An Amiga is simply anything I look at and think "Thats an Amiga!". I suspect most people have a similar opinion (using their own definitions of "me" and "I"). A key problem is that not everyone wil agree on what an Amiga is, and the new owners have to please everyone.
My wishlist is quite long, and includes having a similar GUI, (but the desktop must be multithreaded), a nice simple API, be well designed for desktop video applications, be available in a small cheap keyboard shaped box , but still be useful for games, and use incredibly well designed low cost but fast hardware so that it doesn't have to rely on the CPU for speed.
Fulfilling this wishlist would guarentee them 1 sale. To get more than 1 sale, they would need to fulfil the wishlist of every other amiga user as well. If there are 2 contradictory requirements, then it should do both.
It may have a few cool features, but we don't need Yet Another Operating System to choose from. The way the open-source movement works, any truly superior techniques will be incorporated into Linux or BSD
No it won't. Not everything can be. For starters, there's the Amiga's multiple (logical) screen based GUI. Linux needs to have a lot of legacy code to make it acceptable. Elate has the ability to run the same executable file on any processor. To do that on Linux, we'd need to totally rewrite the whole executeable format. Not impossible, but a lot of work, and all apps would have to be recompiled to benefit.
No no no! Don't you see? When I talk on my mobile phone, I'm immediately surrounded by an invisible dome that blocks all sound. You can't hear a word I say. Its just a figment of your imagination.
True. A lot of Linux is undocumented. The point is that none of it is undocumented purely to hide the information. And this wasn't an API thing. (Plus ass you pointed out it was fixable)
You could of course argue that this was documented in C.
While I agree about 50% of the time with their decisions, their explanations are screwed up.
Since generally about 50% of people will agree with the Supreme Court in any given case, I propose that this costly organisation is replaced by a coin which is tossed on any controversial issue. This will reduce costs dramatically, with a maximum initial setup cost of 25 cents.
Apple shouldn't mind. This will not reduce demand for iMacs at all. If they decide to bring out a 500MHz iMac, then it will be cheaper than a 233Mhz machine + a 500MHz upgrade.
Besides, Apple have no tradition of preventing people from doing whatever the hell they want with their hardware. why would they start now?
There was a Dangermouse episode about aliens whacking planets into a black hole too ("So would the moon have counted as 4 points away?" asks Penfold). Not sure if it was before or after the Hitchikers joke. certainly before Red Dwarf though... And yes the Red Dwarf Episode was White Hole
We will be inviting ISP's in the U.S. to licence that technology from us.
Strictly speaking, the ISP's aren't using this technology. People who use the browsers are. Maybe they should get the licences from Netscape and Microsoft instead.
_that would straight out allow a 3 or 4 day work week, because everyone would just have more money.
Unfortunately it wouldn't happen. I could easily live on 80% of my current salary, but nobody is going to employ me for a 4 day week. A lot more people would just find that other people can suddenly work for less money, and so they would have to take a pay cut to compete.
Jack Valenti's interpretation of the law is that anything that circumvents encryption and isn't authorised is illegal.
Reading the DMCA, this is a perfectly reasonable conclusion. Whether it is fair is irrelevent here.
Personally I think that he genuinely believes that the motion picture industry is purely interested in preventing piracy, and wouldn't stoop to underhand methods to prevent people from doing anything legal.
An accurate answer. Not a complete answer or a useful answer, but certainly accurate.
Curiously he was considerably more informed about what Linux is than either of the other people present. He actually knew what it was. I wonder if the lawyers thought they understood the question about using DeCSS to produce an Operating System for Linux toi play DVD's (slightly garbled question page 21, line 9)
By that argument, the only stories that Slashdot should run on Mattel are:
Mattel reveals censorware database for independent scrutiny Mattel ignores high profile copyright infringement Mattel allows www.barbie.org site Mattel actually wins a case
Slashdot Mirror
An Amiga is simply anything I look at and think "Thats an Amiga!". I suspect most people have a similar opinion (using their own definitions of "me" and "I"). A key problem is that not everyone wil agree on what an Amiga is, and the new owners have to please everyone.
My wishlist is quite long, and includes having a similar GUI, (but the desktop must be multithreaded), a nice simple API, be well designed for desktop video applications, be available in a small cheap keyboard shaped box , but still be useful for games, and use incredibly well designed low cost but fast hardware so that it doesn't have to rely on the CPU for speed.
Fulfilling this wishlist would guarentee them 1 sale. To get more than 1 sale, they would need to fulfil the wishlist of every other amiga user as well. If there are 2 contradictory requirements, then it should do both.
It may have a few cool features, but we don't need Yet Another Operating System to choose from. The way the open-source movement works, any truly superior techniques will be incorporated into Linux or BSD
No it won't. Not everything can be. For starters, there's the Amiga's multiple (logical) screen based GUI. Linux needs to have a lot of legacy code to make it acceptable. Elate has the ability to run the same executable file on any processor. To do that on Linux, we'd need to totally rewrite the whole executeable format. Not impossible, but a lot of work, and all apps would have to be recompiled to benefit.
No no no! Don't you see? When I talk on my mobile phone, I'm immediately surrounded by an invisible dome that blocks all sound. You can't hear a word I say. Its just a figment of your imagination.
> Remember when you didn't like beer??
> No.
Ah, the beer will be the problem. Beer destroys the memory. Not sure about the long effects of kimchee.
True. A lot of Linux is undocumented. The point is that none of it is undocumented purely to hide the information. And this wasn't an API thing. (Plus ass you pointed out it was fixable)
You could of course argue that this was documented in C.
People just use them for chat. Sitting on a train? Phone a friend. Waiting in a line? Phone a friend. Boring bit in a film? Phone a friend.
Dolphins would be good;)
Mars is red, so it is warm. It is in space, so it must have Nitrogen.
QED
Yep. Slashdot suffers from an irony shortage, methinks.
Sorry, I'm not american. didn't realise those existed. How annoying that they managed to increase projected costs by 300%
While I agree about 50% of the time with their decisions, their explanations are screwed up.
Since generally about 50% of people will agree with the Supreme Court in any given case, I propose that this costly organisation is replaced by a coin which is tossed on any controversial issue. This will reduce costs dramatically, with a maximum initial setup cost of 25 cents.
Apple shouldn't mind. This will not reduce demand for iMacs at all. If they decide to bring out a 500MHz iMac, then it will be cheaper than a 233Mhz machine + a 500MHz upgrade.
Besides, Apple have no tradition of preventing people from doing whatever the hell they want with their hardware. why would they start now?
There was a Dangermouse episode about aliens whacking planets into a black hole too ("So would the moon have counted as 4 points away?" asks Penfold). Not sure if it was before or after the Hitchikers joke. certainly before Red Dwarf though... And yes the Red Dwarf Episode was White Hole
We will be inviting ISP's in the U.S. to licence that technology from us.
Strictly speaking, the ISP's aren't using this technology. People who use the browsers are. Maybe they should get the licences from Netscape and Microsoft instead.
There is also no dynamite. As explained here
_that would straight out allow a 3 or 4 day work week, because everyone would just have more money.
Unfortunately it wouldn't happen. I could easily live on 80% of my current salary, but nobody is going to employ me for a 4 day week. A lot more people would just find that other people can suddenly work for less money, and so they would have to take a pay cut to compete.
There's a power limit? Damn! I wanted to stick a 300 GigaWatt transmitter on top of my house.
Here's that wozniac interview.
Jack Valenti's interpretation of the law is that anything that circumvents encryption and isn't authorised is illegal.
Reading the DMCA, this is a perfectly reasonable conclusion. Whether it is fair is irrelevent here.
Personally I think that he genuinely believes that the motion picture industry is purely interested in preventing piracy, and wouldn't stoop to underhand methods to prevent people from doing anything legal.
An accurate answer. Not a complete answer or a useful answer, but certainly accurate.
Curiously he was considerably more informed about what Linux is than either of the other people present. He actually knew what it was. I wonder if the lawyers thought they understood the question about using DeCSS to produce an Operating System for Linux toi play DVD's (slightly garbled question page 21, line 9)
Man bites Dog is a story, Dog bites Man isn't
By that argument, the only stories that Slashdot should run on Mattel are:
Mattel reveals censorware database for independent scrutiny
Mattel ignores high profile copyright infringement
Mattel allows www.barbie.org site
Mattel actually wins a case
I totally agree. Bowls is such a dull slow game otherwise.
Its called MSWorks.
Although it seems that MS consider the biggest cause of bloat to be a word file reader/writer
And what happened to www.sorefeet.com? He was funny until he posted exactly the same comment 300 times on the same subject
Thats a good point. I feel stupid for not spotting it myself.
Maybe I should start submitting all engineering reports at work in haiku from now on.