So it would be perfectly allowable to have an English description of the CSS algorithm, (or even a Hebrew translation). Does anyone have a detailed description of this?
Although I did hear that there was a precedent of a magazine being banned from publishing diagrams of an H bomb. Any truth in this?
Seems very odd considering that the only really difficult part of building one is getting the parts.
Can these "emulators" render the graphics any better?
Yes. Unless I'm very much mistaken, the Playstation renders graphics at a higher than TV resolution and then reduces the size. Anyway, even if this is wrong, Bleem can go up to 800 x 600, so theres no reason that this can't.
I start work when I enter the building. Stop when I leave (Which means posting this counts as work).
I think the overtime, weekend work and suchlike is reserved mainly for management rather than Engineers. I will not work when I'm outside the office. Strangely enough, despite this attitude I've still got a job.
I read that you can see the great wall of China. You can also see lots of other things. It all depends how high you are of course. With a visual resolution of 30 arcseconds, this means that it should be visible at somewhere in the region of 100 miles (so is this "in space" or not?). Or have I got my maths totally wrong.
As it stands though, that code is illegal, it was produced illegally and it is intended for a purely illegal use. I for one won't defend it.
Much as I hate to respond to a long and thoughtful post by nitpicking the final statement, I must disagree here.
It was produced somewhere where it was perfectly legal to do so. While it may have illegal uses, it also has legal uses. In most countries this makes it legal.
And finally, using it for an illegal purpose is currently pointless. It costs too much in terms of storage space, and its ludicrous to suggest sending it over a network. Maybe it will make more sense in 5 years time when compression systems have improved and bandwidth has gone up.
we're supposed to hurt the MPAA by INVESTING in its member companies?
Yep. And you can hurt MicroSoft by buying its software and exposing as amny bugs as you can find.
Or if you happen to be MS, you can hurt Apple by buyng a chunk of its shares.
But thats not the point
We're not trying to hurt them though. Theres little we can do that will even bloody their nose. What we're trying to do a cajole them into accepting our views. At the moment we're being ignored.
Wine's DirectX support isn't really all that good though. It uses OpenGL for Direct3D which slows things down considerably. I don't think DirectDraw has much hardware acceleration support. Not sure about the rest of it
I'd quite like a compatibility library. DirectX isn't really that good, but it is quite fast, and everyone seems to insist on using it, and it would be nice if a few games could be ported directly.
people who talk about free trade always seem to want free trade when it's in their favour and protection when it isn't
Different definitions of free I'm afraid. To a (evil, communist ant-capitalistic etc.) person like you it means unrestrained. To a (benevolent open-minded generous etc.) organisation such as the MPAA, it means free as in Beer.
So what he is saying is that if the guys in Norway SOLD their software he'd have no beef with them. A bizarre idea as this would make pirate videos legal because the copier charges you.
No, he's saying that he wouldn't have a problem if we buy the disc. He doesn't seem to realise that thats what we want to do.
Well, there are some signs of lacking a clue. He seems to think that the purpose of DeCSS is to pirate DVD's rather than to watch them.
Based on this assumption, his opinions on the matter are totally reasonable and consistent. He just doesn't seem to want to consider the possibility that we might want to view them legally.
He seems to think that the only way to deal with rebroadcasting on the internet is to prevent it from happening.
If you think about this a bit further, you realise that the total viewing figures are actually increased, or at worst constant.
This means that if some countries TV stations lose out on revenue, it's because people are receiving it from another country, and increasing the audience figures for the other station. So simply charge more to the companies that are being rebroadcast, and less to those that are losing out based on the predicted number of people who would prefer to watch the superbowl on the internet.
He also doesn't seem to realise that it is easier to digitise an analogue video or analogue output from a DVD player than it is to use DeCSS to do so.
And while he seems to have talked with the Bill Gates, he doesn't seem to want to talk to the Linus Torvalds.
Okay, so clueless is kind of strong, but he doesn't really seem open to alternative viewpoints.
Electricity was considered an interesting but useless phenonemon for years. Give it time and a use will be found
When this happens, you will be able to say "I was part of that". This will finally give you the respect you deserve. Women will come flocking to you wanting to be yours. Rich businessmen will pay you lots of money for a few seconds of your valuable advice. Governments will set aside days to celebrate your amazing achievements. You will never have to work again. You will be revered as a God by even some of the most advanced civilisations.
I *BELIEVE* that french power is 220V AC, not 240. In fact, I'm NEXT to positive....
Yes, you're totally right. this link gives a selection of power supply types, and plug designs.
It also gives a distinct impression that the entire field of human endeavour has been to find as many ways as possible to transfer power from a wall to an electrical device.
Because our phone system is still controlled by a single megalomainiac company, we still have to pay for phone calls. The upside of this is that because local rate telephone service providers recieve a portion of the call charge, the ISP is free apart from the cost of a call. This means that you can pick up a free CD from just about anywhere and not even have to bother to phone up to cancel.
All ISP's cover the whole of the UK. Phone jacks are totally different, but it might just be a plug shape problem. you can buy converters, but these are prohibited for connection to the telephone network. (This doesn't mean you can't use them. Not quite sure what the legalities are). Not sure about ones that work in France. I don't think there are any trans-European ISP's.
TPM is just a popcorn movie. It has lots of space battles, races, chases, swordfights and so on.
On the whole it was enjoyable. So maybe it doesn't say anything about Human nature and the inner struggle of the human soul between good and evil that a lot of people think it does. I don't care. I can enjoy a movie based on just the action scenes. Some people don't, and thats perfectly reasonable too. If you don't, it doesn't make your opinion that it sucks the truth.
BTW, Krull wasn't the movie with Kevin Sorbo in - That was the similarly named Kull. Krull was one of the many Sci-fi/mystical flicks inspired by Star Wars. A kidnapped Princess in Castle type story.
As far as I can tell, Edison was as much a man of Science as Bill Gates was a pioneer of intuitive Graphical user interfaces.
Why don't we put his picture on a dollar bill?;)
Smiley noted, so sorry to be a bore, but banknotes only seem to feature national heroes. I wonder if Croatia uses his picture on their notes. (Interestingly, the Bank of England felt Michael Faraday had earned the honour of being on a £20 note. Tesla made about as great a contribution to science after all).
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Most TV tuner cards are capable of being used to view video tapes. This means that they can also record from tapes.
A few cards have software that detects copy protection and refuse to record, but most don't.
So it would be perfectly allowable to have an English description of the CSS algorithm, (or even a Hebrew translation). Does anyone have a detailed description of this?
Although I did hear that there was a precedent of a magazine being banned from publishing diagrams of an H bomb. Any truth in this?
Seems very odd considering that the only really difficult part of building one is getting the parts.
A lot if it is both non-OS and non-OS
Damn these acronyms!
Can these "emulators" render the graphics any better?
Yes. Unless I'm very much mistaken, the Playstation renders graphics at a higher than TV resolution and then reduces the size. Anyway, even if this is wrong, Bleem can go up to 800 x 600, so theres no reason that this can't.
Secondly, what's the deal with RedHat including more and more non-OS software on their CDs?
Quite simply the fact that there is some none open source software available.
I start work when I enter the building. Stop when I leave (Which means posting this counts as work).
I think the overtime, weekend work and suchlike is reserved mainly for management rather than Engineers. I will not work when I'm outside the office. Strangely enough, despite this attitude I've still got a job.
I read that you can see the great wall of China. You can also see lots of other things. It all depends how high you are of course. With a visual resolution of 30 arcseconds, this means that it should be visible at somewhere in the region of 100 miles (so is this "in space" or not?). Or have I got my maths totally wrong.
As it stands though, that code is illegal, it was produced illegally and it is intended for a purely illegal use. I for one won't defend it.
Much as I hate to respond to a long and thoughtful post by nitpicking the final statement, I must disagree here.
It was produced somewhere where it was perfectly legal to do so. While it may have illegal uses, it also has legal uses. In most countries this makes it legal.
And finally, using it for an illegal purpose is currently pointless. It costs too much in terms of storage space, and its ludicrous to suggest sending it over a network. Maybe it will make more sense in 5 years time when compression systems have improved and bandwidth has gone up.
we're supposed to hurt the MPAA by INVESTING in its member companies?
Yep. And you can hurt MicroSoft by buying its software and exposing as amny bugs as you can find.
Or if you happen to be MS, you can hurt Apple by buyng a chunk of its shares.
But thats not the point
We're not trying to hurt them though. Theres little we can do that will even bloody their nose. What we're trying to do a cajole them into accepting our views. At the moment we're being ignored.
Thats a stereotype. And while it is accurate in a lot of cases, some of us are professionals with vast quantities of cash being delivered by trucks.
The hacker community is vast. We only need a tiny fraction of these people to be able to do this.
Wine's DirectX support isn't really all that good though. It uses OpenGL for Direct3D which slows things down considerably. I don't think DirectDraw has much hardware acceleration support. Not sure about the rest of it
I'd quite like a compatibility library. DirectX isn't really that good, but it is quite fast, and everyone seems to insist on using it, and it would be nice if a few games could be ported directly.
people who talk about free trade always seem to want free trade when it's in their favour and protection when it isn't
Different definitions of free I'm afraid. To a (evil, communist ant-capitalistic etc.) person like you it means unrestrained. To a (benevolent open-minded generous etc.) organisation such as the MPAA, it means free as in Beer.
So what he is saying is that if the guys in Norway SOLD their software he'd have no beef with them. A bizarre idea as this would make pirate videos legal because the copier charges you.
No, he's saying that he wouldn't have a problem if we buy the disc. He doesn't seem to realise that thats what we want to do.
A better analogy would be that we should not have to pay for a ticket then be charged for a seat.
Well, there are some signs of lacking a clue. He seems to think that the purpose of DeCSS is to pirate DVD's rather than to watch them.
Based on this assumption, his opinions on the matter are totally reasonable and consistent. He just doesn't seem to want to consider the possibility that we might want to view them legally.
He seems to think that the only way to deal with rebroadcasting on the internet is to prevent it from happening.
If you think about this a bit further, you realise that the total viewing figures are actually increased, or at worst constant.
This means that if some countries TV stations lose out on revenue, it's because people are receiving it from another country, and increasing the audience figures for the other station. So simply charge more to the companies that are being rebroadcast, and less to those that are losing out based on the predicted number of people who would prefer to watch the superbowl on the internet.
He also doesn't seem to realise that it is easier to digitise an analogue video or analogue output from a DVD player than it is to use DeCSS to do so.
And while he seems to have talked with the Bill Gates, he doesn't seem to want to talk to the Linus Torvalds.
Okay, so clueless is kind of strong, but he doesn't really seem open to alternative viewpoints.
If the extinction of the dinosaurs didn't kill him, nothing will.
Electricity was considered an interesting but useless phenonemon for years. Give it time and a use will be found
When this happens, you will be able to say "I was part of that". This will finally give you the respect you deserve. Women will come flocking to you wanting to be yours. Rich businessmen will pay you lots of money for a few seconds of your valuable advice. Governments will set aside days to celebrate your amazing achievements. You will never have to work again. You will be revered as a God by even some of the most advanced civilisations.
Couldn't you just ask the bank to stop payment?
Or just keep repeating "No, I want to cancel my account." This just requires perseverence.
Or say that you disapprove of AOL's recent merger. not sure what the responce would be, anyone wat to find out?
I *BELIEVE* that french power is 220V AC, not 240. In fact, I'm NEXT to positive....
Yes, you're totally right. this link gives a selection of power supply types, and plug designs.
It also gives a distinct impression that the entire field of human endeavour has been to find as many ways as possible to transfer power from a wall to an electrical device.
Because our phone system is still controlled by a single megalomainiac company, we still have to pay for phone calls. The upside of this is that because local rate telephone service providers recieve a portion of the call charge, the ISP is free apart from the cost of a call. This means that you can pick up a free CD from just about anywhere and not even have to bother to phone up to cancel.
All ISP's cover the whole of the UK. Phone jacks are totally different, but it might just be a plug shape problem. you can buy converters, but these are prohibited for connection to the telephone network. (This doesn't mean you can't use them. Not quite sure what the legalities are). Not sure about ones that work in France. I don't think there are any trans-European ISP's.
Theught it was abeut minituarised Lego.
New, that weuld be kewl;)
TPM is just a popcorn movie. It has lots of space battles, races, chases, swordfights and so on.
On the whole it was enjoyable. So maybe it doesn't say anything about Human nature and the inner struggle of the human soul between good and evil that a lot of people think it does. I don't care. I can enjoy a movie based on just the action scenes. Some people don't, and thats perfectly reasonable too. If you don't, it doesn't make your opinion that it sucks the truth.
BTW, Krull wasn't the movie with Kevin Sorbo in - That was the similarly named Kull. Krull was one of the many Sci-fi/mystical flicks inspired by Star Wars. A kidnapped Princess in Castle type story.
So you haven't seen Plan 9 From Outer space?
Or how about Krull?
I'd have said Tesla was the Steve Wozniak. Or maybe someone else who Billbo Gates pinched ideas from.
Not that I have anything against pinching ideas, but pinching them then claiming you invented them is just wrong.
heroes like Edison
As far as I can tell, Edison was as much a man of Science as Bill Gates was a pioneer of intuitive Graphical user interfaces.
Why don't we put his picture on a dollar bill?;)
Smiley noted, so sorry to be a bore, but banknotes only seem to feature national heroes. I wonder if Croatia uses his picture on their notes. (Interestingly, the Bank of England felt Michael Faraday had earned the honour of being on a £20 note. Tesla made about as great a contribution to science after all).