putting data in HKLM (HKey_Local_Machine) when it doesn't need to be, is bad.
HKCU (HKey_Current_User) does not require Admin Priveleges, nor does it bring up a UAC Prompt.
With Vista Home Premium, with Aero and Sidebar on uses +2% CPU above baseline (baseline is about 4-6%, listening to a WMA Protected song used 6-8% CPU according to Task Manager | Performance).
With the Visulization's turned on, it's using around 20-25% CPU according to Task Manager | Performance.
Interestingly, that was with the Task Manager window overlapping the Media Player visualizer. When I dragged it over so that the window wasn't overlapping, CPU usage dropped by about 5% (down to the 15-20% range)
Whoops, that was with the Powersaver Power Profile. Switched to High Performance, it's using about 8-10% with everything turned on, 1-4% without the visualizer.
So maybe he had visualizations turned on in Media Player in a low power profile (capped CPU speed to 50%), which is where all the CPU was going.
Media Player can't play Quicktime files, even with Quicktime installed. Apple doesn't include a DirectShow compatible codec with Quicktime, the only way to view a Quicktime File on a PC is to use Quicktime.
The reason you can play a DIVX encoded file, is that they install a DirectShow compatible codec, and register it with the system.
Right Click on the My Documents link on your desktop, select Move and tell it to put it to D:\whereever the hell I feel like it, and it'll ask you if you want to move all of your existing documents to the new folder.
Except that the act of taking it off (or covering it with tinfoil so it doesn't receive a signal), or otherwise tampering with it, would notify the authorities.
Whether the police come and pick him up 15 minutes later, or in two days, doesn't frigging matter, because the person has proven they can't be trusted, and they'll be sent straight back to prison for the full length of their sentence, with a little extra tacked on for violating the conditions of their parole/probation.
when the game get's pirated to hell and doesn't sell well. Oh, and we don't pay you a cent until your game actually starts shipping, but once it does, we'll give you a percentage of any profits, split with the rest of the Art and Development, Management, Sales, QA, IT, MIS and Support teams, once all the rest of the development, packaging, marketting and shipping costs have been recouped.
It doesn't matter if a way around it is secret or not. Everyone knows that you can download Mozilla or Firefox, it didn't stop the courts from determining that Microsoft abused their monopoly by bundling IE with Windows (or Windows Media Player with Windows).
Where is the abuse of Anti-Trust laws?
Tying iTunes downloads to the iPod is anti-competitive, it is not possible to create a competing player to the iPod in regards to iTunes music because Apple won't license Fairplay to any other device makers.
But as I said in my first post, whether that is a violation of Anti-Trust law or not, depends on whether a court determines that iTunes or iPod enjoy a dominate/monopoly position in the market, and whether the court determines that that position is being abused. In short, it's up to the courts to decide.
What may be perfectly legal behaviour for them when they are not a monopoly, can become a violation of Anti-Trust laws once they are determined to possess a defacto or real monopoly. That's one of the things that makes Anti-Trust law so tricky.
A google search for "Apple Fairplay licensing" gives quite the opposite impression, one that Apple is on the verge of licensing FairPlay to Macrovision for copy-protected CD's, and Motorola for use in certain cell phones, for instance.
There is never once, in any of the articles I found, any mention that Apple is contractually obligated NOT to license Fairplay.
Perhaps you could site something to back up your assertion.
They could license their implementation of Fairplay to other portable MP3 player manufacturers like iRiver and Creative.
But they won't do that, because iTunes is designed from the get-go to drive iPod sales through this AAC/Fairplay lockin.
To get the best experience you need iTunes, an iPod, and a Mac. You have to jump through hoops, degrading the audio quality of the music in the process to use the music you've purchased through iTunes on anything else.
These barriers are in place specifically to drive people to get an iPod. They are anti-competitive by design. Whether the iTunes/iPod combination provides a sufficient market dominance to be ruled a monopoly and subject to Anti-Trust law, is a matter for the courts to decide.
The jet, a chartered Cessna Citation, was landing Dec. 29 with six people aboard when a green light beam struck the windshield three times at about 3,000 feet, according to court documents. The pilot and co-pilot were temporarily blinded but were able to land the plane safely.
You don't have to shine the laser directly into a pilots retina to dazzle him in that crucial time during landing. Especially considering this is occuring at night, suddenly illuminating the windshield infront of him with an extremely bright green light, which is dancing around due to aircraft movement and vibration from the guy pointing the laser, is going to dazzle the pilots and seriously fuck with their night vision.
A terrorist doesn't have to be precice, because he's not trying to bring down one particular plane, at one particular time. He just has to keep pointing it at planes during approach until he gets lucky.
You don't need anything sophisticated to stabalize the laser, or track the plane. The terrorist isn't interested in bringing down one specific plane at a specific time. They're just looking for A plane (or just to cause enough Terror due to the threat).
They'll just keep aiming the lasers at planes until they get lucky and hit the cockpit windows, dazzling pilots during final approach. If they miss the cockpit of one plane, big deal. There'll be another one along in a few minutes, until they decide to bug out and try somewhere else.
What it will likely come with though, will be the Media Center Extender support built in. So you can play the content recorded on your Media Center 2005 PC through the XBox.
things like typo's in dialog text, or typos in the help. Simple typos are still listed as Defects by Microsoft, and make up a fairly large portion of the 'bugs' in Windows XP.
Fox didn't air the pilot. Fox showed what episodes they did show, out of order. Fox preempted the series several times for baseball playoffs, and poorly communicated time changes. Fox did almost no promotion of the show, the only promotion for the show they DID seem to do, hinged around the "girl in the box" scenario, which they never even showed, because it was from the Pilot episode (which never aired until they had decided to cancel it).
Fox could not have done more harm to developing an audience for an episodic series if they had tried.
They were looking around Cypress... what you expected them to get a donation from the Argentinian Tourism board for their research in the waters off Cypress?
It's not like the Donation from the Cypress Tourism Board made them pick the location, they'd already picked the location, and got a donation from the locals.
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putting data in HKLM (HKey_Local_Machine) when it doesn't need to be, is bad. HKCU (HKey_Current_User) does not require Admin Priveleges, nor does it bring up a UAC Prompt.
With Vista Home Premium, with Aero and Sidebar on uses +2% CPU above baseline (baseline is about 4-6%, listening to a WMA Protected song used 6-8% CPU according to Task Manager | Performance).
With the Visulization's turned on, it's using around 20-25% CPU according to Task Manager | Performance.
Interestingly, that was with the Task Manager window overlapping the Media Player visualizer. When I dragged it over so that the window wasn't overlapping, CPU usage dropped by about 5% (down to the 15-20% range)
Whoops, that was with the Powersaver Power Profile. Switched to High Performance, it's using about 8-10% with everything turned on, 1-4% without the visualizer.
So maybe he had visualizations turned on in Media Player in a low power profile (capped CPU speed to 50%), which is where all the CPU was going.
not be documented? How could 3rd Party applications use them if they are undocumented?
The second half of your post makes no sense at all.
Media Player can't play Quicktime files, even with Quicktime installed. Apple doesn't include a DirectShow compatible codec with Quicktime, the only way to view a Quicktime File on a PC is to use Quicktime.
The reason you can play a DIVX encoded file, is that they install a DirectShow compatible codec, and register it with the system.
Something you have, something you know.
Right Click on the My Documents link on your desktop, select Move and tell it to put it to D:\whereever the hell I feel like it, and it'll ask you if you want to move all of your existing documents to the new folder.
Hit yes, and you're done.
Except that the act of taking it off (or covering it with tinfoil so it doesn't receive a signal), or otherwise tampering with it, would notify the authorities.
Whether the police come and pick him up 15 minutes later, or in two days, doesn't frigging matter, because the person has proven they can't be trusted, and they'll be sent straight back to prison for the full length of their sentence, with a little extra tacked on for violating the conditions of their parole/probation.
when the game get's pirated to hell and doesn't sell well. Oh, and we don't pay you a cent until your game actually starts shipping, but once it does, we'll give you a percentage of any profits, split with the rest of the Art and Development, Management, Sales, QA, IT, MIS and Support teams, once all the rest of the development, packaging, marketting and shipping costs have been recouped.
So, your choice, really.
It doesn't matter if a way around it is secret or not. Everyone knows that you can download Mozilla or Firefox, it didn't stop the courts from determining that Microsoft abused their monopoly by bundling IE with Windows (or Windows Media Player with Windows).
Where is the abuse of Anti-Trust laws?
Tying iTunes downloads to the iPod is anti-competitive, it is not possible to create a competing player to the iPod in regards to iTunes music because Apple won't license Fairplay to any other device makers.
But as I said in my first post, whether that is a violation of Anti-Trust law or not, depends on whether a court determines that iTunes or iPod enjoy a dominate/monopoly position in the market, and whether the court determines that that position is being abused. In short, it's up to the courts to decide.
What may be perfectly legal behaviour for them when they are not a monopoly, can become a violation of Anti-Trust laws once they are determined to possess a defacto or real monopoly. That's one of the things that makes Anti-Trust law so tricky.
A google search for "Apple Fairplay licensing" gives quite the opposite impression, one that Apple is on the verge of licensing FairPlay to Macrovision for copy-protected CD's, and Motorola for use in certain cell phones, for instance.
There is never once, in any of the articles I found, any mention that Apple is contractually obligated NOT to license Fairplay.
Perhaps you could site something to back up your assertion.
They could license their implementation of Fairplay to other portable MP3 player manufacturers like iRiver and Creative.
But they won't do that, because iTunes is designed from the get-go to drive iPod sales through this AAC/Fairplay lockin.
To get the best experience you need iTunes, an iPod, and a Mac. You have to jump through hoops, degrading the audio quality of the music in the process to use the music you've purchased through iTunes on anything else.
These barriers are in place specifically to drive people to get an iPod. They are anti-competitive by design. Whether the iTunes/iPod combination provides a sufficient market dominance to be ruled a monopoly and subject to Anti-Trust law, is a matter for the courts to decide.
Which is why the operators of Think Secret haven't been arrested and charged by the police.
It's a civil matter between Apple, the leaks, and Think Secret, thus the lawsuit.
article on the subject.
The jet, a chartered Cessna Citation, was landing Dec. 29 with six people aboard when a green light beam struck the windshield three times at about 3,000 feet, according to court documents. The pilot and co-pilot were temporarily blinded but were able to land the plane safely.
Man Charged Under Patriot Act for Laser
3,000 feet up on final approach.
You don't have to shine the laser directly into a pilots retina to dazzle him in that crucial time during landing. Especially considering this is occuring at night, suddenly illuminating the windshield infront of him with an extremely bright green light, which is dancing around due to aircraft movement and vibration from the guy pointing the laser, is going to dazzle the pilots and seriously fuck with their night vision.
A terrorist doesn't have to be precice, because he's not trying to bring down one particular plane, at one particular time. He just has to keep pointing it at planes during approach until he gets lucky.
You don't need anything sophisticated to stabalize the laser, or track the plane. The terrorist isn't interested in bringing down one specific plane at a specific time. They're just looking for A plane (or just to cause enough Terror due to the threat).
They'll just keep aiming the lasers at planes until they get lucky and hit the cockpit windows, dazzling pilots during final approach. If they miss the cockpit of one plane, big deal. There'll be another one along in a few minutes, until they decide to bug out and try somewhere else.
How do pilots manage to see the runway during approach if the windows are on the top, and the runway is under them?
The plane was only at about 3,000 feet on approach for landing. I'm guessing that the pilot just MIGHT have been looking towards the ground.
But maybe that's just me.
What it will likely come with though, will be the Media Center Extender support built in. So you can play the content recorded on your Media Center 2005 PC through the XBox.
to buy him the Student and Teacher Edition of Office for $100, or hell, he could have gotten Works for $50, or downloaded OpenOffice for free.
things like typo's in dialog text, or typos in the help. Simple typos are still listed as Defects by Microsoft, and make up a fairly large portion of the 'bugs' in Windows XP.
Fox didn't air the pilot.
Fox showed what episodes they did show, out of order.
Fox preempted the series several times for baseball playoffs, and poorly communicated time changes.
Fox did almost no promotion of the show, the only promotion for the show they DID seem to do, hinged around the "girl in the box" scenario, which they never even showed, because it was from the Pilot episode (which never aired until they had decided to cancel it).
Fox could not have done more harm to developing an audience for an episodic series if they had tried.
Wash: "Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction." Zoe: "You live on a spaceship, dear."
If the Artists were approaching P2P Networks with their recordings, and trying to arrange distribution, that would be a competing business model.
That's not what's happening, they're facilitating illegal copyright violations on a massive scale.
They were looking around Cypress... what you expected them to get a donation from the Argentinian Tourism board for their research in the waters off Cypress? It's not like the Donation from the Cypress Tourism Board made them pick the location, they'd already picked the location, and got a donation from the locals.
The #1 leading cause of cancer, is life.
I guess that explains why you can't buy a Dell these days without the Dell Media Experience software.