Am I the only one cynical enough to think that the difference in bulk prices now and in the future will only go to line the pockets of WalMart itself, leaving the consumer with ever more highly priced music?
6).doc Word import is not great.. in fact, sometimes it really SUCKS. We've got product manuals here written in Word.. Try to import those.. egad!
7) I had some docs that had copies in LaTex, HTML and PDF... HTML sucks since all the chapters are split up in seperate files. Ok, but WHERE are the PDF and LaTex imports filter??? I ended up with copy & pasting all the text from Adobe's PDF viewer to OOo.. meaning I had to reformat the entire document again before I could change what I wanted to change in the first place... *crieS*
I find these WYSIWYG text editors a pain.. I certainly stay away from MS Office, because I don't want my data locked in, but OOo is not as user friendly as I would like it..
1) I want to put a page index in document.. Took me forever to figure it out. It's not explained in the Help text or details are sketchy. So I figure out it's locked to a text style. I'd rather insert a token or something that means 'This is the next chapter'. Oh well..
2) So I insert the automatic index creating token thingy.. I want it to start at the top of the page, but there's an empty line in front of it.. I cannot remove it with backspace or delete.. I have to go to the previous page and push delete there.. Ye gods!
3) So I see there's a style that draws a box around text. Neat! So I do that, but the box is stretched to the right end of the page, not at the end of the actual text.. I haven't figured out how to do this yet.
4) So I see you can insert clickable URLs in the text.. nice.. So I do that, start type right after that.. Euhm.. I'm adding text to the URL. No! I want to write normal text now! Only work around I found was to cursor ahead, insert extra spaces and then backspace until I hit the end of the link, cursor right one, and start typing normal text again.. EASE OF USE! Argh!
5) So I want to print an envelope.. the envelope goes in the printer 90 degrees turned. HOWEVER, I want to type my stuff normally. There is NO option to rotate when you want to print. MS Office HAS this option.
When I want to do something I run into these little gripes again and again.. It's crappy! This is why I still type my stuff in ASCII! How about adding a 'suggestion' button to every control, like the early beta's of Windows XP, so I can communicate all of these little gripes to the OOo developers so that the product gets fixed?
Ooo developers, contact me if you want your product beta-tested! I see tons of things that can be improved!
I've thought about this one long and hard, but the only solution is a global worm that nukes the computer it lands on..
This is the only way to eliminate all of those asian zombie boxes out there, and to educate the users of those machines..
"But it works just fine", is the answer I always hear people say when I tell them their computer is infected and pumping out more worms. To stop people from clicking attachments and to pay attention to updating their system, you either need to reward or punish users. Otherwise they simply won't care.
Since a worm can't reward, it should punish. Format all drives after say 3 days of the initial infection.. People WILL care after that happened once or twice..
If you have the original game, you can use SCUMM VM to work as the script engine for many Lucas Art games. This way you can still enjoy the classics, without having to fiddle around with DOS emulators and such.:)
Sorry about the double post, my posting finger slipped.
With RAM prices being as low as they are nowadays (well relatively speaking anyway). I don't see why you don't record to a RAM drive. 44.000MHz 16-bit 74 minutes is 700 MB. And since I'm able to lossless compress A/V on the fly when I'm digitizing, I don't see why this would not be possible for audio. I assume you do 48Mhz recording, multi-channel but with a good compression algorithm and a few Gigs of RAM, you should be able to record for a few hours.
After that, dump to remote network file server, or local harddisk (after spinning it up, or plugging in a removable HDD)
Am I the only one that thinks this is just a method to lock out open source software? Is anybody keeping an eye open at the pattent office site for any new trivial encryption patents?
I believe the problem with DVD authoring is, that to write a decent program for it, you'll have to pay like $50.000 to get the specs.
Otherwise you'll have to painstakingly reverse the entire format. There is already great progress with this I presume since there are some nice open source programs.
But no professional grade software under Linux as far as I know..
I don't think it's such a good idea. You got nutters out there bombing doctors of abortion clinics, I'm sure there are loonies out there who wouldn't mind killing convicted sex offenders. Afterall they _did_ the time, and I don't think it will give people who really _do_ want to better their lives a fair deal.
Also it gives people a false sense of security.. Who's to say that a registered sex offender doesn't take a weekend holiday to another state to rape and kill? And you thought you were safe in a neighbourhood without any sex offenders..
After watching 'The elegant universe' (<--- torrent links)I can trade in my fear for an continent sized asteroid hitting earth for the more bleeding-edge fear of a new 'Big Bang' occuring.:) No rest for the paranoid.
The virus scanner itself is not too difficult to make, and giving virus writers the source to it doesn't help them in any way.
The problem is more the virus definitions, which are hard to collect together. These are heavily protected with encryption by all commercial virus scanner software companies.
But again the virus _writer_ has no advantage by getting the source for a scanner
This is exactly what I was thinking. Every John Doe has a copy of NAV, and the same goes for Adobe Photoshop.
I don't think that Photoshop could have become the market leader if it wasn't easy to copy. But Photoshop is also going the way of product activation.
The more interesting question is, where will all the people flee too when they can't use their favorite product anymore? How many people jumped on Linux when XP started product activation? How many people will go over to The Gimp, leaving Adobe behind?
I think this will greatly increase the need for an Open Source anti-virus scanner. Which is probably a good thing.:)
If you can't decrypt or decompress them, you can't run them anyway.
That's not how it works. Encrypted/compressed data is unpacked in-memory, usually in a way so that it's really hard to get to the data unpacked/decrypted data. Meaning that the.EXE file on your harddisk is almost impossible to decrypt by hand.
Does anybody have any idea how many binaries are protected nowadays, wich encryption, obfuscation and/or compression?
If a program uses any kind of serial entry, CD check or other kind of 'protection' scheme, you can be sure the makes have run an obfuscation program like 'PEcrypt' on it.
Even then, I don't see this program unpacking unprotected executables that have been packed with UPX or one of the other dozens of PE compressors.
Simply put, this program will have VERY limited uses for normal consumers. The only one who could use it would be the firm who made the program in the first place, before obfuscation/protection/compression, but why would they? They have the source code. A source-code checking program would be MUCH more effective.
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My best liked equasion:
2 + 2 = 5 (for large values of 2)
Am I the only one cynical enough to think that the difference in bulk prices now and in the future will only go to line the pockets of WalMart itself, leaving the consumer with ever more highly priced music?
Another few things
.doc Word import is not great.. in fact, sometimes it really SUCKS. We've got product manuals here written in Word.. Try to import those.. egad!
6)
7) I had some docs that had copies in LaTex, HTML and PDF... HTML sucks since all the chapters are split up in seperate files. Ok, but WHERE are the PDF and LaTex imports filter??? I ended up with copy & pasting all the text from Adobe's PDF viewer to OOo.. meaning I had to reformat the entire document again before I could change what I wanted to change in the first place... *crieS*
I find these WYSIWYG text editors a pain.. I certainly stay away from MS Office, because I don't want my data locked in, but OOo is not as user friendly as I would like it..
1) I want to put a page index in document.. Took me forever to figure it out. It's not explained in the Help text or details are sketchy. So I figure out it's locked to a text style. I'd rather insert a token or something that means 'This is the next chapter'. Oh well..
2) So I insert the automatic index creating token thingy.. I want it to start at the top of the page, but there's an empty line in front of it.. I cannot remove it with backspace or delete.. I have to go to the previous page and push delete there.. Ye gods!
3) So I see there's a style that draws a box around text. Neat! So I do that, but the box is stretched to the right end of the page, not at the end of the actual text.. I haven't figured out how to do this yet.
4) So I see you can insert clickable URLs in the text.. nice.. So I do that, start type right after that.. Euhm.. I'm adding text to the URL. No! I want to write normal text now! Only work around I found was to cursor ahead, insert extra spaces and then backspace until I hit the end of the link, cursor right one, and start typing normal text again.. EASE OF USE! Argh!
5) So I want to print an envelope.. the envelope goes in the printer 90 degrees turned. HOWEVER, I want to type my stuff normally. There is NO option to rotate when you want to print. MS Office HAS this option.
When I want to do something I run into these little gripes again and again.. It's crappy! This is why I still type my stuff in ASCII! How about adding a 'suggestion' button to every control, like the early beta's of Windows XP, so I can communicate all of these little gripes to the OOo developers so that the product gets fixed?
Ooo developers, contact me if you want your product beta-tested! I see tons of things that can be improved!
1GB equals 1,000,000,000 bytes, not all memory space available for file storage.
Euhm, so.... how much space DO we have left? Could be anything really.. Damn marketing speak!
Another great victory due to piracy!
* It makes legit DVD's cheaper, otherwise there would be no incentive for movie studio's to offer competative prices.
* It enabled the public to enjoy Lord of the Rings as soon as it was out, worldwide. Instead of having to wait 6 to 9 months for a European release.
* And now it saves us legit customers from artificial waiting times..
All I can say is, huzzah for piracy!
Because there are still people who don't know:
Ad-Aware
Search & Destroy
To keep your pc running fast and without too many crashes..
Site is dead within minutes.. mirrors anybody?
I've thought about this one long and hard, but the only solution is a global worm that nukes the computer it lands on..
This is the only way to eliminate all of those asian zombie boxes out there, and to educate the users of those machines..
"But it works just fine", is the answer I always hear people say when I tell them their computer is infected and pumping out more worms. To stop people from clicking attachments and to pay attention to updating their system, you either need to reward or punish users. Otherwise they simply won't care.
Since a worm can't reward, it should punish. Format all drives after say 3 days of the initial infection.. People WILL care after that happened once or twice..
If you have the original game, you can use SCUMM VM to work as the script engine for many Lucas Art games. This way you can still enjoy the classics, without having to fiddle around with DOS emulators and such. :)
Sorry about the double post, my posting finger slipped.
SCU
With RAM prices being as low as they are nowadays (well relatively speaking anyway). I don't see why you don't record to a RAM drive. 44.000MHz 16-bit 74 minutes is 700 MB. And since I'm able to lossless compress A/V on the fly when I'm digitizing, I don't see why this would not be possible for audio. I assume you do 48Mhz recording, multi-channel but with a good compression algorithm and a few Gigs of RAM, you should be able to record for a few hours.
After that, dump to remote network file server, or local harddisk (after spinning it up, or plugging in a removable HDD)
Should be cheap enough
Am I the only one that thinks this is just a method to lock out open source software? Is anybody keeping an eye open at the pattent office site for any new trivial encryption patents?
Seen this?
;)
http://www.the5k.org/description.asp/entry_id=946
It's a winner of the 5K contest. A Wolfenstein in Javascript in just 5 kilobytes.. Now THAT is small
I believe the problem with DVD authoring is, that to write a decent program for it, you'll have to pay like $50.000 to get the specs.
Otherwise you'll have to painstakingly reverse the entire format. There is already great progress with this I presume since there are some nice open source programs.
But no professional grade software under Linux as far as I know..
*laughs* Reminds me of a Family Guy episode where one of the Christmas presents (a VCR) ends up at a trailer park family.
One brother to the other: "It's my turn to use sex box!"
- "Nuh-uh, she's mine, and her name is Sony!"
Am I the only one thinking about the whole Segway pre-ordering stunt, and the ages it took before it was actually out?
I don't think it's such a good idea. You got nutters out there bombing doctors of abortion clinics, I'm sure there are loonies out there who wouldn't mind killing convicted sex offenders. Afterall they _did_ the time, and I don't think it will give people who really _do_ want to better their lives a fair deal.
Also it gives people a false sense of security.. Who's to say that a registered sex offender doesn't take a weekend holiday to another state to rape and kill? And you thought you were safe in a neighbourhood without any sex offenders..
After watching 'The elegant universe' (<--- torrent links)I can trade in my fear for an continent sized asteroid hitting earth for the more bleeding-edge fear of a new 'Big Bang' occuring. :) No rest for the paranoid.
The IT business seems more and more hostile..
I never wanted to do this job in the first place!
I... I wanted to be... a chimney sweep!
Leaping from smoke stack to smoke stack,
as they belch out noxious yellow smoke.
And all we'd do is.. sweep and sweep..
On a totally unrelated note, Marry Poppins is hot and I wouldn't mind sweeping.. euhm....
The virus scanner itself is not too difficult to make, and giving virus writers the source to it doesn't help them in any way.
The problem is more the virus definitions, which are hard to collect together. These are heavily protected with encryption by all commercial virus scanner software companies.
But again the virus _writer_ has no advantage by getting the source for a scanner
This is exactly what I was thinking. Every John Doe has a copy of NAV, and the same goes for Adobe Photoshop.
:)
I don't think that Photoshop could have become the market leader if it wasn't easy to copy. But Photoshop is also going the way of product activation.
The more interesting question is, where will all the people flee too when they can't use their favorite product anymore? How many people jumped on Linux when XP started product activation? How many people will go over to The Gimp, leaving Adobe behind?
I think this will greatly increase the need for an Open Source anti-virus scanner. Which is probably a good thing.
Knowing Microsoft, when you are done with step 5 the machine crashes, making you dig out the machine again to hit the reset switch :)
That's not how it works. Encrypted/compressed data is unpacked in-memory, usually in a way so that it's really hard to get to the data unpacked/decrypted data. Meaning that the
Does anybody have any idea how many binaries are protected nowadays, wich encryption, obfuscation and/or compression?
If a program uses any kind of serial entry, CD check or other kind of 'protection' scheme, you can be sure the makes have run an obfuscation program like 'PEcrypt' on it.
Even then, I don't see this program unpacking unprotected executables that have been packed with UPX or one of the other dozens of PE compressors.
Simply put, this program will have VERY limited uses for normal consumers. The only one who could use it would be the firm who made the program in the first place, before obfuscation/protection/compression, but why would they? They have the source code. A source-code checking program would be MUCH more effective.