Have you opened your DVD player up at all? It's nothing more than a PC DVD drive with a hardware decoder. My Phillips DVD-724 kicked the bucket (and it was expensive as far as DVD players go, and wasn't worth a shit), so I pulled the case off to see what I could fix, and there are three main components: A power supply, a DVD-ROM drive from a PC (without the metal case around it, but it's one nonetheless) and 3rd party Mpeg2 decoder/tv-out board with a PCI interface. There's a header for rewriting the firmware, and the whole thing can be replaced with a Via m1000 mobo with very little modification to the wiring harness and backplate. Firmware will be released to upgrade your player, but not from the manufacturer, or someone's going to make a player that pays no heed to their DRM.
Why don't you take an image of a movie every ho I don't know 30'th of a second, convert them to slides, and proceed to spin them in the carousel. It might be even easier if you tied the slides end to end and just ran them really quickly in front of the lens.
You'll find it easier if you take the little borders off the slides and scotch tape them all together. Maybe put them on big round things to take up all the extra slack!
Then you can play the soundtrack while you run the multiple frames really fast in front of the light. And maybe write a short blurb about it and get a story on slashdot, as well as a huge bandwidth bill.
What will they think of next? I guess that the dollar isn't worth as much as it once was, as it seems to take more of 'em to buy out these corp's ethics.
Internal audits should be done by anyone making a software product. There should be no impact on the current staff.
Scan your computers for unauthorized ports, scan your traffic, verify your firewall. Maybe have separate computers for web access and development? Make sure your shit is taken care of. Make certain that your suppliers and contractors follow some kind of security procedures. This is not the same thing as putting every developer in the hotseat and interrogating them.
How about the gamers that won't be able to play the games because companies will stop producing the games on the PC because it's too easy to pirate? Or the gamers whose favorite franchise shuts down because it's been pirated to death? Or how about all gamers once companies start rushing games to market in months rather than years in an attempt to beat the piracy logistically?
It hurts all gamers. Even if you think that the games are too expensive, or that corporations are evil, if we keep this up, we'll all get what we deserve.
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catches a virus? Oh the irony.
A virus gets a life, and life gets a virus.
Have you opened your DVD player up at all? It's nothing more than a PC DVD drive with a hardware decoder. My Phillips DVD-724 kicked the bucket (and it was expensive as far as DVD players go, and wasn't worth a shit), so I pulled the case off to see what I could fix, and there are three main components: A power supply, a DVD-ROM drive from a PC (without the metal case around it, but it's one nonetheless) and 3rd party Mpeg2 decoder/tv-out board with a PCI interface. There's a header for rewriting the firmware, and the whole thing can be replaced with a Via m1000 mobo with very little modification to the wiring harness and backplate. Firmware will be released to upgrade your player, but not from the manufacturer, or someone's going to make a player that pays no heed to their DRM.
As opposed to EA's slave labour to remain competitive? Take your jingoism and shove it, it has no place here.
You bitch and moan about China's unfair trade practices and low labour costs, yet look the other way when EA does it?
Where's the +1 Troll mod when you need it?
Listen to this man, if anyone knows gay porn and its conventions, it's him.
Coming in 2006
No word on John Woo tho.
And send that scuzzbag Alan Ralsky to prison.
BTW, anyone got a link to the interview from the Daily Show?
Two chicks at the same time.
Hey, the guy with the Mac here want to take a quick look at what his jpegs look like through strings?
Gets 0wn3d by a windows user, no less.
Strings says the image was made with Adobe. So it's either a windows user, or one of the guys from Disney.
both of them?
Or Weird Science?
No, he bought a $30,000 dollar cd changer that came with a free car.
Personally, I choose my peripherals based on my OS/Hardware, not the other way around.
There are other types of games?
I for one would love to have my pink lizard spreading love to an all-girl japanese school.
What's your definition of fun?
higher than Law and Order with its absolutely out-of-the-ass convoluted links to the criminals, but still way below spike TV's MXC.
Why don't you take an image of a movie every ho I don't know 30'th of a second, convert them to slides, and proceed to spin them in the carousel. It might be even easier if you tied the slides end to end and just ran them really quickly in front of the lens.
You'll find it easier if you take the little borders off the slides and scotch tape them all together. Maybe put them on big round things to take up all the extra slack!
Then you can play the soundtrack while you run the multiple frames really fast in front of the light. And maybe write a short blurb about it and get a story on slashdot, as well as a huge bandwidth bill.
if they are that dedicated to the open source initiative, shouldn't they spend that time improving linux rather than writing viruses?
Or, at the very least, release the source code under the GPL?
But with the same result.
What will they think of next? I guess that the dollar isn't worth as much as it once was, as it seems to take more of 'em to buy out these corp's ethics.
Smoke that Enron!
But I thought information wanted to be free? At least they're not selling it.
Simply purchase the GoogleOS accelerator module. This will act as a temporary storage device and sync back up when you do get back to civilization.
$499.00 per seat, per year.
What part of "Seriously though" did you not understand?
Internal audits should be done by anyone making a software product. There should be no impact on the current staff.
Scan your computers for unauthorized ports, scan your traffic, verify your firewall. Maybe have separate computers for web access and development? Make sure your shit is taken care of. Make certain that your suppliers and contractors follow some kind of security procedures. This is not the same thing as putting every developer in the hotseat and interrogating them.
How about the gamers that won't be able to play the games because companies will stop producing the games on the PC because it's too easy to pirate? Or the gamers whose favorite franchise shuts down because it's been pirated to death? Or how about all gamers once companies start rushing games to market in months rather than years in an attempt to beat the piracy logistically?
It hurts all gamers. Even if you think that the games are too expensive, or that corporations are evil, if we keep this up, we'll all get what we deserve.