I looked at it on my primary surfing system, an Acer TravelMate 720 series laptop PC with a 1024x768 active matrix color LCD. Looks beautiful. It'd look even better on Nintendo's Game Boy Color, where the red, green, and blue vertical stripes are even more pronounced.
It wasn't Tetris® because I haven't seen it on Tetris.com, the place for all licensed Tetris products (anything else using the trademark is illegal. However, it may have been a drop-in replacement like Tetanus, Quadra, Bedter, or the one that comes with some distributions of GNU Emacs (Alt+x tetris RET).
Amiga was originally the successor to Atari ST, but Commodore bought it. To see what the developers had to say about it:
Load Amiga Workbench and several applications. Click in the background.
Holding Alt+Shift+F1 through Alt+Shift+F10 produces a credit in the status bar at the top of the screen.
While still holding Alt+Shift+F1, eject a disk. "The Amiga, born a champion."
Reinsert the disk. On Amiga OS 1.2 and earlier, a subliminal "We made Amiga, they fscked it up." (This is why you run other apps, so multitasking lets you actually see the message.) On Amiga OS 1.3 and later, "Still a champion" after Commodore found out about it.
Is that music B, Game Boy music C, or NES music C? I know NES music A is "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, and Game Boy music A is a Russian folk song "the pedlars".
Oh, and you can get lots of remixes of "the pedlars" on Napster: search for song title: tetris.
The clustering, the FNP, Symmetric multiprocessing, etc... Will the GPL apply to these enhancements as well?
Yes. Stuff like that needs low-level kernel hacking, and anything added to the kernel is automatically under GPL (the stuff you mentioned is too low-level to be modules).
You solicit advertising email when you subscribe to an explicitly-identified opt-in mailing list.
And you opt in when you accept the terms of service, which presumably includes something along the lines of "MP3.com will send you updates etc. by email. To stop receiving these updates, cancel your My.MP3.com account."
The biggest problem I have with mymp3.com is their obligatory spam
Spam is defined by most Internet companies as "unsolicited commercial email or newsgroup/weblog postings." You solicited the mail when you signed up for My.MP3.com.
A while back, they switched low-fidelity playback from RealAudio to MPEG layer 3:
MP3 streaming works better on Eunuchs and Mac machines, and
"Real.com" is already taken.
There are help pages set up at MP3.com for Eunuchs, Mac, and Windows platforms. I don't see them alienating Eunuchs users by going to::[+] WindowsMedia Player (or WiMP as we called it in school). -- EUNUCHS is not a registered trademark of the Open Group.
It's too bad for Mp3 though that the money they would/should have used for things like advertising, bandwidth and servers instead has to go
towards content. Most commercial web sites buy content; should MP3.com be any different?
There's money in being an "I Agree" clicker.
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When you buy Windows you can use it w/o having to agree to the license (although you're on your own as far as installing it goes)
That's why I have my thirteen-year-old cousin install it for me (breaking both the shrinkwrap and the clickwrap). I'd like to see 'em try to enforce a contract against a minor.
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This letter "very much like f", , is called long s. It had the advantage of looking good on paper, enabling more ligatures (st, sh, etc), and generally fitting the way type was designed. The italic print version looked like (an integral sign). Something similar was used in the old Gaelic and German alphabets (surviving today in the German letter ß, which is long-s + s and no relation to the Greek lowercase (beta)).
You _will_ give them the keys.
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sure read it, but first you need to know my key
The police in some places can ask you to surrender your keys.
There is a statute (17usc117) that says that _using_ software as intended is legal:
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:
(1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner
Actually, there is an interpretation I can see in this clause that legalizes software bootlegging (downloading the software from 31337w4r3z.com is "an essential step in the utilization of the computer program").
So I can't sell both MIPS and Wintel boxen?
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to the telling of PC vendors, "if you sell any other OS on any line of machines, we will cancel your Windows license all together"
Microsoft does not make a Windows operating system for m68k, Sparc, MIPS, PowerPC, or any other architecture except x86 and Alpha. Does this mean if you sell Wintel boxen, you can't sell PowerPC boxen?
Why go through the pain of writing all 100% of your code in a compiled language like C, when you could write only that speed-critical 10% in it, and write the rest in something like Python?
Python code cannot be compressed as easily as C code. In C (or any of its interpreted cousins), source code can be compressed by removing all indentation and decompressed by re-indenting with GNU indent. With Python's indentation-as-syntax, deep nesting of if-then structures, even at one space per indent, runs up a big bill in terms of space. I'm not dissing Python (I think indentation as syntax is wonderful; if then if then else anyone?), but interpreters need to understand.py.gz files.
If bandwidth were like electricity...
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... the Slashdot effect would be theft of service. Just look at how many ISPs temporarily shut down slashdotted web pages because they ran into bandwidth limigs.
Slashdot Mirror
But then AOL
Created the Septemb er
That never ended.
No, but colors in an NTSC signal are horizontally multiplexed in a similar way to colors on the LCD panel of the laptop computer I'm typing this on.
I looked at it on my primary surfing system, an Acer TravelMate 720 series laptop PC with a 1024x768 active matrix color LCD. Looks beautiful. It'd look even better on Nintendo's Game Boy Color, where the red, green, and blue vertical stripes are even more pronounced.
It wasn't Tetris® because I haven't seen it on Tetris.com, the place for all licensed Tetris products (anything else using the trademark is illegal. However, it may have been a drop-in replacement like Tetanus, Quadra, Bedter, or the one that comes with some distributions of GNU Emacs (Alt+x tetris RET).
Program terminated with signal 11
So the leading karma wh0re on /. was killed along with Opera?
They can get the sequence of the characters you type, but can they get the time between the characters?
If Quake can read the time (to within 15 ms) when you pressed a key, then this biometric software can.
Is that music B, Game Boy music C, or NES music C? I know NES music A is "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, and Game Boy music A is a Russian folk song "the pedlars".
Oh, and you can get lots of remixes of "the pedlars" on Napster: search for song title: tetris.
The clustering, the FNP, Symmetric multiprocessing, etc... Will the GPL apply to these enhancements as well?
Yes. Stuff like that needs low-level kernel hacking, and anything added to the kernel is automatically under GPL (the stuff you mentioned is too low-level to be modules).
You solicit advertising email when you subscribe to an explicitly-identified opt-in mailing list.
And you opt in when you accept the terms of service, which presumably includes something along the lines of "MP3.com will send you updates etc. by email. To stop receiving these updates, cancel your My.MP3.com account."
The biggest problem I have with mymp3.com is their obligatory spam
Spam is defined by most Internet companies as "unsolicited commercial email or newsgroup/weblog postings." You solicited the mail when you signed up for My.MP3.com.
A while back, they switched low-fidelity playback from RealAudio to MPEG layer 3:
- MP3 streaming works better on Eunuchs and Mac machines, and
- "Real.com" is already taken.
There are help pages set up at MP3.com for Eunuchs, Mac, and Windows platforms. I don't see them alienating Eunuchs users by going to--
Any chance of "Beverly Hillbillies 90210"?
It's too bad for Mp3 though that the money they would/should have used for things like advertising, bandwidth and servers instead has to go
towards content. Most commercial web sites buy content; should MP3.com be any different?
When you buy Windows you can use it w/o having to agree to the license (although you're on your own as far as installing it goes)
That's why I have my thirteen-year-old cousin install it for me (breaking both the shrinkwrap and the clickwrap). I'd like to see 'em try to enforce a contract against a minor.
So senryu is generalized haiku that retains 5\n7\n5\n but lacks a reference to the season, right?
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This letter "very much like f", , is called long s. It had the advantage of looking good on paper, enabling more ligatures (st, sh, etc), and generally fitting the way type was designed. The italic print version looked like (an integral sign). Something similar was used in the old Gaelic and German alphabets (surviving today in the German letter ß, which is long-s + s and no relation to the Greek lowercase (beta)).
sure read it, but first you need to know my key
The police in some places can ask you to surrender your keys.
There is a statute (17usc117) that says that _using_ software as intended is legal:
Actually, there is an interpretation I can see in this clause that legalizes software bootlegging (downloading the software from 31337w4r3z.com is "an essential step in the utilization of the computer program").to the telling of PC vendors, "if you sell any other OS on any line of machines, we will cancel your Windows license all together"
Microsoft does not make a Windows operating system for m68k, Sparc, MIPS, PowerPC, or any other architecture except x86 and Alpha. Does this mean if you sell Wintel boxen, you can't sell PowerPC boxen?
The only thing that's unusual is that one is required to provide bell labs with changes, but only at their request.
Smacks of APSL (I'd provide a link but Apple's server is down), a license RMS hates because he claims it "disrespect[s] ... privacy."
It's a new OS (open source) system.
Why go through the pain of writing all 100% of your code in a compiled language like C, when you could write only that speed-critical 10% in it, and write the rest in something like Python?
Python code cannot be compressed as easily as C code. In C (or any of its interpreted cousins), source code can be compressed by removing all indentation and decompressed by re-indenting with GNU indent. With Python's indentation-as-syntax, deep nesting of if-then structures, even at one space per indent, runs up a big bill in terms of space. I'm not dissing Python (I think indentation as syntax is wonderful; if then if then else anyone?), but interpreters need to understand .py.gz files.
... the Slashdot effect would be theft of service. Just look at how many ISPs temporarily shut down slashdotted web pages because they ran into bandwidth limigs.
Didn't GPF mine (from IE 5). I got the service pack from Windows Update.