The complete specification for the interface that MSHTML.dll and friends implement.
What are you trying to do and why can't you do it without that API?
I thought I'd start a project to write a wrapper around Gecko to use it as the renderer for apps that use MSHTML.dll. (This would effectively replace IE.) But without the spec, it becomes at least an order of magnitude more difficult.
OmniWeb isn't free as in beer either. It only runs on one type of hardware, which is not the market leader, and that type of hardware costs $800. Not everybody has the money or desk space for Macintosh hardware, especially if your school or employer mandates a particular brand of Wintel PC.
A lifelong copyright means that an author won't be slighted if his book becomes popular 10 or 20 years later.
Under United States law, corporations are persons that live forever. If you set all copyright terms at "life of the author" and not "X years", then a trust corporation can hold a perpetual copyright.
So this was a case of an author who was being left out of the commerce of something he created, which is exactly what a 5 year copyright law would have done.
I'm not asking for 5 years. I'm asking for 20 or so years. Thomas Jefferson favored 19 years. The copyright act of 1790 provided for 14 years renewable to a maximum of 28. The current terms (95 years, or life plus 70) sound more like prison terms for the characters than "limited Times" "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".
Mozilla.org has signed a deal with Distributed Computing Technologies Inc. to include encryption research software in the official binary releases of Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 5. The RC5 build will include a distributed application to measure the strength of RSA'sRC5 cipher, described in RFC 2040.
The files have to go over the network, and through the listener's computer and audio card and such in order to be heard. If the listener's computer can play the music, then it can also make a copy.
Unless the audio is strongly encrypted (128+ bits) over the network and the playback application uses a Secure Audio Path. If an app does not shut off all digital outputs when the Secure Audio Path is turned on, Microsoft will not sign it.
However, nothing can stop line out line in. Even Hollings's current proposal prohibits the copyright industry from requiring technologies that would make fair use next to impossible.
is it infringement when a dj, at a club with a cover-charge, publicly plays copyrighted material for a couple hundred people dancing?
No, because the DJ has already paid ASCAP, SESAC, and BMI to license the public performance right in the underlying musical work. There is no public performance monopoly in sound recordings except over a digital network. (The rationale for such a monopoly is that digital networks make possible re-broadcasting the stream without loss, depriving the label of even the revenue from a $6 single.)
Likewise, RIAA is a lobbying organization, not a label. Slashdot comments often use the terms "RIAA", "MPAA", and "Gnutella" metonymically for "Big Five labels", "Big Seven studios", and "the developers of BearShare and LimeWire" respectively.
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For screenshots just turn on your TV.
I saw a couple of the screenshots, and they were of the menu system superimposed on the broadcast.
Why do the names of these service-denial attacks tend to coincide with the names of 16-bit embedded PC operating systems? For example, the generic term "DoS" (denial of service) collides with "DOS" (disk operating system). The term "DRDoS" (distributed reflection denial of service) looks like "DR DOS" (Digital Research disk operating system).
<sarcasm>uh huh. thats right. square games don't sell.</sarcasm>
How many of those 4 million FF8 discs were sold to people who had already played FF7 (and possibly 6, and 4, and 1)? Franchise titles such as sequels and movie licenses have different laws of economics than original titles; some players will buy just on the brand name, no matter how sh*tty the game play is. (Not that I'm saying FF is sh*tty or anything; I'm specifically referring to sickeningly linear Di$ney-themed games such as Capcom's Aladdin and Virgin's Pinocchio.) Sales != fun.
For somebody new to the FF series and not used to its conventions, or for a reviewer who has only one day to spend playing a game, ten hours of interactive movie plus 70 hours of game does not equal fun. Heck, most feature films are under 2.5 hours.
Do we see Microsoft suing the Samba team over usage of the SMB protocol in non-Microsoft related Operating Systems?
For one thing, the latest license on the SMB patents requires that any software implemented under the license be NOT free to redistribute.
For another thing, Nintendo could sue them both for violating the trademark on SMB, short for Super Mario Bros.
Now. LikSang no longer uses UPS.
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When can I buy liksang items here in the USA ?!?!?!
Now. LikSang.com still sells Game Boy Advance development accessories to customers in the U.S. It has just dropped UPS for United States destinations. Just ship your accessories via EMS Speedpost, and you'll be fine.
[/me goes back to playing his spinning tetris clone on GBA ]
Now that everything's on CD, which cost pennies to press, games for the new systems cost MORE?!?!?!
They're also a couple orders of magnitude bigger. Filling a CD requires creation of over 640 MB of data; filling a Game Boy Advance cartridge takes only 8 MB with the cartridges that nintendo is currently offering to licensees. It takes more labor to create 640 MB worth of data than 8 MB. Game companies have to pay for this labor somehow, and they do so by charging for copies of their games.
Also, US$20 when the Game Boy first came out (1990-ish) is worth what now after inflation, $35? Coincidentally, that's how much Game Boy Advance games cost now; therefore, real prices for Game Boy games have not changed.
Now, one might consider some Square games to be "interactive movies" (although generally the people who say this are the ones who play about 5 hours of FFX and never really get into the game)... Finish the game, then we'll talk.
Finish the game? On a rental? One of the purposes of rental is to promote the game so that players will buy it. The "learning curve" theory of psychology shows that the first impression sticks strongly in the player's mind. In fact, Mr. Miyamoto (a prominent producer at Nintendo) helped re-design the first two levels of Star Fox 64 at the last minute to improve the critical first hour. If the first hour of a Square game isn't fun, it won't sell, and sucks to be Square.
They admit it: see Google Hosted SiteSearch. Pay Google the $$$, and Google will index all your site's pages as often as you want.
Google's Custom SiteSearch means that the pages you wish indexed from your website are crawled and indexed. Crawls can occur daily or weekly, depending on your frequency of updates.
It's primarily intended for webmasters of commercial sites who want to outsource their "Search This Site" functionality, but the index does leak into the general web search database.
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Google does not have a pay for placement plan - if you are making reference to the practice of changing the order of search results based on advertiser dollars.
Yes it does. When you search Google, it displays two distinct sets of results side-by-side. One set is based solely on PageRank values; the other (clearly marked "Sponsored Links") is based on advertising dollars. The problem with GoTo was that you had to scroll and click past pages and pages of sponsored links to get to the results scrolled by relevance.
How about we work together with this interesting plan? Let's do a brainstorm discussion first. What is your email?
Use these addresses only if you have legitimate information related to game console software development.
e-mail: tepples (cinnamon roll) spamcop (period) net
MSN: d_yerrick (cinnamon roll) hotmail (period) com
AIM: yerricde
ICQ: 45269874
How would one do text input on the GBA?
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but what I want is PDA-type apps for my GameBoy Advance.
I once seriously considered developing such an app (using free tools available here), but I ran into two roadblocks:
A PDA needs a real-time clock that can wake the system from deep sleep to remind the user of an event. The GBA lacks both an internal clock and (to my knowledge) a reliable way for the cart to wake the system.
A PDA has a touch screen, useful for inputting text quickly through Graffiti or Fitaly systems. The GBA has an 8-way direction pad, four trigger buttons, and two tiny buttons next to the pad. How do we get text into the thing quickly?
Yes, there have been primitive organizers for Game Boy platforms (Workboy, InfoGenius, and Austin Powers), but I can't see how I would implement anything like the Palm environment. Anybody else have any ideas?
Now imagine that, when the baby is born ('prototype clone'), (s)he starts getting all types of horrible diseases, limbs missing and what have you.
"Limbs missing" is not a "horrible disease." Having a child born without legs (but with fully-functional arms) can be a good thing for the parents because it means the little fellow can't run off as easily. Besides, it's cute.
As near as I can tell, this thing just contains a number which can be read by any scanner you pass. So it's useless as a secure ID because anyone can get your code by scanning you and then using a programmable chip that sends out that code.
How do you know it doesn't use a challenge-response system based on public-key crypto?
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Which [API is Microsoft hiding]?
The complete specification for the interface that MSHTML.dll and friends implement.
What are you trying to do and why can't you do it without that API?
I thought I'd start a project to write a wrapper around Gecko to use it as the renderer for apps that use MSHTML.dll. (This would effectively replace IE.) But without the spec, it becomes at least an order of magnitude more difficult.
OmniWeb isn't free (as in speech)
OmniWeb isn't free as in beer either. It only runs on one type of hardware, which is not the market leader, and that type of hardware costs $800. Not everybody has the money or desk space for Macintosh hardware, especially if your school or employer mandates a particular brand of Wintel PC.
A lifelong copyright means that an author won't be slighted if his book becomes popular 10 or 20 years later.
Under United States law, corporations are persons that live forever. If you set all copyright terms at "life of the author" and not "X years", then a trust corporation can hold a perpetual copyright.
So this was a case of an author who was being left out of the commerce of something he created, which is exactly what a 5 year copyright law would have done.
I'm not asking for 5 years. I'm asking for 20 or so years. Thomas Jefferson favored 19 years. The copyright act of 1790 provided for 14 years renewable to a maximum of 28. The current terms (95 years, or life plus 70) sound more like prison terms for the characters than "limited Times" "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".
'Civilised' is spelt perfectly correctly. It's only you 'uncivilized' Americans who spell it wrong.
-ize is better than -ise. The suffix -ize comes from Greek -zein (except for these few exceptions); -ise is a French (ribbit) corruption.
There's nothing in Linux as complex and cryptic as... (deep voice) the Registry.
Other than the mess that is some distributions' /etc?
<news truth="0">
Mozilla.org has signed a deal with Distributed Computing Technologies Inc. to include encryption research software in the official binary releases of Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 5. The RC5 build will include a distributed application to measure the strength of RSA's RC5 cipher, described in RFC 2040.
</news>
The files have to go over the network, and through the listener's computer and audio card and such in order to be heard. If the listener's computer can play the music, then it can also make a copy.
Unless the audio is strongly encrypted (128+ bits) over the network and the playback application uses a Secure Audio Path. If an app does not shut off all digital outputs when the Secure Audio Path is turned on, Microsoft will not sign it.
However, nothing can stop line out line in. Even Hollings's current proposal prohibits the copyright industry from requiring technologies that would make fair use next to impossible.
is it infringement when a dj, at a club with a cover-charge, publicly plays copyrighted material for a couple hundred people dancing?
No, because the DJ has already paid ASCAP, SESAC, and BMI to license the public performance right in the underlying musical work. There is no public performance monopoly in sound recordings except over a digital network. (The rationale for such a monopoly is that digital networks make possible re-broadcasting the stream without loss, depriving the label of even the revenue from a $6 single.)
Gnutella is a protocol, not a company
Likewise, RIAA is a lobbying organization, not a label. Slashdot comments often use the terms "RIAA", "MPAA", and "Gnutella" metonymically for "Big Five labels", "Big Seven studios", and "the developers of BearShare and LimeWire" respectively.
For screenshots just turn on your TV.
I saw a couple of the screenshots, and they were of the menu system superimposed on the broadcast.
As the Snafu cartoon once read, "I'm a little fuzzy on step two." [miracle occurs here]
Or in other words:
Distributed Reflection Denial of Service
Why do the names of these service-denial attacks tend to coincide with the names of 16-bit embedded PC operating systems? For example, the generic term "DoS" (denial of service) collides with "DOS" (disk operating system). The term "DRDoS" (distributed reflection denial of service) looks like "DR DOS" (Digital Research disk operating system).
<sarcasm>uh huh. thats right. square games don't sell.</sarcasm>
How many of those 4 million FF8 discs were sold to people who had already played FF7 (and possibly 6, and 4, and 1)? Franchise titles such as sequels and movie licenses have different laws of economics than original titles; some players will buy just on the brand name, no matter how sh*tty the game play is. (Not that I'm saying FF is sh*tty or anything; I'm specifically referring to sickeningly linear Di$ney-themed games such as Capcom's Aladdin and Virgin's Pinocchio.) Sales != fun.
For somebody new to the FF series and not used to its conventions, or for a reviewer who has only one day to spend playing a game, ten hours of interactive movie plus 70 hours of game does not equal fun. Heck, most feature films are under 2.5 hours.
>WHEREFORE, Blizzard prays that
now they're calling on THE LORD?
The word "pray" is probably just legalese. It does come from the same Latin root that developed into the Italian word for "please".
Do we see Microsoft suing the Samba team over usage of the SMB protocol in non-Microsoft related Operating Systems?
For one thing, the latest license on the SMB patents requires that any software implemented under the license be NOT free to redistribute.
For another thing, Nintendo could sue them both for violating the trademark on SMB, short for Super Mario Bros.
When can I buy liksang items here in the USA ?!?!?!
Now. LikSang.com still sells Game Boy Advance development accessories to customers in the U.S. It has just dropped UPS for United States destinations. Just ship your accessories via EMS Speedpost, and you'll be fine.
[ /me goes back to playing his spinning tetris clone on GBA ]
I just wrote a webserver for a _windows XP_ box.
Windows XP is basically NT, and Apache 2 already runs on NT.
Now that everything's on CD, which cost pennies to press, games for the new systems cost MORE?!?!?!
They're also a couple orders of magnitude bigger. Filling a CD requires creation of over 640 MB of data; filling a Game Boy Advance cartridge takes only 8 MB with the cartridges that nintendo is currently offering to licensees. It takes more labor to create 640 MB worth of data than 8 MB. Game companies have to pay for this labor somehow, and they do so by charging for copies of their games.
Also, US$20 when the Game Boy first came out (1990-ish) is worth what now after inflation, $35? Coincidentally, that's how much Game Boy Advance games cost now; therefore, real prices for Game Boy games have not changed.
Now, one might consider some Square games to be "interactive movies" (although generally the people who say this are the ones who play about 5 hours of FFX and never really get into the game) ... Finish the game, then we'll talk.
Finish the game? On a rental? One of the purposes of rental is to promote the game so that players will buy it. The "learning curve" theory of psychology shows that the first impression sticks strongly in the player's mind. In fact, Mr. Miyamoto (a prominent producer at Nintendo) helped re-design the first two levels of Star Fox 64 at the last minute to improve the critical first hour. If the first hour of a Square game isn't fun, it won't sell, and sucks to be Square.
They admit it: see Google Hosted SiteSearch. Pay Google the $$$, and Google will index all your site's pages as often as you want.
It's primarily intended for webmasters of commercial sites who want to outsource their "Search This Site" functionality, but the index does leak into the general web search database.
Google does not have a pay for placement plan - if you are making reference to the practice of changing the order of search results based on advertiser dollars.
Yes it does. When you search Google, it displays two distinct sets of results side-by-side. One set is based solely on PageRank values; the other (clearly marked "Sponsored Links") is based on advertising dollars. The problem with GoTo was that you had to scroll and click past pages and pages of sponsored links to get to the results scrolled by relevance.
How about we work together with this interesting plan? Let's do a brainstorm discussion first. What is your email?
Use these addresses only if you have legitimate information related to game console software development.
but what I want is PDA-type apps for my GameBoy Advance.
I once seriously considered developing such an app (using free tools available here), but I ran into two roadblocks:
A PDA needs a real-time clock that can wake the system from deep sleep to remind the user of an event. The GBA lacks both an internal clock and (to my knowledge) a reliable way for the cart to wake the system.
A PDA has a touch screen, useful for inputting text quickly through Graffiti or Fitaly systems. The GBA has an 8-way direction pad, four trigger buttons, and two tiny buttons next to the pad. How do we get text into the thing quickly?
Yes, there have been primitive organizers for Game Boy platforms (Workboy, InfoGenius, and Austin Powers), but I can't see how I would implement anything like the Palm environment. Anybody else have any ideas?
Now imagine that, when the baby is born ('prototype clone'), (s)he starts getting all types of horrible diseases, limbs missing and what have you.
"Limbs missing" is not a "horrible disease." Having a child born without legs (but with fully-functional arms) can be a good thing for the parents because it means the little fellow can't run off as easily. Besides, it's cute.
As near as I can tell, this thing just contains a number which can be read by any scanner you pass. So it's useless as a secure ID because anyone can get your code by scanning you and then using a programmable chip that sends out that code.
How do you know it doesn't use a challenge-response system based on public-key crypto?