Now, to take a different view, hardisks aren't licsensed in the way that DVDs are. That means that hardisk makers aren't bound to follow the coding standard. That means that you'll likely end up with 2 standards: encoded (E) and (N) not encoded.
Parts of the Serial ATA standard are encumbered by patents on technologies that are necessary and irreplaceable to comply with the standard. One of the terms of the patent license will most likely be along the lines: "Licensee shall manufacture only E drives."
Another Scorched Earth clone... on Nintendo NES
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Solar Wars is a clone of Scorched Earth for your NES. The developers (Chris Covell and friends) have released the full source and binaries for download RIGHT HERE! (You'll need an NES emulator; get it for Linux86, DOS, or Windows.)
QWERTY was designed to split common digraphs between hands. This reduces jams (which occurred when adjacent letters were pressed) and has the side effect of making typing faster. Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
MP3 streams are already compressed. The MP3 system is your basic spectral transform-quantize-encode system. To compress the streams, re-encode them at a lower bitrate with an MP3 encoder designed for this (e.g. Fraunhofer).
Icecast requires that your MP3 files already be at the bitrate at which you will stream them (normally 32 kbps). Shoutcast, OTOH, uses a licensed MP3 codec to downsample from 192 kbps to 32 kbps, which Icecast can't do because of some stupid patent. Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Godwin's law applies only when the Nazi reference is metaphorical (for example, he's a Nazi or the simile he's like a Nazi), not when National Socialist parties are the topic under discussion. Applying Godwin's Law whenever Nazis are brought up as a legitimate topic (and not as a strawman, etc.) is not in accordance with the spirit of the rule. Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Distribution of binaries is of the utmost importance for platforms like Windows, where a compiler does not come with the operating system, and the compilers that are readily available are often non-free.
So what if MinGW or Cygwin doesn't come with the system? They're both easy to download and install, and they're both GPL'd free software (based on GCC and other GNU stuff). Or, you can use the (non-free but free beer) LCC compiler. However, Mac OS 9 systems (that can't run OS X because don't have a G3 mobo and 128 MB of RAM), on the other hand, don't even have a command line; good luck getting GNU anything to work.
"Precompiled binaries"? As if there were some other kind of binary?
Easy. Basic bytecode. Early versions of Basic stored programs in RAM as bytecode to save space. For example, print was stored as a ? character on GW-Basic. Some systems even allowed the user to enter the bytecodes directly as a keystroke saver, leading to the common shortcut ? for print.
Another kind of nonprecompiled binary is heavily obfuscated C code used in portable yet proprietary "Unix programs." There are several automatic obfuscators for C code, to remove comments, shorten variable names, and turn keywords into line noise.
Yet another is the system used by many Alpha compilers. The Alpha architecture is notoriously hard to generate efficient jumps for; many Alpha compilers store RTL (an intermediate format used internally by compilers) in object files so that they can do additional code optimizations at link time, when jumps are easier to handle.
Rubbish. Believe it or not the web extends beyond the borders of your country.
Wherever there's Disney, there's perpetual copyright. The Walt Disney Company buys puppet politicians in every major country and, every 20 years, lobbies for another 20-year extension to all subsisting copyrights.
But that's beside the point. The point I was trying to make was that web sites have to buy their content somewhere. Not only that, but they also have to pay Unisys for a license to display animated banner ads, as the patent-free alternative only works in recent Mozilla builds.
why should an ad be there, I already pay to use the internet.
You pay to use an Internet connection; the advertising pays for the content on that connection. All content created on or after January 1923 (pretty much everything on the Web except Project Gutenberg) is under perpetual copyright; somebody needs to pay royalties for the content.
I've been wondering recently why ads in print media continue to be used, while "banner" ads in online media are universally decried as ineffective and ignored by consumers.
Look at your average full-screen pop-up. Now look at your average full-page print ad. Notice the similarity?
Banners are "decried as ineffective" because click-through rate (the most commonly used statistic) is not a reliable indicator of the effectiveness of an ad. I've recently seen banners that make no attempt to build a brand; they don't even give the name of the product or company. The real power in advertising comes in building the brand in viewers' subconscious minds.
Normally, in browser whack-a-mole, I cheat by pressing Ctrl+W (Command+W on Macs) repeatedly before a window has time to execute its EcmaScript popup code. If you really want a platform-independent whack-a-mole game, you should try Hampsterdeath, which works on Linux, DOS, and Windows. Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
of all, books can be read aloud per the First Amendment
You mean, books in the public domain can be read aloud. Public performance of a copyrighted work is an exclusive right of a copyright holder.
and second, Alice in Wonderland is in the public domain
Just like every other work created on or before December 31, 1922. Works created on or after January 1, 1923, on the other hand, are under perpetual copyright in the United States.
Because the person who created Mickey Mouse, the one who should benefit from MM's fame and fortune, is long gone, so who are the laws protecting?
Politicians. Every time Congress retroactively extends copyright, every senator and representative who voted for it gets a huge chunk of change from The Walt Disney Company.
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Now, to take a different view, hardisks aren't licsensed in the way that DVDs are. That means that hardisk makers aren't bound to follow the coding standard. That means that you'll likely end up with 2 standards: encoded (E) and (N) not encoded.
Parts of the Serial ATA standard are encumbered by patents on technologies that are necessary and irreplaceable to comply with the standard. One of the terms of the patent license will most likely be along the lines: "Licensee shall manufacture only E drives."
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Solar Wars is a clone of Scorched Earth for your NES. The developers (Chris Covell and friends) have released the full source and binaries for download RIGHT HERE! (You'll need an NES emulator; get it for Linux86, DOS, or Windows.)
Of course, you could also scorch your brain at Goats.com (not Goatse.cx!)
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
QWERTY was designed to split common digraphs between hands. This reduces jams (which occurred when adjacent letters were pressed) and has the side effect of making typing faster.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
MP3 streams are already compressed. The MP3 system is your basic spectral transform-quantize-encode system. To compress the streams, re-encode them at a lower bitrate with an MP3 encoder designed for this (e.g. Fraunhofer).
(LAME is still illegal in the United States).Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Icecast requires that your MP3 files already be at the bitrate at which you will stream them (normally 32 kbps). Shoutcast, OTOH, uses a licensed MP3 codec to downsample from 192 kbps to 32 kbps, which Icecast can't do because of some stupid patent.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
You have your simpli-yin' and your simpli-yang.
-- Pinocchio Poppins
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
I think the aformentioned should be seen the same in the eyes of tax law; you get the tax rate of the state that the server resides in.
So what if the server isn't in a state? What if the server is colocated in HavenCo, Sealand?
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Step-by-step instructions are available on OpenNIC's web site on getting your nameserver to support both ICANN and OpenNIC TLDs.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Godwin's law applies only when the Nazi reference is metaphorical (for example, he's a Nazi or the simile he's like a Nazi), not when National Socialist parties are the topic under discussion. Applying Godwin's Law whenever Nazis are brought up as a legitimate topic (and not as a strawman, etc.) is not in accordance with the spirit of the rule.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
so you want to use chrons, do you?
Some people are just as crazy, except they call their chrons tims.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
The Quake Done Quick people have beaten Quake in under fifteen minutes.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Some Sega Genesis controllers are compatible with Atari 2600 consoles, presumably for compatibility with the Sega Master System.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
but wasn't Glide open source?
Yes, it was once released as free software. There was even a project to port it to DJGPP (a DOS version of GCC).
wasn't it quite easy to use (better than what was available when it was launched)?
Glide beat even DirectEcch 5 in just about every way.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
It is possible to create content you know, you don't have to get it all from somewhere else
You miss the other points I was making:
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Distribution of binaries is of the utmost importance for platforms like Windows, where a compiler does not come with the operating system, and the compilers that are readily available are often non-free.
So what if MinGW or Cygwin doesn't come with the system? They're both easy to download and install, and they're both GPL'd free software (based on GCC and other GNU stuff). Or, you can use the (non-free but free beer) LCC compiler. However, Mac OS 9 systems (that can't run OS X because don't have a G3 mobo and 128 MB of RAM), on the other hand, don't even have a command line; good luck getting GNU anything to work.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
"Precompiled binaries"? As if there were some other kind of binary?
Easy. Basic bytecode. Early versions of Basic stored programs in RAM as bytecode to save space. For example, print was stored as a ? character on GW-Basic. Some systems even allowed the user to enter the bytecodes directly as a keystroke saver, leading to the common shortcut ? for print.
Another kind of nonprecompiled binary is heavily obfuscated C code used in portable yet proprietary "Unix programs." There are several automatic obfuscators for C code, to remove comments, shorten variable names, and turn keywords into line noise.
Yet another is the system used by many Alpha compilers. The Alpha architecture is notoriously hard to generate efficient jumps for; many Alpha compilers store RTL (an intermediate format used internally by compilers) in object files so that they can do additional code optimizations at link time, when jumps are easier to handle.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Rubbish. Believe it or not the web extends beyond the borders of your country.
Wherever there's Disney, there's perpetual copyright. The Walt Disney Company buys puppet politicians in every major country and, every 20 years, lobbies for another 20-year extension to all subsisting copyrights.
But that's beside the point. The point I was trying to make was that web sites have to buy their content somewhere. Not only that, but they also have to pay Unisys for a license to display animated banner ads, as the patent-free alternative only works in recent Mozilla builds.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
why should an ad be there, I already pay to use the internet.
You pay to use an Internet connection; the advertising pays for the content on that connection. All content created on or after January 1923 (pretty much everything on the Web except Project Gutenberg) is under perpetual copyright; somebody needs to pay royalties for the content.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
I've been wondering recently why ads in print media continue to be used, while "banner" ads in online media are universally decried as ineffective and ignored by consumers.
Look at your average full-screen pop-up. Now look at your average full-page print ad. Notice the similarity?
Banners are "decried as ineffective" because click-through rate (the most commonly used statistic) is not a reliable indicator of the effectiveness of an ad. I've recently seen banners that make no attempt to build a brand; they don't even give the name of the product or company. The real power in advertising comes in building the brand in viewers' subconscious minds.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
So you want to replace all pop-ups with pop-ups?
No, infiniti99 wants to replace all of a domain's pop-ups with one pop-up to rule them all "on a per-domain basis."
Look before you leap, and read before you reply.Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Normally, in browser whack-a-mole, I cheat by pressing Ctrl+W (Command+W on Macs) repeatedly before a window has time to execute its EcmaScript popup code. If you really want a platform-independent whack-a-mole game, you should try Hampsterdeath, which works on Linux, DOS, and Windows.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
I thought they already did, what was all that news about a while back?
No, the DOD didn't turn off the decryption on the military GPS band. All that was turned off was the noise added to the civilian band.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
of all, books can be read aloud per the First Amendment
You mean, books in the public domain can be read aloud. Public performance of a copyrighted work is an exclusive right of a copyright holder.
and second, Alice in Wonderland is in the public domain
Just like every other work created on or before December 31, 1922. Works created on or after January 1, 1923, on the other hand, are under perpetual copyright in the United States.
Fuck you Walt Disney.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
copywrite does not last forever
Bullshit. Copyright is perpetual now.
(This doesn't apply to Alice; the book was written before 1923.)Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Because the person who created Mickey Mouse, the one who should benefit from MM's fame and fortune, is long gone, so who are the laws protecting?
Politicians. Every time Congress retroactively extends copyright, every senator and representative who voted for it gets a huge chunk of change from The Walt Disney Company.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.