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Richard Marie^H^H^H^H. Stallman, major figure in the free software realm.
Founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation.

Everything2 is helpful for these types of questions.

Richard Marie^H^H^H^H. Stallman, major figure in the free software realm.
Founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation.

Everything2 is helpful for these types of questions.

I guess my tongue-in-cheek statement would have been more obvious if I had explicitly mentioned that I lived on the eastern coast of the U.S. Thanks for pointing this out.

[GBA has platform games, and] So does a PC [link to Boycott Advance, a GBA emulator].

Yes, but you still have to buy the cartridge reader for $45 from a Visoly dealer such as Lik Sang. A GBA doesn't cost much more than that. And even then, VisualBoyAdvance is a bit more accurate than Boycott Advance (for GBA) and Marat's VGB (for GB/GBC).

[links to Super NES, Genesis, N64, and Game Boy emulators]

For one thing: Do NOT use iNES or NESticle. They have a bug in their VBlank handling that causes some games to skip their delay loops or perform other weird actions.

For another thing, cart readers for Super NES, Sega Genesis, and N64 were extremely hard to come by last time I checked.

[PlayStation emulator]

It's easy to read most PSX games (they're ISO 9660 file systems for Christ's sake), but many PSX games do not work well with a keyboard. If you're going to carry a USB PSX pad (Gravis GamePad Pro) with your laptop, why not just carry a GBA?

One thing I noticed is that it has a watchdog timer -- that leads me to think they are posing it for the embedded market; specifically for those who want to integrate it as part of a high-end audio gear setup that requires minimal user interaction.

As an aside, don't tubes kick out a lot of heat? Any bets as to when we're going to see a Thermaltake Golden Orb for tubes? :)

Damn, when James T. Kirk did an analogous thing, he got commended for it. Props to the hackers for proving you can't define security problems away.

I was all excited, reading it first as the Iludium Pu 36 Explosive Space Modulator!

Read the definition of MuslimMuslim, and the definition of Islam.

You need to be able to discern between the religion Islam as a whole and its fundamentalists (the actions of below 1%). It's like the Jehovah's witnesses, you can't use them as a basis to judge all christians.

Read the definition of MuslimMuslim, and the definition of Islam.

You need to be able to discern between the religion Islam as a whole and its fundamentalists (the actions of below 1%). It's like the Jehovah's witnesses, you can't use them as a basis to judge all christians.

As for the Beatles, it was during an interview, and John said something about how Jesus is getting less popular lately, and how even they were bigger than Him. The out-of-context quote went worldwide, and got the Vatican very incensed.

>70 years

The Titanic sunk in 1912, that's 90 years.

After Sonny Bono's heirs get done with it, it'll be 110 years.

For what it's worth, someone with more language skills translated the thing again. So, your answer: a) "Somebody detonated bombs all around us!" b) "Image coming through on the main monitor." c) "Thanks to the cooperation of the UN forces, we've taken over all of your bases."

(Hope this helps.)

[game of questions]

Are you playing hobbit rules, or Ros and Guil rules?

When the freshness wears off, the prices drop to try to get something from the people who aren't willing to pay that much.

No, prices really drop to clear out the inventory. The publishers of music, movies, and video games don't want you to buy old stuff; they want you to buy their more expensive new stuff. Witness the movie companies (especially DisneyCo) pulling old videos from store shelves and lobbying for copyright term extensions to thwart the preservation of classic films.

Web and e-mail only? Pay less.

Web and e-mail only? Get Dialup!

The reason I pay for broadband is because I want lots of speed and bandwidth. Why should my price be increased because I am using what I signed up for in the first place?

From a definition of broadband from E2:
"In the US the predominant telephonic carrier system is SONET, which is very similar to SDH but uses different frame sizes, hence the usual definition of broadband is determined by the size of a DS1 frame, which is 1.544 Mbits/s."

Broadband should give me 1.5 Mbps, and that is what it is capped at anyway, so I don't see how people are using too much bandwidth by getting what they should be. Infact, this might have some sort of legal precedent as false advertising, but thats a stretch. Anyway, paying more because you use your connection the way it was intended is rediculous.

Probably a reference to the Tower of Babel.

This is kinda OT, but since a bunch of the article used Rosegarden as an example, I'm curious: does anyone have comments on Rosegarden as opposed to GNU Lilypond?

Rosegarden is a music sequencer/notation thing. It works in X11. It can export to variety of typesetting formats.

Lilypond is, on the other hand, just a music typesetting system - but it can, if so desired, also produce MIDI files.

Rosegarden's weakness is that it lets you actually put notes on staves (click click!) and export to MIDI beautifully, but it doesn't really do adequeate job at typesetting.

Lilypond's weakness is that it doesn't have a GUI - it just reads text file and produces a DVI file through TeX (than can then be dvips'ed or dvipdf'ed). However, the textual format brings its advantages, such as that it's mostly human-readable =)

I'm not a professional musician, or even an amateur one (I don't have a Vast Knowledge of the music theory, and the only instrument I can play well is my throat - hey, wolves are supposed to know how to sing =) but I found that using Rosegarden to notate, then midi2ly'ing and editing the produced source, is a wonderful way of making beautiful expressions of melody - and it's immediately fit to be included in E2.

PS. GTK+ isn't so bad - especially with Glade. I use Glade with Perl, and it just rocks - The thing produces the GUI (bare GTK+ or with GNOME), all I need to provide are the signal handler functions... The reason GTK+ looks cryptic is that C wasn't really designed for OO and some macros are required =)

Who said anything about taking him seriously? I listen to his music quite often, mostly because I find it amusing and enjoyable to listen to. Sure, the lyrics are WAY out there, and he's not all that original, but what the fuck is wrong with liking something?

Also, this kind of music/humor appeals to younger kids because of the humor involved. If you listen to the new album, the song "Drips" is nothing more than teenage humor about STDs. It's good for a sophmoric laugh.

And if you actually try to understand his songs, it can get really interesting. A lot of the objectional content that Eminem puts out is in the guise of Slim Shady, his ultra-violent alter ego. There a couple good nodes about it over on E2... try here for an interesting look at Eminem's different personas and here for other views, etc.

Who said anything about taking him seriously? I listen to his music quite often, mostly because I find it amusing and enjoyable to listen to. Sure, the lyrics are WAY out there, and he's not all that original, but what the fuck is wrong with liking something?

Also, this kind of music/humor appeals to younger kids because of the humor involved. If you listen to the new album, the song "Drips" is nothing more than teenage humor about STDs. It's good for a sophmoric laugh.

And if you actually try to understand his songs, it can get really interesting. A lot of the objectional content that Eminem puts out is in the guise of Slim Shady, his ultra-violent alter ego. There a couple good nodes about it over on E2... try here for an interesting look at Eminem's different personas and here for other views, etc.

It actually has! .. well somewhat

> ...I really hope we don't start seeing a bunch of Warcraft/C&C/Starcraft clones...

The purpose of making Freecraft (note the name? it wants to be one of the *crafts) was to clone Warcraft 2, then later C&C and Starcraft and AOE and so on. The people behind it are good programmers, and so are lazy (?). Instead of writing a seperate engine for each game, they wrote one engine that could power all the games. It can be used for other games, ones people make up on their own, but its primary purpose is to clone the major RTS games.

Personally, I'd much rather play a free version of C&C, and be able to play with anyone, on any platform, regardless of whether they own the original game, in high-res goodness, instead of fighting Windows or WINE to show the modem I have on IRQ 6, COM 7 to an old DOS game who has (well, had) to support it directly.

(sorry 'bout the rant... I'm really looking forward to the C&C clone, as you may've picked up)

Oh no, you're not fooling me again with this 'robot' malarkey.

Far as I'm concerned, if it doesn't have compartments for crayons and ID cards and demand to play 'hider-seeker' every ten minutes, it ain't my robot.

(You kids today... doesn't anyone remember Planetfall?)

Oh no, you're not fooling me again with this 'robot' malarkey.

Far as I'm concerned, if it doesn't have compartments for crayons and ID cards and demand to play 'hider-seeker' every ten minutes, it ain't my robot.

(You kids today... doesn't anyone remember Planetfall?)

...pilots would be unable to tell the difference between simulator and real combat.

Ender's Game, here we come...

So they're finally going to do a movie based on it? Oh great. Yet another movie for the slashdot community to bitch about. ;)

Bugger that talk.

Ever seen The Neverending Story? Yah?

Same director.

'Nuff said. Be quiet. I think OSC knows what he's doing.

So they're finally going to do a movie based on it? Oh great. Yet another movie for the slashdot community to bitch about. ;)

Bugger that talk.

Ever seen The Neverending Story? Yah?

Same director.

'Nuff said. Be quiet. I think OSC knows what he's doing.

now now, Ad homenim attacks only show that you don't have anything intelligent to say...

Mario Cart? Which IMHO is the best racing game ever!

Except for the dozens of design and implementation bugs in the Mario Kart games. Super Circuit feels the most stable.

You are reading what the submitter wrote, not what one of the Slashdot editors put in. If you want some definitions, you might try something like this: Sawfish@Everything2.com.

1. Have a government sponsored nospam server that will keep a list of emails to opt out of any sort of advertising campaign.
2. When a company wishes to send out a mass email campaign, it first sends a secure authorization to this nospam server.
3. The user enters in the emails in which it is sending the agreement. If any of the emails match the nospam list, it therefore does not send email to the person on the list.
4. Opt-In email: If the user chooses to opt in for a particular service/email. A sample of the person's DNA will be taken. The md5sum of the sequences will be compared to the md5sum stored on file at a secret government location, where other human tissue samples are stored. If the md5sum on file is a match, the company is then allowed to send the person and email.

1. What if the company obtains the md5sum from someone other than you? That's easy. All you have to do is change your genetic sequencing and submit a new copy of your DNA to the government! This way, when the government tries to clone you, they will be cloning a correct copy of you as well.
2. What if you don't want to be on the company's mailing list anymore? In that case, you download the source to the database that they're using (mysql or postgres). Find a security hole, and log in as root to the database. Delete your record from the database. Do other people a favor and wipe out their records.
   Alternate Plan: Get 20 of your friends and hire Kevin Mitnick to wipe out the database for you.
3. What if the spammer is from a country outside the jursidiction of the nospam policy? That's easy too.
   1. Go onto Yahoo Games.
   2. Go into the chess spot
   3. Go into room #defcon
   4. Say that you would rather play Global Thermonuclear War.
   5. Spoof nuclear missles launching from the country of your choice.
   6. Repeat spoofing of missles from countries where other spam messages you receive originate from.
   You could also form a world government specifically for the purpose of stopping spam, but then that's kind of like going through the horse's ass to reach its mouth. :)

Whether it passes the Senate after seeing 5 men dressed as either Vikings or Women is anyone's guess.

The Bastard Theory: http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=377910 &lastnode_id=639773

should they just use something like everything to get a large brain/idea dump of stuff? they could have a bunch of "posts" which are just basically a list of problems to be fixed and a slashdot-style comment and moderation system and people can post their comments and moderate, only they might want to give only certain people the ability to moderate. or even if they don't want to give people moderation and just have the comments and go through them all since they seem to just be looking for ideas. i think that would be pretty cool and it would allow people who wouldn't normally get their ideas out in the open to speak their minds. if they want to get stuff done, they'd listen to the masses rather than the select few "experts".

"Anyways" is not a word. Try "Anyway".

Webster 1913 would disagree with you.

I did have this conversation already. But, isn't Slashdot the land of inifintely recurring discussions? I think it's an interesting argument (although admittedly less so the more I spend work time making it.)

I think there are good arguments for trying to drive the networks out of business, but I haven't seen them on this board yet. I also don't really think that most of the people who don't want to watch ads really want them going out of business, they really just want to be free riders [?]. It's the (IMHO of course) hypocrisy that bothers me.

For instance, see the above thread where the person argues that he'd be perfectly happy if the networks went out of business, right before calling my understanding of ethics screwed-up. Seems like his ethic is selfishness.

You, OTOH, have some good questions. It is pretty clear that the networks don't expect you to necessarily buy a product to watch their show. They do hope that you watch some commercials and have a good feeling about the products, so just noting who is advertising seems like it is not enough. I don't think there is a bright line, or at least I can't draw one. I think this is like most free rider problems: ask yourself, what would happen if everyone did what I do - would the result be a good one or a bad one? If you are watching network TV and skip all commercials, the result under the previous test is that the networks go bankrupt or make their shows pay-only. Probably not the intended result, and certainly a bad one for at least 90% of the population. Applying this to some of your questions still leaves them questions, thus the lack of the bright line.

Okay, okay, I'll stop arguing the point. I know it's spitting into the wind. Although it's always nice to see someone else who actually thinks about it (as Tom did in the thread you linked) rather than simply tries to rationalize. Probably better that some people have a balanced view that they can articulate than the networks or tech companies get their way entirely, due to lack of critical, informed discussion. Making arguments that are easily shot down (ie. "I don't care if they go bankrupt!", "I paid Time/Warner cable, so NBC should be satisfied!", "I let them use the airwaves in my house!") means that we get tuned out. When someone make a good argument I will trumpet it from the rooftops.

No, it's not.

It's Stenography.

The comprehensive guide.

Not only that, but the link has managed to crash out AnimeFu. Grumble grumble.

Those lost and confused, try this or this.

The funny thing is, I think that back before Vivendi came to the picture, they supported homegrown projects somewhat, and I think they even offered job for someone who did an outstanding job reverse-engineering WarCraft II file formats...

You know, I agree with one editor and columnist in a local game mag: First, there are game companies that are driven by their artistic vision of good games; However, as soon as the monster known as Stock Market enters the picture, things tend to get worse - the investors want some Money to come out of the company...

The quote from him that sums it up: "Any company that is involved in creative activity, but that summarizes its goal with the always popular slogan 'the only purpose of the company is to bring profit for the shareholders', is going down."

Besides, I don't think I will be in much of rush to buy Warcraft III myself - I recently sold my heart to the Myth series =)

The only polyglot archive i am aware of on the whole internet

Everything2 entry on polyglots

Ever heard of newspeak? :)

Check out newspeakdictionary.com especially The Principles of Newspeak next time you feel bored.

Unfortunately, their list of "possible spam sources" is about the same as a radical feminist's idea of "possible rapists"...

Ahem. I'd like to take that point out.

As with any technology, you get people who have no idea what they are doing who shouldn't be doing it. As an earlier poster pointed out, taking HTML created by Frontpage and doing anything meaningful with it is a nightmare. If you start with the standards all along, then conforming to them is a lot easier.

But Flash is more than just a pretty image viewer. Actionscript can be a powerful tool not only for manipulating frames, but for XML parsing, server to client communication, and lots of other uses. Take for example a prototype at http://www.cornetdesign.com/e2xml.asp. Nothing flashy about it, it's primary job is to take a dynamically generated XML document from Everything and convert it to a format for people using Pocket PC's. Is it the best for the platform? Maybe, maybe not. Another group of developers is working on a native platform viewer.

So please spare me the argument that because lousy designers do lousy stuff with a product, that the product sucks. I'm sure I could build a C++ application that would really suck. But that does not mean that the language sucks, only that I didn't know the proper methods.

This also falls into the long load times. It does not cause long load times when it is streamed properly. But if you get some lazy developer who does not feel like using that, then you get long load times. Again, a developer issue.

And Flash might be proprietary (though my spidey sense reminds me of a open-source viewer and builder I have seen somewhere), but what it is built on - SVG - is not.

>For website viewers who do not want to run Flash and other Macromedia software, or cannot, web sites using it are broken.

Unless the website designers have taken the time to develop a version that is accessible to all. But there are some things that, in order to do the things the customer wants, require you to exclude certain browser users. This is not (actually should not) be because of the developer, but because of what the client wants most of the time. I have fought many a battle for our site to keep it from being taken over by DHTML and the like. The day I see "Best viewed by" at the bottom of the site is the day I know I have lost.

So again, please don't let the crappy developers, or the lazy developers, or the ones who have been instructed to do what they have done or lose their job detracted from the things that can be done with Flash when done properly.

The time heresy was feared more was during the EARLY EARLY days of the Catholic Church, long before the Schism between Orthodoxy and Catholicism, before the Reformation, and before Henry VIII wanted a divorce. We're talking first millenium AD here.

Perhaps you have read the Nicene Creed? Parts of it were written specifically to preach against things like Gnosticism, Arianism, etc. etc.

The time heresy was feared more was during the EARLY EARLY days of the Catholic Church, long before the Schism between Orthodoxy and Catholicism, before the Reformation, and before Henry VIII wanted a divorce. We're talking first millenium AD here.

Perhaps you have read the Nicene Creed? Parts of it were written specifically to preach against things like Gnosticism, Arianism, etc. etc.

What's needed is a plain-English interpretation describing the legitimate activities which were crimilized under the DMCA (with the existing legal examples likewise described in plain English), in terms that make Joe Public think "Omighod, that could happen to me!!"

Here are a couple papers I wrote a while back (when the CBDTPA was still called SSSCA):
The Politics of Copy Protection Technology
DMCA in Plain English

You might also find this paper helpful: What's Wrong With Copy Protection by John Gilmore.

In 1993, Michael Jordan alone was paid more money than the 30,000 Indonesian women combined to make his Nike shoes.

So? You're comparing an American professional athlete to a worker in a third-world country. The average American pays 20 times more than the average Indonesian for everything.

Stop complaining about people making too much money.

Consider: A US Federal Court -- not some backwater municipal or state court -- has just ordered a wholesale invasion of citizens' privacy and personal information without a search warrant.

Consider further: This action was ordered, not in the name of "National Security" or "Anti-Terrorist Investigation", not on behalf of the government at all, but on behalf of a monsterously wealthy corporation bleating about "theft" and illusory "lost profits".

It has begun. The last bulwark against tyranny has been swept aside by a sitting Federal Magistrate without the slightest qualm.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I offer the following admittedly foolish, idealisic counsel:

Close your wallets.

Buy nothing.

See no movies. Rent no videos. Buy no music CDs. Purchase no computer software that isn't Open Source/Free Software (remember, the BSA members are in on this, too).

"But what do I do for entertainment?" Easy. Fire up your Web browser and/or go to your local government building and start digging for incriminating dirt on every elected official you can find. Once you find it, publish it. Read the dirt other people have dug up. Learn as much as you can. Discovering incriminating secrets about other people is endlessly entertaining, especially with that whole "betrayal of the public trust" angle going for it.

And once you've learned everything you possibly can about the people ostensibly representing you... VOTE!

Too many Attorneys General simply refuse to bring malfeasance charges, so relying on criminal prosecution to delete these people won't be very effective. Get out there this upcoming November and vote the bastards out. They are your employees. They are betraying you and selling you out. They are embezzling your earnings and selling your personal secrets to the highest bidder. Fire them. Hurl them out the door so fast that you can see a redshift on their ass.

Apathy about our government is a luxury we can no longer afford. We will only have one or two more shots at this before the courts decide that EULAs really are binding, that your property isn't really yours, that the monopoly of copyright trumps Freedom of Speech (q.v. Keith Henson) and Freedom from Unreasonable Search and Seizure (this case). At that point, we all become serfs, and, "Your papers, please," will become a phrase heard all too often in our places of work and our homes.

Schwab

Just to be clear, all processors out there have bugs.

Now, it's not necessarily true that all processors have bugs. It's much the same as how you can have a "Hello World!" with no bugs a lot easier than you can have, say, an OS with no bugs. You could probably build an OISC processor with no bugs.

You must be kidding. Have you heard of the so called the Mickey Mouse Copyright Act? Do you really think copyrights don't get extensions?

I believe what the original poster said was that the original author can choose which "level" of copyright to issue his work under, just like one can choose between issueing her/his original work under bsd or gpl, whether or not some government likes her/his viewpoint or not.