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Pipe the songs through the virtual audio cable
Windows ME and Windows XP have a Secure Audio Path that disables all of a sound card's digital outputs or the driver doesn't get signed. No pipe for you, sorry.
Sound blaster live cards (and probably many others) have the ability to record anything that plays through the soundcard to a wav file.
In order for Windows to consider a sound card when an application opens a Secure Audio Path, it has to have a driver signed by Microsoft, and that driver must turn off all cleartext digital outputs (waveout->wavein, ->file, ->spdif, etc.) while the Secure Audio Path is open. (Read More...)
Of course it's only a matter of time before some clever people do port Linux to XBox.
Ain't gonna happen. Microsoft controls the BIOS, and the Xbox will run only signed, encrypted code. See my previous comment. Of course, you could theoretically throw in a mod-chip, but Microsoft would use its vast re$ources to sue any mod-chip maker out of existence.
Then how is the new Orifice XP license legal? Or.NET?
Because you sign a contract with Microsoft (or click your signature onto an on-screen EULA, but legal experts currently dispute enforceability of such schemes). It's illegal for the purchaser to rent copies of computer software not designed for a game console, but it's perfectly OK for the copyprivilege owner to do so, which is why I mentioned that Sony could potentially make contracts with video store owners. However, this opens up another can of worms relating to potential discriminatory policies about rental licensing; these issues already pop up in Japan, where consumers' first sale rights are much weaker.
PS2 has to compete with the XBox (x86, _should_ not be hard to "port" linux to)
How are you going to even load Linux on an Xbox console? Xbox (not the more expensive XDK) uses a proprietary bootloader that checks for a digitally signed kernel.
One of the pictures shows Netscape being run on the PS2. It looks to be 4.7x
If your computer contains a Netscape Communicator 4.x profile when you install Mozilla, Mozilla defaults to the Classic theme, which looks like Netscape Communicator 4.7.
Last time I checked netscape was closed source.
Mozilla is free software licensed under the Mozilla Public License and the GNU { |Lesser} General Public License. Netscape 6.x is mostly MPL/LGPL free software with some minor proprietary things linked in (AIM client, spell checker, etc) but the Mozilla team is working on replacing those.
Sony has released its distribution of the GNU/Linux OS for PlayStation 2 in the USA.
17 USC 109(b)(1)(A) prohibits rental of computer software in the United States. Section 109(b)(1)(B), on the other hand, makes an exception for software designed to run on video game consoles. But does the release of PS2 Linux make the PS2 into a "computer" under the law, and thus ineligible for software rental without explicit contracts between each video game publisher and each rental shop?
By installing a version that's been compiled to native code using a tool like the GNU Compiler for Java [gnu.org] (GCJ)?... it provides a libgcj which implements the runtime
It doesn't implement all of it. From the GCJ page: "AWT is currently unsupported". The Swing GUI calls AWT. And it probably doesn't work all that well on Windows or classic Mac OS.
Besides, libc is present on "all" systems, and is only a single file, so doesn't quite present the issues that installing a JRE does.
What issues? A C runtime has to be separately compiled for each platform, just like a JRE. In fact, because some platforms (e.g. wince, classic mac os) don't have stdin or stdout, the compiler must link a terminal emulator into the app in order to conform to ANSI. If the (freely-redistributable) JRE doesn't come with your OS distribution, that's solely between you and your OS distributor. I'll just point you to Sun's web site where you can get the JRE.
And it might be possible to "create" creatures which also have souls. But I wonder what they will feel, if they get to know they were "created", "produced" in some labors. I wonder if they will be able to lead a satisfied happy life.
Pinocchio never bitched when he learned that his "father" had created him.
I have yet to see a Freenet implimentation that didn't require an attendant JRE install of some kind.
How do you install an app designed for Java technology without first installing JRE? How do you install a Perl app without first installing Perl? How do you install a C app without first installing libc?
There is no 'Freenet' icon to point and click.
Unless your installer makes a shortcut to it on the desktop.
- connect to the returned mail servers (do the mail servers actually exist)
- try validating the address with the mail server (is not always correct)
Two problems:
The user often isn't willing to wait several minutes for a page to load, especially when the mail server is foreign (i.e. far away) and has high latency. Even if you tell the user that it'll take a long time, the user's browser may timeout.
Many mail servers have disabled validating the address because of Rumpelstiltskin attacks (send to every common personal name and surname).
They will have been swamped by/. users almost instantly after the story was posted. This is slashcode 2.0 - it has faster response times.....
Not necessarily. I'm pretty sure that Slashdot doesn't update the main page until a few minutes after a brand new story hits the database in order to keep ACs from rapidly reloading the homepage, trying to get first post. I'm not sure whether this is a feature of Slashcode out-of-the-box or of the customized version that Slashdot runs.
[Xbox and PS2] will make for a good convergence device, once it gets hacked and opend up.
Hacked? Yeah right. Xbox is locked up tight; apparently, all binaries must bear Microsoft's digital signature. Watch for Microsoft to use its vast re$ources to sue any modchip makers into oblivion.
for some reason divx movies look identical to the DVD on the monitor but not so identical to the DVD when played on TV out compared to DVD played on DVD player.
This may be a gamma issue. Try tweaking your TV-out device's settings.
This is the first reasonable digital audio/tv device I have seen. The ones before have been tied to proprietary formats
So is this one. It supports MPEG audio layer 3 (patented), VOB (MPEG 2 (patented) plus Dolby Digital (patented)), and DivX (MPEG 4 (patented)). And the royalties for such patents are
ridiculously expensive
You need an address so you can send the user a PW
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(but why are you collecting people's email addresses in the first place??)
Before you ass-u-me grandparent collects e-mail addresses to build a spam list, realize that many web services (such as Slashcode-based sites) get users' addresses so the service can send the user an initial password. It's faster to check "does this look like a valid hostname?" than to MX lookup the address the user provided.
Ewww.... that looks like Earse.cx. Did that illustrator get his idea from some goat site?
But then I scrolled down to the bottom and noticed the irony: a publication of The Walt Disney Company, known in political circles as the biggest corporate sponsor of the Slippery Slope Towards Perpetual Copyright Establishment Act (commonly called the Bono Act), just endorsed Napster.
Whenever I buy a DVD, I make a matching contribution to a civil liberties charity.
However, why do you think the game should play fairly?
It's more fun that way. In a fair game, you can use the same tactics against the computer that you use against other human players, and it becomes almost as fun as playing online against humans. However, MKSC gives you NO way to hurt the computer players.
On a separate note, how do you feel about games where the computer-controlled player-characters do intentionally worse than they could?
The goal of a game is to be fun, not to be as difficult as possible. Consistent 100% accuracy by a computer is worse than play that statistically makes the same mistakes that a human player of the appropriate skill level makes.
I mean QWERTY was an invention to make sure typewriter hammers wouldn't jam together.. Thus it made you type slower
Do you know the URL of a study that shows that QWERTY is significantly slower on average than Dvorak?
and all the commmon keys are far apart for less probable jamming.
Sholes placed the keys far apart so that the keys would have a better chance of alternating between hands (yes, I know, some words such as 'monopoly' fail, but unless you're transcribing a finding of fact in the sequel to the Microsoft case, it shouldn't matter).
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Pipe the songs through the virtual audio cable
Windows ME and Windows XP have a Secure Audio Path that disables all of a sound card's digital outputs or the driver doesn't get signed. No pipe for you, sorry.
Sound blaster live cards (and probably many others) have the ability to record anything that plays through the soundcard to a wav file.
In order for Windows to consider a sound card when an application opens a Secure Audio Path, it has to have a driver signed by Microsoft, and that driver must turn off all cleartext digital outputs (waveout->wavein, ->file, ->spdif, etc.) while the Secure Audio Path is open. (Read More...)
Of course it's only a matter of time before some clever people do port Linux to XBox.
Ain't gonna happen. Microsoft controls the BIOS, and the Xbox will run only signed, encrypted code. See my previous comment. Of course, you could theoretically throw in a mod-chip, but Microsoft would use its vast re$ources to sue any mod-chip maker out of existence.
Microsofts makes the X-Box Microsoft does not have a very good security record for "Keeping People Out."
Until now, Microsoft never wrote a BIOS. The typical PC BIOS lets you replace the bootloader with lilo, grub, etc. However:
Short of desoldering the Xbox's BIOS chip and replacing it with a mod chip, how can you insert your own code into the Xbox's bootstrap sequence?
Then how is the new Orifice XP license legal? Or .NET?
Because you sign a contract with Microsoft (or click your signature onto an on-screen EULA, but legal experts currently dispute enforceability of such schemes). It's illegal for the purchaser to rent copies of computer software not designed for a game console, but it's perfectly OK for the copyprivilege owner to do so, which is why I mentioned that Sony could potentially make contracts with video store owners. However, this opens up another can of worms relating to potential discriminatory policies about rental licensing; these issues already pop up in Japan, where consumers' first sale rights are much weaker.
PS2 has to compete with the XBox (x86, _should_ not be hard to "port" linux to)
How are you going to even load Linux on an Xbox console? Xbox (not the more expensive XDK) uses a proprietary bootloader that checks for a digitally signed kernel.
One of the pictures shows Netscape being run on the PS2. It looks to be 4.7x
If your computer contains a Netscape Communicator 4.x profile when you install Mozilla, Mozilla defaults to the Classic theme, which looks like Netscape Communicator 4.7.
Last time I checked netscape was closed source.
Mozilla is free software licensed under the Mozilla Public License and the GNU { |Lesser} General Public License. Netscape 6.x is mostly MPL/LGPL free software with some minor proprietary things linked in (AIM client, spell checker, etc) but the Mozilla team is working on replacing those.
Sony has released its distribution of the GNU/Linux OS for PlayStation 2 in the USA.
17 USC 109(b)(1)(A) prohibits rental of computer software in the United States. Section 109(b)(1)(B), on the other hand, makes an exception for software designed to run on video game consoles. But does the release of PS2 Linux make the PS2 into a "computer" under the law, and thus ineligible for software rental without explicit contracts between each video game publisher and each rental shop?
By installing a version that's been compiled to native code using a tool like the GNU Compiler for Java [gnu.org] (GCJ)? ... it provides a libgcj which implements the runtime
It doesn't implement all of it. From the GCJ page: "AWT is currently unsupported". The Swing GUI calls AWT. And it probably doesn't work all that well on Windows or classic Mac OS.
Besides, libc is present on "all" systems, and is only a single file, so doesn't quite present the issues that installing a JRE does.
What issues? A C runtime has to be separately compiled for each platform, just like a JRE. In fact, because some platforms (e.g. wince, classic mac os) don't have stdin or stdout, the compiler must link a terminal emulator into the app in order to conform to ANSI. If the (freely-redistributable) JRE doesn't come with your OS distribution, that's solely between you and your OS distributor. I'll just point you to Sun's web site where you can get the JRE.
And it might be possible to "create" creatures which also have souls. But I wonder what they will feel, if they get to know they were "created", "produced" in some labors. I wonder if they will be able to lead a satisfied happy life.
Pinocchio never bitched when he learned that his "father" had created him.
I have yet to see a Freenet implimentation that didn't require an attendant JRE install of some kind.
How do you install an app designed for Java technology without first installing JRE? How do you install a Perl app without first installing Perl? How do you install a C app without first installing libc?
There is no 'Freenet' icon to point and click.
Unless your installer makes a shortcut to it on the desktop.
- connect to the returned mail servers (do the mail servers actually exist)
Two problems:- try validating the address with the mail server (is not always correct)
Lanham I know nothing about. Do its provisions require enforcement?
The Lanham Act covers trademark law and unfair competition. Trademarks must be enforced.
They will have been swamped by /. users almost instantly after the story was posted. This is slashcode 2.0 - it has faster response times.....
Not necessarily. I'm pretty sure that Slashdot doesn't update the main page until a few minutes after a brand new story hits the database in order to keep ACs from rapidly reloading the homepage, trying to get first post. I'm not sure whether this is a feature of Slashcode out-of-the-box or of the customized version that Slashdot runs.
1. Download and write to floppy the image-1.44/compact disks (rescue, root, and driver-1).
You forgot 0. Buy a floppy drive. Many computers I encounter have broken floppy drives that damage disks.
[Xbox and PS2] will make for a good convergence device, once it gets hacked and opend up.
Hacked? Yeah right. Xbox is locked up tight; apparently, all binaries must bear Microsoft's digital signature. Watch for Microsoft to use its vast re$ources to sue any modchip makers into oblivion.
for some reason divx movies look identical to the DVD on the monitor but not so identical to the DVD when played on TV out compared to DVD played on DVD player.
This may be a gamma issue. Try tweaking your TV-out device's settings.
Can you get a drive to read 8 track music today?
Yes! Start here.
Or how about a tape recorder/player which works with spools of soft iron wire (used in the 1940s).
Museums such as the Smithsonian Institution maintain equipment that can still read old formats.
The only data sure to last thru time is that which can be read by humans directly: Text
And what happens in 802701, when nobody knows the English language anymore?
and Photos on film/paper.
Film rots; paper rots unless it's acid-free. What are the oldest pieces of visual art that survive? Cave paintings.
This is the first reasonable digital audio/tv device I have seen. The ones before have been tied to proprietary formats
So is this one. It supports MPEG audio layer 3 (patented), VOB (MPEG 2 (patented) plus Dolby Digital (patented)), and DivX (MPEG 4 (patented)). And the royalties for such patents are
ridiculously expensive
(but why are you collecting people's email addresses in the first place??)
Before you ass-u-me grandparent collects e-mail addresses to build a spam list, realize that many web services (such as Slashcode-based sites) get users' addresses so the service can send the user an initial password. It's faster to check "does this look like a valid hostname?" than to MX lookup the address the user provided.
Funny, that, considering CNAME means 'Canonical Name'
The difference is that CNAME maps from non-canonical names to canonical names. Correct?
CNAMEs should not point to other CNAMEs (only to A records) to avoid the possibility of infinite recursion.
Check out this essay by Jaron Lanier
Ewww.... that looks like Earse.cx. Did that illustrator get his idea from some goat site?
But then I scrolled down to the bottom and noticed the irony: a publication of The Walt Disney Company, known in political circles as the biggest corporate sponsor of the Slippery Slope Towards Perpetual Copyright Establishment Act (commonly called the Bono Act), just endorsed Napster.
Whenever I buy a DVD, I make a matching contribution to a civil liberties charity.
However, why do you think the game should play fairly?
It's more fun that way. In a fair game, you can use the same tactics against the computer that you use against other human players, and it becomes almost as fun as playing online against humans. However, MKSC gives you NO way to hurt the computer players.
On a separate note, how do you feel about games where the computer-controlled player-characters do intentionally worse than they could?
The goal of a game is to be fun, not to be as difficult as possible. Consistent 100% accuracy by a computer is worse than play that statistically makes the same mistakes that a human player of the appropriate skill level makes.
Besides Halo was supose to be a RPG
So was Quake 1. It became a FPS only because id Software was gasping for $$$ at the time.
Will any amount of money allow my GC to play DVDs?
Easy. Get the $300 Japanese DVD/GCN combo unit and then put in the mod-chip to play American software and Region 1 DVDs.
I mean QWERTY was an invention to make sure typewriter hammers wouldn't jam together.. Thus it made you type slower
Do you know the URL of a study that shows that QWERTY is significantly slower on average than Dvorak?
and all the commmon keys are far apart for less probable jamming.
Sholes placed the keys far apart so that the keys would have a better chance of alternating between hands (yes, I know, some words such as 'monopoly' fail, but unless you're transcribing a finding of fact in the sequel to the Microsoft case, it shouldn't matter).
Here's a one-handed keyboard that uses the QWERTY or Dvorak muscle memory you already have.