Well, if they own the music in the first place as well, could they give me a copy, since I own it too?:)
(I know, I know, duplicating something you already own and giving it to someone else who owns it too is called "stealing", not "giving", I'll get my terminology right one day...) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
If I had, say, a bad disk in a set, and I proved I had ownership of that disk and got someone (anyone!) to give me a replacement, did I break the law?
I paid for a license to use software, (listen to music, read a book, whatever) and I own something that should be bit-for-bit (dot-for-dot, word-for-word...) identical, so if I get that, *however* I get that, it shouldn't be a violation of that license.
Two people own the same intellectual property, and wish to trade copies. If the licenses at work doesn't allow that, there's something seriously foul about the whole system. IF that is the case, I encourage everyone to use Napster, Gnutella, and whatever the hell you want, and copy whatever you want, and give credit to whoever you want.
Why? Because even anarchy is better than a broken, unfair system. Copyright was created to encourage innovation on the part of the scientists and the artists and other *creative* people. If it is used only to keep the money and the power in the hands of a select few (non-scientists, non-artists, money-grubbing) people, I say distribute the IP to the masses.
It isn't any more creative, or more fair for the artists, it's just more equitable, and eventually when the few people who were at the top realize they have no power, they will have to find a system that works for the masses. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
128k on-die cache sounds great to me. Any benchmarks yet?
I'm in the market for an Athlon, at least this summer, and it's great to see AMD get the business, but if I could get an extra $100 of purchasing power with one of these, I'd happily get a sweet video card or a larger hard drive as well as a chip that performs about as well as the Athlon I would have gotten.
In the meantime, I suggest the name for the "new" competing Intel counterpart soon to be marketed should be the Caveon, as in "Caveat Emptor"...:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Some of these look pretty nice, but others look like rejects from 80's cartoons.
I'm sure "Dyna Soar" could carve out a nice place in "The Transformers" or "G.I. Joe", but the name is still too cheesy. Good thing they didn't build it. Spiral looks pretty, though.
This is *definitely* a labor of love, looking at what he had to do to get the images to look nice. Three different programs, image maps, mapping textures to individual, hand-picked polygons, tweaking... Ugh. Too much work for me.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I'd have one computer burning ROMs, and another one dl'ing images, and an even larger RAID drive just for show, to show I'm a rich man now...
As it stands, though, downloading 650MB in one fell swoop and burning it to a CD is only for the internet "haves" in the world. (i.e. not me--I have ethernet, but not a CD burner, I guess I could mount it on loopback, but I don't have that much space. Aaggh! New computer, here I come...)
Otherwise, you'll get it in mangled, 657KB segments, copy it to floppies, and wonder why CDs aren't formatted as FAT... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Since code is considered speech by some people, they're probably just making sure that it's all written in French, without any American idioms creeping into the language...
The real question is, will I be able to wait long enough to get a "Spitfire"...
It's good to see a review mention "Price" early on. That's a big concern to me. My computer never costs more than $1,100, and I always try to get something better (at least twice as good every two years).
Oh yeah, and I'm buying a new system. But I'm pretty sure my current K6/300 setup wouldn't be able to handle an Athlon.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I'd be tempted to do that, at least for their older stuff. Metallica used to be a really cool band, with some good messages. (believe it or not; some people don't know how to listen to the words)
Nowadays, though, their music was just crappy. I remember when they started trying to make a comeback, and I saw them on TV doing another video of "Enter Sandman", and I was like, "That's not bad, but it's not Metallica!". Imagine my surprise when I found out it was, but that they just started sucking. Not too long after that, Load came out, and then they started playing it on the pop music stations...
After that, and this record company pandering, I've lost respect for them. I'd be happy to pay the old Metallica for their music, probably more than they got paid in the first place. But I'd be paying for "Metallica", "And Justice For All", and basically everything but the new stuff... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
pb writes "Picture a world where information about your every move on Slashdot is all shipped off to many third parties, with the willing cooperation of your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Check out guru CmdrTaco's latest offering at Andover.net's Secret Labs on Predictive Networks plan to know everything you do... no book rights... no story moderation... just everything you do all the time."
"He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awake he knows when you've been trolling lots, so you'd better be good for goodness sake!"
Does this strike anyone else as a little paranoid? First, "Internet Privacy" is a sick oxymoron. Second, there are technical solutions which can allow a user privacy regardless.
And finally, if they *really* want to store all my web information, so be it. They will get sued, or pretty soon they won't be able to fit the (damn doubleclick.com) logs on their servers. And either way, I'll still be laughing at them.
Heck, combine some technologies. Have a fake (alladvantage.com) web-browsing program that goes to wherever you want, just to confuse them, and a real (private) connection, cryptographically secure and all that jazz. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Maybe that will change once IRIX is gone, and Linux on Merced is one of the few surviving UNIXes, with possibly the most "new" cool features.
In any case, anything that allows the different flavors of Unix to consolidate into one single, better Unix system is a miracle, IMO. And even the old Unix hackers in the military, which are all backed up on tape and dumped back as needed, I'm sure, will recognize this. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Yeah, Windows could use some stability and some *real* memory protection. People keep telling me that Windows 2000 actually is better, but the system requirements look sick, and the "New Features" were already better implemented in Unix, like 15-25 years ago.
Netscape 4.x is quite possibly the most evil piece of software available for Linux. Yeah, I'm using it now, because for some things it works. But when it crashes and burns, it pisses me off because it doesn't want to die. Then I use Mozilla for a while.:)
Does it freeze everything *solid*? Does it lock the console, (Caps Lock doesn't work, SysRq doesn't work, etc., etc.) and can you telnet in (if possible)? The only time I have anything actually lock solid on me is when I have a real driver conflict, or two apps running as root that both directly play with the video card, or something like that. (SVGALib and xawtv step on each other, on my system; I'm pretty sure it's something to do with how they use DGA)
Yes, Windows is the OS of the masses. And I guess I'm just different. Logically, I should be using Windows right now. I know a lot about computers, and I used DOS for a long time, but I found myself implementing Unix-like commands in Pascal before I knew what Unix was. I didn't like Win 3.1, and I refused to run Win '95 on my system. By then, I knew what Unix was, and found out about Linux. And now there's no turning back, baby.
The bottom line is, if Microsoft cared about its power users, I'd be running Windows 2000 or something right now. As it stands, most of the people I know with a release copy of Win 2000 pirated it. They get no respect.
(1,000,000 web sites running on Win 2000, and at least 5% paid for it!;) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Remove the nobody group. Install VMWare. Run Linux...
Registry hacking is sick. Windows 3.1 had everything organized in nice text configuration files, and Microsoft had to screw it up. At least the apps are technically storing their preferences in the Windows directory, but they can still step on each other's toes, and create duplicate entries, etc., etc. In Win 3.1, this was limited to MYPROG.INI or whatnot; it didn't mess up your whole system.
But, that's Microsoft Integration for you. It's *easier* to use! It's a feature!
? As in '' or '&', '>', '<'? Looks ok by me. But for your posting mode, "Choose, but choose wisely". I like "Plain Old Text", but remember that it includes everything *except for* non-breaking spaces, less-than signs, and greater-than signs, and accepts HTML tags. I think "Plain Old Text" should convert that too (except maybe valid tags), but what do you want with three options. Just call it something else, like "Mostly Text", and have an explanation. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
But, "We're an NT shop," and we have enough problems as it is without having to *learn* anything else.
God forbid you should have to learn something useful. I know how hectic it is in a business, and I'm sure its worse in the military, but sitting around trying to force Windows Apps to coexist and not die doesn't sound like my idea of a productive day. Give me a good package manager (that keeps track of my libraries!) any day.
Linux is extensible. But you don't have to mess with it if you don't want to. Heck, don't install a C compiler or any dev tools on the client machine, don't give your users root, and give them a disk quota of 50MB or whatever. That should solve most of your problems.
Ultimately, we'll see. I'm sure Linux will get adopted more in the military and the gov't. And knowing them, they'll probably do some surveys on it, and eventually we'll see who's more productive, and who got the work done this year. I'll continue to put my money on Unix. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Can we expect to see SCO officially supporting SCO apps packaged for Linux?
Since ix86 Linux has iBCS2, which runs SCO binaries, could we expect to see specifically SCO Merge packaged for Linux? I'd love to see a free (at least as in beer) alternative to VMWare, and FreeMWare (or whatever they're calling it this week) isn't anywhere close. SCO Merge looks cool, but SCO puts stuff in some *weird* directories, and I wasn't about to unpack that package in / on my Linux distro. (it took me long enough to figure out what they *did* to cpio to make the archive in the first place!:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I'm not really impressed by our 'friends' at sightsound.com. On the one hand, designing a site that "needs" Java, IE5, Microsoft Media Player, Shockwave Flash, etc., etc. is pretty mean, and they don't give you any feedback if those aren't present. (You need Java to find out that you need IE5, etc., etc.)
However, they did give me a reason to test out IE5 for UNIX again, and it's okay. It looks significantly better than the old IE4 for UNIX, (it loaded for me, maybe that's because I'm running on an older SPARC, or maybe they finally fixed some of those version-specific issues they had.) but it doesn't support any plug-ins, or no one has written any. (same thing?) Oh, and they're using Sun's JVM on Solaris. I got a kick out of that.:)
Anyhow, yet again, I'd love to live in a world where web sites really were cross-platform, or companies would bite the bullet, and develop apps properly. It looks like IE5 for UNIX should work great as long as (a) you have enough RAM for it, and (b) you don't plan on doing anything else.
If Microsoft would release a decent version of IE5 for Linux, they could really capture some market share where it matters, or if the Wine project develops to the point where IE5 runs decently, (the installer too, please...) they might get some converts anyhow. But as it stands, I'm not too impressed with their attitude either.
Looks like another reason to use Mozilla, and write friendly letters to companies: "I'd love to use your software, but..." --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
If anyone has any doubts about how long the life of software patents should be, read this patent; this is all obsolete.
However, it is a good argument for (a) writing new formats; (b) not writing their code in legalese.
8. The compression apparatus of claim 6 in which said hash function generation means comprises means for providing said predetermined number of hash signals in response to a code signal and a character signal so that a code signal hashed with different character signals provides different hash signals, respectively.
Hmm. Sounds like a hash table to me... I wonder if there was any "prior art" for this claim, eh? Or does UNISYS own the patent on hash tables too, so they can sue my File Org. class....
<HUMOR> See, that's the problem: since UNISYS insists on writing patents instead of software, their next-generation OS is going to be *really amazing*, but it's currently 3 billion lines of source, and loosely based on MULTICS Technology (MT):
"In the subroutine OpenMultipeFilesForNoGoodReason (hereafter refered to as the subroutine), the buffer apparatus, BufferFileArray, comprising of no more than BufferFileLength multiplied by BufferFileBlockSize ASCII character elements, expects BufferFileBlockNum minus one fixed units of character stream data of size BufferFileBlockSize, followed by a final unit of character stream data which may be of variable size, but no more than size BufferFileBlockSize"...
(Don't get me wrong: I'd *love* to have one. But if it doesn't come out in the next few months, I won't...) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
What happened to them sounded pretty lame, I hate it when people can't just fess up and admit they made a mistake.
The rules sounded somewhat weird, but it's probably no weirder than the programming contest I've been doing lately (its monthly, so hold your horses). (and MazeMan can admit he makes mistakes.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
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Well, if they own the music in the first place as well, could they give me a copy, since I own it too? :)
(I know, I know, duplicating something you already own and giving it to someone else who owns it too is called "stealing", not "giving", I'll get my terminology right one day...)
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What? That's the dumbest argument I ever heard!
If I had, say, a bad disk in a set, and I proved I had ownership of that disk and got someone (anyone!) to give me a replacement, did I break the law?
I paid for a license to use software, (listen to music, read a book, whatever) and I own something that should be bit-for-bit (dot-for-dot, word-for-word...) identical, so if I get that, *however* I get that, it shouldn't be a violation of that license.
Two people own the same intellectual property, and wish to trade copies. If the licenses at work doesn't allow that, there's something seriously foul about the whole system. IF that is the case, I encourage everyone to use Napster, Gnutella, and whatever the hell you want, and copy whatever you want, and give credit to whoever you want.
Why? Because even anarchy is better than a broken, unfair system. Copyright was created to encourage innovation on the part of the scientists and the artists and other *creative* people. If it is used only to keep the money and the power in the hands of a select few (non-scientists, non-artists, money-grubbing) people, I say distribute the IP to the masses.
It isn't any more creative, or more fair for the artists, it's just more equitable, and eventually when the few people who were at the top realize they have no power, they will have to find a system that works for the masses.
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128k on-die cache sounds great to me. Any benchmarks yet?
:)
I'm in the market for an Athlon, at least this summer, and it's great to see AMD get the business, but if I could get an extra $100 of purchasing power with one of these, I'd happily get a sweet video card or a larger hard drive as well as a chip that performs about as well as the Athlon I would have gotten.
In the meantime, I suggest the name for the "new" competing Intel counterpart soon to be marketed should be the Caveon, as in "Caveat Emptor"...
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Some of these look pretty nice, but others look like rejects from 80's cartoons.
:)
I'm sure "Dyna Soar" could carve out a nice place in "The Transformers" or "G.I. Joe", but the name is still too cheesy. Good thing they didn't build it. Spiral looks pretty, though.
This is *definitely* a labor of love, looking at what he had to do to get the images to look nice. Three different programs, image maps, mapping textures to individual, hand-picked polygons, tweaking... Ugh. Too much work for me.
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I'd have one computer burning ROMs,
and another one dl'ing images,
and an even larger RAID drive just for show,
to show I'm a rich man now...
As it stands, though, downloading 650MB in one fell swoop and burning it to a CD is only for the internet "haves" in the world. (i.e. not me--I have ethernet, but not a CD burner, I guess I could mount it on loopback, but I don't have that much space. Aaggh! New computer, here I come...)
Otherwise, you'll get it in mangled, 657KB segments, copy it to floppies, and wonder why CDs aren't formatted as FAT...
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Let's solve the "support for Linux" issue once and for all, and just port Linux to this card! :)
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Since code is considered speech by some people, they're probably just making sure that it's all written in French, without any American idioms creeping into the language...
*ducks*
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Is there a difference? ;)
Still, Karma Whore or not, it was still a pretty good post. (and I got flamed by an AC for it, it had to be good!)
So how're you doing?
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The real question is, will I be able to wait long enough to get a "Spitfire"...
:)
It's good to see a review mention "Price" early on. That's a big concern to me. My computer never costs more than $1,100, and I always try to get something better (at least twice as good every two years).
Oh yeah, and I'm buying a new system. But I'm pretty sure my current K6/300 setup wouldn't be able to handle an Athlon.
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To anyone saying something stupid about their intentions, or public forums and fair use and blah blah blah...
READ THIS FIRST.
As much as some of you might hate him, Signal 11 has some relevant stuff to say, and from what I know about copyrights, it sounds good to me.
This is a real issue, and I'd like to know what Katz and Slashdot are going to do about it.
Comments?
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Excellent link. I might just repost that up higher...
:)
Yeah, Sig11 usually has something reasonable to say, but that's impressive, even for him.
Of course, no one will see our posts, because they're down here.
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I'd be tempted to do that, at least for their older stuff. Metallica used to be a really cool band, with some good messages. (believe it or not; some people don't know how to listen to the words)
Nowadays, though, their music was just crappy. I remember when they started trying to make a comeback, and I saw them on TV doing another video of "Enter Sandman", and I was like, "That's not bad, but it's not Metallica!". Imagine my surprise when I found out it was, but that they just started sucking. Not too long after that, Load came out, and then they started playing it on the pop music stations...
After that, and this record company pandering, I've lost respect for them. I'd be happy to pay the old Metallica for their music, probably more than they got paid in the first place. But I'd be paying for "Metallica", "And Justice For All", and basically everything but the new stuff...
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My post got lost in a wormhole. Damn you, Taco... :)
pb writes "Picture a world where information about your every move on Slashdot is all shipped off to many third parties, with the willing cooperation of your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Check out guru CmdrTaco's latest offering at Andover.net's Secret Labs on Predictive Networks plan to know everything you do... no book rights... no story moderation... just everything you do all the time."
"He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awake he knows when you've been trolling lots, so you'd better be good for goodness sake!"
Does this strike anyone else as a little paranoid? First, "Internet Privacy" is a sick oxymoron. Second, there are technical solutions which can allow a user privacy regardless.
And finally, if they *really* want to store all my web information, so be it. They will get sued, or pretty soon they won't be able to fit the (damn doubleclick.com) logs on their servers. And either way, I'll still be laughing at them.
Heck, combine some technologies. Have a fake (alladvantage.com) web-browsing program that goes to wherever you want, just to confuse them, and a real (private) connection, cryptographically secure and all that jazz.
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Maybe that will change once IRIX is gone, and Linux on Merced is one of the few surviving UNIXes, with possibly the most "new" cool features.
In any case, anything that allows the different flavors of Unix to consolidate into one single, better Unix system is a miracle, IMO. And even the old Unix hackers in the military, which are all backed up on tape and dumped back as needed, I'm sure, will recognize this.
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Yeah, Windows could use some stability and some *real* memory protection. People keep telling me that Windows 2000 actually is better, but the system requirements look sick, and the "New Features" were already better implemented in Unix, like 15-25 years ago.
:)
;)
Netscape 4.x is quite possibly the most evil piece of software available for Linux. Yeah, I'm using it now, because for some things it works. But when it crashes and burns, it pisses me off because it doesn't want to die. Then I use Mozilla for a while.
Does it freeze everything *solid*? Does it lock the console, (Caps Lock doesn't work, SysRq doesn't work, etc., etc.) and can you telnet in (if possible)? The only time I have anything actually lock solid on me is when I have a real driver conflict, or two apps running as root that both directly play with the video card, or something like that. (SVGALib and xawtv step on each other, on my system; I'm pretty sure it's something to do with how they use DGA)
Yes, Windows is the OS of the masses. And I guess I'm just different. Logically, I should be using Windows right now. I know a lot about computers, and I used DOS for a long time, but I found myself implementing Unix-like commands in Pascal before I knew what Unix was. I didn't like Win 3.1, and I refused to run Win '95 on my system. By then, I knew what Unix was, and found out about Linux. And now there's no turning back, baby.
The bottom line is, if Microsoft cared about its power users, I'd be running Windows 2000 or something right now. As it stands, most of the people I know with a release copy of Win 2000 pirated it. They get no respect.
(1,000,000 web sites running on Win 2000, and at least 5% paid for it!
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Heh heh. "MacOS is secure out of the box!" :)
Remove the nobody group. Install VMWare. Run Linux...
Registry hacking is sick. Windows 3.1 had everything organized in nice text configuration files, and Microsoft had to screw it up. At least the apps are technically storing their preferences in the Windows directory, but they can still step on each other's toes, and create duplicate entries, etc., etc. In Win 3.1, this was limited to MYPROG.INI or whatnot; it didn't mess up your whole system.
But, that's Microsoft Integration for you. It's *easier* to use! It's a feature!
? As in '' or '&', '>', '<'? Looks ok by me. But for your posting mode, "Choose, but choose wisely". I like "Plain Old Text", but remember that it includes everything *except for* non-breaking spaces, less-than signs, and greater-than signs, and accepts HTML tags. I think "Plain Old Text" should convert that too (except maybe valid tags), but what do you want with three options. Just call it something else, like "Mostly Text", and have an explanation.
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Linux is a Unix.
NT is a sick VMS hybrid.
Unix works.
NT does whatever it wants to.
Linux is free.
But, "We're an NT shop," and we have enough problems as it is without having to *learn* anything else.
God forbid you should have to learn something useful. I know how hectic it is in a business, and I'm sure its worse in the military, but sitting around trying to force Windows Apps to coexist and not die doesn't sound like my idea of a productive day. Give me a good package manager (that keeps track of my libraries!) any day.
Linux is extensible. But you don't have to mess with it if you don't want to. Heck, don't install a C compiler or any dev tools on the client machine, don't give your users root, and give them a disk quota of 50MB or whatever. That should solve most of your problems.
Ultimately, we'll see. I'm sure Linux will get adopted more in the military and the gov't. And knowing them, they'll probably do some surveys on it, and eventually we'll see who's more productive, and who got the work done this year. I'll continue to put my money on Unix.
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Can we expect to see SCO officially supporting SCO apps packaged for Linux?
:)
Since ix86 Linux has iBCS2, which runs SCO binaries, could we expect to see specifically SCO Merge packaged for Linux? I'd love to see a free (at least as in beer) alternative to VMWare, and FreeMWare (or whatever they're calling it this week) isn't anywhere close. SCO Merge looks cool, but SCO puts stuff in some *weird* directories, and I wasn't about to unpack that package in / on my Linux distro. (it took me long enough to figure out what they *did* to cpio to make the archive in the first place!
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I'm not really impressed by our 'friends' at sightsound.com. On the one hand, designing a site that "needs" Java, IE5, Microsoft Media Player, Shockwave Flash, etc., etc. is pretty mean, and they don't give you any feedback if those aren't present. (You need Java to find out that you need IE5, etc., etc.)
:)
However, they did give me a reason to test out IE5 for UNIX again, and it's okay. It looks significantly better than the old IE4 for UNIX, (it loaded for me, maybe that's because I'm running on an older SPARC, or maybe they finally fixed some of those version-specific issues they had.) but it doesn't support any plug-ins, or no one has written any. (same thing?) Oh, and they're using Sun's JVM on Solaris. I got a kick out of that.
Anyhow, yet again, I'd love to live in a world where web sites really were cross-platform, or companies would bite the bullet, and develop apps properly. It looks like IE5 for UNIX should work great as long as (a) you have enough RAM for it, and (b) you don't plan on doing anything else.
If Microsoft would release a decent version of IE5 for Linux, they could really capture some market share where it matters, or if the Wine project develops to the point where IE5 runs decently, (the installer too, please...) they might get some converts anyhow. But as it stands, I'm not too impressed with their attitude either.
Looks like another reason to use Mozilla, and write friendly letters to companies: "I'd love to use your software, but..."
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If anyone has any doubts about how long the life of software patents should be, read this patent; this is all obsolete.
However, it is a good argument for (a) writing new formats; (b) not writing their code in legalese.
Hmm. Sounds like a hash table to me... I wonder if there was any "prior art" for this claim, eh? Or does UNISYS own the patent on hash tables too, so they can sue my File Org. class....
<HUMOR>
See, that's the problem: since UNISYS insists on writing patents instead of software, their next-generation OS is going to be *really amazing*, but it's currently 3 billion lines of source, and loosely based on MULTICS Technology (MT):
</HUMOR>
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Well, if you'd take a moment to read my post, you'd see that I couldn't get through and indeed even requested someone to mirror it for me!
Any other tidbits you'd like to share?
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How so?
Do you *have* one?
(Don't get me wrong: I'd *love* to have one. But if it doesn't come out in the next few months, I won't...)
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Technopop is here (big surprise).
It looks like they do BeOS stuff. Anyone know if this is going to be BeOS-based?
Oh. And they "make industrial strength games!!!"
I'm guessing from the host names involved that this is the Real-Time Strategy, Real-Time OS project. If anyone gets to the server, mirror it for us!
host www.beia.org
www.beia.org is a nickname for quantum3d.beia.org
quantum3d.beia.org has address 209.220.46.173
host quantum3d.technopop.com
quantum3d.technopop.com has address 209.220.46.173
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What happened to them sounded pretty lame, I hate it when people can't just fess up and admit they made a mistake.
:)
The rules sounded somewhat weird, but it's probably no weirder than the programming contest I've been doing lately (its monthly, so hold your horses). (and MazeMan can admit he makes mistakes.
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Wow, some people just can't take a joke.
There was an X-Files episode where they had a bug crawl across the screen, I thought it was very well-done.
And who breaks a TV trying to swat a bug? Or sues over it?
I wish I could say "I'm a moron, give me money!" and have it work. Especially since I need the money for college...
...and they say *we* can't figure out what reality is...
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