I have a valid Win98 license from early 1999 - it came with a PC. I downloaded IE6 in 2002.
Thus, you paid for the license to run IE 6 in early 1999 as part of the price of the PC. Because Microsoft, the copyright owner of Windows 98 and IE 6 software, phrases the IE 6 license as a "supplement[]" to the Windows 98 license, that's how I must view it. I see IE 6 not as a product but rather as a free update to an existing product. Thus, comparing the prices of IE 6 (an update to a component of a product) and Mozilla (a standalone-licensed product) begins to resemble comparing apples and oranges.
I'm not trying to go out of my way to hate Microsoft but rather stating my armchair interpretation of the contract you agreed to in early 1999 when you first turned on your computer and clicked through the EULA.
MPEG4 offers things like hotspots, 3D and other stuff that makes it looks like Flash.
Which means you'd have to use an authoring tool that looks like an SWF authoring tool. Current technology can't practically discern 3D vectors from the pixel stream of a digital video source. For this reason, most MPEG-4 encoders just use MPEG-4 Simple Video (or was it Advanced Simple Video?).
If MS has followed a monoply model, what is the price of IE today?
The Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 EULA requires a valid Windows license, which costs $100 (home edition) or $150 (professional), assuming that OEM prices are half retail prices.
"But IE is $0 on Mac OS, Solaris OE, and HP-UX!" IE version 6 doesn't run on Mac OS, Solaris OE, or HP-UX.
I thought there was no such thing as copyright in nature, and that it was a human invention!
It's impossible to clone the exact quantum state of a particle. This fact from quantum physics forms the basis of future secure communication: crypto based on XOR against an eavesdrop-evident one-time-pad generator powered by entangled particles.
Develop a program as a proof of concept of an invention. Package it in a tarball, zip file, source RPM, or any other commonly used compressed format.
Use PGP to sign the package digitally.
Have one of the many e-mailnotaries sign a message containing the current date in the headers and a PGP signature of the package in the body.
Publish the package, the message you sent to the notary, and the notary's digital signature on SourceForge.net (whose parent OSDN owns Slashdot) under an OSI approved license.
You now have Pretty Good evidence that you were in possession of those bits at that time. You can back it up with a U.S. copyright registration ($30 at copyright.gov). Proof that you had actually published the package at a given time is left as an exercise for the reader (reply to this if you know how).
Thus, an ASP would be fine - they're selling temporary use of the program, not the actual binaries, and thus they do not need to share the source.
But wouldn't that be a "public performance" of the copyrighted computer program? In the United States, the copyright owner has the exclusive right to perform most works publicly, and I didn't see anything in the GNU GPL version 2 authorizing any public performances.
Assuming that id Software follows its pattern of releasing the source code to the game two engines back (but not its data files) as free software, Doom 4 will be free software soon after Quake 5 and Doom 5 are out.
Audio Stream Recorder 2, bundled with the Creative Audigy 2 [creative.com] allows you to record any WMP or Real audio stream
No it doesn't. If a Windows audio driver is signed by Microsoft WHQL, it turns itself off when playing any WMA file that requests a "secure audio path". If it's not, Windows won't send a "secure audio path" through any unsigned driver.
Since this device also works with proxies (as per their FAQ), the only thing I could imagine is signing the list of music providers, since they have to use valid http.
"Valid HTTP" does not mean "cleartext entities transmitted by valid HTTP". It's possible to encrypt a stream, send it over HTTP, and then decrypt it on the device. "Valid HTTP" guarantees only that the headers are cleartext.
I doubt that mp3.com and others all deliver encrypted streams just for this device, the computing power needed for that would be quite a hurdle.
Unless the crypto uses some relatively fast cipher.
I suddenly have the urge to install OS/2! COINCIDENCE?
I think not. To me, it looks like every TrueType font contains a block of information designed for use by IBM's OS/2 Warp operating system, and the broadc^H^H^H^H^H^H embedding flag lies at a fixed offset from the OS/2 tag.
There are no monopolies out there abusing their power and causing the market to do things it wouldn't otherwise do.
I understand that you intended that as sarcasm, but actually, with all the inroads the GNU/Linux system is making in Europe, you might be closer to right than you think.
If it's not valid, the TPM chip won't allow the boot process to proceed.
That's not what I perceived when I read a couple TCPA and Palladium white papers. Under current plans, if the BIOS has been "compromised", the TPM chip will shut itself off and get the heck out of the way. However, TCPA apps won't load.
Go to Open Source Shaving! Switch to a straight razor!
Either that, or just get a Gillette Sensor brand razor. Lots of companies seem to make replacement blades for the Sensor handle; at a local drugstore, I found cheap 3-blade cartridges (an obvious Mach 3 knockoff) compatible with the Sensor handle.
Lawyers, for instance, routinely re-use the headers and formatting from old documents. With [undo across save], sensitive information from a client's case can make its way into documents for other cases.
Can't a user configure Microsoft Word to "slow save" a document, deleting all undo-across-save information, whenever closing it? If so, how? If not, would all the attorneys in the audience please throw a few dollars this way?
well isn't this awfully easy to counter by altering the bios slightly?
That may defeat a naive hash (such as a sha1 of the whole thing), but 1. tree hash techniques can detect which part of the BIOS has been changed slightly, and 2. an emulator's BIOS probably has to include the BIOS publisher's name in a copyright notice.
and most of my friends did have stereo TVs for their snes.
I, on the other hand, lived in a lower middle-class neighborhood.
But I bought it for my Genesis, back when you needed a y-adapter to get stereo from the headphone jack.
And the Genesis stereo was the same as that of the Game Boy and the newer Sound Blaster Pro, where a tone generator could be panned hard left, center, or hard right. Any sound that appeared to "pan" from one side to the other had to use two channels. The Super NES, on the other hand, had a "left volume" and a "right volume" for each channel.
The music of the games of the day was great, and was definitely stereo
The music was stereo, and I often made audio tapes of the music of games with sound test codes. But all too many games I played had either mono sound effects or L/R sound effects split for players 1 and 2. I include in "mono sound effects" any sound effect whose L/R pan didn't correspond to its position on screen, such as the SMW pipe sound that panned R, L, R. (Did you know that the sound effects samples in the SMW animated cartoon were completely taken from the right channel?) Perhaps it was just the genres I played (lots of puzzle games). Viacom's Zoop wasn't stereo, but my clone for PC (called "Zeus"; part of freepuzzlearena) was.
The Super NES itself wasn't mono, but my memories of it sure are.
Quick question: Do most GBA users actually play games in an environment where they would notice stereo separation? Do most use headphones most of the time? I want to know so that in my next GBA project (I'm the producer as well), I can decide on whether or not to spend extra CPU cycles on stereo mixing.
"But I'm at work and we don't have mozilla" download the zip file, extract it to your desktop, and run the executable from there. It works fine.
What about "But I'm at work and the machine says I don't have enough permissions to run executables from my {NT|UNIX} home directory"? Or "But I'm at school and my home directory's quota isn't big enough to hold a Mozilla installation"? A simple polite e-mail worked to get Mozilla installed (alongside Netscape 4.6) on the Rose-Hulman math department's Solaris OE workstations, but how would a fellow go about negotiating with the IT department if that fails?
Few Super NES games really used the stereo effects except perhaps for 2P split-screen games that sent player 1 to the left channel and player 2 to the right channel, and in the GBA equivalent, each player's mixer would run on a separate CPU.
even though the Super NES shipped with a stereo AV cable as standard
Yes, every Super NES system came with an AV cable.
(and no RF switch or mono-only cable)
The first Super NES had a built-in RF modulator that made monaural sound and came with an RF switch identical to the one from the NES. (It also had a stereo AV output, but I didn't see any of my friends using it until I showed them how to hook up the console to a stereo system.) The second Super NES dropped the built-in RF modulator and used the same RF modulator and switch as the N64.
And even if I were to change my GBA mixer to stereo, it would probably still take only 32 percent of CPU time for eight voices. This still leaves over 10 MHz of ARM7TDMI power, which is far more than enough for a typical 2D or pseudo-3D game, especially a Genesis or Super NES port.
i've heard (from non technical-type friends) that the shoulder buttons are either a) pressure sensitive or b) "2 state" (semi pressure sensitive)
That may be true of the GCN or the PS2, but I am a GBA programmer, and the GBA provides one bit each for the L and R buttons, bits D9 and D8 of the 16-bit register at 0x04000130.
Regarding Nintendo, my beef with them is their resistance of letting go the "game cartridge" mindset.
Nintendo let go of game cartridges for the tv console as soon as discs had a fast enough access time. When the N64 was designed, most CD games were either cart-style games with CD music or just plain weren't fun *cough*Night Trap*cough*, anything faster than 2x CD-ROM was cost prohibitive, and Mr. Miyamoto did not like to sit at a loading screen. But as disc technology became faster, Nintendo adopted it. Look at Super Smash Bros. Melee: when it freezes to load, it's done within two seconds.
So how do you think Nintendo's going to get rid of cartridges for a handheld system? First of all, carts for handhelds are usually handled much more roughly than carts for tv consoles ever were. Discs in such a handling environment would scratched to death real easily. A switch to discs would also ruin backward compatibility with software for the previous Game Boy systems. Finally, spinning a disc constantly would ruin battery life. Just look at the difference in battery life between a flash-based MP3 player and a portable CD player.
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I have a valid Win98 license from early 1999 - it came with a PC. I downloaded IE6 in 2002.
Thus, you paid for the license to run IE 6 in early 1999 as part of the price of the PC. Because Microsoft, the copyright owner of Windows 98 and IE 6 software, phrases the IE 6 license as a "supplement[]" to the Windows 98 license, that's how I must view it. I see IE 6 not as a product but rather as a free update to an existing product. Thus, comparing the prices of IE 6 (an update to a component of a product) and Mozilla (a standalone-licensed product) begins to resemble comparing apples and oranges.
I'm not trying to go out of my way to hate Microsoft but rather stating my armchair interpretation of the contract you agreed to in early 1999 when you first turned on your computer and clicked through the EULA.
it's at microsoft.com /typography
Yes, but that's a lot longer than 76 bytes ;-)
I was referring to the fact that the poem does not state which bit in the OS/2 chunk controls embedding.
MPEG4 offers things like hotspots, 3D and other stuff that makes it looks like Flash.
Which means you'd have to use an authoring tool that looks like an SWF authoring tool. Current technology can't practically discern 3D vectors from the pixel stream of a digital video source. For this reason, most MPEG-4 encoders just use MPEG-4 Simple Video (or was it Advanced Simple Video?).
If MS has followed a monoply model, what is the price of IE today?
The Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 EULA requires a valid Windows license, which costs $100 (home edition) or $150 (professional), assuming that OEM prices are half retail prices.
"But IE is $0 on Mac OS, Solaris OE, and HP-UX!" IE version 6 doesn't run on Mac OS, Solaris OE, or HP-UX.
I thought there was no such thing as copyright in nature, and that it was a human invention!
It's impossible to clone the exact quantum state of a particle. This fact from quantum physics forms the basis of future secure communication: crypto based on XOR against an eavesdrop-evident one-time-pad generator powered by entangled particles.
Prior art must be public.
To make software prior art public:
You now have Pretty Good evidence that you were in possession of those bits at that time. You can back it up with a U.S. copyright registration ($30 at copyright.gov). Proof that you had actually published the package at a given time is left as an exercise for the reader (reply to this if you know how).
Thus, an ASP would be fine - they're selling temporary use of the program, not the actual binaries, and thus they do not need to share the source.
But wouldn't that be a "public performance" of the copyrighted computer program? In the United States, the copyright owner has the exclusive right to perform most works publicly, and I didn't see anything in the GNU GPL version 2 authorizing any public performances.
Better get coding then, or start nagging ID.
Assuming that id Software follows its pattern of releasing the source code to the game two engines back (but not its data files) as free software, Doom 4 will be free software soon after Quake 5 and Doom 5 are out.
The OS/2 chunk / has a bit for embedding. / Set it to zero.
But which bit in the OS/2 chunk is the "bit for embedding" and should be set to 0?
Audio Stream Recorder 2, bundled with the Creative Audigy 2 [creative.com] allows you to record any WMP or Real audio stream
No it doesn't. If a Windows audio driver is signed by Microsoft WHQL, it turns itself off when playing any WMA file that requests a "secure audio path". If it's not, Windows won't send a "secure audio path" through any unsigned driver.
Since this device also works with proxies (as per their FAQ), the only thing I could imagine is signing the list of music providers, since they have to use valid http.
"Valid HTTP" does not mean "cleartext entities transmitted by valid HTTP". It's possible to encrypt a stream, send it over HTTP, and then decrypt it on the device. "Valid HTTP" guarantees only that the headers are cleartext.
I doubt that mp3.com and others all deliver encrypted streams just for this device, the computing power needed for that would be quite a hurdle.
Unless the crypto uses some relatively fast cipher.
I suddenly have the urge to install OS/2! COINCIDENCE?
I think not. To me, it looks like every TrueType font contains a block of information designed for use by IBM's OS/2 Warp operating system, and the broadc^H^H^H^H^H^H embedding flag lies at a fixed offset from the OS/2 tag.
There are no monopolies out there abusing their power and causing the market to do things it wouldn't otherwise do.
I understand that you intended that as sarcasm, but actually, with all the inroads the GNU/Linux system is making in Europe, you might be closer to right than you think.
If it's not valid, the TPM chip won't allow the boot process to proceed.
That's not what I perceived when I read a couple TCPA and Palladium white papers. Under current plans, if the BIOS has been "compromised", the TPM chip will shut itself off and get the heck out of the way. However, TCPA apps won't load.
Go to Open Source Shaving! Switch to a straight razor!
Either that, or just get a Gillette Sensor brand razor. Lots of companies seem to make replacement blades for the Sensor handle; at a local drugstore, I found cheap 3-blade cartridges (an obvious Mach 3 knockoff) compatible with the Sensor handle.
Control-Z brings to mind the old DOS EOF character. The proper "undo" is either "u" or Control-Shift-_
What about Command+Z, the Mac OS undo keystroke that Microsoft shamelessly copied into Ctrl+Z in the Windows OS?
Lawyers, for instance, routinely re-use the headers and formatting from old documents. With [undo across save], sensitive information from a client's case can make its way into documents for other cases.
Can't a user configure Microsoft Word to "slow save" a document, deleting all undo-across-save information, whenever closing it? If so, how? If not, would all the attorneys in the audience please throw a few dollars this way?
Am I the only one who found this enumeration a bit odd? I mean, why not just say "vehicle"?
Vans: Vans are probably close enough to minivans that the submitter didn't think it necessary to bother mentioning them.
Trucks: It may be harder to mount such an antenna on top of a pickup truck.
Buses: Buses are commercial vehicles and need a "public performance" license for the copyrighted shows.
Mopeds: Don't even think about it.
Does anyone know where I can get a beta vcr that plays dvds?
I don't know if anybody makes a Betamax/DVD combo deck, but I do know where you can get some VHS decks that play DVD Video discs.
well isn't this awfully easy to counter by altering the bios slightly?
That may defeat a naive hash (such as a sha1 of the whole thing), but 1. tree hash techniques can detect which part of the BIOS has been changed slightly, and 2. an emulator's BIOS probably has to include the BIOS publisher's name in a copyright notice.
and most of my friends did have stereo TVs for their snes.
I, on the other hand, lived in a lower middle-class neighborhood.
But I bought it for my Genesis, back when you needed a y-adapter to get stereo from the headphone jack.
And the Genesis stereo was the same as that of the Game Boy and the newer Sound Blaster Pro, where a tone generator could be panned hard left, center, or hard right. Any sound that appeared to "pan" from one side to the other had to use two channels. The Super NES, on the other hand, had a "left volume" and a "right volume" for each channel.
The music of the games of the day was great, and was definitely stereo
The music was stereo, and I often made audio tapes of the music of games with sound test codes. But all too many games I played had either mono sound effects or L/R sound effects split for players 1 and 2. I include in "mono sound effects" any sound effect whose L/R pan didn't correspond to its position on screen, such as the SMW pipe sound that panned R, L, R. (Did you know that the sound effects samples in the SMW animated cartoon were completely taken from the right channel?) Perhaps it was just the genres I played (lots of puzzle games). Viacom's Zoop wasn't stereo, but my clone for PC (called "Zeus"; part of freepuzzlearena) was.
The Super NES itself wasn't mono, but my memories of it sure are.
Quick question: Do most GBA users actually play games in an environment where they would notice stereo separation? Do most use headphones most of the time? I want to know so that in my next GBA project (I'm the producer as well), I can decide on whether or not to spend extra CPU cycles on stereo mixing.
"But I'm at work and we don't have mozilla" download the zip file, extract it to your desktop, and run the executable from there. It works fine.
What about "But I'm at work and the machine says I don't have enough permissions to run executables from my {NT|UNIX} home directory"? Or "But I'm at school and my home directory's quota isn't big enough to hold a Mozilla installation"? A simple polite e-mail worked to get Mozilla installed (alongside Netscape 4.6) on the Rose-Hulman math department's Solaris OE workstations, but how would a fellow go about negotiating with the IT department if that fails?
You want us to consider Super NES sound as mono
Few Super NES games really used the stereo effects except perhaps for 2P split-screen games that sent player 1 to the left channel and player 2 to the right channel, and in the GBA equivalent, each player's mixer would run on a separate CPU.
even though the Super NES shipped with a stereo AV cable as standard
Yes, every Super NES system came with an AV cable.
(and no RF switch or mono-only cable)
The first Super NES had a built-in RF modulator that made monaural sound and came with an RF switch identical to the one from the NES. (It also had a stereo AV output, but I didn't see any of my friends using it until I showed them how to hook up the console to a stereo system.) The second Super NES dropped the built-in RF modulator and used the same RF modulator and switch as the N64.
And even if I were to change my GBA mixer to stereo, it would probably still take only 32 percent of CPU time for eight voices. This still leaves over 10 MHz of ARM7TDMI power, which is far more than enough for a typical 2D or pseudo-3D game, especially a Genesis or Super NES port.
i've heard (from non technical-type friends) that the shoulder buttons are either a) pressure sensitive or b) "2 state" (semi pressure sensitive)
That may be true of the GCN or the PS2, but I am a GBA programmer, and the GBA provides one bit each for the L and R buttons, bits D9 and D8 of the 16-bit register at 0x04000130.
Regarding Nintendo, my beef with them is their resistance of letting go the "game cartridge" mindset.
Nintendo let go of game cartridges for the tv console as soon as discs had a fast enough access time. When the N64 was designed, most CD games were either cart-style games with CD music or just plain weren't fun *cough*Night Trap*cough*, anything faster than 2x CD-ROM was cost prohibitive, and Mr. Miyamoto did not like to sit at a loading screen. But as disc technology became faster, Nintendo adopted it. Look at Super Smash Bros. Melee: when it freezes to load, it's done within two seconds.
So how do you think Nintendo's going to get rid of cartridges for a handheld system? First of all, carts for handhelds are usually handled much more roughly than carts for tv consoles ever were. Discs in such a handling environment would scratched to death real easily. A switch to discs would also ruin backward compatibility with software for the previous Game Boy systems. Finally, spinning a disc constantly would ruin battery life. Just look at the difference in battery life between a flash-based MP3 player and a portable CD player.