I had no idea. I've always lived in fairly small towns that don't have post offices at their airports. I figured the USPS just shut down at 5:00pm along with all of the other government offices.
So, if you know about Blender, then you realize that there has been an OpenSource 3D modeling/rendering package available. So why is this new one such a revelation to you?
And you forgot one. Kinetix/Discreet/Autodesk/(whoever they are this week) will be releasing an OpenSource version of the Max modeller. I don't think it will have rendering capabilities, though. They're putting it out there so people can create content for their favorite game mods.
Why should humor have to be clearly labeled as such? Why do you condone the censorship of certain types of speech? Do you feel that the inhabitants of the world have become so stupid that we must spell everything out for them?
Nothing on bonsaikitten goes against the first amendment--end of story. There is nothing that should be (and, if you believe in just laws, could be) done against the owners of the site.
How would it be profitable for Apple to change their OS to x86 and then become a specialized graphics card company? They don't even make their own graphics chips now. They buy the hardware from ATi and/or nVidia.
The last thing Apple, or any half-way intelligent company, is going to do right now is enter the graphics card business!! With all of the buyouts and mergers, there are 2 or 3 powerhouses in that industry. It would be next to impossible for another company to break into that market without the backing to lose a LOT of money for a number of years.
FASA is indeed the acronym for a fictional aeronautics administration. The "F" stands for the country (can't remember the name) that the two priciples of FASA (Weisman and that other guy) came up with during one of their gaming sessions in college.
Why is this even being discussed?
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Antitrust was made by a Hollywood movie studio
Holywood movie studio == MPAA
I thought that we were currently under a Slashdot recommended boycot of all MPAA works due to that little DeCSS Jon Johansen thing (remember that??)
Any money you spend on this movie is money going directly into the coffers of companies that don't want you to have any fair use rights. Why is this movie being discussed on Slashdot so often?
As the asker of the question pointed out, it's not the geeks he's interested in, it's the masses. The masses have shown they don't care about open vs. closed software.
#3. Its (sic) GUI is *VERY* closed. fairly unthemeable. geeks dont (sic) like that.
As the asker of the question pointed out, it's not the geeks he's interested in, it's the masses. The masses have shown they don't care about open vs. closed software.
#4. Its (sic) an Apple(tm).
As the asker of the question pointed out, it's not the geeks he's interested in, it's the masses. The masses have shown they like Apple products.
Governments have the right, as the electorate, to levy taxes that help fund the government.
This is not at all like the taxation on blank computer media (or, in the case of the U.S, blank audio media). In these cases the government is allowing a tax on an item for the intent of giving that tax revenue back to the company. This isn't a tax that the populace wanted. This is a tax that the lobbiests managed to get.
If I'm paying a company for a good or a service, regardless of how that money is collected, then I think I have the legal right to actually make use of that good or service. So, if I have to pay a tax on blank media so that companies can recoup some money from piracy then I think I have the legal right to actually make a copy of something that company produces-even if I don't own an original.
It's from Sony. The price was about the same as quoted in the article, so I'm assuming the article is refering to the model I have.
This remote is anything but useless or kitch. It's quite useful. Not only does it understand my TV, Receiver, DVD player, Laser Disc player, TiVO, VCR, and DirecTV units, but it also allows for macroing.
I've gone from eight remotes to one and also gained the ability to configure my system for any sort of playback at the push of a button.
Want to play a DVD? Click and the TV is in DVD mode, the receiver switches to the DVD input and sets itself up for 5.1 speakers and the remote's LCD screen switches to DVD playback mode. The same functionality is available for all my units.
It's also a learning remote, so I'm not constrained by the scant few items most pre-programmed remotes understand. This remote will be usefull for years.
I saw the boom mikes appear on the top edge of the screen also. It happened in 3 scenes in the Whitehouse. My thoughts were:
a) The boom mike operator on those shots should have a hard time finding another job
b) They could've dropped the $ and had the boom mikes removed digitally. The shots weren't complex--at best there was a slow pan and the mikes weren't visible for much more than.5-1.0 seconds. It would have been very easy to paint them out.
While heartening, this isn't a perfect annology. Divx was a non-standard medium that was being supported by a minority of manufacturers and was only being sold in a small number of retail outlets.
HDTV, HD Recorders, and the copy protections that will appear therein are supported by the entire industry. The copy protection will probably be in all devices and those devices will be sold in all retail outlets. There will be no choice, more than likely. Either you buy one of these protected devices or you don't partake in HDTV. In 10 years that will probably mean that your choices are either a)submit to this or b)don't watch televsion.
Fair use allows you to use, in part or in whole, copyrighted works for personal and/or educational purposes. It does not cover wide-spread distribution (for free or for profit) of copyrighted materials--obviously.
The owners of the DragonballZ license are in their right to ask that development of this mod stop and all distribution be cancelled. The mod has the potential of diluting the strength of the DBZ brand and hindering sales of a DBZ game if/when one comes out.
To answer your question of, "Is there anything that can be done with fair use so that mods created on licensed materials can survive?"--no, there isn't.
The exchange rate is currently about 1.54 in favor of the US dollar. So $40(US) would be worth somewhere around $61(CDN). $50(CDN) is about $32.40(US). Before I dumped my cable modem service I was paying $35.00(US) for the service, 5 logins/email addresses, and 15MBs of web hosting for each login.
Twice the ram means absolutely *nothing* when it comes to the VSA-100 chips. It's not a shared memory pool. Each video chip gets its own bank of memory. So, a 4 chip board with 2x memory as a 2 chip board still has the same effective memory size.
The V5 6000 was a 128MB monster that was really only a 32MB board. Each of the 4 chips got 1/4 of the available memory and there was no sharing. Each chip had to get all of the textures it needed. Each chip had to get all of the triangles it needed. It was/is a very inefficient design.
It's almost December. That means it's just about time for the BitBoys' yearly "Well, no it didn't ship when we planned. But, look at this new improved spec for a chip that we hope to ship *next* year" press release.
It's becoming a sign of the holiday seasons. I wonder if a drinking game can be made around it, ala "The Grinch".
In 1995, following on the heals of the announcement that 3DO would put their hardware on a PC card, Sega struck a deal with nVidia. That deal lead to the inclusion of Sega Saturn controller ports on the Diamond Edge 3D card. The Edge 3D featured the NV1 chipset. The board shipped with some Saturn games that had been ported to the hardware (a supposedly easy task). No other games were ever ported, though.
While the Edge 3D and the NV1 chipset are pretty much regarded as disasters, the chipset did have some interesting features--like hardware support for quadratic surfaces.
Without market share they won't be able to negotiate deals with either game developers or retailers. Without games, and the shelf space necessary to sell those games, they will die. Consoles are mass-market devices, not hard core devices. People will not tolerate ordering direct from the manufacturer, or from obscure web stores, to get the games for their consoles.
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Beveled buttons and soft colors? This is what you are using to say that MS is copying the Aqua theme, beveled buttons and soft colors?
Yeah, *nobody* used pastels or embossing in design ideas before Apple came along!
(rolls eyes)
I had no idea. I've always lived in fairly small towns that don't have post offices at their airports. I figured the USPS just shut down at 5:00pm along with all of the other government offices.
Learn something new every day.
I'm assuming you're in the US, since you mentioned Best Buy.
Where in the US is there a Post Office that is open past 5:00pm, except for special dates (like April 15th)?
So, if you know about Blender, then you realize that there has been an OpenSource 3D modeling/rendering package available. So why is this new one such a revelation to you?
And you forgot one. Kinetix/Discreet/Autodesk/(whoever they are this week) will be releasing an OpenSource version of the Max modeller. I don't think it will have rendering capabilities, though. They're putting it out there so people can create content for their favorite game mods.
Why should humor have to be clearly labeled as such? Why do you condone the censorship of certain types of speech? Do you feel that the inhabitants of the world have become so stupid that we must spell everything out for them?
Nothing on bonsaikitten goes against the first amendment--end of story. There is nothing that should be (and, if you believe in just laws, could be) done against the owners of the site.
Except that an iButton only has 200K on it and is intended to only store secure log-in information.
The USBKey is general storage for data. Just because it also fits on a keyring doesn't mean that it is anything like an iButton.
How would it be profitable for Apple to change their OS to x86 and then become a specialized graphics card company? They don't even make their own graphics chips now. They buy the hardware from ATi and/or nVidia.
The last thing Apple, or any half-way intelligent company, is going to do right now is enter the graphics card business!! With all of the buyouts and mergers, there are 2 or 3 powerhouses in that industry. It would be next to impossible for another company to break into that market without the backing to lose a LOT of money for a number of years.
FASA is indeed the acronym for a fictional aeronautics administration. The "F" stands for the country (can't remember the name) that the two priciples of FASA (Weisman and that other guy) came up with during one of their gaming sessions in college.
Antitrust was made by a Hollywood movie studio Holywood movie studio == MPAA I thought that we were currently under a Slashdot recommended boycot of all MPAA works due to that little DeCSS Jon Johansen thing (remember that??) Any money you spend on this movie is money going directly into the coffers of companies that don't want you to have any fair use rights. Why is this movie being discussed on Slashdot so often?
As the asker of the question pointed out, it's not the geeks he's interested in, it's the masses. The masses have shown they don't care about open vs. closed software.
#3. Its (sic) GUI is *VERY* closed. fairly unthemeable. geeks dont (sic) like that.
As the asker of the question pointed out, it's not the geeks he's interested in, it's the masses. The masses have shown they don't care about open vs. closed software.
#4. Its (sic) an Apple(tm).
As the asker of the question pointed out, it's not the geeks he's interested in, it's the masses. The masses have shown they like Apple products.
Governments have the right, as the electorate, to levy taxes that help fund the government.
This is not at all like the taxation on blank computer media (or, in the case of the U.S, blank audio media). In these cases the government is allowing a tax on an item for the intent of giving that tax revenue back to the company. This isn't a tax that the populace wanted. This is a tax that the lobbiests managed to get.
If I'm paying a company for a good or a service, regardless of how that money is collected, then I think I have the legal right to actually make use of that good or service. So, if I have to pay a tax on blank media so that companies can recoup some money from piracy then I think I have the legal right to actually make a copy of something that company produces-even if I don't own an original.
It's from Sony. The price was about the same as quoted in the article, so I'm assuming the article is refering to the model I have.
This remote is anything but useless or kitch. It's quite useful. Not only does it understand my TV, Receiver, DVD player, Laser Disc player, TiVO, VCR, and DirecTV units, but it also allows for macroing.
I've gone from eight remotes to one and also gained the ability to configure my system for any sort of playback at the push of a button.
Want to play a DVD? Click and the TV is in DVD mode, the receiver switches to the DVD input and sets itself up for 5.1 speakers and the remote's LCD screen switches to DVD playback mode. The same functionality is available for all my units.
It's also a learning remote, so I'm not constrained by the scant few items most pre-programmed remotes understand. This remote will be usefull for years.
I saw the boom mikes appear on the top edge of the screen also. It happened in 3 scenes in the Whitehouse. My thoughts were:
.5-1.0 seconds. It would have been very easy to paint them out.
a) The boom mike operator on those shots should have a hard time finding another job
b) They could've dropped the $ and had the boom mikes removed digitally. The shots weren't complex--at best there was a slow pan and the mikes weren't visible for much more than
HDTV, HD Recorders, and the copy protections that will appear therein are supported by the entire industry. The copy protection will probably be in all devices and those devices will be sold in all retail outlets. There will be no choice, more than likely. Either you buy one of these protected devices or you don't partake in HDTV. In 10 years that will probably mean that your choices are either a)submit to this or b)don't watch televsion.
The voice in IMpossible Mission (you were quoting IM 1, not 2) was not synthesized. It was digitized--just at an extremely low quality
CTO - Lord of the programmers.
CIO - Lord of the network operations people.
Not to mention that a full on PIII 800MHz, slot1, 100mHz FSB is only $176.00 (according to Pricwatch.com).
Who would want to pay more for less?
Fair use allows you to use, in part or in whole, copyrighted works for personal and/or educational purposes. It does not cover wide-spread distribution (for free or for profit) of copyrighted materials--obviously.
The owners of the DragonballZ license are in their right to ask that development of this mod stop and all distribution be cancelled. The mod has the potential of diluting the strength of the DBZ brand and hindering sales of a DBZ game if/when one comes out.
To answer your question of, "Is there anything that can be done with fair use so that mods created on licensed materials can survive?"--no, there isn't.
The exchange rate is currently about 1.54 in favor of the US dollar. So $40(US) would be worth somewhere around $61(CDN). $50(CDN) is about $32.40(US). Before I dumped my cable modem service I was paying $35.00(US) for the service, 5 logins/email addresses, and 15MBs of web hosting for each login.
Twice the ram means absolutely *nothing* when it comes to the VSA-100 chips. It's not a shared memory pool. Each video chip gets its own bank of memory. So, a 4 chip board with 2x memory as a 2 chip board still has the same effective memory size.
The V5 6000 was a 128MB monster that was really only a 32MB board. Each of the 4 chips got 1/4 of the available memory and there was no sharing. Each chip had to get all of the textures it needed. Each chip had to get all of the triangles it needed. It was/is a very inefficient design.
My TNT2 is 2.5+ years old and going strong. I might get a GeForce 2 Ultra, but I'll probably wait until the first NV20 boards come out.
Do I need a new board for the games I play? Not really. But, I have a motherboard with AGP4x and I might as well make use of it.
It's almost December. That means it's just about time for the BitBoys' yearly "Well, no it didn't ship when we planned. But, look at this new improved spec for a chip that we hope to ship *next* year" press release.
It's becoming a sign of the holiday seasons. I wonder if a drinking game can be made around it, ala "The Grinch".
How is thumb button 2 + pinky button forward any different than Ctrl-Shift-E?
The 'multi movement' of this is no harder to grasp than the standard idea of chording with special keys.
In 1995, following on the heals of the announcement that 3DO would put their hardware on a PC card, Sega struck a deal with nVidia. That deal lead to the inclusion of Sega Saturn controller ports on the Diamond Edge 3D card. The Edge 3D featured the NV1 chipset. The board shipped with some Saturn games that had been ported to the hardware (a supposedly easy task). No other games were ever ported, though.
While the Edge 3D and the NV1 chipset are pretty much regarded as disasters, the chipset did have some interesting features--like hardware support for quadratic surfaces.
Without market share they won't be able to negotiate deals with either game developers or retailers. Without games, and the shelf space necessary to sell those games, they will die. Consoles are mass-market devices, not hard core devices. People will not tolerate ordering direct from the manufacturer, or from obscure web stores, to get the games for their consoles.