When you create software using OpenGL & OpenAL to handle the graphics and sounds, all you need to do is set up the windowing code specific to each OS, and then recompile based on that new window code. I've created simple OpenGL projects on both Macs, Windows & Linux (no Be/BSD/Solaris, though, but I'd assume this still works), and by using an Object Oriented method (C++), the only file that I ever had to change was my main.cc file.
Yep, you're correct. It appears the the quarter grows thicker to compensate for the smaller diameter. Look at this photo to see for yourself. (note, this is on a mirror, so I don't know how long it will last)
Here is a fool-proof method to keep people from even wanting to read your data:
For the next week, take all of the Trolls posts on Slashdot and store them in random places on your harddrive where the data needs to be destroyed. Anybody who trys to read that data would get so sick of reading "Frist Post", "wh00p", "pron" & "3133t h4x0r" and seeing lots of nasty goatse.cx links that they would immediatly dispose of the hard drive without getting any sensititve material
I guess that method wouldn't work if you were a troll trying to cover your footsteps, though!:-)
So, Napster would expect me to pay $4.95-$9.95/month (as the news.com article says) to share the songs I have on my hard drive, using my bandwidth (which I also pay for)! Also, by paying for the service, I'm going to expect a certain quality from the service. I don't think that it is unreasonable for me to expect transfers to always complete (even if someone else wants to log off), for the service to only list complete songs (so I don't download a 4.3MB file to find out that the correct one is 5.2MB and I miss the last minute of the song) and for the service to have the songs I wish to hear.
Don't get me wrong, Napster is a good service, but I'm currently willing to put up with those limitations I listed above because the price is right. If they are not able to fix the service to protect my intrests, then I will find another solution.
There are lots of Slashdot stories about Senator Hatch recently (DCMA, MPAA & This one). It surprises me that he is so involved with technology. His constituitants in Utah should really try to make sure that he understands our wishes!
I know that Quake 3 uses assembly code to optimize some things...I know that on the Mac they (either Grame and/or John C) have rewritten the assembly portions which supposedly has resulted in a significant speedup (They just need to release the code so WE can find out for ourselves:-) )
The big problem with usenet is the avialability of files. If I wanted to download Metallica's Master of Puppets, I would first have to see if it is there. If not, I would have to request it, and wait some time for it to appear on the newsgroups (and all parts are there). If someone uploads a 128k/s MP3, and I wanted a 192k/s, then I have to request & wait again. Napster/Gnutella avoid this problem by allowing me to search all of the music that is available, and getting the files I want right now!
Will this presentation be available afterwards? I won't be out of work here until around 6PM (PST), so I won't be able to watch it. Does LiveOnTheNet.com record these for later viewings?
I have a shell account on toolshed51.com The guy running that site has a Dual P3-800 box running linux and connected to a T1 line (maybe more???). The machine is really fast, he has tons of hard drive storage, and is very flexable on what you can run. Russ (the sysadmin) will also host your domain for you, etc. Shell accounts aren't listed on his price page, but if you send an email to support@toolshed51.com they will be able to give you all of the information, including pricing...
NEAR successfully landed, which is really cool, but since NASA's budget is spent on this thing, what will it be doing now that it's sitting on Eros? I'm assumming it is able to charge its batteries using its solar panels, which should allow it to keep transmitting, correct? Is there anyway that amatures could set up some device so that we can listen to what it has to say?
We may lose some things by having cheaper probes, but with cheaper probes, we are able to explore more things. For example, hopefully we will be able to visit Pluto before its athmosphere freezes over, and they only way that would happen is if NASA continues to build cheaper probes.
While this isn't the strongest Mac site on the internet, a browser named iCab exists for the Mac. It is around 1.4MB in size (it uses 4MB of RAM however), and it supports HTML, XHTML, Java, (basic Javascript support...still in beta) and all sorts of cool features like ad banner blocking and cool stuff like that.
There would be huge risks if DirecTV accidentally destoryed several subscribers cards an hour before the Superbowl. With it happening a week beforehand, it's soon enough so that the pirate community didn't get free Superbowl coverage, and long enough to replace accidentally destoryed cards. Also, the goal was to get those people that were pirating to subscribe, and a week allows DTV to send a new card to those people.
What happened is DirecTV basically destroyed the smartcards that people were using to pirate cable by destroying some bits in the PROM. If a certain bit isn't 1, then the card is unable to boot up.
Some hackers then created a boot-strap-loader, which mimics the normal boot process of a normal card, then once the boot-up process gets past the point where it checks for that 1 in the PROM, it then hands over the remainder of the boot-up sequence to the DirecTV smartcard, and it can be used again to steal signals.
Note: This is very watered down version of what happend, so don't flame me:-)
I've tried reaching both the U.S. and German branches: SuSE has yet to return a call placed to the U.S. office, and at the German branch it won't be business hours for a while
Whoa, doing research twice in a week?!? That has to be a first for Slashdot!
Money of course, and they see a good market in video games
I agree with you to a point that M$ is in the game to make some money. I don't think that Microsoft would have entered if Sony had hyped the PS2 as a game machine, but instead Sony hyped it as a home entertainment center (ie: USB & Firewire ports, theoritical internet capability, DVD, etc), which would slice into Microsoft's business model of selling Windows (heh, and both WebTV units:-) ), and keeping IE as the dominant browser (which in turn allows them to sell IIS as a viable solution). I think that Microsoft was partially threatend to create a game console
The X-box won't necessarly be the most powerful console. Nintendo's Game Cube is shaping up to be a pretty powerful machine (400MHz PowerPC Gekko (similiar to G3) processor, 24MB 1-T SRAM main memory, 16MB Graphics/Sound Memory, Art-X video card, etc.) Also, Nintendo is well known for their video game characters (Mario, Luigi, Zelda, Link, and that damn Pikichu), so the machine won't be pure hype like the X-Box...
Unless you're a crippled geek laid up in bed and desparate for something to watch on the boobtube, why would you *watch* football (or any other sport, for that matter) instead of *play* football (or any other sport, for that matter)?
While this isn't intended to be a flame, why do you play Quake 3 instead of write it? Because its fun to see the the things that others can do better than you.
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My understanding of "triple DES" is this: You encrypt a plaintext file with some key (say "A"), then you run the decrypt function with some other key (say "B") and then recrypt the results with the original key ("A") When you go to decrypt it, Do the opposite steps (Decrypt A -> encrypt B -> Decrypt A), and that gives you the strength of 112bit key (IIRC) Also, I think that encrypting DES with two different keys gives you the strength of a 57 bit key
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When you create software using OpenGL & OpenAL to handle the graphics and sounds, all you need to do is set up the windowing code specific to each OS, and then recompile based on that new window code. I've created simple OpenGL projects on both Macs, Windows & Linux (no Be/BSD/Solaris, though, but I'd assume this still works), and by using an Object Oriented method (C++), the only file that I ever had to change was my main.cc file.
Where have I seen this before?
Yep, you're correct. It appears the the quarter grows thicker to compensate for the smaller diameter. Look at this photo to see for yourself. (note, this is on a mirror, so I don't know how long it will last)
Here is a fool-proof method to keep people from even wanting to read your data:
:-)
For the next week, take all of the Trolls posts on Slashdot and store them in random places on your harddrive where the data needs to be destroyed. Anybody who trys to read that data would get so sick of reading "Frist Post", "wh00p", "pron" & "3133t h4x0r" and seeing lots of nasty goatse.cx links that they would immediatly dispose of the hard drive without getting any sensititve material
I guess that method wouldn't work if you were a troll trying to cover your footsteps, though!
So, Napster would expect me to pay $4.95-$9.95/month (as the news.com article says) to share the songs I have on my hard drive, using my bandwidth (which I also pay for)! Also, by paying for the service, I'm going to expect a certain quality from the service. I don't think that it is unreasonable for me to expect transfers to always complete (even if someone else wants to log off), for the service to only list complete songs (so I don't download a 4.3MB file to find out that the correct one is 5.2MB and I miss the last minute of the song) and for the service to have the songs I wish to hear.
Don't get me wrong, Napster is a good service, but I'm currently willing to put up with those limitations I listed above because the price is right. If they are not able to fix the service to protect my intrests, then I will find another solution.
There are lots of Slashdot stories about Senator Hatch recently (DCMA, MPAA & This one). It surprises me that he is so involved with technology. His constituitants in Utah should really try to make sure that he understands our wishes!
I know that Quake 3 uses assembly code to optimize some things...I know that on the Mac they (either Grame and/or John C) have rewritten the assembly portions which supposedly has resulted in a significant speedup (They just need to release the code so WE can find out for ourselves :-) )
I was born on 1978-03-19 00:31:?? so I will guess: 2001-03-19 00:31:00 Dan
Are they stupid or just dump?
:-)
This is kinda ironic, huh?
I think that the /. community wouldn't mind getting rid of Method based patents that require open protocols to achive.
The big problem with usenet is the avialability of files. If I wanted to download Metallica's Master of Puppets, I would first have to see if it is there. If not, I would have to request it, and wait some time for it to appear on the newsgroups (and all parts are there). If someone uploads a 128k/s MP3, and I wanted a 192k/s, then I have to request & wait again. Napster/Gnutella avoid this problem by allowing me to search all of the music that is available, and getting the files I want right now!
Will this presentation be available afterwards? I won't be out of work here until around 6PM (PST), so I won't be able to watch it. Does LiveOnTheNet.com record these for later viewings?
I have a shell account on toolshed51.com The guy running that site has a Dual P3-800 box running linux and connected to a T1 line (maybe more???). The machine is really fast, he has tons of hard drive storage, and is very flexable on what you can run. Russ (the sysadmin) will also host your domain for you, etc. Shell accounts aren't listed on his price page, but if you send an email to support@toolshed51.com they will be able to give you all of the information, including pricing...
NEAR successfully landed, which is really cool, but since NASA's budget is spent on this thing, what will it be doing now that it's sitting on Eros? I'm assumming it is able to charge its batteries using its solar panels, which should allow it to keep transmitting, correct? Is there anyway that amatures could set up some device so that we can listen to what it has to say?
We may lose some things by having cheaper probes, but with cheaper probes, we are able to explore more things. For example, hopefully we will be able to visit Pluto before its athmosphere freezes over, and they only way that would happen is if NASA continues to build cheaper probes.
In fact, it is the first deep space craft to be run by someone other than NASA.
:-)
The Russian Spacecrafts that landed on the Moon, Mars, Venus, etc were also run by NASA?
While this isn't the strongest Mac site on the internet, a browser named iCab exists for the Mac. It is around 1.4MB in size (it uses 4MB of RAM however), and it supports HTML, XHTML, Java, (basic Javascript support...still in beta) and all sorts of cool features like ad banner blocking and cool stuff like that.
There would be huge risks if DirecTV accidentally destoryed several subscribers cards an hour before the Superbowl. With it happening a week beforehand, it's soon enough so that the pirate community didn't get free Superbowl coverage, and long enough to replace accidentally destoryed cards. Also, the goal was to get those people that were pirating to subscribe, and a week allows DTV to send a new card to those people.
What happened is DirecTV basically destroyed the smartcards that people were using to pirate cable by destroying some bits in the PROM. If a certain bit isn't 1, then the card is unable to boot up.
:-)
Some hackers then created a boot-strap-loader, which mimics the normal boot process of a normal card, then once the boot-up process gets past the point where it checks for that 1 in the PROM, it then hands over the remainder of the boot-up sequence to the DirecTV smartcard, and it can be used again to steal signals.
Note: This is very watered down version of what happend, so don't flame me
I've tried reaching both the U.S. and German branches: SuSE has yet to return a call placed to the U.S. office, and at the German branch it won't be business hours for a while
Whoa, doing research twice in a week?!? That has to be a first for Slashdot!
Money of course, and they see a good market in video games
:-) ), and keeping IE as the dominant browser (which in turn allows them to sell IIS as a viable solution). I think that Microsoft was partially threatend to create a game console
I agree with you to a point that M$ is in the game to make some money. I don't think that Microsoft would have entered if Sony had hyped the PS2 as a game machine, but instead Sony hyped it as a home entertainment center (ie: USB & Firewire ports, theoritical internet capability, DVD, etc), which would slice into Microsoft's business model of selling Windows (heh, and both WebTV units
The X-box won't necessarly be the most powerful console. Nintendo's Game Cube is shaping up to be a pretty powerful machine (400MHz PowerPC Gekko (similiar to G3) processor, 24MB 1-T SRAM main memory, 16MB Graphics/Sound Memory, Art-X video card, etc.) Also, Nintendo is well known for their video game characters (Mario, Luigi, Zelda, Link, and that damn Pikichu), so the machine won't be pure hype like the X-Box...
HDTV doesn't get better then 1024x768 at 60Hz
:-) ) supports resolutions of up to 1080i which equals 1920x1080???
I thought that HDTV (if it will ever exist
Unless you're a crippled geek laid up in bed and desparate for something to watch on the boobtube, why would you *watch* football (or any other sport, for that matter) instead of *play* football (or any other sport, for that matter)?
While this isn't intended to be a flame, why do you play Quake 3 instead of write it? Because its fun to see the the things that others can do better than you.
My understanding of "triple DES" is this: You encrypt a plaintext file with some key (say "A"), then you run the decrypt function with some other key (say "B") and then recrypt the results with the original key ("A") When you go to decrypt it, Do the opposite steps (Decrypt A -> encrypt B -> Decrypt A), and that gives you the strength of 112bit key (IIRC) Also, I think that encrypting DES with two different keys gives you the strength of a 57 bit key