We at Microsoft respect Novell's point of view on the patent issue, even while we respectfully take a different view. Novell is absolutely right in stating that it did not admit or acknowledge any patent problems as part of entering into the patent collaboration agreement. At Microsoft we undertook our own analysis of our patent portfolio and concluded that it was necessary and important to create a patent covenant for customers of these products. We are gratified that such a solution is now in place.
Eh, it kind of varies. Mostly Winamp 5, though I've flirted with iTunes a bit, but mostly given it up due to the bloat. And sometimes Windows Media Player does things, and I don't mind.
Then of course there is the Windows Media Center, for when I'm using my remote and my Destination monitor... but I'd like to switch it all to MythTV on that and just get a mac mini for my personal desktop use.
This would be pretty great. I run pretty much only open-source software for almost everything I do (except media playback), yet I've found Windows XP to be the most stable platform on which to do so on my PC.
An often-missed feature of Windows is the fact that you can embed anything on the web into your taskbar. If you find documents appropriately-sized, this can make it easy to add live information to the taskbar.
Obsolete? Hardly.
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I generally consider things to be obsolete when they have been replaced by something better. How does this apply to Hubble?
While Everything2 is a very good and perhaps fun community, I was specifically referring to Everything2's stated goal to gather information about "Everything", and its ability to reach that goal compared to Wikipedia.
Google indexes lots of sites without screwing up the entire site. Why everything2 has so much trouble with Google baffles me, but I suspect it's some combination of crappy software, crappy hardware, and a crappy site. I thought Everything2 was great when I first found it, but it has become evident that the Everything2 model was flawed, and it didn't reach its goals, and has instead been eclipsed (to say the very least) by Wikipedia.
Just yesterday I was looking to download their "Expander" in order to view some files a macintosh user was sending me (proofing a newspaper ad). By default, I suppose, it used the.sit format.
After my experience there, can I expect to be led through a complicated and deceptive trick into downloading the trial version of some overpriced software, where I'm required to give up my email address, and the whole thing never works anyway? Stuffit might have great technology, but any company that wants to provide a proprietary format for anything will only be useful if *anyone* can open the format. Adobe knows that. And trying desperately to hook into people who *have* to turn to you to uncompress things and sell them things they most likely don't need isn't useful. It will just make StuffIt (.sit files) useless to people who *are* paying customers, because it's such a hassle for people to open the files.
Neat. Where are my mod points when I need them?
Seriously, thanks for sharing. One day if I can afford it, I plan to get a squeezebox thing. It would be fun to hack on, and get Real Rhapsody on. And all the other stuff it can do.
--
Sam Kennedy
A bit on the end of the rom image is different on the DS, therefore, it is possible for GBA software to detect that they are on a DS.
Re:URL is same, with ?complete=1?
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This is the same mechanism by which the Gmail application receives its data.
It seems like Google has become a big fan of this XMLHTTP object and its Mozilla cousin. It's a great way to give web applications access to live data without requiring a page refresh.
Somehow, I doubt that those sued by the RIAA for copyright infringement are settling for any other reason than that they are guilty as can be. Innocent people who didn't deserve to be sued would be confident of their ability to countersue the RIAA for legal costs. Guilty music thieves would know that paying a lawyer to defend their guilty asses would be stupid. Since they are guilty.
Don't you have any explanation besides the nebulous term "lawyer tricks" to explain away your "the rich cheat justice" conspiracy theory?
If the RIAA were really suing innocent people, their lawsuit wouldn't survive summary judgement in any court. There are many well-known mechanisms built into our justice system that require a case to be reasonable and viable before it is tried.
This question makes no sense. If the RIAA had ripped off someone elses' intellectual property, they would be just as easy to sue.
And if music thieves don't believe they have done anything wrong, why are they settling? The RIAA might be able to hire good lawyers, but they can't change the truth.
The number one reason might be some sort of a legal action from MS
Microsoft is going to sue Google for using an operating system library? For which SDKs have been released, with license terms specifically granting such use? Not likely.
As for ease of app development I'd say XUL kicks MSHTML any day.
XUL is a GUI framework. MSHTML is an web rendering engine. Perhaps you mean you'd prefer Gecko to MSHTML.
Or perhaps you just mean to spout [random open source thing] is better than [random microsoft thing]. Whatever.
Many people think that the GPL implies free (beer) software. It doesn't. Software can completely be sold under the GPL, and this is something people aren't aware enough of. Here are some examples I know of:
An interesting consequence of the GPL is that even though software is sold under the GPL, it may then be redistributed (in binary and source) by anyone. A discussion and demonstration of this can be found here.
Unfortunately, I no longer have the script I used to accomplish that.
After trying for a little while to fool around with DirectShow, I
settled for a relatively crude hack that used the SendKeys mechanism
to emulate the keystrokes necessary to tell Windows Media Encoder what
to do. With the release of DirectX 9, however, it seems that there
might be a better way to get this done:
Slashdot Mirror
Aah yes, the good ol' Intel 80266.
Wait. What?
http://www.craphound.com/podcast.php Cory Doctorow is an award-winning science fiction author who reads his stories in podcasts. Audio only, though.
Eh, it kind of varies. Mostly Winamp 5, though I've flirted with iTunes a bit, but mostly given it up due to the bloat. And sometimes Windows Media Player does things, and I don't mind.
Then of course there is the Windows Media Center, for when I'm using my remote and my Destination monitor... but I'd like to switch it all to MythTV on that and just get a mac mini for my personal desktop use.
This would be pretty great. I run pretty much only open-source software for almost everything I do (except media playback), yet I've found Windows XP to be the most stable platform on which to do so on my PC.
An often-missed feature of Windows is the fact that you can embed anything on the web into your taskbar. If you find documents appropriately-sized, this can make it easy to add live information to the taskbar.
I generally consider things to be obsolete when they have been replaced by something better. How does this apply to Hubble?
While Everything2 is a very good and perhaps fun community, I was specifically referring to Everything2's stated goal to gather information about "Everything", and its ability to reach that goal compared to Wikipedia.
Google indexes lots of sites without screwing up the entire site. Why everything2 has so much trouble with Google baffles me, but I suspect it's some combination of crappy software, crappy hardware, and a crappy site. I thought Everything2 was great when I first found it, but it has become evident that the Everything2 model was flawed, and it didn't reach its goals, and has instead been eclipsed (to say the very least) by Wikipedia.
I think it comes close.
After my experience there, can I expect to be led through a complicated and deceptive trick into downloading the trial version of some overpriced software, where I'm required to give up my email address, and the whole thing never works anyway? Stuffit might have great technology, but any company that wants to provide a proprietary format for anything will only be useful if *anyone* can open the format. Adobe knows that. And trying desperately to hook into people who *have* to turn to you to uncompress things and sell them things they most likely don't need isn't useful. It will just make StuffIt (.sit files) useless to people who *are* paying customers, because it's such a hassle for people to open the files.
Neat. Where are my mod points when I need them? Seriously, thanks for sharing. One day if I can afford it, I plan to get a squeezebox thing. It would be fun to hack on, and get Real Rhapsody on. And all the other stuff it can do. -- Sam Kennedy
Haha! Are the moderators blind?!
A bit on the end of the rom image is different on the DS, therefore, it is possible for GBA software to detect that they are on a DS.
This is the same mechanism by which the Gmail application receives its data. It seems like Google has become a big fan of this XMLHTTP object and its Mozilla cousin. It's a great way to give web applications access to live data without requiring a page refresh.
Seems like they should make a .torrent out of that while they are at it.
Don't you have any explanation besides the nebulous term "lawyer tricks" to explain away your "the rich cheat justice" conspiracy theory?
If the RIAA were really suing innocent people, their lawsuit wouldn't survive summary judgement in any court. There are many well-known mechanisms built into our justice system that require a case to be reasonable and viable before it is tried.
Also noteworthy is that the Google Deskbar uses MSIE.
And if music thieves don't believe they have done anything wrong, why are they settling? The RIAA might be able to hire good lawyers, but they can't change the truth.
MSHTML is not the "MS version of embraced HTML". MSHTML is the name of the Windows rendering engine that is used by Internet Explorer, and others.
Microsoft is going to sue Google for using an operating system library? For which SDKs have been released, with license terms specifically granting such use? Not likely.
As for ease of app development I'd say XUL kicks MSHTML any day.
XUL is a GUI framework. MSHTML is an web rendering engine. Perhaps you mean you'd prefer Gecko to MSHTML.
Or perhaps you just mean to spout [random open source thing] is better than [random microsoft thing]. Whatever.
It really sounds like this is the Data Execution Protection feature. It's emulation of the NX feature of processors in software, and somewhere on Microsoft's website, I've read that it can slow some applications. There are also instructions for turning this off for the whole system, or just a few apps that seem particularly affected by it.
Lsongs (and other Linspire things)
Dansguardian - This is a particularly wacky one. If one downloads the source code, isn't he then able to use it however he wants? Or distribute it?
CMSimple
An interesting consequence of the GPL is that even though software is sold under the GPL, it may then be redistributed (in binary and source) by anyone. A discussion and demonstration of this can be found here.
Unfortunately, I no longer have the script I used to accomplish that. After trying for a little while to fool around with DirectShow, I settled for a relatively crude hack that used the SendKeys mechanism to emulate the keystrokes necessary to tell Windows Media Encoder what to do. With the release of DirectX 9, however, it seems that there might be a better way to get this done:
check this out
I encoded at 320x240 on a 1.4Ghz AMD Athlon Tbird with about 45% cpu load. Resolution is limited only by bandwidth and processing power, I reckon.