If they had added some monkeys and woodchucks in random places in the movie, it would have been far more interesting and entertaining.
Except that would defeat the purpose of the whole story. The Morlocks have to eat the Eloi (who look way too 2002-human in the movie; I distinctly remember that the novel described the Eloi as looking closer to Precious Moments figurines) only because the Morlocks have run out of other animals to eat through over-hunting. (The Eloi are frugivores. We 2002-humans are designed to be frugivores too (sorry, the link has expired), but some people choose to ignore that and eat meat.)
But given the copyright industry's behavior over the last few decades, the copyright on this movie adaptation probably won't expire until the year 802701;-)
Royalties are so bad that "Happy Birthday" (the royalties of which go to the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts) can't be used at scouting functions without permission and there has been litigation to that effect.
That's because the Scouts don't own "Happy Birthday". AOL does through its Warner-Chappell Music Publishing division. Perpetually.
When MHz is used to describe an otherwise unnamed aspect of a computing device, it is generally assumed that the frequency values denote the frequency of either the CPU clock or the device's radio band.
200 dpi looks almost like paper
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Looking through the specs, one sees that the unit only has a four-inch screen
Displays are typically measured diagonally. By Pythagoras's right triangle theorem, the diagonal measure of the display is equivalent to 800 pixels, and on a four-inch display, that's 200 dpi.
certain Windows or X controls will be downright lilliputian
Typically, Windows and X controls are drawn to look good between 72 dpi and 96 dpi, but that's configurable in most theme engines. Set up large fonts (in Windows, do Control Panel > Display > Settings tab > Advanced... > General tab > 192 dpi), and you have a very readable display. Throw in ClearType, and you pretty much have print equivalent resolution.
"eightythree" TM infringing on TI-83?
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Tiqit Computers unveiled the eightythree, basically a handheld PC
During high school, I used a device called a "TI-83" in math class. It was an 8-bit computer that came preloaded with graphing calculator software. Would selling this "eightythree" handheld PC with pre-loaded graphing calculator software constitute trademark infringement?
"Virtual PC" and "Virtual PC for Windows" are two completely different products sharing the same trademark. The "Virtual PC" product shipped in 1997 is a PC emulator for Macintosh computers that dynamically recompiles (or "code-morphs") Pentium code into PowerPC code and then emulates a vanilla PC motherboard. Bochs is the free equivalent of this product. On the other hand, the "Virtual PC for Windows" product shipped recently is a virtualizer similar to vmware and plex86; its dynamic recompilation engine is much simpler than the Mac version's because it can in many cases just memcpy() the emulated PC's literal binary code and run that.
can the iBook run a Window applications at all competently?
Most Mac applications run in a window; very few run in the full screen, and they're mostly either media players or games. And if you meant Windows with an S (wouldn't that be Sindows?), Connectix Virtual PC handles that quite nicely.
What sort of equivalent Intel CPU does it emulate?
Pentium MMX family. Clock speed may vary, but last time I checked, its video drivers were hardware accelerated. Windows 9x was highly responsive last time I tried VPC (on a 233 MHz original bondi blue iMac).
I'd do an iBook in a heartbeat, except that my key application is available only for Windows.
Which application is that? Have you used it in Virtual PC? (Used, not guessed.) And have you written the maintainer about the platform support issue?
Address lines and outdated but orphan BIOS
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Newer laptops use standard SODIMMs for RAM
Yes, but if your laptop's SODIMM slot only has enough address lines to see the first 64 MB of a RAM stick, there's no use putting in a 256 MB stick.
cheaply upgradeable hard drives
Some newer ATA hard drives don't work with older BIOSes that can see only the first 8 GB of the hard disk. And you can't just flash your BIOS if your laptop's BIOS publisher has gone out of business.
Want gnustep? Donate to FSF.
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I wish GNUStep was "there"
It already is there, but a few of the more advanced GUI features aren't, and Display GhostScript is still a bit slow. If you want more, put your money where your mouth is.
GIMP: lack of CM�K or contextual menus?
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Just because you don't use a certain capability (like CMYK), doesn't mean I don't either.
I understand that people who do print work need CMYK, but I just wanted to point out a lot of people who think they "need Photoshop" and either pay for or pirate the $600 program can make do with either free GIMP, $100 Paint Shop Pro, or $100 PS Elements. (This applies especially to those who use "Photoshop" as a transitive verb.) Most of what gives Photoshop reputation as an "expensive" package lies in features that are 1. patented by companies that demand hefty royalties and 2. not needed by a large enough chunk of the users for alternatives to pop up.
I was also trying to weed out the "GIMP sucks because most of its menus are contextual" bots.
There's even source [apple.com] for the core OS for you open source freaks.
That doesn't help if I'm developing software and my build crashes in the proprietary graphics layer. I can't follow the debugger into proprietary software to see why my app "unexpectedly quit, error 1" (i.e. segfaulted).
Gimp is nice, but doesn't come close to Photoshop.
What is GIMP missing that Photoshop Elements (i.e. Photoshop without CMYK, which web and game artists don't need) has?
Sure, a few prototypes exist, but it's not a product. If I can't obtain one, then its existence is a moot point. Therefore, it is no substitute for a Game Boy Advance. What the OP wanted was more along the lines of "widely available portable system that can play Squaresoft titles". Yes, Game Boy does have FF Legend (SaGa series) and FF Adventure (first Mana game), but I'm not 100% sure those count.
the psone is from sony and is a playstation 1 in a smaller form factor
Sony apparently calls the entire PlayStation 1 platform "PSOne" now. I used the term "PSOne" to refer to the PlayStation consoles that share the hardware architecture of the game console that Sony released in 1994, not just the semi-portable version with the smaller cuter form factor but no Game Link port.
it has nothing to do with nintendo.
The PlayStation was originally a CD-ROM attachment for the Super NES. Read this: "Keep in mind that Sony was developing the Super NES CD-Rom add-on before Playstation. In fact, that is what Playstation was evolved from." Google about for more info.
No, but I've read in Nintendo Power that it had even worse fog than Buck Bumble and no gameplay to speak of. That was not a Nintendo brand title but only a "licensed" title published by Titus (i.e. licensee signs NDA, Nintendo sells manuals and flash cartridges to licensee, licensee develops game, licensee ships game to Nintendo on a flash cartridge, Nintendo manufactures thousands of cartridges containing a mask ROM and sells them to licensee).
They have promised a modem add-on and a NIC add-on.
They have also "promised" a CD-ROM drive for Super NES (which eventually became the PSone) and a Zip-like drive for N64 (the 64DD, which never hit U.S. shores). The general rule for U.S. Nintendo console accessories: If it plugs into the expansion port on the bottom of the system, it'll be delayed, delayed, delayed, until it's cancelled.
but linking to a page when the entire contents are in the article seems a little goofy.
It's called citing your sources. Otherwise, not only do you have zero credibility, but you're also plagiarizing the original article. (Plagiarism and copyright infringement are considered separate offences.)
The "open source operating system" is the OS that runs on a network whose machines run GNU/Linux, BSD, AtheOS, FreeDOS, and other operating systems whose kernel, shell, and included applications are OSI Certified open source software.
ObDRM: None of the OSI Certified operating systems place the kernel or GUI under a digital-rights-denial system (unlike retail Windows XP). Windows XP does have one advantage, however: in the cartoon world, it can turn a laptop into a jetpack. (Read More...)
How do you discover a country when there are already people living there?
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You "discover" a country when you are the first to bring alphabetic writing there. The Native Americans didn't discover the New World; most of them had no writing (save the Maya nation). The Chinese didn't discover the New World; they wrote with ideograms. The Vikings can lay a claim because at least they had a runic alphabet. We believe the claims of Columbus, Vespucci, and others for discovering different parts of the New World because they were able to write home using a small number of distinct symbols that somewhat closely correspond to the sound of the language.
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But "Mom and Pop" don't want to have to deal with that stuff... a little hand holding and an easy install are all they want, because at the end of the day, all they care about is that they can get their email, surf the web, and little Johnny and Janie can look up their homework assignments (etc).
So let Janie's geeky friend from down the street come over and install it.
If you have a fast local network, it's not difficult to play a DVD on one machine and watch the decoded picture on another.
Yes it is. The DVD CCA would never allow digital output of a CSS decoder, and now that the WIPO Copyright Treaty is going/has gone into effect, the whole world can sing it with me: "It's fun to violate D-M-C-A, it's fun to violate D-M-C-A!"
So [difficulty in navigating a 3D UI] is why nobody plays Q3A?
Quake III: Arena (original levels, no mods) is mostly 2 1/2 dimensional. In terms of actual gameplay, it's really no more 3D than Doom. Descent and friends, on the other hand, are 3D, but they're quite a bit less popular.
Since they were hired by the Recording industry who holds all the copyrights in question, wouldn't they be stealing from themselves (on an organizational level)?
No, they were hired by NARAS and AOL(tw). Major labels (i.e. RIAA members) and independent labels (i.e. non-RIAA members) claim the copyright on the recordings. And doesn't allowing users to copy recordings freely potentially constitute a breach of the contracts of the songwriters? (There are two separate copyrights on a sound recording: the copyright in the recording itself, and the copyright in the underlying musical work.)
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If they had added some monkeys and woodchucks in random places in the movie, it would have been far more interesting and entertaining.
Except that would defeat the purpose of the whole story. The Morlocks have to eat the Eloi (who look way too 2002-human in the movie; I distinctly remember that the novel described the Eloi as looking closer to Precious Moments figurines) only because the Morlocks have run out of other animals to eat through over-hunting. (The Eloi are frugivores. We 2002-humans are designed to be frugivores too (sorry, the link has expired), but some people choose to ignore that and eat meat.)
But given the copyright industry's behavior over the last few decades, the copyright on this movie adaptation probably won't expire until the year 802701 ;-)
Royalties are so bad that "Happy Birthday" (the royalties of which go to the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts) can't be used at scouting functions without permission and there has been litigation to that effect.
That's because the Scouts don't own "Happy Birthday". AOL does through its Warner-Chappell Music Publishing division. Perpetually.
yeah I know the cpu is a Geode Semiconductor or something
A quick Google search reveals some more information about this device's National Semiconductor Geode (an x86 clone):
Or just some type of CPU?
When MHz is used to describe an otherwise unnamed aspect of a computing device, it is generally assumed that the frequency values denote the frequency of either the CPU clock or the device's radio band.
Looking through the specs, one sees that the unit only has a four-inch screen
Displays are typically measured diagonally. By Pythagoras's right triangle theorem, the diagonal measure of the display is equivalent to 800 pixels, and on a four-inch display, that's 200 dpi.
certain Windows or X controls will be downright lilliputian
Typically, Windows and X controls are drawn to look good between 72 dpi and 96 dpi, but that's configurable in most theme engines. Set up large fonts (in Windows, do Control Panel > Display > Settings tab > Advanced... > General tab > 192 dpi), and you have a very readable display. Throw in ClearType, and you pretty much have print equivalent resolution.
Tiqit Computers unveiled the eightythree, basically a handheld PC
During high school, I used a device called a "TI-83" in math class. It was an 8-bit computer that came preloaded with graphing calculator software. Would selling this "eightythree" handheld PC with pre-loaded graphing calculator software constitute trademark infringement?
I thought Bochs was an ordinary emulator without dynamic recompilation?
I may have been mistaken. I'm sure that Virtual PC does dynamic recompilation; I'm not so sure about Bochs. There may be a patent in the way.
"Virtual PC" and "Virtual PC for Windows" are two completely different products sharing the same trademark. The "Virtual PC" product shipped in 1997 is a PC emulator for Macintosh computers that dynamically recompiles (or "code-morphs") Pentium code into PowerPC code and then emulates a vanilla PC motherboard. Bochs is the free equivalent of this product. On the other hand, the "Virtual PC for Windows" product shipped recently is a virtualizer similar to vmware and plex86; its dynamic recompilation engine is much simpler than the Mac version's because it can in many cases just memcpy() the emulated PC's literal binary code and run that.
can the iBook run a Window applications at all competently?
Most Mac applications run in a window; very few run in the full screen, and they're mostly either media players or games. And if you meant Windows with an S (wouldn't that be Sindows?), Connectix Virtual PC handles that quite nicely.
What sort of equivalent Intel CPU does it emulate?
Pentium MMX family. Clock speed may vary, but last time I checked, its video drivers were hardware accelerated. Windows 9x was highly responsive last time I tried VPC (on a 233 MHz original bondi blue iMac).
I'd do an iBook in a heartbeat, except that my key application is available only for Windows.
Which application is that? Have you used it in Virtual PC? (Used, not guessed.) And have you written the maintainer about the platform support issue?
(Funny: Virtual PC is now available for Windows. It's a vmware clone.)
Newer laptops use standard SODIMMs for RAM
Yes, but if your laptop's SODIMM slot only has enough address lines to see the first 64 MB of a RAM stick, there's no use putting in a 256 MB stick.
cheaply upgradeable hard drives
Some newer ATA hard drives don't work with older BIOSes that can see only the first 8 GB of the hard disk. And you can't just flash your BIOS if your laptop's BIOS publisher has gone out of business.
I wish GNUStep was "there"
It already is there, but a few of the more advanced GUI features aren't, and Display GhostScript is still a bit slow. If you want more, put your money where your mouth is.
Just because you don't use a certain capability (like CMYK), doesn't mean I don't either.
I understand that people who do print work need CMYK, but I just wanted to point out a lot of people who think they "need Photoshop" and either pay for or pirate the $600 program can make do with either free GIMP, $100 Paint Shop Pro, or $100 PS Elements. (This applies especially to those who use "Photoshop" as a transitive verb.) Most of what gives Photoshop reputation as an "expensive" package lies in features that are 1. patented by companies that demand hefty royalties and 2. not needed by a large enough chunk of the users for alternatives to pop up.
I was also trying to weed out the "GIMP sucks because most of its menus are contextual" bots.
There's even source [apple.com] for the core OS for you open source freaks.
That doesn't help if I'm developing software and my build crashes in the proprietary graphics layer. I can't follow the debugger into proprietary software to see why my app "unexpectedly quit, error 1" (i.e. segfaulted).
Gimp is nice, but doesn't come close to Photoshop.
What is GIMP missing that Photoshop Elements (i.e. Photoshop without CMYK, which web and game artists don't need) has?
(link to one-off handmade PlayStation portable)
Sure, a few prototypes exist, but it's not a product. If I can't obtain one, then its existence is a moot point. Therefore, it is no substitute for a Game Boy Advance. What the OP wanted was more along the lines of "widely available portable system that can play Squaresoft titles". Yes, Game Boy does have FF Legend (SaGa series) and FF Adventure (first Mana game), but I'm not 100% sure those count.
the psone is from sony and is a playstation 1 in a smaller form factor
Sony apparently calls the entire PlayStation 1 platform "PSOne" now. I used the term "PSOne" to refer to the PlayStation consoles that share the hardware architecture of the game console that Sony released in 1994, not just the semi-portable version with the smaller cuter form factor but no Game Link port.
it has nothing to do with nintendo.
The PlayStation was originally a CD-ROM attachment for the Super NES. Read this: "Keep in mind that Sony was developing the Super NES CD-Rom add-on before Playstation. In fact, that is what Playstation was evolved from." Google about for more info.
Yeah, but you still can't play Final Fantasy X, Grand Theft Auto, or Metal Gear Solid 2.
You left out the 3. Grand Theft Auto 1 is available for Game Boy Color.
No, but I've read in Nintendo Power that it had even worse fog than Buck Bumble and no gameplay to speak of. That was not a Nintendo brand title but only a "licensed" title published by Titus (i.e. licensee signs NDA, Nintendo sells manuals and flash cartridges to licensee, licensee develops game, licensee ships game to Nintendo on a flash cartridge, Nintendo manufactures thousands of cartridges containing a mask ROM and sells them to licensee).
They have promised a modem add-on and a NIC add-on.
They have also "promised" a CD-ROM drive for Super NES (which eventually became the PSone) and a Zip-like drive for N64 (the 64DD, which never hit U.S. shores). The general rule for U.S. Nintendo console accessories: If it plugs into the expansion port on the bottom of the system, it'll be delayed, delayed, delayed, until it's cancelled.
but linking to a page when the entire contents are in the article seems a little goofy.
It's called citing your sources. Otherwise, not only do you have zero credibility, but you're also plagiarizing the original article. (Plagiarism and copyright infringement are considered separate offences.)
and since when is "Open source" an OS?
The "open source operating system" is the OS that runs on a network whose machines run GNU/Linux, BSD, AtheOS, FreeDOS, and other operating systems whose kernel, shell, and included applications are OSI Certified open source software.
ObDRM: None of the OSI Certified operating systems place the kernel or GUI under a digital-rights-denial system (unlike retail Windows XP). Windows XP does have one advantage, however: in the cartoon world, it can turn a laptop into a jetpack. (Read More...)
How do you discover a country when there are already people living there?
<bias class="eurocentric">
whatever...You "discover" a country when you are the first to bring alphabetic writing there. The Native Americans didn't discover the New World; most of them had no writing (save the Maya nation). The Chinese didn't discover the New World; they wrote with ideograms. The Vikings can lay a claim because at least they had a runic alphabet. We believe the claims of Columbus, Vespucci, and others for discovering different parts of the New World because they were able to write home using a small number of distinct symbols that somewhat closely correspond to the sound of the language.
</bias>
But "Mom and Pop" don't want to have to deal with that stuff... a little hand holding and an easy install are all they want, because at the end of the day, all they care about is that they can get their email, surf the web, and little Johnny and Janie can look up their homework assignments (etc).
So let Janie's geeky friend from down the street come over and install it.
If you have a fast local network, it's not difficult to play a DVD on one machine and watch the decoded picture on another.
Yes it is. The DVD CCA would never allow digital output of a CSS decoder, and now that the WIPO Copyright Treaty is going/has gone into effect, the whole world can sing it with me: "It's fun to violate D-M-C-A, it's fun to violate D-M-C-A!"
So [difficulty in navigating a 3D UI] is why nobody plays Q3A?
Quake III: Arena (original levels, no mods) is mostly 2 1/2 dimensional. In terms of actual gameplay, it's really no more 3D than Doom. Descent and friends, on the other hand, are 3D, but they're quite a bit less popular.
Besides, 3D is for games, which are supposed to be a challenge. Finding information on the Internet is not supposed to be a challenge. You really shouldn't be using 3D unless you're trying to represent a solid object, and even then use it sparingly. Even Q3A uses a 2D menu interface.
Since they were hired by the Recording industry who holds all the copyrights in question, wouldn't they be stealing from themselves (on an organizational level)?
No, they were hired by NARAS and AOL(tw). Major labels (i.e. RIAA members) and independent labels (i.e. non-RIAA members) claim the copyright on the recordings. And doesn't allowing users to copy recordings freely potentially constitute a breach of the contracts of the songwriters? (There are two separate copyrights on a sound recording: the copyright in the recording itself, and the copyright in the underlying musical work.)
Can you use AIM to search for files?
Last time I checked, the software formerly known as Aimster allowed searching your buddies' file lists.