Yes, time slows down, when you compare what you experienced to what the outside world experienced. You would only notice the change in time if you were able to exit the black hole, and check out the universe. You'd notice time passed a lot for them, but little for you. In short, you'd still be dead quickly, even though to people on mars it would appear to be an eternity.
Not to mention, if the k7 turns out to be all that it's being proclaimed to be, someone with more money would surely buy them out. If intel can produce better chips for less money, go them. At the moment it looks like intel is going to produce slower chips at a slightly lower price. AMD could be in a possition to snag the server market.
After reading the patent (well scanning really) it seems to me the only thing that would fall under this patent is a notebook w/ a sound card, or a palmtop w/ a sound card. Things like the rio have neither a hard drive or a keyboard. And if it really does cover all types of portable digital audio players then a sony minidisc player would definately qualify as prior art. It's portable, it's digital, and it's compressed.
It's really quite simple. People tell us that they are bad, so they are. Don't argue or think about it. Thinking on your own is bad, you should be another member of the herd. Who really gives a crap? They are words, that's it words. Watch south park and you'll understand. "Graffic deplorable violence is ok, as long as you don't use dirty words." And think about it, that's really the way it is in society. You can see two people having sex on tv, but you can't say they're "fucking." You can have someone brutually murder someone else, but the victim best not yell "shit!"
Besides, anymore you don't have to watch out for fuck and shit, but niggar or gook. I'm not saying I support racial slurs or racism, quite the opposite. But why do we now have an "N-word"? People in the US are way to concerned with what people do rather than what they say. But I guess as long as we keep teaching children that it's ok to murder, you just can't cuss while you do it, america will be the happiest country on the planet.
They're just words people, they don't hurt anyone, unless you're sadam huisaine(i know that's no where near right), then you better watch out.
I think a closed source compiler is fine, provided it is 100% source compatible with gcc. Ie, you write a program in bcc for linux, then release the source, i can now download it and compile it in gcc. Maybe it won't run quite so fast, but it will still run. What use is a GPL'd program if you need a proprietary compiler to compile it?
You don't even need a sound card to rip the "protected" formats. Just write a dummy sound card driver that does nothing but redirect the output to a file. Digital copy, no D/A conversion. Copy protection in general doesn't work. Even when companies were doing interesting copy protection on computers it didn't work.
fine just add the mp3 header to/etc/magic. then delete all files that have an mp3 header. It's not that difficult of a concept. Yet another dumb pattent
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Go to the site and click on Punk O Rama 4. They want 4.99 for the entire album. IIRC the cd costs $3.99 (unless the price has gone up from punk o rama 3, i really haven't checked). The point is production costs are $0.00, atleast for a cd it costs them something like $1 to produce. They should want less money for the mp3s, not the same ammount. And even $8.99 isn't that great of a price. From what I've heard thats about the same that they sell cds to record stores for. So if this works for them they will make more money (again, $0 production cost). It's nice to see that they are still screwing the customer.
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Ok, your statement is just plain wrong. For once microsoft is actually being honest. BO2K is not about security problems with NT. The same thing is possible under linux, look at vnc, it does esentially this, except it doesn't try to hide the fact from you.
Also, NT doesn't run everything as "root" and it does have memory protection. Actually NT has a better security model than linux (ACLs vs, uid/gid and the lack of setuid (although i consider that a bad thing)). From what I understand that will be changing, but for the moment it's true.
What always amuses me is companies will garantee 99.9% uptime which sounds good, till you think about it. there are 86400 seconds in a day. 0.1% of that is 86.4seconds. So you figure, if your box takes less than 86.4 seconds to reboot after a crash (my machine at work takes about a minute), then the computer can crash once a day and still meet the 99.9% uptime requirement. Even NT can do that.
Probally more, 30million is not just the kernel but EVERYTHING, including calc.exe, explorer.exe, sol.exe, everything. If you take the kernel + X + libc + gcc + apache + whatever other software you use, it could be well more than 30 million lines of code. Then again I could be wrong, I never bothered to count.
It's funny that KDE didn't exist until recently. I guess I was using something else two and a half years ago when I first started using KDE. Silly me. Also, their description of a journalling file system (not journal filing system) wasn't all that great, but the guy writes stock market articles, so what can you expect.
I actually have noticed problems w/ the serial module. Specifically my mouse stopped working. Are you using windows? did you reboot after installing the module?
hpfs did something like this too. It stored the directory structure and other fun things that needed to be read often in the middle of the disk, which could reduce seek time by up to 50%. I've always kinda wondered why e2fs doesn't do something similar.
why bother? cds aren't going anywhere anytime soon. i think dvds aren't expected to completely overtake vhs for another 15 to 20 years. these things take a really long time, i'm hoping in 20 years that the riaa doesn't even exist anymore. actually i hope the riaa dumps a fortune into sdmi, and that it fails, and then they go away.
By that same logic, the linux kernel is equal to the size of/vmlinuz + `find / -follow -name "*.so"`. I'm not even going to attempt to figure out how huge that would be. The nt kernel itself is quite small I think. It should be atleast as it's a microkernel. Also, small is not always equal to good. The MS-DOS "kernel" is something like 10k. It's a peice of crap though.
The data on the dvd is scrambled. I don't know for a fact, but what i'm assuming they do is encode all of the data, including the all that low-level stuff like ECC. That way when the dvd-rom tries to read the data it gets an error. This will prevent you from copying that data on to your hard drive, but will not prevent a serious bootlegger from accessing the data.
I really can't imagine that the system is 100% secure. Which kinda makes me wonder, when you buy a dvd you aren't agreeing to any licensing terms, right? So if you bought a dvd and were able to say, read the encoded mpeg header from a secure file on the disc and figured out what would need to be done to translate it to the unencoded version, that would be legal. Too bad I have no idea how to go about doing this.
Why can't someone just get a license for CSS, sign the NDA, and release a closed source libcss that will allow CSS decryption? If an individual can't do this, i think it would be a good way for creative to gain a great deal of respect. Then again, i doubt it would take that much work to reverse engineer / abuse this type of system. The whole copy protection thing is dumb anyway, serious bootleggers will get around it, in the end it only hurts the consumers, and to a lesser extent the industry itself. How many of you slashdot folks would own a dvd-rom right now if you could watch dvds under linux?
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I think the problem is that the CSS decryption is done in software. The rest is done in hardware. I know the dxr2 does CSS in hardware, which is why I really don't understand the legal issues.
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Can it also do CDRs? I'm in the market for a new cdr, i would rather get a dvd-r for the storage, but i need the ability to write standard cds.
the game thing is obviously done without any harmful intent towards the customers. why would you intentionally limit your customer base? besides most people run win nt on servers (i wish i knew why though), or in work environments. the average home user runs win9x where the games run fine.
IIRC the machine code for the "error message" was encrypted and took a great deal of effort to decifer. Now maybe it's just me, but that seems like an awful lot of work to go through just to make sure that people knew that there could be unknown incompatabilities between the two products.
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Yes, time slows down, when you compare what you experienced to what the outside world experienced. You would only notice the change in time if you were able to exit the black hole, and check out the universe. You'd notice time passed a lot for them, but little for you. In short, you'd still be dead quickly, even though to people on mars it would appear to be an eternity.
Not to mention, if the k7 turns out to be all that it's being proclaimed to be, someone with more money would surely buy them out. If intel can produce better chips for less money, go them. At the moment it looks like intel is going to produce slower chips at a slightly lower price. AMD could be in a possition to snag the server market.
I thought pirating could cost you in the 100s of thousands of dollars. I'd say that's worth speaking of.
After reading the patent (well scanning really) it seems to me the only thing that would fall under this patent is a notebook w/ a sound card, or a palmtop w/ a sound card. Things like the rio have neither a hard drive or a keyboard. And if it really does cover all types of portable digital audio players then a sony minidisc player would definately qualify as prior art. It's portable, it's digital, and it's compressed.
It's really quite simple. People tell us that they are bad, so they are. Don't argue or think about it. Thinking on your own is bad, you should be another member of the herd. Who really gives a crap? They are words, that's it words. Watch south park and you'll understand. "Graffic deplorable violence is ok, as long as you don't use dirty words." And think about it, that's really the way it is in society. You can see two people having sex on tv, but you can't say they're "fucking." You can have someone brutually murder someone else, but the victim best not yell "shit!"
Besides, anymore you don't have to watch out for fuck and shit, but niggar or gook. I'm not saying I support racial slurs or racism, quite the opposite. But why do we now have an "N-word"? People in the US are way to concerned with what people do rather than what they say. But I guess as long as we keep teaching children that it's ok to murder, you just can't cuss while you do it, america will be the happiest country on the planet.
They're just words people, they don't hurt anyone, unless you're sadam huisaine(i know that's no where near right), then you better watch out.
I think a closed source compiler is fine, provided it is 100% source compatible with gcc. Ie, you write a program in bcc for linux, then release the source, i can now download it and compile it in gcc. Maybe it won't run quite so fast, but it will still run. What use is a GPL'd program if you need a proprietary compiler to compile it?
You don't even need a sound card to rip the "protected" formats. Just write a dummy sound card driver that does nothing but redirect the output to a file. Digital copy, no D/A conversion. Copy protection in general doesn't work. Even when companies were doing interesting copy protection on computers it didn't work.
fine just add the mp3 header to /etc/magic. then delete all files that have an mp3 header. It's not that difficult of a concept. Yet another dumb pattent
Go to the site and click on Punk O Rama 4. They want 4.99 for the entire album. IIRC the cd costs $3.99 (unless the price has gone up from punk o rama 3, i really haven't checked). The point is production costs are $0.00, atleast for a cd it costs them something like $1 to produce. They should want less money for the mp3s, not the same ammount. And even $8.99 isn't that great of a price. From what I've heard thats about the same that they sell cds to record stores for. So if this works for them they will make more money (again, $0 production cost). It's nice to see that they are still screwing the customer.
Ok, your statement is just plain wrong. For once microsoft is actually being honest. BO2K is not about security problems with NT. The same thing is possible under linux, look at vnc, it does esentially this, except it doesn't try to hide the fact from you.
Also, NT doesn't run everything as "root" and it does have memory protection. Actually NT has a better security model than linux (ACLs vs, uid/gid and the lack of setuid (although i consider that a bad thing)). From what I understand that will be changing, but for the moment it's true.
What always amuses me is companies will garantee 99.9% uptime which sounds good, till you think about it. there are 86400 seconds in a day. 0.1% of that is 86.4seconds. So you figure, if your box takes less than 86.4 seconds to reboot after a crash (my machine at work takes about a minute), then the computer can crash once a day and still meet the 99.9% uptime requirement. Even NT can do that.
I thought Xeons/ppros supported a max of 4 cpus. Do the 4+ systems have some really funky chipsets?
Probally more, 30million is not just the kernel but EVERYTHING, including calc.exe, explorer.exe, sol.exe, everything. If you take the kernel + X + libc + gcc + apache + whatever other software you use, it could be well more than 30 million lines of code. Then again I could be wrong, I never bothered to count.
It's funny that KDE didn't exist until recently. I guess I was using something else two and a half years ago when I first started using KDE. Silly me. Also, their description of a journalling file system (not journal filing system) wasn't all that great, but the guy writes stock market articles, so what can you expect.
or use mtvp (which comes w/ mtv) it lets you play the entire thing w/ audio, but it has no controlls, it just plays straight through.
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I actually have noticed problems w/ the serial module. Specifically my mouse stopped working. Are you using windows? did you reboot after installing the module?
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hpfs did something like this too. It stored the directory structure and other fun things that needed to be read often in the middle of the disk, which could reduce seek time by up to 50%. I've always kinda wondered why e2fs doesn't do something similar.
why bother? cds aren't going anywhere anytime soon. i think dvds aren't expected to completely overtake vhs for another 15 to 20 years. these things take a really long time, i'm hoping in 20 years that the riaa doesn't even exist anymore. actually i hope the riaa dumps a fortune into sdmi, and that it fails, and then they go away.
By that same logic, the linux kernel is equal to the size of /vmlinuz + `find / -follow -name "*.so"`. I'm not even going to attempt to figure out how huge that would be. The nt kernel itself is quite small I think. It should be atleast as it's a microkernel. Also, small is not always equal to good. The MS-DOS "kernel" is something like 10k. It's a peice of crap though.
The data on the dvd is scrambled. I don't know for a fact, but what i'm assuming they do is encode all of the data, including the all that low-level stuff like ECC. That way when the dvd-rom tries to read the data it gets an error. This will prevent you from copying that data on to your hard drive, but will not prevent a serious bootlegger from accessing the data.
I really can't imagine that the system is 100% secure. Which kinda makes me wonder, when you buy a dvd you aren't agreeing to any licensing terms, right? So if you bought a dvd and were able to say, read the encoded mpeg header from a secure file on the disc and figured out what would need to be done to translate it to the unencoded version, that would be legal. Too bad I have no idea how to go about doing this.
Why can't someone just get a license for CSS, sign the NDA, and release a closed source libcss that will allow CSS decryption? If an individual can't do this, i think it would be a good way for creative to gain a great deal of respect. Then again, i doubt it would take that much work to reverse engineer / abuse this type of system. The whole copy protection thing is dumb anyway, serious bootleggers will get around it, in the end it only hurts the consumers, and to a lesser extent the industry itself. How many of you slashdot folks would own a dvd-rom right now if you could watch dvds under linux?
I think the problem is that the CSS decryption is done in software. The rest is done in hardware. I know the dxr2 does CSS in hardware, which is why I really don't understand the legal issues.
Can it also do CDRs? I'm in the market for a new cdr, i would rather get a dvd-r for the storage, but i need the ability to write standard cds.
the game thing is obviously done without any harmful intent towards the customers. why would you intentionally limit your customer base? besides most people run win nt on servers (i wish i knew why though), or in work environments. the average home user runs win9x where the games run fine.
IIRC the machine code for the "error message" was encrypted and took a great deal of effort to decifer. Now maybe it's just me, but that seems like an awful lot of work to go through just to make sure that people knew that there could be unknown incompatabilities between the two products.