It's coming, but having a card that can swallow that kind of BW and not burst into flames is still a ways off.
A basic PCI bus can carry 128 MB per second (33 MHz * 32 bits/cycle = 1 Gb/s), and there exist double-speed and 64-bit variants of PCI. The faster 4x AGP runs at 1 GB per second. If each frame requires 1 GB of data transfer using a PS2-like approach of bringing in each set of textures and then rendering the corresponding triangles, you get 1 fps. Render this on a cluster of 24 machines, and you get the 24 fps of 35mm cinema.
Chess games are finite
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all this processing power, and i'm watching two computers too stupid to draw.
Chess has several ko rules that will end the game after no progress. For instance, if twenty-five rounds have passed without a capture or pawn move, or if the same board position has appeared three times, the game is a draw.
Constitution guarantees rights to "persons"
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The people we are locking up are NOT citizens of the USA.
Even so, the Constitution (Article 1, Section 9, Amendment 5, and Amendment 6) guarantees rights to "persons", not just to "citizens." From Article 1, Section 9: "The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it." But does this wag-the-dog war on terrorism require such a suspension of habeas corpus?
[OT] Slashdot doesn't get slashdotted
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The site the article is hosted on doesn't get slashdotted. When it receives more traffic than its database can handle, it falls back on static caches of the articles and top-level comments.
The "Redundant" moderation of parent was fair.
So why couldn't they just call it Dissent?
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Basically [a minority report] is, I believe, a dissenting opinion.
Thanks. You expressed it in terms that the legions of armchair lawyers on/. could understand without giving away the plot.
Now this immediately raises a question. Why didn't they just call it a dissent? Simple: If Fox called the movie "Dissent", then Interplay would hang them if they tried to make a video game out of the movie.
Compressed caching is the introduction of a new level into the virtual memory hierarchy. Specifically, RAM is used to store both an uncompressed cache of pages in their 'natural' encoding, and a compressed cache of pages in some compressed format. By using RAM to store some number of compressed pages, the effective size of RAM is increased, and this way the number of page faults that must be serviced by very slow hard disks is decreased.
This is exactly the technique that Connectix's "RAM Doubler", a replacement for the Macintosh System 7 virtual memory manager, used way back in 1996. I wonder if Connectix has a patent on it.
SuperMount has the ability to access your cd's/floppies on the fly without need to mount / umount them every time.
Mac OS has automounted removable media since 1984.
It's good to see that Linux is progressing as a kernel for a workstation OS. But even its major proponents admit that it has some catching up to do. WOLK is a step in the right direction.
Can anyone give me a substantial difference between a virtual machine, and an emulator
Others have commented on the theoretical differences, but I feel I should say something as to what distinguishes a VM from an emulator in practice. Virtual machines do not promote piracy because software is designed to run on virtual machines. On the other hand, an emulator is often written with unlawful redistribution of proprietary software in mind, even if it is wink-wink-nudge-nudge.
because I can't see whats different between my mame and java virutal machine
I find the most important difference between MAME and JVM that there is a much larger library of free software designed to run under JVM than under MAME.
The acid test of any license is whether it's DFSG free [...] Of note is the Darwin Streaming Server from Apple which, while passing the OSI open-source definition is not actually Free Software because it demands [...]
I wonder how many windows users STILL have not installed the Root Certificates Update Patch on their machines?
I installed the root cert patch on my laptop's Windows 98 OS. Within two days, the laptop's hard disk failed. I bought a new hard drive. I installed Windows. I installed the root cert patch. The new hard disk failed two days later. I sent the second hard drive in and got a third hard drive. I installed Windows. I did not install the root certificates update patch.
Also, it can burn CDs at 12X. DVDs only burn at 2.4X
Actually, 2.4x DVD is faster than 12x CD. 12x CD transfers at 12 times 150 KB, or 1800 KB/s, while 2.4x DVD transfers at 2.4 times 1152 KB/s (I think) to make 2700 KB/s.
Philips no longer part of the copyright industry
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You might also say Sony, but Sony only cares about not paying as much in royalties and they have their whole video/audio sections as well just like Philips.
Actually, Philips sold its entertainment-industry holdings to Polygram, so unlike Sony, it's not torn between selling CD burners and selling uncopyable CDs. Philips does hold patents on key CD and DVD technologies, along with the trademark on "Compact Disc".
Have you checked what is the price people are willing to give for the program and the like?
What if there is a large group of professionals willing to give $3000 but a much larger group of home users willing to give only $100?
Why not just add a "internet" license verification at runtime?
Proprietary payware web browsers and online games already do this. But if you have a desktop-oriented application or a single-player game, good luck getting users to set up an Internet account just for verifying the license, especially in an area where AOL is the only ISP. Microsoft Windows XP and Office XP have an Internet-based product activation system, but they also allow it to be done via telephone (insert 50 cents to maintain anonymity).
It seams to me that the majority of the "pirates" aren't actually "buyers" but just "testers"... people who grabs a program to try, train and the like and then use the program (not the copyed, but a original) in a job.
In that case, if most of the people pirating the software are learning or evaluating the program, I'd conclude that the publisher went too far in crippling the program's freely downloadable demo.
(and please... never make your clients mad... they can have the last word!)
Unless you have a monopoly under a federal administration that doesn't care <cough>GW Bush</cough>.
Why the hell should I give a damn about what happens to my files, money, information etc.. whan I'm DEAD ???
Have you ever heard of something called a "last will and testament", or "will" for short? The article is about a technological measure designed to enforce a will.
They also tried to campaign against low-power community radio stations.
Unfortunately, that campaign worked, to a point. After the initial five landgrabs, the FCC hasn't opened any "application filing windows" for low-power FM band radio broadcast stations in over a year.
As soon as some idiot repeals the DMCA, which grants these sites permission to do these things.
Whenever I refer to copyright law's prohibition of circumvention of access control (17 USC chapter 12), I call it "the DMCA's circumvention ban", making it clear as to to which part of the DMCA I refer: not the search engine safe harbor, not the copyright office procedural changes, not the vessel hull protection, and not the copyright term extension that was separately enacted the same week but is often incorrectly considered by media and college professors to be part of the DMCA and/or to be required by the WIPO Copyright Treaty, but the circumvention ban.
You may well find that you are *not licensed* to use it on anything but a Microsoft Windows operating system.
You assume that Microsoft EULAs are completely enforceable. Don't be so sure of that. To be enforceable, a contract must be legal, and as alienw mentioned, monopolistic product tying isn't. In addition, a contract must require both parties to give something up, such as money or rights. (In legalese, this is called "consideration.") In the United States, a EULA doesn't give the user any rights that 17 USC 117 and other applicable law doesn't already give the user.
Where's the beef? In particular, where's the consideration that would validate an agreement forbidding a user from using a Microsoft Windows application with LindowsOS or any other Wine distribution?
There have been two times (count `em), when Apple had to stop supporting old hardware.
Make that five. 5.something was the last to run on the Fat Mac (512 KB of RAM). 7.5.5 was the last to run on black-and-white 68000 machines, 68020 machines, and 68030 machines without the latest version of soldered-on ROM chips (i.e. "32-bit dirty" ROMs). 7.6.1 was the last to run on 68030 machines. Then you mentioned 8.1 and 9.x (last for 68040 and pre-G3 respectively).
Except for Linux, I can't think of many OSes that have as good of sustainability on older hardware than Mac OS.
What about the BSDs? What about MS-DOS (for classic games)?
See, the reason they can supposedly claim 'no lending' in an EULA is because some idiot Federal judge back in the 80s ruled that installing or running software involved making a copy.
Making a copy, but not infringing copyright. For one thing, a good attorney could make a reasonable case for fair use. For another, Sheetrock pointed out that after the judge decided that case, Congress overturned the law on which the decision was based by enacting 17 USC 117.
Lending of software, on the other hand, is prohibited by 17 USC 109 except for video game console software and for lending by nonprofit libraries and nonprofit educational institutions.
Besides, I've always wanted to take on someone in an FF-style battle.
By "FF-style battle" I assume you mean the Menu Kombat of most console role-playing games. Well, if you want player-vs-player menu kombat, you should check out Nintendo's cockfighting RPG.
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It's coming, but having a card that can swallow that kind of BW and not burst into flames is still a ways off.
A basic PCI bus can carry 128 MB per second (33 MHz * 32 bits/cycle = 1 Gb/s), and there exist double-speed and 64-bit variants of PCI. The faster 4x AGP runs at 1 GB per second. If each frame requires 1 GB of data transfer using a PS2-like approach of bringing in each set of textures and then rendering the corresponding triangles, you get 1 fps. Render this on a cluster of 24 machines, and you get the 24 fps of 35mm cinema.
The rules is 50 moves without a pawn move or a capture, not 25.
Fifty moves (as you said) equals 25 rounds (as I said), right?
Is there an over-riding force to prevent stalemate moves from continuing forever?
See my other comment.
all this processing power, and i'm watching two computers too stupid to draw.
Chess has several ko rules that will end the game after no progress. For instance, if twenty-five rounds have passed without a capture or pawn move, or if the same board position has appeared three times, the game is a draw.
The people we are locking up are NOT citizens of the USA.
Even so, the Constitution (Article 1, Section 9, Amendment 5, and Amendment 6) guarantees rights to "persons", not just to "citizens." From Article 1, Section 9: "The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it." But does this wag-the-dog war on terrorism require such a suspension of habeas corpus?
[mirror of article]
The site the article is hosted on doesn't get slashdotted. When it receives more traffic than its database can handle, it falls back on static caches of the articles and top-level comments.
The "Redundant" moderation of parent was fair.
Basically [a minority report] is, I believe, a dissenting opinion.
Thanks. You expressed it in terms that the legions of armchair lawyers on /. could understand without giving away the plot.
Now this immediately raises a question. Why didn't they just call it a dissent? Simple: If Fox called the movie "Dissent", then Interplay would hang them if they tried to make a video game out of the movie.
Compressed caching is the introduction of a new level into the virtual memory hierarchy. Specifically, RAM is used to store both an uncompressed cache of pages in their 'natural' encoding, and a compressed cache of pages in some compressed format. By using RAM to store some number of compressed pages, the effective size of RAM is increased, and this way the number of page faults that must be serviced by very slow hard disks is decreased.
This is exactly the technique that Connectix's "RAM Doubler", a replacement for the Macintosh System 7 virtual memory manager, used way back in 1996. I wonder if Connectix has a patent on it.
SuperMount has the ability to access your cd's/floppies on the fly without need to mount / umount them every time.
Mac OS has automounted removable media since 1984.
It's good to see that Linux is progressing as a kernel for a workstation OS. But even its major proponents admit that it has some catching up to do. WOLK is a step in the right direction.
Linux was created since minix changes could *only* be distributed as patches (modified minix source code couldn't be redistributed).
It's the same deal with QPL software such as much of PHP 4.
Can anyone give me a substantial difference between a virtual machine, and an emulator
Others have commented on the theoretical differences, but I feel I should say something as to what distinguishes a VM from an emulator in practice. Virtual machines do not promote piracy because software is designed to run on virtual machines. On the other hand, an emulator is often written with unlawful redistribution of proprietary software in mind, even if it is wink-wink-nudge-nudge.
because I can't see whats different between my mame and java virutal machine
I find the most important difference between MAME and JVM that there is a much larger library of free software designed to run under JVM than under MAME.
The acid test of any license is whether it's DFSG free [...] Of note is the Darwin Streaming Server from Apple which, while passing the OSI open-source definition is not actually Free Software because it demands [...]
Actually, the OSI's Open Source Definition and the Debian Free Software Guidelines are very nearly the same document.
I wonder how many windows users STILL have not installed the Root Certificates Update Patch on their machines?
I installed the root cert patch on my laptop's Windows 98 OS. Within two days, the laptop's hard disk failed. I bought a new hard drive. I installed Windows. I installed the root cert patch. The new hard disk failed two days later. I sent the second hard drive in and got a third hard drive. I installed Windows. I did not install the root certificates update patch.
Also, it can burn CDs at 12X. DVDs only burn at 2.4X
Actually, 2.4x DVD is faster than 12x CD. 12x CD transfers at 12 times 150 KB, or 1800 KB/s, while 2.4x DVD transfers at 2.4 times 1152 KB/s (I think) to make 2700 KB/s.
You might also say Sony, but Sony only cares about not paying as much in royalties and they have their whole video/audio sections as well just like Philips.
Actually, Philips sold its entertainment-industry holdings to Polygram, so unlike Sony, it's not torn between selling CD burners and selling uncopyable CDs. Philips does hold patents on key CD and DVD technologies, along with the trademark on "Compact Disc".
the flight speed of a swallow (African) is 15-45MPH depending on whether it is laden or unladen
Yes, but what if it's binladen?
Have you checked what is the price people are willing to give for the program and the like?
What if there is a large group of professionals willing to give $3000 but a much larger group of home users willing to give only $100?
Why not just add a "internet" license verification at runtime?
Proprietary payware web browsers and online games already do this. But if you have a desktop-oriented application or a single-player game, good luck getting users to set up an Internet account just for verifying the license, especially in an area where AOL is the only ISP. Microsoft Windows XP and Office XP have an Internet-based product activation system, but they also allow it to be done via telephone (insert 50 cents to maintain anonymity).
It seams to me that the majority of the "pirates" aren't actually "buyers" but just "testers"... people who grabs a program to try, train and the like and then use the program (not the copyed, but a original) in a job.
In that case, if most of the people pirating the software are learning or evaluating the program, I'd conclude that the publisher went too far in crippling the program's freely downloadable demo.
(and please... never make your clients mad... they can have the last word!)
Unless you have a monopoly under a federal administration that doesn't care <cough>GW Bush</cough>.
Why the hell should I give a damn about what happens to my files, money, information etc.. whan I'm DEAD ???
Have you ever heard of something called a "last will and testament", or "will" for short? The article is about a technological measure designed to enforce a will.
we have that expression because anyone can sing a song
Not necessarily. A songwriter has the exclusive right to perform his or her song publicly (17 USC 106).
They also tried to campaign against low-power community radio stations.
Unfortunately, that campaign worked, to a point. After the initial five landgrabs, the FCC hasn't opened any "application filing windows" for low-power FM band radio broadcast stations in over a year.
As soon as some idiot repeals the DMCA, which grants these sites permission to do these things.
Whenever I refer to copyright law's prohibition of circumvention of access control (17 USC chapter 12), I call it "the DMCA's circumvention ban", making it clear as to to which part of the DMCA I refer: not the search engine safe harbor, not the copyright office procedural changes, not the vessel hull protection, and not the copyright term extension that was separately enacted the same week but is often incorrectly considered by media and college professors to be part of the DMCA and/or to be required by the WIPO Copyright Treaty, but the circumvention ban.
You may well find that you are *not licensed* to use it on anything but a Microsoft Windows operating system.
You assume that Microsoft EULAs are completely enforceable. Don't be so sure of that. To be enforceable, a contract must be legal, and as alienw mentioned, monopolistic product tying isn't. In addition, a contract must require both parties to give something up, such as money or rights. (In legalese, this is called "consideration.") In the United States, a EULA doesn't give the user any rights that 17 USC 117 and other applicable law doesn't already give the user.
Where's the beef? In particular, where's the consideration that would validate an agreement forbidding a user from using a Microsoft Windows application with LindowsOS or any other Wine distribution?
There have been two times (count `em), when Apple had to stop supporting old hardware.
Make that five. 5.something was the last to run on the Fat Mac (512 KB of RAM). 7.5.5 was the last to run on black-and-white 68000 machines, 68020 machines, and 68030 machines without the latest version of soldered-on ROM chips (i.e. "32-bit dirty" ROMs). 7.6.1 was the last to run on 68030 machines. Then you mentioned 8.1 and 9.x (last for 68040 and pre-G3 respectively).
Except for Linux, I can't think of many OSes that have as good of sustainability on older hardware than Mac OS.
What about the BSDs? What about MS-DOS (for classic games)?
I still cant play Mario on the Genesis
Yes you can. You can play as Mario Andretti in racing, or you can play as Mario Lemieux in hockey.
Oh, you wanted to play as Nintendo's Mario character. In that case, try this ROM for the Genesis.
See, the reason they can supposedly claim 'no lending' in an EULA is because some idiot Federal judge back in the 80s ruled that installing or running software involved making a copy.
Making a copy, but not infringing copyright. For one thing, a good attorney could make a reasonable case for fair use. For another, Sheetrock pointed out that after the judge decided that case, Congress overturned the law on which the decision was based by enacting 17 USC 117.
Lending of software, on the other hand, is prohibited by 17 USC 109 except for video game console software and for lending by nonprofit libraries and nonprofit educational institutions.
Besides, I've always wanted to take on someone in an FF-style battle.
By "FF-style battle" I assume you mean the Menu Kombat of most console role-playing games. Well, if you want player-vs-player menu kombat, you should check out Nintendo's cockfighting RPG.