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Lost in Geek CyberspaceAfter joining I was reading through some of the site, actually most all of it. I was lost in computer geek cyberspace for about 4.5 hours. Time well spent.. When I saw the way you laid out your membership system I was instantly gratified.. Thank you for setting a good example and I hope that many will follow. You're in my daily favorites now and will be for a long time to come.
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How AMD plans to take over the market by adding DRM directly to CPUThis is some pretty scary stuff when you really stop and think about it. The AMD rep spelled it out in words that would have been undiplomatic coming from me: He said that the new chips will “block unauthorized access to the frame buffer.” In short, that means an unauthorized party can’t save the contents of the display to a file on disk unless the content owner approves it. http://www.infoworld.../28/14OPcurve_1.html What scares me about this is how the big companies will embrace this kind of thinking. I know what you are thinking...I won't use AMD...I'll use Intel. But there is a problem with that. If Intel doesn't follow and do the same they could stand to lose a lot of the market share. There has already been a Windows version that will only run on AMD64 processors. How hard would it be for Microsoft to make it so their OS will only run on approved DRM enabled CPU's? That would mean that if OEM's want to include Windows, they would have to include an AMD processor. This means that Intel would either have to put the same kind of DRM crap in their CPU's or the only thing that will run on them will be *nix. I think we know what Intel would do in a situation like this. The average consumer isn't tech savvy...they don't know the difference between AMD and Intel...DRM and a bottle of Coca Cola...but they do know they want Windows. The average consumer being oblivious to this, will buy whatever is on the shelf...as long as it has Windows. The uneducated consumers outnumber the rest of us. They will spoil the computing world as we know it...for all of us. They will go right along with the AMD/DRM crap like sheep. Then we approach the day, for example, where you can't do a proper software review because the software vendor hasn't authorized YOU to take a screenshot of HIS application and your CPU says you aren't allowed to do that. It won't matter how much you paid for the software...you will only be able to use it in a manner approved by the vendor. So you say...ok...I won't run Windows...I'll install Linux. This won't bypass CPU level DRM. Your hands will still be tied. |
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Family Tree Pilota fun-looking family tree-maker program and it's freeware.. Family Tree is genealogy software that allows you to create an image of the family tree including personal photos. • http://www.colorpilo....com/familytree.html |
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Sites Where You Can Converse With Imaginary Characters (?)Our own Nick Pearson set up a page on his website where you can post questions to (and get answers from) the imaginary (don't tell him i said that) bird/duck creature Cody who is the mascot of our site.
I love hearing Cody's answers to questions - he offers a unique perspective on life. He seems real. It got me thinking about other sites where you can speak with imaginary creatures.. Does anyone know any? |
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Tower Defense Game of the Week: Budapest DefendersWell by now everyone knows I love these tower defense games and I love looking at how different coders play with the genre. This was is quite well done, and it uses one of the ideas from Curator Defense where you can put up obstacles that effect the flow of enemies. Quite well done. http://alt.tnt.tv/tn...tdefenders/index.htm |
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Anywhere.FM: Upload your entire music collection - play it anywhereRight can someone explain how it's allowed to make something like this and have it funded? I can't find anything on the website about the legality of the project, but its creators seem to be ex Amazon and Microsoft. It doesn't look bad, although I don't need it - maybe you do: Anywhere.FM is a powerful music player that makes it easy to: · Upload your entire music collection · Play it anywhere on the best web music player · Discover new music through Friend Radio Is there a limit to how many songs I can upload? http://www.anywhere.fm/player/ |
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O'Reilly Article -- Mono: A Progress ReportMono is an open source implementation of the Microsoft .NET platform. More properly, it's an implementation of the ECMA 335 Common Language Infrastructure standard, along with work-alike implementations of various parts of Microsoft's .NET libraries. http://www.onlamp.co...progress-report.html |
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