Most CD burning programs let you burn to a "virtual drive" which really just makes an ISO (or equivalent) image. Which you can then mount with Daemon tools.:)
The RIAA constituents I'm guessing. You KNOW they'd love a guaranteed income. Not only that, you'll probably STILL buy CDs you want to keep.
That or the same people who have figured out how to charge us nearly the same price (compared to CDs at Walmart/Target) for lower quality, DRM-encrusted music without physical reproduction costs (and no cd-liner).
So the question is--can she get the husband's half of the converstaion admitted since that was input on the computer (to later be transmitted, but ignoring what was transmitted)?
I once thought/. had people who actually could use computers. Foolish, foolish me. (Turn off automatic updates or set them to just notify you instead of downloading the update!)
Google sells search terms. They aren't selling trademarks, they aren't selling cola products. They aren't selling toothpaste. They aren't selling whatever it is that Dior and Vuitton make.
Trademarks are for the domain of interest only. You can have more then one "Bobs Bills" trademark as long as they aren't in the same domain.
If Pepsi buys the search term "Coke" and displays "BUY PEPSI" for that search term, there is no problem.
If Pepsi buys the search term "Coke" and displays and ad that says "BUY COKE" but in reality links to a Pepsi purchase then there is infringment because they're representing their product "Pepsi" as if it were "Coke".
Yes, form factor is a function. Not the only function.
So it doesn't completely ruin a mac mini to put it in a different case with a different hard drive. You give up one feature for another while keeping the remaind of the features.
It's sad that most sites are posting this with a headline that seems to indicate that phpBB is the problem. The SERVER was hacked through OTHER software, not phpBB. (I know I was worried about my sites until I read the article.)
I typed this previously as a response to a Blues News article. I emailed it to myself because I was waiting for my account password. The line breaks are preserved from the email.
As a side note, useability studies have shown that somewhere near 2 alphabets of length is ideal for ease of reading. That's why I didn't bother to reformat it.:)
No argument there. However, the alternative is hardly more promising.
I've had numerous CDs fail due to scratches. As more and more copy protections are forced onto CDs, it becomes harder and harder to make a backup copy.
With Steam, I don't have to worry about physical medium at all. I can (and have) installed HL2 on multiple machines with only my username and password. I don't have to worry about transferring a CD back and forth between computers (possibly being lost or scratched in the process).
Currently gamers use 3rd party "no CD cracks" to achieve the same thing. However, as copy protections foisted upon us by corporate "geniuses" become more robust, that option may disappear.
Yes, it would be nice to have some guarantee of a "no steam" patch in the event that the Steam servers disappear, but I'll settle for now without it.
For years, large corporate game publishers have been setting all the rules for gamers and game developers alike. Valve software, because they are privately funded, has a chance to change the way games are not only distributed, but the amount of control that the corporate pointy-hairs wield. What do gamers do? They promptly shoot themselves in the foot by whining about how steam is n't perfect.
And it's not. Steam still has all kinds of things that bug me. However, Steam is a huge step in what I believe is the right direction.
Game publishers have been REQUIRING that more and more copy protections be added to games. These protections often make the game UNPLAYABLE to PAYING CUSTOMERS. (Note the idiocy of Vivendi in requiring a CD check for the CD version of HL2.) They go as far as installing stealth DRIVERS for your hardware to enable these copy protections.
Steam offers an alternative. True, it requires an internet connection. (Oh no.) True, it's not perfect. But it's got a MUCH better future then the alternative.
Not only does Steam offer an alternative way of authentication, it ALSO offers and alternative method of distribution. The beauty is NOT that distribution occurs over the internet. The beauty is that distribution is easily available to small developers.
No need to fight for shelf space at distribution outlets. No need to coordinate mass-production facilities and release dates.
Vivendi, et al. would like few things better then to see Steam fail. It would be icing on the cake if gamers themselves stuck a knife in its back.
Check out the new iriver http://www.iriveramerica.com/prod/hd/
Only 5 GB size, but shows photos, plays mp3s (my preferred format since it's car-stereo compatible), and is drag-and-drop in a USB storage kind of way. (So works with windows, mac, linux.)
Also has a removeable battery (buy an extra to take with you!).
Fits nearly every criteria I have for a music player. (Have an ipod, not satisfied.)
The credibilty comment was in response to iD knows exactly what they're doing. Valve apparently can not compete in the brainpower department.
Just because Valve choses to focus on different aspects of the game hardly limits their brainpower. HL2 is one of the most enjoyable games I've played, and I've played a lot.
Doom3 had it's moments, but it honestly wasn't as entertaining.
This so-called "flaw" highlights a very prominent design decision: you can not play with the gamma to make the dark areas visible.
Actually, you can adjust the gamma to make somewhat dark areas (most of the game) visible. (I did and enjoyed the game a lot more.) You can't make completely black things visible however. (Which would be a real help in some game types.)
That's brilliant, the game that demonstrates the long bullet-list of engine features does not include them all.
It was made repeatedly clear by Valve that HDR would not be in the game. Unfortunately, this article seems to have been written by someone who never played HL2. (Never heard the audio?!) HDR MAY be enabled at some point in the future.
IIRC, The studder has to do with the audio driver sound mixer choking when starved during texture uploads to video memory. The best fix is to turn down sound detail.
Or turn down the texture level. Either way, it's a matter of adjusting your settings correctly.
You'll recall that iD was blackmailed by Creative into supporting EAX by way of stencil-shadow patents.
I'll gladly agree that Creative are buttheads and have terrible drivers.:) (My audigy2 has decided to play static from 2 channels for no discernible reason and has caused odd driver problems for ages.)
(from other reply) This is why lights in HL2 were not breakable HL2 certainly supports breakable lights. It's the same as turning a light switch on or off in a building. However, it doesn't support moving lights as well as the Doom3 engine.
HDR is also not the same thing as just rendering using high-precision buffers (128bpp), which again is trivial given hardware support. I don't know what they claim to have done in your demo movie. It's avaialable online in bink.exe format. I'm sure fileplanet [ugh] has it.:) It's a very nice effect -- almost as good as Far Cry's. I wish it were available.
(On the other hand, even though I have a nice gfx card, my poor cpu and memory wouldn't be able to handle it at high resoultions. Upgrades over the next few months should solve that.):)
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Most CD burning programs let you burn to a "virtual drive" which really just makes an ISO (or equivalent) image. Which you can then mount with Daemon tools. :)
The other solutions:
>> Any one of the online illegal (depending on where you live) download sites.
>> Borrowing CDs from friends, neighbors, libraries, etc.
>> Buying CDs and returning them after ripping.
Unfortunately, it appears that stupidity is the driving force behind music industry "solutions" these days.
Make it easy *enough* and cheap *enough* to get music from retailers and you will get almost all current pirates to buy.
Limit what they can do with the files, insist on huge profit margins, etc and they'll simply find a way to leave you completely out of the picture.
The RIAA constituents I'm guessing. You KNOW they'd love a guaranteed income. Not only that, you'll probably STILL buy CDs you want to keep.
That or the same people who have figured out how to charge us nearly the same price (compared to CDs at Walmart/Target) for lower quality, DRM-encrusted music without physical reproduction costs (and no cd-liner).
So the question is--can she get the husband's half of the converstaion admitted since that was input on the computer (to later be transmitted, but ignoring what was transmitted)?
"If not, I quite simply (like most WWW users) don't want to know."
You apparently don't have a clue what MOST www users are like.
Now it would be good for them if it DID, but they won't really care about those things.
I once thought /. had people who actually could use computers. Foolish, foolish me. (Turn off automatic updates or set them to just notify you instead of downloading the update!)
So this would be pre-configuring security zones to NOT run active-X unless the site were listed as "trusted"?
You do realize that, although it's not default, you can set up IE this way currently. (For the entire domain you administer of course!)
Actually, depending on where the server and clients were located, the "illegal" part of that statement may or may not be true.
Guess we'll never know now.
I believe you're looking for this.
http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
Of course, the problem then is that you don't have the foggiest clue what's being passed along by your computer.
You're also missing the point.
Google sells search terms. They aren't selling trademarks, they aren't selling cola products. They aren't selling toothpaste. They aren't selling whatever it is that Dior and Vuitton make.
Trademarks are for the domain of interest only. You can have more then one "Bobs Bills" trademark as long as they aren't in the same domain.
If Pepsi buys the search term "Coke" and displays "BUY PEPSI" for that search term, there is no problem.
If Pepsi buys the search term "Coke" and displays and ad that says "BUY COKE" but in reality links to a Pepsi purchase then there is infringment because they're representing their product "Pepsi" as if it were "Coke".
Google itself is not abusing the trademark.
always was. Not that I don't think it's stupid.
Yes, form factor is a function. Not the only function.
So it doesn't completely ruin a mac mini to put it in a different case with a different hard drive. You give up one feature for another while keeping the remaind of the features.
I thought the idea was also a cheap mac?
Or are macs really all about looks over functionality?
It's sad that most sites are posting this with a headline that seems to indicate that phpBB is the problem. The SERVER was hacked through OTHER software, not phpBB. (I know I was worried about my sites until I read the article.)
Yes. you will be able to play.
However, you may have to wait a longer time because you are using the absolute minimum requirements.
Also, note that it requires an INTERNET connection, NOT a WorldWideWeb connection.
I typed this previously as a response to a Blues News article. I emailed it to myself because I was waiting for my account password. The line breaks are preserved from the email.
:)
As a side note, useability studies have shown that somewhere near 2 alphabets of length is ideal for ease of reading. That's why I didn't bother to reformat it.
No argument there. However, the alternative is hardly more promising.
I've had numerous CDs fail due to scratches. As more and more copy protections are forced onto CDs, it becomes harder and harder to make a backup copy.
With Steam, I don't have to worry about physical medium at all. I can (and have) installed HL2 on multiple machines with only my username and password. I don't have to worry about transferring a CD back and forth between computers (possibly being lost or scratched in the process).
Currently gamers use 3rd party "no CD cracks" to achieve the same thing. However, as copy protections foisted upon us by corporate "geniuses" become more robust, that option may disappear.
Yes, it would be nice to have some guarantee of a "no steam" patch in the event that the Steam servers disappear, but I'll settle for now without it.
For years, large corporate game publishers have been setting all the
rules for gamers and game developers alike. Valve software, because
they are privately funded, has a chance to change the way games are
not only distributed, but the amount of control that the corporate
pointy-hairs wield. What do gamers do? They promptly shoot
themselves in the foot by whining about how steam is n't perfect.
And it's not. Steam still has all kinds of things that bug me.
However, Steam is a huge step in what I believe is the right
direction.
Game publishers have been REQUIRING that more and more copy
protections be added to games. These protections often make the game
UNPLAYABLE to PAYING CUSTOMERS. (Note the idiocy of Vivendi in
requiring a CD check for the CD version of HL2.) They go as far as
installing stealth DRIVERS for your hardware to enable these copy
protections.
Steam offers an alternative. True, it requires an internet
connection. (Oh no.) True, it's not perfect. But it's got a MUCH
better future then the alternative.
Not only does Steam offer an alternative way of authentication, it
ALSO offers and alternative method of distribution. The beauty is NOT
that distribution occurs over the internet. The beauty is that
distribution is easily available to small developers.
No need to fight for shelf space at distribution outlets. No need to
coordinate mass-production facilities and release dates.
Vivendi, et al. would like few things better then to see Steam fail.
It would be icing on the cake if gamers themselves stuck a knife in
its back.
In windows XP:
Start
Run
MSConfig
Go to startup tab.
If you don't understand what an entry does, google it BEFORE you turn it off.
Did you ever use MP3.com back in its heyday? You could put in a CD to validate that you had it and then stream an mp3 to anywhere you were logged in.
I seem to remember it even had a similar name.
Check out the new iriver http://www.iriveramerica.com/prod/hd/
Only 5 GB size, but shows photos, plays mp3s (my preferred format since it's car-stereo compatible), and is drag-and-drop in a USB storage kind of way. (So works with windows, mac, linux.)
Also has a removeable battery (buy an extra to take with you!).
Fits nearly every criteria I have for a music player. (Have an ipod, not satisfied.)
You neglected to mention that you were going to fill the house with popped corn. :)
This may be a bit short but....
http://www.guildwars.com/
The credibilty comment was in response to
:) (My audigy2 has decided to play static from 2 channels for no discernible reason and has caused odd driver problems for ages.)
.exe format. I'm sure fileplanet [ugh] has it. :) It's a very nice effect -- almost as good as Far Cry's. I wish it were available.
:)
iD knows exactly what they're doing. Valve apparently can not compete in the brainpower department.
Just because Valve choses to focus on different aspects of the game hardly limits their brainpower. HL2 is one of the most enjoyable games I've played, and I've played a lot.
Doom3 had it's moments, but it honestly wasn't as entertaining.
This so-called "flaw" highlights a very prominent design decision: you can not play with the gamma to make the dark areas visible.
Actually, you can adjust the gamma to make somewhat dark areas (most of the game) visible. (I did and enjoyed the game a lot more.) You can't make completely black things visible however. (Which would be a real help in some game types.)
That's brilliant, the game that demonstrates the long bullet-list of engine features does not include them all.
It was made repeatedly clear by Valve that HDR would not be in the game. Unfortunately, this article seems to have been written by someone who never played HL2. (Never heard the audio?!) HDR MAY be enabled at some point in the future.
IIRC, The studder has to do with the audio driver sound mixer choking when starved during texture uploads to video memory. The best fix is to turn down sound detail.
Or turn down the texture level. Either way, it's a matter of adjusting your settings correctly.
You'll recall that iD was blackmailed by Creative into supporting EAX by way of stencil-shadow patents.
I'll gladly agree that Creative are buttheads and have terrible drivers.
(from other reply)
This is why lights in HL2 were not breakable
HL2 certainly supports breakable lights. It's the same as turning a light switch on or off in a building. However, it doesn't support moving lights as well as the Doom3 engine.
HDR is also not the same thing as just rendering using high-precision buffers (128bpp), which again is trivial given hardware support. I don't know what they claim to have done in your demo movie.
It's avaialable online in bink
(On the other hand, even though I have a nice gfx card, my poor cpu and memory wouldn't be able to handle it at high resoultions. Upgrades over the next few months should solve that.)
Or watch it on budweiser's site.