The more this law sucks the better! The more the MPAA are hard-ass bastards enforcing it the better!
A good hard slap in the face is what people need to wake up and see these issues. A bad law now will be quickly repealed, and the leasons learned will stay with people.
When the RIAA threatened a 12 year old girl that did far more good than harm. She settled for $2000, and I bet they did some creative financing so she didn't really have to pay it. The bad press was sooo damaging the RIAA had to make it go away quickly.
The MPAA is even more boneheaded than RIAA (hard to imagine) and I don't think it would play out the same when they threaten a teenager. Just look and how they have gone after the 16 year old author of DeCSS.
Big dumb laws right now are less damaging in the long run than small incremental laws over the course of time. Let's hope the MPAA really shoots itself in the foot with this one.
Would that be the UN who couldn't bring itself to condemn Iraq for human rights abuses?
Would that be the UN that couldn't be bothered to condemn the PLO suicide bombers in Israel?
The UN that Libia holds a seat on the human rights comittee?
Good plan. Give them the internet. Maybe then the far left can be bothered to get pissed at what a joke the UN has become. The first time they stomp on your first amendment rights, maybe you'll notice what a shitty record they have on everything else.
I still think the internal rendering engine is not on par with current commercial software. Yafray (Yet Another Free Raytracer) provides better looking results than GI, and I'd really like to see Ton merge it into Blender. Half the serious blender users are using Yable to export to Yafray, so it make sense to give the users what they want.
There are some other good python projects that should be considered for incorporation - makehuman (Poser clone) comes to mind.
I wish they would break the window panes and allow tools to float freely (more like Gimp) so I may drag tools to a 2nd monitor and have the 3d view on the primary monitor. 2.3 introduces buttons in a pallettes, but you can drag them out of a window view. What's the point in that?
I loathe the "Unit" as a term of measure. I want to define a standard or metric scale. I want the grid to conform to that unit of measure. I see this as a major headache when tring to build anything to scale, and then import objects from another project.
I'm not a game builder and would like to see the game engine spun off to it's own project.
I say all of this as a blender foundation member who ponied up $50 to free the code. I'm a blender fan and was just using it last night. I think Blender has many more strengths than weaknesses. I only point out where I think we need some work.
Burn my karma, but I mean it. I was luke-warm on the whole Fedora distro idea, but now I don't even care. I'll install Suse or something else next time.
Knowing Apple they have a better split for profits than 99-1. I also suspect Apple has long term plans we don't know of.
The service already provides cross-sell opportunities. Someone who is downloading music probably has time to notice on the side of the screen the nice I-pod Apple is pimping. Or how about ripping your own tunes on a G5?
Also consider that Apple pays royalties only on RIAA music, but nothing is stopping Apple from signing it's own talent and listing them alongside mainsteam acts. That's a cartel buster.
Leisure Suit Larry was funny in it's day because it was the first "dirty video game". That market is well covered now.
I remember back in junior high when I saw LSL for the first time, and one of my friends pointing at the screen and saying "that pixel is her nipple!" The whole payoff for that game was getting chicks into the hottub.
That was a long time ago.
LSL was a hybrid text adventure with graphics. A 3d first person "shooter" (no pun intended) isn't going to be a thematic continuation. It's just cashing in on a name.
Deutsche Bank analysts Brian Skiba and Matthew Kelly today were arrested by officers from the SEC. They will be spending 8-10 year in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for market manipulation.
Congress voted Monday to cut federal funding for the superconducting monkey collider, a controversial experiment which has cost taxpayers an estimated $7.6 billion a year since its creation in 1983.
The collider, which was to be built within a 45-mile-long circular tunnel, would accelerate monkeys to near-light speeds before smashing them together. Scientists insist the collider is an important step toward understanding the universe, because no one can yet say for certain what kind of noises monkeys would make if collided at those high speeds.
"It could be a thump, a splat, or maybe even a sound that hasn't yet been heard by human ears," said project head Dr. Eric Reed Friday, in an impassioned plea to Congress. "How are we supposed to understand things like the atom or the nature of gravity if we don't even know what colliding monkeys sound like?"
But Congress, under heavy pressure from the powerful monkey rights lobby, decided that money being spent on the monkey collider would be put to better use in other areas of government. Now, with funding cut off, the future of our nation's monkey collision program looks bleak.
Congress began funding the monkey collider in 1983, after Reed convinced lawmakers that the U.S. was lagging behind the Soviet Union in monkey-colliding technology. Funds were quickly allocated so that Reed could spend a week procuring monkeys on Florida's beautiful Captiva Island. Though Reed returned with a great tan and a beautiful young fiancee, he reported that there were no monkeys to be found on the sunny Gulf Coast island. Congress funded subsequent trips to the Cayman Islands, Bora Bora and Cancun, but these searches also yielded negative results.
Two years passed without a single monkey being procured, and Congress was close to cutting the project's funding. It was then that Reed got the idea to utilize monkeys already being bred in captivity. The Congressional Subcommittee for Scientific Investigation was enthralled by the idea of watching caged monkeys copulate, and increased funding by 40 percent.
With a steady supply of monkeys ensured, construction of the monkey collider began on a scenic Colorado site. Despite environmental pressure, a mountain was levelled to facilitate construction of the seven-mile-wide complex. Huge underground tunnels were dug, at a cost of billions of dollars and 17 lives. Money left over was used to build resort homes, spas and video arcades for Reed, his colleagues and several Congressmen.
Construction of the collider's acceleration mechanism was delayed for years, as scientists couldn't decide how to get the monkeys up to smashing speed. Last month, it was finally decided that the collider would employ a system in which the monkeys run through the tunnels chasing holographic projections of bananas. "Monkeys love bananas," Reed said, "and they're willing to run extremely fast to get them."
But now it seems the acceleration mechanism may never be built. With the monkey collider placed on indefinite hold, the huge research facility in Colorado lies dormant. To keep the space from going to waste, Congress Monday voted to convert the empty underground tunnel into a federally funded drag-racing track. The track is expected to create hundreds of jobs in the form of pit crews and concessions workers, and will allow President Clinton to impress important foreign dignitaries with America's wheelie technology.
Despite this promising alternate plan, most involved with the monkey collider project feel the sudden cuts in funding are inexcusable. "It is a travesty of science," Reed said. "I remember the joy I felt in college when I would launch monkeys at one another with big rubber bands, and this project would have been even more enlightening."
"Furthermore, since when is the Academy Awards the arbiter elegantiarum of quality filmmaking, and not just a bunch of shills for studio crap?"
Hey! Marisa Tomei deserved that oscar for 'My Cousin Vinny'! I don't want to hear you insinuating that she was just the Hot Ass of the Week!
Same goes for 'Gangs of New York'. I don't know anyone who has seen that movie, but I'll probably meet someone someday who has. And I'll bet they liked it.
That's not cool... THIS IS COOL:
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The "Spider Case"
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BUT ~ If such a EULA came out of Redmond that prohibits a licensee from using or developing OSS, it would be time to retailiate by changing the GPL. Just add a rider on saying SCO (and MS) may not use any GPL software. Free for everyone else. If RMS doesn't want to do that, write a new GPL-like license that does include such a rider.
Note 1 :
an arrow indicates an inheritance like a compatibility, it is not only a matter of source code.
Note 2 : this diagram shows complete systems and [mirco]kernels like Mach, Linux, the Hurd... This is because sometimes kernel versions are more appropriate to see the evolution of the system.
Note 3 : I have now a page where I explain how I build this chart.
I pray SCO marches this document into court. It does not mean what they think it means.
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The more this law sucks the better! The more the MPAA are hard-ass bastards enforcing it the better!
A good hard slap in the face is what people need to wake up and see these issues. A bad law now will be quickly repealed, and the leasons learned will stay with people.
When the RIAA threatened a 12 year old girl that did far more good than harm. She settled for $2000, and I bet they did some creative financing so she didn't really have to pay it. The bad press was sooo damaging the RIAA had to make it go away quickly.
The MPAA is even more boneheaded than RIAA (hard to imagine) and I don't think it would play out the same when they threaten a teenager. Just look and how they have gone after the 16 year old author of DeCSS.
Big dumb laws right now are less damaging in the long run than small incremental laws over the course of time. Let's hope the MPAA really shoots itself in the foot with this one.
Oh great, now they are going to have poorly rehearsed swordfights and go on rants about "the prize".
In the end, there can be only one sea urchin!
You know you're wrong. That's why you posted as a chickenshit AC.
Would that be the UN who couldn't bring itself to condemn Iraq for human rights abuses?
Would that be the UN that couldn't be bothered to condemn the PLO suicide bombers in Israel?
The UN that Libia holds a seat on the human rights comittee?
Good plan. Give them the internet. Maybe then the far left can be bothered to get pissed at what a joke the UN has become. The first time they stomp on your first amendment rights, maybe you'll notice what a shitty record they have on everything else.
Cowboy Neil -1 TROLL
I still think the internal rendering engine is not on par with current commercial software. Yafray (Yet Another Free Raytracer) provides better looking results than GI, and I'd really like to see Ton merge it into Blender. Half the serious blender users are using Yable to export to Yafray, so it make sense to give the users what they want.
There are some other good python projects that should be considered for incorporation - makehuman (Poser clone) comes to mind.
I wish they would break the window panes and allow tools to float freely (more like Gimp) so I may drag tools to a 2nd monitor and have the 3d view on the primary monitor. 2.3 introduces buttons in a pallettes, but you can drag them out of a window view. What's the point in that?
I loathe the "Unit" as a term of measure. I want to define a standard or metric scale. I want the grid to conform to that unit of measure. I see this as a major headache when tring to build anything to scale, and then import objects from another project.
I'm not a game builder and would like to see the game engine spun off to it's own project.
I say all of this as a blender foundation member who ponied up $50 to free the code. I'm a blender fan and was just using it last night. I think Blender has many more strengths than weaknesses. I only point out where I think we need some work.
Archer: "Welcome on board the Enterprise. This is the turbolift, and it will take us to the bri...
Alien Leader:FfffffffffRIPPPP!!!
Archer: Um, the bridge, *cough* where we control...
Alien #2: (slow squishy sound)
Archer: Goddamn! I mean, Perhaps I should show you something closer. Here's th...
Alien #3: (High pitched sqeaker)
Archer: *gag* Fuck me! *choke* No wonder you guys don't get more visitors! I alr...
Aliens (all): Faaaaaarttttttt.....
Archer: Red Alert! Target alien ship!
Gates: "I want them alive. No Disintegrations."
BOBA FETT: "As you wish."
Burn my karma, but I mean it. I was luke-warm on the whole Fedora distro idea, but now I don't even care. I'll install Suse or something else next time.
I've been a RedHat user since 5.1. No more.
There are other Linuxes in the sea.
"You can't buy a Linux license unless you are a Fortune 1000 company."
That's my sister you insensitive clod!
Knowing Apple they have a better split for profits than 99-1. I also suspect Apple has long term plans we don't know of.
The service already provides cross-sell opportunities. Someone who is downloading music probably has time to notice on the side of the screen the nice I-pod Apple is pimping. Or how about ripping your own tunes on a G5?
Also consider that Apple pays royalties only on RIAA music, but nothing is stopping Apple from signing it's own talent and listing them alongside mainsteam acts. That's a cartel buster.
Leisure Suit Larry was funny in it's day because it was the first "dirty video game". That market is well covered now.
I remember back in junior high when I saw LSL for the first time, and one of my friends pointing at the screen and saying "that pixel is her nipple!" The whole payoff for that game was getting chicks into the hottub.
That was a long time ago.
LSL was a hybrid text adventure with graphics. A 3d first person "shooter" (no pun intended) isn't going to be a thematic continuation. It's just cashing in on a name.
Deutsche Bank analysts Brian Skiba and Matthew Kelly today were arrested by officers from the SEC. They will be spending 8-10 year in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for market manipulation.
forgot to add that. They don't seem to have this on the site any longer.
Super Monkey Collider Loses Funding
Congress voted Monday to cut federal funding for the superconducting monkey collider, a controversial experiment which has cost taxpayers an estimated $7.6 billion a year since its creation in 1983.
The collider, which was to be built within a 45-mile-long circular tunnel, would accelerate monkeys to near-light speeds before smashing them together. Scientists insist the collider is an important step toward understanding the universe, because no one can yet say for certain what kind of noises monkeys would make if collided at those high speeds.
"It could be a thump, a splat, or maybe even a sound that hasn't yet been heard by human ears," said project head Dr. Eric Reed Friday, in an impassioned plea to Congress. "How are we supposed to understand things like the atom or the nature of gravity if we don't even know what colliding monkeys sound like?"
But Congress, under heavy pressure from the powerful monkey rights lobby, decided that money being spent on the monkey collider would be put to better use in other areas of government. Now, with funding cut off, the future of our nation's monkey collision program looks bleak.
Congress began funding the monkey collider in 1983, after Reed convinced lawmakers that the U.S. was lagging behind the Soviet Union in monkey-colliding technology. Funds were quickly allocated so that Reed could spend a week procuring monkeys on Florida's beautiful Captiva Island. Though Reed returned with a great tan and a beautiful young fiancee, he reported that there were no monkeys to be found on the sunny Gulf Coast island. Congress funded subsequent trips to the Cayman Islands, Bora Bora and Cancun, but these searches also yielded negative results.
Two years passed without a single monkey being procured, and Congress was close to cutting the project's funding. It was then that Reed got the idea to utilize monkeys already being bred in captivity. The Congressional Subcommittee for Scientific Investigation was enthralled by the idea of watching caged monkeys copulate, and increased funding by 40 percent.
With a steady supply of monkeys ensured, construction of the monkey collider began on a scenic Colorado site. Despite environmental pressure, a mountain was levelled to facilitate construction of the seven-mile-wide complex. Huge underground tunnels were dug, at a cost of billions of dollars and 17 lives. Money left over was used to build resort homes, spas and video arcades for Reed, his colleagues and several Congressmen.
Construction of the collider's acceleration mechanism was delayed for years, as scientists couldn't decide how to get the monkeys up to smashing speed. Last month, it was finally decided that the collider would employ a system in which the monkeys run through the tunnels chasing holographic projections of bananas. "Monkeys love bananas," Reed said, "and they're willing to run extremely fast to get them."
But now it seems the acceleration mechanism may never be built. With the monkey collider placed on indefinite hold, the huge research facility in Colorado lies dormant. To keep the space from going to waste, Congress Monday voted to convert the empty underground tunnel into a federally funded drag-racing track. The track is expected to create hundreds of jobs in the form of pit crews and concessions workers, and will allow President Clinton to impress important foreign dignitaries with America's wheelie technology.
Despite this promising alternate plan, most involved with the monkey collider project feel the sudden cuts in funding are inexcusable. "It is a travesty of science," Reed said. "I remember the joy I felt in college when I would launch monkeys at one another with big rubber bands, and this project would have been even more enlightening."
SEC will be looking into this soon. The girliest screem on the roller-coaster as it goes down will be Darl...
All roads do not lead to canopy. Yours leads to a federal-pound-me-in-the-ass-prison.
"Furthermore, since when is the Academy Awards the arbiter elegantiarum of quality filmmaking, and not just a bunch of shills for studio crap?"
Hey! Marisa Tomei deserved that oscar for 'My Cousin Vinny'! I don't want to hear you insinuating that she was just the Hot Ass of the Week!
Same goes for 'Gangs of New York'. I don't know anyone who has seen that movie, but I'll probably meet someone someday who has. And I'll bet they liked it.
The Imperiator Star Destroyer computer case:
http://www.overclockers.com.au/~bluesmurf/
A rundown for the tour of suckage:
City:
Toronto, ON
October 7, 8:30am
Toronto Congress Centre
City:
Boston, MA
October 9, 8:30am
Renaissance Boston Bedford Hotel
City:
Chicago, IL
October 15, 8:30am
Indian Lakes Resort
City:
Vancouver, BC
October 21, 8:30am
Radisson President Hotel & Suites Vancouver Airport
City:
Dallas, TX
October 23, 8:30am
Marriott Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport
City:
Orlando, FL
October 29, 8:30am
Renaissance Orlando Hotel Airport
City:
Newark, NJ
October 8, 8:30am
Sheraton Newark Airport Hotel
City:
Minneapolis, MN
October 14, 8:30am
Minneapolis Airport Marriott
City:
St. Louis, MO
October 16, 8:30am
Radisson Hotel Clayton
City:
Irvine, CA
October 22, 8:30am
Marriott Irvine
City:
Atlanta, GA
October 28, 8:30am
Marriott Century Center
Cool. Now I can fly a Soviet fighter jet with the "power of my mind" while leaving my hands free for Pr0 - er, eating!
Kryten from Red Dwarf. Also funny on Junkyard Wars.
Sounds like FUD.
BUT ~ If such a EULA came out of Redmond that prohibits a licensee from using or developing OSS, it would be time to retailiate by changing the GPL. Just add a rider on saying SCO (and MS) may not use any GPL software. Free for everyone else. If RMS doesn't want to do that, write a new GPL-like license that does include such a rider.
If SCO wants to attack, we have to defend.
I pray SCO marches this document into court. It does not mean what they think it means.
Groklaw is down. When is Slashdot going to become responsible enough to offer some load sharing to the sites it links to?
Here is an Un-SCOed version of that same map.
http://www.levenez.com/unix/
I know I'll be comparing the two for modifications.