I think the law in the regard can be summarized as `harrass anyone for using your trademarks, even if they are basically advertising your product for free, or lose the right to use them yourself`.
He may be off-topic, but apparantly he`s the first person to have noticed the low quality of the commercials...
I`m sure AMD are running scared of Intel now they`ve got that nonsense promoting them? Even my non-geek friends know Intel as `that company who makes dodgy chips` - what better to reassure potential customers than to imply that their chips are powered by odd-coloured bald weirdos.
recycle is a win9x produce for arsing about with samples - takes a sample and finds the individual samples within and lets you move the trigger points around to change speed, feel etc.
i`ve not thought too hard about it, but i`m sure its just checking for (regular?) samples higher than a certain threshold?
"all consoles are sold at a loss, always and forever"
Not sure the N64 is. Not sure about the PSX-One either, thinking about it.
I heard a rumour, which is probably all it is but it sounds technically possible, which was that Sony were going to put the psx onto a chip/small board and include them, built in, with some/most/all of their standard domestic audio cd players. Dunno how many audio cd players sony sell, but i imagine its 100`s of millions per year, so even if people were effectively getting a psx for free, it`d mean a big instant user base for the ps2 (with is backwards compatibility).
I watched some shite jap karate-type film once, round at a friends house (he`s well into that genre).
The amusing thing was that, although he *hates* dubbed films, and would rather read the subtitles, he apparantly had no problem watching a jap film that had been dubbed into Chinese, with english subtitles as well.
So apparantly dubbing is ok, as long as its not into a language than you can understand.
Very strange.
Yeah, but i imagine that its the 5% of people who DONT use windows-on-a-pc that are often interesting to "them" (decss on linux, people who are into net-security in general, etc).
Surely it`d be fairly easy for a secure-email service/site to give you a public key when you get an account, then you encrypt your email at your end, before it leaves your pc, and they`d decrypt part of it, to extract the true destination, and send it on?
Or are there systems to do this already?
Dont mistake this post for a `whats wrong with Carnivore, i`m not doing anything wrong`, but if the people you are talking about ARENT doing anything `wrong`, and they arent `card carrying members of the ACLU` or whatever, then any extra effort faffing about with encryption, non-standard icq software etc will, for them, be a complete and utter waste of time!
I doubt it. Hes a DJ - they usually play other peoples music, not generally their own.
So he doesnt own the (c) on them, even if he mixed them himself.
What do you mean? They change the textures depending on how good you are!! For gods sake dont you see how revolutionary this is? Most games just change the textures depending on a variable called `nWeather` or `nInTunnel` or `nTimeOfDay`.
This one changes it depending on the value of `nGoodness`!!!
There has literally never been a game quite like this before!
How will this work? If N people mp3 a song, then unless they all use the same software, and the same options, they`ll get different files. Some may normalize the wav file before mp3`ing. Some will trim the file to remove silence at the end (for example, the penultimate track may have loads of silence to `hide` the bonus track).
If this took off, mp3 encoders could invert the song, or add some random bits to the end of the song.
Basically, there is no way they can do this. They`d have to constantly be downloading songs - any song - and then either listening to it, or use yet more vapourware - a tool to analyse a song and guess which song it actually is - before taking action.
"The game's also gonna have an INCREDIBLE plot. It's slated to have over 60,000 narrated words, about the size of a novel"
I find the plot is really important. Whether its Tekken, Driver, Lemmings or Duke Nukem, its imperitive that i know just which planet the bad guy is from, why Lei needs to win so badly, or what the little lemmings are called. It can really turn a run of the mill game into something special!
"Whistler will be almost totally useless for the majority of users without the capability to turn this off"
I dont know....i can imagine a network guy installing a pc, cloning it, rolling it out to the 200 people who work there, and only allowing the ability to run unsigned code to the developers there.
In this situation, there is no need for users to be running unsigned stuff; it`ll stop the *huge* number of problems caused by people running email attachments, screen-savers etc they downloaded on company time!
What, by providing an OPTION so that you can prevent the execution of un-certified software on your machine? Doesnt that sound like a good idea to you?
Obviously its an option, otherwise it`d be impossible to write software for Windows. I think Microsoft may have actually thought about this for a few minutes.
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Because fact that something is illegal doesnt mean its :
*morally wrong
*bad
*not funny
*not entertaining
*something you can`t learn from
etc etc
I think the law in the regard can be summarized as `harrass anyone for using your trademarks, even if they are basically advertising your product for free, or lose the right to use them yourself`.
Read that as `big-indian` for a moment! Amusing!
He may be off-topic, but apparantly he`s the first person to have noticed the low quality of the commercials...
I`m sure AMD are running scared of Intel now they`ve got that nonsense promoting them? Even my non-geek friends know Intel as `that company who makes dodgy chips` - what better to reassure potential customers than to imply that their chips are powered by odd-coloured bald weirdos.
You can get these things for £40 if you look around! Unless they have seriously gone up in the last 5 years!
recycle is a win9x produce for arsing about with samples - takes a sample and finds the individual samples within and lets you move the trigger points around to change speed, feel etc.
i`ve not thought too hard about it, but i`m sure its just checking for (regular?) samples higher than a certain threshold?
"all consoles are sold at a loss, always and forever"
Not sure the N64 is. Not sure about the PSX-One either, thinking about it.
I heard a rumour, which is probably all it is but it sounds technically possible, which was that Sony were going to put the psx onto a chip/small board and include them, built in, with some/most/all of their standard domestic audio cd players. Dunno how many audio cd players sony sell, but i imagine its 100`s of millions per year, so even if people were effectively getting a psx for free, it`d mean a big instant user base for the ps2 (with is backwards compatibility).
try going through www.safeweb.com (or www.anonymizer.com or www.rewebber.com or www.anonymizer.co.uk etc etc) - works for me!
Kurt Vonnegut`s publishers may be interested - sounds like something from `Breakfast of Champions`!
I watched some shite jap karate-type film once, round at a friends house (he`s well into that genre).
The amusing thing was that, although he *hates* dubbed films, and would rather read the subtitles, he apparantly had no problem watching a jap film that had been dubbed into Chinese, with english subtitles as well.
So apparantly dubbing is ok, as long as its not into a language than you can understand.
Very strange.
yeah, in case you lose the dubbed speech, feel free to print this post, cut it out and stick it onto the screen.
AKIRA: "TETSUO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"
TETSUO "AKIRA! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"
Think thats about it. The stuff about milk and giant rabbits and grey aliens doesnt make sense in any language.
Yeah, but i imagine that its the 5% of people who DONT use windows-on-a-pc that are often interesting to "them" (decss on linux, people who are into net-security in general, etc).
Surely it`d be fairly easy for a secure-email service/site to give you a public key when you get an account, then you encrypt your email at your end, before it leaves your pc, and they`d decrypt part of it, to extract the true destination, and send it on?
Or are there systems to do this already?
Dont mistake this post for a `whats wrong with Carnivore, i`m not doing anything wrong`, but if the people you are talking about ARENT doing anything `wrong`, and they arent `card carrying members of the ACLU` or whatever, then any extra effort faffing about with encryption, non-standard icq software etc will, for them, be a complete and utter waste of time!
"Why are we so enthusiastic about developing intelligent computers, given that this fate is inevitable? "
Its not inevitable. Its just an essay!
Nope. Just the "land of the free (tm)".
His cousin Pang is looking good too, although shes having trouble with spheres at the moment.
I doubt it. Hes a DJ - they usually play other peoples music, not generally their own.
So he doesnt own the (c) on them, even if he mixed them himself.
I trust there`ll be a concerted effort to keep this sexist, homophobic, retarded, redneck trash off the internet!
The cheeeeldran, the cheeeeldran!
"...when Maggie gets scanned..."
Its a number, its supposed to be what it costs to bring up a child, for a week. Heard that in an interview with Groening.
What do you mean? They change the textures depending on how good you are!! For gods sake dont you see how revolutionary this is? Most games just change the textures depending on a variable called `nWeather` or `nInTunnel` or `nTimeOfDay`.
This one changes it depending on the value of `nGoodness`!!!
There has literally never been a game quite like this before!
How will this work? If N people mp3 a song, then unless they all use the same software, and the same options, they`ll get different files. Some may normalize the wav file before mp3`ing. Some will trim the file to remove silence at the end (for example, the penultimate track may have loads of silence to `hide` the bonus track).
If this took off, mp3 encoders could invert the song, or add some random bits to the end of the song.
Basically, there is no way they can do this. They`d have to constantly be downloading songs - any song - and then either listening to it, or use yet more vapourware - a tool to analyse a song and guess which song it actually is - before taking action.
I cant see how this would work!
"The game's also gonna have an INCREDIBLE plot. It's slated to have over 60,000 narrated words, about the size of a novel"
I find the plot is really important. Whether its Tekken, Driver, Lemmings or Duke Nukem, its imperitive that i know just which planet the bad guy is from, why Lei needs to win so badly, or what the little lemmings are called. It can really turn a run of the mill game into something special!
:)
"Whistler will be almost totally useless for the majority of users without the capability to turn this off"
I dont know....i can imagine a network guy installing a pc, cloning it, rolling it out to the 200 people who work there, and only allowing the ability to run unsigned code to the developers there.
In this situation, there is no need for users to be running unsigned stuff; it`ll stop the *huge* number of problems caused by people running email attachments, screen-savers etc they downloaded on company time!
"So isn't MS screwing itself?"
What, by providing an OPTION so that you can prevent the execution of un-certified software on your machine? Doesnt that sound like a good idea to you?
Obviously its an option, otherwise it`d be impossible to write software for Windows. I think Microsoft may have actually thought about this for a few minutes.