There're a bunch of commies in power in CA anyway.... look at Boxer and Feinstein. We DON'T need that mentality spreading all the way to the federal level.
If the Feds decide they don't want you to leave city limits (Y2K panic, Good Citizens would understand) but you want to leave anyway, one zap and blammo! You are immobile and ready to be taken in for um, questioning.
What do the specs for this thing look like? Are they open? One of the big conspiracy theories going around is that when Y2K hits, the government will deprecate the current infrastructure and move everybody to a new one, which is protected by sundry patents and IP laws. There they can censor and snoop all they like.
If Internet2 is open-spec like its prequel was, however, I don't see that happening.
Remember that this is the same office that accepted a device called the "Super Cruise Bracket" as patentable, as shown on an investigative report done by 60 Minutes. The Bracket was a bogus patent claim, essentially for a device that allowed you to bracket the gas pedal of your car down if your car lacked a cruise control!!!
So? There's a huge glut of crappy computer software today! Does that mean that Microsoft should start banning development for Windows except to licensed vendors? I think they tried this once, and it didn't work. Anyhoo, openness is a great thing. IBM learned this lesson the hard way... who would have thought 10 years ago that IBM would be crying "Open standards, open standards" a decade into the future?
In the eyes of console companies like Sega and especially Nintendo, there is NO LEGITIMATE REASON why an emulator should exist for their systems. Although the chips, etc. in these things are often commodity devices, it seems as if the game companies treat how they're wired together as a proprietary trade secret. Many emulator coders hide behind IRC nicks and feel compelled to remain part of the "underground scene" just like warez d00dz, because they know that just writing an emulator is enough to incur the wrath of the big companies, who treat them as if they were no better than warez d00dz. Add to that the excessively lame people who flood IRC channels with requests for ROMs (especially now that you can pirate a game that's less than a year old and run it for free) and you have more than enough compelling reason to say "Screw this" and go do something else with your time.
I'm not saying I approve of what the UltraHLE team did. I think having a decent N64 emulator would really rule. But I can understand why they did it.
As a parody of this I think someone should do a movie based upon "The Secret Diary of Bill Gates" - with Mark McKinney as the man himself and David Koechner as Steve Ballmer. Mark and David were both on SNL a couple of years ago. And Mark's impersonation of Bill Gates is close to dead-on, in terms of appearance, sound, and actions; all he needed was a little violent rocking back and forth.
No, he's saying what Mac advocates usually say: That the MacOS doesn't suck, it rules, and the things that Carmack says are shortcomings are actually benefits and features. This is pretty much typical of rabid Mac fans. Don't get me wrong, I like Macs (particularly those running Linux) but as a PC user I feel the need to put the Mac in perspective and not base my whole argument around the notion that Steve Jobs can do no wrong and that the Mac is a magical machine.:)
You're looking at "Multi", the most lovable robotic girl to come along since Vicki from the 80's sitcom "Small Wonder". She comes from a Windows 95 video game called "To Heart". She is EXTREMELY popular in Japan, particularly among geeks (otakus ^_^). The idea is, I guess, that BeOS is so wonderful that even Multi's CPU runs it. I wonder if that means that Leaf will be doing a BeOS port of "To Heart". If so, then that would be Totally Cool(tm).
The Japanese text reads "BeOS hayatsu pari Maruchi de!" My Japanese is Not Good. I guess it means "BeOS is fast enough for Multi". Anyone wanna help out?
Doctor Who the TV series? I don't think so. If it was a song then yes, it was them and by "charted" I mean in the US. The UK has been graces with their presence for over a decade.
The KLF is the name of a two-person techno music group: Bill Drummond and Jim Cauty. Only two of their songs have charted: "3AM Eternal" and "Justified and Ancient". The KFMF, the Kosmic Free Music Foundation, also at one time assumed the initials KLF, sanding for "Kosmic Loader Foundation".
Strangely, though they're unrelated they seem to have similar goals. The original KLF stood for "Kopyright Liberation Front"; the misspelling "kopyright" having a similar meaning to the GNUish "copyleft". They also believed in free music, pushed the bounds of legality by sampling other artists willy-nilly and incorporating them into their music. One such artist, Wanda Dee, received a settlement, then proceeded to rip off the KLF's name and music in a sort of live tour thingy. Bill and Jim have gone by other names, such as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, the Timelords, the K Foundation and now just in time for the year 2000, "2K".
Note that while the KFMF's music is freely redistributable (although the legality of its samples, taken from such sources as "The X Files", is also in doubt), don't even attempt to copy and distribute the KLF's songs, despite their manifesto, as Arista, an evil record company, will likely come down on your ass! That said, there are apparently a few of their recordings that have been released from copyright, and I got an MP3 of a rare one.
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There're a bunch of commies in power in CA anyway.... look at Boxer and Feinstein. We DON'T need that mentality spreading all the way to the federal level.
If the Feds decide they don't want you to leave city limits (Y2K panic, Good Citizens would understand) but you want to leave anyway, one zap and blammo! You are immobile and ready to be taken in for um, questioning.
What do the specs for this thing look like? Are they open? One of the big conspiracy theories going around is that when Y2K hits, the government will deprecate the current infrastructure and move everybody to a new one, which is protected by sundry patents and IP laws. There they can censor and snoop all they like.
If Internet2 is open-spec like its prequel was, however, I don't see that happening.
Remember that this is the same office that accepted a device called the "Super Cruise Bracket" as patentable, as shown on an investigative report done by 60 Minutes. The Bracket was a bogus patent claim, essentially for a device that allowed you to bracket the gas pedal of your car down if your car lacked a cruise control!!!
Oh, you mean Apple's revolutionary sub-pixel-rendering technology? Heeheehee...
So? There's a huge glut of crappy computer software today! Does that mean that Microsoft should start banning development for Windows except to licensed vendors? I think they tried this once, and it didn't work. Anyhoo, openness is a great thing. IBM learned this lesson the hard way... who would have thought 10 years ago that IBM would be crying "Open standards, open standards" a decade into the future?
In the eyes of console companies like Sega and especially Nintendo, there is NO LEGITIMATE REASON why an emulator should exist for their systems. Although the chips, etc. in these things are often commodity devices, it seems as if the game companies treat how they're wired together as a proprietary trade secret. Many emulator coders hide behind IRC nicks and feel compelled to remain part of the "underground scene" just like warez d00dz, because they know that just writing an emulator is enough to incur the wrath of the big companies, who treat them as if they were no better than warez d00dz. Add to that the excessively lame people who flood IRC channels with requests for ROMs (especially now that you can pirate a game that's less than a year old and run it for free) and you have more than enough compelling reason to say "Screw this" and go do something else with your time.
I'm not saying I approve of what the UltraHLE team did. I think having a decent N64 emulator would really rule. But I can understand why they did it.
As a parody of this I think someone should do a movie based upon "The Secret Diary of Bill Gates" - with Mark McKinney as the man himself and David Koechner as Steve Ballmer. Mark and David were both on SNL a couple of years ago. And Mark's impersonation of Bill Gates is close to dead-on, in terms of appearance, sound, and actions; all he needed was a little violent rocking back and forth.
No, he's saying what Mac advocates usually say: That the MacOS doesn't suck, it rules, and the things that Carmack says are shortcomings are actually benefits and features. This is pretty much typical of rabid Mac fans. Don't get me wrong, I like Macs (particularly those running Linux) but as a PC user I feel the need to put the Mac in perspective and not base my whole argument around the notion that Steve Jobs can do no wrong and that the Mac is a magical machine. :)
You're looking at "Multi", the most lovable robotic girl to come along since Vicki from the 80's sitcom "Small Wonder". She comes from a Windows 95 video game called "To Heart". She is EXTREMELY popular in Japan, particularly among geeks (otakus ^_^). The idea is, I guess, that BeOS is so wonderful that even Multi's CPU runs it. I wonder if that means that Leaf will be doing a BeOS port of "To Heart". If so, then that would be Totally Cool(tm).
The Japanese text reads "BeOS hayatsu pari Maruchi de!" My Japanese is Not Good. I guess it means "BeOS is fast enough for Multi". Anyone wanna help out?
MCI owns this phrase:
:-)"
"Is this a great time or what?
They have not yet tried to claim the ":-)" as a logo of some sort. Woe be unto you if they do.
Doctor Who the TV series? I don't think so. If it was a song then yes, it was them and by "charted" I mean in the US. The UK has been graces with their presence for over a decade.
The KLF is the name of a two-person techno music group: Bill Drummond and Jim Cauty. Only two of their songs have charted: "3AM Eternal" and "Justified and Ancient". The KFMF, the Kosmic Free Music Foundation, also at one time assumed the initials KLF, sanding for "Kosmic Loader Foundation".
Strangely, though they're unrelated they seem to have similar goals. The original KLF stood for "Kopyright Liberation Front"; the misspelling "kopyright" having a similar meaning to the GNUish "copyleft". They also believed in free music, pushed the bounds of legality by sampling other artists willy-nilly and incorporating them into their music. One such artist, Wanda Dee, received a settlement, then proceeded to rip off the KLF's name and music in a sort of live tour thingy. Bill and Jim have gone by other names, such as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, the Timelords, the K Foundation and now just in time for the year 2000, "2K".
Note that while the KFMF's music is freely redistributable (although the legality of its samples, taken from such sources as "The X Files", is also in doubt), don't even attempt to copy and distribute the KLF's songs, despite their manifesto, as Arista, an evil record company, will likely come down on your ass! That said, there are apparently a few of their recordings that have been released from copyright, and I got an MP3 of a rare one.
Is that enough information for ya?