The Mpeg Layer 3 format is freely usable by anyone.
No it can't; there's a USD 2.50 royalty per unit on encoders with a USD 15,000 per year minimum. For example, THOMSON multimedia already got BladeEnc to remove encoder binaries. And I heard they're going after LAME next.
MPEG audio layer 3 is patented (see the subject line) and all uses (except for free(beer) distribution of decoders) require a patent license, which has $15,000 minimum annual royalties. Commercial decoders (including without limitation anything that comes on a commercial GNU/Linux distro such as Red Hat) cost USD0.50 per unit. Encoder licenses cost USD5.00 a piece for the Fraunhofer encoder (patent and object code) or USD2.50 a piece for something like LAME (patent license only).
Being not a true UNIX® system lets the GNU system (the system that runs on the Linux® kernel) be both good and free; UNIX system vendors have to pay royalties.
You might want to join the eGroups mailing list `nesdev'. Email Memblers (his address is all over the nesdev home page) about it. And tell him Damian Yerrick sent you.
And some of the documentation is over on the nesemdev home page.
A lot of the "$400" computers require you to pay $800 for three years of AOL or some other online service. This is especially ridiculous considering that even M$N is only about $10 a month now and that there is free DSL.
Why we want to run something other than Mac OS
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Dual booting is a good thing:
Mac OS 9 has NO memory protection, not even the rudimentary everybody's-root memory protection in Windows 3.1 and 9x. A buggy app can bring down the system.
Mac OS 10 Workstation, a system that's pretty much OpenStep on BSD on Mach, isn't out yet (a public beta is coming out RSN though).
Why does everyone assume that people want to run something other than a Windows OS on PC hardware?
I do love using the transparent Gif and will continue using them. PNG is cool too.
PNG supports both GIF-style binary and alpha-blended transparency. If you care about browser support, IE 4.02 and later support binary transparency in indexed images, and Mozilla supports full alpha transparency (falling back to dithered alpha on platforms such as X without alpha channels).
But [you] can count the number of sites that actually use [PNG images] on one hand, can't you?
For a set to be counted on one standard human hand, there must be thirty-one or fewer elements (all five fingers up = binary 11111 = 31). Here's a short list; can you think of more?
In fact, with minimal additions, IRC could be the basis for a global, distributed IM system.
That would be a really good idea. Perhaps somebody could hack something into Everybuddy to send private messages over IRC. Of course, there would have to be a special channel with a bot that manages buddy notification.
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The Mpeg Layer 3 format is freely usable by anyone.
No it can't; there's a USD 2.50 royalty per unit on encoders with a USD 15,000 per year minimum. For example, THOMSON multimedia already got BladeEnc to remove encoder binaries. And I heard they're going after LAME next.
On the other hand, Ogg Vorbis is patent-free.We get a "Damn! I just finished downloading an older version!" rant every single time a GNU/Linux distribution update is announced on /.
MPEG audio layer 3 is patented (see the subject line) and all uses (except for free(beer) distribution of decoders) require a patent license, which has $15,000 minimum annual royalties. Commercial decoders (including without limitation anything that comes on a commercial GNU/Linux distro such as Red Hat) cost USD0.50 per unit. Encoder licenses cost USD5.00 a piece for the Fraunhofer encoder (patent and object code) or USD2.50 a piece for something like LAME (patent license only).
Trademarks are adjectives anyway, so why not give it the subject "SOLID library" or something.
linux isn't even a true Unix
Being not a true UNIX® system lets the GNU system (the system that runs on the Linux® kernel) be both good and free; UNIX system vendors have to pay royalties.
BTW, www.opengroup.org runs Solaris, a UNIX system.Many versions of libc already provide "get string by string-id" and call it catgets().
You could make Gnutella support email attachments as a transfer protocol, so that paranoid people could have their files sent to a hotmail account.
MSN Hotmai1 supports attachments on1y up to 1,000 KB in size; any good sized *.mp* file is out.
You might want to join the eGroups mailing list `nesdev'. Email Memblers (his address is all over the nesdev home page) about it. And tell him Damian Yerrick sent you.
And some of the documentation is over on the nesemdev home page.
The choice tends to be between Republicrat Crook Foo and Republicrat Crook Bar. If crooks are the only candidates, how do we vote the crooks out?
And the OEM copy won't install on any hard drive but the one it was first installed on.
I just caught myself pronouncing Linus as "Lee-nus" like Linus Torvalds. It's not exactly wrong; the official site doesn't give pronunciations.
I'll stick with PC's where I can get an entire new 500 Mhz for less than a 300 Mhz iMac.
A 300 MHz iMac's G3 is about as fast as a 500 to 600 MHz Celery.
a PC of that 'class' would cost like, $400
A lot of the "$400" computers require you to pay $800 for three years of AOL or some other online service. This is especially ridiculous considering that even M$N is only about $10 a month now and that there is free DSL.
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Was it on1ine photo 1ab?
Right click the image then click a menu and click the "dotted line" at the top of a menu you want to "stick" on screen.
I don't think JPEG or PNG supports CMYK. I don't think you need CMYK for web graphics or game graphics.
Musical background? You use Micro$oft IE, right?
I do love using the transparent Gif and will continue using them. PNG is cool too.
PNG supports both GIF-style binary and alpha-blended transparency. If you care about browser support, IE 4.02 and later support binary transparency in indexed images, and Mozilla supports full alpha transparency (falling back to dithered alpha on platforms such as X without alpha channels).
But [you] can count the number of sites that actually use [PNG images] on one hand, can't you?
For a set to be counted on one standard human hand, there must be thirty-one or fewer elements (all five fingers up = binary 11111 = 31). Here's a short list; can you think of more?
- Pinocchio's Brother and redpinocchio (my homepage)
- Every other site I've designed (can't name them; confidentiality)
- PNG headquarters
- League for Programming Freedom
- Burn All GIFs Day
- Campaign for Real Ale
- AuctionBeagle
- University of Puerto Ricto Institute of Neurobiology
- Eressea Fantasy PBEM
- several clip art sites (here or here)
To find more, do a web search for burn all gifs.You could start at Google.
In fact, with minimal additions, IRC could be the basis for a global, distributed IM system.
That would be a really good idea. Perhaps somebody could hack something into Everybuddy to send private messages over IRC. Of course, there would have to be a special channel with a bot that manages buddy notification.
If we had such a client, we could run our own IM network
That's easy. Just take some code from a common IRC client and add it to EveryBuddy. Any takers?
The start of senryu [5-7-5 poems, of which haiku is a subclass]
Was in Japanese, which is
As bad as Spanish.
Ever watched subtitled anime and noticed how darn _fast_ those people talk?