stuff accesses just as easy to theweb surfer, no matter where it's located.
Not 100% accurate. The user might only see com instead of co.uk (or even better to), but ping times to faraway sites are bound to be lower because, for example, light moves only 299.8 km per millisecond. Latency produces slow loading sites, which turn off users who browse linearly and don't use Open Link in New Window aggressively.
without the examples that make it clear they're talking about a Dr. Mario-style game, I see nothing really different from, say, Tetris, which would be prior art
Claim 1 of the patent covers any game where targets (i.e. viruses) are erased by being in the same row as colored pieces (i.e. capsules) that you place. And TETRIS® is listed as prior art in the Background.
they don't want any copycats, like Bulletproof software
Actually, back when BPS was Bullet-Proof Software, it developed the TETRIS® games for NES and Game Boy. Now, as Blue Planet Software aka The Tetris Company LLC, it is still developing puzzle games for N64 and has bought the exclusive trademark rights from Elorg.
</IANAL>
My version comes with a default theme which is a parody of the Aqua theme included with Mac OS 10.
I suspect a patent exists for just about everything I've ever programmed
Tell me about it. I wrote Vitamins, a clone of Nintendo's Dr. Mario game (download cross-platform GPL'd source and Win32 binary here), only to find out Dr. Mario is patented . But I'm leaving it up; let the bastards sue me:-)
However, DNA is composed of "introns" (non-coding interening sequences, which make up a majority of genes and aren't don't code for anything) and exons - expressed sequences which do the coding.
So Microsoft binaries are mostly introns?
humans and hamsters are 95% genetically similar
So is Hampsterdeath as bad as those first-person shooters where you are blowing fellas' heads off?
exons
I don't know why, but that name reminds me of the Communications Decency Act, an attempt at censoring the Internet.
Chances are, if you have an electronic copy of a photo, you've got access to... some type of image manipulation program.
If you have access to FTP (AOL parental controls block FTP) at any of these sites, and you have a Unix-like system with X11 or a Windows 9x or NT system (it's been ported), "you've got access to" the GNU Image Manipulation Program, better known as the GIMP.
your cost, assuming already have a net connection is $0
Unless you're using dialup. Then you have to consider:
the opportunity cost of having your phone line busy
the fact that a freebeer ISP (e.g. freewwweb.com) limits the continuous hours online (killing your ftp install before it's even 1/3 done) and/or requires a proprietary client program (to display advertisements) that requires proprietary Microsoft® Windows®.
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch, but $10 Mandrake at Office Depot is pretty close.
And yes, I use GNOME. Latest Helix Code preview distro.
When I was using gcc *.c -lalleg -o drm (Dr. Mario clone) and gcc *.c -lalleg -o whack (Hampsterdeath), compiling source code took a long time for me too. But then, I learned how to use GNU Make.
You mean I can dialup into Napster servers, read my mail, fire up a browser, and post to slashdot?
All dialup PPP services are Internet service providers, but not all Internet service providers are dialup PPP services.
*Oh*, you mean the file exchange/chat client software is the service? Does that make ICQ a service provider? How about AOL IM? Hey, I can post messages on slashdot. Are they a service provider too?
It provides a service on the Internet, so it is an Internet service provider. E.g. on/., "Comments are owned by the Poster" not Andover.Net. On Napster, the server just connects one client to another; it doesn't serve MPEG layer 3 data.
The term "ISP" reminds me of "PC". "ISP" is a subclass of "Internet service provider" meaning "dialup PPP," just as "PC" is a subclass of "personal computer" meaning "x86 based." iMac computers are personal computers, but they're not PCs.
If pictures and audio (your "pr0n and.mp3") are what you want to store, they make removable hard disk drives for that. Does Iomega still sell the Jaz® brand? I know Iomega is selling an internal CD writer called ZipCD, which would be perfect for burning MP3 collections for a Mambo-X portable layer 3 CD player.
Problem: Mac OS X has a server version that collides in namespace Product with the generic name of XFree86 Project Inc.'s product, an X server. That's why I always write "Mac OS 10" and "Mac OS 10 Server".
<offtopic> XFree86 is making an X server for Windows. I just wonder what will happen if someone decides to make an open-source Mac OS X server. </offtopic> See where confusion can arise?
WE DO NOT WANT YOUR COMMERCIAL SHIT. And yes we include BSD in this because it can be used in commercial software.
You say non-copyleft licenses suck. You're reading this on a text browser, right? Mac OS is proprietary buyware. Windows 9x is proprietary buyware. BeOS Personal is freebeerware but still proprietary. X Window System is X11-style free software, and so is BSD. So you're reading Slashdot on GNU/Linux with the Lynx or w3m browser, right?
If you want it to be GNU GPL, then just make a couple changes and fork off your own distro. That has been OK since June 1999, when Berkeley finally removed the advertising clause from the BSD license.
And there is commercial free software: just look at boxed distributions (e.g. Red Hat Linux) of primarily GNU GPL software.
The advantage that a portable MP3 player has over a CD player is it has not moving parts. It lends itself to physical activities that CD players don't.
NOTE: This does not necessarily apply to driving. There are numerous redbook-only portable CD players with car kits (plug the cassette into the headphone jack).
A CD player that can play CD's that contain MP3's is where it's at. I'd buy one of those.
You can put all your Lou Bega "Mambo-V" on a Mambo-X player. Reserve yours today!
That's why copyrights and patents are of limited duration.
They're supposed to be limited, but the Sonny Bono act (which IMHO is unconstitutional) sets copyright at life plus 70 (sounds like a prison term), which goes entirely against the constitutional reason for copyright, to promote the progress of science and the useful arts.
So MIDI files would count as free speech, and MP3s wouldn't.
But a MIDI file can be converted to an MP3 file by piping it through Timidity and BladeEnc. So you're saying DeCSS's source code is free speech, but the executable isn't?
Which just shows how Jazz++ fits in twice with the open source model. According to the GNU GPL, "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it" and that's the MIDI format, right?
One thing I don't get is what's the "++" in Jazz++? Is it an overly large object-oriented variant of Jazz?
But music differs from source code in one aspect. It can be performed
I'd consider a MIDI file (MIDI can now store lyrics) the source code, Timidity the compiler,.wav an object file, BladeEnc a linker (even though it may be illegal), and the MP3 file the compiled executable that runs on a machine called Diamond Rio, I mean, Diamond Rio.
Games can be publicly performed for pay too. Have you been to a video arcade?
"free" 3d engine may be windows based, although the license is "lame",
From what I gathered in the article, the license sounds like the GNU Lesser GPL. However, it seems to be under a Slash-DoS attack now. I'm checking Google's cache. And if it is Lesser GPL-like, someone will probably port the engine to Mac OS, BeOS, and the various Unix-like systems.
Given this concern, the only reasonable and effective thing for them to have done was to scan the user's hard drive for said cheating tool.
I liken this type of cheating tool to a virus scanner. Sure the scanner catches known cheats, but new cheats come out every day, and some can even be made polymorphic (they encrypt themselves when they run).
Now that code is free speech, it seems that Apple has spoken the specifications for the Mac hardware. Inside the Darwin source code is the information necessary to write an operating system kernel that runs on an iMac or a G4 or the iBook ("I said make it look like a Compaq®, not a compact!"); let's see what will come to Be soon.
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Why do/.ers like BeOS, a closed-source OS?
/. is News for Nerds, not News for Free Software Advocates.
It's freebeerware.
It comes with a compiler (in the first zip you download after the partition zip). Nerds like compilers.
It's not Windows. (Think eroding M$'s market share.)
Slashdot Mirror
stuff accesses just as easy to the web surfer, no matter where it's located.
Not 100% accurate. The user might only see com instead of co.uk (or even better to), but ping times to faraway sites are bound to be lower because, for example, light moves only 299.8 km per millisecond. Latency produces slow loading sites, which turn off users who browse linearly and don't use Open Link in New Window aggressively.
Proxima is Latin for "close" or "near" IIRC.
Somebody get me Ada, we've got work to do...
I found GNAT (the GNU Ada compiler) on Google.
Kill Unisys and all the rest of the software patenters.without the examples that make it clear they're talking about a Dr. Mario-style game, I see nothing really different from, say, Tetris, which would be prior art
Claim 1 of the patent covers any game where targets (i.e. viruses) are erased by being in the same row as colored pieces (i.e. capsules) that you place. And TETRIS® is listed as prior art in the Background.
they don't want any copycats, like Bulletproof software
Actually, back when BPS was Bullet-Proof Software, it developed the TETRIS® games for NES and Game Boy. Now, as Blue Planet Software aka The Tetris Company LLC, it is still developing puzzle games for N64 and has bought the exclusive trademark rights from Elorg.
</IANAL>My version comes with a default theme which is a parody of the Aqua theme included with Mac OS 10.
Sorry, but what is the point of your .sig?
It announces one of my copylefted games, namely Hampsterdeath for DOS, Windows, and Linux.
I'd go there, but it's down.
Typical for my college's ISP :-) Seriously, it was a critical hardware failure; they got it fixed about six hours after you posted.
I suspect a patent exists for just about everything I've ever programmed
Tell me about it. I wrote Vitamins, a clone of Nintendo's Dr. Mario game (download cross-platform GPL'd source and Win32 binary here), only to find out Dr. Mario is patented . But I'm leaving it up; let the bastards sue me :-)
And when you're done playing Vitamins...However, DNA is composed of "introns" (non-coding interening sequences, which make up a majority of genes and aren't don't code for anything) and exons - expressed sequences which do the coding.
So Microsoft binaries are mostly introns?
humans and hamsters are 95% genetically similar
So is Hampsterdeath as bad as those first-person shooters where you are blowing fellas' heads off?
exons
I don't know why, but that name reminds me of the Communications Decency Act, an attempt at censoring the Internet.
Chances are, if you have an electronic copy of a photo, you've got access to ... some type of image manipulation program.
If you have access to FTP (AOL parental controls block FTP) at any of these sites, and you have a Unix-like system with X11 or a Windows 9x or NT system (it's been ported), "you've got access to" the GNU Image Manipulation Program, better known as the GIMP.
your cost, assuming already have a net connection is $0
Unless you're using dialup. Then you have to consider:
- the opportunity cost of having your phone line busy
- the fact that a freebeer ISP (e.g. freewwweb.com) limits the continuous hours online (killing your ftp install before it's even 1/3 done) and/or requires a proprietary client program (to display advertisements) that requires proprietary Microsoft® Windows®.
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch, but $10 Mandrake at Office Depot is pretty close.And yes, I use GNOME. Latest Helix Code preview distro.
When I was using gcc *.c -lalleg -o drm (Dr. Mario clone) and gcc *.c -lalleg -o whack (Hampsterdeath), compiling source code took a long time for me too. But then, I learned how to use GNU Make.
You mean I can dialup into Napster servers, read my mail, fire up a browser, and post to slashdot?
All dialup PPP services are Internet service providers, but not all Internet service providers are dialup PPP services.
*Oh*, you mean the file exchange/chat client software is the service? Does that make ICQ a service provider? How about AOL IM? Hey, I can post messages on slashdot. Are they a service provider too?
It provides a service on the Internet, so it is an Internet service provider. E.g. on /., "Comments are owned by the Poster" not Andover.Net. On Napster, the server just connects one client to another; it doesn't serve MPEG layer 3 data.
The term "ISP" reminds me of "PC". "ISP" is a subclass of "Internet service provider" meaning "dialup PPP," just as "PC" is a subclass of "personal computer" meaning "x86 based." iMac computers are personal computers, but they're not PCs.
Here's your non-mechanical drive, jrs.
If pictures and audio (your "pr0n and .mp3") are what you want to store, they make removable hard disk drives for that. Does Iomega still sell the Jaz® brand? I know Iomega is selling an internal CD writer called ZipCD, which would be perfect for burning MP3 collections for a Mambo-X portable layer 3 CD player.
Problem: Mac OS X has a server version that collides in namespace Product with the generic name of XFree86 Project Inc.'s product, an X server. That's why I always write "Mac OS 10" and "Mac OS 10 Server".
<offtopic>
XFree86 is making an X server for Windows. I just wonder what will happen if someone decides to make an open-source Mac OS X server.
</offtopic>
See where confusion can arise?
WE DO NOT WANT YOUR COMMERCIAL SHIT. And yes we include BSD in this because it can be used in commercial software.
You say non-copyleft licenses suck. You're reading this on a text browser, right? Mac OS is proprietary buyware. Windows 9x is proprietary buyware. BeOS Personal is freebeerware but still proprietary. X Window System is X11-style free software, and so is BSD. So you're reading Slashdot on GNU/Linux with the Lynx or w3m browser, right?
If you want it to be GNU GPL, then just make a couple changes and fork off your own distro. That has been OK since June 1999, when Berkeley finally removed the advertising clause from the BSD license.
And there is commercial free software: just look at boxed distributions (e.g. Red Hat Linux) of primarily GNU GPL software.
The advantage that a portable MP3 player has over a CD player is it has not moving parts. It lends itself to physical activities that CD players don't.
NOTE: This does not necessarily apply to driving. There are numerous redbook-only portable CD players with car kits (plug the cassette into the headphone jack).
A CD player that can play CD's that contain MP3's is where it's at. I'd buy one of those.
You can put all your Lou Bega "Mambo-V" on a Mambo-X player. Reserve yours today!
That's why copyrights and patents are of limited duration.
They're supposed to be limited, but the Sonny Bono act (which IMHO is unconstitutional) sets copyright at life plus 70 (sounds like a prison term), which goes entirely against the constitutional reason for copyright, to promote the progress of science and the useful arts.
User: wheredoyou
So what happens when www.nytimes.com is slash-DoS'd, and 53% of the hits are from one user `wheredoyou'? That account gets rm'ed. Hard.
So MIDI files would count as free speech, and MP3s wouldn't.
But a MIDI file can be converted to an MP3 file by piping it through Timidity and BladeEnc. So you're saying DeCSS's source code is free speech, but the executable isn't?
I thought Freshmeat was meant to deal with software releases.
MIDI (hence Jazz++) is a composing tool
Which just shows how Jazz++ fits in twice with the open source model. According to the GNU GPL, "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it" and that's the MIDI format, right?
One thing I don't get is what's the "++" in Jazz++? Is it an overly large object-oriented variant of Jazz?
But music differs from source code in one aspect. It can be performed
I'd consider a MIDI file (MIDI can now store lyrics) the source code, Timidity the compiler, .wav an object file, BladeEnc a linker (even though it may be illegal), and the MP3 file the compiled executable that runs on a machine called Diamond Rio, I mean, Diamond Rio.
Games can be publicly performed for pay too. Have you been to a video arcade?
"free" 3d engine may be windows based, although the license is "lame",
From what I gathered in the article, the license sounds like the GNU Lesser GPL. However, it seems to be under a Slash-DoS attack now. I'm checking Google's cache. And if it is Lesser GPL-like, someone will probably port the engine to Mac OS, BeOS, and the various Unix-like systems.
Given this concern, the only reasonable and effective thing for them to have done was to scan the user's hard drive for said cheating tool.
I liken this type of cheating tool to a virus scanner. Sure the scanner catches known cheats, but new cheats come out every day, and some can even be made polymorphic (they encrypt themselves when they run).
Viruses also infect hamsters.Now that code is free speech, it seems that Apple has spoken the specifications for the Mac hardware. Inside the Darwin source code is the information necessary to write an operating system kernel that runs on an iMac or a G4 or the iBook ("I said make it look like a Compaq®, not a compact!"); let's see what will come to Be soon.
-----------------------------------------Why do /.ers like BeOS, a closed-source OS?