is here, known as the FLASH graphics system. I worked closely with those folks, not on FLASH itself, but on an ancillary project to visualize various parts and parameters of the computer system (bus utilization, cache latency, etc).
Very cool stuff that's just starting to get commercialized -- this is what you'll be seeing in your GeForce 4s or whatever.
I think at this point in time, the initials AOL are more popularly known than the full name, America On Line, so I think the 'America' isn't that much of a concern. Sort of like IBM or KFC. Does any average person call those companies by their full names, anymore, or can even recall what they mean, off the top of their heads?
I think that the Macrovision is only inserted into the NTSC/PAL video output -- it inserts spurious signals in the blanking interval to mess up the gain control on VCRs, right? So wouldn't it be impossible to embed the signal into a VGA RGB signal?
If that is the case, then all you need to do is get a scan converter to convert VGA -> NTSC, and skip the Macrovision entirely.
I think that the Macrovision is only inserted into the NTSC/PAL video output -- it inserts spurious signals in the blanking interval to mess up the gain control on VCRs, right? So wouldn't it be impossible to embed the signal into a VGA RGB signal?
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If that is the case, then all you need to do is get a scan converter to convert VGA -> NTSC, and skip the Macrovision entirely.
Think of them as the old-fashioned telephone equivalent of an anonymous proxy server.
Of course, just like anonymity on the Net, it can be misused. But just like anonymity on the Net, it's something that I'm sure all of us, certainly the Slashdot-reading people, wants to make sure doesn't go away completely.
1. the big guys like Sony and Nintendo have huge economies of scale in their own manufacturing opportunities. But for the little guys, it's not so easy. The per-unit cost of manufacturing alone would probably be more than the market price of existing consoles. In my opinion, this is something that was one of the primary causes of Indrema's death.
2. And without a large number of potential buyers, commercial software companies won't develop for it. It's your classic chicken and egg situation. I could see this occupying a small niche market -- basically the people that already Linux in the first place.
3. Ultimately, without games or buyers, no one will invest money to fund the startup costs for hardware production. That's what makes getting into the hardware business significantly more challenging than the software business!
The lack of investors was what killed Indrema, when they were still a single prototype... cause you MUST have $$$ to advance beyond that.
Well, at least there is only NTSC, PAL, or SECAM, and one standard per country for TVs, nothing like the all the different resolutions, scan rates, etc in the computer world.
Do you really think that the average member of the public, upon seeing the Mastercard Columbine parody on netfunny.com, would actually believe that Mastercard was behind it?!
A troll-free, FP-free, off-topic free discussion site that covers stuff for nerds and news that matters. I've been trying to find one ever since I got net access, to no avail.
Has anyone given a thought to using VMWare or its free equivalent FreeMWare? In that case, you'd only need to virtualize the 3D hardware, and just use Windows's DirectX itself, not reimplement DirectX altogether.
Not sure how that could impact performance, though.
It was mentioned that the final part of the descent was out of range of any tracking station. What was seen on CNN was probably just a extrapolation given speed, etc.
Like a central registry of companies/individuals who have been booted off for spamming, like how police share a list of people who have been convicted for violent/sexual crimes?
This list could include name, city, state at the very least. If it weren't publicized, but only shared among ISPs, it could even include addresses, etc.
This would eliminate the move-to-another-ISP soliution that the original poster's boss proposes.
Participation among ISPs would be voluntary of course, but pretty soon, ISPs will start touting the fact that they are vigilant against harboring spammers -- it could be like a Internet "good housekeeping" seal, and bring goodwill from other legitimate customers.
The pseudorandomness of random number generation via algorithms has been a point of concern for a long time in the crypto community.
For the truly paranoid, several companys have products that generate random numbers based on the decay of a radioisotope. It doesn't get much more random than that.
albeit only in the Gates computer science building, currently. It's a WaveLAN setup, offering 10 mbps wireless Ethernet access.
A paper about our authentication scheme, which is based on our campus Kerberos infrastructure. We don't need to pre-register MAC addresses, unless some other schemes.
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Very cool stuff that's just starting to get commercialized -- this is what you'll be seeing in your GeForce 4s or whatever.
I think at this point in time, the initials AOL are more popularly known than the full name, America On Line, so I think the 'America' isn't that much of a concern. Sort of like IBM or KFC. Does any average person call those companies by their full names, anymore, or can even recall what they mean, off the top of their heads?
Walmart, the world's biggest data center (other than maybe the NSA, etc...), is about 50 TB, running on Oracle on Solaris, I believe.
Well, they banned the perfectly legal APEX DVD players with the "secret" menu, so...
CS majors not only get a lifetime email address and web page forwarding URL, we also get a shell account for life! w00t!
how this will stop bit for bit silver pressed copies again (ie, what the professional pirates have always been doing anyways?)
this article today which says that Napster is dramatically stepping up its filters, to the point of major over-filtering (ie, false positives).
If that is the case, then all you need to do is get a scan converter to convert VGA -> NTSC, and skip the Macrovision entirely.
I think that the Macrovision is only inserted into the NTSC/PAL video output -- it inserts spurious signals in the blanking interval to mess up the gain control on VCRs, right? So wouldn't it be impossible to embed the signal into a VGA RGB signal?
<P>
If that is the case, then all you need to do is get a scan converter to convert VGA -> NTSC, and skip the Macrovision entirely.
Of course, just like anonymity on the Net, it can be misused. But just like anonymity on the Net, it's something that I'm sure all of us, certainly the Slashdot-reading people, wants to make sure doesn't go away completely.
1. the big guys like Sony and Nintendo have huge economies of scale in their own manufacturing opportunities. But for the little guys, it's not so easy. The per-unit cost of manufacturing alone would probably be more than the market price of existing consoles. In my opinion, this is something that was one of the primary causes of Indrema's death.
2. And without a large number of potential buyers, commercial software companies won't develop for it. It's your classic chicken and egg situation. I could see this occupying a small niche market -- basically the people that already Linux in the first place.
3. Ultimately, without games or buyers, no one will invest money to fund the startup costs for hardware production. That's what makes getting into the hardware business significantly more challenging than the software business!
The lack of investors was what killed Indrema, when they were still a single prototype... cause you MUST have $$$ to advance beyond that.
Another article about the incident where it mentions that the passenger paid cash.
For an example of this presumptive monitoring and action taking, check out this article from ABCnews
Well, at least there is only NTSC, PAL, or SECAM, and one standard per country for TVs, nothing like the all the different resolutions, scan rates, etc in the computer world.
Do you really think that the average member of the public, upon seeing the Mastercard Columbine parody on netfunny.com, would actually believe that Mastercard was behind it?!
http://www.crashdot.org/
A troll-free, FP-free, off-topic free discussion site that covers stuff for nerds and news that matters. I've been trying to find one ever since I got net access, to no avail.
Not sure how that could impact performance, though.
Not everyone reading the story might come from a country that has Oreos sold.
It was mentioned that the final part of the descent was out of range of any tracking station. What was seen on CNN was probably just a extrapolation given speed, etc.
This list could include name, city, state at the very least. If it weren't publicized, but only shared among ISPs, it could even include addresses, etc.
This would eliminate the move-to-another-ISP soliution that the original poster's boss proposes.
Participation among ISPs would be voluntary of course, but pretty soon, ISPs will start touting the fact that they are vigilant against harboring spammers -- it could be like a Internet "good housekeeping" seal, and bring goodwill from other legitimate customers.
as the contact address for more information about the product/service being spammed. I'm sure he will love the personal, direct replies he will get. :)
For the truly paranoid, several companys have products that generate random numbers based on the decay of a radioisotope. It doesn't get much more random than that.
You can try one out on the Internet.
A paper about our authentication scheme, which is based on our campus Kerberos infrastructure. We don't need to pre-register MAC addresses, unless some other schemes.