Please allow me to clarify what I think Graspee_Leemoor was trying to get at:
What is being done in Europe to stop [] abuses of the patent system similar to those we see in the US ? (I'm particularly thinking of the recent so-called "JPEG" fiasco).
Or perhaps you do not view them as unreasonable, but I myself see this kind of patenting of existing [] inventions or allowing patented technology into an international standard but then drastically changing the licensing terms[1] as an ethically bankrupt "revenue stream".
[1] added by yerricde to correspond more closely with the JPEG facts
You can verify forms via JS, or you can verify your form input at the server.
Or both.
Speed to process the request being inconsequential, why not do it closer to your application's code and therefore achieve [correctness and elegance benefits]?
Because the assumption that speed is inconsequential is not always valid. Yes, I agree that correctness demands that the server must check all input, and for a LAN application, a server-side-only strategy may prove beneficial, but why should I have to pay beaucoup bucks for long-haul data transfer on the part of a user who has left most of the required fields in a form empty? And why should I lose customers to the competition that does use some limited JS to provide a faster experience?
I'll gladly give up whatever conveniences JS supposedly offers
So how do I design a web system that checks a form for empty required fields without pulling a server-side page and incurring a huge delay caused by Internet latency? (Or is that one of the "conveniences" you speak of?)
if your *preferred* browser does not support the ECMA script standard, than shame on you
In other words, you recommend any web browser that fully supports the ECMAScript language and the W3C DOM. My question: What web browser would you recommend for machines that are too old to be fast enough for Mozilla, but for which the entity in charge of the budget refuses to make money available for a replacement?
NOTE: I did not say, "You are wrong." I asked, "What browser would you recommend?"
Currently it's the only program that i've found that makes encoding Vorbis.ogg files easy.
Then try OggDropXPd. It's as easy as taking your wav files and dragging them onto the fish logo.
I don't use the one step rip and encode at the same time because even though CDex runs my CD drive at 10x when ripping audio, my CPU can't encode audio that quickly. In addition, sometimes I want to edit the track to filter out hiss (more common on older masters or on guitar solo intros) or frequencies that I can't hear (such as everything above 17 kHz; I've tested myself) or to standardize the amount of silence that opens a track.
So by your definition, Internet Explorer is free software?
No, Microsoft Internet Explorer for home computers is not free, because it is available only to those who have purchased copies of an operating system that either integrates it (Microsoft Windows OS) or bundles it (Apple Mac OS).
(Yes, I know that Microsoft offers unsupported binary sparc-solaris and pa-hpux ports, but they represent an insignificant portion of the IE user base. Many times more Sun and HP workstation owners use either NS4 or Mozilla than use IE, and such machines aren't priced to the home or small business market anyway.)
[nintendo] can't make any money off of [old games] anyways.
Not even if Nintendo or Konami or Acclaim or Capcom or somebody ports old games to the new hardware? Besides, Nintendo still makes money off Mario(tm), Donkey Kong(tm), Kirby(tm), Zelda(tm), Pokemon(tm), Metroid(tm), Earthbound(tm), Star Fox(tm), F-Zero(tm) even if the new releases aren't exact ports of the old ones. (And those are just the franchises included in the first version of Super Smash Bros.)
eventually i WILL have every rom for nes,snes, gameboy or any other outdated system.
Game Boy is NOT outdated. Commercial software, virtually all of which is proprietary, is still being produced for the 8-bit Game Boy Color system and the 32-bit Game Boy Advance system.
i'm not hurting their business
The fact that you're playing Super Mario Bros. 2 on LoopyNES or FCE Ultra, or Super Mario All-Stars or Super Mario World on SNES9x, means that you're probably not buying copies of games in the Super Mario Advance series (which currently includes SMB1 for GBC and SMB2 and SMW for GBA; Yoshi's Island and SMB3 are coming soon).
The URL you gave [to a site about the Danish Central Person Registry] is ASP hosted on IIS. Additionally, I was unable to access the website using NetScape.
That's funny; I had no problem with Mozilla build 2002070908, which is nearly the same codebase as Netscape 7.0. I looked at the JavaScript code, and it looked like it tested for document.layers (NS4), document.all (IE4), and document.getElementByID (IE5.5/Mozilla) and built a workaround layer above all three APIs.
might I mention that those using modern languages and runtime environments don't need to release memory
Might I mention that on limited hardware designed to be inexpensive and run off batteries (such as a PDA or a handheld game console), just starting such runtime environments would cause an "out of memory" error?
(realizes he has potentially strayed into an offtopic flamewar about garbage collection, and makes a pitiful attempt to bring it back on topic)
Well, do you really need a national ID card just to get curbside trash collection service?
It's one thing to propose embedded memory in a paper design, and another thing entirely to get this working on silicon that sells.
A GPU with an on-die frame buffer isn't just vapor on paper. There's one in a video game console from Nintendo called the GameCube. PCs with the GameCube hardware, called Dolphin development kits, are available to a select few.
The document "Debbie Does Dallas.wmv" could not be opened, because the Secure Video Path could not be opened, because a machine level debugger is running.
Stories are probably not subject to the lameness filter (or at least they have looser filters) because an editor must approve each story by hand.
That said, I have a possible (untested) solution: Try changing each += in the inner loop to a +=""+ to force the strings to be concatenated rather than treated as numbers.
I assumed that the number of USA residents who can get residential broadband but don't was about the same as the number of people outside the USA who get broadband.
VGA passthru or Secure Video Path
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Then it's still feeding pixel data to the display driver, where it's in RAM, where it can be snooped.
Some of the early DVD decoder cards didn't place any RGB data on an AGP port or the PCI bus; they had their own display connector with a passthrough cable for the PC's video output, somewhat like what the first couple generations of Voodoo video cards did because 3dfx didn't yet have a VGA chip designed.
Or the DVD Forum could pressure Microsoft to introduce Secure DirectDraw in parallel to the current Secure Audio Path that only lets MS-signed codecs and MS-signed audio drivers touch DRM'd media. (Can NT apps running with admin privileges access arbitrary parts of RAM?)
I admit that I screwed up and mistakenly did my calculations assuming one disc. You're a lot closer than I was. However, storage device capacity in press releases is generally stated as metric gigabytes (1,000,000,000), not binary gigabytes (1,073,741,824). 90,000,000,000 bytes / 32,000 bytes/sec = 2812500 seconds.
2949120 Seconds = 49152 Hours
No, 2949120 Seconds = 49153 Minutes = 819 Hours.
But that's still a metric buttload of capacity for audio.
LotR 9 hours, Star Wars 12 hours, Potter 12 hours
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High Definition DVD
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· Score: 2
On the other hand, you may be thinking, perhaps they'll make lenghthier movies then.
You mean like Lord of the Rings (3 parts total 9 hours), Star Wars (6 parts total 12 hours), or Harry Potter (7 parts total 12 hours)?
The second ANY software is available to play it back, [it will be cracked]
Well, what if the decoder uses strong encryption (256 bit Rijndael or something), done partially in a tamper-evident hardware dongle?
How long will 90 GB of MP3 audio last?
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High Definition DVD
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· Score: 3, Informative
Are you telling me you have 90 gigs of mp3s?
Assume that three Blu-Ray discs hold 30 gigabytes each for a total of 90 gigabytes. Assume that archive-quality stereo MP3 audio takes 32 kilobytes per second (256 kbps with LAME or FhG). This makes 937500 seconds (260 hours and change) of music spread across 3 discs.
Now assume that a typical album is one hour long (some run shorter, some longer). It's not inconceivable that a collector may have purchased 260 CDs from RIAA and independent labels, not to mention some tape and vinyl that the collector has digitized and DSPd to hide the artifacts inherent in those mediums.
If you want to install a Linux system on a computer that runs Windows 2000 Professional, you should buy 1. a second hard drive (linux can't reliably write to ntfs 5) and 2. a copy of a distribution. If this is your first time using Linux on a PC workstation, I'd suggest using Mandrake or Lycoris.
Then come back and ask about upgrading your kernel if you need support for some specific devices attached to your machine.
Half the US is 2% of the world. Even if you assume that 2% of the population both can get cable or DSL to the home and is willing to pay for cable or DSL (the "willing to pay" excludes T1, which the local telco monopolies have kept high in the three figures USD by suppressing bandwidth co-ops), you shouldn't be mean to the 98% who can't get it.
If you are running 2.4.14 to 2.4.18, don't download the entire Linux kernel. Download the patches from the old tree to the new tree; they're smaller.
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Please allow me to clarify what I think Graspee_Leemoor was trying to get at:
What is being done in Europe to stop [] abuses of the patent system similar to those we see in the US ? (I'm particularly thinking of the recent so-called "JPEG" fiasco).
Or perhaps you do not view them as unreasonable, but I myself see this kind of patenting of existing [] inventions or allowing patented technology into an international standard but then drastically changing the licensing terms[1] as an ethically bankrupt "revenue stream".
[1] added by yerricde to correspond more closely with the JPEG facts
special pop-up ad to let you know of their new commitment to customer satisfaction
Here's my speculation about what such a popup would look like:
And then after 3 impressions for an account, it disappears.
You can verify forms via JS, or you can verify your form input at the server.
Or both.
Speed to process the request being inconsequential, why not do it closer to your application's code and therefore achieve [correctness and elegance benefits]?
Because the assumption that speed is inconsequential is not always valid. Yes, I agree that correctness demands that the server must check all input, and for a LAN application, a server-side-only strategy may prove beneficial, but why should I have to pay beaucoup bucks for long-haul data transfer on the part of a user who has left most of the required fields in a form empty? And why should I lose customers to the competition that does use some limited JS to provide a faster experience?
I'll gladly give up whatever conveniences JS supposedly offers
So how do I design a web system that checks a form for empty required fields without pulling a server-side page and incurring a huge delay caused by Internet latency? (Or is that one of the "conveniences" you speak of?)
if your *preferred* browser does not support the ECMA script standard, than shame on you
In other words, you recommend any web browser that fully supports the ECMAScript language and the W3C DOM. My question: What web browser would you recommend for machines that are too old to be fast enough for Mozilla, but for which the entity in charge of the budget refuses to make money available for a replacement?
NOTE: I did not say, "You are wrong." I asked, "What browser would you recommend?"
you could do something silly like reducing your RAM to 32 megs and then putting your swap file on one of those "two IDE cable" disks
Microsoft Windows Palladium Edition will have an encrypted swap file.
Currently it's the only program that i've found that makes encoding Vorbis .ogg files easy.
Then try OggDropXPd. It's as easy as taking your wav files and dragging them onto the fish logo.
I don't use the one step rip and encode at the same time because even though CDex runs my CD drive at 10x when ripping audio, my CPU can't encode audio that quickly. In addition, sometimes I want to edit the track to filter out hiss (more common on older masters or on guitar solo intros) or frequencies that I can't hear (such as everything above 17 kHz; I've tested myself) or to standardize the amount of silence that opens a track.
So by your definition, Internet Explorer is free software?
No, Microsoft Internet Explorer for home computers is not free, because it is available only to those who have purchased copies of an operating system that either integrates it (Microsoft Windows OS) or bundles it (Apple Mac OS).
(Yes, I know that Microsoft offers unsupported binary sparc-solaris and pa-hpux ports, but they represent an insignificant portion of the IE user base. Many times more Sun and HP workstation owners use either NS4 or Mozilla than use IE, and such machines aren't priced to the home or small business market anyway.)
[nintendo] can't make any money off of [old games] anyways.
Not even if Nintendo or Konami or Acclaim or Capcom or somebody ports old games to the new hardware? Besides, Nintendo still makes money off Mario(tm), Donkey Kong(tm), Kirby(tm), Zelda(tm), Pokemon(tm), Metroid(tm), Earthbound(tm), Star Fox(tm), F-Zero(tm) even if the new releases aren't exact ports of the old ones. (And those are just the franchises included in the first version of Super Smash Bros.)
eventually i WILL have every rom for nes,snes, gameboy or any other outdated system.
Game Boy is NOT outdated. Commercial software, virtually all of which is proprietary, is still being produced for the 8-bit Game Boy Color system and the 32-bit Game Boy Advance system.
i'm not hurting their business
The fact that you're playing Super Mario Bros. 2 on LoopyNES or FCE Ultra, or Super Mario All-Stars or Super Mario World on SNES9x, means that you're probably not buying copies of games in the Super Mario Advance series (which currently includes SMB1 for GBC and SMB2 and SMW for GBA; Yoshi's Island and SMB3 are coming soon).
The URL you gave [to a site about the Danish Central Person Registry] is ASP hosted on IIS. Additionally, I was unable to access the website using NetScape.
That's funny; I had no problem with Mozilla build 2002070908, which is nearly the same codebase as Netscape 7.0. I looked at the JavaScript code, and it looked like it tested for document.layers (NS4), document.all (IE4), and document.getElementByID (IE5.5/Mozilla) and built a workaround layer above all three APIs.
might I mention that those using modern languages and runtime environments don't need to release memory
Might I mention that on limited hardware designed to be inexpensive and run off batteries (such as a PDA or a handheld game console), just starting such runtime environments would cause an "out of memory" error?
(realizes he has potentially strayed into an offtopic flamewar about garbage collection, and makes a pitiful attempt to bring it back on topic)
Well, do you really need a national ID card just to get curbside trash collection service?
Last time I checked, GameCube is no PC.
No, but Dolphin is. Dolphin is the workstation that GameCube developers use.
What's the difference between a PC with a video card and a PC with a console on a card?
It's one thing to propose embedded memory in a paper design, and another thing entirely to get this working on silicon that sells.
A GPU with an on-die frame buffer isn't just vapor on paper. There's one in a video game console from Nintendo called the GameCube. PCs with the GameCube hardware, called Dolphin development kits, are available to a select few.
debuggers like IDA can [see raw RAM].
That doesn't matter if you get a dialog box:
The document "Debbie Does Dallas.wmv" could not be opened, because the Secure Video Path could not be opened, because a machine level debugger is running.
How did this story get past the lameness filter?
Stories are probably not subject to the lameness filter (or at least they have looser filters) because an editor must approve each story by hand.
That said, I have a possible (untested) solution: Try changing each += in the inner loop to a +=""+ to force the strings to be concatenated rather than treated as numbers.
[Broadband] exists elsewhere too, you know.
I assumed that the number of USA residents who can get residential broadband but don't was about the same as the number of people outside the USA who get broadband.
Then it's still feeding pixel data to the display driver, where it's in RAM, where it can be snooped.
Some of the early DVD decoder cards didn't place any RGB data on an AGP port or the PCI bus; they had their own display connector with a passthrough cable for the PC's video output, somewhat like what the first couple generations of Voodoo video cards did because 3dfx didn't yet have a VGA chip designed.
Or the DVD Forum could pressure Microsoft to introduce Secure DirectDraw in parallel to the current Secure Audio Path that only lets MS-signed codecs and MS-signed audio drivers touch DRM'd media. (Can NT apps running with admin privileges access arbitrary parts of RAM?)
90 GB = 92160 MB = 94371840 KB
I admit that I screwed up and mistakenly did my calculations assuming one disc. You're a lot closer than I was. However, storage device capacity in press releases is generally stated as metric gigabytes (1,000,000,000), not binary gigabytes (1,073,741,824). 90,000,000,000 bytes / 32,000 bytes/sec = 2812500 seconds.
2949120 Seconds = 49152 Hours
No, 2949120 Seconds = 49153 Minutes = 819 Hours.
But that's still a metric buttload of capacity for audio.
On the other hand, you may be thinking, perhaps they'll make lenghthier movies then.
You mean like Lord of the Rings (3 parts total 9 hours), Star Wars (6 parts total 12 hours), or Harry Potter (7 parts total 12 hours)?
The second ANY software is available to play it back, [it will be cracked]
Well, what if the decoder uses strong encryption (256 bit Rijndael or something), done partially in a tamper-evident hardware dongle?
Are you telling me you have 90 gigs of mp3s?
Assume that three Blu-Ray discs hold 30 gigabytes each for a total of 90 gigabytes. Assume that archive-quality stereo MP3 audio takes 32 kilobytes per second (256 kbps with LAME or FhG). This makes 937500 seconds (260 hours and change) of music spread across 3 discs.
Now assume that a typical album is one hour long (some run shorter, some longer). It's not inconceivable that a collector may have purchased 260 CDs from RIAA and independent labels, not to mention some tape and vinyl that the collector has digitized and DSPd to hide the artifacts inherent in those mediums.
So what do I press to install this in Win2k?
If you want to install a Linux system on a computer that runs Windows 2000 Professional, you should buy 1. a second hard drive (linux can't reliably write to ntfs 5) and 2. a copy of a distribution. If this is your first time using Linux on a PC workstation, I'd suggest using Mandrake or Lycoris.
Then come back and ask about upgrading your kernel if you need support for some specific devices attached to your machine.
You have been helped :-)
about half the US [has broadband]?
Half the US is 2% of the world. Even if you assume that 2% of the population both can get cable or DSL to the home and is willing to pay for cable or DSL (the "willing to pay" excludes T1, which the local telco monopolies have kept high in the three figures USD by suppressing bandwidth co-ops), you shouldn't be mean to the 98% who can't get it.
If you are running 2.4.14 to 2.4.18, don't download the entire Linux kernel. Download the patches from the old tree to the new tree; they're smaller.
Insert standard Insert-Standard-Wisecrack wisecrack...
A car returns the first element of a list. A cdr returns the remaining elements.
Or if you have no interest in Scheme or Common Lisp, a car is a transportation device, and a cdr is a backup medium.