This forces Linux users to constantly play catch-up just to be able to use the newest web technology.
They aren't in any worse a position for a while. If MS don't add features then Linux users still can't use them, but neither can IE users. It takes a while for the new features to make their way onto web sites so its not a major problem.
Would you buy a wrench that said "Works only on Ford"?
If I had a Ford, then I probably would. Is this metaphor the right way round? I wouldn't buy a Ford if I knew I could only use Ford wrenches on it. Maybe I would if I had a complete set.
The U.S. government is currently paying the television networks to add anti-drug messages into the plot of popular television shows.
This isn't really an uncommon practice though. Product placement is very popular, and its essentially the same thing. (although some countries have restrictions on that sort of thing). As long as the government has the same restrictions as large companies, they should have the same rights.
Although I'm not quite sure what you mean about "look at russia". I've never seen any of their television, but I don't think it would have a more anti-capitalist bias than CNN has a pro-capitalist bias.
Surely the main justification for regulation of radio broadcasting is that the useable spectrum is limited.
Of course there's going to be a lot of absolute crap out there. The existence of crap doesn't prevent the existence of quality. There's room for both. What exactly do they expect to gain here?
Read through the DMCA. Apply the rules to a digital satelite decoder. It seems to make some degree of sense. To protect copyright, these rely on reasonable security.
It obviously seemed logical to make the scope sufficiently broad to cover anything that was copyrighted, even at the expense of fair use. Nobody actually thought at the time that someone might want to make a free DVD player. It was only expected to cover devices that are designed specifically for piracy. Unfortunately it was badly written. Lawyers are adept at working to the letter of the law rather than the spirit of the law.
This guy seems to be saying that if the music industry doesn't do something which is virtually guarenteed to be profitable (After all, how much does it cost them for you to download a song?), they're going to be forced into it.
Has there ever been a law to force companies to allow people to buy their products before?
More recently, the BBC deleted a vast number of its tapes because they wanted the storage space. NASA has left a lot of data just rot away. Thats the present generation. People just never learn.
"We Can Remember for you Wholesale" was really only used as the first 20 minutes or so of Total Recall. (I highly recommend that short story by the way).
Blade Runner had elements of a number of PKD books. Most of what I've read couldn't possibly be translated to a film.
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Are you trying to convince people they should upgrade to Windows 2000 with your little time bomb? (they should)
Only if they have a damn fast machine and a lot memory and a huige wodge of free disk space.
Still, haven't had W2K crash yet after a few months. (Apart from when I was writing drivers.....)
The real steve@aol.com probably gets a lot of spam anyway. Not enough people use that particular name (There are after all a lot of possible first names and a lot of common providers) so the mail box isn't totally filled up.
The bill/bill.gates@microsoft.com on the other hand is used SOOO often that I can't believe that anyone uses that, unless there's a (self funded) legal team on the other end sending shrink wrapped "All commercial email will be charged...." messages back. Whatever Bill's email is, I can almost guarentee that it is NOT Bill.gates@microsoft.com Could be something more like Bill@gates.com
if DirectX is implemented, any games that run under Windows 2000 should run under Linux.
Well, they should..... There are a few problems. in my experience. Firstly, its not 100% bug free (I am using an old version of Wine, so it may be better by now) Most of the problems I find are in Direct3D. I think the problems caused by D3D being implemented in Mesa. i.e. a low level API is being implemented using a high level API. The D3D driver also unfortunately tells the application that all of D3D is implemented in hardware, which makes it painfully slow if you don't have acceleration.
I remember hacking into the US AI mainframe accidentally when trying to get some games. Pretty cool system though. After the first connect, the thing called me back.
Went pear shaped when I nearly cause World War three of course. Still, all worked out okay in the end.
were you born a GNU/Linux God, or did you have to learn it?
I had to learn it.
To make ammends for your wrongdoings, I suggest you go onto alt.linux and answer some newbies' questions
I have done in the past. (Although more experienced Linux users usually give better advice than me) Thats because these are people who are willing to learn something new, and aren't scared off by the idea that the kernel version number might be different from the distribution version number.
your antics have probably made someone who was considering making the switch to GNU/Linux decide to stick with Windows, because "everything is so much simpler in Windows".
They said they used Linux 6.1 in a couple of places....... Since its an odd numbered version, I guess that means its the experimental branch. Still, their time travlleing skill are quite impressive.
You lose about 50% through charging the batteries. Electrical motors aren't 100% efficient either. The pollution caused by electric cars is still slightly lower than an internal combustion engine, since no power is used up when stopped in an electric car.
Solar power takes up a lot of space, and half the time you would be better off just using the power directly. Still, if you need hydrogen, you could always send a ship into the Pacific, (Or somewhere with deep water) and use a huge thermocouple to generate power. Not sure if its worth the cost though. I'd be more inclined to use alcohol and gas from waste vegetable matter.
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This forces Linux users to constantly play catch-up just to be able to use the newest web technology.
They aren't in any worse a position for a while. If MS don't add features then Linux users still can't use them, but neither can IE users. It takes a while for the new features to make their way onto web sites so its not a major problem.
Would you buy a wrench that said "Works only on Ford"?
If I had a Ford, then I probably would. Is this metaphor the right way round? I wouldn't buy a Ford if I knew I could only use Ford wrenches on it. Maybe I would if I had a complete set.
Nope. To be extradited, you have to make a crank phone call to find out which way the water goes down the plug hole.
Worked for Bart Simpson anyway.
The U.S. government is currently paying the television networks to add anti-drug messages into the plot of popular television shows.
This isn't really an uncommon practice though. Product placement is very popular, and its essentially the same thing. (although some countries have restrictions on that sort of thing). As long as the government has the same restrictions as large companies, they should have the same rights.
Although I'm not quite sure what you mean about "look at russia". I've never seen any of their television, but I don't think it would have a more anti-capitalist bias than CNN has a pro-capitalist bias.
Surely the main justification for regulation of radio broadcasting is that the useable spectrum is limited.
Of course there's going to be a lot of absolute crap out there. The existence of crap doesn't prevent the existence of quality. There's room for both. What exactly do they expect to gain here?
Just don't burn my mutt. Thats just cruelty to animals.
Read through the DMCA. Apply the rules to a digital satelite decoder. It seems to make some degree of sense. To protect copyright, these rely on reasonable security.
It obviously seemed logical to make the scope sufficiently broad to cover anything that was copyrighted, even at the expense of fair use. Nobody actually thought at the time that someone might want to make a free DVD player. It was only expected to cover devices that are designed specifically for piracy. Unfortunately it was badly written. Lawyers are adept at working to the letter of the law rather than the spirit of the law.
This guy seems to be saying that if the music industry doesn't do something which is virtually guarenteed to be profitable (After all, how much does it cost them for you to download a song?), they're going to be forced into it.
Has there ever been a law to force companies to allow people to buy their products before?
Old versions of ARChimedes games that don't run anymore on StrongARM'ed RiscPC
ARM and Unix FAQs
Once again, Archemedes writings are lost forever.
More recently, the BBC deleted a vast number of its tapes because they wanted the storage space. NASA has left a lot of data just rot away. Thats the present generation. People just never learn.
Humour is subjective.
So is the spelling of humour.
"We Can Remember for you Wholesale" was really only used as the first 20 minutes or so of Total Recall. (I highly recommend that short story by the way).
Blade Runner had elements of a number of PKD books. Most of what I've read couldn't possibly be translated to a film.
Are you trying to convince people they should upgrade to Windows 2000 with your little time bomb? (they should)
Only if they have a damn fast machine and a lot memory and a huige wodge of free disk space.
Still, haven't had W2K crash yet after a few months. (Apart from when I was writing drivers.....)
The real steve@aol.com probably gets a lot of spam anyway. Not enough people use that particular name (There are after all a lot of possible first names and a lot of common providers) so the mail box isn't totally filled up.
The bill/bill.gates@microsoft.com on the other hand is used SOOO often that I can't believe that anyone uses that, unless there's a (self funded) legal team on the other end sending shrink wrapped "All commercial email will be charged...." messages back. Whatever Bill's email is, I can almost guarentee that it is NOT Bill.gates@microsoft.com Could be something more like Bill@gates.com
Wouldn't be to hard. Quite easy at runtime too. Its just a set of flags that give capabilities. Maybe it is by now.
if DirectX is implemented, any games that run under Windows 2000 should run under Linux.
Well, they should..... There are a few problems. in my experience. Firstly, its not 100% bug free (I am using an old version of Wine, so it may be better by now) Most of the problems I find are in Direct3D. I think the problems caused by D3D being implemented in Mesa. i.e. a low level API is being implemented using a high level API. The D3D driver also unfortunately tells the application that all of D3D is implemented in hardware, which makes it painfully slow if you don't have acceleration.
And strangely enough, I get speech synthesis at this military terminal.
I remember hacking into the US AI mainframe accidentally when trying to get some games. Pretty cool system though. After the first connect, the thing called me back.
Went pear shaped when I nearly cause World War three of course. Still, all worked out okay in the end.
were you born a GNU/Linux God, or did you have to learn it?
I had to learn it.
To make ammends for your wrongdoings, I suggest you go onto alt.linux and answer some newbies' questions
I have done in the past. (Although more experienced Linux users usually give better advice than me) Thats because these are people who are willing to learn something new, and aren't scared off by the idea that the kernel version number might be different from the distribution version number.
your antics have probably made someone who was considering making the switch to GNU/Linux decide to stick with Windows, because "everything is so much simpler in Windows".
They deserve everything they get.
Thanks. Nice to know someone appreciates my sense of humour.
They said they used Linux 6.1 in a couple of places....... Since its an odd numbered version, I guess that means its the experimental branch. Still, their time travlleing skill are quite impressive.
You lose about 50% through charging the batteries. Electrical motors aren't 100% efficient either. The pollution caused by electric cars is still slightly lower than an internal combustion engine, since no power is used up when stopped in an electric car.
Solar power takes up a lot of space, and half the time you would be better off just using the power directly. Still, if you need hydrogen, you could always send a ship into the Pacific, (Or somewhere with deep water) and use a huge thermocouple to generate power. Not sure if its worth the cost though. I'd be more inclined to use alcohol and gas from waste vegetable matter.
If they do, then at least we know we'll never run out of spacecraft.