At home, on a single user test machine, why not? Its not like there's going to be anything important on the machine, and you're the only one logged on...
>functions are grouped logically w/most often used (generally) on the left, proceeding to the least often used on the right
This way often used options move away from your natural mouse movement, messing up your rhythm of using the program.
Great... That's about as good as telling everyone who drives on the road the most to drive on the inside lane, and the people who use the road the least to drive on the outside lane.
Some of the more inquisitive than offensive posts have clearly been modded offtopic by someone who can't stomach the slightest questioning into someone's unusual death.
Why is that? I find that just as insulting as some of the comments desgined to be mean-spirited.
>It must be a real bear to carry enough natural gas around to be worthwhile (hence your trunk comment).
I'm not sure since I don't actually have a converted car myself. I just know a lot of people who've had their vans and cars converted since Natural Gas and Propane are about 1/2 the price of Gasoline (or were at the time they got their vehicles converted).
However, I noticed the trunk thing and asked once about it. Basically, it was either get it in the trunk or replace their gas tank with a Natural Gas cylinder. The benefits of being able to use both fuels on one car outweigh the trunk space, I suppose (there's not too many gas stations selling Natural Gas, I'm afraid, so if you're planning to make a long trip, you'll need to switch to regular Gasoline at some point unless you're lucky). Yes, all the vehicles I've seen with NG/Propane had a switch between that and gasoline.:-)
>So bypassing Macrovision is legal on VHS, but not on DVD, is that correct?
Yes and no.
Yes for sure on VHS.
With DVD, it is illegal if you bypass it _inside_ the DVD player (usually by reprogramming the BIOS so that it refuses to turn on the Macrovision chip). But, if you buy a Time Base Corrector ($$$ unfortunately) and place it on the Composite or S-Video outputs of the DVD player that is legal because at that point the signal is in the analog domain.
So, basically this is legal (and sold in the US), however, this is not legal and is only sold outside the US. [Fortunately, I live in Canuckville so I can link to that. If you're American and click on that you can probably go to jail for it.;-) ]
I know, its stupid. Welcome to the world of crappy stupid laws. Canada just got their own making it illegal for me to associate myself with American TV. Too bad our charter of rights isn't worth the paper its printed on...
>Before anyone gets any ideas, please not that this is no longer possible in California due to Air Quality regulations.
I don't know when that law came into effect, but I do know this site (that I mentioned in another message) mentions a list of Californian conversion centers.
Well, unless you're talking about the Defense Contract Management Agency, its DMCA.:-) And that stands for (drumroll):
Digital Millenium Copyright Act
The DMCA only covers Digital media. NTSC/PAL/SECAM signals (which are the only ones that Macrovision is licensed for, IIRC) are all analog and therefore any devices designed to circumvent protection on them are 100% legal (unless its a scrambled cable signal -- but that is a different territory with a different act).
Not to mention that a Time Base Corrector will remove all Macrovision and serves an important purpose to broadcast studios (and it isn't Macrovision removal).
This is why it is 100% legal for Philips et al. to produce CD-to-CD Audio Recorders that can copy a disc more than once. After the first copy, further generations are sent through an incredibly accurate ADC-DAC stage thereby removing the copyright protection in the analog domain while still keeping a rather original sounding signal (that even an audiophile could enjoy). They did the same thing with dubbing DAT tapes, IIRC.
That's $600 CDN (including taxes). Not too mention I got mine in Canada before the official release here (strange that a Canadian company would release their cards in their home country after a foreign country), and I got it within a week of it hitting the streets in the US.
Hadn't constantly crashed my Win2k box when I bought it for $600, I might not be so bitter.
But when you write a driver and refuse to run a machine with it for more than an hour, and then, worse than that, ship the product and try to sell it for $600 upon release, you do get a bad name.
ATI deserves every flame they get until my radeon supports VfW without an ungodly amount of hacks. And video capture is the absolute least amount of the problems with the driver that shipped (the fact that your DVD support is gone if you lose/ruin your driver disc would be number 2 on the list).
ATI can keep their crappy products. Of course, now I've switched over to Linux, I'm starting to buy their products again (looks like third party drivers written without full specs of ATIs cards are more stable than ATIs own -- who'd-a-thunk-it?).
>ATI has been much more forthcoming in information for developing XF86 drivers
Which would explain why third party X11 drivers are better than their windows drivers. Man, you have to have one really poor set of coders to be beat out on the quality of the drivers for your product by people hacking out code as a hobby.
>is an idiot because he chose to become proficient in a language that doesn't have address variables and manual memory management?
No, he isn't an idiot because of that.
He's an idiot because he's chosen not to learn even the most basic function of how a computer operates when it is programmed. He shows a lack of respect for his field, and his decision not to learn these things even when asked to shows he is not willing to try to wrap his mind around something more complex.
>Perhaps that guy, if trained, could code circles around you...
However, people like that, who are so demotivated in their own field to ignore significant foundations of their field are never going to excel in that field.
Its like me asking a Lada mechanic
"Have you ever worked on a V8 engine before?" "No."
"Do you understand how a non-rotary engine operates?" "No. I've never come across the need to."
Not knowing a basic thing such as pointers, and then suggesting that it isn't important because you've never come across it even though the majority of programmers have shows you lack the willingness to further yourself. And, as we all know, that isn't a trait welcomed in programmers.
>But the vast majority of college students are just too selfish to realise that.
Maybe we should just become communist and solve that problem completely, huh?
I think the students are simply taking a page from the RIAAs super-uber-Capitalist stop at nothing to make money handbook, and it looks good on the RIAA that students are fighting the RIAAs greed with exactly same same level of greed.
>Aid agencies such as Oxfam don't divide their income by the price of a Happy Meal and feed that many bloated kids for a day: they provide the opportunity for people to develop.
Not that I disagree or agree, but over where I am (North America) Oxfax either doesn't exist or they're not letting on.
All the ads I've seen (and I'm not one to seek out these agencies, so what I know of them is through advertising) say that the money goes to feed children, which fans the flames, rather than assuaging them.
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>Timothy writes of KDE: "You've got to admit it's getting better all the time."
Microsoft wrote of XP: "It's the best windows yet!"
>Who in the world is running KDE as root?
At home, on a single user test machine, why not? Its not like there's going to be anything important on the machine, and you're the only one logged on...
>functions are grouped logically w/most often used (generally) on the left, proceeding to the least often used on the right
This way often used options move away from your natural mouse movement, messing up your rhythm of using the program.
Great... That's about as good as telling everyone who drives on the road the most to drive on the inside lane, and the people who use the road the least to drive on the outside lane.
Some of the more inquisitive than offensive posts have clearly been modded offtopic by someone who can't stomach the slightest questioning into someone's unusual death.
Why is that? I find that just as insulting as some of the comments desgined to be mean-spirited.
>It must be a real bear to carry enough natural gas around to be worthwhile (hence your trunk comment).
:-)
I'm not sure since I don't actually have a converted car myself. I just know a lot of people who've had their vans and cars converted since Natural Gas and Propane are about 1/2 the price of Gasoline (or were at the time they got their vehicles converted).
However, I noticed the trunk thing and asked once about it. Basically, it was either get it in the trunk or replace their gas tank with a Natural Gas cylinder. The benefits of being able to use both fuels on one car outweigh the trunk space, I suppose (there's not too many gas stations selling Natural Gas, I'm afraid, so if you're planning to make a long trip, you'll need to switch to regular Gasoline at some point unless you're lucky). Yes, all the vehicles I've seen with NG/Propane had a switch between that and gasoline.
>So bypassing Macrovision is legal on VHS, but not on DVD, is that correct?
;-) ]
Yes and no.
Yes for sure on VHS.
With DVD, it is illegal if you bypass it _inside_ the DVD player (usually by reprogramming the BIOS so that it refuses to turn on the Macrovision chip). But, if you buy a Time Base Corrector ($$$ unfortunately) and place it on the Composite or S-Video outputs of the DVD player that is legal because at that point the signal is in the analog domain.
So, basically this is legal (and sold in the US), however, this is not legal and is only sold outside the US. [Fortunately, I live in Canuckville so I can link to that. If you're American and click on that you can probably go to jail for it.
I know, its stupid. Welcome to the world of crappy stupid laws. Canada just got their own making it illegal for me to associate myself with American TV. Too bad our charter of rights isn't worth the paper its printed on...
>Before anyone gets any ideas, please not that this is no longer possible in California due to Air Quality regulations.
I don't know when that law came into effect, but I do know this site (that I mentioned in another message) mentions a list of Californian conversion centers.
While they do make propane conversions (I think) I know they have natural gas conversions as well.
>It's part of the DCMA.
:-) And that stands for (drumroll):
Well, unless you're talking about the Defense Contract Management Agency, its DMCA.
Digital Millenium Copyright Act
The DMCA only covers Digital media. NTSC/PAL/SECAM signals (which are the only ones that Macrovision is licensed for, IIRC) are all analog and therefore any devices designed to circumvent protection on them are 100% legal (unless its a scrambled cable signal -- but that is a different territory with a different act).
Not to mention that a Time Base Corrector will remove all Macrovision and serves an important purpose to broadcast studios (and it isn't Macrovision removal).
This is why it is 100% legal for Philips et al. to produce CD-to-CD Audio Recorders that can copy a disc more than once. After the first copy, further generations are sent through an incredibly accurate ADC-DAC stage thereby removing the copyright protection in the analog domain while still keeping a rather original sounding signal (that even an audiophile could enjoy). They did the same thing with dubbing DAT tapes, IIRC.
HTH.
That's $600 CDN (including taxes). Not too mention I got mine in Canada before the official release here (strange that a Canadian company would release their cards in their home country after a foreign country), and I got it within a week of it hitting the streets in the US.
That should explain it...
Many cars can be converted to run on Natural Gas. Ask someone locally with a car that runs on it where they got theirs done.
Just note that you'll probably lose a lot of trunk space unless you want to risk running out of Natural Gas between trips.
Hadn't constantly crashed my Win2k box when I bought it for $600, I might not be so bitter.
But when you write a driver and refuse to run a machine with it for more than an hour, and then, worse than that, ship the product and try to sell it for $600 upon release, you do get a bad name.
ATI deserves every flame they get until my radeon supports VfW without an ungodly amount of hacks. And video capture is the absolute least amount of the problems with the driver that shipped (the fact that your DVD support is gone if you lose/ruin your driver disc would be number 2 on the list).
ATI can keep their crappy products. Of course, now I've switched over to Linux, I'm starting to buy their products again (looks like third party drivers written without full specs of ATIs cards are more stable than ATIs own -- who'd-a-thunk-it?).
>ATI has been much more forthcoming in information for developing XF86 drivers
Which would explain why third party X11 drivers are better than their windows drivers. Man, you have to have one really poor set of coders to be beat out on the quality of the drivers for your product by people hacking out code as a hobby.
Good point, but at least is isn't illegal to bypass Macrovision.
>is an idiot because he chose to become proficient in a language that doesn't have address variables and manual memory management?
No, he isn't an idiot because of that.
He's an idiot because he's chosen not to learn even the most basic function of how a computer operates when it is programmed. He shows a lack of respect for his field, and his decision not to learn these things even when asked to shows he is not willing to try to wrap his mind around something more complex.
>Perhaps that guy, if trained, could code circles around you...
However, people like that, who are so demotivated in their own field to ignore significant foundations of their field are never going to excel in that field.
Its like me asking a Lada mechanic
"Have you ever worked on a V8 engine before?"
"No."
"Do you understand how a non-rotary engine operates?"
"No. I've never come across the need to."
Not knowing a basic thing such as pointers, and then suggesting that it isn't important because you've never come across it even though the majority of programmers have shows you lack the willingness to further yourself. And, as we all know, that isn't a trait welcomed in programmers.
And who left their shares open to the world?
And if you didn't, how much bandwidth of yours did the portscans waste? I'm betting its well under 100k...
Best... anti-troll... ever!
(and it wasn't even intended as one, yet I still get at least one troll-style response each week! W00T!)
>My computer's longest uptime is 12 hours. I've tried windows, redhat and mandrake. Windows has performed the best
Maybe you have hardware trouble?
And use NetJuke or Mp3Database which do something similar, come with code, and are FREE and Free.
>I had to ask to be removed more than a few times.
:-)
Well geez, whose fault is that?
>But the vast majority of college students are just too selfish to realise that.
Maybe we should just become communist and solve that problem completely, huh?
I think the students are simply taking a page from the RIAAs super-uber-Capitalist stop at nothing to make money handbook, and it looks good on the RIAA that students are fighting the RIAAs greed with exactly same same level of greed.
> oh like Redhat doesn't release a new colonel every two or three months because its hackable
Fuck, you're totally right.
I mean, look at the marketing problems surrounding that. Imagine if KFC replaced Colonel Sanders every time it created a new flavour!
Good point.
:-)
Maybe rather than their actual size, I was thinking about their importance to me, personally.
>Oxfax either doesn't exist or they're not letting on.
I meant Oxfam, of course.
>Aid agencies such as Oxfam don't divide their income by the price of a Happy Meal and feed that many bloated kids for a day: they provide the opportunity for people to develop.
Not that I disagree or agree, but over where I am (North America) Oxfax either doesn't exist or they're not letting on.
All the ads I've seen (and I'm not one to seek out these agencies, so what I know of them is through advertising) say that the money goes to feed children, which fans the flames, rather than assuaging them.
>100 years ago people could cross large rivers walking on the backs of a northwestern salmon run, try that now and you'll drown.
Today people can cross entire oceans without a food supply. Try that 100 years ago and you'd die.
I fail to see your point.