but when asked why they don't get a cable modem... they start spouting all sorts of reasons such as The cost of an ISP
Residential cable Internet access typically does cost $40 per month, which is $16 per month more than AOL(tm) dial-up service currently does.
don't want to loose their e-mail address
Assuming that by "loose" you mean "lose", that's actually a half-legitimate reason. America Online does not provide free forwarding of e-mail from Canceled accounts; that service costs $12 or so per month for "BYOA" (TCP connection to AOL Content(tm) ).
I suspet that the number of free hours given out by AOL accounts for millions of dollars each month in 'lost' revenue.
Does AOL Time Warner "lose" more revenue from free months of AOL service than it loses from piracy of Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, and Warner Bros. Records products?
However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
It's perfectly OK under the GPL to link against libraries that come with a widely available (but not necessarily free) compiler. For instance, it's OK to link against the libraries that come with Microsoft Visual WhateverFlat. Otherwise, Linux would be impossible to make because it (or at least the bootloader) calls the computer's proprietary BIOS a few times when it first starts up.
Hmmm.that seems against what RMS originally designed the GPL for.
The GNU General Public License was designed to allow Emacs to work on Solaris and Windows operating environments. That's why the operating system clause is in there.
If I wanted to compil VB code, I need to use a NON-free (+$100 compiler) to use it.
Heck, it is called "SourceForge.net". OSDN has made it clear in e-mail to all SourceForge.net members that "SourceForge" the software development management system and "SourceForge.net" the public implementation thereof are two separate things. Heck, in the SourceForge.net logo, the ".net" part is in larger type than the "SOURCEFORGE" part. Did OSDN staff anticipate this competition from Microsoft? "Apparently, Microsoft is going to want to copy our idea for giving free hosting for open source projects' web sites, source code repositories, bug trackers, and mailing lists. Let's make '.NET' the biggest thing in our logo."
I can't even get past the clickwrap EULA in the installer. It keeps hanging up on the part of the.NET Framework EULA that states that I can't disclose benchmark results to a third party: "You may not disclose results of a benchmark test of the.NET Framework without the prior written permission of Microsoft." (Here's what microsoft may have meant by that: "Installing.NET will slow your Windows computer to a crawl, and we'll sue you into the ground if you go to a web board and warn others.") Because I do not agree with that policy, the installer stops right there. Therefore, the only.NET performance figure that's legal to report is.ZERO mips.
I never had that problem with my Mac. I guess the Power Macintosh G4 computer does run twice as fast.
For instance the MacOS's file-type registry (you know, the thing that links the file type stored in the resource fork to the application that's supposed to open it?) would be inconsistant after such a delete
On Mac OS 6.x through 9.x, you can rebuild the desktop database by holding Command+Option while you mount the drive (for fixed media, usually when Finder starts). It scans all the apps on your hard disk, looking for "bundle" bits that tell whether a program has some sort of association, then it looks for BNDL, FREF, open, and kind resources to determine which file types to associate to an app.
That's part of the problem. You click the Start button to Stop the computer.
I really can not think of any way that the OS could contribute to make me more productive.
How about being compiled specifically for your processor's microarchitecture? Public-source operating systems (such as GNU/Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, and Darwin) can provide this, and operating systems designed to run only on one or two microarchitectures (i.e. Mac OS X, which runs on PowerPC G3 and G4) can provide this. Can Windows?
I don't recall having XP crash (needing a reboot) in about a year now
What about when it goes and downloads a patch to its networking stack, IE, the J?v? VM, or Outlook Express? Granted, that's not a crash, but it still needs a reboot.
If you are really desperate, you can skin XP to make it look like Aqua.
Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
How do we know the Anonymous Poster isn't an employee of Linux
I don't see "Anonymous Poster" capitalized that way anywhere in the blurb or the article.
If you're trying to draw a parallel between "AP" in the blurb and "AC" as a common abbreviation for Slashdot's Anonymous Coward, you're mistaken, but I forgive you: AP == Associated Press.
I really dont have a problem with things like this unless it is the government (federal, state, or local) saying that something can't be sold in town, state, or country
This doesn't apply directly to the article, but it's kinda-sorta related: Whenever a telecommunications company such as a cable company or a phone company gets a government-granted monopoly from a local government, then that company has the power to censor. Even under the strictest definition of censorship ("it's only censorship if it's done by a state"), it's still censorship because the telco's statutory monopoly prevents those who want to speak freely from setting up competing telecom services.
The winner will be who ever gets out an mp3 player that holds at least 1 hour of music for 49.95 and is expanable.
My Rio Volt MP3 CD player plays CDs that hold 15 hours of MP3 music at 96 kbps mono (I don't need the distraction of stereo in the environments where I typically use it). It cost me $69.95. Too bad the $20 rebate (which would have made it $49.95) expired literally while I was being driven home from Circuit City.
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bn.com has the book listed for $18.40. Amazon has it for $16.10
That's $32.20 after you've given an equal amount to the Electronic Frontier Foundation to counter the amount that you give to Amazon to retain a lawyer to enforce the dubious patent on "one-click shopping", or sending a personal identifier along with a request to buy a product.
I give $65 annually to EFF. I don't spend more than $65 annually on products of the nine members of MPAA union RIAA. It works out
Context: Diablo 2 hacks, which led to Diablo 2 bots, which led to use of a bot to improve a human player's character in a video game
Writing a bot for a human played game may show you have programming skill, but actually using it to defeat other players is just lame.
Tell that to Deep Fritz's coach.
It doesn't prove you have any skill regarding the actual game. It just proves that you can code and are willing to cheat to make you look better.
The way I see it, developing and using a bot makes a human player a lamer only if he misrepresents the nature of a bot or of an account on which he has used a bot. If you write a bot that can pass a significant subset of the Turing impersonation test and otherwise pass for a human player, and you name it Data (from ST:TNG) or David (from Spielberg's AI) or Pinocchio or something that makes it obvious that it's a bot, I don't see a big problem.
I was working on a CS bot at the time too. It never saw the light of day after I realized just how lame it was.
Ever heard of Core Wars? That was one of the first popular bot vs. bot games. You wrote a program, and your opponent wrote a program, and both programs ran in the same memory space. First program to segfault loses.
Diablo 2 was fun to play? I thought it was all just click here, then here, then here.......
Well, so is Duck Hunt. Just put the light pen on a duck and click. I was able to make the score wrap past a million within the first seven days of owning my NES.
Like Whac-a-Mole? You'll love Hampsterdeath, part of the freepuzzlearena suite. Except Hampsterdeath ends after three minutes and tells you what percent of the hamsters you hit.
when there is no benifit to using a risc instruction over a cisc instruction, a cisc instruction would be prefered since it does more with less keyboard work.
Keyboard work doesn't matter much. The MIPS architecture specifies a full complement of macroinstructions. Heck, somebody on the gbadev list mentioned writing a macro assembler that took 68000 assembly language and emitted ARM machine code.
In effect, CISC now stands for "compressed instruction set coding".
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What we need is intelligent speakers, with DSP's in them. Then you plug a microphone in to it
Then how does it compensate for the transfer function of the microphone?
And indeed, I can't find the Flash Linker Advance.
I can. See my other comment.
If you're a homebrew GBA developer, you can still get flash carts from various sources listed in the replies to this message. Don't pirate software.
but when asked why they don't get a cable modem ... they start spouting all sorts of reasons such as The cost of an ISP
Residential cable Internet access typically does cost $40 per month, which is $16 per month more than AOL(tm) dial-up service currently does.
don't want to loose their e-mail address
Assuming that by "loose" you mean "lose", that's actually a half-legitimate reason. America Online does not provide free forwarding of e-mail from Canceled accounts; that service costs $12 or so per month for "BYOA" (TCP connection to AOL Content(tm) ).
I've never found a site that doesn't work with Mozilla.
There are hundreds. For a sample, go to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org and type the word deny into the search field.
I suspet that the number of free hours given out by AOL accounts for millions of dollars each month in 'lost' revenue.
Does AOL Time Warner "lose" more revenue from free months of AOL service than it loses from piracy of Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, and Warner Bros. Records products?
I think that needing to link to the non-GPL libraries (dlls) to make the VB progs work is a violation of the GPL.
From the GNU General Public License, version 2:
It's perfectly OK under the GPL to link against libraries that come with a widely available (but not necessarily free) compiler. For instance, it's OK to link against the libraries that come with Microsoft Visual WhateverFlat. Otherwise, Linux would be impossible to make because it (or at least the bootloader) calls the computer's proprietary BIOS a few times when it first starts up.
Hmmm.that seems against what RMS originally designed the GPL for.
The GNU General Public License was designed to allow Emacs to work on Solaris and Windows operating environments. That's why the operating system clause is in there.
If I wanted to compil VB code, I need to use a NON-free (+$100 compiler) to use it.
Not for long: check out GNOME Basic.
Heck, it is called "SourceForge.net". OSDN has made it clear in e-mail to all SourceForge.net members that "SourceForge" the software development management system and "SourceForge.net" the public implementation thereof are two separate things. Heck, in the SourceForge.net logo, the ".net" part is in larger type than the "SOURCEFORGE" part. Did OSDN staff anticipate this competition from Microsoft? "Apparently, Microsoft is going to want to copy our idea for giving free hosting for open source projects' web sites, source code repositories, bug trackers, and mailing lists. Let's make '.NET' the biggest thing in our logo."
Here are some .NET projects on SourceForge.net: Projects that contain C# language code
I can't even get past the clickwrap EULA in the installer. It keeps hanging up on the part of the .NET Framework EULA that states that I can't disclose benchmark results to a third party: "You may not disclose results of a benchmark test of the .NET Framework without the prior written permission of Microsoft." (Here's what microsoft may have meant by that: "Installing .NET will slow your Windows computer to a crawl, and we'll sue you into the ground if you go to a web board and warn others.") Because I do not agree with that policy, the installer stops right there. Therefore, the only .NET performance figure that's legal to report is .ZERO mips.
I never had that problem with my Mac. I guess the Power Macintosh G4 computer does run twice as fast.
For instance the MacOS's file-type registry (you know, the thing that links the file type stored in the resource fork to the application that's supposed to open it?) would be inconsistant after such a delete
On Mac OS 6.x through 9.x, you can rebuild the desktop database by holding Command+Option while you mount the drive (for fixed media, usually when Finder starts). It scans all the apps on your hard disk, looking for "bundle" bits that tell whether a program has some sort of association, then it looks for BNDL, FREF, open, and kind resources to determine which file types to associate to an app.
Can you rebuild the Windows Registry that easily?
Start, and maybe even finish
That's part of the problem. You click the Start button to Stop the computer.
I really can not think of any way that the OS could contribute to make me more productive.
How about being compiled specifically for your processor's microarchitecture? Public-source operating systems (such as GNU/Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, and Darwin) can provide this, and operating systems designed to run only on one or two microarchitectures (i.e. Mac OS X, which runs on PowerPC G3 and G4) can provide this. Can Windows?
I don't recall having XP crash (needing a reboot) in about a year now
What about when it goes and downloads a patch to its networking stack, IE, the J?v? VM, or Outlook Express? Granted, that's not a crash, but it still needs a reboot.
If you are really desperate, you can skin XP to make it look like Aqua.
Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
How do we know the Anonymous Poster isn't an employee of Linux
I don't see "Anonymous Poster" capitalized that way anywhere in the blurb or the article.
If you're trying to draw a parallel between "AP" in the blurb and "AC" as a common abbreviation for Slashdot's Anonymous Coward, you're mistaken, but I forgive you: AP == Associated Press.
I really dont have a problem with things like this unless it is the government (federal, state, or local) saying that something can't be sold in town, state, or country
This doesn't apply directly to the article, but it's kinda-sorta related: Whenever a telecommunications company such as a cable company or a phone company gets a government-granted monopoly from a local government, then that company has the power to censor. Even under the strictest definition of censorship ("it's only censorship if it's done by a state"), it's still censorship because the telco's statutory monopoly prevents those who want to speak freely from setting up competing telecom services.
http://www.esrb.org/power_search.asp?type=game
I can't see that site because of Bug 143292 at bugzilla.mozilla.org.
Lossless audio is encumbered by patents
Assuming that "lossless audio" refers to "PCM audio compressed using a lossless coding method", what patents affect FLAC?
The winner will be who ever gets out an mp3 player that holds at least 1 hour of music for 49.95 and is expanable.
My Rio Volt MP3 CD player plays CDs that hold 15 hours of MP3 music at 96 kbps mono (I don't need the distraction of stereo in the environments where I typically use it). It cost me $69.95. Too bad the $20 rebate (which would have made it $49.95) expired literally while I was being driven home from Circuit City.
bn.com has the book listed for $18.40. Amazon has it for $16.10
That's $32.20 after you've given an equal amount to the Electronic Frontier Foundation to counter the amount that you give to Amazon to retain a lawyer to enforce the dubious patent on "one-click shopping", or sending a personal identifier along with a request to buy a product.
I give $65 annually to EFF. I don't spend more than $65 annually on products of the nine members of MPAA union RIAA. It works out
Context: Diablo 2 hacks, which led to Diablo 2 bots, which led to use of a bot to improve a human player's character in a video game
Writing a bot for a human played game may show you have programming skill, but actually using it to defeat other players is just lame.
Tell that to Deep Fritz's coach.
It doesn't prove you have any skill regarding the actual game. It just proves that you can code and are willing to cheat to make you look better.
The way I see it, developing and using a bot makes a human player a lamer only if he misrepresents the nature of a bot or of an account on which he has used a bot. If you write a bot that can pass a significant subset of the Turing impersonation test and otherwise pass for a human player, and you name it Data (from ST:TNG) or David (from Spielberg's AI) or Pinocchio or something that makes it obvious that it's a bot, I don't see a big problem.
Using a bot to play a game is pretty lame.
Not always. What if you really have to use the restroom? Slashdot previously covered an effort to have the game take over for you during a potty break, which is better than pausing an online game.
I was working on a CS bot at the time too. It never saw the light of day after I realized just how lame it was.
Ever heard of Core Wars? That was one of the first popular bot vs. bot games. You wrote a program, and your opponent wrote a program, and both programs ran in the same memory space. First program to segfault loses.
Diablo 2 was fun to play? I thought it was all just click here, then here, then here.......
Well, so is Duck Hunt. Just put the light pen on a duck and click. I was able to make the score wrap past a million within the first seven days of owning my NES.
Like Whac-a-Mole? You'll love Hampsterdeath, part of the freepuzzlearena suite. Except Hampsterdeath ends after three minutes and tells you what percent of the hamsters you hit.
Now Doctor Mario!
I've cloned Dr. Mario for the PC, and it's available as part of the freepuzzlearena suite available here.
TESS expires URLs at the end of a user's session. Here's a permane nt link to the TETRIS trademark registration record.
Unless they got permission from The Tetris Company LLC to use the TETRIS mark, this mod may infringe on Elorg's registered trademark on TETRIS for video game software.
when there is no benifit to using a risc instruction over a cisc instruction, a cisc instruction would be prefered since it does more with less keyboard work.
Keyboard work doesn't matter much. The MIPS architecture specifies a full complement of macroinstructions. Heck, somebody on the gbadev list mentioned writing a macro assembler that took 68000 assembly language and emitted ARM machine code.
In effect, CISC now stands for "compressed instruction set coding".