I can in fact prove to you by pointing to the system requirements of their pre-WCIII games that they did in fact require DirectX. To be fair, saying a game requires DirectX doesn't actually mean that they're not using OpenGL. Direct3D - which OpenGL replaces, is only a part of DirectX, which also includes DirectInput, DirectDraw, DirectSound etc.
I don't have a DS, but I do believe the iPhone touchscreen is significantly larger than the DS touchscreen. It depends what you call significant - 3.5 inch diagonal for the iPhone to 3 inch diagonal for the DS - not that significant in my view.
It does have about 1.8 times the resolution (480x320 vs 256x192), but the DS does have two screens (albeit only one is a touchscreen).
The EU isn't a nation, sovereign or otherwise. The EU isn't a sovereign nation, but the member states are.
This would be a contravention of the EC's rules and treaties. The member countries in the EU can change the rules and treaties.
The EU isn't a government No, but it passes directives which must be implemented in the member countries legal systems. From Wikipedia:
These legal powers include the ability to enact legislation which can directly affect all member states and their inhabitants (principle of 'Direct effect'). National courts are required to enforce the EU treaties and the laws enacted under them, as membership of the organisation obliges them to do so. In the case of a conflict where a law stemming from EU legislation conflicts with another national law, the EU law is considered to take precedence (principle of 'Supremacy'). Decisions regarding EU legislation may be referred to the European Court of Justice by national courts.
If you use software that constantly write to their executing directory, it gets very troublesome. Imagine in Linux if a software did that. You'd have to run it as root or give yourself special priviledge all over the place.
Well no, I would expect the application to 1) create a user for the application 2) set the permissions on the executing directory to that user and 3) run the executable as setuid to that user.
This would allow the application complete access the the files under it's own directory, but no access to systems files or anything else. Just like how postgres and a whole load of other linux applications do it. No need to be root, no need for "special" privileges. I suspect windows *could* do it like that, but doesn't
However my impression is, that MS basically has a failed project in Vista and that they would actually have had to scrap it 3-4 years into development, learn the lesson that they are subjects to laws of nature (or mathematic) as well and start over. They obviouly were not smart or gutsy enough for that. That's exactly what Microsoft did with Vista. Longhorn was in development from 2001-2004 based on the XP code base. Mid 2004 it was "refocussed" (scrapped) and rebased on the Windows Server 2003 code base - removing vast chunks of promised functionality. So Vista actually only took Microsoft 2 1/2 years to release - not the 6 years that everyone goes on about.
Doesn't make Vista any less of a pig though. (Apologies to pigs everywhere)
Unfortunately for you, Christopher Tolkien is not the person you describe in your e-mail. It was Christopher Tolkien that turned the Silmarillion, the unfinished tales and all the other posthumously published work into publishable form. He created the maps of the Lord of the Rings. The 12 volume work "History of Middle Earth" was edited by him, and contains extensive commentary and analysis of all of his fathers work. Without Christopher Tolkien we wouldn't have had such detailed insights into the story and I seriously doubt that the film would have been anywhere near as good - if it would have been made at all.
I can see why prices in Britain would thus be 17.5% higher, however the poster indicated that, at the current exchange rate, prices are approximately 100% higher. What's the reason for the extra 82.5%?
If you're in the UK the police would ask you for the encryption keys. If you don't provide them they prosecute you under Part 3 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which leads to up to 2 years in jail, 5 years if it's for "national security". Just for withholding the keys. So it depends on whether you think what's on your hard drive is going to get you an even worse punishment.
I doubt that you could save much. Although H264 is called MPEG-4 Part 10, and it uses the same ideas (transform, motion compensation, quantization) it uses very different algorithms to perform each step. Probably the best candidates are the motion vectors (how a block of 8x8 pixels moves over time) even then, DivX is limited to 8x8 blocks, whereas H264 can do different sized blocks (8x16, 16x16) if that matches the motion better - so you lose one of the big benefits of H264 by re-using the motion vectors.
I'd be tempted to do the re-code though. H264 should be able to give you at least a 25% improvement in file size for the same perceived quality. Depends on what you want though. I regularly recode MPEG-2 as H264 with quite a spectacular reduction in file size, and (to my eyes) a minimal reduction in quality.
if I delete something off my computer, YOU have to prove I intended something "nasty" by it. I do not.
That's very true, however if he truly did write a program that removed those particular keys only, then that can be taken as proof, since there's nothing else that it can be used for except as a means of getting round the copyright protection.
Deleting tax files is NOT deleting from your own registry, and that's destroying EVIDENCE and is not part of this at ALL.
Yes it is. It's exactly the same. Both are stored as bits on the hard disk and as bits in memory. I can delete any bits I want from memory and my hard disk, but I may subsequently be held to account because of the intent of my actions.
And it's only UNAUTHORIZED reverse engineering if you TELL someone how to do it
Nope, it's still unauthorised. You just didn't tell anyone about it. (If a tree falls and no one hears it, did it make a sound?)
And since you can decipher registry keys WITHOUT reverse engineering, telling what ones to delete is not "harboring circumvention and piracy"
Lets say you have 10 registry keys. All have a random number in them, to all visible intents and purposes they are equivalent. Except that deleting one of them removes a restriction on a piece of software that you have. What do you do? You reverse engineer the piece of software to figure out which one it is checking. Reverse engineering in this context includes de-compilation, tracing or any other technological measure that allows me to monitor the software.
You would think that you couldn't get a VGA cable inserted upside down? My sister did and wondered why it didn't work. Luckily (although I don't know how) none of the pins were broken. I straightened them with pliers and managed to get it working.
I can't believe you're so uptight about this human rights thing, and you're so wrong:
Article 10 of The European Convention on Human Rights:
Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. this right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
Note also that it talks about "free as in freedom", not "free as in beer" - so you're getting confused there. There's nothing stopping your single mothers from getting together and sharing information about anything they want - by perhaps letter, or talking. That's the point of the convention, not what you think it is.
Except the XvMC extension is NOT supported in the 8xxx series cards. Can't be bothered to dig out the link, but it's true. You buy a top of the line NVidia card, expecting to get at least as much as the previous card generation, but nope. Apparently it's too difficult to implement on the new architecture.
Maybe it's not in Unix because there are better alternatives for "real" systems?
For example the IBM 4764 Cryptographic Coprocessor? They're expensive, but more secure than anything a basic machine / operating system could provide. But if you're developing a system that actually has a need for secure keys then surely a price worth paying?
In my view, anything like this built into the operating system is a "poor mans" secure store. Something a home use might like, but certainly not something you'd want to use in a mission critical production system.
I've used PMD, and it's quite good, but irritating at times. It complained when I was creating an object within a loop. Now what I had to do was populate a list of objects so the whole point was to create multiple objects, using a loop. But it still complained...
It's like checkstyle - good for catching some things, but sometimes too irritating to take seriously.
Linux may be a UNIX clone, but you can't use the similarity of the commands to prove anything. The shell (bash / sh / csh / ksh / whatever) isn't a part of the operating system - it's a user program. With cygwin you can run bash under Windows.
There's an audible "crack" as a bullet passes over your head. That's the sonic boom. It's not deafening, but you can definately hear it. I know this from being in the "butts" on various rifle ranges. The "butts" are where the targets are. Essentially, concrete bunkers that allow people to lift the targets up and down so that the shooter can have each shot marked to them (using a big pointy arrow, really).
What you hear is the "crack" of the bullet passing overhead, immediately followed by the thump as it hits the earth embankment behind the target. You can tell when it's your target that's been hit (since the crack is immediately above you) - and you have to listen for it, the thump doesn't give you enough directional hints to tell if it was your target or the target next door.
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Have you tried using gtkpod?
It does have about 1.8 times the resolution (480x320 vs 256x192), but the DS does have two screens (albeit only one is a touchscreen).
I think these are right:
10Mb/sec x 60 x 60 x 24 = 108000 Mb/day
Divide by 8 = 13500 MB or 13.5 GB per day
Therefore 15Mb/sec would be 20.25GB per day
You have my respect. Keeping cool even though it must get you down a bit to keep on posting the same information over and over again.
... understanding.
Not sure if I would be quite so
Marked as a Troll? Too many moderators don't know how the EU works I think.
Well no, I would expect the application to 1) create a user for the application 2) set the permissions on the executing directory to that user and 3) run the executable as setuid to that user.
This would allow the application complete access the the files under it's own directory, but no access to systems files or anything else. Just like how postgres and a whole load of other linux applications do it. No need to be root, no need for "special" privileges. I suspect windows *could* do it like that, but doesn't
Doesn't make Vista any less of a pig though. (Apologies to pigs everywhere)
And you think that the Conservatives will still continue to oppose id cards when they get into power?
Unfortunately for you, Christopher Tolkien is not the person you describe in your e-mail. It was Christopher Tolkien that turned the Silmarillion, the unfinished tales and all the other posthumously published work into publishable form. He created the maps of the Lord of the Rings. The 12 volume work "History of Middle Earth" was edited by him, and contains extensive commentary and analysis of all of his fathers work. Without Christopher Tolkien we wouldn't have had such detailed insights into the story and I seriously doubt that the film would have been anywhere near as good - if it would have been made at all.
I can see why prices in Britain would thus be 17.5% higher, however the poster indicated that, at the current exchange rate, prices are approximately 100% higher. What's the reason for the extra 82.5%?
If you're in the UK the police would ask you for the encryption keys. If you don't provide them they prosecute you under Part 3 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which leads to up to 2 years in jail, 5 years if it's for "national security". Just for withholding the keys. So it depends on whether you think what's on your hard drive is going to get you an even worse punishment.
I doubt that you could save much. Although H264 is called MPEG-4 Part 10, and it uses the same ideas (transform, motion compensation, quantization) it uses very different algorithms to perform each step. Probably the best candidates are the motion vectors (how a block of 8x8 pixels moves over time) even then, DivX is limited to 8x8 blocks, whereas H264 can do different sized blocks (8x16, 16x16) if that matches the motion better - so you lose one of the big benefits of H264 by re-using the motion vectors.
I'd be tempted to do the re-code though. H264 should be able to give you at least a 25% improvement in file size for the same perceived quality. Depends on what you want though. I regularly recode MPEG-2 as H264 with quite a spectacular reduction in file size, and (to my eyes) a minimal reduction in quality.
That's very true, however if he truly did write a program that removed those particular keys only, then that can be taken as proof, since there's nothing else that it can be used for except as a means of getting round the copyright protection.
Yes it is. It's exactly the same. Both are stored as bits on the hard disk and as bits in memory. I can delete any bits I want from memory and my hard disk, but I may subsequently be held to account because of the intent of my actions.
Nope, it's still unauthorised. You just didn't tell anyone about it. (If a tree falls and no one hears it, did it make a sound?)
Lets say you have 10 registry keys. All have a random number in them, to all visible intents and purposes they are equivalent. Except that deleting one of them removes a restriction on a piece of software that you have. What do you do? You reverse engineer the piece of software to figure out which one it is checking. Reverse engineering in this context includes de-compilation, tracing or any other technological measure that allows me to monitor the software.
You would think that you couldn't get a VGA cable inserted upside down? My sister did and wondered why it didn't work. Luckily (although I don't know how) none of the pins were broken. I straightened them with pliers and managed to get it working.
Sorry to disillusion you, but it's not up to the US.
The fight is to get OOXML fast tracked as an ISO standard, not ANSI. ISO. International Standards Organisation.
If Americans allow Microsoft to buy out the US vote, then it's left up to the rest of the world to ensure that ISO doesn't fast track it.
I can't believe you're so uptight about this human rights thing, and you're so wrong:
Article 10 of The European Convention on Human Rights:
Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. this right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
Note also that it talks about "free as in freedom", not "free as in beer" - so you're getting confused there. There's nothing stopping your single mothers from getting together and sharing information about anything they want - by perhaps letter, or talking. That's the point of the convention, not what you think it is.
Except the XvMC extension is NOT supported in the 8xxx series cards. Can't be bothered to dig out the link, but it's true. You buy a top of the line NVidia card, expecting to get at least as much as the previous card generation, but nope. Apparently it's too difficult to implement on the new architecture.
Maybe it's not in Unix because there are better alternatives for "real" systems?
For example the IBM 4764 Cryptographic Coprocessor? They're expensive, but more secure than anything a basic machine / operating system could provide. But if you're developing a system that actually has a need for secure keys then surely a price worth paying?
In my view, anything like this built into the operating system is a "poor mans" secure store. Something a home use might like, but certainly not something you'd want to use in a mission critical production system.
I've used PMD, and it's quite good, but irritating at times. It complained when I was creating an object within a loop. Now what I had to do was populate a list of objects so the whole point was to create multiple objects, using a loop. But it still complained...
It's like checkstyle - good for catching some things, but sometimes too irritating to take seriously.
Linux may be a UNIX clone, but you can't use the similarity of the commands to prove anything. The shell (bash / sh / csh / ksh / whatever) isn't a part of the operating system - it's a user program. With cygwin you can run bash under Windows.
There's an audible "crack" as a bullet passes over your head. That's the sonic boom. It's not deafening, but you can definately hear it. I know this from being in the "butts" on various rifle ranges. The "butts" are where the targets are. Essentially, concrete bunkers that allow people to lift the targets up and down so that the shooter can have each shot marked to them (using a big pointy arrow, really).
What you hear is the "crack" of the bullet passing overhead, immediately followed by the thump as it hits the earth embankment behind the target. You can tell when it's your target that's been hit (since the crack is immediately above you) - and you have to listen for it, the thump doesn't give you enough directional hints to tell if it was your target or the target next door.
The UK really doesn't care that much about it.
Not everything the French do is bad, take SCART for example. It was mandated in France and caught on in the rest of Europe because it was useful.