there was an episode of ST:TNG where the enterprise was being "sucked" into a funnel shaped thing of energy/time/space/whatever. it is probably a reference to that. (incidently in that episode there were 2 picards for a spell, one from just before the encounter with the funnel, one from just after)
msdos really didnt multitask at all, unless the application you were running would let you spawn off a shell.
drdos had 2 different multitasking options. i barely remember the differences between them other than one would stop all other apps you had open except for the one you were in currently, and the other would actually give all the apps a slice of cpu time. this is if i am remembering correctly.
this is dos we are talking about so any form of multitasking is going to be a kludge.
cones are the colour receptors (iirc) and do have a "refresh rate" of about 30fps.
rods, on the other hand, are the b&w receptors. the rods "refresh" at closer to 60 fps.
this is why most people can see a flicker with a 60hz monitor but not with 75hz and up. its also why people can see the flicker from flourescent lights.
your eye has a higher density of cones near the center of your vision, but a higher density of rods near the peripheral. this makes your peripheral vision more sensitive to flicker (one of my old bosses cant see 60hz flicker if he is looking at it, but can if he is looking beside it).
honestly i would say that if you could do 75hz refresh on the monitor with a video card capable of doing a consistent 75 fps throughout the game (which currently is not the case) then you would have about as perfect of a look at the game as you can get.
i can see a big difference between 30 fps and 60 fps, but beyond the 60fps i cant hardly tell anything different at all (even with 120hz refresh)
60 feels ALOT smoother than 30 (was tested using a game where keeping 60fps was not an issue given the hardware that was being used) but both are playable.
a bigger issue is probably the fact that on a modern game if you peak at 30 you hit lows of 5, so peaking at 150 would give you a low of higher than 30.
i can tell you for a fact that the RPC hole was being exploited for at least 9 months before a patch was out. I know a few script kiddies in RL who were pissed off when the patch came out as they lost their doorway. I watched them do it a couple of times as proof. I pretty much will not put a windows box directly touching the outside world in any way shape or form now.
there are also several competitors to packeteer which are cheaper for a higher level of performance. i expressed interest in packet shaping once to a salesman.... never did stop getting various other salesmen calling me about their products to do just that.
i would do a domain transfer to another registrar, taking all your domain names with you. on the other hand i have had no troubles whatsoever with said "unnamed registrar". have you tried calling their tech support line?
im not sure having a preview option doesnt fall under prior art... gnome, kde, and beos's desktop pager interfaces included a sort of preview directly on the pager long before microsoft had their own virtual desktop option out.
rip them with dvdshrink. be sure you have nero installed. you can set dvdshrink to 100% quality and have it automatically burn to nero's image writer once done. you can then put the images on your storage array and mount them with software like alcohol 120% of daemon tools (i recommend the former, although the latter is free). attach the computer to the plasma and use some software dvd player. (and before someone complains, i do this to dvds i bought and paid for so i can watch them on my laptop without bringing the disks with me).
dvdshrink will preserve all the menus and whatnot and if you set it to 100% quality and use nero's diskwriter plugin it more or less just rips the dvd to a full image minus the css.
assuming linux: i use linux alot but honestly i have never played a dvd movie nor ripped a dvd movie under linux. someone suggested the mythtv site, i would advise going there. that said im sure it would be rather easy to to basically the same or similar thing on a linux box as i suggested for a windows box. a small amount of shell scripting and you could write the interface for choosing the movie.
when i get a good blowjob, it has my full undivided attention. my ex and i did try an experiment one day, she wanted to see if she could pull my attention away from irc.... and well she won but i wasnt disappointed.
I second this, Halo turned out to be a shadow of what it could have been. I personally have only ever played the xbox version, and that was for about 30 seconds, long enough to make me wonder who in their right mind puts a FPS on a console. I have not and will not pirate this game, I would never spend money on it and i would never recommend that ANYONE even play it. I feel no pity that the evil pirates are copying halo. Bungee sold out the community a long time ago. My advice to them would be to take a line from the Eagles and Get Over It.
... if ya cant beat em, sue them! i swear this is getting stupid.
anyone know what patent they actually have? the article didnt say what the patent actually was (or if it did, i missed it)
TA was the only RTS game i have EVER liked. I really hate RTS style games, but TA just totally rocked. i especially loved it after the core contengency pack and with 3rd party units from a group called TADD. It would be awesome if someone could come out with an RTS worth of the TA legacy.
for 7 grand, i would look at just cabling it instead, personally. 1000' spool of cat5e should run you no more than 40 bucks, ends are usually about 30-40 bucks for a bag of 100. as far as the internet goes, unless you get something that has good upstream in addition to great downstream, the internet is going to seem like a dog. also if you have ppl who hog it with things like kazaa, then its going to feel slower than dialup for everyone else. you are definately going to want to look at some kind of traffic shaping/firewall/nat box.
there is nothing that says you have to use the mouse...
i bought a microsoft wireless natural keyboard + mouse combo. i am not 100% certain where the mouse is because i never use it. oddly i use a wireless keyboard and cabled mouse.. go figure.
as a former theatre tech in highschool and in college, i am supporting the clearcom movement
this is not a wireless technology problem, if anything you dont want stray rf signals anywhere near the theatre due to possible interference with the sound board and lighting system (depending upon how new the lighting system is).
if clearcom isnt an option, start investing in a ready supply of batteries and make each tech carry a spare set with them while they are working. i recommend duracell, IME they tend to last longer. change out the batteries right before any actual performance.
from about 905 to 925MHz in the US is unlicensed. A company i used to work for was a WISP who used some 900mhz equipment from a company called waverider. Its pretty good about NLOS but it does have bandwidth limitations being in the 900MHz band and all. Support with the company is pretty good provided you get the number for one of the tech guys who doesnt speak poor english (the other guy is helpful, but i have a hard time understanding him sometimes).
the biggest thing with any wireless solution is antennas and cable selection. any solution will be crap if the antennas are crap.
when it comes to cable, the shorter and fatter the better. dont skimp on the cable.
when setting up a zone file with bind you specify an email address of the admin in charge of the domain in the SOA record.
an email address of joeuser@somedomain.com would be written as joeuser.somedomain.com. admittedly its not a direct prior art, but i can definately see someone making a jump from this to what the patent is about.
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there was an episode of ST:TNG where the enterprise was being "sucked" into a funnel shaped thing of energy/time/space/whatever. it is probably a reference to that. (incidently in that episode there were 2 picards for a spell, one from just before the encounter with the funnel, one from just after)
the people i know who use strategy guides like the fact that you dont have to stop the game and switch over the tv in order to see what to do next.
to anyone who hasnt checked this out, do so.
it sounds a lot better than i would have thought at the bitrate it is at. this is insane.
actually didnt ms skip the number 4 in version numbers for dos?
i know dos4 was proper about multitasking, but does it count? i was under the impression it never really saw the light of day
Ophix
msdos really didnt multitask at all, unless the application you were running would let you spawn off a shell.
drdos had 2 different multitasking options. i barely remember the differences between them other than one would stop all other apps you had open except for the one you were in currently, and the other would actually give all the apps a slice of cpu time. this is if i am remembering correctly.
this is dos we are talking about so any form of multitasking is going to be a kludge.
i used to use drdos on a laptop because i liked its multitasking kludge :)
im happy to see it is alive and well.
your eye has 2 parts, rods and cones.
cones are the colour receptors (iirc) and do have a "refresh rate" of about 30fps.
rods, on the other hand, are the b&w receptors. the rods "refresh" at closer to 60 fps.
this is why most people can see a flicker with a 60hz monitor but not with 75hz and up. its also why people can see the flicker from flourescent lights.
your eye has a higher density of cones near the center of your vision, but a higher density of rods near the peripheral. this makes your peripheral vision more sensitive to flicker (one of my old bosses cant see 60hz flicker if he is looking at it, but can if he is looking beside it).
honestly i would say that if you could do 75hz refresh on the monitor with a video card capable of doing a consistent 75 fps throughout the game (which currently is not the case) then you would have about as perfect of a look at the game as you can get.
i can see a big difference between 30 fps and 60 fps, but beyond the 60fps i cant hardly tell anything different at all (even with 120hz refresh)
60 feels ALOT smoother than 30 (was tested using a game where keeping 60fps was not an issue given the hardware that was being used) but both are playable.
a bigger issue is probably the fact that on a modern game if you peak at 30 you hit lows of 5, so peaking at 150 would give you a low of higher than 30.
my dell laptop has the 4 pin as well while a friend's older dell laptop has both. i bought myself a cardbus usb2/1394 combo card to compensate :)
i can tell you for a fact that the RPC hole was being exploited for at least 9 months before a patch was out. I know a few script kiddies in RL who were pissed off when the patch came out as they lost their doorway. I watched them do it a couple of times as proof. I pretty much will not put a windows box directly touching the outside world in any way shape or form now.
there are also several competitors to packeteer which are cheaper for a higher level of performance. i expressed interest in packet shaping once to a salesman.... never did stop getting various other salesmen calling me about their products to do just that.
i would do a domain transfer to another registrar, taking all your domain names with you. on the other hand i have had no troubles whatsoever with said "unnamed registrar". have you tried calling their tech support line?
im not sure having a preview option doesnt fall under prior art... gnome, kde, and beos's desktop pager interfaces included a sort of preview directly on the pager long before microsoft had their own virtual desktop option out.
assuming windows:
rip them with dvdshrink. be sure you have nero installed. you can set dvdshrink to 100% quality and have it automatically burn to nero's image writer once done. you can then put the images on your storage array and mount them with software like alcohol 120% of daemon tools (i recommend the former, although the latter is free). attach the computer to the plasma and use some software dvd player. (and before someone complains, i do this to dvds i bought and paid for so i can watch them on my laptop without bringing the disks with me).
dvdshrink will preserve all the menus and whatnot and if you set it to 100% quality and use nero's diskwriter plugin it more or less just rips the dvd to a full image minus the css.
assuming linux:
i use linux alot but honestly i have never played a dvd movie nor ripped a dvd movie under linux. someone suggested the mythtv site, i would advise going there. that said im sure it would be rather easy to to basically the same or similar thing on a linux box as i suggested for a windows box. a small amount of shell scripting and you could write the interface for choosing the movie.
when i get a good blowjob, it has my full undivided attention. my ex and i did try an experiment one day, she wanted to see if she could pull my attention away from irc.... and well she won but i wasnt disappointed.
does anyone else find it hard to take seriously a letter from a law firm whose second level domain is "mofo" ?
LOL
a link to emachines labeled respectable LOL
i can say, as someone who has worked doing pc repair and related for 8 years, emachines is the new packard bell.
I second this, Halo turned out to be a shadow of what it could have been. I personally have only ever played the xbox version, and that was for about 30 seconds, long enough to make me wonder who in their right mind puts a FPS on a console. I have not and will not pirate this game, I would never spend money on it and i would never recommend that ANYONE even play it. I feel no pity that the evil pirates are copying halo. Bungee sold out the community a long time ago. My advice to them would be to take a line from the Eagles and Get Over It.
... if ya cant beat em, sue them! i swear this is getting stupid. anyone know what patent they actually have? the article didnt say what the patent actually was (or if it did, i missed it)
TA was the only RTS game i have EVER liked. I really hate RTS style games, but TA just totally rocked. i especially loved it after the core contengency pack and with 3rd party units from a group called TADD. It would be awesome if someone could come out with an RTS worth of the TA legacy.
for 7 grand, i would look at just cabling it instead, personally. 1000' spool of cat5e should run you no more than 40 bucks, ends are usually about 30-40 bucks for a bag of 100. as far as the internet goes, unless you get something that has good upstream in addition to great downstream, the internet is going to seem like a dog. also if you have ppl who hog it with things like kazaa, then its going to feel slower than dialup for everyone else. you are definately going to want to look at some kind of traffic shaping/firewall/nat box.
any good screw can come on over to my house.... oh wait.... you weren't talking about... oh nevermind... *whistles innocently*
there is nothing that says you have to use the mouse...
i bought a microsoft wireless natural keyboard + mouse combo. i am not 100% certain where the mouse is because i never use it. oddly i use a wireless keyboard and cabled mouse.. go figure.
as a former theatre tech in highschool and in college, i am supporting the clearcom movement
this is not a wireless technology problem, if anything you dont want stray rf signals anywhere near the theatre due to possible interference with the sound board and lighting system (depending upon how new the lighting system is).
if clearcom isnt an option, start investing in a ready supply of batteries and make each tech carry a spare set with them while they are working. i recommend duracell, IME they tend to last longer. change out the batteries right before any actual performance.
from about 905 to 925MHz in the US is unlicensed. A company i used to work for was a WISP who used some 900mhz equipment from a company called waverider. Its pretty good about NLOS but it does have bandwidth limitations being in the 900MHz band and all. Support with the company is pretty good provided you get the number for one of the tech guys who doesnt speak poor english (the other guy is helpful, but i have a hard time understanding him sometimes). the biggest thing with any wireless solution is antennas and cable selection. any solution will be crap if the antennas are crap. when it comes to cable, the shorter and fatter the better. dont skimp on the cable.
might there be some prior art?
when setting up a zone file with bind you specify an email address of the admin in charge of the domain in the SOA record.
an email address of joeuser@somedomain.com would be written as joeuser.somedomain.com. admittedly its not a direct prior art, but i can definately see someone making a jump from this to what the patent is about.
just my 2 cents
Ophidian