Rusty deletes (First post) comments from (Natalie Portman) Kuro5hin only (MEEPT!!!) when they (Hot grits down your pants) are grossly (IF I EVER...) off topic. If you have something childish to say, say it on Hotgrits: News for Trolls. Stuff that matters.
It's not 1985 anymore, and we demand higher quality from games today than any of these "classics" provide.
The moderators will probably say that parent is (f)lame-bait, but I'll take the hook, line, and sinker:
Those games are still fun. Graphics don't make the game; otherwise, the GIMP would be the hottest selling game. What makes the game is the fun factor. Super Mario Bros. was fun. Tetris® (1988 or so) was fun. And they're still played.
Currently, copyright lasts at least 95 years, and whenever the time rolls around when copyrights start to expire, Disney buys another 20-year copyright extension from Congress. This time it was the Sonny Bono Act (PDF factsheet).
I see nothing wrong with a law that explicitly states how long service providers can give users to remove illegal material (especially since it would take 5 minutes in front of a computer to do this) as long as the time frame is suitable.
I once got a cease and desist for a TV show fanpage I was doing (corporate "remove this infringing material within 5 days" bullying like what happened to aolsucks.org) back when I wasn't checking my email daily. Those five days passed while I was away from the Internet. I did take the stuff down immediately next time I logged on though.
Napster has been banned on many college campuses. College campuses are traditionally the place where independent music flourishes. Thus the RIAA has managed to shut down a distribution channel for the independent artists.
Yes, some universities block Napster. But it's not the copyright; it's the bandwidth. Web surfing and FTP downloads tend to be twice as fast on a non-Napster campus than on a Napster campus, especially when some schools only have two T1s going to the Internet. And the admissions department would just hate to have a slow-loading, easily-slashdottable homepage to turn off potential students.
ISP == Internet service provider. Napster does provide an Internet service (Napster Protocol servers and downloadable Napster clients). Who said that an ISP has to be an Internet uplink?
It's not a generic service that is used for anything the customer desires. It is designed explicitly as a music exchange service.
The Napster system can be used to exchange any type of file (latest Linux kernel, latest Mozilla milestone, the MS-Kerberos spec, w4r3z, pr0n, etc.) especially when standard (ftp/http) methods can be easily slashdotted. Just use the Wrapster archiver after zipping the files.
If Mozilla were using GCC for Windows, this would be no problem. Bill could just double click make.bat and play some Minesweeper, Solitaire, or Vitamins while GCC is compiling everything.
I think everyone should be able to vote on a post... let the score reflect the total of all votes applied to it.
How about a system where any logged in user can rate any comment from 1 (hot grits) to 5 (gem), and the displayed score is the average of all votes applied to it? I'd call it Kuro5hin.
Normally, I block doubleclick with/etc/hosts, but some pages have HTML code such that if the included ad (an HTML iframe/object/whatever) cannot be found, it reports 404 on the whole page. Slashdot is one of them.
Think about it. When you're running out of space for files on one drive, you get another drive. When you're running out of space for fellas on one planet or moon, you get another planet or moon. Never mind that aliens who look like these guys are armed, dangerous, and ready to strike at any terran invaders, kind of like Indep... erm, I'm boycotting the movies.
You can get DR DOS, the embeddable MS-DOS-compatible operating system, from their FTP server or (because it's shareware) from one of the many mirrors (I'll be setting one up in September when I return to school).
There is a small program called "Dissociated Press." It is written in Elisp and comes with GNU Emacs. It produces very comical text by rearranging the words of the text, but it does it in a slightly more intelligent fashion (a bit like a Markov chain) than what this engine is probably doing.
Btw, what's up with the 12bit color? I know a lot of the old color game systems used that as well, ie Sega Game Gear and
I'm not sure about Atari Lynx, but Game Gear is a portable Sega Mastur System, which had 16 colors out of 64 (2.2.2). Game Boy Color from Nintendo has 52 displayable colors out of 32,768 (5.5.5).
[GIF animations a]re as much a part of the web now as HTML. PNG needs animation support.
There's always MNG, a superset of PNG that supports animation. And there's also JavaScript image rotation, which gives quite a bit more power than the simple rotation in the GIF format. But other than on banner ads (which are gradually moving to Macromedia Flash anyway), where do you see a GIF animation anymore? On somebody's lame homepage?
The words Redhat, Debian, and Linux aren't spellchecker.
That's because Red Hat is two words, and that's how Red Hat Software spells it. And unless an editor (word processors are still glorified editors) is a total piece of SHIT, the word "red" is in the dictionary, and the word "hat" is also in the dictionary. Any dictionary that fails on basic English words found in Seuss (of all things) should be thrown away immediately and replaced with AbiWord (wonder when AbiExcel and AbiPowerPoint and AbiOutlook will come out).
What you chose to ignore is the productivity cost for users that are experienced in one platform to shift to another. I have a PC running Windows.
And I have a Mac running Mac OS. When I came to college, I had to learn Windows 98 like everybody else. Is it really that much harder to migrate Windows -> KDE than Mac -> Windows?
Now factor in that I can get dedicated tech support from the commercial vendor
Then buy your boxen from VA Linux Systems or Penguin Computing.
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Rusty deletes (First post) comments from (Natalie Portman) Kuro5hin only (MEEPT!!!) when they (Hot grits down your pants) are grossly (IF I EVER...) off topic. If you have something childish to say, say it on Hotgrits: News for Trolls. Stuff that matters.
It's not 1985 anymore, and we demand higher quality from games today than any of these "classics" provide.
The moderators will probably say that parent is (f)lame-bait, but I'll take the hook, line, and sinker:
Those games are still fun. Graphics don't make the game; otherwise, the GIMP would be the hottest selling game. What makes the game is the fun factor. Super Mario Bros. was fun. Tetris® (1988 or so) was fun. And they're still played.
Currently, copyright lasts at least 95 years, and whenever the time rolls around when copyrights start to expire, Disney buys another 20-year copyright extension from Congress. This time it was the Sonny Bono Act (PDF factsheet).
Anonymouse hosts an anonymous Internet proxy that can be used for web, mail, and news.
Pentium II was just a PPro with MMX.
I see nothing wrong with a law that explicitly states how long service providers can give users to remove illegal material (especially since it would take 5 minutes in front of a computer to do this) as long as the time frame is suitable.
I once got a cease and desist for a TV show fanpage I was doing (corporate "remove this infringing material within 5 days" bullying like what happened to aolsucks.org) back when I wasn't checking my email daily. Those five days passed while I was away from the Internet. I did take the stuff down immediately next time I logged on though.
Napster has been banned on many college campuses. College campuses are traditionally the place where independent music flourishes. Thus the RIAA has managed to shut down a distribution channel for the independent artists.
Yes, some universities block Napster. But it's not the copyright; it's the bandwidth. Web surfing and FTP downloads tend to be twice as fast on a non-Napster campus than on a Napster campus, especially when some schools only have two T1s going to the Internet. And the admissions department would just hate to have a slow-loading, easily-slashdottable homepage to turn off potential students.
It's not an ISP.
ISP == Internet service provider. Napster does provide an Internet service (Napster Protocol servers and downloadable Napster clients). Who said that an ISP has to be an Internet uplink?
It's not a generic service that is used for anything the customer desires. It is designed explicitly as a music exchange service.
The Napster system can be used to exchange any type of file (latest Linux kernel, latest Mozilla milestone, the MS-Kerberos spec, w4r3z, pr0n, etc.) especially when standard (ftp/http) methods can be easily slashdotted. Just use the Wrapster archiver after zipping the files.
BillWinUsr who probably has no compiler ready
If Mozilla were using GCC for Windows, this would be no problem. Bill could just double click make.bat and play some Minesweeper, Solitaire, or Vitamins while GCC is compiling everything.
you won't be able to run Mac OS X binaries on Free- or NetBSD because they won't have access to the Carbon, Cocoa, or Quartz API's.
They can do Quartz/Cocoa once gnustep is done.
"There's very little progress on GNUStep!"
I assume this will see more progress as fellas will want to run their OS 10 apps without rebooting their boxen.
I think everyone should be able to vote on a post... let the score reflect the total of all votes applied to it.
How about a system where any logged in user can rate any comment from 1 (hot grits) to 5 (gem), and the displayed score is the average of all votes applied to it? I'd call it Kuro5hin.
Quartz and Cocoa? Aren't those already being cloned?
And if sites won't let you in 'cause the banner won't load... did you really need them ANYWAY?
Yes, I need my Slashdot.
Normally, I block doubleclick with /etc/hosts, but some pages have HTML code such that if the included ad (an HTML iframe/object/whatever) cannot be found, it reports 404 on the whole page. Slashdot is one of them.
Didn't you read the article about XFree being ported to Darwin? That's a first step toward putting the "X" in Mac OS 10.
Think about it. When you're running out of space for files on one drive, you get another drive. When you're running out of space for fellas on one planet or moon, you get another planet or moon. Never mind that aliens who look like these guys are armed, dangerous, and ready to strike at any terran invaders, kind of like Indep... erm, I'm boycotting the movies.
You can get DR DOS, the embeddable MS-DOS-compatible operating system, from their FTP server or (because it's shareware) from one of the many mirrors (I'll be setting one up in September when I return to school).
AP has referer protection. Try going to AP's home page, and pasting the link in.
I know alot here [and techs in general] don't like/believe/care about God
Except we techs generally call God something else: "root".
There is a small program called "Dissociated Press." It is written in Elisp and comes with GNU Emacs. It produces very comical text by rearranging the words of the text, but it does it in a slightly more intelligent fashion (a bit like a Markov chain) than what this engine is probably doing.
bash-2.03$ info emacs disso
Btw, what's up with the 12bit color? I know a lot of the old color game systems used that as well, ie Sega Game Gear and
I'm not sure about Atari Lynx, but Game Gear is a portable Sega Mastur System, which had 16 colors out of 64 (2.2.2). Game Boy Color from Nintendo has 52 displayable colors out of 32,768 (5.5.5).
[GIF animations a]re as much a part of the web now as HTML. PNG needs animation support.
There's always MNG, a superset of PNG that supports animation. And there's also JavaScript image rotation, which gives quite a bit more power than the simple rotation in the GIF format. But other than on banner ads (which are gradually moving to Macromedia Flash anyway), where do you see a GIF animation anymore? On somebody's lame homepage?
http://www.goat^H^H^H^Hmslinux.org
The words Redhat, Debian, and Linux aren't spellchecker.
That's because Red Hat is two words, and that's how Red Hat Software spells it. And unless an editor (word processors are still glorified editors) is a total piece of SHIT, the word "red" is in the dictionary, and the word "hat" is also in the dictionary. Any dictionary that fails on basic English words found in Seuss (of all things) should be thrown away immediately and replaced with AbiWord (wonder when AbiExcel and AbiPowerPoint and AbiOutlook will come out).
What you chose to ignore is the productivity cost for users that are experienced in one platform to shift to another. I have a PC running Windows.
And I have a Mac running Mac OS. When I came to college, I had to learn Windows 98 like everybody else. Is it really that much harder to migrate Windows -> KDE than Mac -> Windows?
Now factor in that I can get dedicated tech support from the commercial vendor
Then buy your boxen from VA Linux Systems or Penguin Computing.