"If the Content-type ProgID for a given file does not match the file extension ProgID, Internet Explorer in XP SP2 may take the following actions: 1) the user may be prompted to download the file and 2) the file will not be executed in the extension-handler if it fails to execute in the mime-handler."
I'm not so sure I like or agree with that one.
MIME types are there for a reason, so I can serve anyfile.anyext as text/html or image/jpeg. Or name.hubba as a Quicktime movie. I'd expect both to work, since that's what MIME types are for...
Extensions are a bad hack, and a relic from the DOS era. They should get rid of them instead of enforcing them (yeah, I know Mac OS X partially fell for extensions also, poor sods).
Yep, I know. It's just that I haven't even heard of anything in that area. Not even research projects.
There has to be some optimizations and cheats you can make, like there has been done for graphics. Graphics render polygons with textures, and the occasional added shader.
I'm asking where the equivalent polygons and textures are for audio. What comes closest in my mind is actually good old MIDI.
Where are the "Sound Acceleration" cards?
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Off-topic, I know, but I've been wondering...
ok, so we've been able render Toy Story in real-time for a while...
But, where are the cards that can generate the sound of one arbitrary object hitting another? I don't just mean positional sound of pre-recorded samples, but really create the sounds from scratch (or an "audio-enabled model").
I don't think algorithms are invented any more than mathematical truths are invented, rather they are discovered.
I don't think the right combination of iron parts that make up a ship is invented, rather it is discovered. And so on, in all eternity...
By your logic, nothing is ever invented, but merely discovered. And you are right. I agree that they are only discovered, but I also want the person/company who discovers them to benefit from that discovery for a while.
After all, it probably cost a lot of money and time in R&D to discover it...
Dunno what connection you are on, but their server is doing fine...at any rate, what you have is the description of the article, not the article itself.
People here seem to be making a big case out of the DRM uses of such a media...but you forget that such will only work in a CD-R/RW drive.
And, I haven't seen any such drives currently able to burn and read at the same time, which might be useful for a DRM scheme, or even the one-disc game+savegames suggested.
But, what about users where the CD drive is a quite normal CD-ROM, or DVD/CD-ROM combo? Will the DRM'ed program then deny being installed from such a drive? And is there even a big enough market for puttng a label on saying "Can only be installed using a CD-R/RW drive!"?
All of the above would be required for a DRM scheme to work...
Let's take an example of a new program... Unless it's in the public domain, then it's copyrighted.
When you release a copyrighted work, you get to set the terms of how it is to be used. This we call a license.
All licenses are extensions of copyright, including the GPL. The GPL builds upon the basic copyright laws, and further sets restrictions on what you can do with the program/sources.
Here's the catch... If copyright ceases to have an enforcable meaning, then all licenses also cease to have enforcable meanings. Everything reverts to public domain, where anyone can do whatever they want with the program/source.
So, when we dilute copyright by pirating movies, music, games, and so on, we work towards the day of public domain.
Is this a good thing? Depends on your point of view...but it would destroy the GPL's "must share" power.
Instead of just targetting visitors with referer=slashdot.org, the server should detect an abnormal surge in visitor-per-minute and load up the lightweight version of the site.
I thought of the CSS trick before, since it's a pretty "nice" way of not showing ads.
The hit still gets counted, the ad still gets downloaded, but nobody views it.
Even made a small proxy program in PHP to test it, just going by my hosts file and adding style="display: none;" to the tags of the ads. That way, it works with any browser. Bloody ate my CPU, though. RegExp is a hog...
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"If the Content-type ProgID for a given file does not match the file extension ProgID, Internet Explorer in XP SP2 may take the following actions: 1) the user may be prompted to download the file and 2) the file will not be executed in the extension-handler if it fails to execute in the mime-handler."
I'm not so sure I like or agree with that one.
MIME types are there for a reason, so I can serve anyfile.anyext as text/html or image/jpeg. Or name.hubba as a Quicktime movie. I'd expect both to work, since that's what MIME types are for...
Extensions are a bad hack, and a relic from the DOS era. They should get rid of them instead of enforcing them (yeah, I know Mac OS X partially fell for extensions also, poor sods).
A very aptly named site, seeing how it doesn't provide any real value...just look at the middle: http://p asscrack ing.com/
Denmark has this already, as I posted earlier: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=113196&cid=958 9656
Denmark has free digital signatures for all citizen, for use in email, to sign in on sites, etc...
URLs:
- http://www.digitalsignatur.dk/
- http://privat.tdc.dk/digital/
(both in Danish, though...)
The technicalities are run by the largest phone company/ISP, TDC, but otherwise it's fully a government thing.
In Denmark, the cards VISA/Dankort and the plain Dankort do have our photo on them. Always wondered why this is not the case for all such cards...
Yep, I know. It's just that I haven't even heard of anything in that area. Not even research projects.
There has to be some optimizations and cheats you can make, like there has been done for graphics. Graphics render polygons with textures, and the occasional added shader.
I'm asking where the equivalent polygons and textures are for audio. What comes closest in my mind is actually good old MIDI.
Off-topic, I know, but I've been wondering...
ok, so we've been able render Toy Story in real-time for a while...
But, where are the cards that can generate the sound of one arbitrary object hitting another? I don't just mean positional sound of pre-recorded samples, but really create the sounds from scratch (or an "audio-enabled model").
What happened to C++0x?
Last I heard about that was in this Slashdot story from 2001...exactly 3 years ago, nearly to date.
But that was supposed to be the next official holy grail, no?
I don't think algorithms are invented any more than mathematical truths are invented, rather they are discovered.
I don't think the right combination of iron parts that make up a ship is invented, rather it is discovered.
And so on, in all eternity...
By your logic, nothing is ever invented, but merely discovered. And you are right.
I agree that they are only discovered, but I also want the person/company who discovers them to benefit from that discovery for a while.
After all, it probably cost a lot of money and time in R&D to discover it...
Dunno what connection you are on, but their server is doing fine...at any rate, what you have is the description of the article, not the article itself.
Agreed...people still think it's just another dupe, when the whole plot is to make fun of dupes, using even more dupes.
Of course, he could just be posting it once per timezone to make sure everyone gets it when it's their April 1st.
-- Tino Didriksen / ProjectJJ.dk
"If you sell a hardware platform with your application"
Isn't this exactly what Apple is doing?
MacOS only runs on Apple hardware (yes yes, I know you can fake it), which can kept it pretty low compared to Windows which works on any x86 platform.
Now Windows will be locked to hardware as well...
Is MS pulling another Apple out their sleeves?
-- Tino Didriksen / ProjectJJ.dk
It's the only way we can be sure it'll work.
...it takes one to know one...
Just like they hire hackers/crackers for network security.
-- Tino Didriksen / ProjectJJ.dk
Having watched this trailer, it's still far from what Blizzard North did with the WarCraft III movies.
The Soul Fire characters aren't nearly polished enough. Stiff limbs, odd walk, no blinking...
Nay, my breath is held for if (when?) Blizzard North makes a full-motion picture.
-- Tino Didriksen / ProjectJJ.dk
He wants help for small developers.
Lionhead is by far not small, so they wouldn't be the target group for financial aid.
-- Tino Didriksen / ProjectJJ.dk
People here seem to be making a big case out of the DRM uses of such a media...but you forget that such will only work in a CD-R/RW drive.
And, I haven't seen any such drives currently able to burn and read at the same time, which might be useful for a DRM scheme, or even the one-disc game+savegames suggested.
But, what about users where the CD drive is a quite normal CD-ROM, or DVD/CD-ROM combo?
Will the DRM'ed program then deny being installed from such a drive?
And is there even a big enough market for puttng a label on saying "Can only be installed using a CD-R/RW drive!"?
All of the above would be required for a DRM scheme to work...
-- Tino Didriksen / ProjectJJ.dk
Let's take an example of a new program... Unless it's in the public domain, then it's copyrighted.
When you release a copyrighted work, you get to set the terms of how it is to be used. This we call a license.
All licenses are extensions of copyright, including the GPL. The GPL builds upon the basic copyright laws, and further sets restrictions on what you can do with the program/sources.
Here's the catch...
If copyright ceases to have an enforcable meaning, then all licenses also cease to have enforcable meanings.
Everything reverts to public domain, where anyone can do whatever they want with the program/source.
So, when we dilute copyright by pirating movies, music, games, and so on, we work towards the day of public domain.
Is this a good thing? Depends on your point of view...but it would destroy the GPL's "must share" power.
-- Tino Didriksen / ProjectJJ.dk
...persistent, patient reasoning with people can convince them to do the right thing.
I wish I had seen the effects of that more often.
In my experience, people are fanatic about their way of doing something, even if it is completely illogical and not in their best interest.
Or maybe I am the wrongheaded zealot...nah, never...
-- Tino Didriksen / ProjectJJ.dk
They should add intelligent scaling.
Instead of just targetting visitors with referer=slashdot.org, the server should detect an abnormal surge in visitor-per-minute and load up the lightweight version of the site.
Shouldn't be that hard to make...
-- Tino Didriksen / ProjectJJ.dk
And this is different for Windows or MacOS?
Last I checked APIs were available for both, and so were compilers.
Free software is not just for Linux.
-- Tino Didriksen / ProjectJJ.dk
Well, according to Google, you don't have a case.
n im e (site:apa.org anime) = 0 results.
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:apa%2Eorg+a
-- Tino Didriksen / ProjectJJ.dk
I thought of the CSS trick before, since it's a pretty "nice" way of not showing ads.
The hit still gets counted, the ad still gets downloaded, but nobody views it.
Even made a small proxy program in PHP to test it, just going by my hosts file and adding style="display: none;" to the tags of the ads.
That way, it works with any browser.
Bloody ate my CPU, though. RegExp is a hog...
-- Tino Didriksen / ProjectJJ.dk
The banner is only hidden from view.
Nobody tells the browser not to download it, counting a hit, etc.
So it's a "nice-guy" banner stopper. Counts the hit although nobody views the thing. Devious, isn't it?
-- Tino Didriksen / ProjectJJ.dk
However...this is a private forum, owned by a company, and thus not included in Freedom of Speech laws.
... but it's not.
Privately owned fora can ultimately decide what they want on their space.
Had it been a publicly owned forum, then you would have had every right to scream for your rights
(by forum, I mean it in the sense of a place to talk, singular of fora)
-- Tino Didriksen / projectjj.dk
They may be lawyers, but they sure as hell can't make a website.
Missing html, head, title, etc...ew ew ew...
And we are supposed to think they can get through with this lawsuit?
(yes, I'll also send this to their 'webmonkey')
-- Tino Didriksen / Project JJ