You mean like Xbox, Xbox 360 and everything else that has Microsoft written on it that's not Windows and Office?
Making money by selling gas-hungry cars and trucks is over. Vehicule manufacturers can only sell low-cost, efficient, clean cars and trucks from now on. GM is willing to change, but Ford isn't. I'm betting GM has better chances of still being here in 10-15 years than Ford or Dodge.
It may not be the best solution for the USA, but still, you do have to admit it should be easier to filter all the pollution at power plants than in millions of cars.
Here in Quebec and Ontario, with all our hydro-electricity, electric cars really would be "clean cars" (or at least incredibly more clean than fossil fuel cars).
I'm running OS X 10.4.8 right now. My ViewSonic VP171s monitor is connected via DVI, and my Mac mini is set to the VP171s native resolution, which is 1280x1024. There is absolutely no anti-aliasing on vertical or horizontal lines in any character on the screen, whatever font or background color they are.
Either you're using a crappy VGA cable, the refresh rate is wrong for your monitor and it's screwing the analog signal or you're simply using the wrong resolution for your LCD monitor, in which case it's your own fault and it's the LCD display doing the "anti-aliasing", not OS X.
I was at Toys'R Us yesterday, searching for the elusive component cable for the Wii (I had it on my GameCube, and I can't stand the crappy composite picture from the Wii anymore).
Guess what? No component cables, no Wiimotes, no Nunchucks. Only half a dozen classic controllers and games. But no Wii consoles.
And what do I see on a bottom tablet nearby? Four 60GB PS3. Normal people don't want to pay 680$CAD for a game console. Toys'R Us was still taking names on their list for the next shipments of Wii consoles.
A bit off-topic, but does anyone else feel like the audio from R-Type (virtual console, Wii) doesn't sound quite exactly right?
Just like the way that iTunes will let you burn AAC-encoded files to CD some limited number of times.
Actually it's the playlists themselves that have a limited number of burns, so you can't make unlimited copies of whole albums. Unless you happen to make a new playlist, or so I've heard.
Your idea of "public domain when I die" may be better for the author, but I'm simply guessing that the original writers of the copyright law saw things differently. Since they're all dead, we can only read the original copyright papers (if those are still available at all).
The argument I'm trying to resolve is why should the artist just stop making money from something they made 30 years ago?
Because that's the spirit of copyright. You're protected for 30 years, then it falls into the public domain. Without copyright, everything would fall in public domain the second after you're done making it.
Copyright was meant to protect the authors for 30 years, as an incentive to create new works. After that 30 years, they should've made new works.
You're not getting paid for something you did 30 years ago (say, hammer a nail), why should they be? In fact, even with 30 years of copyright, if successful, they could sit on their asses and do nothing for 30 years if they're popular enough.
Does this affect Preview on OS X too? After all, pratically all OS X users will use Preview to view PDF files (since Preview comes with OS X, and OS X itself has a PDF renderer built-in, at least from what I've read/understood).
Also, I wasn't commenting about Slashdot itself, I was commenting about the media companies that can't get their act together and start releasing/licensing their stuff everywhere at once (instead of USA first, Canada two months later, Europe one year later, etc).
Downloaded content to be burned is 1.5G, converted to DVD format (33% DVD quality)
Do not assume that smaller file size equals lower quality. Ten years ago, a VideoCD could only contain 72 minutes of 352x288 MPEG-1 video with MPEG-1 Layer 2 stereo audio. Today, the same CD can contain an H.264 movie of DVD resolution with surround sound encoded in AAC.
There's a difference between civil disobedience and stupid laws you shouldn't follow.
It's civic disobedience when an Aussie rips a CD he bought and puts it in his computer and iPod. It's a stupid law.
It's morally wrong to get content without paying for it (if required, ex: commercial releases). People work hard to make those stories/songs/movies/etc, they have the right to be paid. The fact that you want it for free doesn't make it right.
What's wrong is copyrights that last for decades, then get pushed back for more decades, etc. Copyrights were invented to protect the author AND put that content into the public domain after a while. Current laws only work for the first part of the copyright, which is wrong.
What would be civic disobedience is to upload/share/torrent everything that should have its copyright expired. If the original spirit of the copyright law was set for 30 years, then everything from 1976 and earlier should be up for grabs, no matter what the current laws are because those new laws were made by lobbyists for the industries.
Last time I checked, the internet was for the whole planet. Last time I checked, nerds were not all americans. And last time I checked, stuff that matters happened everywhere.
Besides, this is Slashdot.ORG not Slashdot.US
If you don't want the outside world to bother you, then follow China and close your part of the internet to outsiders. IMHO that's the kind of thing Dubya would like very much.
I think I've seen SNES and TurboGrafx-16 emulators for the GBA, so my guess is that it should be possible to run such emulators at full-speed (with audio) on the DS, even if you have to use both CPUs to do the job (GBA+DS).
Heck I can even play my NES library on my DS if I want.
... with unauthorized "hard-to-get" hardware (i.e. you can't buy that at Toys'R Us). But, that's not what I really want to comment about.
Here's the idea: it would give an incredible boost to VC sales if I could upload the emulators (along with the ROMs) to my Nintendo DS. Imagine that: buying the VC games on the Wii and then playing them on the Wii and the Nintendo DS.
I wish people would stop complaining about the lack of 1080p, 720p, etc. At least the Wii has 480p (had to since the Gamecube also had it, at least with selected games).
Also, what's so hard about browsing in 480? Last time I checked, computers were also using 640x480 years ago. Heck, there was still some 640x480 users at the beginning of 2004. Stop acting like 480 pixels of vertical resolution is the end of the world.
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You mean like Xbox, Xbox 360 and everything else that has Microsoft written on it that's not Windows and Office?
Making money by selling gas-hungry cars and trucks is over. Vehicule manufacturers can only sell low-cost, efficient, clean cars and trucks from now on. GM is willing to change, but Ford isn't. I'm betting GM has better chances of still being here in 10-15 years than Ford or Dodge.
It may not be the best solution for the USA, but still, you do have to admit it should be easier to filter all the pollution at power plants than in millions of cars.
Here in Quebec and Ontario, with all our hydro-electricity, electric cars really would be "clean cars" (or at least incredibly more clean than fossil fuel cars).
What about Atari too? And even the generation before that, CoCo3 with OS/9 and C64/128 with GEOS? And the Apple IIs?
Kids these days, they think computers started with MS-DOS and the only competitor ever was Apple.
I think he meant Link.
How about using those new "supercapacitors" we've heard about a few months ago? They should lower the cost and recharge time quite a bit.
I'm running OS X 10.4.8 right now. My ViewSonic VP171s monitor is connected via DVI, and my Mac mini is set to the VP171s native resolution, which is 1280x1024. There is absolutely no anti-aliasing on vertical or horizontal lines in any character on the screen, whatever font or background color they are.
Either you're using a crappy VGA cable, the refresh rate is wrong for your monitor and it's screwing the analog signal or you're simply using the wrong resolution for your LCD monitor, in which case it's your own fault and it's the LCD display doing the "anti-aliasing", not OS X.
I was at Toys'R Us yesterday, searching for the elusive component cable for the Wii (I had it on my GameCube, and I can't stand the crappy composite picture from the Wii anymore).
Guess what? No component cables, no Wiimotes, no Nunchucks. Only half a dozen classic controllers and games. But no Wii consoles.
And what do I see on a bottom tablet nearby? Four 60GB PS3. Normal people don't want to pay 680$CAD for a game console. Toys'R Us was still taking names on their list for the next shipments of Wii consoles.
A bit off-topic, but does anyone else feel like the audio from R-Type (virtual console, Wii) doesn't sound quite exactly right?
LOL, nice reply.
So, it would have been 4 lines of code instead of 16?
The kilo/mega/tera/etc comes from metric, not the computing industry. A kilometer is 1000 meters, not 1024 meters.
I do agree on the "bit vs byte" part, though.
Your idea of "public domain when I die" may be better for the author, but I'm simply guessing that the original writers of the copyright law saw things differently. Since they're all dead, we can only read the original copyright papers (if those are still available at all).
Copyright was meant to protect the authors for 30 years, as an incentive to create new works. After that 30 years, they should've made new works.
You're not getting paid for something you did 30 years ago (say, hammer a nail), why should they be? In fact, even with 30 years of copyright, if successful, they could sit on their asses and do nothing for 30 years if they're popular enough.
Does this affect Preview on OS X too? After all, pratically all OS X users will use Preview to view PDF files (since Preview comes with OS X, and OS X itself has a PDF renderer built-in, at least from what I've read/understood).
Also, I wasn't commenting about Slashdot itself, I was commenting about the media companies that can't get their act together and start releasing/licensing their stuff everywhere at once (instead of USA first, Canada two months later, Europe one year later, etc).
There's a difference between civil disobedience and stupid laws you shouldn't follow.
It's civic disobedience when an Aussie rips a CD he bought and puts it in his computer and iPod. It's a stupid law.
It's morally wrong to get content without paying for it (if required, ex: commercial releases). People work hard to make those stories/songs/movies/etc, they have the right to be paid. The fact that you want it for free doesn't make it right.
What's wrong is copyrights that last for decades, then get pushed back for more decades, etc. Copyrights were invented to protect the author AND put that content into the public domain after a while. Current laws only work for the first part of the copyright, which is wrong.
What would be civic disobedience is to upload/share/torrent everything that should have its copyright expired. If the original spirit of the copyright law was set for 30 years, then everything from 1976 and earlier should be up for grabs, no matter what the current laws are because those new laws were made by lobbyists for the industries.
Last time I checked, the internet was for the whole planet. Last time I checked, nerds were not all americans. And last time I checked, stuff that matters happened everywhere.
Besides, this is Slashdot.ORG not Slashdot.US
If you don't want the outside world to bother you, then follow China and close your part of the internet to outsiders. IMHO that's the kind of thing Dubya would like very much.
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The best output option for the Wii seems to be the components cable, so that means 480p at best (AFAIK).
Do any of these services work on OS X and are available to Canadians?
I'm getting tired of companies that think "world = USA + Windows".
I think I've seen SNES and TurboGrafx-16 emulators for the GBA, so my guess is that it should be possible to run such emulators at full-speed (with audio) on the DS, even if you have to use both CPUs to do the job (GBA+DS).
I thought that all slashdotters hated PDFs and Flash. Ignoring the history of the companies responsible makes me a non-geek?
Here's the idea: it would give an incredible boost to VC sales if I could upload the emulators (along with the ROMs) to my Nintendo DS. Imagine that: buying the VC games on the Wii and then playing them on the Wii and the Nintendo DS.
I wish people would stop complaining about the lack of 1080p, 720p, etc. At least the Wii has 480p (had to since the Gamecube also had it, at least with selected games).
Also, what's so hard about browsing in 480? Last time I checked, computers were also using 640x480 years ago. Heck, there was still some 640x480 users at the beginning of 2004. Stop acting like 480 pixels of vertical resolution is the end of the world.