Re:SWF is not a proprietary format.
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I wasn't thinking in terms of a corporation making a product. (I am sure, in that case, that the wise thing to do would be to put the thing in front of the company's corporate lawyer, and/or possibly ask Macromedia for clarification on that point.) I was instead thinking about somebody implementing an open-source version of an SWF player, or an open-source utility that converts SWF to SVG, etc. However, I have since actually read the spec (after getting it from another source that did not require me to enable scripting in my browser), and have determined that that somebody will not be me.
SVG appears to have nearly everything that SWF does, and many things that it doesn't. (The only exception (that I can find) is the ability of apps outputing SWF to gracefully degrade the SWF stream on-the-fly, depending on network conditions. Since SVG files, unlike SWF streams, are non-sequential, it is much more problematic, if not impossible, for apps to so this on-the-fly with SVG files.)
Re:SWF is not a proprietary format.
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OK, I missed that part, but even that can be interpreted such that "sole" applies to "developing", as opposed to something like "reverse-engineering" or "critizing" or "using to develop a competing standard". That is, the only thing that I can use it for is developing an application that outputs SWF. If the application outputs SWF, then I can use the specs to develop other parts of the app that may do other things, like display SWF.
If they did not want a developer to develop an application that did other things, they should have worded it something like "you are granted a nonexclusive license to use the Specification for the sole purposes of developing Products whose sole purpose is to output SWF".
Maybe an alian race has an unusually easy to pronounce name. Like "Bob" or "people of Bob"
IIRC, the evil entity in "Twin Peaks" was named "Bob". I don't know whether it was alien, though, or whether the name referred to the race of the entity or to the entity itself.
Re:SWF is not a proprietary format.
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I just don't see that anywhere in the license. The only thing I see that comes close are restrictions 3d and 3e, which I interpret to mean that if the product outputs SWF files, then it must adhere to those restrictions. If they wanted to state that the product must output SWF files, they should have made that statement unconditionally, and then stated the types of SWF files that must be output. For example, instead of "You agree that your Product must output SWF files that can playback without Errors in the latest versions of the Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh...", they should state "You agree that your Product must output SWF files, and these files must be playable without Errors in the latest versions of...".
The restrictions in their license are analogous to "You must speak quietly in the library", which doesn't mean that you must speak and speak quietly, but rather means that if you speak, you must speak quietly. So I interpret those restrictions to be in effect only if my app outputs SWF files, not that it must output SWF files.
Even if statements 3d and 3e mean that the product must always output SWF files, it doesn't mean that the product can't output other things (such as video output to the screen). Just output the SWF file to/dev/null.
Caveat: IANAL, but my interpretation seems sensible to me.
Another great station in Rochester is "North Coast Radio", WJZR, 105.9. Nice jazz, very rare these days.
Re:SWF is not a proprietary format.
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The license does not allow the creation of Flash players that compete with Macromedia's, or the creation of tools that read Flash and output something else (like SVG). That's hardly open.
I don't see that anywhere in the license. The license does place some restrictions on the contents of any SWF files produced (must not have errors, must be playable on latest player, etc.); but I don't see anywhere that it states that other file formats can't be output, nor do I see anywhere that it states that competing products cannot be created.
Unfortunately, I can't download the specification itself, because the form requires that Javascript be enabled to be able to download the specification.
The second law is perfectly consistent with the second law of thermodynamics.
What??? "A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law" is perfectly consistent with the second law of thermodynamics?
A printer could print itself, or, more accurately, a copy of itself, if its width, height, and depth are different from each other. Let us assume that the source printer is 1x2x3 (of whatever unit you want). Further, the "print head" is 1x2, located on the side of the printer that's 2x3. The printer could print a copy of itself by printing 1x2 cross-sections. The printer would have to contain enough empty space so that the amount of material comprising it with empty "ink" (polymer) tanks is less than the amount of polymer it takes to fill the tanks, or you would have to refill the tanks while the printing is occuring. Another solution is to have the printer use cartriges, and print those separately, or to make all of the polymers out of materials that are found in the atmosphere (oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, etc.), in which case, the printer would need no "ink" at all!
Not everything in the sections gets to the front page. All turning Science on does is present the sidebar in the right-hand column, which will point you to recent science articles. You can also click on the Science link in the left-hand column (Under "Sections"), which will take you to a page formatted like the front page (with article summaries), but which contains only science articles.
int main(void) { int new; return 20//* yes this is legal */10; }
You can go a bit further. If you remove the "int new" line, and add a semicolon immediately before the right brace, you get a program that will compile in both C and C++, but return different results (2 and 20, respectively).
college
class 1
homework
schedule
notes... or college
homework
class 1
class 2...
Under Linux/UNIX, you can do both, linking the files (soft or hard) across directories. Under MSWin*, you can also do something similar, but not as flexible, using shortcuts.
... three main types of people in the world of open source: those who fix things, those who try to improve existings things (i.e., make it run faster, smaller, etc.) and those who like to tinker and make new stuff.
You forgot about the fourth catagory: those who don't themselves contribute to open source, but who instead bitch about those who fix things, those who try to improve existings things, and those who like to tinker and make new stuff.
Since the neurons that grow are olfactory in nature, I would speculate that it may not be the sex itself, but the smell of the partner (i.e., pheromones) that is triggering the development of new neurons. If this is the case, then masturbation probably would not work. All of these possibilities should be tested: 1. Masturbation while the nose is plugged. 2. Masturbation while the nose is not plugged. 3. Sex while the nose is plugged. 4. Sex while the nose is not plugged. 5. Smelling the scent of sex without engaging in actual intercourse. I volunteer for test #3 or 4.
When I speak, I generally refer to something doing so-and-so "to you" and "you do this" or "you do that", but in written English that does not work so well.
You mean like writing "In Soviet Russia, you are belong to all our base" instead of "Us are belong to all our base", as your critic did?
RE: "In Soviet Russia" jokes
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In Soviet Russia, the same tired joke over and over again tells some unimaginative loser.
I'm sorry, but this joke got old about a billion times faster than the "All your base are belong to us" variations. (Sorry, "Us are belong to all your base".)
I can't wait until we (the generation/group of people that has two braincells to rub together) get into seniority.
Please remember that some of the group now in seniority grew up in the '60s, the era of "flower power" and anti-war movements. We had ideals then, too, and couldn't wait until we got into power. We were going to change things for the better. (Actually, in some respects, we have.) The problem is that what some people think is better isn't what other people think is better.
How much difference is there, really, between Bush the Younger and Clinton? They both wanted to add a huge new bureaucracy to an already-bloated government. Clinton (health care) failed; Bush (homeland "security") succeeded. Both want to take away freedoms and privacy. And both are people, who, when they were young and idealistic, would have been very much opposed to the things that they promoted once they came into power. Crap rises to the top in politics.
There are still some of us, many of us, who were children of the '60s, who don't like where we have come, where we are now, where we are going. Somehow, things got off track.
We were young; we were idealistic; we were going to change the world. And we did, but not how we intended. Somehow, we lost control, and the world turned out differently than we expected. This happens to every generation. It happened to us. It will happen to you. You wait and see.
the ability of the literate to read them without continually having to stop and reparse.
Worse, I have found that the speed of my reading in general has slowed, due to my having to parse every instance of its/it's (and they're/there/their, lose/loose, etc.) that I see now. My mind no longer has their meanings "cast in concrete", so to speak. This is due to their erroneous uses here and elsewhere on the 'net, and not at all related to my advancing age.
It's sad that errors like these don't always glare out at me any more. I still get stopped by "alot" and "all intesive purposes", but "try and" usually just flows right by me now. Very sad.
People want webpages to seem alive. People want an interactive web. This is something that's a foreign concept to most linux users: You are all used to seeing pages like CGIwrap's webpage
That page loads almost instantly, has no scripting, flash, or other security-reducing crap, doesn't try to override my browser preferences, and is very readable.
Take a look, for example, at the 2 Advanced Studios webpage. Tell me you've seen a cooler webpage, and I'll tell you you're lying.
That page takes over 10 seconds to load over my 56K modem line, and uses pictures for text, which are unreadable without a microscope on my 1600x1200 19" display. I don't think that that's very cool at all. And I'm not lying.
give people what they want. It's all about target marketing. Linux geeks are content to see pages like the cgi-wrap page. HOWEVER, normal people are impressed by things that move, things that make noise, things that interact.
So, you are writing that web pages should be designed like Fisher-Price toys, that your target market is people with the intelligence or attention span of babies?
Making a good looking, interactive page, with javascript menus, flash animations, etc, means "I have taken an interest in my work, and I care what it looks like".
Making a page with javascript menus, flash animations, etc., means "I don't care about the viewer's bandwith requirements. I don't care about viewers who have all of that crap turned off due to security concerns, company policy, etc. I don't care whether my page is accessible to people with disabilities. I care more about what the page looks like than about the information. The content on my page is so uninteresting, so dull, so incredibly boring, that I have to dress it up to try to distract the user from realizing that I don't really have much to say."
they know how to make a page look better than you do
But I don't want my web page to look better than I do.:)
People like him are the reason it's ok to have a website that looks like [feces], and I say I've had enough.
People like you are the reason that web designers think that it's OK to have a website with all flash (pun intended) and glitter ("Oooo! Shiny!"), but devoid of content.
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I wasn't thinking in terms of a corporation making a product.
(I am sure, in that case, that the wise thing to do would be to put the thing in front of the company's corporate lawyer, and/or possibly ask Macromedia for clarification on that point.)
I was instead thinking about somebody implementing an open-source version of an SWF player, or an open-source utility that converts SWF to SVG, etc.
However, I have since actually read the spec (after getting it from another source that did not require me to enable scripting in my browser), and have determined that that somebody will not be me.
SVG appears to have nearly everything that SWF does, and many things that it doesn't.
(The only exception (that I can find) is the ability of apps outputing SWF to gracefully degrade the SWF stream on-the-fly, depending on network conditions.
Since SVG files, unlike SWF streams, are non-sequential, it is much more problematic, if not impossible, for apps to so this on-the-fly with SVG files.)
OK, I missed that part, but even that can be interpreted such that "sole" applies to "developing", as opposed to something like "reverse-engineering" or "critizing" or "using to develop a competing standard".
That is, the only thing that I can use it for is developing an application that outputs SWF.
If the application outputs SWF, then I can use the specs to develop other parts of the app that may do other things, like display SWF.
If they did not want a developer to develop an application that did other things, they should have worded it something like "you are granted a nonexclusive license to use the Specification for the sole purposes of developing Products whose sole purpose is to output SWF".
Maybe an alian race has an unusually easy to pronounce name. Like "Bob" or "people of Bob"
IIRC, the evil entity in "Twin Peaks" was named "Bob".
I don't know whether it was alien, though, or whether the name referred to the race of the entity or to the entity itself.
I just don't see that anywhere in the license. ...", they should state "You agree that your Product must output SWF files, and these files must be playable without Errors in the latest versions of ...".
/dev/null.
The only thing I see that comes close are restrictions 3d and 3e, which I interpret to mean that if the product outputs SWF files, then it must adhere to those restrictions.
If they wanted to state that the product must output SWF files, they should have made that statement unconditionally, and then stated the types of SWF files that must be output.
For example, instead of "You agree that your Product must output SWF files that can playback without Errors in the latest versions of the Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh
The restrictions in their license are analogous to "You must speak quietly in the library", which doesn't mean that you must speak and speak quietly, but rather means that if you speak, you must speak quietly.
So I interpret those restrictions to be in effect only if my app outputs SWF files, not that it must output SWF files.
Even if statements 3d and 3e mean that the product must always output SWF files, it doesn't mean that the product can't output other things (such as video output to the screen).
Just output the SWF file to
Caveat: IANAL, but my interpretation seems sensible to me.
Another great station in Rochester is "North Coast Radio", WJZR, 105.9.
Nice jazz, very rare these days.
The license does not allow the creation of Flash players that compete with Macromedia's, or the creation of tools that read Flash and output something else (like SVG). That's hardly open.
I don't see that anywhere in the license.
The license does place some restrictions on the contents of any SWF files produced (must not have errors, must be playable on latest player, etc.); but I don't see anywhere that it states that other file formats can't be output, nor do I see anywhere that it states that competing products cannot be created.
Unfortunately, I can't download the specification itself, because the form requires that Javascript be enabled to be able to download the specification.
The second law is perfectly consistent with the second law of thermodynamics.
What???
"A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law" is perfectly consistent with the second law of thermodynamics?
everyone should by now have a different individual that they think first said it.
It was Benjamin Santayana.
A printer could print itself, or, more accurately, a copy of itself, if its width, height, and depth are different from each other.
Let us assume that the source printer is 1x2x3 (of whatever unit you want).
Further, the "print head" is 1x2, located on the side of the printer that's 2x3.
The printer could print a copy of itself by printing 1x2 cross-sections.
The printer would have to contain enough empty space so that the amount of material comprising it with empty "ink" (polymer) tanks is less than the amount of polymer it takes to fill the tanks, or you would have to refill the tanks while the printing is occuring.
Another solution is to have the printer use cartriges, and print those separately, or to make all of the polymers out of materials that are found in the atmosphere (oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, etc.), in which case, the printer would need no "ink" at all!
Not everything in the sections gets to the front page.
All turning Science on does is present the sidebar in the right-hand column, which will point you to recent science articles.
You can also click on the Science link in the left-hand column (Under "Sections"), which will take you to a page formatted like the front page (with article summaries), but which contains only science articles.
1. I don't know.
2. I don't know.
3. I don't know.
I hope that this has been of some help to you.
If you remove the "int new" line, and add a semicolon immediately before the right brace, you get a program that will compile in both C and C++, but return different results (2 and 20, respectively).
college ... ...
class 1
homework
schedule
notes
or
college
homework
class 1
class 2
Under Linux/UNIX, you can do both, linking the files (soft or hard) across directories.
Under MSWin*, you can also do something similar, but not as flexible, using shortcuts.
I also live in Upstate New York (near Rochester), and I've usually heard it called "pop", or by its actual brand name.
... three main types of people in the world of open source: those who fix things, those who try to improve existings things (i.e., make it run faster, smaller, etc.) and those who like to tinker and make new stuff.
You forgot about the fourth catagory: those who don't themselves contribute to open source, but who instead bitch about those who fix things, those who try to improve existings things, and those who like to tinker and make new stuff.
Since the neurons that grow are olfactory in nature, I would speculate that it may not be the sex itself, but the smell of the partner (i.e., pheromones) that is triggering the development of new neurons.
If this is the case, then masturbation probably would not work.
All of these possibilities should be tested:
1. Masturbation while the nose is plugged.
2. Masturbation while the nose is not plugged.
3. Sex while the nose is plugged.
4. Sex while the nose is not plugged.
5. Smelling the scent of sex without engaging in actual intercourse.
I volunteer for test #3 or 4.
It's obviously a sig virus.
"ZZ" is faster than either of those methods.
When I speak, I generally refer to something doing so-and-so "to you" and "you do this" or "you do that", but in written English that does not work so well.
You mean like writing "In Soviet Russia, you are belong to all our base" instead of "Us are belong to all our base", as your critic did?
Incidentally, that joke is getting old.
us being[sic] to all your base
No, it's "Us are belong to all your base".
And I already wrote that.
In Soviet Russia, the same tired joke over and over again tells some unimaginative loser.
I'm sorry, but this joke got old about a billion times faster than the "All your base are belong to us" variations.
(Sorry, "Us are belong to all your base".)
I can't wait until we (the generation/group of people that has two braincells to rub together) get into seniority.
Please remember that some of the group now in seniority grew up in the '60s, the era of "flower power" and anti-war movements.
We had ideals then, too, and couldn't wait until we got into power.
We were going to change things for the better.
(Actually, in some respects, we have.)
The problem is that what some people think is better isn't what other people think is better.
How much difference is there, really, between Bush the Younger and Clinton?
They both wanted to add a huge new bureaucracy to an already-bloated government.
Clinton (health care) failed; Bush (homeland "security") succeeded.
Both want to take away freedoms and privacy.
And both are people, who, when they were young and idealistic, would have been very much opposed to the things that they promoted once they came into power.
Crap rises to the top in politics.
There are still some of us, many of us, who were children of the '60s, who don't like where we have come, where we are now, where we are going.
Somehow, things got off track.
We were young; we were idealistic; we were going to change the world.
And we did, but not how we intended.
Somehow, we lost control, and the world turned out differently than we expected.
This happens to every generation.
It happened to us.
It will happen to you.
You wait and see.
the ability of the literate to read them without continually having to stop and reparse.
Worse, I have found that the speed of my reading in general has slowed, due to my having to parse every instance of its/it's (and they're/there/their, lose/loose, etc.) that I see now.
My mind no longer has their meanings "cast in concrete", so to speak.
This is due to their erroneous uses here and elsewhere on the 'net, and not at all related to my advancing age.
It's sad that errors like these don't always glare out at me any more.
I still get stopped by "alot" and "all intesive purposes", but "try and" usually just flows right by me now.
Very sad.
this is one weird dude. For one thing, he's a vegan.
There's nothing weird about being vegan.
However, the fact that he's vegan, but also wears leather shoes, now that's weird.
People want webpages to seem alive. People want an interactive web. This is something that's a foreign concept to most linux users: You are all used to seeing pages like CGIwrap's webpage
:)
That page loads almost instantly, has no scripting, flash, or other security-reducing crap, doesn't try to override my browser preferences, and is very readable.
Take a look, for example, at the 2 Advanced Studios webpage. Tell me you've seen a cooler webpage, and I'll tell you you're lying.
That page takes over 10 seconds to load over my 56K modem line, and uses pictures for text, which are unreadable without a microscope on my 1600x1200 19" display.
I don't think that that's very cool at all.
And I'm not lying.
give people what they want. It's all about target marketing. Linux geeks are content to see pages like the cgi-wrap page. HOWEVER, normal people are impressed by things that move, things that make noise, things that interact.
So, you are writing that web pages should be designed like Fisher-Price toys, that your target market is people with the intelligence or attention span of babies?
Making a good looking, interactive page, with javascript menus, flash animations, etc, means "I have taken an interest in my work, and I care what it looks like".
Making a page with javascript menus, flash animations, etc., means "I don't care about the viewer's bandwith requirements. I don't care about viewers who have all of that crap turned off due to security concerns, company policy, etc. I don't care whether my page is accessible to people with disabilities. I care more about what the page looks like than about the information. The content on my page is so uninteresting, so dull, so incredibly boring, that I have to dress it up to try to distract the user from realizing that I don't really have much to say."
they know how to make a page look better than you do
But I don't want my web page to look better than I do.
People like him are the reason it's ok to have a website that looks like [feces], and I say I've had enough.
People like you are the reason that web designers think that it's OK to have a website with all flash (pun intended) and glitter ("Oooo! Shiny!"), but devoid of content.