It's not broken - the parent is an insightful post. Point being that if Be _had_ open sourced all their code then it would now all be available for re-use - instead of being just a questionable "asset" of a failed venture that will never see the light of day.
I would never go to a site expecting to find net.artwork, unless it was Something Awful's Awful link of the day. As someone who detests pretentious twats who describe themselves as net.artists I long for your unpleasant demise. (But hope that it will be in an artistic manner, like having Michaelangelo's "David" fall and crush you.)
Don't EVER put music or other noise on your web page that plays without user interaction. There is nothing wrong with a button that says "play" but if you make noise happen as soon as the page loads then your page sucks and I don't care how pretty or useful it is otherwise, I will close it immediately and never load it again.
The problem is, just which page is making the noise?
Most people wait until it's time to post a comment until they trot out the usual anti-Microsoft karma whoring. Congratulations "mr lee", for lowering Slashdot pandering to a new level.
Windows Media Player does work just fine. Quicktime is the app that will attempt to take over associations and bug you with "upgrade now?" reminders every time you run it.
Here's why Linux isn't making up ground on the desktop. When someone says something doesn't work right the response is RTFM, or that it is supposed to be like that. If Linux is going to succeed in environments like the German government then intuitive or ingrained use patterns should be the norm, no matter how much geeks like the other way and no matter how much it might seem like windows. Geeks can turn it back the other way if they like, they know how.
You can scope out your CDs _before_ ordering them online, something that is otherwise difficult. If you're having trouble with a new CD in the DVD or CD-ROM drive it might be worth checking here also.
Mac hardware is way too expensive (long comparisons between Dell and Mac systems will be cheerfully ignored). Perhaps I'd like to try MacOS X but no way am I buying a G4 that is going to be good for nothing if I decide I don't like it.
And don't even bother with the bullshit about how the 500MHz G4 (or the 800MHz or whatever also-ran clock speed Motorola are up to now) is faster than a 2GHz P4 - it's a lie and we all know it.
I've just finished reading "Longitude, The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time" by Dava Sobel - a history of John Harrison vs. the Board of Longitude and the development of the chronometer. Recommended to anyone with even the slightest interest in clocks or navigation.
It was strange to read in the linked article (Georgia) that Huygens' clocks "contained heavy lead weights in order to keep them upright in stormy seas" - this muct be a mistake. Clocks with pendulums are absolutely useless in any kind of sea, even a calm one, hence Harrison's search for the chronometer resistant to motion and to changes in temperature and humiduty.
One part I really liked is that after Greenwich was declared the Prime Meridian in 1884 the French, for 27 years, referred to GMT as "Paris Mean Time, retarded by nine minutes twenty-one seconds".
But it has - US customs has begun seizing these items, according to the link in the story. It's not the first item seized in this way for this reason.
The IP concerning the ROM cartridge isn't just the edge connector, it's the whole specification of how to make something that connects to the GBA. Ignoring that, how about the IP that VIA and Intel hold over the chipsets that a x86 processor needs? You're free to make your own chipset but then again you're free to design your own handheld game machine.
Final question. If This is completely different, because an API is copyrightable when referring to AMX, why doesn't that apply to Nintendo? Surely they can copyright the API of the GBA firmware? Just like the RTOS, it must be licensed. A game cart isn't just an entry point, it is a piece of add-in firmware that interfaces to the firmware of the device.
And even then, if you could show that you reverse engineered the API without any knowledge of it, then yes it would be legal.
Nobody is offering to do that. Visoly just want to flog something that presents a simple choice between big $ and free games. They don't give a shit about whether it promotes piracy or not. At over $100 per unit they're little better than Nintendo!
This is all about IP, and about one company trying to catch a free ride on another's development.
The RIAA likes things just the way they are - they are making large piles of money. Time and time again we see people saying "but MP3s make me buy more!" - the RIAA doesn't care if they do. They're working on the principle of if it ain't broke don't fix it. It might be the future of broadcasting but the (very effective and strongly lobbied) opposition will only stop when they have worked out how to control internet distribution. It is a roadblock, but it will be removed as soon as they or someone else invents an effective means of controlling access. Don't look forward to that day too much, it will come with plenty of SPAM I bet.
What part of reality don't you get? It already happened.
They do have the right to tell people that they may not make and sell things that plug into their device and in this case have done so and it has been enforced. The connector and firmware (among other things) are their intellectual property which they do not allow anyone to use unless they are licensed. Here's another example - if you want to do low-level hacking on a Palm OS device, even if you know Kadak AMX you still have to pay because unless you are licensed you cannot write to that API. Same thing. Both companies will shut you down and have your product seized, and the law is on their side. If you do one-offs in your bedroom I doubt they care, but the chance applicability of this device to your purpose does not change the fact that it is first and foremost a tool for ROM piracy.
Wouldn't it be nice if IP was free, and everybody donated their time and effort to advance the human condition! Wouldn't it be nice if farmers donated their land and time so that I didn't have to pay for food... People who advocate tearing down IP laws are advocating a kind of communism that is absolutely unworkable, a sort of limited scheme of sharing that is great for most, but completely screws anyone who designs for a living. And when that happens, designers find a different line of work.
amatuer GBA developers out there that use this kind of hardware to test theirs and others games on a real system
i.e. "developers" who refuse to comply with Nintendo's terms for developing on that platform. Like it or not, Nintendo own the platform and controls it. Just because you're not strong enough to take a principled stand and refuse to buy one doesn't give you the right to ignore the legal considerations. I don't know why I'm bothering to tell you this, you know it but don't care.
Yeah right, on principle. What are these things used for? Copying games. You can talk about your right to make backups all you like, but that is not what these things get used for and you know it.
When you step outside the bounds of believability you reduce the effectiveness of legitimate arguments against the DMCA. If the same legitimate reasons for allowing copies of CDs etc. are used for allowing the sale of one-purpose pirate hardware from China it's an all or nothing situation - and we'll end up with nothing, i.e. bans on blank CD media too.
He wasn't just part of it, he WAS it. This asshole believes he is the god of all things free, and when people don't do what he says he gets all upset. The Free Software movement needs RMS for his uncompromising attitude - but at the same time is handicapped by RMS' uncompromising attitude.
He convinces those who don't need convincing, and he drives away those that do need convincing. In the long term I'm not convinced the costs outweight the benefits of allowing this giant ego to dominate the future of Linux.
You must be joking - as if HP has an opinion you can trust. Ten years ago, for sure. Post-Carly, no way. I'd rather hear what HP thinks I should have for dinner tonight than what they think is a good solution for my business.
Roll on the merger vote! I can't wait to see her fired from the CEO job.
"Given enough monkeys and typewriters, you have the complete works of Shakespeare."
Of course the only problem is that you need the right monkeys. Too often the monkeys you need already have full-time jobs and are happily taking home lots of bananas. It might be that the monkeys with spare time just aren't capable...
OK, the special effects were OK and for their time revolutionary. But as someone who bought the widescreen DVD and watched it recently, I can tell you this also - I haven't seen a more boring movie, or one with worse acting, for a long, long time.
Bruce Boxleitner went on to "Scarecrow and Mrs. King", and then basically nothing that you've ever heard of, unless you're really hard core and count Bablyon 5. Strangely it didn't hurt Jeff Bridges all that much. And the rest of the cast... I was able to forget.
The Apple Cinema Display works just fine on a PC. Either the DVIator (Dr. Bott) or the DVI-to-ADC box from Gefen will take the DVI output from a GeForce-based card and allow use of the Cinema Display. Best of all, standard drivers include support for the 1600x1024 optimum resolution. With an OS supporting sub-pixel anti-aliasing the results are awesome.
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See Fritz.
See Fritz lie.
See Disney pay.
It's not broken - the parent is an insightful post. Point being that if Be _had_ open sourced all their code then it would now all be available for re-use - instead of being just a questionable "asset" of a failed venture that will never see the light of day.
You forgot to mention K^HSimba, The Lion King.
I would never go to a site expecting to find net.artwork, unless it was Something Awful's Awful link of the day.
As someone who detests pretentious twats who describe themselves as net.artists I long for your unpleasant demise. (But hope that it will be in an artistic manner, like having Michaelangelo's "David" fall and crush you.)
Don't EVER put music or other noise on your web page that plays without user interaction. There is nothing wrong with a button that says "play" but if you make noise happen as soon as the page loads then your page sucks and I don't care how pretty or useful it is otherwise, I will close it immediately and never load it again.
The problem is, just which page is making the noise?
Most people wait until it's time to post a comment until they trot out the usual anti-Microsoft karma whoring. Congratulations "mr lee", for lowering Slashdot pandering to a new level.
Windows Media Player does work just fine. Quicktime is the app that will attempt to take over associations and bug you with "upgrade now?" reminders every time you run it.
Here's why Linux isn't making up ground on the desktop. When someone says something doesn't work right the response is RTFM, or that it is supposed to be like that. If Linux is going to succeed in environments like the German government then intuitive or ingrained use patterns should be the norm, no matter how much geeks like the other way and no matter how much it might seem like windows. Geeks can turn it back the other way if they like, they know how.
Don't forget Fat Chuck's list of corrupt CDs:
http://www.fatchucks.com/corruptcds/
You can scope out your CDs _before_ ordering them online, something that is otherwise difficult. If you're having trouble with a new CD in the DVD or CD-ROM drive it might be worth checking here also.
Mac hardware is way too expensive (long comparisons between Dell and Mac systems will be cheerfully ignored). Perhaps I'd like to try MacOS X but no way am I buying a G4 that is going to be good for nothing if I decide I don't like it.
And don't even bother with the bullshit about how the 500MHz G4 (or the 800MHz or whatever also-ran clock speed Motorola are up to now) is faster than a 2GHz P4 - it's a lie and we all know it.
When KDE was not completely GPL'ed, RMS called for Gnome to be written in cometition to it. (enough acronyms for you? :-)
If Gnome gets Mono and becomes only partly GPL (some MIT X11 licensing etc.), will the same thing happen again?
I've just finished reading "Longitude, The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time" by Dava Sobel - a history of John Harrison vs. the Board of Longitude and the development of the chronometer. Recommended to anyone with even the slightest interest in clocks or navigation.
It was strange to read in the linked article (Georgia) that Huygens' clocks "contained heavy lead weights in order to keep them upright in stormy seas" - this muct be a mistake. Clocks with pendulums are absolutely useless in any kind of sea, even a calm one, hence Harrison's search for the chronometer resistant to motion and to changes in temperature and humiduty.
One part I really liked is that after Greenwich was declared the Prime Meridian in 1884 the French, for 27 years, referred to GMT as "Paris Mean Time, retarded by nine minutes twenty-one seconds".
It hasn't been enforced.
But it has - US customs has begun seizing these items, according to the link in the story. It's not the first item seized in this way for this reason.
The IP concerning the ROM cartridge isn't just the edge connector, it's the whole specification of how to make something that connects to the GBA. Ignoring that, how about the IP that VIA and Intel hold over the chipsets that a x86 processor needs? You're free to make your own chipset but then again you're free to design your own handheld game machine.
Final question. If This is completely different, because an API is copyrightable when referring to AMX, why doesn't that apply to Nintendo? Surely they can copyright the API of the GBA firmware? Just like the RTOS, it must be licensed. A game cart isn't just an entry point, it is a piece of add-in firmware that interfaces to the firmware of the device.
And even then, if you could show that you reverse engineered the API without any knowledge of it, then yes it would be legal.
Nobody is offering to do that. Visoly just want to flog something that presents a simple choice between big $ and free games. They don't give a shit about whether it promotes piracy or not. At over $100 per unit they're little better than Nintendo!
This is all about IP, and about one company trying to catch a free ride on another's development.
The RIAA likes things just the way they are - they are making large piles of money. Time and time again we see people saying "but MP3s make me buy more!" - the RIAA doesn't care if they do. They're working on the principle of if it ain't broke don't fix it. It might be the future of broadcasting but the (very effective and strongly lobbied) opposition will only stop when they have worked out how to control internet distribution. It is a roadblock, but it will be removed as soon as they or someone else invents an effective means of controlling access. Don't look forward to that day too much, it will come with plenty of SPAM I bet.
What part of reality don't you get? It already happened.
They do have the right to tell people that they may not make and sell things that plug into their device and in this case have done so and it has been enforced. The connector and firmware (among other things) are their intellectual property which they do not allow anyone to use unless they are licensed. Here's another example - if you want to do low-level hacking on a Palm OS device, even if you know Kadak AMX you still have to pay because unless you are licensed you cannot write to that API. Same thing. Both companies will shut you down and have your product seized, and the law is on their side. If you do one-offs in your bedroom I doubt they care, but the chance applicability of this device to your purpose does not change the fact that it is first and foremost a tool for ROM piracy.
Wouldn't it be nice if IP was free, and everybody donated their time and effort to advance the human condition! Wouldn't it be nice if farmers donated their land and time so that I didn't have to pay for food... People who advocate tearing down IP laws are advocating a kind of communism that is absolutely unworkable, a sort of limited scheme of sharing that is great for most, but completely screws anyone who designs for a living. And when that happens, designers find a different line of work.
amatuer GBA developers out there that use this kind of hardware to test theirs and others games on a real system
i.e. "developers" who refuse to comply with Nintendo's terms for developing on that platform. Like it or not, Nintendo own the platform and controls it. Just because you're not strong enough to take a principled stand and refuse to buy one doesn't give you the right to ignore the legal considerations. I don't know why I'm bothering to tell you this, you know it but don't care.
Yeah right, on principle. What are these things used for? Copying games. You can talk about your right to make backups all you like, but that is not what these things get used for and you know it.
When you step outside the bounds of believability you reduce the effectiveness of legitimate arguments against the DMCA. If the same legitimate reasons for allowing copies of CDs etc. are used for allowing the sale of one-purpose pirate hardware from China it's an all or nothing situation - and we'll end up with nothing, i.e. bans on blank CD media too.
He wasn't just part of it, he WAS it. This asshole believes he is the god of all things free, and when people don't do what he says he gets all upset. The Free Software movement needs RMS for his uncompromising attitude - but at the same time is handicapped by RMS' uncompromising attitude.
He convinces those who don't need convincing, and he drives away those that do need convincing. In the long term I'm not convinced the costs outweight the benefits of allowing this giant ego to dominate the future of Linux.
You must be joking - as if HP has an opinion you can trust. Ten years ago, for sure. Post-Carly, no way. I'd rather hear what HP thinks I should have for dinner tonight than what they think is a good solution for my business.
Roll on the merger vote! I can't wait to see her fired from the CEO job.
Even better - imagine being able to sneak up on people with one of these, and saying
"Kenny G"
"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."
"Given enough monkeys and typewriters, you have the complete works of Shakespeare."
Of course the only problem is that you need the right monkeys. Too often the monkeys you need already have full-time jobs and are happily taking home lots of bananas. It might be that the monkeys with spare time just aren't capable...
Go on, tell us what you paid per share.
OK, the special effects were OK and for their time revolutionary. But as someone who bought the widescreen DVD and watched it recently, I can tell you this also - I haven't seen a more boring movie, or one with worse acting, for a long, long time.
Bruce Boxleitner went on to "Scarecrow and Mrs. King", and then basically nothing that you've ever heard of, unless you're really hard core and count Bablyon 5. Strangely it didn't hurt Jeff Bridges all that much. And the rest of the cast... I was able to forget.
Clearly you don't know much about the Apple Cinema Display.
It is not 1600x1200, it is 1600x1024.
It is not compatible with anything but a Mac out of the box but there are two products that allow it to be used with a video card that outputs DVI.
The Apple Cinema Display works just fine on a PC. Either the DVIator (Dr. Bott) or the DVI-to-ADC box from Gefen will take the DVI output from a GeForce-based card and allow use of the Cinema Display. Best of all, standard drivers include support for the 1600x1024 optimum resolution. With an OS supporting sub-pixel anti-aliasing the results are awesome.
Following the same production timeline as the original Unreal, Unreal 2 will debut in time for Christmas 2007, slightly before Duke Nukem Forever.