A kanji character normally needs 16x16 pixels to be represented on a screen.
Kanji fonts are big (256 bits per character * 4,000 or more characters = 128 KB, or the size of the NES Contra ROM).
Each kanji (256 pixels) can be represented by two or three 8x8 pixel kana (128 or 192 pixels). And there are fewer kana (two types and about 52 of each), so switching would let the displays run in character cell mode instead of pixel mode, making the display driver chips simpler and cheaper.
What makes you so sure it'll be able to find the high-density data past the couple-millimetre long gap that comes after the normal low-density stuff? Maybe reading the normal data on a GDROM would set the drive into a normal CD reading mode, and keep it from seeing the high-density area even if it could skip over the gap between sections.
Fat chance of a silly gap stopping the drive. If a CD-ROM drive can read past the couple-mm gap on an Enhanced CD to get to the good stuff, so can a GD-ROM drive.
That's what caused the icon to become pixels. The new, larger image has the same filename as before; your browser used the old image from its cache and scaled it according to the new HTML. When you pressed Reload, the new icon came in and everything was peachy.
Unfortunately, when SGI finally runs out of money and Microsoft buys them up, their patent portfolio will be in Bill Gates' hands.
Microsoft Corp. has a history of licensing certain patents (e.g. the one on FAT32) to all comers under these terms (IANAL and TINAQ): You license us all your patents; we'll license you these. (The USB group follows the same policy.) I expect that The Windows Company (a spinoff from MS) will follow the same procedure.
Let's see... As soon as it's released and GCC supports its CPU, NetBSD and Linux will be ported to it. Then somebody will port the XFree server for it... instant cheap X box! (No wait, that's what it's called.)
what's to stop people from digging out their old microphones and recording the music the old-fashioned way?
Digital subliminal watermarking. Put in something the user can't hear but that MP3 encoding preserves and that watermark decoders can pick out. If all copies are watermarked, any recording that appears on Gnutella or Napster is suspect.
droplet (drag & drop a file onto the icon to run) front-ends to stuff like ps2pdf, etc. The droplet is a very familiar interface to Mac users, and it oughtn't to be that hard to do.
Let's see how Bill treats droplets: If you compile an ANSI C program to run in DOS or Windows, the shell treats a droplet. When you drag a document onto an app (or a shortcut thereto), the shell launches the app with the document's path as the first arg.
Now how Steve does it: When a droplet is started, it is sent an "Apple event" of type aevt.odoc (open document) that gives the path to the document dropped onto it. If a C library were to translate an `odoc' event into argv[] and additional `odoc' events into fork()/exec(), that would fit in just fine.
This is really blue-sky stuff, but how about a graphical interface for stuff UNIX people now do in their favourite shell. eg. allowing pipelining from one droplet to the next by dragging arrows and visually building a new droplet to represent this pipelined command.
I've seen this in products such as Prograph and Widget Workshop.
Files in a Mac OS filesystem have two hidden four-letter extensions: "creator" and "type". "Creator" tells which app created a document. "Type" hints at the format of the document. For example, text files created in SimpleText (Mac OS equivalent of Notepad) are type TEXT creator ttxt. C source files are type TEXT creator (whatever the code for CodeWarrior is). And if there are any TEXT/CodeWarrior files when they check the MacBinary information in your tarball, they can hunt you down.
Yes, I know you can hack the extensions with ResEdit.
If you can't read French, copy the link and paste it in a field at GO.com Translator to get surprisingly good results. It's a new version of the Systran software that powers AltaVista's Babel Fish.
Ever notice that French uses "left shift" (<<) and "right shift" (>>) operators to enclose quotes?
Your strategy would be effective if you had complaints under 20 separate titles of law. Sony dropped the copyright suit because legal thought a new suit accusing patent infringement would be more effective.
Game Boy has a 1 MHz Z80-compatible CPU, four audio channels, and a display with 160x144 pixels that can be set to any of four brightness levels (Game Boy; Game Boy Pocket) or any of 32,768 colors (Game Boy Color).
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Aches = AIX; Pains = Panes = Windows NT
GNU/Linux gets rid of all your AIX and Panes.What makes you so sure it'll be able to find the high-density data past the couple-millimetre long gap that comes after the normal low-density stuff? Maybe reading the normal data on a GDROM would set the drive into a normal CD reading mode, and keep it from seeing the high-density area even if it could skip over the gap between sections.
Fat chance of a silly gap stopping the drive. If a CD-ROM drive can read past the couple-mm gap on an Enhanced CD to get to the good stuff, so can a GD-ROM drive.
And you can't get QT working...?
Not under Windows. I can't run anything Qt-based. But GTK... that's another matter; I use GIMP as my everyday image editor.
Oh... that QT. QuickTime.That's what caused the icon to become pixels. The new, larger image has the same filename as before; your browser used the old image from its cache and scaled it according to the new HTML. When you pressed Reload, the new icon came in and everything was peachy.
As other posters have commented, a pop-up piemenu of up to eight choices can be navigated with a quick flick of the wrist.
Unfortunately, when SGI finally runs out of money and Microsoft buys them up, their patent portfolio will be in Bill Gates' hands.
Microsoft Corp. has a history of licensing certain patents (e.g. the one on FAT32) to all comers under these terms (IANAL and TINAQ): You license us all your patents; we'll license you these. (The USB group follows the same policy.) I expect that The Windows Company (a spinoff from MS) will follow the same procedure.
Let's see... As soon as it's released and GCC supports its CPU, NetBSD and Linux will be ported to it. Then somebody will port the XFree server for it... instant cheap X box! (No wait, that's what it's called.)
what's to stop people from digging out their old microphones and recording the music the old-fashioned way?
Digital subliminal watermarking. Put in something the user can't hear but that MP3 encoding preserves and that watermark decoders can pick out. If all copies are watermarked, any recording that appears on Gnutella or Napster is suspect.
Let's see how Bill treats droplets: If you compile an ANSI C program to run in DOS or Windows, the shell treats a droplet. When you drag a document onto an app (or a shortcut thereto), the shell launches the app with the document's path as the first arg.
Now how Steve does it: When a droplet is started, it is sent an "Apple event" of type aevt.odoc (open document) that gives the path to the document dropped onto it. If a C library were to translate an `odoc' event into argv[] and additional `odoc' events into fork()/exec(), that would fit in just fine.
I've seen this in products such as Prograph and Widget Workshop.
Files in a Mac OS filesystem have two hidden four-letter extensions: "creator" and "type". "Creator" tells which app created a document. "Type" hints at the format of the document. For example, text files created in SimpleText (Mac OS equivalent of Notepad) are type TEXT creator ttxt. C source files are type TEXT creator (whatever the code for CodeWarrior is). And if there are any TEXT/CodeWarrior files when they check the MacBinary information in your tarball, they can hunt you down.
Yes, I know you can hack the extensions with ResEdit.
But the operating system won't hang. Mac OS 10 runs on Darwin, a Mach kernel with a BSD interface.
But still... what does this have to do with a mouse whose button is on the underside?
Give us an example of an unrippable media.
An SDMI encrypted bitstream going to digital SDMI speakers that blow a fuse if opened.
If you can't read French, copy the link and paste it in a field at GO.com Translator to get surprisingly good results. It's a new version of the Systran software that powers AltaVista's Babel Fish.
Ever notice that French uses "left shift" (<<) and "right shift" (>>) operators to enclose quotes?Remember what happened with that guy that claimed Linux as a trademark.
We worship him. His name is Linus B. Torvalds.
use Mozilla. If you think it's slow, switch to a faster skin.
Your strategy would be effective if you had complaints under 20 separate titles of law. Sony dropped the copyright suit because legal thought a new suit accusing patent infringement would be more effective.
Sony dropped the copyright suit against Connectix (77% of which had been thrown out already) in favor of a patent suit.
My favorite search engine didn't turn up any results for "clitfoarios". Which engine do you use, Shoeboy?
Here's a list of all the patents Thomson and Fraunhofer are claiming on MP3.
the fact that a Borg character is /.'s icon for Microsoft stories.
The retinal scanners would send a message to the vision chip, and the vision chip would detect it and radio its serial number to the scanner.
On K5, you choose the stories.
Game Boy has a 1 MHz Z80-compatible CPU, four audio channels, and a display with 160x144 pixels that can be set to any of four brightness levels (Game Boy; Game Boy Pocket) or any of 32,768 colors (Game Boy Color).
...saying the APSL has a "disrespect for privacy"?