Another example would be The Fifth Element. Seemed to be identical to a conventional road system, but with an added Z dimension..
'we needed to take the second left two rows down back there you idiot..' etc
Quick update..
Sony MusicClub is an attempt to sell MP3s.. you only get told this when you try to get at them..
That'll teach me to get annoyed and post with reading the site throughly.
Trading MP3s of copyrighted music is theft. Have people forgotten that this is actually against the law?
Sony certainly appear to have..
Check out http://www.sony-europe.com/com/po pkomm/index.html.. Yes folks.. its a link to a music site.. with downloadable MP3s of Limp Bizkit..
And it gets worse.. or better.. depends.. http://206.132.60.30/.. Whats this? Its Sony MusicClub. Sony's own download site. Ok, the files are in an odd 'OpenMG' format and only playable in LiquidPlayer (LiquidAudio).. But version 5 of Liquid Player has a nice 'Burn to CD' option.. heck, WinAmp doesn't even go as far as letting you make CDs of your downloads.
When Sony say they are anti-Napster, it seems that its only because its a competing product.
I second that.. 100fps in 1280*1024 resolution is nice on paper.. but unless you've spent about a grand on your monitor you won't be getting abouve 60Hz at that resolution. 60Hz = 60 refreshs a second.. Maximum of 60FPS..
Onion
Sure, todays it 3d this and 3d that, millions of polygons, and those all important frames per second. Gameplay seems to have taken a back seat..
But wait a second.. Its always been like that..
Back in the days when I read Crash, Your Sinclair, Mean Machines and so on there were reviews fortnightly focusing on the latest 'full price' (7.99) graphical licensed blockbuster. Have people forgotten those miraculous sprites in LA Drugs Bust? The amazing no-colour-clash Spiky Harold? How about the '3D filled polygons' of Driller (featuring FreeScape!).
These games were bloody awful. Waiting for 5 minutes for the game to load off a cassette.. playing for half an hour before the damn game crashed.. and then repeating the process over. And do you remember trying to save your game?
Gameplay isn't dead. Its still out there in a few games. Theres probably about the same number of fantastic games releashed each year now as there always has been.. but we've forgotten the crap from the early days.
The main thing I miss these days is the humour. Nothing now is as funny as Your Sinclair. Shame..
Ghandi once said 'Even if you're in a minority of one the truth is still the truth'..
Just coz 20 million people deem something to be right doesn't mean it is. Napster was/is being used to steal stuff. That can't be right.
(I do kind of agree that the RIAA are wrong to go after Napster.. they should sue the pirate scum)
Onion
No it doesn't. The RIAA aren't sueing the people who put up the MP3s.. Napster didn't put up any copyrighted MP3s.. The RIAA are suing the people that made all the copying possible. It'd be like someone sueing Ford for making cars if they got run over.. coz like, duh, if Ford hadn't built the car then it couldn't have happened.
This thing can do billions of calculations at once.. It can crack RSA in the blink of an eye.. figure out nuclear simulations, DNA decoding and predict the weather.. Can't wait until someone compiles PERL on it..
Onion
Napster are being sued over the creation of free distribution software that allows people to share MP3s, right? So, if I create a virtual private network in Win2k, and make everything open with no passwords or security, bung a bunch of Metallica tunes on and leave it to fester, does that mean the RIAA will sue Microsoft?
Why is everyone so anti these things? If it means I'm less likely to be mugged/killed/terrorised then I'm all for it. If the government wanted to track people that badly then I'm sure they wouldn't need things like this.
Perhaps there isn't a big conspiracy. Perhaps it is for our own good.
For another classic example, the Steve Jackson Games debacle illustrates several of these points.. If you mean the time they were raided during Operation Sundevil in 1990.. thats coz Loyd Blakenship was working there.. he was a well known hacker/cracker type.. The NSA have been watchful of the company ever since.
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The RSA 56-bit challenge proved that a distributed computer system could break some relatively low-level encryption. Ok, it took 39 days, but it was entirely volunteers using a distributed network of 50000 CPUs. Saying that a 4096 bit public key makes you entirely safe is simply wrong. No doubt the a few Roman generals felt entirely safe using a Ceasar Cipher. Most people can crack that by hand in less than an hour. Same as the Germans reliance on Enigma in WW2. They assumed they were safe because of encryption, they were wrong. Due to the efforts of the Polish cracking teams who first sussed the wheel and reflector method, and then GCHQ at Bletchley Park perfecting the decryption, German war time communications were virtually transparent. The moral of the story is, just because you don't know how to crack it doesn't mean it can't be cracked. Lord knows what the NSA and GCHQ has dreamt up in the last ten years.. for all we know they may have found a flaw in RSA.. Its not like they're going to tell anyone about it.
In almost every 'Space craft crew only has 5 minutes of oxygen left' movie I've ever watched they're all utterly paranoid about the angle of descent into Earth's atmosphere. Getting the angle wrong, even by just a degree or two, would mean either bouncing off the upper stratosphere if the angle is too shallow (Bit like skimming a flat pebble over a calm lake), or burning up rather quickly if the angle is too steep.. Our good old atmosphere is actually pretty decent protection against these things. Chris
Back in the halcyon days on 1985 the Amiga was a cracking introduction to computing. I remember opening the 'Bat-Pack' on Christmas morning, and being up and running (and swinging, kicking, driving etc) in just about ten minutes. Isn't this where the likes of Microsoft, and the latest Linux installers (SuSE, RedHat, Turbo from my experience) are trying to go now? Seems like people want a decent machine without having to learn anything once again. If AmigaOS is as easy and pleasent to use as it was back in '85 then people should flock to it.
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Another example would be The Fifth Element. Seemed to be identical to a conventional road system, but with an added Z dimension..
'we needed to take the second left two rows down back there you idiot..' etc
Isn't piracy defined as 'copyright theft'? I'm not lawyer..
Quick update..
Sony MusicClub is an attempt to sell MP3s.. you only get told this when you try to get at them..
That'll teach me to get annoyed and post with reading the site throughly.
Trading MP3s of copyrighted music is theft. Have people forgotten that this is actually against the law?
.. Whats this? Its Sony MusicClub. Sony's own download site. Ok, the files are in an odd 'OpenMG' format and only playable in LiquidPlayer (LiquidAudio).. But version 5 of Liquid Player has a nice 'Burn to CD' option.. heck, WinAmp doesn't even go as far as letting you make CDs of your downloads.
Sony certainly appear to have..
Check out http://www.sony-europe.com/com/po pkomm/index.html.. Yes folks.. its a link to a music site.. with downloadable MP3s of Limp Bizkit..
And it gets worse.. or better.. depends..
http://206.132.60.30/
When Sony say they are anti-Napster, it seems that its only because its a competing product.
I second that.. 100fps in 1280*1024 resolution is nice on paper.. but unless you've spent about a grand on your monitor you won't be getting abouve 60Hz at that resolution. 60Hz = 60 refreshs a second.. Maximum of 60FPS.. Onion
Sure, todays it 3d this and 3d that, millions of polygons, and those all important frames per second. Gameplay seems to have taken a back seat..
But wait a second.. Its always been like that..
Back in the days when I read Crash, Your Sinclair, Mean Machines and so on there were reviews fortnightly focusing on the latest 'full price' (7.99) graphical licensed blockbuster. Have people forgotten those miraculous sprites in LA Drugs Bust? The amazing no-colour-clash Spiky Harold? How about the '3D filled polygons' of Driller (featuring FreeScape!).
These games were bloody awful. Waiting for 5 minutes for the game to load off a cassette.. playing for half an hour before the damn game crashed.. and then repeating the process over. And do you remember trying to save your game?
Gameplay isn't dead. Its still out there in a few games. Theres probably about the same number of fantastic games releashed each year now as there always has been.. but we've forgotten the crap from the early days.
The main thing I miss these days is the humour. Nothing now is as funny as Your Sinclair. Shame..
Ghandi once said 'Even if you're in a minority of one the truth is still the truth'.. Just coz 20 million people deem something to be right doesn't mean it is. Napster was/is being used to steal stuff. That can't be right. (I do kind of agree that the RIAA are wrong to go after Napster.. they should sue the pirate scum) Onion
No it doesn't. The RIAA aren't sueing the people who put up the MP3s.. Napster didn't put up any copyrighted MP3s.. The RIAA are suing the people that made all the copying possible. It'd be like someone sueing Ford for making cars if they got run over.. coz like, duh, if Ford hadn't built the car then it couldn't have happened.
This thing can do billions of calculations at once.. It can crack RSA in the blink of an eye.. figure out nuclear simulations, DNA decoding and predict the weather.. Can't wait until someone compiles PERL on it.. Onion
Napster are being sued over the creation of free distribution software that allows people to share MP3s, right? So, if I create a virtual private network in Win2k, and make everything open with no passwords or security, bung a bunch of Metallica tunes on and leave it to fester, does that mean the RIAA will sue Microsoft?
Hardly seems an issue.. An implanted chip can't tell what I'm buying. A credit card can. I already have a couple of them. Big brother take note..
Why is everyone so anti these things? If it means I'm less likely to be mugged/killed/terrorised then I'm all for it. If the government wanted to track people that badly then I'm sure they wouldn't need things like this.
Perhaps there isn't a big conspiracy. Perhaps it is for our own good.
For another classic example, the Steve Jackson Games debacle illustrates several of these points..
If you mean the time they were raided during Operation Sundevil in 1990.. thats coz Loyd Blakenship was working there.. he was a well known hacker/cracker type.. The NSA have been watchful of the company ever since.
The RSA 56-bit challenge proved that a distributed computer system could break some relatively low-level encryption. Ok, it took 39 days, but it was entirely volunteers using a distributed network of 50000 CPUs.
Saying that a 4096 bit public key makes you entirely safe is simply wrong. No doubt the a few Roman generals felt entirely safe using a Ceasar Cipher. Most people can crack that by hand in less than an hour. Same as the Germans reliance on Enigma in WW2. They assumed they were safe because of encryption, they were wrong. Due to the efforts of the Polish cracking teams who first sussed the wheel and reflector method, and then GCHQ at Bletchley Park perfecting the decryption, German war time communications were virtually transparent.
The moral of the story is, just because you don't know how to crack it doesn't mean it can't be cracked. Lord knows what the NSA and GCHQ has dreamt up in the last ten years.. for all we know they may have found a flaw in RSA.. Its not like they're going to tell anyone about it.
In almost every 'Space craft crew only has 5 minutes of oxygen left' movie I've ever watched they're all utterly paranoid about the angle of descent into Earth's atmosphere. Getting the angle wrong, even by just a degree or two, would mean either bouncing off the upper stratosphere if the angle is too shallow (Bit like skimming a flat pebble over a calm lake), or burning up rather quickly if the angle is too steep.. Our good old atmosphere is actually pretty decent protection against these things.
Chris
Back in the halcyon days on 1985 the Amiga was a cracking introduction to computing. I remember opening the 'Bat-Pack' on Christmas morning, and being up and running (and swinging, kicking, driving etc) in just about ten minutes.
Isn't this where the likes of Microsoft, and the latest Linux installers (SuSE, RedHat, Turbo from my experience) are trying to go now? Seems like people want a decent machine without having to learn anything once again.
If AmigaOS is as easy and pleasent to use as it was back in '85 then people should flock to it.