the german law 69d UrhG allows cracking of software that you legally own and that won't work otherwise...
Sure, but how many of the game's buyers have the skills and nerve to crack it themselves?
I'm pretty sure 69d UrhG allows YOU to "watch, inspect and test" a program you bought/licensed/whatever if it's neccessary to run it, but it doesn't say that you could pass that crack on to someone else...
For example, in my Vista media center, I have an ATI 5770. - However I can't use DXDA because I need software ffdshow. - And the reason I need software ffdshow is to enable mediacontrol plugin, which allows me to use my remote to change / toggle audio channels and subtitles.
I take it you don't keep up with ffdshow development, because mediacontrol's author actually added DXVA support (and limited OSD/subtitles support for it) five weeks ago...
np: Pantha Du Prince - Lay In A Shimmer (Black Noise)
The magnetic strip was actually what saved the banks' collective asses in Germany recently when the chips on their cash cards turned out to have a serious Y2k10 problem... so maybe the stripes DO work in the UK when the chip is fried?
(Then again what kind of security is that if I can just damage/destroy the chip and the card'll work anyway?)
Contrary to popular belief, Apple still produces 160GB iPod Classics - as long as you don't use the hideous mess of crap that is iTunes you should be good to go with one of those...
np: James Horner - Gathering All The Na'vi Clans For Battle (Avatar: Music From The Motion Picture)
Last I checked the current Flash 10.1 beta plugin actually plays HD FLVs with minimal CPU usage thanks to using GPU acceleration for the video decoding...
h264 can compress a video much more for a given quality than the current flash video they use
Except, of course, that the flash plugin has supported H264 video for a while now and the 10.1 beta actually does accelerate H264 decoding via the graphics card (I'd say less than 5% CPU use when playing a HD trailer suggests it's being accelerated...)
If somebody were willing to come up with a billion dollars in cash, they could buy the top 100 people in the PostgreSQL project, and that would cramp it severely for a couple of years.
If "they" had a billion dollars, wouldn't hiring hitmen for those 100 people allow them to keep a huge part of that sum?
Last I checked a timezone was mandatory in mail dates, allowing you to handle this correctly - for example by converting your current date and the date specified in the email to GMT...
Now they just have to solve the problem with it landing somewhere that you can't get to - I'd rather throw a 0.00 EUR stone that I just found lying on the ground than a damn 500+ EUR phone...
It's more likely that the problems with the 8.x and 9.x installations were that I hadn't fully (using a registry and driver cleaner) removed all the ati drivers from the system before installing the new one.
Well, I've been running Windows XP until Windows 7 RTM came out, and as long as I kept using ATI's uninstaller from the Add/Remove Programs control panel I didn't have any bigger problems with upgrading my drivers; no extra registry cleaner or similar neccessary.
With Windows 7 I haven't bothered uninstalling the drivers before upgrading and it has worked out nicely - the worst that happened with the 9.11's was me having to reboot once before video acceleration in the Flash 10.1 beta started working correctly...
CDs are notoriously flawed. Remember that it was trying to fit a particular classical piece on a CD that caused the trade-off that came up with an 8-bit sample and a 44.1k/sec sample rate. Both of these noticeably degrade the sound.
Well, CD might be flawed, but so is your statement above - CD audio of course uses 16-bit samples, not 8-bit...
I'll check the Diamond site and see if there's a new suite. I really don't go into Crossfire that often as most games don't support it but the ones that do really look great.
It's up to you, but why anyone would look at the card manufacturer's site for recent driver is really beyond me - if you want drivers for the desktop, go to the chipset manufacturer's site...
Almost all of those cards are exact copies of the reference design modulo some fancy cooling solution - there's nothing for the manufacturers to do other than slapping their logo on the driver.
My laptop is an AMD Sempron with ATI "R300M xpress".
The last ATI driver to support the chipset was 9.3 - the current version is 9.10ish(?).
Actually, as of right now it's 9.11 (knock yourself out here), which happens to also have been released for their "older" products (like your 300M) that only get driver updates (without new features) every few months...
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the german law 69d UrhG allows cracking of software that you legally own and that won't work otherwise...
Sure, but how many of the game's buyers have the skills and nerve to crack it themselves?
I'm pretty sure 69d UrhG allows YOU to "watch, inspect and test" a program you bought/licensed/whatever if it's neccessary to run it, but it doesn't say that you could pass that crack on to someone else...
Ahh, the day that comes...
Believe it or not, it's already landed on trunk - at least for Firefox running on Windows 7.
np: Autechre.ws Webcast (02.03.2010)
For example, in my Vista media center, I have an ATI 5770.
- However I can't use DXDA because I need software ffdshow.
- And the reason I need software ffdshow is to enable mediacontrol plugin, which allows me to use my remote to change / toggle audio channels and subtitles.
I take it you don't keep up with ffdshow development, because mediacontrol's author actually added DXVA support (and limited OSD/subtitles support for it) five weeks ago...
np: Pantha Du Prince - Lay In A Shimmer (Black Noise)
Failwhale?
Imagine a 3-way with clones of Ashley and Jessica - yes, I'm a one-handed typist.
A threesome with an amputee? Kinky.
Except, of course, that shifting is basically free but is only one extra instruction, not two.
The magnetic strip was actually what saved the banks' collective asses in Germany recently when the chips on their cash cards turned out to have a serious Y2k10 problem... so maybe the stripes DO work in the UK when the chip is fried?
(Then again what kind of security is that if I can just damage/destroy the chip and the card'll work anyway?)
np: Barbara Morgenstern - Deine Geschichte (BM)
I hate to agree with a PC user, but that is what I see as lacking in the iPad; no useful text editor.
I'm sure the release of the viPad is just a bit further down the road...
Contrary to popular belief, Apple still produces 160GB iPod Classics - as long as you don't use the hideous mess of crap that is iTunes you should be good to go with one of those...
np: James Horner - Gathering All The Na'vi Clans For Battle (Avatar: Music From The Motion Picture)
The "Star Wars Valentines Day Special"?
Ick.
I hope it wasn't Michael Jackson...
np: Flight Of The Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky (I Told You I Was Freaky)
The article is a twitter post.
If you take a closer look at TFS you'll find there's also a link to wikileaks.org, which - whoop-de-freaking-do - states the very same.
Of course, why the editors had to leave that twit in there is anyone's guess - probably the usual laziness...
Last I checked the current Flash 10.1 beta plugin actually plays HD FLVs with minimal CPU usage thanks to using GPU acceleration for the video decoding...
h264 can compress a video much more for a given quality than the current flash video they use
Except, of course, that the flash plugin has supported H264 video for a while now and the 10.1 beta actually does accelerate H264 decoding via the graphics card (I'd say less than 5% CPU use when playing a HD trailer suggests it's being accelerated...)
np: Pink Floyd - Echoes (Meddle)
If somebody were willing to come up with a billion dollars in cash, they could buy the top 100 people in the PostgreSQL project, and that would cramp it severely for a couple of years.
If "they" had a billion dollars, wouldn't hiring hitmen for those 100 people allow them to keep a huge part of that sum?
That reminds me of that old C-64 game, "Auf Wiedersehen Monty"...
Last I checked a timezone was mandatory in mail dates, allowing you to handle this correctly - for example by converting your current date and the date specified in the email to GMT...
Who has been buying it for the pictures since the advent of the internet, anyway?
You mean like this? :D
Now they just have to solve the problem with it landing somewhere that you can't get to - I'd rather throw a 0.00 EUR stone that I just found lying on the ground than a damn 500+ EUR phone...
np: Speedy J - Drill (A Shocking Hobby)
It's more likely that the problems with the 8.x and 9.x installations were that I hadn't fully (using a registry and driver cleaner) removed all the ati drivers from the system before installing the new one.
Well, I've been running Windows XP until Windows 7 RTM came out, and as long as I kept using ATI's uninstaller from the Add/Remove Programs control panel I didn't have any bigger problems with upgrading my drivers; no extra registry cleaner or similar neccessary.
With Windows 7 I haven't bothered uninstalling the drivers before upgrading and it has worked out nicely - the worst that happened with the 9.11's was me having to reboot once before video acceleration in the Flash 10.1 beta started working correctly...
CDs are notoriously flawed. Remember that it was trying to fit a particular classical piece on a CD that caused the trade-off that came up with an 8-bit sample and a 44.1k/sec sample rate. Both of these noticeably degrade the sound.
Well, CD might be flawed, but so is your statement above - CD audio of course uses 16-bit samples, not 8-bit...
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I'll check the Diamond site and see if there's a new suite. I really don't go into Crossfire that often as most games don't support it but the ones that do really look great.
It's up to you, but why anyone would look at the card manufacturer's site for recent driver is really beyond me - if you want drivers for the desktop, go to the chipset manufacturer's site...
Almost all of those cards are exact copies of the reference design modulo some fancy cooling solution - there's nothing for the manufacturers to do other than slapping their logo on the driver.
I think you're confusing ATI with Nvidia...
Actually, I was confusing Linux with Windows - but who the hell wants binary blobs for Linux anyway when the specs for the hardware are out there?
Meh, scratch that - just read the 9.11 release notes and found this:
"Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating Systems
Now able to enable and disable CrossFire when three displays are configured in
extended mode"
I guess me usually running only 2 displays with my projector on the second card disabled most of the time never made me run into this...
My laptop is an AMD Sempron with ATI "R300M xpress".
The last ATI driver to support the chipset was 9.3 - the current version is 9.10ish(?).
Actually, as of right now it's 9.11 (knock yourself out here), which happens to also have been released for their "older" products (like your 300M) that only get driver updates (without new features) every few months...