I guess that when PT Barnum said (quoted?) there was a sucker born every minute, he was a pessimist. It's more like one a second.
There average three human babies born every second. Childhood mortality in some areas of the world reduces this to about two babies who live to see their twentieth birthday. Given that there is no correlation between childhood mortality and being a sucker, your estimation claims that half of all grown-ups are suckers.
A splash page, properly compressed, can come in at under 40k.
Assume that a "56K" v.90 connection actually connects at about 40 kbps on a typical telephone line. After taking 20 percent off the top for TCP/IP overhead, that's 32 kbps, or 4 KB per second.
I do NOT want to spend 10 seconds waiting for your interstitial to load.
How about "before our kids become too familiar with OpenOffice.org, which we are deploying in schools as you read this?" How would Microsoft react to such a formulation of a deadline?
Congratulations, you have just reinvented (a small part of) GNU gettext package! Seriously, why not just use existing and much better solutions?... you don't have any licensing issues
GNU gettext is licensed under the viral GNU General Public License, which precludes its use in proprietary software or in free software under a GPL incompatible license. I don't know whether or not gettext provides an exception (couldn't find it in two minutes on Google without actually downloading the entire package), and even then, I'm not sure that even the GPL with the exception used in the Guile and libgnat licenses would be compatible with some viral but not "free" licenses such as the APSL.
This is why GUI's should not written using fixed coordinates. Instead, size-adaptive GUI's should be the norm.
That will work in most cases, but then how do you expect to fit larger foreign text on a fixed-size PDA screen? Put scroll bars on dialog boxes? Spend beaucoup bucks redesigning every dialog box in the program?
you are not within your rights to break that code.
Other than the (questionably constitutional) DMCA and foreign counterparts, what law takes away my right to break the code on works of which I have purchased a genuine copy?
So what happens when the English language has changed so much that only scholars can read English texts of the period covered by Project Gutenberg (primarily 1700-1922)? In A.D. 2401, how will PG get the money to fund a public-domain translation of those works from 19th century English to 25th century English? At this rate, there probably won't be any new works available because of the Sonny Bono Act, the Chastity Bono Act, and who knows what she'll name her kids.
I know this is blatantly off-topic, but does anyone here know where I can get a description of the physical interface for a GBA screen?
Perhaps the gbadev mailing list would be a better place to ask this. It's mostly a programming list, but some hardware hackers may hang out there as well.
Fact: In both GBA software development and spoken language development, it's easier to avoid bugs if you Keep It Simple Stupid. For example, if a language has only 120 words, how can anybody screw that up?
I love the way this is pitched as being a "development system". It's a flash device....with common uses being to trade pirated games online and download them to your GBA.
I love the way the VCR is pitched as being a "timeshifting system". It's a video recorder...with common uses being to trade pirated television shows and movies with friends and download them to your TV.
In other words, these GBA flash cartridges have substantial non-infringing uses, such as to put multiple programs onto one cartridge and to act as a platform on which to test homebrew GBA programs such as TOD. The decisions in Sony v. Universal (the Betamax VCR case) and RIAA v. Diamond (the Rio MP3 player case) have affirmed the right of Americans to time-shift, space-shift, and format-shift copyrighted works, provided that such copies are not distributed to others, granted by exceptions in copyright law such as fair use (17 USC 107).
I remember in Dragonball where Goku asked a policeman where Bulma lived and the policeman could call up a picture for every person named Bulma in the city and helped him find her. Impossible with the rights some people want.
Such a law is almost necessary in the different cultures of the fictional worlds in which animated television takes place. In many of those cultures, a character's face is his or her surname, and the residents of the world do not consider having pictures of everybody in town to constitute privacy violation. Likewise, whether Microsoft software violates its users' privacy depends entirely on ambient culture.
(Aside: Know why the dubbing is so bad on some animated films and series? Easy. People in fictional worlds that have never had contact with white America would have no reason to speak English.)
so the pathetic 2600 cartridge caused an entire generation to be confused about exactly what's chasing poor Pac.
Pac-Attack for Sega Genesis (and also Super NES, but I owned the Sega cart) was a puzzle game that had a Pac-Man eating what the instruction manual called "ghosts" but what the game's high score table called "MONS.", short for monsters.
Lots of little chopped up sentences, vocab of about 100 words...
But such a writing style does not necessarily suggest early adolescence. When people talk, they don't talk in paragraphs. Instead, they talk in short "idea packets" of about seven words each. Record yourself in conversation, on a tape or on your computer. Count how long your phrases are. Count how many sentences you complete vs. how many fragments you leave. Count how many unique words you use. You may be surprised.
Then why don't you hook up your computer to your widescreen TV and your surround sound?
Because the screen layouts for PC games aren't designed to look good in 480i. Try to play a PC game through your TV out card or a scan-converter, and most of the time, the text comes out so small it's unreadable. Console games since the NES use the equivalent of about 18 point text for readability on a TV; some PC games have text as small as 10 points in speech balloons, status bars, menus, etc.
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I guess that when PT Barnum said (quoted?) there was a sucker born every minute, he was a pessimist. It's more like one a second.
There average three human babies born every second. Childhood mortality in some areas of the world reduces this to about two babies who live to see their twentieth birthday. Given that there is no correlation between childhood mortality and being a sucker, your estimation claims that half of all grown-ups are suckers.
A splash page, properly compressed, can come in at under 40k.
Assume that a "56K" v.90 connection actually connects at about 40 kbps on a typical telephone line. After taking 20 percent off the top for TCP/IP overhead, that's 32 kbps, or 4 KB per second.
I do NOT want to spend 10 seconds waiting for your interstitial to load.
The runtime gettext support (libintl) is distributed under the LGPL.
Twirlip of the Mists has claimed that even the LGPL is incompatible with the APSL.
I wonder if the Norwegians set a deadline for MS
How about "before our kids become too familiar with OpenOffice.org, which we are deploying in schools as you read this?" How would Microsoft react to such a formulation of a deadline?
Congratulations, you have just reinvented (a small part of) GNU gettext package! Seriously, why not just use existing and much better solutions? ... you don't have any licensing issues
GNU gettext is licensed under the viral GNU General Public License, which precludes its use in proprietary software or in free software under a GPL incompatible license. I don't know whether or not gettext provides an exception (couldn't find it in two minutes on Google without actually downloading the entire package), and even then, I'm not sure that even the GPL with the exception used in the Guile and libgnat licenses would be compatible with some viral but not "free" licenses such as the APSL.
This is why GUI's should not written using fixed coordinates. Instead, size-adaptive GUI's should be the norm.
That will work in most cases, but then how do you expect to fit larger foreign text on a fixed-size PDA screen? Put scroll bars on dialog boxes? Spend beaucoup bucks redesigning every dialog box in the program?
but "highly evolved"? What does that even mean?
Human beings have more capability to reason in the abstract than most other animals. How this makes them "higher" is anybody's guess.
rest peacefully in their graves.
Copyright can be transferred in a will.
The film is *old.* There are no copyright holders.
Any film first published on or after January 1, 1923, is still under copyright. You can thank the late Sonny Bono for that.
you are not within your rights to break that code.
Other than the (questionably constitutional) DMCA and foreign counterparts, what law takes away my right to break the code on works of which I have purchased a genuine copy?
but my tosh is running like a champ.
What do you call a program that lets you run software designed for Apple computers on a Toshiba computer?
Mac-In-Tosh!
Download the entire PG opus
So what happens when the English language has changed so much that only scholars can read English texts of the period covered by Project Gutenberg (primarily 1700-1922)? In A.D. 2401, how will PG get the money to fund a public-domain translation of those works from 19th century English to 25th century English? At this rate, there probably won't be any new works available because of the Sonny Bono Act, the Chastity Bono Act, and who knows what she'll name her kids.
Why the hell can't I get a 15" 1600x1200 DESKTOP LCD Monitor???
Because screens above 100 dpi don't work well with poorly written but popular Windows applications that assume you're running in Small Fonts.
I guess he's ok if the UK never passes a law like the DMCA
Watch out. The UK has had a DMCA since 1998.
your attempt to post a link to furry pr0n
It's not porn. She's wearing normal[1] clothes and not acting in an overtly sexual manner.
"No website configured"
It's back up now...
[1] "Normal" for a furry character must be taken in the context of the ambient culture.
Hell has no furry like a woman scorned for Sega.
Furry? Woman? Sega? Like this?
Oh, you meant fury.
A guy named "David" runs a group whose name starts "Mothers Against..."
Likewise, a guy named "Victor" and a guy named "Fred" run the web site for a group whose name starts "Daughters of the..."
I know this is blatantly off-topic, but does anyone here know where I can get a description of the physical interface for a GBA screen?
Perhaps the gbadev mailing list would be a better place to ask this. It's mostly a programming list, but some hardware hackers may hang out there as well.
The FSF "Everything must work with the GPL or else" is a very... Seatle Corporation perspective.
Which Seattle corporation? This one, or the one down the street?
There are some bugs in the English language(s)
Fact: In both GBA software development and spoken language development, it's easier to avoid bugs if you Keep It Simple Stupid. For example, if a language has only 120 words, how can anybody screw that up?
I love the way this is pitched as being a "development system". It's a flash device....with common uses being to trade pirated games online and download them to your GBA.
I love the way the VCR is pitched as being a "timeshifting system". It's a video recorder...with common uses being to trade pirated television shows and movies with friends and download them to your TV.
In other words, these GBA flash cartridges have substantial non-infringing uses, such as to put multiple programs onto one cartridge and to act as a platform on which to test homebrew GBA programs such as TOD. The decisions in Sony v. Universal (the Betamax VCR case) and RIAA v. Diamond (the Rio MP3 player case) have affirmed the right of Americans to time-shift, space-shift, and format-shift copyrighted works, provided that such copies are not distributed to others, granted by exceptions in copyright law such as fair use (17 USC 107).
I remember in Dragonball where Goku asked a policeman where Bulma lived and the policeman could call up a picture for every person named Bulma in the city and helped him find her. Impossible with the rights some people want.
Such a law is almost necessary in the different cultures of the fictional worlds in which animated television takes place. In many of those cultures, a character's face is his or her surname, and the residents of the world do not consider having pictures of everybody in town to constitute privacy violation. Likewise, whether Microsoft software violates its users' privacy depends entirely on ambient culture.
(Aside: Know why the dubbing is so bad on some animated films and series? Easy. People in fictional worlds that have never had contact with white America would have no reason to speak English.)
so the pathetic 2600 cartridge caused an entire generation to be confused about exactly what's chasing poor Pac.
Pac-Attack for Sega Genesis (and also Super NES, but I owned the Sega cart) was a puzzle game that had a Pac-Man eating what the instruction manual called "ghosts" but what the game's high score table called "MONS.", short for monsters.
My, how even cartoon Link changes from game to game.
Lots of little chopped up sentences, vocab of about 100 words...
But such a writing style does not necessarily suggest early adolescence. When people talk, they don't talk in paragraphs. Instead, they talk in short "idea packets" of about seven words each. Record yourself in conversation, on a tape or on your computer. Count how long your phrases are. Count how many sentences you complete vs. how many fragments you leave. Count how many unique words you use. You may be surprised.
Then why don't you hook up your computer to your widescreen TV and your surround sound?
Because the screen layouts for PC games aren't designed to look good in 480i. Try to play a PC game through your TV out card or a scan-converter, and most of the time, the text comes out so small it's unreadable. Console games since the NES use the equivalent of about 18 point text for readability on a TV; some PC games have text as small as 10 points in speech balloons, status bars, menus, etc.