My parents have a record of Thomas Edison from WW1 on 78rpm... it would be nice to digitise that properly (rather than using a dictaphone next to the gramaphone horn). Heck, it might even be out of copyright!
Many windows games have "copy protection" on them to stop them from being used on legitimate users machines. Perhaps that is why console (PS2 or Xbox) games outsell PC games by such a huge margin (4 to 1). After all, the console games actually work.
And who is one of the major suppliers of these "copy protection" schemes that put people off PC games?... Sony!
Since it's a "1" flag it is completely meaningless. IIRC Even sample CDs which are meant to be copied have it set, let alone recordings of stuff that is in the public domain.
When I tried msn search recently on a simple search, it returned obscure sites - with nothing to do with the words I was searching for. Oh and the root pages of some ecommerce sites.
There is the idea that anyone can do anything, the idea that a kid from the worst ghetto might someday become the president. Other cultures don't have that idea.
No, other cultures just actually do it, rather than pretending that they do. I mean how many black presidents has the US had? How many women? How many working class? It's not like Poland or the UK or New Zealand or other countries where normal people can become president; you need to be a multi-millionaire to have a chance (since TV advertising is expensive).
Because it outlaws programming if you don't work for a major corporation (with cross-licensing agreements with all other corporations). Individual Americans can only program because the law happens to be only very selectively enforced.
If you have to check every line of code and algorithm you write against the tens of thousands of patented ideas (some of which are very broad) instead of writing code, you are actually a patent lawyer, not a programmer.
In a small town in new zealand, the main employer (a freezing works) closed down the factory (and hence the jobs of hundreds of people). They sold the land with a lien(?) on it saying that no-one else was allowed to give them their jobs back (i.e. compete with the parent company) for 20 years. The courts have upheld this, even though it is terrible for the town and the taxpayers (since someone else started up again and was sued by the old employer). What's the betting MS would try to put that sort of thing into any leaving contracts?
And what happened to the people who left Ubisoft for EA and were sued? I hope Danish law is more sane.
Go suggest that someone at MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, U Texas or UT Dallas get their education by continually throwing money at the problem. There are no brute force routes through those schools.
That's because they were in the Apple User Interface guidelines in 1987 (years before the patent was applied for), which are similar to the IBM user interface guidlines (for text output and keyboard) from decades ago. For a more modern example, right click on the desktop of windows xp and bring up properties.
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I unfortunately have comments such as this around certain statements
/O2 generates bad code if you try
// Stupid Stupid Microsoft VC6.0
// int value = data[i] | (data[i+1] << 8);
// (generates mov dl,cl instead of mov dl,ch)
I'm just annoyed cos my company gets paid in US dollars and another 4 years of the US economy going down the drain will affect my (£) bonuses :-(
You mean as opposed to Attacking the Indian Parliament? Someone's already done that...
However, it does work properly on my PC (and films from other publishers work properly on my DVD player).
My parents have a record of Thomas Edison from WW1 on 78rpm... it would be nice to digitise that properly (rather than using a dictaphone next to the gramaphone horn). Heck, it might even be out of copyright!
And in Cryptonomicon a deck of cards is described being used as a secure encryption technique!
OMG I misread that as Wesley Crusher...
Miniskirts ("Sulu"s) are school uniform for boys in Fiji now :-)
And who is one of the major suppliers of these "copy protection" schemes that put people off PC games? ... Sony!
You mean like an Oyster card?
And of course there is this game from 1985 (BBC version is original, by Orlando M. Pilchard a.k.a. Nick Pelling).
Since it's a "1" flag it is completely meaningless. IIRC Even sample CDs which are meant to be copied have it set, let alone recordings of stuff that is in the public domain.
My approach is to sit down just as the other commercials end and the movie previews begin.
When I tried msn search recently on a simple search, it returned obscure sites - with nothing to do with the words I was searching for. Oh and the root pages of some ecommerce sites.
That did happen with some cryptography schemes IIRC - the spooks said "no you can't do this" or something like that...
No, other cultures just actually do it, rather than pretending that they do. I mean how many black presidents has the US had? How many women? How many working class? It's not like Poland or the UK or New Zealand or other countries where normal people can become president; you need to be a multi-millionaire to have a chance (since TV advertising is expensive).
Perhaps you could have picked a better example of a US name :-)
If you have to check every line of code and algorithm you write against the tens of thousands of patented ideas (some of which are very broad) instead of writing code, you are actually a patent lawyer, not a programmer.
And what happened to the people who left Ubisoft for EA and were sued? I hope Danish law is more sane.
How about Yale and Harvard?
Not an artist or a coder then, but he apparently has been exposed to many projects.
Obviously not enuff UKian developers.
That individual being a patent lawyer who does not actually produce anything and so cannot be countersued.
That's because they were in the Apple User Interface guidelines in 1987 (years before the patent was applied for), which are similar to the IBM user interface guidlines (for text output and keyboard) from decades ago. For a more modern example, right click on the desktop of windows xp and bring up properties.
Don't forget JVC, Technics.