In the US [I believe from my R1 DVD collection], StarTrek: TMP (director's cut) does this. Or at least I hope it does otherwise I'm going to have to fix my player:)
Not exactly. There is a 'next' pointer encoded into the DVD which tell the player where to go once the warning is actually finished. Next buttons on DVD players just jump to that pointer on a user request (after executing any post-warning commands on the DVD virtual machine)
xine is what you are looking for. It can play DVDs, DivX's and pretty much anything else and can also output via NVidia cards TV output or via a Hollywood Plus/Sigma Designs hardware card (re-encoding to MPEG on the fly in the latter case for non-MPEG files).
Move forward 6 months. Handspring now announce the 'quadro' PDA with the flash ROM feature and everyone rushes out to buy more PDAs to replace the one they have. This doesn't cost the manufacturer anything though since they already spent the moeny designing the flash stuff so they appear to have launced a new product with a feature people want with no net outlay -- and they've had 6 months of people unwittingly field testing the design for them...
Seriously... how long would you last wearing a 'FUCK AMERICA - UBL FOR PRESIDENT' T-shirt in the US? Its the same with 'blasphemous' T-shirts in the Vatican -- except the Vatican doens't kill people who try that anymore.
TeX fonts are not PostScript or TrueType fonts. That causes all sorts of practical problems.
Actually you can get a set of Adobe Type 1 fonts for LaTeX from the AMS. You can then make TeX use these standard PostScript Type 1 fonts in the PDFs it produces. More details here and here. You can also make LaTeX use the standard PostScript fonts for its body by using the \usepackage{times} directive in the preamble.
Why would we want a standard Instant Messenger? Putting everything under one umbrella brings us back again to the problems with Microsoft and not having any choices. Isn't choice what we want?
We want standard protocols. For example all web-browsers (to some extent) understand HTML and HTTP -- they are the standards -- but we still have a choice which client to use.
Similarly a standard IM protocol (e.g. SIP) supported by AOL, MSN, etc would be fine sllowing people to choose their client or writing automated Perl scripts to send system notification messages (e.g. print jobs finishing) via IMs (the way MIT do with their IM system, Zephyr).
Her prescence forces the MIB agency (headed by Sid, played by Rip Torn) to go and de-neuralize Kay, who comes back to re-join his buddy and save the world.
I thought the MiB boss was called `Zed'.. as in the letter -- notice the pattern with Jay, Kay, etc...
Thats precisely the point. Not using STL or standard functions increases the time taken to code, the amount of programming required and decreases the maintainability of the code -- in short your code would _cost_ _more_ to develop if you were company paying for it.
IP is an overused term. Generally it is used to lump Copyright, Trademark and Patent laws together. Lets consider them separately
Copyright
Does your implementation use any content copyrighted to the previous company. E.g. If you were trying to rid Hamlyn of rats and you decide to lure them with music you would run into trouble only if you didn't use the music copyrighted by Pied Piper Inc.
Patents
Has the company patented the base idea? In our fictional example, if Pied Piper Inc. had patented 'A Method to Lure Rats based on External Auditory Stimuli' then you couldn't make a Rat-luring product no matter whose music you used.
Trademarks
Will you name your product similar to the prior employers? Sticking with our example, if you created your produce and named it Pie-eyed Piper (TM) you'd probably be on rocky ground
If the answer to all these questions is a resounding no then there is no IP law that can be directly applied.
As always IANAL.
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Quantum effects are what make semiconductors work:). However below a certain size the wave-particle duality stats to make you wires into waveguides...
The URLs you've visited or IP addresses of people who've visited your server... and the list goes on.
Actually they can't look at the URLs since it forms part of the HTTP traffic. They can look at the IP of a web-server you connect to but not the URL you fetch. If the server serves several 'virtual hosts' they may not even know which web-site you looked at (or at least would be unable to present it as evidence and you could make a legitimate complaint if they found out this way).
KDE 2+ users will note the presence of a RISC OS theme in their control panel. It doesn't completely relfect the niceties of RISC OS but its functional.
Will I be able to walk into CompUSA and buy a PC with an ARM CPU in it?
Probably not but ARM based computers have been available in the UK for as long as the ARM existed (the lamented Acorn Computers invented it after all). You can still get Risc PCs and even older Acorn machines on eBay and you will be able to get The Omega soon. These machines have a small but fanatical following here in the UK, mostly due to their large presence in educational institutions.
One of the projects in my pipe is a KDE DVD (only for the moment but thats only so version 0.1 comes out quickly) based on the old kxine code.
A screenie shows the DVD playback working (using the xine engine) but it will have a KDE wrapper. It works but is a bit rough:)
I also hate the xine GUI and I work on the xine project but the emphasis at the moment is increasing stability, flexability and quality of playback (oh and ironing out those pesky DVD-menu bugs).
xine is actually a library you can use to write custom media players (already it has been used to write a Gtk player, a GNOME one, a KDE one is in the works (see one of my other posts) and a mozilla plugin.
Since xine can play DVDs, so will your application and since xine can use the Dxr3 or H+ decoder cards, so will your apps. The xine homepage has a partially complete hackers' guide written by myself and others which may help you.
One of the projects in my pipe is a KDE DVD (only for the moment but thats only so version 0.1 comes out quickly) based on the old kxine code.
A screenie shows the DVD playback working (using the xine engine) but it will have a KDE wrapper. It works but is a bit rough:)
I also hate the xine GUI and I work on the xine project but the emphasis at the moment is increasing stability, flexability and quality of playback (oh and ironing out those pesky DVD-menu bugs).
Third step: look in the links section at the bottom for CaptainCSS [captaincss.tk], download it, follow the instructions carefully, as they are non-standard, and you will have a fully working DVD player.
Or go to the DVDNAV page and get a plugin with full menu support.
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TOBOR is actually something called a "Pyxis HelpMate Robotic Courier". Follow the link for some pictures and more info (flash required for some things).
I have no idea how physicists approach the question of the creation of a contrafactual timeline which removes its own motive for existing (if his father lived, then he wouldn't create the time machine, and thus etc. etc.) But I think this is more interesting, if tragic, as a story of a man who still misses his father than as a viable line of research.
There are two popular approached. The so-called 'many worlds' interpretation comes from quantum mechanics and has been discussed here under the moniker 'parallel-universes'.
However, this approach was somewhat forced onto the subject of 'time-travel' since people didn't like to think that they didn't have free will. A classic example would be going back in time to kill Hitler before WWII. Clearly you failed since he didn't die... period. You can use the fact that he didn't die to infer that something happened which made you fail. Simple.
Funny, isn't it, how the pirates don't need to crack any encryption to make copies of DVDs
No but they do need to find writable DVD blanks which can be used. All commercially available DVD blanks must have a 'dead-area' on them which cannot be written to (much like the vendor ID area on CD-Rs). Unfortunately this area corresponds directly to the location of the encrypted disk-keys on a DVD so even if you did a bit-for-bit copy, you would have an encrypted disk but no encrypted keys.
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In the US [I believe from my R1 DVD collection], StarTrek: TMP (director's cut) does this. Or at least I hope it does otherwise I'm going to have to fix my player :)
Not exactly. There is a 'next' pointer encoded into the DVD which tell the player where to go once the warning is actually finished. Next buttons on DVD players just jump to that pointer on a user request (after executing any post-warning commands on the DVD virtual machine)
xine is what you are looking for. It can play DVDs, DivX's and pretty much anything else and can also output via NVidia cards TV output or via a Hollywood Plus/Sigma Designs hardware card (re-encoding to MPEG on the fly in the latter case for non-MPEG files).
and I prefer xine since I can drive my hardware DVD card to get lovely outoput on my big telly.
Move forward 6 months. Handspring now announce the 'quadro' PDA with the flash ROM feature and everyone rushes out to buy more PDAs to replace the one they have. This doesn't cost the manufacturer anything though since they already spent the moeny designing the flash stuff so they appear to have launced a new product with a feature people want with no net outlay -- and they've had 6 months of people unwittingly field testing the design for them...
FUCK AMERICA...
Seriously... how long would you last wearing a 'FUCK AMERICA - UBL FOR PRESIDENT' T-shirt in the US? Its the same with 'blasphemous' T-shirts in the Vatican -- except the Vatican doens't kill people who try that anymore.
Actually you can get a set of Adobe Type 1 fonts for LaTeX from the AMS. You can then make TeX use these standard PostScript Type 1 fonts in the PDFs it produces. More details here and here. You can also make LaTeX use the standard PostScript fonts for its body by using the \usepackage{times} directive in the preamble.
We want standard protocols. For example all web-browsers (to some extent) understand HTML and HTTP -- they are the standards -- but we still have a choice which client to use.
Similarly a standard IM protocol (e.g. SIP) supported by AOL, MSN, etc would be fine sllowing people to choose their client or writing automated Perl scripts to send system notification messages (e.g. print jobs finishing) via IMs (the way MIT do with their IM system, Zephyr).
I thought the MiB boss was called `Zed'.. as in the letter -- notice the pattern with Jay, Kay, etc...
Thats precisely the point. Not using STL or standard functions increases the time taken to code, the amount of programming required and decreases the maintainability of the code -- in short your code would _cost_ _more_ to develop if you were company paying for it.
cost != value in general
Copyright
Does your implementation use any content copyrighted to the previous company. E.g. If you were trying to rid Hamlyn of rats and you decide to lure them with music you would run into trouble only if you didn't use the music copyrighted by Pied Piper Inc.
Patents
Has the company patented the base idea? In our fictional example, if Pied Piper Inc. had patented 'A Method to Lure Rats based on External Auditory Stimuli' then you couldn't make a Rat-luring product no matter whose music you used.
Trademarks
Will you name your product similar to the prior employers? Sticking with our example, if you created your produce and named it Pie-eyed Piper (TM) you'd probably be on rocky ground
If the answer to all these questions is a resounding no then there is no IP law that can be directly applied.
As always IANAL.
Quantum effects are what make semiconductors work :). However below a certain size the wave-particle duality stats to make you wires into waveguides...
Actually they can't look at the URLs since it forms part of the HTTP traffic. They can look at the IP of a web-server you connect to but not the URL you fetch. If the server serves several 'virtual hosts' they may not even know which web-site you looked at (or at least would be unable to present it as evidence and you could make a legitimate complaint if they found out this way).
Of course back then 'she' was called Roger Wilson.
KDE 2+ users will note the presence of a RISC OS theme in their control panel. It doesn't completely relfect the niceties of RISC OS but its functional.
Probably not but ARM based computers have been available in the UK for as long as the ARM existed (the lamented Acorn Computers invented it after all). You can still get Risc PCs and even older Acorn machines on eBay and you will be able to get The Omega soon. These machines have a small but fanatical following here in the UK, mostly due to their large presence in educational institutions.
Hello Guenter, You're the chap that decided this so you could have just said 'I say it is so' :)
Well less so if you look at the d5d source and see thet it _is_ dvdnav, just lumping all the libraries together in one tar-ball
A screenie shows the DVD playback working (using the xine engine) but it will have a KDE wrapper. It works but is a bit rough :)
I also hate the xine GUI and I work on the xine project but the emphasis at the moment is increasing stability, flexability and quality of playback (oh and ironing out those pesky DVD-menu bugs).
Since xine can play DVDs, so will your application and since xine can use the Dxr3 or H+ decoder cards, so will your apps. The xine homepage has a partially complete hackers' guide written by myself and others which may help you.
A screenie shows the DVD playback working (using the xine engine) but it will have a KDE wrapper. It works but is a bit rough :)
I also hate the xine GUI and I work on the xine project but the emphasis at the moment is increasing stability, flexability and quality of playback (oh and ironing out those pesky DVD-menu bugs).
Or go to the DVDNAV page and get a plugin with full menu support.
TOBOR is actually something called a "Pyxis HelpMate Robotic Courier". Follow the link for some pictures and more info (flash required for some things).
There are two popular approached. The so-called 'many worlds' interpretation comes from quantum mechanics and has been discussed here under the moniker 'parallel-universes'.
However, this approach was somewhat forced onto the subject of 'time-travel' since people didn't like to think that they didn't have free will. A classic example would be going back in time to kill Hitler before WWII. Clearly you failed since he didn't die... period. You can use the fact that he didn't die to infer that something happened which made you fail. Simple.
No but they do need to find writable DVD blanks which can be used. All commercially available DVD blanks must have a 'dead-area' on them which cannot be written to (much like the vendor ID area on CD-Rs). Unfortunately this area corresponds directly to the location of the encrypted disk-keys on a DVD so even if you did a bit-for-bit copy, you would have an encrypted disk but no encrypted keys.