he had hundreds of gigabytes of completely free programs
Ahh, I see. Well, I'm going to have to wager that if you hold any grudges against him, just call the local SPA and mention his "hundreds of gigabytes of completely free programs" to them and see how quick you learn that they were only aquired without cost.:)
And if he has a foot in that puddle on the Internet, I'm sure you'll find why he left you in the other "hundred gigabytes" of files he never explained to you, especially if they ended in ".mpg" or ".avi". >:)
Which brings up a good point: for Mac folks there's still Apple's software that allows you to burn MP3s just fine, as well as data (provided that you're supported and have kissed Apple's ass and are using their burner, yadda, yadda), so this really won't kill that market.
It's just the Windows users that have to worry, at least until another program is sufficiently populous that the proliferation of Roxio's stuff is irrelevent.
Toast works with my CD burner now and does what I want. When Roxio recovers from this apparent lack of oxygen to the corporate head, I'll upgrade. Ta da. Not a big deal.
Not exactly a majority, really. It's actually a large minority. I say this as it worked for me, on a Win 2K box and a Mac G4 (work and home, save files on a Zip: yes, I was addicted).
The only problem with the game was that it went by way too fast. The puzzles were interesting, but Riven took much, much longer than this (18 hours, total).
Hate to break it to you, but the ultimate goal of any patent is to stop any competition with the patent holder. It's saying, "I got here first, nay-ne-nay-ne-boo-boo!!! [blows raspberry]"
So congratulations to them, they made a cool technology, won the patent, and should make a sufficient amount of money in the patent license to MS (you know they will) for UTV not to matter much.
Well done: a good idea from the '90s that didn't die last year.
ASAP would have been when they installed the backdoor...
Kind of sad, really. MS wants people to see them as an enterprise solutions company, as a big player, as a "leader" in security, so of course they have a backdoor into their IIS systems.
Kind of sickens the stomach to see these folks even close to winning the server market. (shiver)
That's the theory. Amazon's 1-Click shows that's not true, as a few others, like the BBC patenting hyperlinks, etc. The grounds for revocation includes prior art, but that's not neccesarily researched as well as it could beforehand. The USPTO is known for, on occasion, granting the same patent twice...
What frightens me the most is that today we're starting to see the first patents from the techno-boom era. Over the course of the next few years we'll start to see exactly what kind of stupid things people attempted to patent. God only knows what else...
It would be fitting, though, if someone successfully patented the GUI, or windowing systems, ot the like. I actually think that would be all kinds of funny.
This sounds like heaven for a colo area. Hook all colo computers up to this and have a massive KVM switch collection for each rack/row/section and customers can just go to a special room instead of potentially having a chance to get at someone else's machine. Ends the days of rolling a mobile monitor/keyboard around as well.
Okay so:
1) Guns were not made for milk jugs; guns were made to kill (animals, people (subclass of animals), whatever).
2) People were killing people long before id, etc. came around (hence the theme...).
3) The parents of said children engaged in at the very least speculative killing (owning a gun implies a need to use it someday, defense or offense).
4) "Victims" sue parties in #2 for actions of #1 and #3.
Someone please point out what in the hell is going on here? Also of note: no movie studios ("Boyz in da Hood," "Dangerous Minds," hell, even "West Side Story") are included, AFAIK. No TV shows (NYPD Blue? ER (people get rolled in from gun fights)?). Just game companies. Mmmm hmm.
I like to fantasize and sometimes get reality confused with fantasy. Time to sue the current holder of Tolkien's estate as well as Wizards of the Coast (that's a double suit: one for TSR and one for "Magic: TG").
You know, at least with the last one I could finally kill Pokemon... HMMMMmmmm....... Any lawyers in here?
That cannot have been the cause. Firmware updates require first the user stage of uploading the update into RAM and then a reboot while *holding down* the programmer's button (interrupt) in order to signal the boot ROM to perform the update. It cannot happen automatically. Software Update can download it from the server for you, even run the userland program, but it requires someone present to actually perform the update.
I just upgraded my G4 with that update (and my RAM survived; you get what you pay for: transintl.com) and this is exactly what I had to do to make it work.
I can download Dawrin for free. I can install it for free. I can use it for free. I can get the source code for free. I can modify and submit changes to the source code for free.
If you mean you can't take Apple's code and use it elsewhere, you might have a point, but, really, Apple is a company. Get your head out of the FSF's ass long enough to see that that the world cannot exist on free software along. SOMETHING, SOMEWHERE, has to cost money for someone to make money. Free goes no where. We tried it, the VCs poured money into it. None came out and the stockes crashed. Learn from this. If you want to see Darwin 2.0 then it can never be RMS' idea of "free" because Apple would go the way of VA Linux.
Whoop-de-friggin-do that RMS and FSF don't like it. I couldn't care less about their opinions of things. This is free as in beer and cool as hell and by God I'm using the damned thing and the entire whiny "Open Source" (with big capital letters) movement can kiss my furry ass if you dislike the license BECAUSE THE SOFTWARE IS COOL AND SUPPORTED BY SOMEONE I KNOW WILL BE THERE TOMORROW, versus OS projects that can disappear if the maintainer decides to ditch it. Apple's not going to ditch the core of their OS.
And at version 1.3 Linux was any better? It wasn't until 2.0+ that anything useful was supported. This is how an OS grows. People seem to forget that Darwin and Mac OS X (10 that is) are BABIES in the world of OSes. They are just getting started with hardware and application support. Give 'em time and they will refine it. You think Windows 95 supported USB at all? It barely supported good video cards. Given time, however, Win 98 SE did a pretty good job at USB and video acceleration.
Give Apple some time and don't judge the first releases like this is the final product.
No, the one I mentioned DOES have a dangling apostrophe. The possisive is "its" not "its'" with the extra apostrophe because "its" is, by nature, already possesive. You add the apostrophe when you have a noun that needs to be possesive, and you put it after an 's' when that noun is plural. Neither hold here as "its" is already a non-noun word and possisive!
Next thing you know the buy who devised the null modem cable will try patenting the idea of a network. I'll leave it as an excercise to the reader as to what happens then.
It's the same people that use bad printouts as toilet paper, their computer audio system as their main home stereo, have the fridge next to the computer and sleep by falling out of their chair and into bed... with a wireless keyboard and pointing device.
For the rest of us with 27"+ televisions and < 21" monitors, this is not the best idea. I've seen someone with a dedicated DivX box next to the television and an S-Video out and all, and it's really kudgy at the moment. You have to go find the media in Explorer (in 640x480) then play it and go to fullscreen such and the quality really sucks compared even to VHS.
The real idea would be to hook broadband up to a Tivoish device and have it work that way. Even put removable storage a la Jaz on the Tivo to keep downloaded movies. That would be the way to go, and would be exceptionally nice if the video could be accessed over a LAN... I would not mind paying $5 for a movie at all if I could own it like that. Heck, I might even pay $10 a pop for that. Then it's legit and convenient.
Which one is getting the "standard" rating on archive.org? The Windows Media Player version or the open-source version? I assume that all talk of DivX these days is the open source version?
As has already been stated about having servers outside the US, the controlling body for the content of the server still resides in the US. While they cannot force the server down, they can still sue the underwear off the people who control the content.
Offshore hosting is a sham, unless you live in a copyright/lawsuit-free country, in which case you don't need offshore hosting to begin with.
And the point of calculating pi out to these absurd points is... what, again? To get more circular tires? To be able to calculate the position of atoms in cicles? What? It's really an absurd waste of time about several hundred places, so why is everyone so freakin' facinated with this?
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Pay-Per-Read, of course. Close the book and it erases itself. God, I scare myself sometimes.
Ahh, I see. Well, I'm going to have to wager that if you hold any grudges against him, just call the local SPA and mention his "hundreds of gigabytes of completely free programs" to them and see how quick you learn that they were only aquired without cost. :)
And if he has a foot in that puddle on the Internet, I'm sure you'll find why he left you in the other "hundred gigabytes" of files he never explained to you, especially if they ended in ".mpg" or ".avi". >:)
It's just the Windows users that have to worry, at least until another program is sufficiently populous that the proliferation of Roxio's stuff is irrelevent.
Toast works with my CD burner now and does what I want. When Roxio recovers from this apparent lack of oxygen to the corporate head, I'll upgrade. Ta da. Not a big deal.
The only problem with the game was that it went by way too fast. The puzzles were interesting, but Riven took much, much longer than this (18 hours, total).
So congratulations to them, they made a cool technology, won the patent, and should make a sufficient amount of money in the patent license to MS (you know they will) for UTV not to matter much.
Well done: a good idea from the '90s that didn't die last year.
ASAP would have been when they installed the backdoor...
Kind of sad, really. MS wants people to see them as an enterprise solutions company, as a big player, as a "leader" in security, so of course they have a backdoor into their IIS systems.
Kind of sickens the stomach to see these folks even close to winning the server market. (shiver)
Guess I'll need to patch my sig ... damnit.
Good thing you didn't use Time-Warner-AOL-Disney-ABC-Miramax-New-Line etc. as an example. =)
That's the theory. Amazon's 1-Click shows that's not true, as a few others, like the BBC patenting hyperlinks, etc. The grounds for revocation includes prior art, but that's not neccesarily researched as well as it could beforehand. The USPTO is known for, on occasion, granting the same patent twice...
What frightens me the most is that today we're starting to see the first patents from the techno-boom era. Over the course of the next few years we'll start to see exactly what kind of stupid things people attempted to patent. God only knows what else...
It would be fitting, though, if someone successfully patented the GUI, or windowing systems, ot the like. I actually think that would be all kinds of funny.
"Yeah, you know, so they were about to lay me off and I said to myself, I said, 'now do I wanna get laid off, or do I wanna just get laid?'"
This sounds like heaven for a colo area. Hook all colo computers up to this and have a massive KVM switch collection for each rack/row/section and customers can just go to a special room instead of potentially having a chance to get at someone else's machine. Ends the days of rolling a mobile monitor/keyboard around as well.
Nice.
Okay so:
1) Guns were not made for milk jugs; guns were made to kill (animals, people (subclass of animals), whatever).
2) People were killing people long before id, etc. came around (hence the theme...).
3) The parents of said children engaged in at the very least speculative killing (owning a gun implies a need to use it someday, defense or offense).
4) "Victims" sue parties in #2 for actions of #1 and #3.
Someone please point out what in the hell is going on here? Also of note: no movie studios ("Boyz in da Hood," "Dangerous Minds," hell, even "West Side Story") are included, AFAIK. No TV shows (NYPD Blue? ER (people get rolled in from gun fights)?). Just game companies. Mmmm hmm.
I like to fantasize and sometimes get reality confused with fantasy. Time to sue the current holder of Tolkien's estate as well as Wizards of the Coast (that's a double suit: one for TSR and one for "Magic: TG").
You know, at least with the last one I could finally kill Pokemon... HMMMMmmmm....... Any lawyers in here?
I have to get in it like the Dukes of Hazzard because the door handles don't work (inside or out) but it made it this far ... by some divine grant.
Whoever said Perl programming paid never lived in Austin.
ramseeker.com has a list of which vendors will replace 'hidden' RAM and which will not.
That cannot have been the cause. Firmware updates require first the user stage of uploading the update into RAM and then a reboot while *holding down* the programmer's button (interrupt) in order to signal the boot ROM to perform the update. It cannot happen automatically. Software Update can download it from the server for you, even run the userland program, but it requires someone present to actually perform the update.
I just upgraded my G4 with that update (and my RAM survived; you get what you pay for: transintl.com) and this is exactly what I had to do to make it work.
I can download Dawrin for free. I can install it for free. I can use it for free. I can get the source code for free. I can modify and submit changes to the source code for free.
If you mean you can't take Apple's code and use it elsewhere, you might have a point, but, really, Apple is a company. Get your head out of the FSF's ass long enough to see that that the world cannot exist on free software along. SOMETHING, SOMEWHERE, has to cost money for someone to make money. Free goes no where. We tried it, the VCs poured money into it. None came out and the stockes crashed. Learn from this. If you want to see Darwin 2.0 then it can never be RMS' idea of "free" because Apple would go the way of VA Linux.
Whoop-de-friggin-do that RMS and FSF don't like it. I couldn't care less about their opinions of things. This is free as in beer and cool as hell and by God I'm using the damned thing and the entire whiny "Open Source" (with big capital letters) movement can kiss my furry ass if you dislike the license BECAUSE THE SOFTWARE IS COOL AND SUPPORTED BY SOMEONE I KNOW WILL BE THERE TOMORROW, versus OS projects that can disappear if the maintainer decides to ditch it. Apple's not going to ditch the core of their OS.
And at version 1.3 Linux was any better? It wasn't until 2.0+ that anything useful was supported. This is how an OS grows. People seem to forget that Darwin and Mac OS X (10 that is) are BABIES in the world of OSes. They are just getting started with hardware and application support. Give 'em time and they will refine it. You think Windows 95 supported USB at all? It barely supported good video cards. Given time, however, Win 98 SE did a pretty good job at USB and video acceleration.
Give Apple some time and don't judge the first releases like this is the final product.
No, the one I mentioned DOES have a dangling apostrophe. The possisive is "its" not "its'" with the extra apostrophe because "its" is, by nature, already possesive. You add the apostrophe when you have a noun that needs to be possesive, and you put it after an 's' when that noun is plural. Neither hold here as "its" is already a non-noun word and possisive!
Jesus, people, learn some English.
Next thing you know the buy who devised the null modem cable will try patenting the idea of a network. I'll leave it as an excercise to the reader as to what happens then.
For the rest of us with 27"+ televisions and < 21" monitors, this is not the best idea. I've seen someone with a dedicated DivX box next to the television and an S-Video out and all, and it's really kudgy at the moment. You have to go find the media in Explorer (in 640x480) then play it and go to fullscreen such and the quality really sucks compared even to VHS.
The real idea would be to hook broadband up to a Tivoish device and have it work that way. Even put removable storage a la Jaz on the Tivo to keep downloaded movies. That would be the way to go, and would be exceptionally nice if the video could be accessed over a LAN... I would not mind paying $5 for a movie at all if I could own it like that. Heck, I might even pay $10 a pop for that. Then it's legit and convenient.
Or am I confused with 3vix?
Offshore hosting is a sham, unless you live in a copyright/lawsuit-free country, in which case you don't need offshore hosting to begin with.
And the point of calculating pi out to these absurd points is ... what, again? To get more circular tires? To be able to calculate the position of atoms in cicles? What? It's really an absurd waste of time about several hundred places, so why is everyone so freakin' facinated with this?