It's not just GTA. After playing many other games, I've had a huge desire to just 'reload the level' after something happens that I don't like in real life.
No. This is 'ricing out your computer'. The equivalent of sticking on a big wing on the back of a civic. Something that makes it look fast rather than be fast.
This is all show, no go.
A real mod would be adding a bigger heatsink so you could actually run the machine faster or more quietly.
I don't think there is anything wrong with IP laws in and of themselves. The American copy right law set down early had it right. They were valid for a limited length of time (enough for the inventor to have a chance to make some profit), then they expired and the work became public domain. It was a good balance. The profit incentive kept folks plugging away at new work, while the public was sure to benefit eventually, even if not within the first few years.
The problem is that recently the PACs have been getting government officials to extend those limited lengths of time until they have essentially become perpetual. That's the real problem.
I can't knock someone wanting to profit from their own novel idea, but it should be for a limited length of time, then anyone should be able to use it. Now, setting that length of time fairly is the debatable point. Should the length of protected time a song, movie, book, piece of software, etc, all be the same?
I hope they don't use different colors for each card each time it's used in a new graph like they do in this article. Kinda makes it harder to read and compare...
Then why isn't it clearly stated in an official site who is to be contated for this and anything else? The BSD folks have set up security contacts long ago on their official sites.
It doesn't matter if you delegate the authority to other people if no one knows what authority you delegated to who.
Better the whole world know, and somebody start working on a patch, rather than one badguy (pretending to be a good guy) being the only one who knows about it.
How about having that procedure nicely spelled out on an official website rather than just having to google for it and hoping the article you find has both real and current information? It's not hard. The BSD guys do it.
The Linux guys failed more on the netiquette than the PaX guys. They failed to put forward a real working contact list. Security guys don't like to trust random results from google. How do you know your sending it to the 'real' security person? I can't put the blame on them for this mess at all. Imho, one should never ever ever fail to provide an easy to find current working contact list for exploits.
How about just turn off ActiveX for untrusted sites?
I always have IE ask before running ActiveX stuff from anywhere. I almost always say no.
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How about getting a gyro unit to hook up to the camera you already have? For $1200 you can get a gyro kit from ken-lab. Expensive, and extra weight, but you can keep using the camera and lenses you already have.
Let's see, he warned the cop to watch out when he turned on the laser, because it could 'blind him'. But he was pointing it at the cockpit of an airplane. Yes. I'm calling him stupid. For lots of reasons.
I don't like the patriot act, etc, at all any more than you do. But I'll work to change the law. I won't go do something moronic and then claim no one should be upset because there is also a bad law on the books.
Ok, the guy points a laser at an aircraft. It's been over the news lately that someone tried to 'take down planes' by blinding the pilots with a laser in sevaral different cities. Stupid.
Now it's on the local news that someone has been trying to do it. The FBI is investigating.
The next night he's out and tries to do the same thing to a helicopter. He's either deliberately trying to do harm to them, or so stupid he should never been allowed to reproduce. Either way, locking him up should be safer for the general public.
Well, ATI and nVidia have the consumer gaming market for sure, but there is more to the 'high-performance' end than those.
Some of the old kings of consumer graphics cards are still around. Matrox for instance has some decent consumer gaming cards like the Parhelia. They also have many other high end cards specifically aimed at workstations. My ATI card runs two monitors fine. What if you want to drive 3 or 4 monitors? Get yourself a Matrox card.
There are a number of other video manufacturers arounds. Some targeting the low end, but others targeting plenty of high end niche markets.
The BSD code stays free forever too. Just because some company makes a copy of it and does their own stuff with it, that doesn't make the freely availalbe BSD copy disappear. It is free forever too.
It wasn't an emotional knee-jerk. It was just another case of showing he's full of radical talk, even when it goes agains his actions.
"It is better to develop no software than to develop non-free software." -- is kind of far out there, whacky radical thinking. Better to have none than some that's tainted eh? Yet he said he'd use a Windows machine that was handy to check his mail. What? I thought it was better to have no software than to use bad evil proprietary software. Zelots never see the contradictions in their own acts/beliefs.
"It is better to develop no software than to develop non-free software."
Well sure, it's obvious that keeping stuff proprietary is bad. Look at new proprietary drugs. So what if they might save the life of you or your loved one? They are proprietary! It would be better for everyone to just die of a disease rather than take a drug that wasn't 'open'. I hope Stallman and his ilk remember that when they get sick.
Bury a marker in the product so that the computer knows if it's right or not. You no longer have to rely on a sticker that you can put a new sticker over.
The cashier is much more likely to notice that you've wraped the whole item in aluminum foil (to prevent the signal from the real RFID) than that you slipped on a new price sticker.
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It's not just GTA. After playing many other games, I've had a huge desire to just 'reload the level' after something happens that I don't like in real life.
Too bad they don't have those next to PCMCIA cards to show relative size.
How many pixels does it take to make it a *real* picture?
This is all show, no go.
A real mod would be adding a bigger heatsink so you could actually run the machine faster or more quietly.
Absolutely friggin brilliant. Because we all know no one ever fakes their idenity in IRC. You sir are a genius!
The problem is that recently the PACs have been getting government officials to extend those limited lengths of time until they have essentially become perpetual. That's the real problem.
I can't knock someone wanting to profit from their own novel idea, but it should be for a limited length of time, then anyone should be able to use it. Now, setting that length of time fairly is the debatable point. Should the length of protected time a song, movie, book, piece of software, etc, all be the same?
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It doesn't matter if you delegate the authority to other people if no one knows what authority you delegated to who.
Yeah, those OPENBSD'ers are stuck in the mud and never think about new development.
The Linux guys failed more on the netiquette than the PaX guys. They failed to put forward a real working contact list. Security guys don't like to trust random results from google. How do you know your sending it to the 'real' security person? I can't put the blame on them for this mess at all. Imho, one should never ever ever fail to provide an easy to find current working contact list for exploits.
I always have IE ask before running ActiveX stuff from anywhere. I almost always say no.
Some companies do just that for all but a limited number of machines with trusted users.
How about getting a gyro unit to hook up to the camera you already have? For $1200 you can get a gyro kit from ken-lab. Expensive, and extra weight, but you can keep using the camera and lenses you already have.
I don't like the patriot act, etc, at all any more than you do. But I'll work to change the law. I won't go do something moronic and then claim no one should be upset because there is also a bad law on the books.
Now it's on the local news that someone has been trying to do it. The FBI is investigating.
The next night he's out and tries to do the same thing to a helicopter. He's either deliberately trying to do harm to them, or so stupid he should never been allowed to reproduce. Either way, locking him up should be safer for the general public.
If you do a photoelectric effect experiment you will always see light acting as a particle.
If you do a slit experiment you will always see light acting as a wave.
Just because you (or I) can't wrap your brain about the physics that can wind up making it act so, doesn't mean it isn't consistant.
Some of the old kings of consumer graphics cards are still around. Matrox for instance has some decent consumer gaming cards like the Parhelia. They also have many other high end cards specifically aimed at workstations. My ATI card runs two monitors fine. What if you want to drive 3 or 4 monitors? Get yourself a Matrox card.
There are a number of other video manufacturers arounds. Some targeting the low end, but others targeting plenty of high end niche markets.
Especially in American beer.
Last month. What did you think that spare tire in your trunk was for? Flats happen.
The BSD code stays free forever too. Just because some company makes a copy of it and does their own stuff with it, that doesn't make the freely availalbe BSD copy disappear. It is free forever too.
I do believe your sarcasm detector is broken. You might want to get it looked at.
"It is better to develop no software than to develop non-free software." -- is kind of far out there, whacky radical thinking. Better to have none than some that's tainted eh? Yet he said he'd use a Windows machine that was handy to check his mail. What? I thought it was better to have no software than to use bad evil proprietary software. Zelots never see the contradictions in their own acts/beliefs.
Well sure, it's obvious that keeping stuff proprietary is bad. Look at new proprietary drugs. So what if they might save the life of you or your loved one? They are proprietary! It would be better for everyone to just die of a disease rather than take a drug that wasn't 'open'. I hope Stallman and his ilk remember that when they get sick.
Bury a marker in the product so that the computer knows if it's right or not. You no longer have to rely on a sticker that you can put a new sticker over.
The cashier is much more likely to notice that you've wraped the whole item in aluminum foil (to prevent the signal from the real RFID) than that you slipped on a new price sticker.