Thats when I knew Nintendo lied to us about saying the amount of ROM space was the main culpret behind not having bigger games.
The NES has had bankswitching since the CNROM days. The limiting factor during the "ROM shortage" was the cost of replicating mask ROMs with larger capacity; at the time, Nintendo didn't want to price Game Paks at 80 USD MSRP. Cost was also the issue in Square's decision to publish Final Fantasy VII for a CD-based system instead of the Nintendo 64; what Square wanted to do with the game couldn't be accomplished in the 128-Mibit (16-MiB) N64 carts that were affordable to replicate.
If Unicode is dead, what else should one use? What widely used character encoding, other than a popular Unicode encoding, supports English, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Korean, Russian (Cyrillic script), Hindi (Devanagari script), and Greek?
So basically Yahoo! are moving from an interpreted language written in C, to an interpreted language written in C. Woo hoo.
A major web site with millions of viewers is moving from a proprietary framework to a commodity framework. This shows how mature this particular commodity framework is.
Aren't all characters in PHP 8 bits? What about internationalization?
Ask Google and you shall receive. PHP seems to support UTF-8, and the developers hope to have more extensive internationalization ready by version 5.0.
Maybe normal people don't know wtf binaries, rpms, tar, xzf etc. are.
Why can't a web page say "if you are running a popular GNU/Linux distribution on a use a Dell, Gateway, or other PC with an Intel or AMD processor, then download this RPM file, right-click the file you downloaded, and then choose Install"?
Al Gore didn't invent the "net" part of the Internet (the technological side, including IP, TCP, and the common application protocols), but he did sit on the board that invented the "Inter" part (connecting local area networks into one nationwide, and later global, network).
United States copyright law lists the categories of copyrighted works in 17 USC 102. OK, I forgot dramatic works; I'll give you that. But has PG begun to preserve "musical works []; pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works; motion pictures and other audiovisual works; sound recordings; and architectural works"? I thought PG etexts were plain ASCII text.
We haven't even scratched the surface on mathematical and scientific works.
The rationale surrounding legal questions in Ask Slashdot can be summed up: "To those who have been in this situation and talked to an attorney, what has (s)he told you?" Secondhand legal advice is often useful for preparing oneself in order not to waste billable time making a fool of oneself in front of an attorney.
I believe both you and the parent poster are confusing "Non-Disclousure Agreements", which covers the disclosure of technologies worked on, and "Non-Compete Agreements", which make some attempt to forbid you from working in the same field in the same area.
The inevitable disclosure doctrine creates heavy overlap between non-disclosure agreements and non-compete agreements. There is a presumption that an employee moving from one employer to a competitor will inevitably carry at least some trade secrets with him.
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Most of them also have clauses releasing you when the NDA-covered topic becomes public knowledge.
In-house software never becomes public knowledge. The source code of proprietary software never becomes public knowledge. Thus, waiting for a trade secret to become "public knowledge" doesn't always work.
The NDAs that I've signed were limited in time and have expired.
I thought "limited Times" in the European Union meant life plus 70 years. At least this is the case for copyrights; trade secrets (the subject of NDAs) are probably different.
What happens when Project Gutenberg has finally digitally republished all known literary works in the English language that were first published on or before 1922? Where does PG go once it hits the wall, which thanks to pgdp.net might even come within my lifetime?
Peer-to-peer has a couple problems relating to discovery and communication through firewalls. If a user's IP address changes every two hours, how are other users supposed to locate this user to send messages to him? You need a central server to locate them, whether this server be a DNS server, an IM server, or whatever. And how can communication work between two hosts that cannot accept incoming TCP connections nor receive UDP packets? There has to be a non-firewalled relay, and this is an IM server.
Folks we really do not need to run DOS applications any more. If we do couldn't we emulate them.
Such emulation is feasible, as shown by DOSBox and Bochs. Have you donated yet?
The idea that in 30 years we will be runing some mutant 128 bit X86 chip makes my skin crawl.
Having a small instruction coding saves on instruction memory bandwidth. An x86 (Intel) or Thumb (ARM) instruction may weigh in at about 16 bits, while an Itanic instruction is a massive 128/3 bits.
The biggest feature [of AMD's K9] will be that it contains multiple cores.
And if K9 technology ever trickles down to home users, how are they going to afford Microsoft's asking price for licenses of multiprocessor compatible versions of the Windows OS? Or will AMD contribute to Wine to get legacy (i.e. Win32) apps to run on an affordable operating system?
iTunes is a complex Cocoa application. iTunes was ported to Windows. What's the easiest way to do this, both development-wise and especially maintenance-wise? Port Cocoa to Windows.
As others have remarked in response to your comment, s/Cocoa/Carbon/g and this becomes true. IIRC, Apple ported Carbon to Windows a long time ago as part of the process that produced QuickTime for Windows, and Carbon was initially defined as those parts of the Mac OS toolbox that are in fact portable to another operating system.
As long as the Mac has a USB connector on the motherboard, you can run Mac OS X and iTunes. Unfortunately, my Mac is too old (fall 1995) to be of use in the New World.
MPEG-1 Audio layer 3 in an MPEG container is compatible with more handheld music players than MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Codec in an Apple DRM container.
That said, I do all my ripping with CDex to PCM.wav files and then process them from there. I'm not an audiophile, so wav -> nominally 160 kbps Ogg -> 96 kbps mono MP3 doesn't introduce any unacceptable artifacts that I can hear.
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Thats when I knew Nintendo lied to us about saying the amount of ROM space was the main culpret behind not having bigger games.
The NES has had bankswitching since the CNROM days. The limiting factor during the "ROM shortage" was the cost of replicating mask ROMs with larger capacity; at the time, Nintendo didn't want to price Game Paks at 80 USD MSRP. Cost was also the issue in Square's decision to publish Final Fantasy VII for a CD-based system instead of the Nintendo 64; what Square wanted to do with the game couldn't be accomplished in the 128-Mibit (16-MiB) N64 carts that were affordable to replicate.
Ever heard of "2xSaI" or "Scale2x" smart interpolation methods? I know the official Nintendo adapter doesn't have it, but the Datel kit just might...
TV cards are already available for the GBA. Some have RF receivers; others have audio/video inputs. Check lik-sang.com for more.
If Unicode is dead, what else should one use? What widely used character encoding, other than a popular Unicode encoding, supports English, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Korean, Russian (Cyrillic script), Hindi (Devanagari script), and Greek?
So basically Yahoo! are moving from an interpreted language written in C, to an interpreted language written in C. Woo hoo.
A major web site with millions of viewers is moving from a proprietary framework to a commodity framework. This shows how mature this particular commodity framework is.
Here are some reasons Slashdot runs so fast compared to some other dynamic web sites:
No, I can't think of any more reasons directly related to Perl features.
Aren't all characters in PHP 8 bits? What about internationalization?
Ask Google and you shall receive. PHP seems to support UTF-8, and the developers hope to have more extensive internationalization ready by version 5.0.
because you could always break the type abstraction.
You can do so in the Java language as well: serialize an object to a byte array, modify the byte array, and deserialize the objects.
A warning does not a type system make.
-Werror anybody? (-Werror is a GCC flag that treats C warnings as errors.)
Maybe normal people don't know wtf binaries, rpms, tar, xzf etc. are.
Why can't a web page say "if you are running a popular GNU/Linux distribution on a use a Dell, Gateway, or other PC with an Intel or AMD processor, then download this RPM file, right-click the file you downloaded, and then choose Install"?
Al Gore didn't invent the "net" part of the Internet (the technological side, including IP, TCP, and the common application protocols), but he did sit on the board that invented the "Inter" part (connecting local area networks into one nationwide, and later global, network).
What about clean room implementations
That's a lot of work. A re-implementation of Romeo and Juliet might be West Side Story.
For one thing, we don't just do literary works.
United States copyright law lists the categories of copyrighted works in 17 USC 102. OK, I forgot dramatic works; I'll give you that. But has PG begun to preserve "musical works []; pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works; motion pictures and other audiovisual works; sound recordings; and architectural works"? I thought PG etexts were plain ASCII text.
We haven't even scratched the surface on mathematical and scientific works.
Those are "literary works" under 17 USC 101.
We also haven't started on the books that weren't renewed
This is a finite set as well.
I'd like to think that we'll reverse the last copyright extension in some way or at least hold back the next one.
Wishful thinking has its purposes, but does PG have a plan B?
why don't you contact an attorney
The rationale surrounding legal questions in Ask Slashdot can be summed up: "To those who have been in this situation and talked to an attorney, what has (s)he told you?" Secondhand legal advice is often useful for preparing oneself in order not to waste billable time making a fool of oneself in front of an attorney.
I believe both you and the parent poster are confusing "Non-Disclousure Agreements", which covers the disclosure of technologies worked on, and "Non-Compete Agreements", which make some attempt to forbid you from working in the same field in the same area.
The inevitable disclosure doctrine creates heavy overlap between non-disclosure agreements and non-compete agreements. There is a presumption that an employee moving from one employer to a competitor will inevitably carry at least some trade secrets with him.
Most of them also have clauses releasing you when the NDA-covered topic becomes public knowledge.
In-house software never becomes public knowledge. The source code of proprietary software never becomes public knowledge. Thus, waiting for a trade secret to become "public knowledge" doesn't always work.
The NDAs that I've signed were limited in time and have expired.
I thought "limited Times" in the European Union meant life plus 70 years. At least this is the case for copyrights; trade secrets (the subject of NDAs) are probably different.
What happens when Project Gutenberg has finally digitally republished all known literary works in the English language that were first published on or before 1922? Where does PG go once it hits the wall, which thanks to pgdp.net might even come within my lifetime?
DVD-RAM
The most recent standard.
Actually, DVD-RAM was apparently the first.
why isn't IM a P2P thing?
Peer-to-peer has a couple problems relating to discovery and communication through firewalls. If a user's IP address changes every two hours, how are other users supposed to locate this user to send messages to him? You need a central server to locate them, whether this server be a DNS server, an IM server, or whatever. And how can communication work between two hosts that cannot accept incoming TCP connections nor receive UDP packets? There has to be a non-firewalled relay, and this is an IM server.
Folks we really do not need to run DOS applications any more. If we do couldn't we emulate them.
Such emulation is feasible, as shown by DOSBox and Bochs. Have you donated yet?
The idea that in 30 years we will be runing some mutant 128 bit X86 chip makes my skin crawl.
Having a small instruction coding saves on instruction memory bandwidth. An x86 (Intel) or Thumb (ARM) instruction may weigh in at about 16 bits, while an Itanic instruction is a massive 128/3 bits.
The biggest feature [of AMD's K9] will be that it contains multiple cores.
And if K9 technology ever trickles down to home users, how are they going to afford Microsoft's asking price for licenses of multiprocessor compatible versions of the Windows OS? Or will AMD contribute to Wine to get legacy (i.e. Win32) apps to run on an affordable operating system?
iTunes is a complex Cocoa application. iTunes was ported to Windows. What's the easiest way to do this, both development-wise and especially maintenance-wise? Port Cocoa to Windows.
As others have remarked in response to your comment, s/Cocoa/Carbon/g and this becomes true. IIRC, Apple ported Carbon to Windows a long time ago as part of the process that produced QuickTime for Windows, and Carbon was initially defined as those parts of the Mac OS toolbox that are in fact portable to another operating system.
As long as the Mac has a USB connector on the motherboard, you can run Mac OS X and iTunes. Unfortunately, my Mac is too old (fall 1995) to be of use in the New World.
MPEG-1 Audio layer 3 in an MPEG container is compatible with more handheld music players than MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Codec in an Apple DRM container.
That said, I do all my ripping with CDex to PCM .wav files and then process them from there. I'm not an audiophile, so wav -> nominally 160 kbps Ogg -> 96 kbps mono MP3 doesn't introduce any unacceptable artifacts that I can hear.
How many basic consumers do you know that will think: "Gee, when they say 128MB, that must mean 128MB _extra_ just for the software."
This was actually the case under Mac OS 6-9, whose primitive cooperative multitasking designs allocated a fixed amount of RAM to each running process.