It's been speculated that the preemptive patches might
sacrifice data throughput in order to improve latency. But, like other posters have
mentioned, you can always turn the preemptive stuff
off at compile time.
What about if you combined this with the porn authentication system other posters have been suggesting?
I can just imagine the call to tech support...
<user> Yeah, err... my computer does'nt work.
<tech support> Okay, what picture is it displaying on the screen?
<user> it seems to be a redhead covered in whipped cream.
<tech support> ah, that's the "out of diskspace" error, just delete a bit of that porn, and try again.
Well, I know *I'd* be able to remember that kind of error message
Uhmm... While I'm trying not to troll here, why on earth would the RIAA/[MPPA] try and shut this down? Does it allow piracy? No. (Well, I suppose you could use quicktime for pirated films, but I can't think why you'd want to)
Does it infringe anyone's intellectual property? Not as far as I can tell, mplayer most of it's codec modules as seperate.dlls. (I suppose if apple has a patent on the quicktime format as a whole, they could come after mplayer, but that seems unlikely, and it certainly would'nt involve the RIAA/MPAA).
I've lost count of the amount of times I've seen someone on slashdot make some misinformed comment about the RIAA/MPAA/DMCA, they seem to be considered as the generic bad guys, who will spoil ALL your fun, even if it's not in any way related to them.
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It's been speculated that the preemptive patches might sacrifice data throughput in order to improve latency. But, like other posters have mentioned, you can always turn the preemptive stuff off at compile time.
What about if you combined this with the porn authentication system other posters have been suggesting?
I can just imagine the call to tech support...
<user> Yeah, err... my computer does'nt work.
<tech support> Okay, what picture is it displaying on the screen?
<user> it seems to be a redhead covered in whipped cream.
<tech support> ah, that's the "out of diskspace" error, just delete a bit of that porn, and try again.
Well, I know *I'd* be able to remember that kind of error message
Does it infringe anyone's intellectual property? Not as far as I can tell, mplayer most of it's codec modules as seperate .dlls. (I suppose if apple has a patent on the quicktime format as a whole, they could come after mplayer, but that seems unlikely, and it certainly would'nt involve the RIAA/MPAA).
I've lost count of the amount of times I've seen someone on slashdot make some misinformed comment about the RIAA/MPAA/DMCA, they seem to be considered as the generic bad guys, who will spoil ALL your fun, even if it's not in any way related to them.
</rant>RIAA break your glowstick, RIAA eat your candy.