So, if a poll comes out stating that a noticable majority thought that it was ok to discriminate/kill/beat up on (insert group here), the courts would go along with it? Come on...
Preaching to the converted but thats one of the greatest assets of the make system - I'm currently working on a project using GCC/Mingw compiling with windows and I have a friend who's programming from linux with virtually no modification. Recently someone using MacOS-X joined our little group and after some tweaking they manged to get it compiling fine there as well...
We're using SDL, OpenGL, etc and it all works great with just a./configure, make
Nah almost all the drives use CAV these days. To all those who don't waiste their time reading CD-R reviews remember a cd has data in circles around the disc, and circles get bigger the further out you go.
The drive manufacturers have a choice of either making the drive run in CAV (constant angular velocity) so the cd spins the same speed across all the data (burning speed starts at about 24x and ends about 52x) or it can slowly slow down the disc so data burns at a constant speed. (CLV, or constant linear velocity).
The problem is that if you spin a cd fast enough to burn at 52x around the inside track the cd will probably explode since its gotta spin really really fast (its early in the morning. you do the maths)..compared to how fast it needs to spin to write on the edge of the disc. Thats why Z-CLV, or Zone-constant linear velocity was introduced. Z-CLV increases the speed of burning in increments but between increments the burner has to completely spin down and then spin back up again to change speed, and as the poster said this can cause problems for audio cds:[
anyway, here's the drive speed graph for the 52x - the yellow line is the angular speed it runs at (how fast the disc is turning) and the green line is how fast its burning. In this test it looks like it didn't reach 52x...and of course here is a nice little picture of z-clv. notice the little dips in the speed as the drive has to spin down and spin up again:(
Just like about every second post here i don't believe you read the artical - he doesn't say that software should be open source; it says that if i buy a copy of word or something then i should get a copy of the majority of the code so i can verify for myself its been well-written.
Not at all - this is ammunition for DRM since with DRM microsoft can expire a certificate at any time for any specific piece of software or content... correct me if i'm wrong but i'm pretty sure files don't have 'certificates' as such, they're merely signed+encrypted with a unique code that microsoft has to repetedly authorise every week or so.
...of course the end effect being that microsoft can say "No, linux has a bug in the code. *click*... why don't you go and 'upgrade'?" and linux will no longer be able to start up on your computer....
Preaching to the converted, but bugs like this only strengthen DRM
It's irresponsible to post a working exploit prior to notifying the code maintainer of the existence of the problem.
Read the bugtraq - m$ was told about the bug on the 4th of october and they said it was a non-issue. For something like this we definitely need painful exploits posted to give the bug a little media coverage so m$ pulls their finger out of their mouth and goes and fixes it.
What i don't agree with is why the artical is complaining at symantec when really its microsoft's fault its gotten this far.
I don't know what you do online except poke around in your broswer cache and chat on IRC....
I'm a pretty heavy user online; i'll admit it. I'm on a 3 gig/month plan and this month i haven't downloaded any movies or anything large. No shoutcast streams (:[ ); just downloaded a few mp3s and a few games and i've hit 1.6 gigs so far this month (in 18 days). I have a friend on the same plan as me who basically just uses the 'net to chat online and check his comics and he's up to 900 megs in 18 days.
Realistically according to optus's figures 95% of their users don't hit 3 gigs, let alone 5 gigs. Yet. The problem is that as streaming movies become commonplace a 5 gig cap really starts to dampen the capacity of the 'net, esp. with moore's law and all.
Don't just take my word for it though - there's plenty of tools for monitoring your bandwidth usage over a given time for windows and linux - could make an interesting poll...
Anyway, my point is that most users won't have a problem with a 5 gig cap at the moment, it'll just start giving headaches when all these brilliant services come out and no-one can afford the bandwidth.
In 1970 to avoid some silly wheat quotas a bunch of australian farmers got together and officially gave our government the finger.
One friday afternoon they declared war on Australia and then accepted peace the following monday; declaring their independance. Of course our government hasn't said anything publically stating their position on the whole thing; they don't want to give the hutt river province any publicity.
Now they have over 13 000 citizens across the world (you can get mail-order citizenship), they avoid all government taxes, they have their own currency and are working on getting a seat in the UN.
The Hutt River Province is about the size of hong kong.
IMHO searchking is just trying to use the "all publicity is good publicity" idiom to advertise their site.
Seriously though. "Hmm... i wonder if there are any search sites on the internet to help me find webpages i'm looking for.... I know! i'll have a look on google!"
We make an ASCII-art image and spam global IRC networks with it, leaving the image in the logfiles of millions of chatters worldwide; such that when all his base are belong to m$ and only his legend remains people will be able to look at their logfiles and remember the great....
Oh, hang on. Their logfiles won't be digitally signed, so in a few years they'll be unreadable. sorry, forget that...
Yes and no. Read this - apparently HP is making a DRM-compliant version of linux - which should keep the public happy; the only problem is that developers won't be able to compile+run new versions of the kernel (OS needs to be supported by hardware)
For you lazy people:
HP is developing a TCPA-compliant version of Linux. - GPL requires the result to be Open Source. - Source code will compile and can be verified. - But: the source alone is useless without a TPM-specific certificate.
By the way, there's no way that the industry will die in a mere 3 years. That's insanely fast. They couldn't die that fast if they tried. It would take nothing short of some extreme economics and a perfect sequence of disastrous coincidences and events to eliminate such a massive industry so quickly.
Yeah... it'd need some kind of major motion picture disaster; like a series of really bad movies *cough*episode1and2*cough* to kill the almighty motion picture industry
Give a man a candle and you'll warm him for an hour. Set a man alight and you'll warm him for life.
We can't just give people candles because they might try to work out how they work, or, worse work out how to disable their safety mechanism (ie. blow the candle out) thus gaining access to the inner workings of the candle (the wick, etc...). This is clearly a breach of the DMCA
Pointing out the flaws in my argument is against the DCMA!:p
I think the problem here is that the US has run out of decent scripts to make movies from. Lately the better selling movies (with a few notable exceptions) have been translations from books:
The bourne identity harry potter sum of all fears...to name a few
Translations do seem to make more profit than your average backflip-shooting-two-guards-with-a-pistol movie (ie. MI:2)...
Thats not to say that the US hasn't come up with some brilliant movies over the past few years, its just that its come out with a lot more shit, and i think they'll be hoping akira doesn't fall into that category.
Maybe I'm just bitter; this is of course all IMO, just i haven't seen an origional decent american movie for awhile.
Personally i had one game scratched to death beyond repair... an origional CD too.
Thank the gods a friend down the road had a copy that i could make a backup from. If it weren't for the fact newer burners can copy most of this crap just fine I'd be left high and dry without heroes3.
Also if you think about it - $80 for the latest game, $80.60c for the latest game and a backup copy incase something bad happens. We're legally allowed to do it by copyright laws; this kind of thing is just really annoying.
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Shoes should be illegal as well.
95% of criminals wear shoes... it only follows from the DMCA that we should ban them
...and to all those who want to watch the whole thing here's the complete torrent (135 MB)
The-Fanimatrix-(DivX-5.1-HQ).avi.torrent
That whole 4th amendment thing is just a big loophole for criminals and evildoers who want to kill us because they hate our freedoms.
Freedoms!? Did they miss one of our 'weaknesses' to fix?
So, if a poll comes out stating that a noticable majority thought that it was ok to discriminate/kill/beat up on (insert group here), the courts would go along with it? Come on...
*cough*axisofevil*cough*
Combine this with Logic and you've got an entire professional movie studio on your Mac.
:p
What!? EMACS has had that for years
Preaching to the converted but thats one of the greatest assets of the make system - I'm currently working on a project using GCC/Mingw compiling with windows and I have a friend who's programming from linux with virtually no modification. Recently someone using MacOS-X joined our little group and after some tweaking they manged to get it compiling fine there as well...
./configure, make
We're using SDL, OpenGL, etc and it all works great with just a
Well actually in that test it didn't reach 52x at all
Nah almost all the drives use CAV these days. To all those who don't waiste their time reading CD-R reviews remember a cd has data in circles around the disc, and circles get bigger the further out you go.
..compared to how fast it needs to spin to write on the edge of the disc. Thats why Z-CLV, or Zone-constant linear velocity was introduced. Z-CLV increases the speed of burning in increments but between increments the burner has to completely spin down and then spin back up again to change speed, and as the poster said this can cause problems for audio cds :[
...and of course here is a nice little picture of z-clv. notice the little dips in the speed as the drive has to spin down and spin up again :(
The drive manufacturers have a choice of either making the drive run in CAV (constant angular velocity) so the cd spins the same speed across all the data (burning speed starts at about 24x and ends about 52x) or it can slowly slow down the disc so data burns at a constant speed. (CLV, or constant linear velocity).
The problem is that if you spin a cd fast enough to burn at 52x around the inside track the cd will probably explode since its gotta spin really really fast (its early in the morning. you do the maths)
anyway, here's the drive speed graph for the 52x - the yellow line is the angular speed it runs at (how fast the disc is turning) and the green line is how fast its burning. In this test it looks like it didn't reach 52x
Just like about every second post here i don't believe you read the artical - he doesn't say that software should be open source; it says that if i buy a copy of word or something then i should get a copy of the majority of the code so i can verify for myself its been well-written.
Not at all - this is ammunition for DRM since with DRM microsoft can expire a certificate at any time for any specific piece of software or content... correct me if i'm wrong but i'm pretty sure files don't have 'certificates' as such, they're merely signed+encrypted with a unique code that microsoft has to repetedly authorise every week or so.
...of course the end effect being that microsoft can say "No, linux has a bug in the code. *click* ... why don't you go and 'upgrade'?" and linux will no longer be able to start up on your computer....
Preaching to the converted, but bugs like this only strengthen DRM
It's irresponsible to post a working exploit prior to notifying the code maintainer of the existence of the problem.
Read the bugtraq - m$ was told about the bug on the 4th of october and they said it was a non-issue. For something like this we definitely need painful exploits posted to give the bug a little media coverage so m$ pulls their finger out of their mouth and goes and fixes it.
What i don't agree with is why the artical is complaining at symantec when really its microsoft's fault its gotten this far.
I don't know what you do online except poke around in your broswer cache and chat on IRC....
:[ ); just downloaded a few mp3s and a few games and i've hit 1.6 gigs so far this month (in 18 days). I have a friend on the same plan as me who basically just uses the 'net to chat online and check his comics and he's up to 900 megs in 18 days.
I'm a pretty heavy user online; i'll admit it. I'm on a 3 gig/month plan and this month i haven't downloaded any movies or anything large. No shoutcast streams (
Realistically according to optus's figures 95% of their users don't hit 3 gigs, let alone 5 gigs. Yet. The problem is that as streaming movies become commonplace a 5 gig cap really starts to dampen the capacity of the 'net, esp. with moore's law and all.
Don't just take my word for it though - there's plenty of tools for monitoring your bandwidth usage over a given time for windows and linux - could make an interesting poll...
Anyway, my point is that most users won't have a problem with a 5 gig cap at the moment, it'll just start giving headaches when all these brilliant services come out and no-one can afford the bandwidth.
We all know microsoft won't need help to crash :p
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In 1970 to avoid some silly wheat quotas a bunch of australian farmers got together and officially gave our government the finger.
One friday afternoon they declared war on Australia and then accepted peace the following monday; declaring their independance. Of course our government hasn't said anything publically stating their position on the whole thing; they don't want to give the hutt river province any publicity.
Now they have over 13 000 citizens across the world (you can get mail-order citizenship), they avoid all government taxes, they have their own currency and are working on getting a seat in the UN.
The Hutt River Province is about the size of hong kong.
Of course there's heaps of sites about it on google including what i think is their official site
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IMHO searchking is just trying to use the "all publicity is good publicity" idiom to advertise their site.
Seriously though. "Hmm... i wonder if there are any search sites on the internet to help me find webpages i'm looking for.... I know! i'll have a look on google!"
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Where do we put a statue for this guy? ;-)
We make an ASCII-art image and spam global IRC networks with it, leaving the image in the logfiles of millions of chatters worldwide; such that when all his base are belong to m$ and only his legend remains people will be able to look at their logfiles and remember the great....
Oh, hang on. Their logfiles won't be digitally signed, so in a few years they'll be unreadable.
sorry, forget that...
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In other words, bye bye Linux.
Yes and no. Read this - apparently HP is making a DRM-compliant version of linux - which should keep the public happy; the only problem is that developers won't be able to compile+run new versions of the kernel (OS needs to be supported by hardware)
For you lazy people:
HP is developing a TCPA-compliant version of Linux.
- GPL requires the result to be Open Source.
- Source code will compile and can be verified.
- But: the source alone is useless without a TPM-specific certificate.
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By the way, there's no way that the industry will die in a mere 3 years. That's insanely fast. They couldn't die that fast if they tried. It would take nothing short of some extreme economics and a perfect sequence of disastrous coincidences and events to eliminate such a massive industry so quickly.
Yeah... it'd need some kind of major motion picture disaster; like a series of really bad movies *cough*episode1and2*cough* to kill the almighty motion picture industry
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The movie industry calls for legislation to restrict release of DVDs.
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thought that knowledge is criminal is patently absurd.
hmm... interesting idea
*looks up the patent office site*
America's system works on this methodology:
:p
Give a man a candle and you'll warm him for an hour.
Set a man alight and you'll warm him for life.
We can't just give people candles because they might try to work out how they work, or, worse work out how to disable their safety mechanism (ie. blow the candle out) thus gaining access to the inner workings of the candle (the wick, etc...). This is clearly a breach of the DMCA
Pointing out the flaws in my argument is against the DCMA!
Cool.
Its probably been posted somewhere else in this discussion but i haven't seen the link to the quicktime movies of apple's campaign for all us who haven't seen them on tv
Evangelion was clever. its a bit of an intellectual wank, but its clever; which is more than i can say for most tv shows around at the moment.
I agree with one of the other posters that Ghost in the Shell would be more diserving of a remake all the same....
I think the problem here is that the US has run out of decent scripts to make movies from. Lately the better selling movies (with a few notable exceptions) have been translations from books:
...to name a few
The bourne identity
harry potter
sum of all fears
Translations do seem to make more profit than your average backflip-shooting-two-guards-with-a-pistol movie (ie. MI:2)...
Thats not to say that the US hasn't come up with some brilliant movies over the past few years, its just that its come out with a lot more shit, and i think they'll be hoping akira doesn't fall into that category.
Maybe I'm just bitter; this is of course all IMO, just i haven't seen an origional decent american movie for awhile.
Personally i had one game scratched to death beyond repair... an origional CD too.
Thank the gods a friend down the road had a copy that i could make a backup from. If it weren't for the fact newer burners can copy most of this crap just fine I'd be left high and dry without heroes3.
Also if you think about it - $80 for the latest game, $80.60c for the latest game and a backup copy incase something bad happens. We're legally allowed to do it by copyright laws; this kind of thing is just really annoying.