Anything that appears on my computer screen I can copy -
Please explain how.
Hardware overlay ensures that the data is going directly to the videocard, and your OS can only grab a blue/green screen. If they disable non-overlay output (perfectly reasonable, since it would be too slow for playback), you're out of luck.
There would have to be some signal that "commercial starts here" and "commercial ends here," otherwise how would the DVR know when to disable fast forward?
That's quite simple... It sounds like they're talking about disabling fast forward ALWAYS for ABC channels. That means no skipping intros, boring parts of the show, etc, etc.
Personally, I'd LOVE to see this happen, provided they aren't trying to make it a law. Cable companies' DVRs get crippled with this nonsense, so people spend a little bit more for a Tivo, or perhaps DIY DVRs become vastly more popular. And as an added bonus, strong-arm networks like ABC gets less people watching, as they raise the PAIN factor. Any of the above would be a very positive result, IMHO.
Except for Rip Van Winkle, I don't think that a 19 year period of repair and adaption would really lend itself to survival.
You're thinking of it in completely the wrong way.
Human survival traits don't exist in a vacuum. There is no "19 year catastrophic brain-damage repair" gene. It's quite likely this is a system (or multiple systems) for repairing minor brain damage, and repairing catastrophic brain damage just happens to require a similar process.
Being able to heal after a doctor opens up your chest and removes a lung isn't a specific survival trait, either. It just happens that certain survival systems happen to work well at that (unnatural) job as well.
FreeDOS is the only way to flash a BIOS using Free Software.
How is the fact that FreeDOS is GPL'd possibly a benefit? You're running a closed program, to update the closed firmware, on your closed hardware.
DR-DOS is both free as in beer, and the source is freely available, though certainly not GPL-compatible (neither is qmail, but that hasn't stopped people from using it).
Any recommendations for a replacement method for BIOS flashing?
Yes, DR-DOS, as I already said in my previous post. Under FreeDOS, you're really taking the risk that your flashing app might crash, destroying your hardware.
Besides that, most hardware companies have stopped using DOS flashing programs (for good reason). Many of them are Win32 these days, so you absolutely NEED a WinPE/BartsPE CD or USB drive (or Windows on a 1GB hard drive, or similar).
You completely missed the point. It's not about what DOS has done in the past, it's about what it needs to do to become a useful and viable OS in the near future.
FreeDOS isn't some retro-programming experiment, trying to make old games work on old hardware. It's niche has been for Windows boot disks, and for use in dual-booting. But with 2000 and XP defaulting to NTFS, you'll see FreeDOS no longer working properly for either job, just as older OSes with only FAT16 support have gone away as well.
In the next few years, as Microsoft gets a clue, and it becomes easier for average people to create WinPE/BartsPE boot discs, DOS will become a distant memory... Just as distant as CP/M is now.
Does this mean that I can finally get my PC XT on the Internet?
If you have an 8-bit NIC, sure... If not, the TCP/IP stack won't do you any good, and you just need the old SLIP/PPP programs for DOS.
SSHv1, Telnet, FTP, etc. There's even BOBCAT for a lynx-like browser, except that it's somewhat painful on an XT, and crashes after every ~20 pages you visit (out of memory).
It was only a couple years ago I still had an old 286 up and working this way. Not for any good reasons, mind you, just for the hell of it.
Also, occasionally, use a network freedos floppy, but I'm annoyed at the lack of a "universal" ethernet driver - even if performance is slow - rather like the universal 640x480 video driver in windows.
It's just not possible to have a universal NIC driver. Videocards all impliment SVGA and VESA compatibility, but networks cards don't have any similar universal standard.
Still, probably a handful of different NIC drivers will handle 95% of ethernet cards you'll come across. Tulip, NE2000, RTL8139, SIS900, 3C905, etc.
Even if he's still going to make another few releases, FreeDOS is still dead.
MANY, MANY years into the project now, and yet compatibility with MS-DOS is in a rather sad state, the partitioning/formating programs create corrupt partitions that MS-DOS/Windows will choke on after a little bit or writing to. Many of the programs (Defrag?) still can't even handle FAT32, even though FAT32 has been around forever, and is largely obsolete now. What are the chances of FreeDOS 2.0 adding NTFS support?!
DR-DOS is still freely available, and a much better choice for boot floppies/CDs, as well as running old DOS programs (something like xmess will probably include 100% DOS compatibility before FreeDOS does).
DOS is too old and simple to be of any use in embedded apps as well. Projects like ELKS and ucLinux are far better options. It might be usable by companies' boot disks, but the limited compatibility might make licensing one of the many commercial DOS implimentations a cheaper and more reliable option.
The project is a zombie. It can continue walking on, but it's still long since dead, whether it knows it or not.
Yeah, e-ink may look nice, but not $800 nicer than a simple, low power, B&W LCD with a slow/old CPU that can easily, quickly decode PDFs and probably MP3s as well.
Seems like overkill in every sense of the word. When will we see finally a few dirt cheap ebook readers that (also) support DRM-free formats? Preferably with a mini keyboard for notes.
I like my Psion5 as much as anybody, but the screen just isn't big enough for reading a full book.
We already paid for those roads and we keep paying for them through income and gasoline taxes,
And besides the taxes paying for them, the private car drivers, and the commercial truck drivers are already paying their monthly fees to use the roads.
Net neutrality is about not allowing them to artificially slow down those paying customers, on those public roads, who refuse to pay EVEN MORE on top of that.
So you say. Even if true, it hardly changes the point. Your "points" are incredibly dishonest and biased.
but I'm a conservative stooge for pointing out that this problem has been with us for a long time but people like you want to blame Bush because you either have (1) no knowledge of history or (2) no intellectual honesty.
I blame Bush for what he has done. Seems pretty simple and straight forward. You want to give him a pass, and your reasoning for that is absolutely nonsense, based on blaming Clinton or some such.
As for Echelon being solely outside the US - how do you know that, seeing how the NSA has never admitted it's existence?
Since you apparently can't read, I'll re-post part of my last replay: "If there was any evidence they were ever spying inside the country (insane crackpots need not apply)..."
I especially find it amusing that you seem to think that it was okay for the US government to engage in the wholesale survellience of telecommunications as long as they were only monitoring foreigners.
I didn't say anything about it being okay or not. It is, however, LEGAL for them to do so. Meanwhile, spying inside the US is strictly illegal, and Bush has broken the law by doing so.
I realize you don't like facts, but you can't make up nonsense or rant on some other topic to refute them.
Instead of railing against Bush for using the tools at his disposal you should work on modifying those tools.
How is repeatedly breaking the law a case of "using the tools at his disposal"?
In fact, it's very much a case of using the tools that are NOT at his disposal. Unless you want to call dropping a nuclear bomb on New York also a case of "using the tools at his disposal".
As if these programs were instituted by der furher the day he was inaugurated.
I know, I know... The facts are liberal. Go turn on Fox News and keep away from nasty "facts".
The fact is this WAS first instituted right after Bush came to office. You can't deny that.
The truth is that these programs have been going on for years but none of you cared.
Right, nobody cared about Carnivore. In fact I've never heard that name before...
1. Carnivore first hit slashdot during the Clinton Administration.
And Carnivore was run by the NSA.... Tapped phones, not just internet links... and all without requiring any warrants, right... Right???
The legendary "Echelon" - the NSA program for monitoring all telecom traffic has been bandied about for many years
That should read "all telecom traffic OUTSIDE THE US". And, being outside the US it falls squarely within the authority of the NSA (domestic surveilance does not). If there was any evidence they were ever spying inside the country (insane crackpots need not apply), you'd have heard about it, and it would have been just as big of a deal as this is.
Does this apply to the CIA falsifying intelligence to secure a slice of the defence budget?
It wasn't the CIA. Cheney and Rumsfeld created an "intelligence" office in the pentagon to produce the answers they wanted to hear.
The CIA intelligence seems to have been fairly good, with it only being dismissed/corrupted when it got to the highest levels.
Cheney wanted information that linked Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein
But they weren't getting that information from the CIA. And so he put pressure, I think, on Rumsfeld and on the Pentagon to come up with their own estimates.
Inside the Pentagon bureaucracy, Rumsfeld could easily and quietly grow a nearly invisible operation.
They needed an office that would produce the intelligence that the CIA wouldn't produce. Rumsfeld said, "I can solve your problem," and he put Douglas Feith on that issue.
So they're going to do their own analysis. They're going to show what the CIA's been missing all along about the true relationship between Saddam and al Qaeda.
They needed people with experience in the world of intelligence, but they hired politically connected policy analysts.
Non-violent offenders such as this guy should not go to jail.
Right. The Enron guys too.
They should be held accountable for their actions through financial restitution.
I'm sure this guy will just pull the $3 million out of his ass, now that he can't work in his main profession any longer. How much does McDonalds pay?
It has been estimated that every drug offender imprisoned results in the early release of one violent criminal, who then commits an average of 40 robberies, 7 assaults, 110 burglaries and 25 auto thefts
Baseless biased facts without any context at all. How is a criminal comitting 40 robberies, 7 assaults, 110 burglaries, and 25 auto thefts in the 6 months or so they would otherwise have been in prison? In other words, this is baseless bullshit that makes Fox News look good.
Japan, which has such a system in place, is the only industrialized nation that has seen a consistent decrease in violent crime since World War II.
You haven't listed the other countries with similar systems in-place, that HAVEN'T seen such an improvement.
In any case, this isn't a one-size-fits-all world. The justice system necessarily varies from country to country, and culture to culture.
Why should criminals get a free ride at the further expense of their victims?
Jail is PUSHISMENT. It's a free ride in the same way that getting tied to a car bumper and dragged for miles is "a free ride".
During informal surveys, inmates claimed that they much preferred jail time, which they saw as 'time off,' than restitution, which they saw as 'work.
"Please don't throw me in the briar patch!"
Even if the victim can't be fully compensated, something is better than the nothing that they receive today.
Victims can start a civil case, and sue for restitiution, entirely seperately from the criminal case. And conviction on a criminal charge just about guarantees the civil case will be successful.
Having to pay back a minimal ammount of money isn't going to deter people from stealing millions. Quite the opposite, in fact. The rich hardly notice the fine, and the middle-class would get to maintain a nice cushy lifestyle, no worse than having a mortage.
Quoting from an unreliable source would be entirely your own fault.
I could set-up a website with all kinds of nonsense, that wouldn't making it appropritate for you to pass the buck.
But even with that said, the Wikipedia article on "PAL" appears to be perfectly accurate, and does not support your assertion at all. "768" does not appear in that entry at all, and the graphic at the very bottom of the page shows PAL resolution as 720x576.
So, I still don't know where you pulled that completely false info from. It certainly wasn't from Wikipedia's PAL article.
And I assume you still don't have any sources for flat HDTVs $1000+ more expensive than standard flat TVs.
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Please explain how.
Hardware overlay ensures that the data is going directly to the videocard, and your OS can only grab a blue/green screen. If they disable non-overlay output (perfectly reasonable, since it would be too slow for playback), you're out of luck.
CSS on DVDs took 3-4 years, and it would have been longer if not for some idiot leaving the key unencrypted in the player software.
In other words, don't hold your breath.
Fine, I'll start my own net... with blackjack... and hookers! In fact, forget the net and the blackjack!
(I'm only half-joking)
That's quite simple... It sounds like they're talking about disabling fast forward ALWAYS for ABC channels. That means no skipping intros, boring parts of the show, etc, etc.
Personally, I'd LOVE to see this happen, provided they aren't trying to make it a law. Cable companies' DVRs get crippled with this nonsense, so people spend a little bit more for a Tivo, or perhaps DIY DVRs become vastly more popular. And as an added bonus, strong-arm networks like ABC gets less people watching, as they raise the PAIN factor. Any of the above would be a very positive result, IMHO.
eBay is an aution house, not a department store.
They're not refusing to accept a certain type of payment, they're BANNING sellers and buyers from using this payment method by listing it AS A SCAM.
Your analogy couldn't be more wrong IF YOU TRIED.
You're thinking of it in completely the wrong way.
Human survival traits don't exist in a vacuum. There is no "19 year catastrophic brain-damage repair" gene. It's quite likely this is a system (or multiple systems) for repairing minor brain damage, and repairing catastrophic brain damage just happens to require a similar process.
Being able to heal after a doctor opens up your chest and removes a lung isn't a specific survival trait, either. It just happens that certain survival systems happen to work well at that (unnatural) job as well.
And Jay Leno drives around in his steam-powered, wood-fired car often... but steam cars are still dead.
How is the fact that FreeDOS is GPL'd possibly a benefit? You're running a closed program, to update the closed firmware, on your closed hardware.
DR-DOS is both free as in beer, and the source is freely available, though certainly not GPL-compatible (neither is qmail, but that hasn't stopped people from using it).
Yes, DR-DOS, as I already said in my previous post. Under FreeDOS, you're really taking the risk that your flashing app might crash, destroying your hardware.
Besides that, most hardware companies have stopped using DOS flashing programs (for good reason). Many of them are Win32 these days, so you absolutely NEED a WinPE/BartsPE CD or USB drive (or Windows on a 1GB hard drive, or similar).
You completely missed the point. It's not about what DOS has done in the past, it's about what it needs to do to become a useful and viable OS in the near future.
FreeDOS isn't some retro-programming experiment, trying to make old games work on old hardware. It's niche has been for Windows boot disks, and for use in dual-booting. But with 2000 and XP defaulting to NTFS, you'll see FreeDOS no longer working properly for either job, just as older OSes with only FAT16 support have gone away as well.
In the next few years, as Microsoft gets a clue, and it becomes easier for average people to create WinPE/BartsPE boot discs, DOS will become a distant memory... Just as distant as CP/M is now.
If you have an 8-bit NIC, sure... If not, the TCP/IP stack won't do you any good, and you just need the old SLIP/PPP programs for DOS.
SSHv1, Telnet, FTP, etc. There's even BOBCAT for a lynx-like browser, except that it's somewhat painful on an XT, and crashes after every ~20 pages you visit (out of memory).
It was only a couple years ago I still had an old 286 up and working this way. Not for any good reasons, mind you, just for the hell of it.
It's just not possible to have a universal NIC driver. Videocards all impliment SVGA and VESA compatibility, but networks cards don't have any similar universal standard.
Still, probably a handful of different NIC drivers will handle 95% of ethernet cards you'll come across. Tulip, NE2000, RTL8139, SIS900, 3C905, etc.
Even if he's still going to make another few releases, FreeDOS is still dead.
MANY, MANY years into the project now, and yet compatibility with MS-DOS is in a rather sad state, the partitioning/formating programs create corrupt partitions that MS-DOS/Windows will choke on after a little bit or writing to. Many of the programs (Defrag?) still can't even handle FAT32, even though FAT32 has been around forever, and is largely obsolete now. What are the chances of FreeDOS 2.0 adding NTFS support?!
DR-DOS is still freely available, and a much better choice for boot floppies/CDs, as well as running old DOS programs (something like xmess will probably include 100% DOS compatibility before FreeDOS does).
DOS is too old and simple to be of any use in embedded apps as well. Projects like ELKS and ucLinux are far better options. It might be usable by companies' boot disks, but the limited compatibility might make licensing one of the many commercial DOS implimentations a cheaper and more reliable option.
The project is a zombie. It can continue walking on, but it's still long since dead, whether it knows it or not.
Yeah, e-ink may look nice, but not $800 nicer than a simple, low power, B&W LCD with a slow/old CPU that can easily, quickly decode PDFs and probably MP3s as well.
Seems like overkill in every sense of the word. When will we see finally a few dirt cheap ebook readers that (also) support DRM-free formats? Preferably with a mini keyboard for notes.
I like my Psion5 as much as anybody, but the screen just isn't big enough for reading a full book.
And besides the taxes paying for them, the private car drivers, and the commercial truck drivers are already paying their monthly fees to use the roads.
Net neutrality is about not allowing them to artificially slow down those paying customers, on those public roads, who refuse to pay EVEN MORE on top of that.
So you say. Even if true, it hardly changes the point. Your "points" are incredibly dishonest and biased.
I blame Bush for what he has done. Seems pretty simple and straight forward. You want to give him a pass, and your reasoning for that is absolutely nonsense, based on blaming Clinton or some such.
Since you apparently can't read, I'll re-post part of my last replay: "If there was any evidence they were ever spying inside the country (insane crackpots need not apply)..."
I didn't say anything about it being okay or not. It is, however, LEGAL for them to do so. Meanwhile, spying inside the US is strictly illegal, and Bush has broken the law by doing so.
I realize you don't like facts, but you can't make up nonsense or rant on some other topic to refute them.
How is repeatedly breaking the law a case of "using the tools at his disposal"?
In fact, it's very much a case of using the tools that are NOT at his disposal. Unless you want to call dropping a nuclear bomb on New York also a case of "using the tools at his disposal".
I know, I know... The facts are liberal. Go turn on Fox News and keep away from nasty "facts".
The fact is this WAS first instituted right after Bush came to office. You can't deny that.
Right, nobody cared about Carnivore. In fact I've never heard that name before...
And Carnivore was run by the NSA.... Tapped phones, not just internet links... and all without requiring any warrants, right... Right???
That should read "all telecom traffic OUTSIDE THE US". And, being outside the US it falls squarely within the authority of the NSA (domestic surveilance does not). If there was any evidence they were ever spying inside the country (insane crackpots need not apply), you'd have heard about it, and it would have been just as big of a deal as this is.
Of course. Slashdot started in 97 (back when Corel was relevant), and the icons haven't changed since.
This is anything but a troll. It's entirely factually accurate.
They need to maintain that ON SCHOOL GROUNDS. Outside of school grounds, you can be as disrespectful and undiciplined as you want.
And even on school grounds, you do NOT lose your rights to freedom of speech, and cannot be compelled to stop critizing school officials.
If you want to criticize the government, just make sure they don't find out.
It wasn't the CIA. Cheney and Rumsfeld created an "intelligence" office in the pentagon to produce the answers they wanted to hear.
The CIA intelligence seems to have been fairly good, with it only being dismissed/corrupted when it got to the highest levels.
Right. The Enron guys too.
I'm sure this guy will just pull the $3 million out of his ass, now that he can't work in his main profession any longer. How much does McDonalds pay?
Baseless biased facts without any context at all. How is a criminal comitting 40 robberies, 7 assaults, 110 burglaries, and 25 auto thefts in the 6 months or so they would otherwise have been in prison? In other words, this is baseless bullshit that makes Fox News look good.
You haven't listed the other countries with similar systems in-place, that HAVEN'T seen such an improvement.
In any case, this isn't a one-size-fits-all world. The justice system necessarily varies from country to country, and culture to culture.
Jail is PUSHISMENT. It's a free ride in the same way that getting tied to a car bumper and dragged for miles is "a free ride".
"Please don't throw me in the briar patch!"
Victims can start a civil case, and sue for restitiution, entirely seperately from the criminal case. And conviction on a criminal charge just about guarantees the civil case will be successful.
Having to pay back a minimal ammount of money isn't going to deter people from stealing millions. Quite the opposite, in fact. The rich hardly notice the fine, and the middle-class would get to maintain a nice cushy lifestyle, no worse than having a mortage.
Quoting from an unreliable source would be entirely your own fault.
I could set-up a website with all kinds of nonsense, that wouldn't making it appropritate for you to pass the buck.
But even with that said, the Wikipedia article on "PAL" appears to be perfectly accurate, and does not support your assertion at all. "768" does not appear in that entry at all, and the graphic at the very bottom of the page shows PAL resolution as 720x576.
So, I still don't know where you pulled that completely false info from. It certainly wasn't from Wikipedia's PAL article.
And I assume you still don't have any sources for flat HDTVs $1000+ more expensive than standard flat TVs.
That's not PAL resolution. TVs don't have square pixels.
"Do not exist" != "No Benefit"
and more importantly:
"Talking out of ass" != "Making a point"
That's new. You just said I was wrong about flat-screens, so I asked you to prove it. I assume this means you can't.