In other news - retail stores are now having their customers stripsearched and tortured, while allowing shoplifters to go out the back door. Shoplifters don't seem to care much saying flat out: "Why would I ever buy anything, if I steal it, not only I don't have to pay, but I am also not harassed on my way out with the goods"
Don't know much about Starforce, but does it work if the CD drive is connected using SCSI? Since I have connected it using a IDE to SCSI adapter, then Starforce cracks might just work for me... Not that I am going to test it...
My idea would be to make DRM last as long as it is effective (until the first working crack).
As soon as it is possible for an average gamer to download a cracked game, it means that the DRM has lost its effectiveness and the manufacturer must remove it.
the same way a physical store uses anti-shoplifting tags.
Well, all stores I have been to, the tags don't interfere with a legit purchase and only result in a few second delay (while the clerk deactivates them).
If somebody ran a store the way DRM works, then all paying customers would be strip-searched while shoplifters could go out the back door and avoid all the searches.
They provide unlimited installations on any computer, auto updates, community features, great weekend and holiday sales, offline mode, etc.
You mean that Steam has a feature that lets you do what you could normally do if the game wasn't DRM'ed? Like unlimited installations and offline mode? Actually, why do single-player games need internet connection? And Steam has a "feature" that lets you play single player games without internet connection?
The problem with Steam is that you may get your account (with all your games) deleted at any time.
Probably not. Where I live, there are almost 50 networks, about 10 of them have no protection and 20 have WEP. One of ISPs gave a WIFi router with their subscription. The WiFi was on by default and had no protection. I only see one of this type of network. From the configuration of his router (which also isn't password protected not that it would take a lot of time to find a default password) it looks like the person doesn't even use the WiFi connection...
Without free-leech it is not possible for all users to have a ratio of over 1:1.
If someone uploaded some amount of data, it means that someone else had to download it, so it is not possible for everybody to download less than they upload. It is possible, in theory, for everybody to have 1:1 ratio, but is requires that nobody tries to get a higher ratio.
Except that one of private trackers i am a member of reserves the right to upload new torrents only for "uploader" class. To become an uploader you have to have at least 10mbps upload speed which I don't have (768kbps). Now, if I had those 10mbps I could keep good ratio even without putting up new torrents (though I record some TV shows and could rip and share them). Thankfully, the tracker has a site-wide freeleech sometimes, so I just queue up torrents that I want to download and wait for that time (my download speed, btw, is 4mbps)
While I have no use for that switch, it still puzzles me - how do you cram all traffic that's going though the switch (up to 22gbps) to a single 1gbps port?
Anyway, this idea is older than that 1gbps switch. 10 and 100mbps hubs also have that feature:).
At least all "terms and conditions" of a device under warranty I had to sign said that if the device fails because of interaction with a device that is not under warranty (like an unsupported power supply) the warranty is void.
Nokia if I recall used to be REALLY bad for this every model had its own set of power adapters.
Don't know about older phones, but Nokia 5110 (1998) uses the same connector as Nokia 6230i (2004). Nokia N93 uses a smaller connector, but an adapter was provided in the box, so in theory I can use a charger from 5110 to charge my N93)
So, under current system (windows): 1.Some program fails and hangs, while taking some resource (like a TV tuner). No other program can use it, and task manager can't kill it. 2.I save all open files on other programs. 3.I restart my PC. 4.My data is safe (with exception of the freezed program).
Under the "stateful sandbox" system: 1.some program hangs, takes a resource and can't be killed. Now I have two options: 2a.I restore the system from an earlier state. 3a.I just lost data from other programs. or 2b.I do nothing. 3b. I saved my data, but the hanged application will remain hanged even after a restart (essentially - forever)
Also, What would happen if a program was accessing some hardware, I turn off the PC, remove the device and turn the PC back on?
Why, these days, should a computer startup time be so long? it should simply resume, but more robustly than "sleep" or "hibernate" - restoring the state of objects as they were, not restarting from practically scratch every time.
IANAP (programmer), but wouldn't that mean that once an app managed to semi-freeze the PC it would always stay like that and a reset wouldn't be an option?
...overdrive is a technique that involves using higher levels of voltage to make the liquid crystals in a TFT panel change colour state more quickly.
Too much voltage will cause the pixels to overshoot the desired target state, and thus display an incorrect colour, so the voltage needs to be reduced before this happens.
So, since an LCD is multiplexed and the controller has access to a small number of pixels at the same time it sends a pulse to a pixel and goes to another pixel (while the previous one slowly (compared to the pixel clock) changes its color). If you use overdrive, then the pixel would be the wrong color (too bright), so you need to first apply the higher voltage, then lower it, so the pixel "arrives" at the desired state (it works like a "fast heating" system of newer CRT monitors/TVs that apply a higher voltage to the heaters, then lower it after the cathode has heated up (otherwise the cathode would be too hot and not last long)). The overdrive probably means that the controller has to spend more time with each pixel, thus the response time of a single pixel is faster, but the response time of the whole array is slower).
You see, the material posted on ThePirateBay is usually in English or Swedish, and the TV shows I watch are in neither language. So, since it's in a language that only a small (compared to English language) number of people can understand, no one is bothering to put it on there (I too). I am a member of a local tracker, but the TV shows I want aren't there either. Maybe because I have a crappy upload speed and I did not upload my recordings?
As for it not being worth to watch - the TV shows I watch are either old music recordings or music performances by old musicians (those, who were performing before I was even born). I like that music and recording it off the TV is one way of getting it. The other ways would be downloading it (only small percentage available) or buy records (also, only a small percentage available, also, may be expensive). The national broadcaster is broadcasting parts of old concerts on TV, I record them and then piece them together (usually one concert is split over a few days, 45min each day including commercials).
Also: for you to be able to download a TV show and watch it, someone has to record it and then upload it to you (well, not you directly, but you get the idea). I would upload my recording if my upload speed was at least 10mbit (now it's measly 768kbps) and I knew how to encode a video file so it's high quality (the same as VHS), but does not take much space).
After we found them, she then said "What do we need the TV for?" And that is the big question.
Well, good for her. I also prefer torrents to TV, but not all TV shows are available on TPB (or other trackers). While some of them are available at the national TV site, they are in such poor quality that makes VHS look like HD compared to the online version. So I record those shows to VHS. By the way, I o not live in the US.
I didn't listen when he was singing to record the CD, I only listened to the recorded song the same way I listen to recorded songs on a radio. I didn't ask him to sing for me or to record. If he didn't sing in the first place I would not have asked either.
On the other hand, when I go to a concert, my action of buying a ticket is a request for the musician to sing. If noone comes to the concert the musician can choose not to sing. If not enough people arrives (the musician decides that it's not worth for him to sing to those few people (or for such low amount of money collected) he can cancel the concert and give my money back.
If the musician sang on the street (and not in a concert hall or club that you can only get in by buying a ticket), I would not be obliged to pay him anything, though if I like his singing I can pay whatever amount I deem appropriate.
Well, FTP is easier than BitTorrent to get files, you also do not need to upload anything, so you do not need a fast upload speed (well, at least for movies/music anyway).
So, the RIAA could set up a FTP server. You pay some money a month to get access to it. Music is available in different formats (MP3, FLAC, WAV) in that server.
The same can be done with movies.
This can be simpler. You get the same ease of use as TPB, but no longer have to worry about the quality of the rip. Also, you can download songs made by not so popular artists (no torrent on TPB).
Lets say, someone promised you $200 to clean some leaves. You clean those leaves, but they don't pay you. You're not hurt, and you haven't suffered any harm yet it's still unfair.
Wrong analogy, I didn't ask the musician to sing anything, also I didn't promise him anything.
The correct analogy with the leaves would be: You cleaned the leaves and then asked for the land owner to pay you $200. He told you to go away from his land and didn't pay you anything. Maybe next time you will first ask for money (to have a contract with the land owner) before doing your work.
Well, my main PC does not have antivirus software installed (I use online scanning sites to scan downloaded files:), and it was not a "file in use" problem, Unlocker, would have taken care of that. It was an "access denied" problem, I could not clear the "read only" attribute, which was in the third state (neither checked nor unchecked). Couldn't delete the file either...
The average speed of the car is 27/2=13.5m/s The car accelerates for 5 seconds, traveling 67.5 meters
26'271N force * 67.5 meters = 1.773 mega joules of energy 1.773MJ/5s = 34.56kW of power
There is also a faster way of calculating this:
After the acceleration, the car is traveling at 60 miles/hour (27 meters/second), so it has kinetic energy of (e=(m*v^2)/2) 4865kg*27m/s*27m/s*0.5=1.773MJ All that energy was supplied during those 5 seconds of acceleration, giving power (E=P*t; P=E/t) of 1.773MJ/5s=34.56kW
Taking ownership alone may not be sufficient, because the ACL for a file can specify "deny write" for the owner as well (just like it can on any Unix system).
And I tried it. Taking ownership, giving the "administrators" group full control permissions, giving my user name full control permissions and giving "everyone" full control permissions. Yet, I was unable to delete the file. This has happened with two files in c:\windows\system32\macromedia directory.
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In other news - retail stores are now having their customers stripsearched and tortured, while allowing shoplifters to go out the back door. Shoplifters don't seem to care much saying flat out: "Why would I ever buy anything, if I steal it, not only I don't have to pay, but I am also not harassed on my way out with the goods"
Don't know much about Starforce, but does it work if the CD drive is connected using SCSI? Since I have connected it using a IDE to SCSI adapter, then Starforce cracks might just work for me...
Not that I am going to test it...
My idea would be to make DRM last as long as it is effective (until the first working crack).
As soon as it is possible for an average gamer to download a cracked game, it means that the DRM has lost its effectiveness and the manufacturer must remove it.
the same way a physical store uses anti-shoplifting tags.
Well, all stores I have been to, the tags don't interfere with a legit purchase and only result in a few second delay (while the clerk deactivates them).
If somebody ran a store the way DRM works, then all paying customers would be strip-searched while shoplifters could go out the back door and avoid all the searches.
They provide unlimited installations on any computer, auto updates, community features, great weekend and holiday sales, offline mode, etc.
You mean that Steam has a feature that lets you do what you could normally do if the game wasn't DRM'ed? Like unlimited installations and offline mode? Actually, why do single-player games need internet connection? And Steam has a "feature" that lets you play single player games without internet connection?
The problem with Steam is that you may get your account (with all your games) deleted at any time.
Probably not. Where I live, there are almost 50 networks, about 10 of them have no protection and 20 have WEP. One of ISPs gave a WIFi router with their subscription. The WiFi was on by default and had no protection. I only see one of this type of network. From the configuration of his router (which also isn't password protected not that it would take a lot of time to find a default password) it looks like the person doesn't even use the WiFi connection...
Without free-leech it is not possible for all users to have a ratio of over 1:1.
If someone uploaded some amount of data, it means that someone else had to download it, so it is not possible for everybody to download less than they upload. It is possible, in theory, for everybody to have 1:1 ratio, but is requires that nobody tries to get a higher ratio.
Except that one of private trackers i am a member of reserves the right to upload new torrents only for "uploader" class. To become an uploader you have to have at least 10mbps upload speed which I don't have (768kbps). Now, if I had those 10mbps I could keep good ratio even without putting up new torrents (though I record some TV shows and could rip and share them). Thankfully, the tracker has a site-wide freeleech sometimes, so I just queue up torrents that I want to download and wait for that time (my download speed, btw, is 4mbps)
While I have no use for that switch, it still puzzles me - how do you cram all traffic that's going though the switch (up to 22gbps) to a single 1gbps port?
Anyway, this idea is older than that 1gbps switch. 10 and 100mbps hubs also have that feature :).
Just like the same Joe User could partition and format the hard drive and install Windows on it, he surely can learn about FTP.
How would most users get their browser if it wasn't already installed?
So, those "most users" know how to install Windows, but do not know how to get a browser using FTP, or downloading it on another PC?
I can't come up with a single lossless video codec besides "raw".
HuffYUV
At least all "terms and conditions" of a device under warranty I had to sign said that if the device fails because of interaction with a device that is not under warranty (like an unsupported power supply) the warranty is void.
Nokia if I recall used to be REALLY bad for this every model had its own set of power adapters.
Don't know about older phones, but Nokia 5110 (1998) uses the same connector as Nokia 6230i (2004). Nokia N93 uses a smaller connector, but an adapter was provided in the box, so in theory I can use a charger from 5110 to charge my N93)
So, under current system (windows):
1.Some program fails and hangs, while taking some resource (like a TV tuner). No other program can use it, and task manager can't kill it.
2.I save all open files on other programs.
3.I restart my PC.
4.My data is safe (with exception of the freezed program).
Under the "stateful sandbox" system:
1.some program hangs, takes a resource and can't be killed.
Now I have two options:
2a.I restore the system from an earlier state.
3a.I just lost data from other programs.
or
2b.I do nothing.
3b. I saved my data, but the hanged application will remain hanged even after a restart (essentially - forever)
Also, What would happen if a program was accessing some hardware, I turn off the PC, remove the device and turn the PC back on?
Why, these days, should a computer startup time be so long? it should simply resume, but more robustly than "sleep" or "hibernate" - restoring the state of objects as they were, not restarting from practically scratch every time.
IANAP (programmer), but wouldn't that mean that once an app managed to semi-freeze the PC it would always stay like that and a reset wouldn't be an option?
From the article:
...overdrive is a technique that involves using higher levels of voltage to make the liquid crystals in a TFT panel change colour state more quickly.
Too much voltage will cause the pixels to overshoot the desired target state, and thus display an incorrect colour, so the voltage needs to be reduced before this happens.
So, since an LCD is multiplexed and the controller has access to a small number of pixels at the same time it sends a pulse to a pixel and goes to another pixel (while the previous one slowly (compared to the pixel clock) changes its color). If you use overdrive, then the pixel would be the wrong color (too bright), so you need to first apply the higher voltage, then lower it, so the pixel "arrives" at the desired state (it works like a "fast heating" system of newer CRT monitors/TVs that apply a higher voltage to the heaters, then lower it after the cathode has heated up (otherwise the cathode would be too hot and not last long)).
The overdrive probably means that the controller has to spend more time with each pixel, thus the response time of a single pixel is faster, but the response time of the whole array is slower).
You see, the material posted on ThePirateBay is usually in English or Swedish, and the TV shows I watch are in neither language. So, since it's in a language that only a small (compared to English language) number of people can understand, no one is bothering to put it on there (I too). I am a member of a local tracker, but the TV shows I want aren't there either. Maybe because I have a crappy upload speed and I did not upload my recordings?
As for it not being worth to watch - the TV shows I watch are either old music recordings or music performances by old musicians (those, who were performing before I was even born). I like that music and recording it off the TV is one way of getting it. The other ways would be downloading it (only small percentage available) or buy records (also, only a small percentage available, also, may be expensive). The national broadcaster is broadcasting parts of old concerts on TV, I record them and then piece them together (usually one concert is split over a few days, 45min each day including commercials).
Also: for you to be able to download a TV show and watch it, someone has to record it and then upload it to you (well, not you directly, but you get the idea). I would upload my recording if my upload speed was at least 10mbit (now it's measly 768kbps) and I knew how to encode a video file so it's high quality (the same as VHS), but does not take much space).
After we found them, she then said "What do we need the TV for?" And that is the big question.
Well, good for her. I also prefer torrents to TV, but not all TV shows are available on TPB (or other trackers). While some of them are available at the national TV site, they are in such poor quality that makes VHS look like HD compared to the online version. So I record those shows to VHS. By the way, I o not live in the US.
I didn't listen when he was singing to record the CD, I only listened to the recorded song the same way I listen to recorded songs on a radio. I didn't ask him to sing for me or to record. If he didn't sing in the first place I would not have asked either.
On the other hand, when I go to a concert, my action of buying a ticket is a request for the musician to sing. If noone comes to the concert the musician can choose not to sing. If not enough people arrives (the musician decides that it's not worth for him to sing to those few people (or for such low amount of money collected) he can cancel the concert and give my money back.
If the musician sang on the street (and not in a concert hall or club that you can only get in by buying a ticket), I would not be obliged to pay him anything, though if I like his singing I can pay whatever amount I deem appropriate.
Well, FTP is easier than BitTorrent to get files, you also do not need to upload anything, so you do not need a fast upload speed (well, at least for movies/music anyway).
So, the RIAA could set up a FTP server. You pay some money a month to get access to it. Music is available in different formats (MP3, FLAC, WAV) in that server.
The same can be done with movies.
This can be simpler. You get the same ease of use as TPB, but no longer have to worry about the quality of the rip. Also, you can download songs made by not so popular artists (no torrent on TPB).
Lets say, someone promised you $200 to clean some leaves. You clean those leaves, but they don't pay you. You're not hurt, and you haven't suffered any harm yet it's still unfair.
Wrong analogy, I didn't ask the musician to sing anything, also I didn't promise him anything.
The correct analogy with the leaves would be: You cleaned the leaves and then asked for the land owner to pay you $200. He told you to go away from his land and didn't pay you anything. Maybe next time you will first ask for money (to have a contract with the land owner) before doing your work.
Well, my main PC does not have antivirus software installed (I use online scanning sites to scan downloaded files :), and it was not a "file in use" problem, Unlocker, would have taken care of that. It was an "access denied" problem, I could not clear the "read only" attribute, which was in the third state (neither checked nor unchecked). Couldn't delete the file either...
1N != 1W
5.4m/s^2*4865kg=26.271kN of force
The average speed of the car is 27/2=13.5m/s
The car accelerates for 5 seconds, traveling 67.5 meters
26'271N force * 67.5 meters = 1.773 mega joules of energy
1.773MJ/5s = 34.56kW of power
There is also a faster way of calculating this:
After the acceleration, the car is traveling at 60 miles/hour (27 meters/second), so it has kinetic energy of (e=(m*v^2)/2) 4865kg*27m/s*27m/s*0.5=1.773MJ
All that energy was supplied during those 5 seconds of acceleration, giving power (E=P*t; P=E/t) of 1.773MJ/5s=34.56kW
Taking ownership alone may not be sufficient, because the ACL for a file can specify "deny write" for the owner as well (just like it can on any Unix system).
And I tried it. Taking ownership, giving the "administrators" group full control permissions, giving my user name full control permissions and giving "everyone" full control permissions. Yet, I was unable to delete the file. This has happened with two files in c:\windows\system32\macromedia directory.