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  1. A mirror for the zip by Mik!tAAt · · Score: 5, Informative · on MS DRM Version 2 - Cracked

    Here's a mirror to the .zip file. Hope it helps.

  2. Re:what about the velocity? by gorgon · · Score: 2 · on Experiment Shows Neutrinos Have Mass
    The problem is that right now, it would be very hard to come up with a way to give a neutrino low kinetic energy. The excess energy available for kinetic energy of the reaction products is on the order of MeV, while the limits on the mass of an electron neutrino is on the order of eV. The way the physics of nuclear reactions works makes it very difficult for the neutrinos to get a million times less kinetic energy than the other reaction products. In fact, due to the conservation of momentum, its more favorable for the low mass products to get more kinetic energy than the high mass products.

    Even if you could get low energy neutrinos ( less than an eV), you'd still have to collimate a beam them. That would be very difficult to do, since they react so little.

    So yeah, its not impossible to measure the mass of a neutrino directly. But I'd be very surprised if we find a direct way to measure the mass of a neutrino anytime soon. Indirect will have to be good enough for a while.

    --
    I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations ...

  3. Re:full reasoning by habig · · Score: 2 · on Giant Neutrino Detector, 2km Underground
    While high energy collisions provide you with a wealth of information, it's not always the information you need.

    Neutrino experiments have indeed measured a lot of good stuff, say from the sun, reactors and accelerators, and cosmic rays.

    However, since neutrinos are so hard to measure, these measurements are not nearly as precise as you would like. Compared to the accelerator measurements, they are orders of magnitude less precise! The better nu measurements we make, the better information on how leptons behave the theorists can use in building their models of how everything is put together.

    Also, the only neutrinos from stars that have been measured are from the Sun and a few from Supernova 1987A. We would dearly love to see neutrinos from other astrophysical sources, but being far away really kills the signal when the Sun (which is right next door) only gives you a dozen or so nu interactions per day. We need to wait for another nearby supernova (check out our Supernova Early Warning System SNEWS!) or build a Really Big neutrino telescope like AMANDA.

    Finally, here's a great place to find a lot of neutrino links: The Ultimate Neutrino Page.

  4. Re:I used to use it. by mav[LAG] · · Score: 2 · on Sybase to Open Souce Watcom C/C++ & Fortran Compiler
    It was the great game-developer compiler.

    Indeed it was. Doom and Duke 3D were the two most high-profile games written using Watcom but there were some other good ones as well - Epic Pinball, One Must Fall and Toxic Bunny also spring to mind.

    The game and demo programmer's paradise at x2ftp was - and still is - chock full of Watcom goodies. Some of those have been further developed to be successful commercial cross-platform rendering libraries in their own right.

    But it was Doom that brought Watcom its popular fame - without a doubt. Game programmers and players everywhere were suddenly asking "DOS/4G? What the hell is this?" And when they found out that it was Watcom that could compile extended DOS programs (with none of the 16-bit memory model restrictions), there was a huge surge in games compiled using Watcom. Instead of all sorts of tricks with segments, EMS and/or XMS, you had a flat memory model. I remember drooling at the time because I'd just about had enough of huge pointers...

  5. Tilting at windmills by Huusker · · Score: 1 · on The Open Windows Project

    From reading their manifesto, it looks like they are trying to clone Windows 9x, not Windows NT. They talk about FAT, FAT32, real-mode drivers, and MS-DOS. There is no mention of NTFS, UNICODE, security, or WDM protected-mode drivers.

    If this is true, the mind boggles. Let me see if I understand this. They want to clone an OS that has no security, no crash protection, and which (after Windows ME) Microsoft has declared there will be no follow-on versions. Is this right?

    And they're throwing in a clone NDIS/TCP/Winsock stack, and OLE (the whole graphical nightmare, not just COM), and DOS support. Hey it's just an all-nighter right? Have they seen Ralf Brown's INT 21 list for DOS? It is the size of a phone book. And that's just for DOS. In short they aim to clone $10+ billion of bug-compatible legacy software created over 15+ years, basically from scratch.

    Compare this to WINE, a serious emulation project with modest goals to emulate the Win32 API over Unix. They are working on the GDI, DirectX, DLL interception, security, etc. These people are working on genuine technical issues related to Windows compatiblity. Meanwhile the Open Windows guys are soliciting for snapshots of screen layouts that look cool.

    It's like your kids building a sand castle and they say "this is going to be as big as your house Daddy!". You just have to smile and wish them luck.

  6. Neuromancer Movie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on All Tomorrow's Parties
    Not only is Neuromancer about to be made into a movie, it also now has an official home page. William Gibson 12 is writing the script so people have some hope it will work.

    Anyway, I see the All Tomorrow's Parties too has a home page.

    In the newsgroup alt.cyberpunk there was a reference to an early script which was rather different from the book. Incidentally, the new book has been discussed at some length there already, you may wish to pop in to have look.

  7. Thats at . . . by VinceJH · · Score: 1 · on Review: GTK+/Gnome Application Development

    Thats at http://www.student.oulu.fi/~jlof/gtkgla rea/. Gotta remember preview.

  8. Summary of new features? by Kenelson · · Score: 1 · on Gtk+ and Glib 1.2.0 released
    There are a number of C++ bindings available. They each have different approachs to wrapping. Gtk-- with the straight wrapper, VDK with a more Borland type wrapper, and wx/Gtk with the wxWindows standard. Depending on how much or how little you wish to see Gtk code, take your pick.

    Gtk-- (which I work on) is currently in beta after a rather long infancy period. We intend to release a 1.0 cut with the next month.

    GL support for Gtk is very good. You can render direcly in a window or in a pixmap. See GtkGLArea for more details.

    There is even a GL widget in the Gtk-- project. It will be a week or two before it is up to date with the gtk+ 1.2 (basically because it has the largest number of dependencies). If you are interested drop by the GtkGLArea-- website.

    --Karl
    Gtk-- Contributor