How were the publication and security templates developed? The publication was developed by NIST; however, NIST started with excellent material developed by the National Security Agency (NSA), DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency), Microsoft, and other members of the security community. NIST collaborated with NSA, DISA, the Center for Internet Security (CIS) and Microsoft to produce the publication's consensus baseline settings for various operational environments.
Quote from Popular Science, June 2004 issue, page 20, an article titled "The New Forces of Doom" (a short article on...Doom 3):
"Naturally, to experience the full complement of Doom 3's stunning visual effects, you'll need to invest in some new hardware: a PCI express graphics card from ATI or nVidia and a new PC with Intel's Alderwood or Grantsdale chipset with the card slots to support them."
So, I won't be playing it for a while it looks like.
I disliked two things about NWN - the load times between each area (it made it hard to have a big town with lots of buildings you could enter when it took a few minutes to load each transition in or out) and it didn't have hills. To make a mountain you had to build a bunch of steps, and a little sloped path went up the middle of each one. Did they ever fix that? (I haven't played since the first month or so it was out).
I feel the Metroid series unfairly portrays futuristic space pirates. Has any considered their plight? They only need the Metroids for the incredible energy (handy for overclocking), but somehow politics spins it into "taking over the galaxy" and sends operatives in to destroy the "pirate" research facilities.
I am definately not a lawyer, and reading the patent is mind numbing (perhaps the patent office staff is just unable to comprehend what they read in these things and therefore just guess as to whether it's valid or not), but the prior art sections of patent 6,327,418 do mention that VCR and computer possibilities.
From my understanding:
For VCRs they mention that it can't record and play the same program simultaneously without the aid of multiple units, although they acknowledge that VCRs can play, rewind, fast forward, etc. already recorded media.
On the computer side, they provide that it could record the program, but that would not necesarily record any additional streams in the signal such as secondary audio or closed captioning, or ensure that playback of those streams is syncronized with the primary video/audio.
The other patent - 6,233,389 - has a summary of the same information in the prior art area, although it adds that patent 5,371,551 'teaches a method for concurrent video recording and playback', but that the processor would have to be extremely fast to do this. (This was back in early 2001, when processors were just getting around to 2 GHz?)
I'm going to give up on reading the patent, but perhaps they are just referring to something that does all of this in a small VCR sized box.
Regardless, I have a TiVo, I love my TiVo, and my wife loves it even more.
And the fact checking in this article was just on a once-over for the most part. Don't depend on it in life-threatening situations.
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It looks like this may supercede the NSA one. From the FAQ for the guide at http://csrc.nist.gov/itsec/guidance_WinXP.html:
How were the publication and security templates developed?
The publication was developed by NIST; however, NIST started with excellent material developed by the National Security Agency (NSA), DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency), Microsoft, and other members of the security community. NIST collaborated with NSA, DISA, the Center for Internet Security (CIS) and Microsoft to produce the publication's consensus baseline settings for various operational environments.
Why not just use a plane or satellite?
Quote from Popular Science, June 2004 issue, page 20, an article titled "The New Forces of Doom" (a short article on...Doom 3): "Naturally, to experience the full complement of Doom 3's stunning visual effects, you'll need to invest in some new hardware: a PCI express graphics card from ATI or nVidia and a new PC with Intel's Alderwood or Grantsdale chipset with the card slots to support them." So, I won't be playing it for a while it looks like.
I disliked two things about NWN - the load times between each area (it made it hard to have a big town with lots of buildings you could enter when it took a few minutes to load each transition in or out) and it didn't have hills. To make a mountain you had to build a bunch of steps, and a little sloped path went up the middle of each one. Did they ever fix that? (I haven't played since the first month or so it was out).
I feel the Metroid series unfairly portrays futuristic space pirates. Has any considered their plight? They only need the Metroids for the incredible energy (handy for overclocking), but somehow politics spins it into "taking over the galaxy" and sends operatives in to destroy the "pirate" research facilities.
And to think, last Friday I switched from dsl to cable because I didn't want a land line anymore, and Qwest required one to have DSL.
I am definately not a lawyer, and reading the patent is mind numbing (perhaps the patent office staff is just unable to comprehend what they read in these things and therefore just guess as to whether it's valid or not), but the prior art sections of patent 6,327,418 do mention that VCR and computer possibilities.
From my understanding:
For VCRs they mention that it can't record and play the same program simultaneously without the aid of multiple units, although they acknowledge that VCRs can play, rewind, fast forward, etc. already recorded media.
On the computer side, they provide that it could record the program, but that would not necesarily record any additional streams in the signal such as secondary audio or closed captioning, or ensure that playback of those streams is syncronized with the primary video/audio.
The other patent - 6,233,389 - has a summary of the same information in the prior art area, although it adds that patent 5,371,551 'teaches a method for concurrent video recording and playback', but that the processor would have to be extremely fast to do this. (This was back in early 2001, when processors were just getting around to 2 GHz?)
I'm going to give up on reading the patent, but perhaps they are just referring to something that does all of this in a small VCR sized box.
Regardless, I have a TiVo, I love my TiVo, and my wife loves it even more.
And the fact checking in this article was just on a once-over for the most part. Don't depend on it in life-threatening situations.
From the article: "It currently is impossible to detect Earthlike planets around other stars."
As I am not overly familiar with astronomy, why is this the case?