IMHO, this is how MS will die - not the Fed suit, but piles of private suits
oh, c'mon Hemos. I would like that just as much as you, but we both know that it isn't going to happen
I hate to be the one to point this out, but if MS dies what other OS are the clueless AOL newbies going to use? They won't stop using computer of course.. they will be forced to migrate to another OS, perhaps Linux. Can you immagine the tech support nightmare that would cause? =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\=\
#2 is easy to solve, just collapse the sail once you start getting negative accelleration, it gives the added effect of acting like a break when you want to stop also. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\=\
I work for a School District in PA, we use a lot og Macintosh computer in all of our labs. When computers used to have hard drive problem we would pop in our trust Norton disk doctor for Mac and it could fix the problem right away. With the new Macs that are coming out Apple designed them so that each model could only boot from a bootCD made for that specific model. That breaks Norton on almost every computer we have. I'm wondering if Apple did this intentionaly so that 3rd party utilities would be broken. Interestingly enough Apple released it's own version Disk Tool software that can boot all the Macs, but it costs a fortune for a district License. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\=\=\
Acording to the aticle the problem isn't with the amount of user traffic on the internet, it is with the amount of router-to-router traffic. The routing tables are being updated too quickly for the routers to handle and pass the changes onto other routers. As the number or routing entries an updates grow, because of multi-homed systems, the system can't keep up with the changes. At least thats the impression I got from the article, please tell me if i'm wrong. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\=\
This ones actually kinda funny. I really started laughing when it points out the names of the colors that are mixtures of the new "color" and other primary colors. It just gets better from there. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\=\
A software license is a software license. Even if one restricts use and the other restricts distribution, they are both still telling you what rights you have with that software. The GPL may not say much about how you can use software, but it's idea is the same, to spell out your rights. The slashdotters who complained when companies tried to sneak something by the GPL are guilty of doing what Microsoft is doing right now, trying to protect thier rights. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\=\=\
Yeah... Damn them for making sure other companies are following the law. Do you relize how upset the slashdot community gets when tehre is even the slightest hint that a company isn't folling the GPL exactly as it was written? Microsoft is jsut doing the same thing. Just because we have to pay for a windows lisence, and we get a linux on for free, is there really any difference? =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\=\=\=\=\
I'm sure netscape is making thier browser to "help others" too, they don't care about money at all. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\
and makes it so it loads the mozilla widget when you type in a url in the explorer application.. Too bad those API's aren't documented. Maybe MS considers them "application specific" and not part of the OS. What nebulous nit picking.
Netscape can do this, When I had to install versizon DSL software on a computer it also instaled Netscape (without asking me, grrrrrr). When typing a URL into the run comment it opened Netscape.
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There is absolutly no way my mom would EVER know about this problem. No way at all. There are MILLIONS of people out there and will continue to be for some time the same MILLIONS that are have and use versions of IE that have this problem.
So you don't plan on telling her? Bad son! BAD! There are ways for every windows 98/2000 user to know about this, it's caled windows update. It's so easy even my mom found out what it was without even asking me, and I still have to explain to her what a path is when she wants to save files someplace other then the default. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\=\=\
that wouldn't work with open source clients because you can just grab the source and remove the banner ads. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\
so then you should have no problem with companies like double-click cross referencing thier databases to match your browsing habits to your home address and telephone number. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\=\=\
It depends on what software you are using. If you use something that tries to read the CD at the file level then of course it's going to puke. You need software that doesn't care about files, you need something that directly controlls the CDROM drive, something that only cares about the transition from pits to lands. My computer doesn't really need to understand the data, it just needs to be able to copy it. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\
The genesis would be the only Sega console I would consider stil purchasing, if only for the RPGs released on it. Although there are alternatives **cough**emulators**cough**, I would still love to have the orriginals of these games. Near the end of the Genisis' lifetime Sega released the SegaCD, and um.. that other thingie that plugged into the contrige slot. That really split the developement for games, people didn't want to buy both. Nintendo managed to keep the SNES (still my favorite console system) going very strongly, they never split the system like Sega did. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\
Sega seems to have a bad habit of creating new systems, then abandoning them in favor of other bright shiney new toys, sometimes less then a year later.I'll personaly never touch a Sega console with the idea that it's going to be around for awhile. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\=\=\
If my computer can see the bits (and it has to if it can run the software on it) then I can copy those bits. Unless of course they found a way to make "soft" bits on the CD that sometimes read 1 and sometimes 0. That way they could have the program read the same section of data over and over to make sure that the data coming from it is different. I believe that this type of copy protection was used on the old floppies for some Apple II games. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\=\
The thing is though, that with linux you hahve the choice. You don't have to use that buggy software, you don't have to use KDE or any application that you don't want to. With linux you have the freedom to ignore what the crowds are doing. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\=\
All that checking that box does is to make the "accept" button the default instead of the "deny" button. it took me a few times to figure out what it was doing. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\=\
The main reason that I can think of is this... Companies won't produce applications if they don't see a market for them. If you want more applications available for linux then it needs to attract people to be in that market. an easy way to attract more people is to make Linux easy to use. Making the OS easier to use is a lot easier then making poeple smarter. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\=\=\
I believe that was called the pentium II, and the AMD Athalon. There were a few other chips that were mounted that way too, although they never tried to cool both sides at once. I'm thinking that the chip would be too thin to actually attach the cooling plate to though. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\=\=\
The information isn't free to provide, they have to pay for bandwidth, the server, electricity, and staff. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\ =\=\=\=\
Next step I guess would be to convert the table to a prime number too. Then you could add this number and that number together and get the full DeCSS source as the sum of two primes. =\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\=\= \=\=\=\=\
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I hate to be the one to point this out, but if MS dies what other OS are the clueless AOL newbies going to use? They won't stop using computer of course.. they will be forced to migrate to another OS, perhaps Linux. Can you immagine the tech support nightmare that would cause?
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#2 is easy to solve, just collapse the sail once you start getting negative accelleration, it gives the added effect of acting like a break when you want to stop also.= \=\=\=\
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I work for a School District in PA, we use a lot og Macintosh computer in all of our labs. When computers used to have hard drive problem we would pop in our trust Norton disk doctor for Mac and it could fix the problem right away. With the new Macs that are coming out Apple designed them so that each model could only boot from a bootCD made for that specific model. That breaks Norton on almost every computer we have. I'm wondering if Apple did this intentionaly so that 3rd party utilities would be broken. Interestingly enough Apple released it's own version Disk Tool software that can boot all the Macs, but it costs a fortune for a district License.\ =\=\=\=\=\
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Acording to the aticle the problem isn't with the amount of user traffic on the internet, it is with the amount of router-to-router traffic. The routing tables are being updated too quickly for the routers to handle and pass the changes onto other routers. As the number or routing entries an updates grow, because of multi-homed systems, the system can't keep up with the changes. At least thats the impression I got from the article, please tell me if i'm wrong.\ =\=\=\=\
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This ones actually kinda funny. I really started laughing when it points out the names of the colors that are mixtures of the new "color" and other primary colors. It just gets better from there.\ =\=\=\=\
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A software license is a software license. Even if one restricts use and the other restricts distribution, they are both still telling you what rights you have with that software. The GPL may not say much about how you can use software, but it's idea is the same, to spell out your rights. The slashdotters who complained when companies tried to sneak something by the GPL are guilty of doing what Microsoft is doing right now, trying to protect thier rights.= \=\=\=\=\
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Yeah... Damn them for making sure other companies are following the law. Do you relize how upset the slashdot community gets when tehre is even the slightest hint that a company isn't folling the GPL exactly as it was written? Microsoft is jsut doing the same thing. Just because we have to pay for a windows lisence, and we get a linux on for free, is there really any difference?= \=\=\=\=\=\=\
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I'm sure netscape is making thier browser to "help others" too, they don't care about money at all.\ =\=\=\
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So you don't plan on telling her? Bad son! BAD! There are ways for every windows 98/2000 user to know about this, it's caled windows update. It's so easy even my mom found out what it was without even asking me, and I still have to explain to her what a path is when she wants to save files someplace other then the default.
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that wouldn't work with open source clients because you can just grab the source and remove the banner ads.\ =\=\=\
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Will you marry me? I'd do anything for that kind of bandwidth.\ =\=\=\=\=\=\
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so then you should have no problem with companies like double-click cross referencing thier databases to match your browsing habits to your home address and telephone number.= \=\=\=\=\
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It depends on what software you are using. If you use something that tries to read the CD at the file level then of course it's going to puke. You need software that doesn't care about files, you need something that directly controlls the CDROM drive, something that only cares about the transition from pits to lands. My computer doesn't really need to understand the data, it just needs to be able to copy it.= \=\=\
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The genesis would be the only Sega console I would consider stil purchasing, if only for the RPGs released on it. Although there are alternatives **cough**emulators**cough**, I would still love to have the orriginals of these games. Near the end of the Genisis' lifetime Sega released the SegaCD, and um.. that other thingie that plugged into the contrige slot. That really split the developement for games, people didn't want to buy both. Nintendo managed to keep the SNES (still my favorite console system) going very strongly, they never split the system like Sega did.\ =\=\=\
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Sega seems to have a bad habit of creating new systems, then abandoning them in favor of other bright shiney new toys, sometimes less then a year later.I'll personaly never touch a Sega console with the idea that it's going to be around for awhile.= \=\=\=\=\
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If my computer can see the bits (and it has to if it can run the software on it) then I can copy those bits. Unless of course they found a way to make "soft" bits on the CD that sometimes read 1 and sometimes 0. That way they could have the program read the same section of data over and over to make sure that the data coming from it is different. I believe that this type of copy protection was used on the old floppies for some Apple II games.\ =\=\=\=\
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No, But I'd like my goverement to develop an OS WITH me. It's open source.= \=\=\=\=\
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nah, so far it only means it is possible not to lose money if you do it right :)\ =\=\
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The thing is though, that with linux you hahve the choice. You don't have to use that buggy software, you don't have to use KDE or any application that you don't want to. With linux you have the freedom to ignore what the crowds are doing.\ =\=\=\=\
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All that checking that box does is to make the "accept" button the default instead of the "deny" button. it took me a few times to figure out what it was doing.\ =\=\=\=\
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The main reason that I can think of is this... Companies won't produce applications if they don't see a market for them. If you want more applications available for linux then it needs to attract people to be in that market. an easy way to attract more people is to make Linux easy to use. Making the OS easier to use is a lot easier then making poeple smarter.\ =\=\=\=\=\
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I believe that was called the pentium II, and the AMD Athalon. There were a few other chips that were mounted that way too, although they never tried to cool both sides at once. I'm thinking that the chip would be too thin to actually attach the cooling plate to though.= \=\=\=\=\
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The information isn't free to provide, they have to pay for bandwidth, the server, electricity, and staff.\ =\=\=\=\
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Next step I guess would be to convert the table to a prime number too. Then you could add this number and that number together and get the full DeCSS source as the sum of two primes.= \=\=\=\=\
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