That will still be a problem, as any properly HDCP-compliant capture card will not (or should not!) give you access to the data either. Every device should check the downstream devices are compliant before passing any data on, and not provide any way to intercept it. Any that knowingly do are breaking the HDCP licensing agreement and are likely to be sued.
You'll probably run into copy-protection issues with many media sources. If you can get at the bits to analyze it, you can dump them out to create a copy. I'm not even sure sharpness is going to be easy to measure, if a soft/low-res source has been artificially sharpened to give the appearance of quality. Sports broadcasts seem to be the worst for it for it from my experience, with glowing halos around high-contrast edges to make them stand out even more.
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It can if it's still tracking positions at the original resolution, with only the display down-scaled.
-Trine (some indie game, which was on discount some time back on steam)
Trine supports multi-player, but everyone has to play on the same machine. Trine 2 (due in the Spring IIRC) should have network multi-player, hopefully. It's a beautiful single-player game too:-)
I've never come across that mix of separate attributes with defined types. Typically there will be a PCFOO to go with the PFOO, which has the const as part of the typedef: such as LPSTR and LPCSTR.
Typedefs allow you to keep the whole type atomic. I prefer:
PCSTR p1, p2;
to
const char *p1, *p2;
where the pointer symbol needs to be repeated on the second variable, despite 'const char' being common to both.
With Windows Vista you can disable driver signatures permanently.
That was true in the beta versions of Vista x64, but it was disabled for the final release (which now require the same F8 menu selection on every boot).
No, they require a Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility signing certificate for loading on 64-bit systems
It doesn't need to involve Microsoft directly, just be signed using an appropriate certificate and cross-certificate for kernel-mode drivers under Windows.
You only need WHQL if you want to avoid PnP installer warnings. I sign and silently install my own filter driver without any Windows prompts, and without needing the package to be blessed by Microsoft directly.
Windows' security model only checks the certificate during install.
64-bit versions of Vista and Windows 7 require a valid Class 3 code signing certificate to load the driver, not just on installation. Revoking that certificate will stop the devices from working, as the parent poster suspected. Though it may not be the same certificate for all Realtek uses.
The single-core N230 can run fanless, if there's sufficient ventilation, though the dual-core N330 will need one.
The Revo R3600 box I have does include a CPU fan, but it's inaudible from a normal viewing distance at the low CPU load during playback. The fan does spin up if the machine is loaded, but it's still only an added whoosh rather than the whine many laptop fans seem to have. Moving around the XBMC menus quickly and/or updating the metadata on a few items is about the most load my box gets, so it's not an issue.
I'm also a bit of a noise freak, with fanless or large slow fans in my desktop PC. If the fan in the Revo isn't a problem for me, it probably won't bother 99% of people:)
No Pentium board will have the slot for this card, and Pentium CPUs are just too inefficient nowadays.
You want an nVidia ION based board - even the single-core 1.6Ghz Atom can handle 1080p x264 with ~20% CPU usage, thanks to the 9400M supporting hardware decoding. I have a cheap Revo R3600 box running Linux XBMC, and it can play anything without breaking a sweat, and it's quiet enough to sit under the TV too.
This one is an outright lie. 1Password only runs on Macs. KeePass (or KeePassX) runs on everything.
The application only runs on Macs and iPhone, but that's not what it's claiming. The keychain includes an HTML file containing enough Javascript to decrypt (with your passphrase) the data files. It gives you read-only access to your data from any modern OS/browser combination.
I have my keychain in a Dropbox folder, shared between two Macs (accessed natively) and a Windows box (through the browser). Not as truly portable and flexible as KeePass, but their claim isn't a lie...
IE has problems if you add a port number to the address, so google.com:80 doesn't work, but is fine after you add the protocol. That's the only situation I remember that fails.
I'm fairly sure the ~10GBP was the total cost to upgrade to UT2004, rather than just the discount off the price of the new game. I remember feeling a bit miffed about the quick release of 2004, and it was a great way to keep the existing users happy.
On the other side... Codemasters released Colin McRae Rally 2005 soon after CMR'04, but with no offer of a discount. I don't think I've bought a Codemasters game since;-)
Each pass will reduce the quality to some extent, so two lossy conversions will always be worse than one. The capabilities of each format differ, so the order of conversions will make a difference too.
That said, the average person probably won't lose sleep over the extra step in your example!
Seconded for the GTD approach, and using Tracks to manage it:)
It was amazing how much fresher my mind felt when I wasn't constantly running over a list of things I was trying not to forget. It's a lot like having a cool idea just as you're getting to sleep - writing it down makes it much easier to fall back to sleep than trying to push it to one side until the morning.
I ran a MUD for a while (using LPMud), well, until someone wrote a dodgy piece of LPC which ended up filling the filesystem that I was on, and the uni admins came down on me like a ton of bricks.
Heh, a similar thing happened to me. The LpMUD I co-ran in 1992 was left running for a few days because I was ill, and leaked enough memory to start swapping across the network. It was killed and I had my account locked for a few months.
Yes, and that's exactly how science works! It's tested and challenged to refine it. People used to think the sun revolved around the earth, but that was later found not to be the case. What's the problem in changing things once there is greater understanding of it? Nothing is set in stone...
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That will still be a problem, as any properly HDCP-compliant capture card will not (or should not!) give you access to the data either. Every device should check the downstream devices are compliant before passing any data on, and not provide any way to intercept it. Any that knowingly do are breaking the HDCP licensing agreement and are likely to be sued.
You'll probably run into copy-protection issues with many media sources. If you can get at the bits to analyze it, you can dump them out to create a copy. I'm not even sure sharpness is going to be easy to measure, if a soft/low-res source has been artificially sharpened to give the appearance of quality. Sports broadcasts seem to be the worst for it for it from my experience, with glowing halos around high-contrast edges to make them stand out even more.
It can if it's still tracking positions at the original resolution, with only the display down-scaled.
Windows 7 x64 can't run 16-bit apps*, and all Windows 3.1 apps are 16-bit, so it can't actually run ANY Windows 3.1 apps.
* actually, there's a reimplementation to support some 16-bit installers, but they're still not executed natively.
Settings -> General -> Restrictions -> Require Password -> Immediately
No more 15 minute password caching :)
One of the books that includes all the maze patterns: http://www.amazon.com/Video-Masters-Guide-Pac-Man/dp/0553229591
Though it doesn't go as far as achieving the maximum possible score, as that requires other manual tricks to round up the ghosts.
-Trine (some indie game, which was on discount some time back on steam)
Trine supports multi-player, but everyone has to play on the same machine. Trine 2 (due in the Spring IIRC) should have network multi-player, hopefully. It's a beautiful single-player game too :-)
It is indeed more common in Win32 code, but that's not exactly a small segment.
I've never come across that mix of separate attributes with defined types. Typically there will be a PCFOO to go with the PFOO, which has the const as part of the typedef: such as LPSTR and LPCSTR.
Typedefs allow you to keep the whole type atomic. I prefer:
PCSTR p1, p2;
to
const char *p1, *p2;
where the pointer symbol needs to be repeated on the second variable, despite 'const char' being common to both.
With Windows Vista you can disable driver signatures permanently.
That was true in the beta versions of Vista x64, but it was disabled for the final release (which now require the same F8 menu selection on every boot).
No, they require a Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility signing certificate for loading on 64-bit systems
It doesn't need to involve Microsoft directly, just be signed using an appropriate certificate and cross-certificate for kernel-mode drivers under Windows.
You only need WHQL if you want to avoid PnP installer warnings. I sign and silently install my own filter driver without any Windows prompts, and without needing the package to be blessed by Microsoft directly.
Windows' security model only checks the certificate during install.
64-bit versions of Vista and Windows 7 require a valid Class 3 code signing certificate to load the driver, not just on installation. Revoking that certificate will stop the devices from working, as the parent poster suspected. Though it may not be the same certificate for all Realtek uses.
The single-core N230 can run fanless, if there's sufficient ventilation, though the dual-core N330 will need one.
The Revo R3600 box I have does include a CPU fan, but it's inaudible from a normal viewing distance at the low CPU load during playback. The fan does spin up if the machine is loaded, but it's still only an added whoosh rather than the whine many laptop fans seem to have. Moving around the XBMC menus quickly and/or updating the metadata on a few items is about the most load my box gets, so it's not an issue.
I'm also a bit of a noise freak, with fanless or large slow fans in my desktop PC. If the fan in the Revo isn't a problem for me, it probably won't bother 99% of people :)
No Pentium board will have the slot for this card, and Pentium CPUs are just too inefficient nowadays.
You want an nVidia ION based board - even the single-core 1.6Ghz Atom can handle 1080p x264 with ~20% CPU usage, thanks to the 9400M supporting hardware decoding. I have a cheap Revo R3600 box running Linux XBMC, and it can play anything without breaking a sweat, and it's quiet enough to sit under the TV too.
This one is an outright lie. 1Password only runs on Macs. KeePass (or KeePassX) runs on everything.
The application only runs on Macs and iPhone, but that's not what it's claiming. The keychain includes an HTML file containing enough Javascript to decrypt (with your passphrase) the data files. It gives you read-only access to your data from any modern OS/browser combination.
I have my keychain in a Dropbox folder, shared between two Macs (accessed natively) and a Windows box (through the browser). Not as truly portable and flexible as KeePass, but their claim isn't a lie...
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IE has problems if you add a port number to the address, so google.com:80 doesn't work, but is fine after you add the protocol. That's the only situation I remember that fails.
I'm fairly sure the ~10GBP was the total cost to upgrade to UT2004, rather than just the discount off the price of the new game. I remember feeling a bit miffed about the quick release of 2004, and it was a great way to keep the existing users happy.
On the other side... Codemasters released Colin McRae Rally 2005 soon after CMR'04, but with no offer of a discount. I don't think I've bought a Codemasters game since ;-)
Had they offered a good discount to 2003 customers, I probably would have bought it.
That's exactly what they did do - the 3rd paragraph on Wikipedia covers it. I sent my UT2003 disc and ~10GBP for the full 2004 game.
Each pass will reduce the quality to some extent, so two lossy conversions will always be worse than one. The capabilities of each format differ, so the order of conversions will make a difference too.
That said, the average person probably won't lose sleep over the extra step in your example!
Converting to MP3 is lossy, regardless of the source format.
or maybe tail-end recursion?
Seconded for the GTD approach, and using Tracks to manage it :)
It was amazing how much fresher my mind felt when I wasn't constantly running over a list of things I was trying not to forget. It's a lot like having a cool idea just as you're getting to sleep - writing it down makes it much easier to fall back to sleep than trying to push it to one side until the morning.
I ran a MUD for a while (using LPMud), well, until someone wrote a dodgy piece of LPC which ended up filling the filesystem that I was on, and the uni admins came down on me like a ton of bricks.
Heh, a similar thing happened to me. The LpMUD I co-ran in 1992 was left running for a few days because I was ill, and leaked enough memory to start swapping across the network. It was killed and I had my account locked for a few months.
change the science!
Yes, and that's exactly how science works! It's tested and challenged to refine it. People used to think the sun revolved around the earth, but that was later found not to be the case. What's the problem in changing things once there is greater understanding of it? Nothing is set in stone...