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GNOME vs. KDE: Battle of the Desktops runs on a computer called NES. NES emulators are available for GNU/Linux, BSD, DOS, and Windows.

GNOME vs. KDE: Battle of the Desktops runs on a computer called NES. NES emulators are available for GNU/Linux, BSD, DOS, and Windows.

Sci-Fi doesn't exactly have a huge treasure trove of quality original programming, but give credit where credit is due. For example: Farscape, despite having Wizard of Oz syndrome in the casting room ("Okay - we need an Alien Warrior, Exotic Priestess, Loveable Rogue, and Good 'Ol Boy - get casting!"), cheesy intro-outro music (think closing theme to ST:TOS style wailing), and awful villians (C'mon. A guy named Scorpius?), has some of the best dialogue to ever grace a sci-fi show, some truly mind-fscking plot twists, and some great special effects. Not to mention, many bonus points for Claudia Black. Rrowl.

Under U.S. copyright law, British works are "Berne Union works" or something like that and are subject to the same protections within U.S. borders as American works.
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In a few scenes in the STAR WARS® movies, traffic can be seen overhead moving in straight lines. Anyone care to comment on a system like this?
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Samuel J. Butcher is famous for his insanely cute drawings of Eloi kids. These drawings became the PRECIOUS MOMENTS® figurines.

Now what do Precious Moments haters wish they could do to those kids? Butcher them.

Samuel J. Butcher is famous for his insanely cute drawings of Eloi kids. These drawings became the PRECIOUS MOMENTS® figurines.

Now what do Precious Moments haters wish they could do to those kids? Butcher them.

Impossible is not possible. The music will eventually be converted to an analog signal where it could be converted to something digital

Not necessarily, unless you're planning to put an open mike in front of your tamper-proof speakers receiving an encrypted signal and outputting an inaudible tracking signal.

Neither George Orwell's 1984 nor anything else created on or after 1923 will ever be added to Project Gutenberg because anything created on or after 1923 is under perpetual copyright. This is at first glance unconstitutional (the Constitution mentions "for limited times"), but Congress gets around it by simply retroactively extending copyrights when they are about to expire.

Fuck you Walt Disney Company.

It's common knowledge that Doom and Descent were built with Watcom, and Quake was built with DJGPP, but have you seen the Depot? Or PinEight.com? Lots of cool DJGPP stuff.
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It's common knowledge that Doom and Descent were built with Watcom, and Quake was built with DJGPP, but have you seen the Depot? Or PinEight.com? Lots of cool DJGPP stuff.
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The RIAA is not just Sony. Other labels are plaintiffs in this suit, and they still want their share.
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• Connecting up to an ISP (phone, cable or xDSL)

There is a chapter on this.

• Reading/Writing Windows disks and files

Accessing your FAT hard disk and mounting floppies are also covered.

• Handling E-Mail (eg: Outlook-type apps)

No need, as Netscape 4.7x on Linux looks just like Netscape 4.7x on Windows, which is covered in The Internet for Dummies.

• Installing new applications

Is the package manager in the index? If so, there's more than likely a section on installing apps.

The original "N32" was the PlayStation, which was originally a Sony addon for the SNES. When Nintendo killed the PS project, Sony developed a version called "PlayStation-X" that was designed to be independent from the SNES. That's the PSX that killed N64.

And yes, the AltiVec unit in some PowerPC processors (is it in Gekko?) can crunch 128 bit vectors, making the G4 Cube a 128-bit system.

Actually, VMS 2K is a reality (unfortunately). The NT kernel at the core of Windows 2000 was originally designed by one of the VMS designers.
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Some web browsers and graphics systems (e.g. X11) substitute ?????'s for glyphs not defined in the current combination of encoding and font. Katz's articles are probably written in Codepage 1252, which is Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) with different characters in the 0x0080 to 0x009f range (which is normally used for control characters on text terminals). AFAIK, the "smart quote" marks are in that range, and it confuses X11's font manager.
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Individual citizens do not govern, they elect representatives who reflect their views, values, etc. to govern.

Representatives' voting records do not necessarily reflect the views of their constituents. They can say one thing (e.g. pro-life) to get elected and another (pro-baby-murder) once in office.

Speakers will eventually be made tamper-proof like cable boxes. A speaker that has been opened will refuse to accept encrypted streams.
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So you're saying that a complete OpenBSD system with X11 fits in an 8 MB download? (30 min == 1800 s; 1800 s * 4.5 KB/s bandwidth = 8 MB).

Oh, you meant broadband. DSL is only available if you live practically next door (within two miles) to the phone company. Cable is only available in some areas and also requires the purchase of crappy television programming. Does OpenBSD even support most brands of cable and DSL modems?

Oh, you meant company LAN.

Two popular newspapers had competing comic strips. One was "The Yellow Kid" by Outcault and the other was an imitation. They both used yellow ink to fill in the shape of the boy's gown.
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iANAL:
Articles of clothing cannot be copyrighted as they are considered "useful articles" under US copyright law.
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It just works better when that difference is large. You can extrat power when you have even a very small temprature difference. You can't get much power unless the machine is very large, but if you are good, you might be able to build something that has a little mechanical energy left, after it has overcome its internal friction. The current record is something like 0.5 (celsius) difference. But even with that machine, its not a reversable process. Its not a technology issue, its a second law of thermodynamics issue.
While you can use very small temprature differences to run an engine, you hit the thermodynamic wall pretty soon. Its possible for a reasonably skilled metalworker to build an engine that will run off the temperature difference between your hand and the air around you, (the plans are available for under $20, Howel's "Miser" low temp Sterling engine) but the ability for convection to keep that temperature difference, drastically limits the power available. Basically, to get one to generate more than internal friction at that difference takes VERY good machining skills, and some special materials (like graphite pistons). If you build one, and it will start itself from just the heat of your hand, you are a very good machinist. Many have to settle for one that runs off the heat from a coffee cup.

RTFA. Mainsoft uses "MainWin" which essentially is Winelib but "official" and always statically linked (so the Wine folks don't tap into it).
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Most Mac OS X apps call functions in the Carbon API, which is based on the old "Toolbox" API from Mac OS 1 through 9. Most Windows apps call functions in the Win32 API, a cheap knockoff of Toolbox. The difference is that Apple is opening its kernel's BSD APIs, whereas Microsoft has no public document demonstrating its VMS-like calls.

Yes, the internals of NT look like VMS. And if you move each letter in VMS one letter forward, you get WNT.

1. Connect to another host on the gnutellaNet
2. Enter the words you are looking for
3. Look through the search results
4. Download the files

Gnome is meant to battle KDE

I know. And if you have an NES emulator, you can join in.

Gnome is meant to battle KDE

I know. And if you have an NES emulator, you can join in.

By installing both GNOME and KDE libraries and running both GNOME and KDE apps.

By installing an X11-based NES emulator and running GNOME vs. KDE: Battle of the Desktops.

By installing both GNOME and KDE libraries and running both GNOME and KDE apps.

By installing an X11-based NES emulator and running GNOME vs. KDE: Battle of the Desktops.

If you have an NES emulator (get one at Zophar's Domain), play Battle of the Desktops. A GNOME mascot and a KDE mascot fight it out on the bingo board.
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If you have an NES emulator (get one at Zophar's Domain), play Battle of the Desktops. A GNOME mascot and a KDE mascot fight it out on the bingo board.
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Pull out your NES emulators and play GNOME vs. KDE: Battle of the Desktops.
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Pull out your NES emulators and play GNOME vs. KDE: Battle of the Desktops.
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What if there were a video game where you could play for the GNOME team or the KDE team in a competitive virtual sport? Pull out your NES emulators, it's the Battle of the Desktops!
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What if there were a video game where you could play for the GNOME team or the KDE team in a competitive virtual sport? Pull out your NES emulators, it's the Battle of the Desktops!
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Tempest had only 24 KB of ROM and 2 KB of main CPURAM. Even Super Mario Bros. from Nintendo was bigger (40 KB ROM + 2 KB RAM).
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The Atari Video Computer System model 2600 could never run something as large as, say, DeCSS. It only had 128 bytes of RAM. No, really. (Of course it doesn't run NetBSD!)
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Releasing only part of the codebase as free software is what Netscape had to do to get the first Mozilla releases out the door. If you remember, half of Netscape 4 was proprietary licensed crap, which is part of why it took Mozilla so long to get a working Internet client out the door.

GO MOJIRA!
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if you can't knife it or spoon it... then just FORK IT.

They couldn't "spoon it" because... (everybody say it with me) <matrix>there is no spoon.</matrix>

adopt a NORMAL bird
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You cant show a cartoon movie! People will think it's for little kids, and the adults wont go see it!

Not necessarily. For example, anime is a subclass of the animated cartoon, but it isn't generally for kids. That is, except for Pokécrap.

Because only odd scanlines are drawn during odd frames, and even scanlines are drawn during even frames, games such as Tobal No. 1 and Ehrgeiz on PlayStation, as well as most of the Dreamcast games, can get away with drawing polygons only to half the screen every frame. Add textured polygons and the general blurriness of the NTSC standard (cheap texture filtering), and Ehrgeiz looks almost TV quality.
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I thing NTSC has fewer lines - 200/400?

NTSC televisions generally have 224/448 viewable scanlines (320x224, 640x224, 640x448) and worse color fidelity (Never The Same Color).

As far as the fact that they're moving images, think motion JPEG

For an idea of what intraframe transform coded video (e.g. motion JPEG) looks like, look at full-motion video from a PlayStation game.

[We trap for] funny-sounding or celebrity names (almost always fakes), incorrect telephone numbers, hotmail/yahoo e-mail addresses, etc.

I sincerely hope you don't reject shoppers solely for those things, as I have friends whose main e-mail is through Hotmail and who have names similar (within soundex range) to those of celebrities or cartoon characters.

You just lost their business.

Jesus fucking christ

But because Jesus is Christ, this means "Jesus f*cking himself" == "Jesus masturbating."

If they want everyone to be able to reuse the code, why don't they just BSD the whole thing?

Because they want the rights back for any changes to the codebase. With copyleft licenses such as MPL and GPL, mozilla.org gets rights to use the changes, which could remain a company's "precious trade secret" under non-copyleft licensing.

If they want everyone to be able to reuse the code, why don't they just BSD the whole thing?

Because they want the rights back for any changes to the codebase. With copyleft licenses such as MPL and GPL, mozilla.org gets rights to use the changes, which could remain a company's "precious trade secret" under non-copyleft licensing.

Microsoft is porting stuff to the GNU/Linux system.
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Section 10 of the GNU General Public License explicitly allows dual licensing.
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Of course it runs NetBSD!
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CMOS settings
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