Problem is dependency but I've seen some quite good solution to this.
If you want to make some daemons run, and some daemons depend on others, why not use a GNU tool specially designed to handle dependencies? Make the initscript into a makefile, and GNU Make should handle starting daemons quite nicely.
And their games don't constantly remind you that you can get added bonuses in your $50 game by paying
I'd like to remind you that a couple Konami PS1 games such as Metal Gear Solid opened up features if you had save files from other Konami games on an accessible memory card.
for a peripheral
What about "online only" maps in PS2 and Xbox games?
or their handheld system
Watch this change as soon as the PSP and the Xboy come out. I spell heavy PS2vo/PSP cross-promotion.
GC-GBA cross-promotion?
A GameCube, an old-style GBA, and a link cable put together cost $180, which is the same as a PS2 or an Xbox.
this doesn't address whether or not they actually NEEDED the cards. Was there really no memory left on the cartridge? Have they already hit the maximum size of a GBA game in such a short time?
There is definitely room to grow in the GBA Game Pak memory size. The GBA can address up to 256 megabits without bankswitching, but in practice, that's no problem (see also UNROM, MMC1, and MMC3 on NES). Current carts are typically 64 megabits, and big ones such as Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance and Golden Sun 2 are 128 megabits. The problem right now is the price of high-density solid-state storage.
The problem Nintendo ran into is causality. Nintendo can't put maps on the Game Pak that it hasn't created yet. Without some sort of media other than the Game Pak, Nintendo can't publish maps that it creates after Game Paks are already in the hands of players. So every few months, Nintendo makes a few new maps, compresses them down to 2 KB each, puts them on e-reader cards, and sells them in Wal-Mart.
If I buy the cart and the GBA, then I have paid to play what is on the cart.
Not necessarily. A long time ago, Adobe System sold a CD called "Type on Call" that contained several thousand encrypted fonts. Buyers would phone Adobe, give a bank card number, and be given a code to decrypt and install a font family. Such an unlock system would be even easier to enforce nowadays given the DMCA and the EUCD.
Super Mario Bros. 3 was 256 KiB of program and 128 KiB of artwork. By the nature of the MMC3 memory chip and the game program structure it implies, I'm guessing that the program and audio samples took up about 32 KiB, leaving 224 KiB for maps. Divide by the number of maps in the game, and the resulting figure of 2-3 KiB per map seems consistent with the data structure that Nintendo's side-scrolling Mario games seem to use for map storage: 9 bits for (x mod 16, y) and 7 bits for the identity of the object placed there. One of these cards can hold up to at least 5 KB, given that the 5-card e-reader games were originally 24 KiB NES ROMs.
Ten years ago, I would have found "Sony" and "game console" in the same sentence to be a bit odd. The PS1 didn't come out in the States until September 9, 1995.
That would work for a few titles but not all titles. The set of titles available for the Game Boy Advance does not equal the set of titles available for the Super NES, and neither is a subset of the other. GBA Game Paks hold more data than Super NES Game Paks held, and frame rates in 3D games using the GBA's ARM7TDMI processor are better than frame rates in 3D games using the Super NES's Super FX processor.
Just get a GameCube ($100), a Game Boy Player ($50), and a nYko Play Cube adapter ($10), and use your existing PS1 or PS2 Dual Shock controller. (PS1 digital controllers do not work with the Play Cube adapter.)
You'll also need a PlayStation Dual Shock controller and a nYko Play Cube adapter. Nintendo unwisely chose to put the GameCube controller's digital cross pad in a hard-to-reach corner. Using a PlayStation controller instead swaps the cross pad and the left stick to place precise digital control right where you need it. (Compatibility warning: The Play Cube adapter works with PS1 Dual Shock controllers and PS2 Dual Shock 2 controllers but does not work with dance pads or other PS1 digital controllers.)
I recommend the PS1 analog controller + Play Cube adapter combination because 1. many gamers already have a PS1 analog controller, and 2. unlike the Hori Digital Controller (a Super NES lookalike game pad for the GameCube), I could actually find the PS1 controller and Play Cube adapter at a local store. Neither Wal-Mart nor EBGames nor Best Buy carried the Hori Digital Controller last time I checked.
Did you think "illegal" meant only "criminal"? Last time I checked, the word "illegal" meant only "prohibited by law," not "prohibited by the parts of law that define crimes." Copyright infringement is "prohibited by law" though it is not a crime.
Disney/Pixar's Toy Story was rendered with about 1 million color pixels per frame. Fox/Lucasfilm's Star Wars: Attack of the Clones was shot in the 1920x1080-pixel 24P HDTV format. Commercial digital cinema projectors also run up to 2 million pixels.
The resolution of film depends on the grain of the film stock. A film shot in 70mm will obviously have a higher resolution than a film shot in 35mm.
Sure, the film no longer flickers when each frame is projected three times (flicker rate of 72 Hz), but flicker fusion isn't the only thing. Another thing is that pans across landscapes are much more jittery at 24fps than at 60fps. I often notice this in pan-and-scan presentations of movies on TV, where it's easy to tell 24fps pans that were part of the film from 60fps pans added in reformatting to 4:3.
Simple explanation: When lawyers are more powerful in the economy than engineers and technologists, engineers and technologists have to think like lawyers in order to survive, and this spills over into Slashdot. To take this power back, all you can do is complain to your representative, asking for a simpler legal code. You're not going to get it any time soon because complex laws are job security for the American Trial Lawyers Association, one of the most powerful lobby groups in Washington.
Any such "prepress image editing" has nothing to do with a low-level display server, and would be done by the application talking to the server.
All apps under a network-transparent window system have to be linked to the client library that talks to the server. If this client library is GPL without an exception such as that of Guile's license, it is impossible to make proprietary apps for the window system without clean-rooming the client library (expensive).
Apple has a low home market share because it chooses to. People who make minimum wage choose not to buy Apple computers because Apple chooses not to offer a sub-low-end ($499) desktop system.
yes, but mp3.com got bought, so "mp3.com, originally" no longer exists. In addition, "mp3.com, originally" had an additional problem: artists could provide recordings only in 128 kbps MP3 format, which is capable of nowhere near the fidelity of pristine 16-bit 44.1 kHz stereo PCM audio to the good ear.
No. This is potentially an ILLEGAL solution. How can bands on the label pay their songwriters the statutory 8 cents per track? And even if the band members write their own songs, what steps can they take should some songwriter they've never heard of
take them to court, claiming that a song that
they wrote is "strikingly similar" to some song
they don't remember having heard? Heck, it
could
even happen by accident.
This works under the Linux license (which allows binary modules) or the Guile license (which allows linking to anything), but not under the basic GNU GPL. Thus, the Guile license (GNU GPL + blanket linking exception) is a better fit for a window system than the GNU GPL.
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Then present a login prompt on the first console while starting all the daemons on the second console.
Problem is dependency but I've seen some quite good solution to this.
If you want to make some daemons run, and some daemons depend on others, why not use a GNU tool specially designed to handle dependencies? Make the initscript into a makefile, and GNU Make should handle starting daemons quite nicely.
And their games don't constantly remind you that you can get added bonuses in your $50 game by paying
I'd like to remind you that a couple Konami PS1 games such as Metal Gear Solid opened up features if you had save files from other Konami games on an accessible memory card.
for a peripheral
What about "online only" maps in PS2 and Xbox games?
or their handheld system
Watch this change as soon as the PSP and the Xboy come out. I spell heavy PS2vo/PSP cross-promotion.
GC-GBA cross-promotion?
A GameCube, an old-style GBA, and a link cable put together cost $180, which is the same as a PS2 or an Xbox.
this doesn't address whether or not they actually NEEDED the cards. Was there really no memory left on the cartridge? Have they already hit the maximum size of a GBA game in such a short time?
There is definitely room to grow in the GBA Game Pak memory size. The GBA can address up to 256 megabits without bankswitching, but in practice, that's no problem (see also UNROM, MMC1, and MMC3 on NES). Current carts are typically 64 megabits, and big ones such as Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance and Golden Sun 2 are 128 megabits. The problem right now is the price of high-density solid-state storage.
The problem Nintendo ran into is causality. Nintendo can't put maps on the Game Pak that it hasn't created yet. Without some sort of media other than the Game Pak, Nintendo can't publish maps that it creates after Game Paks are already in the hands of players. So every few months, Nintendo makes a few new maps, compresses them down to 2 KB each, puts them on e-reader cards, and sells them in Wal-Mart.
If I buy the cart and the GBA, then I have paid to play what is on the cart.
Not necessarily. A long time ago, Adobe System sold a CD called "Type on Call" that contained several thousand encrypted fonts. Buyers would phone Adobe, give a bank card number, and be given a code to decrypt and install a font family. Such an unlock system would be even easier to enforce nowadays given the DMCA and the EUCD.
Super Mario Bros. 3 was 256 KiB of program and 128 KiB of artwork. By the nature of the MMC3 memory chip and the game program structure it implies, I'm guessing that the program and audio samples took up about 32 KiB, leaving 224 KiB for maps. Divide by the number of maps in the game, and the resulting figure of 2-3 KiB per map seems consistent with the data structure that Nintendo's side-scrolling Mario games seem to use for map storage: 9 bits for (x mod 16, y) and 7 bits for the identity of the object placed there. One of these cards can hold up to at least 5 KB, given that the 5-card e-reader games were originally 24 KiB NES ROMs.
and that piglet game, well, it's piglet!
Problem: Piglet's current owner is pro Bono.
Ten years ago, I would have found "Sony" and "game console" in the same sentence to be a bit odd. The PS1 didn't come out in the States until September 9, 1995.
no, it's Frisby. But you're right to a point: the name had to be changed to "Brisby" in the film adaptation.
That would work for a few titles but not all titles. The set of titles available for the Game Boy Advance does not equal the set of titles available for the Super NES, and neither is a subset of the other. GBA Game Paks hold more data than Super NES Game Paks held, and frame rates in 3D games using the GBA's ARM7TDMI processor are better than frame rates in 3D games using the Super NES's Super FX processor.
Just get a GameCube ($100), a Game Boy Player ($50), and a nYko Play Cube adapter ($10), and use your existing PS1 or PS2 Dual Shock controller. (PS1 digital controllers do not work with the Play Cube adapter.)
You'll also need a PlayStation Dual Shock controller and a nYko Play Cube adapter. Nintendo unwisely chose to put the GameCube controller's digital cross pad in a hard-to-reach corner. Using a PlayStation controller instead swaps the cross pad and the left stick to place precise digital control right where you need it. (Compatibility warning: The Play Cube adapter works with PS1 Dual Shock controllers and PS2 Dual Shock 2 controllers but does not work with dance pads or other PS1 digital controllers.)
I recommend the PS1 analog controller + Play Cube adapter combination because 1. many gamers already have a PS1 analog controller, and 2. unlike the Hori Digital Controller (a Super NES lookalike game pad for the GameCube), I could actually find the PS1 controller and Play Cube adapter at a local store. Neither Wal-Mart nor EBGames nor Best Buy carried the Hori Digital Controller last time I checked.
Google had a tough time finding the official site among pages spamming the index with repeated words.
Did you think "illegal" meant only "criminal"? Last time I checked, the word "illegal" meant only "prohibited by law," not "prohibited by the parts of law that define crimes." Copyright infringement is "prohibited by law" though it is not a crime.
Disney/Pixar's Toy Story was rendered with about 1 million color pixels per frame. Fox/Lucasfilm's Star Wars: Attack of the Clones was shot in the 1920x1080-pixel 24P HDTV format. Commercial digital cinema projectors also run up to 2 million pixels.
The resolution of film depends on the grain of the film stock. A film shot in 70mm will obviously have a higher resolution than a film shot in 35mm.
Sure, the film no longer flickers when each frame is projected three times (flicker rate of 72 Hz), but flicker fusion isn't the only thing. Another thing is that pans across landscapes are much more jittery at 24fps than at 60fps. I often notice this in pan-and-scan presentations of movies on TV, where it's easy to tell 24fps pans that were part of the film from 60fps pans added in reformatting to 4:3.
Simple explanation: When lawyers are more powerful in the economy than engineers and technologists, engineers and technologists have to think like lawyers in order to survive, and this spills over into Slashdot. To take this power back, all you can do is complain to your representative, asking for a simpler legal code. You're not going to get it any time soon because complex laws are job security for the American Trial Lawyers Association, one of the most powerful lobby groups in Washington.
Got any pointers to more information about this "Rascal" thing? Google turns up nothing relevant in the first 20 results.
Any cases would have to be persued as a civil matter
I'm assuming that most novice recording artists don't even have enough money to hire a lawyer to defend them in a civil lawsuit.
Any such "prepress image editing" has nothing to do with a low-level display server, and would be done by the application talking to the server.
All apps under a network-transparent window system have to be linked to the client library that talks to the server. If this client library is GPL without an exception such as that of Guile's license, it is impossible to make proprietary apps for the window system without clean-rooming the client library (expensive).
I make minimum wage, you insensitive clod!
Apple has a low home market share because it chooses to. People who make minimum wage choose not to buy Apple computers because Apple chooses not to offer a sub-low-end ($499) desktop system.
the contract you have between them and you is between them and you; the lots of other people are irrelevant.
Two words: Class Action.
yes, but mp3.com got bought, so "mp3.com, originally" no longer exists. In addition, "mp3.com, originally" had an additional problem: artists could provide recordings only in 128 kbps MP3 format, which is capable of nowhere near the fidelity of pristine 16-bit 44.1 kHz stereo PCM audio to the good ear.
No. This is potentially an ILLEGAL solution. How can bands on the label pay their songwriters the statutory 8 cents per track? And even if the band members write their own songs, what steps can they take should some songwriter they've never heard of take them to court, claiming that a song that they wrote is "strikingly similar" to some song they don't remember having heard? Heck, it could even happen by accident.
How about the owners just provide binary modules.
This works under the Linux license (which allows binary modules) or the Guile license (which allows linking to anything), but not under the basic GNU GPL. Thus, the Guile license (GNU GPL + blanket linking exception) is a better fit for a window system than the GNU GPL.
i've written a program to make this 100% REAL
I wrote a short C program that generates random domain name queries for netcraft and wgets them.
Why C? Because I don't have Perl or Python installed.