I don't know about your computer but on mine the printscreen function isn't exactly speedy, neither in Windows nor in Linux. I doubt 24fps or 30fps is doable with such a script. Right now DVDs can be ripped and transcoded faster than realtime.
The best solution is to crack the new encryption (worst case use brute force harnessing setiathome-style P2P networks to speed up the process), obviously.
Why would I want to it cracked (I'm not the one to crack it, I'm no cryptographer)?
- I run Linux. I should not be locked out of media I purchase over the counter? Sure, you'd argue I dual boot my system, so why not reboot to Windows? Well, I have booted Windows MAYBE three times this year, twice to pull files from my telephone and once to run OCR (since gocr and orcad suck).
- When I buy a DVD, CD, or Foo-DVD, I OWN that copy, and short of commercial redistribution of copies, I can legally do pretty much whatever I want with that media and the content, providing it is within Fair Use guidelines. Viewing on Linux is fair use. Transcoding for viewing on my crappy old iPaq is fair use. Ripping and transcoding to keep a copy on my computer's HDD is fair use. Giving copies away is a grey area and not so clear cut. Commercial distribution of those copies is right out, well outside of the realm of Fair Use.
- I run CRT monitors since LCDs atill lag behind in resolution, color purity, and contrast ratio. They may be desk estate and power hogs, but (at the high end) they're superior to LCDs in many ways at this time. I should not be forced to view content at standard definition 720x480 or 640x480 because I have a higher-end monitor which lacks DVI and therefore no HDCP. Ditto for the television I'll be buying - the one I want with a sufficiently high contrast ratio, image quality, and a plethora of inputs (and is NOT Sony) lacks HDCP. Why should I be forced to view downsampled content?
MPAA: If you do lock users out of legally-purchased content, you do so at your own demise. I for one will not purchase DRM media where the DRM cannot be stripped off and recoup my Fair Use rights to PURCHASED content (that's right, it's PURCHASED, not LICENSED, you MPAA asshats). You will be creating a pirate market the likes of which you have never imagined, because when you fuck over your LEGITIMATE paying customers, they compare the two options and see that they are better off engaging in copyright infringement than paying for a crippled product. I'll become one of those pirates the day you kill off DVD. Right now I buy, on average, anywhere from 5 to 15 DVDs a month - my collection in the last few months has quickly grown from under 150 to over 300, to the point where I can't even keep all the rips on my computer any more. I'm the kind of customer you don't want to alienate because I am a PAYING customer and I purchase a lot of movies (I hate rentals). If I download a commercial work, it's to preview it to decide whether or not I want to buy it (e.g., THX-1138, which I wasn't sure would interest me, but ended up liking so I purchased it). You'll be losing me as a customer if you follow through on this in your quest to get perpetual copyrights and eliminate fair use. In other words: Fuck you, MPAA.
Then eBay would ban Paypal, since Paypal is notorious for ripping off customers, refusing to arbitrate disputes like they're supposed to, and sit on your money for a week when you want to transfer funds to pay for a purchase. After all, it's not like eBay has a vested interest in the continued support of allowing paypal while banning the non-evil Google, right? Oh wait a second, Paypal = feeBay. Can you say anticompetitive business practice where they are leveraging a monopoly in one market segment in order to maintain dominance in another?
Actually the market has become so diluted with everyone's jumping into the RAID game (thanks to Highpoint Tech and Intel with their hybrid solutions) that it's becoming increasingly difficult to discern the true hardware RAID controllers from the hybrid models. Of course there are the companies that won't so much as touch software RAID (namely 3ware) but Promise, Koutech, and even Adaptec all are very slick with their descriptions of the controllers and make it unclear as to whether or not their products are actual RAID controllers of if they offload the processing to the CPU. If you want to give a small business (mom & pop or a larger business with a tightass PHB who sees IT as solely a cost center rather than an essential tool to keep things going) better assurance of data integrity than a single HDD will provide, and they're NOT willing to back up regularly, and obviously won't spend $300-$700 for an entry level GOOD RAID5 controller, then a hybrid solution may be all that you can offer them. Given that these controllers are being implemented on motherboards more and more now, the performance they provide has to be reasonable, without hogging the processor.
Also, when you do find a hardware controller: will it run in your board? In other words, if it's PCI, do you actually have a PCI slot to fit it? This is especially a problem in a high-end consumer box or in a lower-end workstation, where you might have one or two PCI slots and the rest are PCI-E x1 slots. Where you're likely going to have a GOOD sound card and a capture card in your legacy PCI slots, or maybe a multi-port Firewire 400 card, where is the hardware RAID controller going to live? Obviously the solution is going to be to go with an embedded solution on the motherboard, hopefully with a model that doesn't totally suck.
Not any more. With even consumer-level boards offering embeddedRAID5 and RAID 1+0/0+1 support at the $100-$150 price level, and with hard drives being uber-cheap nowadays, there is absolutely no reason you won't see an explosion of growth in the use of RAID5 in at least higher-end home and SOHO machines.
No, F1 crashes are more likely to encounter the new Red Screen of Death, which is the new Microsoft screen for those really, really, really bad crashes.
How do you categorize those who did BOTH: downloaded all the episodes AND bought the DVDs, including the monster maniac robot collection just in the hopes that more commentaries were included? (disclaimer: I haven't listened to the commentaries on that one yet)
(except when football would run overtime...then I called fox screaming cussing and yelling at them...they didnt like me)
When DIDN'T football run overtime, then has-been commentators recapping the game and THEN finally Fox would cut over to Futurama (already in progress) for the last 5-10 minutes of the episode?
Fave moments-- When I was doing Futurama we'd be recording and it was so hard to continue once because John Di Maggio couldn't stop bursting out into laugher every half hour or so. He'd get hung up on something wickedly funny from the script and it would set him off. Matt G. and David X enjoyed it even when I plunged in and started my nonsense riffing. We had to be shushed repeatedly. Then all in the room would start up at some point later when the "call-back to the joke fever" set in. It was so funny to see John in the corner of the room with his bead buried in a pillow so his thunderous guffawing couldn't be heard! Too many stories to mention...
Billy, I would love, I mean, LOVE to hear those outtakes. Do you think you could work it out with Groening and Cohen to make them available on your web site, or possibly urge them to post your antics on the new Futurama web site (which I presume will be launched) when the new series is released?
Oh come on! If you used ATI cards in the 1999-2001 timeframe, you'd practically worship their current crop of Windows drivers. They are a VAST improvement over what ATI used to pawn off on customers.
99MB here with just four tabs open and browser.sessionhistory.max_entries set to 8. It regularly reaches several hundred megabytes and hogs CPU time with heavy use. Oh and for reference sake: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060124 Firefox/1.5.0.1
I'm sure that 1.5.0.4 has improved, but this version hasn't been very painful to run. I have to kill it once or twice a day during heavy use, but most of the time it's after using web apps like ASSP (ASSP brings firefox to its knees, while Konqueror and Opera handle it just fine). To be honest, I'd use konqueror more if it had the same selection of extensions available. That's what keeps me using firefox on Linux.
Is there a usable Linux driver to accompany that card when it's released? Yeah I know I know, the core gaming market is Windows, but some Linux users DO want fast video cards.
For what it's worth most devices needed drivers installed manually on then-current devices even when Win2K was new, and the drivers that came bundled with the OS (submitted to Microsoft by third parties) often if not always lacked optimizations and features present in the driver package one could download separately from the component manufacturer.
For playing legacy games on new systems it should be an excellent choice, shouldn't it? they may be old but games like the Dommander Keen series, Doom (yeah, I know, Linux and Windows ports exist and have for some time), and many, many other older DOS games are still just as much fun to play now as they were back when they were new.
However, in the second book of Coders, 1:2-5, we find the following:
2 And BOFH called a little coder unto him, and set him in the midst of them, 3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as this emacs user, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of unix. 4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little coder, the same is greatest in the kingdom of unix. Then were there brought unto him other little coders, that he should put his hands on them, and give them emacs: and the admins rebuked them. 4 But BOFH said, Suffer little coders, and forbid them not, to come run emacs: for of such is the kingdom of unix. 5 And he compiled their emacs, and departed thence.
No it wouldn't. Despite the wealth of information available today, racists will consider people with different color skin or slightly differently shaped eyes to be less than human. There is no rationale behind it whatsoever and having a pedigree to show that say, (for the most common example) a white supremacist and Martin Luther King Jr. share common ancestors 60 or so generations back would not change their attitudes.
No, it won't shut the computer down, it will (likely) just lock you out, just like not activating Windows does. You can still access files via network ports, you just cannot log in interactively. Microsoft could implement this and quite honestly (although misleadingly) state that WGA will not shut down your computer. There is no lie there, just a lack of the WHOLE truth. What Joe Sixpack will consider "shut down" is not what Microsoft is considering "shut down." Much like their use of the term "downtime" vs. everyone else's use of the term, except in this case Microsoft is using the correct definition while the layperson does not.
the same is achieved if insightful and interesting posts get pushed up to 5, then setting the threshold to 5 or 4 will actually be useful. Who cares if racist fools and the "OMG Vista is teh suxxors!!!111!!!" or "OMG Linux suxxors!!!!1111!!!!!" is left at 1 or 0, since setting the threshold to 4 or 5 will block them out ANYHOW? We don't need such a wide dynamic range if the great posts are pushed up above the threshold.
Actually, that's not true. Like Beta Vs. VHS, DVD vs. Divx, or HD-DVD vs. BluRay you need to establish demand before the product sells. Many waited on the sidelines of DVD vs. Divx to see which would win before buying (the ones who bought Divx got stung). Why would one buy Vista for the DRM features when the new DRM is not even being offered by content providers? It's a chicken-and-egg situation.
More likely, people will buy Windows Vista for two reasons:
- Windows XP will be phased out of the market and Vista will come preinstalled on 90% of PCs
- the new GUI and Video games (this is a single reason, coming down to essentially eye candy. "Oooh, shiny!")
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I don't know about your computer but on mine the printscreen function isn't exactly speedy, neither in Windows nor in Linux. I doubt 24fps or 30fps is doable with such a script. Right now DVDs can be ripped and transcoded faster than realtime.
The best solution is to crack the new encryption (worst case use brute force harnessing setiathome-style P2P networks to speed up the process), obviously.
Why would I want to it cracked (I'm not the one to crack it, I'm no cryptographer)?
- I run Linux. I should not be locked out of media I purchase over the counter? Sure, you'd argue I dual boot my system, so why not reboot to Windows? Well, I have booted Windows MAYBE three times this year, twice to pull files from my telephone and once to run OCR (since gocr and orcad suck).
- When I buy a DVD, CD, or Foo-DVD, I OWN that copy, and short of commercial redistribution of copies, I can legally do pretty much whatever I want with that media and the content, providing it is within Fair Use guidelines. Viewing on Linux is fair use. Transcoding for viewing on my crappy old iPaq is fair use. Ripping and transcoding to keep a copy on my computer's HDD is fair use. Giving copies away is a grey area and not so clear cut. Commercial distribution of those copies is right out, well outside of the realm of Fair Use.
- I run CRT monitors since LCDs atill lag behind in resolution, color purity, and contrast ratio. They may be desk estate and power hogs, but (at the high end) they're superior to LCDs in many ways at this time. I should not be forced to view content at standard definition 720x480 or 640x480 because I have a higher-end monitor which lacks DVI and therefore no HDCP. Ditto for the television I'll be buying - the one I want with a sufficiently high contrast ratio, image quality, and a plethora of inputs (and is NOT Sony) lacks HDCP. Why should I be forced to view downsampled content?
MPAA: If you do lock users out of legally-purchased content, you do so at your own demise. I for one will not purchase DRM media where the DRM cannot be stripped off and recoup my Fair Use rights to PURCHASED content (that's right, it's PURCHASED, not LICENSED, you MPAA asshats). You will be creating a pirate market the likes of which you have never imagined, because when you fuck over your LEGITIMATE paying customers, they compare the two options and see that they are better off engaging in copyright infringement than paying for a crippled product. I'll become one of those pirates the day you kill off DVD. Right now I buy, on average, anywhere from 5 to 15 DVDs a month - my collection in the last few months has quickly grown from under 150 to over 300, to the point where I can't even keep all the rips on my computer any more. I'm the kind of customer you don't want to alienate because I am a PAYING customer and I purchase a lot of movies (I hate rentals). If I download a commercial work, it's to preview it to decide whether or not I want to buy it (e.g., THX-1138, which I wasn't sure would interest me, but ended up liking so I purchased it). You'll be losing me as a customer if you follow through on this in your quest to get perpetual copyrights and eliminate fair use. In other words: Fuck you, MPAA.
Then eBay would ban Paypal, since Paypal is notorious for ripping off customers, refusing to arbitrate disputes like they're supposed to, and sit on your money for a week when you want to transfer funds to pay for a purchase. After all, it's not like eBay has a vested interest in the continued support of allowing paypal while banning the non-evil Google, right? Oh wait a second, Paypal = feeBay. Can you say anticompetitive business practice where they are leveraging a monopoly in one market segment in order to maintain dominance in another?
That's why it's often called feeBay.
Actually the market has become so diluted with everyone's jumping into the RAID game (thanks to Highpoint Tech and Intel with their hybrid solutions) that it's becoming increasingly difficult to discern the true hardware RAID controllers from the hybrid models. Of course there are the companies that won't so much as touch software RAID (namely 3ware) but Promise, Koutech, and even Adaptec all are very slick with their descriptions of the controllers and make it unclear as to whether or not their products are actual RAID controllers of if they offload the processing to the CPU. If you want to give a small business (mom & pop or a larger business with a tightass PHB who sees IT as solely a cost center rather than an essential tool to keep things going) better assurance of data integrity than a single HDD will provide, and they're NOT willing to back up regularly, and obviously won't spend $300-$700 for an entry level GOOD RAID5 controller, then a hybrid solution may be all that you can offer them. Given that these controllers are being implemented on motherboards more and more now, the performance they provide has to be reasonable, without hogging the processor.
Also, when you do find a hardware controller: will it run in your board? In other words, if it's PCI, do you actually have a PCI slot to fit it? This is especially a problem in a high-end consumer box or in a lower-end workstation, where you might have one or two PCI slots and the rest are PCI-E x1 slots. Where you're likely going to have a GOOD sound card and a capture card in your legacy PCI slots, or maybe a multi-port Firewire 400 card, where is the hardware RAID controller going to live? Obviously the solution is going to be to go with an embedded solution on the motherboard, hopefully with a model that doesn't totally suck.
Not any more. With even consumer-level boards offering embeddedRAID5 and RAID 1+0/0+1 support at the $100-$150 price level, and with hard drives being uber-cheap nowadays, there is absolutely no reason you won't see an explosion of growth in the use of RAID5 in at least higher-end home and SOHO machines.
I'm all for profiling (in the forensic science sense), but this is simply ridiculous!
No, F1 crashes are more likely to encounter the new Red Screen of Death, which is the new Microsoft screen for those really, really, really bad crashes.
How do you categorize those who did BOTH: downloaded all the episodes AND bought the DVDs, including the monster maniac robot collection just in the hopes that more commentaries were included? (disclaimer: I haven't listened to the commentaries on that one yet)
(except when football would run overtime...then I called fox screaming cussing and yelling at them...they didnt like me)
When DIDN'T football run overtime, then has-been commentators recapping the game and THEN finally Fox would cut over to Futurama (already in progress) for the last 5-10 minutes of the episode?
Billy, I would love, I mean, LOVE to hear those outtakes. Do you think you could work it out with Groening and Cohen to make them available on your web site, or possibly urge them to post your antics on the new Futurama web site (which I presume will be launched) when the new series is released?
We should engineer all mosquitoes to be super! That way, with all mosquitoes being super, none will be super.
Next step: patent kevlar suits to wear whenever we go outdoors.
Oh come on! If you used ATI cards in the 1999-2001 timeframe, you'd practically worship their current crop of Windows drivers. They are a VAST improvement over what ATI used to pawn off on customers.
99MB here with just four tabs open and browser.sessionhistory.max_entries set to 8. It regularly reaches several hundred megabytes and hogs CPU time with heavy use. Oh and for reference sake: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060124 Firefox/1.5.0.1
I'm sure that 1.5.0.4 has improved, but this version hasn't been very painful to run. I have to kill it once or twice a day during heavy use, but most of the time it's after using web apps like ASSP (ASSP brings firefox to its knees, while Konqueror and Opera handle it just fine). To be honest, I'd use konqueror more if it had the same selection of extensions available. That's what keeps me using firefox on Linux.
Is there a usable Linux driver to accompany that card when it's released? Yeah I know I know, the core gaming market is Windows, but some Linux users DO want fast video cards.
Now, there's a string of words I'd bet you never thought you would hear in a single sentence!
For what it's worth most devices needed drivers installed manually on then-current devices even when Win2K was new, and the drivers that came bundled with the OS (submitted to Microsoft by third parties) often if not always lacked optimizations and features present in the driver package one could download separately from the component manufacturer.
;)
Nice troll though.
It was FUNNY. Try laughing. It doesn't hurt.
For playing legacy games on new systems it should be an excellent choice, shouldn't it? they may be old but games like the Dommander Keen series, Doom (yeah, I know, Linux and Windows ports exist and have for some time), and many, many other older DOS games are still just as much fun to play now as they were back when they were new.
Ah but does it not also say "edit others' files as you would have them edit yours?"
I call contradiction!
Well then, uh, we could threaten to refuse to ship DVDs and CDs to Russia? Yeah, that'll work. ;)
No it wouldn't. Despite the wealth of information available today, racists will consider people with different color skin or slightly differently shaped eyes to be less than human. There is no rationale behind it whatsoever and having a pedigree to show that say, (for the most common example) a white supremacist and Martin Luther King Jr. share common ancestors 60 or so generations back would not change their attitudes.
No, it won't shut the computer down, it will (likely) just lock you out, just like not activating Windows does. You can still access files via network ports, you just cannot log in interactively. Microsoft could implement this and quite honestly (although misleadingly) state that WGA will not shut down your computer. There is no lie there, just a lack of the WHOLE truth. What Joe Sixpack will consider "shut down" is not what Microsoft is considering "shut down." Much like their use of the term "downtime" vs. everyone else's use of the term, except in this case Microsoft is using the correct definition while the layperson does not.
That's my guess, anyhow.
the same is achieved if insightful and interesting posts get pushed up to 5, then setting the threshold to 5 or 4 will actually be useful. Who cares if racist fools and the "OMG Vista is teh suxxors!!!111!!!" or "OMG Linux suxxors!!!!1111!!!!!" is left at 1 or 0, since setting the threshold to 4 or 5 will block them out ANYHOW? We don't need such a wide dynamic range if the great posts are pushed up above the threshold.
Actually, that's not true. Like Beta Vs. VHS, DVD vs. Divx, or HD-DVD vs. BluRay you need to establish demand before the product sells. Many waited on the sidelines of DVD vs. Divx to see which would win before buying (the ones who bought Divx got stung). Why would one buy Vista for the DRM features when the new DRM is not even being offered by content providers? It's a chicken-and-egg situation.
More likely, people will buy Windows Vista for two reasons:
- Windows XP will be phased out of the market and Vista will come preinstalled on 90% of PCs
- the new GUI and Video games (this is a single reason, coming down to essentially eye candy. "Oooh, shiny!")
AFTER that, the content will come.