PAL has a resolution of 625x360 pixels. DVD is encoded with 720x480 pixels.
Actually, PAL video has a pixelcount of 360x576 (the horizontal count is always quoted first, and a lot of scanlines are part of the vertical blank period, which is where the player inserts that Macrovision bullshit). And IIRC the digital standard oversamples by 2 anyway, giving a full 720x576 pixels.
There should be plenty of opportunity to come up with new small utilities and improvements to the window managers, to the build tools, to the editors, and to things we haven't even thought of yet.
If Emacs is to become an IDE, someone should write an interactive graphical editor for.emacs preference files. Newbies often have very serious problems setting them up. Need an example to steal? Look at Mac OS 10 to see how easy Eunuchs system administration can get.
IDEs, in my opinion, are glorified text editors (expensive ones too...) which do the grunt work for you. I love my IDE, and until *nix has something like it, I seriously doubt I'll be doing heavy development for the platforms.
RHIDE is a free IDE by Robert Hoehne and Salvador Eduardo Tropea. It runs on DOS and Linux and looks just like Borland's old DOS IDE. It's a very good editor with project management and a frontend to GCC.
Is there anything else such as applications, server services (ftp, http, nfs, etc) or non-games that I can see the performance increase in?
When I said "frame rate," I didn't necessarily mean first-person shooters. I could have meant radiosity raytracing frame rate in a m****n p*****e studio's rendering farm (T*y S***y 2 took nearly forever to render). And there's always SETI@home, distributed.net, and that new one that pays you for your MIPS.
If you do one search and it's not there, disconnect, and reconnect.
I always called this "server hopping." It's how I increased my collection of Tetris remixes and Macarena covers (no really, hear me out). Just don't write a 5kr1p7 to do this:
* -- NO BOTS ARE ALLOWED ON THIS SERVICE. IF YOU RUN ONE HERE, --
* -- IT WILL BE BLOCKED AND YOUR IP WILL BE PERMANENTLY BANNED. --
There used to be a Napigator plug-in (or something similar) that searched all servers for a particular string ("tetris" or "macarena") and returned the result, but Napster Inc. requested that the "search bot" feature be removed.
Isn't Disney the company that bought the Sonny Bono Act (20-year retroactive extension of copyright term across the board) from Congress during the Monica Lewinsky scandal? Jiminy Cricket (pardon my French) I think 95 years of exclusive rights is too long if copyright is designed "to promote the progress of science and useful arts."
The copyrights that used to be life + 50 are now life + 70. Remember that the Sonny Bono Act was passed during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, by voice vote no less; our representatives and senators don't have to answer to their constituents.
Elite, by Ian Bell and David Braben, for the BBC, Nintendo (NES)
Elite has never been released in the States for one reason: It is not compatible with American NES consoles. The graphics engine in NES Elite is so complex that it requires more CPU time per scanline than an American NES can give out (European TVs have a slower scanrate for higher spatial resolution). Plus, there is no emulator that can run the Elite ROM (which is freebeerware on the legal ROMs sites).
This was the main reason Sega Saturn was never popular. It was easy to access half the power of the Saturn (the part that was just like Genesis 32x), but it was extremely difficult to master the odd multiprocessor scheme it used (required to achieve PlayStation level games). It seems Sony is making the same mistake Sega made; Sega wins round 4 of the console wars:
I used to use NESticle from Bloodlust Software, but then I found LoopyNES. LoopyNES has a much more accurate simulation of the timing in the NES's blitter, which lots of games depend on. It also supports more game boards (what the ROMs fit on; commonly called mappers). (E.g. LoopyNES runs Klax; NESticle doesn't.) Get LoopyNES at Zophar.net.
The 8-bit graphics of the NES seem laughable to the N64 and the Dreamcast, and so the mass market would dismiss these products right away. Clearly, there is no money to be made in keeping up these copyrights.
Nintendo keeps up its copyrights because (for example) it doesn't want people selling exact (emulated) clones of Super Mario Bros. to compete with its port of SMB (not the NFS wannabe from Microsoft) to Game Boy Color.
Somebody agrees with this post. Copyright term has gotten way out of hand. It no longer satisfies the "limited times" requirement of the Constitution if a work is under copyright during its entire useful life.
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The real interesting piracy hacks will start appearing when DVD-Rs hit the scene in a big way
Not necessarily. DVD-R media costs more than the average stamped DVD; bootlegging is unprofitable.
PAL has a resolution of 625x360 pixels. DVD is encoded with 720x480 pixels.
Actually, PAL video has a pixelcount of 360x576 (the horizontal count is always quoted first, and a lot of scanlines are part of the vertical blank period, which is where the player inserts that Macrovision bullshit). And IIRC the digital standard oversamples by 2 anyway, giving a full 720x576 pixels.
But eBay allows this because this "client-side gathering" places advertisements on retinas.
we can set up emacs to call make when we press F9
There should be plenty of opportunity to come up with new small utilities and improvements to the window managers, to the build tools, to the editors, and to things we haven't even thought of yet.
If Emacs is to become an IDE, someone should write an interactive graphical editor for .emacs preference files. Newbies often have very serious problems setting them up. Need an example to steal? Look at Mac OS 10 to see how easy Eunuchs system administration can get.
IDEs, in my opinion, are glorified text editors (expensive ones too...) which do the grunt work for you. I love my IDE, and until *nix has something like it, I seriously doubt I'll be doing heavy development for the platforms.
RHIDE is a free IDE by Robert Hoehne and Salvador Eduardo Tropea. It runs on DOS and Linux and looks just like Borland's old DOS IDE. It's a very good editor with project management and a frontend to GCC.
But are simple makefiles really that hard?
Is there anything else such as applications, server services (ftp, http, nfs, etc) or non-games that I can see the performance increase in?
When I said "frame rate," I didn't necessarily mean first-person shooters. I could have meant radiosity raytracing frame rate in a m****n p*****e studio's rendering farm (T*y S***y 2 took nearly forever to render). And there's always SETI@home, distributed.net, and that new one that pays you for your MIPS.
Serve your pages through a script that checks the "referer" field. You can reject:
That's because Go.com has adult content ("sex" etc.) filtered by default.
If you do one search and it's not there, disconnect, and reconnect.
I always called this "server hopping." It's how I increased my collection of Tetris remixes and Macarena covers (no really, hear me out). Just don't write a 5kr1p7 to do this:
There used to be a Napigator plug-in (or something similar) that searched all servers for a particular string ("tetris" or "macarena") and returned the result, but Napster Inc. requested that the "search bot" feature be removed.
Server hopping is OK; botting is not.
If an artist decides that they want to release their music in the MP3 format, they would most likely choose to put it on their own website
And how many will a typical 10 MB website hold? Two?
Oh, you mean the legal part of MP3.com.
Why should I care about and/or buy faster RAM?
Two words: Frame rate.
Isn't Disney the company that bought the Sonny Bono Act (20-year retroactive extension of copyright term across the board) from Congress during the Monica Lewinsky scandal? Jiminy Cricket (pardon my French) I think 95 years of exclusive rights is too long if copyright is designed "to promote the progress of science and useful arts."
We probably already know what Insightful is, but what is Inciteful? Will it Incite an argument? Is it the same as (f)Lamebait?
B2B == We sell to businesses. Why can't they just say it?
They did not and cannot remove it from the actual implementations of FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc.
Just one more reason to use FreeBSD instead of NetBSD (click to read the licenses) because FreeBSD got rid of the ad clause in its license.
Any system running Solaris will probably be slower than a system running GNU/Linux. Have you tried Linux for Sparc?
Are you using your Alpha box to make money? (Click here then scroll down to the tree.) Or are you just running the distributed.net client?
The copyrights that used to be life + 50 are now life + 70. Remember that the Sonny Bono Act was passed during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, by voice vote no less; our representatives and senators don't have to answer to their constituents.
Elite, by Ian Bell and David Braben, for the BBC, Nintendo (NES)
Elite has never been released in the States for one reason: It is not compatible with American NES consoles. The graphics engine in NES Elite is so complex that it requires more CPU time per scanline than an American NES can give out (European TVs have a slower scanrate for higher spatial resolution). Plus, there is no emulator that can run the Elite ROM (which is freebeerware on the legal ROMs sites).
ex post facto which means after the fact, and is unconstitutional.
Ex post facto applies only to criminal cases. Copyright is normally a civil offense.
Which means that they'll say that making copyrights they applied for and receive for 95 years expire after 20 years is unfair
Then make it retroactive to whatever the copyright term was when the work was fixed (a long time ago, it was 28+28).
$100 ... The renewal fee is low enough that a regular person can afford it
What about poor open source hackers like myself? Can we afford $100 to maintain a copyleft?
This was the main reason Sega Saturn was never popular. It was easy to access half the power of the Saturn (the part that was just like Genesis 32x), but it was extremely difficult to master the odd multiprocessor scheme it used (required to achieve PlayStation level games). It seems Sony is making the same mistake Sega made; Sega wins round 4 of the console wars:
I used to use NESticle from Bloodlust Software, but then I found LoopyNES. LoopyNES has a much more accurate simulation of the timing in the NES's blitter, which lots of games depend on. It also supports more game boards (what the ROMs fit on; commonly called mappers). (E.g. LoopyNES runs Klax; NESticle doesn't.) Get LoopyNES at Zophar.net.
The 8-bit graphics of the NES seem laughable to the N64 and the Dreamcast, and so the mass market would dismiss these products right away. Clearly, there is no money to be made in keeping up these copyrights.
Nintendo keeps up its copyrights because (for example) it doesn't want people selling exact (emulated) clones of Super Mario Bros. to compete with its port of SMB (not the NFS wannabe from Microsoft) to Game Boy Color.
Somebody agrees with this post. Copyright term has gotten way out of hand. It no longer satisfies the "limited times" requirement of the Constitution if a work is under copyright during its entire useful life.