The spiral is reversed on the disks so unless you wanna mod the drive motor to spin backwards so it can read normal disks.....
Neither the Xbox nor the GameCube spins discs backwards. The fact that their DVDs appear to have a reversed spiral is entirely because their boot sector is on the second physical layer of the disc, which goes from outside to inside, even on a "normal" DVD.
However, somebody may be able to find a loophole to boot mini-CDR's on gcn, possibly put in for debugging purposes a la Dreamcast.
To draw simple geometric shapes in GIMP: Pick a brush, select the area you want to draw (using the rectangular, elliptical, or bezier select tool) and then Edit > Stroke.
To draw complicated geometric shapes, use the included Gfig plug-in.
1) What about lyrics distributed along with the song?
Many bands already give these away for free; if not, you can usually type a few key words of the lyrics into Google and get an unauthorized lyrics page. In fact, that's how I look up artist and title so I can preview a recording on winmx before I head over to cdnow to buy it.
Videos anybody?
Not very many people have cable or DSL yet. Few college students at home over summer break have broadband because the 1-year minimum service contract makes it cost four times as much as it does to anybody else.
Making great music takes BIG money, that's why CDs cost $20+.
CDs cost $20 not because of production costs but because of Clear Channel's near-monopoly on bandwidth into a moving vehicle. Clear Channel Communications Inc. controls both XM and FM radio in many markets, through "independent" promoters who charge exorbitant fees for getting a recording aired.
How much does it cost for a tracker, a wave editor, a couple sample CDs, and a brain?
The same is not true for radio "programs", which normally shuffle schedules around and talk over songs
Except for talk radio. Perhaps the pop music radio stations do, but NPR and other talk radio networks generally don't. Recording "All Things Considered" or "Dr. Laura" is what the "radio TiVo" devices are designed for.
WINE is hardly a replacement for Windows. It is very useful for Linux enthusiasts, but it is very slow and unstable to use as a primary OS.
Likewise, Windows 9x is hardly a replacement for Windows. It is very useful for DOS enthusiasts, but it is very slow and unstable to use as a primary OS.
Yet another reason why Microsoft killed the 9x series: Microsoft didn't want to sell a product that was at the same quality level as WINE. Smart move.
An example of this would be Paint Shop Pro and WINE don't run it.
WINE developers haven't concentrated on the specific set of win32 calls used by Jasc Software's Paint Shop Pro image editor because what does PSP do that GIMP doesn't?
"Debian GNU/Linux systems can be upgraded painlessly, in place, without any forced downtime." How do you upgrade the kernel without a reboot?
Reboot != downtime. If you're running a high-availability server cluster, you can bring your spare machine up and have it do the job of each server in your rack until you upgrade your cluster to Debian 3. If you're running a workstation, reboot your machine over coffee break, or pull out your Game Boy Advance and play Tetanus On Drugs. Otherwise, I don't think a reboot at 3 A.M. California time is going to affect many users, especially if planned a week in advance.
Will Vorbis become Windows Media Audio 10?
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Will there be any adoption of this format, or will vorbis only be useful on computers?
Serious Sam 2 uses Ogg Vorbis for its background music streams. If more games adopt Xiph.org's technology, Microsoft may add the BSD licensed.ogg codec for WMPlayer to Windows YQ (even Microsoft likes the BSD License, which requires only credit in the manual), possibly calling it "Windows Media Audio 10" or something.
hardware companies... don't have to pay to implement MP3
THOMSON multimedia, the sublicensor of the MP3 patents in the United States, charges a royalty for decoders, at $15,000 for the first 20,000 annual units and 75c/unit thereafter.
The latter option is infeasible until they get their act together and put out a specification.
Wait a few days for the Ogg Vorbis 1.0 release to be finished, and you'll apparently be able to download the specification as part of the libvorbis manual.
Blame can lie in any of 4 places
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I find that when I "rip" music from CDs into OOG Vorbis Format that it has poor playback quality (very crackly).
Does the same thing happen when you rip from CD into.wav without encoding to.ogg or.mp3? What happens when you look at the.wav in a spectrogram?
If you hear crackling from the.wav, and you can see it on a spectrogram (it'll look like vertical lines through the whole spectrum), then you're seeing copy protection or some other form of physical CD damage.
If you hear crackling from the wav, but you can't see it on a spectrogram, check your audio drivers.
If you don't hear crackling from the wav, then use the reference encoder and decoder (oggenc and ogg123) to turn.wav into.ogg into.wav. If you get crackling from this, then libvorbis is at fault.
If wav->ogg->wav->player works, but wav->ogg->player doesn't work through the same player, contact the developers of the player.
Realistically, the people they're going to go after for JPEG use are the manufacturers of products that use it (digital cameras, image editors, etc)
The GIMP project had to remove GIF writing support from its binaries when Unisys terminated royalty-free LZW patent licenses to free software developers. GIMP is already at a disadvantage because of patents on color correction when going from sRGB (display color space) to CMYK (print color space).
if it's still the best technology in town in 17 years
The patent, granted in 1987, expires in 2004 or so.
JPEG2000 is more encumbered by patents than GIF. It'll never see the light of day.
The latter does not follow from the former because those companies who currently claim patents on part 1 of JPEG2000 have also agreed to license their patents to the general public without royalty, unlike the recognized owner of LZW (GIF's back end) and the apparent owner of RLE-plus-Huffman (JPEG's back end).
I believe Apple already ported Classic MacOS to Intel. IIRC, the code name was "Star Trek."
And it resulted in QuickTime for Windows. QT Win is based on an implementation of Carbon, an API based on Classic Mac OS's "Toolbox" API and used by most Mac OS X apps.
The latest Disney licensed character's need something to make them happy. Unscramble the letters to find out what they need! : HAPYP MAEL.
Taking "Disney licensed characters" to mean "Disney's Pinocchio" (yes, Pinocchio was around long before Disney; that's why I'm specifying a likeness), and "HAPYP MAEL" to descramble to "HAPPY LAME", you get this picture and this story. I have to wonder what kind of Tool thinks this stuff up.
For a time, you had to submit the circuit for your algorithm. Then the circuit clause was dropped.
It wouldn't have mattered anyway. Every company would probably just submit boilerplate along with every patent in the form of a mask for a 4,000 gate 6502 processor. (The 6502, or variants thereof, was the processor used in the Apple II, Atari 2600, C=64, and NES.)
Zelda 1 had warp whistles
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The funny thing about the movie [The Wizard] was when the girl was telling the kid what to do when he played [a beta version of Super Mario Bros. 3]
She says: "Find a warp!" There were warp zones in the first three Super Mario Bros. games (SMB 1, SMB 2: The Lost Levels, and SMB 2: Mario Madness).
like she would really know where the damn warp whistle was....
She says: "Use the flute!" Jimmy played a metric buttload of NES games to prepare for the competition. The puzzles in those games typically fell into cliché patterns. It's not likely that he never touched Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda, which included warp whistles that even played the same tune.
What ticked me off with respect to the final round of that movie was how Jimmy got points just for warping to world 4 Giant Land. None of the Super Mario Bros. games give you points for warping. And the game didn't seem to have the concentration game yet. SMB 3 gives the player a concentration game (called "N-spade" by some players) after every 80,000 points; Jimmy finished with 81,520. Yes, I'm sick enough to remember that.
I thought the whole point of Newspeak and doublethink was so we wouldn't have so many words, and everything would make more sense.
The problem with Newspeak was that it was made impossible to express some ideas. Toki Pona, on the other hand, has only 120 words while retaining just about all the basic ideas that humanity needs.
Sure. I'd like to contribute to linux by answering newbie questions (even though 90% of these can be found by a google search or the first 5 lines of the man page)
I answer the questions, and then I tell where I found the answer (e.g. For a more detailed answer, look in DJGPP FAQ, section 8, page foo). From my experience in comp.os.msdos.djgpp, this gets the user on the road to reading more of the product's available documentation.
Would there be a way for non-coders to make a contribution to GNU software?
Write documentation. Write bug reports, but make sure to include precise reproduction instructions. Look at the Mozilla.org help pages; the ideas on those pages apply to most free software projects.
for $108.00 he gets a shell account which is orders of magnitude cooler and more useful...
Not to flame, but I've never understood the appeal of shell accounts if you already have your own Darwin shell prompt. You'll probably get FreeBSD or something, and I don't see that as having different enough capabilities to Darwin to make any difference.
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Real games systems do not use a real OS.
Xbox games run Windows XB, which is a stripped-down version of Windows 2000. Some Sega Dreamcast games had Windows CE for SH4 on them.
The spiral is reversed on the disks so unless you wanna mod the drive motor to spin backwards so it can read normal disks.....
Neither the Xbox nor the GameCube spins discs backwards. The fact that their DVDs appear to have a reversed spiral is entirely because their boot sector is on the second physical layer of the disc, which goes from outside to inside, even on a "normal" DVD.
However, somebody may be able to find a loophole to boot mini-CDR's on gcn, possibly put in for debugging purposes a la Dreamcast.
How do you draw geometric shapes in the Gimp?
To draw simple geometric shapes in GIMP: Pick a brush, select the area you want to draw (using the rectangular, elliptical, or bezier select tool) and then Edit > Stroke.
To draw complicated geometric shapes, use the included Gfig plug-in.
1) What about lyrics distributed along with the song?
Many bands already give these away for free; if not, you can usually type a few key words of the lyrics into Google and get an unauthorized lyrics page. In fact, that's how I look up artist and title so I can preview a recording on winmx before I head over to cdnow to buy it.
Videos anybody?
Not very many people have cable or DSL yet. Few college students at home over summer break have broadband because the 1-year minimum service contract makes it cost four times as much as it does to anybody else.
Making great music takes BIG money, that's why CDs cost $20+.
CDs cost $20 not because of production costs but because of Clear Channel's near-monopoly on bandwidth into a moving vehicle. Clear Channel Communications Inc. controls both XM and FM radio in many markets, through "independent" promoters who charge exorbitant fees for getting a recording aired.
How much does it cost for a tracker, a wave editor, a couple sample CDs, and a brain?
The same is not true for radio "programs", which normally shuffle schedules around and talk over songs
Except for talk radio. Perhaps the pop music radio stations do, but NPR and other talk radio networks generally don't. Recording "All Things Considered" or "Dr. Laura" is what the "radio TiVo" devices are designed for.
WINE is hardly a replacement for Windows. It is very useful for Linux enthusiasts, but it is very slow and unstable to use as a primary OS.
Likewise, Windows 9x is hardly a replacement for Windows. It is very useful for DOS enthusiasts, but it is very slow and unstable to use as a primary OS.
Yet another reason why Microsoft killed the 9x series: Microsoft didn't want to sell a product that was at the same quality level as WINE. Smart move.
An example of this would be Paint Shop Pro and WINE don't run it.
WINE developers haven't concentrated on the specific set of win32 calls used by Jasc Software's Paint Shop Pro image editor because what does PSP do that GIMP doesn't?
3am California time is in the middle of the average working day in the UK.
If you have a lot of users in other time zones, then rotate the scheduled downtime through all the time zones.
"Debian GNU/Linux systems can be upgraded painlessly, in place, without any forced downtime." How do you upgrade the kernel without a reboot?
Reboot != downtime. If you're running a high-availability server cluster, you can bring your spare machine up and have it do the job of each server in your rack until you upgrade your cluster to Debian 3. If you're running a workstation, reboot your machine over coffee break, or pull out your Game Boy Advance and play Tetanus On Drugs. Otherwise, I don't think a reboot at 3 A.M. California time is going to affect many users, especially if planned a week in advance.
Will there be any adoption of this format, or will vorbis only be useful on computers?
Serious Sam 2 uses Ogg Vorbis for its background music streams. If more games adopt Xiph.org's technology, Microsoft may add the BSD licensed .ogg codec for WMPlayer to Windows YQ (even Microsoft likes the BSD License, which requires only credit in the manual), possibly calling it "Windows Media Audio 10" or something.
hardware companies ... don't have to pay to implement MP3
THOMSON multimedia, the sublicensor of the MP3 patents in the United States, charges a royalty for decoders, at $15,000 for the first 20,000 annual units and 75c/unit thereafter.
The latter option is infeasible until they get their act together and put out a specification.
Wait a few days for the Ogg Vorbis 1.0 release to be finished, and you'll apparently be able to download the specification as part of the libvorbis manual.
I find that when I "rip" music from CDs into OOG Vorbis Format that it has poor playback quality (very crackly).
Does the same thing happen when you rip from CD into .wav without encoding to .ogg or .mp3? What happens when you look at the .wav in a spectrogram?
If you hear crackling from the .wav, and you can see it on a spectrogram (it'll look like vertical lines through the whole spectrum), then you're seeing copy protection or some other form of physical CD damage.
If you hear crackling from the wav, but you can't see it on a spectrogram, check your audio drivers.
If you don't hear crackling from the wav, then use the reference encoder and decoder (oggenc and ogg123) to turn .wav into .ogg into .wav. If you get crackling from this, then libvorbis is at fault.
If wav->ogg->wav->player works, but wav->ogg->player doesn't work through the same player, contact the developers of the player.
Realistically, the people they're going to go after for JPEG use are the manufacturers of products that use it (digital cameras, image editors, etc)
The GIMP project had to remove GIF writing support from its binaries when Unisys terminated royalty-free LZW patent licenses to free software developers. GIMP is already at a disadvantage because of patents on color correction when going from sRGB (display color space) to CMYK (print color space).
if it's still the best technology in town in 17 years
The patent, granted in 1987, expires in 2004 or so.
If you have an HTML page that calls 30 little images, each client that views the page has to make 31 connections to your server.
More like one or two. HTTP 1.1 has a way to "pipeline" multiple files through one connection.
Advertisers pay money to get their commercials aired, so why are they paying for it if I am?
Advertisers pay for the content. You pay the cable company to bring it to your home.
How many of you are using the GIF replacement PNG?
All the indexed-color graphics on my web site are PNG images. I kicked the GIF habit long ago.
JPEG2000 is more encumbered by patents than GIF. It'll never see the light of day.
The latter does not follow from the former because those companies who currently claim patents on part 1 of JPEG2000 have also agreed to license their patents to the general public without royalty, unlike the recognized owner of LZW (GIF's back end) and the apparent owner of RLE-plus-Huffman (JPEG's back end).
I believe Apple already ported Classic MacOS to Intel. IIRC, the code name was "Star Trek."
And it resulted in QuickTime for Windows. QT Win is based on an implementation of Carbon, an API based on Classic Mac OS's "Toolbox" API and used by most Mac OS X apps.
The latest Disney licensed character's need something to make them happy. Unscramble the letters to find out what they need! : HAPYP MAEL.
Taking "Disney licensed characters" to mean "Disney's Pinocchio" (yes, Pinocchio was around long before Disney; that's why I'm specifying a likeness), and "HAPYP MAEL" to descramble to "HAPPY LAME", you get this picture and this story. I have to wonder what kind of Tool thinks this stuff up.
For a time, you had to submit the circuit for your algorithm. Then the circuit clause was dropped.
It wouldn't have mattered anyway. Every company would probably just submit boilerplate along with every patent in the form of a mask for a 4,000 gate 6502 processor. (The 6502, or variants thereof, was the processor used in the Apple II, Atari 2600, C=64, and NES.)
The funny thing about the movie [The Wizard] was when the girl was telling the kid what to do when he played [a beta version of Super Mario Bros. 3]
She says: "Find a warp!" There were warp zones in the first three Super Mario Bros. games (SMB 1, SMB 2: The Lost Levels, and SMB 2: Mario Madness).
like she would really know where the damn warp whistle was ....
She says: "Use the flute!" Jimmy played a metric buttload of NES games to prepare for the competition. The puzzles in those games typically fell into cliché patterns. It's not likely that he never touched Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda, which included warp whistles that even played the same tune.
What ticked me off with respect to the final round of that movie was how Jimmy got points just for warping to world 4 Giant Land. None of the Super Mario Bros. games give you points for warping. And the game didn't seem to have the concentration game yet. SMB 3 gives the player a concentration game (called "N-spade" by some players) after every 80,000 points; Jimmy finished with 81,520. Yes, I'm sick enough to remember that.
I thought the whole point of Newspeak and doublethink was so we wouldn't have so many words, and everything would make more sense.
The problem with Newspeak was that it was made impossible to express some ideas. Toki Pona, on the other hand, has only 120 words while retaining just about all the basic ideas that humanity needs.
Sure. I'd like to contribute to linux by answering newbie questions (even though 90% of these can be found by a google search or the first 5 lines of the man page)
I answer the questions, and then I tell where I found the answer (e.g. For a more detailed answer, look in DJGPP FAQ, section 8, page foo). From my experience in comp.os.msdos.djgpp, this gets the user on the road to reading more of the product's available documentation.
Would there be a way for non-coders to make a contribution to GNU software?
Write documentation. Write bug reports, but make sure to include precise reproduction instructions. Look at the Mozilla.org help pages; the ideas on those pages apply to most free software projects.
for $108.00 he gets a shell account which is orders of magnitude cooler and more useful...
Not to flame, but I've never understood the appeal of shell accounts if you already have your own Darwin shell prompt. You'll probably get FreeBSD or something, and I don't see that as having different enough capabilities to Darwin to make any difference.