I'm just wondering: I've been reading the available literature online, asking questions, and I haven't been able to come up with a concrete answer:
If I buy a DVD-ROM drive, is it physically possible for me to watch normal encrypted DVDs with linux, in a window in X?
I'm very tempted to by a drive, and I don't mind spending ages fiddling to make it work, or if the quality is awful - I'd just like to know if this is actually physically possible right now?
I just don't really have any other use for a DVD drive right now, so I'm trying to decide if I should buy one:)
Well, there might be a/slight/ problem in that if one was successful in drawing a large chunk of slashdot readership to the new site, the bandwidth and computing power required would be quite large. Maybe slashdot is now so big that it _needs_ a corporation's backing to exist? It's not like anyone could start it off again running in a bedroom, it's grown too big...
Just to go a little overboard trying to psychoanalyse this (because I'm pretty sure they don't intend the page to be a big deal):
Everyone right now sees Linux as the 'new', 'hip' OS and Windows as the old, possibly tired standard. By producing pages like this, MicroSoft could be hoping to turn things around and create the idea that NT/win2k are now the freshest and most happnin' products, i.e:
"hey, well you _were_ using linux, but look what microsoft have now! Here's how to get rid of that old thing!" /james.
Alright, here's my favourite bit of spam - it's quite neat, as imo it does a pretty authentic job of looking like a bit of mysteriously misdirected mail - so there's a reading-someone-else's-mail attraction to it.
hi Sagi! Howz going honey...I just came from school.I know you must be angry as I was'nt home when you called...Acually I had to go with my cousin she just came from london to visit us here. Don't worry this time I will call you this weekend.I had also an e-mail from Alex. As I said in our last talk that I will find out from where he is getting money without doing any thing.First he hasitate then At Last I found out.May be you also know about it...have you ever heard about surfing to cash or desktop dollar?.Any way he told me that he has found a great site from a guy, I forgot his name...any way he told that the site contains different company names who pays money to everyone just for surfing the internet on per hour basis. I have'nt check that site so cant say anything now but I will check it tommorow.If you wanna check yourself then here is address:
http://members.tripod.com/~online-cash/
Tell me if you find out something. One more thing dont go anywhere on the comming weekend I will call you around 10pm. Its 3am at the moment and i have'nt had my lunch yet. So before mom yell at me I have to go....take care. bye bye. ----------
Monsanto (www.monsanto.com) make a bunch of different things, you can browse their products on that site. Now, one product is Roundup herbicide, and they market verious genetically modified crops that they label 'Roundup Ready', modified to be resistant. So farmers using Monsanto seed can spray huge amounts of weedkiller and still get a healthy crop.
The other reason for the possible success of these seeds is that Monsanto have enough capital to actually undercut any other vendors of normal seeds with seeds containing the terminator gene. They could say, "It's better! Try it!", and naive farmers would use this seed for a year, and then quite possibly when the price of buying it each year is suddenly massively increased, they find that they didn't keep any of their old seed, or that it has died and won't germinate. Then, certain farmers could be locked into subscribing to Monsanto seed each year.
Regarding optimisations for 3D-now type special features of x86-like chips:
Where must one make the optimisation? Is it possible to have a compiler that will automatically take advantage of the features? or do you have to explicitly write code into your app that will know what to do? (I've seen this, for example, in mpg123 - there's a compile-time option to use 3dnow if you have an amd chip).
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I'm just wondering: I've been reading the available literature online, asking questions, and I haven't been able to come up with a concrete answer:
:)
If I buy a DVD-ROM drive, is it physically possible for me to watch normal encrypted DVDs with linux, in a window in X?
I'm very tempted to by a drive, and I don't mind spending ages fiddling to make it work, or if the quality is awful - I'd just like to know if this is actually physically possible right now?
I just don't really have any other use for a DVD drive right now, so I'm trying to decide if I should buy one
Thanks,
/james.
Well, there might be a /slight/ problem in that if one was successful in drawing a large chunk of slashdot readership to the new site, the bandwidth and computing power required would be quite large. Maybe slashdot is now so big that it _needs_ a corporation's backing to exist? It's not like anyone could start it off again running in a bedroom, it's grown too big...
Just a thought.
/james.
Just to go a little overboard trying to psychoanalyse this (because I'm pretty sure they don't intend the page to be a big deal):
Everyone right now sees Linux as the 'new', 'hip' OS and Windows as the old, possibly tired standard. By producing pages like this, MicroSoft could be hoping to turn things around and create the idea that NT/win2k are now the freshest and most happnin' products, i.e:
"hey, well you _were_ using linux, but look what microsoft have now! Here's how to get rid of that old thing!"
/james.
Alright, here's my favourite bit of spam - it's quite neat, as imo it does a pretty authentic job of looking like a bit of mysteriously misdirected mail - so there's a reading-someone-else's-mail attraction to it.
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Message-ID:
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 21:43:12 -0800
From: mona@usa.net
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (Win95; I)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: sagi@usa.net
Subject: whatz up!
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Status: RO
Content-Length: 1143
Lines: 25
hi Sagi!
Howz going honey...I just came from school.I know you must be angry as I
was'nt home when you called...Acually I had to go with my cousin she
just came from london to visit us here.
Don't worry this time I will call you this weekend.I had also an e-mail
from Alex. As I said in our last talk that I will find out from where he
is getting money without doing any thing.First he hasitate then At Last
I found out.May be you also know about it...have you ever heard about
surfing to cash or desktop dollar?.Any way he told me that he has found
a great site from a guy, I forgot his name...any way he told that the
site contains different company names who pays money to everyone just
for surfing the internet on per hour basis. I have'nt check that site so
cant say anything now but I will check it tommorow.If you wanna check
yourself then here is address:
http://members.tripod.com/~online-cash/
Tell me if you find out something. One more thing dont go anywhere on
the comming weekend I will call you around 10pm. Its 3am at the moment
and i have'nt had my lunch yet. So before mom yell at me I have to
go....take care.
bye bye.
----------
Monsanto (www.monsanto.com) make a bunch of different things, you can browse their products on that site. Now, one product is Roundup herbicide, and they market verious genetically modified crops that they label 'Roundup Ready', modified to be resistant. So farmers using Monsanto seed can spray huge amounts of weedkiller and still get a healthy crop.
The other reason for the possible success of these seeds is that Monsanto have enough capital to actually undercut any other vendors of normal seeds with seeds containing the terminator gene. They could say, "It's better! Try it!", and naive farmers would use this seed for a year, and then quite possibly when the price of buying it each year is suddenly massively increased, they find that they didn't keep any of their old seed, or that it has died and won't germinate. Then, certain farmers could be locked into subscribing to Monsanto seed each year.
Regarding optimisations for 3D-now type special features of x86-like chips:
:)
Where must one make the optimisation? Is it possible to have a compiler that will automatically take advantage of the features? or do you have to explicitly write code into your app that will know what to do? (I've seen this, for example, in mpg123 - there's a compile-time option to use 3dnow if you have an amd chip).
Thanks