The loading time really grabbed my attention, it seemed out of place on a 'cartrigge' system.
Some flash card standards such as SmartMedia and MMC aren't designed for high throughput; they trade off throughput to reduce pin count, which reduces the size of the overall card. CompactFlash, on the other hand, is based on ATA and would look and act more like a "real" game cartridge.
20 second juggling act
Compare with a 3 second juggling act (I just checked) to take Tetanus On Drugs out of my GBA and put in Puyo Pop.
Many modern 3D games are raytraced, except that they use a shortcut called a "portal engine." In a portal engine, a cone of rays is traced through several convex "rooms." Normally, rooms are linked to adjacent rooms, but if a room is linked to itself, you can make a mirror, and you can do teleporters in a similar way.
And yes, it's possible to simulate sound sources in real time. Often, all you need is a delay line and an FIR filter, and the result is called "waveguide synthesis" or "Karplus-Strong synthesis."
Perhaps there was 3-4% less cloud cover for those 4 days, because of perfectly normal weather patterns?
Or perhaps the 3-4 percent decrease cloud cover was several sigmas out of whack, dropping sharply when all flights were grounded and then rising as jets took to the skies once again. I am not a meteorologist; I don't know what sort of variability to expect from the amount of cloud cover. A statistician can't make any informed judgments about the magnitude of a momentary change in a measured value without at least a knowledge of the standard deviation in the measurement caused by typical weather patterns.
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Adding more days to the week wouldn't work too well, as it would merely shift the problems to the added days. On the other hand, staggering work weeks just might avoid climate change, but it would destroy the cultural concept of a "weekend" as a time for recreation.
Actually, seven days on and seven days off might just be a good idea. One problem is that people with strong monotheistic religious convictions will want to take every Saturday or every Sunday (depending on faith) off.
Please post the errors gcc gives when compiling the Windows client on Linux and linking it with winelib. One of us more familiar with porting software may be able to help you.
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The fourteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution had the unintended consequence of giving corporations almost the same rights as citizens under the First Amendment as natural persons. To learn more, Google Search for corporate personhood
Our customers and support at other banks will not be happy if we start mailing them open office documents.
Then mail them RTF, which is a textual encoding of a Word document. OpenOffice.org Writer for Windows does a good job of exporting RTF. If they demand to receive.doc, send them RTF renamed as.doc; Microsoft Word will know how to handle it. Likewise, OOo Calc can export spreadsheets that Microsoft Excel can read just fine. The OOo filters are often even more reliable than Microsoft's own filters at reading Microsoft Office documents, especially damaged ones.
"Total cost of ownership" isn't the buzzword anymore. The new buzzword is "return on investment". Even if free software costs more to run, it can often do more.
The Apple IIGS and Super NES had the same CPU (65c816), but that's it; their I/O architectures were NOTHING like each other. Apple IIGS and Super NES video weren't even close, and neither were their sound chips. The IIGS had a memory-mapped dumb frame buffer; the Super NES's video was tile-based, somewhere between that of the Sega Genesis and that of the Game Boy Advance, and VRAM was accessed through a couple I/O ports.
If the exclusive rights in a copyright are analogous to the exclusive rights in a chunk of real estate in so many other ways, why isn't copyright treated like real estate for tax purposes?
Everything is based off something else. Its what YOU bring to it that makes it yours.
But it's what the established songwriters and music publishers bring to court with them that puts all rookie songwriters in grave danger of being sued and either being bankrupted from damages or being bankrupted from legal fees in a pyrrhic victory. Did you even read the page I linked to?
Getting sued when some songwriter you've never heard of complains that your song is "strikingly similar" to some song you've never heard of is not fun.
The "breakage" fee has been called "packaging" for several years. It covers packaging, but it also covers handling returned phonorecords[1] that arrive unplayable. This became less common when Columbia started making records out of vinyl instead of shellac, but it became common once again when record labels began to sell "mostly CD compatible" discs and savvy consumers began to return every single replacement-of-the-same-title that the record store would give.
[1] "Phonorecord" is a medium in which a sound recording is fixed, analogous to a "copy" of a work of any other type. This legal term is not limited to the colloquial sense of the analog phonograph disc format.
statutory payments for the song writer end up being something like $0.15 a song as it is (thus its always better for artists to write their own damn songs:-)
Actually closer to eight cents per song, assuming songs of five minutes or shorter, but...
Given the combinatorical improbability of writing music that is in fact original, how do most singer-songwriters do it? I'm curious, as this conclusion is one of the last things preventing me from writing my own music for my video games instead of shamelessly adapting well-known classical tunes.
the knee-jerk reaction here is that it's the [] industry's fault that the foolish band signed a bad contract
When the major record labels make nothing but a "bad contract" available, and the smaller labels don't offer the musicology services necessary to avoid getting sued by major publishers, guess what happens.
And, of course, the real problem in that scenario is the government-granted monopoly. However, I have difficulty in seeing where your right to free speech compels me to transmit your message.
A telecom company holding a government-granted geographical monopoly is likely to become subject to regulation as a common carrier.
There are also dial-up connections available which, while slower, are certainly servicable.
Dial-up is 2.5 KB/s up, on a good day. If "slower" means slower than the speech is generated, speech can no longer move freely over the connection.
I consider those people who are logging out of the asylum that the current society is, to be the smartest.
When this planet was not fully explored, that may have been a viable option, and it was for the refugees who sailed from Europe to America in the seventeenth century. But now that 100 percent of Earth's habitable land is property owned by partners in the asylum, how is this possible?
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The loading time really grabbed my attention, it seemed out of place on a 'cartrigge' system.
Some flash card standards such as SmartMedia and MMC aren't designed for high throughput; they trade off throughput to reduce pin count, which reduces the size of the overall card. CompactFlash, on the other hand, is based on ATA and would look and act more like a "real" game cartridge.
20 second juggling act
Compare with a 3 second juggling act (I just checked) to take Tetanus On Drugs out of my GBA and put in Puyo Pop.
That was Mobile System GB, and it was pulled for lack of interest.
What about the headphone jack? This and the GBA->GCN cable seem to cover the GBA SP system's oddly shaped headphone jack.
Many modern 3D games are raytraced, except that they use a shortcut called a "portal engine." In a portal engine, a cone of rays is traced through several convex "rooms." Normally, rooms are linked to adjacent rooms, but if a room is linked to itself, you can make a mirror, and you can do teleporters in a similar way.
Learn more about portal engines
And yes, it's possible to simulate sound sources in real time. Often, all you need is a delay line and an FIR filter, and the result is called "waveguide synthesis" or "Karplus-Strong synthesis."
Perhaps there was 3-4% less cloud cover for those 4 days, because of perfectly normal weather patterns?
Or perhaps the 3-4 percent decrease cloud cover was several sigmas out of whack, dropping sharply when all flights were grounded and then rising as jets took to the skies once again. I am not a meteorologist; I don't know what sort of variability to expect from the amount of cloud cover. A statistician can't make any informed judgments about the magnitude of a momentary change in a measured value without at least a knowledge of the standard deviation in the measurement caused by typical weather patterns.
Disclaimer: "I do recognize a joke." We now return you to your regularly scheduled reply.
Adding more days to the week wouldn't work too well, as it would merely shift the problems to the added days. On the other hand, staggering work weeks just might avoid climate change, but it would destroy the cultural concept of a "weekend" as a time for recreation.
Actually, seven days on and seven days off might just be a good idea. One problem is that people with strong monotheistic religious convictions will want to take every Saturday or every Sunday (depending on faith) off.
Please post the errors gcc gives when compiling the Windows client on Linux and linking it with winelib. One of us more familiar with porting software may be able to help you.
Us /. users may have an unfair advantage over people new to computers here.
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The fourteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution had the unintended consequence of giving corporations almost the same rights as citizens under the First Amendment as natural persons. To learn more, Google Search for corporate personhood
Yes, that application (the terminal program) is run under Windows, but I see no reason why this couldn't be done under Linux.
It already has been.
Our customers and support at other banks will not be happy if we start mailing them open office documents.
Then mail them RTF, which is a textual encoding of a Word document. OpenOffice.org Writer for Windows does a good job of exporting RTF. If they demand to receive .doc, send them RTF renamed as .doc; Microsoft Word will know how to handle it. Likewise, OOo Calc can export spreadsheets that Microsoft Excel can read just fine. The OOo filters are often even more reliable than Microsoft's own filters at reading Microsoft Office documents, especially damaged ones.
If Microsoft can offer a better TCO
"Total cost of ownership" isn't the buzzword anymore. The new buzzword is "return on investment". Even if free software costs more to run, it can often do more.
The Apple IIGS and Super NES had the same CPU (65c816), but that's it; their I/O architectures were NOTHING like each other. Apple IIGS and Super NES video weren't even close, and neither were their sound chips. The IIGS had a memory-mapped dumb frame buffer; the Super NES's video was tile-based, somewhere between that of the Sega Genesis and that of the Game Boy Advance, and VRAM was accessed through a couple I/O ports.
Usually, a Slashdot signature link brings in a healthy trickle of traffic, not a torrent like a front-page posting.
Well at least it's better than spam.
If the exclusive rights in a copyright are analogous to the exclusive rights in a chunk of real estate in so many other ways, why isn't copyright treated like real estate for tax purposes?
American culture is incredibly rich and rewarding ... George Gerswhin
So now you're approving of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act? Next to The Walt Disney Company, the Gershwin estate was one of the biggest forces in lobbying for the Bono Act.
Everything is based off something else. Its what YOU bring to it that makes it yours.
But it's what the established songwriters and music publishers bring to court with them that puts all rookie songwriters in grave danger of being sued and either being bankrupted from damages or being bankrupted from legal fees in a pyrrhic victory. Did you even read the page I linked to?
Making music is fun!
Getting sued when some songwriter you've never heard of complains that your song is "strikingly similar" to some song you've never heard of is not fun.
try explaining the 'record breakage fee' of 10%
The "breakage" fee has been called "packaging" for several years. It covers packaging, but it also covers handling returned phonorecords[1] that arrive unplayable. This became less common when Columbia started making records out of vinyl instead of shellac, but it became common once again when record labels began to sell "mostly CD compatible" discs and savvy consumers began to return every single replacement-of-the-same-title that the record store would give.
[1] "Phonorecord" is a medium in which a sound recording is fixed, analogous to a "copy" of a work of any other type. This legal term is not limited to the colloquial sense of the analog phonograph disc format.
statutory payments for the song writer end up being something like $0.15 a song as it is (thus its always better for artists to write their own damn songs :-)
Actually closer to eight cents per song, assuming songs of five minutes or shorter, but...
Given the combinatorical improbability of writing music that is in fact original, how do most singer-songwriters do it? I'm curious, as this conclusion is one of the last things preventing me from writing my own music for my video games instead of shamelessly adapting well-known classical tunes.
the knee-jerk reaction here is that it's the [] industry's fault that the foolish band signed a bad contract
When the major record labels make nothing but a "bad contract" available, and the smaller labels don't offer the musicology services necessary to avoid getting sued by major publishers, guess what happens.
And, of course, the real problem in that scenario is the government-granted monopoly. However, I have difficulty in seeing where your right to free speech compels me to transmit your message.
A telecom company holding a government-granted geographical monopoly is likely to become subject to regulation as a common carrier.
There are also dial-up connections available which, while slower, are certainly servicable.
Dial-up is 2.5 KB/s up, on a good day. If "slower" means slower than the speech is generated, speech can no longer move freely over the connection.
To get hits on your site legitimately, participate in electronic discussion boards such as Slashdot, and link your sig to your site.
I consider those people who are logging out of the asylum that the current society is, to be the smartest.
When this planet was not fully explored, that may have been a viable option, and it was for the refugees who sailed from Europe to America in the seventeenth century. But now that 100 percent of Earth's habitable land is property owned by partners in the asylum, how is this possible?