or you play the (mostly) crap games that you CAN get under the GPL.
You downplay the "mostly." I admit, many GPL'd games are crap, but most commercial games are crap too. You just have to find the diamonds in the rough. For instance, have you ever experienced tetris... on LSD? Or have you raced down a mountain as a penguin? Or taken out your frustration by killing those annoying little hampsters?
Users are given a certain number of karma points. They can attach those points as positive or negative values, to other accounts. Once they use up those karma points, they're gone -- but they can re-arrange those points if they want
Think of "attaching karma points to an account" as "certifying that account" and you've just described Advogato. Too bad Advogato AFAIK doesn't even let you reply to articles without having been certified by a number of other users.
OS could also use the mpeg1-layer2 format, which isnt too bad and close to mp3, that im sure can
be 'tweeked' to be an mp2+ (better than mp3)
This is exactly what the mpegplus project tried to do. Extend MP2 into something better. But it seems some of Fraunhofer's MP2 patents hadn't yet expired; other posts suggest that the project has been shot down.
talented artists like Eminem stop writing music because you communists think you are allowed to steal it for free
"I say download the audio on MP3 and show the whole world"... Even though Dr. Dre hates MP3, Eminem seems to like it. "And Dr. Dre said... nothing you idiots! Dr. Dre's dead; he's locked in my basement" where he can't pursue people who share Eminem's music on Napster and similar services.
Lisp (aka Lithp) and its cousin Scheme are both OO and functional. There's no reason a language can't be both; the article shows that procedural languages can also be OO. Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
You HAVE to have the methods as part of the structure in order for it to be a self contained "object".
What are they compiled into? A vtable, or a pointer to an array of method pointers (one array per class). I've seen similar polymorphism in the Allegro library's BITMAP structure.
To vote against it with your pocket book, don't buy any digital TV.
You mean "don't buy any TV." All US analog television broadcasts will go silent on January 1, 2006, when the FCC reclaims all analog television frequencies (as is its right; the Supreme Court has ruled that the Ninth and Tenth Amendments do not imply a right to broadcast). All television will be digital, encrypted, and non-recordable.
It's true this will set back the introduction of digital TV if nobody buys it
The law does have a provision for this, to push back the introduction of digital TV if it has not yet caught on, but Hollywood knows how to market to the sheeple[?], and the sheeple follow the rule "Do what you're told; buy what you're sold."
Why prevent people from making copies of their DVDs onto VHS tapes? What if they wanted the copy to take it to a relatives house to watch it, but the relative didnt have a DVD?
In that case, you're supposed to buy your relatives a DVD player for Christmas; royalties on DVD patents go straight back to Hollywood, who makes more money when you "Collect all six!" (one for each DVD region).
You forgot that most components of your average game console are patented, that the boot sector is copyrighted and must be bit-for-bit identical with a copy in the console's BIOS for the disc to boot, and that the boot sector displays trademarks on screen.
You forgot the $10 per unit royalties for console games.
Macrovision plays with a VCR's automatic gain control by placing fluctuating signals in the normally invisible vertical blank portion of the video signal, causing the reproduced signal to fade in and out. It also plays with some televisions; this can be fixed with a video stabilizer that costs in the neighborhood of $30. But if you use a stabilizer to remove the Macrovision signal and tape a DVD, you are in violation of 17 USC 1201. Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Baud is "discrete signals per second." BPS is "bits of information per second." DDR modulation sends two signals on each clock pulse, one on the rising edge and one on the falling edge. Because these are two discrete signals and not multiple bits squeezed into one phase/amplitude signal (as with phone modems), the "baud" rate is the same as the "words per second" rate; however, the parallel bus increases the "bits per second" rate to 64 or 128 times the baud rate and 128 or 256 times the clock frequency. Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
The only true benchmark is your own feeling. Does this Athlon feel faster than my Celeron at home ? Yes it does. I don't know why, but it just does.
It feels faster because it's either swapping less (more RAM) or swapping faster (better hard drive). Windows 98/ME on a Novell network with antivirus software is a RAM hog; if you have less than 128 MB of RAM, you are going to lose 90% of your performance to the swap file. I learned this the hard way; in June of 1999, I thought a 333 MHz PII laptop with 64 MB of RAM would be enough, until I tried to run Windows; the low-power-consumption i.e. low-rotational-speed i.e. slow-swapping hard drive ate all my performance, making the machine "feel" slower than my old 1 MHz Apple II.
There's also something nice about not having 30 cubic feet of space in a dorm room taken up by VHS tapes, cds, encyclopedia volumes, DVDs and other so called meatspace products. I doubt that you can accurately say that everyone or at least a critical number of people value a jewel case that's 5x the thickness of a cd taking up so much room.
Trying to reduce the bulk of meatspace products?
VHS? Try Hi8 instead; the tapes are much smaller, and the resolution is remarkably better.
CD and DVD cases? There are CD wallets for that.
Encyclopedia? Why bother? Britannica is already online and supported by ads.
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or you play the (mostly) crap games that you CAN get under the GPL.
You downplay the "mostly." I admit, many GPL'd games are crap, but most commercial games are crap too. You just have to find the diamonds in the rough. For instance, have you ever experienced tetris... on LSD? Or have you raced down a mountain as a penguin? Or taken out your frustration by killing those annoying little hampsters?
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Users are given a certain number of karma points. They can attach those points as positive or negative values, to other accounts. Once they use up those karma points, they're gone -- but they can re-arrange those points if they want
Think of "attaching karma points to an account" as "certifying that account" and you've just described Advogato. Too bad Advogato AFAIK doesn't even let you reply to articles without having been certified by a number of other users.
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If you wanted something like that, you could probably hack the slashdot code to do it (IE, open story submissions and moderation).
The Scoop engine (which powers Kuro5hin) has story moderation and a comment moderation system that always gives you the points you want.
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OS could also use the mpeg1-layer2 format, which isnt too bad and close to mp3, that im sure can be 'tweeked' to be an mp2+ (better than mp3)
This is exactly what the mpegplus project tried to do. Extend MP2 into something better. But it seems some of Fraunhofer's MP2 patents hadn't yet expired; other posts suggest that the project has been shot down.
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In my opinion, *GPL is a deterrent to adoption. I wouldn't touch a GPL'd codec because i don't want to have to give away my source code.
With a LGPL'd codec, you don't have to. IANAL, but it appears you just have to
- distribute your application in a form that can be re-linked with the library, and
- mirror the library's source code.
You don't have to release your own source code if you use an LGPL'd codec. That's what puts the "lesser" in "Lesser GPL."Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
talented artists like Eminem stop writing music because you communists think you are allowed to steal it for free
"I say download the audio on MP3 and show the whole world"... Even though Dr. Dre hates MP3, Eminem seems to like it. "And Dr. Dre said... nothing you idiots! Dr. Dre's dead; he's locked in my basement" where he can't pursue people who share Eminem's music on Napster and similar services.
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I assumed with the candy reference, you were alluding to M&Ms brand candies. M&Ms are made by Mars Inc. not Hershey.
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if not, then right-click the link and view in a new window
Sorry, you don't have permission to right-click.
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Lisp (aka Lithp) and its cousin Scheme are both OO and functional. There's no reason a language can't be both; the article shows that procedural languages can also be OO.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
You HAVE to have the methods as part of the structure in order for it to be a self contained "object".
What are they compiled into? A vtable, or a pointer to an array of method pointers (one array per class). I've seen similar polymorphism in the Allegro library's BITMAP structure.
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How do you know that the "and make your DVD" step won't re-introduce region coding?
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If you travel to the year 802,701, don't forget to say hi to the Precious Moments people who call themselves Eloi.
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it is very difficult to sit there for hours on end and read the text on the screen. The text starts to blur
Not if you're using an LCD, especially with subpixel text rendering. It's at least five times sharper than the average CRT.
there wasn't really any space between the lines
That's what style sheets are for. Make one with one of those CSS tools and use it.
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These books are free as in "free beer" but not free as in unfettered. The GNU Free Documentation License covers GNU manuals, but I don't see anything similar on the Baen site.
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Of course, the battery voltage doesn't change much while the system is in operation.
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There was talk of IBM going back to re-do the POWER3 cpu
IBM did so, adding simultaneous multi-threading (on-die SMP), and created POWER4.
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To vote against it with your pocket book, don't buy any digital TV.
You mean "don't buy any TV." All US analog television broadcasts will go silent on January 1, 2006, when the FCC reclaims all analog television frequencies (as is its right; the Supreme Court has ruled that the Ninth and Tenth Amendments do not imply a right to broadcast). All television will be digital, encrypted, and non-recordable.
It's true this will set back the introduction of digital TV if nobody buys it
The law does have a provision for this, to push back the introduction of digital TV if it has not yet caught on, but Hollywood knows how to market to the sheeple[?], and the sheeple follow the rule "Do what you're told; buy what you're sold."
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
It is required of VCR manufactures to have a non defeatable AGC that the Macrovision signal will mess up. It is part of the VHS tm. license.
I can't believe that JVC (the VHS trademark and (formerly) patent owner) would want to cripple VCRs in such a way. Use a $30 video stabilizer.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Why prevent people from making copies of their DVDs onto VHS tapes? What if they wanted the copy to take it to a relatives house to watch it, but the relative didnt have a DVD?
In that case, you're supposed to buy your relatives a DVD player for Christmas; royalties on DVD patents go straight back to Hollywood, who makes more money when you "Collect all six!" (one for each DVD region).
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
You forgot that most components of your average game console are patented, that the boot sector is copyrighted and must be bit-for-bit identical with a copy in the console's BIOS for the disc to boot, and that the boot sector displays trademarks on screen.
You forgot the $10 per unit royalties for console games.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Macrovision plays with a VCR's automatic gain control by placing fluctuating signals in the normally invisible vertical blank portion of the video signal, causing the reproduced signal to fade in and out. It also plays with some televisions; this can be fixed with a video stabilizer that costs in the neighborhood of $30. But if you use a stabilizer to remove the Macrovision signal and tape a DVD, you are in violation of 17 USC 1201.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Baud is "discrete signals per second." BPS is "bits of information per second." DDR modulation sends two signals on each clock pulse, one on the rising edge and one on the falling edge. Because these are two discrete signals and not multiple bits squeezed into one phase/amplitude signal (as with phone modems), the "baud" rate is the same as the "words per second" rate; however, the parallel bus increases the "bits per second" rate to 64 or 128 times the baud rate and 128 or 256 times the clock frequency.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
The only true benchmark is your own feeling. Does this Athlon feel faster than my Celeron at home ? Yes it does. I don't know why, but it just does.
It feels faster because it's either swapping less (more RAM) or swapping faster (better hard drive). Windows 98/ME on a Novell network with antivirus software is a RAM hog; if you have less than 128 MB of RAM, you are going to lose 90% of your performance to the swap file. I learned this the hard way; in June of 1999, I thought a 333 MHz PII laptop with 64 MB of RAM would be enough, until I tried to run Windows; the low-power-consumption i.e. low-rotational-speed i.e. slow-swapping hard drive ate all my performance, making the machine "feel" slower than my old 1 MHz Apple II.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
There's also something nice about not having 30 cubic feet of space in a dorm room taken up by VHS tapes, cds, encyclopedia volumes, DVDs and other so called meatspace products. I doubt that you can accurately say that everyone or at least a critical number of people value a jewel case that's 5x the thickness of a cd taking up so much room. Trying to reduce the bulk of meatspace products?
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?