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Unless you buy a stand, you need to hold the device with one hand to keep it angled so you can look at it and if your other hand is busy that means you have no way to change pictures, etc.
Has it shown a propensity to predict those? I would suggest their system only measures public awareness which is driven by marketing. It won't find "There's Something About Mary" which took 9 weeks to reach #1 and made 60% as much in its 8th week as in its first.
Compare that to "The Hangover", an excellent movie in the same category. A movie anyone in Hollywood would be glad to have made. It made 13% as much in its 8th week as its first.
Forget the mechanical turk. Just tell me the marketing budget of a movie and how many screens it's going to open on and I'll give you an estimate of the take. It's a pretty strong correlation on large-release movies.
Hollywood has worked so hard to remove the actual quality of the movie from the equation. Get the movie onto a lot of screens early and spend a lot on advertising. Get people in to see it on the first 3 days (Fri, Sat Sun, or Wed-Sun in some cases) before any info about the movie that you don't control (i.e. other than promos) gets out.
Many movies make around half their total theatrical take in the first weekend of release.
It had a multifunction digital connector that didn't even have component on it, the cable had converters in it and plugs on the cable. It never had jacks. Later units didn't have the multifunction digital connector.
What I think you're trying to say is that on units that had component out capability, it didn't disappear in a software update.
And yes, that's right. That's why I said:
'I can't think of any older consoles that lost features with software updates, although many lost features in new versions, most notably progressive component out removed from Gamecube.'
XBox 360 lost the subscription feature for demos with the NXE. It also will lose online play for Xbox games when Live for original Xbox in two weeks.
I can't think of any older consoles that lost features with software updates, although many lost features in new versions, most notably progressive component out removed from Gamecube.
It would be one thing if the farmer were complaining he couldn't sell his crop because it was contaminated. Instead he was found to be using the features of the Monsanto crop (Roundup resistance).
If the crop just blew over and he still grew it as normal it'd be one thing, but instead he knew it was genetically modified and he was using that feature of it to make his growing easier.
I do agree it would be nice of the MPEG LA members who feel that their patents cover Theora would come out and talk about it, it is unlikely that Larry Horn has anything to do with this. MPEG LA only has to do with these patents in terms of licensing them for use with H.264. They almost certainly don't have any responsibilities (or freedom to talk about the situation) when it comes to Theora.
So it's really up to the individual patent holders to come out. I wish they would do so.
Also, "show us the patents" is probably off base too, because the patents are right here.
They said it will be free to end users and net streamers until 2016. They have not said what happens in 2016. Specifically, they did not say they will seek all users to buy a license in 2016.
The last time the free (end-user) license period ended was in 2010 and they extended it then. They could do the same again. Or maybe not. No one can be sure.
In the first part, he takes Gruber's working (submarine patents) too literally. Gruber didn't mean literally patents that are applied for earlier but not granted yet. Gruber misspoke himself. Instead, he means companies who have patents that are already granted and they later will decide applies to new situation and then sue. If Theora becomes successful, it will meet with plenty of these, just as any other software success does now.
In the second part, oddly, given that he rails against strawmen, the argument creates a strawman.
The quoted response veers rapidly from addressing facts (whether Theora is within patent guidelines) to making a prediction 'I predict that MPEG LA may counter that they know groups have been pressured into licensing patents in order to use Theora.' Then it shoots down the prediction and thus claims to counter the argument. But that prediction is just a prediction, it isn't the issue at hand. And countering prediction you made up yourself doesn't necessary counter the actual argument which is that H.264 has a patent defense pool and Theora doesn't.
I have three SSDs, although two are from the same company. None uses binary GB. The Intel ones don't either, which means all the Intel rebrands (Kingston, etc.) don't either.
So that leaves maybe OCZ doing it, and honestly I'd be surprised if they did either. Both bad blocks and the spare blocks used for read-modify-write accesses have to come from somewhere and instead of adding more chips, every SSD I've used just uses extra 7% of blocks that NAND chips provide since they are sized in GiB to provide those blocks. Basically, they take the NAND size in GiB and advertise that as their size in GB, and use the difference between the two for housekeeping.
Unlike the Saddledome which is larger, but is really held together by steel cables with concrete panels just basically creating an enclosure, not the load bearing structure.
I found out about so many interesting structures by spouting off incorrectly like a bonehead!
Well, I made a lot of mistakes there, but in this case I was sure there was a major concrete dome in the US. And I was sure it was to superdome. But I looked it up, it's steel, so I went ahead and spouted my ignorance on the internet.
I just had the wrong structure, I could have saved myself some embarrassment if I hadn't confused the kingdome with the superdome. They were built at the same time and I just got messed up as to which was which.
The tensioners are steel. So again, it's metal doing the work here, it's not going to be stronger than metal, it is metal.
Concrete is great for stacking stuff up. It can carry a lot of weight. But it isn't light and it is useless under tension, so metal (almost always steel) does that work for it.
You know, a regular-type stadium for football or basketball or whatever. Never heard of an aquarium being called a marine life stadium before.
If I were building a building designed to hold brine and thus a salt-tinged atmosphere, I'd be tempted to use concrete too. The aquarium in Monterey for example is entirely made of concrete.
But every sporting-type stadium I know uses a roof made of steel or fabric. Why? Because it's light. The only weight it has to hold up it is own, so the less weight the roof can have, the less material you need. And steel uses a lot less material than concrete for these things. Even if you had concrete spans (possible although difficult), it'd be corrugated steel actually forming the roof to save weight. The fabric roofs are even lighter, although in that case the air inside is actually supporting the roof, not the roof structure itself.
Concrete is stronger under compression, but it's so lousy under tension that you put metal into it to take that strain. And how metal is supposed to be stronger than metal I dunno.
And lighter than metal? Not yet. Tell me when you see stadiums with concrete roofs.
Also how you're going to resist an earthquake with only compression I dunno.
Concrete is very good at some things, others not so much.
Personally I don't like formwork buildings. I know they're really common now I know, and you really can do so much with it I see why architects are interested, but right no I just feel like architects haven't figured out how to make appealing buildings with it yet. Right when we finally broke out of the International style with skyscrapers, it feels like formwork has knocked us back a bit.
Anyone able to get Karmic to authenticate using Open Directory?
If you search the net a little there are people saying it can be made to work, but I can't get the authentication to work, although I can make OD users appear in the user database with some work (i.e. I made LDAP work just not kerberos).
As you can tell by their "compression technology" comments, Opera Mini uses a proxy server to front its requests. Much like a Danger Hiptop. This means they can shrink pages down before sending them, downrezzing images and such.
However, much like on a HipTop, this means that JavaScript is problematic. Since the rendering isn't happening on the device and JS isn't running as you navigate, many pages will just foul up.
It's not bad for the money, but if you play the free version of Torchlight quickly, you can exhaust the real content there. After that point (2 hours in), it becomes really repetitive. Are you getting $15 in content? Probably. But it's not a complete game by the measure of other games.
And I enjoyed it. No, it didn't have a particularly large amount of content unless you count GT:TV.
I also played Torchlight and really enjoyed it.
I don't see how this has to do anything with my comments. It's still nickle and dime time. Just because a particular "preview" edition of a game is good doesn't mean we won't see massive nickle and diming going forward. Heck, we have it already!
You have less freedom under the GPL to do what you want with code. And you gain the ability to tell others what they can do with the code under the GPL.
Neither of these is a proper subset of the other, so it's difficult to say you have "less freedom than under the GPL".
My point was the author of the comment called the GPL license a Freedom (italics theirs) and it is not a license of freedom, like all licenses, it's a license of restrictions.
The GPL is only a freedom license when compared to closed-source license. Compared to other, freer licenses, it's really concerned about creating a commons than it is about freedom.
"If I invite someone into my house I don't expect them to sell your stuff."
That's a terrible analogy. They are only selling copies and derivative works of my stuff.
Anyway, I was merely trying to point out how the poster used the term Freedom incorrectly. The rest of it isn't worth arguing really. The author of code has the right to dual-license it under the GPL. If they are changing the license on code they didn't write also, then it's a GPL violation and they'll have to stop. Because the GPL doesn't give you the freedom to use code you receive under it in that fashion.
Hmm. That's an interesting point. But if the Xbox can write the data in an encrypted form, then that means the Xbox knows the encryption key and thus it can be extracted and put into software on a PC to write it and presumably read it too.
The extraction may be difficult (in fact I would expect it to be), but it's possible to do so.
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Unless you buy a stand, you need to hold the device with one hand to keep it angled so you can look at it and if your other hand is busy that means you have no way to change pictures, etc.
Has it shown a propensity to predict those? I would suggest their system only measures public awareness which is driven by marketing. It won't find "There's Something About Mary" which took 9 weeks to reach #1 and made 60% as much in its 8th week as in its first.
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=somethingaboutmary.htm
Compare that to "The Hangover", an excellent movie in the same category. A movie anyone in Hollywood would be glad to have made. It made 13% as much in its 8th week as its first.
Forget the mechanical turk. Just tell me the marketing budget of a movie and how many screens it's going to open on and I'll give you an estimate of the take. It's a pretty strong correlation on large-release movies.
Hollywood has worked so hard to remove the actual quality of the movie from the equation. Get the movie onto a lot of screens early and spend a lot on advertising. Get people in to see it on the first 3 days (Fri, Sat Sun, or Wed-Sun in some cases) before any info about the movie that you don't control (i.e. other than promos) gets out.
Many movies make around half their total theatrical take in the first weekend of release.
It had a multifunction digital connector that didn't even have component on it, the cable had converters in it and plugs on the cable. It never had jacks. Later units didn't have the multifunction digital connector.
What I think you're trying to say is that on units that had component out capability, it didn't disappear in a software update.
And yes, that's right. That's why I said:
'I can't think of any older consoles that lost features with software updates, although many lost features in new versions, most notably progressive component out removed from Gamecube.'
XBox 360 lost the subscription feature for demos with the NXE. It also will lose online play for Xbox games when Live for original Xbox in two weeks.
I can't think of any older consoles that lost features with software updates, although many lost features in new versions, most notably progressive component out removed from Gamecube.
It would be one thing if the farmer were complaining he couldn't sell his crop because it was contaminated. Instead he was found to be using the features of the Monsanto crop (Roundup resistance).
If the crop just blew over and he still grew it as normal it'd be one thing, but instead he knew it was genetically modified and he was using that feature of it to make his growing easier.
It says if you have data on a linux partition before you update, you must copy it off because you won't have access to it after the update.
So that sounds like you'll be unable to run linux after the update.
I see what you mean that he doesn't say it's MPEG LA people who say they have patents on Theora.
As to the 2nd part, I agree him opening his mouth is to line his pockets and MPEG LAs.
Show us the patents or shut up.
I do agree it would be nice of the MPEG LA members who feel that their patents cover Theora would come out and talk about it, it is unlikely that Larry Horn has anything to do with this. MPEG LA only has to do with these patents in terms of licensing them for use with H.264. They almost certainly don't have any responsibilities (or freedom to talk about the situation) when it comes to Theora.
So it's really up to the individual patent holders to come out. I wish they would do so.
Also, "show us the patents" is probably off base too, because the patents are right here.
http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/avc-att1.pdf
What you seem to mean is show us where the infringement lies.
They said it will be free to end users and net streamers until 2016. They have not said what happens in 2016. Specifically, they did not say they will seek all users to buy a license in 2016.
The last time the free (end-user) license period ended was in 2010 and they extended it then. They could do the same again. Or maybe not. No one can be sure.
In the first part, he takes Gruber's working (submarine patents) too literally. Gruber didn't mean literally patents that are applied for earlier but not granted yet. Gruber misspoke himself. Instead, he means companies who have patents that are already granted and they later will decide applies to new situation and then sue. If Theora becomes successful, it will meet with plenty of these, just as any other software success does now.
In the second part, oddly, given that he rails against strawmen, the argument creates a strawman.
The quoted response veers rapidly from addressing facts (whether Theora is within patent guidelines) to making a prediction 'I predict that MPEG LA may counter that they know groups have been pressured into licensing patents in order to use Theora.' Then it shoots down the prediction and thus claims to counter the argument. But that prediction is just a prediction, it isn't the issue at hand. And countering prediction you made up yourself doesn't necessary counter the actual argument which is that H.264 has a patent defense pool and Theora doesn't.
I have three SSDs, although two are from the same company. None uses binary GB. The Intel ones don't either, which means all the Intel rebrands (Kingston, etc.) don't either.
So that leaves maybe OCZ doing it, and honestly I'd be surprised if they did either. Both bad blocks and the spare blocks used for read-modify-write accesses have to come from somewhere and instead of adding more chips, every SSD I've used just uses extra 7% of blocks that NAND chips provide since they are sized in GiB to provide those blocks. Basically, they take the NAND size in GiB and advertise that as their size in GB, and use the difference between the two for housekeeping.
Unlike the Saddledome which is larger, but is really held together by steel cables with concrete panels just basically creating an enclosure, not the load bearing structure.
I found out about so many interesting structures by spouting off incorrectly like a bonehead!
Well, I made a lot of mistakes there, but in this case I was sure there was a major concrete dome in the US. And I was sure it was to superdome. But I looked it up, it's steel, so I went ahead and spouted my ignorance on the internet.
I just had the wrong structure, I could have saved myself some embarrassment if I hadn't confused the kingdome with the superdome. They were built at the same time and I just got messed up as to which was which.
The tensioners are steel. So again, it's metal doing the work here, it's not going to be stronger than metal, it is metal.
Concrete is great for stacking stuff up. It can carry a lot of weight. But it isn't light and it is useless under tension, so metal (almost always steel) does that work for it.
You know, a regular-type stadium for football or basketball or whatever. Never heard of an aquarium being called a marine life stadium before.
If I were building a building designed to hold brine and thus a salt-tinged atmosphere, I'd be tempted to use concrete too. The aquarium in Monterey for example is entirely made of concrete.
But every sporting-type stadium I know uses a roof made of steel or fabric. Why? Because it's light. The only weight it has to hold up it is own, so the less weight the roof can have, the less material you need. And steel uses a lot less material than concrete for these things. Even if you had concrete spans (possible although difficult), it'd be corrugated steel actually forming the roof to save weight. The fabric roofs are even lighter, although in that case the air inside is actually supporting the roof, not the roof structure itself.
Concrete is stronger under compression, but it's so lousy under tension that you put metal into it to take that strain. And how metal is supposed to be stronger than metal I dunno.
And lighter than metal? Not yet. Tell me when you see stadiums with concrete roofs.
Also how you're going to resist an earthquake with only compression I dunno.
Concrete is very good at some things, others not so much.
Personally I don't like formwork buildings. I know they're really common now I know, and you really can do so much with it I see why architects are interested, but right no I just feel like architects haven't figured out how to make appealing buildings with it yet. Right when we finally broke out of the International style with skyscrapers, it feels like formwork has knocked us back a bit.
Anyone able to get Karmic to authenticate using Open Directory?
If you search the net a little there are people saying it can be made to work, but I can't get the authentication to work, although I can make OD users appear in the user database with some work (i.e. I made LDAP work just not kerberos).
As you can tell by their "compression technology" comments, Opera Mini uses a proxy server to front its requests. Much like a Danger Hiptop. This means they can shrink pages down before sending them, downrezzing images and such.
However, much like on a HipTop, this means that JavaScript is problematic. Since the rendering isn't happening on the device and JS isn't running as you navigate, many pages will just foul up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini#JavaScript_support
Some of Opera Mini's UI is quite sexy.
It's not bad for the money, but if you play the free version of Torchlight quickly, you can exhaust the real content there. After that point (2 hours in), it becomes really repetitive. Are you getting $15 in content? Probably. But it's not a complete game by the measure of other games.
And I enjoyed it. No, it didn't have a particularly large amount of content unless you count GT:TV.
I also played Torchlight and really enjoyed it.
I don't see how this has to do anything with my comments. It's still nickle and dime time. Just because a particular "preview" edition of a game is good doesn't mean we won't see massive nickle and diming going forward. Heck, we have it already!
Far, far ahead of their time.
Gran Turismo 4 and Gran Turismo 5 spawned "GT4: Prologue" and "GT5: Prologue" products which were cut-down versions of the eventual games to come out.
According to some definitions, "Torchlight" by Runic Games is the same thing.
The days of buying a game and feeling like you have the complete thing are coming to an end. It's nickle and dime time!
You have less freedom under the GPL to do what you want with code. And you gain the ability to tell others what they can do with the code under the GPL.
Neither of these is a proper subset of the other, so it's difficult to say you have "less freedom than under the GPL".
My point was the author of the comment called the GPL license a Freedom (italics theirs) and it is not a license of freedom, like all licenses, it's a license of restrictions.
The GPL is only a freedom license when compared to closed-source license. Compared to other, freer licenses, it's really concerned about creating a commons than it is about freedom.
"If I invite someone into my house I don't expect them to sell your stuff."
That's a terrible analogy. They are only selling copies and derivative works of my stuff.
Anyway, I was merely trying to point out how the poster used the term Freedom incorrectly. The rest of it isn't worth arguing really. The author of code has the right to dual-license it under the GPL. If they are changing the license on code they didn't write also, then it's a GPL violation and they'll have to stop. Because the GPL doesn't give you the freedom to use code you receive under it in that fashion.
Hmm. That's an interesting point. But if the Xbox can write the data in an encrypted form, then that means the Xbox knows the encryption key and thus it can be extracted and put into software on a PC to write it and presumably read it too.
The extraction may be difficult (in fact I would expect it to be), but it's possible to do so.