The single most important event of the personal computer revolution was when Compaq, and later the Phoenix Group reverse-engineered the IBM bios, creating the existance of inexpensive IBM PC clones.
Were it not for that event, the PC market might still be divided between Commodore, Apple, IBM, and a few other bit-players.
for both NASA and the National Science Foundation.
Granted, not by much (about a 2% increase for each) but remember this is an increase over arch-liberal Clinton's budget numbers. If an increase over democrat-level spending isn't enough, I don't know what is.
By the way, this is consistent with both Reagan's and G.H.W.'s support for the space program...
has much better groupware capabilities, plus Linux support(!!) I suggest every keep pressuring Lotus to pick up the slack, and keep on supporting us penguins.
And a little more work on the Notes GUI wouldn't hurt, either.
Why didn't the napster server pick up the bot activity?
Maybe for the same reason they can't seem to stop the people who keep spamming me with instant messages saying "Hey if you like Popular Mainstream Artist XXX go check out Shitty Band YYY at http://www.mp3.com/shittyband ! Thanx!"
And really, I can understand them wanting to appear to be against illegal behavior, but it's not good business to let another business scare off your clientele...
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"In this regard, we do not believe there can be a 'one size fits all' approach to PKI technical solutions, architechture, or policy."
I believe this is goverment-ese for "it ain't gonna happen till we're damn well ready, which very well maybe never, or at least until the revolution comes."
for those prefer their unix porn female-only, check out the stileproject's Linux-Loving Sluts. No nudity (except maybe the banner ads), just photos of supermodels doctored (?) so that they appear to be endorsing Linux (sometimes Linux Mandrake).
enjoy!
-the wunderhorn
descramble.mp3 guitar tab -- fair use??
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Remember the "Descramble" song that someone wrote by singing the code to the descramble() function of DeCSS, and mp3.com pulled it from their servers?
What if I wrote out the music in guitar tabulature format and included the lyrics?
After OLGA got sued, the standard disclaimer for inclusion with all guitar tabs became this:
#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
If I distributed my artistic interpretation of a song that contained parts of DeCSS, would that be fair use?
What if I wrote a critique of the abovementioned haiku, quoting parts of it in the process, as is needed for such intellectual/academic discourse?
There's no way that was the real CowboyNeal answering those questions.
I mean, come on. You're telling me that one of the main slashcode maintainers can't properly form HTML tags, and doesn't even know the karma level where the +1 bonus kicks in??
Now that I think of it, I don't think there is a real CowboyNeal. I suspect he is a fictious person, or perhaps a bot, cooked up by Taco&Co. for use as a scapegoat when things go wrong with slashdot.
I'm on to you, Rob! The slashdot users demand the truth!
Let's assume for a moment that M$ gets a large chunk of its revenues from selling Windows licenses to OEMs, who then sell all their PCs with Windows on them. I have no hard data, but it seems as though it would be true, and it doesn't really matter for the purposes of this argument anyway.
Microsoft could stop charging OEMs for shipping PCs with Windows preloaded, but why? Since the consumer has virtually no choice when buying a PC other than to buy one with Windows (yes Linux, yes Mac, but you know it's true), they don't even think of Windows as costing anything. And if all the prices of all the PCs in all the stores suddenly dropped by $80, would anyone even notice?
I don't think Microsoft is feeling threatened as far as the desktop is concerned (but we'll fix that!), so there's no reason for them to start giving free access to their cash cow.
First, I think the appliance industry is much more diverse than, say, the record industry or the movie industry, which makes it less likely that all the major appliance-makers could form a cabal that would force all members to create anti-consumer appliances.
The power for, say, GE to lobby congress for laws requiring all appliances to have tracking devices is diminished by the fact that most of these grey-market manufacturers are overseas.
And until Big Brother and the Thought Police finally take over, anti-consumer technologies like this simply mean more fun for us hackers trying to circumvent them!
how many people are ready to dismiss the game based on a few screenshots. Remember, gamma correction varies from system to system. I'm sure ID won't release the game until the gameplay and general mood is up to their standards.
Remember in the original game, the levels where you've been mucking around through dark tunnels and caves and finally come out into an open, well lit space? How you almost want to cry with relief, until a swarm of cacodemons comes screaming out from behind the pillars? You need that kind of contrast to make the game really enjoyable, and I have faith that ID haven't lost their touch.
If anything some of those screenshots have reaffirmed my faith. Nothing has matched the scare-me-shitless effect that playing the original doom on a 486/33 with a soundblaster had, but some of those screenshots are bringing back old memories...
cause nobody on here would be so naive as to automatically assume everything they read is true! That would never happen, since we're all a bunch of raging sceptics.
Actually, I'm rather busy completing my college education right now, but thanks for the advice...
Since I do want artist to get a better break, I try to buy albums by artists on independent record labels that treat their artists right whenever possible. Merge Records is one of my favorites. Neutral Milk Hotel and The Magnetic Fields I enjoy heavily.
Also, K records for a band called ICU, as well as some of Beck's earlier stuff.
Oh, and guess how I heard about these bands (whose albums I now paid for).
Surely he's taking Scott Adams' work and passing it on to others without recompensing the original author.
Hey--keep talking like that and you could get a job as an RIAA lobbyist, or perhaps as a district judge!
Convice enought people to keep talking like that and pretty soon we'll have that pesky 'fair use' doctrine completely abolished!
Wanna write a research paper, little boy? Just remember that you owe the World Book Encyclopedia Company $.20 for each page you reference! And since your teacher is a government employee, she'll be watching to make sure the proper payments get made! Big Brother is watching!
Given the current state of the music industry, I certainly wouldn't shed a tear if that particular ecosystem was destroyed.
Lots of people like to talk about artists' rights without paying any attention to what they artist actually think.
Ben Folds Five
Billy Corgan
Chuck D
Courtney Love
DJ Spooky
Dr. Octagon
The Grateful Dead
Prince
Radiohead
and many, many others have all spoken against the record industry, and these particular artists have in fact spoken in favor of napster-style distribution.
Click here for more information on why the record industry has to die.
Thank you.
-the wunderhorn
Critics trash them, serious filmmakers shun them, intellectuals and serious people wouldn't dream of wasting 105 minutes on a movie like this.
So what the hell do you take us for??
I mean, come on! It's usually not a good strategy as a journalist to insult your readership! Why would you even waste your time reviewing a movie like this for a site like Slashdot? The few people on here who DO go to movies like this will go despite the negative reviews, the rest of us take one look a the trailer and move on to something a little more intellectually stimulating.
Hannibal would have been a better choice, though personally I'm boycotting the MPAA....
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Were it not for that event, the PC market might still be divided between Commodore, Apple, IBM, and a few other bit-players.
So put that in your DMCA and smoke it!
Granted, not by much (about a 2% increase for each) but remember this is an increase over arch-liberal Clinton's budget numbers. If an increase over democrat-level spending isn't enough, I don't know what is.
By the way, this is consistent with both Reagan's and G.H.W.'s support for the space program...
And a little more work on the Notes GUI wouldn't hurt, either.
Maybe for the same reason they can't seem to stop the people who keep spamming me with instant messages saying "Hey if you like Popular Mainstream Artist XXX go check out Shitty Band YYY at http://www.mp3.com/shittyband ! Thanx!"
And really, I can understand them wanting to appear to be against illegal behavior, but it's not good business to let another business scare off your clientele...
I believe this is goverment-ese for "it ain't gonna happen till we're damn well ready, which very well maybe never, or at least until the revolution comes."
Yes, but can we apply it to to Windows NT error messages?
enjoy!
-the wunderhorn
What if I wrote out the music in guitar tabulature format and included the lyrics?
After OLGA got sued, the standard disclaimer for inclusion with all guitar tabs became this:
#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
If I distributed my artistic interpretation of a song that contained parts of DeCSS, would that be fair use?
What if I wrote a critique of the abovementioned haiku, quoting parts of it in the process, as is needed for such intellectual/academic discourse?
-the wunderhorn
it's a game here, but plastic.com just made it into a contest. http://www.plastic.com/karmacontest.pl
I mean, come on. You're telling me that one of the main slashcode maintainers can't properly form HTML tags, and doesn't even know the karma level where the +1 bonus kicks in??
Now that I think of it, I don't think there is a real CowboyNeal. I suspect he is a fictious person, or perhaps a bot, cooked up by Taco&Co. for use as a scapegoat when things go wrong with slashdot.
I'm on to you, Rob! The slashdot users demand the truth!
-the wunderhorn
nuff said.
And giving accordingly, I hope.
If you enjoy reading PA, why not show Tycho and Gabe you appreciate the laughs?
-the wunderhorn
Microsoft could stop charging OEMs for shipping PCs with Windows preloaded, but why? Since the consumer has virtually no choice when buying a PC other than to buy one with Windows (yes Linux, yes Mac, but you know it's true), they don't even think of Windows as costing anything.
And if all the prices of all the PCs in all the stores suddenly dropped by $80, would anyone even notice?
I don't think Microsoft is feeling threatened as far as the desktop is concerned (but we'll fix that!), so there's no reason for them to start giving free access to their cash cow.
-the wunderhorn
The power for, say, GE to lobby congress for laws requiring all appliances to have tracking devices is diminished by the fact that most of these grey-market manufacturers are overseas.
And until Big Brother and the Thought Police finally take over, anti-consumer technologies like this simply mean more fun for us hackers trying to circumvent them!
-the wunderhorn
Ever bootstrap a Chinstrap penguin?
Remember in the original game, the levels where you've been mucking around through dark tunnels and caves and finally come out into an open, well lit space? How you almost want to cry with relief, until a swarm of cacodemons comes screaming out from behind the pillars? You need that kind of contrast to make the game really enjoyable, and I have faith that ID haven't lost their touch.
If anything some of those screenshots have reaffirmed my faith. Nothing has matched the scare-me-shitless effect that playing the original doom on a 486/33 with a soundblaster had, but some of those screenshots are bringing back old memories...
-the wunderhorn
blah.
Since I do want artist to get a better break, I try to buy albums by artists on independent record labels that treat their artists right whenever possible.
Merge Records is one of my favorites. Neutral Milk Hotel and The Magnetic Fields I enjoy heavily.
Also, K records for a band called ICU, as well as some of Beck's earlier stuff.
Oh, and guess how I heard about these bands (whose albums I now paid for).
That's right, Napster.
-the wunderhorn
Hey--keep talking like that and you could get a job as an RIAA lobbyist, or perhaps as a district judge!
Convice enought people to keep talking like that and pretty soon we'll have that pesky 'fair use' doctrine completely abolished!
Wanna write a research paper, little boy? Just remember that you owe the World Book Encyclopedia Company $.20 for each page you reference! And since your teacher is a government employee, she'll be watching to make sure the proper payments get made! Big Brother is watching!
sheesh,
-the wunderhorn
Lots of people like to talk about artists' rights without paying any attention to what they artist actually think.
Ben Folds Five
Billy Corgan
Chuck D
Courtney Love
DJ Spooky
Dr. Octagon
The Grateful Dead
Prince
Radiohead
and many, many others have all spoken against the record industry, and these particular artists have in fact spoken in favor of napster-style distribution.
Click here for more information on why the record industry has to die.
Thank you.
-the wunderhorn
...Mozilla running on my Win2K box here at work used to turn periods...into copyright symbols. As well as mangling other symbols. ()[]{}|:":>"
Sanctioned how? I am a student there as well as a linux user, and have heard nothing about this.
Please email me.
Thanks.
So what the hell do you take us for??
I mean, come on! It's usually not a good strategy as a journalist to insult your readership!
Why would you even waste your time reviewing a movie like this for a site like Slashdot? The few people on here who DO go to movies like this will go despite the negative reviews, the rest of us take one look a the trailer and move on to something a little more intellectually stimulating.
Hannibal would have been a better choice, though personally I'm boycotting the MPAA....
-the wunderhorn
Does Meatspace count as a gaming platform??
I mean, Hell, I was never any good at Joust and my railgun sucks in Quake 3, but I'll take on any of you in a game of Charades!
-the wunderhorn
Wolbachia actively seeks to eliminate non-infected hosts by stopping them from reproducing.
Substitute "Microsoft" for "Wolbachia" and "Windows" for "infected" and suddenly the PC market begins to make sense...
heh.
-the wunderhorn