This is more of a raw data format as opposed to a formal spec like DVDs for DVD players. As such, it could support all sorts of things. Heck, DVDs could support HDTV signals (perhaps not a movie's worth, but a fair amount, especially with more recent encoders), but there's no spec for doing so that current players would or could understand.
The last thing military needs is bunch of Steve Gibson wannabees portscanning the military servers.
No, the last thing they need is Al Queda sympathizers accessing their systems. If the portscanners point out that their systems are susceptible, they should *fix* them.
I was feeling bad for them (As the article was shooting for) when I suddenly realized: Hey... I spend almost every waking hour next to computers. Are those toxic chemicals in my computer as well?
Yes, but you're not dipping them in other toxic chemicals to get the valuable material out of them. Your soil and air isn't contaminated from the combination of those chemicals. You're presumably in no danger of stepping on broken glass from monitors. Etc., etc. That's the difference.
Thanks to the one-up-manship that the software industry has been doing since the days of Netscape/IE betas, proper version numbering has gone down the tubes.
Part of the problem is that the "proper" versioning system is itself problematic. It's far too easy to confuse 9.0.1 with 9.1. At the company I work for, we try to come close to the "proper" system, but we always skip minor versions if they would cause confusion with bug fix release numbers.
Of course it's just as important to develop a practical means to actually deflect the asteroid away from Earth's orbit.
Only if we actually find one. If there aren't any, you don't need the deflector. If there are, then you have all the justification you need for spending massive amounts on deflection tech. So go for as much detection budget as possible first.
Then why bother putting your code under any kind of license at all?
At one point, I thought this was a bit of a weakness in the GPL. After all, if you're giving the code away, you can't be economically damaged by having someone copy it. But you can. You could be coding to support another product, and the code thief might be a competitor. You can also gain reputation from GPL code. And just because you released it GPL, doesn't mean you can't re-release your stuff under another license.
So yeah, XVID should be able to get a lawyer to subpeona records from Sigma, and collect damages.
How many people use computers where the rendering speed of any modern browser is the bottleneck rather than the network connection that is downloading the data to display?
I find that on my dev station, a PIII/1000 with 512 MB of RAM, after a while of compiling, etc. if I switch back to Mozilla, it can take quite a while to respond. Presumably it's virtual memory usage that's causing the slowdown, but a lot of other programs are much less prone to that long pause.
But I'm hopeful the mighty Mo will fix that in an upcoming version.
I suppose that depends on it. I think that if a lucrative domain name sends a letter asking for a transfer, the domain controller should be contacted.
Well, a letter *is* contact. According to the article, the guy got sex.com for five years. The big unanswered question here is, once they knew of their error, why didn't they give it back?
They want to maximize profit by charging different prices in different markets.
I don't think that's it, I think they want to maximize their profits by selling exclusive distribution rights to regional distributors for more than non-exclusive rights would sell for. Thus it really doesn't matter to the MPAA members if you get around the region coding, they've already sold the exclusive deal. It's the distributors who really care about the region cracking, and they don't have the muscle to get things done about it.
I want to get around region coding, and it's not a matter of price; I want to be able to buy things that aren't available in the U.S.
2) My countrymen. ( Most of whom still think that digital watches are a pretty neat idea. )
Don't be too down on the proles. How many people used Napster? How well did DIVX do? How effective is DVD region coding? In the U.S., few people care about the region codes -- they can get 99% of what they want first -- and in the rest of the world, multi-region players abound.
They'll put up with a lot, but eventually they'll get riled.
Yeah, and we're not on the first iteration of history repeating itself, either! At a Supercomputer Debugging Workshop in 1991 at Los Alamos National Labs, there were some people who proposed (wait for it) converting the runtime behavior of programs into sounds, as an aid to debugging them.
A few years back, Communications of the ACM also had an article about this.
It's all just a little bit of history repeating...
hope you dont allow web browsers to get through zonealarm. As it has been shown before, a program can open a URL with your default browser
That's why I've left Netscape 4 as my default browser. Anything that tries to start a URL triggers the Netscape login screen, and I just exit from that. Highly recommended...
Although mine has worked like a champ, it has slightly off colors (lots of auburn, especially), not to mention a DVD logo that shows through a lot of other signals. I couldn't find any controls to adjust the color balance.
Except I have to press play, wait for the FBI warning, wait for the intro menu script, and then press play again for the kids to actually start watching the movie. Given that I wasn't planning on watching it, that is an annoying theft of time.
In New Zealand region coding is considered a restraint of trade... couple that with educated consumers and you will find region free players are the norm.
Hmm, gorgeous country, seemingly intelligent government... got any openings for software geeks there?
Look, the "content producer" spent millions upon millions of dollars so that you can enjoy their content in your home for cheap.
No, they *earned* millions upon millions, because I (and thousands or millions of others) paid for the DVD. IF they start giving away DVDs, then I'll live with the restrictions. I don't go to a bank that gives me a lecture about not robbing them each time I go in, why should I repeatedly view an FBI warning?
Heck, I wanted to freeze the starting menu to see some detail on a DVD I was watching last night, but my Apex wouldn't do it for that section. How the frell is that doing anything for the media company, anyway?
Are any of these theaters meant for the general movie-going public or all they all attatched to educational centers?
The Maryland Science Center IMAX has shown Fantasia 2000, and I believe Beauty and the Beast. So I'm sure they'd happily show other motion pictures if the economic opportunity arose.
There are some memory considerations and interface issues that make them want to switch over.
If it's mainly the interface issues, restructure the Fortran code as a library, factoring out the interface code, and then rewrite the interface in a different language. It's not that hard to call library functions from most languages.
Very few directors film this way. James Cameron is the notable exception
The TV series Babylon 5 was filmed with framing for both wide and fullscreen aspects. Its original showing was fullscreen, later re-runs on Sci-Fi were widescreen.
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Does this new format support HDTV signals?
This is more of a raw data format as opposed to a formal spec like DVDs for DVD players. As such, it could support all sorts of things. Heck, DVDs could support HDTV signals (perhaps not a movie's worth, but a fair amount, especially with more recent encoders), but there's no spec for doing so that current players would or could understand.
The last thing military needs is bunch of Steve Gibson wannabees portscanning the military servers.
No, the last thing they need is Al Queda sympathizers accessing their systems. If the portscanners point out that their systems are susceptible, they should *fix* them.
I also feel that a limited patent system might be desireable
I think the only real limitation you need is to reduce the duration. Drop it to 5-7 years, and you would still have a decent incentive.
I was feeling bad for them (As the article was shooting for) when I suddenly realized: Hey... I spend almost every waking hour next to computers. Are those toxic chemicals in my computer as well?
Yes, but you're not dipping them in other toxic chemicals to get the valuable material out of them. Your soil and air isn't contaminated from the combination of those chemicals. You're presumably in no danger of stepping on broken glass from monitors. Etc., etc. That's the difference.
Thanks to the one-up-manship that the software industry has been doing since the days of Netscape/IE betas, proper version numbering has gone down the tubes.
Part of the problem is that the "proper" versioning system is itself problematic. It's far too easy to confuse 9.0.1 with 9.1. At the company I work for, we try to come close to the "proper" system, but we always skip minor versions if they would cause confusion with bug fix release numbers.
Still, others mangle 'em a lot worse.
Of course it's just as important to develop a practical means to actually deflect the asteroid away from Earth's orbit.
Only if we actually find one. If there aren't any, you don't need the deflector. If there are, then you have all the justification you need for spending massive amounts on deflection tech. So go for as much detection budget as possible first.
Then why bother putting your code under any kind of license at all?
At one point, I thought this was a bit of a weakness in the GPL. After all, if you're giving the code away, you can't be economically damaged by having someone copy it. But you can. You could be coding to support another product, and the code thief might be a competitor. You can also gain reputation from GPL code. And just because you released it GPL, doesn't mean you can't re-release your stuff under another license.
So yeah, XVID should be able to get a lawyer to subpeona records from Sigma, and collect damages.
how many technical people do you know that are good at thinking on their feet?
How else do you count past ten?
How many people use computers where the rendering speed of any modern browser is the bottleneck rather than the network connection that is downloading the data to display?
I find that on my dev station, a PIII/1000 with 512 MB of RAM, after a while of compiling, etc. if I switch back to Mozilla, it can take quite a while to respond. Presumably it's virtual memory usage that's causing the slowdown, but a lot of other programs are much less prone to that long pause.
But I'm hopeful the mighty Mo will fix that in an upcoming version.
I suppose that depends on it. I think that if a lucrative domain name sends a letter asking for a transfer, the domain controller should be contacted.
Well, a letter *is* contact. According to the article, the guy got sex.com for five years. The big unanswered question here is, once they knew of their error, why didn't they give it back?
They want to maximize profit by charging different prices in different markets.
I don't think that's it, I think they want to maximize their profits by selling exclusive distribution rights to regional distributors for more than non-exclusive rights would sell for. Thus it really doesn't matter to the MPAA members if you get around the region coding, they've already sold the exclusive deal. It's the distributors who really care about the region cracking, and they don't have the muscle to get things done about it.
I want to get around region coding, and it's not a matter of price; I want to be able to buy things that aren't available in the U.S.
2) My countrymen. ( Most of whom still think that digital watches are a pretty neat idea. )
Don't be too down on the proles. How many people used Napster? How well did DIVX do? How effective is DVD region coding? In the U.S., few people care about the region codes -- they can get 99% of what they want first -- and in the rest of the world, multi-region players abound.
They'll put up with a lot, but eventually they'll get riled.
Yeah, and we're not on the first iteration of history repeating itself, either! At a Supercomputer Debugging Workshop in 1991 at Los Alamos National Labs, there were some people who proposed (wait for it) converting the runtime behavior of programs into sounds, as an aid to debugging them.
A few years back, Communications of the ACM also had an article about this.
It's all just a little bit of history repeating...
Most companies actually require that employees not say anything publically that could be construed as being "from the company"
But this guy works for the government, not a company. Typically they're harder to sue.
hope you dont allow web browsers to get through zonealarm. As it has been shown before, a program can open a URL with your default browser
That's why I've left Netscape 4 as my default browser. Anything that tries to start a URL triggers the Netscape login screen, and I just exit from that. Highly recommended...
Macrovision disabled, Region free.
Although mine has worked like a champ, it has slightly off colors (lots of auburn, especially), not to mention a DVD logo that shows through a lot of other signals. I couldn't find any controls to adjust the color balance.
It won't hurt you to have to wait 30 seconds.
Except I have to press play, wait for the FBI warning, wait for the intro menu script, and then press play again for the kids to actually start watching the movie. Given that I wasn't planning on watching it, that is an annoying theft of time.
In New Zealand region coding is considered a restraint of trade... couple that with educated consumers and you will find region free players are the norm.
Hmm, gorgeous country, seemingly intelligent government... got any openings for software geeks there?
Look, the "content producer" spent millions upon millions of dollars so that you can enjoy their content in your home for cheap.
No, they *earned* millions upon millions, because I (and thousands or millions of others) paid for the DVD. IF they start giving away DVDs, then I'll live with the restrictions. I don't go to a bank that gives me a lecture about not robbing them each time I go in, why should I repeatedly view an FBI warning?
Heck, I wanted to freeze the starting menu to see some detail on a DVD I was watching last night, but my Apex wouldn't do it for that section. How the frell is that doing anything for the media company, anyway?
Are any of these theaters meant for the general movie-going public or all they all attatched to educational centers?
The Maryland Science Center IMAX has shown Fantasia 2000, and I believe Beauty and the Beast. So I'm sure they'd happily show other motion pictures if the economic opportunity arose.
How about using the Royal "we"?
In my defense let me say that I created that little DHTML Penguin trick back in 1995 as a class demo
Speaking of that web page, you write about yourself in both first and third person. Any chance of making that a little more consistent?
Oh, and do you strangle anyone who says, "You are being foolish, Dr. Jones" in a mock German accent?
There are some memory considerations and interface issues that make them want to switch over.
If it's mainly the interface issues, restructure the Fortran code as a library, factoring out the interface code, and then rewrite the interface in a different language. It's not that hard to call library functions from most languages.
Very few directors film this way. James Cameron is the notable exception
The TV series Babylon 5 was filmed with framing for both wide and fullscreen aspects. Its original showing was fullscreen, later re-runs on Sci-Fi were widescreen.
Personally, I think the solution is "the industry should have the right to track down illegal trading and sue their ass".
P.S. Can I let you in on a teeny, tiny little secret? They already do.