You wouldn't need to, you pretty much nailed it.
I'm norwegian myself, but if this goes through (and I doubt it), I'm moving away. To me, this would just make Norway into a China with higher taxes.
The guy in charge of the comittee that made this proposal, Knut Rønning, is pretty much the Ted Stevens of Norway, he annoys the crap out of me. Here's a video with him (again, in Norwegian): http://tbtv.tb.no/player/nyheter/362-datakriminali teten-skal-til-li.html
I think he messed up the conversion. The americans are the fat-asses so they should have lower values (there should be at least 2 metric asses for every imperial ass).
I don't know about the fading, but it's relatively simple to use a bitmap as a menu item using the Windows API. It's covered by Petzold in the Programming Windows book.
For example, it could run commands such as "C:/Windows/format.exe d:", potentially formatting any writeable drive you might have on D: without confirmation.
I'm not totally sure, but it seems like they read using two different-wavelength lasers simultaneously, and in normal dual layer DVD there it always just one beam which shoots at one of two surfaces.
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You wouldn't need to, you pretty much nailed it.i teten-skal-til-li.html
I'm norwegian myself, but if this goes through (and I doubt it), I'm moving away. To me, this would just make Norway into a China with higher taxes.
The guy in charge of the comittee that made this proposal, Knut Rønning, is pretty much the Ted Stevens of Norway, he annoys the crap out of me. Here's a video with him (again, in Norwegian): http://tbtv.tb.no/player/nyheter/362-datakriminal
I think he messed up the conversion. The americans are the fat-asses so they should have lower values (there should be at least 2 metric asses for every imperial ass).
I don't know about the fading, but it's relatively simple to use a bitmap as a menu item using the Windows API. It's covered by Petzold in the Programming Windows book.
For example, it could run commands such as "C:/Windows/format.exe d:", potentially formatting any writeable drive you might have on D: without confirmation.
I'm not totally sure, but it seems like they read using two different-wavelength lasers simultaneously, and in normal dual layer DVD there it always just one beam which shoots at one of two surfaces.