The barrier to ultra hyper realistic on the fly graphics at 60 fps will never be the graphics (IMHO). It will be the movement. Wasn't there an article here once about how cloth will be nearly impossible to realistically render?
How about the way people move? Graphics card will be able to on the fly render something that looks true to life frame by frame, long before the PC will be able to feed the correct movements too match.
The limit of our ability to model movement is painfully obvious in the final fantasy movie. many stils were true to life in newspaper quality color depth and resolution, but most of the scenes were awkward. When the graphics get too good is when these movements become more annoying, think Toy Story vs Final fantasy. Or even the semi realistic princess in Shrek, it was just horribly awkward, but with less graphics, or very unreal (such as Shreck himself, or any of Monsters, inc) the movement does not stand out as much.
I totally agree. I tayed with knoppix and felt the KDE 3.0 goodness, and was like yay. Then I switched to redhat 7.highest number, and liked it, favoring gnome 2.0. Then I went to mandrake nine for I forget why (I think I read that the new compiler made it faster). Even SID was way behind these guys (Though it seemed that gnome 2.0 stuff was slowly moving in).
No, you cannot log in as user X undetected without them having a lousy password (though that is likly).
You can set their password, but not get it, you can however get the encrypted password off the harddrive and take your time with l0pht crack.
The administrator in NT can take ownership of any file, but the file is then theirs, making it obvious what they did. The log file cannot be tampered with, and if you clear it the first log entry is that you cleared it.
Within the NT system there is no "root", of course if all you want is read access you can boot into another system (say linux or dos with NTFS support) and read away, I believe that there is even a fairly cheap NTFS writer for dos for bootdisk administration of NT.
I don't think anyone really has a problem with the therory behind windows security, the problem is that it is a trivial system to punch holes in often.
Eudora has the offensiveness meter, if you use aggress phrases or outright offensive words it gets a rating, and suggests you reread what you wrote, or delays the sending for a while and such stuff. They really played it up like it was great, I was like, WTF? who needs this, but now I know.
of course when they try to call this function another feature will take over. Causing all the computers to crash. Still not very good though, but the goverments databases on who I am will remain in tact (phew, they keep me safe, I would hate to see what would happen if they lost them)
(Im not paying £70/gig, go back to 1996 and I might) Your not paying 70.00 a disk, your paying 70.00 a drive (accoring to the grandparent). that is the price of a cgeap CD burner. Of course unless lots of people get them they are worthless.
What I really want in storage is already covered by the CD, the floppy, and the DVD (though DVD is a little expensive). This will be smaller then a DVD, but hold the same amount. What I think it needs to take off is that stuff that the CD people built into a drive to make a RW act like a floppy. Be so cheap that I don;t care if I waste the storage, like CDs are now.
Have fast read writes (well compared to floppy)
And lastly have a built on case like a MD, I want to be comfortable tossing this thing to my buddy.
A lot of innocent until proven guilty hinges on the fact that if there is a reasonable doubt that you did not do something then you are innocent, because proof cannot exist with reasonable doubt. So the fact that you are using Mozilla, and Mozilla has the option for totally innocent looking pages to sneak kiddy porn into you cache would be a valid defense. also there would probably be html files cached that employed that tactic in you cache as a very strong defense.
Perhaps that was a box that was going back to the supplier for some reason, maybe they recalled a bad batch?
You very likly stole a bunch of known bad drives, or are full of total shit. I have baught some pretty crappy electronics and never has anything been so bas as to be more then 50% failure. I also worked at an office store, and even the crappiest of stuff was only about 25% failure rate.
The most interesting thing I ever did on BeOS was open the same mp3 about 30 times (at least) and had them all playing at once. Eventually the mp3 player crashed so that any new instances didn't work, but the playing ones did still work and finished up. I was really impressed. Also even under all that load the desktop was as responsive as kde 2. This was a 450 Mhz PIII. I was absolutly amazed.
As an aside, does anybody know what happened to Corum III (It was a secret of manaish game that was going to be released). I loved the demo, but was not going to pay for it on many month preorder, the company claimed to go gold, and yet never released their product. I could not find any references to the series on the net, and the only references to the 3rd one were for BeOS. Was this not really a port? I really wanted to play this game.
I see a lot of posts like, I got one last night, ect.
Also I first just noticed it on my girlfriend's familly computer, zone alarm kept popping up, someone is trying to access net bios services. I did a tracert and it was from a NY ISP.
I wrote down the addresses of the attempted accesser (don;t want to offend any good hackers here) for later exploration (the deafault win98 install doesn't have the tools I wanted). Anyway is all this activity recently because of some as of yet undiscovered worm?, is it a worm that has been around that is starting to do this? have lots of attempted uninvited resource accessing people just decided it would be fun to try out (perhaps rotting flesh 1337 krew just posted a file or tool to do this?). Or is this something that has always happened a lot?
BTW, this was a dynamic dial-up account, not an always on DSL/cable.
no, but winDOW a stock helper would be infringing. PengAOL is also. It is a dialer that connects to AOL, and could therefore cause confusion. I really think it is fair of them to not be able to use AOL in their name. Now if they were banned from mentioning AOL compatibility, that is different.
Look at spider-man though. Spider man was hyper CGI'ed, and yet it worked, it kicked total ass. Before that would anyone have said that they could take spider-man, do scenes in CGI that looked strait out of the comic book, and mix that smoothly with live action?
Spider-man kicked ass, and really opened my eyes to what is possible. Of course Akira the movie with probably suck, but I would not say it is impossible to translate anything into live action, not after that. Even the tick did a good job of it.
Except saftey features are extra. Air bags were once an addon, then passenger airbags. Now side airbags are. ABS are not on all cars, and usally cost more. A sturdy safe car costs more then a cheap econo car. Run flat tires are an add on.
On autos lots of saftey features cost more. So your analogy doesn't work.
I wouldn't say it's a myth and offers no protection. It gives you solid proof that on such and such a date you had such and such a device. If such and such a person you know steals the idea, you can prove that you had the idea on date x and if they cannot prove to have had it before then you have a start of a case that it was stolen. It is not total protection, but it is a piece of evidence.
For word prossessing in Linux, Abiword is the way to go. It is super cool, and really small. I would also suggest using knoppix as a starting point. It has all the driver stuff fairly worked out, and it automounts CDs (probably floppies too). For the word prossessing you need to add either a standard print driver already setup, so they can print. Or preconfigure AbiWord to save as rtf by default. The rtf's it puts out are sufficient for esseys, btu I don't know how well it can format them for formal papers. You probably could get a deal on printers from the vendor though. I bet those cheapy, 50.00 dollor printers, at office max could be gotten for free for a good cause (they really like more people buying ink).
as far as internet, you really can't configure that on a CD, so you would nead a small hard drive and an easy internet configuration tool. I would imagine a clean GUI over wvdial would work great, and be easily chopped together with expect and any random/TK language.
IE will zoom text with ctrl+wheel up or down (zooming like this is a windows standard, try it in anything). Opera does it better though, smoothly zooming all content, text or graphic.
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The barrier to ultra hyper realistic on the fly graphics at 60 fps will never be the graphics (IMHO). It will be the movement. Wasn't there an article here once about how cloth will be nearly impossible to realistically render?
How about the way people move? Graphics card will be able to on the fly render something that looks true to life frame by frame, long before the PC will be able to feed the correct movements too match.
The limit of our ability to model movement is painfully obvious in the final fantasy movie. many stils were true to life in newspaper quality color depth and resolution, but most of the scenes were awkward. When the graphics get too good is when these movements become more annoying, think Toy Story vs Final fantasy. Or even the semi realistic princess in Shrek, it was just horribly awkward, but with less graphics, or very unreal (such as Shreck himself, or any of Monsters, inc) the movement does not stand out as much.
I totally agree. I tayed with knoppix and felt the KDE 3.0 goodness, and was like yay. Then I switched to redhat 7.highest number, and liked it, favoring gnome 2.0. Then I went to mandrake nine for I forget why (I think I read that the new compiler made it faster). Even SID was way behind these guys (Though it seemed that gnome 2.0 stuff was slowly moving in).
No, you cannot log in as user X undetected without them having a lousy password (though that is likly).
You can set their password, but not get it, you can however get the encrypted password off the harddrive and take your time with l0pht crack.
The administrator in NT can take ownership of any file, but the file is then theirs, making it obvious what they did. The log file cannot be tampered with, and if you clear it the first log entry is that you cleared it.
Within the NT system there is no "root", of course if all you want is read access you can boot into another system (say linux or dos with NTFS support) and read away, I believe that there is even a fairly cheap NTFS writer for dos for bootdisk administration of NT.
I don't think anyone really has a problem with the therory behind windows security, the problem is that it is a trivial system to punch holes in often.
Eudora has the offensiveness meter, if you use aggress phrases or outright offensive words it gets a rating, and suggests you reread what you wrote, or delays the sending for a while and such stuff. They really played it up like it was great, I was like, WTF? who needs this, but now I know.
yeah, I wonder when they will realize that jackoff poopybutt isn't a real person?
or that fuck.off@spam.address.lookers.com is a fake address?
Heaven forbid I register.
of course when they try to call this function another feature will take over. Causing all the computers to crash. Still not very good though, but the goverments databases on who I am will remain in tact (phew, they keep me safe, I would hate to see what would happen if they lost them)
(Im not paying £70/gig, go back to 1996 and I might)
Your not paying 70.00 a disk, your paying 70.00 a drive (accoring to the grandparent). that is the price of a cgeap CD burner. Of course unless lots of people get them they are worthless.
What I really want in storage is already covered by the CD, the floppy, and the DVD (though DVD is a little expensive). This will be smaller then a DVD, but hold the same amount. What I think it needs to take off is that stuff that the CD people built into a drive to make a RW act like a floppy.
Be so cheap that I don;t care if I waste the storage, like CDs are now.
Have fast read writes (well compared to floppy)
And lastly have a built on case like a MD, I want to be comfortable tossing this thing to my buddy.
A lot of innocent until proven guilty hinges on the fact that if there is a reasonable doubt that you did not do something then you are innocent, because proof cannot exist with reasonable doubt. So the fact that you are using Mozilla, and Mozilla has the option for totally innocent looking pages to sneak kiddy porn into you cache would be a valid defense. also there would probably be html files cached that employed that tactic in you cache as a very strong defense.
Perhaps that was a box that was going back to the supplier for some reason, maybe they recalled a bad batch?
You very likly stole a bunch of known bad drives, or are full of total shit. I have baught some pretty crappy electronics and never has anything been so bas as to be more then 50% failure. I also worked at an office store, and even the crappiest of stuff was only about 25% failure rate.
man, that is some skillful karma whoring. Post an incomplete story for +3, then add to it for +3. You are a genious.
Actually, in reality I don't really care. Kep up the goodwork. The Dreamcast Hack scene is good stuff for my 50.00 system.
The most interesting thing I ever did on BeOS was open the same mp3 about 30 times (at least) and had them all playing at once. Eventually the mp3 player crashed so that any new instances didn't work, but the playing ones did still work and finished up. I was really impressed. Also even under all that load the desktop was as responsive as kde 2. This was a 450 Mhz PIII. I was absolutly amazed.
As an aside, does anybody know what happened to Corum III (It was a secret of manaish game that was going to be released). I loved the demo, but was not going to pay for it on many month preorder, the company claimed to go gold, and yet never released their product. I could not find any references to the series on the net, and the only references to the 3rd one were for BeOS. Was this not really a port? I really wanted to play this game.
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I see a lot of posts like, I got one last night, ect.
Also I first just noticed it on my girlfriend's familly computer, zone alarm kept popping up, someone is trying to access net bios services. I did a tracert and it was from a NY ISP.
I wrote down the addresses of the attempted accesser (don;t want to offend any good hackers here) for later exploration (the deafault win98 install doesn't have the tools I wanted). Anyway is all this activity recently because of some as of yet undiscovered worm?, is it a worm that has been around that is starting to do this? have lots of attempted uninvited resource accessing people just decided it would be fun to try out (perhaps rotting flesh 1337 krew just posted a file or tool to do this?). Or is this something that has always happened a lot?
BTW, this was a dynamic dial-up account, not an always on DSL/cable.
no, but winDOW a stock helper would be infringing. PengAOL is also. It is a dialer that connects to AOL, and could therefore cause confusion. I really think it is fair of them to not be able to use AOL in their name. Now if they were banned from mentioning AOL compatibility, that is different.
I didn't think they did either, I thought they looked striat out of a comic book, I guess I was really in the minority in liking that though.
Look at spider-man though. Spider man was hyper CGI'ed, and yet it worked, it kicked total ass. Before that would anyone have said that they could take spider-man, do scenes in CGI that looked strait out of the comic book, and mix that smoothly with live action?
Spider-man kicked ass, and really opened my eyes to what is possible. Of course Akira the movie with probably suck, but I would not say it is impossible to translate anything into live action, not after that. Even the tick did a good job of it.
Except saftey features are extra. Air bags were once an addon, then passenger airbags. Now side airbags are. ABS are not on all cars, and usally cost more. A sturdy safe car costs more then a cheap econo car. Run flat tires are an add on.
On autos lots of saftey features cost more. So your analogy doesn't work.
I wouldn't say it's a myth and offers no protection. It gives you solid proof that on such and such a date you had such and such a device. If such and such a person you know steals the idea, you can prove that you had the idea on date x and if they cannot prove to have had it before then you have a start of a case that it was stolen. It is not total protection, but it is a piece of evidence.
Because joe user feels so safe activating their software that they obtained illegaly?
I somehow think that the windows piracy thing is going to slow down from the fact that faking activation is similar to cracking a game.
Is this where I post a, government should not lean to free software, it hurts the community's reputation troll?
In that case better get the Mandrake gaming edition :)
For word prossessing in Linux, Abiword is the way to go. It is super cool, and really small. I would also suggest using knoppix as a starting point. It has all the driver stuff fairly worked out, and it automounts CDs (probably floppies too). For the word prossessing you need to add either a standard print driver already setup, so they can print. Or preconfigure AbiWord to save as rtf by default. The rtf's it puts out are sufficient for esseys, btu I don't know how well it can format them for formal papers. You probably could get a deal on printers from the vendor though. I bet those cheapy, 50.00 dollor printers, at office max could be gotten for free for a good cause (they really like more people buying ink). /TK language.
as far as internet, you really can't configure that on a CD, so you would nead a small hard drive and an easy internet configuration tool. I would imagine a clean GUI over wvdial would work great, and be easily chopped together with expect and any random
This is really lame, but if done right it can get a laugh.
Q.arrrrr, what is a pir8's (pronounced like that) favorite number?
A. either, nooooo, it is 8 or ayyyy, that be correct
follow up
Q. ARRRRRR, what be a pirates favorite letter
everyone will answer R and think your a jackass
then
A. Noooo, it is Q
It makes me laugh anyway.
so I would not be aloud to wear a balaclava while shoveling someone elses driveway without written permission? Seams kind of unreasonable.
I guess I couldn't even when walking to the store down the street?
I saw no notice of bana fide attempt to keep warm.
Seams to be a terrible law to me.
IE will zoom text with ctrl+wheel up or down (zooming like this is a windows standard, try it in anything). Opera does it better though, smoothly zooming all content, text or graphic.