When you have punctuation directly following a citation, the punctuation should be placed inside the quotation marks.
Often, the placement of punctuation inside or outside can change the meaning. How about this: He did not type "ghosts." He typed "ghosts". Otherwise, on a technical board such as Slashdot, you get people writing fputs("hello," stdout); which is incorrect C.
Heck, I'll even bring it back to topic. Some of these prescriptive grammatical "rules" can create misunderstanding when used blindly in technical writing and can diminish ease of use.
Bad: To save changes to the document you are working on, press 'y.' (Actual results: This will save changes, then insert a full stop at the insertion point.)
Good: To save changes to the document you are working on, press 'y'.
It's actually easier to back up user data and settings in Windows 2000/XP because it is all stored by default in a user's profile under Documents and Settings.
Therein lies the rub. The name of the "Documents and Settings" folder contains spaces. You get paths like "C:/Documents and Settings/tepples/My Documents". Not only are long names hard to type into configuration scripts (making users resort to copy and paste), but some software gets confused by the spaces and perceives such a path as four words. Therefore, it's much harder to use the network backup software you had site-licensed earlier for a big sum of money with newer versions of Windows. C:/home/tepples would work better, no?
in any case the cost of all micro-electronics manufacturing is constantly dropping (except for Apple's LCDs it seems;-)
Moore's law states that the density of semiconductor integrated circuit fabrication, measured in transistors per square mm, will double every 18 months. More density means a smaller die, a smaller die means greater yield, greater yield means a greater supply of defect-free parts, and when supply goes up, price goes down. However, liquid crystal display panels are not as sensitive to transistor density because their pixel density is fixed at about 43 pixels per square mm. (96 dpi = 3.77 dpmm = 14.2 dpmm^2, times RGB.) If LCDs were to shrink, they would no longer be compatible with the human eye.
Speaking of which...why hasn't there been a slashdot review of Lilo and Stitch?
Three reasons.
For one thing, "Lilo" is taken. Not only is it the name of the old Linux bootloader (before distributions started using GRUB instead), but wasn't "Leeloo" (probably the same underlying name as "Lilo") a character in The Fifth Element, played by Ms. Jovovich?
For another thing, Lilo and Stitch is released under the Disney label. The Walt Disney Company (parent of Disney, Touchstone, and Miramax) was the biggest corporate sponsor of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and one of the biggest proponents of the DMCA's circumvention ban (among movie studios, only Time Warner gave the U.S. Congress more money in 1998).
Finally, because you haven't submitted your review for consideration by the Slashdot editors.
What could be more useful is if the compiler implementor would spend as much time on the profiler than on the compiler: you would then be able to easily see faulty parts in your software and be able to determine what needs to be optimized.
Better yet, if an architecture has a static branch predictor that encodes "mostly taken" or "mostly not taken", the compiler could emit profile code that measures how fast a particular variant runs and then take that into account for the next optimization pass.
However, with the power saving features of modern computers, it's not really necessary to turn them off at the end of the day (unless they're misconfigured).
Or unless the motherboard manufacturer's ACPI implementation is extremely buggy and just barely manages to work with Windows, and the manufacturer doesn't give FreeBSD driver writers any help in working around those bugs.
Even without power saving features, the real power drains have always been CRTs, not the computers themselves.
Excuse me? An NVIDIA GeForce 4 card is not part of a CRT.
So what is so surprising about the fact that Linux gurus are trying to copy every single detail of Mac app GUI's? They already do that with Windows apps.
And Microsoft did it to the Mac when it introduced Windows.
But i've yet to run across a piece of linux software that i couldn't get to work under OS X eventually.
What about proprietary application software for Linux that is provided only as a binary for Intel x86 architecture? What if your boss asks you to use it (the software) or lose it (your job, which is very precious in this depression)?
But I'm still waiting for the iPod for Game Boy Advance hacks!!
Are you talking about a GBA to IEEE 1394 adapter to read games from the iPod's hard drive? That would be possible in theory, but you wouldn't be able to run any of the commercial games because they require a 120 ns access time to ROM, which rotating-media hard drives cannot provide. Without mass production (which would draw nastygrams from NOA), it'd be darn expensive to 1. license the patents on IEEE 1394, and 2. provide 32 MB of RAM to hold the ROM image during play, plus an interface to that RAM. However, it would be easy to make an interface that just supports loading and saving data, for which the community could write special games. The GBA development mailing list had a discussion a few weeks back about the feasibility of a CD-ROM drive for GBA; search archives for "Disc System".
Apple's seen the iPod become so successful that Windows and Linux developers are creating their own solutions--some of them complete with FireWire cards--to do Apple's job *for* them.
At least this time, Apple isn't frivolously wielding the DMCA against the makers of such software; the company has only requested that third-party software publishers not infringe Apple trademarks. Thus, "XPod" becomes "XPlay", but big whoop; development and sales continue.
I want the site to rank well in Google for the topics and products it covers, so how do I avoid screwing up with virtual hosting?
1. Virtual host by hostname, not by path. GeoCities hosts by path (www.geocities.com/$user/rest.of.url); Freeservers hosts by hostname (pineight.8m.com/rest.of.url).
2. If you feel that your ranking is still not high enough, then bid on keywords.
Each takes 7gb of space, which is about $7 at current IDE drive price levels
Assume a fellow has 224 GB of space in all. Now, if he has more than 32 movies, then in order to watch the movies that are on another hard drive, he will have to swap drives. Because ATA drives are in general not hot-swappable, he will have to shut down his computer, open the case, put on a grounding wrist strap, pull his drive out, insert another drive in his computer, close the case, and start it back up again.
No... brazil is NOT overseas [from the United States of America] because you need not go o-v-e-r-s-e-a-s to get there. You can drive if you want.
With the Panama Canal in the way?
Minor nit: the price did not drop
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The only one left is the GameBoy line.
And the Palm line. And the Pocket PC line.
I remember when the first gameboy I got was $100.
Actually, the original green-screen Game Boy was $90 in 1990, and it included headphones, batteries, and a genuine TETRIS® game.
How many other handheld devices have progressed as much, with a price drop no-less.
Minor nit: GBA came out in 2001, at $90. Batteries, headphones, and Tetris Worlds are $40 extra, for a total of $130 (2001 currency). Consider inflation, and the price of a Game Boy has remained approximately constant. (Your point remains valid.)
I doubt it could go fast enough considering the 10mhz processor in a TI-89 is faster then the proc in the GBA
Cycle for cycle, between ARM7TDMI and Motorola 68000, what's faster? The GBA has a 16 MHz ARM7TDMI processor (32-bit internal, 16-bit external, fast multiply, 32 KB of fast 32-bit memory). The TI-89 has a 10 MHz 68000 processor (32-bit internal, 16-bit external).
then run the Gameboy Advance Emulator under Windows [and run that under several extra layers of emulation]
A video game emulator has to emulate cartridge hardware such as mappers on NES, superfx/sa1/dsp on Super NES, etc. The SongPro cartridge contains an MP3 decoder. If a GBA emulator were to emulate SongPro, it would probably just embed Windows Media Player or something.
GBA audio at up to 64 kHz and DMA pass-through
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The Gameboy Advance has two 8-bit PCM channels.
The MP3 audio goes through a separate 6mm jack.
But even if the system did provide through cart-DMA, the GBA's audio runs at up to 64 KHz, which means that the decoder chip could be doing some noise-shaping to keep the quantization noise between 16 kHz and 32 kHz. (MP3 at 128 kbps doesn't preserve anything above 16 kHz.)
It's actually possible to make a GBA game that doesn't run on the GBA at all. There's enough bandwidth between the cartridge and the video chip to copy 16 MB of pixels per second from the cart, or 280,896 bytes per frame. A 16-bit display at 240x160 pixels is only 76800 bytes, and given the characteristics of the GBA's LCD, you can probably get away with interlacing. Do the same for audio, and the CPU no longer needs to really do much of anything except for feeding joypad state to the cartridge and (possibly) performing a bit of game logic.
Then define your own IPTC chunk. If you're worried that one implementation of PNG IPTC won't read data written by others, propose a chunk definition to the PNG team. Or simply store XML in the comment chunk.
Just because I make something that performs the same functions and has the same features as a proprietary application (ex XMMS vs Winamp), how am I violating intellectual property?
In many jurisdictions, you can easily step on a patent holder's toes (ex LAME vs Fraunhofer MP3 encoder) (ex GIMP vs Adobe ImageReady, w.r.t. GIF) (ex GIMP vs Photoshop Full Version, w.r.t. CMYK color space management).
An MCSE would be asking "What do I click on to open this 'flat-text file'???"
In which case I would be helpful. Start > Programs > Accessories > Notepad, then drag the file on an empty Notepad window. (Notepad NT, included with Windows 2000 and Windows XP, doesn't have the 32 KB restriction that Notepad 9x imposes.)
[Unlike PNG, TIFF] Works in existing and legacy software packages.
Not all legacy software packages will read images in all 7 versions of TIFF with all codecs. Sometimes, you have to use ImageMagick or something to convert TIFF images to a version of TIFF that your software understands, and by then, you can use IM to convert PNG images.
Multiple images in the one file. (For example, multiresolution images.)
MNG, the multiple-image extension to PNG, does this quite well.
Tiled images.
Do you mean the tile-graphics images used by 2D video game consoles, or do you refer to a sense of "tiled images" that doesn't match the sense that comes to mind when I see the term "tiled images"?
Device resolution (not just pixel resolution).
By "device resolution" do you mean "number of pixels per physical inch"? PNG has a field for that.
White and black points.
Are white and black points relevant to selling images online and having them display in the browser, as the other user mentioned?
Colour spaces other than RGB (e.g. XYZ, La*b*, CMYK).
PNG supports CMYK data, and its (admittedly limited) color correction system specifies XYZ coordinates.
Floating point image data.
What is "floating point image data"? PNG supports up to 16 bits per channel.
PNG is unsuitable for pretty much everything except losslessly transferring images compactly over a network
Which was exactly the application that the user to whom I responded brought up.
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When you have punctuation directly following a citation, the punctuation should be placed inside the quotation marks.
Often, the placement of punctuation inside or outside can change the meaning. How about this: He did not type "ghosts." He typed "ghosts". Otherwise, on a technical board such as Slashdot, you get people writing fputs("hello," stdout); which is incorrect C.
Heck, I'll even bring it back to topic. Some of these prescriptive grammatical "rules" can create misunderstanding when used blindly in technical writing and can diminish ease of use.
It's actually easier to back up user data and settings in Windows 2000/XP because it is all stored by default in a user's profile under Documents and Settings.
Therein lies the rub. The name of the "Documents and Settings" folder contains spaces. You get paths like "C:/Documents and Settings/tepples/My Documents". Not only are long names hard to type into configuration scripts (making users resort to copy and paste), but some software gets confused by the spaces and perceives such a path as four words. Therefore, it's much harder to use the network backup software you had site-licensed earlier for a big sum of money with newer versions of Windows. C:/home/tepples would work better, no?
in any case the cost of all micro-electronics manufacturing is constantly dropping (except for Apple's LCDs it seems ;-)
Moore's law states that the density of semiconductor integrated circuit fabrication, measured in transistors per square mm, will double every 18 months. More density means a smaller die, a smaller die means greater yield, greater yield means a greater supply of defect-free parts, and when supply goes up, price goes down. However, liquid crystal display panels are not as sensitive to transistor density because their pixel density is fixed at about 43 pixels per square mm. (96 dpi = 3.77 dpmm = 14.2 dpmm^2, times RGB.) If LCDs were to shrink, they would no longer be compatible with the human eye.
Speaking of which...why hasn't there been a slashdot review of Lilo and Stitch?
Three reasons.
For one thing, "Lilo" is taken. Not only is it the name of the old Linux bootloader (before distributions started using GRUB instead), but wasn't "Leeloo" (probably the same underlying name as "Lilo") a character in The Fifth Element, played by Ms. Jovovich?
For another thing, Lilo and Stitch is released under the Disney label. The Walt Disney Company (parent of Disney, Touchstone, and Miramax) was the biggest corporate sponsor of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and one of the biggest proponents of the DMCA's circumvention ban (among movie studios, only Time Warner gave the U.S. Congress more money in 1998).
Finally, because you haven't submitted your review for consideration by the Slashdot editors.
What could be more useful is if the compiler implementor would spend as much time on the profiler than on the compiler: you would then be able to easily see faulty parts in your software and be able to determine what needs to be optimized.
Better yet, if an architecture has a static branch predictor that encodes "mostly taken" or "mostly not taken", the compiler could emit profile code that measures how fast a particular variant runs and then take that into account for the next optimization pass.
The new "de-christianised" calendar started in 1793 and was retroactive to 1792. The year started on September 22nd
They started the year on Frodo's birthday? J.R.R. Tolkien wasn't even born yet!
However, with the power saving features of modern computers, it's not really necessary to turn them off at the end of the day (unless they're misconfigured).
Or unless the motherboard manufacturer's ACPI implementation is extremely buggy and just barely manages to work with Windows, and the manufacturer doesn't give FreeBSD driver writers any help in working around those bugs.
Even without power saving features, the real power drains have always been CRTs, not the computers themselves.
Excuse me? An NVIDIA GeForce 4 card is not part of a CRT.
So what is so surprising about the fact that Linux gurus are trying to copy every single detail of Mac app GUI's? They already do that with Windows apps.
And Microsoft did it to the Mac when it introduced Windows.
But i've yet to run across a piece of linux software that i couldn't get to work under OS X eventually.
What about proprietary application software for Linux that is provided only as a binary for Intel x86 architecture? What if your boss asks you to use it (the software) or lose it (your job, which is very precious in this depression)?
But I'm still waiting for the iPod for Game Boy Advance hacks!!
Are you talking about a GBA to IEEE 1394 adapter to read games from the iPod's hard drive? That would be possible in theory, but you wouldn't be able to run any of the commercial games because they require a 120 ns access time to ROM, which rotating-media hard drives cannot provide. Without mass production (which would draw nastygrams from NOA), it'd be darn expensive to 1. license the patents on IEEE 1394, and 2. provide 32 MB of RAM to hold the ROM image during play, plus an interface to that RAM. However, it would be easy to make an interface that just supports loading and saving data, for which the community could write special games. The GBA development mailing list had a discussion a few weeks back about the feasibility of a CD-ROM drive for GBA; search archives for "Disc System".
Apple's seen the iPod become so successful that Windows and Linux developers are creating their own solutions--some of them complete with FireWire cards--to do Apple's job *for* them.
At least this time, Apple isn't frivolously wielding the DMCA against the makers of such software; the company has only requested that third-party software publishers not infringe Apple trademarks. Thus, "XPod" becomes "XPlay", but big whoop; development and sales continue.
I want the site to rank well in Google for the topics and products it covers, so how do I avoid screwing up with virtual hosting?
1. Virtual host by hostname, not by path. GeoCities hosts by path (www.geocities.com/$user/rest.of.url); Freeservers hosts by hostname (pineight.8m.com/rest.of.url).
2. If you feel that your ranking is still not high enough, then bid on keywords.
Each takes 7gb of space, which is about $7 at current IDE drive price levels
Assume a fellow has 224 GB of space in all. Now, if he has more than 32 movies, then in order to watch the movies that are on another hard drive, he will have to swap drives. Because ATA drives are in general not hot-swappable, he will have to shut down his computer, open the case, put on a grounding wrist strap, pull his drive out, insert another drive in his computer, close the case, and start it back up again.
No... brazil is NOT overseas [from the United States of America] because you need not go o-v-e-r-s-e-a-s to get there. You can drive if you want.
With the Panama Canal in the way?
The only one left is the GameBoy line.
And the Palm line. And the Pocket PC line.
I remember when the first gameboy I got was $100.
Actually, the original green-screen Game Boy was $90 in 1990, and it included headphones, batteries, and a genuine TETRIS® game.
How many other handheld devices have progressed as much, with a price drop no-less.
Minor nit: GBA came out in 2001, at $90. Batteries, headphones, and Tetris Worlds are $40 extra, for a total of $130 (2001 currency). Consider inflation, and the price of a Game Boy has remained approximately constant. (Your point remains valid.)
I doubt it could go fast enough considering the 10mhz processor in a TI-89 is faster then the proc in the GBA
Cycle for cycle, between ARM7TDMI and Motorola 68000, what's faster? The GBA has a 16 MHz ARM7TDMI processor (32-bit internal, 16-bit external, fast multiply, 32 KB of fast 32-bit memory). The TI-89 has a 10 MHz 68000 processor (32-bit internal, 16-bit external).
then run the Gameboy Advance Emulator under Windows [and run that under several extra layers of emulation]
A video game emulator has to emulate cartridge hardware such as mappers on NES, superfx/sa1/dsp on Super NES, etc. The SongPro cartridge contains an MP3 decoder. If a GBA emulator were to emulate SongPro, it would probably just embed Windows Media Player or something.
The Gameboy Advance has two 8-bit PCM channels.
The MP3 audio goes through a separate 6mm jack.
But even if the system did provide through cart-DMA, the GBA's audio runs at up to 64 KHz, which means that the decoder chip could be doing some noise-shaping to keep the quantization noise between 16 kHz and 32 kHz. (MP3 at 128 kbps doesn't preserve anything above 16 kHz.)
It's actually possible to make a GBA game that doesn't run on the GBA at all. There's enough bandwidth between the cartridge and the video chip to copy 16 MB of pixels per second from the cart, or 280,896 bytes per frame. A 16-bit display at 240x160 pixels is only 76800 bytes, and given the characteristics of the GBA's LCD, you can probably get away with interlacing. Do the same for audio, and the CPU no longer needs to really do much of anything except for feeding joypad state to the cartridge and (possibly) performing a bit of game logic.
AFAIK there's still no IPTC support in PNG.
Then define your own IPTC chunk. If you're worried that one implementation of PNG IPTC won't read data written by others, propose a chunk definition to the PNG team. Or simply store XML in the comment chunk.
Console lifecycles are something like 3 years
Closer to five.
Not so keen on the Gamecube myself, it's a bit too kiddy for my tastes
Resident Evil Special Edition kiddy? Hardly.
Just because I make something that performs the same functions and has the same features as a proprietary application (ex XMMS vs Winamp), how am I violating intellectual property?
In many jurisdictions, you can easily step on a patent holder's toes (ex LAME vs Fraunhofer MP3 encoder) (ex GIMP vs Adobe ImageReady, w.r.t. GIF) (ex GIMP vs Photoshop Full Version, w.r.t. CMYK color space management).
An MCSE would be asking "What do I click on to open this 'flat-text file'???"
In which case I would be helpful. Start > Programs > Accessories > Notepad, then drag the file on an empty Notepad window. (Notepad NT, included with Windows 2000 and Windows XP, doesn't have the 32 KB restriction that Notepad 9x imposes.)
[Unlike PNG, TIFF] Works in existing and legacy software packages.
Not all legacy software packages will read images in all 7 versions of TIFF with all codecs. Sometimes, you have to use ImageMagick or something to convert TIFF images to a version of TIFF that your software understands, and by then, you can use IM to convert PNG images.
Multiple images in the one file. (For example, multiresolution images.)
MNG, the multiple-image extension to PNG, does this quite well.
Tiled images.
Do you mean the tile-graphics images used by 2D video game consoles, or do you refer to a sense of "tiled images" that doesn't match the sense that comes to mind when I see the term "tiled images"?
Device resolution (not just pixel resolution).
By "device resolution" do you mean "number of pixels per physical inch"? PNG has a field for that.
White and black points.
Are white and black points relevant to selling images online and having them display in the browser, as the other user mentioned?
Colour spaces other than RGB (e.g. XYZ, La*b*, CMYK).
PNG supports CMYK data, and its (admittedly limited) color correction system specifies XYZ coordinates.
Floating point image data.
What is "floating point image data"? PNG supports up to 16 bits per channel.
PNG is unsuitable for pretty much everything except losslessly transferring images compactly over a network
Which was exactly the application that the user to whom I responded brought up.
As an example, my publisher
Does not hold a monopoly on publishing.