It's an interesting idea. Probably too risky though.
A lot of countries have remarkably skilled reverse engineers. These tend to be the same countries that the US is hostile to. They learn some tricks because the US doesn't let them have access to modern technology.
If they downed a plane, got access to the software, and disassembled it, then they would quite likely be able to use the backdoor against a US friendly nation with F15s.
I don't understand this one. Surely if you have a lot of RAM and a write back cache, the writes can wait indefinitely for the head to be in a convenient location.
You know, the US censors some shows as well. It's a networks thing. The reason you don't hear about the cuts is that the shows are American made, and made so they don't need to cut anything out.
DX 8 is lower level than OpenGL. It doesn't support a high level shading language. Just a low level assembly like language. This is unlikely to change, although an extra library might be designed to bolt on a higher level shader.
A more logical comparison would be nVidia's Cg vs. GLSlang.
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[grin]
To be honest, most kids grow out of it before they get to college age. I've met a few of the "Jocks" since then, and they have been politely interested in what I'm doing.
Probably not perjury. They didn't check at all, so didn't know they were wrong.
Nevertheless, adding this seems to be a formality. I'd love to see someone prosecuted on that line just to force lawyers to think about how inimidating sending a letter is.
In the UK, software copyrights only last for 25 years, so for the spectrum you don't have much longer to wait.
That doesn't sound right. While such a law would make sense, as far as I know, the Berne convention specifies a minimum of 50 years, and doesn't distinguish between classes of work.
Taco likes it (as it appears do other members of staff). This site has always been about things that are important to those who run it. The site's popular, because those who read it tend to like the same things. Posting things the editors like seems to have been succesful.
So, basically, it's here because the editor was interested in it..
Oh, and I watch it, have the videos, and can go into too much detail about the plot.
Ah yes. I'm stil planning to upgrade my 500Mhz p3. I tend to go for 4-5 times speed upgrades. This meant 486-sx25->5x86-133->AMD-k6 350. I ended up witha 500Mhz machine because it was being practically given away.
Some people are surprised how few times I've upgraed. Non techies are impressed that I still have the computer I got in 1994 (with a replacement CPU, Case, hard disk drive.... everything else except keyboard).
Can someone kindly explain why I should pay more money to upgrade from 2000 to 2003 when 2000 does more that i need and i can get Open office which also does more than i need for free
No.
As far as I can tell, the desire for constant upgrades exists because everyone else keeps upgrading. I only ever upgrade when the upgrade offers something new. This applies to hardware as well as software.
Really? I thought they were all designed to be readable by a normal DVD player. If they can all be read by a DVD reader, I'd have thought they could be read by each other as well. If they can't then anything that's incompatible will probably fail, unless there's an overriding reason for it to succeed.
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Not quite like that. Your Amiga setup was actually probably better in many ways. Most of the Amiga's hardware was used by the 386 - at least the hard drive and the monitor were. The same goes for the Emulated Mac. Best of all though, you could run apps for all three systems at the same time on the same screen!
It's possible that there will always be 3 different formats. Designing hardware to read all three types is easy enough. Most modern hardware will. And most people are not concerned whether or not other people can write to their discs. Only that they can read them. Having to buy the correct media is the only inconvenience with multiple formats, but that's not really a problem.
After that, I suggest that you go visit yourself a coupld of hours before, and tell yourself to get some notepaper.
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Which just makes it a pointless comparison. I've never seen an Olympic swimming pool stood on its end. I have no idea how high that is. I can picture a couple of football pitches next to each other easily enough for floor area, but couldn't they have compared the height with something that's actually quite tall like a 20 storey building?
Impractical. If I were to steal $1 000 000 from a large multinational, the owner would hardly flinch. If I were to steal $10 000 from an individual, I could cause them serious problems, and potential wreck their life.
Also, stealing 10 times as much is not ten times the crime. For large values, it's a more succesful version of the same crime. Should I be charged with a greater crime if I steal the Mona Lisa than if I steal less valuable Pollock painting?
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Don't you understand Open source?
It's an interesting idea. Probably too risky though.
A lot of countries have remarkably skilled reverse engineers. These tend to be the same countries that the US is hostile to. They learn some tricks because the US doesn't let them have access to modern technology.
If they downed a plane, got access to the software, and disassembled it, then they would quite likely be able to use the backdoor against a US friendly nation with F15s.
# The leftover writes drive the head crazy.
I don't understand this one. Surely if you have a lot of RAM and a write back cache, the writes can wait indefinitely for the head to be in a convenient location.
You know, the US censors some shows as well. It's a networks thing. The reason you don't hear about the cuts is that the shows are American made, and made so they don't need to cut anything out.
DX 8 is lower level than OpenGL. It doesn't support a high level shading language. Just a low level assembly like language. This is unlikely to change, although an extra library might be designed to bolt on a higher level shader.
A more logical comparison would be nVidia's Cg vs. GLSlang.
[grin]
To be honest, most kids grow out of it before they get to college age. I've met a few of the "Jocks" since then, and they have been politely interested in what I'm doing.
Last Tuesday. Did you miss the meeting?
Of course it wouldn't. That's not my point.
It's just that the ftp site owners can't claim it did any more damage than any other spider that is written correctly.
Probably not perjury. They didn't check at all, so didn't know they were wrong.
Nevertheless, adding this seems to be a formality. I'd love to see someone prosecuted on that line just to force lawyers to think about how inimidating sending a letter is.
They don't have a robots.txt file in there. Presumably this means that searches are permitted.
In the UK, software copyrights only last for 25 years, so for the spectrum you don't have much longer to wait.
That doesn't sound right. While such a law would make sense, as far as I know, the Berne convention specifies a minimum of 50 years, and doesn't distinguish between classes of work.
Taco likes it (as it appears do other members of staff). This site has always been about things that are important to those who run it. The site's popular, because those who read it tend to like the same things. Posting things the editors like seems to have been succesful.
So, basically, it's here because the editor was interested in it..
Oh, and I watch it, have the videos, and can go into too much detail about the plot.
I propose we cross licence and set up a cartel. POrefereably one ending with AA.
We then sue a geek for a spurious reason to give ourselves coverage in Slashdot.
I've applied for a patent that covers:
clicking the reply button
typing comments about other obvious solutions
Clicking submit.
I intend to collect royalties from everyone (I hereby grant myself a free license to use it)
Ah yes. I'm stil planning to upgrade my 500Mhz p3. I tend to go for 4-5 times speed upgrades. This meant 486-sx25->5x86-133->AMD-k6 350. I ended up witha 500Mhz machine because it was being practically given away.
Some people are surprised how few times I've upgraed. Non techies are impressed that I still have the computer I got in 1994 (with a replacement CPU, Case, hard disk drive.... everything else except keyboard).
Can someone kindly explain why I should pay more money to upgrade from 2000 to 2003 when 2000 does more that i need and i can get Open office which also does more than i need for free
No.
As far as I can tell, the desire for constant upgrades exists because everyone else keeps upgrading. I only ever upgrade when the upgrade offers something new. This applies to hardware as well as software.
Really? I thought they were all designed to be readable by a normal DVD player. If they can all be read by a DVD reader, I'd have thought they could be read by each other as well. If they can't then anything that's incompatible will probably fail, unless there's an overriding reason for it to succeed.
Not quite like that. Your Amiga setup was actually probably better in many ways. Most of the Amiga's hardware was used by the 386 - at least the hard drive and the monitor were. The same goes for the Emulated Mac. Best of all though, you could run apps for all three systems at the same time on the same screen!
It's possible that there will always be 3 different formats. Designing hardware to read all three types is easy enough. Most modern hardware will. And most people are not concerned whether or not other people can write to their discs. Only that they can read them. Having to buy the correct media is the only inconvenience with multiple formats, but that's not really a problem.
No.
Sorry, but I'm afraid you want that bug. It's a fundamental part of your viewing experience.
6> ???
7> Profit
That Ceylon Raider that actually fires the missiles will one day be extremely rare.
Hell yeah! You actually had one of them!? I'll bet even a bashed up played with one is worth something.
After that, I suggest that you go visit yourself a coupld of hours before, and tell yourself to get some notepaper.
Which just makes it a pointless comparison. I've never seen an Olympic swimming pool stood on its end. I have no idea how high that is. I can picture a couple of football pitches next to each other easily enough for floor area, but couldn't they have compared the height with something that's actually quite tall like a 20 storey building?
Or just say 50m high.
Maybe 1 year per $1000....
Impractical. If I were to steal $1 000 000 from a large multinational, the owner would hardly flinch. If I were to steal $10 000 from an individual, I could cause them serious problems, and potential wreck their life.
Also, stealing 10 times as much is not ten times the crime. For large values, it's a more succesful version of the same crime. Should I be charged with a greater crime if I steal the Mona Lisa than if I steal less valuable Pollock painting?