One of the things that surprised me when I got an iBook.. Shareware is alive and kicking in the mac world! I haven't seen any windows shareware that I couldn't replace with a free alternative, but over in OSX-Land, you have to pay for every little utility, tweak, or applet..
Yeah, it's not like we've ever seen that before..
Feel free to download the source, strip out the trademarked logos, change the name, compile and release it. You're well within your rights to. You can even set up a website and a governing organization, and promote your project in the OSS community. If that's too much work.. well, seriously, put up or shut up.
All viable options-- look at what the CentOS guys did when the wanted to roll a free version of red hat. Perfectly legal under the GPL, and CentOS is an extremely popular distro-- that doesn't impune on Red Hat's trademarks.
Neooffice is unusably slow on my G3 iBook. Office X runs very well, and Office 2004 is fast enough to be usable. At this point, $300 (More like $150) for Office X is well worth it, compared to ~$1200 for a new laptop.
Screw that, most of the 22 year olds I know are going to buy a Wii! It's cheap enough that it's not a major buy-- cheaper than a weekend road trip. That makes the Wii petty cash, instead of a major investment..
You know the turck codebase has been forked and supplanted by eaccelerator, right? There's no reason to use turck-mmcache anymore, especially since it hasn't been worked on since late 2003. EA is turck's logical successor.
Amen! I haven't bought a console since my faithful Super Nintendo, and the Wii is the first that I'm planning to buy (My *parents* bought me the SNES). When push comes to shove, it's about the games. And if the Wii can replace the NES/SNES I have to beat off to get working, then so much the better..
There's an excellent and thoughtful interview with the game's creator available online. Before dismissing the game out of hand, one should read it.
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That happened after a 1990 supreme court decision on derivative works. The argument is that the movie is a derivative work of the still copyrighted screenplay. Before the decision that was considered crap and the copyrights were treated seperately.
That's why after 1990, you only see the movie broadcast on NBC (Who pays for exclusive broadcast rights).
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Victim of "It's a wonderful life".
Seriously. Someone at the studio forgot to register/renew it, so it passed to the public domain. TV networks started airing it at christmas because it was royalty-free, and it became a big hit. The studios got pissed that they weren't making money, and lobbied congress. The irony is if the movie hadn't gone public domain, no one would have ever seen it...
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Monkeys aren't donkeys! Quit messing with my head!
Token ring died out except as an academic curiosity -- an interesting early answer to a problem that was eventually solved another way.
Still used in FDDI. They use a double token fibre loop, one travelling in each direction on the network. If one token ring fails, the speed of the network drops by half, but still functions while the appropriate tech is paged to fix it.
I had similar problems with a sony vaio.. it was poorly engineered-- the power connector to the motherboard was only held on with solder and less than a year's worth of plugging and unplugging stressed the joint until it came undone. Similarly, the RAM SODIMM slots were machined with extremely poor springs that only made intermittent contact after the first eight months or so, which really confused the poor OS when half the memory suddenly disappeared and reappeared out of nowhere. This wasn't their first P4 laptop, either... a model they had been making for years.
To be fair, sony did repair my laptop to its factory state (replacing the mobo, etc.), but refused to fixed the inherent problems in the model. The same parts regularly failed, the warranty ran out, and eventually I just gave the hell up and got an ibook.
Same protections? Yes.
But the money is actually *gone* while you dispute it.
On a credit card dispute, they don't give you back money, they remove a debt. The difference may be subtle, but important.
$29 a month sounds good, but each reboot over 1 costs $29 a month? For what, some guy to click a button on the power console? Better hope two kernel patches aren't released within a week of each other.
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It was an awesome game. Clever and thoughtful. I wish I still had the NES cart..
One of the things that surprised me when I got an iBook.. Shareware is alive and kicking in the mac world! I haven't seen any windows shareware that I couldn't replace with a free alternative, but over in OSX-Land, you have to pay for every little utility, tweak, or applet..
Let's be even more specific-- The EARLY ACCESS BINARIES are for a fee.
Sources are available for free, both the alpha tarball and the latest developments on CVS.
Yeah, it's not like we've ever seen that before.. Feel free to download the source, strip out the trademarked logos, change the name, compile and release it. You're well within your rights to. You can even set up a website and a governing organization, and promote your project in the OSS community. If that's too much work.. well, seriously, put up or shut up.
All viable options-- look at what the CentOS guys did when the wanted to roll a free version of red hat. Perfectly legal under the GPL, and CentOS is an extremely popular distro-- that doesn't impune on Red Hat's trademarks.
Neooffice is unusably slow on my G3 iBook. Office X runs very well, and Office 2004 is fast enough to be usable. At this point, $300 (More like $150) for Office X is well worth it, compared to ~$1200 for a new laptop.
Screw that, most of the 22 year olds I know are going to buy a Wii! It's cheap enough that it's not a major buy-- cheaper than a weekend road trip. That makes the Wii petty cash, instead of a major investment..
Forget SNES. I would easily pay $20 for contra or guerilla wars. At $5, I may just rebuy most of my NES collection.. easily 60 carts!
You know the turck codebase has been forked and supplanted by eaccelerator, right? There's no reason to use turck-mmcache anymore, especially since it hasn't been worked on since late 2003. EA is turck's logical successor.
Exactly. Inflation be damned; the manufacturing of components that go into the game systems has gotten cheaper!
Amen! I haven't bought a console since my faithful Super Nintendo, and the Wii is the first that I'm planning to buy (My *parents* bought me the SNES). When push comes to shove, it's about the games. And if the Wii can replace the NES/SNES I have to beat off to get working, then so much the better..
There's an excellent and thoughtful interview with the game's creator available online. Before dismissing the game out of hand, one should read it.
That happened after a 1990 supreme court decision on derivative works. The argument is that the movie is a derivative work of the still copyrighted screenplay. Before the decision that was considered crap and the copyrights were treated seperately.
That's why after 1990, you only see the movie broadcast on NBC (Who pays for exclusive broadcast rights).
But does it come with a trance vibrator?
Victim of "It's a wonderful life".
Seriously. Someone at the studio forgot to register/renew it, so it passed to the public domain. TV networks started airing it at christmas because it was royalty-free, and it became a big hit. The studios got pissed that they weren't making money, and lobbied congress. The irony is if the movie hadn't gone public domain, no one would have ever seen it...
Monkeys aren't donkeys! Quit messing with my head!
Token ring died out except as an academic curiosity -- an interesting early answer to a problem that was eventually solved another way. Still used in FDDI. They use a double token fibre loop, one travelling in each direction on the network. If one token ring fails, the speed of the network drops by half, but still functions while the appropriate tech is paged to fix it.
I had similar problems with a sony vaio.. it was poorly engineered-- the power connector to the motherboard was only held on with solder and less than a year's worth of plugging and unplugging stressed the joint until it came undone. Similarly, the RAM SODIMM slots were machined with extremely poor springs that only made intermittent contact after the first eight months or so, which really confused the poor OS when half the memory suddenly disappeared and reappeared out of nowhere. This wasn't their first P4 laptop, either... a model they had been making for years.
To be fair, sony did repair my laptop to its factory state (replacing the mobo, etc.), but refused to fixed the inherent problems in the model. The same parts regularly failed, the warranty ran out, and eventually I just gave the hell up and got an ibook.
Same protections? Yes. But the money is actually *gone* while you dispute it. On a credit card dispute, they don't give you back money, they remove a debt. The difference may be subtle, but important.
To be fair, amanda tapping was busy giving birth ;)
$29 a month sounds good, but each reboot over 1 costs $29 a month? For what, some guy to click a button on the power console? Better hope two kernel patches aren't released within a week of each other.
Huh. Apparently, my ordering DVDs from amazon impacts your netflix queue?
Who knew?
Damn it. If it wasn't for you and your kind, my college GPA would have been a good .3 higher.
Alas!
You just made my christmas. I had no idea connections was on DVD!
SVGALib +FB will do it quite nicely, thank you very much.