I would be interested to see how well that defense would do in court - I didn't want to buy the CD, cause I didn't want to risk having my computer's security compromised.
why not put Xbox compatability into Vista, and/or Media Center
for one thing, the DRM on xbox games makes this pretty much impossible. Ever tried putting an xbox game in your PC? Your dvd player will open, and the best you'll be able to see is a cool video of the xbox logo that tells you to put the disk in an xbox.
No matter how hard you try, you will not be able to see any other files on the disk. they are made inaccessable through a very novel approach - abusing the dvd layers so that the TOC can't be found (the correct TOC is on the second layer, and there is a fake TOC on the first layer that points to the movie).
At present, the only way to read xbox games is with an xbox dvd drive.
there are two reasons for this: one there is competition between ati and nvidia, where for the CPU, intel and AMD (whose CPUs are 99% compatible) dominate. Second, in a PC, graphics drivers are abstracted. In a console, abstracting the graphics driverss would kill performance too much (but would allow for easier backwards compatibility).
I read somewhere that the xbox nvidia GPU is about half as powerful as an nvidia MX440. And yet, the xbox has graphics far superior to an intel p3 @ 733mhz with an mx440. The reason for this is because every xbox is the same, and so there is no need to waste processing power with abstraction, so it can be used for other things.
If this is true, how is it possible for more than one bot to move at once? Games have to use multi-threading to a certain extent, otherwise you couldnt have much of a game.
I don't think you could even make a pac-man game without using multi-threading.
To get around the problem of trying to emulate an entire CPU, I'm expecting to see a compatability layer that will make the 360 appear in some ways like an Xbox - a sort of DirectX (Xbox) to XNA (360) layer.
ummmmm isn't there a huge difference between the processors? x86 vs PPC? You'd need a good deal of emulation to bridge that gap. The endian's are different for one.
A better analogy would be that what microsoft is doing is like getting WINE to run properly on a PPC mac (it only runs on intel at the moment)
reminds me of a time a guy at my school went to a crazy party...and the next morning his ex-girlfriend's livejournal had a photo of him pashing another guy...and no-one cared.
I only skimmed the site you linked, but can someone explain to me why a particular OS having a small market share should in itself have anything to do with whether or not you choose it?
Factors like interoperability, scalability, security, performance, and support are important. Things like the raw number, or percentage, of people using a given product should be completely irrelevant to whether or not the product is chosen.
i haven't read all of TFA, but i would assume that the deterrents also included some type of watermark of the recipient's name in the output stream, something that would stay there even with the digital-to-analog conversion and would be awfully difficult to remove.
So when disney finds these on the net, its a simple matter of decoding and looking up the watermark to find out who to nail...whereas before they had no idea who released it onto the net.
i know other posters have pointed this out, but I just wanted to clarify:
The distinction between the GPL and most software licenses is that the GPL GIVES YOU RIGHTS that you would not otherwise have, whereas most ohter licenses TAKE RIGHTS AWAY
Most laptops have a standby that does something useful - as a result, my laptop (which is used for taking notes in classes) usually goes ten to fifteen days without a reboot. I just stick it into standby mode whenever i'm not using it.
I thought about this a while back. I couldn't think of a way to solve the "i don't know the ip address" and dynamic ip problem...then I saw openid.
OpenID is not ideally suited to IM, but the idea of using an XML file on a website as your identitiy could be adapted to instant messaging fairly esaily.
One day, when I have a bit more free time, I will have another play with this idea - sort out thigns like authentication and identity checking (so that user A can confirm that user B is who he says he is)
Ever notice how when you enter your PIN # when you turn on your phone, you can still dial 911 or 112 or whatever? even without a pin? Even without a SIM card? Or how you can still dial the emergency numbers when your phone's keylock is on? I expect this would work in the same way.
i used to have a bunch of drm'ed windows media tracks on my windows box...they never ceased to annoy me. Every couple of weeks they would refuse to play and a message would pop up whenever i tried to play one...telling me that i needed to buy the track. A call to the music store managed to get it fixed a couple of times...but then they stopped doing it.
My music tastes have since shifted to something compeltely different and much better than that top40 pop crap...
but my point is: backing up drm'ed music is not easy, at least not with microsoft's drm system. Apple's may be a bit better, but, not being located in an itms-enabled country, i can't try it.
Not that it matters now though...the RIAA lost me as a customer when i got a few MP3 cds of psytrance off a friend 6 months ago
maybe my standards are a bit low, but I have no problems leaving my debian system looged into a KDE desktop for a couple of weeks at a time.
Windows XP, on the other hand, doesn't actuallly crash, but after a week it is so incredibly sluggish for me that it is unusable. The debian box, after its been running for a week, is as snappy as ever.
"...developers would swarm to Windows because of the good developer documentation and long-term support for APIs."
And other OSes don't have good developer documentation and long-term support for APIs, do they? I'm fairly certain Aplle does, and I know that linux does.
The qt documentation is one hell of a lot easier to understand than the dry technical nosense of the windows api.
For one thing, why do so many functions in the windows API have accompanying functions of the same name but with 'Ex' after their name?
You are quite clearly new here. It is not at all uncommon for sites to be slashdotted seconds after they have hit the front page, even before a single post has been made.
that stuff about database performance is pure BS. I use my 700mhz p3 256MB RAM laptop for web (php) development, and I run a mysql database on it. Stress testing shows that it can handle over 20 requests per second without breaking into a sweat
I'd say you need a masimum of 1ghz with 512mb of RAM
You really thing that the government is going to let a couple of pissy little regulations get in the way of accidentally distributing personal information? I don't think so.
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I would be interested to see how well that defense would do in court - I didn't want to buy the CD, cause I didn't want to risk having my computer's security compromised.
why not put Xbox compatability into Vista, and/or Media Center
for one thing, the DRM on xbox games makes this pretty much impossible. Ever tried putting an xbox game in your PC? Your dvd player will open, and the best you'll be able to see is a cool video of the xbox logo that tells you to put the disk in an xbox.
No matter how hard you try, you will not be able to see any other files on the disk. they are made inaccessable through a very novel approach - abusing the dvd layers so that the TOC can't be found (the correct TOC is on the second layer, and there is a fake TOC on the first layer that points to the movie).
At present, the only way to read xbox games is with an xbox dvd drive.
there are two reasons for this: one there is competition between ati and nvidia, where for the CPU, intel and AMD (whose CPUs are 99% compatible) dominate. Second, in a PC, graphics drivers are abstracted. In a console, abstracting the graphics driverss would kill performance too much (but would allow for easier backwards compatibility).
I read somewhere that the xbox nvidia GPU is about half as powerful as an nvidia MX440. And yet, the xbox has graphics far superior to an intel p3 @ 733mhz with an mx440. The reason for this is because every xbox is the same, and so there is no need to waste processing power with abstraction, so it can be used for other things.
Multi-threaded games are not really out there
If this is true, how is it possible for more than one bot to move at once? Games have to use multi-threading to a certain extent, otherwise you couldnt have much of a game.
I don't think you could even make a pac-man game without using multi-threading.
Don't waste your money on a chip - get a softmod instead. cheaper, easier, less risk, you don't even need to remove the cover.
To get around the problem of trying to emulate an entire CPU, I'm expecting to see a compatability layer that will make the 360 appear in some ways like an Xbox - a sort of DirectX (Xbox) to XNA (360) layer.
ummmmm isn't there a huge difference between the processors? x86 vs PPC? You'd need a good deal of emulation to bridge that gap. The endian's are different for one.
A better analogy would be that what microsoft is doing is like getting WINE to run properly on a PPC mac (it only runs on intel at the moment)
Is there a console-stacking-scene out there that enjoys stacking consoles on top of each other?
probably not, but i intend to start one.
reminds me of a time a guy at my school went to a crazy party...and the next morning his ex-girlfriend's livejournal had a photo of him pashing another guy...and no-one cared.
I only skimmed the site you linked, but can someone explain to me why a particular OS having a small market share should in itself have anything to do with whether or not you choose it?
Factors like interoperability, scalability, security, performance, and support are important. Things like the raw number, or percentage, of people using a given product should be completely irrelevant to whether or not the product is chosen.
i haven't read all of TFA, but i would assume that the deterrents also included some type of watermark of the recipient's name in the output stream, something that would stay there even with the digital-to-analog conversion and would be awfully difficult to remove.
So when disney finds these on the net, its a simple matter of decoding and looking up the watermark to find out who to nail...whereas before they had no idea who released it onto the net.
i know other posters have pointed this out, but I just wanted to clarify:
The distinction between the GPL and most software licenses is that the GPL GIVES YOU RIGHTS that you would not otherwise have, whereas most ohter licenses TAKE RIGHTS AWAY
Most laptops have a standby that does something useful - as a result, my laptop (which is used for taking notes in classes) usually goes ten to fifteen days without a reboot. I just stick it into standby mode whenever i'm not using it.
I thought about this a while back. I couldn't think of a way to solve the "i don't know the ip address" and dynamic ip problem...then I saw openid.
OpenID is not ideally suited to IM, but the idea of using an XML file on a website as your identitiy could be adapted to instant messaging fairly esaily.
One day, when I have a bit more free time, I will have another play with this idea - sort out thigns like authentication and identity checking (so that user A can confirm that user B is who he says he is)
Ever notice how when you enter your PIN # when you turn on your phone, you can still dial 911 or 112 or whatever? even without a pin? Even without a SIM card? Or how you can still dial the emergency numbers when your phone's keylock is on? I expect this would work in the same way.
i used to have a bunch of drm'ed windows media tracks on my windows box...they never ceased to annoy me. Every couple of weeks they would refuse to play and a message would pop up whenever i tried to play one...telling me that i needed to buy the track. A call to the music store managed to get it fixed a couple of times...but then they stopped doing it.
My music tastes have since shifted to something compeltely different and much better than that top40 pop crap...
but my point is: backing up drm'ed music is not easy, at least not with microsoft's drm system. Apple's may be a bit better, but, not being located in an itms-enabled country, i can't try it.
Not that it matters now though...the RIAA lost me as a customer when i got a few MP3 cds of psytrance off a friend 6 months ago
I'd like to see you put windows xp on a 40MB hard disk
(sorry, couldn't resist)
no i don't think so. I think that most likely it would be pretty similar to the response google is getting.
maybe my standards are a bit low, but I have no problems leaving my debian system looged into a KDE desktop for a couple of weeks at a time.
Windows XP, on the other hand, doesn't actuallly crash, but after a week it is so incredibly sluggish for me that it is unusable. The debian box, after its been running for a week, is as snappy as ever.
i hope you're right. I think you probably are.
by the way, the ASF/WMV above plays fine using vlc on linux
"...developers would swarm to Windows because of the good developer documentation and long-term support for APIs."
And other OSes don't have good developer documentation and long-term support for APIs, do they? I'm fairly certain Aplle does, and I know that linux does.
The qt documentation is one hell of a lot easier to understand than the dry technical nosense of the windows api.
For one thing, why do so many functions in the windows API have accompanying functions of the same name but with 'Ex' after their name?
i too hope this is satire - aside from the blind faith in intelligent design, I find this part particularly offensive:
"the President says that biology textbooks are horribly out of date, based on the 19th century writings of a man who wasn't even an American citizen."
So just because I'm not an American citizen, it makes my word worthless, does it? Even if its based on easily prooven science?
Grr
You are quite clearly new here. It is not at all uncommon for sites to be slashdotted seconds after they have hit the front page, even before a single post has been made.
that stuff about database performance is pure BS. I use my 700mhz p3 256MB RAM laptop for web (php) development, and I run a mysql database on it. Stress testing shows that it can handle over 20 requests per second without breaking into a sweat I'd say you need a masimum of 1ghz with 512mb of RAM
You really thing that the government is going to let a couple of pissy little regulations get in the way of accidentally distributing personal information? I don't think so.