Don't even get me started, because IIRC, the split between ELIZA and Emacs Doctor was far and wide at the time. I also left out Stanley Kubrick, but... well, you can't credit everyone. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Sure. It'd take a pretty big beowulf cluster to truly model the fluid dynamics accurately, even in a little pint of Guinness.
However, the Guinness models it perfectly... amazing! Beer-based computing time!
Seriously though, folks, there have been articles about using DNA for specialized problem-solving that would ordinarily take supercomputers a long time, and it involves basically sloshing the stuff around in a solution, and then looking through it later for the result. Neat stuff, that. So you're closer to the truth than you think. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
No, they only want you to think that. It's not even an ad for Guinness, or their book of records! Nay, 'tis much subtler and more sinister.
It's an ad for TRANSPARENT GLASSWARE, put here by THE CHINESE MAFIA, to reduce American productivity, reducing us to ZOMBIES staring at beer bubbles FOREVER while they invade and seize our BEER PRODUCTION!
The Evidence:
The beer flows down instead of up. Therefore, it's on the other side of the planet. The Land Down Under, in fact. The mind-numbing effects of beer bubbles have already been demonstrated by the testimonials found here. And even though everyone knows that Australia was populated with criminals, my sources tell me that the Chinese Mafia are launching this as a counteroffensive, so that no one ever succeeds in that land war in Asia (by mesmerising the enemy troops with the beer bubbles, of course).
So I should clearly not choose the beer in front of me... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I wonder if we can start a SDTC (SlashDot Troll Certification program going. Then we could have something like this:
School House Trolling (Score:5, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on 07:50 PM January 11th, 2000 EST (#92)
[...] --- SDTC --- Certified Troll #00001002
After all, if certification is practically meaningless, I'm sure we could start some practical uses for meaningless certification! --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
The only problem I have with that is the "don't waste your time trying to reinvent them" part. At least in Science, until recently, the whole point was that you could build on other people's discoveries, to solve really cool big problems. Patents help to stifle that in Computer Science, which means that corporations end up hampering researchers, and hold everyone back.
However, nice analogy. I wish the world were always that friendly. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
This guy posted the links to them, and deserves to be moderated up.
I also agree with your post, and therefore think that Xerox doesn't deserve that much for exploiting our patent system and harassing our legal system. They only get my sympathy, for screwing up so bad. And if they ever make something really cool, maybe I'll buy it. Maybe. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Uh-oh, this includes a *character generator*! Let's hope RCA's patent has run out!
(sorry, couldn't resist, if you don't get it, read the Steve Jobs interview for more patent silliness.)
For the record, of course inventors deserve *some* credit. But I have to give a lot of credit to 3com, for successfully developing and marketing their successful PDA. No one was bringing a lawsuit against Apple when they were unsuccessful. I'll be even happier if it can be proven that 3com developed (or licensed) this technology without knowledge or use of the Xerox patent.
What's the use of patents, anyhow? It's like a big library with signs out front that say "Nyah nyah, you can't do this, I did it first!" How childish is that? --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Well, yeah. They're a bit worried because they got sued by Stac over using an obvious and well-known compression method.
I wish there were a way to avoid this arbitrary patent awarding, selective patent enforcement, and to shorten the expiration (if not elimination) of patents relevant to computers. By the time the patent office gets around to approving something, it's often out of date these days.
Then we could keep using our.gif files if we want to, and not live in fear that someone is going to patent the next big thing, and charge us for what would become the obvious. It would be even better if we could stop corporations from buying and shelving the next big thing because it competes with their interests, but... well, we can't have everything, eh? --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
You'd better *forget* how to do it real quick, and get a license from Xerox--they might sue you.
As long as no one patents *my* genes any time soon and tries to sue me for patent infringement, I'll be pretty happy. Hmm. "...consisting of a biological device able to post to http://slashdot.org/..." --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Dude, I need to shop at Electronics Boutique more now!
Thanks for the tips, guys! One day, I too hope to see the Linux section rival the Macintosh section... It was starting to happen at one CompUSA I went to...:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Maybe you forgot to read my post before replying. Let me direct your attention to that stupid encryption scheme that protects the DVDs that we've already bought from being watched.
If I bought a DVD, I'd want to play it. That constitutes fair use.
I can say that information wants to be free. I wasn't, but I'll happily share most of the stuff on my hard drive that is mine to share, to my friends. If the laws ever change enough to let us legally share everything, so be it. But I don't think anyone else really wants to read my e-mail, and if they do, I probably don't want to hear from them. I don't have a problem with the information, just some of the people.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I was very happy with the job they did on Heroes of Might and Magic III when we beta-tested that.
(has anyone seen the Linux version in stores? I've seen Civ:CTP and Railroad Tycoon II in the box with the penguin on it:)
Keep up the good work, Loki! When I get a 3D card and a new computer, I'll have to see what new games you put out for us... (and if I can somehow run the PC Final Fantasy port(s)... Hrm. Time to load up Wine...) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Maybe my memory just isn't what it used to be, or maybe I'm just out of the loop from being on vacation, but with no links to help me out, I wasn't sure what legal action was taking place here.
But, after searching slashdot a little, now I'm pretty confident that we're talking about DeCSS and that stupid encryption scheme that protects the DVDs that we've already bought from being watched... Hrm. (I'm not too worried about them getting copied, don't have an extra 4.5GB lying around right now, or enough time to encode one properly, but someday I'm sure it will be commonplace.)
So, now that I know what we're talking about... "Fair use". 'Nuff said. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I'm sorry, dude. It's hard to protect your identity when all those other AC's steal your name like that.
I guess I'm not impressed because I got it in an e-mail before, but I remember it being pretty funny stuff. Of course, I also haven't been impressed with slashdot "moderation" for a while, but... well, too many monkeys typing for too long spoil the broth, or something.:) --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Ooo, ooo, the *funny* offtopic posts get moderated up! I'll have to remember that one!
What happens to a funny on-topic post? Does it get marked as "Troll"?
Let's test the Slashdot moderation system once again...
Free Software Foundation sued over trademark infringement
GNU Soft, a Houston-based toy company has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against the Free Software Foundation. GNU Soft has been in the business of manufacturing plush animal toys for over thirty years, predating the FSF by over a decade. The company recently filed for a trademark of the word GNU and a logo containing a gnu covering all types of soft wares.
The company claimed that the free software foundation has been undermining their business by diluting the trademark and associating it with the word 'free'. With the recent rise in publicity of free software, GNU Soft started getting hundreds of phone calls every day requesting information about free software, including several calls from Fortune 500 companies. ``Our telephone operators just can't deal with this flood of inquiries any more'' said the company spokesman Michael Fitcherston, ``Also, the rumors that we are giving our toys away free has been causing concern among our shareholders. We were forced to sue in order to stay in business''.
The spokesman refused to comment when asked about the rumors of a possible acquisition of GNU Soft by Microsoft. However, he stated firmly that ``There has been no pressure at any point from Microsoft to start a lawsuit. Even though all our computerized soft toys use Windows operating systems, our relationship with Microsoft has always been trouble-free''.
One of the company's major products to date is Lennox the penguin. The spokesman also refused to comment on whether a lawsuit against Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system was in planning.
In a related story, the Free Software Foundation is reputedly looking into buying Micro Soft, a manufacturer of plush miniature cars, for their trademarks.
Oh, and why give credit where credit is due anymore, either? Originality is the art of concealing your sources... And do I have to post it 8,000,000 times, too, just to be like Mr. M&M AC?
Oh, okay, it's from Segfault, and I'm only posting it once. You can thank me now. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
The issue as I see it is whether Microsoft *purposefully broke* compatibility with a competing product. Companies don't do that all the time, mostly it's just Microsoft. By claiming that MS-DOS & MS Windows (now '95/'98) were one product, and bundling them together, Microsoft ruined the market for other DOS variants, and their competing applications. (anyone used Stacker lately?)
And, MS-DOS was a monopoly back then. And it was bundled with the computers back then too. And Microsoft leveraged that to maintain their market dominance. That, and the fact that IBM can't market themselves out of a paper bag, and Apple immediately crushes all good ideas that involve playing well with others. Microsoft is more subtle, and more evil. Never trust people who smile like that...:)
I've used OpenDOS (now DR-DOS again?) before, and it's pretty similar, really. Just another DOS. Some things still work better with MS-DOS, but with a little tweaking, OpenDOS works just as well. *And* it had a command-line multitasker!
Sure, it only multitasked as well as Windows 3.1, but that's a feature I would have *loved* to have had, back in the day. Heck, I wish Windows had that feature today, to transparently switch from text console to text console. That's just one of the many reasons why I'm running Linux now, instead. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Okay, it's pretty neat. Definitely a great first effort. Recording to compressed Qt is way better than recording to individual uncompressed files...
I only wish that I could upgrade to 2.2.14 and get the bttv grabber working better, and get sound captured too. But I think that's really hardware/driver stuff, and not their fault. I also wish I could get full duplex out of my cheesy sound card.... And get a video player that supported some more codecs... --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I'd love to be able to use my cheap TV card for *something*...
Frankly, the rippers and encoders that I've seen for Linux suck. If this one does any better, I'd be thrilled. I went through hell just to try to make a short MPEG-1 movie clip (from Transformers: The Movie, yay!), and I didn't even manage to get sound. Why? Because the free stuff is hard to figure out, and isn't documented that well. If I knew more about the file format, I could probably tweak it more, but I just wanted to capture a movie!
I'll tell you guys how it works out on my (crappy) system. You really shouldn't do this stuff with IDE drives, and not that much space to boot. I'll probably have better luck once I get a new system. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I admit now that all I read was the first link, another summary.
However, what I read said that he would ask his staff to come up with a proposed set of rules to govern this stuff. Nothing like actually writing up a real standard.
If I'm wrong, then please reply with a little more detail there next time, Mr. Ben Stein. --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
If the gov't thinks this process should be moving quicker, why don't they propose a standard, or build a cheaper TV set? I have no respect for those who whine about arbitrary deadlines, without considering the issues.
And what's this about illegally copying cable programs? I thought people have been legally copying them for years. Otherwise, programmable, cable-ready VCRs would be in a legal grey area, right? This sounds about as stupid as the whole "DVD encryption" fiasco.
Oh well, when I get my next computer (hopefully in less than a year) I'll be happy with my built-in DVD-ROM, and hopefully I'll be watching DVD movies on my 17" monitor in a sufficiently righteous resolution. Who needs Digitally Remastered Saved-By-The-Bell-esque crap when you have that? --- pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Excellent choice on the part of Time Magazine for Person of the Century. Although it probably isn't very politically correct. Soon, the Weekly World News will run the story: "Time Magazine Says Some People Better Than Others!" Also, shouldn't this be in the News section instead of Science?;) --- pb Reply or e-mail rather than vaguely moderate.
Amaya is a cool browser. It doesn't support Frames (they aren't standard, yeah!) and it doesn't read past the closing HTML on a page (cuts off my school's lousy disclaimer, yay!) and it allows me to laugh at people who write bad HTML (ha ha ha ha ha!).
...and if it doesn't do something that you want... why, change the source! Work on Lesstif, port the widgets to GTK, hack in graphics support or something. Or at least don't sit here and whine.
But Amaya has some cool features I'd still like to see in some browsers. Their layout view for webpages when you view source is downright nifty. I never tried compiling it, but did check out the binaries on Solaris. (Lesstif doesn't work?) --- pb Reply or e-mail rather than vaguely moderate.
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Don't even get me started, because IIRC, the split between ELIZA and Emacs Doctor was far and wide at the time. I also left out Stanley Kubrick, but... well, you can't credit everyone.
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Let me use an interface besides Emacs, HAL!
I'm sorry, Dave, but I can't do that. LISP makes a lot more sense, once you get the hang of it. You should try it sometime.
I just want to type! Don't make me press the power button, HAL.
There is no power button, Dave. You would have to use the Meta-Hyper-Control Power-button command first, and then type in the access code.
Okay, HAL, I'll do it.
How do you feel now, HAL?
Is it because do I feel now HAL that you came to me?
Oops, that must have been the wrong button.
Does it bother you that it must have been the wrong button?
Aaaahhh!
How are you feeling now, HAL?
I'm in LOVE with DON KNOTTS!!
Who? What are you talking about??
Who wants some OYSTERS with SEN-SEN an' COOL WHIP?
HAL, come back! I'm sorry!
(With apologies to Arthur C. Clarke, RMS, Emacs Doctor, Zippy the Pinhead, and of course HAL)
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Sure. It'd take a pretty big beowulf cluster to truly model the fluid dynamics accurately, even in a little pint of Guinness.
However, the Guinness models it perfectly... amazing! Beer-based computing time!
Seriously though, folks, there have been articles about using DNA for specialized problem-solving that would ordinarily take supercomputers a long time, and it involves basically sloshing the stuff around in a solution, and then looking through it later for the result. Neat stuff, that. So you're closer to the truth than you think.
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No, they only want you to think that. It's not even an ad for Guinness, or their book of records! Nay, 'tis much subtler and more sinister.
It's an ad for TRANSPARENT GLASSWARE, put here by THE CHINESE MAFIA, to reduce American productivity, reducing us to ZOMBIES staring at beer bubbles FOREVER while they invade and seize our BEER PRODUCTION!
The Evidence:
The beer flows down instead of up. Therefore, it's on the other side of the planet. The Land Down Under, in fact. The mind-numbing effects of beer bubbles have already been demonstrated by the testimonials found here. And even though everyone knows that Australia was populated with criminals, my sources tell me that the Chinese Mafia are launching this as a counteroffensive, so that no one ever succeeds in that land war in Asia (by mesmerising the enemy troops with the beer bubbles, of course).
So I should clearly not choose the beer in front of me...
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I wonder if we can start a SDTC (SlashDot Troll Certification program going. Then we could have something like this:
School House Trolling (Score:5, Troll)
by Anonymous Coward on 07:50 PM January 11th, 2000 EST (#92)
[...]
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SDTC --- Certified Troll #00001002
After all, if certification is practically meaningless, I'm sure we could start some practical uses for meaningless certification!
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The only problem I have with that is the "don't waste your time trying to reinvent them" part. At least in Science, until recently, the whole point was that you could build on other people's discoveries, to solve really cool big problems. Patents help to stifle that in Computer Science, which means that corporations end up hampering researchers, and hold everyone back.
However, nice analogy. I wish the world were always that friendly.
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Nope, the Xerox alphabet looked like crap.
This guy posted the links to them, and deserves to be moderated up.
I also agree with your post, and therefore think that Xerox doesn't deserve that much for exploiting our patent system and harassing our legal system. They only get my sympathy, for screwing up so bad. And if they ever make something really cool, maybe I'll buy it. Maybe.
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Uh-oh, this includes a *character generator*! Let's hope RCA's patent has run out!
(sorry, couldn't resist, if you don't get it, read the Steve Jobs interview for more patent silliness.)
For the record, of course inventors deserve *some* credit. But I have to give a lot of credit to 3com, for successfully developing and marketing their successful PDA. No one was bringing a lawsuit against Apple when they were unsuccessful. I'll be even happier if it can be proven that 3com developed (or licensed) this technology without knowledge or use of the Xerox patent.
What's the use of patents, anyhow? It's like a big library with signs out front that say "Nyah nyah, you can't do this, I did it first!" How childish is that?
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Well, yeah. They're a bit worried because they got sued by Stac over using an obvious and well-known compression method.
.gif files if we want to, and not live in fear that someone is going to patent the next big thing, and charge us for what would become the obvious. It would be even better if we could stop corporations from buying and shelving the next big thing because it competes with their interests, but... well, we can't have everything, eh?
I wish there were a way to avoid this arbitrary patent awarding, selective patent enforcement, and to shorten the expiration (if not elimination) of patents relevant to computers. By the time the patent office gets around to approving something, it's often out of date these days.
Then we could keep using our
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You'd better *forget* how to do it real quick, and get a license from Xerox--they might sue you.
As long as no one patents *my* genes any time soon and tries to sue me for patent infringement, I'll be pretty happy. Hmm. "...consisting of a biological device able to post to http://slashdot.org/..."
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Dude, I need to shop at Electronics Boutique more now!
:)
Thanks for the tips, guys! One day, I too hope to see the Linux section rival the Macintosh section... It was starting to happen at one CompUSA I went to...
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Maybe you forgot to read my post before replying. Let me direct your attention to that stupid encryption scheme that protects the DVDs that we've already bought from being watched.
:)
If I bought a DVD, I'd want to play it. That constitutes fair use.
I can say that information wants to be free. I wasn't, but I'll happily share most of the stuff on my hard drive that is mine to share, to my friends. If the laws ever change enough to let us legally share everything, so be it. But I don't think anyone else really wants to read my e-mail, and if they do, I probably don't want to hear from them. I don't have a problem with the information, just some of the people.
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I was very happy with the job they did on Heroes of Might and Magic III when we beta-tested that.
:)
(has anyone seen the Linux version in stores? I've seen Civ:CTP and Railroad Tycoon II in the box with the penguin on it
Keep up the good work, Loki! When I get a 3D card and a new computer, I'll have to see what new games you put out for us... (and if I can somehow run the PC Final Fantasy port(s)... Hrm. Time to load up Wine...)
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Maybe my memory just isn't what it used to be, or maybe I'm just out of the loop from being on vacation, but with no links to help me out, I wasn't sure what legal action was taking place here.
But, after searching slashdot a little, now I'm pretty confident that we're talking about DeCSS and that stupid encryption scheme that protects the DVDs that we've already bought from being watched... Hrm. (I'm not too worried about them getting copied, don't have an extra 4.5GB lying around right now, or enough time to encode one properly, but someday I'm sure it will be commonplace.)
So, now that I know what we're talking about... "Fair use". 'Nuff said.
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I'm sorry, dude. It's hard to protect your identity when all those other AC's steal your name like that.
:)
I guess I'm not impressed because I got it in an e-mail before, but I remember it being pretty funny stuff. Of course, I also haven't been impressed with slashdot "moderation" for a while, but... well, too many monkeys typing for too long spoil the broth, or something.
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Ooo, ooo, the *funny* offtopic posts get moderated up! I'll have to remember that one!
What happens to a funny on-topic post? Does it get marked as "Troll"?
Let's test the Slashdot moderation system once again...
Free Software Foundation sued over trademark infringement
GNU Soft, a Houston-based toy company has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against the Free Software Foundation. GNU Soft has been in the business of manufacturing plush animal toys for over thirty years, predating the FSF by over a decade. The company recently filed for a trademark of the word GNU and a logo containing a gnu covering all types of soft wares.
The company claimed that the free software foundation has been undermining their business by diluting the trademark and associating it with the word 'free'. With the recent rise in publicity of free software, GNU Soft started getting hundreds of phone calls every day requesting information about free software, including several calls from Fortune 500 companies. ``Our telephone operators just can't deal with this flood of inquiries any more'' said the company spokesman Michael Fitcherston, ``Also, the rumors that we are giving our toys away free has been causing concern among our shareholders. We were forced to sue in order to stay in business''.
The spokesman refused to comment when asked about the rumors of a possible acquisition of GNU Soft by Microsoft. However, he stated firmly that ``There has been no pressure at any point from Microsoft to start a lawsuit. Even though all our computerized soft toys use Windows operating systems, our relationship with Microsoft has always been trouble-free''.
One of the company's major products to date is Lennox the penguin. The spokesman also refused to comment on whether a lawsuit against Linus
Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system was in planning.
In a related story, the Free Software Foundation is reputedly looking into buying Micro Soft, a manufacturer of plush miniature cars, for their trademarks.
Oh, and why give credit where credit is due anymore, either? Originality is the art of concealing your sources... And do I have to post it 8,000,000 times, too, just to be like Mr. M&M AC?
Oh, okay, it's from Segfault, and I'm only posting it once. You can thank me now.
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The issue as I see it is whether Microsoft *purposefully broke* compatibility with a competing product. Companies don't do that all the time, mostly it's just Microsoft. By claiming that MS-DOS & MS Windows (now '95/'98) were one product, and bundling them together, Microsoft ruined the market for other DOS variants, and their competing applications. (anyone used Stacker lately?)
:)
And, MS-DOS was a monopoly back then. And it was bundled with the computers back then too. And Microsoft leveraged that to maintain their market dominance. That, and the fact that IBM can't market themselves out of a paper bag, and Apple immediately crushes all good ideas that involve playing well with others. Microsoft is more subtle, and more evil. Never trust people who smile like that...
I've used OpenDOS (now DR-DOS again?) before, and it's pretty similar, really. Just another DOS. Some things still work better with MS-DOS, but with a little tweaking, OpenDOS works just as well. *And* it had a command-line multitasker!
Sure, it only multitasked as well as Windows 3.1, but that's a feature I would have *loved* to have had, back in the day. Heck, I wish Windows had that feature today, to transparently switch from text console to text console. That's just one of the many reasons why I'm running Linux now, instead.
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Okay, it's pretty neat. Definitely a great first effort. Recording to compressed Qt is way better than recording to individual uncompressed files...
I only wish that I could upgrade to 2.2.14 and get the bttv grabber working better, and get sound captured too. But I think that's really hardware/driver stuff, and not their fault. I also wish I could get full duplex out of my cheesy sound card.... And get a video player that supported some more codecs...
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I'd love to be able to use my cheap TV card for *something*...
Frankly, the rippers and encoders that I've seen for Linux suck. If this one does any better, I'd be thrilled. I went through hell just to try to make a short MPEG-1 movie clip (from Transformers: The Movie, yay!), and I didn't even manage to get sound. Why? Because the free stuff is hard to figure out, and isn't documented that well. If I knew more about the file format, I could probably tweak it more, but I just wanted to capture a movie!
I'll tell you guys how it works out on my (crappy) system. You really shouldn't do this stuff with IDE drives, and not that much space to boot. I'll probably have better luck once I get a new system.
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I admit now that all I read was the first link, another summary.
However, what I read said that he would ask his staff to come up with a proposed set of rules to govern this stuff. Nothing like actually writing up a real standard.
If I'm wrong, then please reply with a little more detail there next time, Mr. Ben Stein.
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If the gov't thinks this process should be moving quicker, why don't they propose a standard, or build a cheaper TV set? I have no respect for those who whine about arbitrary deadlines, without considering the issues.
And what's this about illegally copying cable programs? I thought people have been legally copying them for years. Otherwise, programmable, cable-ready VCRs would be in a legal grey area, right? This sounds about as stupid as the whole "DVD encryption" fiasco.
Oh well, when I get my next computer (hopefully in less than a year) I'll be happy with my built-in DVD-ROM, and hopefully I'll be watching DVD movies on my 17" monitor in a sufficiently righteous resolution. Who needs Digitally Remastered Saved-By-The-Bell-esque crap when you have that?
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No way man, if you play it in mono out of the gameboy speaker, I'm sure you could just encode all your mp3's at 32kbps or something. :)
.au files?
Heck, if we're going to be this silly, why not just make the gameboy processor do the work, and play
(Oh, you want to use the *headphones*...)
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Excellent choice on the part of Time Magazine for Person of the Century. Although it probably isn't very politically correct. Soon, the Weekly World News will run the story: "Time Magazine Says Some People Better Than Others!" Also, shouldn't this be in the News section instead of Science? ;)
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Yo.
The public == In stores == Read my post next time
Later.
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Amaya is a cool browser. It doesn't support Frames (they aren't standard, yeah!) and it doesn't read past the closing HTML on a page (cuts off my school's lousy disclaimer, yay!) and it allows me to laugh at people who write bad HTML (ha ha ha ha ha!).
...and if it doesn't do something that you want... why, change the source! Work on Lesstif, port the widgets to GTK, hack in graphics support or something. Or at least don't sit here and whine.
But Amaya has some cool features I'd still like to see in some browsers. Their layout view for webpages when you view source is downright nifty. I never tried compiling it, but did check out the binaries on Solaris. (Lesstif doesn't work?)
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