Seriously, you still play NES games? Do you relise how fucking old that tune is and how long it hasn't been used?
It's been used. There's a remix of the SMB1 main theme plus underground theme: turn on Super Smash Bros. Melee, turn off sound fx, start a 1-player adventure game, and press Pause.
Will any of these remixes be availible for my PC speaker?
If you need to play MOD files on a PC with only the internal speaker, try Inertia Player for DOS. Turns out the PC speaker can play 1-bit waveforms using only the internal speaker; toggling that bit fast enough creates a sigma-delta DAC.
MIDI doesn't suck; replace the soundfont
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I dunno, I'd rather hear an MP3 of someone playing actual music than listen to some dinky MIDI data running through a cheap wavetable chip or soundfont any day.
So you're saying MIDI doesn't suck; your soundfont sucks. So don't replace the MIDI. Replace the soundfont, or use the MOD family of formats (.mod,.s3m,.xm,.it) that are similar to MIDI but include the soundfont in the file, but because the instrument samples are repeated over and over, it still remains at least an order of magnitude smaller than 128 kbps MP3.
I'd much rather have the government give people tax rebates for riding bikes to work; it would help the congestion problem, the pollution problem, and the obesity problem all at the same time!
This might work in the UK, but in the US, where there is often neither widespread decent public transportation nor affordable housing within 3.5 km (2 mi) of work or shopping centers, it won't go over as well.
Not without Solaris libraries, which you'd need to get from an actual Solaris system. You can't just take the binary and run it in isolation.
Likewise, you can't run Windows binaries without Windows libraries, which you'd need to get from an actual Windows system (were it not for these people). You can't just take the binary and run it in isolation.
If enough proprietary Solaris/x86 software is released, you'll surely see a Solaris-compatibility project called "SINE Is Not an Emulator".
Linux on mainframes is still running on top of a properitery VM. This kills the whole Free Software argument for using Linux.
Likewise, Linux on a PC farm is still running on top of a "properitery" BIOS (unless you're using something odd like LinuxBIOS). This kills the whole Free Software argument for using Linux.
But does it matter?
Of course, why would a company endorse another company's product?
When it sells products that are designed to interoperate with the other company's product perhaps? (That is, not in this case.)
The next time there is an unlabled protected disc, we'll go through this all over again.
The big labels know this, and they'll probably voluntarily comply with a labeling standard because they don't want to have to pay the costs of "go[ing] through this all over again" for every title they release.
If all users use the same cordless mouse-keyboard-display to connect straight to the Office computer, no middleware or VNC involved. Then you are fine.
It's possible for the cordless terminal to connect to the computer via VNC over 802.11.
If you buy separate sets of this hardware and they all access the Office computer directly, then you are fine.
If users have their own sets of this hardware, they are accessing their own desktops, which is using VNC to display the Office computer, you are not fine.
OK, I'm stupid. I just found the Terminal Server app licensing FAQ, which points out: "The general rule of thumb is 'one license for each terminal,' which is the same rule as per-computer licensing." Feel free to have your other account moderate my comments down if you feel it necessary.
Microsoft's licensing policy, along with its terms gives another reason to stop buying Microsoft products (do not take this as an endorsement of piracy) and to stop using Microsoft products.
However, I still wonder how Microsoft defines "continually reallocat[ing] licenses."
Universal can go right ahead and copy protect their CDs however they chose, and label them (or not) in whatever manner they want.
But now, armed with the precedent from this case, plaintiffs will be able to take down the labels easily. To avoid legal expenses, the labels will likely voluntarily comply.
there is nothing illegal with any of these copy protection schemes
What about misrepresentation? The user is sold a disc with the Philips Compact Disc Digital Audio logo on it, but the disc doesn't meet the Compact Disc Digital Audio standards. Fraud is a felony.
at the *most* you will get gov't imposed labelling standards and requirements.
And ad campaigns to "look for the logo" on behalf of independent labels and Compact Disc logo trademark holder Philips.
But when N*Sync releases their album with fully-labelled copy protection, do you really think it won't sell to the teen masses?
Ever heard the old joke about the three fastest forms of communication? Telephone, television, and tell-a-girl. Negative word of mouth will kill the *NSYNC franchise rápidamente.
get used to this idea - it's their IP
IP stands for "Internet Protocol" or a numeric address assigned thereunder. The notion of "intellectual property" exists nowhere in the letter of United States copyright law; Congress presumably passed the copyright act "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts," not to create a new form of property.
it doesn't matter HOW you are doing this. The simple fact is that multiple machines are using a single copy of Office.
I don't have a license for IIS. (On my home machine, I run WinApache 1.3.22 when I want to share files.) However, I still use IIS via a network connection because I use Mozilla to connect to web servers that run IIS. Even if Microsoft makes an explicit distinction between IIS licensing and Office licensing, does it make me a criminal if I use a cordless mouse, a cordless keyboard, and a cordless display?
Trust me. I'm correct.
Can you give me the URL of a decision that establishes the enforceability of such a contract? Otherwise, we have a Schrödinger's cat situation where a contract exists in a state of superposed enforceability and unenforceability.
Read the EULA. It says RUN FROM the STORAGE DEVICE.
The app is stored on a VNC box. The app is run from a VNC box. The output is displayed on the VNC box; the Ethernet cable becomes merely a fancy keyboard and display cable. It wouldn't take a lot of effort to convince a judge of this analogy; otherwise, Microsoft could go after anybody who uses a wireless mouse or wireless display.
I wish this wasn't true, but it is.
Unless somebody has been taking to court, it's neither true nor false. USA copyright and contract law are like Schrödinger's cat in this respect: a contract is neither enforceable nor unenforceable until it a judge collapses its wave function with a strike of the gavel.
Note that the project has "Members" (apparently they're not trying to be funny here) as well as a "throbber" feature (whatever that is, I don't really want to know).
The "throbber" in web browsers refers to the little icon in the upper right corner that either spins a half-globe around a Windows logo or spins a set of tiles that alternate between 'm' and a red dino.
I think our perspective has changed as these sites still exist, and there is still a kind of "undernet" out there, that is often ignored by the search engines (free pages), or are simply not linked to by the "mainstream" net sites because they offer no opportunity to make a buck.
If you have a personal site, and you want Google to pick it up, go to your user info and put a link to your page in your signature. Also write some pages that you think will be informative in many different Slashdot discussions, and link to them whenever they're on-topic. Then whore to get a few +4/+5 posts that show through even when an article spills into indexed mode. Not only will you get a lot of hits directly from Slashdot, but also because Slashdot's static pages are linking directly to your site, some of Slashdot's high Google ranking will rub off on your site.
Given all that, to see a bit of difference between HD and NTSC you have to have at least a 35" diagonal display device.
Not always. At least on web pages and the like, I can see the difference between 480p and 768p on my cheap $200 computer display. Text looks a lot sharper with large fonts at 1024x768 than with tiny fonts at 640x480. It's the same reason players crank up the resolution in their first-person shooters rather than just turning on anti-aliasing at 480, because they can see the difference.
Then just switch to PAL - the colour encoding is far better than NTSC
Granted. However:
and the vertical resolution is better to boot!
Wrong. PAL-M (PAL color encoding of a 60 Hz 525-line signal) has the same vertical resolution as NTSC. The version you're talking about (50 Hz 625-line signal) poses great problems for people with epilepsy because its flicker rate is so darn low. It's not as bad as early Pokemon cartoons, but it can still be noticeable to those sensitive to flashing lights.
A long time ago, back in the Windows 3.1 days, Nintendo and Microsoft were looking at creating a legitimate emulation product. Yes, I really did read about a product called "Wintendo"; the screenshot in the newspaper showed Super Mario Bros. 3 running in a 256x240 pixel window. If the XBox craps out, watch it happen.
I can't remember nintendo doing arcade games (apart from Super Nintendo's mated with coin slots to make an arcade jukebox machine) so I speculate the reason why they're doing this is so they can port arcade to gamecube easily.
In addition to the PlayChoice 10 (similar to what you described), Nintendo has produced several other arcade products such as early games on the NES-derived VS Multisystem platform and then Killer Instinct and Cruis'n USA.
The thing that is very different about the gamecube graphics is that it uses compressed textures rather than bitmap textures. I wonder what that means in terms of compatability.
Both GCN and recent DirectX can use S3 texture compression. For each 4x4 pixel block, it stores two full (16 or 32 bit) colors, plus 16 bytes of blending information (0 = all color#1; 255 = all color#2). It produces an effect similar to that of JPEG but doesn't require nearly as much computation to get the value of a pixel.
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Seriously, you still play NES games? Do you relise how fucking old that tune is and how long it hasn't been used?
It's been used. There's a remix of the SMB1 main theme plus underground theme: turn on Super Smash Bros. Melee, turn off sound fx, start a 1-player adventure game, and press Pause.
Go buy the best gaming system out there, the XBOX
You misspelled "GameCube."
- Tetris
- Korobeiniki
- Korobeyniki
- Korobushka
Good ones includeOr just go to Russia2000 and get 'Korobeyniki' (which incidentally mixes perfectly from "Barbie Girl" by Aqua).
If you need to play MOD files on a PC with only the internal speaker, try Inertia Player for DOS. Turns out the PC speaker can play 1-bit waveforms using only the internal speaker; toggling that bit fast enough creates a sigma-delta DAC.
So you're saying MIDI doesn't suck; your soundfont sucks. So don't replace the MIDI. Replace the soundfont, or use the MOD family of formats (.mod, .s3m, .xm, .it) that are similar to MIDI but include the soundfont in the file, but because the instrument samples are repeated over and over, it still remains at least an order of magnitude smaller than 128 kbps MP3.
I'd much rather have the government give people tax rebates for riding bikes to work; it would help the congestion problem, the pollution problem, and the obesity problem all at the same time!
This might work in the UK, but in the US, where there is often neither widespread decent public transportation nor affordable housing within 3.5 km (2 mi) of work or shopping centers, it won't go over as well.
Not without Solaris libraries, which you'd need to get from an actual Solaris system. You can't just take the binary and run it in isolation.
Likewise, you can't run Windows binaries without Windows libraries, which you'd need to get from an actual Windows system (were it not for these people). You can't just take the binary and run it in isolation.
If enough proprietary Solaris/x86 software is released, you'll surely see a Solaris-compatibility project called "SINE Is Not an Emulator".
Linux on mainframes is still running on top of a properitery VM. This kills the whole Free Software argument for using Linux.
Likewise, Linux on a PC farm is still running on top of a "properitery" BIOS (unless you're using something odd like LinuxBIOS). This kills the whole Free Software argument for using Linux.
But does it matter?
Of course, why would a company endorse another company's product?
When it sells products that are designed to interoperate with the other company's product perhaps? (That is, not in this case.)
I'm sure you mean "the single standardized Linux distribution."
No, grandparent referred to the Linux Standard Base.
To pre-empt the old joke: "All your Linux standard base are belong to the Free Standards Group."
The next time there is an unlabled protected disc, we'll go through this all over again.
The big labels know this, and they'll probably voluntarily comply with a labeling standard because they don't want to have to pay the costs of "go[ing] through this all over again" for every title they release.
And when there are no non-protected CDs available, will people continue to avoid them?
Name one independent label that has committed to using technical fair use restrictions on its entire music catalog.
[/me hums the Jeopardy! theme song]
Give up? None of them have. Real CDs will continue to be available; teens will just have to give up *NSYNC and a few other manufactured bands.
If all users use the same cordless mouse-keyboard-display to connect straight to the Office computer, no middleware or VNC involved. Then you are fine.
It's possible for the cordless terminal to connect to the computer via VNC over 802.11.
If you buy separate sets of this hardware and they all access the Office computer directly, then you are fine.
If users have their own sets of this hardware, they are accessing their own desktops, which is using VNC to display the Office computer, you are not fine.
OK, I'm stupid. I just found the Terminal Server app licensing FAQ, which points out: "The general rule of thumb is 'one license for each terminal,' which is the same rule as per-computer licensing." Feel free to have your other account moderate my comments down if you feel it necessary.
Microsoft's licensing policy, along with its terms gives another reason to stop buying Microsoft products (do not take this as an endorsement of piracy) and to stop using Microsoft products.
However, I still wonder how Microsoft defines "continually reallocat[ing] licenses."
However, only one wireless display and mouse can be used against that copy of Office.
So what if your cordless terminal breaks? Is it now a EULA violation to put in a replacement?
See, each of the displays, mice, keyboards, and VNC software are being run by a second, third, and fourth computer.
Now define "computer." Almost every piece of electronics sold nowadays has some embedded microprocessor.
Universal can go right ahead and copy protect their CDs however they chose, and label them (or not) in whatever manner they want.
But now, armed with the precedent from this case, plaintiffs will be able to take down the labels easily. To avoid legal expenses, the labels will likely voluntarily comply.
there is nothing illegal with any of these copy protection schemes
What about misrepresentation? The user is sold a disc with the Philips Compact Disc Digital Audio logo on it, but the disc doesn't meet the Compact Disc Digital Audio standards. Fraud is a felony.
at the *most* you will get gov't imposed labelling standards and requirements.
And ad campaigns to "look for the logo" on behalf of independent labels and Compact Disc logo trademark holder Philips.
But when N*Sync releases their album with fully-labelled copy protection, do you really think it won't sell to the teen masses?
Ever heard the old joke about the three fastest forms of communication? Telephone, television, and tell-a-girl. Negative word of mouth will kill the *NSYNC franchise rápidamente.
get used to this idea - it's their IP
IP stands for "Internet Protocol" or a numeric address assigned thereunder. The notion of "intellectual property" exists nowhere in the letter of United States copyright law; Congress presumably passed the copyright act "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts," not to create a new form of property.
Will a new lawsuit have to be filed over each protected CD? Looks like it.
However, with precedent in hand, the plaintiffs can easily shift the burden of proof to the record industry.
The EULA states that you must have a dedicated license for each machine that the SOFTWARE PRODUCT is installed or RUN FROM THE STORAGE DEVICE.
If those are the exact words, how is the VNC box's hard disk not "the storage device" under the EULA?
it doesn't matter HOW you are doing this. The simple fact is that multiple machines are using a single copy of Office.
I don't have a license for IIS. (On my home machine, I run WinApache 1.3.22 when I want to share files.) However, I still use IIS via a network connection because I use Mozilla to connect to web servers that run IIS. Even if Microsoft makes an explicit distinction between IIS licensing and Office licensing, does it make me a criminal if I use a cordless mouse, a cordless keyboard, and a cordless display?
Trust me. I'm correct.
Can you give me the URL of a decision that establishes the enforceability of such a contract? Otherwise, we have a Schrödinger's cat situation where a contract exists in a state of superposed enforceability and unenforceability.
Read the EULA. It says RUN FROM the STORAGE DEVICE.
The app is stored on a VNC box. The app is run from a VNC box. The output is displayed on the VNC box; the Ethernet cable becomes merely a fancy keyboard and display cable. It wouldn't take a lot of effort to convince a judge of this analogy; otherwise, Microsoft could go after anybody who uses a wireless mouse or wireless display.
I wish this wasn't true, but it is.
Unless somebody has been taking to court, it's neither true nor false. USA copyright and contract law are like Schrödinger's cat in this respect: a contract is neither enforceable nor unenforceable until it a judge collapses its wave function with a strike of the gavel.
Note that the project has "Members" (apparently they're not trying to be funny here) as well as a "throbber" feature (whatever that is, I don't really want to know).
The "throbber" in web browsers refers to the little icon in the upper right corner that either spins a half-globe around a Windows logo or spins a set of tiles that alternate between 'm' and a red dino.
I think our perspective has changed as these sites still exist, and there is still a kind of "undernet" out there, that is often ignored by the search engines (free pages), or are simply not linked to by the "mainstream" net sites because they offer no opportunity to make a buck.
If you have a personal site, and you want Google to pick it up, go to your user info and put a link to your page in your signature. Also write some pages that you think will be informative in many different Slashdot discussions, and link to them whenever they're on-topic. Then whore to get a few +4/+5 posts that show through even when an article spills into indexed mode. Not only will you get a lot of hits directly from Slashdot, but also because Slashdot's static pages are linking directly to your site, some of Slashdot's high Google ranking will rub off on your site.
Given all that, to see a bit of difference between HD and NTSC you have to have at least a 35" diagonal display device.
Not always. At least on web pages and the like, I can see the difference between 480p and 768p on my cheap $200 computer display. Text looks a lot sharper with large fonts at 1024x768 than with tiny fonts at 640x480. It's the same reason players crank up the resolution in their first-person shooters rather than just turning on anti-aliasing at 480, because they can see the difference.
Then just switch to PAL - the colour encoding is far better than NTSC
Granted. However:
and the vertical resolution is better to boot!
Wrong. PAL-M (PAL color encoding of a 60 Hz 525-line signal) has the same vertical resolution as NTSC. The version you're talking about (50 Hz 625-line signal) poses great problems for people with epilepsy because its flicker rate is so darn low. It's not as bad as early Pokemon cartoons, but it can still be noticeable to those sensitive to flashing lights.
>> 1000 million Chinese can't be wrong
> I know it was a joke, but I doubt that 1% of that figure has enough money to buy a computer.
However, 10 million users is still a respectable chunk of mindshare, if not market share.
"All your user base are belong to us." -- Mao
The Mandarin Chinese word "mao1" means "cat"; look it up here
Sintendo. Sounds better than Nintega
A long time ago, back in the Windows 3.1 days, Nintendo and Microsoft were looking at creating a legitimate emulation product. Yes, I really did read about a product called "Wintendo"; the screenshot in the newspaper showed Super Mario Bros. 3 running in a 256x240 pixel window. If the XBox craps out, watch it happen.
I can't remember nintendo doing arcade games (apart from Super Nintendo's mated with coin slots to make an arcade jukebox machine) so I speculate the reason why they're doing this is so they can port arcade to gamecube easily.
In addition to the PlayChoice 10 (similar to what you described), Nintendo has produced several other arcade products such as early games on the NES-derived VS Multisystem platform and then Killer Instinct and Cruis'n USA.
The thing that is very different about the gamecube graphics is that it uses compressed textures rather than bitmap textures. I wonder what that means in terms of compatability.
Both GCN and recent DirectX can use S3 texture compression. For each 4x4 pixel block, it stores two full (16 or 32 bit) colors, plus 16 bytes of blending information (0 = all color#1; 255 = all color#2). It produces an effect similar to that of JPEG but doesn't require nearly as much computation to get the value of a pixel.