or you can just keep your eyes open. I had a chance to pick up a working Time Warp (D Lair 2) for 200 bucks. I didnt because the cab was in shitty shape.
I've been watching the cartoons on cartoon network. I get the sense that it was probably really funny in its original japanese, but it's all lost in the translation, and whats left is sort of a lukewarm and lame attempt at humor.
Humor just doesnt translate like action does.
The premise is solid enough to make a good movie. Just so long as some good writers write a good script in english, and dont try to translate some old scripts.
>> you'll only be able to play that mp3 for 48 hours until it self-destructs.
That's just one application, and a bad one IMO. You could use the same technology to make sure that noone else can listen to the memos you dictate to a device.
It's the use of a technology that's right or wrong, not the technology itself. Like console modchips. Use them to play japanese games in america, good. Use them to pirate games, bad.
It's the completely one-sided view of technology that has us wind up with stupid laws like the DMCA.
DRM isnt an evil term. You've read too much slashdot.
When you use a password on an secure connection to your banks website to transfer funds, that's a form of DRM.
Putting a BIOS password on your own machine so noone but you can boot it up, is DRM.
You have digital stuff, you have rights to it, you want a way to manage access to it, that's DRM - Digital Rights Management.
The problem isnt the fact that stuff can be secured, the problem is the question of ownership. The RIAA/MPAA members think they own the songs on the CD you bought. MSFT thinks it owns all the IP on your desktop, etc.
It's not the technology at fault, it's the IP system and the many vague definitions of 'ownership'.
Saying DRM is evil or wrong is like saying "ping" is a hacking tool.
I think this is a perfect compromise to the problem.
If every ad said "Advertisement: " in the subject line, then you'd only read them if you wanted to, or filter them out easily, or have the ISP filter them easily.
I really dont care if people want to advertise their stuff to me, I just resent the crap that wastes your time trying to look like legitimate mail, and the outright scams.
It used to be you used DDraw to create a viewport, and direct3D was a layer on top that outputted to that viewport. ie; you init ddraw, create a d3d object, make pictures
With DX7 (or 8? I forget) it flip-flopped, directdraw became a subset of direct3d. So now all drawing ops go through d3d. This happened about the same time every Joe User got a 2nd gen 3d adapter as standard equipment in the PC.
It makes better use of the hardware, and is just more intuitive to think of 2d ops as a special case of 3d ones, than 3d as an extension of 2d.
There are high-end PCs with the same features. We just got one of these bad boys into the shop to test it as a machine to sell our clients for our critical applications. Pretty much everything is redundant. You can hotswap anything in 'em.
Haven't done anything by way of checking linux compatibility with ours, but the drivers are all standard enough.
When Apple sued MS, it was because of MS's marketing of a similar product. Apple thought they could patent 'look and feel' of the interface. MS never tried to make people believe their product was compatible with Apples, let alone deliberately mislead them into thinking it was somehow sanctioned by Apple.
Lindows very well may be doing just that. They're targetting people who dont know any better than to think Lindows means "Lite Windows", or some such. Their website is deliberately designed to look like MS's marketing material, and is completely misleading as to what Lindows is, costs, and is capable of.
IMHO, Lindows is a sleazy company. I've had enough of get-rich-quick startups and scams, and could give a crap who their in court with. The enemy of my enemy is not my friend. I hope the judge rules that Lindows is in fault, because they are seeking to deliberately trick consumers into buying their product.
I'd like to request some proof that every CD is thrown out 'for no reason', as the author states.
I usually throw them out because they're damaged, burned wrong, have obsolete, sensitive or transient data, or such.
Of course, every once in awhile I'll throw out a stack of 200 or so for no reason at all, other than it being my little way of giving mother nature the finger.
DVD-+R (which is what this should be compared to) is 4.5 gigs single layered. (dual layer burners probably wont ever exist, being obsolete before they're practical)
"Sony's Blu-ray machine will be able to play red-laser discs using the DVD-R and DVD-RW formats, but not those using the DVD-RAM or DVD+RW formats."
I was wondering why Sony had (at least halfway) jumped off the +RW bandwagon. They were the biggest "-RW sucks, +RW is better" zealots, and then a couple months ago release a writer capable of both formats.
Perhaps they've known for awhile that blue laser tech will be incompatible with +RW, or are they stepping away from +RW on purpose?
It's not code. VHDL is a different animal (programing the machine within the machine). Pong was sketched out on paper with logic gates. It's a digital circuit, and really not an overwhelmingly complex one at that, I remember studying it for a bit in university (was going to breadboard and try to recreate it as a project, but didnt)
One doesnt 'code' a ripple counter or a half adder.
Unless you want to stretch the definition of 'code' to include the 3 way light switch I installed in my hallway last weekend.
With his suggestion, every ISP wont do it, and it does nothing to stop insecured SMTP routers and whatnot.
While charging at the incoming server is a little better an idea, it's worthless if you cant collect (invoicing a hacked server in China?).
And none of it would stop spam. If they'll pay for glossy mass mailings at $0.37 per stamp, they'll pay a dime to email.
It would stop e-mail. I roughly estimate that the small company I work for would have about 10,000 a year in e-mail charges. We'd find another way to communicate with clients (like the phone).
It wont stop spam. People are getting spam on their text based phones, I get full color spam in my mailbox. Bulk advertisers have no problem paying a few cents per spamee, when one gullible shmuck in 1000 orders the penis enlargement pills.
It'll just kill e-mail. People and corporations wont be so eager to use it when it costs them a dime (or even a cent) per pop.
Well, there are specific restrictions with a filesystem DB, but it is based on relational principles.
It's basically merging Office's FindFast feature (which is MSJET based?, IIRC) into the OS.
Now when I search for "PORNO*.MPG" it'll be querying a DB and getting my results instantly, rather than walking the entire directory structure. And when you have a world of 120 gig hard drives with thousands of subdirs, this is a really necessary feature.
Backward compatibility not being a design feature in the kernel does not mean it wont be part of the system as a whole. DOS compatibility is not a design feature of NT/2K, yet it's present (cmd.exe). Likewise 16 bit compatibility, is present (emulated) but not built in (native from the kernel). Some more legacy bits will be emulated rather than native, freeing up kernel space for more useful features.
No more than a DB based filesystem means you cant save files anymore, as the author says.
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or you can just keep your eyes open. I had a chance to pick up a working Time Warp (D Lair 2) for 200 bucks. I didnt because the cab was in shitty shape.
If they just translated it word for word, it'd probably make little sense and virtually none of the jokes would survive.
Puns and wordplay and snappy dialogue doesn't translate.
I've been watching the cartoons on cartoon network. I get the sense that it was probably really funny in its original japanese, but it's all lost in the translation, and whats left is sort of a lukewarm and lame attempt at humor.
Humor just doesnt translate like action does.
The premise is solid enough to make a good movie. Just so long as some good writers write a good script in english, and dont try to translate some old scripts.
>> you'll only be able to play that mp3 for 48 hours until it self-destructs.
That's just one application, and a bad one IMO. You could use the same technology to make sure that noone else can listen to the memos you dictate to a device.
It's the use of a technology that's right or wrong, not the technology itself. Like console modchips. Use them to play japanese games in america, good. Use them to pirate games, bad.
It's the completely one-sided view of technology that has us wind up with stupid laws like the DMCA.
DRM isnt an evil term. You've read too much slashdot.
When you use a password on an secure connection to your banks website to transfer funds, that's a form of DRM.
Putting a BIOS password on your own machine so noone but you can boot it up, is DRM.
You have digital stuff, you have rights to it, you want a way to manage access to it, that's DRM - Digital Rights Management.
The problem isnt the fact that stuff can be secured, the problem is the question of ownership. The RIAA/MPAA members think they own the songs on the CD you bought. MSFT thinks it owns all the IP on your desktop, etc.
It's not the technology at fault, it's the IP system and the many vague definitions of 'ownership'.
Saying DRM is evil or wrong is like saying "ping" is a hacking tool.
I think this is a perfect compromise to the problem.
If every ad said "Advertisement: " in the subject line, then you'd only read them if you wanted to, or filter them out easily, or have the ISP filter them easily.
I really dont care if people want to advertise their stuff to me, I just resent the crap that wastes your time trying to look like legitimate mail, and the outright scams.
that the most trivial application of the internet is the most profitable?
I mean sending text from peer to peer is pretty much the "hello world" of TCP/IP 101.
Sure the clients are a little more advanced, but the base concept is the same.
It used to be you used DDraw to create a viewport, and direct3D was a layer on top that outputted to that viewport. ie; you init ddraw, create a d3d object, make pictures
With DX7 (or 8? I forget) it flip-flopped, directdraw became a subset of direct3d. So now all drawing ops go through d3d. This happened about the same time every Joe User got a 2nd gen 3d adapter as standard equipment in the PC.
It makes better use of the hardware, and is just more intuitive to think of 2d ops as a special case of 3d ones, than 3d as an extension of 2d.
stratus = servers sure, when I called them high end PC's I was just talking about the x86 PC architecture, not "personal computers".
That is, to me anything built around x86 architecture is a PC, even if it's a beowulf cluster of a zillion blade servers.
There are high-end PCs with the same features. We just got one of these bad boys into the shop to test it as a machine to sell our clients for our critical applications. Pretty much everything is redundant. You can hotswap anything in 'em.
Haven't done anything by way of checking linux compatibility with ours, but the drivers are all standard enough.
A non-beta, standard, production quality journaling filesystem.
EXT3 is a backwards hack and Reiser, while good, is perpetually in the "testing" phase.
I'd even extrapolate that to fault tolerance in general. When linux goes down, it goes down hard.
If it's only selling feature wasnt a claim to be compatible with all Windows software, I'd see it that way too.
I dont want people trying to sell "Frod Moostang 5.O leeter coops" to me either.
When Apple sued MS, it was because of MS's marketing of a similar product. Apple thought they could patent 'look and feel' of the interface. MS never tried to make people believe their product was compatible with Apples, let alone deliberately mislead them into thinking it was somehow sanctioned by Apple.
Lindows very well may be doing just that. They're targetting people who dont know any better than to think Lindows means "Lite Windows", or some such. Their website is deliberately designed to look like MS's marketing material, and is completely misleading as to what Lindows is, costs, and is capable of.
IMHO, Lindows is a sleazy company. I've had enough of get-rich-quick startups and scams, and could give a crap who their in court with. The enemy of my enemy is not my friend. I hope the judge rules that Lindows is in fault, because they are seeking to deliberately trick consumers into buying their product.
A DVD-R was 20 bucks not too long ago (2 years?), and burners still in the thousands of dollars.
It doesnt take long for this stuff to be priced within consumer range, all it takes is competition, or the threat thereof.
I'd like to request some proof that every CD is thrown out 'for no reason', as the author states.
I usually throw them out because they're damaged, burned wrong, have obsolete, sensitive or transient data, or such.
Of course, every once in awhile I'll throw out a stack of 200 or so for no reason at all, other than it being my little way of giving mother nature the finger.
DVD-+R (which is what this should be compared to) is 4.5 gigs single layered. (dual layer burners probably wont ever exist, being obsolete before they're practical)
"Sony's Blu-ray machine will be able to play red-laser discs using the DVD-R and DVD-RW formats, but not those using the DVD-RAM or DVD+RW formats."
I was wondering why Sony had (at least halfway) jumped off the +RW bandwagon. They were the biggest "-RW sucks, +RW is better" zealots, and then a couple months ago release a writer capable of both formats.
Perhaps they've known for awhile that blue laser tech will be incompatible with +RW, or are they stepping away from +RW on purpose?
It's not code. VHDL is a different animal (programing the machine within the machine). Pong was sketched out on paper with logic gates. It's a digital circuit, and really not an overwhelmingly complex one at that, I remember studying it for a bit in university (was going to breadboard and try to recreate it as a project, but didnt)
One doesnt 'code' a ripple counter or a half adder.
Unless you want to stretch the definition of 'code' to include the 3 way light switch I installed in my hallway last weekend.
There is no code for Pong, it was completely done with logic. No CPU, no program, no code!
Well that explains a LOT.
Why he would get a +25 saving throw against anything.
Why he would find a buttload of platinum in every chest he looked in.
Why he was 'given' a vorpal sword by some made-up god.
I KNEW there was something fishy going on.
Do not play D&D with this guy.
With his suggestion, every ISP wont do it, and it does nothing to stop insecured SMTP routers and whatnot.
While charging at the incoming server is a little better an idea, it's worthless if you cant collect (invoicing a hacked server in China?).
And none of it would stop spam. If they'll pay for glossy mass mailings at $0.37 per stamp, they'll pay a dime to email.
It would stop e-mail. I roughly estimate that the small company I work for would have about 10,000 a year in e-mail charges. We'd find another way to communicate with clients (like the phone).
It wont stop spam. People are getting spam on their text based phones, I get full color spam in my mailbox. Bulk advertisers have no problem paying a few cents per spamee, when one gullible shmuck in 1000 orders the penis enlargement pills.
It'll just kill e-mail. People and corporations wont be so eager to use it when it costs them a dime (or even a cent) per pop.
It's not speculation.
It's paranoid delusion.
His tinfoil hat is malfunctioning.
Well, there are specific restrictions with a filesystem DB, but it is based on relational principles.
It's basically merging Office's FindFast feature (which is MSJET based?, IIRC) into the OS.
Now when I search for "PORNO*.MPG" it'll be querying a DB and getting my results instantly, rather than walking the entire directory structure. And when you have a world of 120 gig hard drives with thousands of subdirs, this is a really necessary feature.
Backward compatibility not being a design feature in the kernel does not mean it wont be part of the system as a whole. DOS compatibility is not a design feature of NT/2K, yet it's present (cmd.exe). Likewise 16 bit compatibility, is present (emulated) but not built in (native from the kernel). Some more legacy bits will be emulated rather than native, freeing up kernel space for more useful features.
No more than a DB based filesystem means you cant save files anymore, as the author says.