Title 17, United States Code, provides statutory damages of $200 to $100,000 or more for copyright infringement, even when there are no actual damages. Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
I don't pay for Linux, I dnld it and use it for free.
In some parts of the world (including most of Europe AFAIK), an Internet connection is still billed by the minute. Even then, a connection fast enough to download a multi-CD distro in less than a day (shipping time) may cost more than the distro costs at cheapbytes.com.
A long-distance call to the other side of the planet still costs about fifty U.S. cents a minute, as opposed to local calls, which cost two cents a minute in some countries or a flat monthly fee in others. I don't know about you, but I'd rather local-call my ISP than long-distance call my friends across the pond.
Microsoft delays release of Windows 2000, and the Linux community screams in delight that it must really suck, despite the pretty-damn-stable RC builds
Were the Win2kRC? releases available to the public? (No, I'm not talking about d.net's RC5 brute-forcer either.) The Mac OS 10 beta and Linux 2.4 beta are both OutNow. The 2.4-test releases are betas; this article is about Linux 2.4 RC1.
No wait, every Microsoft operating system release is a public beta.
Thanks to this "portable" language, it's near impossible to get Freenet to work on Linux.
Get Freenet to work? Or get a specific client to work (granted, it is the official client)? You could always use another client written in C, or you could use gcj to compile the Java(TM) language code into a native app.
I've been unable to compile or run any programs written with allegro over the last 6 months (since I first started trying)... DOSisms...
Subscribe to the Allegro mailing list; there may be someone willing to help you get Allegro working. It worked without a hitch on my Red Hat 6 and Slackware 7 boxen.
It would be nice if the game developers would actually use a cross-platform engine to begin with,
I've had good luck with Allegro 3.9.33. It's a cross-platform 2D gaming library; there's an add-on package to make it interface with Mesa3d or OpenGL. You wouldn't believe how easily it is to recompile a Linux Allegro game for Windows or DOS.
Buy a computer from VA Linux Systems or Penguin Computing. This supports hardware manufacturers who are not in bed with Microsoft <cough>winmodems</cough>.
that to people who aren't programmers, compiling the source is a very tough and confusing thing to do.
Only for packages that haven't been properly supported in the configure script. For most packages,./configure; make; su -c make install works just fine.
And RPMs? A bunch of arcane names and errors with dependencies is certainly not "user-friendly" or "easy".
Apt-get handles dependencies automatically, and IIRC, recent apt-get can act as an RPM wrapper.
Let's analyze this. Jesus is commonly called Christ. Fscking oneself is another term for masturbation. Why would Jesus be shoving a Popsicle® stick up his ass?
Now, with that out of the way: Besides, ink on dead tree isn't going anywhere. For long format fiction it's still a far better experience that etext
Especially because etext refers to books in public domain, especially those published by Project Gutenberg. eBook is the term for those proprietary, copy-controlled, encrypted-out-the-ass electronic texts of works still under copyright. And don't count on any more literature expiring into the public domain, as Disney buys 20 more years of copyright for everything every 20 years, effectively putting everything written on or after January 1, 1923, under perpetual copyright.
and SETI is an incredibly worthless disinformation campaign run to keep Earth in the dark about the presence of intelligent life outside of our solar system
And distributed.net is incredibly worthless disinformation campaign run to keep Earth in the dark about the presence of unbreakable strong encryption, correct?
Flatland, like most popular works of classic literature written before 1923, is available from Project Gutenberg. It's also available from Project Nodeberg (Everything's partial PG mirror) here.
Sadly, nothing written on or after January 1, 1923, will ever expire into the public domain because of atrocities like the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Every 20 years, Disney buys another 20 years of copyright in every major jurisdiction.
There are many misconceptions about the intelligent race commonly known as `elves.' Elves are the descendants of Adam and Eve before they ate the apple. Though they are often depicted as midgets, elves are not midgets. They are as tall as human beings, and the only apparent difference to the `man on the street' is that elves have pointier ears. However, they age 140 to 150 times slower than humans do. After going to school off-and-on between the ages of 600 and 700 years and learning several professions, they often land a job working at the North Pole Inc. warehouses around the world.
`Santa's helpers' have incredible job security; they generally hold their jobs until age 2,000. They then work at various human jobs for 30 years each, retire, and route the pensions back through the school system and North Pole Inc. until death at around age 11,000. (Yes, like all other creatures, elves die.)
When I questioned my adoptive parents (who happen to be my bio-grandparents) about elves and Santa Claus, I made sure that my teachers agreed that it was plausible. I stopped believing when I set up a homemade burglar alarm around the tree one Christmas in hopes that Santa would trigger it. Nothing happened. After seeing the Disney movie The Santa Clause, I began to form this alternative version of the Santa myth:
It would be physically impossible for one Santa Claus to deliver toys to all the children in the whole world in 31 hours, even considering Jehovah's Witnesses, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and others who do not celebrate Yule holidays such as Christmas and Hanukkah (or is it Chanukah?). The current CEO and Santa Claus, named Tim Allen, has numerous helpers of both races.
Regional North Pole offices and warehouses employ quite a few elves and one human Santa. The Santa hits the shopping malls and tabulates kids' wish lists. Elves then purchase toys in megabulk from the big manufacturers (Hasbro, Mattel, Nintendo, Sony, Tyco, etc.) with (among other income sources) the fines paid by the families of naughty juvenile delinquents, wrap up the toys, and distribute them by truck or train (the cars say North Pole Express, or `Norpolex') to other regional offices. The mall Santa then handles toy delivery in each town.
Now isn't that a bit more plausible than what your parents probably told you?
All you need is a little device between your controller and your harddisks, which replaces the serial number given by the harddisk with another one or even return an error. Such device should not be too complicated to build
Except for a little four-letter word: DMCA. This law, in effect in the largest market for such devices (United States), would kill demand.
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Title 17, United States Code, provides statutory damages of $200 to $100,000 or more for copyright infringement, even when there are no actual damages.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
I don't pay for Linux, I dnld it and use it for free.
In some parts of the world (including most of Europe AFAIK), an Internet connection is still billed by the minute. Even then, a connection fast enough to download a multi-CD distro in less than a day (shipping time) may cost more than the distro costs at cheapbytes.com.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
"Full featured" software can still be fast and small if the developers know what they're doing.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Why not pick up the phone?
A long-distance call to the other side of the planet still costs about fifty U.S. cents a minute, as opposed to local calls, which cost two cents a minute in some countries or a flat monthly fee in others. I don't know about you, but I'd rather local-call my ISP than long-distance call my friends across the pond.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
I use ICQ so I don't have to check my email every 5 minutes.
That's why you have a script check your mail (playing gotmail.wav if you have any) and put it in a cron job to run every five minutes.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Microsoft delays release of Windows 2000, and the Linux community screams in delight that it must really suck, despite the pretty-damn-stable RC builds
Were the Win2kRC? releases available to the public? (No, I'm not talking about d.net's RC5 brute-forcer either.) The Mac OS 10 beta and Linux 2.4 beta are both OutNow. The 2.4-test releases are betas; this article is about Linux 2.4 RC1.
No wait, every Microsoft operating system release is a public beta.
When will MS finally release a VHS (very high security) product instead of a beta?Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Thanks to this "portable" language, it's near impossible to get Freenet to work on Linux.
Get Freenet to work? Or get a specific client to work (granted, it is the official client)? You could always use another client written in C, or you could use gcj to compile the Java(TM) language code into a native app.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
I've been unable to compile or run any programs written with allegro over the last 6 months (since I first started trying) ... DOSisms ...
Subscribe to the Allegro mailing list; there may be someone willing to help you get Allegro working. It worked without a hitch on my Red Hat 6 and Slackware 7 boxen.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
I don't care whether or not a fellow is Jewish. I just don't like a big nose, as it signifies dishonesty.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Well, most GNU/Linux distributions come with a sh*tload of games in both GNOME and KDE. And they often have higher fun factors than Fake III Arena or whatever FPS-of-the-month the sheeple are buying. Also, most Allegro games (such as TOD: Tetanus On Drugs and freepuzzlearena) recompile seamlessly on Linux.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
IIRC, DirectX 8 loses the DirectDraw API, replacing it with Direct2D, a shell around Direct3D.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Binary executables are relatively small.
And UPX (an executable packer) makes them even smaller on DOS, Linux, Win32, and several other targets.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
It would be nice if the game developers would actually use a cross-platform engine to begin with,
I've had good luck with Allegro 3.9.33. It's a cross-platform 2D gaming library; there's an add-on package to make it interface with Mesa3d or OpenGL. You wouldn't believe how easily it is to recompile a Linux Allegro game for Windows or DOS.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
See, I haven't contributed anything to the Linux community at all
If you feel guilty, you could
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
MP3s are an open standard.
Warning: Open does not necessarily imply free; for instance, the Apple Public Source License is not a Free Software license.
Anyone can download CDex w/ LAME for free and roll their own MP3s.
And infringe several United States patents (and foreign counterparts) in the process.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
that to people who aren't programmers, compiling the source is a very tough and confusing thing to do.
Only for packages that haven't been properly supported in the configure script. For most packages, ./configure; make; su -c make install works just fine.
And RPMs? A bunch of arcane names and errors with dependencies is certainly not "user-friendly" or "easy".
Apt-get handles dependencies automatically, and IIRC, recent apt-get can act as an RPM wrapper.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
This really isn't Flash, but .swf files
And what else did you think swf stood for? None other than Shockwave Flash.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Jesus fucking Christ on a popsicle stick
Let's analyze this. Jesus is commonly called Christ. Fscking oneself is another term for masturbation. Why would Jesus be shoving a Popsicle® stick up his ass?
Now, with that out of the way:
Besides, ink on dead tree isn't going anywhere. For long format fiction it's still a far better experience that etext
Especially because etext refers to books in public domain, especially those published by Project Gutenberg. eBook is the term for those proprietary, copy-controlled, encrypted-out-the-ass electronic texts of works still under copyright. And don't count on any more literature expiring into the public domain, as Disney buys 20 more years of copyright for everything every 20 years, effectively putting everything written on or after January 1, 1923, under perpetual copyright.
Now to address the other side of that: I know CRTs suck cock. That's why I do most of my reading on an LCD. Subpixel text rendering using individual color channels for finer anti-aliasing can make a good LCD look almost as good as paper.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Richard M. Stallman, founder of Free Software Foundation Inc., wrote a dystopian piece about pay-per-view eBooks called The Right to Read.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Such as the freedom not to buy it in the first place?
Does not apply. The return policy does not allow "unbuying" what has already been bought without prior knowledge of the terms.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
and SETI is an incredibly worthless disinformation campaign run to keep Earth in the dark about the presence of intelligent life outside of our solar system
And distributed.net is incredibly worthless disinformation campaign run to keep Earth in the dark about the presence of unbreakable strong encryption, correct?
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Flatland, like most popular works of classic literature written before 1923, is available from Project Gutenberg. It's also available from Project Nodeberg (Everything's partial PG mirror) here.
Sadly, nothing written on or after January 1, 1923, will ever expire into the public domain because of atrocities like the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Every 20 years, Disney buys another 20 years of copyright in every major jurisdiction.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
A WYSIWYG editor that will run from a terminal screen
What do you mean "terminal screen"? A WYSIWYG editor won't easily run in the VGA's text mode, as WYSIWYG editors require proportional fonts.
Sorry, guys, but vi and emacs both suck bigtime for former Windows users!
I agree with you on vi(le); try pico, joe, jed, etc. But Emacs isn't that hard. The seven commands you need to know for Emacs are
- open: Ctrl+x Ctrl+f
- save: Ctrl+x Ctrl+s
- quit: Ctrl+x Ctrl+c
- start selection: Ctrl+space
- cut: Ctrl+w
- copy: Alt+w
- paste: Ctrl+y
What's so hard about that?Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
There are many misconceptions about the intelligent race commonly known as `elves.' Elves are the descendants of Adam and Eve before they ate the apple. Though they are often depicted as midgets, elves are not midgets. They are as tall as human beings, and the only apparent difference to the `man on the street' is that elves have pointier ears. However, they age 140 to 150 times slower than humans do. After going to school off-and-on between the ages of 600 and 700 years and learning several professions, they often land a job working at the North Pole Inc. warehouses around the world.
`Santa's helpers' have incredible job security; they generally hold their jobs until age 2,000. They then work at various human jobs for 30 years each, retire, and route the pensions back through the school system and North Pole Inc. until death at around age 11,000. (Yes, like all other creatures, elves die.)
When I questioned my adoptive parents (who happen to be my bio-grandparents) about elves and Santa Claus, I made sure that my teachers agreed that it was plausible. I stopped believing when I set up a homemade burglar alarm around the tree one Christmas in hopes that Santa would trigger it. Nothing happened. After seeing the Disney movie The Santa Clause, I began to form this alternative version of the Santa myth:
It would be physically impossible for one Santa Claus to deliver toys to all the children in the whole world in 31 hours, even considering Jehovah's Witnesses, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and others who do not celebrate Yule holidays such as Christmas and Hanukkah (or is it Chanukah?). The current CEO and Santa Claus, named Tim Allen, has numerous helpers of both races.
Regional North Pole offices and warehouses employ quite a few elves and one human Santa. The Santa hits the shopping malls and tabulates kids' wish lists. Elves then purchase toys in megabulk from the big manufacturers (Hasbro, Mattel, Nintendo, Sony, Tyco, etc.) with (among other income sources) the fines paid by the families of naughty juvenile delinquents, wrap up the toys, and distribute them by truck or train (the cars say North Pole Express, or `Norpolex') to other regional offices. The mall Santa then handles toy delivery in each town.
Now isn't that a bit more plausible than what your parents probably told you?
(Soon to be a write-up on [E2].)Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
All you need is a little device between your controller and your harddisks, which replaces the serial number given by the harddisk with another one or even return an error. Such device should not be too complicated to build
Except for a little four-letter word: DMCA. This law, in effect in the largest market for such devices (United States), would kill demand.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.