Interestingly, I prefer the less accurate controls on consoles for first person shooters. I can't compete on the PC, because my dexterity limits me before the mouse does. On consoles, it's the other way around: the highly dextrous players are limited by the thumb-sticks (somewhat), and my dexterity is enough to keep up with the less accurate controls.
Check all incoming chunks against a hash, and request that hash value from all peers. Original hash values are stored in the original torrent. Ignore the clients that don't match the hash values.
Thwarting piracy is impossible. You need to adapt. Embrace the Internet.
The theory of Creation clearly indicates a mature universe being brought into existence almost instantaneously (six days). When I say "mature", I mean that life forms were fully developed, and light from the stars had already reached earth. This created world appeared fully mature, in every way. Therefore, scientific dating methods are not a threat to this theory.
If you believe in Creation, you should have no problem believing that God created fossils and what not to appear "old", just like he created everything else to have apparent age.
This very well may be the last optical format war. By the time there is need for a new one, the net should be fast enough, and availability should be ubiquitous.
A live net uplink is also the foundation for the best DRM possible, by the way.
I still do not understand why they do not simply upgrade existing DVD players to decode MPEG-4 AVC content, and continue to use the exact same physical DVD media. With superior compression codecs, HDTV can be offered now with existing hardware and manufacturing processes.
Dual Layer DVD has 8.5GB capacity. I've seen 1080p video using WMV at about 8.4Mb/s bitrate. If you do the math, you'll see that you can store about 2.3 hours of 1080p video on a standard DL-DVD.
Keep in mind that not only is the media capacity being upgraded significantly, but MPEG-4 AVC is far, far beyond MPEG-2 (used on todays DVDs) in quality and efficiency.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just keep the old DVD fabrication process and upgrade the codecs? I'm all for higher capacity optical storage, but I don't understand the motivation for this move. It has to be more expensive to produce HD/BluRay discs. Perhaps someone else has some insight.
(I'm not certain that 8.4Mb/s is a high quality bitrate for 1080p. Anyone?)
In my opinion, storage capacity is not even remotely related to game quality. Software takes up very little space generally, so all that extra capacity goes to either textures, videos, or audio.
Video and audio compression has come a long way, with AVC doubling the compression of standard MPEG-4, and AAC doing the same or more for audio. Many games make use of their own rendering engine and scripting for in-game cinematics now, such as Halo.
As far as textures go, yes higher detail is better, but a Dual Layer DVD is nothing to disregard. Doom 3, Half-Life 2, and Far Cry all look gorgeous, run at HDTV resolutions today (1024x768 is higher than 720p), and easily fit on one DL-DVD.
If a game really really needs that extra space there are other options as well. Content could be installed onto the optional Xbox HD, or streamed from the Internet or a local PC. You could also have the user swap out discs. That never stopped me from playing Space Quest 3!
In my opinion, it's not about the money the illegal distributors are collecting. It's about the money lost when we errr I mean ummm other people download the content;)
If true, they should go after the releasers.
And damn it if the media companies would just get with the century and offer me a way to download the content I want for $$$, then I would sign up.
This is just another example of politicians that do not understand software. Allow me to explain:
When you write software, inevitably certain "code paths" become unused as you modify the code (fix bugs, add functionality, refactor). In fact, we in the software industry have "code coverage" tools that help us find these unused or little used code paths, usually for testing purposes.
Now apparently one of the (many) pervs at Rock Star wrote these mini-sex games, and then disabled the code path to them instead of removing the code entirely. In English, this means that no form of user input or system state would ever allow this code to execute: it's dead code. Virtually all software has dead code.
So, there the code sits on all our computers, but it is impossible to be executed... until some "hacker" discovers it, and modifies the original code to enable it.
How can a company be held responsible for their code if it was modified by a completely seperate entity?!
I admit, it would have been wise for Rockstar to remove these code paths instead of just not calling into them, but at least they made the decision to disable them. That means that they agree with Senator Clinton that this type of content should NOT be in the hands of our youth.
Rockstar disabled the sex games, hackers enabled it. Go after the hackers, not the responsible gaming company (that submitted to standardized ratings process).
I like Gmail because of the "perceived performance" of the web interface. The brilliant developers at Google did a lot to eliminate round trips to the server for common tasks.
Want to reply to a message? Instead of requesting a "Compose" page from the server, Gmail just instantly snaps open a hidden message editor. There are quite a few other instances where round tripping appears to have been eliminated.
It's the same with Google Maps. I use them for their user interface, which blows away any other mapping website at the moment. Smooth scrolling and background image loading make this site function with all the performance of a client side application.
From the article: --7.5 Times the size of the Earth --700 degrees Fahrenheit
Apparently the "common" trait it that it is a "rocky/terrestrial" planet. Even if this is rare, I don't see how this makes it earthlike.
The term "earthlike" is subjective, and is why I asked the question. My post was not intended as a troll; I was truely curious since this is not my area of expertise.
One of my co-workers from China told me a story from his youth. Another young man in his neighborhood stole a woman's purse, threatening her with a knife (he did not harm her physically). He was arrested and executed immediately.
How is one executed in China? One bullet in the back of the head, and they send your family a bill for the bullet. No joke.
Human rights sucks in China. They have little value for life. If they don't value their own citizens, I doubt they'd very much value anyone else's life either.
If, in moving to the "Intel" platform, Apple would choose to make their OS compile for AMD only, they would make Intel chips incompatible for once, and encourage OEM's to consider AMD more seriously for compatibility's sake (i.e. "Supports MacOS X!" logos on competitors marketing.)
Make compatibility a competitive point, and make Intel incompatible by being a super- and not a sub-architecture.
Properly factoring your code is a heavily front weighted investment that can pay off big in the long run, by enhancing reuse, easing maintenance, and making changing requirements easier to implement.
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Interestingly, I prefer the less accurate controls on consoles for first person shooters. I can't compete on the PC, because my dexterity limits me before the mouse does. On consoles, it's the other way around: the highly dextrous players are limited by the thumb-sticks (somewhat), and my dexterity is enough to keep up with the less accurate controls.
Check all incoming chunks against a hash, and request that hash value from all peers. Original hash values are stored in the original torrent. Ignore the clients that don't match the hash values.
Thwarting piracy is impossible. You need to adapt. Embrace the Internet.
It only takes one playback to rip it. Cheaper rips.
The theory of Creation clearly indicates a mature universe being brought into existence almost instantaneously (six days). When I say "mature", I mean that life forms were fully developed, and light from the stars had already reached earth. This created world appeared fully mature, in every way. Therefore, scientific dating methods are not a threat to this theory. If you believe in Creation, you should have no problem believing that God created fossils and what not to appear "old", just like he created everything else to have apparent age.
This very well may be the last optical format war. By the time there is need for a new one, the net should be fast enough, and availability should be ubiquitous.
A live net uplink is also the foundation for the best DRM possible, by the way.
I wonder how many miles per cat he gets...
Real Alternative
:) And uninstall official Real Player first.
Media Player Connectivity (Firefox Plugin)
Enjoy
I still do not understand why they do not simply upgrade existing DVD players to decode MPEG-4 AVC content, and continue to use the exact same physical DVD media. With superior compression codecs, HDTV can be offered now with existing hardware and manufacturing processes.
I'm experiencing 3D visuals, subtle smells, and high fidelity audio right now. And it's mobile!
You've just defined the problem.
Dual Layer DVD has 8.5GB capacity. I've seen 1080p video using WMV at about 8.4Mb/s bitrate. If you do the math, you'll see that you can store about 2.3 hours of 1080p video on a standard DL-DVD.
Keep in mind that not only is the media capacity being upgraded significantly, but MPEG-4 AVC is far, far beyond MPEG-2 (used on todays DVDs) in quality and efficiency.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just keep the old DVD fabrication process and upgrade the codecs? I'm all for higher capacity optical storage, but I don't understand the motivation for this move. It has to be more expensive to produce HD/BluRay discs. Perhaps someone else has some insight.
(I'm not certain that 8.4Mb/s is a high quality bitrate for 1080p. Anyone?)
Video and audio compression has come a long way, with AVC doubling the compression of standard MPEG-4, and AAC doing the same or more for audio. Many games make use of their own rendering engine and scripting for in-game cinematics now, such as Halo.
As far as textures go, yes higher detail is better, but a Dual Layer DVD is nothing to disregard. Doom 3, Half-Life 2, and Far Cry all look gorgeous, run at HDTV resolutions today (1024x768 is higher than 720p), and easily fit on one DL-DVD.
If a game really really needs that extra space there are other options as well. Content could be installed onto the optional Xbox HD, or streamed from the Internet or a local PC. You could also have the user swap out discs. That never stopped me from playing Space Quest 3!
Peace...
In my opinion, it's not about the money the illegal distributors are collecting. It's about the money lost when we errr I mean ummm other people download the content ;)
If true, they should go after the releasers.
And damn it if the media companies would just get with the century and offer me a way to download the content I want for $$$, then I would sign up.
I'm certain they have priorities.
Do you really want the FBI to allocate 100% of their resources to fighting terrorism and ignore everything else?
(sigh)
This is just another example of politicians that do not understand software. Allow me to explain:
When you write software, inevitably certain "code paths" become unused as you modify the code (fix bugs, add functionality, refactor). In fact, we in the software industry have "code coverage" tools that help us find these unused or little used code paths, usually for testing purposes.
Now apparently one of the (many) pervs at Rock Star wrote these mini-sex games, and then disabled the code path to them instead of removing the code entirely. In English, this means that no form of user input or system state would ever allow this code to execute: it's dead code. Virtually all software has dead code.
So, there the code sits on all our computers, but it is impossible to be executed... until some "hacker" discovers it, and modifies the original code to enable it.
How can a company be held responsible for their code if it was modified by a completely seperate entity?!
I admit, it would have been wise for Rockstar to remove these code paths instead of just not calling into them, but at least they made the decision to disable them. That means that they agree with Senator Clinton that this type of content should NOT be in the hands of our youth.
Rockstar disabled the sex games, hackers enabled it. Go after the hackers, not the responsible gaming company (that submitted to standardized ratings process).
Want to reply to a message? Instead of requesting a "Compose" page from the server, Gmail just instantly snaps open a hidden message editor. There are quite a few other instances where round tripping appears to have been eliminated.
It's the same with Google Maps. I use them for their user interface, which blows away any other mapping website at the moment. Smooth scrolling and background image loading make this site function with all the performance of a client side application.
~70fps at 2048x1536 (four times 1024x768, 3x movie film speed).
Anandtech Doom 3 Benchmark
Then shouldn't we be going home earlier?
From the article:
--7.5 Times the size of the Earth
--700 degrees Fahrenheit
Apparently the "common" trait it that it is a "rocky/terrestrial" planet. Even if this is rare, I don't see how this makes it earthlike.
The term "earthlike" is subjective, and is why I asked the question. My post was not intended as a troll; I was truely curious since this is not my area of expertise.
I'd appreciate a little respect as well.
What's "earthlike" about it? The fact that it is orbiting a star? Seriously, all planets fit this description.
One of my co-workers from China told me a story from his youth. Another young man in his neighborhood stole a woman's purse, threatening her with a knife (he did not harm her physically). He was arrested and executed immediately. How is one executed in China? One bullet in the back of the head, and they send your family a bill for the bullet. No joke. Human rights sucks in China. They have little value for life. If they don't value their own citizens, I doubt they'd very much value anyone else's life either.
This gives your Low Battery light a whole new meaning :)
You can copy it without decrypting it. It should be bit-identical to the original, and play in any player.
If, in moving to the "Intel" platform, Apple would choose to make their OS compile for AMD only, they would make Intel chips incompatible for once, and encourage OEM's to consider AMD more seriously for compatibility's sake (i.e. "Supports MacOS X!" logos on competitors marketing.)
Make compatibility a competitive point, and make Intel incompatible by being a super- and not a sub-architecture.
Properly factoring your code is a heavily front weighted investment that can pay off big in the long run, by enhancing reuse, easing maintenance, and making changing requirements easier to implement.