Agreed. Blizzard damn well new about bnetd a long time ago. They didn't do anything about it because, in their eyes, it wasn't doing anything wrong.
Blizzard has always been fairly good about letting people use their product. Hell, Warcraft 2 and StarCraft are some of the few LAN games that have copy protection, yet also have explicit provisions made for one person to buy it and play with a few of his buddies.
Christ, I've seen War3 beta ISOs on MUSIC ftp sites.
You mean, by empowering end users and thus driving further sales of things they would otherwise not buy? Oh, yeah, I guess it's true. Exactly the same way the VCR "killed" Hollywood.
They went to court to stop the home video trade, and nowadays, it's the only thing that makes some major titles even profitable.
Hey, MPAA, guess what! If you put out a product that's worth buying, people buy it. I don't go to theaters; too much damn hassle. I think I've seen five theatrical movies in as many years. But I've got over 200 DVDs. It averages out, in my case, to something like a DVD every four days. That's a DAMN GOOD business model. Don't screw it up for yourselves.
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I fully agree that the file extention should be the last thing a program bothers checking, but extentions are still good for human use.
What you're saying could be applied to CDs; cases should all be blank, just look at the CD inside. And you're correct, the wrong CD could be in a given labled case. But that doesn't matter; it's not the end-all and be-all of file indexing. It's just a useful thumbnail.
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It's still useful for a human being to be able to take one look at a filename and determine the type. I think 4 letter extentions are the maximum usable for that purpose, and 3 is good.
Unix predates OS/2, Windows, and Dos among others. Does that make it "outdated"?
If you mean System I, II, III, VII and the like, then yes, they're horribly outdated. If you mean stuff like Linux, the various flavours of System V, Release 4, then, it's debatable.
Simple; you just compress a 360 degree x 180 degree field of view into something like 200x100. The sides, back, and top get distorted around the edges of the main view area.
Takes some practice, but then, so does anything other than smashing a big stick up and down.
As opposed to Sony, which is, arguably, a monopoly in the game world these days (having crushed the Saturn, N64 AND Dreamcast) AND has a much wider base of markets and products from which to transfer funds?
Yup. Take a look at the guts of a first run Playstation; it's crammed full of electronics, tended to overheat. Now, take a look at one of the last run of Playstation, before it was the PSone; same exterior case, but the inside is a little bitty circuit board, and lots of empty space.
Books everybody who cares about this sort of thing should read include Revolutionaries at Sony, which is the story of the Playstation, Renegades of the Empire, which is the story of DirectX, and Game Over (Press Start To Continue) which is the story of Nintendo.
That's exactly it. A lot of Japanese didn't want to insult Nintendo (which is, as I recall, over 100 years old) or Sony, or even Sega, by buying this unproven Gaijin product.
Don't forget Sony's price move with the PS1. It was $250 for months but the DAY before the N64 was officially announced Sony dropped the price to $200. Nintendo was then forced announced the N64 at $200 rather than $250 when it shipped. Sony literally took AT LEAST $50Million (probably more like $150Million+) from Nintendo with that move. Wicked.
Of course, if Microsoft were to do this to somebody, everybody would be screaming. But if Sony, or anybody else does it, then it's exactly what it is; good business practice.
But if it's getting an NTSC signal, it should be displaying in NTSC resolution; it's not like blowing up a 320x240 image to 1280x1024 and seeing the big blockies.
Is the player progressive scan with component out?
You could always tell him to hop on the Home Theater Forum and ask; everybody there seems to love the Toshiba sets.
True, true. But that wouldn't be DYNAMIC!(tm)
In this case, though, it's probably more a PHP misconfig; I don't know if it can do connection pooling, but for an anonymous access web app, there shouldn't be more than one database connection, no matter how many people are accessing it.
Better yet, store the information in memory, and display the contents of the memory variable. Refresh the variable every ten or fifteen minutes, or simply deallocate it if nobody's looked at it for ten or fifteen minutes. Still dynamic enough, and your database will thank you.
For example, saying that digital technology makes it possible for a channel to show 4 shows at once a viewer can switch between, it isn't due to the digital, it's due to the extra bandwidth, if they had equivalent bandwidth they could show 4 channels. Maybe they can't provide convenient labels to each channel, but still....
Are you sure that it isn't that losless compression can achieve anywhere from 2 to 4 times compression, on average, and lossy, but still good, such as MPEG-2, can achieve better?
Tell your buddy to find a certified ISF technician (did I spell that correctly? It's too early in the morning) and pay him some money to properly calibrate the TV.
If he's done some of the calibration himself, he should know how much it helps. If it's still 'showroom floor calibrated' then heaven help him.
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Well, most of the other things that we more or less take for granted are still theories; the theory of gravity, for example.
You DO realize that you just explained a Star Trek: The Original Series episode, yes?
The hardware is GPRS ready. There will be a software upgrade downloadable.
Agreed. Blizzard damn well new about bnetd a long time ago. They didn't do anything about it because, in their eyes, it wasn't doing anything wrong. Blizzard has always been fairly good about letting people use their product. Hell, Warcraft 2 and StarCraft are some of the few LAN games that have copy protection, yet also have explicit provisions made for one person to buy it and play with a few of his buddies. Christ, I've seen War3 beta ISOs on MUSIC ftp sites.
I think that the term 'AI' is misapplied. Artificial Conciousness, or Artifical Judgement, sure. Can't be done yet. But Artifical Intelligence, sure.
I believe that there IS an option (possibly an easter egg) on the DVD to play the scenes in chronological order.
Oh yeah?
I fully agree that the file extention should be the last thing a program bothers checking, but extentions are still good for human use. What you're saying could be applied to CDs; cases should all be blank, just look at the CD inside. And you're correct, the wrong CD could be in a given labled case. But that doesn't matter; it's not the end-all and be-all of file indexing. It's just a useful thumbnail.
It's still useful for a human being to be able to take one look at a filename and determine the type. I think 4 letter extentions are the maximum usable for that purpose, and 3 is good.
Interesting. I'll have to look into this 'roxen.'
Yup. You'd think after 80 years they could have Mickey retire and pass the torch on.
Simple; you just compress a 360 degree x 180 degree field of view into something like 200x100. The sides, back, and top get distorted around the edges of the main view area. Takes some practice, but then, so does anything other than smashing a big stick up and down.
As opposed to Sony, which is, arguably, a monopoly in the game world these days (having crushed the Saturn, N64 AND Dreamcast) AND has a much wider base of markets and products from which to transfer funds?
Yup. Take a look at the guts of a first run Playstation; it's crammed full of electronics, tended to overheat. Now, take a look at one of the last run of Playstation, before it was the PSone; same exterior case, but the inside is a little bitty circuit board, and lots of empty space.
That's exactly it. A lot of Japanese didn't want to insult Nintendo (which is, as I recall, over 100 years old) or Sony, or even Sega, by buying this unproven Gaijin product.
AND you got a +1 informative! *golf clap*
The Palm V runs a Dragonball ZX (At least, I think it's the ZX) processor.
But if it's getting an NTSC signal, it should be displaying in NTSC resolution; it's not like blowing up a 320x240 image to 1280x1024 and seeing the big blockies. Is the player progressive scan with component out? You could always tell him to hop on the Home Theater Forum and ask; everybody there seems to love the Toshiba sets.
True, true. But that wouldn't be DYNAMIC!(tm) In this case, though, it's probably more a PHP misconfig; I don't know if it can do connection pooling, but for an anonymous access web app, there shouldn't be more than one database connection, no matter how many people are accessing it. Better yet, store the information in memory, and display the contents of the memory variable. Refresh the variable every ten or fifteen minutes, or simply deallocate it if nobody's looked at it for ten or fifteen minutes. Still dynamic enough, and your database will thank you.
Tell your buddy to find a certified ISF technician (did I spell that correctly? It's too early in the morning) and pay him some money to properly calibrate the TV. If he's done some of the calibration himself, he should know how much it helps. If it's still 'showroom floor calibrated' then heaven help him.