Already, PC games sales are declining so much that everybody is moving to console games, and the PC is getting a bunch of ports as a result, some of them crappy.
May be true for single player/offline games, but it is fairly easy to prevent piracy of online games.
Obviously you have never lived in a country that kills its OWN citizens. Obviously you haven't heard of the totalitarian regimes in Germany, USSR, and USA's close friends Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Obviously you haven't heard of the damage done to civil rights activists in the 60's by the FBI and the CIA. Obviously you have never been targetted by the police. Obviously you are not a minority man (particularly black) living in some parts of USA. Obviously you haven't heard of the infiltration of the FBI by organized criminals (particularly the Italian mafia in the 60's and 70's). Obviously you haven't heard of police fabricating information and jailing people. Obviously you haven't heard of the government cooking up bogus charges and jailing people. Obviously McCarthyism is not part of your collective mind. Obviously you haven't heard of John Ashcroft's recent decree to spy on antiwar activists. Obviously you believe the legal system represent justice....Obviously you underestimate the power of the goverment.
We set up a form and asked employees to enter every foul word and phrase they could think of, which we saved into the database and used to filter out swear words. It was one filthy database.
One thing I've noticed (in England), is that if you have the subtitles on (teletext 888) on ITV, there is often a white square character in the bottom right corner of the screen at the start and end of adverts. It's not always there though, and presumably they'd remove it if it were used as a detection method.
There was always the old thing where you prefix a directory name with some odd character... maybe '\0' or something... Cant remember exactly... Then explorer wouldn't see it.
You must be using a REALLY REALLY old monitor.
Even plain really old ones just don't actually die if you use a too high resolution (they display multiples and reflections of the image).
OS can e.g. override firmware of the disk drive. If it writes bogus firmware, the disk will be permanently damaged. Just like OS can screw your BIOS and computer would not boot anymore. Current hardware is highly configurable by software, and if software damages hardware, it's software fault.
Dont be stupid. I lost a motherboard because I (slightly stupidly) used one of those programmes to change the image you see as the bios boots. It was provided by the motherboard manufacturer, and it even said it succeeded. Nevertheless it didn't boot. And I didn't realise at the time that it didn't have dual bios (or equivalent). What kind of stupid manufacturer would supply a product that even when used properly can be rendered inoperable?? Needless to say I'll never buy a gigabyte motherboard again...
With respect to the CD drive, its not exactly difficult to provide a recovery mechanism. They're just trying to do the least work possible on the basis that most people use windows, and don't flash their drives.
I'm not blind in any eyes, but I don't have any binocular (or something) vision - ie those magic eye thingies dont work... and it isn't easier to tell distances from two eyes rather than one. I bet the fake-3d effect is disappointing though. Give me colour video holograms any day...
Btw, anyone remember that game... magic carpet, flying carpet, something like that. Anyway, you could use random-dot stereograms as a renderer... video-magic-eye... crazy!
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It will never be possible to live on $11K a year. Never.
Sure it is, you're just used to a high standard of living...
An oscillation overthruster
You mean a flux capacitor?
Already, PC games sales are declining so much that everybody is moving to console games, and the PC is getting a bunch of ports as a result, some of them crappy.
May be true for single player/offline games, but it is fairly easy to prevent piracy of online games.
Might there be some prior art?
You shouldn't need prior art. Patents are supposed to be innovative.
Yes you are very uncool.
General use of radians would be stupid.
You must be from France.
:-)
You mean "You must be from the rest of the world."
4/1/2004 .... That was about a week ago...
Obviously you have never lived in a country that kills its OWN citizens. Obviously you haven't heard of the totalitarian regimes in Germany, USSR, and USA's close friends Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Obviously you haven't heard of the damage done to civil rights activists in the 60's by the FBI and the CIA. Obviously you have never been targetted by the police. Obviously you are not a minority man (particularly black) living in some parts of USA. Obviously you haven't heard of the infiltration of the FBI by organized criminals (particularly the Italian mafia in the 60's and 70's). Obviously you haven't heard of police fabricating information and jailing people. Obviously you haven't heard of the government cooking up bogus charges and jailing people. Obviously McCarthyism is not part of your collective mind. Obviously you haven't heard of John Ashcroft's recent decree to spy on antiwar activists. Obviously you believe the legal system represent justice....Obviously you underestimate the power of the goverment.
Obviously you need a thesaurus.
We set up a form and asked employees to enter every foul word and phrase they could think of, which we saved into the database and used to filter out swear words. It was one filthy database.
:-)
Ha ha, there's gotta be uses for that
One thing I've noticed (in England), is that if you have the subtitles on (teletext 888) on ITV, there is often a white square character in the bottom right corner of the screen at the start and end of adverts. It's not always there though, and presumably they'd remove it if it were used as a detection method.
Odd, I dunnot why, but when I tried:
http://www.google.com%00%01slashdot.org
This caused IE to lock.
Interesting...
You'd think they'd use CString consistantly, or better, std::string instead of char*. (or LPCSTR or whatever they call it).
There was always the old thing where you prefix a directory name with some odd character... maybe '\0' or something... Cant remember exactly... Then explorer wouldn't see it.
2000/xp fixed that.
What a load of 'American Dream' crap...
I don't use virus software and I use windows 98. I just don't run executables and net side code that is questionable.
So all viruses require user interaction do they?
I expect it was a database of systems running the messenger service. No point sending spam to Win9x users...
Is it a rendering engine, or an interactivity app like Flash. If it's the former, then I'd say "not likely"
Yeah, but remember... There was an arbitrary code execution bug in their MIDI playing code...
Never overestimate microsoft...
*cheque
If you download shareaza (www.shareaza.com), then it can download torrents for you.
You must be using a REALLY REALLY old monitor. Even plain really old ones just don't actually die if you use a too high resolution (they display multiples and reflections of the image).
OS can e.g. override firmware of the disk drive. If it writes bogus firmware, the disk will be permanently damaged. Just like OS can screw your BIOS and computer would not boot anymore. Current hardware is highly configurable by software, and if software damages hardware, it's software fault.
Dont be stupid. I lost a motherboard because I (slightly stupidly) used one of those programmes to change the image you see as the bios boots. It was provided by the motherboard manufacturer, and it even said it succeeded. Nevertheless it didn't boot. And I didn't realise at the time that it didn't have dual bios (or equivalent). What kind of stupid manufacturer would supply a product that even when used properly can be rendered inoperable?? Needless to say I'll never buy a gigabyte motherboard again...
With respect to the CD drive, its not exactly difficult to provide a recovery mechanism. They're just trying to do the least work possible on the basis that most people use windows, and don't flash their drives.
I'm not blind in any eyes, but I don't have any binocular (or something) vision - ie those magic eye thingies dont work... and it isn't easier to tell distances from two eyes rather than one. I bet the fake-3d effect is disappointing though. Give me colour video holograms any day...
Btw, anyone remember that game... magic carpet, flying carpet, something like that. Anyway, you could use random-dot stereograms as a renderer... video-magic-eye... crazy!
$8 ?? Over here (UK) DVD's cost about 15
I knew what you meant :)
I think mac os X renders the desktop with opengl, allowing truely transparent windows and stuff.
I dont think the windows are actually 3d (ie they are all in the same plane).
If you had it so controls are actually slightly thick, then you could do cool effects (no need to bevel etc)...
Ha ha... funny :)
Ahem, $30k/year