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Go to the BBC News site first and get the link from there (it'll be under one of their video clips). Saves wading through all the sales puff for the paid-for player. Does anyone use the paid-for version anyway?
You can't video movies shown on Sky Box Office in the UK because they have Macrovision. Worse, my DVD recorder won't even fire up and just displays a copyright message on the front display. I'm sure the recorder can be hacked in some way though.
H.323 is a really difficult protocol to proxy. Windoze Internet Connection Sharing does it OK, and my Netgear firewall/router is supposed to be able to handle it, although I only got ADSL a week ago so haven't actually tried yet. Most of the little freeware proxies you can get from download.com can only do e-mail, HTTP and FTP if you're lucky.
Anyway, after RTFFAQ 7.12, it does appear to port hop but there are various suggestions to make this work through a firewall or router.
I claim prior art as I have had two of them since 1969. Seriously, one squashy lens (of only moderate performance) with a clever image processing system behind it - as in the eye/brain setup - is probably the way to go for digital applications. Computing power is a lot cheaper than Schott optical glass!
All you have to do is write a little bit of code to change a "1" to a "0" at the very start of the track. No-one will ever be able to hear it in a 256kbps MP3, and it will screw up any hash values.
In any case, my understanding is that two separately ripped and encoded MP3s are rarely identical because of ripping errors and different implementations of the MP3 algorithm.
The trouble with music on demand is that eventually things will get deleted, due to lack of aforementioned "demand" and will no longer be offered for download. Then they're effectively lost to the world unless someone, somewhere, kept a copy. The chances of the iTunes store offering an obscure album from the mid-1980s just because I want it are zero. There is a stack of stuff available on Kazaa and the like that you can't buy for love nor money.
OS 2200 (Unisys), OS/400 and OS/390 (IBM) also spring to mind. Both are just "OS" followed by the model number of the machine they were designed for (Unisys 2200, IBM AS/400 and R/390).
So if PCs were proprietary technology owned by Microsoft, we could have OS/x86. Doesn't have much of a ring to it, but it might appeal to the kind of technocrats who drive a 323i or a C240.
Firstly, although I can't see myself using one of these services in the near future, well done to Roxio for trying a different business model.
However, I think the "Napster" branding is an odd decision. Who is still likely to go to napster.com in the hope of finding free music, seeing as it was shut down for years? And in terms of brand image, Napster always stood for getting-something-for-nothing, so isn't it a bit like launching a legitimate online software store called "serials.ws"? I wonder what Shawn Fanning would make of it, as it was his nickname in the first place.
That's about the size of the Tunguska object (probably a comet, since it exploded in mid-air and didn't leave a crater). Enough to make a mess of a big city or a pretty impressive tsunami, but not enough to wipe out mankind.
I'm surprised we don't have cars that drive themselves at least some of the time. We already have cruise control, proximity control, auto-parking and GPS. Besides allowing you to drive while - ahem - "tired and emotional", driving is such a colossal waste of time because you can't do much else while behind the wheel.
The US telephone numbers are allocated quite well, based on size of population. For instance, there is one area code for the whole of Wyoming, because few people live there (I understand there are some big hills...).
Conversely, the UK system was based on *centres* of population. So a small market town gets as many numbers as a medium-sized city. This is why UK phone numbers have had to be rehashed a couple of times. We were very close to running out of numbers in London, Reading, Leicester, Bristol etc.
Ssh...Disney are working on this, as well as trying to get the law changed so they can lobotomise you after you've watched "The Jungle Book", just in case you subsequently remember any of the good bits when you're lying in the bath.
Rather irritatingly, the free version has lots of menu icons that don't work, a bit like blanked-off switches in base model automobiles. However, it's a good tool for basic performance measurements and reassures you that your RAM/CPU etc are working at their rated speed.
A tip: run it as Administrator or you'll get limited information out of the BIOS. And if you're using *nix, you'll have to look elsewhere.
Left, centre, right. Ideal for flight simulators etc. Where do you look with dual head? I can see the practical problems with fitting 3 VGA outputs on the back of an AGP card though, as well as desk space issues.
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Go to the BBC News site first and get the link from there (it'll be under one of their video clips). Saves wading through all the sales puff for the paid-for player. Does anyone use the paid-for version anyway?
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You can't video movies shown on Sky Box Office in the UK because they have Macrovision. Worse, my DVD recorder won't even fire up and just displays a copyright message on the front display. I'm sure the recorder can be hacked in some way though.
I take it Baystar is this bunch of vulture capitalists?
Only when I get mod points, duh. ;-)
Anyway, after RTFFAQ 7.12, it does appear to port hop but there are various suggestions to make this work through a firewall or router.
The very same :-)
I claim prior art as I have had two of them since 1969. Seriously, one squashy lens (of only moderate performance) with a clever image processing system behind it - as in the eye/brain setup - is probably the way to go for digital applications. Computing power is a lot cheaper than Schott optical glass!
In any case, my understanding is that two separately ripped and encoded MP3s are rarely identical because of ripping errors and different implementations of the MP3 algorithm.
This is a pretty good reason why DRM==bad.
If Mars really is a "Waterworld", we'll invest vast amounts of money in it but no people will ever go to see it. Oh wait...
Anyway, this misses the point; all that is required is the on/off switch, not unplugging the thing from the wall!
And legalising it is really going to help. 'Nuff said.
Given the enormous profits MS will make out of us on a piss-poor OS, I'd go for "Shaft".
So if PCs were proprietary technology owned by Microsoft, we could have OS/x86. Doesn't have much of a ring to it, but it might appeal to the kind of technocrats who drive a 323i or a C240.
If Mr Oliver's wedding tackle looks anything like his face, I honestly can't see why the ladies were so hooked by the title "Naked Chef".
You can either patch a new random key in to replace the FCKGW- one, or just reinstall it with a new key.
However, I think the "Napster" branding is an odd decision. Who is still likely to go to napster.com in the hope of finding free music, seeing as it was shut down for years? And in terms of brand image, Napster always stood for getting-something-for-nothing, so isn't it a bit like launching a legitimate online software store called "serials.ws"? I wonder what Shawn Fanning would make of it, as it was his nickname in the first place.
That's about the size of the Tunguska object (probably a comet, since it exploded in mid-air and didn't leave a crater). Enough to make a mess of a big city or a pretty impressive tsunami, but not enough to wipe out mankind.
I'm surprised we don't have cars that drive themselves at least some of the time. We already have cruise control, proximity control, auto-parking and GPS. Besides allowing you to drive while - ahem - "tired and emotional", driving is such a colossal waste of time because you can't do much else while behind the wheel.
Conversely, the UK system was based on *centres* of population. So a small market town gets as many numbers as a medium-sized city. This is why UK phone numbers have had to be rehashed a couple of times. We were very close to running out of numbers in London, Reading, Leicester, Bristol etc.
Ssh...Disney are working on this, as well as trying to get the law changed so they can lobotomise you after you've watched "The Jungle Book", just in case you subsequently remember any of the good bits when you're lying in the bath.
A tip: run it as Administrator or you'll get limited information out of the BIOS. And if you're using *nix, you'll have to look elsewhere.
Left, centre, right. Ideal for flight simulators etc. Where do you look with dual head? I can see the practical problems with fitting 3 VGA outputs on the back of an AGP card though, as well as desk space issues.