C does not necessarily mean the driver is non-portable. One would only need to create a portable API.
Because drivers published by device manufacturers contain proprietary trade secrets, one would need to create a portable ABI (application binary interface), which has had even worse performance problems than a portable API.
The most productive debugging happens in the design phase. Keeping each independent module small, simple, and focused, makes it harder to make a mistake.
Intel employees often use words or acronyms in their conversations with me that have been invented inside Intel. For example, "IPD".
I didn't know Intel worked in virtual reality optics. Last time I checked (that is, about the time Nintendo tried and failed to sell Virtual Boy tabletop game consoles), "IPD" referred to "intra-pupil distance", one of the key metrics used to calibrate binocular displays such as night vision goggles and VR goggles. Another meaning of "IPD", or intra-pupil distance, is useful for classifying races of cartoon characters.
(/me checks Google) Oh, you must mean an Intel product dealer. Why doesn't Intel just call them "dealers"?
NEAR. foo NEAR bar in the document requests documents where foo occurs "near" bar. This is of somewhat more dubious utility, but there are some searches that it's convenient for.
Google already does this to an extent, using NEARness of your search terms as one of the terms in the ranking equation.
if I wanted to search for the use of "Star Wars" in relation to the "Space Defense Initiative" and am not interested in the movie "Star Wars", I would very much like to have a search of "Star Wars !movie". I don't think Google can do this very well
Google has an exclude function ("star wars" -movie) but because it isn't artificially intelligent, it doesn't exclude movie merchandise such as action figures, computer games, card games, etc. Better: "star wars" -movie -lucas -lucasfilm -trilogy whose tenth result refers to missile defense. But had you known you were looking for something about missile defense or missile defence, you would have typed in "star wars" missile.
versus the degradation of converting one lossy digital format to another
If you use a lossless format or a well-known lossy format, you don't have to worry about repeated conversions of the actual data, just copying from one storage medium to another (which is lossless). Some free software author will probably start a project on Savannah or SourceForge that can translate the original video into an uncompressed AVI.
Copyright isn't about money, it's about protecting the rights of the author.
Copyright, as defined in the United States Constitution, is about giving the author a monopoly to the extent that it "promote[s] the Progress of Science and useful Arts".
you generally can get away with a whole lot more than you can if you are trying to sell a product using someone else's name.
Penny-Arcade.com sells products on its comics pages. Such products include advertising and PA merchandise.
or instance, a fake television commercial on a comedy show about Crack A Cola is almost certainly going to walk away without incident.
Are you sure? See Coca-Cola Co. v. Gemini Rising, Inc., 346 F. Supp. 1183 (E.D.N.Y. 1972), over selling posters containing "Enjoy Cocaine" with a modifed Coca-Cola logo. The producer of your hypothetical comedy show would not be able to eventually sell DVDs of the season containing the Coke parody without the Coca-Cola Co. bringing up Coke v. Gemini Rising in a drawn-out court proceeding.
It's an ancient right, guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 8)
You're talking about copyright.
Many others on Slashdot are talking about entry barriers other than copyright. One of the biggest issues is the limited availability of FM radio broadcasting licenses from the FCC so that somebody can compete against homogenized payola-driven Clear Channel corporate radio. Another issue is negotiating with retailers: Wal-Mart and Best Buy often don't want to deal with smaller labels. Possibly the only copyright-related reason that a few large firms control music distribution is that it is difficult for lesser-known songwriters to check their newly composed songs against the hundreds of thousands of published songs in order to discover accidental infringement before being hit with a lawsuit.
Possibly. For example, Most amendments to the U.S. Constitution need assent from three-fourths of the states, but changing the rules of election to the Senate may need unanimous assent from all states: "provided... that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate" (U.S. Const., Art. V).
The 17th Amendment, which provides for direct popular election to the U.S. Senate, may not be constitutional.
it's likening a computer to an AK-47. One is a piece of silicon that does logical analysis and the other is a fucking gun.
I thought an AK was a "rifle", not a "gun". A "rifle" is a tool used by people to kill people. A "gun", especially a "fucking gun", is an appendage built into adult male mammals, used for the elimination of urine and for copulation.
or the fact they actually bothered to register hamsterdance2.com and make an "even better" hamsterdance.
That's because the company that was hosting the original Hampster Dance stole the domain hampsterdance.com right out from under Hampton's feet. Hampton's agent had to go out and register HD2 just to get the hamsters back up.
Digital is based on minute charges on magnetic particles.. detirorates with exposure to air, vibration, magnetic fields....
Such deterioration can be stopped by "refreshing" the data, that is, by copying it to a new medium whenever your broadcast studio migrates to a new format. Analog formats such as film cannot be "refreshed" onto a new medium without generation loss.
Colour for more than 50 years at least. Digital... mebe 20 years.
Excuse me? DVD-R (admittedly not what this article is talking about, but a digital video storage format nonetheless) has a predicted longevity of about 100 years as well.
Drawbacks of digital are that the formats change so fast it becomes hard for older media to be read.
This is a problem only if a format is born and is then completely dead within 20 years, the term of a United States patent. After 20 years, there's always some specialty shop that still deals in old formats.
Ammerican Mc Geees Alice is not based off the
books
Oh thanks.
While we're on the topic of Disney and what's based on the books and what isn't, I'd claim that Disney's Pinocchio (1940) wasn't based too closely on the book either; it omitted most of the growing up the puppet had to do and felt more like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein than anything else. Disney tried to fix this by securing the USA rights to Pinocchio (2002), which followed the book nearly to the letter, but the actor cast in the leading role (Roberto Benigni) was much too old for the part. Several film critics have claimed that the boy from Life Is Beautiful would have been better as the puppet.
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C does not necessarily mean the driver is non-portable. One would only need to create a portable API.
Because drivers published by device manufacturers contain proprietary trade secrets, one would need to create a portable ABI (application binary interface), which has had even worse performance problems than a portable API.
what did you use when debugging this program?
The most productive debugging happens in the design phase. Keeping each independent module small, simple, and focused, makes it harder to make a mistake.
Intel employees often use words or acronyms in their conversations with me that have been invented inside Intel. For example, "IPD".
I didn't know Intel worked in virtual reality optics. Last time I checked (that is, about the time Nintendo tried and failed to sell Virtual Boy tabletop game consoles), "IPD" referred to "intra-pupil distance", one of the key metrics used to calibrate binocular displays such as night vision goggles and VR goggles. Another meaning of "IPD", or intra-pupil distance, is useful for classifying races of cartoon characters.
(/me checks Google) Oh, you must mean an Intel product dealer. Why doesn't Intel just call them "dealers"?
NEAR. foo NEAR bar in the document requests documents where foo occurs "near" bar. This is of somewhat more dubious utility, but there are some searches that it's convenient for.
Google already does this to an extent, using NEARness of your search terms as one of the terms in the ranking equation.
if I wanted to search for the use of "Star Wars" in relation to the "Space Defense Initiative" and am not interested in the movie "Star Wars", I would very much like to have a search of "Star Wars !movie". I don't think Google can do this very well
Google has an exclude function ("star wars" -movie) but because it isn't artificially intelligent, it doesn't exclude movie merchandise such as action figures, computer games, card games, etc. Better: "star wars" -movie -lucas -lucasfilm -trilogy whose tenth result refers to missile defense. But had you known you were looking for something about missile defense or missile defence, you would have typed in "star wars" missile.
I assume you're referring to this. It shows that Apple supports the specification, but that still doesn't give Apple the right to use the mark itself.
In many areas, high-speed Internet access comes with a $200,000 setup fee.
I guess he really can't escape Unix.
Mac OS X's low level follows much of the Single UNIX Specification, but it is not a UNIX® brand system.
1. javac *.java
Bad command or file name
Not everybody has the patience to download 30 MB of JDK software over a 56K connection.
Next thing you know people will only assume Genesis refers to the band...
That's funny; I thought it was a 16-bit video game console.
Actually, wouldn't this be Kappa Delta Epislon?
For one thing, the Greek for 'E' is "Epsilon" (s before i).
For another, "Edward" was funnier.
versus the degradation of converting one lossy digital format to another
If you use a lossless format or a well-known lossy format, you don't have to worry about repeated conversions of the actual data, just copying from one storage medium to another (which is lossless). Some free software author will probably start a project on Savannah or SourceForge that can translate the original video into an uncompressed AVI.
Copyright isn't about money, it's about protecting the rights of the author.
Copyright, as defined in the United States Constitution, is about giving the author a monopoly to the extent that it "promote[s] the Progress of Science and useful Arts".
you generally can get away with a whole lot more than you can if you are trying to sell a product using someone else's name.
Penny-Arcade.com sells products on its comics pages. Such products include advertising and PA merchandise.
or instance, a fake television commercial on a comedy show about Crack A Cola is almost certainly going to walk away without incident.
Are you sure? See Coca-Cola Co. v. Gemini Rising, Inc., 346 F. Supp. 1183 (E.D.N.Y. 1972), over selling posters containing "Enjoy Cocaine" with a modifed Coca-Cola logo. The producer of your hypothetical comedy show would not be able to eventually sell DVDs of the season containing the Coke parody without the Coca-Cola Co. bringing up Coke v. Gemini Rising in a drawn-out court proceeding.
It's an ancient right, guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 8)
You're talking about copyright.
Many others on Slashdot are talking about entry barriers other than copyright. One of the biggest issues is the limited availability of FM radio broadcasting licenses from the FCC so that somebody can compete against homogenized payola-driven Clear Channel corporate radio. Another issue is negotiating with retailers: Wal-Mart and Best Buy often don't want to deal with smaller labels. Possibly the only copyright-related reason that a few large firms control music distribution is that it is difficult for lesser-known songwriters to check their newly composed songs against the hundreds of thousands of published songs in order to discover accidental infringement before being hit with a lawsuit.
And since AG and Napster went down, any client audio/video sharing available for *nix does not have enough users or mass to go beyond top 40.
Aren't eDonkey and Gnutella ported to *n?x systems?
is "unconstitutional amendment" a paradox?
Possibly. For example, Most amendments to the U.S. Constitution need assent from three-fourths of the states, but changing the rules of election to the Senate may need unanimous assent from all states: "provided ... that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate" (U.S. Const., Art. V).
The 17th Amendment, which provides for direct popular election to the U.S. Senate, may not be constitutional.
it's likening a computer to an AK-47. One is a piece of silicon that does logical analysis and the other is a fucking gun.
I thought an AK was a "rifle", not a "gun". A "rifle" is a tool used by people to kill people. A "gun", especially a "fucking gun", is an appendage built into adult male mammals, used for the elimination of urine and for copulation.
or the fact they actually bothered to register hamsterdance2.com and make an "even better" hamsterdance.
That's because the company that was hosting the original Hampster Dance stole the domain hampsterdance.com right out from under Hampton's feet. Hampton's agent had to go out and register HD2 just to get the hamsters back up.
It's also nothing like Dance Dance Revolution East Invasion.
Digital is based on minute charges on magnetic particles.. detirorates with exposure to air, vibration, magnetic fields....
Such deterioration can be stopped by "refreshing" the data, that is, by copying it to a new medium whenever your broadcast studio migrates to a new format. Analog formats such as film cannot be "refreshed" onto a new medium without generation loss.
Colour for more than 50 years at least. Digital... mebe 20 years.
Excuse me? DVD-R (admittedly not what this article is talking about, but a digital video storage format nonetheless) has a predicted longevity of about 100 years as well.
Drawbacks of digital are that the formats change so fast it becomes hard for older media to be read.
This is a problem only if a format is born and is then completely dead within 20 years, the term of a United States patent. After 20 years, there's always some specialty shop that still deals in old formats.
Ammerican Mc Geees Alice is not based off the books
Oh thanks.
While we're on the topic of Disney and what's based on the books and what isn't, I'd claim that Disney's Pinocchio (1940) wasn't based too closely on the book either; it omitted most of the growing up the puppet had to do and felt more like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein than anything else. Disney tried to fix this by securing the USA rights to Pinocchio (2002), which followed the book nearly to the letter, but the actor cast in the leading role (Roberto Benigni) was much too old for the part. Several film critics have claimed that the boy from Life Is Beautiful would have been better as the puppet.
Because DV video (similar to motion JPEG) uses the same DCT as MPEG-2 and can be made to run off the same ASIC?
Because MPEG-4 royalties are much higher than MPEG-2 royalties?
Because Sony and the other studios are scared of MPEG-4?
Basically, the light contained within an image interacts with this stuff called they're making called "film"
But unlike digital video storage technology available in 2003, this "film" can't be erased and reused, and it'll deteriorate over time.