Not all computers that you come in contact with will be able to write to CD-RW discs. More can write to generic USB storage than to CD-RW. Heck, older CD-ROM drives produced up until USB became widespread can't even read CD-RW.
CD-RW, on the other hand, is more likely to be bootable than USB storage.
A company that acts amorally, as all public corporations are required to do in their shareholders' interests, eventually will perform both actions that the general public regards as moral and actions that the general public regards as immoral. For example, the Walt Disney Company is only trying to increase its bottom line, but look at what happened.
Gimp was still missing features as basic as a k-line selection tool
What's a "k-line selection tool"? That sounds like something that would fit in a graphical program for configuring an IRC server. A quick Google query pulls up nothing relevant to the discussion of image editors.
Did you mean "polygon selection tool"? GIMP has that; it looks like a calligraphic pen with a short curve coming out of it, and the curve has a small box that vector drawing program users may recognize as a "control point." Its tooltip is "Select regions using Bezier curves", and its default hotkey is 'b'. Draw your polygon by clicking (or draw your Bezier shape by dragging from each on-curve control point to an off-curve control point), and then click inside the polygon to select its contents.
Adobe should do something like Alias|Wavefront does with Maya - release a free, 90% functionality version
I don't know about free, but Adobe does sell a 90% functionality version of Photoshop for $100 for one seat. Photoshop Elements includes just about everything in Photoshop except for high-end prepress features, without watermarks. It's more than enough for photoshopping your face onto somebody elses body or photoshopping "All your base are belong to us" onto a Chick-fil-A ad. In overall capability, it's a bit above GIMP but below the full version of Photoshop.
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black
guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the
U.S. of arrogance,Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are
named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' Need I say more?
Life is measured relative to the ecosystem in which we live in[1]. Can you suggest a mechanism by which an intelligent robot would be physically self-modifying within our ecosystem? No? Then we probably don't need to answer the question for another 20 years.
I fail to see how this is relevant though, trees are not noted for walking about
Did you forget to read the LOTR topic? You sound like you could use some ent-ertainment.
I am unable to have children, by your definition that makes me dead.
So? Can you figure out how an intelligent robot could in theory
[1] Grammar national socialists: Please listen to "Live and Let Die" by Paul McCartney before responding.
Food, water, and air can be procured wirelessly without causing excessive pollution, and human beings can repair themselves given the raw materials in some foods. Even if fuel cell technology powered an intelligent robot, how would it repair itself?
Our current legal system equates the human species with Constitutional rights under law.
This is entirely a matter of immigration law. The Constitution states that any naturalized "person" is a U.S. citizen, and if corporations can become "persons," it would seem that anything goes. To convince legal types, show them the end of the movie Short Circuit 2.
I wouldn't be surprised if they actually use Enterprised Objects Framework for that.
No, they used WinCarbon. The iTunes app is a Carbon app, not a Cocoa app. Apple originally produced WinCarbon to make something to run QuickTime on top of, and the knowledge of what is portable and what isn't shaped the Mac OS X implementation of Carbon.
The Li-Ion batteries these days are so small and light, they could easily double or triple the battery size while keeping it all under 10lbs. It's really a no-brainer. I don't know why more companies don't do it.
There exist universal laptop batteries that fit under the laptop's case and plug into the pretty-much-standard 18V jack at the back of the laptop.
many people (including myself) have decided to have a laptop as our sole computer. They are so powerful now that there's no need to waste space on a big computer desk. That's why we are interested in fast processors and lots of memory, just the same way people want those things in desktop machines.
(looks at the back of his desktop PC)
Sure, Ethernet is internal now, and storage devices and video inputs can be made into FireWire or high-speed USB breakout boxes, but are you interested in fast 3D video? I don't think that's been done over FireWire, USB, or Ethernet in the consumer sphere; almost all 3D cards sold at Best Buy and Circuit City are designed to fit in a desktop PC's AGP slot.
The ability to record hundreds of megabytes of audio directly to RAM means you can spin down the hard drive and have an incredibly quiet computer. See my other comment for details.
Movies I can almost agree with. Audio recording, on the other hand, seems like a good application for a notebook computer. A laptop is quieter than a desktop computer, largely because its power supply is usually external and passively cooled, and its processor can usually be set to slow down and run under passive cooling (i.e. no fan). This leaves only a hard disk as a noise source, but with 512 MB of RAM, assuming the machine's desktop environment takes 1/4 of that, the machine can still record over half an hour straight of 16 bit stereo 48 kHz linear PCM audio without spinning up the disk. Real-time FLAC encoding may double that.
Is there some sort of long-term difference legally between a settlement reached before or after the lawsuit is filed?
Difference number 1: Under the "new way," the court doesn't get the initial filing fee that the plaintiff would pay under the "old way." Conspiracy theorists, take this as you may.
But don't a few RIAA member labels' parent companies also own music publishers? You know, the kind that can sue you if you record and distribute a cover of a popular song or even if you subconsciously copy a motive from a popular song when writing your own song?
By comparing this [floor pressure] data with the music being played (some FFT magic going on here with beat detection) we finally got out a magic number saying how much people were dancing in tune.
Could you use it to display PERFECT!!, GREAT!, GOOD, Boo, or Miss... on the walls?
Inherent resolution problems create no problem. PocketNES runs 60fps whether in scaled mode (240x160 window on the NES's 256x240 pixel display) or unscaled mode (a fixed 240x213 window of the NES display, shrunk down to 240x160 with GBA hardware assistance).
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Not all computers that you come in contact with will be able to write to CD-RW discs. More can write to generic USB storage than to CD-RW. Heck, older CD-ROM drives produced up until USB became widespread can't even read CD-RW.
CD-RW, on the other hand, is more likely to be bootable than USB storage.
A company that acts amorally, as all public corporations are required to do in their shareholders' interests, eventually will perform both actions that the general public regards as moral and actions that the general public regards as immoral. For example, the Walt Disney Company is only trying to increase its bottom line, but look at what happened.
Gimp was still missing features as basic as a k-line selection tool
What's a "k-line selection tool"? That sounds like something that would fit in a graphical program for configuring an IRC server. A quick Google query pulls up nothing relevant to the discussion of image editors.
Did you mean "polygon selection tool"? GIMP has that; it looks like a calligraphic pen with a short curve coming out of it, and the curve has a small box that vector drawing program users may recognize as a "control point." Its tooltip is "Select regions using Bezier curves", and its default hotkey is 'b'. Draw your polygon by clicking (or draw your Bezier shape by dragging from each on-curve control point to an off-curve control point), and then click inside the polygon to select its contents.
Adobe should do something like Alias|Wavefront does with Maya - release a free, 90% functionality version
I don't know about free, but Adobe does sell a 90% functionality version of Photoshop for $100 for one seat. Photoshop Elements includes just about everything in Photoshop except for high-end prepress features, without watermarks. It's more than enough for photoshopping your face onto somebody elses body or photoshopping "All your base are belong to us" onto a Chick-fil-A ad. In overall capability, it's a bit above GIMP but below the full version of Photoshop.
Chris Rock put it best:
Why could it not be self modifying?
Life is measured relative to the ecosystem in which we live in[1]. Can you suggest a mechanism by which an intelligent robot would be physically self-modifying within our ecosystem? No? Then we probably don't need to answer the question for another 20 years.
I fail to see how this is relevant though, trees are not noted for walking about
Did you forget to read the LOTR topic? You sound like you could use some ent-ertainment.
I am unable to have children, by your definition that makes me dead.
So? Can you figure out how an intelligent robot could in theory
[1] Grammar national socialists: Please listen to "Live and Let Die" by Paul McCartney before responding.
Food, water, and air can be procured wirelessly without causing excessive pollution, and human beings can repair themselves given the raw materials in some foods. Even if fuel cell technology powered an intelligent robot, how would it repair itself?
Our current legal system equates the human species with Constitutional rights under law.
This is entirely a matter of immigration law. The Constitution states that any naturalized "person" is a U.S. citizen, and if corporations can become "persons," it would seem that anything goes. To convince legal types, show them the end of the movie Short Circuit 2.
With 512 MB, you can keep the recording and several undo buffers in RAM, lessening the need to waste current on spinning up the hard drive.
really great program with the "You're not american. Your exchanged american dollars is not good enough for us."
Bitch at the music publishers and record labels, who gave permission for their copyrighted works to be distributed and performed only on U.S. soil.
Why would you re-rip the files, encode to mp3
For one thing, to be able to play the recordings on a handheld player other than an Apple iPod brand player.
I wouldn't be surprised if they actually use Enterprised Objects Framework for that.
No, they used WinCarbon. The iTunes app is a Carbon app, not a Cocoa app. Apple originally produced WinCarbon to make something to run QuickTime on top of, and the knowledge of what is portable and what isn't shaped the Mac OS X implementation of Carbon.
Rendezvous works with or without DHCP. It does not require any central server like DHCP.
Most home networks are connected to the Internet. Most home network routers already serve DHCP.
A 12" screen, 900mhz laptop doesn't have the screen, CPU horsepower, or hard drive speed to make apps that take 512MB of RAM practical.
What about digital audio?
The Li-Ion batteries these days are so small and light, they could easily double or triple the battery size while keeping it all under 10lbs. It's really a no-brainer. I don't know why more companies don't do it.
There exist universal laptop batteries that fit under the laptop's case and plug into the pretty-much-standard 18V jack at the back of the laptop.
many people (including myself) have decided to have a laptop as our sole computer. They are so powerful now that there's no need to waste space on a big computer desk. That's why we are interested in fast processors and lots of memory, just the same way people want those things in desktop machines.
(looks at the back of his desktop PC)
Sure, Ethernet is internal now, and storage devices and video inputs can be made into FireWire or high-speed USB breakout boxes, but are you interested in fast 3D video? I don't think that's been done over FireWire, USB, or Ethernet in the consumer sphere; almost all 3D cards sold at Best Buy and Circuit City are designed to fit in a desktop PC's AGP slot.
What are you RUNNING home boy?
The ability to record hundreds of megabytes of audio directly to RAM means you can spin down the hard drive and have an incredibly quiet computer. See my other comment for details.
Even making movies music seems unlikely.
Movies I can almost agree with. Audio recording, on the other hand, seems like a good application for a notebook computer. A laptop is quieter than a desktop computer, largely because its power supply is usually external and passively cooled, and its processor can usually be set to slow down and run under passive cooling (i.e. no fan). This leaves only a hard disk as a noise source, but with 512 MB of RAM, assuming the machine's desktop environment takes 1/4 of that, the machine can still record over half an hour straight of 16 bit stereo 48 kHz linear PCM audio without spinning up the disk. Real-time FLAC encoding may double that.
Is there some sort of long-term difference legally between a settlement reached before or after the lawsuit is filed?
Difference number 1: Under the "new way," the court doesn't get the initial filing fee that the plaintiff would pay under the "old way." Conspiracy theorists, take this as you may.
But don't a few RIAA member labels' parent companies also own music publishers? You know, the kind that can sue you if you record and distribute a cover of a popular song or even if you subconsciously copy a motive from a popular song when writing your own song?
How is offering to retroactively license privileges under a copyright (called "offering to settle" here) unlawful?
By comparing this [floor pressure] data with the music being played (some FFT magic going on here with beat detection) we finally got out a magic number saying how much people were dancing in tune.
Could you use it to display PERFECT!!, GREAT!, GOOD, Boo, or Miss... on the walls?
i guess the gba must have some amount of hardware scaling
To put it in simple terms, it's possible to change what address the GBA's screen starts from after each scanline. This is what PocketNES uses.
Inherent resolution problems create no problem. PocketNES runs 60fps whether in scaled mode (240x160 window on the NES's 256x240 pixel display) or unscaled mode (a fixed 240x213 window of the NES display, shrunk down to 240x160 with GBA hardware assistance).
Correct. IAAGBASD[1], and the Flash2Advance carts are currently the way to go for almost anything you'd want to use a flash cart for.
[1] I am a Game Boy Advance software developer.