yeah, adding punkbuster to bf1942 was just part of some grand evil conspiracy to lock linux users out.
right.
punkbuster is actually very weak (though they are getting better). when i checked recently, punkbuster didn't even integrity check itself internally!
fwiw some cheat detection is better done directly from the engine or game itself, there are a number of very simple generic exploits that punkbuster doesn't look for, and others that it can't catch from the way punkbuster runs.
and uh, you can already change graphics drivers to allow wallhacks -- you don't need an emulator to do that. hell, videocard _vendors_ have released official wallhack drivers. pb won't catch those. so much for "trusted" environment huh?
the only truly 'trusted' environment will be one running only select specifically authorized vendor videocard drivers, running inside a TCPA protected vm. but that doesnt exist yet.
tmpgenc isnt very good, especially for interlaced source material. it has a lot of bells and whistles and blinky lights though.
Cinemacraft Encoder Basic (http://www.visiblelight.com/mall/productview.aspx ?sku=CCEB) is probably the best mpeg2 encoder you can get for under $2000. And its only $60. it is also miles, miles faster than tmpgenc.
when it comes to absolute quality, eg converting out-of-print laserdiscs which will never be released on dvd, i use cinemacraft basic to encode the video.
disclaimer: i have purchased both tmpgenc and cce basic and used both extensively for years.
actually, i think the stupidity quotient has remained pretty stable over the past few decades.
witness the fact that the nigerian criminal advance fee fraud scams started out as postal scams in the early 80's, and continue to be some % postal to this day (a friend received a nigerian scam letter in the mail a few years back). email is just the latest medium for them, but people were still biting back when it was purely postal.
i dont think the medium changed anything, if the request was mailed to them incribed on cinder blocks, they'd still respond.
and just because people are educated doesn't mean they're smart. i've seen Ph.D friends of mine do incredibly stupid things that defy general 'common sense'.
wow. sorry to hear your school was a big pile of shit. but just because yours sucked doesn't mean everyone else's did.
hell, _i_ went through school at the 'bottom' of the social ladder, and it was still a valuable experience for me. if the 'play'ground held such terror for you, there was always the library...
yes, there were always the elements of boredom and ininspiring teachers. but how exactly is that different from the real world?
what exactly do you suggest, anyway? pamper kids through school completely insulated from real life with blinders and elevator muzak?
Put it this way, if you were God, and you created a mountain, then you allowed a geologist to immediately examine the strata in in the side of the mountain, would the geologist be able to determine that it was only minutes old?
By logical extension, one could equally assert the universe was created 3 minutes ago, with all its "evident history" premade.
But what you are really implying is that god is a liar, who deceitfully plants false evidence in order to fuck around with you.
use a polonium source same as is used in anti-static brushes. works _perfectly_ to neutralize any dust charge. if it's good enough for professional photographers to remove statically charged dust from negatives, it's good enough for this.
look at the tape cleaning systems that have been around for oh, about 100 years... those problems have long been solved.
how about a conveyor belt of plastic which wraps around each panel (eg, goes over the collectors, to one edge, through the panel surface and wraps around underneath and comes back up through the panel at the other edge of the collector). at one edge is a brush which traps the dust. you just run the belt to transport the accumulated dust off the panel, as many times as needed.
furthermore it's just one layer, so it wouldnt reduce the light as much as multiple removable layers.
1) there is no such material 2) lighting is on the order of MILLIONS of volts 3) you dont EVER want to RESIST such electrical charges, you want to CONDUCT them AWAY from important parts. 4) you are obviously no engineer.
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yeah, adding punkbuster to bf1942 was just part of some grand evil conspiracy to lock linux users out.
right.
punkbuster is actually very weak (though they are getting better). when i checked recently, punkbuster didn't even integrity check itself internally!
fwiw some cheat detection is better done directly from the engine or game itself, there are a number of very simple generic exploits that punkbuster doesn't look for, and others that it can't catch from the way punkbuster runs.
and uh, you can already change graphics drivers to allow wallhacks -- you don't need an emulator to do that. hell, videocard _vendors_ have released official wallhack drivers. pb won't catch those. so much for "trusted" environment huh?
the only truly 'trusted' environment will be one running only select specifically authorized vendor videocard drivers, running inside a TCPA protected vm. but that doesnt exist yet.
software mixing is a baaaad idea in kernelspace, since there's potentially no upper bound on the cpu usage.
userspace is where you want to do mixing.
actually the big keywords here are, safety and extremely cheap reusability.
with a space elevator, you are no longer violently launching payloads atop huge liquid fueled bombs.
lose a single vehicle (and payload) and you've just about paid for a space elevator.
no propellant, no stages, no boosters = smaller, cheaper, safer vehicle.
imho worth it, especially considering the value of human life!
Kare is also making a lot of blind assumptions. i like his assumption about powering the climbers (lasers? uh, mmkay.)
http://geocities.com/mmelancholic/lddvd/guide_main .html
instead of a canopus, i use a Sony DVMC-DA2 picked up from ebay.
instead of tmpgenc, i use cinemacraft cce basic.
instead of sonic dvdit, i use ulead dvd workshop.
use whatever works for you. the steps in the guide should help.
it accepts ac3, it doesnt encode it.
the license fee for ac3 patents alone is about $150, so you won't be seeing a $50 ac3 encoder, sorry.
tmpgenc isnt very good, especially for interlaced source material. it has a lot of bells and whistles and blinky lights though.
x ?sku=CCEB) is probably the best mpeg2 encoder you can get for under $2000. And its only $60. it is also miles, miles faster than tmpgenc.
Cinemacraft Encoder Basic (http://www.visiblelight.com/mall/productview.asp
when it comes to absolute quality, eg converting out-of-print laserdiscs which will never be released on dvd, i use cinemacraft basic to encode the video.
disclaimer: i have purchased both tmpgenc and cce basic and used both extensively for years.
actually, i think the stupidity quotient has remained pretty stable over the past few decades.
witness the fact that the nigerian criminal advance fee fraud scams started out as postal scams in the early 80's, and continue to be some % postal to this day (a friend received a nigerian scam letter in the mail a few years back). email is just the latest medium for them, but people were still biting back when it was purely postal.
i dont think the medium changed anything, if the request was mailed to them incribed on cinder blocks, they'd still respond.
and just because people are educated doesn't mean they're smart. i've seen Ph.D friends of mine do incredibly stupid things that defy general 'common sense'.
he'll just happily type in his CREDIT CARD number to any email that asks for it.
or his social security number, bank account info, etc.
i didnt see them mention the possibility that the thing may have just been poorly engineered, like NASA's Mars Polar Lander and the DS2 probes.
wow. sorry to hear your school was a big pile of shit. but just because yours sucked doesn't mean everyone else's did.
hell, _i_ went through school at the 'bottom' of the social ladder, and it was still a valuable experience for me. if the 'play'ground held such terror for you, there was always the library...
yes, there were always the elements of boredom and ininspiring teachers. but how exactly is that different from the real world?
what exactly do you suggest, anyway? pamper kids through school completely insulated from real life with blinders and elevator muzak?
several days later, we are STILL waiting on proof of your claim about falsified viking results.
Seriously. They've both bankrolled risky and expensive series in the past. They've both bankrolled scifi series too.
Put it this way, if you were God, and you created a mountain, then you allowed a geologist to immediately examine the strata in in the side of the mountain, would the geologist be able to determine that it was only minutes old?
By logical extension, one could equally assert the universe was created 3 minutes ago, with all its "evident history" premade.
But what you are really implying is that god is a liar, who deceitfully plants false evidence in order to fuck around with you.
...do you have specific examples?
mod parent down. its just a bunch of anti-american tripe, most of his claims are plain wrong or made up. (drill several meters? wtf are you smoking?).
i have to wonder if he actually believes the bs he'ss writing, or if his entire blog is intended to be just one continuous troll.
1 year in prison and a $1 million dollar fine.
sounds good to me.
use a polonium source same as is used in anti-static brushes. works _perfectly_ to neutralize any dust charge. if it's good enough for professional photographers to remove statically charged dust from negatives, it's good enough for this.
look at the tape cleaning systems that have been around for oh, about 100 years... those problems have long been solved.
how about a conveyor belt of plastic which wraps around each panel (eg, goes over the collectors, to one edge, through the panel surface and wraps around underneath and comes back up through the panel at the other edge of the collector). at one edge is a brush which traps the dust. you just run the belt to transport the accumulated dust off the panel, as many times as needed.
furthermore it's just one layer, so it wouldnt reduce the light as much as multiple removable layers.
1) there is no such material
2) lighting is on the order of MILLIONS of volts
3) you dont EVER want to RESIST such electrical charges, you want to CONDUCT them AWAY from important parts.
4) you are obviously no engineer.
newegg isnt one of them.
mozilla and other browsers allow you to control the referrer sent to sites.
you can make it lie and say you were referred by h0t-chixx0r-sex.com
that will get them wondering 8)
or you can just enter the site manually into your location bar, in which case there is no referrer...
... he should go work for AMD.
AC said it but I felt it was important enough to repost since a lot of people filter 0's:
Just goes to show you how wrong intuition is about these sorts of things.
the scientists represent the 'truth' party, and the administration represents the 'lies' party.
because amazon are lying spammers
b&n censor freethinking/skepticism/antireligious books