One of the great things about the original series was the cheesy but imaginative special effects. There is just no way that those could be duplicated today. Even the Dr.Who movie (which was made, what, over 10 years ago?) didn't look right, because the special effects were too good. And if they try to make the special effects look cheesy, they will just look bad.
"Also, if your triangles don't map perfectly with the texture, you'll get tearing along the crease between the two triangles"
I've never understood what the purpose of GL_QUAD_STRIP was if it doesn't interpolate the texture, normals, etc., between all four points of each quad. You may as well use a tri-strip.
Also, it would be nice if it interpolated when the four vertices were non-coplanar, although I can understand why it doesn't.
That's not entirely true. If the GPL becomes invalid, then all that happens is that people won't be able to use GPL software, because all that the GPL is, is a license to use copyrighted software. If the GPL goes away, that does not invalidate the copyrights. So if Microsoft tries to use someone's software, that someone can sue Microsoft for violating his/her copyright.
Yeah, it's common knowledge now, and I don't overflow buffers any more. But back around 1980, when I was just starting to use C, I checked for a buffer overflow in the length of a string, but forgot about the terminating null character. The definition just after the buffer definition was for the file descriptor of the output file. I couldn't figure out why, sometimes, output would suddenly start appearing on the console, until I realized that the null was overwriting the value of the file descriptor with 0, which is standard input, and when standard input is the console, you can write to it (at least on the version of UNIX that I was using then).
You can use GPL code in a commercial app if you either: a) Distribute the modified source code under the GPL along with the binary, or b) Don't distribute the binary.
Why would people pay in case a)? To receive support.
How can a commercial product not be distributed (case b))? You can use it in-house or as a server (e.g., a database or web server).
It's less an issue of upgrading the data to a new format, than it is the original resolution of the data in its old format. For example, let's say that pictures of the tablets were made at 1200dpi, 24-bit color. In the future, this will be considered low-res, as we now consider 72-dpi 256-color GIFs to be low-res. (Already, at least one of the new generation of graphics cards (due out this summer) will have 30 bits of color, instead of the current 24.) Imagine converting an old GIF into a TIFF or PNG. You really would notice the difference between it and something more recently scanned.
Then there is additional information that a TIFF doesn't provide in any form, e.g., a height map.
If all you want to read is the text itself, then a textual encoding is sufficient, and can be easily updated to new formats when warranted. (Purely "literary" works like Shakespeare or the LOC are prime candidates for this procedure.) But it's the information that current formats don't provide (e.g., higher resolution, 3D (holographic representation), material composition and density, spectographs, etc.) that make it worhwhile to re-digitize the original each generation, if the new generation adds additional capabilities (which it often does).
It's copyrighted, not copywritten. Copyrights have to do with rights to restrict others from rewriting (copying) what one writes, not about the actual writing. I hope that I have made myself clear writing about the right to rewrite.
This post is copyright 2002 by some guy I know. The right to write about the right to rewrite what was written here rightly belongs to me, and you have no right to rewrite what I wrote without my permission. Right?
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That should be legislative, judicial, and executive.
And congress writes (actually, enacts) laws; it doesn't "right" laws.
In fact, given some recent legislation (DMCA, etc.), it could be argued that congress "wrongs" laws.
how about some pointers? i don't know about the rest of us here, but i've never written to a representative. what's the best way to get their attention? are there any good points i should be making in this letter?
You have to get their attention.
The best way to do this is to write your message by hand on a shopping bag, using a big red crayon.
To reassure your congressmaster that you are not some whacko intellectual, be sure to frequently misspell words, use bad grammer, punctuation, and capitalization, and use lots and lots of exclamation points.
Shopping bags can be bulky and hard to remove from an envelope, so make sure that you sprinkle your letter liberally with talcum power before putting it in the envelope, to make it easier to remove.
Your congressmaster will thank you.
Congressmasters appreciate honesty, at least from their constituents, so don't be afraid to tell them that you didn't vote for them during the last election and won't during the next one, either.
Congressmasters appreciate strength, so make sure you let them know that you are prepared to take whatever action that you feel is necessary to achieve the result that you desire.
Writing "I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE!!!!!" multiple times in the margins of your letter is a very effective bargaining strategy.
Congressmasters need money to campaign to get reelected.
If there is a piece of legislation in which you are interested, let your congressmaster know that you will pay him/her to vote the way that you want.
This method works even for congressmasters that don't represent your district.
Remember, if big corporations can do it, then you can, too!
This reminds me of a scene from the movie "Dragnet". Joe Friday and the virgin Connie Swail are sitting in a car on a cliff overlooking L.A. at night, and the virgin Connie Swail looks up at the sky and says, in awe, something to the effect of "Look at the stars! I can see dozens of them!".
I wonder how many people got the joke.
It's sad that many people rarely see the stars on a clear, dark night away from sources of light and air pollution.
I read somewhere that a very large capacitor can be made using two rolls of aluminum foil and two rolls of waxed paper. Layer the four rolls such that the two waxed paper layers lead the two foil layers, and the two foil layers are offset to the left and right. Roll this up onto another tube, and you've got a very big capacitor.
I remember doing 3-d graphics in the early 70s. I wrote a fortran program that did hidden line removal and displayed the results on a line printer.
I also wrote one that did vector graphics on a Tektronix 4010 running on a PDP-11/40. That one was a spaceship that was controlled by the front panel switches, and displayed in "real time" (about 5 frames/second).
How would you like it if an ISP decided that it didn't want to bother transiting any Slashdot traffic?
I'd switch to a different ISP.
If an ISP is going to block email, then it should indicate exactly what email it's blocking (what domains, keywords, etc.).
As long as it does this, I have no problem with it; I can switch providers if I don't like the policy of my current one.
However, if one of the functions that it's charging you for in your monthly bill is delivering email, and it deliberately blocks certain email without telling you what it is that it's blocking, then it's committing fraud (charging for services not rendered). But as long as it's telling you what it's doing (and as long as it's not doing anything illegal), your ISP should be able to do what it wants to with its property.
The Internet is public. I will repeat this. The Internet is PUBLIC.
The Internet is not public. I will repeat this. The Internet is NOT PUBLIC.
It has some public elements. Parts of it are held by public institutions. Other parts of it are exposed to the public. But the vast majority of the Internet is owned by private companies.
Hamibi seems to claim that since Intel connected their network up to the Internet, it is now public domain, just like the public roads, and he should be able to send email to anyone on that network. By his reasoning, he should be able to put stuff in my garage because it's hooked up to the public roads via my driveway.
"Dot" may be a word, but "." is not. I guess that I could have titled it "A word, a punctuation mark, and another word, followed by a period/full stop", or possibly "Two words and two punctuation marks, alternating", but neither of these flows as well as "Two Words".
And it istwo words. No wonder you post anonymously, if you can't count.
(I'm not going to mention that you also ended a sentence with a preposition.)
Slashdot Mirror
But there was the SNL bailout--and who oversaw that, after all?
The government bailed out "Saturday Night Live"?
I think that the Doctor can regenerate only 13 times.
One of the great things about the original series was the cheesy but imaginative special effects.
There is just no way that those could be duplicated today.
Even the Dr.Who movie (which was made, what, over 10 years ago?) didn't look right, because the special effects were too good.
And if they try to make the special effects look cheesy, they will just look bad.
Also, no Dr. Who will be able to match Tom Baker.
"Also, if your triangles don't map perfectly with the texture, you'll get tearing along the crease between the two triangles"
I've never understood what the purpose of GL_QUAD_STRIP was if it doesn't interpolate the texture, normals, etc., between all four points of each quad.
You may as well use a tri-strip.
Also, it would be nice if it interpolated when the four vertices were non-coplanar, although I can understand why it doesn't.
That's not entirely true.
If the GPL becomes invalid, then all that happens is that people won't be able to use GPL software, because all that the GPL is, is a license to use copyrighted software.
If the GPL goes away, that does not invalidate the copyrights.
So if Microsoft tries to use someone's software, that someone can sue Microsoft for violating his/her copyright.
Yeah, it's common knowledge now, and I don't overflow buffers any more.
But back around 1980, when I was just starting to use C, I checked for a buffer overflow in the length of a string, but forgot about the terminating null character.
The definition just after the buffer definition was for the file descriptor of the output file.
I couldn't figure out why, sometimes, output would suddenly start appearing on the console, until I realized that the null was overwriting the value of the file descriptor with 0, which is standard input, and when standard input is the console, you can write to it (at least on the version of UNIX that I was using then).
< --> <
And if you want to display the ampersand (&):
& --> &
Or just pick "code" formatting from the drop-down box.
unlike optical media, which would obviously not last through...
Wait. Nevermind.
If you think that all optical media would survive an EMP, try putting a CD in a microwave.
That's wrong.
You can use GPL code in a commercial app if you either:
a) Distribute the modified source code under the GPL along with the binary, or
b) Don't distribute the binary.
Why would people pay in case a)?
To receive support.
How can a commercial product not be distributed (case b))?
You can use it in-house or as a server (e.g., a database or web server).
So you can use GPL code in commercial apps.
13 seconds?
But I want it now!
I recall reading about a very large program, written in assembly language, whose only comment was "RIPLVB", next to the constant 1827.
It turns out that 1827 was the year that Ludwig von Beethoven died.
It's less an issue of upgrading the data to a new format, than it is the original resolution of the data in its old format.
For example, let's say that pictures of the tablets were made at 1200dpi, 24-bit color.
In the future, this will be considered low-res, as we now consider 72-dpi 256-color GIFs to be low-res.
(Already, at least one of the new generation of graphics cards (due out this summer) will have 30 bits of color, instead of the current 24.)
Imagine converting an old GIF into a TIFF or PNG.
You really would notice the difference between it and something more recently scanned.
Then there is additional information that a TIFF doesn't provide in any form, e.g., a height map.
If all you want to read is the text itself, then a textual encoding is sufficient, and can be easily updated to new formats when warranted.
(Purely "literary" works like Shakespeare or the LOC are prime candidates for this procedure.)
But it's the information that current formats don't provide (e.g., higher resolution, 3D (holographic representation), material composition and density, spectographs, etc.) that make it worhwhile to re-digitize the original each generation, if the new generation adds additional capabilities (which it often does).
It's copyrighted, not copywritten.
Copyrights have to do with rights to restrict others from rewriting (copying) what one writes, not about the actual writing.
I hope that I have made myself clear writing about the right to rewrite.
This post is copyright 2002 by some guy I know.
The right to write about the right to rewrite what was written here rightly belongs to me, and you have no right to rewrite what I wrote without my permission.
Right?
General-Purpose Inkjet Printers in Review
Inkjet printers by the four leading manufacturers jockey for position in the $100-$300 range. They offer some attractive features, such as 20 pages per minute printing, separate cartridges, six colors and resolutions over 2400 dpi. Read on to find out the extensive results from over 20 tests, including quality, speed, cost per page and all the rest.
Canon Photo Printers: S900 and S9000
Canon 2002 is turning out to be even more aggressive than usual! The old S800 series has been replaced by six new printers. Two of these really stand out: the S900 and the S9000. The new series of printers still uses six cartridges, but the number of nozzles has doubled and there is a new border-free printing function. In order to be as thorough as possible, we not only compared them to the S800, but also to their rivals from Epson and HP. The following tests look at speed, quality and photo costs, in detail.
Check the "referer" field of the http request.
If it exists and is not in their domain, redirect to their front page.
Easy.
No litigation required.
That should be legislative, judicial, and executive.
And congress writes (actually, enacts) laws; it doesn't "right" laws. In fact, given some recent legislation (DMCA, etc.), it could be argued that congress "wrongs" laws.
You have to get their attention. The best way to do this is to write your message by hand on a shopping bag, using a big red crayon. To reassure your congressmaster that you are not some whacko intellectual, be sure to frequently misspell words, use bad grammer, punctuation, and capitalization, and use lots and lots of exclamation points.
Shopping bags can be bulky and hard to remove from an envelope, so make sure that you sprinkle your letter liberally with talcum power before putting it in the envelope, to make it easier to remove. Your congressmaster will thank you.
Congressmasters appreciate honesty, at least from their constituents, so don't be afraid to tell them that you didn't vote for them during the last election and won't during the next one, either.
Congressmasters appreciate strength, so make sure you let them know that you are prepared to take whatever action that you feel is necessary to achieve the result that you desire. Writing "I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE!!!!!" multiple times in the margins of your letter is a very effective bargaining strategy.
Congressmasters need money to campaign to get reelected. If there is a piece of legislation in which you are interested, let your congressmaster know that you will pay him/her to vote the way that you want. This method works even for congressmasters that don't represent your district. Remember, if big corporations can do it, then you can, too!
This reminds me of a scene from the movie "Dragnet".
Joe Friday and the virgin Connie Swail are sitting in a car on a cliff overlooking L.A. at night, and the virgin Connie Swail looks up at the sky and says, in awe, something to the effect of "Look at the stars! I can see dozens of them!".
I wonder how many people got the joke.
It's sad that many people rarely see the stars on a clear, dark night away from sources of light and air pollution.
I read somewhere that a very large capacitor can be made using two rolls of aluminum foil and two rolls of waxed paper.
Layer the four rolls such that the two waxed paper layers lead the two foil layers, and the two foil layers are offset to the left and right.
Roll this up onto another tube, and you've got a very big capacitor.
I remember doing 3-d graphics in the early 70s.
I wrote a fortran program that did hidden line removal and displayed the results on a line printer.
I also wrote one that did vector graphics on a Tektronix 4010 running on a PDP-11/40.
That one was a spaceship that was controlled by the front panel switches, and displayed in "real time" (about 5 frames/second).
7 years, indeed!
Check this out.
I'd switch to a different ISP.
If an ISP is going to block email, then it should indicate exactly what email it's blocking (what domains, keywords, etc.). As long as it does this, I have no problem with it; I can switch providers if I don't like the policy of my current one. However, if one of the functions that it's charging you for in your monthly bill is delivering email, and it deliberately blocks certain email without telling you what it is that it's blocking, then it's committing fraud (charging for services not rendered). But as long as it's telling you what it's doing (and as long as it's not doing anything illegal), your ISP should be able to do what it wants to with its property.
The Internet is not public. I will repeat this. The Internet is NOT PUBLIC.
It has some public elements. Parts of it are held by public institutions. Other parts of it are exposed to the public.
But the vast majority of the Internet is owned by private companies.
Hamibi seems to claim that since Intel connected their network up to the Internet, it is now public domain, just like the public roads, and he should be able to send email to anyone on that network.
By his reasoning, he should be able to put stuff in my garage because it's hooked up to the public roads via my driveway.
I guess that I could have titled it "A word, a punctuation mark, and another word, followed by a period/full stop", or possibly "Two words and two punctuation marks, alternating", but neither of these flows as well as "Two Words".
And it is two words.
No wonder you post anonymously, if you can't count.
(I'm not going to mention that you also ended a sentence with a preposition.)