Would be if h.s. was like college, where you could choose a focus class in things like scuba, karate, swimming, running, sailing, canoeing, diving, judo, etc.
My high school did. Some folks took folk dancing, for instance, while I took weightlifting.
What high school was this? Stuyvesant, in New York City.
In the case of the music, you are 1) taking a copy you created, so it is yours and you are entitled to it, or 2) taking a copy given to you. It's a gift, so you are entitled to it.
Nonsense. If the copy given to you is given to you illegally, you are not entitled to it. And if it wasn't given to you, but instead left in a place where you could take it (eg. a P2P sharing network), would you still call that a gift? It's not. It's piracy, and it's theft.
I don't want technological measures and draconian laws to be instituted to stop this, but if people persist in pretending it's not theft and that it's "somehow all right", they will come.
In the grand scheme of things, downloading an MP3 is no worse than going to someplace like music-go-round and buying a used album.
Either way the industry/artists don't get your money. Does that make you a thief?
Whether anyone is deprived of anything has nothing to do with whether it's theft. In the case of buying a used item, the previous owner was entitled to sell the album, and therefore you were entitled to buy it. It was not theft. In the case of piracy, you are not entitled to make a copy of the music, so you are taking something you are not entitled to. It is theft.
Yes, we can all select definitions from sources that support our own stances. Here's what I get punching the word into www.m-w.com's dictionary, under definition (b):
an unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property
According to this, all that's neccesary is an unlawful taking. If you commit piracy, you are a thief, and I am correct to call you one.
It is copyright infringement, not theft. There's a significant difference.
No, there is not a significant difference. You're getting something you're not entitled to. It's theft. Folks who use the words "theft" and "piracy" are in fact correct to do so.
It's stealing too. You don't have to deprive someone of something to be guilty of stealing. All you have to do is take something you're not entitled to. Piracy is copying, but it's also a kind of theft.
You need the disk to boot so unless you can press silver DVD's you can't distribute the games very far.
How's the USB and FireWire support in Linux for the PS2? Y'see, I've got an external CD-RW drive that has both USB and FireWire interfaces. It reads CDR media just fine. I'm wondering if I can attach this to my PS2 and use it with Linux as a method of archiving and distributing software.
Remember how everyone got all up in arms about Slashdot's plans to implement Big Fucking Ads [slashdot.org]? Well, even if slashdot readers were pissed and angrily boycotted slashdot for a week, the vast majority of users did nothing.
I'd be surprised if the majority of folks who got up in arms didn't set up ad-blocking -- I know I did. The main effect I see is that some stories are laid out a little strangely. Those must be the ones that would have big ads in them.
I wonder if anyone is masochistic enough to attempt run an old 68xxx application in emulation mode in OS9 while running that under classic mode in OSX
Not only does it work, but non-32-bit-clean m68k apps work correctly! Very old m68k software works better under OS X than it did under System 7.6 on actual m68k hardware!
Personally, I would prefer that designers of game systems just avoid backward compatability issues. If there is some game from an older system that I want to play, it is likely that I have that older system to play it with anyway.
Not me. Personally, part of the appeal of a game system to me is the size of its used game library that can be played on it. The used game library for the PS2 includes the entire used game library for the PSX except for about two titles. This was the single biggest factor in my choice of console.
I never look at their reviews anyway -- I go to http://www.gamefaqs.com/ instead. Those are user-provided reviews. For each game, they give you a table of reviews, reviewers, and scores. The scores are from 1-10. Before buying a game, I generally read the review with the lowest ranking score, the review with the highest ranking score, and a few reviews around the average. Folks there aren't afraid to say "this game sucks!".
I wonder what kind of transfer rates one can get with that thing, since it is limited to the speed of the Bluetooth connection.
It's interesting to note that they tell you to hook up USB if the bandwidth of the thing is too slow for you. That should tell you something significant about the transfer rate you get in practice.
If you want to use PS/2 parts with this thing, no problem, *especially* if you already know you're willing to pay extra for it. Just get one of these:
http://www.allusb.com/products/P11436.html
It's a little pod full of legacy ports that you connect to your system via USB. They're generally targeted at laptops, but they'd be fine for this system. And you could hide the computer across the room and use a long cable with this thing to put your PS/2 ports right next to your monitor.
Folks are missing an important point here. Anyone who truly understands the Law of Fives or the Church of the Subgenius will probably already get this. For those that don't, consider this: http://www.totse.com/en/religion/the_occult/libr00 4.html. It's both a serious occult study and a joke. Thus endeth the lesson.
In any other industry, modularity and flexibility are considered desirable properties. Only in Microsofts ass-backwards world do they run round denying these things...
Heck, everwhere else in this industry, those are considered desireable properties...
It should be a simple matter of routing the ppp connection through the hotsync port. Perhaps the palm-gnokii folks will include this as a palm app.
That's only a solution if all you want out of this is TCP/IP access. What if you want to fax something? Or dial into a plain Unix tty connection? Or dial into something with a proprietary protocol where the software is on your laptop but not on your Palm device, like a credit card processor or AOL?
Nope, not good enough. But a Palm app to just make a dumb connection between the hotsync port and the modem would be. Come to think of it, a generic app to route between arbitary Palm serial devices (IR when used that way, RS-232 hotsync port, Bluetooth when used that way, USB hotsync port, modem) could be useful for more than just this.
Folks have already said that the Treo can make a data call to an ISP and establish an internet connection. Cool.
Can the Treo also be used as an external modem for other devices that want to do that? One of the things I like about my StarTAC is that a simple cable turns it into a wireless modem for all my laptops. Can I do something similar with the Treo? If not, it's of no use to me, as I'll have to carry around another phone anyway for laptop use.
In fact, I believe Zilog Z80s (an 8080 clone with some extra instructions -- around 1977?) are still being manufactured as controllers in various products.
Heck, it's not just used for controllers: a Z80 clone is at the heart of every Gameboy and Gameboy Color (not Gameboy Advance).
I have a semiworking motherboard (i.e., it didn't boot last time I tried, but I don't think it was the board) that is VERY notable for having an 80186 on it. The chip saw usage as a SCSI controller, but afaik, other than this motherboard, it was never used as a CPU (I may very well be wrong - I never researched, it's just that nobody else heard of a 80186 motherboard).
Actually, at least one of the very early Tandy MS-DOS machines, the ones that ran MS-DOS but were not IBM-PC compatible, used the 80186. I believe the model I'm thinking of was the Tandy 2000.
But, the point is, the 8008 wasn't used as a CPU in the IBM line of PCs, and there was never a 1.6 MHz CPU in that line either (okay, possibly the PCjr). As a side note, I had a 8008 S-100 bus processor card that never really got used; the Z80 was where it was at. If you think the distro wars are bad...
Are you sure you had an 8008? The thing that was contemporary with the Z80 was the 8080, not the 8008. I know there were S100 boxes that had the 8080, but I've never heard of one using an 8008. The 8008 was this bizarre thing between the 4004 and the 8080 that I don't think got much use in hobbyist machines and very much predated standard desktop PCs.
The PCjr was an 8088 by the way, and the XT used an 8088 as well. I had an AT&T PC6300, which was very unusual in that it was one of the very few machines to use an 8086. The 8088 based machines were much cheaper, because glue chips were all 8-bit due to the large number of CPM boxes in use.
Wow! Your Oracle admin is blind? *im baffled*
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Anyways, how does he do it?? Is it worth it to the company you work for, or does it cause everyone else problems? Is he good? Tell! Hopefuly this could encourage others to take on "disabled" in their company...
He's got a variety of tools at his disposal. Just the other day, he gave a demo of some of them to a bunch of us.
He's got an 8-dot braile terminal that gives him enough characters to do C and Perl programming. He's got a hardware speech synthesizer he cranks up to something like 200+ words per minute. I tried, and could only understand a few phrases when it was cranked up to 95 words per minute.
And when a web site he needs or wants to access is inaccessible, he complains to them, and sometimes things get fixed. He can navigate web sites that use alt tags remarkably well. A good rule of thumb is that if a site makes sense with images turned off (or in lynx), then it'll work for him.
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What high school was this? Stuyvesant, in New York City.
I don't want technological measures and draconian laws to be instituted to stop this, but if people persist in pretending it's not theft and that it's "somehow all right", they will come.
I never look at their reviews anyway -- I go to http://www.gamefaqs.com/ instead. Those are user-provided reviews. For each game, they give you a table of reviews, reviewers, and scores. The scores are from 1-10. Before buying a game, I generally read the review with the lowest ranking score, the review with the highest ranking score, and a few reviews around the average. Folks there aren't afraid to say "this game sucks!".
If you want to use PS/2 parts with this thing, no problem, *especially* if you already know you're willing to pay extra for it. Just get one of these:
http://www.allusb.com/products/P11436.html
It's a little pod full of legacy ports that you connect to your system via USB. They're generally targeted at laptops, but they'd be fine for this system. And you could hide the computer across the room and use a long cable with this thing to put your PS/2 ports right next to your monitor.
Folks are missing an important point here. Anyone who truly understands the Law of Fives or the Church of the Subgenius will probably already get this. For those that don't, consider this: http://www.totse.com/en/religion/the_occult/libr00 4.html. It's both a serious occult study and a joke. Thus endeth the lesson.
Nope, not good enough. But a Palm app to just make a dumb connection between the hotsync port and the modem would be. Come to think of it, a generic app to route between arbitary Palm serial devices (IR when used that way, RS-232 hotsync port, Bluetooth when used that way, USB hotsync port, modem) could be useful for more than just this.
Folks have already said that the Treo can make a data call to an ISP and establish an internet connection. Cool.
Can the Treo also be used as an external modem for other devices that want to do that? One of the things I like about my StarTAC is that a simple cable turns it into a wireless modem for all my laptops. Can I do something similar with the Treo? If not, it's of no use to me, as I'll have to carry around another phone anyway for laptop use.
So what cable network should air the movie version of "The Sims"? HGTV?
Hm, Myst was the #1 game for a long time, and now The Sims is the #1 game? That's two for two games that I can't stand...
Anyone got a mirror site? It seems they've renamed the file, and they deny permission to download the new filename.
Now someone has to wrap up the newly-open-source CP/M stuff, combine it with a Z80/8080 emulator, and make a Debian package that runs CP/M software!
Heck, it's not just used for controllers: a Z80 clone is at the heart of every Gameboy and Gameboy Color (not Gameboy Advance).
Actually, at least one of the very early Tandy MS-DOS machines, the ones that ran MS-DOS but were not IBM-PC compatible, used the 80186. I believe the model I'm thinking of was the Tandy 2000.
Are you sure you had an 8008? The thing that was contemporary with the Z80 was the 8080, not the 8008. I know there were S100 boxes that had the 8080, but I've never heard of one using an 8008. The 8008 was this bizarre thing between the 4004 and the 8080 that I don't think got much use in hobbyist machines and very much predated standard desktop PCs.
The PCjr was an 8088 by the way, and the XT used an 8088 as well. I had an AT&T PC6300, which was very unusual in that it was one of the very few machines to use an 8086. The 8088 based machines were much cheaper, because glue chips were all 8-bit due to the large number of CPM boxes in use.
He's got a variety of tools at his disposal. Just the other day, he gave a demo of some of them to a bunch of us.
He's got an 8-dot braile terminal that gives him enough characters to do C and Perl programming. He's got a hardware speech synthesizer he cranks up to something like 200+ words per minute. I tried, and could only understand a few phrases when it was cranked up to 95 words per minute.
And when a web site he needs or wants to access is inaccessible, he complains to them, and sometimes things get fixed. He can navigate web sites that use alt tags remarkably well. A good rule of thumb is that if a site makes sense with images turned off (or in lynx), then it'll work for him.