When companies export their labor to other countries, we end up with potentially disastrous security compromises coming back our way. If only there were a law that stated that "any company working with a government contract may not have their labor outsourced to a foreign country, ally or otherwise." then Americans would have more jobs and we'd have to worry less about external threats and more about internal threats.
Considering it's a WAD file, and Doom uses WADs across every platform (from the PC to the Sega32X to the Playstation versions) I'd be willing to bet you lots of money that these wads will work just fine on the PC version.
...until you can decide on a standard! 16:9 or 16:10, or even that wonky 3:2 nonsense, until you can settle on a standard and stick with it, I'll continue to happily use my 2048x1536 CRT, which AFAIK no laptop screen has even been able to hit that resolution. It's nice never needing anti-aliasing at such a high resolution, which leaves more power for my graphics card to render polygons instead of smoothing lines. No, I do not play Crysis, as a game that needs three SLI cards to work at any decent rate must have had a still-born engine behind it, and an even more brain-dead programmer.
"G) "Random Access" - What a joke. If your target market is long-term archival, why on earth would you need that?"
Any freaking time I feel like accessing that data is random access. Jusy about *ANY* storage medium is random access, like VHS - I leave it on my shelf until I get the random urge to watch that video, then I go get it and access it.
Define 'effectively ageless' please, as I've got a vinyl and record player that still work from WAY before my grandfather was born. Your holographic technology might not even be around for 5 years or more before someone comes around and blows it away with something new.
Guess you've never built a power amp before. One bad tube or capacitor will introduce enough noise. A bad transformer can turn into a SGE and introduce so much noise you can't discern the signal from the noise floor. Let's not forget about the power inverter, which always produces some amount of noise.
It's *REALLY* hard to actually detune and keep it reliable when I'm using.06 on the high end. Sorry, in this case, pitch shifting > detuning. Granted there's a little noise added but when I'm running it thru a maxed-out death metal pedal it all sounds the same.
MIT's 'hack' came about with The Model Railroad Club back in the 50s. The term 'hack' was used to describe a useful modification to their rail system, for example, a few crossings and lights being controlled by one switch instead of several. As long as it served a useful purpose, it was considered a 'hack.'
For required reading: Stephen Levy's "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution"
The routing is done in software (as shown by the kX drivers) but all the processing is done in hardware on the EMU10K1 processor. And I do use a real recording app - Cool Edit pre-adobe buyout. It's faster than any other thing I've tried, simple and quite flexible. As for a real audio interface, point me out to one. Just talking doesn't answer my question.
The EULA is still null and void, and many courts have found an EULA to be unenforcable, especially in the state that Creative's headquarters were in - California. There's legal precedent all over.
I never use an expression pedal, and every Zoom product I played with had a rather crappy pitch-shifter to begin with. The SBLive! allowed for absolute fine-tuning by semitones, no Zoom allows for such precise pitch-shifting. The only pedal I use is my BOSS Death Metal pedal and my Cry-baby Wah pedal. Anything else was handled by the sound card.
Umm, Creative's HQ was based in California. The EULA Creative had on those driver was NULL AND VOID by California. Daniel had EVERY right to modify the software as he saw fit. I pointed this out to Creative's Lawyers, and they capitulated VERY FAST.
"how can DTS or dolby sue creative on something creative had NO PART IN DOING??"
Very fucking simple - the drivers were being posted on Creative's forums, which Creative has control over. That means that their site is distributing modified drivers that Creative has no license to distribute. It's the same principle as what comes with Child Porn on a network - if you can control what goes on inside your network, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE AND LIABLE.
Explain this "Race condition" as I've never had an issue with my SBLive! 5.1 under a dual processor system running W2K Pro. Everything stayed in sync with rather low latency using their default drivers in Cool Edit. Never have I had a problem.
The card in my system will be the LAST Creative product I own, which is a shame since I use it's pitch-shifting capabilities for my guitar (no need to downtune) and the other effects came in handy for weird-sounding side projects.
Does anyone know of any other company that doesn't use Creative hardware or chipsets in their sound cards where I can plug my guitar in and have access to pitch-shifting, chorus, flange, auto-wah, like the old SBLive! 5.1 had in their EAX control panel?
Nice story - but for those of us who want to know - what did you do to get the fraud exposed and the perpetrator arrested? Just how did you get everything handled and your name cleared?
I don't think that's true. I have a slipstreamed XP/SP2 disc, and the actual Pre-SP1 install XP disc. When asked for the disc for updates, I use the real disc, not the slipstreamed one. I've never had an issue, either in XP or XPx64.
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When companies export their labor to other countries, we end up with potentially disastrous security compromises coming back our way. If only there were a law that stated that "any company working with a government contract may not have their labor outsourced to a foreign country, ally or otherwise." then Americans would have more jobs and we'd have to worry less about external threats and more about internal threats.
Considering it's a WAD file, and Doom uses WADs across every platform (from the PC to the Sega32X to the Playstation versions) I'd be willing to bet you lots of money that these wads will work just fine on the PC version.
...until you can decide on a standard! 16:9 or 16:10, or even that wonky 3:2 nonsense, until you can settle on a standard and stick with it, I'll continue to happily use my 2048x1536 CRT, which AFAIK no laptop screen has even been able to hit that resolution. It's nice never needing anti-aliasing at such a high resolution, which leaves more power for my graphics card to render polygons instead of smoothing lines. No, I do not play Crysis, as a game that needs three SLI cards to work at any decent rate must have had a still-born engine behind it, and an even more brain-dead programmer.
"G) "Random Access" - What a joke. If your target market is long-term archival, why on earth would you need that?" Any freaking time I feel like accessing that data is random access. Jusy about *ANY* storage medium is random access, like VHS - I leave it on my shelf until I get the random urge to watch that video, then I go get it and access it.
Define 'effectively ageless' please, as I've got a vinyl and record player that still work from WAY before my grandfather was born. Your holographic technology might not even be around for 5 years or more before someone comes around and blows it away with something new.
Guess you've never built a power amp before. One bad tube or capacitor will introduce enough noise. A bad transformer can turn into a SGE and introduce so much noise you can't discern the signal from the noise floor. Let's not forget about the power inverter, which always produces some amount of noise.
So move them from the noisy components of a computer, and build it right on top of the noisy components of a power amplifier?
You are an anonymous moron. Ever hear of Driverguide.com before?
No source needed - Clean-room reverse engineering has been ruled legal many times over. Daniel did exactly this.
It's more like playing a guitar using the thinnest monofilament fishing line you can possibly imagine. I have the strings custom-made by GHS. .06-.36
It's *REALLY* hard to actually detune and keep it reliable when I'm using .06 on the high end. Sorry, in this case, pitch shifting > detuning. Granted there's a little noise added but when I'm running it thru a maxed-out death metal pedal it all sounds the same.
MIT's 'hack' came about with The Model Railroad Club back in the 50s. The term 'hack' was used to describe a useful modification to their rail system, for example, a few crossings and lights being controlled by one switch instead of several. As long as it served a useful purpose, it was considered a 'hack.'
For required reading: Stephen Levy's "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution"
The routing is done in software (as shown by the kX drivers) but all the processing is done in hardware on the EMU10K1 processor. And I do use a real recording app - Cool Edit pre-adobe buyout. It's faster than any other thing I've tried, simple and quite flexible. As for a real audio interface, point me out to one. Just talking doesn't answer my question.
Sometimes it takes an overreaction to get the appropriate response from an adversary.
Well, it supports EAX 2.0, so it might have Creative hardware (I think EAX 3 and higher is software and not hardware-based)
The EULA is still null and void, and many courts have found an EULA to be unenforcable, especially in the state that Creative's headquarters were in - California. There's legal precedent all over.
I never use an expression pedal, and every Zoom product I played with had a rather crappy pitch-shifter to begin with. The SBLive! allowed for absolute fine-tuning by semitones, no Zoom allows for such precise pitch-shifting. The only pedal I use is my BOSS Death Metal pedal and my Cry-baby Wah pedal. Anything else was handled by the sound card.
Umm, Creative's HQ was based in California. The EULA Creative had on those driver was NULL AND VOID by California. Daniel had EVERY right to modify the software as he saw fit. I pointed this out to Creative's Lawyers, and they capitulated VERY FAST.
"how can DTS or dolby sue creative on something creative had NO PART IN DOING??"
Very fucking simple - the drivers were being posted on Creative's forums, which Creative has control over. That means that their site is distributing modified drivers that Creative has no license to distribute. It's the same principle as what comes with Child Porn on a network - if you can control what goes on inside your network, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE AND LIABLE.
Explain this "Race condition" as I've never had an issue with my SBLive! 5.1 under a dual processor system running W2K Pro. Everything stayed in sync with rather low latency using their default drivers in Cool Edit. Never have I had a problem.
The card in my system will be the LAST Creative product I own, which is a shame since I use it's pitch-shifting capabilities for my guitar (no need to downtune) and the other effects came in handy for weird-sounding side projects.
Does anyone know of any other company that doesn't use Creative hardware or chipsets in their sound cards where I can plug my guitar in and have access to pitch-shifting, chorus, flange, auto-wah, like the old SBLive! 5.1 had in their EAX control panel?
I'm surprised nobody's bothered tagging this 'beatingadeadhorse'
Nice story - but for those of us who want to know - what did you do to get the fraud exposed and the perpetrator arrested? Just how did you get everything handled and your name cleared?
I don't think that's true. I have a slipstreamed XP/SP2 disc, and the actual Pre-SP1 install XP disc. When asked for the disc for updates, I use the real disc, not the slipstreamed one. I've never had an issue, either in XP or XPx64.
Patches needed afterwards? Guess you've never heard of slipstreaming.