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• The Hylian body looks somewhat effeminate to closed-minded Americans. Link is a Hylian.
• Males in the culture inside the game wear longer shirts than most Americans wear. Longer shirts look somewhat effeminate to closed-minded Americans. Link is a male in the culture inside the game.

4a. PowerPC processor based
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If a huge portion of the actricles on Slashdot link to Wired, why the hell don't we all just read Wired?

Last time I checked (60 seconds ago), Wired didn't have threaded discussions.

The Atari VCS 2600 console had 128 bytes of RAM and a framebuffer that held only half a scanline. How's that for primitive? It gets worse: there are only five sprites; three are mere rectangles, and the other two are eight-pixel-wide 1-bit bitmaps. Their locations are not specified (x, y) but rather (start drawing them at this CPU cycle).
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After all, cracking his cipher is obviously circumventing Poe's access-control device!

Encryption challenges sponsored by a cryptosystem designer (such as Poe Cipher and the various d.net challenges) imply a license to take part in the challenge.

If Transmeta can do a software-only upgrade to the Crusoe to make it Itanium-compatible, they'll be able to sell it at less than half of what Intel will be charging.

Not.

The Code Morphing(TM) emulation technology used in Crusoe(TM) processors is designed to emulate CISC (complex instruction set computing) machines such as x86, 68k, and JVM. It's much harder to emulate RISC machines such as MIPS, Alpha, and PowerPC, let alone machines that are already VLIW like ia64.

In conclusion, maybe all the Slashdot editors have been so drunk, they have hired minions of horny monkeys to approve story submissions. Can it get any worse? Hopefully, only better..

Discussion sites based on the Scoop engine let the users pick the stories. Kuro5hin is the most popular Scoop site.

you lead an immoral life and you catch AIDS, then so be it; you brought it on yourself.

How can a child born with HIV have led an immoral life or brought it on herself?

First of all, neither of the most common two web browsers are free as in free speech

Is Mozilla MPL a "free as in free speech" license? Is GNU GPL? The latest version of the #2 browser (Netscape Communicator) is now mostly MPL with a growing number of dual-licensed MPL/GPL modules.

And $10 for the source CD? That's nonsense. You can get source CDs for about $2 plus shipping if you shop online.

Shipping to some parts of the world is $8 for a CD. $2 + $8 == $10; QED.

You won't be able to spell "Windows" in your reduced alphabet either. OTOH, I have created an 18-letter alphabet that can be used to write the English language. (Mail me if you want to know more.)
The letters are a b c d e f g h i l m n o p r s t u
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PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems, but Aladdin Enterprises (not the StuffIt maker) has produced a portable GPL'd PostScript interpreter and tools called the GhostScript package. It even includes the GhostView PDF viewer for those platforms that have X11 servers.
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Unicode.org has charts of the entire Unicode codespace (yes, including Chinese) in both PDF and HTML formats. There's also an ISO/IEC standard that mirrors the Unicode standard. Heck, the Unicode book (over 1,000 pages) is only $50, less than the cost of many college textbooks half the size.
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Anyway, the feature listed that excites me the most is including SSL support.

They only included SSL because the RSA patent ran out. They were counting down.

I will not trust my data to a system that has known filesystem corruption bugs. Does 2.4-test8 have any bugs in ext2 or vfat support?
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3. Microsoft Back Office for the server apps
6. Third-party software for shells, scripting, and other essentials.

Does this third-party software in your working Windows system include a remote Windows graphical login tool?

In order to get the driver signed by Microsoft to be SDMI compliant, Creative will disable "what-u-hear" when playing SDMI audio. That's one of the requirements of gaining a digital signature that allows access to the Secure Audio Path of Microsoft Windows Media Digital Rights Management.
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If you use an NES emulator such as NESten (Win32) or TuxNES (Linux), you might want to try out GNOME vs. KDE: Battle of the Desktops, a hack of a port of Panel Action Bingo to NES. And it's free software!
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If you use an NES emulator such as NESten (Win32) or TuxNES (Linux), you might want to try out GNOME vs. KDE: Battle of the Desktops, a hack of a port of Panel Action Bingo to NES. And it's free software!
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• C:\Documents and Settings -> C:\home
• C:\Temporary Interenet Files -> C:\var\iecache
• C:\System Volume Information -> C:\boot (NT systems have "system" and "boot" backwards)
• C:\Downloaded Program Files -> C:\usr\local (could be wrong on this)

Waiting a century for Project Gutenberg to pick things up once the copyright expires just isn't the answer.

Tell me about it. Here's everything you always wanted to know about the Sonny Bono Copyright Theft Act.* It's all a ploy to keep Walt Disney's Company's copyright on one cartoon, "Steamboat Willie" (the first Mickey Mouse cartoon).

Cranking up the bus speed has never been a problem :)

RAM generally runs at system bus speed. SDRAM faster than PC133 (7.5 ns) is not widely available, let alone cheap.

Besides, I'd like to see them *enforce* it.

Two words: Jon Johansen.

fine... hack the OS.

fine... go to JAIL.

all it did was recive sound from windows applications like it was a sound card and write 44.1 kHz pcm sound

It won't work for long. Microsoft Digital Rights Management will silence all SDMI audio going to unsigned drivers. MS will only sign a driver if it shuts off all digital waveOut capability (this includes without limitation disk writers, digital out ports on the card, and waveOut to waveIn aka SB Live What-U-Hear) when playing secure audio; only signed drivers get access to the Secure Audio Path.

SDMI-enabled players are distributed out to surpass their existing versions. The MP3 decoders are time-stamped to expire (aka shutdown) on a set date, after which only SDMI will be supported. Nice, eh?

If that's true (probably not), you'll just see Winamp replaced with "WinMMS" (a port of XMMS) with hardly a hiccup.

And there's always the trick of having a soundcard driver that saves the audio stream to the harddrive.

No. SDMI requires that there be no way to get a digital cleartext out of an encrypted file. For example, all Microsoft Digital Rights Management sound card drivers disable all digital outputs (card outputs, write to file, or a fake waveIn) when an SDMI clip is being played. If a sound card driver driver is not digitally signed by Microsoft and rated MS-DRM compliant, it has no access to the Secure Audio Path and will play silence instead of music.

The encryption algorithm will be a trade secret; otherwise, anyone could write an open-source program that leaks the cleartext. Not acceptable.
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Remember the cuckoo MP3 incident?

• The government will take back all analog TV frequencies in 2006.
• D-VHS VCRs can't record digital TV because digital TV has digital rights management that "effectively controls access" to TV programming according to 17 USC 1201 (commonly known as the DMCA).

Microsoft COM, Microsoft .NET, what's next?

Microsoft.org: Microsoft will blow big bux0rz on .NET (which requires an always-on, high-speed connection, making it inaccessible to a large number of Windows customers), stop making profits, and will have to become a nonprofit.

Isn't that what open source is all about? RTFC!(Read The Fucking Code)

Reading source code requires moving source code somehow to your local host. Bandwidth costs money. What the OP is looking for is metadata, or something small that describes the code in a well-defined, searchable form.

I think it's funny, though, that my browser shows the title of the page as "Cannot Find Server."

This is caused by the Micro$oft Infernal Exploiter 5.5 bug that "refreshing" a res:// page (the error messages) into a working page (like you did with K5) doesn't update the title. Bites me too when viewing slashdotted pages.

Try this: "In opening this bag, you agree to the EULA on the enclosed software package."
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The bag is presumably sealed: "if you open this bag you agree to the EULA."
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Mac OS has a feature called Software Update

Just like Windows Update, Helix Update... Continue.

Should every graphic designer and musician on the planet have to look at a list something like this:

• gcc 3.4a
• bash 7.1
• ProjectBuilder 5.2

Not necessarily. Mac OS Software Update could presumably have a single package "GNU Software."

I could get rid of TK if the kernel X config didn't use it

You can get rid of Tcl/Tk. Is there a reason you can't use make menuconfig in an rxvt or other X11 terminal?

I could get rid of gawk, bison, m4, groff, etc if there wasn't exactly one (like man and groff) program that didn't use it

GNU man calls groff so it can format man pages. If you format man pages itself (from .../man? to .../cat?) you can do away with both man and groff, as GNU Texinfo's info can read manpages.

If you can't say Berkeley or BSD for some reason, call it the BIND Internet Name Daemon.
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A GPL exception for "source everyone knows how to get and patch" would be begging to be abused.

<cough>QPL</cough>

Even if the barbazfs source was hosted, the GPL requires anyone who distributes binaries of the whole kernel (including the patch) to distribute sources of the whole kernel (including the patch).
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the union of "Unix" and "Not Unix" is "everything"

OK, here's the UNIX web site.
Here's the GNU's Not UNIX web site.
Neither of those sites has everything.

Apple doesn't expect it's regular users to build software; they will install pre-built binaries. That, combined with the enormous size of all of the development tools and documentation

That can be put in HTML or even PDF (with all the PDF support in the native rendering system, they could probably write Acrobat in about 1000 LOC). An extra CD in the distribution costs less than $1 (probably much less) to press. Call it an "Unsupported Extras" CD if you're worried about supporting it.

is the reason why the consumer versions of the OS won't have the tools. The development tools will always be something seperate for developers.

Back in the day when Apple was popular, Apple II computers came with two flavors of Basic interpreters (Integer Basic and Bill's Applesoft) and a mini-assembler, along with instructions on how to use them.

The UNIX® system is optimized for footprint (it originally ran in 1 MB machines IIRC). The GNU system, OTOH, is optimized for speed. This "use more RAM if it'll improve performance and/or simplicity" mentality helps counter copyright infringement allegations by UNIX system vendors against GNU system developers who have never read UNIX system code.
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Compressing audio with the MP3 algorithm, storing such files, and playing them back is certainly not illegal.

If you don't have a license from Fraunhofer/Thomson, making, using, or selling MP3 files is patent infringement.

I can't just sling Linux kernels around and say "you can get the source at kernel.org"; I have to make that source available myself.

But where? Most free web hosting services restrict files to be under 1,024 kilobytes (presumably so they don't incur liability for a warez or MP3z site). How does an individual (read: somebody who doesn't have $$$$$/mo to spend on web hosting) with a cool kernel patch distribute the source of the rest of the kernel?

Which of the real Bruce Perens are you anyway? There are a half dozen or so that I know of.

This is Bruce Perens. In general, the real thing has a lower UID than imposters.

Another avenue, which the GPL doesn't try to use, is contract law. You can require an exchange of rights in a contract that would cover linking.

That's a shrinkwrap license, and RMS doesn't like shrinkwrap licenses.

before TV stations have to give up their analog TV frequencies, there will be affordable (~$200?) set-top boxes to let you convert HDTV signals to be played on your current analog NTSC TV. So you could just use one of these boxes to strip out any digital copy protection, but at the same time it would degrade the video quality to VHS.

Before these boxes are released to the public, Macrovision brand copy protection will be required by law, and making, using, or selling a device to defeat Macrovision brand copy protection will be made a crime under changes to copyright law <cough>DMCA 2.0</cough>.

You can make GIFs with no LZW compression, but the file size is quite a bit bigger.

Try five times bigger.

Also, I thought not even Mozilla supported MNG yet

Depends on which build you run.

Well, there's legally a public domain.

There's a public domain, but its content is pretty much fixed: no works will ever expire into it.

For instance, if you sign an NDA, the information you get isn't required to go into public domain. I'd love to see them try to pull that.

One word: EULA. The "you may not copy" clause does not terminate when the copyright expires (which is effectively never). And it's trivial to put a binding EULA on a CD or DVD: a seal placed over the center of the disc reads "by breaking this seal you agree to the EULA printed inside the back pages of the booklet." All rights can be contracted away.