I thought there was a version of M$ office for macOS systems also. Obviously you don't need a license for Windows if you are running it on a mac.
As with most Microsoft software packages, the version for Macintosh systems is an almost completely separate (and much cleaner) codebase. Yes, IE5 for Mac is about as good as Mozilla. Yes, Office2K for Mac eats Office2K for Windows for lunch. Yes, Microsoft will lose market share because the licenses say "you may not run this on a free OS."
YM SSL. SSH accounts are shell accounts; only SourceForge gives those out anymore.
and I assume POP that you don't have to pay for
The article said "POP over SSL or better." AFAIK, Hotmail can be configured as HTTP over SSL.
Altivec optimizations in core graphics.
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The "twice as fast as Wintel" claim is based on a small number of Adobe Photoshop operation benchmarks; usually filters that have been painstakingly optimized for the G4's "Altivec" vector processing unit. This isn't necessarily "cheating", since Photoshop is still one of the primary reasons to buy a mac, but if you are not a graphics professional, you are simply never ever going to see that kind of speed benefit using a Mac.
How do you know the native core graphics drivers aren't also written in assembly language for Altivec? Painstaking optimization of graphics is part of what made the first QuickDraw so fast and Macs so attractive in the first place.
Elf Bowling, a holiday-themed bowling simulator for Windows, was not a trojan. There was a hoax going around that it carried a virus, but this proved to be false. Either way, you can pick up a clean copy of the latest version here.
You can still make copies legally for yourself. As you said, it is 'units shipped' that you are charged for.
And who ships those encoders? The developers of the software. They are illegally shipping it. Also, a patent gives the owner the right to exclude others from making, selling, or using the invention. IANAL, but it looks like both the LAME developers and any LAME users in the United States are committing both direct and contributory patent infringement.
Remember, you can use a TM to make statements or prove/disprove theorems about TMs.
Provided you have a longer tape. According to this page, a Turing machine has among its parts "a head that can read, write, and move along an infinitely long tape that is divided into cells" (strong mine). In the real world there is no such thing as infinite RAM. An emulator in general has to have more registers than the system it's emulating; otherwise, registers will spill to RAM, which is a Bad Thing for an emulator that runs at such a low level, unlike user-space game console emulators that can spare a few bytes.
Transmeta's Code Morphing technology is designed to emulate CISC architectures efficiently. Think about it: could you do an emulator for one Crusoe chip's internal architecture on another model of Crusoe chip? Goedel says it'd be quite tough.
Someone please slap these stupid reporters that think anything mp3 is illegal.
At least LAME is illegal. MP3 the format is encumbered by patents. Software encoder developers must pay USD$15,000 for the first 6,000 units shipped yearly and USD$2.50 for each additional unit. Per-unit royalties are incompatible with free software. Switch to Vorbis today; most peer-to-peer file-sharing services support it now anyway.
If this passes, RIAA members may include a EULA with every CD sold: "By breaking the seal holding the CD in the jewel case, you agree to this EULA.... You waive all rights under the Music Owners' Listening Rights Act of 2000."
defeat those who would buy, BeamIt, and then return the CD... said CD is back off the market, there go Joe User's priveleges
That's why most stores won't refund opened products that are nearly pure IP. Such products (CDs, videos, DVDs, etc.) are typically exchanged for an identical opened title. Some anal-retentive stores (not naming names) even refuse to accept returned computers because the operating system (not naming names here either) install disc "has been opened."
But you can't create them in the United States and several other countries without buying licensed software from a software firm that pays the MP3 encoder software patent license royalties, which are currently USD$15,000 for the first 6,000 units shipped yearly and USD$2.50 for each additional unit. This is why official LAME binaries will not be released before around 2010 (good thing what happened to copyright duration hasn't (yet) happened to patent duration). BTW, to compile LAME on Win32, get GCC for Windows.
If you think licensing fees are the problem, it's time for you to upgrade.
I agree totally. After having upgraded from MP3 to OggVorbis, the only MP3 files I encode are Wrapster archives containing.ogg files.
Unless the RTL uses a stack for registers (like Java(TM) bytecode does), the different number of registers on different architectures will trip you up when you try to run the RTL through a code generator.
ANSI and ISO are standards bodies. So is ECMA. ECMA may be better known for standardizing the language formerly known as Java(TM)Script into EcmaScript.
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I thought there was a version of M$ office for macOS systems also. Obviously you don't need a license for Windows if you are running it on a mac.
As with most Microsoft software packages, the version for Macintosh systems is an almost completely separate (and much cleaner) codebase. Yes, IE5 for Mac is about as good as Mozilla. Yes, Office2K for Mac eats Office2K for Windows for lunch. Yes, Microsoft will lose market share because the licenses say "you may not run this on a free OS."
Requirements aren't met: SSH access
YM SSL. SSH accounts are shell accounts; only SourceForge gives those out anymore.
and I assume POP that you don't have to pay for
The article said "POP over SSL or better." AFAIK, Hotmail can be configured as HTTP over SSL.
The "twice as fast as Wintel" claim is based on a small number of Adobe Photoshop operation benchmarks; usually filters that have been painstakingly optimized for the G4's "Altivec" vector processing unit. This isn't necessarily "cheating", since Photoshop is still one of the primary reasons to buy a mac, but if you are not a graphics professional, you are simply never ever going to see that kind of speed benefit using a Mac.
How do you know the native core graphics drivers aren't also written in assembly language for Altivec? Painstaking optimization of graphics is part of what made the first QuickDraw so fast and Macs so attractive in the first place.
Rob, if you're going to use the GNU icon, please make the headline match the philosophy behind the GNU icon ("Free Software" instead of "Open Source"). RMS gets kind of ticked when the two movements are confused.
Elf Bowling, a holiday-themed bowling simulator for Windows, was not a trojan. There was a hoax going around that it carried a virus, but this proved to be false. Either way, you can pick up a clean copy of the latest version here.
[Quickies] would not be possible on E2 because Everything 2 does not allow <a href="...">external links</a>, only [hardlink]s within the E2 system.
What a crappy website!
Post proof or retract.
-- This is me. This is me on E2.You can still make copies legally for yourself. As you said, it is 'units shipped' that you are charged for.
And who ships those encoders? The developers of the software. They are illegally shipping it. Also, a patent gives the owner the right to exclude others from making, selling, or using the invention. IANAL, but it looks like both the LAME developers and any LAME users in the United States are committing both direct and contributory patent infringement.
I was wrong about Goedel, but let's talk Turing.
Remember, you can use a TM to make statements or prove/disprove theorems about TMs.
Provided you have a longer tape. According to this page, a Turing machine has among its parts "a head that can read, write, and move along an infinitely long tape that is divided into cells" (strong mine). In the real world there is no such thing as infinite RAM. An emulator in general has to have more registers than the system it's emulating; otherwise, registers will spill to RAM, which is a Bad Thing for an emulator that runs at such a low level, unlike user-space game console emulators that can spare a few bytes.
Oh, BTW, the Brainfuck language is one of the smallest (eight instructions) Turing-complete languages in existence.
Transmeta's Code Morphing technology is designed to emulate CISC architectures efficiently. Think about it: could you do an emulator for one Crusoe chip's internal architecture on another model of Crusoe chip? Goedel says it'd be quite tough.
AMD better stop naming processors after Ford vehicles, or they get slapped with a lawsuit from Ford Motor Company.
File Format = Felony
More like File Format = Civil Liability when MP3 is licensed and Vorbis isn't.
Someone please slap these stupid reporters that think anything mp3 is illegal.
At least LAME is illegal. MP3 the format is encumbered by patents. Software encoder developers must pay USD$15,000 for the first 6,000 units shipped yearly and USD$2.50 for each additional unit. Per-unit royalties are incompatible with free software. Switch to Vorbis today; most peer-to-peer file-sharing services support it now anyway.
One thing you forgot:
a seasonal reference.
(See Everything 2)
The proper way to spell a word is the way most people spell it.
<irony>Definately.</irony>
Just because people misspell it 10% of the time doesn't mean it's correct.
Kuro5hin runs on the Scoop engine. Each posted article seems to have its own poll, if I'm not mistaken.
You can find a prototype ROM image of GNOME vs. KDE along with the rest of the NES development effort.
If this passes, RIAA members may include a EULA with every CD sold: "By breaking the seal holding the CD in the jewel case, you agree to this EULA. ... You waive all rights under the Music Owners' Listening Rights Act of 2000."
who digitizes the music
That would be the compact disc manufacturer. The music is digital before it is even packaged. Who compresses the music, on the other hand...
defeat those who would buy, BeamIt, and then return the CD... said CD is back off the market, there go Joe User's priveleges
That's why most stores won't refund opened products that are nearly pure IP. Such products (CDs, videos, DVDs, etc.) are typically exchanged for an identical opened title. Some anal-retentive stores (not naming names) even refuse to accept returned computers because the operating system (not naming names here either) install disc "has been opened."
And I've certainly dl'd MP3's over 56kbps.
But you can't create them in the United States and several other countries without buying licensed software from a software firm that pays the MP3 encoder software patent license royalties, which are currently USD$15,000 for the first 6,000 units shipped yearly and USD$2.50 for each additional unit. This is why official LAME binaries will not be released before around 2010 (good thing what happened to copyright duration hasn't (yet) happened to patent duration). BTW, to compile LAME on Win32, get GCC for Windows.
If you think licensing fees are the problem, it's time for you to upgrade.
I agree totally. After having upgraded from MP3 to OggVorbis, the only MP3 files I encode are Wrapster archives containing .ogg files.
Unless the RTL uses a stack for registers (like Java(TM) bytecode does), the different number of registers on different architectures will trip you up when you try to run the RTL through a code generator.
ANSI and ISO are standards bodies. So is ECMA. ECMA may be better known for standardizing the language formerly known as Java(TM)Script into EcmaScript.
Except Weebles didn't hop around like this.
Didn't some Weebles have arms? I always thought of them as walking forward on their hands and bottom.
Had you posted this on Everything2 (another fine BSI site), you would have got a C! for that write-up.