A new solution to this problem was presented in the 4/1 issue of Computer Graphics. It's called 'temporally bidirectional tesselation' and it uses the CPU idle time during simple scenes to prerender more complex scenes. Rumor has it that Carmack has implemented this for the new version of Q3ATest.
I don't have any MHz numbers handy, but it's a Sony-designed, Toshiba-fabbed chip with a MIPS core. (No, I don't know how an ostensibly Sony-designed chip can have a MIPS core, but that's what I hear.) --
It probably just uses the unused pins on the VGA connector. My Leadtek TNT2 has a S-Video connector that also outputs composite video on the unused pins. You need a special adapter cable, though. --
I saw a reference to doing exactly this just yesterday. It is possible to run SMP with Celerons of different speeds on the new Abit board. It seems that it doesn't actually unlock the multiplier though.
Yeah, well, have you tried looking for a single lately? Many of the big hits aren't released as singles, in order to get you to buy the whole album. This seriously annoys me, because I got into the habit of buying remix maxi-singles of my favorite songs back when they were $5-6 a pop. Now many are more like $10(!), if they're even available domestically. --
I think the reason people listen to crap like that is that it's popular, and it's popular because the record companies make it popular. "Hey, here's four marginally talented young men who can't make music for crap, but teenage girls will flip over 'em! Let's get these guys on MTV ASAP!" Everyone winds up buying the new BS Boys album mostly because all their friends have it. And so another one-hit-wonder is born.
I like to think that somewhere out there, a Backstreet Boys fan is surfing an MP3 site, about to discover [insert your definition of Real Music here] and change her* life forever.
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Does this ruling mean I can legally convert a purchased SDMI song to MP3?
This would seem to be a no-brainer. Converting SDMI to MP3 is essentially a "space shift", just like converting CDDA to MP3.
This might require cracking the encryption, but is it legal?
I can't imagine why cracking the encryption on something you own should be illegal (in a sense, you do it every time you play the SDMI file anyway).
And would software that did the cracking be legal?
Now this I'm not sure about. I think it would be, though. Such software would have a perfectly legitimate use. (i.e., making it easier for you to, um, "back up" your music collection);) --
Yes! A brilliant idea! Slashdot: The Magazine would have an instant audience of thousands and grow like crazy, if the recent explosion of activity here on/. is any indication. It could be like Wired but with actual geek cred!
One important thing: Rob's editorial column in the front of the mag must be called "First Post":) --
Anti-Christian, anti-God, anti-morality, intentionally immoral, with the most vile content in the history of mainstream moviemaking...
Wow... now I really want to see this movie!:)
Really, does anyone out there think that reviews like this are going to keep more kids from seeing this movie? For lack of a better term, they seem to be "preaching to the choir". (And the easily amused, but that's not important right now;) ) Just about everyone who's reading this review will already know that watching South Park on cable is a one-way ticket to Hell... is it going to be better (from these wackos' perspective) if they don't have to cut out all the naughty bits?
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For an example of a (kinda) similar idea, check out DadaDodo. (Which was created by Jamie Zawinski, late of the Mozilla project, making this post doubly relevant! Isn't that great?):) --
A quick peek at my CD library shows that the copyrights on all REM's older albums (on IRS Records) are owned by the label... the band only owns the copyright on the Warner albums.
Copyright ownership seems to depend on the individual artists' contracts. Depending on your star status (or lack thereof) and the benevolence of your label (or lack thereof) you may find yourself without any rights at all to your own work...
Just another example of how you, too, can be Screwed By The Man! [tm]:) --
If I'm reading the new Yahoo TOS right (sorry, legalese is not my native tongue) it won't work that way. Person B cannot
...warrant that the owner of such Content has expressly granted Yahoo... the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed.
...which would seem to mean that, unless you own the copyright, you can't post GPL'd software (or other copyrighted 'freeware') on GeoCities at all... --
I was thinking that Iomega Clik disks would be perfect for portable MP3 players (the discs are 40 megs a pop, and tiny) but Iomega, in their infinite wisdom, priced the suckers at $10 each.:P They're still cheaper than Flash cards though, and Iomega has a Clik drive that's completely contained in a Type II PCMCIA card, so there may be some hack potential there.:) --
Well, it's not as if UPS doesn't use Federal interstates and air traffic control systems and fossil fuels made cheap by the US military...
Already paid for by taxes on fuel, airplane tickets and income, respectively.
...and buy.com doesn't use big chunks of Internet funded by the government.
The part of the Internet actually funded by the government is a small fraction of what's in use today. Not to mention that Uncle Sam got out of the Internet business a few years back, so they're not putting any more cash into it.
There is simply no good reason that Internet commerce should be taxed any differently than any other commerce. --
SuSE is more popular in Europe, where local phone usage is generally metered, making downloading a couple gigs' worth of Linux distro much less appealing to European users than to American users... --
But AMD hasn't got any Athlon tech docs up yet. When they do show up, they'll probably be here.
BTW: Looks like Athlon will just have the standard 3DNow! instruction set. No "Athlon New Instructions";) So check out the 3DNow! manual while you're waiting for the Athlon docs. --
One more story I've read (and I don't know if this is true) is that during their early days together, Jobs told Woz they'd split a payment 50-50. But he lied about the amount and told Woz it was $500, when it was actually twice that, while pocketing the rest himself. Apparently Woz found this out, and things were never the same between them again. (Can somebody confirm if this is true?).
The full story was published in Next Generation magazine a few months back. Jobs was working for Atari at the time, and the company was designing the mainboard for the Breakout arcade game. Breakout was a pre-microprocessor machine, built with discrete logic, so it was to Atari's advantage to optimize the design to use as few chips as possible. Jobs took the problem to Woz, who did a phenomenal job of optimizing the board in exchange for half of Jobs' bonus. Jobs told Woz that he got $500 out of it and paid him accordingly... but Jobs really got $5000! Woz literally cried when he found out, several years later, what his friend had done.
The punchline (if you can call it that) was that Woz's changes worked, but were totally incomprehensible to the engineers at Atari, so his design never went into production. Sad but true. --
For some reason the link in the CNET story ("Compaq says the kernel for Itsy is freely available") leads to some sort of slideshow. Check out this page instead. --
IANAL, but trademarking "Open Source" for personal gain at this point would seem to be like trademarking the phrase "64-bit" and trying to squeeze Intel for royalties every time they talk about IA-64... (i.e., absurd) --
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I don't have any MHz numbers handy, but it's a Sony-designed, Toshiba-fabbed chip with a MIPS core. (No, I don't know how an ostensibly Sony-designed chip can have a MIPS core, but that's what I hear.)
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Amusing. This 'newbie BS' you refer to dates back to the '60s.
Why can't people just accept that the word 'hacker' has two separate and distinct meanings, anyway? Why the Hacker Jihad?
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And if your typing slows down to less than 50 wpm, your laptop explodes... *heh*
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It probably just uses the unused pins on the VGA connector. My Leadtek TNT2 has a S-Video connector that also outputs composite video on the unused pins. You need a special adapter cable, though.
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Check out Hot Hardware and HardOCP for the scoop.
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Yeah, well, have you tried looking for a single lately? Many of the big hits aren't released as singles, in order to get you to buy the whole album. This seriously annoys me, because I got into the habit of buying remix maxi-singles of my favorite songs back when they were $5-6 a pop. Now many are more like $10(!), if they're even available domestically.
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I like to think that somewhere out there, a Backstreet Boys fan is surfing an MP3 site, about to discover [insert your definition of Real Music here] and change her* life forever.
*(Note: I sincerely doubt that the Y chromosome is commonly found in the Backstreet Boys fanbase.) =^]
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This would seem to be a no-brainer. Converting SDMI to MP3 is essentially a "space shift", just like converting CDDA to MP3.
This might require cracking the encryption, but is it legal?
I can't imagine why cracking the encryption on something you own should be illegal (in a sense, you do it every time you play the SDMI file anyway).
And would software that did the cracking be legal?
Now this I'm not sure about. I think it would be, though. Such software would have a perfectly legitimate use. (i.e., making it easier for you to, um, "back up" your music collection) ;)
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One important thing: Rob's editorial column in the front of the mag must be called "First Post" :)
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The always-informative Andrew Leonard has whipped up a quick response to this article. Read it here. :)
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This. :)
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Wow... now I really want to see this movie! :)
Really, does anyone out there think that reviews like this are going to keep more kids from seeing this movie? For lack of a better term, they seem to be "preaching to the choir". (And the easily amused, but that's not important right now ;) ) Just about everyone who's reading this review will already know that watching South Park on cable is a one-way ticket to Hell... is it going to be better (from these wackos' perspective) if they don't have to cut out all the naughty bits?
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For an example of a (kinda) similar idea, check out DadaDodo. (Which was created by Jamie Zawinski, late of the Mozilla project, making this post doubly relevant! Isn't that great?) :)
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Education, not censorship, is our best weapon against the ills of the world.
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Copyright ownership seems to depend on the individual artists' contracts. Depending on your star status (or lack thereof) and the benevolence of your label (or lack thereof) you may find yourself without any rights at all to your own work...
Just another example of how you, too, can be Screwed By The Man! [tm] :)
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This is mindless linux bigotry:
"NT based search engines suck! Microsoft sucks! Ha ha!"
Note the subtle distinction. ;)
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I was thinking that Iomega Clik disks would be perfect for portable MP3 players (the discs are 40 megs a pop, and tiny) but Iomega, in their infinite wisdom, priced the suckers at $10 each. :P They're still cheaper than Flash cards though, and Iomega has a Clik drive that's completely contained in a Type II PCMCIA card, so there may be some hack potential there. :)
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Already paid for by taxes on fuel, airplane tickets and income, respectively.
The part of the Internet actually funded by the government is a small fraction of what's in use today. Not to mention that Uncle Sam got out of the Internet business a few years back, so they're not putting any more cash into it.
There is simply no good reason that Internet commerce should be taxed any differently than any other commerce.
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SuSE is more popular in Europe, where local phone usage is generally metered, making downloading a couple gigs' worth of Linux distro much less appealing to European users than to American users...
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BTW: Looks like Athlon will just have the standard 3DNow! instruction set. No "Athlon New Instructions" ;) So check out the 3DNow! manual while you're waiting for the Athlon docs.
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The full story was published in Next Generation magazine a few months back. Jobs was working for Atari at the time, and the company was designing the mainboard for the Breakout arcade game. Breakout was a pre-microprocessor machine, built with discrete logic, so it was to Atari's advantage to optimize the design to use as few chips as possible. Jobs took the problem to Woz, who did a phenomenal job of optimizing the board in exchange for half of Jobs' bonus. Jobs told Woz that he got $500 out of it and paid him accordingly... but Jobs really got $5000! Woz literally cried when he found out, several years later, what his friend had done.
The punchline (if you can call it that) was that Woz's changes worked, but were totally incomprehensible to the engineers at Atari, so his design never went into production. Sad but true.
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For some reason the link in the CNET story ("Compaq says the kernel for Itsy is freely available") leads to some sort of slideshow. Check out this page instead.
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IANAL, but trademarking "Open Source" for personal gain at this point would seem to be like trademarking the phrase "64-bit" and trying to squeeze Intel for royalties every time they talk about IA-64... (i.e., absurd)
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