But the AAC stream typically makes up a small percentage of the whole file size. This won't make a meaningful contribution, especially not considering you'd have to reencode (wasting time and incurring quality loss).
Unless this is going into some very popular hardware platform, it's stillborn.
Because they control mpeg1-layer3 and they want to keep the control of the market. They don't control Ogg Vorbis or WMA. Don't know bout AAC, but I believe they've got their filthy hands in there too.
What happened? I'm using it for all my music, and most game developers are using it for both music and sound-fx. Machinae Supremacy are still releasing songs in Vorbis, etc, etc.
Except for HL2 -- Valve thought it'd be a great idea for their customers to pay extra/support the music oligapoly for lousy stuttering mp3-sound -- most game developers are using Ogg Vorbis.
C'mon now.. you know you want it... side scrolling. Network and local multiplayer. Screen shakes, lush explosions and crisp new soundfx. Screen after screen of greater and greater buildings; mobile homes, apartment complexes, skyrisers, churches, Wallmarts;-), bridges, etc.
Since you can only play three 'monsters', you could have a "multiplayer-lobby" where everyone else gets to play a poor little foot soldier, shooting their pea-guns at Ralpie et.al....
It's a railway FPS with scripts acting out a scene before your eyes every so often. Most often, the finale of the scene involves you killing the actors.
It's nice, but like many other games which add something new to the mix (in this case the physics), too much time is spent trying to showcase the tech. "Really? You mean that if I add weight to that side, the other side will raise? Amazing! Can we do it again?"
I give it 3.5 out of 5. Good, but not very filling.
I haven't had any big problems with it, but I'm not a heavy user nor am I in the US, so I might have the time-zone thing going for me.
I hope the moderator who moderated my comment "off-topic" thought it through. If we assume that google scholar gets as prevalent as "google www", but goes pay/limited, then that might have a big impact on the ability of those of us who aren't faculty nor stundents to access papers.
Even today I have a hard time accessing papers which are only available at the ACM digital library (which is pay-only). I'd like to see a move away from closing papers up in journals and digital pay-for-use libraries.
Between the ACM and Google this could spell less access for public.
Offload citeseer? Great! But let's hope this isn't another ivory tower in the making.
>Each black pixel was meticulously rendered by hand
.. in all shades of black!
(Just tried HL2. I really don't like the beginning part (trainyard)... Cheap "adrenaline music" and getting shot at while trying to navigate a maze.... sheesh.
This is the big test. Will I manage to get through this so that I can, hopefully, enjoy the rest of the game.
All the hits on the first page contains the phrase, one is to a site containing the complete works of Shakespeare. Why would you say this is not accurate?
Could the "Free Market" believers just shut the fuck up?
Please?
Thank you.
"Oh, so you were sold into slavery? Why don't you just run away? You're free to attempt that at any time! There are lots of places where slavery is not accepted. Move there you long-haired non-hot-rod-poking-lovin' hippie scum! I believe in this, therefore it's right! Might makes right!"
It would be that simple, except it's not applicable. I continue to buy Opera knowing that Firefox exists (and does not meet my standards). The first two times I paid for Opera Firefox probably didn't exist, but Mozilla was around the second time at least. The last time I decided again to pay for Opera, having evaluated Firefox.
I'm not trying to "justify past purchases" -- that makes no sense.
But okay, I get it; You get to argue that "it's simple psychology" all you want (knowing nothing about me) and there's nothing I could say to change your mind, so I won't waste time trying.
"open source" movement [...] who work together to produce software which is placed in the public domain [...]
BEEEEEEEP! Wrong. You're out!
You didn't sell it.
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Decompiling Java
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>knowing how to decompile code is more about protecting your own source code.
There are many reasons to learn about, implement and use decompilers, but I don't think "to properly protect your intellectual property" should be one of them.
I'm got somewhat interested in this book (never heard about it before), but I think I'm going to pass. Sounds like the decompiling described is too much of a one-trick pony -- which is fine, it's about decompiling java after all -- but I'd really like something like an extension and update of Cifuentes work in book form, with the lessons from the IDA team too.
You know, from the beginning; starting with machine descriptions and disassembly for a generic front-end, efficent IR, and on up through the back end.
LinuxWorld linked to the fake alert! You know, LinuxWorld featuring Maureen O'Gara? They've since yanked it, but boy were they fast in linking to it...
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But the AAC stream typically makes up a small percentage of the whole file size. This won't make a meaningful contribution, especially not considering you'd have to reencode (wasting time and incurring quality loss).
Unless this is going into some very popular hardware platform, it's stillborn.
>Why are they bothering with this?
Because they control mpeg1-layer3 and they want to keep the control of the market. They don't control Ogg Vorbis or WMA. Don't know bout AAC, but I believe they've got their filthy hands in there too.What happened? I'm using it for all my music, and most game developers are using it for both music and sound-fx. Machinae Supremacy are still releasing songs in Vorbis, etc, etc.
Try the tuned aoTuV version at q -2 and up.
Except for HL2 -- Valve thought it'd be a great idea for their customers to pay extra/support the music oligapoly for lousy stuttering mp3-sound -- most game developers are using Ogg Vorbis.
You'll soon get corrected.
Obligatory antipolygraph link.
About remakes I will just say one word; Rampage.
C'mon now.. you know you want it... side scrolling. Network and local multiplayer. Screen shakes, lush explosions and crisp new soundfx. Screen after screen of greater and greater buildings; mobile homes, apartment complexes, skyrisers, churches, Wallmarts ;-), bridges, etc.
Since you can only play three 'monsters', you could have a "multiplayer-lobby" where everyone else gets to play a poor little foot soldier, shooting their pea-guns at Ralpie et.al ....
>droool<
Cool, is this like a sequel to Temple of Apshai?
First CRPG I ever played.
(apparently an optimized version)
To be fair, they had to give Novell ~$500M to buy their silence, as I recall.
It's a railway FPS with scripts acting out a scene before your eyes every so often. Most often, the finale of the scene involves you killing the actors.
It's nice, but like many other games which add something new to the mix (in this case the physics), too much time is spent trying to showcase the tech. "Really? You mean that if I add weight to that side, the other side will raise? Amazing! Can we do it again?"
I give it 3.5 out of 5. Good, but not very filling.
I haven't had any big problems with it, but I'm not a heavy user nor am I in the US, so I might have the time-zone thing going for me.
I hope the moderator who moderated my comment "off-topic" thought it through. If we assume that google scholar gets as prevalent as "google www", but goes pay/limited, then that might have a big impact on the ability of those of us who aren't faculty nor stundents to access papers.
Even today I have a hard time accessing papers which are only available at the ACM digital library (which is pay-only). I'd like to see a move away from closing papers up in journals and digital pay-for-use libraries.
Between the ACM and Google this could spell less access for public.
Offload citeseer? Great! But let's hope this isn't another ivory tower in the making.
Thank you.
>Each black pixel was meticulously rendered by hand
.. in all shades of black!
(Just tried HL2. I really don't like the beginning part (trainyard)... Cheap "adrenaline music" and getting shot at while trying to navigate a maze.... sheesh.
This is the big test. Will I manage to get through this so that I can, hopefully, enjoy the rest of the game.
>[...] Google will have between 1 and 3 results of pages not containing the phrase.
What are you talking about?
All the hits on the first page contains the phrase, one is to a site containing the complete works of Shakespeare. Why would you say this is not accurate?
>SCO style,
So, does this mean that Sony now owns the Windows codebase? Vis-à-vis the "SCO Theory of Copyrights" I mean?
They're probably going to respond saying that it's an outside contractor, bla bla bla.
Typical face-saving measure.
Could the "Free Market" believers just shut the fuck up?
Please?
Thank you.
"Oh, so you were sold into slavery? Why don't you just run away? You're free to attempt that at any time! There are lots of places where slavery is not accepted. Move there you long-haired non-hot-rod-poking-lovin' hippie scum! I believe in this, therefore it's right! Might makes right!"
Foobar doesn't have all the bells and whistles
With emphasis on all.
It's got the ones that matter.
I knew someone would bring that up.
It would be that simple, except it's not applicable. I continue to buy Opera knowing that Firefox exists (and does not meet my standards). The first two times I paid for Opera Firefox probably didn't exist, but Mozilla was around the second time at least. The last time I decided again to pay for Opera, having evaluated Firefox.
I'm not trying to "justify past purchases" -- that makes no sense.
But okay, I get it; You get to argue that "it's simple psychology" all you want (knowing nothing about me) and there's nothing I could say to change your mind, so I won't waste time trying.
From the article:
BEEEEEEEP! Wrong. You're out!
>knowing how to decompile code is more about protecting your own source code.
There are many reasons to learn about, implement and use decompilers, but I don't think "to properly protect your intellectual property" should be one of them.
I'm got somewhat interested in this book (never heard about it before), but I think I'm going to pass. Sounds like the decompiling described is too much of a one-trick pony -- which is fine, it's about decompiling java after all -- but I'd really like something like an extension and update of Cifuentes work in book form, with the lessons from the IDA team too.
You know, from the beginning; starting with machine descriptions and disassembly for a generic front-end, efficent IR, and on up through the back end.
Now that'd be a tome [worth paying for].
How about a little link?
I've got the DCube on my list.
maker UK seller SE seller
99% of the whole point of these lawsuits is to get filesharing fearmongering into the news where it can "deter" and influence politicians.
Personally, I don't feel like it's newsworthy any more, and I don't see any reason to actively help RIAA in their fear-spreading mission.
LinuxWorld linked to the fake alert! You know, LinuxWorld featuring Maureen O'Gara? They've since yanked it, but boy were they fast in linking to it...