Digital watermarking is the process of possibly irreversibly embedding information into a digital signal. The signal may be audio, pictures or video, for example. If the signal is copied, then the information is also carried in the copy. In visible watermarking, the information is visible in the picture or video. Typically, the information is text or a logo which identifies the owner of the media. [Wikipedia]
If you decide to go with an online watermarking, you can let watermark picture on the fly using php and .htaccess (at the cost of additional CPU server resources).
The Apache Felix #Maven SCR Plugin is a great tool to ease the development of OSGi components and services. Components and services are defined through annotations and the plugin creates the necessary descriptors for the OSGi Declarative Services, Config Admin and Metatype services. Starting with version 1.4.0 of the plugin, OSGi Declarative Services versions 1.0 and 1.1 are supported.
Introduction
In OSGi based systems functionality is mainly provided through services. Unlike traditional systems but comparable to Spring, a service is not reqiured to implement a framework defined interface. Instead services implement one or more interfaces, which stipulate the type of service provided. It is the lifetime of the bundle, which defines the lifetime of the service: A service object may be instantiated when the bundle is started and will automatically be removed when the bundle is stopped (and the service has not already been unregistered).
On larger projects, additional dependencies often tend to creep into a POM as the number of dependencies grow. As dependencies change, you are often left with dependencies that are not being used, and just as often, you may forget to declare explicit dependencies for libraries you require. Because #Maven 2.x includes transitive dependencies in the compile scope, your project may compile properly but fail to run in production. Consider a case where a project uses classes from a widely used project such as Jakarta Commons BeanUtils. Instead of declaring an explicit dependency on BeanUtils, your project simply relies on a project like Hibernate that references BeanUtils as a transitive dependency. Your project may compile successfully and run just fine, but if you upgrade to a new version of Hibernate that doesn’t depend on BeanUtils, you’ll start to get compile and runtime errors, and it won’t be immediately obvious why your project stopped compiling.
Participation in Independent Foundation Projects Helps Spark Developer Co-Innovation Supporting Standards and Customer and Partner Open Source Strategies
VIENNA, Austria – October 27, 2009 – Reaffirming its increasing commitment to proven and broadly used open source technologies, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) joins a number of projects at the Apache Software Foundation, an independent foundation focused on open-source software projects. Working together with the Apache community of developers and users, SAP plans to further support the development and use of open solutions to drive industry standards and empower the developer community with the tools they need to be successful. The announcement was made at SAP® TechEd 2009, the company’s largest ecosystem education event, being held October 27-29 in Vienna, Austria.
The Apache Software Foundation is an independent organization encouraging developers, users and technology vendors to contribute to its collaborative, consensus-based development process that strives to deliver high quality, freely available software products that attract large communities of users. SAP intends to contribute to several additional projects, including the Maven, VXQuery, Tomcat, OpenEJB and ActiveMQ projects, in an effort to enhance these technologies for use in future releases of the SAP NetWeaver® Application Server component.
Even if the sample is quite small (600 responses), it still interesting going through these compiled data
Some time ago we ran a survey asking a few questions about the build process, specifically the tools that are used to do incremental builds and how much time those builds take. We had over 600 responses, so now it’s time to count the results.
This is the first time that we’ve published results on the incremental build process, so the information is more likely to serve as a guide than an authoritative information source.
I’ve created my own toolbar for Firefox, IE and Safari. I design it for having the less annoying ads, blinking stuff, that’s why I (still) consider it being an added value for all my visitors. I am the first to not like cluttered toolbar, but this company conduit.com is offering a great and easy to use product for webmasters. If you look at the toolbar, you will see that I offer: quick links, RSS feeds, Twitter, email (POP) and weather not more. They are able to offer 6420 inline toolbar components, crazy!
With The release of Windows 7, you may face the issue that you have to reinstall a huge number of applications (time consuming and annoying). This is where Ninite, may help you installing your favorite apps again in no time.
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Aggressors of Dark Kombat Alpha Mission 2 (dog-tag only)
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Fatal Fury 2 euro Fatal Fury Special
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Football Frenzy (dog-tag)
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Galaxy Fight
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Ghost Pilots euro Karnov’s Revenge
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Samurai Shodown
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Galaxy Fight
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NAM-1975
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Over Top
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SVC Chaos
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The Super Spy
Thrash Rally
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Top Players Golf
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View Point
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Burning Fight
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Crossed Swords
Crossed Swords 2
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Futsal: Pleasure Goal on Goal 5 Galaxy Fight
Ghost Pilots
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I did buy these 2 color hand held Neo-Geo pocket color on www.ebay.fr When I start playing with the SNK Neo Geo back in 1991 (till 2000), I was never thinking of buying one of these Neo-geo Pocket Color. I am now trying to complete my collection of SNK Neo-geo stuff
Neo Geo Pocket Color(NGPC) aqua blue serial 516324
The Neo-Geo Pocket Color or Neo-Geo Pocket Colour in the UK (shortened NGPC) was released on March 16, 1999 in Japan and was released in the United States on August 6, 1999. It was a 16-bit color hand held game console designed by SNK, the makers of the Neo Geo home console and arcade machine. It came after SNK’s original Neo Geo Pocket monochrome handheld, which debuted in 1998 in Japan. In 2000, following SNK’s purchase by Japanese Pachinko manufacturer Aruze, the Neo Geo Pocket Color was dropped from both the United States and European markets. It did, however, last until 2001 in Japan.
Neo Geo Pocket Color(NGPC) aqua blue serial 516324
U.S. Release
Color had an exclusive launch on the website eToys in 1999. eToys also sold the initial launch titles in the preferred plastic snap lock cases. The system debuted in the United States with six launch titles (twenty promised by end of year) and retail price of $69.95. Six different unit colors were available: Camouflage Blue, Carbon Black, Crystal White, Platinum Blue, Platinum Silver, and Stone Blue.
Before SNK was bought out, the Neo Geo Pocket Color was being advertised on US television and units were being sold nationally in Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Toys “R” Us, and other large retail chains.
Neo Geo Pocket Color(NGPC) cristal serial 0429800
Post-Aruze buyout
Remaining stock was bought back by SNK for repackaging in Asia. In June 2000 SNK of America (and Europe) tried recalling most of the back-stock of systems and games to be flashed and re-sold in Asia where the system would continue to be sold and supported. Some of the back-stock of US NGPC hardware and software started showing up back on the marketplace in the US and Asia in 2003. These units frequently appeared bundled with six games stripped of their cases and manuals. Two games often included, Faselei! and Last Blade were never previously released in United States, meaning that they have no US-localized box or manual; however, these titles did receive a European release, incorporating an English translation.
Neo Geo Pocket Color(NGPC) cristal serial 0429800
Legacy
The system enjoyed a greater success than any Game Boy competitor since Sega’s Game Gear. However, it was hurt by several factors, such as the Neo Geo heads’ (the Barone family) notorious lack of communication with third-party developers, the success of the Game Boy Color and the Pokémon franchise, and anticipation of the Game Boy Advance.
Neo Geo Pocket Color(NGPC) cristal serial 0429800
Technical specifications
CPUs: Toshiba TLCS900H core (16-bit), 6.144 MHz, Z80 at 3.072 MHz for sound.
RAM: 12 k for 900H, 4k for Z80 (shared with the 900H).
ROM: 64 k boot ROM.
Interfaces: SIO 1 channel 19200 bit/s, 5-pin serial port.
Resolution: 160×152 (256×256 virtual screen).
DMA: 4 channels.
Colors: 16 palettes per plane, 48 palettes. 146 colors on screen out of 4096 (or 20 colors out of 4096 in monochrome mode).
Sprites: 64 sprites per frame (8×8), 4 colors per sprite.
Scrolling: 2 scrolling planes, 8×8 character tiles (characters matrix shared with the sprites), 4 colors per tile.
Sound: Two SN76489 equivalent (3 square wave tone generators + 1 independent noise generator + direct access to the two 6 bits DAC).
Cartridges: Maximum 4 MB (32 Mbit) with 4 to 16 Mbit flash memory.
Batteries: 40 hours on 2 AA batteries. Lithium CR2032 battery backs up memory and clock.
The system has an on-board language setting, and games display text in the language selected (provided the cartridge supports that language). Other settings can be set on the handheld such as time and date, and the system can provide customized horoscopes when one’s birth-date is entered.
Cables for linking multiple systems were available, as well as a cable to connect the NGPC and the Sega Dreamcast.
Games that featured this option include King of Fighters R-2 (links with King of Fighters ’99 Dream Match and King of Fighters Evolution), SNK vs Capcom – Match of the Millennium (links with Capcom vs SNK), SNK vs Capcom – Card Fighters’ Clash (links with King of Fighters Evolution), SNK vs Capcom – Card Fighters’ Clash Expand Edition (links with Capcom vs SNK) and Cool Cool Jam (links with Cool Cool Toon). There was a wireless connector released in Japan that allowed several players in proximity to play together, with some cartridge molding reshaped to hold it. An MP3 audio player add-on was developed but was not released due to SNK’s closure.
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