"Look at how much more difficult it is to pirate games for the playstation, you need a mod chip, not just a copy of the game."
Or if you have an older Playstation you could just buy one of those 'Game Enhancers'. They allow you to boot most copied games and require no internal modifications. Of course there is still the problem with the crappy CDROM drive in the PS. Mine has big problems reading CDR media (tried various brands with limited success).
Totally agree. Even a humble Amiga has supported soft & hard links for at least a decade. I know NT has support for hard links at least for quite some time (NT4? NT 3.5?) but I've yet to see them used...
I was walking out of work yesterday (I work in London's Leicester Square) and the celebs were arriving for the premier in the cinema next door. I caught a glimpse of Bill Nighy and the actor that plays Arthur (whose name escapes me). Hopefully this thing won't be too bad...
On a related note the guy who lives in the flat above me plays a bit part in the bulldozer scene...
The BBC are only offering WMV/RealMedia because they are currently the only widely available low-bitrate streaming formats. They don't want to use these formats as they have to pay Real/MS license fees - which is exactly why they are developing their own video compression system.
Y2K only went smoothly at for the company I was working for because myself and a small team of dedicated programmers took the unorganised mess of shitty old code used in 40+ offices and fixed it in time.
Every European country I've visited has had perfect landlines for decades. Admittingly I've not travelled in Eastern Europe.
When I was in Lagos a few months back the phone service was near perfect (slight lag). I would imagine for most medium to large businesses it is great too - BECAUSE THEY ALL HAVE A FRIGGIN SATALITE DISH ON THE ROOF!!! Never seen so many dishes in one city.
Do you have anything that actually uses it? I have only seen *one*.NET application so far and I'm not overly impressed (OK, so not necessarily the fault of.NET:).
This is at work, I haven't bothered or needed to install it at home.
It's all very well knowing what your code is doing but what if you are using a non open source 3rd party library?
There could even be buffer overflow bugs in your C runtime, or as we recently saw in (IIRC) libPNG.
Thanks to the parent poster - I was wondering exactly the same thing.
Actually the "personal use" restriction is most probably illegal. However that doesn't stop Customs going after you and confiscating your car.
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Or even John Logie Baird who invented the television in 1924, 3 years earlier than Philo.
"Look at how much more difficult it is to pirate games for the playstation, you need a mod chip, not just a copy of the game."
Or if you have an older Playstation you could just buy one of those 'Game Enhancers'. They allow you to boot most copied games and require no internal modifications. Of course there is still the problem with the crappy CDROM drive in the PS. Mine has big problems reading CDR media (tried various brands with limited success).
Totally agree. Even a humble Amiga has supported soft & hard links for at least a decade. I know NT has support for hard links at least for quite some time (NT4? NT 3.5?) but I've yet to see them used...
But I can count the number of .net desktop apps I know on 1 finger!
I was walking out of work yesterday (I work in London's Leicester Square) and the celebs were arriving for the premier in the cinema next door. I caught a glimpse of Bill Nighy and the actor that plays Arthur (whose name escapes me). Hopefully this thing won't be too bad...
On a related note the guy who lives in the flat above me plays a bit part in the bulldozer scene...
...assuming you don't break the DLL interface and end up in DLL hell...
Well, I know for a fact that at least one of the extras is British - he lives in the flat upstairs from me!
*Old* VCRs tend to ignore MacroVision also. My TV card (cheapo Hauppauge) seems to be immune too.
Yes, from Usenet, or bittorrent, or ...
The BBC are only offering WMV/RealMedia because they are currently the only widely available low-bitrate streaming formats. They don't want to use these formats as they have to pay Real/MS license fees - which is exactly why they are developing their own video compression system.
And to cap it off he's one of those 'free iPod' morons. Oh, hang on, so are you...
I COULD NOT AGREE MORE!!!!!
Y2K only went smoothly at for the company I was working for because myself and a small team of dedicated programmers took the unorganised mess of shitty old code used in 40+ offices and fixed it in time.
AFAIK Windows doesn't ship with a MPEG2 codec, only MPEG1.
Every European country I've visited has had perfect landlines for decades. Admittingly I've not travelled in Eastern Europe.
When I was in Lagos a few months back the phone service was near perfect (slight lag). I would imagine for most medium to large businesses it is great too - BECAUSE THEY ALL HAVE A FRIGGIN SATALITE DISH ON THE ROOF!!! Never seen so many dishes in one city.
Or one word - 'Usenet'. Always good to check what problems people have been having with a particular pice of hardware.
DRM? Bink and Smacker's RAD Video Tools converted one of the sample WMVs into an AVI with no problems for me.
Maybe the samples are not DRM - or am I not understanding somthing here?
Some of the command line tools from MS are based on BSD code. At least the FTP command (maybe others?) has the following string:
Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California
As Mrs Merton would say: "So Billie, what attracted you to the millionaire Chris Evans?"
Already done. It's called NTSC!
Nope, Google has never carried binaries (nor did Dejanews). If you don't have a good news feed use the torrent a few people posted!
Do you have anything that actually uses it? I have only seen *one* .NET application so far and I'm not overly impressed (OK, so not necessarily the fault of .NET :).
This is at work, I haven't bothered or needed to install it at home.
That explains why NAV is so big and bloated - it's written in (interpreted) VB!!!
It's all very well knowing what your code is doing but what if you are using a non open source 3rd party library? There could even be buffer overflow bugs in your C runtime, or as we recently saw in (IIRC) libPNG.
Thanks to the parent poster - I was wondering exactly the same thing.
Actually the "personal use" restriction is most probably illegal. However that doesn't stop Customs going after you and confiscating your car.
I think you'll find it's fizzy chemically produced shit.