you couldn't GPL a spec, you'd use the FDL, really. Even if you did inapropriately use the GPL for docs, it still wouldn't affect the implementation of that spec. MS could create a 100% closed source library for it, and someone else could create a 100% GPLed library, and they'd read and write the same files with no licencing issues. Think about it like Dreamweaver (closed source) versus NVu (open source), or Photoshop and GIMP (Gods forgive me for putting them in the same sentence), passing creted files back and forth. Hell, with GIMP and PS, they both do PNGs.
Sony has announced that the PS3's price will increase another $100 at each price point. A sony spokebot said this is entirely unrelated to the fact that they're up to their asses in explodable batteries and red ink.
I personally don't favor MS or Sony. The home console I owned was the 8 bit NES. I owned a Gameboy Pocket for a while but only for the Zelda games at the time. I'm not a console gamer myself. But this whole bit of whining about being "forced" to buy bluray is stupid. No, it's not essential, they COULD have developed it with DVD, or HD-DVD, or even some totally new drive technology like FMD, etc. They developed UMD for the PSP. The storage medium they CHOSE is bluray, so that's it. You don't get to chose what FPU or how many pipelines you get in the PS3 CPU, you don't get much choise of case color, you don't get to choose button configurations, or cable lengths, or a billion other details. This is just another detail you don't get to chose about. I don't head anyone whining you CAN'T buy bluray for the 360. "MS is FORCING me out of bluray! They only offer HD-DVD!" Manufacturers offer you LIMITED choices because it's too expensive. MS backs HD DVD, and that's your only choice on 360 (for upgrading). Wii doesn't even offer either, so that's a forced choice too.
Basically, I'm sick of people whining about stupid stuff. Choice is limited in life.
There's where you get into sticky wickets. A PS3 game also doesn't need PS2/PS1 emulation, but it's there. Not every game is made for more than one player, but extra ports are there. No one is going to use HDMI _AND_ other video outputs at the same time, but they're there. They're called features. Not every game will use every feature. MS Office/Open Office, IE/Firefox, etc, don't need a 3D gfx card, but you have it for when you want to use Google Earth or a 3D game.
But you see, you're not forced in any respect. It's not like there's a DVD model they calcelled or anything the machine was designed with bluray form the get go. You're no more forec her than if you were to say you want a Ferarri, but only with a V6 becvause you dont' want to be forced to buy a V12. If you don't want to get Bluray, buy a 360. If you DO want the product, then that's the product you want, and that's what it's made with.
Actually, the Gov't won and MS found guilty. But then the administration changed, and John Ashcroft's DOJ was tasked with finding a way to let MS off the hook.
"Doing that means a crapload of both volts and amps."
Is that crapload US/Imperial or metric/SI? I know the difference between a metric and US crapload is small, but at these levels, that difference compounds. Now, had you measured it in assloads, or the universal shit-ton, then we'd have a total other story.
"Sony HAS done some questionable things in the past knowingly.;)"
Riiiiiiiight, sure they have. Do you expect me to believe a multibulliondollar international corporation would be so stupid as to do something as underhanded like distribute under-tested batteries or stealth-installer-rootkits on music CDs? Pfeh. Next thing you'll try and tell me Ford made exploding cars...
I totally agre with you. As potential employees, we need to start standing up. I recently interviewed for a position at an ISP. I was asked if I would sign an blanket NDA and a Non-compete. I said no to both. No blanket NDA because it's too easy to violate accidentally. If I were to be exposed to truly confidential company info, then I would sign a specific NDA without a problem, but no blanket NDAs. And no to a non-compete because I wasn't going to give up my ability to find and do other work on the side. I said, "I give you my word I will not steal your customers with info from here, but if someone comes up to me on the street, that's fair game. If my word isn't good enough, then you shouldn't hire me. All the paper would do for you is give you a potential ability to sue me, and by then, we'd both look bad anyway, so it's a waste. It's an at-will state, if I try anything funny you can fire me."
My honesty got me the job, and they didn't ask me about either document again.
Just say no to invasions of privacy. No matter how badly you need it now, you'll regret it far more later.
The yellow dots printed by color lasers are printed out from firmware in the printer. OSS drivers would be useless. BUnnie has been trying to determine exactly where in his incredibly rare free time. http://www.bunniestudios.com/wordpress/?p=53
If they can detect "invalid clicks" then they can filter them just as well. There's no need to execute someone for jaywalking. There's nothing stopping them from warning people either, "hey, we see some unusual activity here, you should look into XYZ for solutions". None of that would risk their proprietary info. Hell, even just saying "We see a lot of clicks from these few IPs" isn't proprietary. that's just simple logging.
My point is, there are less drastic ways of handling things than cutting us off at the knees with zero recourse. We don't even get paid for the VALID clicks we generated, and they got weeks or months of space on our site.
On the gripping hand, we agreed to the TOS... That was our fault...
Ditto on my blog. Exact same timing with money too. This is a rampant problem from what I can see. And trying ot get ANY information out of them is impossible. I can't even get telephone calls returned. They NEVER will tell you what invaolid clicks there were, when, etc. So basically, they get free space on yoru site, and get out of paying, and never have to prove why.
Jerry? This is God. I know what you do in the basement with the donkey and the swing. Stop talking for me or I'll persuade Conchita (you know, the maid you imported from San Salvador?) to drop those tapes off at CNN.
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"All of this is analog, not digital, so a "bit" isn't really isn't even a very good way of measuring this to begin with.
So, that might be why I said,"Well, you can guesstimate some of these things even though it's apples and oranges."
"You only have the ability to pick up details at the very center of your field of vision."
And that might be why I said "The eye has high resolution around the center, but poorer resolution in the periphery, so let's even it out."
Now THAT I would watch. Vulcan chicks were always well endowed to begin with.
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No, actually, if you re-read my post, I guesstimated 1280x1024 as a fraction of the eye's resolution, and further guestimated a "resolution" of 13,107,200 pixels.
What I DID forget to do was multiply the whole deal by 2, since we have 2 eyes, doubling the actual bandwidth. So, my guess was really only for each eye individually.
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Actually, according to a height study dome for redesigning airline chairs from 1999 or 2000 (I don't recall) we in the 74+ inch height range are in the top 0.1% of the population. When the airline was redesigning their chairs, (I think it was United, but I could be wrong) the targeted 99.8% of the population which was 4'10" or 4"11 to 6'3" (I remember the top height because I don't care about short people;)). So, if 0.@% are taller or shorter than that range, then only 0.1% is taller, and that's us.
So airline seats still suck for us.
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Well, you can guesstimate some of these things even though it's apples and oranges. In this case, we're still dealing with round fruits. Take sight for example. At about 24 inches away, my 1280x1024 display fills about a quarter of my visual field's width, about a third of the height, and we lose about a "screen full" at where the corners would be. The eye has high resolution around the center, but poorer resolution in the periphery, so let's even it out. We'll say it's 10*(1280*1024), or a pixel matrix with 13,107,200 pixels. At three bytes per pixel for full color, and we'll be conservative and add an extra byte for additional luminance range thanks to both black and white vision, and the dynamic adjustment of the iris, and put each pixel at 32 bits. That's 52,428,800 bytes per "frame" (the eye sees fluidly, but we know high speed images look fluid to the eye, like TV and movies), and while movies are 24fps, TV is 25 or 30fps depending, when we play video games, we tend to like them above 60fps for the best fluidity, so we'll go with 60 frames per second. that's the equivalent of 3,145,728,000 bytes of visual information per second, about 3 gigabytes per second.
Now think about that's just the data. The brain takes all that data, and processes it in real time. Just glancing around you instantly recognize your monitor, your chair, your shoes, your various toys and gadgets, papers, pens, and all the individual items on your desk. You can instantly read all the labels and words and logos. You can watch where the gun in your FPS is and notice that giant monster coing out of the left side of the screen too, so you can process LOTS of data ABOUT that visual information, in real time. You're transforming 3GB of data into a LOT of useful information instantly. That's impressive.
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Temperature sensations aren't transmitted as quickly as pain sensations are. Plus, you flinched before the impact because the eye detected somethign close to the face unexpectedly, which is separate from a flinch from an impact that you don't see coming. It's anticipatory rather than reactive.
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you couldn't GPL a spec, you'd use the FDL, really. Even if you did inapropriately use the GPL for docs, it still wouldn't affect the implementation of that spec. MS could create a 100% closed source library for it, and someone else could create a 100% GPLed library, and they'd read and write the same files with no licencing issues. Think about it like Dreamweaver (closed source) versus NVu (open source), or Photoshop and GIMP (Gods forgive me for putting them in the same sentence), passing creted files back and forth. Hell, with GIMP and PS, they both do PNGs.
Sony has announced that the PS3's price will increase another $100 at each price point. A sony spokebot said this is entirely unrelated to the fact that they're up to their asses in explodable batteries and red ink.
I personally don't favor MS or Sony. The home console I owned was the 8 bit NES. I owned a Gameboy Pocket for a while but only for the Zelda games at the time. I'm not a console gamer myself. But this whole bit of whining about being "forced" to buy bluray is stupid. No, it's not essential, they COULD have developed it with DVD, or HD-DVD, or even some totally new drive technology like FMD, etc. They developed UMD for the PSP. The storage medium they CHOSE is bluray, so that's it. You don't get to chose what FPU or how many pipelines you get in the PS3 CPU, you don't get much choise of case color, you don't get to choose button configurations, or cable lengths, or a billion other details. This is just another detail you don't get to chose about. I don't head anyone whining you CAN'T buy bluray for the 360. "MS is FORCING me out of bluray! They only offer HD-DVD!" Manufacturers offer you LIMITED choices because it's too expensive. MS backs HD DVD, and that's your only choice on 360 (for upgrading). Wii doesn't even offer either, so that's a forced choice too.
Basically, I'm sick of people whining about stupid stuff. Choice is limited in life.
There's where you get into sticky wickets. A PS3 game also doesn't need PS2/PS1 emulation, but it's there. Not every game is made for more than one player, but extra ports are there. No one is going to use HDMI _AND_ other video outputs at the same time, but they're there. They're called features. Not every game will use every feature. MS Office/Open Office, IE/Firefox, etc, don't need a 3D gfx card, but you have it for when you want to use Google Earth or a 3D game.
Well, the 360 comment wasn't part of the analogy... My point was, if you don't want bluray, you don't want a PS3.
But you see, you're not forced in any respect. It's not like there's a DVD model they calcelled or anything the machine was designed with bluray form the get go. You're no more forec her than if you were to say you want a Ferarri, but only with a V6 becvause you dont' want to be forced to buy a V12. If you don't want to get Bluray, buy a 360. If you DO want the product, then that's the product you want, and that's what it's made with.
"So he has a great track record. *rolleyes*"
Actually, the Gov't won and MS found guilty. But then the administration changed, and John Ashcroft's DOJ was tasked with finding a way to let MS off the hook.
"Doing that means a crapload of both volts and amps."
Is that crapload US/Imperial or metric/SI? I know the difference between a metric and US crapload is small, but at these levels, that difference compounds. Now, had you measured it in assloads, or the universal shit-ton, then we'd have a total other story.
Actually, I was thinking about the pickup trucks that exploded when hit on the side, but thanks for reminding me about the Pinto. :)
Riiiiiiiight, sure they have. Do you expect me to believe a multibulliondollar international corporation would be so stupid as to do something as underhanded like distribute under-tested batteries or stealth-installer-rootkits on music CDs? Pfeh. Next thing you'll try and tell me Ford made exploding cars...
"Math is to physics what masturbation is to sex."
So... basically I can do this in my non-air-conditioned apartment. Wicked!
I totally agre with you. As potential employees, we need to start standing up. I recently interviewed for a position at an ISP. I was asked if I would sign an blanket NDA and a Non-compete. I said no to both. No blanket NDA because it's too easy to violate accidentally. If I were to be exposed to truly confidential company info, then I would sign a specific NDA without a problem, but no blanket NDAs. And no to a non-compete because I wasn't going to give up my ability to find and do other work on the side. I said, "I give you my word I will not steal your customers with info from here, but if someone comes up to me on the street, that's fair game. If my word isn't good enough, then you shouldn't hire me. All the paper would do for you is give you a potential ability to sue me, and by then, we'd both look bad anyway, so it's a waste. It's an at-will state, if I try anything funny you can fire me."
My honesty got me the job, and they didn't ask me about either document again.
Just say no to invasions of privacy. No matter how badly you need it now, you'll regret it far more later.
The yellow dots printed by color lasers are printed out from firmware in the printer. OSS drivers would be useless. BUnnie has been trying to determine exactly where in his incredibly rare free time. http://www.bunniestudios.com/wordpress/?p=53
If they can detect "invalid clicks" then they can filter them just as well. There's no need to execute someone for jaywalking. There's nothing stopping them from warning people either, "hey, we see some unusual activity here, you should look into XYZ for solutions". None of that would risk their proprietary info. Hell, even just saying "We see a lot of clicks from these few IPs" isn't proprietary. that's just simple logging.
My point is, there are less drastic ways of handling things than cutting us off at the knees with zero recourse. We don't even get paid for the VALID clicks we generated, and they got weeks or months of space on our site.
On the gripping hand, we agreed to the TOS... That was our fault...
Ditto on my blog. Exact same timing with money too. This is a rampant problem from what I can see. And trying ot get ANY information out of them is impossible. I can't even get telephone calls returned. They NEVER will tell you what invaolid clicks there were, when, etc. So basically, they get free space on yoru site, and get out of paying, and never have to prove why.
Jerry? This is God. I know what you do in the basement with the donkey and the swing. Stop talking for me or I'll persuade Conchita (you know, the maid you imported from San Salvador?) to drop those tapes off at CNN.
"All of this is analog, not digital, so a "bit" isn't really isn't even a very good way of measuring this to begin with.
So, that might be why I said ,"Well, you can guesstimate some of these things even though it's apples and oranges."
"You only have the ability to pick up details at the very center of your field of vision."
And that might be why I said "The eye has high resolution around the center, but poorer resolution in the periphery, so let's even it out."
Now THAT I would watch. Vulcan chicks were always well endowed to begin with.
No, actually, if you re-read my post, I guesstimated 1280x1024 as a fraction of the eye's resolution, and further guestimated a "resolution" of 13,107,200 pixels. What I DID forget to do was multiply the whole deal by 2, since we have 2 eyes, doubling the actual bandwidth. So, my guess was really only for each eye individually.
Actually, according to a height study dome for redesigning airline chairs from 1999 or 2000 (I don't recall) we in the 74+ inch height range are in the top 0.1% of the population. When the airline was redesigning their chairs, (I think it was United, but I could be wrong) the targeted 99.8% of the population which was 4'10" or 4"11 to 6'3" (I remember the top height because I don't care about short people ;)). So, if 0.@% are taller or shorter than that range, then only 0.1% is taller, and that's us.
So airline seats still suck for us.
Well, you can guesstimate some of these things even though it's apples and oranges. In this case, we're still dealing with round fruits. Take sight for example. At about 24 inches away, my 1280x1024 display fills about a quarter of my visual field's width, about a third of the height, and we lose about a "screen full" at where the corners would be. The eye has high resolution around the center, but poorer resolution in the periphery, so let's even it out. We'll say it's 10*(1280*1024), or a pixel matrix with 13,107,200 pixels. At three bytes per pixel for full color, and we'll be conservative and add an extra byte for additional luminance range thanks to both black and white vision, and the dynamic adjustment of the iris, and put each pixel at 32 bits. That's 52,428,800 bytes per "frame" (the eye sees fluidly, but we know high speed images look fluid to the eye, like TV and movies), and while movies are 24fps, TV is 25 or 30fps depending, when we play video games, we tend to like them above 60fps for the best fluidity, so we'll go with 60 frames per second. that's the equivalent of 3,145,728,000 bytes of visual information per second, about 3 gigabytes per second.
Now think about that's just the data. The brain takes all that data, and processes it in real time. Just glancing around you instantly recognize your monitor, your chair, your shoes, your various toys and gadgets, papers, pens, and all the individual items on your desk. You can instantly read all the labels and words and logos. You can watch where the gun in your FPS is and notice that giant monster coing out of the left side of the screen too, so you can process LOTS of data ABOUT that visual information, in real time. You're transforming 3GB of data into a LOT of useful information instantly. That's impressive.
Temperature sensations aren't transmitted as quickly as pain sensations are. Plus, you flinched before the impact because the eye detected somethign close to the face unexpectedly, which is separate from a flinch from an impact that you don't see coming. It's anticipatory rather than reactive.
I flinch when your wife tells me that too. Man, she can go on for hours. She talks forever too.
Wow, that'll be a LOT of fucking. Better stock up on protein shakes and Gatorade.