You mean nobody is going to use Napster's network if they have to pay. There's still the somewhat decentralized OpenNap network which is free both ways.
I also happen to think the price of a DVD is usually reasonable also.
You think USD$600 is reasonable? Because the DVD people do not support alternative operating systems, the price of a DVD includes the price of VMware (USD$300) plus the price of a halfway decent version of Windows (another USD$300). Anything else either provides shit resolution (DVD players with television outputs) or will get your butt in jail and your equipment confiscated under 17 USC 1201 where applicable (BSD- and Linux-based DVD efforts).
Does it stop anyone from making copies. Whats the point.
No, but it stops people from using their copies on SDMI systems. For example, what if your speakers are SDMI-compliant? "You don't have authorization to play this CD; it is owned by Foobaz Library."
"2.4" is the version number of "Linux", the kernel. "Linux" the operating system (aka GNU/Linux), on the other hand, is up to version 7.x in commercial distributions (Slack, Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake). The 7.x distributions use a 2.2.16 or so kernel or a beta 2.4 kernel.
Slashcode is currently distributed under GNU GPL 2, which allows modification and (apparently) ASPing (using code to run a service without distributing binaries) without requiring modified source to be disclosed. GNU GPL 3 will have restrictions on ASPing, which <IANAL>may be construed as a public performance under copyright law</IANAL>.
Slashdot is presumably running a highly customized Slashcode installation. Fat chance you'll find lameness filters in the tarball.
The Record Rental Amendment prohibits renting of phonorecords such as cassettes and CDs without express permission from the copyright holder (generally an RIAA member label). This applies only in the United States.
In Gnomes by Huygen and Poortvliet, the 90 cm tall trolls are always trying to catch the 15 cm tall gnomes. Gnomes are portrayed as the good guys; trolls are the bad guys.
Allegro is an easy-to-use multimedia library for game programming in C. (No, C isn't that much harder than Basic.) Allegro programs are portable across Linux, DOS, Windows, and (soon) BeOS.
Say I'm using Linux on a PowerPC, MIPS, Alpha, or SPARC machine. I haven't seen versions of MS Windows lately for any of those platforms. Perhaps it's not that hard per se (head down to Gateway Country and buy a winbox), but it sure is expensive.
Every time the day draws near when copyrights will begin to expire, Congress pulls something like the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act and gives copyright holders 20 more years.
Sometimes you want to get as low level as you can, but also want to be portable. It would at least be an interesting academic project (somebody must've done this already) to attempt to abstract most essential assembly instructions to a virtual set, which can then be translated to a closely matching native set, at compile-time.
I see nothing in what you described that the C language does not offer provided your compiler has a good optimizer.
Last time I checked, reading or writing disks larger than 512 MB under FreeDOS caused irreparable damage to their filesystems (format c: anyone?). Patches Are Welcome.
I'd be interested in finding out from an experienced Website Admin. just how much extra webserver load (if any) would result from letting all logged in experienced users moderate.
All experienced users can moderate on [Everything 2]. Each user who has [at least 50 XP] (like Karma but you also get one for each write-up) is given 10 to 100 or more points per day with which to vote +1 or -1 on a particular write-up and cannot see other users' write-ups' scores until after voting on them.
Windows is a lot less secure than linux or bsd. You can't just look at the source code to find potential vulnerabilities to report to the maintainers. There is no security from obscurity.
I really wish Slashdot would start moderation on articles too
You really wish you were looking at Kuro5hin. All logged-in users are always moderators at all times, and all logged-in users can vote +1 or -1 (remind you of [e2]?) on story submissions in the public queue.
Stay away from alt.sex.*, as it has been taken over by spammers. Next time, try alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.* filtered by "show messages that contain jpeg attachments." Any good newsreader should be able to do this.
But by now, you probably think Hampsterdance is annoying. Very annoying. If so, go play Hampsterdeath, a game based on the Grand Unified Whack-A-Mole Engine for *nix, DOS, and Windows.
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You mean nobody is going to use Napster's network if they have to pay. There's still the somewhat decentralized OpenNap network which is free both ways.
I also happen to think the price of a DVD is usually reasonable also.
You think USD$600 is reasonable? Because the DVD people do not support alternative operating systems, the price of a DVD includes the price of VMware (USD$300) plus the price of a halfway decent version of Windows (another USD$300). Anything else either provides shit resolution (DVD players with television outputs) or will get your butt in jail and your equipment confiscated under 17 USC 1201 where applicable (BSD- and Linux-based DVD efforts).
Does it stop anyone from making copies. Whats the point.
No, but it stops people from using their copies on SDMI systems. For example, what if your speakers are SDMI-compliant? "You don't have authorization to play this CD; it is owned by Foobaz Library."
"2.4" is the version number of "Linux", the kernel. "Linux" the operating system (aka GNU/Linux), on the other hand, is up to version 7.x in commercial distributions (Slack, Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake). The 7.x distributions use a 2.2.16 or so kernel or a beta 2.4 kernel.
Well, look at the source.
Slashcode is currently distributed under GNU GPL 2, which allows modification and (apparently) ASPing (using code to run a service without distributing binaries) without requiring modified source to be disclosed. GNU GPL 3 will have restrictions on ASPing, which <IANAL>may be construed as a public performance under copyright law</IANAL>.
Slashdot is presumably running a highly customized Slashcode installation. Fat chance you'll find lameness filters in the tarball.
The Record Rental Amendment prohibits renting of phonorecords such as cassettes and CDs without express permission from the copyright holder (generally an RIAA member label). This applies only in the United States.
In Gnomes by Huygen and Poortvliet, the 90 cm tall trolls are always trying to catch the 15 cm tall gnomes. Gnomes are portrayed as the good guys; trolls are the bad guys.
If you really want to fight it out, pull out an NES emulator and play GNOME vs. KDE: Battle of the Desktops, a GPL'd NES game.
installing [the Allegro library] is a kind of rocket science
What's so hard about this?
make
make install
if the same message is sent out to more than X number of people where X is fairly low, KERPOW! No account.
Which also keeps legitimate (listserv/majordomo) mailing lists from being operated from behind their connections.
Allegro is an easy-to-use multimedia library for game programming in C. (No, C isn't that much harder than Basic.) Allegro programs are portable across Linux, DOS, Windows, and (soon) BeOS.
Red Hat Cygwin is an implementation of POSIX on Win32, with lots of ports of GNU software. It's free software licensed under the GNU GPL.
Change your OS. Not that hard.
Say I'm using Linux on a PowerPC, MIPS, Alpha, or SPARC machine. I haven't seen versions of MS Windows lately for any of those platforms. Perhaps it's not that hard per se (head down to Gateway Country and buy a winbox), but it sure is expensive.
Every time the day draws near when copyrights will begin to expire, Congress pulls something like the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act and gives copyright holders 20 more years.
Sometimes you want to get as low level as you can, but also want to be portable. It would at least be an interesting academic project (somebody must've done this already) to attempt to abstract most essential assembly instructions to a virtual set, which can then be translated to a closely matching native set, at compile-time.
I see nothing in what you described that the C language does not offer provided your compiler has a good optimizer.
DR DOS is a $39 shareware clone of DOS. FreeDOS is a GPL'd clone of DOS with a few bugs (e.g. it irreparably corrupts any drive larger than 512 MB).
Last time I checked, reading or writing disks larger than 512 MB under FreeDOS caused irreparable damage to their filesystems (format c: anyone?). Patches Are Welcome.
Hampster is a surname; hamster is a species.
Pearson is a surname; person is a species.
I'd be interested in finding out from an experienced Website Admin. just how much extra webserver load (if any) would result from letting all logged in experienced users moderate.
All experienced users can moderate on [Everything 2]. Each user who has [at least 50 XP] (like Karma but you also get one for each write-up) is given 10 to 100 or more points per day with which to vote +1 or -1 on a particular write-up and cannot see other users' write-ups' scores until after voting on them.
AC botched the link to goatse.cx. Here's a working link to the OpenBSD install instructions.
Windows is a lot less secure than linux or bsd. You can't just look at the source code to find potential vulnerabilities to report to the maintainers. There is no security from obscurity.
I really wish Slashdot would start moderation on articles too
You really wish you were looking at Kuro5hin. All logged-in users are always moderators at all times, and all logged-in users can vote +1 or -1 (remind you of [e2]?) on story submissions in the public queue.
PKB. Google's technology is just as patent-pending as HotLinks'.
Stay away from alt.sex.*, as it has been taken over by spammers. Next time, try alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.* filtered by "show messages that contain jpeg attachments." Any good newsreader should be able to do this.
But by now, you probably think Hampsterdance is annoying. Very annoying. If so, go play Hampsterdeath, a game based on the Grand Unified Whack-A-Mole Engine for *nix, DOS, and Windows.