If the answer were "no," then why would Nintendo 64 emulators, which emulate a 64-bit MIPS CPU, exist on x86 CPUs? Besides, double-precision floating-point and MMX are already 64-bit (although they may not be executed as 32-bit ops in a particular implementation).
Our sole anti-piracy measure is a network check for unique serial numbers.
This is what Office 2000 does. After you have launched the program fifty times, it connects via a wide-area network to Microsoft's server to verify the authenticity of the software. And if you do not connect to the network, Office refuses to run as advertised.
The next step in unique serial numbers is associating each serial number with a name and password.
This is why I just memorize the IP numbers (in 32-bit hexadecimal format, of course...what's up with all those dots anyhow?) of all the sites I ever go to, and avoid any reliance on DNS at all.
Often, several different web sites will be hosted at the same IP, distinguished only by HTTP/1.1 virtual hosting (as another poster pointed out).
DNS is there for a reason. Keeping a private/etc/hosts file fixes problem 1 but does not help when a site moves to another provider or uses a changing IP address to foil attackers.
1. Run on less than 3% of all desktop machines 2. Run on less than 5% of all desktop machines
The old bandwagon argument. If all your lemming friends were jumping off a cliff, would you also jump?
"5%" and growing. As computer hardware becomes cheaper, the Microsoft Windows tax becomes a larger percentage of the price, making a GNU/Linux system a viable option for low-end PCs and set-top boxen. For example, Dell systems are now available with Linux preinstalled instead of Windows, and the new AOL TV(TM) set-top box reportedly uses a Linux-based system.
You emphasize the word desktop. AFAIK, JavaServer Pages(TM) technology runs on Linux and UNIX servers; server-side content generation with.NET doesn't. Last time I checked, there were more UNIX or nixclone servers than NT/Win2K servers on the Web; check Netcraft if you don't believe me.
.NET is language independant. You can use PERL, Java, Python, C#, VB, whatever the hell you want
Same with Java technology. It's not limited to the Java language; any language that can be preprocessed into the Java language (covers Basic, C, and COBOL), compiled into JVM bytecode (covers Java, JVM assembly language, ML, C, Ada, Eiffel, Python, Smalltalk, and Haskell), or interpreted easily (covers Tcl/Tk, Forth, Perl, Lisp/Scheme, EcmaScript, Logo, Prolog, and Python) can be used with the Java platform. And there are many more.
The version of IE for Macintosh computers seems to be written in C++ (I've ResEdited version 3.0 before.) The Windows version is most likely also in C++, and it's considered part of the OS (it has a Supplemental EULA just like this instead of the full EULA). I don't know what other parts of Windows are written in C++, but I'd say at least 25 percent.
That's funny, Microsoft.com is responding with HTTP Error 500 Server Too Busy.
The KDE desktop for GNU/Linux, BSD, and UNIX systems is written almost entirely in C++.
This library uses bits of Wine so that it can load Windows-native en-/de-coder DLLs
Sounds like DivX;-)
But where does the end user get the license to use the DLLs? From a copy of Windows. The WiMP EULA is tied to the Windows license; its "Supplemental EULA" (also used for IE) states, in effect, "If you are not a licensed user of Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition, Microsoft Windows NT, or Microsoft Windows 2000, you have no rights under this EULA."
Running the DLLs on Alpha, Sparc, MIPS, PowerPC, or any other platform supported by NetBSD or GNU/Linux will be dog slow because it must go through an x86 emulation layer.
I would LOVE to contribute to the community everything except that which I may not through the dictates of an outside agency, which is maybe fifteen hundred lines out of forty-thousand odd lines of code.
So isolate the proprietary stuff and the GPL stuff in separate executables. The GPL virus does NOT infect independent executables by "mere aggregation" on a storage medium if they don't share any code.
There is nothing wrong with just cloning the interface AFAIK.
Apparently The Tetris Company didn't think so for a while and sent cease-and-desist form letters to authors of falling tetramino games. (Eventually, they realized they were pissing in the wind, and only sent letters to the authors of games who called their work "Tetris" in violation of the trademark.)
Martin Hock, who sent in the Godzilla MAME sighting, wrote a TI calculator game called Insane Game a while back. A(n unofficial) pixel-perfect PC port of Insane Game is available here (press the T key in game to turn off candy graphics and turn on pixel-perfect mode). Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
I do. Portable cassette players are cheaper, and I haven't yet found a CD boom box that can survive inside a high-humidity environment so I can listen to techno and video game music in the shower.
If proprietary formats are going to "prevent" people from copyright their own creations (such as the example "birthday party" video)
<IANAL>
At most birthday parties, the copyrighted musical work "Happy Birthday to You"[?] is performed. Thus, Warner-Chappell Music (a division of AOL Time Warner and the "Happy Birthday" copyright owner) has the right to claim your birthday party video (which includes a performance of "Happy Birthday") as a "derivative work" under copyright law. And no, the copyright on "Happy Birthday" hasn't expired; because it was copyrighted on or after January 1, 1923, it's under perpetual copyright in the US and WIPO states.
</IANAL>
If a single stream in a given format cannot go past a certain pixel count, break the image into quadrants, encode each as a separate stream, and have the decoder sort things out. Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
I've seen independent "IU Opoly," "Purdue Opoly," and "Michigan Opoly" board games for sale at Sears stores. For example, under this pattern, the original MONOPOLY® board game would be called "Atlantic City Opoly." Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
We do not object to use of this slang term to describe UCE, although we do object to the use of our product image in association with that term. Also, if the term is to be used, it should be used in all lower-case letters to distinguish it from our trademark SPAM, which should be used with all uppercase letters.
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You can't just wait until everyone in the world is using your stuff and suddenly spring on them and claim they all owe you money.
They're doing the exact same thing Unisys did. But doesn't Unisys have a patent on "submarine" patents?
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Can your Pentium 4 even run 64-bit programs?
If the answer were "no," then why would Nintendo 64 emulators, which emulate a 64-bit MIPS CPU, exist on x86 CPUs? Besides, double-precision floating-point and MMX are already 64-bit (although they may not be executed as 32-bit ops in a particular implementation).
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Can you document this?
I refer you to Google. In particular, if you do not have a TCP/IP connection to the full Internet, you cannot use Microsoft Office 2000.
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Our sole anti-piracy measure is a network check for unique serial numbers.
This is what Office 2000 does. After you have launched the program fifty times, it connects via a wide-area network to Microsoft's server to verify the authenticity of the software. And if you do not connect to the network, Office refuses to run as advertised.
The next step in unique serial numbers is associating each serial number with a name and password.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
This is why I just memorize the IP numbers (in 32-bit hexadecimal format, of course...what's up with all those dots anyhow?) of all the sites I ever go to, and avoid any reliance on DNS at all.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
1. Run on less than 3% of all desktop machines 2. Run on less than 5% of all desktop machines
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Same with Java technology. It's not limited to the Java language; any language that can be preprocessed into the Java language (covers Basic, C, and COBOL), compiled into JVM bytecode (covers Java, JVM assembly language, ML, C, Ada, Eiffel, Python, Smalltalk, and Haskell), or interpreted easily (covers Tcl/Tk, Forth, Perl, Lisp/Scheme, EcmaScript, Logo, Prolog, and Python) can be used with the Java platform. And there are many more.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
I'd rather see an OS written in C++
The version of IE for Macintosh computers seems to be written in C++ (I've ResEdited version 3.0 before.) The Windows version is most likely also in C++, and it's considered part of the OS (it has a Supplemental EULA just like this instead of the full EULA). I don't know what other parts of Windows are written in C++, but I'd say at least 25 percent.
That's funny, Microsoft.com is responding with HTTP Error 500 Server Too Busy.
The KDE desktop for GNU/Linux, BSD, and UNIX systems is written almost entirely in C++.
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I dare you to find me an application that java can handle that C# cannot - TODAY.
Three things Java technology can do that C# andLike Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Micro$oft Java
Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems. Could that be why Microsoft is calling its next J*v*-like product .NET instead of Java?
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
This library uses bits of Wine so that it can load Windows-native en-/de-coder DLLs
Sounds like DivX ;-)
But where does the end user get the license to use the DLLs? From a copy of Windows. The WiMP EULA is tied to the Windows license; its "Supplemental EULA" (also used for IE) states, in effect, "If you are not a licensed user of Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition, Microsoft Windows NT, or Microsoft Windows 2000, you have no rights under this EULA."
Running the DLLs on Alpha, Sparc, MIPS, PowerPC, or any other platform supported by NetBSD or GNU/Linux will be dog slow because it must go through an x86 emulation layer.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
I would LOVE to contribute to the community everything except that which I may not through the dictates of an outside agency, which is maybe fifteen hundred lines out of forty-thousand odd lines of code.
So isolate the proprietary stuff and the GPL stuff in separate executables. The GPL virus does NOT infect independent executables by "mere aggregation" on a storage medium if they don't share any code.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
There is nothing wrong with just cloning the interface AFAIK.
Apparently The Tetris Company didn't think so for a while and sent cease-and-desist form letters to authors of falling tetramino games. (Eventually, they realized they were pissing in the wind, and only sent letters to the authors of games who called their work "Tetris" in violation of the trademark.)
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
if only there were article moderation... if only there were article moderation... if only there were article moderation...
There's no place like Kuro5hin... There's no place like Kuro5hin... There's no place like Kuro5hin...
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Martin Hock, who sent in the Godzilla MAME sighting, wrote a TI calculator game called Insane Game a while back. A(n unofficial) pixel-perfect PC port of Insane Game is available here (press the T key in game to turn off candy graphics and turn on pixel-perfect mode).
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
how many of you still use cassette tapes?
I do. Portable cassette players are cheaper, and I haven't yet found a CD boom box that can survive inside a high-humidity environment so I can listen to techno and video game music in the shower.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
CDMA is a digital cellphone standard. DMCA is Public Enemy #1.
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the copyright to Disney characters will _never_ expire.
There's an interesting explanation of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act and the slippery slope it creates at PinEight.com.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
If proprietary formats are going to "prevent" people from copyright their own creations (such as the example "birthday party" video)
<IANAL>
At most birthday parties, the copyrighted musical work "Happy Birthday to You"[?] is performed. Thus, Warner-Chappell Music (a division of AOL Time Warner and the "Happy Birthday" copyright owner) has the right to claim your birthday party video (which includes a performance of "Happy Birthday") as a "derivative work" under copyright law. And no, the copyright on "Happy Birthday" hasn't expired; because it was copyrighted on or after January 1, 1923, it's under perpetual copyright in the US and WIPO states.
</IANAL>
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
If a single stream in a given format cannot go past a certain pixel count, break the image into quadrants, encode each as a separate stream, and have the decoder sort things out.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
I guess I'll have to connect my NES to it (yes, the old-school, 8-bit NES).
NES games look just as good or better on a VGA monitor. Here are some Free (as in speech) NES-compatible ROMs to play on a Free (as in speech) NES emulator.
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I've seen independent "IU Opoly," "Purdue Opoly," and "Michigan Opoly" board games for sale at Sears stores. For example, under this pattern, the original MONOPOLY® board game would be called "Atlantic City Opoly."
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Pillsbury's trademarks include The Doughboy® and likeness, Häagen-Dazs®, Old El Paso®, Green Giant®, Sprout®, and Bake-Off®. Now you know what brands to avoid.
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I won't advertise it. I'll let my sig do the talking.
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