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Sounds more like a copyright than a patent. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Trust me, the patent bills from the solicitors underscore it's patent credentials. And the annual fees. Pretty close, actually, and some of it is not your fault, as I obfuscated a bit of the definition by deploying an analogous technology. " It was originally developed for DOS, which made it compatible with every MS operating system since (and network protocols from Banyan Vines to LANtastic). It compares the disk image of the protected application with the one that is running in memory to see if there is a hot-viral code trying to alter the protected applications behaviour (like pushing it through a decompiler, for example, to reverse engineer what it does) and quits if the check fails. It protects itself with encryption, so that it has a message digest to identify anyone altering even one bit, as well as an encrypted footprint, to prevent anyone reading the application or the protection (thus making circumvention that much harder).

Ssshhh! That sort of information is confidential!

Because it shows the power of the oriental RPGs ... after checking out the link I remembered the hours of play fondly ... I was only able to stifle the urge to run out and buy the latest game by remembering the ineffable frustration of chocobos!

But they told me that I was number "REMOVED for security reasons." <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, you were just "REMOVED for security reasons".

I am secure in my sexuality. Are you? "

I remember that! Sounds alfully fishy, to me ... (pun intended) ...

My Japanese is poopie... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's a Star Trek reference (initially from the second film, Wrath of Kahn, but referred to many times since); it equates to a no-win scenario, and is used as a judge of character to determine what priorities the subject displays under pressure. I was quoting Captain James Tiberius Kirk (William Shatner's character), who reprogrammed the test to allow him to beat it.

It's only a few questions.

Without knowing off-hand, can a Pentium M fit your motherboard? Alternatively, you might want to look at the latest Custom PC for for cooling ideas: you can replace the Intel stock cooler (heat sink fan) with an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 (

I did my own kobayashi maru.

Hmm... not convinced... would you really trust what a fundamentalist nutjob said about their plans? And surely such information isn't shared with the smaller, less-nutty fundamentalists in order to prevent such information from being revealed? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's McCain's argument, that torture doesn't provide accurate information. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Co-incidentally it is also the British governments official policy, since it abolished torture in the eighteenth century for the same reasoning. People being tortured will say anything, if you torture them for long enough. (Interestingly, France didn't ever make an official policy on torture, and it was widely implemented in Algeria when they demanded independence.) There was a case recently in Germany where the miscreant who had captured a hostage and had admitted the crime was threatened with torture and it forced him to reveal the whereabouts of the victim. (Not as ethically difficult to weigh up the suffering of an innocent with the perpetrator.)

I'm not going to buy one of them. There'll be another round of improvements for Christmas (or just after), like the nVidia 7800 ultra.

I'm just teasing (although I couldn't help but add some editorial mutterings to my answers ...) "

We're all paid-up members. I'm number .

Sure, we need as many participants as possible... so I'll be happy to send the questionnaires to you if you're still willing to participate <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Where do we send the questionaire feedback?

Yes, that is what I meant. 64 bit HDR support. Very clever, young Skywalker, to notice the obviously deliberate mis-step. Temporal AA and Adaptive AA (equivalent to nVidia's Super Sampling Transparency AA) and Angel-invariant Anisotropic Filtering. Ultra-Threading Dispatch Processor. H.264 compression technology for HD-DVD / Blu-ray, de-interlacing, scaling ...

How would torturing someone prevent another 9/11? The same "logic" goes for capital punishment, which in no way prevents murders, rapes or other atrocious crimes occurring in America DL <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ... It would work if they applied it more rigorously and broadly ... "

That so? To me, these threads seem more like an excuse for 'old' members to spam. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ssssshhhh! That sort of inner circle knowledge is only divulged at the appropriate ceremony, when everyone is naken, humming celtic lullabies, and drinking peyote-spiked punch on a full moon!

Yeah, it was a review of the X1800 that mentioned the lack of a 512MB Nvidia ... Still the X1800 has Anti-aliasing support for the Shader Model 3.0 (which NVidia doesn't), BUT, nVidia is about to launch a card with Shader Model 4.0 ... I'm planning on buying new hardware in about six months (after the Xmas rush and during the sales, probably); I fully intend to turn it into a work of art, with a custom case mod and water cooling (is there a better coolant, WITHOUT using liquid Nitrogen? )

It's possible the entire Abu Gahib incident was caused by that redneck (general?) who was parachuted in from Camp Delta (where similar bullying is routine, and the US military's own muslim cleric was interned on suspicion of fraternisation). Possibly his "end justifies the means" approach was not condoned by politicans (even if the results were).

I'll be the highest bidder as soon as my Force Powers manifest.

I didn't think Nvidia made cards with 512MB video memory.

Steve, if you don't have the cash burning a hole in your wallet, you might like to take a look at Custom PC's site. They present the best card at three different price points:

And the PC party could learn joint feats, whereby they are able to act in concert together to perform some amazing set move, like Collossus dude tossing Wolverine in X Men.

Actually it's in obfuscating a dynamic linked library with programmable encryption/decryption standards for ensuring that the instance in memory matches the instance on the storage medium, with zero error tolerance (up to the tolerance of the encryption standard, of course).