If one were going to do a wipe then complete reinstall then one must also remember the timestamps on the files.
In a purely theoretical sense one could set their BIOS clock back a good year or so, install there OS, move it forward a few days, install some apps, move forward a few weeks, install some more apps etc. Finally setting the bios clock back to the correct time.
I think the catch would be to not go online as cached web pages may have dates in them (like news articles).
Could anyone tell in this scenario that it was a recent install?
It is generally predicted that DirectX 10 cards will be with us in a few months (holiday season or just after).
Are sales declining because of anticipation of this? Will ATI and Nvidia be able to shift large quantities of cards over the next few months, with people like myself waiting for the next (significant) generation?
Aside: Yes, I am aware that these cards will still pack a punch in DirectX10 games, and will not be obsolete over night, but the unified shader/vertex architecture of DirectX10 seems to be a big shift in card design and will offer a lot of features to game desingers, not efficntly do-able on the odler hardware, so you may be stuck with a less good lookign rendering of a new game.
Some people have been postulating the changes to civilization that such a device would pose.
In the sci-fi book "3001" references are made to a period of human history shorty after the roll out of nuclear fusion power stations (no the fission power used today). The near limitless supply of seawater to power the reactors and the cheap reactor designs with little of no waste to dispose of resulted in very, very cheap electricity. As a result everyone consumed as much electricity as they liked and Earth started warming as a direct result of electrical heating.
Something to think about - we can still cause global warming even without the use of fuels that produce emissions.
Big Screen vs Big res is something I have been thinking of more and more of lately.
Most HD TV's
Most single mid-range graphics cards can drive that resolution fine.
However, PC monitors scale resolution with screen size (17" 1280x1024 , 24" wide 1920x1200, 32" wide huge x huge)
So, Slashdotters-
Would it not be adequate and a lot cheaper to buy a 32" HD LCD screen and a mid-range graphics card and do your gaming at approx 1280 x720 on a 32" screen for
What are the Pro's + Con's of doing this (e.g. response time, general desktop use, too low a res for modern game play?)
Maybe they should tell their secret to my local weatherman, who usually can't even get tomorrow's weather right.
Tomorrows weather you say?
I had a situation two winters ago here in MA (USA) where I checked the weather.com forecast at 8am (which said sunny all day) and by 11pm an inch of snow had already come down.
That is completely wrong in a 3 hour forecast!
Now that would not have been so bad if I hadn't just driven my rear wheel drive car to work...:-(
I read elsewhere that this 4x4 baord will only take special FX designated CPU's with new pin count and two sets of hyper transport links to support CPU-CPU and CPU-chipset comms. You will not be able to slot in a regular "enthusiast" CPU such as the present FX or X2 as there is only one hyper transport lane per CPU.
This will become a VERY expensive package with premium CPU's and a premium Motherboard.
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Which is a shame as it was a good read and very interesting (as I had not previously heard of ReactOS).
This is exactly how PC DVD software playback protection was first defeated when DVD's came out. I remember hacks of Playback software that automated pausing the film and doing single frame advances with screen captures.
The resulting frames where then sent straight to an encoder so a compressed version could be generated.
The sound would be interleaved later with the compressed video AVI container by playing back the movie at normal speed and capturing the sound by looping the line out of the sound card into the line in and using a standard audio recorder program.
This was in the few months before the DVD encryption was cracked allowing easier / "pure" digital capture.
It's is very funny to see after years of development that a work around that was used ~10 years ago on PC DVD playback software still works today.
Yes there will be artifacts and noise fromt his method but if you are taking the 20+ Gb MPEG2/4 HD source and compressing to ~4 Gb of MPEG4 then you would be hard pressed to tell which were artifacts of this process compared to a "pure" digital trans-code / conversion.
And everyone has been complaining about the limited number of write cycles of flash memory.
Looks like the technogies are reach equivalence by making Hard drives worse !
Patent Invlaid - Prior Art - Judge Dread Movie !
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Encrypted Ammunition?
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· Score: 1
This Patent is going to be invalid.
There is Prior Art in the form of a video that goes into great detail how a system like this could work.
It is the Judge Dread Movie staring sylvester stallone.
Int he movie - the guns used by the "Judges" could only be fired by registered judges as they did a DNA check of the skin on the hand of the holder - and would only activate the gun/munitions when a legitimate DNA was presented as the "key".
In addition , different levels of seniority allowed different features of the gun to be unlocked. (single shot, automatic, explosive rounds etc. etc.)
Isn't it cool when an (aweful) scifi movie predicts technology first?
In addition the gun automatically packaged a sample of the Shooters DNA into every round fired so the bullets could be traced back to the person who pulled the trigger, not just the gun.
I see on the Maxthon web site a related product called "Maxthon Access". Does anyone have any addtional information/reviews about this product?
It looks like it offers "PC Anywhere" features, but the Maxthin browser is a required component (?).
Has anyone used it and could comment?
Is it safe / secure?
Any (known) spyware / back doors to it?
Fixing chipset supply will allow Intel to win back share - AMD did not have a better product. Intel decided not to bid on all the business because it knew it could not supply enough. But retail cost more share than it had anticipated. Intel mobo supply to the channel also showed a shortfall last year, but it can now meet channel demand, he said. The third party ATI chipset helped fix the channel demand , he said. Channel customers still have a desire to do business with Intel and when there is competitive product, market share will come back.
I have seen other news articles pointing that intel is in Bed with ATi at the moment for chipset supply, a situation it is a little uncomfortable about. Further googling will turn them up.
CHIP COMPANY INTEL has vowed to restructure the company, with CEO Paul Otellini saying he will do so after a comprehensive 90 day analysis.
The new products Intel is introducing will prompt its customers to "burn off" the stock. He said Intel will clear out the excess inventory of several million units during Q2.
Intel lost market share in the channel, in the retail market, and in the servers. The chipset supply impacted it in retail. During 2005 Intel allocated its chipsets, supplying the server market from the top, prioritised its corporate desktop supplies and prioritised its mobile chipset supply Its roadmap in servers was inadequate because AMD had a better product, said Chandrasekher.
He said that Intel will win back market share on chipset supply in the future. It had recruited third party vendors (read ATI) to fulfil the shortfall. The move to 65 nanometres will ease its shortages, he said
this merger would throtle Intels sales because...
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... Intel is very dependant on ATI at the moment to supply intel CPU compatible chip-sets/Motherboards to help Intel move it's stock pile of CPUs. As Intel has a chip-set shortage which means it can not shift CPU's as fast as it would likes. (almost every new CPU requires a new MB).
*IF* AMD bought ATI they could immediately can the ATI Intel motherboard line and deliver a big blow to intel's profitability for the next quarter or two.
The new important thing for this sensor (to consumers anyway) is that it can capture 2mp at 30fps.
It has been designed with capturing full motion 720p video in mind.
This is great- I have long wondered why, as camera mega pixels sizes go up, we are still stuck with VGA video. I would love a digital camera still that can double as a HD video camera.
I have read ona few sites for several months that there is a shortage of the "Driver" chip for HDMI output. that is why we have seen no graphics cards from ATI or Nvidia with HDMI out and now it is occurring to me that is why the xbox360 launched without HDMI and their HD-DVD add on will also not have HDMI out (I think?).
The HDMi chip shortage must be pretty serious, I can now see why Sony did a model without it, or else there might only be 10's or 100's of thousands of console available at launch.
I hope I am not being desnse here, but if OS X was open-sourced, then couldn't enterprising Linux / OSX experts make distros for any pc hardware? (scrap that - ANY micropocessor platform? Sparc? ARM? PS3 ?)
1) People complain that XP and previous versions of windows have an "ugly" look
2) People are generally welcoming of the Aero look'n'feel as they believe it is catching up with OS X and will be pleasing.
3) A LOT of people complained when (early versions of) Microsoft's Validation software decided to phone home to register at really inconvenient times (with no access to internet) and then completely locked users out of their PC's.
This proposal from MS neatly avoids the repeat of the catastrophe of (3), and encourages people who believe in (2) to purchase their software.
People who do not believe in (2) also seem to be people who stand by (1).....There is no pleasing them.... They will just carry on pirating the software, using it every day , yet complain the software looks terrible.
I see a huge backlash from companies when they start catching their employees watching these shows at work.
An easy to use access system (a web page) will mean anyone will be able to find and watch them with no software install (p2p etc.). This could be hard for IT administrators to stamp out.
I gaze into my crystal ball.... ....and see Slashdot headlines of "Study claims Billions of lost revenue weekly from staff watching streaming TV at work"
Slashdot Mirror
If one were going to do a wipe then complete reinstall then one must also remember the timestamps on the files.
In a purely theoretical sense one could set their BIOS clock back a good year or so, install there OS, move it forward a few days, install some apps, move forward a few weeks, install some more apps etc. Finally setting the bios clock back to the correct time.
I think the catch would be to not go online as cached web pages may have dates in them (like news articles).
Could anyone tell in this scenario that it was a recent install?
It is generally predicted that DirectX 10 cards will be with us in a few months (holiday season or just after).
Are sales declining because of anticipation of this?
Will ATI and Nvidia be able to shift large quantities of cards over the next few months, with people like myself waiting for the next (significant) generation?
Aside: Yes, I am aware that these cards will still pack a punch in DirectX10 games, and will not be obsolete over night, but the unified shader/vertex architecture of DirectX10 seems to be a big shift in card design and will offer a lot of features to game desingers, not efficntly do-able on the odler hardware, so you may be stuck with a less good lookign rendering of a new game.
Some people have been postulating the changes to civilization that such a device would pose.
In the sci-fi book "3001" references are made to a period of human history shorty after the roll out of nuclear fusion power stations (no the fission power used today). The near limitless supply of seawater to power the reactors and the cheap reactor designs with little of no waste to dispose of resulted in very, very cheap electricity. As a result everyone consumed as much electricity as they liked and Earth started warming as a direct result of electrical heating.
Something to think about - we can still cause global warming even without the use of fuels that produce emissions.
Big Screen vs Big res is something I have been thinking of more and more of lately.
Most HD TV's
Most single mid-range graphics cards can drive that resolution fine.
However, PC monitors scale resolution with screen size (17" 1280x1024 , 24" wide 1920x1200, 32" wide huge x huge)
So, Slashdotters-
Would it not be adequate and a lot cheaper to buy a 32" HD LCD screen and a mid-range graphics card and do your gaming at approx 1280 x720 on a 32" screen for
What are the Pro's + Con's of doing this (e.g. response time, general desktop use, too low a res for modern game play?)
Tomorrows weather you say?
I had a situation two winters ago here in MA (USA) where I checked the weather.com forecast at 8am (which said sunny all day) and by 11pm an inch of snow had already come down.
That is completely wrong in a 3 hour forecast!
Now that would not have been so bad if I hadn't just driven my rear wheel drive car to work...
How long will MS allow you to download the BSOD emulating screen saver?
h tmlBlueScreen Screen Saver
:-)
BlueScreen Screen Saver
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/BlueScreen.
I read elsewhere that this 4x4 baord will only take special FX designated CPU's with new pin count and two sets of hyper transport links to support CPU-CPU and CPU-chipset comms. You will not be able to slot in a regular "enthusiast" CPU such as the present FX or X2 as there is only one hyper transport lane per CPU.
This will become a VERY expensive package with premium CPU's and a premium Motherboard.
You woudl think that the hosting company would put adverts on there error pages. Think of all that extra money they could get.
..... :-)
hang on - that is actually a very good idea
Jumping from page 3 to 4 of the article I got
This Account Has Been Suspended
Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.
BR Which is a shame as it was a good read and very interesting (as I had not previously heard of ReactOS).
This is exactly how PC DVD software playback protection was first defeated when DVD's came out. I remember hacks of Playback software that automated pausing the film and doing single frame advances with screen captures.
The resulting frames where then sent straight to an encoder so a compressed version could be generated.
The sound would be interleaved later with the compressed video AVI container by playing back the movie at normal speed and capturing the sound by looping the line out of the sound card into the line in and using a standard audio recorder program.
This was in the few months before the DVD encryption was cracked allowing easier / "pure" digital capture.
It's is very funny to see after years of development that a work around that was used ~10 years ago on PC DVD playback software still works today.
Yes there will be artifacts and noise fromt his method but if you are taking the 20+ Gb MPEG2/4 HD source and compressing to ~4 Gb of MPEG4 then you would be hard pressed to tell which were artifacts of this process compared to a "pure" digital trans-code / conversion.
And everyone has been complaining about the limited number of write cycles of flash memory.
Looks like the technogies are reach equivalence by making Hard drives worse !
This Patent is going to be invalid.
There is Prior Art in the form of a video that goes into great detail how a system like this could work.
It is the Judge Dread Movie staring sylvester stallone.
Int he movie - the guns used by the "Judges" could only be fired by registered judges as they did a DNA check of the skin on the hand of the holder - and would only activate the gun/munitions when a legitimate DNA was presented as the "key".
In addition , different levels of seniority allowed different features of the gun to be unlocked. (single shot, automatic, explosive rounds etc. etc.)
Isn't it cool when an (aweful) scifi movie predicts technology first?
In addition the gun automatically packaged a sample of the Shooters DNA into every round fired so the bullets could be traced back to the person who pulled the trigger, not just the gun.
I see on the Maxthon web site a related product called "Maxthon Access". Does anyone have any addtional information /reviews about this product?
It looks like it offers "PC Anywhere" features, but the Maxthin browser is a required component (?).
Has anyone used it and could comment?
Is it safe / secure?
Any (known) spyware / back doors to it?
Yes, I agree. The problem is Intel is / has-been short of chipsets. I imagine they are rampign shipset production fast.
HOWEVER, as I commented in my first post, canning the ATI (intel) motherbaord range would hit intel for the next couple of quaters (only).
I have seen other news articles pointing that intel is in Bed with ATi at the moment for chipset supply, a situation it is a little uncomfortable about. Further googling will turn them up.
... Intel is very dependant on ATI at the moment to supply intel CPU compatible chip-sets/Motherboards to help Intel move it's stock pile of CPUs. As Intel has a chip-set shortage which means it can not shift CPU's as fast as it would likes. (almost every new CPU requires a new MB).
*IF* AMD bought ATI they could immediately can the ATI Intel motherboard line and deliver a big blow to intel's profitability for the next quarter or two.
..instead read this one at CNET
= rss
http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6073584.html?part
The new important thing for this sensor (to consumers anyway) is that it can capture 2mp at 30fps.
It has been designed with capturing full motion 720p video in mind.
This is great- I have long wondered why, as camera mega pixels sizes go up, we are still stuck with VGA video. I would love a digital camera still that can double as a HD video camera.
Go to the screen options menu in Gran Turismo 4 on the Ps2....
You can play in 1080i (if you have component cables).
Looks very nice (and impressive for such an old console).
....could be a career ending joke to put in your email.
I have read ona few sites for several months that there is a shortage of the "Driver" chip for HDMI output. that is why we have seen no graphics cards from ATI or Nvidia with HDMI out and now it is occurring to me that is why the xbox360 launched without HDMI and their HD-DVD add on will also not have HDMI out (I think?).
The HDMi chip shortage must be pretty serious, I can now see why Sony did a model without it, or else there might only be 10's or 100's of thousands of console available at launch.
....and it appears that the detection software rates them INauthentic if I only give it the first page of text (about 300 words), a ~25% score.
With 3 or more pages of text the score seems to converge to ~93% (authentic).
So be careful when scannign short articles or documents.
I stand by my claim that the papers I used were written by a human (me) and so was this post.
I hope I am not being desnse here, but if OS X was open-sourced, then couldn't enterprising Linux / OSX experts make distros for any pc hardware? (scrap that - ANY micropocessor platform? Sparc? ARM? PS3 ?)
So why buy apple hardware any more?
Observations:
1) People complain that XP and previous versions of windows have an "ugly" look
2) People are generally welcoming of the Aero look'n'feel as they believe it is catching up with OS X and will be pleasing.
3) A LOT of people complained when (early versions of) Microsoft's Validation software decided to phone home to register at really inconvenient times (with no access to internet) and then completely locked users out of their PC's.
This proposal from MS neatly avoids the repeat of the catastrophe of (3), and encourages people who believe in (2) to purchase their software.
People who do not believe in (2) also seem to be people who stand by (1).....There is no pleasing them.... They will just carry on pirating the software, using it every day , yet complain the software looks terrible.
I see a huge backlash from companies when they start catching their employees watching these shows at work.
....and see Slashdot headlines of "Study claims Billions of lost revenue weekly from staff watching streaming TV at work"
An easy to use access system (a web page) will mean anyone will be able to find and watch them with no software install (p2p etc.). This could be hard for IT administrators to stamp out.
I gaze into my crystal ball....