The worst that can happen is that someone else patents it 5 minutes later, and then you lose out on your own work. Not all patent applications are offensive. Some are defensive.
Ozzy Osbourne did something like this last year. The video for Never Going To Stop was shot on green screen and the data was uploaded for the fans for play with. Than there was a contest to see who could make the best video, and that became the official video.
I've used about every service that they have had, and this is pretty much how everything they do works. You don't opt in for anything, you have to figure out how to eventually opt out.
You fumble through the options screen and finally find the right combination of checkboxes that doesn't throw your name out there, and let everyone see everything by default.
"Hey guess what users, we added this nice option that lets everyone see your real name, address, and link to a picture of your house on google maps. Don't worry, it's been already enabled for your convenience!"
For me, Firefox used to auto download and install the next version even when I set the options not to download and not to check for updates.
This wasn't very good when people were using my PC on a guest or normal user account, and Firefox would try to install the update anyways, just leaving a message about not being able to update on the screen for anyone who tried to run the program.
Yes. But when you uninstall Firefox 3, it removes Firefox from your browser list, so it will no longer be your default browser, and if you install FF3 again, your bookmarks and other stuff will be where you left them at that last uninstall, and not your current ff2 settings.
If the OS is reporting less than your full 1gb, it's probably being used up by your on-board video card.
I want my memory to be used too. But I want it to go to some actual use. I want my 3d rendering program, my programming IDE, my media player, and other more important programs to be using that memory, instead of an opened browser window with a simple HTML page with 3 lines of text taking up hundreds of megs, redundantly.
When visiting sites full of plugins or images, I end up having to restart ff2.x every hour to regain full performance of my pc. it seems to cache media forever. The other browsers I use don't do this.
What about the damn pollution a burning of all that plastic is going to cause? Dumb ass. Why don't these jackasses stop burning people, books, records, and now video games, and start practicing what they preach, and go help someone in need.
I guess this Reverend needs to round up some cash to get his mistresses some new gifts.
Are they really retards, or does the game just mislead them to the technique and difficulty of guitar playing? they saw the reality of it, and saw that it wasn't for them.
MGS3 couldn't be the last, because it happened before the first two!
What is with the sighing? Get off your high horse. Those 'last' comments most likely come from someone with burnout after years of working on the projects, and especially all the crunch time.
Then the work is over, the product ships, people line up in droves to support it financially, and shower him with positive feedback. After a short break, the burnout goes away, and the support of the fan base drives him to create more.
Where does the bad part come in? The fanbase of any series wants to see that series continue on.
This reminds me a lot of the Phantom. A lot of big talk, and low quality 3D renders. They spend all their time trying to convince you that it's real, and 0% of the time doing anything to actually make it a reality.
However, you can pre-order one! Just ask all their investors. The only thing that will fly here, is their money!
We've already moved well beyond 24 bit color spaces for higher end graphics work. Even video games often use floating point buffers with more than 8 bits per channel to do certain things instead of 8. The problem isn't with the final resulting image not having enough colors, it's getting to that final result.
16.7 million colors is a lot, but it's not a lot for any particular shade. You end up with lots of banding patterns or rounding errors when adding different colors together.
Don't forget that a lot of current displays can't support the 16.7 range already, or don't do the best job of handling it 1:1.
As for your audio argument. I have albums that I have re-bought that were remastered at a higher bit depth and then sampled back down to 16 bits, and they sound a lot better than my old copies. It's like night and day.
There is never enough bits for anyone, ever. Having a display that supports more colors is a god thing if your work will benefit from it.
Mod me down. They literally must have implemented it in the last 15 minutes, because as of right now, they are blocked, but weren't (for me) right before the I posted the first time.
Me and contacts usually trade youtube links all night. In fact, I sometimes get no work done because we spent a few hours checking out youtube clips. This block must have been implemented in the last 15 minutes otherwise.
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Wikipedia is not a source? DAMN YOU!
It is a source of many things.
It is a source of corruption at the top. It is a source of compliance if you offer $$$. It is a source of racism if you are a muslim. And several other essential vitamins and nutrients.
Eh, I got distracted while typing that. I didn't mean hovering in place. It was flying slowly over my end of the city that day. I'm not sure what the purpose was. This was in Ottawa in the early spring of 92 or 93. It could have had something to do with the small airport / aviation museum that wasn't far away.
I'll never forget the first time I saw one of those things. I was ten years old, waiting at a bus stop with my father, when one of those flew overhead. It looked completely surreal. It was very creepy seeing this big, silent, killing machine, hovering over me. =0)
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Does this guy actually write anymore? Every time I see his name somewhere, he's litigating someone.
Because whoever submitted the DMCA notices should have read the wikipedia submitting policy. We should be busy edit warring those things.
Whyyyyyyyyy. Do people. Use LINUX? That has Seinfeld all over it.
>>I mean... what? How do people even hurt themselves in lan parties?
Flying Wiimote of doom.
The worst that can happen is that someone else patents it 5 minutes later, and then you lose out on your own work. Not all patent applications are offensive. Some are defensive.
Ozzy Osbourne did something like this last year. The video for Never Going To Stop was shot on green screen and the data was uploaded for the fans for play with. Than there was a contest to see who could make the best video, and that became the official video.
I've used about every service that they have had, and this is pretty much how everything they do works. You don't opt in for anything, you have to figure out how to eventually opt out.
You fumble through the options screen and finally find the right combination of checkboxes that doesn't throw your name out there, and let everyone see everything by default.
"Hey guess what users, we added this nice option that lets everyone see your real name, address, and link to a picture of your house on google maps. Don't worry, it's been already enabled for your convenience!"
But you can get the same professionally stamped disc for free from Ubuntu's website. Which is a lot better than a sharpie-burned version.
For me, Firefox used to auto download and install the next version even when I set the options not to download and not to check for updates.
This wasn't very good when people were using my PC on a guest or normal user account, and Firefox would try to install the update anyways, just leaving a message about not being able to update on the screen for anyone who tried to run the program.
Yes. But when you uninstall Firefox 3, it removes Firefox from your browser list, so it will no longer be your default browser, and if you install FF3 again, your bookmarks and other stuff will be where you left them at that last uninstall, and not your current ff2 settings.
If the OS is reporting less than your full 1gb, it's probably being used up by your on-board video card.
I want my memory to be used too. But I want it to go to some actual use. I want my 3d rendering program, my programming IDE, my media player, and other more important programs to be using that memory, instead of an opened browser window with a simple HTML page with 3 lines of text taking up hundreds of megs, redundantly.
When visiting sites full of plugins or images, I end up having to restart ff2.x every hour to regain full performance of my pc. it seems to cache media forever. The other browsers I use don't do this.
Can't this be achieved by having monkeys with laser pointers on the roof of the Pentagon?
What about the damn pollution a burning of all that plastic is going to cause? Dumb ass. Why don't these jackasses stop burning people, books, records, and now video games, and start practicing what they preach, and go help someone in need.
I guess this Reverend needs to round up some cash to get his mistresses some new gifts.
Are they really retards, or does the game just mislead them to the technique and difficulty of guitar playing? they saw the reality of it, and saw that it wasn't for them.
MGS3 couldn't be the last, because it happened before the first two!
What is with the sighing? Get off your high horse. Those 'last' comments most likely come from someone with burnout after years of working on the projects, and especially all the crunch time.
Then the work is over, the product ships, people line up in droves to support it financially, and shower him with positive feedback. After a short break, the burnout goes away, and the support of the fan base drives him to create more.
Where does the bad part come in? The fanbase of any series wants to see that series continue on.
This reminds me a lot of the Phantom. A lot of big talk, and low quality 3D renders. They spend all their time trying to convince you that it's real, and 0% of the time doing anything to actually make it a reality.
However, you can pre-order one! Just ask all their investors. The only thing that will fly here, is their money!
We've already moved well beyond 24 bit color spaces for higher end graphics work. Even video games often use floating point buffers with more than 8 bits per channel to do certain things instead of 8. The problem isn't with the final resulting image not having enough colors, it's getting to that final result.
16.7 million colors is a lot, but it's not a lot for any particular shade. You end up with lots of banding patterns or rounding errors when adding different colors together.
Don't forget that a lot of current displays can't support the 16.7 range already, or don't do the best job of handling it 1:1.
As for your audio argument. I have albums that I have re-bought that were remastered at a higher bit depth and then sampled back down to 16 bits, and they sound a lot better than my old copies. It's like night and day.
There is never enough bits for anyone, ever. Having a display that supports more colors is a god thing if your work will benefit from it.
Mod me down. They literally must have implemented it in the last 15 minutes, because as of right now, they are blocked, but weren't (for me) right before the I posted the first time.
Me and contacts usually trade youtube links all night. In fact, I sometimes get no work done because we spent a few hours checking out youtube clips. This block must have been implemented in the last 15 minutes otherwise.
Wikipedia is not a source? DAMN YOU!
It is a source of many things.
It is a source of corruption at the top.
It is a source of compliance if you offer $$$.
It is a source of racism if you are a muslim.
And several other essential vitamins and nutrients.
In 6 months, that magazine will be called RIAA Week
Eh, I got distracted while typing that. I didn't mean hovering in place. It was flying slowly over my end of the city that day. I'm not sure what the purpose was. This was in Ottawa in the early spring of 92 or 93. It could have had something to do with the small airport / aviation museum that wasn't far away.
I'll never forget the first time I saw one of those things. I was ten years old, waiting at a bus stop with my father, when one of those flew overhead. It looked completely surreal. It was very creepy seeing this big, silent, killing machine, hovering over me. =0)
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