I bought the PS2 version of this box, the only thing it does is scale 320x240 to 640x480 (by doubling the pixels), so it doesn't really give you a better resolution.
Is this the same thing for this one, or is it able to
give you a better resolution (I think the N64/Gamecube support more than 320x240), like the DC vga box?
Are you talking about the PS2? I had to buy a special third party box that scales the 320x240 to 640x480 by doubling every pixel to use my PS2 with a vga monitor. Sucks but it looks better than with my All-in-wonder tv tuner.
Both Windows and Linux will accept filenames up to 254 bytes, but no one except a masochist would ever use a command-line system on filenames that long.
rm -rf/cygdrive/c/Progra[tab]/Real[tab]/RealP[tab]
How long does it take to type that?
Or for those who prefer cmd.exe:
deltree/y c:\prog[tab]\real[tab]\realp[tab]
(needs to be activated through a registry key in win2k, but evilly made active by default in WinXP)
or my favorite cli/gui hybrid method:
winkey+run c:\pro[down][down]\[r][r][del][y]
Internet Explorer can use any language supported by Windows ActiveScripting, which include VBScript, JScript, and even Perl and Python (with ActivePerl/ActivePython from ActiveState).
But the client needs to have these installed, and they are not as secure as JavaScript because they give access to the whole set of Perl's and Python's functions, allowing things like file i/o on the client's disk (which VBScript also allows if i remember correcly).
So they should never be enabled in a web browser, because of the security holes it opens.
If we allow the government to take away all our rights, then the terrorists have succeeded in destroying the foundations of our country, and Bush's initial speech was wrong
But I guess storing the year as 2 digits instead of 4 was never intended for a database too, but it didn't prevent it from being a widespread way of storing the date in a database, causing the whole Y2K paranoya(?)
And what about databases that store dates BEFORE January 1 1970 (in unix time format)?
It's like the Y2K solution of making anything = 50 19xx, it's a patch rather than a true fix
And you'll have to recompile everything, but the source is not always available (maybe not for must publically available linux software, but there are lots of closed source proprietary specialized applications)
Why would I want social interaction? Normal people escape reality by taking alcool/marijuana with their friends, I escape it by playing RPGs/reading books/listening to music/going to church. Which one is worse?
Nobody cares about GUI administration tools, not even MS. In ASP.NET, the server is managed with plain text XML configuration files, just like I always wanted it to be.
.NET is years ahead of the "let's make a GUI for everything" stage, while linux/unix is still stuck there. Why would I want a GUI for a daemon?
What happened to 2600's appeal of the court decision about DeCSS? Last time I heard from it, the judge had asked some questions about different forms of free speech, which they answered a long time ago.. and then, no news at all, not on slashdot and not on 2600.com..
Did all media totally lost interest in the case and forgot mentionning the outcome? Or is it really taking so long for the judge to decide?
If you check the original specs, DOOM only required a 386 processor to run (for those who don't remember, a 386 ran at about 25 MHz, weighed as much as a TV, and had fans that sounded like a jet engine when you turned them on).
Did he really use to own a 386 or is he just trying to sound old sk3wl? My 386 had no fan, it didn't need any (except the power supply fan which is exactly the same thing as my current power supply's fan)
It would be tremendous coup if somehow the power of the Access front end could be used with MySQL
Are you crazy? Access may be powerful for simple stuff, but as soon as you try to do something remotely complex, you can't.. Unless you don't base your forms on tables/queries, which is what is supposed to make the power of Access.
Don't get fooled. Access may look great and powerful at first sight, but as soon as you start doing something complex, you'll discover its limitations and bugs (randomly corrupted forms that have to be imported (not because of filesystem corruption) from an older version because you can't use them at all, references to subforms that sometimes can be access and sometimes can't...)
Kids, trust me, Access is bad for you. Get a competent RAD tool instead
To be valid, the signature would have to be made by the original artist, not by anyone. This means napster should have a database of free artists, with some data to recognize their songs (md5+cddb id+tracks lengths?)
If an artist decides to distribute copies of his MP3 signature key with his CDs, it would mean he gives you the right to make mp3 copies of his songs and sign them to look like if they were signed by the artist himself. Without the artist's signature key, you would only be able to sign it with your own key, and napster will reject it because you're not the artist for that song in their database.
Considering a file copyrighted by default might be a solution to this. To mark a file as freely distributable, an artist would have to sign it with a digital certificate and indicate what kinds of right he would like to grant.
An audio CD could include a data track with a digital certificate that can sign only the tracks on that CD, or also all of the artist's previous works.
Since copyrighted music has been around for decades, making it the default case isn't really wrong. It would however have to be implemented in a way that can't be circumvented, while still giving to the purchaser the rights to unlimited backups and transfers to other media. The only thing that would really need to be disabled is the wide spreading of copies of the works.
It will hurt, but it's not the RIAA labels that will be hurt. It will hurt the smaller labels that make true music that's not advertised on radio. That's what the RIAA wants because the smallers labels are "stealing" profit from them by making their artists known.
The RIAA claim they are against napster for piracy, but their real threat is loosing market share because of better artists than theirs.
It's probably true that people who "pirate" mp3s
buy more CD's because of napster, but that's because they found something better to listen to than the music they heard on the radio, in which they were not interested at all. Since they like what they download, they are more likely to want to buy it.
It's so obvious I always do it without even thinking about it, just because i'm lazy. In a stateless protocol like HTTP, it's easier to write a script that takes all the input from one source and makes a complete order from it than to validate it with 2 or 3 steps and keep track of everything with hidden tags or cookies.
When the basic code has been writen and it's time to make it user friendly and error proof, I remove the one click functionality and add validation and confirmations before the order is completed.
Which means Amazon has patented their programmer's lazyness. How can this not be obvious?
The problem is that they didn't work for their 1-click patent, they just stole an obvious idea by patenting it.
Buying products/services without giving your credit card/personal information has existed for a long time. Just because it happens over the Internet instead of happening on the phone or through mail doesn't mean it's an invention.
Why do they keep arguing that computer code is an expressive language to protect the DeCSS source?
Instead, why don't they try to argue about the legitimity of the DMCA in order to make it unconstitutional? They could show the DMCA is a law to enforce the rights of a cartel and prevent anyone from entering their market. They could show it breaks the right to fair use
Don't their arguments imply that the code isn't legitimate, just like instructions for making drugs aren't legal but still protected under free speech rights? ("We know it's wrong but shut the fuck off because we have the right to free speech"). There's nothing wrong with the DeCSS code (except that an unjust law made it illegal), why do they act like if it was wrong?
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The X architecture is great in theory for remote administration, but you can't, for example, display a skinned gtk window from an app that's running remotely over a 10baseT network with acceptable performance. It should be the server that does all the drawing of widgets, the client should just run the main functionality of the app and send commands to the server to draw a widget, instead of creating a bitmap of a widget and sending it over the network.
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I bought the PS2 version of this box, the only thing it does is scale 320x240 to 640x480 (by doubling the pixels), so it doesn't really give you a better resolution.
Is this the same thing for this one, or is it able to
give you a better resolution (I think the N64/Gamecube support more than 320x240), like the DC vga box?
Are you talking about the PS2? I had to buy a special third party box that scales the 320x240 to 640x480 by doubling every pixel to use my PS2 with a vga monitor. Sucks but it looks better than with my All-in-wonder tv tuner.
Both Windows and Linux will accept filenames up to 254 bytes, but no one except a masochist would ever use a command-line system on filenames that long.
/cygdrive/c/Progra[tab]/Real[tab]/RealP[tab]
/y c:\prog[tab]\real[tab]\realp[tab]
rm -rf
How long does it take to type that?
Or for those who prefer cmd.exe: deltree
(needs to be activated through a registry key in win2k, but evilly made active by default in WinXP)
or my favorite cli/gui hybrid method: winkey+run c:\pro[down][down]\[r][r][del][y]
Internet Explorer can use any language supported by Windows ActiveScripting, which include VBScript, JScript, and even Perl and Python (with ActivePerl/ActivePython from ActiveState).
But the client needs to have these installed, and they are not as secure as JavaScript because they give access to the whole set of Perl's and Python's functions, allowing things like file i/o on the client's disk (which VBScript also allows if i remember correcly).
So they should never be enabled in a web browser, because of the security holes it opens.
If we allow the government to take away all our rights, then the terrorists have succeeded in destroying the foundations of our country, and Bush's initial speech was wrong
But I guess storing the year as 2 digits instead of 4 was never intended for a database too, but it didn't prevent it from being a widespread way of storing the date in a database, causing the whole Y2K paranoya(?)
And what about databases that store dates BEFORE January 1 1970 (in unix time format)?
It's like the Y2K solution of making anything = 50 19xx, it's a patch rather than a true fix
And you'll have to recompile everything, but the source is not always available (maybe not for must publically available linux software, but there are lots of closed source proprietary specialized applications)
We should boycott Adobe until they agree to pay for Dmitry's defense
Why would I want social interaction? Normal people escape reality by taking alcool/marijuana with their friends, I escape it by playing RPGs/reading books/listening to music/going to church. Which one is worse?
Nobody cares about GUI administration tools, not even MS. In ASP.NET, the server is managed with plain text XML configuration files, just like I always wanted it to be.
.NET is years ahead of the "let's make a GUI for everything" stage, while linux/unix is still stuck there. Why would I want a GUI for a daemon?
What happened to 2600's appeal of the court decision about DeCSS? Last time I heard from it, the judge had asked some questions about different forms of free speech, which they answered a long time ago.. and then, no news at all, not on slashdot and not on 2600.com..
Did all media totally lost interest in the case and forgot mentionning the outcome? Or is it really taking so long for the judge to decide?
This guy's a genius.. he should patent using gunzip $1 to compress a file!
If you check the original specs, DOOM only required a 386 processor to run (for those who don't remember, a 386 ran at about 25 MHz, weighed as much as a TV, and had fans that sounded like a jet engine when you turned them on).
Did he really use to own a 386 or is he just trying to sound old sk3wl? My 386 had no fan, it didn't need any (except the power supply fan which is exactly the same thing as my current power supply's fan)
Daylight saving is an april fool, DON'T DO IT
Open sourcing it is better than completely erasing it from history.
Desiring to help their product to survive is a great proof of respect
They operate by stealing the technology of other companies and then repackaging it as their own
patenting is stealing the ideas of others using legal tools
It would be tremendous coup if somehow the power of the Access front end could be used with MySQL
Are you crazy? Access may be powerful for simple stuff, but as soon as you try to do something remotely complex, you can't.. Unless you don't base your forms on tables/queries, which is what is supposed to make the power of Access.
Don't get fooled. Access may look great and powerful at first sight, but as soon as you start doing something complex, you'll discover its limitations and bugs (randomly corrupted forms that have to be imported (not because of filesystem corruption) from an older version because you can't use them at all, references to subforms that sometimes can be access and sometimes can't...)
Kids, trust me, Access is bad for you. Get a competent RAD tool instead
To be valid, the signature would have to be made by the original artist, not by anyone. This means napster should have a database of free artists, with some data to recognize their songs (md5+cddb id+tracks lengths?)
If an artist decides to distribute copies of his MP3 signature key with his CDs, it would mean he gives you the right to make mp3 copies of his songs and sign them to look like if they were signed by the artist himself. Without the artist's signature key, you would only be able to sign it with your own key, and napster will reject it because you're not the artist for that song in their database.
I don't see another use for a gun than commiting a crime, so they should be banned.
The difference with napster is that it has legitimate uses
Considering a file copyrighted by default might be a solution to this. To mark a file as freely distributable, an artist would have to sign it with a digital certificate and indicate what kinds of right he would like to grant.
An audio CD could include a data track with a digital certificate that can sign only the tracks on that CD, or also all of the artist's previous works.
Since copyrighted music has been around for decades, making it the default case isn't really wrong. It would however have to be implemented in a way that can't be circumvented, while still giving to the purchaser the rights to unlimited backups and transfers to other media. The only thing that would really need to be disabled is the wide spreading of copies of the works.
It will hurt, but it's not the RIAA labels that will be hurt. It will hurt the smaller labels that make true music that's not advertised on radio. That's what the RIAA wants because the smallers labels are "stealing" profit from them by making their artists known.
The RIAA claim they are against napster for piracy, but their real threat is loosing market share because of better artists than theirs.
It's probably true that people who "pirate" mp3s
buy more CD's because of napster, but that's because they found something better to listen to than the music they heard on the radio, in which they were not interested at all. Since they like what they download, they are more likely to want to buy it.
It's so obvious I always do it without even thinking about it, just because i'm lazy. In a stateless protocol like HTTP, it's easier to write a script that takes all the input from one source and makes a complete order from it than to validate it with 2 or 3 steps and keep track of everything with hidden tags or cookies.
When the basic code has been writen and it's time to make it user friendly and error proof, I remove the one click functionality and add validation and confirmations before the order is completed.
Which means Amazon has patented their programmer's lazyness. How can this not be obvious?
The problem is that they didn't work for their 1-click patent, they just stole an obvious idea by patenting it.
Buying products/services without giving your credit card/personal information has existed for a long time. Just because it happens over the Internet instead of happening on the phone or through mail doesn't mean it's an invention.
Why do they keep arguing that computer code is an expressive language to protect the DeCSS source?
Instead, why don't they try to argue about the legitimity of the DMCA in order to make it unconstitutional? They could show the DMCA is a law to enforce the rights of a cartel and prevent anyone from entering their market. They could show it breaks the right to fair use
Don't their arguments imply that the code isn't legitimate, just like instructions for making drugs aren't legal but still protected under free speech rights? ("We know it's wrong but shut the fuck off because we have the right to free speech"). There's nothing wrong with the DeCSS code (except that an unjust law made it illegal), why do they act like if it was wrong?
The X architecture is great in theory for remote administration, but you can't, for example, display a skinned gtk window from an app that's running remotely over a 10baseT network with acceptable performance. It should be the server that does all the drawing of widgets, the client should just run the main functionality of the app and send commands to the server to draw a widget, instead of creating a bitmap of a widget and sending it over the network.