Microsoft is introducing a number of Digital Rights Management and content-protection features in Windows Vista, to help digital content providers, corporations, and end-users protect their data from being copied.
* PUMA: Protected User Mode Audio (PUMA) is the new User Mode Audio (UMA) audio stack. Its aim is to provide a safer (for the content publishers, that is) environment for audio playback, as well as ensuring that the enabled audio outputs are consistent with what the publisher of the protected content allows[9].
* Protected Video Path - Output Protection Management (PVP-OPM) is a technology that makes sure that the PC's video outputs have the required protection and don't allow unauthorized copying of videos or that they are turned off if such protection is not available. Microsoft has introduced this new technology because otherwise the content industry may introduce robustness rules and testing that would effectively lock out PCs from premium content, by not allowing PCs a license key for the encryption used by conditional-access systems or HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Disc[9].
* Protected Video Path - User-Accessible Bus (PVP-UAB) is similar to PVP-OPM, except that it applies encryption of premium content over the PCI Express bus.
* Rights Management Services (RMS) support, a technology that will allow corporations to apply DRM-like restrictions to corporate documents, email, and intranets to protect them from being copied, printed, or even opened by people not authorized to do so. MSN Spaces will also offer an open RMS server that home users and smaller businesses can use to extend this ability to their own documents.
...and up until a couple years ago, most people's TV sets could hardly show a difference between good VHS and DVD.
Not to mention that DVDs are a lot easier to mangle. About a 1/4 of the more popular DVDs I rent are scratched so badly that they skip scenes. A lot of it probably has to do with my cheap, ancient player, but I bet a lot of early-generation players were like this and more people faced these issues...
HL1: Scary sequences where you know monsters are slowly picking off people and annihilating the base. HL2: Less scary open outdoor sequences, more of a serious-sam game than before. (except ravenwood)
Um, for what it's worth I completely disagree. As another poster has already stated, HL2 is immensely atmospheric. Maybe 'scary' is not the right word to describe most of HL2, but 'creepy' certainly is. It seems to have that Eastern European WWII-era squalor look down perfectly, and with the Combine, the Striders, Doctor Breen's messages, plus the way zombies sometimes rise up in the distance and shamble towards you, and sometimes just pop out of nowhere, the feel of that game is incredible. Do you remember the first time the fast jumping zombie guys come at you? Among the best OMGWTFBBQ moments in all of FPS-dom.
I expect we'll see a realease right after Duke Nukem gets threaded news reader and RSS support.
Actually, I think the next step will be having Duke walk up to a PC and start a demo game of the forthcoming Duke Nukem Forever MMORPG. DNF then downloads and launches thist demo on your computer too, and you can play against Duke!
I'm glad this guy is "Former" and not current. Why does he think a beta OS is going to be any more secure than 'legacy' OSes?
I dunno, he may be on to something. But if next gen betas are good, bleeding edge alphas must be even better! Or better yet, he should build a Linux distro that monitors the source control repositories of all the software on the system and automatically fetches and builds any check-ins, to make sure you stay in the avant garde of security.
If Wal-Mart has what I want at a good price, then I'll buy it there. If not, I'll get it somewhere else.
Is price really the only issue to you as a consumer? You're not willing to pay a couple of bucks more elsewhere so that you can avoid supporting a corporation that clearly has some ethical shortcomings? (Note that this is a search for just "walmart" and there are several hits on the front page about how bad Walmart is.)
If Bob and Joe are both trying to sell me "Super Foo Bar Baz", and Bob charges $50 for it but I know he kicks puppies for fun in his spare time, and Joe charges $55 but he volunteers at the orphanage, I'm happy to spend the extra few bucks...
It's nice that the guy mentions NoScript, but why does he mention it with the web developer tools? It's a very handy general purpose extension. By the way, it's amazing to see how many web developers can't use the <noscript> tags properly (or just don't care): lots of websites just break when you turn off Javascript--no error messages, no nothing.
Check out n-Track Studio for recording (Windows only, but a great shareware program with a great maintainer) and Noteworthy Composer for composition.
n-Track is a great alternative to the home recording software big boys (Cubase, Sonar, etc.)--much cheaper than the full versions and much more powerful than the "lite" versions. You'll be doing some pretty fancy stuff before you run into limitations with n-Track.
I haven't really kept up with the world of composition software, but back when I was interested in it, Noteworthy Composer was the only program that had sensible keyboard-based input. To do anything with Finale and other programs I'd tried, I had to click to change the note duration, click to add ornamentation, click on the staff to add a note, and so on. Noteworthy Composer gives you a cursor on the staff and there are easy keyboard shortcuts for the most common actions. Pressing Enter inserts a note at the cursor, holding down Ctrl adds the note to the current chord, +/- change note duration, arrow keys do the obvious thing, and you can use alt with the arrow keys to move up/down octaves on the staff or across measures. I tried several other programs, but this interface just felt way more natural and efficient than anything else...
Semantics. You are re-defining 'forced' to exclusively mean physical force, as in assualt or violent harassment.
And you are redefining 'forced' to mean things like 'compelled' and 'pressured'. If I'm walking down the street and some guy tells me my mom wears army boots, am I "forced" to punch him in the face?
I see where you're coming from, but you can't say Raza had no choice.
I wish someday you'll be able to fight depression and see what it's like.
I'm not grandparent, but I've fought depression and know what it's like. I still don't feel all that sorry for Raza. He didn't magically become depressed because the video hit the web. It was his reaction. Abe Linoln said "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." It becomes more difficult when the whole school is making fun of you, true, but Raza became ashamed and angry. I think things would have worked out much better for him if he'd reacted differently... I do think what his schoolmates did was wrong, but "Oh noes! I've been wronged!" is not a constructive reaction...
The thing is, even with this settlement, he's hasn't overcome this. It's not clear what he gets out of it ("No one would comment yesterday about the settlement, including whether it included monetary compensation." from TFA), but it doesn't sound like he's made peace with it. He needs to be able to laugh at it to really go on with his life.
Ah. But if you are willing to go with literally 1:1 compression (as opposed to at least 1:1), you can ignore headers and just assume that all "compressed" files are just exact copies of the uncompressed files. That's what I (and probably great-grandparent) was talking about. You bring up a good point, though.
Erm, do you agree with this one? (Granted, this is something from the original article and not "Ten More...", but still.) I suppose if he's asking for admin login prompts whenever there's a permissions issue, that's not a bad idea, but he almost seems to be recommending the painfully insane "run everyone as admin" option.
BS. My parents ran ME and I run 2000, so I have a reasonable amount of experience with both. To summarize Win2k vs. WinME, all you need to look at is the number of times I've seen a blue screen:
Win2k: 0 WinME: Countless
People put down ME and praise 2k because I'm not alone in this experience. Sure, there's bells and whistles and things, but this alone should convince anyone.
Or would you like to play Gotham Racing with camera view stuck in direction of your front bumper?
GTA:VC has a viewing option where the camera becomes positioned somewhere in the direction where you're headed. It follows your car as you pass by it and keeps focusing on you as you drive away. After a moment, it switches to a new location, again where you're headed. It's not too hard to drive using this mode once you know the city, and it looks very "cinematic". Pretty damn cool...
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Of course. It's just that it's one million atomic $1 transactions.
http://www.audioforums.com/
Not to mention that DVDs are a lot easier to mangle. About a 1/4 of the more popular DVDs I rent are scratched so badly that they skip scenes. A lot of it probably has to do with my cheap, ancient player, but I bet a lot of early-generation players were like this and more people faced these issues...
"I do, you insensitive clod!" -Gordon Freeman
Um, for what it's worth I completely disagree. As another poster has already stated, HL2 is immensely atmospheric. Maybe 'scary' is not the right word to describe most of HL2, but 'creepy' certainly is. It seems to have that Eastern European WWII-era squalor look down perfectly, and with the Combine, the Striders, Doctor Breen's messages, plus the way zombies sometimes rise up in the distance and shamble towards you, and sometimes just pop out of nowhere, the feel of that game is incredible. Do you remember the first time the fast jumping zombie guys come at you? Among the best OMGWTFBBQ moments in all of FPS-dom.
Even better, they should correct it to the "proper" spelling and send people to googol.com...
Actually, I think the next step will be having Duke walk up to a PC and start a demo game of the forthcoming Duke Nukem Forever MMORPG. DNF then downloads and launches thist demo on your computer too, and you can play against Duke!
I dunno, he may be on to something. But if next gen betas are good, bleeding edge alphas must be even better! Or better yet, he should build a Linux distro that monitors the source control repositories of all the software on the system and automatically fetches and builds any check-ins, to make sure you stay in the avant garde of security.
Not to mention that Windows 2000 will be receiving security updates through 2010...
Is price really the only issue to you as a consumer? You're not willing to pay a couple of bucks more elsewhere so that you can avoid supporting a corporation that clearly has some ethical shortcomings? (Note that this is a search for just "walmart" and there are several hits on the front page about how bad Walmart is.)
If Bob and Joe are both trying to sell me "Super Foo Bar Baz", and Bob charges $50 for it but I know he kicks puppies for fun in his spare time, and Joe charges $55 but he volunteers at the orphanage, I'm happy to spend the extra few bucks...
Or just dsl. Damn Small Linux makes the first page of results right now.
It's nice that the guy mentions NoScript, but why does he mention it with the web developer tools? It's a very handy general purpose extension. By the way, it's amazing to see how many web developers can't use the <noscript> tags properly (or just don't care): lots of websites just break when you turn off Javascript--no error messages, no nothing.
Check out n-Track Studio for recording (Windows only, but a great shareware program with a great maintainer) and Noteworthy Composer for composition.
n-Track is a great alternative to the home recording software big boys (Cubase, Sonar, etc.)--much cheaper than the full versions and much more powerful than the "lite" versions. You'll be doing some pretty fancy stuff before you run into limitations with n-Track.
I haven't really kept up with the world of composition software, but back when I was interested in it, Noteworthy Composer was the only program that had sensible keyboard-based input. To do anything with Finale and other programs I'd tried, I had to click to change the note duration, click to add ornamentation, click on the staff to add a note, and so on. Noteworthy Composer gives you a cursor on the staff and there are easy keyboard shortcuts for the most common actions. Pressing Enter inserts a note at the cursor, holding down Ctrl adds the note to the current chord, +/- change note duration, arrow keys do the obvious thing, and you can use alt with the arrow keys to move up/down octaves on the staff or across measures. I tried several other programs, but this interface just felt way more natural and efficient than anything else...
And you are redefining 'forced' to mean things like 'compelled' and 'pressured'. If I'm walking down the street and some guy tells me my mom wears army boots, am I "forced" to punch him in the face?
I see where you're coming from, but you can't say Raza had no choice.
I'm not grandparent, but I've fought depression and know what it's like. I still don't feel all that sorry for Raza. He didn't magically become depressed because the video hit the web. It was his reaction. Abe Linoln said "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." It becomes more difficult when the whole school is making fun of you, true, but Raza became ashamed and angry. I think things would have worked out much better for him if he'd reacted differently... I do think what his schoolmates did was wrong, but "Oh noes! I've been wronged!" is not a constructive reaction...
The thing is, even with this settlement, he's hasn't overcome this. It's not clear what he gets out of it ("No one would comment yesterday about the settlement, including whether it included monetary compensation." from TFA), but it doesn't sound like he's made peace with it. He needs to be able to laugh at it to really go on with his life.
Ah. But if you are willing to go with literally 1:1 compression (as opposed to at least 1:1), you can ignore headers and just assume that all "compressed" files are just exact copies of the uncompressed files. That's what I (and probably great-grandparent) was talking about. You bring up a good point, though.
cp is much more efficient at this =)
I'll bite... Why is that inaccurate?
...cranium rats...
No, actually, they're mini chocolate chips (fourth down, on the left)...
Screw this high-falutin' stuff. Try the Advantage for a different take. I haven't gotten a chance to see them live yet, but the CD kicks ass.
Erm, do you agree with this one? (Granted, this is something from the original article and not "Ten More...", but still.) I suppose if he's asking for admin login prompts whenever there's a permissions issue, that's not a bad idea, but he almost seems to be recommending the painfully insane "run everyone as admin" option.
BS. My parents ran ME and I run 2000, so I have a reasonable amount of experience with both. To summarize Win2k vs. WinME, all you need to look at is the number of times I've seen a blue screen:
Win2k: 0
WinME: Countless
People put down ME and praise 2k because I'm not alone in this experience. Sure, there's bells and whistles and things, but this alone should convince anyone.
GTA:VC has a viewing option where the camera becomes positioned somewhere in the direction where you're headed. It follows your car as you pass by it and keeps focusing on you as you drive away. After a moment, it switches to a new location, again where you're headed. It's not too hard to drive using this mode once you know the city, and it looks very "cinematic". Pretty damn cool...