Is Grip still creating invalid ogg files by default (with ID3 tags in the header)?
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I'm not sure this was true with the original Civ. That was a completely turn-based game and the computer didn't need to do a whole lot of thinking between turns. These guys weren't pushing the hardware limits by any means. (Load it the old CivWin on a current box with other 1990-era games to see what I mean.)
Acutally I remember it being quite slow on an early 1990's era computer (16 Mz 286 - not all of us could afford a 386 you know and the DOS version came first). Early in the game it was just a few seconds between turns, but towards the end of a large game, turn times were more like 20-30 seconds if not more.
The letter i in Graffiti2 is really anoying, also k and t are a pain. Making x a two stroke character is acceptable only because it occurs so infrequently in English.
If you read the article referred to you will see that the original grafiti needs to be grabbed from a Palm OS 5 machine such as a Tungsten T or certain models of Sony Clie. Works well though.
Millions upon millions of dollars have been spent on cancer research over the last few decades and still no broadly useful cures are on the horizon. (Although better treatments have been devised which increase life expectancy of cancer sufferers). Many cancer deaths could be avoided very cost effectivly by lifestyle changes such as not smoking and having a healthy diet. If you really care about pain and suffering of millions, much money allocated to cancer research could probably be better spent on other programs targetting other conditions such as AIDS, malnutrition and whooping cough.
A small donation to cancer research is unlikely to make much of a difference to one's quality of life, given the millions already spent by governments and private foundations.
A donation to the Xiph foundation does not look good in comparison to a donation to a more altruistic cause like cancer research. However, a donation to the Xiph foundation is probably more cost effective than buying a product that contains an mp3 or MS codec paying a hidden license fee.
"..but takes more processor to play (at least the last time I played with Ogg, and I admit my only testing was with the xmms plugin). Not great if you want to use on a portable device, where battery life is a concern."
There's an integer only branch of the Ogg Vorbis decoder called Tremor. It's mainly used for ARM processors. It uses much less processor time and is capable of decoding in realtime on a 75MHz ARM cpu.
You have to attend a polling place to have your name marked off. You have to legally dispose of the ballot papers that you are given (i.e. put them in the ballot box). How you mark the ballot paper (or whether you mark it at all is up to you.
The finger pads on laptops for mouse movements is an example of apple's inventions.
What a load of bollocks.
Touch pads were around for ages before apple started using them. They are even in intel based laptops.
t's not the overall plot that made SW popular, it was the characters and the visuals.
A young warrior out of his depth, but trying to be noble? A beautiful princess who needs to be saved, but is unco-operative and aloof? Comic relief from two bumbling sidekicks? Have you not seen The Hidden fortress?
Kurosawa was a master of visual storytelling and Lucas is his unashamed student. Lucas has the advantage of much improved technology and a bigger budget.
Star Wars is a pastiche. Lucas doesn't just copy one source, he uses a many as he needs. The destruction of the death star owes a lot to films like The Battle of Britain and The Dambusters.
There was and still is no non-proprietary software that can read and write to the ipod's HFS+ filesystem for windows and linux. I don't think apple did this to lock non-mac users out, it just happens to be the native mac filesystem and what apples engineers know best. The fat32 filesystem on the windows version of the ipod is also well supported by linux and the *bsd. At the time it was released, I thought that it was a pretty cool piece of engineering but not likely to be well supported on the computers and operating systems that I use. Now all I need is the money.
I still would like vorbis support, which should be easy for apple now that tremor is free.
Even if you allow others to change the code and not release the source (BSD style license), you may wish to restrict what they can to with the code.
e.g
1. disallow changes to the file format to prevent the creation of an encrypted file format that other players can't use.
or
2. require backwards compatibilty with FLAC files if they change the format. This might allow for embedded players that can use still use an encrypted FLAC files, but must also play standard flac files.
otherwise someone might create an embedded system that only plays encrypted FLAC files. This would be not free and not useful to most users.
The linked article quotes jobs as saying that they will look at doing a windows interface. (I thinks that they asmost certainly will if they want to increase market share.)
FireWire is less common on PC's, but the stand alone cards are getting cheap and the new Soundblaster Audigy has one included.
USB is too slow for this application.
With PC (preferably linux) and OGG support, I would consider buying one.
Yes you could sue in an Australian court, for damages resulting from defamation in an Australian state. However for you to succeed there must be damage your reputation in that state. I doubt that you are well known enough in Australia to be defamed significantly.
However it can be done: Demi Moore and Bruce Willis sucessfully sued an Australian magazine called New Idea over a defamatory article they published.
This is a civil, not a criminal case.
If the print magazine was brought into the country by a private person it would not be deemed to be published in Australia. If the magazine was imported and sold by a local distributer then they would be liable. If it was an Australian edition of a US magazine (e.g. Australian Rolling Stone has a mix of US and Australian articles) then the publisher would be liable.
Gutnick hasn't won the case yet. The judge has merely established jurisdiction in this case of electronic publishing. Just like your case of shooting across the international border, in this case he has ruled that publishing (and possibly defamation) occurred in Victoria when Victorian subscribers downloaded the articles. The judgement isn't that surprising if you make analogies with existing judgements; that's what judges seem to do all the time.
If Gutnick wins the case and wins damages and wasn't paid then the court (not the government) could sieze company assets. That wouldn't be a legal precedent and it isn't likely to happen.
The press release makes it sound like a manufacturing defect (it only affected a single batch of chips) rather than a design defect. It doesn't sound like a huge problem. All the companies produce defective chips; they should never make it past quality control.
Compared with Intel's famous fdiv bug which was a design fault and affected all pentiums at that time, this is relatively minor.
I'd say that the biggest loss in this case would be due to the bad publicity that Transmeta has received.
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Is Grip still creating invalid ogg files by default (with ID3 tags in the header)?
Acutally I remember it being quite slow on an early 1990's era computer (16 Mz 286 - not all of us could afford a 386 you know and the DOS version came first). Early in the game it was just a few seconds between turns, but towards the end of a large game, turn times were more like 20-30 seconds if not more.
You should have clicked onto the next page of that site where it says: "Keep the heaviest side of the load closest to your body."
Chris
Do you think that Novell's Kangro might have been talking about Novell Zenworks for linux?
http://www.novell.com/products/zenworks/
Yes there is a way. You have to get the Graffiti1 files from a Palm OS 5 device such as the Palm Tungsten T.
This article explains how.
The letter i in Graffiti2 is really anoying, also k and t are a pain. Making x a two stroke character is acceptable only because it occurs so infrequently in English.
You are missing the point. Storage space is not the only problems associated with the size. How long does it take to read the file?
If you read the article referred to you will see that the original grafiti needs to be grabbed from a Palm OS 5 machine such as a Tungsten T or certain models of Sony Clie. Works well though.
On the other hand, can you show me a PocketPC device that has inbuilt WiFi and a 400MHz cpu and 64 meg of RAM and that is cheaper than the Tungsten C?
Chris
Millions upon millions of dollars have been spent on cancer research over the last few decades and still no broadly useful cures are on the horizon. (Although better treatments have been devised which increase life expectancy of cancer sufferers). Many cancer deaths could be avoided very cost effectivly by lifestyle changes such as not smoking and having a healthy diet. If you really care about pain and suffering of millions, much money allocated to cancer research could probably be better spent on other programs targetting other conditions such as AIDS, malnutrition and whooping cough.
A small donation to cancer research is unlikely to make much of a difference to one's quality of life, given the millions already spent by governments and private foundations.
A donation to the Xiph foundation does not look good in comparison to a donation to a more altruistic cause like cancer research. However, a donation to the Xiph foundation is probably more cost effective than buying a product that contains an mp3 or MS codec paying a hidden license fee.
There's an integer only branch of the Ogg Vorbis decoder called Tremor. It's mainly used for ARM processors. It uses much less processor time and is capable of decoding in realtime on a 75MHz ARM cpu.
Chris
If someone that you didn't know used your wireless connection to download files, how would you feel about it?
You have to attend a polling place to have your name marked off. You have to legally dispose of the ballot papers that you are given (i.e. put them in the ballot box). How you mark the ballot paper (or whether you mark it at all is up to you.
The finger pads on laptops for mouse movements is an example of apple's inventions. What a load of bollocks. Touch pads were around for ages before apple started using them. They are even in intel based laptops.
You actually saw Crocodile Dundee 3?
You must be the first person I ever saw admit that.
t's not the overall plot that made SW popular, it was the characters and the visuals.
A young warrior out of his depth, but trying to be noble? A beautiful princess who needs to be saved, but is unco-operative and aloof? Comic relief from two bumbling sidekicks? Have you not seen The Hidden fortress?
Kurosawa was a master of visual storytelling and Lucas is his unashamed student. Lucas has the advantage of much improved technology and a bigger budget.
Star Wars is a pastiche. Lucas doesn't just copy one source, he uses a many as he needs. The destruction of the death star owes a lot to films like The Battle of Britain and The Dambusters.
> Perhaps you've heard of our airplanes?
That's aeroplanes.
Next stop will be ionian columns.
(The Master's tardis default appearance)
There was and still is no non-proprietary software that can read and write to the ipod's HFS+ filesystem for windows and linux. I don't think apple did this to lock non-mac users out, it just happens to be the native mac filesystem and what apples engineers know best. The fat32 filesystem on the windows version of the ipod is also well supported by linux and the *bsd. At the time it was released, I thought that it was a pretty cool piece of engineering but not likely to be well supported on the computers and operating systems that I use. Now all I need is the money.
I still would like vorbis support, which should be easy for apple now that tremor is free.
> Isn't that how the american word 'offense' is
> spelled in England (which is where India got its
> english from)?
So where did America get its english from?
Even if you allow others to change the code and not release the source (BSD style license), you may wish to restrict what they can to with the code.
e.g
1. disallow changes to the file format to prevent the creation of an encrypted file format that other players can't use.
or
2. require backwards compatibilty with FLAC files if they change the format. This might allow for embedded players that can use still use an encrypted FLAC files, but must also play standard flac files.
otherwise someone might create an embedded system that only plays encrypted FLAC files. This would be not free and not useful to most users.
Chris
The linked article quotes jobs as saying that they will look at doing a windows interface. (I thinks that they asmost certainly will if they want to increase market share.)
FireWire is less common on PC's, but the stand alone cards are getting cheap and the new Soundblaster Audigy has one included.
USB is too slow for this application.
With PC (preferably linux) and OGG support, I would consider buying one.
Chris
Yes you could sue in an Australian court, for damages resulting from defamation in an Australian state. However for you to succeed there must be damage your reputation in that state. I doubt that you are well known enough in Australia to be defamed significantly.
However it can be done: Demi Moore and Bruce Willis sucessfully sued an Australian magazine called New Idea over a defamatory article they published.
This is a civil, not a criminal case.
If the print magazine was brought into the country by a private person it would not be deemed to be published in Australia. If the magazine was imported and sold by a local distributer then they would be liable. If it was an Australian edition of a US magazine (e.g. Australian Rolling Stone has a mix of US and Australian articles) then the publisher would be liable.
Gutnick hasn't won the case yet. The judge has merely established jurisdiction in this case of electronic publishing. Just like your case of shooting across the international border, in this case he has ruled that publishing (and possibly defamation) occurred in Victoria when Victorian subscribers downloaded the articles. The judgement isn't that surprising if you make analogies with existing judgements; that's what judges seem to do all the time.
If Gutnick wins the case and wins damages and wasn't paid then the court (not the government) could sieze company assets. That wouldn't be a legal precedent and it isn't likely to happen.
Last I heard, 3Com was still the majority owner of Palm. (90% IIRC)
Chris
The press release makes it sound like a manufacturing defect (it only affected a single batch of chips) rather than a design defect. It doesn't sound like a huge problem. All the companies produce defective chips; they should never make it past quality control.
Compared with Intel's famous fdiv bug which was a design fault and affected all pentiums at that time, this is relatively minor.
I'd say that the biggest loss in this case would be due to the bad publicity that Transmeta has received.
Chris