The issue there was really a reporter was using a scapel like a hammer.
PDF's can contain vector graphics, text, bitmaps, etc... the reporter assumed that because he couldn't see it, it wasn't there. What he did is sort of like hidding html text by changing the background and forground to the same colour. Or blacking out text with a magic marker without realizing that you can read it if you hold it up to a light.
For that to work, you would have to assume that a given computer magazine has reviewed every single card on the market.
Each month they would have to print a list of all the cards they have printed reviews of, as well all the cards that had shipped at press time. Otherwise if they didn't get an early Geforce Ultra, you would have to assume that there were problems with it since it was on the market.
CSS/region encoding isn't a requrement for DVDs. Many anime DVDs aren't region encoded so they can be easily sold around the world. I would be surprized if they let you use CSS on discs you burned yourself.
Re:Open Source on 'Protected' HD's - I think not!
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The thing is that the copy protection doesn't need OS support. Basicly, it's a serial number on an unwritable section of the hard drive. I suppose linux could refuse to read that section, but the idea is that a few years after the copy protection is standard, it will be required by software.
The articles I read seemed to imply that the serial number will act as a public decryption key. People who want to use the copy protection will pay your HD maker for the private encryption key. Then you'll download a file that can only be read on you're HD.
I could be wrong, there weren't a lot of technical details...
Neon needs special dies, cmyk can't print it. In fact cmyk can't even handle all the shades of green rgb can (try drawing in bright green in photoshop and converting to cmyk).
A while back I heard about a 6-color printing system that had much higher quality, does anyone know if it's still around?
What about high detail outdoor landscapes? Real-time fractal generation for high detail plants and trees.
The only reason you think we are close is that game designers are good at hidding the hardware limits. How far can you see in most FPSes? 50 meters? Have you ever seen a convincing forest? Or a real-time magnifying glass?
As game detail increases video cards will be expected to provide more helper functions as well. If you're running through a crowd of 5000 you can't expect the designers to individually render each person (interals to, so they can explode properly). Cards and APIs will have to have commands like:
There might be some eventual upper limit, but we're nowhere near it.
Re:It's Napster's responsibility, but...
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Nazis on Napster
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And there are laws everywhere against music piracy. If napster starts regulating content, then in their lawsuit they can no longer claim they can't stop piracy.
If napster does this they are shooting themselves in the foot. Their entire legal stratagey rides on the fact that they can't control content.
They aren't quite interchangable when you're dealing with lighter than air objects. The issue is that a higher mass object would require more energy to move, and thus be less affected by wind, etc.
Remember, inertia is a function of mass not weight.
The ship could have a very high mass but still be lighter than air due to it's low density.
On the other hand, your statment seems to be more of a question of what the proper definition of weight is. i.e. should weight be the total gravatational pull on an object or the total force after other issues are considered. I don't know, but weight is usually used in a practical sense so using an ideal value like the weight in a vacuum (sp?) doesn't seem right to me.
I think that most of the problem is that there isn't really such a thing as generic p-code. You have to make certain assumptions about how high-level the language is and what features it has built in.
I have no idea what kind of questions they ask but take this as an example:
Read in paragraph from the following file and store each paragraph in an array. A paragraph is denoted by a line feed followed by a tab. Sort the paragraphs alphabetically and write them to a new file.
This is a fairly long question when you're using C, but in perl it's about 6 lines.
p.s. It's entirely possible I have no idea what I'm talking about.
It's not fair to a student who doesn't know perl to have to do so much more work and lose time on the other questions.
Data for graphics is gaseous, and will expand to fill all availiable space.
Re:I know I'll be modded down, but bear with me he
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Acctually copyrights don't expire.
Disney got the copyright length extended another 20 years (to 95) because Mickey Mouse was about to enter public domain in 2004.
Now, they did it once, do you really think in 20 years they won't do it again? The financial motivations will be exactly the same, and unless lobbying changes, there'll be nothing to stop them.
I don't understand why everyone is so upset about them using a development snapshot...
Isn't one of the advantages of open source (and free software) supposed to be that you aren't at the mercy of other organizations?
The GCC comittiee has different deadlines and standards than Redhat. They don't consider their snapshots to be up to par for a release, but Redhat finds they are good enough for almost all of their purposes. Why should they have to wait for an official release? Besides, object file compatibility is a complete non-issue for about 99% of users. People usually only distribute binaries or source code. Redhat 7 is compatible with both of these methods.
To sum up, if a distributer is required to listen to every group involved then the software isn't free speach, just free beer.
BTW, I agree with you about the config files... it's a nightmare finding anything.
They only released a dedicated server, not a client.
There is no half life on linux (unless wine is further than I thought).
Re:GM food is not a good idea yet
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What if someone produced a breed of rice that was immune to every disease we put before it and whose seed was cheaper than any other? Farmers across the world would pull up their crops and plant this new rice. Now, what would happen if finally a disease did break through it's barrier?
That sound a lot like the irish potato famine. The importance of biodiversity is well know and is certinly not a new issue with the introduction of GM crops. If anything the GM crops will be more diverse than the standard sterile hyprids that seed growers now sell... simply because people will want strains that will grow in their climate.
But think about a FPS. If you have a completly untrusted client and a 100ms ping, you're only going to get to play at wopping 10fps.
In order to get any higher you have to send the client extra info and trust it to reveal it at the correct time.
IMHO the only way around this is to have name registration or some kind of account system(it would have to be global in order to prevent cheaters from just switching servers). Then you could ban cheaters permanatly.
You think that's bad? You should see what we did in residence... The up side to those small rooms is that you have 2 computers right next to each other.
You can have your friend position himself as a ghost so you can see two floors at once.
Then you shoot through the floor.
We would have felt more guilty about it if we did't spot so many other people doing the same thing.
Why should the terminator look human? It'd make much more sense from a design standpoint to design a well armed and armored jeep to clear out those annoying meat monkeys.
The real question is why did skynet feel the need to take over the planet. Humans need to live in specific enviroments, but why wouldn't an intelligent computer just relocate to Antarctica until it could build a launch pad to send it self into a solar orbit, far far away from any humans.
The answer is simple. That would have made a lousy movie.
The problem with your idea is that an amored jeep sent back in time to assasinate someone would probably fail. It's hard to blend in when you're an assault vehicle.
A lot of the problems with intel started with the processor serial number fiasco, there were some other questionable bussiness practices that intel did though...
like patenting the bus for the PII and refusing to lisence it (the backed up when anti-trust lawyer started going after them).
But you also can't forget some of the employee problems the're having.
Your forgetting the real reason they went with the mini-dvds. Eventually dvd burners will be cheap. Eventually someone will make a Game Cube mod chip.
But good luck on finding a writable mini-dvd.
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The issue there was really a reporter was using a scapel like a hammer.
PDF's can contain vector graphics, text, bitmaps, etc... the reporter assumed that because he couldn't see it, it wasn't there. What he did is sort of like hidding html text by changing the background and forground to the same colour. Or blacking out text with a magic marker without realizing that you can read it if you hold it up to a light.
Flash sucks when people use it for extravagent menus, and anoying openings. However, when it's used for games and animations it kicks ass.
Check out Newgrounds and Shockwave.com (you have to watch the episodes of Radiskull and DevilDoll!)Acctually if you listen to the interviews Lucas gives on the special edition videos he says Jabba was originally a 'furry thing'.
For that to work, you would have to assume that a given computer magazine has reviewed every single card on the market.
Each month they would have to print a list of all the cards they have printed reviews of, as well all the cards that had shipped at press time. Otherwise if they didn't get an early Geforce Ultra, you would have to assume that there were problems with it since it was on the market.
CSS/region encoding isn't a requrement for DVDs. Many anime DVDs aren't region encoded so they can be easily sold around the world. I would be surprized if they let you use CSS on discs you burned yourself.
The articles I read seemed to imply that the serial number will act as a public decryption key. People who want to use the copy protection will pay your HD maker for the private encryption key. Then you'll download a file that can only be read on you're HD.
I could be wrong, there weren't a lot of technical details...
Neon needs special dies, cmyk can't print it. In fact cmyk can't even handle all the shades of green rgb can (try drawing in bright green in photoshop and converting to cmyk).
A while back I heard about a 6-color printing system that had much higher quality, does anyone know if it's still around?
The only reason you think we are close is that game designers are good at hidding the hardware limits. How far can you see in most FPSes? 50 meters? Have you ever seen a convincing forest? Or a real-time magnifying glass?
As game detail increases video cards will be expected to provide more helper functions as well. If you're running through a crowd of 5000 you can't expect the designers to individually render each person (interals to, so they can explode properly). Cards and APIs will have to have commands like:
world.add(new person(MDL_BLOND_GIRL_HOT, "5'6", ACTN_STANDINGAROUND));
There might be some eventual upper limit, but we're nowhere near it.If napster does this they are shooting themselves in the foot. Their entire legal stratagey rides on the fact that they can't control content.
Remember, inertia is a function of mass not weight. The ship could have a very high mass but still be lighter than air due to it's low density.
On the other hand, your statment seems to be more of a question of what the proper definition of weight is. i.e. should weight be the total gravatational pull on an object or the total force after other issues are considered. I don't know, but weight is usually used in a practical sense so using an ideal value like the weight in a vacuum (sp?) doesn't seem right to me.
I have no idea what kind of questions they ask but take this as an example:
Read in paragraph from the following file and store each paragraph in an array. A paragraph is denoted by a line feed followed by a tab. Sort the paragraphs alphabetically and write them to a new file.
This is a fairly long question when you're using C, but in perl it's about 6 lines.
p.s. It's entirely possible I have no idea what I'm talking about. It's not fair to a student who doesn't know perl to have to do so much more work and lose time on the other questions.
Data for graphics is gaseous, and will expand to fill all availiable space.
Now, they did it once, do you really think in 20 years they won't do it again? The financial motivations will be exactly the same, and unless lobbying changes, there'll be nothing to stop them.
Which makes this whole thing look like a hoax.
Isn't one of the advantages of open source (and free software) supposed to be that you aren't at the mercy of other organizations?
The GCC comittiee has different deadlines and standards than Redhat. They don't consider their snapshots to be up to par for a release, but Redhat finds they are good enough for almost all of their purposes. Why should they have to wait for an official release? Besides, object file compatibility is a complete non-issue for about 99% of users. People usually only distribute binaries or source code. Redhat 7 is compatible with both of these methods.
To sum up, if a distributer is required to listen to every group involved then the software isn't free speach, just free beer.
BTW, I agree with you about the config files...
it's a nightmare finding anything.
There is no half life on linux (unless wine is further than I thought).
That sound a lot like the irish potato famine. The importance of biodiversity is well know and is certinly not a new issue with the introduction of GM crops. If anything the GM crops will be more diverse than the standard sterile hyprids that seed growers now sell... simply because people will want strains that will grow in their climate.
In order to get any higher you have to send the client extra info and trust it to reveal it at the correct time.
IMHO the only way around this is to have name registration or some kind of account system(it would have to be global in order to prevent cheaters from just switching servers). Then you could ban cheaters permanatly.
You can have your friend position himself as a ghost so you can see two floors at once.
Then you shoot through the floor.
We would have felt more guilty about it if we did't spot so many other people doing the same thing.
The real question is why did skynet feel the need to take over the planet. Humans need to live in specific enviroments, but why wouldn't an intelligent computer just relocate to Antarctica until it could build a launch pad to send it self into a solar orbit, far far away from any humans.
The answer is simple. That would have made a lousy movie.
The problem with your idea is that an amored jeep sent back in time to assasinate someone would probably fail. It's hard to blend in when you're an assault vehicle.
A lot of the problems with intel started with the processor serial number fiasco, there were some other questionable bussiness practices that intel did though... like patenting the bus for the PII and refusing to lisence it (the backed up when anti-trust lawyer started going after them).
But you also can't forget some of the employee problems the're having.
25 minutes is too high. The standard is 22 min for a half hour show, and I doubt they could go up to 23 min without some serious scheduling problems.
25 minutes is too high. The standard is 22 min for a half hour show, and I doubt they could go up to 23 min without some serious scheduling problems.
Your forgetting the real reason they went with the mini-dvds.
Eventually dvd burners will be cheap.
Eventually someone will make a Game Cube mod chip.
But good luck on finding a writable mini-dvd.
I thought 'l337 h4x0rs' got all their caffeine from Mountain Dew.
Not up north. Health Canada has rules that say cirtus pops like Sprite and Mountain Dew can't have added caffine.