So if Howie Day uses his PC to record his acoustic guitar performances, the resulting recording is "techno"?
No. Syrinx wrote "most people I know like the sound of a guitar as opposed to computer generated beeps," and uebernewby wrote "Support these independent electronica artists" who need only a cheap PC, a wave editor such as the free Audacity, and ModPlug Tracker to make music. Uebernewby suggested techno; syrinx just complained that eir friends don't like techno.
Would that work for Zamphier too? Techno fucking pan flute!
Just look at Morpheus and see if somebody has done a dance remix.
The default ACL permissions on a local NTFS file system allow full control (read/write/change/delete) to everyone except for a handful of directories (ie: stuff like \WINNT) related to the NT OS itself. The "Program Files" directory has restricted permissions on it for the standard "User" group.
Yes, but before NT was released, how were developers supposed to have known about the Win32 API call to retrieve the name of a directory into which the application is supposed to write?
If you are developing applications that are to be installed on NT/2000/XP and you don't take the Microsoft guidelines for application behavior into consideration
I would, but such guidelines (or the means for implementing them) are not available to the general public until two weeks before the release of the OS.
For one thing, Mono is not a language; it's a compiler for the C# language. In future versions of Emacs, you'll probably see a csharp-mode based on the C/C++/Java language modes.
I regularly test both on Win98,ME,2K, and XP, and have had 0 issues related to saving files.
Do you run as root? Apps running as a normal user under NT or UNIX clones can typically write only to the user's home folder or to the periodically-emptied/tmp, the only places most normal users have write permissions. However, SerpentMage noted that the "get home folder" call did not become documented until just before the release of the OS.
DR-DOS and Samba have had problems because they were relying on things that are not published API's or standards.
Until DirectDraw and DrawSprocket came out, developers on Windows and Mac OS (respectively) had to resort to less-than-fully-documented techniques to get their multimedia applications to display in the full screen.
But few few students have been through the full software engineering cycle of design, developement, maintenance & support.
Every junior CS major at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology takes a two-quarter software engineering course in which she works on three projects in four terms, forcing students to write things down and practice maintainability.
major innovations by nintendo, including... the digital boardgame (Mario Party)
I'm sorry, but chess (Chessmaster(tm) and Battle Chess(tm)), reversi (Othello(tm)), and and Monopoly(tm) were available as officially licensed NES games several years before the release of the first Mario Party 3 game. (Yes, I say 3, because in the US it went Mario Party 3 with 3 on the die and rototorture in the game, then Mario Party 2, then the game officially called Mario Party 3.)
The Game Boy Advance is about as powerful as Atari Jaguar (i.e. twice as powerful as Super NES) and also plays Game Boy Color games. It also connects to a TV with the third-party TV de Advance.
Nintendo seems to have really raunchy business policies. Suing people, compromising design decisions to protect license fees, etc.
I guess Nintendo messed up when it designed GBA. GBA has absolutely NO independent software creation prevention measures other than checksumming the header and looking for the Nintendo logo (which is legal to reproduce under Sega v. Accolade). Learn how to develop your own software at gbadev.org.
I was favoring the NGC, due to its 4-player capability out of the box(yes I know they others do with silly-ass dongles). However, when I heard that it wouldn't play full-sized DVDs, I was in a quandry - should I wait for the Panasonic player, or should I go with one of the other boxen?
Go with GameCube and an external DVD player because they can be used simultaneously. With those, you can play the best four-player games, and you can play DVDs for the kids on a separate TV.
Neither is GNU/Linux, nor any of the free BSDs, but that doesn't stop them from running programs written to the UNIX spec. Windows too can run free *n?x software with Cygwin, and now Cygwin with XFree86 runs on all Win32 platforms from 95 to NT to XP.
You don't need Photoshop. 90% of the people who use it (including people who pirate it) don't need Photoshop.
Adobe realized this and released a stripped-down product called Photoshop Elements. It retails for $100 and includes everything but high-end color separation. Many other users (such as myself) are also happy with GIMP or WinGIMP.
If Adobe sold Photoshop for $20, that would be a lot like a certain company releasing a certain web browser for free.
"Certain company" meaning AOL, whose Netscape division contributes engineering labor to the free Mozilla web browser suite?
As A Greeting Card Artisan... [I demand that Hallmark encrypt all cards it sends so as not to violate my copyright]
Are you Sam Butcher of Precious Moments Inc? If so, any claims of restrictive copyright on your Precious Moments characters have two checks:
The PM likeness (head 38% of height; simple facial features including large teardrop-shaped eyes) is quite similar to that of the Eloi characters of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine (public-domain in the United States), to the alien characters of many other SF worlds, and to Super-Deformed characters in anime. It may turn out, as it did for Alexey Pajitnov, that you own nothing but a name.
The PM motto is "Loving, Caring, Sharing." Yes, sharing. Strong copyright represents hoarding, the opposite of sharing. Enforcing the opposite of the policy your products teach is called hypocrisy. I am a customer of several PMI licensees, including Enesco, and if PMI pulls any funny stuff when I execute my fair use, I will become a former customer.
What's to stop some clod from printing one of these cards that I've fashioned, and giving it to a friend for free? Nothing.
Except you violated copyright by using the word "batman".
No, that's trademark. And there are other generic senses of "batman" other than the trademarked sense for comic books, films, TV shows, and toys. For example, in Turkey, batman weighs only 157 pounds.
Region-switch players in NZ use PAL-M
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Obviously, nothing prevents countries like Brazil of using the european color scheme ( PAL ) with the american TV standard ( M ), thereby creating their "own" incompatible system...
Several people have referred to PAL-M by several different names in this discussion (PAL/525, PAL/60, etc). Apparently, DVD players designed for sale in New Zealand (whose law considers region lockouts an unlawful restraint of trade) are region switchable and output PAL-M when playing a 30fps disc. Most modern PAL TVs and digitizers can handle both 50 Hz PAL and 60 Hz PAL.
By the way, PAL refers to "phase alternation by line," where the R-Y signal is inverted on each line, synchronized to a color burst that runs at 135 and 225 degrees rather than 180 degrees.
Fair use has nothing to do with it
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Your ability to watch DVD's which you have purchased, wherever you choose, constitutes fair use.
Under United States copyright law (which does not apply outside the United States), fair use is a defense to copyright infringement. It is not a defense to access control circumvention. Access control circumvention is a separate offense, completely orthogonal (i.e. perpendicular, or separate) to copyright infringement.
And yes, the consumers approve of this. They show their approval by continuing to purchase DVD players and discs.
DVD-Video discs contain instructions as to what video formats players may output. If a player doesn't support PAL, it can't play discs that require PAL. (I found this in a manual for a TV-out card.)
The patent offices are supposed to hire experts to go over patent claims and reject bogus claims; this makes it fair for everyone. Other patent offices do this; why can't the USPTO?
I think that only true of their ancient, private dialup network (which is still what most people use). However, a lot of AOL customers are now using their own cable/dsl ISP, so their AIM client would be running on a public, non-filtered IP.
Let me tell you how AIM, IRC, Jabber, and other popular real-time messaging systems work. Alice and Bob each send name, password, and client binary hash to server. Server responds with buddy list, including presence information. Alice wants to send message to Bob. Alice sends packets to server, which processes those packets and forwards them to Bob. Now, if Alice wants to send a packet containing a sploit, the server can clean up the packet before Bob gets it.
You need sector-sized granularity for tracking changed sectors. The latter does not scale well.
The common implementations of virtual memory use page-sized granularity for tracking changed pages. Does that scale?
The big problem I've seen with using a single memory space is that applications often forget to implement multiple levels of undo. With many PDA applications, once you make two accidental changes to a file, the previous version is gone forever because many applications modify files in-place, breaking the "revert to last saved version of document" feature. This bit me in the butt several times on Newton OS.
jumping around in [assembler] code, you want to be able to use negative numbers -> gives you +- 2GB range
Long jumps (i.e. more than +/- 127 bytes in 6502 or x86 or +/- 32767 words in MIPS) are not relative in most architectures; they're absolute. The real reason for a 2 GB limit is not for negative address but instead for memory-mapped devices other than RAM, such as AGP, PCI, ROM, etc.
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ohhh boy, with IBM involved, it just might end up being a warmed over version of OS/2
Then why not call it "OS2"? If OS/2 ran on the PS/2 computer, why not make OS2 run on the PS2 console?
Since the poor bastard is dead, I don't care that you're violating the Sneetches copyright.
Copyright lasts longer than life; it currently lasts life plus 70 years, and Congress has an unwritten contract with Disney to extend it by 20 more years every 20 years. The only way to stop is to send everybody this link to a story explaining why perpetual copyright is a bad idea: http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200011/0671319744___ 1.htm
Why can't you just buy studio time yourself? Theoretically you can
But practically, it's hard to come up with the initial capital, and most VCs won't fund upstart self-publishing recording artists.
and if you can market your music successfully, cool.
Good luck. The major labels already effectively control the so-called "independent promotion agencies" that control what the radio monopoly plays.
[heh heh... riaa.org is slashdotted]
So if Howie Day uses his PC to record his acoustic guitar performances, the resulting recording is "techno"?
No. Syrinx wrote "most people I know like the sound of a guitar as opposed to computer generated beeps," and uebernewby wrote "Support these independent electronica artists" who need only a cheap PC, a wave editor such as the free Audacity, and ModPlug Tracker to make music. Uebernewby suggested techno; syrinx just complained that eir friends don't like techno.
Would that work for Zamphier too? Techno fucking pan flute!
Just look at Morpheus and see if somebody has done a dance remix.
The default ACL permissions on a local NTFS file system allow full control (read/write/change/delete) to everyone except for a handful of directories (ie: stuff like \WINNT) related to the NT OS itself. The "Program Files" directory has restricted permissions on it for the standard "User" group.
Yes, but before NT was released, how were developers supposed to have known about the Win32 API call to retrieve the name of a directory into which the application is supposed to write?
If you are developing applications that are to be installed on NT/2000/XP and you don't take the Microsoft guidelines for application behavior into consideration
I would, but such guidelines (or the means for implementing them) are not available to the general public until two weeks before the release of the OS.
hmm...It can't be a real language.
For one thing, Mono is not a language; it's a compiler for the C# language. In future versions of Emacs, you'll probably see a csharp-mode based on the C/C++/Java language modes.
I regularly test both on Win98,ME,2K, and XP, and have had 0 issues related to saving files.
Do you run as root? Apps running as a normal user under NT or UNIX clones can typically write only to the user's home folder or to the periodically-emptied /tmp, the only places most normal users have write permissions. However, SerpentMage noted that the "get home folder" call did not become documented until just before the release of the OS.
DR-DOS and Samba have had problems because they were relying on things that are not published API's or standards.
Until DirectDraw and DrawSprocket came out, developers on Windows and Mac OS (respectively) had to resort to less-than-fully-documented techniques to get their multimedia applications to display in the full screen.
UC Berkeley (to use an example from the article) doesn't exactly have a powerful football presence.
Two words: UCLA Bruins.
But few few students have been through the full software engineering cycle of design, developement, maintenance & support.
Every junior CS major at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology takes a two-quarter software engineering course in which she works on three projects in four terms, forcing students to write things down and practice maintainability.
major innovations by nintendo, including ... the digital boardgame (Mario Party)
I'm sorry, but chess (Chessmaster(tm) and Battle Chess(tm)), reversi (Othello(tm)), and and Monopoly(tm) were available as officially licensed NES games several years before the release of the first Mario Party 3 game. (Yes, I say 3, because in the US it went Mario Party 3 with 3 on the die and rototorture in the game, then Mario Party 2, then the game officially called Mario Party 3.)
The PS2 plays PS1 games.
The Game Boy Advance is about as powerful as Atari Jaguar (i.e. twice as powerful as Super NES) and also plays Game Boy Color games. It also connects to a TV with the third-party TV de Advance.
Nintendo seems to have really raunchy business policies. Suing people, compromising design decisions to protect license fees, etc.
I guess Nintendo messed up when it designed GBA. GBA has absolutely NO independent software creation prevention measures other than checksumming the header and looking for the Nintendo logo (which is legal to reproduce under Sega v. Accolade). Learn how to develop your own software at gbadev.org.
I was favoring the NGC, due to its 4-player capability out of the box(yes I know they others do with silly-ass dongles). However, when I heard that it wouldn't play full-sized DVDs, I was in a quandry - should I wait for the Panasonic player, or should I go with one of the other boxen?
Go with GameCube and an external DVD player because they can be used simultaneously. With those, you can play the best four-player games, and you can play DVDs for the kids on a separate TV.
Windows ain't Unix.
Neither is GNU/Linux, nor any of the free BSDs, but that doesn't stop them from running programs written to the UNIX spec. Windows too can run free *n?x software with Cygwin, and now Cygwin with XFree86 runs on all Win32 platforms from 95 to NT to XP.
You don't need Photoshop. 90% of the people who use it (including people who pirate it) don't need Photoshop.
Adobe realized this and released a stripped-down product called Photoshop Elements. It retails for $100 and includes everything but high-end color separation. Many other users (such as myself) are also happy with GIMP or WinGIMP.
If Adobe sold Photoshop for $20, that would be a lot like a certain company releasing a certain web browser for free.
"Certain company" meaning AOL, whose Netscape division contributes engineering labor to the free Mozilla web browser suite?
As A Greeting Card Artisan... [I demand that Hallmark encrypt all cards it sends so as not to violate my copyright]
Are you Sam Butcher of Precious Moments Inc? If so, any claims of restrictive copyright on your Precious Moments characters have two checks:
What's to stop some clod from printing one of these cards that I've fashioned, and giving it to a friend for free? Nothing.
Other than traditional copyright law.
Except you violated copyright by using the word "batman".
No, that's trademark. And there are other generic senses of "batman" other than the trademarked sense for comic books, films, TV shows, and toys. For example, in Turkey, batman weighs only 157 pounds.
Obviously, nothing prevents countries like Brazil of using the european color scheme ( PAL ) with the american TV standard ( M ), thereby creating their "own" incompatible system...
Several people have referred to PAL-M by several different names in this discussion (PAL/525, PAL/60, etc). Apparently, DVD players designed for sale in New Zealand (whose law considers region lockouts an unlawful restraint of trade) are region switchable and output PAL-M when playing a 30fps disc. Most modern PAL TVs and digitizers can handle both 50 Hz PAL and 60 Hz PAL.
By the way, PAL refers to "phase alternation by line," where the R-Y signal is inverted on each line, synchronized to a color burst that runs at 135 and 225 degrees rather than 180 degrees.
Your ability to watch DVD's which you have purchased, wherever you choose, constitutes fair use.
Under United States copyright law (which does not apply outside the United States), fair use is a defense to copyright infringement. It is not a defense to access control circumvention. Access control circumvention is a separate offense, completely orthogonal (i.e. perpendicular, or separate) to copyright infringement.
And yes, the consumers approve of this. They show their approval by continuing to purchase DVD players and discs.
The digital data is PAL?
DVD-Video discs contain instructions as to what video formats players may output. If a player doesn't support PAL, it can't play discs that require PAL. (I found this in a manual for a TV-out card.)
I wonder if anyone has a patent on the "RDF" letter sequence?
You're thinking "trademarks." Here are a few trademarks on "RDF": RDF fiber optics, RDF REMOTE DISBURSEMENT FACILITY electronic payment systems, RDF cancer drugs, and ADRIAMYCIN RDF anti-cancer drugs. Under "RSS" I found RSS machine bearings, RSS ROLAND SOUND SPACE audio equipment, RSS telephone switches, RSS logo telephone switches, RSS rice syrup, RSS hypodermic needles, RSS-14 bar code standard, RSSCLUB clocks, cups, and clothes, G647 RSS tires, RSS LIMITED bar code standards guides, RSS LIMITED bar codes, RSS EXPANDED bar codes, RSS EXPANDED bar code standards guides, RSS-14 bar code standards guides, RSS NEEDLE GUARD hypodermic needles, RSS POINT GUARD hypodermic needles, RSS RAPID SCORING SYSTEM educational software, and RSS dns-zone for stopping unsolicited bulk e-mail. I don't see any trademark on "RDF" or "RSS" relating to XML description of a web site.
The patent offices are supposed to hire experts to go over patent claims and reject bogus claims; this makes it fair for everyone. Other patent offices do this; why can't the USPTO?
Because Congress siphons off the USPTO's filing fee revenues and uses them to balance the budget instead of letting the USPTO use them to hire more competent examiners.
I think that only true of their ancient, private dialup network (which is still what most people use). However, a lot of AOL customers are now using their own cable/dsl ISP, so their AIM client would be running on a public, non-filtered IP.
Let me tell you how AIM, IRC, Jabber, and other popular real-time messaging systems work. Alice and Bob each send name, password, and client binary hash to server. Server responds with buddy list, including presence information. Alice wants to send message to Bob. Alice sends packets to server, which processes those packets and forwards them to Bob. Now, if Alice wants to send a packet containing a sploit, the server can clean up the packet before Bob gets it.
You need sector-sized granularity for tracking changed sectors. The latter does not scale well.
The common implementations of virtual memory use page-sized granularity for tracking changed pages. Does that scale?
The big problem I've seen with using a single memory space is that applications often forget to implement multiple levels of undo. With many PDA applications, once you make two accidental changes to a file, the previous version is gone forever because many applications modify files in-place, breaking the "revert to last saved version of document" feature. This bit me in the butt several times on Newton OS.
jumping around in [assembler] code, you want to be able to use negative numbers -> gives you +- 2GB range
Long jumps (i.e. more than +/- 127 bytes in 6502 or x86 or +/- 32767 words in MIPS) are not relative in most architectures; they're absolute. The real reason for a 2 GB limit is not for negative address but instead for memory-mapped devices other than RAM, such as AGP, PCI, ROM, etc.