In your system a person who earns $67,700 takes home 50,775, while someone who earns $67,701(a single buck more) takes home $47,390.7. Oh, that seems fair. One lousy buck more and you lose $3,384.3.
In a progressive income tax system, a fellow doesn't lose money simply by going from one tax bracket to the next. Say you have a system with 10% on the first $20,000 and 20% on the rest. Somebody who earns $20,100 pays $2000 on the first $20,000 and $20 on the $100, for a total of $2020.
The flat income tax, as it is actually proposed, is actually quite progressive on the low end: x percent tax on everything earned above the poverty line. Say poverty in a given area is $10,000, and the flat tax is 20 percent. Then somebody who earns $40,000 pays nothing on the first $10,000 and 20 percent on the other $30,000, for a total tax of $6000, or a 15 percent effective tax.
The ability to bail off of Yoshi's back easily mid jump was one of the best tactics Mario had, the GBA kinda lacks that.
Super Mario World for the GBA dropped the X button (which was an alias for the Y button), no big deal except for X+Y running to gain takeoff velocity quickly. (There's probably a way to do it; I just haven't read the manual.) The SNES L and R buttons became L+Left and L+Right, which freed up GBA's R button for spinjump or leave Yoshi. It's still there.
Heck, there's even a spinjump in Super Mario Land 2 for Game Boy (get big or fire and press Down+A) and the unauthorized NES port of SMW (get big and press Up+A).
but neither the Gamecube nor the PlayStation 2 have enough framebuffer memory to run at anything higher than 480p. It's actually impossible.
Tobal No. 1 for PlayStation was one of the smoothest 3D fighting games from the 32-bit console era because it 1. pushed 512x224 pixels at 60 fps and 2. turned on interlaced mode, giving 512x448 effective pixels. The same can be done at twice the resolution. If you have the VRAM to hold a pair of 480p framebuffers and a 480p Z-buffer, and you have the fill rate to render 60 fps at 480p (the GCN's on-die frame buffer and Z buffer help), you can render 960i by shifting all polygons up half a pixel on every other frame.
But why would one use headphones while the GBA is plugged into the cube?
Because the GCN's sound and the GBA's sound are different streams. The GCN sound goes to everybody; GBA sound goes only to one player. A GCN game that uses the GBA cable could conceivably give audio cues to only one player.
And what about playing multiplayer with linked GBAs? Why should I be forced to use a speaker with no response below 500 Hz?
but the most obvious is sound (it cannot play the same number of instruments as the SNES could)
The Super NES could mix eight channels in stereo. Most TVs of the era were mono, and few people connected their consoles to a stereo system. Therefore, we might as well consider Super NES sound mono.
I am a GBA developer. I have written a mixer that, for eight mono channels, takes about 16% of the CPU. In addition, for another 1% of the CPU, I can use the four tone generators from the Game Boy side to add even more voices to the music. A good composer can make nice sounding music with four PCM channels and four GBC channels.
But the nice thing about the GBA sound hardware vs. Super NES sound is that because the samples fed to the GBA hardware are uncompressed 8-bit signed PCM, it's possible to generate samples in real time. Applications include tightly compressed voice and drumloop samples and realtime synthesis such as TB303 emulation.
Linux probably needs more than the 384 KB of RAM (including video RAM) inside the GBA.
and it'll make a nice little PDA.
A PDA needs a decent input mechanism such as Graffiti, Fitaly, etc. The GBA doesn't have one, unless you somehow adapt L, Left, Down, R, A, and B to correspond to the six dots of Braille. A PDA needs a real-time clock. The GBA doesn't have one.
Actually, the fact that he did write a GUI is highly relevant, at least to the MPAA v. 2600 ruling. The DMCA's "circumvention device" provisions (17 USC 1201(a)(2) and (b)) are entirely about how the device is packaged and marketed. The tool was supposed to be a proof of concept for one component of an independent software DVD player on the Linux platform, but because the Linux UDF support wasn't finished, he wrote the GUI on Windows rather than Linux, and the most obvious use for DeCSS on windows was to decrypt VOB files for copying rather than for playback. He should have waited until Linux had working UDF and some other components of a player such as an MPEG-2 decoder, an AC-3 decoder, and a menu bytecode interpreter before releasing the DeCSS component for that player; such a delay would have rendered 2600's "reverse engineering for interoperability" defense stronger.
A MUCH better system to prevent infringement-by-performance would be to record the date and registered owner of the recording device
I see your point here. But I'm still curious as to how a songwriter can prevent infringement-by-songwriting. In fact, I feel afraid to publish songs that I have written for precisely that reason, because I don't have the $$$ to defend myself against a derivative-work lawsuit brought by Warner Chappell Music's army of retained lawyers.
We don't, but Juan Doe lives in spam-republic Argentina.
Now, are you pissed off enough to do something about it to get your ISP unblocked?
I understand the aims of collateral-damage RBLs, but what recourse does an individual in such a situation have when a government-controlled ISP run by appointed officials supports UCE?
Microsoft is free to publish their entire source in the New York Times if they wanted. Doesn't change anything.
Except Microsoft would lose all trade secret protection (not copyright, trade secret) on such code. But still, the danger of "poisoning the world" with access to a copyrighted work is all too familiar to songwriters.
Not if the kernel goes into a special graphics mode where video memory is write-only. Microsoft Windows already does something analogous for audio, not allowing unsigned drivers to play secure streams and not allowing trojan drivers (Total Recorder, What-U-Hear) to be signed unless they turn themselves off when the Secure Audio Path is open.
The SCMS protection on Minidiscs have stopped bands and other content creators from legitimately making digital copies of their own work.
Because it's not their work. Assuming that the band in question is a cover band, recording a performance of a musical work without the permission of the songwriter is an infringement of copyright. In general, the license to record somebody else's work isn't bundled with the standard ASCAP/BMI cover band license.
At this point, you're thinking, "What if members of the band wrote all the songs?" Prove it. Prove that your band didn't pull a George Harrison and unconsciously plagiarize an existing song. Prove it in court against a music publisher whose legal budget is 1000 times bigger than yours. Under such conditions, I'm not sure how a songwriter could prove that he didn't copy something else.
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if I spend 5 years developing a product, why shouldn't I get 20 years protection?
If I spend 5 hours developing a product such as the core technology behind Amazon's one-click shopping, do I deserve 20 years of monopoly?
Lets say in the case of the original Mac OS, by next year Apple will have almost totally abandoned it - it should revert to public ownership.
I agree with a system where works that fall out of print[1] would also fall out of copyright, but the fact remains that the United States is a signatory to the Berne Convention, which guarantees at least life plus 50. How hard is it to get out of a copyright treaty?
[1] "Print" here refers not to dead-tree reproduction but more generally to any continuous authorized reproduction and distribution.
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PS2 has the most games.
The Nintendo GameCube has all Game Boy, GBC, and GBA games. Super Game Boy for GameCube. Coming in May.
Now who has the bigger back catalog?
Sonny Bono's failure to grasp rudimentary physics can be seen as yet another case of evolution in action.
But can Sonny Bono's failure to grasp rudimentary constitutional law be seen as yet another case of evolution in action?
Strangly these 60% of taxpayers have not yet been identified.
Apparently, the Americans most likely to get to file their taxes online for free are "taxpayers below certain income levels" (the poor) and "different groups of taxpayers" (i.e. minorities).
In your system a person who earns $67,700 takes home 50,775, while someone who earns $67,701(a single buck more) takes home $47,390.7. Oh, that seems fair. One lousy buck more and you lose $3,384.3.
In a progressive income tax system, a fellow doesn't lose money simply by going from one tax bracket to the next. Say you have a system with 10% on the first $20,000 and 20% on the rest. Somebody who earns $20,100 pays $2000 on the first $20,000 and $20 on the $100, for a total of $2020.
The flat income tax, as it is actually proposed, is actually quite progressive on the low end: x percent tax on everything earned above the poverty line. Say poverty in a given area is $10,000, and the flat tax is 20 percent. Then somebody who earns $40,000 pays nothing on the first $10,000 and 20 percent on the other $30,000, for a total tax of $6000, or a 15 percent effective tax.
and what trickery it uses to detect it?
It's easy to detect VMware, plex86, Bochs, Connectix Virtual PC, or Connectix Virtual PC for Windows by the hash of the BIOS it uses.
one of my basic problems with the Flash Advance is the fact that it will mostly be used for piracy.
Mostly for piracy? The gbadev mailing list has over 1,500 members.
The ability to bail off of Yoshi's back easily mid jump was one of the best tactics Mario had, the GBA kinda lacks that.
Super Mario World for the GBA dropped the X button (which was an alias for the Y button), no big deal except for X+Y running to gain takeoff velocity quickly. (There's probably a way to do it; I just haven't read the manual.) The SNES L and R buttons became L+Left and L+Right, which freed up GBA's R button for spinjump or leave Yoshi. It's still there.
Heck, there's even a spinjump in Super Mario Land 2 for Game Boy (get big or fire and press Down+A) and the unauthorized NES port of SMW (get big and press Up+A).
Yes, the PS3 will actually be using Linux as it's ROM loader, so in addition to running games you can start it up in console mode.
URL please?
but neither the Gamecube nor the PlayStation 2 have enough framebuffer memory to run at anything higher than 480p. It's actually impossible.
Tobal No. 1 for PlayStation was one of the smoothest 3D fighting games from the 32-bit console era because it 1. pushed 512x224 pixels at 60 fps and 2. turned on interlaced mode, giving 512x448 effective pixels. The same can be done at twice the resolution. If you have the VRAM to hold a pair of 480p framebuffers and a 480p Z-buffer, and you have the fill rate to render 60 fps at 480p (the GCN's on-die frame buffer and Z buffer help), you can render 960i by shifting all polygons up half a pixel on every other frame.
But why would one use headphones while the GBA is plugged into the cube?
Because the GCN's sound and the GBA's sound are different streams. The GCN sound goes to everybody; GBA sound goes only to one player. A GCN game that uses the GBA cable could conceivably give audio cues to only one player.
And what about playing multiplayer with linked GBAs? Why should I be forced to use a speaker with no response below 500 Hz?
but the most obvious is sound (it cannot play the same number of instruments as the SNES could)
The Super NES could mix eight channels in stereo. Most TVs of the era were mono, and few people connected their consoles to a stereo system. Therefore, we might as well consider Super NES sound mono.
I am a GBA developer. I have written a mixer that, for eight mono channels, takes about 16% of the CPU. In addition, for another 1% of the CPU, I can use the four tone generators from the Game Boy side to add even more voices to the music. A good composer can make nice sounding music with four PCM channels and four GBC channels.
But the nice thing about the GBA sound hardware vs. Super NES sound is that because the samples fed to the GBA hardware are uncompressed 8-bit signed PCM, it's possible to generate samples in real time. Applications include tightly compressed voice and drumloop samples and realtime synthesis such as TB303 emulation.
I would love to see Dr. Seuss try and top Tom Bombadil's songs.
I would love to see Dr. Seuss lose Eldred v. Ashcroft. Seuss Enterprises submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in favor of the Bono Act.
As for NAI's intentions wrt the mark, I'm working on clarifying those now
Here's how Abisource handles it: AbiWord refers to Abisource's binary distribution, and AbiWord Personal refers to the GPL version.
And somewhere, echoing through the mountains of Norway, the [Hallelujah] Chorus is heard...
Either that, or Yes! We have no bananas!
Now all someone needs to do is port Linux to it
Linux probably needs more than the 384 KB of RAM (including video RAM) inside the GBA.
and it'll make a nice little PDA.
A PDA needs a decent input mechanism such as Graffiti, Fitaly, etc. The GBA doesn't have one, unless you somehow adapt L, Left, Down, R, A, and B to correspond to the six dots of Braille. A PDA needs a real-time clock. The GBA doesn't have one.
[Jon] never wrote DeCSS, he merely wrote a GUI.
Actually, the fact that he did write a GUI is highly relevant, at least to the MPAA v. 2600 ruling. The DMCA's "circumvention device" provisions (17 USC 1201(a)(2) and (b)) are entirely about how the device is packaged and marketed. The tool was supposed to be a proof of concept for one component of an independent software DVD player on the Linux platform, but because the Linux UDF support wasn't finished, he wrote the GUI on Windows rather than Linux, and the most obvious use for DeCSS on windows was to decrypt VOB files for copying rather than for playback. He should have waited until Linux had working UDF and some other components of a player such as an MPEG-2 decoder, an AC-3 decoder, and a menu bytecode interpreter before releasing the DeCSS component for that player; such a delay would have rendered 2600's "reverse engineering for interoperability" defense stronger.
A MUCH better system to prevent infringement-by-performance would be to record the date and registered owner of the recording device
I see your point here. But I'm still curious as to how a songwriter can prevent infringement-by-songwriting. In fact, I feel afraid to publish songs that I have written for precisely that reason, because I don't have the $$$ to defend myself against a derivative-work lawsuit brought by Warner Chappell Music's army of retained lawyers.
Do we live in Hypothetica?
We don't, but Juan Doe lives in spam-republic Argentina.
Now, are you pissed off enough to do something about it to get your ISP unblocked?
I understand the aims of collateral-damage RBLs, but what recourse does an individual in such a situation have when a government-controlled ISP run by appointed officials supports UCE?
Especially IT books, get outdated very fast!
Books that cover 1. theory and 2. mature environments grow outdated much more slowly than (say) a book on Visual Studio .NET version 7.
But what about screenshots? What's to stop him from hitting Alt+PrScr for each page and pasting them into a run of the mill image?
How about a full-screen reader that disables Print Screen and other methods of copying the image from video memory? See my other comment.
Microsoft is free to publish their entire source in the New York Times if they wanted. Doesn't change anything.
Except Microsoft would lose all trade secret protection (not copyright, trade secret) on such code. But still, the danger of "poisoning the world" with access to a copyrighted work is all too familiar to songwriters.
Attach homebrewed screenshot app here
Not if the kernel goes into a special graphics mode where video memory is write-only. Microsoft Windows already does something analogous for audio, not allowing unsigned drivers to play secure streams and not allowing trojan drivers (Total Recorder, What-U-Hear) to be signed unless they turn themselves off when the Secure Audio Path is open.
The SCMS protection on Minidiscs have stopped bands and other content creators from legitimately making digital copies of their own work.
Because it's not their work. Assuming that the band in question is a cover band, recording a performance of a musical work without the permission of the songwriter is an infringement of copyright. In general, the license to record somebody else's work isn't bundled with the standard ASCAP/BMI cover band license.
At this point, you're thinking, "What if members of the band wrote all the songs?" Prove it. Prove that your band didn't pull a George Harrison and unconsciously plagiarize an existing song. Prove it in court against a music publisher whose legal budget is 1000 times bigger than yours. Under such conditions, I'm not sure how a songwriter could prove that he didn't copy something else.
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Why does a hamburger sandwich have beef?
if I spend 5 years developing a product, why shouldn't I get 20 years protection?
If I spend 5 hours developing a product such as the core technology behind Amazon's one-click shopping, do I deserve 20 years of monopoly?
Lets say in the case of the original Mac OS, by next year Apple will have almost totally abandoned it - it should revert to public ownership.
I agree with a system where works that fall out of print[1] would also fall out of copyright, but the fact remains that the United States is a signatory to the Berne Convention, which guarantees at least life plus 50. How hard is it to get out of a copyright treaty?
[1] "Print" here refers not to dead-tree reproduction but more generally to any continuous authorized reproduction and distribution.