Terrorist training camps being able to train terrorists to destroy the free world make the Middle East "stable"? Destroying terrorist camps and destroying harborers of terrorists make the area more stable, not less.
It costs $2 million per day. That's a lot, but not as much as you purport it to be. Secondly, a stable middle east is foundational to the survival of the western world and thus space exploration. If we are attacked by terrorists again and the economy tanks again as it did after 9/11, who's going to pay for the NASA budget?
Can you name me one armed conflict that the Congress did not give authority for the President to use force? What kind of declaration of war were you expecting?
A USB mouse has far less lagand requires less computational resources than a PS/2 mouse.
This is simply not true. In order to read that data, the CPU generally has to get involved. Depending on what it is busy doing, that could cause an issue. Another is that often, the USB ports share an IRQ with other things on the system. Generally, the PS/2 port microcontroller gets its own dedicated IRQ, IRQ 12.
Really, none of this *should* be an issue, and perhaps some of it is due more to extra software layers in Windows due to the USB protocol stack than anything else, but in the real world, I definately notice a difference. PS/2 port mouse control gives me less input lag, and greater accuracy/DPI.
The maximum-supported update-rate of a USB mouse could also be limited to the internal chip. Part of the problem is, the USB protocol is time-division multiplexed, and each individual USB device on a bus doesn't get its own interrupt, it has to wait for its appropriate "time slot" in the protocol to signal the host system that it needs attention. The PS/2 port, on the other hand, is a "no lines no waiting" kind of thing. Almost like an express checkout lane. Whereas the USB port also needs to be checked by the CPU and USB protocol stack, almost like having to call the manager over to the register.
UT2004 specifically has two options:
1: Smooth Mouse
2: Reduce Mouse Lag
The normal usage of USB mice should be fine without lag, but when the computer is using all of its resources, USB doesn't get updated as quickly as it should, thus causing the mouse lag.
PS/2 mice have better access to Windows resources and the mouse position gets updated properly and on time.
USB mouses can have significant mouse lag in any kind of processor-heavy program. The USB mouse requires more hardware computation than a PS/2 mouse. That's why in games there's an option called "REDUCE MOUSE LAG".
I am surprised that a company like Boeing has not attempted to break into the privatized space arena.
Boeing doesn't have the technology or motive to travel to Mars yet. I think we'll see Union Aerospace Corporation really go all out on this and try to establish a Mars base by 2145. The UAC has the mining and space technology to outdo easily any other space ventures.
The court can declare an injunction in this case. Especially considering that the breach of contract on Valve's part would have significant financial ramifications for VUG, the court would have very good reason to prevent the release. This isn't a copyright issue but rather a financial issue, and it's also a contract breach.
Is the Drudge Report really a blog? I see it more as a "new media" agent who tries to report raw news which major news outlets refuse to report on. Most recently it was Rathergate, but a few years ago it was the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Vivendi Universal Games is suing Valve to prevent distribution over Steam. Considering how many people will be downloading or have already downloaded over Steam, it's no surprise. VUG is getting very very little out of this deal with Valve getting almost everything. VUG will do anything it can to prevent Steam distribution, since the dispute is over tens of millions of dollars in potential sales. Gamers are going to buy the game anyways, another 3-6 months or whatever it takes is not going to drastically hurt sales.
Bottom line: HL2 is going to be delayed until this is resolved.
Google was pissed at third-party tools which check emails. Now I wonder what Google is going to think of a program or script which uses the Gmail email directory as a sort of web-hosting deal. I'm not too optimistic about Google's response.:-(
What are you talking about? OS X has native support for OpenGL capability. It just so happens that some desktop graphics functions such as windows are offloaded to the GPU. OpenGL is the equivalent of DirectX. In fact, now that the ARB finally made a decision on shading languages, OpenGL's OGSL is superior to what Microsoft has to offer.
It's just that Microsoft is finally catching up with Apple in [b]using[/b] GPU functions to control more than just games.
1. Everything in Doom 3 is rendered in real-time.
2. The NPCs look as good as the Doom marine as you are looking at them more than you are looking at yourself in the mirror.
Perhaps you should be comparing unified lighting versus non-unified lighting!
Actually, yes I have. It is almost as good as the Doom 3 facial animations. But I would certainly say the facial geometry of the HL2 models is significantly worse than the models for Doom 3. Not only that, but the unified lighthing system for Doom 3 accentuates the geometry making the faces incredibly lifelike.
Doom 3 certainly blows HL2 out of the water, and HL2 hasn't even been released yet. And Carmack is already working on Doom 3 engine updates, some of which will significantly help in texturing skin to make people look as close to a photograph as you can get with this technology. Non-unified lighting will significantly hurt HL2 in the "engine war" if you can call it that. Pasted textures on low-geometry faces is not going to cut it, especially when directly comparing it to Doom 3.
It's actually Plumbum. It's from the latin "plumbum, plumbi" meaning lead. They had it back in the time of the Roman empire and it was quite popular and used widely.
IAmNotALawyer, but I believe there are some circumstances such protection can be breached. Of course, since it doesn't look like 321 studios had major liabilites when they were shut down (since the MPAA mainly sought the injunction, not damages), they may be able to get away with it.
The circumstances in which it can be breached is if both corporations do not act like corporations, ie they do not file the correct documents, take minutes for meetings, etc. It is not known whether these are corporations or LLCs. LLCs have much stronger protections and can actually be used like a proxy for business.
Not so damn clever; more like damn careless. As was mentioned a while back on The Register, this "3rd party" site lists in its whois records that it is administered by a person of the same name as the whois administrative contact for the 123copydvd.com records. "Gee, whaddacoiinkidink, Boss!" IAmNotAJudge, but if I was, I'd probably consider that prima facia evidence to support a major fishing expidition during discovery.
That Register article is interesting, but I did my own WHOIS on both domain names, and it turns out that www.123copydvd.com is registered in the US to www.123copydvd.com. The hosting service is NetworkSolutions. http://www.booyakasha.biz/ is registered in Gibraltar to an unknown individual in that country, and the hosting service is also NetworkSolutions.
As far as the courts are concerned, the two websites are separated. One is registered by the 123 Copy DVD, and the other is registered to an actual 3rd party in Gibraltar. Of course we can surmise that it isn't really a 3rd party, but can you prove it? Not likely. This again is besides the point: 123 Copy DVD is not selling a product which violates copy protection. But it can be modified to do so. A computer by HP can be used to violate copy protection. Should HP be sued?
321 Studios closed up shop most likely to get off that sinking ship onto a nice and clean boat. One which is free from lawsuit liability, as shown here.
I'm thinking if I'm them... My company's last dying breath is to release the source code to the public domain or as a GPL application.
You're not thinking like a corporation!:-) As I noted above, 321 Studios formed a new company called 123 Copy DVD which features the exact same program minus the DE-CSS feature. Their website features a direct link to a "3rd Party Plugin" site: http://www.booyakasha.biz/. The new company is seemingly free from any lawsuits about DMCA violations.
Why release it GPL when you can transfer the assets and milk the product from a Bastard Company?:-D
If you go to the website for the Bastard company,
http://www.123copydvd.com/, you will notice that the "company" is offering the exact same program. What 321 Studios has effectively done is known as "asset protection", where they branch off a company into a separate Corporation or Limited-liability corporation (LLC) that is untouchable if the prior company is sued and run out of business. 321 studios is still alive, just in another form. I have purchased their 123 copy DVD software, and it is almost identical to the 321 Studios DVD X Copy software.
If you wish to see how damn clever they are, they do not actually include de-cryption software in the product. They do however link directly to a "3rd Party Plugin" site which features a downloadable plug-in which works exclusively with 123 copy DVD.
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Terrorist training camps being able to train terrorists to destroy the free world make the Middle East "stable"? Destroying terrorist camps and destroying harborers of terrorists make the area more stable, not less.
Who the hell moderated this informative?
It costs $2 million per day. That's a lot, but not as much as you purport it to be. Secondly, a stable middle east is foundational to the survival of the western world and thus space exploration. If we are attacked by terrorists again and the economy tanks again as it did after 9/11, who's going to pay for the NASA budget?
Raise your hand if you have iTunes ...
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:-D
Raise your hand if you have a FireWire port
Raise your hand if you have both
Raise your hand if you have $400 to spend on a cute Apple device
There is Apple's market. Pretty slim, eh? I don't see many sales in the future of iPod.
~LoudMusic
October 23rd, 2001. Priceless.
Damn, I was hoping it would say that he's gotten the most "spam javellined" man on earth award. He deserves it. ;-)
I'm a creationist and I totally agree with you: God does not exist because these plants now have herbicide resistance.
Please mod parent +15 insightful!
Every war since WWII has been undeclared.
Section 8, Clause 11 of the US constitution reads: Congress shall have the power... To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
Can you name me one armed conflict that the Congress did not give authority for the President to use force? What kind of declaration of war were you expecting?
A USB mouse has far less lagand requires less computational resources than a PS/2 mouse.
This is simply not true. In order to read that data, the CPU generally has to get involved. Depending on what it is busy doing, that could cause an issue. Another is that often, the USB ports share an IRQ with other things on the system. Generally, the PS/2 port microcontroller gets its own dedicated IRQ, IRQ 12.
Really, none of this *should* be an issue, and perhaps some of it is due more to extra software layers in Windows due to the USB protocol stack than anything else, but in the real world, I definately notice a difference. PS/2 port mouse control gives me less input lag, and greater accuracy/DPI.
The maximum-supported update-rate of a USB mouse could also be limited to the internal chip. Part of the problem is, the USB protocol is time-division multiplexed, and each individual USB device on a bus doesn't get its own interrupt, it has to wait for its appropriate "time slot" in the protocol to signal the host system that it needs attention. The PS/2 port, on the other hand, is a "no lines no waiting" kind of thing. Almost like an express checkout lane. Whereas the USB port also needs to be checked by the CPU and USB protocol stack, almost like having to call the manager over to the register.
UT2004 specifically has two options:
1: Smooth Mouse
2: Reduce Mouse Lag
The normal usage of USB mice should be fine without lag, but when the computer is using all of its resources, USB doesn't get updated as quickly as it should, thus causing the mouse lag.
PS/2 mice have better access to Windows resources and the mouse position gets updated properly and on time.
USB mouses can have significant mouse lag in any kind of processor-heavy program. The USB mouse requires more hardware computation than a PS/2 mouse. That's why in games there's an option called "REDUCE MOUSE LAG".
I am surprised that a company like Boeing has not attempted to break into the privatized space arena.
Boeing doesn't have the technology or motive to travel to Mars yet. I think we'll see Union Aerospace Corporation really go all out on this and try to establish a Mars base by 2145. The UAC has the mining and space technology to outdo easily any other space ventures.
The court can declare an injunction in this case. Especially considering that the breach of contract on Valve's part would have significant financial ramifications for VUG, the court would have very good reason to prevent the release. This isn't a copyright issue but rather a financial issue, and it's also a contract breach.
Is the Drudge Report really a blog? I see it more as a "new media" agent who tries to report raw news which major news outlets refuse to report on. Most recently it was Rathergate, but a few years ago it was the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Vivendi Universal Games is suing Valve to prevent distribution over Steam. Considering how many people will be downloading or have already downloaded over Steam, it's no surprise. VUG is getting very very little out of this deal with Valve getting almost everything. VUG will do anything it can to prevent Steam distribution, since the dispute is over tens of millions of dollars in potential sales. Gamers are going to buy the game anyways, another 3-6 months or whatever it takes is not going to drastically hurt sales.
Bottom line: HL2 is going to be delayed until this is resolved.
There is actually a legal demo of Doom 3 on bit torrent.
1) Han shoots first.
2) Lucas destroyed my childhood.
3) Lucas eats babies.
Google was pissed at third-party tools which check emails. Now I wonder what Google is going to think of a program or script which uses the Gmail email directory as a sort of web-hosting deal. I'm not too optimistic about Google's response. :-(
Yes, you're right: I meant to compare OpenGL and Direct3d. But you know what I mean. :-)
What are you talking about? OS X has native support for OpenGL capability. It just so happens that some desktop graphics functions such as windows are offloaded to the GPU. OpenGL is the equivalent of DirectX. In fact, now that the ARB finally made a decision on shading languages, OpenGL's OGSL is superior to what Microsoft has to offer.
It's just that Microsoft is finally catching up with Apple in [b]using[/b] GPU functions to control more than just games.
1. Everything in Doom 3 is rendered in real-time.
2. The NPCs look as good as the Doom marine as you are looking at them more than you are looking at yourself in the mirror.
Perhaps you should be comparing unified lighting versus non-unified lighting!
have you seen the facial detail and animation?
Actually, yes I have. It is almost as good as the Doom 3 facial animations. But I would certainly say the facial geometry of the HL2 models is significantly worse than the models for Doom 3. Not only that, but the unified lighthing system for Doom 3 accentuates the geometry making the faces incredibly lifelike.
Doom 3 face screenshot
Half-life 2 face screenshot
Doom 3 certainly blows HL2 out of the water, and HL2 hasn't even been released yet. And Carmack is already working on Doom 3 engine updates, some of which will significantly help in texturing skin to make people look as close to a photograph as you can get with this technology. Non-unified lighting will significantly hurt HL2 in the "engine war" if you can call it that. Pasted textures on low-geometry faces is not going to cut it, especially when directly comparing it to Doom 3.
Ah, good ole Pulmbium.
It's actually Plumbum. It's from the latin "plumbum, plumbi" meaning lead. They had it back in the time of the Roman empire and it was quite popular and used widely.
IAmNotALawyer, but I believe there are some circumstances such protection can be breached. Of course, since it doesn't look like 321 studios had major liabilites when they were shut down (since the MPAA mainly sought the injunction, not damages), they may be able to get away with it.
The circumstances in which it can be breached is if both corporations do not act like corporations, ie they do not file the correct documents, take minutes for meetings, etc. It is not known whether these are corporations or LLCs. LLCs have much stronger protections and can actually be used like a proxy for business.
Not so damn clever; more like damn careless. As was mentioned a while back on The Register, this "3rd party" site lists in its whois records that it is administered by a person of the same name as the whois administrative contact for the 123copydvd.com records. "Gee, whaddacoiinkidink, Boss!" IAmNotAJudge, but if I was, I'd probably consider that prima facia evidence to support a major fishing expidition during discovery.
That Register article is interesting, but I did my own WHOIS on both domain names, and it turns out that www.123copydvd.com is registered in the US to www.123copydvd.com. The hosting service is NetworkSolutions. http://www.booyakasha.biz/ is registered in Gibraltar to an unknown individual in that country, and the hosting service is also NetworkSolutions.
As far as the courts are concerned, the two websites are separated. One is registered by the 123 Copy DVD, and the other is registered to an actual 3rd party in Gibraltar. Of course we can surmise that it isn't really a 3rd party, but can you prove it? Not likely. This again is besides the point: 123 Copy DVD is not selling a product which violates copy protection. But it can be modified to do so. A computer by HP can be used to violate copy protection. Should HP be sued?
321 Studios closed up shop most likely to get off that sinking ship onto a nice and clean boat. One which is free from lawsuit liability, as shown here.
I'm thinking if I'm them... My company's last dying breath is to release the source code to the public domain or as a GPL application.
:-) As I noted above, 321 Studios formed a new company called 123 Copy DVD which features the exact same program minus the DE-CSS feature. Their website features a direct link to a "3rd Party Plugin" site: http://www.booyakasha.biz/. The new company is seemingly free from any lawsuits about DMCA violations.
:-D
You're not thinking like a corporation!
Why release it GPL when you can transfer the assets and milk the product from a Bastard Company?
If you go to the website for the Bastard company, http://www.123copydvd.com/, you will notice that the "company" is offering the exact same program. What 321 Studios has effectively done is known as "asset protection", where they branch off a company into a separate Corporation or Limited-liability corporation (LLC) that is untouchable if the prior company is sued and run out of business. 321 studios is still alive, just in another form. I have purchased their 123 copy DVD software, and it is almost identical to the 321 Studios DVD X Copy software.
If you wish to see how damn clever they are, they do not actually include de-cryption software in the product. They do however link directly to a "3rd Party Plugin" site which features a downloadable plug-in which works exclusively with 123 copy DVD.
Talk about legal maneuvering!