Each bios has to be virtually hand coded for the motherboard they're supposed to run on. Writing an opensource BIOS would be fairly difficult, since you'd need a seperate version for each.
Of course, split it up to a "front end->back end" design, with the bios makers releasing back ends for BIOSes, and you might be able to have that. NDAs not withstanding, they might even release source to the back end.
Award has remained fairly independent of Phoenix, since Phoenix is aware as to who the customers of Award are. They're the people who want flexibility, and if they take that away, they'll lose business of a good percentage of motherboard manufacturers.
The Award bios in my BE6 is excellent. As is it in many other computers.
I think that's why one could say that Phoenixs' Award BIOSes are the "Power User" BIOS, whereas the Generic Phoenix BIOS is the "General User" BIOS.
Which is why, coincidentally, you see Award most commonly in Abit, ASUS, and other motherboards, but most frequently see AMI or Phoenix in most preassembled computers (Dell, Gateway, Compaq). The people who buy the motherboard want the flexibility, so Phoenix gives it to them. Otherwise they get the standard Phoenix, which is good for protecting the user from themselves...
Descent3 is one of the most kickass (and least buggy) games I have ever played. The patches that came later were simply performance improvements/enabled features
The mpaa doesn't get a cent from people who create dvds...
the DVD Group, run by toshiba I believe, DOES. they get that from players sold.
The DVD CCA issues for the DVD Group keys, which are subsequently sent to members of the DVD Group, so they can include the keys on their DVDs.
The MPAA only wants to control access. And this they do with the crap that is CSS.
The only thing keeping the judge from telling the MPAA and the like that DeCSS is a) the DMCA, and b) the judge's likely ignorance about the way the net operates...
Just because they got restraining orders against several new york people for distributing DeCSS, does that mean JUST decss, or does that strangely include css-auth and LiViD?
I believe this judge was not impartial, or at least is suspicious, in his disagreeing so absolutely with the defendants and agreeing so absolutely with the "plaintiffs" (if they even deserve that title).
But then, had they mentioned LiViD, and those previously quoted sections of DMCA, I'm pretty sure his lack of impartiality, was that he wasn't informed of LiViD properly.
Let's disassociate css-auth and LiViD from decss. Let decss die, and continue on with something that if they try and smash, will definitely look like a strike against personal liberty...
Actually, you can copy the contents of the DVD to the hard drive without decryption, it simply won't play because the decoder can't find any keys on the disc.
Now if you were to use assembly, and slowly go from the inside of the disk outward, copying EVERY byte as you found it, yes, you probably could. (Reverse this from the outside inwards a good distance, and you can copy GD-Roms !)
And you would probably come across the encryption keys. It's not possible for a CD-Rom DRIVE to refuse access to a certain track, if I recall. It's just whether the software will let you there.
Sure, it's totally possible, but most display 2D acelleration is geared towards straight lines and rectangles.
When windows9X does the non-standard windows, it's not actually making them round. It just creates a rectangular window, then hides everything outside of a boundary you specify. Great for all sorts of shapes, you don't lose acelleration, but it looks out of place in everything except sonique and programs like it.
Many UI elements are based on windows being rectangular, like most are. I can't see a word processor being anything except like a sheet of paper, but like sonique (tho i have never used it), apps that do work in the back end (decoding/display only) would benefit from this, rather than those that do work in the front end (word processing).
No the government shouldn't be able to. Most libraries are government supported. Therefore they are subject to the full force of the constitution. Big wall to censorship? That little thing called the FIRST AMENDMENT.
You aren't allowed to read Playboy at school; you aren't allowed to look at sublimedirectory.com at the library. It's that simple.
Part of the agreement at the beginning of the year for computer use at my school is that you don't go to those sites. If you do, you get slammed. REAL HARD. But then the state network blew ALL teachers and students off and installed BESS. I agreed with the permission thing. I did not agree with BESS. Same thing with libraries. You don't go to them or you might get sent out of the library. Permanently in some cases (i've seen a few freaks get slapped with a court order), but they've NEVER installed filtering software. It only came to their own detriment.
If you want to exercise your right to freedom, buy internet access.
So freedom is only for those who can afford it, and everyone must live under the doctrine of a few extremists? By the way, keeping the book could be considered a form of censorship, as no one else can use it. To prevent this, they impose fines. That's what we need. Fines for morons who censor people.
Another way to point out the absurdity of this: Does the library carry the Karma Sutra? Hustler? It could be argued, just as logically as the argument being made above, that if the library does not carry every single book ever published they are violating your rights.
Putting the Kama Sutra in the same line as Hustler is an insult to it. It is a far older book, and is part of a religion, as I recall...
At the very least, a copy at some library should be available, or the library, which operates on your tax dollars, should be able to make the effort to get a copy. Also, I'm pretty sure many libraries do archive copies of magazines like that (they archive all magazines in a mass order probably). And they probably do an age check and require a valid reason before they'll let you go back there. BUT THEY STILL MAKE IT AVAILABLE. Archives are important, despite how, well, unglamorous as they may be.
Porn is a great and glorious thing; you don't need to be able to view it from the library.
No you don't. But DO NOT INSTALL ineffective, BIASED, and unconstitutional software on PUBLIC SYSTEMS.
What should you do? TRUST THE PEOPLE. If you don't, get the courts to issue a restraining order. If they go, it'll only be to their detriment, NOT everyone's.
And I have, of course, no comment on what the sheer number of submissions must mean about our readers. *grin*
Well? Why wouldn't they "read" a magazine that has featured stories and articles from Asimov, Clarke, and many other famous Sci-Fi writers? Playboy actually IS more than just a porn-mag. In fact, I'd go so far as to call it a socially relevant magazine, and yes, a form of art. Playboy does have an air of respectability around it, compared to others...
No Y2K glitches does not mean this was a h0ax...
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I don't know if anyone pointed out to the general public yet, but the fact that no y2k bugs are actually taking place might be taken by some people that it was a h0ax. But in fact, that means that everyone did what they were supposed to do, and squashed 90% of those out there. I say good job to all of you y2k exterminators.
Now we all must brace for the impact of new years into California, where most will probably occur...
I swear, just looking at that made my brain hurt like hell... But hey, if you can understand it, and can glean useful information, all the better for you (and everyone else).
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As my lab science teacher said, "I should hit you with something ugly!@#$"
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Cause that's horrible
Politics (pa-li-ticks) adv. Taking advantage of voter support by helping yourself only, or helping yourself by helping others.
by helping others, but only those others that pay for your $10000 a seat dinner parties.
But I guess this excludes this governor, who definitely gets a mark up in my book.
Dela-where jokes are nothing as bad as us Arkansas get.
But then, you don't get to give people strange looks when they say "Ar-keen-saw! Wharez that!?"
Read the article at Wired. He says himself that it wasn't he that broke it, but two other anonymous members of MoRE!!!
Each bios has to be virtually hand coded for the motherboard they're supposed to run on. Writing an opensource BIOS would be fairly difficult, since you'd need a seperate version for each.
Of course, split it up to a "front end->back end" design, with the bios makers releasing back ends for BIOSes, and you might be able to have that. NDAs not withstanding, they might even release source to the back end.
Award has remained fairly independent of Phoenix, since Phoenix is aware as to who the customers of Award are. They're the people who want flexibility, and if they take that away, they'll lose business of a good percentage of motherboard manufacturers.
The Award bios in my BE6 is excellent. As is it in many other computers.
I think that's why one could say that Phoenixs' Award BIOSes are the "Power User" BIOS, whereas the Generic Phoenix BIOS is the "General User" BIOS.
Which is why, coincidentally, you see Award most commonly in Abit, ASUS, and other motherboards, but most frequently see AMI or Phoenix in most preassembled computers (Dell, Gateway, Compaq). The people who buy the motherboard want the flexibility, so Phoenix gives it to them. Otherwise they get the standard Phoenix, which is good for protecting the user from themselves...
Not much else.
Descent3 is one of the most kickass (and least buggy) games I have ever played. The patches that came later were simply performance improvements/enabled features
No little tidbits of info for us non-mass-readers? Guess I'll have to wait for more moderation...
Well,
:)
Pendejo is spanish for asshole
the others i don't recognize, or the accents are missing.
Have fun!
Yet Another Minor Kernel Revision
Either that or there are some serious bug patches here.
I'm still waiting for 2.4, at which time I will build my second computer that's exclusively for Linux.
That and XF86 4.0 so i'll be able to play some games on it with relative ease (hopefully)
no no no
The mpaa doesn't get a cent from people who create dvds...
the DVD Group, run by toshiba I believe, DOES. they get that from players sold.
The DVD CCA issues for the DVD Group keys, which are subsequently sent to members of the DVD Group, so they can include the keys on their DVDs.
The MPAA only wants to control access. And this they do with the crap that is CSS.
The only thing keeping the judge from telling the MPAA and the like that DeCSS is a) the DMCA, and b) the judge's likely ignorance about the way the net operates...
Just because they got restraining orders against several new york people for distributing DeCSS, does that mean JUST decss, or does that strangely include css-auth and LiViD?
I believe this judge was not impartial, or at least is suspicious, in his disagreeing so absolutely with the defendants and agreeing so absolutely with the "plaintiffs" (if they even deserve that title).
But then, had they mentioned LiViD, and those previously quoted sections of DMCA, I'm pretty sure his lack of impartiality, was that he wasn't informed of LiViD properly.
Let's disassociate css-auth and LiViD from decss. Let decss die, and continue on with something that if they try and smash, will definitely look like a strike against personal liberty...
So where'd you download it?
I mean, the same form type letter in two different topics that are almost entirely irrleleveant...
Sorry, but I had to knock your last one down a notch...
Actually, you can copy the contents of the DVD to the hard drive without decryption, it simply won't play because the decoder can't find any keys on the disc.
Now if you were to use assembly, and slowly go from the inside of the disk outward, copying EVERY byte as you found it, yes, you probably could. (Reverse this from the outside inwards a good distance, and you can copy GD-Roms !)
And you would probably come across the encryption keys. It's not possible for a CD-Rom DRIVE to refuse access to a certain track, if I recall. It's just whether the software will let you there.
Sure, it's totally possible, but most display 2D acelleration is geared towards straight lines and rectangles.
When windows9X does the non-standard windows, it's not actually making them round. It just creates a rectangular window, then hides everything outside of a boundary you specify. Great for all sorts of shapes, you don't lose acelleration, but it looks out of place in everything except sonique and programs like it.
Many UI elements are based on windows being rectangular, like most are. I can't see a word processor being anything except like a sheet of paper, but like sonique (tho i have never used it), apps that do work in the back end (decoding/display only) would benefit from this, rather than those that do work in the front end (word processing).
No the government shouldn't be able to. Most libraries are government supported. Therefore they are subject to the full force of the constitution. Big wall to censorship? That little thing called the FIRST AMENDMENT.
You aren't allowed to read Playboy at school; you aren't allowed to look at sublimedirectory.com at the library. It's that simple.
Part of the agreement at the beginning of the year for computer use at my school is that you don't go to those sites. If you do, you get slammed. REAL HARD. But then the state network blew ALL teachers and students off and installed BESS. I agreed with the permission thing. I did not agree with BESS. Same thing with libraries. You don't go to them or you might get sent out of the library. Permanently in some cases (i've seen a few freaks get slapped with a court order), but they've NEVER installed filtering software. It only came to their own detriment.
If you want to exercise your right to freedom, buy internet access.
So freedom is only for those who can afford it, and everyone must live under the doctrine of a few extremists? By the way, keeping the book could be considered a form of censorship, as no one else can use it. To prevent this, they impose fines. That's what we need. Fines for morons who censor people.
Another way to point out the absurdity of this: Does the library carry the Karma Sutra? Hustler? It could be argued, just as logically as the argument being made above, that if the library does not carry every single book ever published they are violating your rights.
Putting the Kama Sutra in the same line as Hustler is an insult to it. It is a far older book, and is part of a religion, as I recall...
At the very least, a copy at some library should be available, or the library, which operates on your tax dollars, should be able to make the effort to get a copy. Also, I'm pretty sure many libraries do archive copies of magazines like that (they archive all magazines in a mass order probably). And they probably do an age check and require a valid reason before they'll let you go back there. BUT THEY STILL MAKE IT AVAILABLE. Archives are important, despite how, well, unglamorous as they may be.
Porn is a great and glorious thing; you don't need to be able to view it from the library.
No you don't. But DO NOT INSTALL ineffective, BIASED, and unconstitutional software on PUBLIC SYSTEMS.
What should you do? TRUST THE PEOPLE. If you don't, get the courts to issue a restraining order. If they go, it'll only be to their detriment, NOT everyone's.
Is it just me, or does this market have some considerable barriers to entry?
I guess it's generic, or just really common, like the name Smith.
Sorta like how i've seen toilet paper holders, bricks, and ladders all made by an ACME company.
Yet not one has managed to injure, maim, or kill me yet...
And I have, of course, no comment on what the sheer number of submissions must mean about our readers. *grin*
Well? Why wouldn't they "read" a magazine that has featured stories and articles from Asimov, Clarke, and many other famous Sci-Fi writers? Playboy actually IS more than just a porn-mag. In fact, I'd go so far as to call it a socially relevant magazine, and yes, a form of art. Playboy does have an air of respectability around it, compared to others...
I don't know if anyone pointed out to the general public yet, but the fact that no y2k bugs are actually taking place might be taken by some people that it was a h0ax. But in fact, that means that everyone did what they were supposed to do, and squashed 90% of those out there. I say good job to all of you y2k exterminators.
Now we all must brace for the impact of new years into California, where most will probably occur...
learn to count...
1970-2000 = 30 years
2000-10000 = 8000 years
Numerous things will drive software much farther along in that time frame.
I just ran that candidate selector, and none of the candidates scored over 66. The highest was McReynolds. Scary..
Besides, "traditional values"? What the hell is that? Whose "values" are they? Not mine, i'm pretty sure...
Go look at a different article. It's still there...
I swear, just looking at that made my brain hurt like hell... But hey, if you can understand it, and can glean useful information, all the better for you (and everyone else).