1080i is 1920x540x60 - it's an interlaced format so only has 540 lines on each frame and not 1080.720p is 1280x720x60p (less horiz resolution but more lines) and 480p is 640x480x60.
I'm all in favour of progressive scan modes (720p for preference) if we have the choice - interlacing is just a PITA. It compresses badly, stills have mice teeth etc etc. Ugh.
I think he knows how public-key encryption works - he was saying that if the private key was compromised they'd just change it before release.
The "obscurity" we talk about isn't obscurity of the private key - the private key is the single secret of the whole thing. But everything else should be publishable without compromising the code.
You are making flawed assertions. Id's games clearly weren't secure by design, hence the cheats. But the biggest flaw in your argument is that by allowing people to buy the game, the source code *has been released*. OK, so it's in x86 code not C and is therefore harder to make sense of, but it is *not obscure*. The *only* way to secure something on a x86 computer is using public key encryption, as at some point your computer will have the decryption algorithm in memory, and will have the decrypt key in memory.
Obviously it's possible to make life difficult for crackers by having multiple layers of decryption and self-modifying code, but ultimately the code has to be readable and executable by the computer. And unless the computer is entirely secure, that code can be intercepted. Emulation, single-stepping, whatever.
or "The action of a thief; the felonious taking away of the personal goods of another; larceny" as per OED.
I think your definition is somewhat lacking: "theft: the act of stealing". And then you go on to make up your own definition of stealing to suit your own personal feelings on the matter.
Or you could have a pile of blanks, a cd writer and an intelligent machine which would keep an inventory of (say) two copies of each title. Spit out the inventory disc, burn another.
That way you have instant gratification for the user, but not have to worry about stock levels.
No, no voting system should give you a receipt. For the simple fact that a verifiable vote opens the system to confirmable vote buying. Either someone gives you $1000 for your vote, or simply doesn't maim you.
This may be slashdot, but broadcasting your copyright infringing activities in *quite* such a public manner is pretty bold, given how public your real-life details are.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/382470.s tm is some fun stuff about how the CIA knew he was being "naughty" within days of being installed by the US.
The mega x-key is as much a circumvention device as a modchip if you are basing your judgement on the number of legal/illegal uses. Although it now appears that there's an msx-box version of action replay which is basically a usb->memory card adapter, so you could use that rather than the mega x-key.
Something about swapping the IDE cables while the drive is running scares me though, and the soldering isn't really very difficult. Although as you say, soldering the bridge and flashing the tsop is much simpler assuming you have the save file on a memory card and a copy of 007.
But with a cheapmod at 16 delivered, it's almost cheaper than a memory card and a rental 007.
Except that wouldn't work on a sony console now, would it?
And in that case you still need a way to get the buffer-overflow files on your xbox - which requires a mega x-key (read: circumvention device) or some jiggery-pokery swapping IDE cables around while your hard drive is on.
Use flash - I don't know how you can dismiss it as overkill when you consider using java.
If you just need the basics, you can use ming to generate the graphics, and most of the vector drawing programs will save as.swf
You get cross platform support (pc, mac, linux, IE, opera, moz) and no plugin download for >80% of your audience. ECMAscript-like actionscript for interactivity, and a whole shedload of developers to help you when you get stuck.
OK, so it's not quite OSS, but you *can* get the source, generate your own swfs using OSS etc.
Someday the net will get over those flash intros and see flash for what it is - a compact, cross platform plugin
You're being diddled, son. Even in the UK, you can get them for 12p (~18c).
If you're in the UK, check out this site - lots of good storage ideas for cheap prices.
Personally, I go for the 24x fabric cases - higher density than jewel cases, they fit in CD racks, and you can label the spines - so finding stuff is easy.
Are you joking? Do you have *any* idea how cotton is made?
Random links about the amount of pesticides and herbicides used, and don't forget that 85% of california's water is used for irrigating crops. Cotton is *not* an easy plant to grow. Compare with hemp (called weed for a reason) which grows 4x as fast as your typical pulp-producing trees with no pesticides and herbicides, and you have a pretty convincing product.
There are quite a few places growing hemp commercially in the UK, even with all the regulatory hoops they have to jump through (fencing requirements to keep "pot-heads" from getting ahold of something with no THC content).
So, if they "own" the content now, and have the right to be identified as the author, does that make them liable if the content is illegal or defamatory?
"When Saddam Hussein was facing his ultimate demise he did not use weapons of mass destruction even though he is a madman."
There is *another* rational explanation for this you know, given the balance of available evidence and all that.
There's still an eerie silence emanating from the "we found irrefutable evidence of WoMD!" camp.
Half of the point of putting the domain name after a link is to prevent us from clicking through to fsking tubgirl/goatsex links again and again. So why should article summaries be exempt?
"Open source is a larger community on Windows than it is on Linux."
No. Shareware is a larger community. Everyone in the windows world wants paying for their (stopwatch|file patcher|sync engine|scheduler). On linux it's typically free, and you get the source to play with too.
Look at how much source code you can get from any of the big OSS sites (freshmeat, sourceforge etc) vs tucows & download.com. There's possibly as many useless guff on both of them, but at least newbies and students can get hold of the code and play with it, which is how most of us learned (or at least improved) to code in the first place.
Only once Iraq was becoming a larger threat - funding terrorists (as Hussein did quite openly), housing them (Ansar Al Islam, which included a hundred or more Al Queda people from Afghanistan) did the US decide to act.
If you're going to play the holier than thou role on funding and housing terrorists, I suggest you look a little closer to home. The US have sponsored and housed more than their fair share of terrorists. Ever heard of the IRA?
apt-get update / apt-get upgrade? Has nobody done a windows update style upgrade engine yet? I appreciate that restarting samba automatically has repercussions on any connected windows machines, but windows update is really simple and useful for a "desktop user" IMHO. And you *do* keep telling us that linux is ready for the desktop...
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1080i is 1920x540x60 - it's an interlaced format so only has 540 lines on each frame and not 1080.720p is 1280x720x60p (less horiz resolution but more lines) and 480p is 640x480x60.
I'm all in favour of progressive scan modes (720p for preference) if we have the choice - interlacing is just a PITA. It compresses badly, stills have mice teeth etc etc. Ugh.
So what did you mean then?
That emerge should give you a "why you should use dtrace" document?
No, he means that it's a relatively large change with no intermediate positions.
"very small" is only your perception of the size of change. Moving between a base state and an excited state is a pretty big thing for an atom.
I think he knows how public-key encryption works - he was saying that if the private key was compromised they'd just change it before release.
The "obscurity" we talk about isn't obscurity of the private key - the private key is the single secret of the whole thing. But everything else should be publishable without compromising the code.
You are making flawed assertions. Id's games clearly weren't secure by design, hence the cheats. But the biggest flaw in your argument is that by allowing people to buy the game, the source code *has been released*. OK, so it's in x86 code not C and is therefore harder to make sense of, but it is *not obscure*. The *only* way to secure something on a x86 computer is using public key encryption, as at some point your computer will have the decryption algorithm in memory, and will have the decrypt key in memory.
Obviously it's possible to make life difficult for crackers by having multiple layers of decryption and self-modifying code, but ultimately the code has to be readable and executable by the computer. And unless the computer is entirely secure, that code can be intercepted. Emulation, single-stepping, whatever.
or "The action of a thief; the felonious taking away of the personal goods of another; larceny" as per OED.
I think your definition is somewhat lacking: "theft: the act of stealing". And then you go on to make up your own definition of stealing to suit your own personal feelings on the matter.
and children. And innocent people.
You are one of an elite group of international law breaking nations who execute minors. Congo and Iran are about your only contemporaries.
Or you could have a pile of blanks, a cd writer and an intelligent machine which would keep an inventory of (say) two copies of each title. Spit out the inventory disc, burn another. That way you have instant gratification for the user, but not have to worry about stock levels.
YHBT?
No, no voting system should give you a receipt. For the simple fact that a verifiable vote opens the system to confirmable vote buying. Either someone gives you $1000 for your vote, or simply doesn't maim you.
Crikey.
This may be slashdot, but broadcasting your copyright infringing activities in *quite* such a public manner is pretty bold, given how public your real-life details are.
Although of course it's all legal in canada...
13 year old geeks with dial-up should be able to handle that sort of lag easily :-)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/382470.s tm is some fun stuff about how the CIA knew he was being "naughty" within days of being installed by the US.
So by your argument they should sue themselves :-)
The mega x-key is as much a circumvention device as a modchip if you are basing your judgement on the number of legal/illegal uses. Although it now appears that there's an msx-box version of action replay which is basically a usb->memory card adapter, so you could use that rather than the mega x-key.
Something about swapping the IDE cables while the drive is running scares me though, and the soldering isn't really very difficult. Although as you say, soldering the bridge and flashing the tsop is much simpler assuming you have the save file on a memory card and a copy of 007.
But with a cheapmod at 16 delivered, it's almost cheaper than a memory card and a rental 007.
Except that wouldn't work on a sony console now, would it?
And in that case you still need a way to get the buffer-overflow files on your xbox - which requires a mega x-key (read: circumvention device) or some jiggery-pokery swapping IDE cables around while your hard drive is on.
Use flash - I don't know how you can dismiss it as overkill when you consider using java.
.swf
If you just need the basics, you can use ming to generate the graphics, and most of the vector drawing programs will save as
You get cross platform support (pc, mac, linux, IE, opera, moz) and no plugin download for >80% of your audience. ECMAscript-like actionscript for interactivity, and a whole shedload of developers to help you when you get stuck.
OK, so it's not quite OSS, but you *can* get the source, generate your own swfs using OSS etc.
Someday the net will get over those flash intros and see flash for what it is - a compact, cross platform plugin
Unless it was the phrase "unlock map" in a word document, natch...
You're being diddled, son. Even in the UK, you can get them for 12p (~18c).
If you're in the UK, check out this site - lots of good storage ideas for cheap prices.
Personally, I go for the 24x fabric cases - higher density than jewel cases, they fit in CD racks, and you can label the spines - so finding stuff is easy.
Random links about the amount of pesticides and herbicides used, and don't forget that 85% of california's water is used for irrigating crops. Cotton is *not* an easy plant to grow. Compare with hemp (called weed for a reason) which grows 4x as fast as your typical pulp-producing trees with no pesticides and herbicides, and you have a pretty convincing product.
There are quite a few places growing hemp commercially in the UK, even with all the regulatory hoops they have to jump through (fencing requirements to keep "pot-heads" from getting ahold of something with no THC content).
Do a little research before trolling next time?
So, if they "own" the content now, and have the right to be identified as the author, does that make them liable if the content is illegal or defamatory?
There's still an eerie silence emanating from the "we found irrefutable evidence of WoMD!" camp.
Half of the point of putting the domain name after a link is to prevent us from clicking through to fsking tubgirl/goatsex links again and again. So why should article summaries be exempt?
No. Shareware is a larger community. Everyone in the windows world wants paying for their (stopwatch|file patcher|sync engine|scheduler). On linux it's typically free, and you get the source to play with too.
Look at how much source code you can get from any of the big OSS sites (freshmeat, sourceforge etc) vs tucows & download.com. There's possibly as many useless guff on both of them, but at least newbies and students can get hold of the code and play with it, which is how most of us learned (or at least improved) to code in the first place.
If you're going to play the holier than thou role on funding and housing terrorists, I suggest you look a little closer to home. The US have sponsored and housed more than their fair share of terrorists. Ever heard of the IRA?
apt-get update / apt-get upgrade? Has nobody done a windows update style upgrade engine yet? I appreciate that restarting samba automatically has repercussions on any connected windows machines, but windows update is really simple and useful for a "desktop user" IMHO. And you *do* keep telling us that linux is ready for the desktop...