Consider this:
Everybody is forced to provide finger prints for the biometric database.
You get a truly terrible vase for Christmass from someone. You hate it so much you take it down to a charity shop. You handled it, so your fingerprints are now on it. Somebody goes and buys it. They hit somebody over the head with it and kill them. Your fingerprints are still on the broken pieces of glass.
How long will it be, with the growing pressure in terms of funding and manpower on the law enforcement agencies before this is considered sufficient proof to arrest the owner of the fingerprints?
It is a major leap down the slippery slope toward presumption of guilt.
The problem is that the hardware has gotten faster and now the developers can slack of more on their coding because 'by the time the game is released, there will be faster hardware available'. The progress in game 'speed' has nothing like kept up with the hardware speed.
How else do you explain that the likes Descent and Terminal Velocity with their full 3D features ran just fine on a 486/66, and ran perfectly on a Pentium 66 with the full textures and details cranked up?
Hardware speed has gone up by a factor of at least 50 (possibly even close to 100) since the first Pentiums were released. How come we now need this new high-end hardware to run all the new games when the technical advances have not been all that great? Original Quake worked just fine in 1024x768 on a Pentium 66. See how far you get with the recent first person shooters on hardware like that.
Bottom line - hardware has long become the replacement for the skill of developers. How else do you explain the difference in resource consumption between, say, Windows 98 and Windows XP? Does it really do sufficiently more to justify a 10 fold resource use increase?
... is the earliest implementation of this that I can remember. This was circa 1993, IIRC, i.e. in the days of Windows 3.x. I was running it on a Sun 3/260 running SunOS 4.1.1. It was a cool upgrade from Sun's standard OLWM...
I am not sure I can shout PRIOR ART loudly enough on this one...
How did you manage to not get cease & desist notices from all the sites you are searching? I run JobsMeta which has the same basic idea, and I got C&D-ed within days.
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Consider this: Everybody is forced to provide finger prints for the biometric database. You get a truly terrible vase for Christmass from someone. You hate it so much you take it down to a charity shop. You handled it, so your fingerprints are now on it. Somebody goes and buys it. They hit somebody over the head with it and kill them. Your fingerprints are still on the broken pieces of glass. How long will it be, with the growing pressure in terms of funding and manpower on the law enforcement agencies before this is considered sufficient proof to arrest the owner of the fingerprints? It is a major leap down the slippery slope toward presumption of guilt.
The problem is that the hardware has gotten faster and now the developers can slack of more on their coding because 'by the time the game is released, there will be faster hardware available'. The progress in game 'speed' has nothing like kept up with the hardware speed. How else do you explain that the likes Descent and Terminal Velocity with their full 3D features ran just fine on a 486/66, and ran perfectly on a Pentium 66 with the full textures and details cranked up? Hardware speed has gone up by a factor of at least 50 (possibly even close to 100) since the first Pentiums were released. How come we now need this new high-end hardware to run all the new games when the technical advances have not been all that great? Original Quake worked just fine in 1024x768 on a Pentium 66. See how far you get with the recent first person shooters on hardware like that. Bottom line - hardware has long become the replacement for the skill of developers. How else do you explain the difference in resource consumption between, say, Windows 98 and Windows XP? Does it really do sufficiently more to justify a 10 fold resource use increase?
You will be lining yourself up for a whole world of pain in the future. Never do business with friends and/or family.
... is the earliest implementation of this that I can remember. This was circa 1993, IIRC, i.e. in the days of Windows 3.x. I was running it on a Sun 3/260 running SunOS 4.1.1. It was a cool upgrade from Sun's standard OLWM... I am not sure I can shout PRIOR ART loudly enough on this one...
Rip the DVDs into ISO images. Store them on the big array on the server. Export the array over NFS/Samba, and mount it on the displaying machine.
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Mount the relevant ISO image using loopback.
Use your favourite DVD player program to watch it (XMMS, MPlayer).
Obviously, this is a somewhat Linux centric solution, but this is slashdot, after all.
Enjoy!
I am sure this idea came straight out of Neal Stephenson's book Snowcrash...
How did you manage to not get cease & desist notices from all the sites you are searching? I run JobsMeta which has the same basic idea, and I got C&D-ed within days.