[rescue] OK, step one of the purge in New Jersey...

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 09:58:52PM -0500, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> > If the coders are dumb enough to make a few  registry changes, it is a
> > simple matter of making a backup of the registry before installation,
> > then comparing the differences.  Others are a little more sophisticated.
> 
> I don't think that we should be critisizing the intelligence of such
> coders.  Perhaps they were required to insert a feature that they loathed,
> so they intentionally weakened it.

Trust me, I used to work for a company that made software DVD decode.

All the smart guys are in the video and audio decode side; the ones that
actually tweak the antialiasing and figure out how to do the trick modes
(like smooth 4x-speed backwards playback, something that can be
difficult when you consider that key frames are generally only useful
when playing things forward).

./patrick