Nope, because each of those tracks were under 8 bars, or whatever the time limit is
If the alleged infringer doesn't have money for a legal defence, then the plaintiff sets the time limit. For instance, George F. Handel's publisher was able to win a court case over four notes.
[TIFF supports] JPEG. Multiple images in one picture [...] Thumbnails [...] It can also be used like PDF, in holding an entire document in one file. It provides for anyone to register new tags, for arbitary extension.
MNG, an extension to PNG, supports all of the above, and Mozilla supports it. (IE doesn't yet.) Let's hope that Microsoft doesn't "patch" its EULA to prohibit use of competing web browsers.
As of version 5.5.2, Microsoft Internet Explorer will view almost any non-transparent PNG image and almost any binary-transparent indexed PNG image. IE 5.5 and 6.x work well with my site, which uses PNG and JPEG exclusively.
CMYK encoding
According to this page, PNG supports CMYK color space.
YCbCr, L*a*b
I couldn't find anything one way or the other about these color spaces.
Resolution Metadata, Extensible Metadata
The PNG format contains a field for the physical (pixels per meter) resolution of the image.
I thought it was bad recently when a "Critical" IE6 security path completetly broke the ability to view TIFF images in a browser without hacking the registry by hand.
Actually, it was Microsoft dropping support for Netscape plug-ins such as QuickTime 5 because of a patent dispute.
I maintain a web site that basically sells access to TIFF imaged documents.
Adobe TIFF has three common lossless modes: Apple PackBits (RLE algorithm used in MacPaint and at least one NES game), CCITT Fax (a strange bilevel image codec used by fax machines), and Unisys LZW. PNG, on the other hand, uses Phil Katz's Deflate (LZSS on a 32 KB window, followed by Huffman coding), which makes smaller files than any of TIFF's three algorithms.
I would like to retrieve some of them, but I (a) haven't seen a 5.25" floppy drive in years
I'm in an A+ certification class. I saw a PC 5.25" diskette drive two days ago.
can't find any software that will read those formats.
GNU 'strings' will extract all ASCII text from a file format. If that doesn't work, you can always pull up the file in GNU Emacs's hexl-mode (or other hex editor) and try to guess how the text is stored. For instance, if you see a lot of strings of bytes from 0xa0 to 0xff, you probably have ASCII or'd with 0x80. With a bit more practice, you can recognize even parity.
Stop there. PNG is already lossless up to 16 bits per channel. If you store source code for libpng on the same CD as your images, then as long as CD-ROM drives and C compilers are still readily available (neither of which I can guarantee), you can recover your data.
Sure, why not? The source-code for jpegs is readily obtainable.
Even given that you store source code for libjpeg and libpng, do you really trust your family's history to the idea that C, for example, will still be readable in 2102? What about the Compact Disc format itself?
I really and truly haven't seen any OS that gives each user a unique configuration.
Both GNOME and KDE, desktop environments for UNIX compatible systems, store the users' desktop preferences in ~/.* (that is, hidden files in the users' home folder). Windows 2000 and XP do something similar: it stores settings in C:/Documents and Settings/$USER/.
Open Mozilla and go to slashdot.org. Select some text and don't do anything else. Open gedit, *press the middle mousebutton*, and voila! The selected text is pasted.
Well, if I "don't do anything else", then how do I select the text that I want to replace? And how do I do it if I have a physical disability that makes the keyboard much faster for me than the mouse?
(Replied semi-redundantly because the Slashdot Messaging System does not notify users of replies from Anonymous Coward, and this AC reply made a good point.)
You mention AppleScript, and claims it is like having shellscript for GUI. No it isn't: you are bound to use that specific language.
Sorry, you're wrong. There was a product called "Frontier" that implemented AppleScript's functionality with syntax reminiscent of the C language.
They could easily have supplied a network protocol (like KDE's DCOP) or any other more generic interface.
They did. It's called Apple Events, and it's been in Mac OS since 7.0. The Open Scripting Architecture (which describes an app's object model to a scripting system) has been around since at least 7.5.
If a Xbox with a modchip runs the program, I'll call it a success.
What if Microsoft cracks down hard on Xbox modchip makers and gets USA Government to crack down on countries that don't comply with WIPO, as it has been doing lately? What if an Xbox with a modchip is no longer available, except on eBay for $3,000? Then it becomes pointless to port an app to a $3,000 modded Xbox when the Lbox is available from Wal*Mart for $500.
I've had lots of fun writing stuff for the GBA, but I'm ready for a more powerful platform now. I'm looking forward to writing a hobbyist game for the XBox.
Don't try developing for the Xbox. Develop for the Lbox instead. An Lbox is a standard PCI-bus PC with an NVIDIA GeForce video card installed, running Linux, X11, SDL, and OpenGL. You'll find the Lbox SDK at many fine software stores, under the name "Red Hat Linux 7.3".
Developing for the Lbox will be 100% legal unless and until the U.S. Congress passes the CBDTPA.
However, they could add a field in all.DOC files containing a small piece of MS IP, such as a BMP of the Word logo or something, in future versions of the.DOC format.
This is exactly how the Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Advance "protection" schemes work, by including a small bitmap of the Nintendo logo in the header. But Nintendo can't enforce it in the United States because of the Sega v. Accolade precedent. In addition, the DMCA's circumvention ban makes an explicit exemption for reverse engineering aimed at interoperability 17 USC 1201(f).
Note that the Supremes are more fair than U.S. district courts.
This is what I immediately thought, but the confusion comes from the fact that "premium" appears in both the phrases "pay a premium" (pay more than one would normally pay) and "premium petrol" (petrol with more than 90 percent octane). Grandparent was referring to the former sense, such that if 93% octane petrol normally cost US$1.50 per gallon, Microsoft Gasoline would cost US$2.50 per gallon, a $1.00 premium over the other brands.
And with the combination of the CBDTPA mandating DRM and Microsoft's patent on DRM, Microsoft may be able to pull it off with the force of U.S. law.
In practice, a cross-compiling port of the GNU Compiler Collection also requires a port of GNU Binutils, which is strictly not part of the GCC project, but is almost always distributed alongside GCC. Binutils contains the assembler and the linker. The Xbox SDK's linker signs the code with Microsoft's private key, and parties to whom the Xbox SDK is disclosed are contractually restricted from disclosing Microsoft's private key. The unmodded Xbox will not run unsigned software. Therefore, how will you make a linker whose output the Xbox will accept?
Because it's illegal to rent PC video games in the United States (17 USC 109(b)) without the copyright holder's permission, and do you think Joe's Video Rental will have the time and money to negotiate contracts with all major PC entertainment software publishers?
Because you can't rent PC games, it becomes much harder to try them before you buy them because many of the demos distributed over the Internet are either 200 megabytes (bad for users in areas that can't receive broadband) or non-interactive FMVs.
I don't picture myself ever being immersed in more than one MMORPG at a time
Perhaps you can only handle one game, and that's an MMORPG. But I do see many players being immersed in one MMORPG, one or two FPS games, a couple RTS games, and possibly even some non-top-three-genre games.
It only costs the price of the modem and a broadband access to play online (a one time purchase).
Broadband is not a one-time purchase but rather a recurring monthly expense. DSL or cable would cost $200 per month for me, because the service contracts run for at least a year, and I'm only home three months out of the year. (I'm at school for the other nine months, and they've restricted all gaming and P2P ports to 14.4.) Some of my friends don't even live in an area where cable or DSL is available; your "one-time purchase" would cost upwards of $200,000 to move house. Most gamers would not be willing to pay that much, and this is why most online games (including Q3A engine games) still support dial-up connections, to reach the largest possible market.
AOL did not start out on the Microsoft Windows platform. It was on Apple II and Macintosh computers years before the first WinAOL bisk was ever mailed.
If you don't like their licensing terms, don't buy their product.
Try telling that to the power company. Microsoft is a monopoly.
CBDTPA (or whatever else comes out of those smoke-filled rooms in Hollywood) will require all computers to come with a digital rights management operating system. Microsoft has a patent on digital rights management operating systems. Therefore, Microsoft Palladium will be the only legal operating system for the next 20 years, and I'd bet money that when that term expires, Microsoft will lobby hard for a Cherilyn LaPierre Patent Term Extension Act.
So what, when you say that renderman will never be replaced by shaders languages
I think they were trying to claim that preprocessing-oriented shader languages such as Renderman will never be replaced by real-time-oriented shader languages such as Cg. Yes, they both look like C, but their designs seem subtly different in that Cg is optimized for a much lower complexity per pixel than Renderman.
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Nope, because each of those tracks were under 8 bars, or whatever the time limit is
If the alleged infringer doesn't have money for a legal defence, then the plaintiff sets the time limit. For instance, George F. Handel's publisher was able to win a court case over four notes.
[TIFF supports] JPEG. Multiple images in one picture [...] Thumbnails [...] It can also be used like PDF, in holding an entire document in one file. It provides for anyone to register new tags, for arbitary extension.
MNG, an extension to PNG, supports all of the above, and Mozilla supports it. (IE doesn't yet.) Let's hope that Microsoft doesn't "patch" its EULA to prohibit use of competing web browsers.
IE's PNG support sucks balls.
As of version 5.5.2, Microsoft Internet Explorer will view almost any non-transparent PNG image and almost any binary-transparent indexed PNG image. IE 5.5 and 6.x work well with my site, which uses PNG and JPEG exclusively.
CMYK encoding
According to this page, PNG supports CMYK color space.
YCbCr, L*a*b
I couldn't find anything one way or the other about these color spaces.
Resolution Metadata, Extensible Metadata
The PNG format contains a field for the physical (pixels per meter) resolution of the image.
I thought it was bad recently when a "Critical" IE6 security path completetly broke the ability to view TIFF images in a browser without hacking the registry by hand.
Actually, it was Microsoft dropping support for Netscape plug-ins such as QuickTime 5 because of a patent dispute.
I maintain a web site that basically sells access to TIFF imaged documents.
Adobe TIFF has three common lossless modes: Apple PackBits (RLE algorithm used in MacPaint and at least one NES game), CCITT Fax (a strange bilevel image codec used by fax machines), and Unisys LZW. PNG, on the other hand, uses Phil Katz's Deflate (LZSS on a 32 KB window, followed by Huffman coding), which makes smaller files than any of TIFF's three algorithms.
What does TIFF do that PNG doesn't?
I would like to retrieve some of them, but I (a) haven't seen a 5.25" floppy drive in years
I'm in an A+ certification class. I saw a PC 5.25" diskette drive two days ago.
can't find any software that will read those formats.
GNU 'strings' will extract all ASCII text from a file format. If that doesn't work, you can always pull up the file in GNU Emacs's hexl-mode (or other hex editor) and try to guess how the text is stored. For instance, if you see a lot of strings of bytes from 0xa0 to 0xff, you probably have ASCII or'd with 0x80. With a bit more practice, you can recognize even parity.
I wonder what all that JPG > PNG
Stop there. PNG is already lossless up to 16 bits per channel. If you store source code for libpng on the same CD as your images, then as long as CD-ROM drives and C compilers are still readily available (neither of which I can guarantee), you can recover your data.
Sure, why not? The source-code for jpegs is readily obtainable.
Even given that you store source code for libjpeg and libpng, do you really trust your family's history to the idea that C, for example, will still be readable in 2102? What about the Compact Disc format itself?
I love playing Donkey Kong Country, but playing it emulated presents a problem because I do not have a controller.
If you don't want to buy a game pad for your PC, why not just solder your Super NES game pad into a PC parallel port connector?
I really and truly haven't seen any OS that gives each user a unique configuration.
Both GNOME and KDE, desktop environments for UNIX compatible systems, store the users' desktop preferences in ~/.* (that is, hidden files in the users' home folder). Windows 2000 and XP do something similar: it stores settings in C:/Documents and Settings/$USER/.
Open Mozilla and go to slashdot.org. Select some text and don't do anything else. Open gedit, *press the middle mousebutton*, and voila! The selected text is pasted.
Well, if I "don't do anything else", then how do I select the text that I want to replace? And how do I do it if I have a physical disability that makes the keyboard much faster for me than the mouse?
(Replied semi-redundantly because the Slashdot Messaging System does not notify users of replies from Anonymous Coward, and this AC reply made a good point.)
Highlight the text with the left mouse button, centre-click to place the selected text.
So how do you select which text you are going to replace without destroying the previous selection?
And how do you copy something other than text, such as an image or an audio clip?
You mention AppleScript, and claims it is like having shellscript for GUI. No it isn't: you are bound to use that specific language.
Sorry, you're wrong. There was a product called "Frontier" that implemented AppleScript's functionality with syntax reminiscent of the C language.
They could easily have supplied a network protocol (like KDE's DCOP) or any other more generic interface.
They did. It's called Apple Events, and it's been in Mac OS since 7.0. The Open Scripting Architecture (which describes an app's object model to a scripting system) has been around since at least 7.5.
If a Xbox with a modchip runs the program, I'll call it a success.
What if Microsoft cracks down hard on Xbox modchip makers and gets USA Government to crack down on countries that don't comply with WIPO, as it has been doing lately? What if an Xbox with a modchip is no longer available, except on eBay for $3,000? Then it becomes pointless to port an app to a $3,000 modded Xbox when the Lbox is available from Wal*Mart for $500.
Fuck USA Government. Fuck PoizonBOx.
I've had lots of fun writing stuff for the GBA, but I'm ready for a more powerful platform now. I'm looking forward to writing a hobbyist game for the XBox.
Don't try developing for the Xbox. Develop for the Lbox instead. An Lbox is a standard PCI-bus PC with an NVIDIA GeForce video card installed, running Linux, X11, SDL, and OpenGL. You'll find the Lbox SDK at many fine software stores, under the name "Red Hat Linux 7.3".
Developing for the Lbox will be 100% legal unless and until the U.S. Congress passes the CBDTPA.
However, they could add a field in all .DOC files containing a small piece of MS IP, such as a BMP of the Word logo or something, in future versions of the .DOC format.
This is exactly how the Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Advance "protection" schemes work, by including a small bitmap of the Nintendo logo in the header. But Nintendo can't enforce it in the United States because of the Sega v. Accolade precedent. In addition, the DMCA's circumvention ban makes an explicit exemption for reverse engineering aimed at interoperability 17 USC 1201(f).
Note that the Supremes are more fair than U.S. district courts.
Show me where the TV-Input is on a XBOX console please.
Try a TV input box connected to one of the USB-like controller jacks.
Besides, the Microsoft announcement was for the XBOX 2 console, not the current console.
A dollar a gallon for premium???
This is what I immediately thought, but the confusion comes from the fact that "premium" appears in both the phrases "pay a premium" (pay more than one would normally pay) and "premium petrol" (petrol with more than 90 percent octane). Grandparent was referring to the former sense, such that if 93% octane petrol normally cost US$1.50 per gallon, Microsoft Gasoline would cost US$2.50 per gallon, a $1.00 premium over the other brands.
And with the combination of the CBDTPA mandating DRM and Microsoft's patent on DRM, Microsoft may be able to pull it off with the force of U.S. law.
Use the SDK to build gcc.
In practice, a cross-compiling port of the GNU Compiler Collection also requires a port of GNU Binutils, which is strictly not part of the GCC project, but is almost always distributed alongside GCC. Binutils contains the assembler and the linker. The Xbox SDK's linker signs the code with Microsoft's private key, and parties to whom the Xbox SDK is disclosed are contractually restricted from disclosing Microsoft's private key. The unmodded Xbox will not run unsigned software. Therefore, how will you make a linker whose output the Xbox will accept?
why can't I do what I want with it?
Because it's illegal to rent PC video games in the United States (17 USC 109(b)) without the copyright holder's permission, and do you think Joe's Video Rental will have the time and money to negotiate contracts with all major PC entertainment software publishers?
Because you can't rent PC games, it becomes much harder to try them before you buy them because many of the demos distributed over the Internet are either 200 megabytes (bad for users in areas that can't receive broadband) or non-interactive FMVs.
I don't picture myself ever being immersed in more than one MMORPG at a time
Perhaps you can only handle one game, and that's an MMORPG. But I do see many players being immersed in one MMORPG, one or two FPS games, a couple RTS games, and possibly even some non-top-three-genre games.
It only costs the price of the modem and a broadband access to play online (a one time purchase).
Broadband is not a one-time purchase but rather a recurring monthly expense. DSL or cable would cost $200 per month for me, because the service contracts run for at least a year, and I'm only home three months out of the year. (I'm at school for the other nine months, and they've restricted all gaming and P2P ports to 14.4.) Some of my friends don't even live in an area where cable or DSL is available; your "one-time purchase" would cost upwards of $200,000 to move house. Most gamers would not be willing to pay that much, and this is why most online games (including Q3A engine games) still support dial-up connections, to reach the largest possible market.
AOL wouldn't exist (nuff said).
AOL did not start out on the Microsoft Windows platform. It was on Apple II and Macintosh computers years before the first WinAOL bisk was ever mailed.
If you don't like their licensing terms, don't buy their product.
Try telling that to the power company. Microsoft is a monopoly.
CBDTPA (or whatever else comes out of those smoke-filled rooms in Hollywood) will require all computers to come with a digital rights management operating system. Microsoft has a patent on digital rights management operating systems. Therefore, Microsoft Palladium will be the only legal operating system for the next 20 years, and I'd bet money that when that term expires, Microsoft will lobby hard for a Cherilyn LaPierre Patent Term Extension Act.
So what, when you say that renderman will never be replaced by shaders languages
I think they were trying to claim that preprocessing-oriented shader languages such as Renderman will never be replaced by real-time-oriented shader languages such as Cg. Yes, they both look like C, but their designs seem subtly different in that Cg is optimized for a much lower complexity per pixel than Renderman.
Does anyone know what the hell the name of these Japanese puppet plays is?
that's called bunraku
this new "art form" is digital puppetry