I can't see how merely anticipating a post to be moderated down has anything to do with "claiming some kind of martyrship".
If you are jealous that your posts are not as insigitful as the ones you are reading, fine - think some more before you post. If you feel disgusted about the tone in which people speak, too bad - just don't assume what goes on inside the poster's mind (e.g. "hm...I want to be a martyr") when you reply. It seems very immature to me.
Sorry I just can't help posting the rant. I've seen far too many "I'll give you what you ask for" posts regarding this matter. You should note that the person is merely anticipating - whether or not they're asking for a demoderation is totally up to your imagination.
NO card manufacturer have claimed their video cards have on-board DVD decoders because nobody actually have them.
BUT, the "special feature" of ATI cards are leaps and bounds better than the "special features" on the other guys like nVidia and S3 (ATI's 1997 cards can accelerate DVD playback better than the newest nVidia cards, for example)
YUV, bi-li scaling and so forth have been available to most video cards since 1994, granted. However what REALLY matter is Motion Compensation and Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (IDCT), combining to about 60 - 70% of the actual decoding.
ATI cards have had Motion Compensation since 1997 IIRC, and newer cards from S3 are now *STARTING* to implement this feature. IDCT, that provides an even more dramatic acceleration, have been available since the Rage 128. And as of now, the only non-ATI chip that also has it is one from SiS and nobody else.
Well, if you have ~1Ghz processors of course all of them don't matter unless you are running 10's of apps at the same time.
Well, all window managers are almost complete - as long as I can actually put files on the desktop, not just hard-coded links that I cannot move them about, I'd be happy.
So far, only KDE, GNOME and DFM do that, and DFM does not look half as good.
It somehow irratates me that it seems to be impossible to hide everything other than the interface in.h files.
Is there any possible way where the public and the private declarations of a class can be stored in separate files like in the newer Wirth languages? If C++ had opaque types it would be the perfect language for me...
OS/2 subsystem? I thought it is gotten rid of ALREADY!!! Nobody that I know runs OS/2 apps on NT. Keeping it there = keeping a lot of buggy, unmaintained, unused bloat. WHY BOTHER. I'd delete the while OS/2 syscall layer without a second thought.
Enough rant. I think some bugs are corporational policy - like, in IE, you can't switch off ActiveX without seeing the annoying dialog "the web page may not display correctly" shit.
I like an option to "I don't want to see this dialog again in the future" added to all confirmation dialogs.
Damn, I guess we'll never get it in any version of Widoz.
As it has been pointed out that MPAA's reason against DeCSS is that people can use it to make region-free players.
While they can have the truth bent towards their way by badmouthing DeCSS, they just CANNOT do anything about hacks that make existing players region-free, because the idea of region code itself violates the law in a lot of countries (e.g. New Zealand)
May I propose that, in addition to DeCSS, we mirror DVDGenie as well, which is a freeware obtainable from
Verbatum...anyone remember DataLife Plus 5.25" disk? I actually poured coffee on it and had fingerprint printed on it...then I pulled out the disk from the plastic shield and wiped it with alcohol...then I used it...then it worked.
Amazing quality. I wouldn't think for more than a second before choosing Verbatum's media.
Does it matter? If the motive is to have a DVD player for a computer if one cannot afford to buy one (say Xing), so making one's own DVD player for Windows is a not a bad move either.
I'd support what you're doing - create your own region free player, regardless the platform - make it free for the world to use.
Two weeks ago I tried the then newest build of WINE.
things that run perfectly or almost perfectly: winamp, wordpad, notepad, calculator, mineswapper, hedit, tetrinet, ultraedit32...
things that are flawed: ie, winzip, palm desktop...
things that don't run at all: explorer, winjammer, icq, directx games (i got a blank screen), njstar...
You get a mixed bag of results. And I'm now only trying to run stuffs that linux doesn't have (e.g. wordpad)
One question though - where's the winelib? I've installed and run wine and haven't found the winelib files anywhere on my system. Are they inside wine's executable?
If you are a Windows user I recommend Proxomitron. It is a LOT more flexible than JunkBuster.
http://members.tripod.com/Proxomitron/
Basically it is like IPFilter - edit the *content* before you receive it. Some nice options in addition to the usual ones are:
- freezing animated GIFs (load only the first frame) - stop meta refreshing - remove dynamic html - prevent getting stuck in frames - *selectively* kill javascripts and applets - add your own script to pages - remove / replace a web page - convert blinking text to bold
IMHO the best place on the web to learn about how to design user interfaces. Their examples are everyday, and very solid. I recomend anyone who makes UI's to take a look.
I leave the * for anyone who want to use the data to fill in. One annoyance though - you have to type in the whole password and read it out loud in order for it to work.
The states or signals inside the brain keep changing by the environment - even during the "upload" time.
So it would be virtually impossible to take a snapshot at a 100% precise point of time.
If the snapshot is not exact, the second law of thermodynamics tells us that this real me and the duplicated me will differ from the moment of upload - and the gap only gets wider with time.
The only way to create an "exact" copy is to freeze the brain to absolute 0 (which is impossible), make the copy, put the duplication in an environment that's exactly the same as the real me. Then wake them up at exactly the same time.
Then I'd expect the real and the duplicate behaves identically for a period of time - the length of which is governed by how accurate the environment simulation, how close to absolute 0 the brain is frozen, etc.
(If everything in the closed system the duplicate is in is identical to the closed system the original is in, I'd expect the behavior of both of them to be identical as long as they stay in that closed system)
Of course we can't create two identical closed system (doing so requires the control of Brownian motion or randomness of every single elementary particle inside that system)
You may say that we may take a snapshot using something like a camera, so that 0 degree K is not needed. However, analogically, "shutter" movements takes time. And the camera is taking a snapshot of a different state of your nose and your ears, because your nose is probably closer to the camera than your ear is.
Hm...I dunno. Now I'm living somewhere off-campus, but close enough. A 2-bdrm apartment with balcony, a large living room and 2 washrooms - $1100 Canadian a month with utilities.
Good enough for 3 persons to share (it's what we're doing). Campus food is always overpriced and tastes worst than the Harvey's just across the road.
Mind you, the apartment we're in is cleaner, bigger, brighter, newer, less expensive, not as noisy, no illegally bundled expensive food plans;), yet is only across the street from campus. I'd consider it a deal.
If you have the money!! Buy a house or apartment near the campus, and sign up for cable or DSL. I'm sure that the market price of real estates over there will skyrocket soon...
Well...I can assure you, that DOS has *barely* any kernel.
It is just a bunch of system calls thru INT 21H - and hardly does anything the modern OS like Linux and NT do...no scheduling, no concurrency, no paging, no protection, etc. (shell doesn't count)
People are free to add "TSR" programs (basically extending the system calls) and redirect the interrupt vectors - basically extending the OS.
I view Win3.x and Win9x as ways DOS is extended - they become one with DOS - and added layers on top of it. Just that this extension puts the processor into 32-bit protected mode and stays so.
Slashdot Mirror
After looking up the dictionary, the two words have identical meaning - stop. Why bother using them both?
Can't do that - too many web sites "deep links" amazon, like, directly onto their books.
Any site that searches books across different vendors, much like pricewatch?
Excellent point!! Moderate this guy up...just one issue tho - can iCrave claim a patent in the US Patent office if it is a Canadian company?
How about hacking Nedit into it? Not trivial either but it is definitely event-driven and it is GPL now...
What gives? Can you turn on the TFT "without backlight"?
I can't see how merely anticipating a post to be moderated down has anything to do with "claiming some kind of martyrship".
If you are jealous that your posts are not as insigitful as the ones you are reading, fine - think some more before you post. If you feel disgusted about the tone in which people speak, too bad - just don't assume what goes on inside the poster's mind (e.g. "hm...I want to be a martyr") when you reply. It seems very immature to me.
Sorry I just can't help posting the rant. I've seen far too many "I'll give you what you ask for" posts regarding this matter. You should note that the person is merely anticipating - whether or not they're asking for a demoderation is totally up to your imagination.
NO card manufacturer have claimed their video cards have on-board DVD decoders because nobody actually have them.
BUT, the "special feature" of ATI cards are leaps and bounds better than the "special features" on the other guys like nVidia and S3 (ATI's 1997 cards can accelerate DVD playback better than the newest nVidia cards, for example)
YUV, bi-li scaling and so forth have been available to most video cards since 1994, granted. However what REALLY matter is Motion Compensation and Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (IDCT), combining to about 60 - 70% of the actual decoding.
ATI cards have had Motion Compensation since 1997 IIRC, and newer cards from S3 are now *STARTING* to implement this feature. IDCT, that provides an even more dramatic acceleration, have been available since the Rage 128. And as of now, the only non-ATI chip that also has it is one from SiS and nobody else.
Well, if you have ~1Ghz processors of course all of them don't matter unless you are running 10's of apps at the same time.
Well, all window managers are almost complete - as long as I can actually put files on the desktop, not just hard-coded links that I cannot move them about, I'd be happy.
So far, only KDE, GNOME and DFM do that, and DFM does not look half as good.
It somehow irratates me that it seems to be impossible to hide everything other than the interface in .h files.
Is there any possible way where the public and the private declarations of a class can be stored in separate files like in the newer Wirth languages? If C++ had opaque types it would be the perfect language for me...
OS/2 subsystem? I thought it is gotten rid of ALREADY!!! Nobody that I know runs OS/2 apps on NT. Keeping it there = keeping a lot of buggy, unmaintained, unused bloat. WHY BOTHER. I'd delete the while OS/2 syscall layer without a second thought.
Enough rant. I think some bugs are corporational policy - like, in IE, you can't switch off ActiveX without seeing the annoying dialog "the web page may not display correctly" shit.
I like an option to "I don't want to see this dialog again in the future" added to all confirmation dialogs.
Damn, I guess we'll never get it in any version of Widoz.
While they can have the truth bent towards their way by badmouthing DeCSS, they just CANNOT do anything about hacks that make existing players region-free, because the idea of region code itself violates the law in a lot of countries (e.g. New Zealand)
May I propose that, in addition to DeCSS, we mirror DVDGenie as well, which is a freeware obtainable from
According to this ruling, you can encrypt whatever anarchic material you have with an algorithm you invented.
Then you copyright the material. If anyone decrypts it (for example, FBI) you can sue them for DMCA violation.
Act now. We win no matter what the final ruling may be.
Verbatum...anyone remember DataLife Plus 5.25" disk? I actually poured coffee on it and had fingerprint printed on it...then I pulled out the disk from the plastic shield and wiped it with alcohol...then I used it...then it worked.
Amazing quality. I wouldn't think for more than a second before choosing Verbatum's media.
Does it matter? If the motive is to have a DVD player for a computer if one cannot afford to buy one (say Xing), so making one's own DVD player for Windows is a not a bad move either.
I'd support what you're doing - create your own region free player, regardless the platform - make it free for the world to use.
Screw the DVD player liscense.
It is the gist, the point why this reporting exists at all. Let's do something. Moderate this guy up to let more people hear the voice.
Two weeks ago I tried the then newest build of WINE.
things that run perfectly or almost perfectly: winamp, wordpad, notepad, calculator, mineswapper, hedit, tetrinet, ultraedit32...
things that are flawed: ie, winzip, palm desktop...
things that don't run at all: explorer, winjammer, icq, directx games (i got a blank screen), njstar...
You get a mixed bag of results. And I'm now only trying to run stuffs that linux doesn't have (e.g. wordpad)
One question though - where's the winelib? I've installed and run wine and haven't found the winelib files anywhere on my system. Are they inside wine's executable?
I've reverse engineered it to hell for this reason and found no intrusion of privacy ;)
If you are a Windows user I recommend Proxomitron.
It is a LOT more flexible than JunkBuster.
http://members.tripod.com/Proxomitron/
Basically it is like IPFilter - edit the *content* before you receive it. Some nice options in addition to the usual ones are:
- freezing animated GIFs (load only the first frame)
- stop meta refreshing
- remove dynamic html
- prevent getting stuck in frames
- *selectively* kill javascripts and applets
- add your own script to pages
- remove / replace a web page
- convert blinking text to bold
Interface Hall of Fame, Hall of Shame
http://www.iarchitect.com/index.htm
IMHO the best place on the web to learn about how to design user interfaces. Their examples are everyday, and very solid. I recomend anyone who makes UI's to take a look.
The password is,
"I'm a fu**ing clu*less bas*ard!!!"
I leave the * for anyone who want to use the data to fill in. One annoyance though - you have to type in the whole password and read it out loud in order for it to work.
The states or signals inside the brain keep changing by the environment - even during the "upload" time.
So it would be virtually impossible to take a snapshot at a 100% precise point of time.
If the snapshot is not exact, the second law of thermodynamics tells us that this real me and the duplicated me will differ from the moment of upload - and the gap only gets wider with time.
The only way to create an "exact" copy is to freeze the brain to absolute 0 (which is impossible), make the copy, put the duplication in an environment that's exactly the same as the real me. Then wake them up at exactly the same time.
Then I'd expect the real and the duplicate behaves identically for a period of time - the length of which is governed by how accurate the environment simulation, how close to absolute 0 the brain is frozen, etc.
(If everything in the closed system the duplicate is in is identical to the closed system the original is in, I'd expect the behavior of both of them to be identical as long as they stay in that closed system)
Of course we can't create two identical closed system (doing so requires the control of Brownian motion or randomness of every single elementary particle inside that system)
You may say that we may take a snapshot using something like a camera, so that 0 degree K is not needed. However, analogically, "shutter" movements takes time. And the camera is taking a snapshot of a different state of your nose and your ears, because your nose is probably closer to the camera than your ear is.
Suppose I've made an *exact* copy / emulation of myself, either digitally or not.
Then it must be concious as well - for if it isn't, then it is not an exact copy.
Further more, the conciousness that it has must be the same as that of mine since it is an exact copy.
However, it seems impossible because I'd be able to feel what the emulated me feels - and it implies the existence of telepathy...
Hm...I dunno. Now I'm living somewhere off-campus, but close enough. A 2-bdrm apartment with balcony, a large living room and 2 washrooms - $1100 Canadian a month with utilities.
;), yet is only across the street from campus. I'd consider it a deal.
Good enough for 3 persons to share (it's what we're doing). Campus food is always overpriced and tastes worst than the Harvey's just across the road.
Mind you, the apartment we're in is cleaner, bigger, brighter, newer, less expensive, not as noisy, no illegally bundled expensive food plans
If you have the money!! Buy a house or apartment near the campus, and sign up for cable or DSL. I'm sure that the market price of real estates over there will skyrocket soon...
Not to mention that you can also RENT the rooms!!
Well...I can assure you, that DOS has *barely* any kernel.
It is just a bunch of system calls thru INT 21H - and hardly does anything the modern OS like Linux and NT do...no scheduling, no concurrency, no paging, no protection, etc. (shell doesn't count)
People are free to add "TSR" programs (basically extending the system calls) and redirect the interrupt vectors - basically extending the OS.
I view Win3.x and Win9x as ways DOS is extended - they become one with DOS - and added layers on top of it. Just that this extension puts the processor into 32-bit protected mode and stays so.