Careful saying ATI doesnt support alternate OS's, cause APPLE uses them and OS X is certainly an alternate OS!
Grandparent said "alternate" but meant "free software". Does ATI support free software operating systems and their windowing systems?
Besides, Mac OS X isn't an "alternate" operating system because it's the primary operating system for PowerPC architecture desktop and laptop computers. It ships with 99 plus percent of Macintosh computers.
The GNU General Public License disclaims liability. Even with the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, which bans tying a warranty to exclusive use of products identified by brand name, NVIDIA can still void a warranty if it can show a preponderance of evidence that the third-party driver ruined the video card.
6) Nivida's Programmers Don't Want This.
What they want has no legal bearing. NVIDIA's drivers are works made for hire and belong to NVIDIA not to the individual programmers.
I don't think you can give one good example of how society is hurt by paying for the work of our hands and our minds.
What about films that deteriorate into dust because restoration societies cannot locate the copyright owner or because the copyright owner refuses to let the film be restored? Read this PDF for details.
What the hell do these no TV no-goodnicks watch PORN on?
Personal computers can play erotic DVDs and erotic video streamed from the Internet. Both literary and visual erotica are available in dead-tree format, often from a public library.
Once they get environment maps optimized to where they're doing reflection off curved surfaces, I guarantee that you'll be seeing a lot more of that Utah teapot.
I won't need to know how to make soap, or sew, unless civilization collapses. And since there's as much chance of that
With World War IV[1] starting in the Middle East, how much probability is there of at least some nation collapsing? I'd say close to 1. "Unless" is "until," my friend.
as there is in god existing
Define god as whatever entity created the universe. Therefore, I've just defined god into existence for a given definition of god.
[1] According to some historians, WWIII was the so-called Cold War, which went hot several times: the police action in Korea, the conflict in Vietnam, and the missile crisis in Cuba.
anyone who knows what a megabit is probably isn't a casual user as I mentioned above.
Anybody who has read Nintendo Power magazine since the late-1990 release of Dr. Mario (when NP began to publish the ROM size of Game Paks) knows what a megabit is. "Eleven megabits per second" means "one copy of Donkey Kong Country in three seconds," as DKC is a 32 Mbit Game Pak.
2. West sends food
3. Food is intercepted by dictator's thugs.
The humanitarian organizations[1] have started to fly people in who prepare hot meals and serve them directly to needy people. This should make it a lot harder for a warlord to intercept the food, no?
what every happened to the ultrahigh resolution (200-250 dpi) displays which were being talked about a couple of years ago?
For one thing, the operating systems got in the way. Many poorly-written but popular Windows applications assume that your display is 96 dpi and will not react properly to changes in the system DPI setting (in Windows 2000, Control Panel > Display Properties > Settings > Advanced > General > Display > Font Size).
For another thing, it was discovered that LCD panels don't let enough light through per pixel because of the black border between pixels.
Finally, color LCD panels are already 300 DPI horizontally and 100 DPI vertically.
Add proper garbage collection... and you
also dispense with memory leaks once and for all.
Garbage collection simply replaces the memory leak of forgetting to free() memory with the memory leak of holding onto a reference too long.
There will of course always be room for a certain amount of
inherently low-level code written in C or one of its kin: code
that absolutely can't spare a nanosecond per run
Video games and many other real-time applications are like that. Would you rather play a video game with 100 times the MTBF, or would you rather play a video game with 3 times the FPS?
code that has
to run on the bare metal (kernels, bootloaders,...)
There are several times more embedded systems in use on this planet than PCs.
The use of C(++) for document-oriented and database-oriented applications on machines at least as powerful as a PC has already begun to decrease as Java technology and its clones catch on, but C still won't be as marginalized as some claim.
The proof of the undecidability of the halting problem relies on the fact that a Turing machine has unbounded memory. Given bounded memory (as exists in all physical computers), you're no longer dealing with a Turing machine but rather a linear bounded automaton (LBA), and it's straightforward to prove that the LBA halting problem is decidable by an LBA.
In my perfect dream-world, you could still control a library's distribution, just not how it's used by people who have a legal copy.
I'm not a lawyer either, but I think the decisions in Sony v. Universal (the Betamax case) and Nintendo v. Galoob (the Game Genie case) validate adaptation in private home environments, at least as long as there is no 1201(a) violation involved.
I like your site, but I didn't see any transparent-background (shaped) pngs. Last time I checked, the major browsers rendered them with a gray background.
IE 5.x and 6.x draw 32-bit PNG images with a gray background, but they properly draw 8-bit PNG images that use binary transparency. In GIMP, convert your transparent images to indexed mode before saving them as PNG.
As I said, I don't see any major web sites using png's yet.
Several online serial comics have switched, including Hackles, home of the PNG Tips for Cartoonists. To see more GIF-free sites, visit Burn All GIFs. However, you are correct: Few to no web sites that advertise on network television have switched from still GIF to PNG.
the image covers up the first word(s) of some paragraphs. For example, I see this: t (.mb) programs into one ROM for
Which browser did you use, and at about what window width? Mozilla 1.4b handles wrapping around floated elements correctly, at least on my pages with screenshots.
They could just make their spam look more like mailing list messages.
Spammers already disguise their spew as newsletters.
Hotmail solves the problem of discussion lists by letting users whitelist specific addresses as mailing lists, and then (I'd assume) it tweaks the spam filter in response. For instance, it has probably already whitelisted the IP addresses of sourceforge.net, yahoogroups.com, and other popular discussion list service providers.
True, patent law makes no explicit distinction about independent invention, but I can see independent invention being used as evidence that the invention was obvious. The USPTO isn't supposed to grant patents on obvious inventions, but...
The DMCA is about copyright. Nothing in the DMCA has anything to do with contracts.
Without a contract, installing most modern proprietary software is prohibited by copyright law, 17 USC 1201(a) (which seems to have nullified 17 USC 117(a) in part), because the user does not "the authority of the copyright owner" to run the decryption.
making it impossible for the plaintiff to produce a signed contract as evidence in court.
Wouldn't the possession of the decrypted computer program on the defendant's hard drive be evidence that the defendant either clicked "I Agree" or violated the DMCA by going around the installer?
The part where they say "one machine of our manufacture" is legally unenforceable. Say, for example, you had a cover band and you wanted to pulicly play a song owned by XYZ Music Corp. They say "sure, that's $100; but you can only play it if your band uses XYZ Corp guitars, drums, etc." That's illegal (see the Sherman Antitrust Act) and unenforceable.
Many provisions of Title 17 (copyright law) say "Notwithstanding any provision of the antitrust laws". In addition, if federal statutes contradict one another, the courts give more weight to the one enacted later (as the most recent expression of representative democracy), and the DMCA's anticircumvention provisions came into force decades after any Sherman Antitrust Act or Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act.
Hanging a click-through agreement on the DMCA's anticircumvention provisions hasn't been at the center of a lawsuit, but until it has, it's safest to rely on the interpretation that favors the party with more assets because the party with more assets stands a grater chance of being able to make its case in a court of law.
Labels can and do negotiate deals where they pay less than statutory rate, especially when the band that did the recording is the same as the one that wrote the songs.
I understand that many recording artists can give a discount because they write their own songs, but how many artists like that are very popular with high-school and university aged Americans? (Clue: Britney Spears does not write her own material.)
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Careful saying ATI doesnt support alternate OS's, cause APPLE uses them and OS X is certainly an alternate OS!
Grandparent said "alternate" but meant "free software". Does ATI support free software operating systems and their windowing systems?
Besides, Mac OS X isn't an "alternate" operating system because it's the primary operating system for PowerPC architecture desktop and laptop computers. It ships with 99 plus percent of Macintosh computers.
5) Liability.
The GNU General Public License disclaims liability. Even with the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, which bans tying a warranty to exclusive use of products identified by brand name, NVIDIA can still void a warranty if it can show a preponderance of evidence that the third-party driver ruined the video card.
6) Nivida's Programmers Don't Want This.
What they want has no legal bearing. NVIDIA's drivers are works made for hire and belong to NVIDIA not to the individual programmers.
I don't think you can give one good example of how society is hurt by paying for the work of our hands and our minds.
What about films that deteriorate into dust because restoration societies cannot locate the copyright owner or because the copyright owner refuses to let the film be restored? Read this PDF for details.
What the hell do these no TV no-goodnicks watch PORN on?
Personal computers can play erotic DVDs and erotic video streamed from the Internet. Both literary and visual erotica are available in dead-tree format, often from a public library.
Manufacturer pays for advertising so that consumer knows goods exist
I can understand this in the case of RC Cola, but at least five nines of the audience already know that Coca-Cola and Pepsi exist.
Command and Conquer: Generals requires DX9 installed whether you have a [DX9] card or not.
Does it use special features of DirectSound 9 or DirectInput 9?
Bring back the teapots!
Once they get environment maps optimized to where they're doing reflection off curved surfaces, I guarantee that you'll be seeing a lot more of that Utah teapot.
I won't need to know how to make soap, or sew, unless civilization collapses. And since there's as much chance of that
With World War IV[1] starting in the Middle East, how much probability is there of at least some nation collapsing? I'd say close to 1. "Unless" is "until," my friend.
as there is in god existing
Define god as whatever entity created the universe. Therefore, I've just defined god into existence for a given definition of god.
[1] According to some historians, WWIII was the so-called Cold War, which went hot several times: the police action in Korea, the conflict in Vietnam, and the missile crisis in Cuba.
anyone who knows what a megabit is probably isn't a casual user as I mentioned above.
Anybody who has read Nintendo Power magazine since the late-1990 release of Dr. Mario (when NP began to publish the ROM size of Game Paks) knows what a megabit is. "Eleven megabits per second" means "one copy of Donkey Kong Country in three seconds," as DKC is a 32 Mbit Game Pak.
If that 95% wants 100% interoperability
How will advocates convince home users (a large chunk of that 95%) to want to interoperate with something they will never buy?
Isn't [the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act] an American law?
True, but Europe has its own Bono act, which some claim was passed as an excuse to force the United States to "harmonize" its laws to Europe's.
The misguided decision in Eldred v. Ashcroft reminds me of another misguided decision with a "Dred" in the name, and I hope it meets the same fate.
2. West sends food
3. Food is intercepted by dictator's thugs.
The humanitarian organizations[1] have started to fly people in who prepare hot meals and serve them directly to needy people. This should make it a lot harder for a warlord to intercept the food, no?
[1] No cannibal jokes please.
what every happened to the ultrahigh resolution (200-250 dpi) displays which were being talked about a couple of years ago?
For one thing, the operating systems got in the way. Many poorly-written but popular Windows applications assume that your display is 96 dpi and will not react properly to changes in the system DPI setting (in Windows 2000, Control Panel > Display Properties > Settings > Advanced > General > Display > Font Size).
For another thing, it was discovered that LCD panels don't let enough light through per pixel because of the black border between pixels.
Finally, color LCD panels are already 300 DPI horizontally and 100 DPI vertically.
Add proper garbage collection ... and you
also dispense with memory leaks once and for all.
Garbage collection simply replaces the memory leak of forgetting to free() memory with the memory leak of holding onto a reference too long.
There will of course always be room for a certain amount of inherently low-level code written in C or one of its kin: code that absolutely can't spare a nanosecond per run
Video games and many other real-time applications are like that. Would you rather play a video game with 100 times the MTBF, or would you rather play a video game with 3 times the FPS?
code that has to run on the bare metal (kernels, bootloaders, ...)
There are several times more embedded systems in use on this planet than PCs.
The use of C(++) for document-oriented and database-oriented applications on machines at least as powerful as a PC has already begun to decrease as Java technology and its clones catch on, but C still won't be as marginalized as some claim.
The proof of the undecidability of the halting problem relies on the fact that a Turing machine has unbounded memory. Given bounded memory (as exists in all physical computers), you're no longer dealing with a Turing machine but rather a linear bounded automaton (LBA), and it's straightforward to prove that the LBA halting problem is decidable by an LBA.
In my perfect dream-world, you could still control a library's distribution, just not how it's used by people who have a legal copy.
I'm not a lawyer either, but I think the decisions in Sony v. Universal (the Betamax case) and Nintendo v. Galoob (the Game Genie case) validate adaptation in private home environments, at least as long as there is no 1201(a) violation involved.
I like your site, but I didn't see any transparent-background (shaped) pngs. Last time I checked, the major browsers rendered them with a gray background.
IE 5.x and 6.x draw 32-bit PNG images with a gray background, but they properly draw 8-bit PNG images that use binary transparency. In GIMP, convert your transparent images to indexed mode before saving them as PNG.
As I said, I don't see any major web sites using png's yet.
Several online serial comics have switched, including Hackles, home of the PNG Tips for Cartoonists. To see more GIF-free sites, visit Burn All GIFs. However, you are correct: Few to no web sites that advertise on network television have switched from still GIF to PNG.
the image covers up the first word(s) of some paragraphs. For example, I see this: t (.mb) programs into one ROM for
Which browser did you use, and at about what window width? Mozilla 1.4b handles wrapping around floated elements correctly, at least on my pages with screenshots.
Fine with me if the U.S. imposes DMCA restrictions on trade with places like Oz
I assume that you assume that "Oz" refers only to a fictional place described in the works of L. Frank Baum.
In the "real" world, Oz is Australia.
They could just make their spam look more like mailing list messages.
Spammers already disguise their spew as newsletters.
Hotmail solves the problem of discussion lists by letting users whitelist specific addresses as mailing lists, and then (I'd assume) it tweaks the spam filter in response. For instance, it has probably already whitelisted the IP addresses of sourceforge.net, yahoogroups.com, and other popular discussion list service providers.
True, patent law makes no explicit distinction about independent invention, but I can see independent invention being used as evidence that the invention was obvious. The USPTO isn't supposed to grant patents on obvious inventions, but...
The DMCA is about copyright. Nothing in the DMCA has anything to do with contracts.
Without a contract, installing most modern proprietary software is prohibited by copyright law, 17 USC 1201(a) (which seems to have nullified 17 USC 117(a) in part), because the user does not "the authority of the copyright owner" to run the decryption.
making it impossible for the plaintiff to produce a signed contract as evidence in court.
Wouldn't the possession of the decrypted computer program on the defendant's hard drive be evidence that the defendant either clicked "I Agree" or violated the DMCA by going around the installer?
The part where they say "one machine of our manufacture" is legally unenforceable. Say, for example, you had a cover band and you wanted to pulicly play a song owned by XYZ Music Corp. They say "sure, that's $100; but you can only play it if your band uses XYZ Corp guitars, drums, etc." That's illegal (see the Sherman Antitrust Act) and unenforceable.
Many provisions of Title 17 (copyright law) say "Notwithstanding any provision of the antitrust laws". In addition, if federal statutes contradict one another, the courts give more weight to the one enacted later (as the most recent expression of representative democracy), and the DMCA's anticircumvention provisions came into force decades after any Sherman Antitrust Act or Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act.
Has this been adjudicated on?
Hanging a click-through agreement on the DMCA's anticircumvention provisions hasn't been at the center of a lawsuit, but until it has, it's safest to rely on the interpretation that favors the party with more assets because the party with more assets stands a grater chance of being able to make its case in a court of law.
Write a novel.
Best novel submitted by a team member gets turned into the company's next title, with an extra bonu$$$ to the author.
Labels can and do negotiate deals where they pay less than statutory rate, especially when the band that did the recording is the same as the one that wrote the songs.
I understand that many recording artists can give a discount because they write their own songs, but how many artists like that are very popular with high-school and university aged Americans? (Clue: Britney Spears does not write her own material.)
running Cygwin under Wine ... What's the point?
For one thing, it's a good test case for both projects.