Theres a half life mod called The Specialist. They implement "bullet-time" on a multiplayer game, and it works quite well. The URL for the mod is http://www.specialistsmod.net/ (for some reason putting that as a link just showed up as text..?
Ive used a Linksys router now for about.. 3 or so years, and not ever really had any problems with it at all (model #BEFSR41). As the above poster said, they fixed the problems they had with the GPL. People make mistakes.. Not all people fix said mistakes.
In all honesty, I think that they will change the disc to look like or be similar enough to a MD so that you could use the ATRAC format to transfer your music securely to a disc capable of being read by the Playboy device.
I find it interesting that you think their ATRAC format can only be used on media that *looks* like a minidisc. Their memory sticks sure don't look like a minidisc yet they can have ATRAC files on them...
What the hell happened to the people of the Matrix?
I seem to remember the architect telling the oracle that the people of the matrix will be released...
In any case, I dont want to pick apart your post, but some people did like the movie (like me). I even read bad reviews about it before I went but I still enjoyed the movie.
It says here that the maximum 2 of these can span is 120km. They also say a bit farther down that if you wanted it to go farther, you could daisy chain them together.
Ya, I remember when this did happen before, it was on some website, and if you hit stop before the whole pdf loaded or something, it didn't load the black parts that blocked out the text. Why don't they scan the papers with it blacked out already?
I record, ok well tried to record, my guitar and bass on my computer using CoolEdit and my soundblaster live, and I have never been able to get any good sound quality from it. My friend has an Echo Mia card, it has 4 quarter inch input jacks, and the quality was way above what I was doing. I realize that he actually has a card that is made to record, but I was not impressed with how my sound blaster live did it. Is there something im missing, do I need to record at a certain bit rate, or what?
Derek Bastille of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center in Fairbanks said that they just built a supercomputer but spent about 30 million using Cray and IBM equipment. He got quotes from other companies (dell) and the price was going to be about 10 million. They only ended up spending 5.2 million on the apples. Id say if I lived in Virginia, and paid taxes, I would be happy.
What's the first thing a non-tech savvy user is going to do when confronted with a DRM scheme? They go online and find the workaround. Then, suddenly, you have a slightly more educated user.
I can tell you that you are not 'in-touch' with the non-tech savvy user. I used to work helpdesk for 4 years, talking to the general public. If they put a cd in, and it doesn't work, they will probably blame it on the computer. I mean, they can put it in the car cd player and it works fine. They probably wont have any idea about anything DRM at all.
The above poster is actually correct. As in the stuff he is saying is a fact. Lets take pc games as an example. The main copy protection for games is safedisc. The way to get around this is to replace the main exe file with a cracked version. This is pretty much common knowledge in the crowd of people who this cd protection is supposed to stop. The non-tech savvy group out there has no idea that you can copy a game for a friend, they think the computer is a big smart machine and you need to buy games like you do with consoles.
Its the sad truth. Game publishers are wasting thier money on using stuff like safedisc, and its not solving any problems. It actually causes quite a bit of problems with the non-tech savvy group out there, when safedisc fails for whatever reason, they dont know what to do. So it pretty much hurts them, while benefiting any of those who might want to copy the game, cause its so freakin easy to crack.
In any case, copy protection in its current form doesn't work. In many cases a publisher wont publish a game unless it has safedisc or some other type of copy protection on it. They don't do this because its actually going to do anything. Its done because theres really nothing else to do, and they need to have *some* sort of insurance, even if it doesn't work. It hurts the honest crowd of people, and benefits the non-honest crowd. That sound right to you?
Just try to find a machine that could be bought by an average consumer that does this:
At Disk Mfg., CDs are produced in a clean room, where a laser beam recorder and nickel-electroplating processes create a metal-stamping tool with the data encoded as tiny projections coming from the flat face of the tool. The polycarbonate CD is formed with this stamping tool on one side of the mold cavity, creating pits in the plastic disc. A thin, reflective coat is applied under a vacuum in an aluminum-sputtering machine and sealed with a UV-curable coating to prevent oxidation and scratching. At the end of the process, labels are screen or offset printed onto the discs. It is the addition of the reflective layer and dye coating that makes inspection especially difficult.
That info might be a bit dated, it came from a page talking about a company who produced Sega CD's as well. I think it gives you an idea on how tough it is to get a machine that creates normal cds.
I used to work for a company who started doing technical support for Microsoft around the time Win98 came out. They hired 300+ workers at the same time to support Win98, and as time went on we got more contracts from Microsoft. I was eventually put into the Multimedia and Games support. We got the contract to do email support, that was going good, until a company in India somehow got the contract and we lost it. The next big move was the 2nd lvl support (which I was doing at the time). About 20 of us in 2nd lvl support were laid off last year, all those jobs went to India. This year was the worst. That building that held 300+ (probably around 450 employees at its peak) is now empty. Every single one of the contracts we had with Microsoft now is being handled by companies in India. Since then I haven't been able to find any sort of tech job, closest I can find is working in a call center taking orders from people for clothes. I currently work as a cook, making less then half what I used to make.. Why hire an american work force, when you can get one in India for a tenth the price?
Its been my experience that data discs do not play in all my cd players when I record cd audio onto them. The music ones seem to work fine. I had thought this was because they used different dyes to make them more compatable with older cd players. I could be wrong though.
Although I have only heard a couple of the new metallica songs, I would agree with you. If that new song on the radio is the first song they chose to play on thier new cd, then the cd must suck pretty bad. On the other hand, metallica has put out some amazing songs in thier time, its a sad thing to see them turn into RIAA whipping boys..
I believe they have started lacing their diamonds with dna or something to that effect. Something like this. This isn't something that you could show your friends and say, look its real. Its something that a jeweler with a dna reading machine or whatever can check the diamond to make sure its real, or where it came from, etc.
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Theres a half life mod called The Specialist. They implement "bullet-time" on a multiplayer game, and it works quite well. The URL for the mod is http://www.specialistsmod.net/ (for some reason putting that as a link just showed up as text..?
Seems to work fine for me.
Ive used a Linksys router now for about.. 3 or so years, and not ever really had any problems with it at all (model #BEFSR41). As the above poster said, they fixed the problems they had with the GPL. People make mistakes.. Not all people fix said mistakes.
Thats probably the single funniest scene on the simpsons, at least top 10..
I find it interesting that you think their ATRAC format can only be used on media that *looks* like a minidisc. Their memory sticks sure don't look like a minidisc yet they can have ATRAC files on them...
I seem to remember the architect telling the oracle that the people of the matrix will be released...
In any case, I dont want to pick apart your post, but some people did like the movie (like me). I even read bad reviews about it before I went but I still enjoyed the movie.
It says here that the maximum 2 of these can span is 120km. They also say a bit farther down that if you wanted it to go farther, you could daisy chain them together.
Doesn't the Gamecube also read discs opposite of a normal dvd player? (from outside to in, or spinning counter-clockwise?)
Thanks a ton for the reply!
Now to fiddle with this stuff to see if I can get it sounding good.
Ya, I remember when this did happen before, it was on some website, and if you hit stop before the whole pdf loaded or something, it didn't load the black parts that blocked out the text. Why don't they scan the papers with it blacked out already?
I record, ok well tried to record, my guitar and bass on my computer using CoolEdit and my soundblaster live, and I have never been able to get any good sound quality from it. My friend has an Echo Mia card, it has 4 quarter inch input jacks, and the quality was way above what I was doing. I realize that he actually has a card that is made to record, but I was not impressed with how my sound blaster live did it. Is there something im missing, do I need to record at a certain bit rate, or what?
Ya, they paid FULL PRICE, who cares, they saved at least 5 million dollars by going with Apple. Theres not many times you can make that statement =).
Derek Bastille of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center in Fairbanks said that they just built a supercomputer but spent about 30 million using Cray and IBM equipment. He got quotes from other companies (dell) and the price was going to be about 10 million. They only ended up spending 5.2 million on the apples. Id say if I lived in Virginia, and paid taxes, I would be happy.
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Looks like its about to die too, takes a long time to bring up a new page.
Actually thats called a URL. This is a link.
I can tell you that you are not 'in-touch' with the non-tech savvy user. I used to work helpdesk for 4 years, talking to the general public. If they put a cd in, and it doesn't work, they will probably blame it on the computer. I mean, they can put it in the car cd player and it works fine. They probably wont have any idea about anything DRM at all.
The above poster is actually correct. As in the stuff he is saying is a fact. Lets take pc games as an example. The main copy protection for games is safedisc. The way to get around this is to replace the main exe file with a cracked version. This is pretty much common knowledge in the crowd of people who this cd protection is supposed to stop. The non-tech savvy group out there has no idea that you can copy a game for a friend, they think the computer is a big smart machine and you need to buy games like you do with consoles.
Its the sad truth. Game publishers are wasting thier money on using stuff like safedisc, and its not solving any problems. It actually causes quite a bit of problems with the non-tech savvy group out there, when safedisc fails for whatever reason, they dont know what to do. So it pretty much hurts them, while benefiting any of those who might want to copy the game, cause its so freakin easy to crack.
In any case, copy protection in its current form doesn't work. In many cases a publisher wont publish a game unless it has safedisc or some other type of copy protection on it. They don't do this because its actually going to do anything. Its done because theres really nothing else to do, and they need to have *some* sort of insurance, even if it doesn't work. It hurts the honest crowd of people, and benefits the non-honest crowd. That sound right to you?
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I bought an RC10T electric R/C truck, and I absolutely hated batteries.
I then bought a T-MAXX, and having a gas truck is much much better.. I hope its not the same way with normal cars...
At Disk Mfg., CDs are produced in a clean room, where a laser beam recorder and nickel-electroplating processes create a metal-stamping tool with the data encoded as tiny projections coming from the flat face of the tool. The polycarbonate CD is formed with this stamping tool on one side of the mold cavity, creating pits in the plastic disc. A thin, reflective coat is applied under a vacuum in an aluminum-sputtering machine and sealed with a UV-curable coating to prevent oxidation and scratching. At the end of the process, labels are screen or offset printed onto the discs. It is the addition of the reflective layer and dye coating that makes inspection especially difficult.
That info might be a bit dated, it came from a page talking about a company who produced Sega CD's as well. I think it gives you an idea on how tough it is to get a machine that creates normal cds.
I used to work for a company who started doing technical support for Microsoft around the time Win98 came out. They hired 300+ workers at the same time to support Win98, and as time went on we got more contracts from Microsoft. I was eventually put into the Multimedia and Games support. We got the contract to do email support, that was going good, until a company in India somehow got the contract and we lost it. The next big move was the 2nd lvl support (which I was doing at the time). About 20 of us in 2nd lvl support were laid off last year, all those jobs went to India. This year was the worst. That building that held 300+ (probably around 450 employees at its peak) is now empty. Every single one of the contracts we had with Microsoft now is being handled by companies in India. Since then I haven't been able to find any sort of tech job, closest I can find is working in a call center taking orders from people for clothes. I currently work as a cook, making less then half what I used to make.. Why hire an american work force, when you can get one in India for a tenth the price?
Its been my experience that data discs do not play in all my cd players when I record cd audio onto them. The music ones seem to work fine. I had thought this was because they used different dyes to make them more compatable with older cd players. I could be wrong though.
Although I have only heard a couple of the new metallica songs, I would agree with you. If that new song on the radio is the first song they chose to play on thier new cd, then the cd must suck pretty bad. On the other hand, metallica has put out some amazing songs in thier time, its a sad thing to see them turn into RIAA whipping boys..
I believe they have started lacing their diamonds with dna or something to that effect. Something like this. This isn't something that you could show your friends and say, look its real. Its something that a jeweler with a dna reading machine or whatever can check the diamond to make sure its real, or where it came from, etc.
Your sig reminds me of a poster I once saw..
"You are unique.. just like everyone else."
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"Wer mit Ungeheuern kampft, mag zusehen, daB er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird." -- Nietzsche
You could probably do it pretty easily if it was something like "Dinosaurs for Hire" (first link i found here)