Act is the biggest barrier to the growth of PG.
Are you claiming that Duke Nukem Forever will not be released within the next ninety-five years?
The sad part is, in 2050 proprietary s/w like Virtual PC or SoftPC still won't be public domain yet.
But if it's out of print, copying it may be fair use in the United States, as taking a work out of print may amount to an admission by the copyright owner that the work has so little value that any unauthorized use would not reduce its value.
If you know of any precedents otherwise, please respond.
I believe you have just described XML.
Yes, but how would you store the W3C Recommendation that specifies XML?
This would mean that every video/audio/image should have it's own decoder attached.
In what programming language would you write the decoder? You'd have to store the specification for that language as well.
HTML files would have the HTML spec.
I'd assume the HTML spec would be written in Unicode text in the English language. The Unicode specification is also written in the English language. So how would you store the specification of the English language itself?
Now, this doesn't help for executables (currently, anyway)
All you'd have to store for an executable is a description of the virtual machine it runs on, that is, an emulator. But then, you have to write the description in some language...
(context: bad heroin/heroine homophone joke)
Or Milla Jovovich as Leeloo Dallas in The Fifth Element. Mool-tee-pass!
Amish plan to start producing buggies without wheels
In that case, they're behind. The Inuit and the Saami have been using buggies without wheels for centuries. They're called "sleds."
In fact, the wheel was patented as a replacement for runners of a sled, for use on surfaces other than snow.
"You are looking down a deep chute, falling towards an irregular field of colored squares ...."
Is 3D Block for NES, 3D Tetris for Virtual Boy, or Geom Cube for PS1 close enough to what you want?
OK, so developing automated unit tests, possibly even before writing the code that will be tested, is usually straightforward and almost always a good idea.
But how can anybody design automated integration tests for applications that are intended and designed to have pseudorandom behavior, such as interactive entertainment software?
I think it might have something to do with the GBA being portable, and having virtually no competition in that respect
Even though the NGPC, the Wonderswan, and the lovely GP32 never sold well here in the States, what about Palm? What about Pocket PC? What about cellphones?
Another angle: Why is the handheld GBA tying the three dvd consoles combined in units sold, if Joe Sixpack considers 2D games categorically inferior to 3D games?
opyright.org.au doesn't seem to even consider fair use at all, so I don't see how you can immediately conclude that there aren't any
TV programs: home taping (PDF)
I cannot reproduce the text here, but suffice it to say that Australian copyright law's "fair dealing" exemption is limited primarily to "research or study" and does not apply to home video taping of a copyrighted work of the sort commonplace in the United States of America after Sony v. Universal established the "Betamax Doctrine".
They were not and are not available for purchase
It may actually be considered fair under copyright law to trade in unauthorized copies of copyrighted works that are out of print. See my armchair analysis.
It wouldn't take much to convince a jury and a judge that the value of those mp3s is $0.00 simply because it's out of print.
That's a good point. See my armchair legal analysis of fair use vs. copyright infringement on out-of-print works.
Violating copyright law is a tort (civil wrong), not a crime.
If copyright infringement is not a crime in the United States, then please explain 18 USC 2319.
Instead they can point to some new Clinton laws and say 'put em all in jail'. It's wrong.
(Assuming you were a USA citizen of legal voting age as of 1992) Which Presidential candidate did you vote for in 1992 and 1996?
do i: 1. spend $30, 2. spend $30, or 3. pirate it?
4. Spend 13 USD (20 CAD) at a store that doesn't charge $30 for an album. If you don't boycott Amazon over patent issues, Amazon has several affordable copies.
How do you know you won't like the other ~15 songs? For example, I bought The Eminem Show and found I liked "White America" best of all the tracks.
But converting CDs to MP3 is a drag
MP3 maybe, because licensed encoders cost money and use of LAME is illegal in many jurisdictions, but it's dead easy to reproduce a phonorecord in Compact Disc Digital Audio format to Ogg Vorbis format. Under Windows, use CDex.
Now you can play your .ogg files in AOL's Winamp 2.80 or later.
Try getting Joe Sixpack excited about anything that isn't up to par with Quake 3 or Unreal tournament.
Then why is Game Boy Advance outselling the Xbox? Heck, why is GBA outselling PS2? Hint: There is more to gaming than first person shooters.
Mickey Hart of Grateful Dead fame has had a big part in this effort.
Isn't Mickey Hart the technical director of Project Gutenberg? Or, as I suspect, is this another Mickey Hart?