Absolutely! Trusted Computing is made to protect consumers from potential threats, but will it let consumers decide what is trustworthy? I recently discovered I had a UAService7.exe running in my Task Manager. After a search I found it is a SecuROM service, and lo and behold theres a service with that name in Services.
I can't remember being asked by a game or application to install such a service, and I don't know how to remove it as there's no reference to it in either Start Menu or Add/Remove Programs.
Theres nothing "poor" about Mr. Gates or Microsoft. They are rich and they forced upon us Windows 9x with its BSODs and endless chkdsks. Did you know most people don't trust their computer to run more then 3 programs at once?
then again Bill Gates and his wife do give lots of money to charity.
To be fair to MS, voice recognition is hard to get right, and even theoretically is basically impossible to get 100% right. Writing a working scanner driver is vastly easier, and much more embarassing when screwed up, IMHO.
Not when you write for Windows 98 and its VXD driver subsystem and try to make it "plug and play." Windows 2000 brought us WDM and Windows Vista (NT 6.0?) we have LDDM. When will they do it right? When they let each driver have its on folder with its files and settings and executable (i.e control panel). Just delete the folder and your PC is once again clean. Now we have "driver cleaner" programs and advices to completely reinstall Windows if you have uncommon problems after a driver upgrade.
I miss my Amiga 500. What a superb machine, to get that entire O/S on two 3.5" diskettes.
ot: Wasn't the Amiga a multimedia system from ground up compared to the IBM PC? It didnt have a fpu but did accellerate some graphic operations in hardware and you could have a section of the screen at an independent resolution.
I remember my friend had to decompress MP3 manually before playback as his Amiga 1200 wasn't fast enough for real-time decompression. Good times!
I love the legs he photoshops into crashed planes and other vehicles. Naked with only sneakers and no socks. How can the 419 scammers ever believe something like that?
I read several of these stories and I almost laugh to death a few times, they are great. Intelligent funny I dont know how they do it.
But the at end of the scam the scam-baiters always gloat and insult the scammers. Scammers may be bad and even dangerous people but after all that intelligence, why do they go down to this childish level?
And why isn't this innsight in more of those motherboard factory tours? As every other consumer I have responsibility for what I buy, but it seems I am part of very few that is actually clearly aware of that every time I choose a product.
If people would spend less time on religion and more time interested in planet earth and things like these (when I say planet earth I mean everything also humans), the world might get better. Sure, 99.9% of such caring may all be rediculously futile and a waste of time, but with power comes responsibility, and in time we might get extremely effective of stopping evil companies.
Maybe I should start a religion and hammer these few words into the cheep so they would think about it in their daily acts. For now I'll post the parents simple and insightful sentences here and there. Someday a company might start up and stamp their products "built in fair work conditions" and enough brainwashed people will actually buy them and the rest is history.
Some anti-idealists may say don't stress about it but don't listen to them. You are either part of the problem or part of the solution.
Re: it's the fillrate cheese! evil!
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Quake is 10
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The slashdot crowd is absolutely bloody right to expect that 10 years later something with the visuals of Quake and the level of game AI complexity of Nethack should have been written released and shipped.
And that has not happened. The monsters in the newer quakes, dooms and the likes are as daft as in the original. There is no random or even pseudorandom level generation.
A factor may be we have had too much focus on screenshots, and not gameplay and scene interaction. 3D hardware accellerators "GPU" is big business and have been very competitive last years, they don't wanto risk huge investment into physics and geometry accelleration.
Sure we have bumpmapping and vertex shaders but these are non-interactive one/way effects only.
After Ageia released the PhysX Physics Processing Unit "PPU" we actually have hardware specialized in accellerating the interactivity in geometry (objects and architecture of polygons). And as business is business and business must grow, NVIDIA and ATI was afraid the focus would shift from the GPU and quickly responded with their GPU-as-PPU PR crap. A GPU-as-PPU can never really be a real PPU. It may be many times faster in some situations but is still a quack hack. Even if it "evolves" I still fear GPU-as-PPU will never be as good as a solution built from ground up for physics and scene interaction (think satisfying death animations and destructive architecture).
- The lack of a real write-back method on the GPU is also going to hurt it in the world of physics processing for sure. Since pixel shaders are read-only devices, they can not write back results that would change the state of other objects in the "world", a necessary feature for a solid physics engine on all four counts.
- Another interesting issue that AGEIA brought up is that since the Havok FX API, and any API that attempts to run physics code on a GPU, has to map their own code to a Direct3D API using Shader Models then as shader models change, code will be affected. This means that the Havok FX engine will be affected very dramatically every time Microsoft makes changes to D3D and NVIDIA and ATI makes changes in their hardware for D3D changes (ala DX10 for Vista). This might create an unstable development platform for designers that they may wish to avoid and stick with a static API like the one AGEIA has on their PhysX PPU.
Also, remember, this confirmation *can* be turned off in Vista (just like in XP.) So, you can have it the way you like it if you decide to use Vista. However, I support the decision to default this feature to on.
So do I. My sister called me while I was in the hospital and was so afraid she had lost a file. I had to step-by-step her through restoring it from the recycle bin.
It's much easier to switch a search engine or home page (I have mine set at google.no) than to merge from Windows to Linux. Let Google do enough evil and I'll make sure all my friends and the funny guys at work hear about it. They already know about gMail is creepy http://www.google-watch.org/gmail.html
I actually prefer programs to store their settings in ini files and the user data in their own directory. You see, hunting in the registry for settings before I reinstall Windows is very time consuming, and some crazy programs (Outlook Express) store user settings in different places in the registry too. Incredible.
I have a list of programs that does this, and I just put them in D:\Programs and after a Windows XP format/reinstall I just create a shortcut and all my settings and programs are there.
Multi-user is fine, just create a D:\Username\Programs.
The police also examined another lead suggesting that Kushnir could have been attacked by robbers.
On Sunday the Moscow criminal investigation directorate detained a group of young people on suspicion of murdering Kushnir with a view to rob him. The investigators believe that a 15-year-old girl and two boys, 18 and 17 years of age, along with a 27-year-old accomplice had broke into Kushnirs apartment.
One of the boys wielded a baseball bat which he used to beat the man to death. The detainees insist Kushnir had invited them to his place himself where he made passes at the girl by the name of Vika. Her friends tried to stop him, then Kushnir grabbed a knife and the young men hit the man with an empty bottle on the head in order to defend themselves.
Can anyone advice me a single setup for play back everything on Windows XP, Suse 10.1 and Ubuntu 5.10? A simple and detailed walkthrough so even a beginner like me could do it. I would like to play back:
1. Codec packs are fine, only they don't mess up my system. 2. I really like WinAmp lite, and would like a separate playback program for music files and video files (that why I usually rename ogg movies to.ogm).
Yes I know this might turn into a huge discussion hehe what a mess
I don't agree to any of you. I mean Windows should be cleaned of
- windows media player - internet explorer - outlook express - windows messenger - anything else they might come up with
And make it illegal for OEMs to bundle any of these software. Instead they would bundle Firefox, Opera, Realplayer (ewww), Thunderbird, Trillian (yes I know it is a memory performance hog 1.).
Then we can have som real competition. You can go to the store and buy your bread without the butter-and-knife bundle. You know, choose what comes with it. Wow maybe we'll see more programs in a computer store... Isn't Microsoft the pirate here?
Why do 3D card makers spend so much time on new features and performance? Because some (enough?) customers want new shiny hardware and are willing to pay for it. If enough customers would understand the benefits of upgrading to IPv6 some brave small business might go out on a campaign.
Then we get demand, and then we get the ware.
My point is be a little optimistic and instead. Spread the word about how good IPv6 are and how nice it would be to get rid of NAT.
I regularly coach my friends in this, for instance when I have to connect us to the external network/internet whenever we wanto play Starcraft online. You see, we have 5computers in our house but I only get 4 DHCP IPs from our ISP so I just have everybody behind a NAT, but Starcraft doesn't work behind NAT. Luckily, our current ISP doesn't charge for IPs at all, but they don't provide more then 4. I would like to have 8.
With IPv6 we get more than 40.000 IP per house/customer?
Apple doesn't pay any money to the RIAA when a song is sold on iTMS. They pay the record company that holds the rights to the song (the one they licensed distribution rights from). The RIAA is a trade organization not a corporation....
Isn't the RIAA owned by the ones who do get paid?
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/8536 Recording Industry Association of America? There's very little 'American' content, figuratively or literally. To all intents and purposes, the RIAA is owned and operated by Vivendi Universal, the world's most powerful record label group which is based in France; the odious Sony BMG (Japan and Germany); EMI (Great Britain); and, bringing up the rear, Warner Music, the only US label.
In other words, Santangelo is being sued not by the RIAA, but by a vast and venal, profit-obsessed, multi-billion-dollar international corporate cartel with zero scruples and absolutely no respect or concern for its own customers.
-- -- About P2Pnet.net there has been some criticism about
http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21600 So, you OK with Beckerman charging her $24K for the work he did? While claming drastically reduced rates all over the place? Or are you OK with Patti and P2P.net misleading filesharers? You OK with Ray not really making her pay, but sticking it to the RAII if patti and his other clients actually win?
I agree that these lawsuits need to be fought, and supported. The problem is that the fight and ultimate outcome, will really be about presedent set. Ray's eairly track record, and predictions, are both in the crapper. That bodes badly for all of us here. (at least where I live)IMO
You are assuming a purely materialist ontology in relation to the makeup of humans. It is a philosophical assumption based on the fallacy that the only things that exist are those things which are provable by the scientific method. While this is a valid philosophical framework to argue for, it should not be stated as indisputable fact.
Fancy wording.
1. What is the difference between matter (materialist) and uhm the spirit/soul/fine matter you religious people claim? The word "materialist" come from people who like to group scientists in a dogmatic class. Even a soul has to consist of *something,* it's just you spirituality followers that like to simplify complex matters and generalize people into sides.
2. Of course there may exists things that are not provable by the scientific method. We may develop methods to prove (or disprove) them yet, and find new things.
Actually, your attitude is a sort of religious fanaticism.
I think his attitude is right on the spot. He knows that science has been corrected in the past and nothing can really be proven but so far there are no observations that require anything like a "spiritual world."
We may be disproven and encourage anyone to contribute to science but so far it is extremely unlikely. If you have this unexplained anomaly then please present it. So far the idea of a "soul" is only from philosophers and religious people. Oh and there is a place you kan win 1.000.000$ by doing this.
I think I heard that brain cells doesn't die from alcohol they just "slumber." Laying off the bottle for a few years and you're up to speed again. I searched and found this:
Moderate drinking doesnt kill brain cells but helps the brain function better into old age. Studies around the world involving many thousands of people report this finding....
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You already tried Eposide 1? I'm going to finish Half Life 2 with SMOD and
bind "q" host_timescale "0.3"
bind "g" host_timescale "1.0"
All people should enjoy Half Life 2 physics (from Havoc?) before commenting on "needing" a PPU or real-physics capable GPU.
http://jooh.no/clips.html
Absolutely! Trusted Computing is made to protect consumers from potential threats, but will it let consumers decide what is trustworthy? I recently discovered I had a UAService7.exe running in my Task Manager. After a search I found it is a SecuROM service, and lo and behold theres a service with that name in Services.
I can't remember being asked by a game or application to install such a service, and I don't know how to remove it as there's no reference to it in either Start Menu or Add/Remove Programs.
http://jooh.no/root/torrents/trusted-computing.to
Heh
Theres nothing "poor" about Mr. Gates or Microsoft. They are rich and they forced upon us Windows 9x with its BSODs and endless chkdsks. Did you know most people don't trust their computer to run more then 3 programs at once?
then again Bill Gates and his wife do give lots of money to charity.
Not when you write for Windows 98 and its VXD driver subsystem and try to make it "plug and play." Windows 2000 brought us WDM and Windows Vista (NT 6.0?) we have LDDM. When will they do it right? When they let each driver have its on folder with its files and settings and executable (i.e control panel). Just delete the folder and your PC is once again clean. Now we have "driver cleaner" programs and advices to completely reinstall Windows if you have uncommon problems after a driver upgrade.
Why? Why is this funny?
ot: Wasn't the Amiga a multimedia system from ground up compared to the IBM PC? It didnt have a fpu but did accellerate some graphic operations in hardware and you could have a section of the screen at an independent resolution.
I remember my friend had to decompress MP3 manually before playback as his Amiga 1200 wasn't fast enough for real-time decompression. Good times!
I love the legs he photoshops into crashed planes and other vehicles. Naked with only sneakers and no socks. How can the 419 scammers ever believe something like that?
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WARNING violence and blood
http://www.419eater.com/images/reelgud.jpg
http://www.419eater.com/images/bread_and_wine_cra
I read several of these stories and I almost laugh to death a few times, they are great. Intelligent funny I dont know how they do it.
But the at end of the scam the scam-baiters always gloat and insult the scammers. Scammers may be bad and even dangerous people but after all that intelligence, why do they go down to this childish level?
And why isn't this innsight in more of those motherboard factory tours? As every
h ilfiger.txt
s /pro1000gt_desktop_adapter.htm
other consumer I have responsibility for what I buy, but it seems I am part of very few that is actually clearly aware of that every time I choose a product.
If people would spend less time on religion and more time interested in planet earth and things like these (when I say planet earth I mean everything also humans), the world might get better. Sure, 99.9% of such caring may all be rediculously futile and a waste of time, but with power comes responsibility, and in time we might get extremely effective of stopping evil companies.
Tommy Hilfiger busted again for use of slave workers in Mae Sot
http://nrk.no/programmer/tv/fbi/3296787.html
http://jooh.no/root/text/Tommy_Hilfiger/email_to_
Maybe I should start a religion and hammer these few words into the cheep so they would think about it in their daily acts. For now I'll post the parents simple and insightful sentences here and there. Someday a company might start up and stamp their products "built in fair work conditions" and enough brainwashed people will actually buy them and the rest is history.
For now buy Intels lead-free NICs.
http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/product
Some anti-idealists may say don't stress about it but don't listen to them. You are either part of the problem or part of the solution.
A factor may be we have had too much focus on screenshots, and not gameplay and scene interaction. 3D hardware accellerators "GPU" is big business and have been very competitive last years, they don't wanto risk huge investment into physics and geometry accelleration.
Sure we have bumpmapping and vertex shaders but these are non-interactive one/way effects only.
After Ageia released the PhysX Physics Processing Unit "PPU" we actually have hardware specialized in accellerating the interactivity in geometry (objects and architecture of polygons). And as business is business and business must grow, NVIDIA and ATI was afraid the focus would shift from the GPU and quickly responded with their GPU-as-PPU PR crap. A GPU-as-PPU can never really be a real PPU. It may be many times faster in some situations but is still a quack hack. Even if it "evolves" I still fear GPU-as-PPU will never be as good as a solution built from ground up for physics and scene interaction (think satisfying death animations and destructive architecture).
- The lack of a real write-back method on the GPU is also going to hurt it in the world of physics processing for sure. Since pixel shaders are read-only devices, they can not write back results that would change the state of other objects in the "world", a necessary feature for a solid physics engine on all four counts.
- Another interesting issue that AGEIA brought up is that since the Havok FX API, and any API that attempts to run physics code on a GPU, has to map their own code to a Direct3D API using Shader Models then as shader models change, code will be affected. This means that the Havok FX engine will be affected very dramatically every time Microsoft makes changes to D3D and NVIDIA and ATI makes changes in their hardware for D3D changes (ala DX10 for Vista). This might create an unstable development platform for designers that they may wish to avoid and stick with a static API like the one AGEIA has on their PhysX PPU.
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=225&type=exp
http://jooh.no/web/XCom_UFO_what_went_off_here_32
http://jooh.no/web/XCom_UFO_2_destructive_archite
Yes but from what users? I have a friend who is a Vista beta tester that "like it the way it is :D."
5 8
Most of the betatesters seems to be neowin forum people.
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showforum=1
It's much easier to switch a search engine or home page (I have mine set at google.no) than to merge from Windows to Linux. Let Google do enough evil and I'll make sure all my friends and the funny guys at work hear about it. They already know about gMail is creepy
http://www.google-watch.org/gmail.html
I actually prefer programs to store their settings in ini files and the user data in their own directory. You see, hunting in the registry for settings before I reinstall Windows is very time consuming, and some crazy programs (Outlook Express) store user settings in different places in the registry too. Incredible.
I have a list of programs that does this, and I just put them in D:\Programs and after a Windows XP format/reinstall I just create a shortcut and all my settings and programs are there.
Multi-user is fine, just create a D:\Username\Programs.
http://jooh.no/programs_on_d.html
Russian Police Claim Biggest Spammers Murder Solved
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The police also examined another lead suggesting that Kushnir could have been attacked by robbers.
On Sunday the Moscow criminal investigation directorate detained a group of young people on suspicion of murdering Kushnir with a view to rob him. The investigators believe that a 15-year-old girl and two boys, 18 and 17 years of age, along with a 27-year-old accomplice had broke into Kushnirs apartment.
One of the boys wielded a baseball bat which he used to beat the man to death. The detainees insist Kushnir had invited them to his place himself where he made passes at the girl by the name of Vika. Her friends tried to stop him, then Kushnir grabbed a knife and the young men hit the man with an empty bottle on the head in order to defend themselves.
http://mosnews.com/news/2005/08/15/kushnirinquiry
So Nokia is a tiny provider of mobile devices?
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Don't worry, Microsoft is going to take over the mobile platform with Windows Mobile. PocketPC bye-bye.
just look at him
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41131000/jp
he got that thing in his eyes again
Can anyone advice me a single setup for play back everything on Windows XP, Suse 10.1 and Ubuntu 5.10? A simple and detailed walkthrough so even a beginner like me could do it. I would like to play back:
.ogm).
ogg (ogm, flac, theora, vorbis all that)
divX/Xvid
aac
h.264
mov qt
1. Codec packs are fine, only they don't mess up my system.
2. I really like WinAmp lite, and would like a separate playback program for music files and video files (that why I usually rename ogg movies to
Yes I know this might turn into a huge discussion hehe what a mess
I don't agree to any of you. I mean Windows should be cleaned of
- windows media player
- internet explorer
- outlook express
- windows messenger
- anything else they might come up with
And make it illegal for OEMs to bundle any of these software. Instead they would bundle Firefox, Opera, Realplayer (ewww), Thunderbird, Trillian (yes I know it is a memory performance hog 1.).
Then we can have som real competition. You can go to the store and buy your bread without the butter-and-knife bundle. You know, choose what comes with it. Wow maybe we'll see more programs in a computer store... Isn't Microsoft the pirate here?
1. http://jooh.no/prog_trillian_mem.html
Why do 3D card makers spend so much time on new features and performance? Because some (enough?) customers want new shiny hardware and are willing to pay for it. If enough customers would understand the benefits of upgrading to IPv6 some brave small business might go out on a campaign.
Then we get demand, and then we get the ware.
My point is be a little optimistic and instead. Spread the word about how good IPv6 are and how nice it would be to get rid of NAT.
I regularly coach my friends in this, for instance when I have to connect us to the external network/internet whenever we wanto play Starcraft online. You see, we have 5computers in our house but I only get 4 DHCP IPs from our ISP so I just have everybody behind a NAT, but Starcraft doesn't work behind NAT. Luckily, our current ISP doesn't charge for IPs at all, but they don't provide more then 4. I would like to have 8.
With IPv6 we get more than 40.000 IP per house/customer?
Yes but we don't like very skinny girls
http://www.overspun.com/?p=1204
http://jooh.no/web/anna_kournikova_thin.jpg
How do you expect Microsoft becoming a contributory member of the industry? By forcing them to go open-source with all their software?
.doc format, etc etc.
that would make it easier for the Samba team, and OpenOffice to support
Isn't the RIAA owned by the ones who do get paid?
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/8536
Recording Industry Association of America? There's very little 'American' content, figuratively or literally. To all intents and purposes, the RIAA is owned and operated by Vivendi Universal, the world's most powerful record label group which is based in France; the odious Sony BMG (Japan and Germany); EMI (Great Britain); and, bringing up the rear, Warner Music, the only US label.
In other words, Santangelo is being sued not by the RIAA, but by a vast and venal, profit-obsessed, multi-billion-dollar international corporate cartel with zero scruples and absolutely no respect or concern for its own customers.
--
--
About P2Pnet.net there has been some criticism about
http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21600
So, you OK with Beckerman charging her $24K for the work he did? While claming drastically reduced rates all over the place? Or are you OK with Patti and P2P.net misleading filesharers? You OK with Ray not really making her pay, but sticking it to the RAII if patti and his other clients actually win?
I agree that these lawsuits need to be fought, and supported. The problem is that the fight and ultimate outcome, will really be about presedent set. Ray's eairly track record, and predictions, are both in the crapper. That bodes badly for all of us here. (at least where I live)IMO
Fancy wording.
1. What is the difference between matter (materialist) and uhm the spirit/soul/fine matter you religious people claim? The word "materialist" come from people who like to group scientists in a dogmatic class. Even a soul has to consist of *something,* it's just you spirituality followers that like to simplify complex matters and generalize people into sides.
2. Of course there may exists things that are not provable by the scientific method. We may develop methods to prove (or disprove) them yet, and find new things.
I think his attitude is right on the spot. He knows that science has been corrected in the past and nothing can really be proven but so far there are no observations that require anything like a "spiritual world."
We may be disproven and encourage anyone to contribute to science but so far it is extremely unlikely. If you have this unexplained anomaly then please present it. So far the idea of a "soul" is only from philosophers and religious people. Oh and there is a place you kan win 1.000.000$ by doing this.
I think I heard that brain cells doesn't die from alcohol they just "slumber." Laying off the bottle for a few years and you're up to speed again. I searched and found this:
...
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Moderate drinking doesnt kill brain cells but helps the brain function better into old age. Studies around the world involving many thousands of people report this finding.
However, abstinence after chronic alcohol abuse enables brains to repair themselves, according to new research involving rats.
http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/HealthIssues/110