To indent code in a proportional font, place each line's first non-whitespace character directly below the character in the line above it that would be directly above it if the font were monospace.
This will be bad for consumers. Currently, AOL has control over TW. But if the TW side grows more powerful, and Warner gains control over the Internet access of 30 Million Worldwide Members(tm), then Warner can use them as pawns in the battle for DMCA II and Bono Act II in the USA and EU legislatures.
The next problem may be MAME itself. Its licence does not allow for distribution of roms with the exes.
Its public license doesn't. However, the maker of a device that comes with licensed ROM sets may be able to negotiate a separate license with Nicola Salmoria, the copyright owner of MAME.
make sure the hardware is good enough to emulate a playstation.
Rule of thumb: If it's good enough to run "Wolf Unit" games such as Mortal Kombat 3 and NBA Maximum Hangtime, it's almost good enough to emulate the Sony PlayStation game console. I have read somewhere that the Wolf Unit was based somewhat on the PS1 hardware.
I've had to reinstall Windows 2000 because the power failed during a Windows Update. When I restarted my computer, I got "Login could not load msgina.dll. Please replace this file or reinstall Windows."
I always thought of Explorer.exe's Start menu from Windows 9x, NT 4, and 2000 as a direct analog of Mac OS 7-9's Apple menu. The "Programs" item was Microsoft's attempt to twist the Win3.1 program manager into a half-clone of the "Recent Applications" feature of Mac OS 7.5.
Suppose the software saves everything in memory resident database. No filesystem, and no disk. Everything stays in memory.
My Newton MessagePad 2000 computer (what I used before I could afford a real laptop) did this. And I got burned twice, in the same way: I had accidentally deleted the contents of a file and then typed some text. But because the app (called "NewtonWorks") saw those as two changes, and the app had only one level of undo, I had no way to recover the text because Newton applications automatically commit changes permanently. Had the app used an open/save metaphor like a Mac or Windows app, I would have been able to rollback my changes by close the document and answer no to "Save changes before closing?".
should still be able to have a thumbnail (say about 128 KB) attached as metadata.
Detail nit: Why should a thumbnail image take 128 KB? Most thumbnail images in image management programs I've seen are stored in a resolution close to 160x120 or smaller. At 160x120, a JFIF (.jpg) image saved in GIMP, with quality cranked up to just where the tiling disappears, weighs in at about 8 KB.
I am a bit sketchy on Dreyfus's comment about NetBSD/Darwin compatibility requiring a Mac OS X user license.
From the article: "Therefore, in order to run a dynamically-linked application, you need the libraries from the emulated OS. The libraries are part of the emulated OS, and if you use them, you need a license for it."
It means you need a Mac OS X license ($0 with your PPC G3 or G4 processor based Macintosh computer unless it came with Mac OS 8.x or 9.x) to run Apple's implementation of the WindowServer libraries. You don't need such a license to run Cocoa binaries if and when somebody writes a WindowServer API compatible wrapper around gnustep.
Disney's Pinocchio 2.0 (2002) starring Roberto Benigni is much more faithful to the novel than Disney's Pinocchio 1.0 (1940) was, but it got bad reviews and AFAIK didn't do that well at the box office. Fidelity to a classic literary work doesn't guarantee ticket sales; the movie must be adapted to the cultures that exist 95 years later. It's possible to pull this off, but it's also possible to screw it up to hell as in The Time Machine (2002).
What if I'm a member of a garage band, who really wants to let people hear my music?
How can you be so sure that when writing your own songs, you didn't unconsciously copy somebody else's musical work? George Harrison got in big trouble for that.
A "settlement" in legalese means that the parties drop the charges and agree to a private contract. On the other hand, the "settlement" in the federal antitrust case against Microsoft wasn't a true settlement but rather a judgment. Judgments do create legal precedent.
They wouldn't and don't produce content that is playable on other electronics.
Possibly true of Nintendo, but Microsoft publishes games that run on Dell, Gateway, HP, or any other brand of x86 PC on Windows, Lindows, Lycoris, or any other OS that implements Win32.
the copyright owner may elect, at any time before final judgment is rendered, to recover, instead of actual damages and profits, an award of statutory damages for all infringements involved in the action, with respect to any one work... the court in its discretion may increase the award of statutory damages to a sum of not more than $150,000.
There are about 1.28 billion people in the People's Republic of China, and 300 million television sets. That's one TV for every 4.3 people. Thus, at least every other nuclear family in China has a TV, and given even slightly extended families, I'd guess that almost everybody in China who wants to watch red TV can watch red TV.
Microsoft and Nintendo do _not_ produce content... I.E., music and films.
I disagree with your definition of "content". I consider "content" to include any copyrighted work whose purpose is not primarily functional. Thus, my definition of "content" excludes the game engine but includes models, textures, audio, and cut-scene/NPC scripts.
Even under your definition of content (musical works, sound recordings, and audiovisual works), I still think games have "content". Games include music. Games include cut scenes, especially some Squaresoft games, which have pretty much turned into movies lately.
how do you setup logs to tell you if a hard-disk is about to fail?
ATA and SCSI hard disk drives use error correction coding to estimate how long each sector has to live; once it reaches a threshold, it will automatically remap the dying sector somewhere on a nearby track reserved for remapped sectors. Once the mechanism begins to remap an increasing number of bad sectors, you know your drive's going downhill. Good drives should let you query this statistic.
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I thought the next one was supposed to be called P
My theory on the B-C-P-L progression: P is short for "Plus Plus" as in C++. L is a reversed J, as in Java language.
How do you deal with tab/space alignment?
To indent code in a proportional font, place each line's first non-whitespace character directly below the character in the line above it that would be directly above it if the font were monospace.
This will be bad for consumers. Currently, AOL has control over TW. But if the TW side grows more powerful, and Warner gains control over the Internet access of 30 Million Worldwide Members(tm), then Warner can use them as pawns in the battle for DMCA II and Bono Act II in the USA and EU legislatures.
The next problem may be MAME itself. Its licence does not allow for distribution of roms with the exes.
Its public license doesn't. However, the maker of a device that comes with licensed ROM sets may be able to negotiate a separate license with Nicola Salmoria, the copyright owner of MAME.
but 32M of ram would probably be enough.
Some of the Neo-Geo cartridges are twice that. Add in the kernel, a few low-level daemons, and MAME, and you're looking at some heavy swapping.
but anything below 400MHz x86 would probably be hard to get hold of.
Unless you buy Transmeta ;-)
make sure the hardware is good enough to emulate a playstation.
Rule of thumb: If it's good enough to run "Wolf Unit" games such as Mortal Kombat 3 and NBA Maximum Hangtime, it's almost good enough to emulate the Sony PlayStation game console. I have read somewhere that the Wolf Unit was based somewhat on the PS1 hardware.
I've never had to reinstall Windows 2000.
I've had to reinstall Windows 2000 because the power failed during a Windows Update. When I restarted my computer, I got "Login could not load msgina.dll. Please replace this file or reinstall Windows."
In windows there was this blasted Start button
I always thought of Explorer.exe's Start menu from Windows 9x, NT 4, and 2000 as a direct analog of Mac OS 7-9's Apple menu. The "Programs" item was Microsoft's attempt to twist the Win3.1 program manager into a half-clone of the "Recent Applications" feature of Mac OS 7.5.
Suppose the software saves everything in memory resident database. No filesystem, and no disk. Everything stays in memory.
My Newton MessagePad 2000 computer (what I used before I could afford a real laptop) did this. And I got burned twice, in the same way: I had accidentally deleted the contents of a file and then typed some text. But because the app (called "NewtonWorks") saw those as two changes, and the app had only one level of undo, I had no way to recover the text because Newton applications automatically commit changes permanently. Had the app used an open/save metaphor like a Mac or Windows app, I would have been able to rollback my changes by close the document and answer no to "Save changes before closing?".
should still be able to have a thumbnail (say about 128 KB) attached as metadata.
Detail nit: Why should a thumbnail image take 128 KB? Most thumbnail images in image management programs I've seen are stored in a resolution close to 160x120 or smaller. At 160x120, a JFIF (.jpg) image saved in GIMP, with quality cranked up to just where the tiling disappears, weighs in at about 8 KB.
I am a bit sketchy on Dreyfus's comment about NetBSD/Darwin compatibility requiring a Mac OS X user license.
From the article: "Therefore, in order to run a dynamically-linked application, you need the libraries from the emulated OS. The libraries are part of the emulated OS, and if you use them, you need a license for it."
It means you need a Mac OS X license ($0 with your PPC G3 or G4 processor based Macintosh computer unless it came with Mac OS 8.x or 9.x) to run Apple's implementation of the WindowServer libraries. You don't need such a license to run Cocoa binaries if and when somebody writes a WindowServer API compatible wrapper around gnustep.
Disney's Pinocchio 2.0 (2002) starring Roberto Benigni is much more faithful to the novel than Disney's Pinocchio 1.0 (1940) was, but it got bad reviews and AFAIK didn't do that well at the box office. Fidelity to a classic literary work doesn't guarantee ticket sales; the movie must be adapted to the cultures that exist 95 years later. It's possible to pull this off, but it's also possible to screw it up to hell as in The Time Machine (2002).
Will the world standardize on English
Or will the world standardize on a simple language with only 120 words?
What if I'm a member of a garage band, who really wants to let people hear my music?
How can you be so sure that when writing your own songs, you didn't unconsciously copy somebody else's musical work? George Harrison got in big trouble for that.
Thoreou's (sp?) Civil Disobedience.
You can find a copy of On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau on my Bono Act page.
Every other company is interested in file integrity, something that cannot be guaranteed over a P2P network.
What is a PGP signature?
Law's don't change when you settle a suit.
A "settlement" in legalese means that the parties drop the charges and agree to a private contract. On the other hand, the "settlement" in the federal antitrust case against Microsoft wasn't a true settlement but rather a judgment. Judgments do create legal precedent.
They wouldn't and don't produce content that is playable on other electronics.
Possibly true of Nintendo, but Microsoft publishes games that run on Dell, Gateway, HP, or any other brand of x86 PC on Windows, Lindows, Lycoris, or any other OS that implements Win32.
I predict that you will die before the copyright on any proprietary video game you have ever played expires.
It's the fault of legislators like Sonny Bono who push ever-increasing copyright terms through legislatures.
For 95 percent of published works, is there a real benefit in copyright beyond the 28 year maximum term established by the Copyright Act of 1790?
There are about 1.28 billion people in the People's Republic of China, and 300 million television sets. That's one TV for every 4.3 people. Thus, at least every other nuclear family in China has a TV, and given even slightly extended families, I'd guess that almost everybody in China who wants to watch red TV can watch red TV.
Microsoft and Nintendo do _not_ produce content... I.E., music and films.
I disagree with your definition of "content". I consider "content" to include any copyrighted work whose purpose is not primarily functional. Thus, my definition of "content" excludes the game engine but includes models, textures, audio, and cut-scene/NPC scripts.
Even under your definition of content (musical works, sound recordings, and audiovisual works), I still think games have "content". Games include music. Games include cut scenes, especially some Squaresoft games, which have pretty much turned into movies lately.
This is how it's pronounced according to the article.
doe (a deer a female deer) + GIN (and tonic) + she (pronoun) = doujinshi
Actually, the Japanese don't emphasise syllables
Japanese does have a pitch accent. See this explanation.
It is one of the few (only?) companies that both produces content (Sony Music, Sony Films) and the technology to play it on (Sony Electronics).
What about Microsoft, with the Xbox hardware and Xbox software?
What about Nintendo, with the GameCube hardware and GameCube software?
What about Nintendo, with the GBA hardware and GBA software?
And the way Sony is structured means that these divisions are essentially autonomous.
What about Sony Computer Entertainment the PS2 console maker and Sony Computer Entertainment the PS2 game publisher?
"MiB" is a trademark for a film, toys based on the film, and video game programs based on the film.
"GiB" is what comes out after you've FrAgGeD somebody.
how do you setup logs to tell you if a hard-disk is about to fail?
ATA and SCSI hard disk drives use error correction coding to estimate how long each sector has to live; once it reaches a threshold, it will automatically remap the dying sector somewhere on a nearby track reserved for remapped sectors. Once the mechanism begins to remap an increasing number of bad sectors, you know your drive's going downhill. Good drives should let you query this statistic.