Yeah, I hnave been watching the Olympics. The competition itself is far from a joke. I don't understand all these people crying about "amateur" atheletes, who cares if they are amateur or not? Their is hardly a point in having a world class competition but barring the top performers of the sport. The problem with barring professional athletes is that the best will not even care to compete if they are going to have to starve to do it, why should we limit a persons potential?
The coverage and broadcast on NBC, however are fairly bad. Mainly because of the commercials every 10 minutes. The personal athlete profiles are somewhat irritating as well.
Well, probably the only advantage I can think of is in sorting, caps come before small case, so you can sort your files based on case. This can be very handy when distributing files, you make important files that need to be looked at first in caps so they will be listed first when the user looks at the files.
I honestly do not think that anybody actually makes use of the case-sensitivity to create same named files. I don't see any use for that.
I believe the pgl is or was sponsored by Gateway at some point. Quakecon probably is or has been as well. Since the film crew will be at events sponsored by Gateway you will see a lot of Gateway boxes and banners.
Not sure on release time, probably fall/winter this year. But anyway, here is a preview to get you salivating. Unfortunately it is in Japanese, but there are plenty of pretty pictures and graphs. Or you can work through the rough translation. (If you are not using Mozilla, just ignore the XUL stuff it tries to download).
In the first place, DeCSS, as the refrain goes, isn't about copying (legal or otherwise) DVDs. Copying of
DVDs goes on with or without DeCSS. And as members of the Linux community have often argued,
DeCSS as a descrambling program, is essential in order to play legally purchased DVDs on platforms for
which DVD CCA licensed players are unavailable.
The DMCA gives the copyright holder a right to restrict access, thus DeCSS is illegal according to the DMCA. Is the DMCA right? hell no, which is why 2600 had to lose their case so that the DMCA could be challenged in the higher courts.
Section 1201(k) mandates that all analog VCR's must include Macrovision. However actually rereading this I am wondering if Macrovision removers will not be illegal (this is from the summary, not the actual bill so maybe this is wrong):
Section 1201 divides technological measures into two categories: measures that prevent unauthorized access to a copyrighted work and measures that prevent unauthorized copying2 of a copyrighted work. Making or selling devices or services that are used to circumvent either category of technological measure is prohibited in certain circumstances, described below. As to the act of circumvention in itself, the provision prohibits circumventing the first category of technological measures, but not the second.
This distinction was employed to assure that the public will have the continued ability to make fair use of copyrighted works. Since copying of a work may be a fair use under appropriate circumstances, section 1201 does not prohibit the act of circumventing a technological measure that prevents copying. By contrast, since the fair use doctrine is not a defense to the act of gaining unauthorized access to a work the act of circumventing a technological measure in order to gain access is prohibited.
The strange thing is that according to the above section DeCSS is not illegal when used to copy a DVD (for your own personal use, ie fair use), only to view it. so lets say you DeCSS a DVD, copy it to a DVD-R, then view it in a MPAA sanctioned player, are you breaking the law? doesn't look like it.
Anybody remember the kickass game Crossbows and Catapults? Same concept but it was all plastic, you get a bunch of plastic discs to fling at each others castles. A whole lot of fun, they had all kinds of silly addon weaponry like a battering ram (which would lay a huge path of destruction when it actually worked), a silly chip flinging dragon, catapult towers, and the super silly chip flinging giant and minotaur set.
I never realized that the judge said that the use of videotape would uphold our fair use rights. Unfortunately the judge apparently does not realize that most videotapes released today are protected with macrovision. They cannot be copied with modern VCRs without some sort of macrovision remover. The DMCA makes macrovision removers illegal.
The DMCA specifically outlaws any device whose purpose is to bypass encryption or other copyright devices (like macrovision). Hence this sort of mod would be illegal.
This may be a move in anticipation of the breakup to give the "Applications" company a wider market. No doubt they will add all kinds of stuff to it that will encourage connection to a MS server.
Crucial (Micron's memory division) is already selling DDR memory. The prices are only slightly higher than SDRAM. They only have PC1600 listed, 100MHz bus.
I rarely buy a CD from a small music store. Why? They are generally a big ripoff, why pay $3-$5 more for a CD? I buy my CD's online now or used. The only small music stores I go to are ones which sell used CDs or ones which sell bootlegs. I have not bought a new CD from a music store in 10+ years. Why pay more for the same thing?
According to this article the watermark is audible. I am not buying any music with an audible watermark, I might buy music with an inaudible watermark, but only if it is significantly better than the plain old CD I can buy now.
Uh, this is incredibly funny considering that episode two has about 5 minutes in a smoke filled room. And the smoke looks incredible, they did a great job with a lot of the CG effects in this.
Of course the bigger editing is done on Mewtio and her freinds, they are mermaids essentially, not Disney mermaids either.:)
Hate to break this to you, but Disney's teaser trailers never look like their typical fare. I remember seeing the Mulan teaser, thinking, wow that looks good, then being sorely disappointed. Don't get your hopes up.
Uhh, Princess Mononoke contains a decapitation and a couple of arms being torn off. Several other nice battle scenes too. Many dead bodies scattered throughout. Definately not Little Mermaid.
I have played Soldier of Fortune. I watched the North Hollywood shootout on TV live in all its gory detail. HUGE difference, hell there is not even a comparison, watching that nut get shot then bleed to death on the street was just disturbing (and then having to see it over and over on the news).
I don't even want to know what it is like to witness that sort of stuff first hand, let alone know the person getting killed, but I get a kick out of blowing up my budies over a LAN or taking them out on the paintball field.
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Yeah, I hnave been watching the Olympics. The competition itself is far from a joke. I don't understand all these people crying about "amateur" atheletes, who cares if they are amateur or not? Their is hardly a point in having a world class competition but barring the top performers of the sport. The problem with barring professional athletes is that the best will not even care to compete if they are going to have to starve to do it, why should we limit a persons potential?
The coverage and broadcast on NBC, however are fairly bad. Mainly because of the commercials every 10 minutes. The personal athlete profiles are somewhat irritating as well.
Well, probably the only advantage I can think of is in sorting, caps come before small case, so you can sort your files based on case. This can be very handy when distributing files, you make important files that need to be looked at first in caps so they will be listed first when the user looks at the files.
I honestly do not think that anybody actually makes use of the case-sensitivity to create same named files. I don't see any use for that.
This would honestly make a great TV show, if you got around the possible death, dismemberment, life inprisonment, etc problems. :)
I believe the pgl is or was sponsored by Gateway at some point. Quakecon probably is or has been as well. Since the film crew will be at events sponsored by Gateway you will see a lot of Gateway boxes and banners.
Not sure on release time, probably fall/winter this year. But anyway, here is a preview to get you salivating. Unfortunately it is in Japanese, but there are plenty of pretty pictures and graphs. Or you can work through the rough translation. (If you are not using Mozilla, just ignore the XUL stuff it tries to download).
In the first place, DeCSS, as the refrain goes, isn't about copying (legal or otherwise) DVDs. Copying of DVDs goes on with or without DeCSS. And as members of the Linux community have often argued, DeCSS as a descrambling program, is essential in order to play legally purchased DVDs on platforms for which DVD CCA licensed players are unavailable.
The DMCA gives the copyright holder a right to restrict access, thus DeCSS is illegal according to the DMCA. Is the DMCA right? hell no, which is why 2600 had to lose their case so that the DMCA could be challenged in the higher courts.
Section 1201(k) mandates that all analog VCR's must include Macrovision. However actually rereading this I am wondering if Macrovision removers will not be illegal (this is from the summary, not the actual bill so maybe this is wrong):
Section 1201 divides technological measures into two categories: measures that prevent unauthorized access to a copyrighted work and measures that prevent unauthorized copying2 of a copyrighted work. Making or selling devices or services that are used to circumvent either category of technological measure is prohibited in certain circumstances, described below. As to the act of circumvention in itself, the provision prohibits circumventing the first category of technological measures, but not the second.
This distinction was employed to assure that the public will have the continued ability to make fair use of copyrighted works. Since copying of a work may be a fair use under appropriate circumstances, section 1201 does not prohibit the act of circumventing a technological measure that prevents copying. By contrast, since the fair use doctrine is not a defense to the act of gaining unauthorized access to a work the act of circumventing a technological measure in order to gain access is prohibited.
The strange thing is that according to the above section DeCSS is not illegal when used to copy a DVD (for your own personal use, ie fair use), only to view it. so lets say you DeCSS a DVD, copy it to a DVD-R, then view it in a MPAA sanctioned player, are you breaking the law? doesn't look like it.
Anybody remember the kickass game Crossbows and Catapults? Same concept but it was all plastic, you get a bunch of plastic discs to fling at each others castles. A whole lot of fun, they had all kinds of silly addon weaponry like a battering ram (which would lay a huge path of destruction when it actually worked), a silly chip flinging dragon, catapult towers, and the super silly chip flinging giant and minotaur set.
:)
Ahh, the good old days.
I never realized that the judge said that the use of videotape would uphold our fair use rights. Unfortunately the judge apparently does not realize that most videotapes released today are protected with macrovision. They cannot be copied with modern VCRs without some sort of macrovision remover. The DMCA makes macrovision removers illegal.
The DMCA specifically outlaws any device whose purpose is to bypass encryption or other copyright devices (like macrovision). Hence this sort of mod would be illegal.
This may be a move in anticipation of the breakup to give the "Applications" company a wider market. No doubt they will add all kinds of stuff to it that will encourage connection to a MS server.
They are not using Redhat. They are using DVLinux. Redhat is just helping to develop DVLinux.
Crucial (Micron's memory division) is already selling DDR memory. The prices are only slightly higher than SDRAM. They only have PC1600 listed, 100MHz bus.
I rarely buy a CD from a small music store. Why? They are generally a big ripoff, why pay $3-$5 more for a CD? I buy my CD's online now or used. The only small music stores I go to are ones which sell used CDs or ones which sell bootlegs. I have not bought a new CD from a music store in 10+ years. Why pay more for the same thing?
Heh, yeah, what operating system do most of your country's citizens use? What cola do they drink?
Actually you get a printout of the code with your shirt, so you don't need a T-shirt scanner.
According to this article the watermark is audible. I am not buying any music with an audible watermark, I might buy music with an inaudible watermark, but only if it is significantly better than the plain old CD I can buy now.
Uh, this is incredibly funny considering that episode two has about 5 minutes in a smoke filled room. And the smoke looks incredible, they did a great job with a lot of the CG effects in this.
:)
Of course the bigger editing is done on Mewtio and her freinds, they are mermaids essentially, not Disney mermaids either.
Actually you can rename administrator and disable guest in NT 4.0
Hate to break this to you, but Disney's teaser trailers never look like their typical fare. I remember seeing the Mulan teaser, thinking, wow that looks good, then being sorely disappointed. Don't get your hopes up.
No, sorry, it was Titanic.
Hayao Miyazaki
Actually the most popular movie in Japan is Titanic. I think Mononoke was number 2.
Uhh, Princess Mononoke contains a decapitation and a couple of arms being torn off. Several other nice battle scenes too. Many dead bodies scattered throughout. Definately not Little Mermaid.
I have played Soldier of Fortune. I watched the North Hollywood shootout on TV live in all its gory detail. HUGE difference, hell there is not even a comparison, watching that nut get shot then bleed to death on the street was just disturbing (and then having to see it over and over on the news).
I don't even want to know what it is like to witness that sort of stuff first hand, let alone know the person getting killed, but I get a kick out of blowing up my budies over a LAN or taking them out on the paintball field.