This ystem will never be big in the states. Why? because it doesnt have mario
So you're saying the States are brandist. Well, Sony PS2 and Microsoft XBox will never have Mario Mario as a character, and neither will the rumored WinCE-based "XBoy", but they still sell. However, because Sega and Naughty Dog are now cross-platform developers, you just might get your Sonic the Hedgehog and Crash Bandicoot side-scrollers.
No, it's not compatible with binaries for Game Boy Advance (because they have different hardware and memory maps), but if it has the right kind of hardware, it may be possible to make libraries such that a properly written game can be built with -lgba or -lgpark to get the same game on both systems.
Not only that ! a 75Mhz ARM-7 will have no trouble emulating SNES or Genesis hardware ( based on 8Mhz 68000 IIRC )
Minor correction: Super NES was based not on Motorola 68000 but on a 3.6 MHz WDC 65C816 processor with some added memory-mapped instructions plus a 2.0 MHz Sony SPC700 (a cheap 6502 knockoff) on the sound side.
But if the GamePark doesn't have Mode 7 hardware, it won't be that able to emulate Super NES in real time, and developers probably won't even be able to port Super NES games to it (as they are doing with the GBA, which has twice the graphics power of Super NES).
Man, I should buy one, especially when I have no idea if they'll have any fun games!!!
Watch five independent clones of Tetris or Nibbles or something pop up for the system three days after release. Then, once home developers are familiar with the tech, more involved games will follow. (This is the same thing that has happened with the GBA.)
OK, so that potentially makes LZW-writing software gratis, but gratis != free. As I stated above, the typical Unisys LZW license "does NOT permit copying [or] modification" and thus prohibits use of LZW technology in free software as defined by FSF or by the Debian social contract.
There are fewer than 17 months left in the U.S. patent on LZW, which expires no later than June 20, 2003 (filed + 20 years).
so nervous about not getting paid every time his software is run that he's got to specifically say that you can't even let other people run the software... Pretty paranoid I think.
This type of restriction isn't paranoid but common. Newer EULAs written by professional attorneys contain similar language: "You may not permit other persons to access or use this Software except under the terms of this License."
I can't see why a fellow could in his right mind accept this license. It prohibits installation on SMP machines: "has one Intel 386, 486 or Pentium processor, Motorola 68036 or 68040 processor or IBM Power PC processor." Note: That's "68036" (nonexistent), not 68030, and not Motorola PowerPC (such as some PPC G4). It prohibits installation on dual-boot machines or on WINE: "operates only the Microsoft DOS and Windows operating system or the Macintosh operating system." It prohibits installation on machines whose primary keyboard is a wireless keyboard: "contains a keyboard (not an infrared remote)." It prohibits installation on machines that do not have a printer attached: "is able to produce printed output on a local printer." It prohibits installation on machines that have even one Windows share on them: "does not act as a server on any network."
One thing I haven't seen asked is how does this affect DivX? That is MPEG4, right?
But MPEG4 algorithms are independent of the particular implementation. If the licensing terms for MPEG4 do not permit licensing end-user products as free software, then open DivX as we know it will cease to exist in the United States, and some of the developers will move on to Ogg Tarkin.
Just a freely developed version
That doesn't matter. Unisys has publicly declared that it will not license the LZW patents to developers of free software: "For example, the typical Unisys license for standalone software does NOT permit copying, modification, resale, use on a server or in a network, or use for Internet/Intranet/Extranet or Web site operation."
You're assuming granted plus 20 years plus end of calendar year. This is not the case in the United States. For some U.S. patents, the equation is filed plus 20; for others, it's granted plus 17. According to US Patent 4,558,302, filed plus 20 = June 20, 2003, and granted plus 20 = December 10, 2002. (Unlike copyrights, patents do not extend to the end of the calendar year.) To be safe, use the later date.
I don't have to run those obfuscation-wares everytime I build.
Obscurity != security. For every piece of obfuscation-wares, there's an equal and opposite piece of de-obfuscation-warez. Besides, what do you have to hide?
As we know from the non-consumer electronics world (i.e. computers) tape is a great archive mechanism but is lousy for random access... I don't want to have to play through 35 hours of other things to find it
More like two minutes. If the system stores a directory at the beginning of the tape, followed by a lead-out and then data, seek time is reduced to under 30 seconds of reading the directory and just over one minute of fast-forwarding (given current VHS transports). It's not like tar, which interleaves the directory with the data.
Now that this is no longer merely a game console, but rather an OFFICIAL "general Purpose Computing Device" because the vendor is offering Linux or allowing linux to be used on it, it is LEGAL TO MAKE BACKUPS OF GAME MEDIA you own!
But it also makes it unlawful to rent PS2 games in the US without the permission of each game publisher. According to 17 USC 109(b)(1), it's an infringement of copyright to rent computer software that's not designed for a "video game console" without permission of the copyright holder. This could add up to a lot of red tape for each independent rental shop.
If they get a dismissal, then that means the DMCA will go unchallenged right?
Depends on whether the judge issues a narrow opinion or a wide opinion. A narrow opinion affects only one case; a wide opinion defines the scope of the DMCA and gives the copyright national-socialists more or less power.
But if I want to listen to Oggs on the way to work, I'm screwed.
If you care enough, fund development of an integer-based Vorbis decoder. Because many of the CPUs in portable MP3 players don't handle floating-point arithmetic very well, they use fixed-point math to decode MP3 audio. As soon as the reference Vorbis decoder uses fixed-point instead of floating-point math, the manufacturers will have a much easier time adding Ogg support.
Yes, but the people they are targetting are not idiots like you. They can easily click on "Download Now" and run the installer.
Will the page behind the "Download Now" link install a free copy of Windows on my machine? If so, let me have some of that $#!+. If not, why is the UK Government granting a de facto duopoly to Microsoft and Apple, both US based companies?
You talking about the File System Driver reference? Try http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmeother/s torage_5uig.asp
That works only on Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Millennium Edition, and Microsoft no longer sells Windows 95, Windows 98, nor Windows Millennium Edition. From the IFS kit pages: "The IFS License, which includes one (1) kit, is $995.00 plus shipping and handling" and is too expensive for the average hobbyist.
Folks, MGM and Danjaq are located in Britain... This means that U.S. court decisions don't apply.
So what? That only means that AOL Time Warner (parent company of New Line) will have to use region coding to keep the film from being distributed in the UK. Without the Hague Convention, there is no such thing as a worldwide injunction.
A U.S. court of appeals threw out an injunction against distributing the novel The Wind Done Gone, a parody of Gone With the Wind. Read the decision here.
I'm reminded of a story involving Bill Gates and a certain law suit he filed years ago, in which he discussed how difficult it was for two programs to operate in the same way to achieve the same objective. The difference here, is the code is often Mickey Mouse
By "Mickey Mouse," do you imply that it's such valuable intellectual property that a publisher will buy senators to keep extending the term of the monopoly?
When I buy a toy, or any piece of sophisticated electronics, there is not> a licensing agreement i have to sign.
That is, unless software publishers and consumer electronics manufacturers decide to get in bed with credit card companies and print the EULA right on the charge slip.
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This is some cool cool stuff. 75 Mhz is not just over four times as fast as the GBA, it is faster than all the previous generation consoles.
Except is the graphics a dumb frame buffer like VGA? If so, it'll be hard to make even a scrolling game, let alone a mode 7 or super-fx style game.
This ystem will never be big in the states. Why? because it doesnt have mario
So you're saying the States are brandist. Well, Sony PS2 and Microsoft XBox will never have Mario Mario as a character, and neither will the rumored WinCE-based "XBoy", but they still sell. However, because Sega and Naughty Dog are now cross-platform developers, you just might get your Sonic the Hedgehog and Crash Bandicoot side-scrollers.
No, it's not compatible with binaries for Game Boy Advance (because they have different hardware and memory maps), but if it has the right kind of hardware, it may be possible to make libraries such that a properly written game can be built with -lgba or -lgpark to get the same game on both systems.
Not only that ! a 75Mhz ARM-7 will have no trouble emulating SNES or Genesis hardware ( based on 8Mhz 68000 IIRC )
Minor correction: Super NES was based not on Motorola 68000 but on a 3.6 MHz WDC 65C816 processor with some added memory-mapped instructions plus a 2.0 MHz Sony SPC700 (a cheap 6502 knockoff) on the sound side.
But if the GamePark doesn't have Mode 7 hardware, it won't be that able to emulate Super NES in real time, and developers probably won't even be able to port Super NES games to it (as they are doing with the GBA, which has twice the graphics power of Super NES).
What's going to happen when he's played enough games and he decides he wants to make his own? He's sure as hell not gonna make it on a GBA
Bull dung. This site has tons of information on how to program a GBA and where to find flash cartridges.
Man, I should buy one, especially when I have no idea if they'll have any fun games!!!
Watch five independent clones of Tetris or Nibbles or something pop up for the system three days after release. Then, once home developers are familiar with the tech, more involved games will follow. (This is the same thing that has happened with the GBA.)
In certain cases, no license fees may be required
OK, so that potentially makes LZW-writing software gratis, but gratis != free. As I stated above, the typical Unisys LZW license "does NOT permit copying [or] modification" and thus prohibits use of LZW technology in free software as defined by FSF or by the Debian social contract.
There are fewer than 17 months left in the U.S. patent on LZW, which expires no later than June 20, 2003 (filed + 20 years).
so nervous about not getting paid every time his software is run that he's got to specifically say that you can't even let other people run the software... Pretty paranoid I think.
This type of restriction isn't paranoid but common. Newer EULAs written by professional attorneys contain similar language: "You may not permit other persons to access or use this Software except under the terms of this License."
Here is a fractal decoder license.
I can't see why a fellow could in his right mind accept this license. It prohibits installation on SMP machines: "has one Intel 386, 486 or Pentium processor, Motorola 68036 or 68040 processor or IBM Power PC processor." Note: That's "68036" (nonexistent), not 68030, and not Motorola PowerPC (such as some PPC G4). It prohibits installation on dual-boot machines or on WINE: "operates only the Microsoft DOS and Windows operating system or the Macintosh operating system." It prohibits installation on machines whose primary keyboard is a wireless keyboard: "contains a keyboard (not an infrared remote)." It prohibits installation on machines that do not have a printer attached: "is able to produce printed output on a local printer." It prohibits installation on machines that have even one Windows share on them: "does not act as a server on any network."
One thing I haven't seen asked is how does this affect DivX? That is MPEG4, right?
But MPEG4 algorithms are independent of the particular implementation. If the licensing terms for MPEG4 do not permit licensing end-user products as free software, then open DivX as we know it will cease to exist in the United States, and some of the developers will move on to Ogg Tarkin.
Just a freely developed version
That doesn't matter. Unisys has publicly declared that it will not license the LZW patents to developers of free software: "For example, the typical Unisys license for standalone software does NOT permit copying, modification, resale, use on a server or in a network, or use for Internet/Intranet/Extranet or Web site operation."
The patent was granted in 1985. 1985+20=2005
You're assuming granted plus 20 years plus end of calendar year. This is not the case in the United States. For some U.S. patents, the equation is filed plus 20; for others, it's granted plus 17. According to US Patent 4,558,302, filed plus 20 = June 20, 2003, and granted plus 20 = December 10, 2002. (Unlike copyrights, patents do not extend to the end of the calendar year.) To be safe, use the later date.
I don't have to run those obfuscation-wares everytime I build.
Obscurity != security. For every piece of obfuscation-wares, there's an equal and opposite piece of de-obfuscation-warez. Besides, what do you have to hide?
As we know from the non-consumer electronics world (i.e. computers) tape is a great archive mechanism but is lousy for random access ... I don't want to have to play through 35 hours of other things to find it
More like two minutes. If the system stores a directory at the beginning of the tape, followed by a lead-out and then data, seek time is reduced to under 30 seconds of reading the directory and just over one minute of fast-forwarding (given current VHS transports). It's not like tar, which interleaves the directory with the data.
Now that this is no longer merely a game console, but rather an OFFICIAL "general Purpose Computing Device" because the vendor is offering Linux or allowing linux to be used on it, it is LEGAL TO MAKE BACKUPS OF GAME MEDIA you own!
But it also makes it unlawful to rent PS2 games in the US without the permission of each game publisher. According to 17 USC 109(b)(1), it's an infringement of copyright to rent computer software that's not designed for a "video game console" without permission of the copyright holder. This could add up to a lot of red tape for each independent rental shop.
Have you not seen my rants aboutSony blatently [slashdot.org] and knowingly [advogato.org] being in direct violation [advogato.org] of the GPL
Perhaps Sony f****d up with respect to POSE, but not in this case. All the source code for the included GNU/Linux software comes right on the disc.
If they get a dismissal, then that means the DMCA will go unchallenged right?
Depends on whether the judge issues a narrow opinion or a wide opinion. A narrow opinion affects only one case; a wide opinion defines the scope of the DMCA and gives the copyright national-socialists more or less power.
But if I want to listen to Oggs on the way to work, I'm screwed.
If you care enough, fund development of an integer-based Vorbis decoder. Because many of the CPUs in portable MP3 players don't handle floating-point arithmetic very well, they use fixed-point math to decode MP3 audio. As soon as the reference Vorbis decoder uses fixed-point instead of floating-point math, the manufacturers will have a much easier time adding Ogg support.
If you are in Linux, then you can use any ripping program you like as long as you use oggenc as the encoder.
Same thing on Windows. Rip to wav, open oggdrop, set the bitrate, and then drag wav files into the window.
Yes, but the people they are targetting are not idiots like you. They can easily click on "Download Now" and run the installer.
Will the page behind the "Download Now" link install a free copy of Windows on my machine? If so, let me have some of that $#!+. If not, why is the UK Government granting a de facto duopoly to Microsoft and Apple, both US based companies?
While yes, it is true that unix will use raw sockets, it only uses them mitigated and ONLY ROOT CAN DO IT.
The fact that only root can do something provides no additional security if the user is the owner of the machine and therefore is root legitimately.
You talking about the File System Driver reference? Try http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmeother/s torage_5uig.asp
That works only on Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Millennium Edition, and Microsoft no longer sells Windows 95, Windows 98, nor Windows Millennium Edition. From the IFS kit pages: "The IFS License, which includes one (1) kit, is $995.00 plus shipping and handling" and is too expensive for the average hobbyist.
Featuring ... D[ild]o Daggins
Looking for "Dildo Bugger" in an LotR spoof? Look no further than Bored of the Rings .
Folks, MGM and Danjaq are located in Britain ... This means that U.S. court decisions don't apply.
So what? That only means that AOL Time Warner (parent company of New Line) will have to use region coding to keep the film from being distributed in the UK. Without the Hague Convention, there is no such thing as a worldwide injunction.
A U.S. court of appeals threw out an injunction against distributing the novel The Wind Done Gone, a parody of Gone With the Wind. Read the decision here.
I'm reminded of a story involving Bill Gates and a certain law suit he filed years ago, in which he discussed how difficult it was for two programs to operate in the same way to achieve the same objective. The difference here, is the code is often Mickey Mouse
By "Mickey Mouse," do you imply that it's such valuable intellectual property that a publisher will buy senators to keep extending the term of the monopoly?
When I buy a toy, or any piece of sophisticated electronics, there is not> a licensing agreement i have to sign.
That is, unless software publishers and consumer electronics manufacturers decide to get in bed with credit card companies and print the EULA right on the charge slip.