I once wrote a program to hide printed text in a spectrogram. The first thing I encoded (after test messages such as Hello World) was efdtt from David Touretzky's Gallery of CSS Descramblers.
The only way anything in this case could fall under the anti-SLAPP laws is if PanIP sued the poster for slander.
SLAPP is merely a special case of barratry, the practice of filing frivolous lawsuits. Barratry is a crime in many jurisdictions and can get a lawyer kicked out of the Bar.
The consumer version of the Neo-Geo (i.e. the version where each game didn't cost three figures) was CD-based. And loading isn't that bad if you can cover it up with an announcer yelling "Ryu vs. Chun-Li" or something (I don't know SNK characters, so I'm using Capcom here). Plus, you can stream data into RAM as it's needed, which is very useful for scrolling shooters such as the 194? games. If you want to see a beautiful example of streaming in action, try Einhänder for PS1.
I think the biggest (only?) reason for the superior graphics was that NEO-GEO modules are much bigger (physically and logically) than those of any ROM-based console ever. E.g. Metal Slug 3 has 708 Mb. 708 Mb, IN ROM CHIPS! Compare that to the puny 16 Mb Genesis or SNES Modules.
The Game Boy Advance (16 MiHz ARM processor, Super NES-like graphics chipset) may soon top that. Right now, you can buy Visoly flash cartridges that hold 512 megabits. The biggest current games are only 64 megabits, but that will change as prices fall.
and all new hardware required, and implemented horrifically draconian anti-copy-anything protection which both took away the ability to copy for reasonable use, or took away nick the l337 h4X0r's ability to copy 'stuff', ancient second hand hardware, free hardware, is going to become rather desirable.
You're not the first to think of "pre-ban computers" along the lines of "pre-ban assault rifles." If you're interested in this line of thought, read more: Google pre-ban cbdtpa
I am not sure anyone could "bury" a general purpose architecture as the PC has become; no one piece "defines" it any longer, nor is irreplaceable, right?
I define a PC as a computing device with these qualities:
The device is made according to well-known hardware standards.
The device is sold to the general public at a price around $1,000 when new.
The device can load and run an untrusted kernel.
The irreplaceable part is a BIOS that will try to load any kernel you throw at it without complaining that the kernel is not signed by the hardware vendor. Otherwise, you merely have an embedded system.
The music industry losing money? Amazing how many albums are still going platinum, double platinum, etc. even with music pirating. Movies? Spider-Man made $114 million in it's first weekend. How much more will it make before it's done? But, oh wait, those movie studios are losing money.
In both record and music industries, the hits subsidize the flops.
The cost of making movies has skyrocketed thanks in part to consumer demand for expensive special effects.
Netscrape had something called "Internet Keywords" that did roughly the same thing.
RealNames dominates the first page of results from search for "Internet Keywords". But I'm not sure if Netscape's system was the same or not. Current versions of Mozilla (1.0 RC2) simply surround single words with www.$1.com.
I don't buy Nabisco because 1. I don't like to support big tobacco and big booze (two other divisions of Altria), and 2. I simply prefer Keebler's products to Nabisco's.
The correct term is tetralingual, not quadrilingual.
"Quadri" comes from Latin. "Lingual" is from Latin. "Tetra" comes from Greek. In general, a compound will be all-Greek or all-Latin, with the occasional exception such as "homosexual".
I assume your Game Boy reference alluded to Tetris®. In that case, the existence of Quadra negates any "by default, go with the name of the block game" rule. In other words, you need to lay off the drugs;-)
RISC OS 2 could run in 512K with a fair bit to spare, but it would be a push to fit it in 288K.
How much of that 512 KiB was.text (code and const data), and how much was.data,.bss, heap, and stack? On the GBA,.text is placed in ROM on the program cartridge.
However, all discussions of memory use must take into account that GBA has no rotating-media storage ergo no swapping to virtual memory.
I followed that link to Rebranding RISC OS. Apparently, RISCOS Ltd is moving to a cogwheel for a logo. But isn't the cogwheel taken?
DJs already pay BMI and ASCAP
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DJ's have made tracks using music from two different artists for a long time, and nothing has changed except the way it is mixed
The difference is that 1. DJs pay royalties to BMI and ASCAP, and 2. DJs do not infringe on RIAA's work because the labels don't control public performance rights (BMI and ASCAP do), and "derivative works" rights apply only to works that are fixed in some tangible medium.
Sonny Bono turned up the volume on TVs in bars
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Many content holders do this...for instance, you ever wondr why there are always TVs in bars, but they NEVER have the sound on?
Actually, it's OK to turn the TV's audio on in a small restaurant. A rider to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act amended 17 USC 110 to specifically permit public performance of a nondramatic musical work on a small screen in a restaurant or bar of less than 3750 sq ft or any other establishment of less than 2000 sq ft.
s/RIAA/ASCAP, SESAC, and BMI/g
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I wonder why the RIAA isn't sending street teams out to every bar in the country... with bands
RIAA doesn't license public performance of the underlying musical work. ASCAP, SESAC, and BMI do. (The law makes a distinction between a musical work and a recording based on that work.)
or a stack of CDs.
Again, RIAA doesn't control this; the performers' rights organizations do. The only time an RIAA label has any control over a public performance of its copyrighted sound recordings is when it involves a digital transmission (17 USC 106). Once it leaves the loudspeakers, it's analog, and only the music publisher can stop it.
All those street musicians (licensed even, say in the subways of NYC) who aren't paying royalties.
How do you know that the standard street musician license doesn't include royalty payments to ASCAP, SESAC, and BMI?
Here's
Eminem vs. Enya - The Real Slim Shady.ogg. It's based on the concept of an earlier MP3 called "eminenya" but done in a more professional style that preserves the verse/chorus structure.
It's an Ogg file, so you'll need an Ogg player to hear it. Winamp 2.80 and later come with Ogg Vorbis support built in.
Then they went down to the level of requesting my report of the building of this processor to use mips and a perfect adjective rather than a noun.
That's just common practice with trademarks. For instance, you'll never hear a commercial for the "Pentium" unless Pentium is followed by "processor". Further examples: SPAM is an adjective and should be followed with "luncheon meat." Java is an adjective and should be followed with "technology," "platform," or "language." Macintosh is an adjective and should be followed with "computer."
MIPS as a noun does not refer to a processor architecture. It refers to an easily-fudgeable benchmark.
For example, ChatZilla probably shouldn't be in 1.0, because it doesn't work yet. It should only be in some later beta.
In 1.0 RC1 and 2002050208-trunk, on Windows 98 and 2000, ChatZilla WORKSFORME when I hang out in #tokipona or #everything. Do you have a Bugzilla ticket number for your problem?
Or perhaps the problem (which I ran into while composing this comment) is Slashdot's filters removing the slashes from irc: URLs in comments?
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I once wrote a program to hide printed text in a spectrogram. The first thing I encoded (after test messages such as Hello World) was efdtt from David Touretzky's Gallery of CSS Descramblers.
the program
efdtt on top of music from Tet*is Advance
The only way anything in this case could fall under the anti-SLAPP laws is if PanIP sued the poster for slander.
SLAPP is merely a special case of barratry, the practice of filing frivolous lawsuits. Barratry is a crime in many jurisdictions and can get a lawyer kicked out of the Bar.
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The consumer version of the Neo-Geo (i.e. the version where each game didn't cost three figures) was CD-based. And loading isn't that bad if you can cover it up with an announcer yelling "Ryu vs. Chun-Li" or something (I don't know SNK characters, so I'm using Capcom here). Plus, you can stream data into RAM as it's needed, which is very useful for scrolling shooters such as the 194? games. If you want to see a beautiful example of streaming in action, try Einhänder for PS1.
I think the biggest (only?) reason for the superior graphics was that NEO-GEO modules are much bigger (physically and logically) than those of any ROM-based console ever. E.g. Metal Slug 3 has 708 Mb. 708 Mb, IN ROM CHIPS! Compare that to the puny 16 Mb Genesis or SNES Modules.
The Game Boy Advance (16 MiHz ARM processor, Super NES-like graphics chipset) may soon top that. Right now, you can buy Visoly flash cartridges that hold 512 megabits. The biggest current games are only 64 megabits, but that will change as prices fall.
Since OpenBSD is based in Canada they can ship their system with strong encryption since they are not subject to the USA's fascist crypto laws.
The USA crypto laws are no longer fascist. The Bureau of Industry and Security (BXA) has lifted most restrictions on exporting free cryptographic software.
It seems the encoder I was using at the time (bladeenc) was inserting silence at the end of each mp3, to keep it to spec.
Dedicate one machine to running LAME on the audio, and you won't have this problem.
and all new hardware required, and implemented horrifically draconian anti-copy-anything protection which both took away the ability to copy for reasonable use, or took away nick the l337 h4X0r's ability to copy 'stuff', ancient second hand hardware, free hardware, is going to become rather desirable.
You're not the first to think of "pre-ban computers" along the lines of "pre-ban assault rifles." If you're interested in this line of thought, read more: Google pre-ban cbdtpa
I am not sure anyone could "bury" a general purpose architecture as the PC has become; no one piece "defines" it any longer, nor is irreplaceable, right?
I define a PC as a computing device with these qualities:
The irreplaceable part is a BIOS that will try to load any kernel you throw at it without complaining that the kernel is not signed by the hardware vendor. Otherwise, you merely have an embedded system.
The music industry losing money? Amazing how many albums are still going platinum, double platinum, etc. even with music pirating. Movies? Spider-Man made $114 million in it's first weekend. How much more will it make before it's done? But, oh wait, those movie studios are losing money.
We are not in war and we are not being forced to house soldiers.
If Congress can declare "War On Some Drugs," why can't Congress declare "War On Infringement"? In that case, it wouldn't take very much of a stretch to see that the ©-chips are "soldiers" in such "war."
Netscrape had something called "Internet Keywords" that did roughly the same thing.
RealNames dominates the first page of results from search for "Internet Keywords". But I'm not sure if Netscape's system was the same or not. Current versions of Mozilla (1.0 RC2) simply surround single words with www.$1.com.
Keebler is owned by NABISCO!
Keebler.com's brands page, I see no evidence of any affiliation with Kraft Foods, Nabisco's parent company. In turn, Kraft's parent company is Altria.
I don't buy Nabisco because 1. I don't like to support big tobacco and big booze (two other divisions of Altria), and 2. I simply prefer Keebler's products to Nabisco's.
The correct term is tetralingual, not quadrilingual.
"Quadri" comes from Latin. "Lingual" is from Latin. "Tetra" comes from Greek. In general, a compound will be all-Greek or all-Latin, with the occasional exception such as "homosexual".
Quadrilingual is used in 1,210 pages, whereas tetralingual is used in only 14.
I assume your Game Boy reference alluded to Tetris®. In that case, the existence of Quadra negates any "by default, go with the name of the block game" rule. In other words, you need to lay off the drugs ;-)
If you mean Linux then that's not much use in an embedded environment.
The Linux® kernel is used in several embedded systems. (Read More...)
"Linux-like commands" ... erm, shouldn't that really be UNIX-like commands? Since that's where Linux pretty much gets them...
I take "Linux-like commands" to mean the standard POSIX command set (available in all UNIX systems) plus the GNU extensions.
RISC OS 2 could run in 512K with a fair bit to spare, but it would be a push to fit it in 288K.
How much of that 512 KiB was .text (code and const data), and how much was .data, .bss, heap, and stack? On the GBA, .text is placed in ROM on the program cartridge.
However, all discussions of memory use must take into account that GBA has no rotating-media storage ergo no swapping to virtual memory.
From the blurb:
RISC OS Select, *the* OS for ARM powered computers
Has RISC OS been ported to the ARM-powered Game Boy Advance?
Or would it take too much memory? GBA has 288 KiB of RAM and up to 32 MiB of ROM (though the biggest current games are 8 MiB).
http://www.riscos.org/
I followed that link to Rebranding RISC OS. Apparently, RISCOS Ltd is moving to a cogwheel for a logo. But isn't the cogwheel taken?
DJ's have made tracks using music from two different artists for a long time, and nothing has changed except the way it is mixed
The difference is that 1. DJs pay royalties to BMI and ASCAP, and 2. DJs do not infringe on RIAA's work because the labels don't control public performance rights (BMI and ASCAP do), and "derivative works" rights apply only to works that are fixed in some tangible medium.
Many content holders do this...for instance, you ever wondr why there are always TVs in bars, but they NEVER have the sound on?
Actually, it's OK to turn the TV's audio on in a small restaurant. A rider to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act amended 17 USC 110 to specifically permit public performance of a nondramatic musical work on a small screen in a restaurant or bar of less than 3750 sq ft or any other establishment of less than 2000 sq ft.
I wonder why the RIAA isn't sending street teams out to every bar in the country ... with bands
RIAA doesn't license public performance of the underlying musical work. ASCAP, SESAC, and BMI do. (The law makes a distinction between a musical work and a recording based on that work.)
or a stack of CDs.
Again, RIAA doesn't control this; the performers' rights organizations do. The only time an RIAA label has any control over a public performance of its copyrighted sound recordings is when it involves a digital transmission (17 USC 106). Once it leaves the loudspeakers, it's analog, and only the music publisher can stop it.
All those street musicians (licensed even, say in the subways of NYC) who aren't paying royalties.
How do you know that the standard street musician license doesn't include royalty payments to ASCAP, SESAC, and BMI?
Here's Eminem vs. Enya - The Real Slim Shady.ogg. It's based on the concept of an earlier MP3 called "eminenya" but done in a more professional style that preserves the verse/chorus structure.
It's an Ogg file, so you'll need an Ogg player to hear it. Winamp 2.80 and later come with Ogg Vorbis support built in.
Then they went down to the level of requesting my report of the building of this processor to use mips and a perfect adjective rather than a noun.
That's just common practice with trademarks. For instance, you'll never hear a commercial for the "Pentium" unless Pentium is followed by "processor". Further examples: SPAM is an adjective and should be followed with "luncheon meat." Java is an adjective and should be followed with "technology," "platform," or "language." Macintosh is an adjective and should be followed with "computer."
MIPS as a noun does not refer to a processor architecture. It refers to an easily-fudgeable benchmark.
For example, ChatZilla probably shouldn't be in 1.0, because it doesn't work yet. It should only be in some later beta.
In 1.0 RC1 and 2002050208-trunk, on Windows 98 and 2000, ChatZilla WORKSFORME when I hang out in #tokipona or #everything. Do you have a Bugzilla ticket number for your problem?
Or perhaps the problem (which I ran into while composing this comment) is Slashdot's filters removing the slashes from irc: URLs in comments?
PS2: everything Squaresoft
Not necessarily. Squaresoft and Nintendo have made up. Specifically, Final Fantasy Tactics is coming to Game Boy Advance.