I own a number of non-encrypted DVDs and they work perfectly in all my players (both salon DVD player and computer ones).
For those interessed in unemcrypted DVDs, they are most of the old Jackie Chan movies, the Godzilla (not the american movie, only the 5 old ones) and a promotional dvd from InsideDVD (which happens to include a multi-angle track, yummy).
It not about gender, it's not even about information. It is just pure nostalgia of the time when drawing something on a TV screen was a considered impressive. Gives a bit a perspective about how far we've come from, and makes one wonder about how far we're going to go.
OTOH, at that time, personal computers still had a "toys for boys only" social sticker on them. Stupid, but heh, we can't rewrite history. Hence the presence of such an article in a magazine which target market is men.
Actually I exchanged some mails with them and they told me their license contracts with does not allow them to release either drivers with source or register specs.
Incidentally, from a business point of view, I find signing contracts that precludes you from giving out information about your own hardware designs interesting to say the least.
It basically includes "do the work for us for free, and we will take it for us, and it won't even be stealing because the work will be ours, not yours". It is nowhere near open source, it is nowhere near fair either, and I really wonder why the people at blackdown have accepted to sign such a thing.
And this is bad for real free software because of the "why bothering writing a free java sdk, blackdown's one is good enough" effect.
It's an interesting problem, also encountered in the field of emulation (console and arcade games). There are programs which have both legal and illegal uses. For instance MAME allows you to play old arcade games if you have the corresponding copyrighted roms. It is perfectly legal to use it as a hardware behaviour documentation database (which is its main aim) or to play games you own legally. It is of course illegal to download the thousands of roms you find on the internet. Everybody knows that it is the main use of MAME, even if it isn't the main target of the developers.
So, is MAME legal, or is MAME a contributory copyright infrigement?
This case seems to me very similar. Napster can as easily be used for legal and illegal purposes. Most people use it for illegal purposes, but that does not mean it is the primary target of the developers. So the results of this suit is going to have a farther reaching impact than only mp3.
Does someone know the state of the art when it comes to eye position detection?
AFAIK, it can be done in an inexpensive way by detecting the electric field naturally existing in the eye, and that would be one hell of a pointing device, once precisely calibrated.
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Habit, I think, is the real reason. When cdrom was first up, there was no real competition. FreeBSD was infinitely better than Linux for servers. Nowadays, with linux 2.2, it's not that clear. But for now freebsd is more than good enough, and changing would surely cost them a lot without winning much if anything.
Anyone has serious benchmarks comparing the latest freebsd and linux kernels ? I think it would be interesting if done seriously, especially in the networking area.
No matter what they say, FlexLM does not use cryptography. They simply compute a hash with the license data and some vendor and product related values, then compare it for equality with the password field (with some subtleties).
BTW, RSADSI is probably the only cryptography company that had at a time proprietary cyptography systems trusted by the community (rc2 and rc4). Rivest effect, I guess.
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You're mistaken.
I own a number of non-encrypted DVDs and they work perfectly in all my players (both salon DVD player and computer ones).
For those interessed in unemcrypted DVDs, they are most of the old Jackie Chan movies, the Godzilla (not the american movie, only the 5 old ones) and a promotional dvd from InsideDVD (which happens to include a multi-angle track, yummy).
OG.
It not about gender, it's not even about information. It is just pure nostalgia of the time when drawing something on a TV screen was a considered impressive. Gives a bit a perspective about how far we've come from, and makes one wonder about how far we're going to go.
OTOH, at that time, personal computers still had a "toys for boys only" social sticker on them. Stupid, but heh, we can't rewrite history. Hence the presence of such an article in a magazine which target market is men.
OG.
Actually I exchanged some mails with them and they told me their license contracts with does not allow them to release either drivers with source or register specs.
Incidentally, from a business point of view, I find signing contracts that precludes you from giving out information about your own hardware designs interesting to say the least.
OG.
This is _not_ about money.
And yes, it _does_ matter, and it _does_ hurt me.
But I guess you are the blind one.
OG.
Your understanding is completely wrong. What you're talking about is Gosling Emacs, not XEmacs.
XEmacs is GPL, has always been GPL, and will always be GPL.
See www.xemacs.org for more history.
OG.
Which is here.
It basically includes "do the work for us for free, and we will take it for us, and it won't even be stealing because the work will be ours, not yours". It is nowhere near open source, it is nowhere near fair either, and I really wonder why the people at blackdown have accepted to sign such a thing.
And this is bad for real free software because of the "why bothering writing a free java sdk, blackdown's one is good enough" effect.
OG.
It's an interesting problem, also encountered in the field of emulation (console and arcade games). There are programs which have both legal and illegal uses. For instance MAME allows you to play old arcade games if you have the corresponding copyrighted roms. It is perfectly legal to use it as a hardware behaviour documentation database (which is its main aim) or to play games you own legally. It is of course illegal to download the thousands of roms you find on the internet. Everybody knows that it is the main use of MAME, even if it isn't the main target of the developers.
So, is MAME legal, or is MAME a contributory copyright infrigement?
This case seems to me very similar. Napster can as easily be used for legal and illegal purposes. Most people use it for illegal purposes, but that does not mean it is the primary target of the developers. So the results of this suit is going to have a farther reaching impact than only mp3.
OG.
Does someone know the state of the art when it comes to eye position detection?
AFAIK, it can be done in an inexpensive way by detecting the electric field naturally existing in the eye, and that would be one hell of a pointing device, once precisely calibrated.
OG.
Specifically nomo zilla and ncsp/aol.
OG.
Habit, I think, is the real reason. When cdrom was first up, there was no real competition. FreeBSD was infinitely better than Linux for servers. Nowadays, with linux 2.2, it's not that clear. But for now freebsd is more than good enough, and changing would surely cost them a lot without winning much if anything.
Anyone has serious benchmarks comparing the latest freebsd and linux kernels ? I think it would be interesting if done seriously, especially in the networking area.
OG.
No it wouldn't. You have access to this part of the address space only when you're in ring 0, i.e. when in kernel code.
OG.
No matter what they say, FlexLM does not use cryptography. They simply compute a hash with the license data and some vendor and product related values, then compare it for equality with the password field (with some subtleties).
BTW, RSADSI is probably the only cryptography company that had at a time proprietary cyptography systems trusted by the community (rc2 and rc4). Rivest effect, I guess.
OG.
But it was actually fixed anyway.
OG.
Date of ANSI Approval: 7/27/98
...says my electronic copy of the standard.
OG.