Microsoft fixed that with Windows 95's built-in TCP/IP. The government's proposal would basically shackle Microsoft and prevent them from adding new features of that sort to the OS
(on that networking was bad under DOS but works fine on Win95+)
Breaking up Microsoft into one OS vendor and one Applications company won't prevent Microsoft from adding stuff like TCP/IP or DirectX to it's OS! They're OS components, I don't think anyone would claim they're applications in the normal thoughts of the user (or the DOJ, surely).
Linux and Mac will have to push OpenGL over DirectX - I'd say that's quite reasonable. At least it's not as bad as Glide...
Macrovision is on the disc (on a DVD).. it's both in the.vob and.. umm....ifo I think. The actual f*cking up of the picture is then done on the analogue output, yes.
This wasn't clear in your post, I just wanted to clarify it:)
(And of course there are programs out there that'll strip the relevant bits off the.vob and.ifo files... )
I work for a Swedish company, although with the parent office in London. We also have such a clause, but it's interpreted like this:
* Whatever you produce on the company's equipment is theirs * Whatever you produce using knowledge you've gained from your work and not publicially documented yet will be theirs * HOWEVER! Whatever you do at home, in your spare time, using knowledge you've NOT gained using inside information, is YOURS
So, ok. I work for an operating system producer (no, not Microsoft.. Symbian, EPOC you know) - if I use the knowledge I have of features in a future release of Epoc to produce some shareware at home, that shareware won't be mine. If I do it using the publically available SDK, with knowledge described in the SDK documentation, on my spare time and on my own computer - it WILL.
Hehe, sorry:) What I mean is that the _gameplay_ isn't fast enough! Quake 2 played _slow_ (rockets etc), and I had my hopes up for Quake 3 but it just didn't cut it...
So a beefed up QuakeWorld CTF something would be great! I hadn't looked into neither QuakeForge nor QuakeWorld Forever until I saw this news...
(I have however discussed how to prevent cheating via cryptography in sci.crypt, but that's beside the point:)
Next to Ground Control this will surely become my #1 game! I was an avid Quaker (CTF) that stopped playing when cheating became more common than not, and when Quake 2 (sucked) and Quake 3 (not fast enough) came out...
EXCELLENT NEWS!
(PS: Shameless plug for Ground Control, yes, but it's _THE_ game to come out this summer... )
... and if it would prove Einstein wrong, it wouldn't be the first time. Einstein was a truly great scientist, but only human. Especially this list (quote):
The advocates of the Yilmaz theory list the following additional advantages (not discussed further here) of the Yilmaz theory over conventional GR: (1) it predicts a definite stress-energy tensor while GR does not; (2) it provides exact solutions for gravity waves of arbitrary field strength while GR does not; (3) it has a true Lagrangian while GR does not; (4) it implies Einstein's equivalence principle, while GR must take equivalence as a separate assumption; (5) it is quantizable while GR is not.
.. makes me want to see more research into this area. The only problem I have with it is that it would invalidate much of Hawkings work... it would be a shame to see so much of his brainpower having been wasted on false presumtions!
PS: When I read the article, their counter was at 340. Next refresh displayed all zeroes... poor website.
One of the Swedes who helped track down the author of Melissa says the real culprit is a 20 year old German now studying in Australia. The other person (reported as being a woman by some sources) has probably been set up.
Nah.. my DVD player plays all regions without me having to do anything. Of course, originally it doesn't, but there's a nice little kit for the Sony 715 that removes the regioncheck and macrovision completely, at the same time...
I buy all my DVDs from Canada - cheaper, and you get more extras than on the region 2 versions.
True - also used in the aviation industry. Not only 3 programs written by different companies - they run on 3 types of different hardware, compiled with different compilers etc - just in case they would have a buggy chip or compiler in one of the systems...
So called "real time" operating systems (not getting into "soft" and "hard" real time now) are systems with a defined maximum time taken for any task. That means that you can _guarantee_ that a scheduled task _will_ execute within a certain timeframe.
I.e, impossible for _any_ process to deadlock the system, no matter what.
Not that many operating systems are true RT... Linux isn't, Windows most certainly isn't..;)
Too bad the industry-at-large refuses to be as thorough as NASA.
But we're striving to be - more and more companies are reaching CMM levels 2 and 3, and when those companies reach 4 and 5 we're getting closer and closer to the code quality you see in critical software like the when running NASA's missions.
I'm personally not in favour of CMM levels >3 for normal software developing companies, but at least I have the CMM education to back that up;)
Oh, and yes. I'm working for a company developing an operating system used by lots of people - we _do_ take bugs seriously!
Anamorphic DVDs are letterboxed movies where instead of adding black bars to the bottom and top to keep the aspect ratio, they just don't. Viewing such a DVD on a TV that can't squeeze the picture vertically (or on a DVD that can't do it) everything will be distorted, i.e, people will have "long faces".
What I'm trying to say is that anamorphic movies has just as many scanlines as 4:3 movies... it's letterboxed movies that have _less_...
Anamorphic is better - but they don't have more horizontal resolution than a standard television can display
Notice that the vertical resolution differs... but yes, the _framerate_ is converted from 24fps to 29.97fps by the player on NTSC DVDs, and the whole movie (including sound) is sped up from 24 to 25fps when playing PAL DVDs.
Score: +10, this Slashdot user has written this info loads of time and yet everyone haven't got it yet...
The Swedish kid has been freed two times in Swedish courts now - it's up for trial at the highest court soon.
The will try to convict him of _helping_ in doing something illegal, but they've already ruled that what he's doing himself isn't illegal in the strongest sense.
Moderated down -5 for the worst English sentences I've written in a long time... I'm tired...
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I'd suggest a Psion Revo! Not much larger than a Palm V - and with a keyboard.
Oh, forgot. Sony is also an Epoc licensee - and they make cool devices!
Go ARM!
Microsoft fixed that with Windows 95's built-in TCP/IP.
The government's proposal would basically shackle Microsoft and prevent them from adding new features of that sort to the OS
(on that networking was bad under DOS but works fine on Win95+)
Breaking up Microsoft into one OS vendor and one Applications company won't prevent Microsoft from adding stuff like TCP/IP or DirectX to it's OS! They're OS components, I don't think anyone would claim they're applications in the normal thoughts of the user (or the DOJ, surely).
Linux and Mac will have to push OpenGL over DirectX - I'd say that's quite reasonable. At least it's not as bad as Glide ...
This wasn't clear in your post, I just wanted to clarify it :)
(And of course there are programs out there that'll strip the relevant bits off the .vob and .ifo files ... )
I work for a Swedish company, although with the parent office in London. We also have such a clause, but it's interpreted like this:
* Whatever you produce on the company's equipment is theirs
* Whatever you produce using knowledge you've gained from your work and not publicially documented yet will be theirs
* HOWEVER! Whatever you do at home, in your spare time, using knowledge you've NOT gained using inside information, is YOURS
So, ok. I work for an operating system producer (no, not Microsoft .. Symbian, EPOC you know) - if I use the knowledge I have of features in a future release of Epoc to produce some shareware at home, that shareware won't be mine. If I do it using the publically available SDK, with knowledge described in the SDK documentation, on my spare time and on my own computer - it WILL.
I hope that helps someone :)
So a beefed up QuakeWorld CTF something would be great! I hadn't looked into neither QuakeForge nor QuakeWorld Forever until I saw this news ...
(I have however discussed how to prevent cheating via cryptography in sci.crypt, but that's beside the point :)
EXCELLENT NEWS!
(PS: Shameless plug for Ground Control, yes, but it's _THE_ game to come out this summer ... )
The advocates of the Yilmaz theory list the following additional advantages (not discussed further here) of the Yilmaz theory over conventional GR: (1) it predicts a definite stress-energy tensor while GR does not; (2) it provides exact solutions for gravity waves of arbitrary field strength while GR does not; (3) it has a true Lagrangian while GR does not; (4) it implies Einstein's equivalence principle, while GR must take equivalence as a separate assumption; (5) it is quantizable while GR is not.
PS: When I read the article, their counter was at 340. Next refresh displayed all zeroes ... poor website.
... think of all the SciFi material we have to rewrite now!!!
As long as DVD players play VCD and not some weirdo mpeg4 variant, VCDs are the only acceptable thing to get.
This case is most certainly not over :)
Does that mean you need the 6 or 10 cd changer too to be able to use it?
(And where do you order this via the web? Shipping to Sweden also of course :)
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Nah .. my DVD player plays all regions without me having to do anything. Of course, originally it doesn't, but there's a nice little kit for the Sony 715 that removes the regioncheck and macrovision completely, at the same time ...
I buy all my DVDs from Canada - cheaper, and you get more extras than on the region 2 versions.
(On the Quartz DFRD - the version of Epoc that will replace your Palm or WindowsCE device in the future ;)
Neat, huh? :)
I.e, impossible for _any_ process to deadlock the system, no matter what.
Not that many operating systems are true RT ... Linux isn't, Windows most certainly isn't .. ;)
But we're striving to be - more and more companies are reaching CMM levels 2 and 3, and when those companies reach 4 and 5 we're getting closer and closer to the code quality you see in critical software like the when running NASA's missions.
I'm personally not in favour of CMM levels >3 for normal software developing companies, but at least I have the CMM education to back that up ;)
Oh, and yes. I'm working for a company developing an operating system used by lots of people - we _do_ take bugs seriously!
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Anamorphic DVDs are letterboxed movies where instead of adding black bars to the bottom and top to keep the aspect ratio, they just don't. Viewing such a DVD on a TV that can't squeeze the picture vertically (or on a DVD that can't do it) everything will be distorted, i.e, people will have "long faces".
What I'm trying to say is that anamorphic movies has just as many scanlines as 4:3 movies ... it's letterboxed movies that have _less_ ...
Anamorphic is better - but they don't have more horizontal resolution than a standard television can display
Fact follows:
"NTSC" DVD = 704*480*24
"PAL" DVD = 704*576*24
Notice that the vertical resolution differs ... but yes, the _framerate_ is converted from 24fps to 29.97fps by the player on NTSC DVDs, and the whole movie (including sound) is sped up from 24 to 25fps when playing PAL DVDs.
Score: +10, this Slashdot user has written this info loads of time and yet everyone haven't got it yet ...
The will try to convict him of _helping_ in doing something illegal, but they've already ruled that what he's doing himself isn't illegal in the strongest sense.
Moderated down -5 for the worst English sentences I've written in a long time ... I'm tired ...