you ever use a N64 controller. I swear who ever designed it had 3 hands.
Not necessarily. The third handle of an N64 controller was designed to center both the pad and the stick under the left thumb (by moving your left hand), avoiding the problems that PS2 analog games have (hard to position the sticks accurately because they're so far away from the hand) and the problems that GameCube/Xbox digital games have (hard to reach the pad because it's so far away from the hand).
The Xbox controller is a Dreamcast controller with a GameCube C-stick and two extra buttons.
it. I have vivid momories of stuggling playing "bond" freshmen year since you had to fight the controller as well.
I don't remember having to fight the controller in GoldenEye 007 once I set it to Solitaire (the setting that's like Turok). It actually had pretty good control for a console game (that is, without keyboard and mouse).
MMPORPGs the biggest example, cost anywhere from $8-15/month per game.
MMORPGs are compatible with dial-up Internet access. Xbox Live isn't. Xbox Live costs $44 per month ($40 for broadband and $4 for Xbox Live).
Personally I think this will really take off, the main limitation being the relative scarcity of people with broadband access(compared to those with dial-up).
Which is why I include the cost of "MSN Broadband" Internet access in the price of Xbox Live when I explain the situation to people.
$50 for the starter kit which includes: Headset... game... One year of XBox Live play
Even then, you're less than 10 percent along the way to being able to use Xbox Live. Because Xbox Live is not compatible with dial-up Internet connection, you also have to pay MSN (or some other broadband provider) $480 per year for each physical location where you will be playing games. That adds up to $530 per year.
What they should really do is put a lien on his earnings for X years.
How long would a lien have to last in order to recover the actual damages, even if actual damages are estimated at 1 percent of the retail price of the pirated software?
2) use of propietary software and a non-tcp/ip stack (irrelevant to their target customers)
This has become true only since AOL developed a stack for the Linux operating system. No, not Linux the geek OS but Linux the inexpensive OS for entry-level computer users who don't want to pay for a $200 Windows license in addition to a $200 computer. That helps explain the Lindows deal: AOL recognized a new market and targeted it.
a convicted warez dude setting up a "FREE SOFTWARE Mirror Project has to attract some attention
Attention != negative attention. The more attention Tresco attracts to FSMP, the less the free software community will get burned if OSDN's service happens to go under.
In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged the weak, evil people blamed the competition when they couldn't make a profit. The strong, motivated people, when they found themselves not making a profit, blamed themselves and did their best to improve.
I haven't read Atlas Shrugged. What happened to people who were motivated but physically or mentally weak (the vodka is good but the meat is rotten) through no fault of their own? Did they succeed?
There are *very* few crimes that don't require some intent.
Unfortunately, copyright infringement (although not in Tresco's case) is one of them. In the USA, a legal precedent exists that it's possible to unknowingly infringe a copyright on a musical work by creating an original melody that's "substantially similar" to an existing work under a subsisting copyright. Another precedent found "substantial similarity" in four notes. Even though a copyright case is most often a civil action, you still go to jail for not paying $150,000 statutory damages that you can't afford.
A copyright term subject to extension of subsisting copyrights by 20 years every 20 years is in no way a limited time. Name one computer program that has fallen into the public domain upon expiration of a copyright term.
If you can't get your software from 0 to at least barely usable in nine days, then wait for blender.org to go live on October 13. My $10 helped; did yours?
We take digital photographs with no regard to the fact that the formats might be locking us out of access to our own work
Oh really? JPEG 1 is a mature standard, and nobody seriously claims any restrictions on it. Even Forgent's claim has been shot down. If you want lossless, use PNG.
or that the storage used is rather ephemeral.
A digital image can be copied losslessly from one storage medium to the next.
I'm just waiting for the XGalaga developers to get a cease-and-desist letter from Namco's legal department for diluting the trademark "Galaga" for computer video games.
Not all AOL members use America Online service because they have a problem with computers. Some just don't have the $200,000 needed to move to a town where AOL isn't the only dial-up Internet access option, or where Time Warner Cable doesn't have a monopoly on cable Internet access.
which assumes that your processor has vector units, and that your compiler is smart enough to know about them.
PowerPC G4 has "AltiVec" brand vector units. AMD processors from K6-2 on up have "3DNow!" brand vector units. Sony PS2 Linux boxen have "Emotion Engine" brand vector units. Intel processors from Pentium 1.5 on up have "MMX" brand vector units.
You compare Fortran 2000 to supposedly "dead" spoken languages with Microsoft version numbers after them.
Fortran is not dead. It is still used for numerical computation because its default pointer aliasing rules allow. C only picked up similar aliasing rules in C99, which no common compiler fully supports yet.
Latin is not dead. It simply became Italian, with forks turning into Romanian, Spanish, and French, and then Portuguese, Sardinian, and several other languages forking in turn from those.
Greek is not dead. What the heck do you think they speak in Greece?
Forgivable. A common nick such as "beowulfcluster" might appear on several systems with vastly different personalities behind that nick. On the other hand, a distinctive nick such as "yerricde" (my old nick) or "tepples" (my new nick) is more likely to correspond to a unique person.
shouldn't you at least use 4 durations
A duration is the time offset from the onset of one note to the onset, divided by the time offset called "whole note" by the tempo track. The final note has no next note.
since each note can have a different duration than the other 3
The last note does not have a duration because "Hallelujah": long, short, short, final. "Yes, we have no": long, short, short, final. Taking four notes in isolation, it is impossible to assign a duration to the last note without taking staccati into the model as well, something a judge is not likely to do because judges 1. aren't musicologists and 2. are looking for "substantial similarity".
Your dismissal of triplets as 'trivial'
Those are multiple births, not a slight increase in tempo to fit more notes into the same space.
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you ever use a N64 controller. I swear who ever designed it had 3 hands.
Not necessarily. The third handle of an N64 controller was designed to center both the pad and the stick under the left thumb (by moving your left hand), avoiding the problems that PS2 analog games have (hard to position the sticks accurately because they're so far away from the hand) and the problems that GameCube/Xbox digital games have (hard to reach the pad because it's so far away from the hand).
The Xbox controller is a Dreamcast controller with a GameCube C-stick and two extra buttons.
it. I have vivid momories of stuggling playing "bond" freshmen year since you had to fight the controller as well.
I don't remember having to fight the controller in GoldenEye 007 once I set it to Solitaire (the setting that's like Turok). It actually had pretty good control for a console game (that is, without keyboard and mouse).
MMPORPGs the biggest example, cost anywhere from $8-15/month per game.
MMORPGs are compatible with dial-up Internet access. Xbox Live isn't. Xbox Live costs $44 per month ($40 for broadband and $4 for Xbox Live).
Personally I think this will really take off, the main limitation being the relative scarcity of people with broadband access(compared to those with dial-up).
Which is why I include the cost of "MSN Broadband" Internet access in the price of Xbox Live when I explain the situation to people.
$50 for the starter kit which includes: Headset ... game ... One year of XBox Live play
Even then, you're less than 10 percent along the way to being able to use Xbox Live. Because Xbox Live is not compatible with dial-up Internet connection, you also have to pay MSN (or some other broadband provider) $480 per year for each physical location where you will be playing games. That adds up to $530 per year.
What they should really do is put a lien on his earnings for X years.
How long would a lien have to last in order to recover the actual damages, even if actual damages are estimated at 1 percent of the retail price of the pirated software?
2) use of propietary software and a non-tcp/ip stack (irrelevant to their target customers)
This has become true only since AOL developed a stack for the Linux operating system. No, not Linux the geek OS but Linux the inexpensive OS for entry-level computer users who don't want to pay for a $200 Windows license in addition to a $200 computer. That helps explain the Lindows deal: AOL recognized a new market and targeted it.
a convicted warez dude setting up a "FREE SOFTWARE Mirror Project has to attract some attention
Attention != negative attention. The more attention Tresco attracts to FSMP, the less the free software community will get burned if OSDN's service happens to go under.
In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged the weak, evil people blamed the competition when they couldn't make a profit. The strong, motivated people, when they found themselves not making a profit, blamed themselves and did their best to improve.
I haven't read Atlas Shrugged. What happened to people who were motivated but physically or mentally weak (the vodka is good but the meat is rotten) through no fault of their own? Did they succeed?
they don't share their files. They shutdown the program
What good is keeping the program open if a user is no longer dialed into the Internet?
There are *very* few crimes that don't require some intent.
Unfortunately, copyright infringement (although not in Tresco's case) is one of them. In the USA, a legal precedent exists that it's possible to unknowingly infringe a copyright on a musical work by creating an original melody that's "substantially similar" to an existing work under a subsisting copyright. Another precedent found "substantial similarity" in four notes. Even though a copyright case is most often a civil action, you still go to jail for not paying $150,000 statutory damages that you can't afford.
it's interesting to see that he's planning on using his skills to help distribution of free software with the "Free Software Mirror Project".
That'll help if OSDN tanks and takes its mirror with it.
a monopoly on his creation for a limited time
A copyright term subject to extension of subsisting copyrights by 20 years every 20 years is in no way a limited time. Name one computer program that has fallen into the public domain upon expiration of a copyright term.
free the mouse
The only issue is potentially noise but that is MUCH better than film with the CMOS sensors.
If you expose for the highlights = (255,255,255), won't quantization at the lowest signal levels (0 to 15) kill shadow detail?
you need some sort of mechanical device, perhaps one useful for motion. You should try a roundish shape
That's called a wheel, and it's been patented (PDF).
Wait 3 months [and] Purchase 3D Studio Max
If you can't get your software from 0 to at least barely usable in nine days, then wait for blender.org to go live on October 13. My $10 helped; did yours?
Yeah, but one scratch to a CD or DVD, or a HD crash, or your stupid kid deleting the wrong thing, can wipe out hundreds or thousands of pics.
What happens if a negative gets scratched? Of course I lock my CD-Rs in a safe place, just like most serious photographers keep their negatives.
We take digital photographs with no regard to the fact that the formats might be locking us out of access to our own work
Oh really? JPEG 1 is a mature standard, and nobody seriously claims any restrictions on it. Even Forgent's claim has been shot down. If you want lossless, use PNG.
or that the storage used is rather ephemeral.
A digital image can be copied losslessly from one storage medium to the next.
flexibility in color response
To get increased dynamic range in digital, you can do the following:
Since when is XGalaga a silly game?
I'm just waiting for the XGalaga developers to get a cease-and-desist letter from Namco's legal department for diluting the trademark "Galaga" for computer video games.
But AOL Losers are computer impaired.
Not all AOL members use America Online service because they have a problem with computers. Some just don't have the $200,000 needed to move to a town where AOL isn't the only dial-up Internet access option, or where Time Warner Cable doesn't have a monopoly on cable Internet access.
which assumes that your processor has vector units, and that your compiler is smart enough to know about them.
PowerPC G4 has "AltiVec" brand vector units. AMD processors from K6-2 on up have "3DNow!" brand vector units. Sony PS2 Linux boxen have "Emotion Engine" brand vector units. Intel processors from Pentium 1.5 on up have "MMX" brand vector units.
Does GCC perform vectorization?
When was Pascal ever "alive?"
Ask Borland.
FortranXP.. part of the Fortran.NET initiative.
Fortran for .NET is real.
That was just the first result from this Google search.
You compare Fortran 2000 to supposedly "dead" spoken languages with Microsoft version numbers after them.
Fortran is not dead. It is still used for numerical computation because its default pointer aliasing rules allow. C only picked up similar aliasing rules in C99, which no common compiler fully supports yet.
Latin is not dead. It simply became Italian, with forks turning into Romanian, Spanish, and French, and then Portuguese, Sardinian, and several other languages forking in turn from those.
Greek is not dead. What the heck do you think they speak in Greece?
I didn't realize you wrote the article
Forgivable. A common nick such as "beowulfcluster" might appear on several systems with vastly different personalities behind that nick. On the other hand, a distinctive nick such as "yerricde" (my old nick) or "tepples" (my new nick) is more likely to correspond to a unique person.
shouldn't you at least use 4 durations
A duration is the time offset from the onset of one note to the onset, divided by the time offset called "whole note" by the tempo track. The final note has no next note.
since each note can have a different duration than the other 3
The last note does not have a duration because "Hallelujah": long, short, short, final. "Yes, we have no": long, short, short, final. Taking four notes in isolation, it is impossible to assign a duration to the last note without taking staccati into the model as well, something a judge is not likely to do because judges 1. aren't musicologists and 2. are looking for "substantial similarity".
Your dismissal of triplets as 'trivial'
Those are multiple births, not a slight increase in tempo to fit more notes into the same space.
FLAC is champagne, and mp3 is beer.
Ogg is quality beer, and MP3 is Bud beer. How is Bud beer like repairing your filesystem on a boat? They're both fscking close to water.