the publisher is willing to jack up the prices to pay TOG royalties per unit for the UNIX trademark. These run into five or six figures annually, making the trademark program available only to large corporations.
Compiling software is for when you want to customize software
Or when you have to customize software to run on your architecture. Binary packages are generally provided for a couple distributions of x86 Linux, not PowerPC Linux systems such as linuxppc and Yellow Dog (forget Debian for a moment).
Who would run Gnome or KDE when they can have Aqua
People who also want to play games. We are in the phase of the gaming market when the most heavily marketed games are on the x86 PC because that's the largest audience; the new consoles (specifically Sony PS2) do not have a foothold. It was similar in the Doom/Duke/Quake days just before the PSX and N64 came out.
The parts of Mac OS X that run on top of the Darwin kernel are only available as binaries for PowerPC-based Macintosh computers. I haven't seen a CPU that can code-morph into both an x86 (for games) and a PowerPC (for Mac OS X).
Mac OS X runs only on Apple G3/G4 hardware, which is very well-put-together, and requires 128 MB or more of physical RAM. A machine with a free copy of Mac OS X can be had for USD $799. This is only expensive when compared to the fact that Linux runs well in console mode on a $200 486 box.
Six months of jail time? That seems more than a little extreme to me. Fines would be much more suited to the crime.
And watch the spammers just absorb those fines into their operating expenses. Jail time is the only way to discourage spamming.
bother of having to delete [spam] does not deserve the same kind of punishment as, say, rapists
spammers rape your wallet because it costs the ISP to receive spam (costs passed on to subscribers), and it costs subscribers per minute to download spam through the telco's phone lines. (Local telephone calls are AFAIK billed by the minute pretty much everywhere but North America.)
We do not object to use of this slang term to describe UCE, although we do object to the use of our product image in association with that term. Also, if the term is to be used, it should be used in all lower-case letters to distinguish it from our trademark SPAM, which should be used with all uppercase letters.
My ISP (Demon Internet) gives you unlimited email addresses at your own domain (albeit a sub-domain of demon.co.uk).
So doe Freeservers, who hosts PinEight.com. Freeservers redirects all mail sent to your subdomain to the email address (a Hotmail/Yahoo account is OK) you gave when you signed up.
To find more MIDIs on the net, you could try Midifarm or Cowdance.
But look at the difficulty in making MIDI's (or NES music, or.ST3.IT.MOD etc).
All you need is a background in music, software (Modplug Tracker for MOD/XM/S3M/IT, the NT2 tools for NES music (email Memblers at the NESdev site to obtain them), or Jazzware for MIDI), and a sound card, and you can cover any song.
although there's a 99% chance the RIAA made them just as illegal
Pretty close. Re-performance rights in a musical work, live or in studio, are managed by composers' and publishers' organizations such as ASCAP, SESAC, BMI, and Harry Fox Agency.
To sum up my point is that no politician could justify a tax if their was no sample coding. It would be like imposing a guitar tax, since you're probably going to play songs you didn't write.
And ASCAP/SESAC/BMI will probably go after that next.
Standard floppy holds about 1.44MB of data.... And you can only store one song each on a floppy.
MIDI has an approximate bitrate of 20 kilobytes per minute for moderately complex pieces, allowing an entire symphony to fit on a floppy. NES music is ten times leaner than that; you'd be amazed what can be done with three tone generators and a noise generator.
Point-blank microwave radiation from personal communication devices is not a problem if you use an earpiece and microphone that plug into the side of the cellphone. Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Slashdot should open up an entire new area just for trolling and who can do the best flames.
You mean like sid=trolltalk? That's where trolls hang out, organize their activities, etc. There was another Slash-based site called Hotgrits.org that was essentially a troll playground, but that shut down. But let's get this straight: mentioning Natalie Portman on Slashdot is counterproductive.
WINE has supported most installers for (around) the last 4-6 months.
Watch the EULA. Several Microsoft programs (such as Internet Explorer) come with a "Supplemental EULA" that states, in effect, "If you are not installing this on a genuine licensed installation of Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition, Microsoft Windows NT, or Microsoft Windows 2000 (hereinafter "Windows Family OS"), you have no rights under this EULA and may not install the Software.
The United States government uses "eminent domain" (nothing to do with Eminem[?]) to buy private property. "...nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." (US Constitution, Amendment V) Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Doesn't matter, as the money would most likely go right back to the telco for the ISP bill, unless the law requires that it be a one-time-only compensation.
Perhaps folks who trade live concert recordings. There are quite a few artists who allow/encourage this sort of activity these days
Even Metallica allow trading of recordings of live performances; they've already made their money on tickets. They just don't want you trading the studio recordings for the price of the media.
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Everything Slashdot should have been.
K5 is like Slashdot, but it allows users to see and moderate the submission queue. The stories are more detailed. It also has very little spam (the -1 FP/portman/goatse.cx shit) because the community just doesn't tolerate it.
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Seriously, what on earth do you mean when you say Unix?
UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. (The official legal form of trademarks is in all caps, no matter what ESR's Jargon File says.)
What this means is that an operating system is a UNIX® system if
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You can download Darwin for x86. But that won't give you Quartz/Carbon/Cocoa (Mac OS X userland libraries) which are all proprietary binaries for PowerPC machines; good luck finding a machine that can code-morph into both an x86 (for the games on your Windows partition) and a PowerPC (for Mac OS X's userland). -- Dr. Mario game for PC based on Mac OS X's Aqua theme
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Compiling software is for when you want to customize software
Or when you have to customize software to run on your architecture. Binary packages are generally provided for a couple distributions of x86 Linux, not PowerPC Linux systems such as linuxppc and Yellow Dog (forget Debian for a moment).
--I'm a Barbie girl. You can be one too: just install Mac OS X.
Dr. Mario clone for PC based on Mac OS X's Aqua theme
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Who would run Gnome or KDE when they can have Aqua
People who also want to play games. We are in the phase of the gaming market when the most heavily marketed games are on the x86 PC because that's the largest audience; the new consoles (specifically Sony PS2) do not have a foothold. It was similar in the Doom/Duke/Quake days just before the PSX and N64 came out.
The parts of Mac OS X that run on top of the Darwin kernel are only available as binaries for PowerPC-based Macintosh computers. I haven't seen a CPU that can code-morph into both an x86 (for games) and a PowerPC (for Mac OS X).
Mac OS X Aqua vs. Bill Gates: The GameLike Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
- Even though the source code for the Darwin kernel and POSIX layer, the rest of Mac OS (Quartz/Carbon/Cocoa) is still very proprietary.
- Even Darwin may not qualify under the Open Source definition.
Mac OS X Aqua vs. Bill Gates: The GameLike Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Mac OS X runs only on Apple G3/G4 hardware, which is very well-put-together, and requires 128 MB or more of physical RAM. A machine with a free copy of Mac OS X can be had for USD $799. This is only expensive when compared to the fact that Linux runs well in console mode on a $200 486 box.
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Six months of jail time? That seems more than a little extreme to me. Fines would be much more suited to the crime.
And watch the spammers just absorb those fines into their operating expenses. Jail time is the only way to discourage spamming.
bother of having to delete [spam] does not deserve the same kind of punishment as, say, rapists
spammers rape your wallet because it costs the ISP to receive spam (costs passed on to subscribers), and it costs subscribers per minute to download spam through the telco's phone lines. (Local telephone calls are AFAIK billed by the minute pretty much everywhere but North America.)
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
My ISP (Demon Internet) gives you unlimited email addresses at your own domain (albeit a sub-domain of demon.co.uk).
So doe Freeservers, who hosts PinEight.com. Freeservers redirects all mail sent to your subdomain to the email address (a Hotmail/Yahoo account is OK) you gave when you signed up.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
To find more MIDIs on the net, you could try Midifarm or Cowdance.
But look at the difficulty in making MIDI's (or NES music, or .ST3 .IT .MOD etc).
All you need is a background in music, software (Modplug Tracker for MOD/XM/S3M/IT, the NT2 tools for NES music (email Memblers at the NESdev site to obtain them), or Jazzware for MIDI), and a sound card, and you can cover any song.
although there's a 99% chance the RIAA made them just as illegal
Pretty close. Re-performance rights in a musical work, live or in studio, are managed by composers' and publishers' organizations such as ASCAP, SESAC, BMI, and Harry Fox Agency.
To sum up my point is that no politician could justify a tax if their was no sample coding. It would be like imposing a guitar tax, since you're probably going to play songs you didn't write.
And ASCAP/SESAC/BMI will probably go after that next.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Unless people fill up entire disks with 100MB's of garbage, I don't think 1K on a disk will cut it as "non-blank" media.
So put ZipSlack on the Zip disks.
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I wonder if it is cheaper for them to order CD-Rs and the like from US or other "non EU" countries.
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Standard floppy holds about 1.44MB of data. ... And you can only store one song each on a floppy.
MIDI has an approximate bitrate of 20 kilobytes per minute for moderately complex pieces, allowing an entire symphony to fit on a floppy. NES music is ten times leaner than that; you'd be amazed what can be done with three tone generators and a noise generator.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
next thing we'll see is a "linux for dummies" series..
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Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. For Dummies is a registered trademark of Hungry Minds. All other trademarks yadda yadda yadda.You mean like Debian for Dummies, Slackware for Dummies, SuSE for Dummies, and Red Hat 7 for Dummies? What about GNOME for Dummies and KDE for Dummies? Or Linux Programming for Dummies?
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Point-blank microwave radiation from personal communication devices is not a problem if you use an earpiece and microphone that plug into the side of the cellphone.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Slashdot should open up an entire new area just for trolling and who can do the best flames.
You mean like sid=trolltalk? That's where trolls hang out, organize their activities, etc. There was another Slash-based site called Hotgrits.org that was essentially a troll playground, but that shut down. But let's get this straight: mentioning Natalie Portman on Slashdot is counterproductive.
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If I could invent an extremely high resolution image with no flicker at all, I could control the world!
Or you'd just sell it for $4,000 as an Apple Cinema Display. 1.6 megapixel, and LCDs have no flicker.
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WINE has supported most installers for (around) the last 4-6 months.
Watch the EULA. Several Microsoft programs (such as Internet Explorer) come with a "Supplemental EULA" that states, in effect, "If you are not installing this on a genuine licensed installation of Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition, Microsoft Windows NT, or Microsoft Windows 2000 (hereinafter "Windows Family OS"), you have no rights under this EULA and may not install the Software.
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The United States government uses "eminent domain" (nothing to do with Eminem[?]) to buy private property. "...nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." (US Constitution, Amendment V)
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you may demand only a monetary fee.
Doesn't matter, as the money would most likely go right back to the telco for the ISP bill, unless the law requires that it be a one-time-only compensation.
Like Tetris? Like drugs? Ever try combining them?
Perhaps folks who trade live concert recordings. There are quite a few artists who allow/encourage this sort of activity these days
Even Metallica allow trading of recordings of live performances; they've already made their money on tickets. They just don't want you trading the studio recordings for the price of the media.
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Each Section of /. has a color scheme. This article is in the interviews Section; therefore it has the interviews colors (which happen to be identical to front_page colors), not the bsd Section colors.
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Kuro5hin: technology and culture, from the trenches
Everything Slashdot should have been.
K5 is like Slashdot, but it allows users to see and moderate the submission queue. The stories are more detailed. It also has very little spam (the -1 FP/portman/goatse.cx shit) because the community just doesn't tolerate it.
But if VA Linux dies, so does the rest of OSDN, which means no more free hosting for free software projects, as most free servers limit file sizes and bandwidths to keep the warez kiddies from hogging their resources.
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The press release abbreviates "VA Linux Systems" as "Linux" instead of "VA" or "VA Linux." This helps to create a negative impression in people's minds of Linux-based operating systems (such as GNU/Linux and Embedix). Seeing as Linux is Microsoft's Public Enemy Number 1, does anybody smell foul play?
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