Nope. SFX is generally event driven (hit a key, hear the sword swing) where music is not (enter an area and music plays continuously in the background).
SFX requires timing, latency, and speed to be accurate. Music requires bandwidth and a minimum level of continuous CPU cycles.
Both have different needs so you can have one without the other (when you are talking emulation).
In Parappa the Rapper, Beatmania, Guitar Freaks, Drummania, Keyboard Mania, Frequency, Amplitude, Taiko Drum Master, Donkey Konga, Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and even scenes in the Mario Party and WarioWare series, the player triggers sound effects at specific times, and these sound effects represent music that the player is performing. If the background music becomes desynchronized from the sound effects that represent music, the emulated environment becomes unusable. Even games that aren't directly about performing music, such as Rez, Lumines, and some scenes in Super Mario RPG, indicate the timing of various game world events using the music.
>>>Petersen demonstrated a version of Quake running in a Flash app, as well as a C-based Nintendo emulator running Zelda; both were eminently playable, and included sound effects and music.
>>So Flash can simulating computing as it was back in 1998? Super....
>Zelda was 1986 on the Family Computer. You're 12 years off.
Reading comprehension is everything. The bolded areas above contain what you missed.
"Armed with more concise USER-AGENT version information, popular websites could also visually alert users (see Figure 6) to the fact that their Web browser is operating beyond its 'best before' date and any missing updates (including providing shortcuts to the location of appropriate updates)."
As I said elsewhere in the thread, it's not the web designers' job to make sure users have the latest browser version.
Disclaimer: I'm not a web designer, although I do work on some web-based (both ASP.NET and J2EE) programs at work.
It's not the job of a web designer to look for security holes in the browser.
Web designers often design around functionality, not browser versions. It's not uncommon for Javascript to check if a function exists before using it. AJAX libraries tend to include a lot of this.
CSS isn't quite as easy to work around, but you can almost guarantee that any older (and buggier) versions of Firefox/Seamonkey/Mozilla Suite, Safari, and Opera are going to work in it since the design has to be compatible with Internet Explorer 6.
Disclaimer: I don't administrate Windows machines.
This is exactly why you use a WSUS server. We use one where I work. It installs updates in the middle of the night, when no one is here. The downside is that you need to leave all the computers on.
Oh, and on home Windows XP machines, Windows only installs updates when you shut down provided the user logged in isn't an Administrator. I saw elsewhere in this topic that Vista does the same thing.
"This is better in Vista, it's easy to put it into a mode where it will download updates and install them whenever you reboot. I can see from the taskbar when I need to shutdown rather than suspend at night." If you hadn't been running XP as an Administrator account (which is bad, btw), you'd have known that XP has a "install when I shut down the computer" feature for updates.
Granted, it doesn't show you on the desktop itself that any updates are pending; on the Turn Off screen it covers the corner of the Shut Down button with a little shield icon. There's also a "Click here to shutdown without installing updates" link below the normal shutdown button.
And I think the idea of the GPL is actually closer to the spirit of copyright as the Founders intended. The public can benefit from the selfish motivations of the individual. Copyright was intended to "encourage the useful arts and sciences".
...by granting a temporary monopoly. Which seems counter to the GPL if you ask me.
The catch with Copyright in the US is that it was originally 14 years, but laws have pushed it all the way up to the author's lifetime plus 70 years (or a flat 95 years on works made for hire, such as movies and music).
Unfortunately, when Eldred v. Ashcroft pointed out that this was contrary to the purpose of copyright as laid down by the Constitution, the Supreme Court gave a ruling that as long as the length was not infinite, it was not in violation of the Constitution.
That's a matter of license incompatibility, which affects all free software.
...and that's why the FSF is hypocritical: They have a list of licenses for projects whose code you can incorporate into GPL projects while forgetting to mention that the GPL forbids you from incorporating GPLed code into projects using any other license*, even those with compatible but stricter terms.
*There are two exceptions that I know of: 1. LGPL code can be used in GPL projects. 2. LGPL and GPL code can be used in AGPL products.
It was IBM, not least through there open hardware policy, that wiped out any significant competition and brought a single platform to the desktop.
No, it was Compaq for figuring out how to legally create an IBM clone (by reverse engineering the IBM PC BIOS) that brought a single platform to the desktop, which Microsoft then exploited because they retained the rights to DOS.
Apple is, and always has been, a hardware company.
Steve Jobs disagrees with you. He said this at D5 last year:
You know, what's really interesting is-and we talked about this earlier today-if you look at the reason that the iPod exists and the Apple's in that marketplace, it's because these really great Japanese consumer electronics companies who kind of own the portable music market, invented it and owned it, couldn't do the appropriate software, couldn't conceive of and implement the appropriate software. Because an iPod's really just software. It's software in the iPod itself, it's software on the PC or the Mac, and it's software in the cloud for the store. And it's in a beautiful box, but it's software. If you look at what a Mac is, it's OS X, right? It's in a beautiful box, but it's OS X. And if you look at what an iPhone will hopefully be, it's software.
And so the big secret about Apple, of course-not-so-big secret maybe-is that Apple views itself as a software company and there aren't very many software companies left...
Ahh, as bit of an ad and layout expert myself, they didn't look at the ads because the page wasn't designed correctly. Any good designer can design pages with ads that NO HUMAN BEING can ignore!
I hate to break it to you, but popup blocking is a standard feature in browsers now.;)
Java is not a toy, it is an enterprise application. It is running in many financial institutions, many of which are not known by the general public but that handle tons of money, supporting back office operations.
...yet Java still doesn't have a primitive decimal type. Oh well, I guess they all use the BigDecimal sloppiness.
At least they'd better use BigDecimal. The idea of financial applications using floating point numbers scares me.
Heck, if you really wanted to, you could let Java write client-side scripts for you!
Note: I have nothing to do with the linked to product nor have I ever used it... in fact, I think it's quite silly to duplicate some of Java's libraries in Javascript.
Just as silly as using ASP.NET, which I'm currently required to do at work...
Yes, unfortunately, the Visual Editor for Eclipse wasn't updated to work with Eclipse 3.3. I wish I knew why, as it was one of the key plugins that was pushed to work with Eclipse 3.2 prior to its release.
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That means you have to implement an additional mail server program that does POP, as forwarding only requires SMTP.
Aperture Laboratories is a computer-aided enrichment center to test the Aperture Science Hand-held Portal device.
More information is available in a video.
In that case, maybe a bad copy is better! ;)
Quick, I need to learn how to translate the following quotes:
"Buildin' a sentry!"
"Teleporter goin' up!"
"Dispenser goin' up!"
"A spy's sappin' mah sentry!"
Oh, and everything here.
Rez, Lumines, and Super Mario RPG are rhythm games?
These are the exception, not the rule.
>>>Petersen demonstrated a version of Quake running in a Flash app, as well as a C-based Nintendo emulator running Zelda; both were eminently playable, and included sound effects and music.
>>So Flash can simulating computing as it was back in 1998? Super....
>Zelda was 1986 on the Family Computer. You're 12 years off.
Reading comprehension is everything. The bolded areas above contain what you missed.
"Armed with more concise USER-AGENT version information, popular websites could also visually alert users (see Figure 6) to the fact that their Web browser is operating beyond its 'best before' date and any missing updates (including providing shortcuts to the location of appropriate updates)."
As I said elsewhere in the thread, it's not the web designers' job to make sure users have the latest browser version.
Disclaimer: I'm not a web designer, although I do work on some web-based (both ASP.NET and J2EE) programs at work.
It's not the job of a web designer to look for security holes in the browser.
Web designers often design around functionality, not browser versions. It's not uncommon for Javascript to check if a function exists before using it. AJAX libraries tend to include a lot of this.
CSS isn't quite as easy to work around, but you can almost guarantee that any older (and buggier) versions of Firefox/Seamonkey/Mozilla Suite, Safari, and Opera are going to work in it since the design has to be compatible with Internet Explorer 6.
Disclaimer: I don't administrate Windows machines.
This is exactly why you use a WSUS server. We use one where I work. It installs updates in the middle of the night, when no one is here. The downside is that you need to leave all the computers on.
Oh, and on home Windows XP machines, Windows only installs updates when you shut down provided the user logged in isn't an Administrator. I saw elsewhere in this topic that Vista does the same thing.
"This is better in Vista, it's easy to put it into a mode where it will download updates and install them whenever you reboot. I can see from the taskbar when I need to shutdown rather than suspend at night."
If you hadn't been running XP as an Administrator account (which is bad, btw), you'd have known that XP has a "install when I shut down the computer" feature for updates.
Granted, it doesn't show you on the desktop itself that any updates are pending; on the Turn Off screen it covers the corner of the Shut Down button with a little shield icon. There's also a "Click here to shutdown without installing updates" link below the normal shutdown button.
The catch with Copyright in the US is that it was originally 14 years, but laws have pushed it all the way up to the author's lifetime plus 70 years (or a flat 95 years on works made for hire, such as movies and music).
Unfortunately, when Eldred v. Ashcroft pointed out that this was contrary to the purpose of copyright as laid down by the Constitution, the Supreme Court gave a ruling that as long as the length was not infinite, it was not in violation of the Constitution.
I'll admit, I don't use C on a regular basis, but how hard would it be to port the BSD userland to Linux?
For that matter, what would we do about glibc and gcc? As I understand it, those are popular on BSD as well...
*There are two exceptions that I know of:
1. LGPL code can be used in GPL projects.
2. LGPL and GPL code can be used in AGPL products.
No, it was Compaq for figuring out how to legally create an IBM clone (by reverse engineering the IBM PC BIOS) that brought a single platform to the desktop, which Microsoft then exploited because they retained the rights to DOS.
I told my doctor that, but he said I didn't have anything!
I told him I wanted a second opinion; he told me I was an idiot!
If you run it with -xXx, it'll find any pornographic images on your site.
Steve Jobs disagrees with you.
He said this at D5 last year:
Idiot: I didn't die immediately!
I hate to break it to you, but popup blocking is a standard feature in browsers now.
Well... Netcraft has to confirm it.
That seems to be the only criteria.
...yet Java still doesn't have a primitive decimal type. Oh well, I guess they all use the BigDecimal sloppiness.
At least they'd better use BigDecimal. The idea of financial applications using floating point numbers scares me.
Heck, if you really wanted to, you could let Java write client-side scripts for you!
Note: I have nothing to do with the linked to product nor have I ever used it... in fact, I think it's quite silly to duplicate some of Java's libraries in Javascript.
Just as silly as using ASP.NET, which I'm currently required to do at work...
Yes, unfortunately, the Visual Editor for Eclipse wasn't updated to work with Eclipse 3.3. I wish I knew why, as it was one of the key plugins that was pushed to work with Eclipse 3.2 prior to its release.
You've never read The Java Trap?
This is a parody of it.