Even if they get some people to switch, its simple to just write a program the captures output from the sound api, and records it into a wave file for later recompression.
Under new versions of Windows that implement the Windows Media Digital Rights Management Secure Audio Path, SDMI-compliant applications will play music on SDMI-compliant (no cleartext digital output to untrusted destinations such as a file or waveIn) drivers and silence on drivers that have not been signed by Microsoft to play SDMI audio.
Although, in Metallica's case, silence sounds better than most of their music.
The memory devices and other componenets used on consoles are patented; only the console maker can authorize production of console software. For example, there wasn't an NES demoscene until the NES patents expired.
Console makers are suing manufacturers of cartridge and disc dumping hardware (such as Bung) out of existence.
The Xbox seems more open-spec than traditional consoles (it's quite like a PC) but it can only be truly open if it becomes the X11box (as has happened to some i-opener models). <O ( \ XPlay Tetris On Drugs!
Gimme another Mario Kart, and watch me waste another year or two of my life:)
Mario Kart 64 had fifteen flaws in its gameplay. Mario Kart 3, for Game Boy Advance, returns to the old SMK style of gameplay with near-MK64 graphics (the GBA seems to have Sega Saturn-level graphics capabilities).
The Hylian body looks somewhat effeminate to closed-minded Americans. Link is a Hylian.
Males in the culture inside the game wear longer shirts than most Americans wear. Longer shirts look somewhat effeminate to closed-minded Americans. Link is a male in the culture inside the game.
I'm not saying all Americans are closed-minded. I wouldn't care if Nintendo made Link look like one of the Precious Moments kids that inhabit RPGs <cough>Star Ocean</cough>. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
The Atari VCS 2600 console had 128 bytes of RAM and a framebuffer that held only half a scanline. How's that for primitive? It gets worse: there are only five sprites; three are mere rectangles, and the other two are eight-pixel-wide 1-bit bitmaps. Their locations are not specified (x, y) but rather (start drawing them at this CPU cycle). <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
After all, cracking his cipher is obviously circumventing Poe's access-control device!
Encryption challenges sponsored by a cryptosystem designer (such as Poe Cipher and the various d.net challenges) imply a license to take part in the challenge.
Of course, IANAL; if you want legal advice, talk to your attorney. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
If Transmeta can do a software-only upgrade to the Crusoe to make it Itanium-compatible, they'll be able to sell it at less than half of what Intel will be charging.
Not.
The Code Morphing(TM) emulation technology used in Crusoe(TM) processors is designed to emulate CISC (complex instruction set computing) machines such as x86, 68k, and JVM. It's much harder to emulate RISC machines such as MIPS, Alpha, and PowerPC, let alone machines that are already VLIW like ia64.
In conclusion, maybe all the Slashdot editors have been so drunk, they have hired minions of horny monkeys to approve story submissions. Can it get any worse? Hopefully, only better..
Discussion sites based on the Scoop engine let the users pick the stories. Kuro5hin is the most popular Scoop site.
First of all, neither of the most common two web browsers are free as in free speech
Is Mozilla MPL a "free as in free speech" license? Is GNU GPL? The latest version of the #2 browser (Netscape Communicator) is now mostly MPL with a growing number of dual-licensed MPL/GPL modules.
You won't be able to spell "Windows" in your reduced alphabet either. OTOH, I have created an 18-letter alphabet that can be used to write the English language. (Mail me if you want to know more.)
The letters are a b c d e f g h i l m n o p r s t u <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems, but Aladdin Enterprises (not the StuffIt maker) has produced a portable GPL'd PostScript interpreter and tools called the GhostScript package. It even includes the GhostView PDF viewer for those platforms that have X11servers. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
Unicode.org has charts of the entire Unicode codespace (yes, including Chinese) in both PDF and HTML formats. There's also an ISO/IEC standard that mirrors the Unicode standard. Heck, the Unicode book (over 1,000 pages) is only $50, less than the cost of many college textbooks half the size. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
I will not trust my data to a system that has known filesystem corruption bugs. Does 2.4-test8 have any bugs in ext2 or vfat support? <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
In order to get the driver signed by Microsoft to be SDMI compliant, Creative will disable "what-u-hear" when playing SDMI audio. That's one of the requirements of gaining a digital signature that allows access to the Secure Audio Path of Microsoft Windows Media Digital Rights Management. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
Blame it on Bono. And Disney.
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Waiting a century for Project Gutenberg to pick things up once the copyright expires just isn't the answer.
Tell me about it. Here's everything you always wanted to know about the Sonny Bono Copyright Theft Act.* It's all a ploy to keep Walt Disney's Company's copyright on one cartoon, "Steamboat Willie" (the first Mickey Mouse cartoon).
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Even if they get some people to switch, its simple to just write a program the captures output from the sound api, and records it into a wave file for later recompression.
Under new versions of Windows that implement the Windows Media Digital Rights Management Secure Audio Path, SDMI-compliant applications will play music on SDMI-compliant (no cleartext digital output to untrusted destinations such as a file or waveIn) drivers and silence on drivers that have not been signed by Microsoft to play SDMI audio.
Although, in Metallica's case, silence sounds better than most of their music.
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- The memory devices and other componenets used on consoles are patented; only the console maker can authorize production of console software. For example, there wasn't an NES demoscene until the NES patents expired.
- Console makers are suing manufacturers of cartridge and disc dumping hardware (such as Bung) out of existence.
The Xbox seems more open-spec than traditional consoles (it's quite like a PC) but it can only be truly open if it becomes the X11box (as has happened to some i-opener models).<O
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or you might want to think about the fact that cookies go across the wire unencrypted
Cookies go across the wire encrypted on shopping sites that use https (HTTP over SSL), don't they?
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Gimme another Mario Kart, and watch me waste another year or two of my life :)
Mario Kart 64 had fifteen flaws in its gameplay. Mario Kart 3, for Game Boy Advance, returns to the old SMK style of gameplay with near-MK64 graphics (the GBA seems to have Sega Saturn-level graphics capabilities).
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- The Hylian body looks somewhat effeminate to closed-minded Americans. Link is a Hylian.
- Males in the culture inside the game wear longer shirts than most Americans wear. Longer shirts look somewhat effeminate to closed-minded Americans. Link is a male in the culture inside the game.
I'm not saying all Americans are closed-minded. I wouldn't care if Nintendo made Link look like one of the Precious Moments kids that inhabit RPGs <cough>Star Ocean</cough>.<O
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4a. PowerPC processor based
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If a huge portion of the actricles on Slashdot link to Wired, why the hell don't we all just read Wired?
Last time I checked (60 seconds ago), Wired didn't have threaded discussions.
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The Atari VCS 2600 console had 128 bytes of RAM and a framebuffer that held only half a scanline. How's that for primitive? It gets worse: there are only five sprites; three are mere rectangles, and the other two are eight-pixel-wide 1-bit bitmaps. Their locations are not specified (x, y) but rather (start drawing them at this CPU cycle).
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After all, cracking his cipher is obviously circumventing Poe's access-control device!
Encryption challenges sponsored by a cryptosystem designer (such as Poe Cipher and the various d.net challenges) imply a license to take part in the challenge.
Of course, IANAL; if you want legal advice, talk to your attorney.<O
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If Transmeta can do a software-only upgrade to the Crusoe to make it Itanium-compatible, they'll be able to sell it at less than half of what Intel will be charging.
Not.
The Code Morphing(TM) emulation technology used in Crusoe(TM) processors is designed to emulate CISC (complex instruction set computing) machines such as x86, 68k, and JVM. It's much harder to emulate RISC machines such as MIPS, Alpha, and PowerPC, let alone machines that are already VLIW like ia64.
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In conclusion, maybe all the Slashdot editors have been so drunk, they have hired minions of horny monkeys to approve story submissions. Can it get any worse? Hopefully, only better..
Discussion sites based on the Scoop engine let the users pick the stories. Kuro5hin is the most popular Scoop site.
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you lead an immoral life and you catch AIDS, then so be it; you brought it on yourself.
How can a child born with HIV have led an immoral life or brought it on herself?
Children are born with AIDS; they aren't born with Micro$oft.<O
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First of all, neither of the most common two web browsers are free as in free speech
Is Mozilla MPL a "free as in free speech" license? Is GNU GPL? The latest version of the #2 browser (Netscape Communicator) is now mostly MPL with a growing number of dual-licensed MPL/GPL modules.
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And $10 for the source CD? That's nonsense. You can get source CDs for about $2 plus shipping if you shop online.
Shipping to some parts of the world is $8 for a CD. $2 + $8 == $10; QED.
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You won't be able to spell "Windows" in your reduced alphabet either. OTOH, I have created an 18-letter alphabet that can be used to write the English language. (Mail me if you want to know more.)
The letters are a b c d e f g h i l m n o p r s t u
<O
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PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems, but Aladdin Enterprises (not the StuffIt maker) has produced a portable GPL'd PostScript interpreter and tools called the GhostScript package. It even includes the GhostView PDF viewer for those platforms that have X11 servers.
<O
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Unicode.org has charts of the entire Unicode codespace (yes, including Chinese) in both PDF and HTML formats. There's also an ISO/IEC standard that mirrors the Unicode standard. Heck, the Unicode book (over 1,000 pages) is only $50, less than the cost of many college textbooks half the size.
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Anyway, the feature listed that excites me the most is including SSL support.
They only included SSL because the RSA patent ran out. They were counting down.
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I will not trust my data to a system that has known filesystem corruption bugs. Does 2.4-test8 have any bugs in ext2 or vfat support?
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3. Microsoft Back Office for the server apps
6. Third-party software for shells, scripting, and other essentials.
Does this third-party software in your working Windows system include a remote Windows graphical login tool?
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In order to get the driver signed by Microsoft to be SDMI compliant, Creative will disable "what-u-hear" when playing SDMI audio. That's one of the requirements of gaining a digital signature that allows access to the Secure Audio Path of Microsoft Windows Media Digital Rights Management.
<O
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If you use an NES emulator such as NESten (Win32) or TuxNES (Linux), you might want to try out GNOME vs. KDE: Battle of the Desktops, a hack of a port of Panel Action Bingo to NES. And it's free software!
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- C:\Documents and Settings -> C:\home
- C:\Temporary Interenet Files -> C:\var\iecache
- C:\System Volume Information -> C:\boot (NT systems have "system" and "boot" backwards)
- C:\Downloaded Program Files -> C:\usr\local (could be wrong on this)
As Richy_T wrote (#150), these shorter names are much easier on 16-bit programs.<O
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Waiting a century for Project Gutenberg to pick things up once the copyright expires just isn't the answer.
Tell me about it. Here's everything you always wanted to know about the Sonny Bono Copyright Theft Act.* It's all a ploy to keep Walt Disney's Company's copyright on one cartoon, "Steamboat Willie" (the first Mickey Mouse cartoon).
*but were afraid to ask<O
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Cranking up the bus speed has never been a problem :)
RAM generally runs at system bus speed. SDRAM faster than PC133 (7.5 ns) is not widely available, let alone cheap.
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