You seem to paint the world outside the U.S. as somehow radically different in that respect.
WAKE UP! IT IS. TCPA is perverted US capitalism at it's finest. Creating law that forms and enforces a monopoly. Britan, Canada and the EU would laugh this piece of trash out of our govts.
Thanks for the dumbass comment. If you think my opinion is dumb, then I'm obviously showing you a point of view that's vastly different than yours.
That sounds good. I have a humidor full of them, maybe I'll have one too.;-)
Ya, but your cigars are illegal. Must I remind you of Cuban trade sanctions?
The US is a big player in the global economy. We import and export a lot of things to the rest of the world, and if that stops, the rest of the world will notice.
Are we still talking about TCPA? Sounds like you're beating your chest over hypothetical events not related to the topic. Why don't you just say:
"The world cannot go on without a properous American economy!" or "w3 o\/\/n j000000!!"
You're just proving my point on the American EGO. Many other countries currently follow a different path than the US and this will continue.
Canada's senate is reviewing a bill to legalize pot while US police are still jailing kids for possession. Canada has very few gun related deaths compared to gun wielding Americans running scared from a evil sniper armed with a gun you can't even buy in Canada. Can you see the differences here?
Canada will never see the day of TCPA and a large volume of non-TCPA hardware will always be available for countries not honoring the TCPA. Why? Because if there is a demand, someone will supply that need. The only case in which TCPA products would replace or modify all current PC hardware/software is when every single country in the world fully enforces the TCPAs directives. It's a joke that anyone would assume they have such absolute influence on the rest of the world. Didn't you hear about the Chinese buring DVDs and CDs in International Waters to avoid copyrights? Do you really think it's impossible to envison a country that would harbour non-TCPA hardware manufacturers?
Oh, every other country must be free of greedy corporations and corrupt politicians No, but you're assuming these entities will follow a business path that aligns with US legislation. Wrong. The same capitalist needs that fuel the TPCA would create an industry of non-TCPA hardware; and trust me, the earnings would be lucrative.
I find it absolutely comical how self centered _some_ Americans are, to the point that they think the TCPA and related AMERICAN technologies (Palladium, etc.) will be the end of free computing in a global sense.
Do they really think asian/european PC hardware manufacturers are going to radically redesign their products to serve the needs of American capitalism?
Not a chance.
The TCPA may be the end of free computing in America (though I doubt it), but the rest of the world will continue on its merry way.
Get over yourselves!
I apologize in advance to all open minded Americans, you know who you are.
No, just another thing you guys like to take credit for thinking up, even though you didn't. You know, like hockey.
Ahhh! I see you're just looking for a ol' Canada vs. US flamewar.
A few notes: - I've never heard a Canadian say we invented Hockey, we didn't. But we do whip your ass handily at it! I can also gaurantee that your local NHL hockey team is infested with Canucks. - Basketball yes we invented that and reigned during the early years of pro ball (yes, a long, long time ago). But! the Raptors are looking excellent this year, and we aren't missing our 4 top guys this time (cough).
Now that was an intelligent remark. I'd say with your superiority complex coupled with cowardice, you're likely an underpaid, undereducated IT drone with little self worth and a truckload of bitterness. Does the world owe you something? Pehaps the recognition you long for?
Get out and see the world, meet people, get a new job. There may be hope for you yet.
Genius, you're repeating yourself once again. Not only has senilty set in, but your AC posts are painfully idicative of your perceived social inadequecy. Reveal yourself! Or piss and moan on the sidelines.
Let me make my previous point painfully clear so that it may shine through your ignorance and reveal a valid point with is both relevent and correct!
You cannot directly compare console to PC gaming (or vice-versa), in broad statements such as "Consoles suck!" or "PCs have way better graphics". The two platforms are vastly different in focus markets, technology, price point, game development, among other things. One who choses this simplistic comparison is obviously not aware of the technical characterstics of both platforms.
Understand now? Can I bring you some prune juice sir?
Apples and oranges. You might as well say Linux is better than Windows, which would be an equally oversimplified and pointless statement.
Why apples and oranges?
Well you comparing "frozen"/standardized, relatively outdated PC hardware run through a blurry NTSC TV (thats 242x427 blurred + line noise!) vs. leading edge gf4/radeon 9700 @ 2+ ghz running on a crisp monitor @ 1600 x 1200.
And you're saying the console games look much better? Well maybe they do in a way, perhaps the low poly count needed for TV enables more fluid animation, smooth (blurred edges).
I prefer the glory of a crisp resolution, 32+ multiplayer, my trusty flight stick and a more than ample sidewinder gamepad pad.
Both arenas (consoles/PC) will always have their niches, save the demise of TVs (ya right). Neither is better, they too different to compare directly.
And you're so naiive you beleive everything you find on google. If you were so sure about this you would have posted a link and not copped out with an AC post.
Their joysticks suck bigtime...... The driver is what really sucked.
Yes those drivers did suck, but that was 5 years ago. I'm still using the original Sidewinder 3d Pro (5 years old!) and the drivers are built into XP and can be downloaded for all other WIn32 OSs. The drivers are simple, programmable and stable. All Sidewinder products are fully supported in 98,ME,2000,XP (not sure about 95).
Also Microsoft stopped supporting very quickly so if you have Windows2000 or XP, your screwed. Wrong. The only reason you might have a problem getting sidewinder software is because the hardware is already built into your version of Windows. But go ahead a see for yourself: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/sidew inder/downl oads/302.asp Yes 2000 and XP are missing, they don't need the software!
If you think MS makes good keyboard and mice, then your probably never tried anything by logitech. They are a much better vendor in my opinion and I like the way they feel.
Yes I've used Logitech keyboards, excellt quality but the keys are too small for my meaty fingers. Logitech mice are also good, but a little more fragile IMHO.
might end up being quickly unsupported like their sidewinders, phones, and USB speakers if its not commercially sucessfull. I can't speak for the phones and speakers, but the joysticks, keyboards and mice are fully supported (have drivers) in all MS OSs including Linux!
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Err it _does_ compile on Win32, did you actually go to the site?
www.mplayer.hu
This must set the record for the most number of posts before 1 person actually read the article and realized the 300 people before them never RTFA.
News for Nerds... which assumes there is _some_ intake of actual news information. We have the nerd part down pat.
Ya, what the hell is with Linux?
;)
I did an "apt-get upgrade", and when it asked:
Do you want to replace your existing, perfectly working XF86Config-4 with a default one that won't allow X to start? Y/N
I type yes, and it went ahead and did what I asked! The nerve!
You seem to paint the world outside the U.S. as somehow radically different in that respect.
;-)
WAKE UP! IT IS. TCPA is perverted US capitalism at it's finest. Creating law that forms and enforces a monopoly. Britan, Canada and the EU would laugh this piece of trash out of our govts.
Thanks for the dumbass comment. If you think my opinion is dumb, then I'm obviously showing you a point of view that's vastly different than yours.
That sounds good. I have a humidor full of them, maybe I'll have one too.
Ya, but your cigars are illegal. Must I remind you of Cuban trade sanctions?
The US is a big player in the global economy.
We import and export a lot of things to the rest of the world, and if that stops, the rest of the world will notice.
Are we still talking about TCPA? Sounds like you're beating your chest over hypothetical events not related to the topic. Why don't you just say:
"The world cannot go on without a properous American economy!" or
"w3 o\/\/n j000000!!"
You're just proving my point on the American EGO. Many other countries currently follow a different path than the US and this will continue.
Canada's senate is reviewing a bill to legalize pot while US police are still jailing kids for possession. Canada has very few gun related deaths compared to gun wielding Americans running scared from a evil sniper armed with a gun you can't even buy in Canada. Can you see the differences here?
Canada will never see the day of TCPA and a large volume of non-TCPA hardware will always be available for countries not honoring the TCPA. Why? Because if there is a demand, someone will supply that need. The only case in which TCPA products would replace or modify all current PC hardware/software is when every single country in the world fully enforces the TCPAs directives. It's a joke that anyone would assume they have such absolute influence on the rest of the world. Didn't you hear about the Chinese buring DVDs and CDs in International Waters to avoid copyrights? Do you really think it's impossible to envison a country that would harbour non-TCPA hardware manufacturers?
Oh, every other country must be free of greedy corporations and corrupt politicians
No, but you're assuming these entities will follow a business path that aligns with US legislation. Wrong. The same capitalist needs that fuel the TPCA would create an industry of non-TCPA hardware; and trust me, the earnings would be lucrative.
Excuse me, I'm off to smoke a Cuban cigar.
that mr. scriptkiddie to you
I find it absolutely comical how self centered _some_ Americans are, to the point that they think the TCPA and related AMERICAN technologies (Palladium, etc.) will be the end of free computing in a global sense.
Do they really think asian/european PC hardware manufacturers are going to radically redesign their products to serve the needs of American capitalism?
Not a chance.
The TCPA may be the end of free computing in America (though I doubt it), but the rest of the world will continue on its merry way.
Get over yourselves!
I apologize in advance to all open minded Americans, you know who you are.
here
You can already do this.
more here
And no, I'm not talkiing about re-encoding to divx.
by telling us they're using a...
Prism wireless LAN card
shouldn't this make it possible to detect honeypots through a unique characteristic of this manufacturer?
You can tell a 3com NIC from its MAC address, why not apply a simlar technique here and flag the honeypots!
Wait are we still talking about wireless networking here? mmmmm Honeypots
Well, maybe not the most successful in all aspects, but no one can deny that "Tivo" has become the household term for PVRs.
Hell, my Grandfather wanted to know how he could
"...teevio the soccer game....", this guy is still amazed by long distance phone calls!
Does MS really think that kicking Tivo in the balls will help XboX2 sell more units?
Don't answer that, I still have some faith in society.... *shudder*
A site owned by a wannabe PVR maker, bashing the most successful PVR in history. Shocker!
Tivo is dead! What's next? Broadband? Linux! Say it ain't so Billy!
Try searching for these:
"will you stand above me"
"was once just a baby"
Can you guess?
Probably coded to sit idle if it's domain is symantec.com, etc.
+5 Funny? I don't think this guy is joking.
falls mainly on your brain...
(yes, I suck)
No, just another thing you guys like to take credit for thinking up, even though you didn't. You know, like hockey.
Ahhh! I see you're just looking for a ol' Canada vs. US flamewar.
A few notes:
- I've never heard a Canadian say we invented Hockey, we didn't. But we do whip your ass handily at it! I can also gaurantee that your local NHL hockey team is infested with Canucks.
- Basketball yes we invented that and reigned during the early years of pro ball (yes, a long, long time ago). But! the Raptors are looking excellent this year, and we aren't missing our 4 top guys this time (cough).
Yes. So let's not have software posted on the front page, eh?
I thought "eh?" was a Canadian thing. Apparently it's just another thing we've let slip across the border.
Ooops!
Stop giving Canadians a bad name, eh?
As if this was the first time a good Slashdot story was based on a software release. Undelete on ext2 is an important topic.
Now that was an intelligent remark. I'd say with your superiority complex coupled with cowardice, you're likely an underpaid, undereducated IT drone with little self worth and a truckload of bitterness. Does the world owe you something? Pehaps the recognition you long for?
Get out and see the world, meet people, get a new job. There may be hope for you yet.
Genius, you're repeating yourself once again. Not only has senilty set in, but your AC posts are painfully idicative of your perceived social inadequecy. Reveal yourself! Or piss and moan on the sidelines.
Let me make my previous point painfully clear so that it may shine through your ignorance and reveal a valid point with is both relevent and correct!
You cannot directly compare console to PC gaming (or vice-versa), in broad statements such as "Consoles suck!" or "PCs have way better graphics". The two platforms are vastly different in focus markets, technology, price point, game development, among other things. One who choses this simplistic comparison is obviously not aware of the technical characterstics of both platforms.
Understand now? Can I bring you some prune juice sir?
WTF do you think I was posting about? Perl scripts? Go eat something sharp.
most console games look much better than PC games
Apples and oranges.
You might as well say Linux is better than Windows, which would be an equally oversimplified and pointless statement.
Why apples and oranges?
Well you comparing "frozen"/standardized, relatively outdated PC hardware run through a blurry NTSC TV (thats 242x427 blurred + line noise!) vs. leading edge gf4/radeon 9700 @ 2+ ghz running on a crisp monitor @ 1600 x 1200.
And you're saying the console games look much better? Well maybe they do in a way, perhaps the low poly count needed for TV enables more fluid animation, smooth (blurred edges).
I prefer the glory of a crisp resolution, 32+ multiplayer, my trusty flight stick and a more than ample sidewinder gamepad pad.
Both arenas (consoles/PC) will always have their niches, save the demise of TVs (ya right). Neither is better, they too different to compare directly.
And you're so naiive you beleive everything you find on google. If you were so sure about this you would have posted a link and not copped out with an AC post.
You're wrong, Logitech and MS manufacture their input hardware separately. MS and Logitech are top tier competitors in the input device arena.
Their joysticks suck bigtime...... The driver is what really sucked.
w inder/downl oads/302.asp
Yes those drivers did suck, but that was 5 years ago. I'm still using the original Sidewinder 3d Pro (5 years old!) and the drivers are built into XP and can be downloaded for all other WIn32 OSs. The drivers are simple, programmable and stable. All Sidewinder products are fully supported in 98,ME,2000,XP (not sure about 95).
Also Microsoft stopped supporting very quickly so if you have Windows2000 or XP, your screwed.
Wrong. The only reason you might have a problem getting sidewinder software is because the hardware is already built into your version of Windows. But go ahead a see for yourself:
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/side
Yes 2000 and XP are missing, they don't need the software!
If you think MS makes good keyboard and mice, then your probably never tried anything by logitech. They are a much better vendor in my opinion and I like the way they feel.
Yes I've used Logitech keyboards, excellt quality but the keys are too small for my meaty fingers. Logitech mice are also good, but a little more fragile IMHO.
might end up being quickly unsupported like their sidewinders, phones, and USB speakers if its not commercially sucessfull.
I can't speak for the phones and speakers, but the joysticks, keyboards and mice are fully supported (have drivers) in all MS OSs including Linux!