This is a general linux/flash gripe, but here goes, the Linux flashplayer has, since it's inception forever, had a/v sync issues. It's not a big deal on most things like flash games, but in video it's dreadful.
Did you play the original demo or the newer one? the original was a level out of the game which didn't have a lot of guidance, then they re-released it, and it had tutorial aspects that helped a lot.
I've played through the game, and some of the later levels are quite challenging, and of course, fun:)
I'm not convinced it was a stunt, I'm sure the "buzz" it generated was more welcome than shunned, but there a few things that indicate the "CBC employee leaked it" story are at least partially true.
The main one being that the leaked episode one was an NTSC rip (29.97 fps) and not a PAL (25 fps) that indicates that it did indeed come from an NTSC territory and not a PAL one.
The seperation of church and state is not the exclustion of all religion from the public space, it is the avoidance of sponsoring or establishng a state religion.
In you public grounds example, if a local government were to allow a christian group to hold a christmas pagent, then they legally would be oblidged to allow the local pagans to celebrate the soltice on the same or comparable grounds.
For TV, that's another thing, because religion on TV is a private enterprise function, not a government function. A municiple cable company most likely would be governed by the same FCC statutes that corporate cable companies must follow. These statutes include a provision called "must carry" which allows any TV Station over a certain signal strengh to request and recieve carriage on the cable network.
For non-broadcast cable relgious stations, that would be a business, as opposed to a legal decision I think. The Click Network is Tacoma, Washington's municiple network, run by the city-owned power company. A quick perusal of their cabler offering includes many local channels, some no doubt religious, as well as several cable religious channels. Tacoma isn't exactly the bible-belt, so if there were going to be challenges to the programming content they most likely would have occured there, than in the heart of the south.
I think the problem is the same as the problem with any popular entertainment media (movies, tv, etc) which is (with apologies to Peter Guber) "If at first you succeed, try the same thing again"
This is why there are like 12 CSIs and 24 Law & Orders on TV. If you want innovative stuff you end up on the baby networks or cable. The production quality and budget may not be good but the content is usually better.
The same goes for indie games. Sadly due to licensing strangleholds, they're unlikely to make a showing on consoles (except maybe the Revolution).
No go on the latest cedega. It installs if you set winver to win2k. nt40 and winxp crap out on the installer, and win98/winme the installers says OS in not compatable. Or at least it did, now I can't get it to be happy with win2k either.
After installation, it chokes on a missing ATL.DLL. Putting an atl.dll from a dll download site into the fake windows system32 directory leads to more 0xdeadbeef stuff in kernel32.dll, advapi32.dll, etc.
Hopefully they'll do a linux native, if not wine friendly version of this ap, as it is quite the nice little toy.
I don't mean to be a troll, and I've read and enjoyed Vavasour's writings on emulation (his webpage is a fountain of info) but I do wonder if it's really as hard as he describes.
Look at stella for example, it's open source, cross platform, does sound and everything. Is the emulation provided by the fine folks at Digital Enclipse that much more perfect?/me goes back to playing Super Mario USA on my Game Theory Admiral.....
WalMart is both the symbol and actualization of what is wrong with the USA. Remeber how much you love WalMart when that's the only job available to you, and the wages from your WalMart job are so low you can only afford to shop at WalMart.
Warts? They are more like sucking chest wounds.
Anyone who shops at WalMart is party to the destruction of the american middle class, the 40 hour work week, and employer paid health care.
First, Sony has nothing to do with the "Secure Digital" format of memory cards. They compete with it (with MemoryStick and MagicGate) and are not even a member of the SD Association.
Second, the "Secure Digital" part of the SD card is an optional layer of DRM that allows an application writing to the card to specify what can be done with it. While this is DRM, and thus icky, it is not some magic tech that identifies what file types are written to it and decides what do do from there. The vast majority of SD devices do not implement any sort of DRM on the cards.
The limitation the OP is talking about is a software limitation either in the PalmOS itself or in the implenation of external interfaces to copy files to/from the device. As others have pointed out this can be solved with a number of 3rd party or opensource programs, but the fact remains that the published interfaces into the PalmOS and it's filesystem are lacking for handling files that live outside of it's native database filesystem.
I understand that anyone can write to the spec, the question is are they truely maintaining two code bases (one GPL one not) and if they are integrating outside contributions to their GPL product into the commercial one without permission.
I've noticed at least a couple of commercial VNC's mentioned in this thread, and in fact "RealVNC" the successors to the original VNC project claim to have commercial versions available as well.
Since the assumption is the commercial versions by many vendors are derived from the GPL'd free versions, is that a GPL violation?
If this issue has been hashed to death (and resolved) by the VNC community, feel free to let me know:)
That's not the way I understood the release. Basically they said "if you threaten us, we will go to the back shed and get the shotgun" They never said they were going to go after other vendors/products with their patents.
Now they may choose to do that, which will burn up a lot of novell goodwill, but hopefully not.
The power of SPF is not in it's ability to authenticate senders, but in a domain owner's ability to specify who is allowed to send mail from their domain.
If you accept without question mail from SPF verified senders, you're just asking for trouble. There's not and has never been anything in the SPF standard the recommends this practice.
However, If you reject mail based of the SPF records of the sending domain, you can make a difference. If ticketmaster.com does not want mail sent from anything but their mail servers, then by rejecting all ticketmaster mail from other servers, you are reducing spam with forged headers.
It is not possible for a spammer using a domain owned by somebody else to "fake" the SPF records, since they are contained in the zone file for the domain itself.
Actually my bet is everyone is a target. Matt and Trey have happily attacked all sides in south park, so I expect that BushCo will be in for at least as much abuse as the "Liberal Elite" in this one.
I found the "Deluxe" package (with three games) for $9.95 at Pokemoncenter.com.
The "Blue mini' (I did a search for "mini") is priced at $9.95 for both the regular and the "deluxe" package, where the other colors still want about $30 for the deluxe.
For shits and grins I put in an order, we'll see if they honor the $10 price....
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If your monitor supports HDCP over DVI then an HDMI to DVI cable works just fine, since the video protocol is identical (or close enough).
I think on the Westinghouse monitors in question they don't support HDCP on the DVI port only the HDMI port, that's why it doesn't work as a solution.
Of course it's silly of Sony to run HDCP full time. It should only be run when the content provider explicitly asks for it.
This is a general linux/flash gripe, but here goes, the Linux flashplayer has, since it's inception forever, had a/v sync issues. It's not a big deal on most things like flash games, but in video it's dreadful.
Anyone have any tips on how to fix this?
Did you play the original demo or the newer one? the original was a level out of the game which didn't have a lot of guidance, then they re-released it, and it had tutorial aspects that helped a lot.
:)
I've played through the game, and some of the later levels are quite challenging, and of course, fun
It just seems like an extra unneeded step if this really was an intentional leak. There's no reason to convert it to NTSC first :)
I'm not convinced it was a stunt, I'm sure the "buzz" it generated was more welcome than shunned, but there a few things that indicate the "CBC employee leaked it" story are at least partially true.
The main one being that the leaked episode one was an NTSC rip (29.97 fps) and not a PAL (25 fps) that indicates that it did indeed come from an NTSC territory and not a PAL one.
It's a big bit of puffed smoke.
The seperation of church and state is not the exclustion of all religion from the public space, it is the avoidance of sponsoring or establishng a state religion.
In you public grounds example, if a local government were to allow a christian group to hold a christmas pagent, then they legally would be oblidged to allow the local pagans to celebrate the soltice on the same or comparable grounds.
For TV, that's another thing, because religion on TV is a private enterprise function, not a government function. A municiple cable company most likely would be governed by the same FCC statutes that corporate cable companies must follow. These statutes include a provision called "must carry" which allows any TV Station over a certain signal strengh to request and recieve carriage on the cable network.
For non-broadcast cable relgious stations, that would be a business, as opposed to a legal decision I think. The Click Network is Tacoma, Washington's municiple network, run by the city-owned power company. A quick perusal of their cabler offering includes many local channels, some no doubt religious, as well as several cable religious channels. Tacoma isn't exactly the bible-belt, so if there were going to be challenges to the programming content they most likely would have occured there, than in the heart of the south.
I think the problem is the same as the problem with any popular entertainment media (movies, tv, etc) which is (with apologies to Peter Guber) "If at first you succeed, try the same thing again"
This is why there are like 12 CSIs and 24 Law & Orders on TV. If you want innovative stuff you end up on the baby networks or cable. The production quality and budget may not be good but the content is usually better.
The same goes for indie games. Sadly due to licensing strangleholds, they're unlikely to make a showing on consoles (except maybe the Revolution).
In the meantime, check out games like Tribal Trouble and the competitors of the Independent Games Festival.
No go on the latest cedega. It installs if you set winver to win2k. nt40 and winxp crap out on the installer, and win98/winme the installers says OS in not compatable. Or at least it did, now I can't get it to be happy with win2k either.
After installation, it chokes on a missing ATL.DLL. Putting an atl.dll from a dll download site into the fake windows system32 directory leads to more 0xdeadbeef stuff in kernel32.dll, advapi32.dll, etc.
Hopefully they'll do a linux native, if not wine friendly version of this ap, as it is quite the nice little toy.
It looks like they sell direct to consumer on their website, so if you want the cheap laptop without WalMart, go for it :)
I don't mean to be a troll, and I've read and enjoyed Vavasour's writings on emulation (his webpage is a fountain of info) but I do wonder if it's really as hard as he describes.
/me goes back to playing Super Mario USA on my Game Theory Admiral.....
Look at stella for example, it's open source, cross platform, does sound and everything. Is the emulation provided by the fine folks at Digital Enclipse that much more perfect?
WalMart is both the symbol and actualization of what is wrong with the USA. Remeber how much you love WalMart when that's the only job available to you, and the wages from your WalMart job are so low you can only afford to shop at WalMart.
Warts? They are more like sucking chest wounds.
Anyone who shops at WalMart is party to the destruction of the american middle class, the 40 hour work week, and employer paid health care.
I think you are confusing a couple of issues.
First, Sony has nothing to do with the "Secure Digital" format of memory cards. They compete with it (with MemoryStick and MagicGate) and are not even a member of the SD Association.
Second, the "Secure Digital" part of the SD card is an optional layer of DRM that allows an application writing to the card to specify what can be done with it. While this is DRM, and thus icky, it is not some magic tech that identifies what file types are written to it and decides what do do from there. The vast majority of SD devices do not implement any sort of DRM on the cards.
The limitation the OP is talking about is a software limitation either in the PalmOS itself or in the implenation of external interfaces to copy files to/from the device. As others have pointed out this can be solved with a number of 3rd party or opensource programs, but the fact remains that the published interfaces into the PalmOS and it's filesystem are lacking for handling files that live outside of it's native database filesystem.
One word for you: Monsanto
They prosecute people who illegally grow their GE corn/etc.
I'm sure the same applies.
Hell, last time I bought a rose bush for my lady it had a warning on it that it was illegal to propigate without permissions.
I understand that anyone can write to the spec, the question is are they truely maintaining two code bases (one GPL one not) and if they are integrating outside contributions to their GPL product into the commercial one without permission.
I've noticed at least a couple of commercial VNC's mentioned in this thread, and in fact "RealVNC" the successors to the original VNC project claim to have commercial versions available as well.
:)
Since the assumption is the commercial versions by many vendors are derived from the GPL'd free versions, is that a GPL violation?
If this issue has been hashed to death (and resolved) by the VNC community, feel free to let me know
That's not the way I understood the release. Basically they said "if you threaten us, we will go to the back shed and get the shotgun" They never said they were going to go after other vendors/products with their patents.
Now they may choose to do that, which will burn up a lot of novell goodwill, but hopefully not.
the problem is that AOL is already build around the IE engine for it's HTML stuff, so I can't see why AOL was ever any more secure than IE alone.
There are un-locked linksys Sipura's out there, look for -NA on the model # PAP2-NA and RT31P2-NA are the two models available according to VoIP Wiki
By far my fav are Cisco 7960 (I haven't tried the 7970) the only problem is they need things like DNS entried and tftpservers to work optimally.
For lower-cost alternatives, I really like the SNOM phones. I've used an snom 200 for quite a while and it's a very nice phone.
I also have a Pulver WiSIP which is nice but not exactly featureful, and the audio quality goes down when WEP is used.
For ATA's the SIPura, and the Linksys models there of ($50 or so) are a good bet, and the dirt-cheap Grandstreams work okay too.
Use the voip wiki to find optimal phone and sip.conf configs for a bunch of different phones.
The power of SPF is not in it's ability to authenticate senders, but in a domain owner's ability to specify who is allowed to send mail from their domain.
If you accept without question mail from SPF verified senders, you're just asking for trouble. There's not and has never been anything in the SPF standard the recommends this practice.
However, If you reject mail based of the SPF records of the sending domain, you can make a difference. If ticketmaster.com does not want mail sent from anything but their mail servers, then by rejecting all ticketmaster mail from other servers, you are reducing spam with forged headers.
It is not possible for a spammer using a domain owned by somebody else to "fake" the SPF records, since they are contained in the zone file for the domain itself.
Actually my bet is everyone is a target. Matt and Trey have happily attacked all sides in south park, so I expect that BushCo will be in for at least as much abuse as the "Liberal Elite" in this one.
Of course with things like DVDs is the high rate (I'd say 90%+ with Anime for example) of bootlegs...
I found the "Deluxe" package (with three games) for $9.95 at Pokemoncenter.com.
The "Blue mini' (I did a search for "mini") is priced at $9.95 for both the regular and the "deluxe" package, where the other colors still want about $30 for the deluxe.
For shits and grins I put in an order, we'll see if they honor the $10 price....
Mandrake _was_ based on Redhat many many moons ago.
It's been an independant development for several years.
Actually now that you mention it I did have to do the following:
iwconifg eth1 rate auto
and it went from 1mb/s to 11mb/s.
I noticed if you go into the Mandrake GUI config stuff there's a blank to put the rate in, which makes it boot-time.