Ummm . . . you must mean voice recognition secruity.
For those things, as far as the computer is concerned, no, you can't do a perfect impression of Sean Connery. Its not looking for sound patterns that can nessarly be heard by humans. It looks for small subtilities which are considered impossible to fake.
However, this article is talking about a system that will allow you to give commands into a computer and it will act on them (a la Star Trek). In this case, yes, you might be able to pull off an impression of Sean Connery to the computer. But security isn't the point behind such a system, anyway.
Coroperations want the control over things that they are used to. It used to be that they just natuarly could keep one person from spreading software and music to anyone in the world. It was just naturaly that way, because nobody has the time or money to do it. But now its natural for anyone on the internet to do that. Obviously, a change that big is going to scare a lot of people. This much just about everyone knows already.
We are at a turning point because we are at the point where enough people and coroperations are on the Internet that it creates a stir. Its hit a critical mass. From here, we, as a society (both on and off the net) have to decide if we want things on the net to stay the same, or if we want to control things. The sad part is that many people will decide to apply laws to the net without ever expereincing it for anything more then a few hours at most.
Regulation isn't bad in itself if its well thought out. Just yesterday on Slashdot there was a story posted (you can see it here). On regulating the Internet. This article showed that regulation of AT&T in the '80s helped the net to grow. This is because if AT&T wasn't a government controled monopoly, it wouldn't have allowed for small ISPs to attach their modems to the phone lines, and acsess to the internet would have been controled by AT&T. Thus, careful regulation helped the growth of the Internet.
But things like the DMCA and the UCITA show very little careful thought. Regulation in itself is not bad; poorly thought out regulation is bad.
A lot of people have tryed making Unix easier to use and none of them have manged it. Some people beleive that it can't be done. While I don't think that its impossible, its got to be a very difficult task. How is the Gnome project dealing with ease of use?
Just like the game itself. LOL. Maybe there will be a slip in the space-time continum and the Linux port will come out before the Windows version does.
Everytime I pick up one of the mainstream computer game magazines, they always have at least one joke about Daikatana.
I have yet to see anything good about the game. I probably wouldn't have bought it if it came out two years ago, and I'm certianly not going to buy it now.
Or maybe Edios' plan is to dealy the game, thus creating major press (bad press, but press just the same), and when it finaly comes out, people can't help but to buy it, just to see what took them so long. It works for Microsoft, after all.
Chances are that Office 2005 will come out before this game does. And Office 2005 won't be here unitl 2007.
Yes, but rap music actualy started in the south in the 1950s. Eventualy, it made its way to New York (in the '80s), then to the big record companies. So, just as Open Source was around way before Linux, rap music was around way before the big record companies got hooked on it.
. . . have the mp3s be assocated with a particular artists (they already are, I believe), then have a field in the mp3 downloads (along with name, download speed, bit rate, etc.) that points to the artist's homepage.
That should be simple enough to do. The artists can sell whatever they want on the webpage. So everyones happy, except the RIAA, which nobody likes anyway. All that should be needed is an add on to the program and a file that can be automaticly updated from a server that links an artist with a webpage.
I might veture an opinion on this if I knew what you were talking about. Mind posting some links?
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UNIX has several advantages over just about anything else for distributed networking. It was built for networking and I don't see any reason why, with only minimal improvements, it can't be used in distributed networking.
I'm already working on a program for Linux (it should be portable to other UNIXes) to make it work for this. Its in the very early stages, though. See http://hammer.prohosting.com/~linuxnet.
I apologize if this seems like a recruiting post for my project.
I'm not sure if its gone to court, but you should be able to find something about it at planetquake.com
As a side note, the GPL rarely sees a court room, since usualy people kindly ask a violater to follow the terms; usualy the violater didn't realize the restrictions and happily follows them. But in this case, the modder wouldn't do it, so more action must be taken.
Yes. Right now there is a case of some modder not releasing the source code to his Quake mod. I haven't kept up on the case, but John Carmack is really pissed.
Just by looking over the GNU licenses, you can tell they were created by a pack of lawyers;-)
Whats the point in having more taxes. Not long ago, the US Congress was debating what to do with the $5 billion that will accumulate in extra money over the next few years. $5 BILLION! We don't need more taxes, we need smarter congresspeople.
While most tribes have some consept of ownership, it doesn't apply to everything. For instance, land was considered to be no ones proprety. The electrons that make up software should be the same.
You make irrelevent comparisons of software, music, movies, and the like to physical objects. These are hardly the same. You can send this stuff all over the net for essentialy no cost to you. Theres no reason for anyone to actualy own things like that and demand others give them something for it.
Perhaps it would have been better all along if we had followed the teachings of certian Native American tribes, who have no concept of ownership, even for physical things.
Like many people, I keep a Windows partition for playing games. But if this article is true, SuSE is aiming for more games on Linux, aluding to "an interesting Crismas this year."
If this holds true, I can't wait to tell all my game-playing Microserf freinds "I told you so!"
If you hadn't put that "first post on/." thing, you probably would have gotten something more then a 1. Thats how you messed up. Shame too, becasue I would have really liked to know the answer to this question.
Last time I went to Best Buy, they did have a Linux section; a whole shelf. Not a shelf UNIT, mind you, but a shelf. Yippee. Ten more like it and we'll have caught up to the Mac section!
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Which means that Bill will wait for them to make something cool and then make a half-baked port of it to Windows ;)
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Ummm . . . you must mean voice recognition secruity.
For those things, as far as the computer is concerned, no, you can't do a perfect impression of Sean Connery. Its not looking for sound patterns that can nessarly be heard by humans. It looks for small subtilities which are considered impossible to fake.
However, this article is talking about a system that will allow you to give commands into a computer and it will act on them (a la Star Trek). In this case, yes, you might be able to pull off an impression of Sean Connery to the computer. But security isn't the point behind such a system, anyway.
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It gets worse. When I saw it, its score was "3; offtopic." Isn't that just silly?
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Coroperations want the control over things that they are used to. It used to be that they just natuarly could keep one person from spreading software and music to anyone in the world. It was just naturaly that way, because nobody has the time or money to do it. But now its natural for anyone on the internet to do that. Obviously, a change that big is going to scare a lot of people. This much just about everyone knows already.
We are at a turning point because we are at the point where enough people and coroperations are on the Internet that it creates a stir. Its hit a critical mass. From here, we, as a society (both on and off the net) have to decide if we want things on the net to stay the same, or if we want to control things. The sad part is that many people will decide to apply laws to the net without ever expereincing it for anything more then a few hours at most.
Regulation isn't bad in itself if its well thought out. Just yesterday on Slashdot there was a story posted (you can see it here). On regulating the Internet. This article showed that regulation of AT&T in the '80s helped the net to grow. This is because if AT&T wasn't a government controled monopoly, it wouldn't have allowed for small ISPs to attach their modems to the phone lines, and acsess to the internet would have been controled by AT&T. Thus, careful regulation helped the growth of the Internet.
But things like the DMCA and the UCITA show very little careful thought. Regulation in itself is not bad; poorly thought out regulation is bad.
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Hmmm, sounds like someone's Mom didn't put a candy bar in their lunch today.
Why don't you go and see what Linux is really about before you go spewing your Microsoft-loving FUD all over Slashdot.
Whose the moron who started calling open source advocates "socialists" and "commies" anyway?
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A lot of people have tryed making Unix easier to use and none of them have manged it. Some people beleive that it can't be done. While I don't think that its impossible, its got to be a very difficult task. How is the Gnome project dealing with ease of use?
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Just like the game itself. LOL. Maybe there will be a slip in the space-time continum and the Linux port will come out before the Windows version does.
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Everytime I pick up one of the mainstream computer game magazines, they always have at least one joke about Daikatana.
I have yet to see anything good about the game. I probably wouldn't have bought it if it came out two years ago, and I'm certianly not going to buy it now.
Or maybe Edios' plan is to dealy the game, thus creating major press (bad press, but press just the same), and when it finaly comes out, people can't help but to buy it, just to see what took them so long. It works for Microsoft, after all.
Chances are that Office 2005 will come out before this game does. And Office 2005 won't be here unitl 2007.
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Yes, but rap music actualy started in the south in the 1950s. Eventualy, it made its way to New York (in the '80s), then to the big record companies. So, just as Open Source was around way before Linux, rap music was around way before the big record companies got hooked on it.
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. . . have the mp3s be assocated with a particular artists (they already are, I believe), then have a field in the mp3 downloads (along with name, download speed, bit rate, etc.) that points to the artist's homepage.
That should be simple enough to do. The artists can sell whatever they want on the webpage. So everyones happy, except the RIAA, which nobody likes anyway. All that should be needed is an add on to the program and a file that can be automaticly updated from a server that links an artist with a webpage.
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I might veture an opinion on this if I knew what you were talking about. Mind posting some links?
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UNIX has several advantages over just about anything else for distributed networking. It was built for networking and I don't see any reason why, with only minimal improvements, it can't be used in distributed networking.
I'm already working on a program for Linux (it should be portable to other UNIXes) to make it work for this. Its in the very early stages, though. See http://hammer.prohosting.com/~linuxnet.
I apologize if this seems like a recruiting post for my project.
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Or second. But whats the difference, right?
I sentence you to /dev/null
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I'm not sure if its gone to court, but you should be able to find something about it at planetquake.com
As a side note, the GPL rarely sees a court room, since usualy people kindly ask a violater to follow the terms; usualy the violater didn't realize the restrictions and happily follows them. But in this case, the modder wouldn't do it, so more action must be taken.
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Yes. Right now there is a case of some modder not releasing the source code to his Quake mod. I haven't kept up on the case, but John Carmack is really pissed.
Just by looking over the GNU licenses, you can tell they were created by a pack of lawyers ;-)
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Coming to you from the I-Just-Learned-How-To-Use-The-Linux-Banner-Command -dept.!
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Whats the point in having more taxes. Not long ago, the US Congress was debating what to do with the $5 billion that will accumulate in extra money over the next few years. $5 BILLION! We don't need more taxes, we need smarter congresspeople.
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Remember 1984:
"The only thing you really own is the few thousand cubic centmeters in your head."
(I'm working from memory here, so its not an exact quote).
But by the end of the book, it was shown that even that statement was false. An extreame example, for sure, but one that may be rapidly approching.
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While most tribes have some consept of ownership, it doesn't apply to everything. For instance, land was considered to be no ones proprety. The electrons that make up software should be the same.
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You make irrelevent comparisons of software, music, movies, and the like to physical objects. These are hardly the same. You can send this stuff all over the net for essentialy no cost to you. Theres no reason for anyone to actualy own things like that and demand others give them something for it.
Perhaps it would have been better all along if we had followed the teachings of certian Native American tribes, who have no concept of ownership, even for physical things.
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Like many people, I keep a Windows partition for playing games. But if this article is true, SuSE is aiming for more games on Linux, aluding to "an interesting Crismas this year."
If this holds true, I can't wait to tell all my game-playing Microserf freinds "I told you so!"
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If you hadn't put that "first post on /." thing, you probably would have gotten something more then a 1. Thats how you messed up. Shame too, becasue I would have really liked to know the answer to this question.
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Why buy these types of games when you can often download them for free, for Linux or Windows?
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Why was this scored 0? This should have at least been left at 1!
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Last time I went to Best Buy, they did have a Linux section; a whole shelf. Not a shelf UNIT, mind you, but a shelf. Yippee. Ten more like it and we'll have caught up to the Mac section!
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