I'm sure the reason was to make it harder for others to use the same hack to play copied games.
Remember, they've already gone out of their way to stress it's use for a legitimate purpose (running Linux) and not for piracy. This is just one more example of that. It shows a good faith effort by the authors to insure the hack can't as easily be exploited for other purposes.
4 or more days a night! Darn, These "Joes" you speak of have some mighty amazing viewing skills! Why just the atemporality of it alone is astonishing. I have enough trouble just cramming 24 hours into a whole day.
One consistent truth I seen in anything technology related over the years is *never* buy something because it will be useful "in the future". Inevitably by the time the "future" rolls around those same features will be a lot cheaper to purchase. To make things worse, the actual requirements often change in unexpected ways making your fancy card obsolete even before the special features become popular. In the end, all you get for being an early adopter is some minor bragging rights and a much thinner pocketbook.
Actually the thing about bit torrent is it's *centralized* and not ideal for piracy. Torrents must be hosted and so must the tracker. Pirate torrents are about the same as hosting the file on a website and you don't see them trying to make HTTP illegal.
All the copyright owners need do is notify or shut down those hosting the site or tracker. Yes it may start up again somewhere else, but that's also true of a web or FTP site. BitTorrent is just a file transfer protocol designed to distribute large file without needing massive servers. In many ways it's still *intentionally* just as centralized as traditional methods.
"Bebop" is also the name of their ship so it does fit pretty well.
The name seemed strange to me at first too, but many animes seem to have odd, disjointed English titles (like "Tiny snow fairy sugar", "GetBackers", "KiddyGrade", "UFO Princess Walküre", and so on). While not really "wrong", they do just scan strangely.
Old Japanese video games were even more prone to this: take "Donkey Kong" for instance. When it first came out, I remember thinking how oddly Japanese it sounded, but now it's so familiar it seems perfectly normal.
Actually this sort of government protection (DMCA related or otherwise) isn't really part of the capitalist model. That should allow for a fair playing field where companies compete based on price and merit of their products. Not corporate oligarchies that can buy laws to squash compitition and prop-up flagging business models.
Or... it could been the director's decision to film almost the entire thing as a 45 degree angle.
Rodger Ebert said it best: "The director, Roger Christian, has learned from better films that directors sometimes tilt their cameras, but he has not learned why."
Honestly, I doubt crooks remarking processors are exactly up to writing a custom BIOS or designing motherboard chipsets to hide the fact - especially considering buyer may get the motherboard from somewhere else altogether. The point of a CPU reporting it's proper speed wouldn't be to prevent overclocking - just to prevent a processor from being sold as something it's not.
Processors already report all kind of other stats, and yes, the BIOS and chipset vendors already have to customize things for every significant CPU change Intel makes. Adding another stat to report wouldn't be a big deal.
As for cost, a simple speed indicator could sure be a lot cheaper than the timing device Intel describes in the patent. It's clear the only reason they want this is to stamp out any overclockers still left, or, as I suspect, it may be just some old ideas developed back when overclocking was a big deal. Honestly, I doubt it's even worth implementing it now that clock speed alone is becoming less and less of a factor.
If they don't care then why go to all the trouble of the anti-overclocking in the first place? It's not like you have a bunch of suits overclocking the company PCs just so they can get a few extra FPS on their latest power point presentations.
To stop people from selling re-labeled processors some say. Well, instead of locking it, why not just add a way for the processor to report it's intended speed? That alone would be enough to thwart the crooks (plus the current anti-OC on pentiums already does a fair job of that too).
Really, fast CPUs are so cheap anymore I don't understand why anyone even bothers overclocking them. Those returns have been diminishing for quite some time.
It's always been the "native resolution" thing that I never liked about LCD screens. Sure, they look great at the specific resolutions they were designed for, but at anything else you'll often get ugly, uneven line doubling in places. Of course you can absolutely forget stuff like the tweaked video modes MAME uses for hardware scanline effects.
I guess it's inevitable with the fixed grid of pixels LCDs use. A CRT's resolution is more or less dynamic.
Hm, you could just look at a weather map to see when a particular area is having violent thunderstorms. I'd suspect that might just raise the odds of a memeory error from a power spike or EM noise.
Heh, yeah the original Lupin was more of a ass was't he.;-) Maybe truly unsympathetic characters are the one thing Miyazaki can't do all that well. Even his villains usually wind up having some redeeming qualities.
Keep in mind this was before Miyazaki had studio Ghibli and was such a big name. As director working on someone else's already well-known creation, he was probably limited in what story elements he could bring to it. Not the best of Miyazaki perhaps, but still it's probably the best of all the Lupin movies.
I discovered it very early on by just trying different combinations out. For the longest time I had no idea what to use it for though - it made a doo-dad that looked a bit like a PizzaHut table candle when set on the ground, but other than that seemed perfectly useless. I'd create dozens of them just to use as markers.
I also found a legit way (no cheating) to get the staff without closing off the bottom two levels of the dungeon, and I've never seen the trick mentioned anywhere.
The Shuttle really isn't the beast we can do now days, but NASA has been so heavily invested in the program better solutions haven't been looked into as much as they might have been. Even if this is the death-knell for the shuttle program, perhaps in the long run it may be the event that spurs NASA to develop something better.
Well, the foam hit was something they knew about and perhaps could have at least tried to take some sort of action on. May not of helped in the end, but if the analysis was really botched by Boeing, NASA could be criticized for relying in it too much and doing nothing.
On the other hand, something like a random hit of space junk on re-etry would be something they'd have no way to avoid at all - just very bad luck.
It's not too hard to see why NASA would perfer it to be something like the second case.
I've also noticed even when it does work, CDRs made this way read many, many times slower than a normal CDR and seem to cause readers to spin up and down like crazy. I think it's just that CD drives don't handle file fragmentation and random seeking very well - I've even seen it overheat cheaper high speed CD readers.
Really it seems like kind of a waste as it reduces the total space available too. I remember thinking how huge CDs were when I bought my first recorder, but any more they seem tiny. I don't even do multi-session much anymore - mostly I just burn a full CDR at a time in DAO mode.
Actually that's not in dispute, Drake did land there and is said to have left such a plaque. The group knew the prof. was looking for it so, as the article says, they just decided to "help" him find it.:-)
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Why... why... that's copyrighted material!!! My GOD man, have you no respect for IP laws!
Seriously, how long before the lawsuit start coming out of the coatrack eh?
I'm sure the reason was to make it harder for others to use the same hack to play copied games.
Remember, they've already gone out of their way to stress it's use for a legitimate purpose (running Linux) and not for piracy. This is just one more example of that. It shows a good faith effort by the authors to insure the hack can't as easily be exploited for other purposes.
4 or more days a night! Darn, These "Joes" you speak of have some mighty amazing viewing skills! Why just the atemporality of it alone is astonishing. I have enough trouble just cramming 24 hours into a whole day.
One consistent truth I seen in anything technology related over the years is *never* buy something because it will be useful "in the future". Inevitably by the time the "future" rolls around those same features will be a lot cheaper to purchase. To make things worse, the actual requirements often change in unexpected ways making your fancy card obsolete even before the special features become popular. In the end, all you get for being an early adopter is some minor bragging rights and a much thinner pocketbook.
Actually the thing about bit torrent is it's *centralized* and not ideal for piracy. Torrents must be hosted and so must the tracker. Pirate torrents are about the same as hosting the file on a website and you don't see them trying to make HTTP illegal.
All the copyright owners need do is notify or shut down those hosting the site or tracker. Yes it may start up again somewhere else, but that's also true of a web or FTP site. BitTorrent is just a file transfer protocol designed to distribute large file without needing massive servers. In many ways it's still *intentionally* just as centralized as traditional methods.
I guess blind people will just have to give up on using email then? Sounds like an ADA lawsuit in the making.
DirectX is COM based, so yes - most windows games heavily use COM.
Um, actually he's not using globals. The @_ array is local to the subroutine and contains any parameters passed to it.
"Bebop" is also the name of their ship so it does fit pretty well.
The name seemed strange to me at first too, but many animes seem to have odd, disjointed English titles (like "Tiny snow fairy sugar", "GetBackers", "KiddyGrade", "UFO Princess Walküre", and so on). While not really "wrong", they do just scan strangely.
Old Japanese video games were even more prone to this: take "Donkey Kong" for instance. When it first came out, I remember thinking how oddly Japanese it sounded, but now it's so familiar it seems perfectly normal.
Actually this sort of government protection (DMCA related or otherwise) isn't really part of the capitalist model. That should allow for a fair playing field where companies compete based on price and merit of their products. Not corporate oligarchies that can buy laws to squash compitition and prop-up flagging business models.
Or... it could been the director's decision to film almost the entire thing as a 45 degree angle.
Rodger Ebert said it best: "The director, Roger Christian, has learned from better films that directors sometimes tilt their cameras, but he has not learned why."
Honestly, I doubt crooks remarking processors are exactly up to writing a custom BIOS or designing motherboard chipsets to hide the fact - especially considering buyer may get the motherboard from somewhere else altogether. The point of a CPU reporting it's proper speed wouldn't be to prevent overclocking - just to prevent a processor from being sold as something it's not.
Processors already report all kind of other stats, and yes, the BIOS and chipset vendors already have to customize things for every significant CPU change Intel makes. Adding another stat to report wouldn't be a big deal.
As for cost, a simple speed indicator could sure be a lot cheaper than the timing device Intel describes in the patent. It's clear the only reason they want this is to stamp out any overclockers still left, or, as I suspect, it may be just some old ideas developed back when overclocking was a big deal. Honestly, I doubt it's even worth implementing it now that clock speed alone is becoming less and less of a factor.
If they don't care then why go to all the trouble of the anti-overclocking in the first place? It's not like you have a bunch of suits overclocking the company PCs just so they can get a few extra FPS on their latest power point presentations.
To stop people from selling re-labeled processors some say. Well, instead of locking it, why not just add a way for the processor to report it's intended speed? That alone would be enough to thwart the crooks (plus the current anti-OC on pentiums already does a fair job of that too).
Really, fast CPUs are so cheap anymore I don't understand why anyone even bothers overclocking them. Those returns have been diminishing for quite some time.
Ack! Please please, don't give them the idea that we think a return to segmented memory would be nice. :-)
Hmm, by that logic you're saying the Germans were right to support Hitler after he invaded Poland?
Regardless of how you feel about this war, if you feel your government is doing wrong, it's your patriotic duty as a citizen to protest.
It's always been the "native resolution" thing that I never liked about LCD screens. Sure, they look great at the specific resolutions they were designed for, but at anything else you'll often get ugly, uneven line doubling in places. Of course you can absolutely forget stuff like the tweaked video modes MAME uses for hardware scanline effects.
I guess it's inevitable with the fixed grid of pixels LCDs use. A CRT's resolution is more or less dynamic.
Hm, you could just look at a weather map to see when a particular area is having violent thunderstorms. I'd suspect that might just raise the odds of a memeory error from a power spike or EM noise.
Heh, yeah the original Lupin was more of a ass was't he. ;-) Maybe truly unsympathetic characters are the one thing Miyazaki can't do all that well. Even his villains usually wind up having some redeeming qualities.
Keep in mind this was before Miyazaki had studio Ghibli and was such a big name. As director working on someone else's already well-known creation, he was probably limited in what story elements he could bring to it. Not the best of Miyazaki perhaps, but still it's probably the best of all the Lupin movies.
I discovered it very early on by just trying different combinations out. For the longest time I had no idea what to use it for though - it made a doo-dad that looked a bit like a PizzaHut table candle when set on the ground, but other than that seemed perfectly useless. I'd create dozens of them just to use as markers.
I also found a legit way (no cheating) to get the staff without closing off the bottom two levels of the dungeon, and I've never seen the trick mentioned anywhere.
Er, make that "best we can do" :-)
They might want a better space vehicle though.
The Shuttle really isn't the beast we can do now days, but NASA has been so heavily invested in the program better solutions haven't been looked into as much as they might have been. Even if this is the death-knell for the shuttle program, perhaps in the long run it may be the event that spurs NASA to develop something better.
Well, the foam hit was something they knew about and perhaps could have at least tried to take some sort of action on. May not of helped in the end, but if the analysis was really botched by Boeing, NASA could be criticized for relying in it too much and doing nothing.
On the other hand, something like a random hit of space junk on re-etry would be something they'd have no way to avoid at all - just very bad luck.
It's not too hard to see why NASA would perfer it to be something like the second case.
I've also noticed even when it does work, CDRs made this way read many, many times slower than a normal CDR and seem to cause readers to spin up and down like crazy. I think it's just that CD drives don't handle file fragmentation and random seeking very well - I've even seen it overheat cheaper high speed CD readers.
Really it seems like kind of a waste as it reduces the total space available too. I remember thinking how huge CDs were when I bought my first recorder, but any more they seem tiny. I don't even do multi-session much anymore - mostly I just burn a full CDR at a time in DAO mode.
Actually that's not in dispute, Drake did land there and is said to have left such a plaque. The group knew the prof. was looking for it so, as the article says, they just decided to "help" him find it. :-)