"The defendant, ElcomSoft, is a Moscow softwaremaker accused of violating Adobe Systems' intellectual property rights, by writing a computer program that disables the copy protection on the San Jose company's electronic books."
What the layman will think: Those Russians are trying to steal our stuff!!! We need to stop them! What lawyers will think: Those Russians are trying to steal our stuff!!! We need to stop them!
Blood! That dude in the rack's head fell off... and it is surrounded by red logo's. That is pretty sick, man!
Loading up the Flash was annoying at first... but once it all loaded, I didn't seem to have to hit the server again. That's a plus in a case like this. I hate to just see an introduction page... and then nothing else because of a slashdotting.
It depends on the resolution of your camera. If the picture's resolution was good enough to see the actual data on a disc... then I doubt it would fit on the disc.
... "The deer had been acting strangely, so conservation officers shot it and sent samples of its brain to Galesburg to be tested."
To think, just a few years ago, that sentence would have stopped at "shot it". Now after shooting it, we send it's head to Galesburg. Civilization has come a long way.
This seems like a good idea. But I don't think it can be enforced. I want the same people that enforce this to go and collect all of the "postcards" I'm due. I know for a fact that people are using my "postcard-ware" software... but they aren't sending me postcards.
This is simply impossible to enforce. What I do like about it, though, is that it'll probably get noticed by the media (well... I guess it already has:-)).
That would be ok if they were making money in each of those "fields". But I don't think they are. It seems like they are being pushed back from every direction.
I think x86 Solaris is a symptom of their problems; it is not a cure.
Regardless of speed, ram space; Still just a toy
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Ogg/Vorbis on Palm OS
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Even if it wasn't for the issues with the speed and space needed to play Ogg/Vorbis music, noone is going to listen to music on their palm. Well... a few people will... the same people that take pictures with their Nintendo Game Boys.
Washing machine, quit making long distance calls!
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5 Predictions for 2012
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"... You'll no longer be surprised to get a call from the repair center at Sears or Maytag saying your washing machine is using too much hot water and needs adjustment -- information the washing machine has sent through the Net, without any action of your part, back to the factory where it was built."
That sounds kind of silly. Would be kind of like the grocery store calling me up and telling me I was low on milk. Yes... it would be great to know that my washing machine is using too much hot water... but the washing machine should tell me, and not Sears.
Re Similar to VT100 Animation
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TMDC5
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I looked at one of the examples, and it looked like a VT100 animation (maybe with sound, but I had sound turned off). Is there more to these than just text bouncing around the screen? I'm sure there is... maybe I looked at the wrong example. Here's a bunch of vt100 animations.
I think it's that particular bug that is effecting my service provider's admin page. After upgrading to 1.2 of Mozilla... I had to start using IE just to admin my site.
I agree with them taking down Mozilla 1.2 until they fix it. If this bug causes wide-spread enough problems (wide-spread enough that I've already encountered it!), then nobody else should download it until it is fixed.
Super Mario Sunshine is a blast to play. I played it for about a week straight when I first got it. I also really like Pikmin. When I first got that game... I thought it was extremely boring. But then I gave it one more chance before I was going to sell it on Ebay... and I got addicted. I ended up playing it for about a week straight as well. Those games are well worth it (but you probably already have them).
As for the Game Boy Advance... I already sold mine on Ebay. I couldn't stand it. It gave me a terrible headache.
Very insecure (no passwords, all users can do everything).
Have a bad GUI (noone knows how the users will use it yet).
Filled with bugs.
And since noone ever has time for a complete refactoring of the code (not a rewrite from scratch)... then that stuff usually never gets fixed in future versions.
At first, I thought this was a list of games
that were never won. By anyone. I know that
Pacman was finally completely won... but
I don't know if Asteroids was ever won. I know
there are a lot of games that I've never won.
Pitfall, Castle Wolfenstein, Sonic, to name a few.
Too much efficiency means less money...
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Cringely on P2P
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"... Back to music and text publishing. Expect both industries to offer peer-to-peer systems that won't work very well, and will cost us something instead of nothing."
This is a classic problem. If the music industry makes it too easy to get music... then they'll lose money. It doesn't make sense at first... but it's like being too good of a system administrator. If you do your job too well... the company won't need you anymore.
From ApacheCon Day 3: "Fowler noted the major contributions Sun has made not only to Apache and related projects such as Tomcat, but also in non-Apache related projects such as the Gnome desktop and OpenOffice.org."
I believe Sun is having a hard time finding a direction, right now. Hardware? Software? Work on free stuff? Beat Microsoft? I wonder where they are going to end up.
That's why the media loves them. And that's why I think I would love it. I don't like my PDA because the screen is too small. I don't like to surf the net on my phone because the screen is too small. I want something that is about the size of a piece of paper. Microsoft did not invent it... but they will get the word out (the bastards).
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What the layman will think: Those Russians are trying to steal our stuff!!! We need to stop them! What lawyers will think: Those Russians are trying to steal our stuff!!! We need to stop them!
Loading up the Flash was annoying at first... but once it all loaded, I didn't seem to have to hit the server again. That's a plus in a case like this. I hate to just see an introduction page... and then nothing else because of a slashdotting.
It depends on the resolution of your camera. If the picture's resolution was good enough to see the actual data on a disc... then I doubt it would fit on the disc.
So what happens if someone takes a picture of those atoms? Could they encode the atom's pictures on those atoms?
To think, just a few years ago, that sentence would have stopped at "shot it". Now after shooting it, we send it's head to Galesburg. Civilization has come a long way.
This is simply impossible to enforce. What I do like about it, though, is that it'll probably get noticed by the media (well... I guess it already has :-)).
- open source
- java
- hardware
- proprietary software
- fight Microsoft
That would be ok if they were making money in each of those "fields". But I don't think they are. It seems like they are being pushed back from every direction.I think x86 Solaris is a symptom of their problems; it is not a cure.
That is one great game. Gotta love translators.
That sounds kind of silly. Would be kind of like the grocery store calling me up and telling me I was low on milk. Yes... it would be great to know that my washing machine is using too much hot water... but the washing machine should tell me, and not Sears.
- Silradio - A radio with no sound.
- Cleartv - A TV with no picture.
- CPUlessPC - A computer without a CPU.
- Darklight - duh.
Since this article is pointless... here's something else to do:I agree with them taking down Mozilla 1.2 until they fix it. If this bug causes wide-spread enough problems (wide-spread enough that I've already encountered it!), then nobody else should download it until it is fixed.
As for the Game Boy Advance... I already sold mine on Ebay. I couldn't stand it. It gave me a terrible headache.
- Very insecure (no passwords, all users can do everything).
- Have a bad GUI (noone knows how the users will use it yet).
- Filled with bugs.
And since noone ever has time for a complete refactoring of the code (not a rewrite from scratch)... then that stuff usually never gets fixed in future versions.This is a classic problem. If the music industry makes it too easy to get music... then they'll lose money. It doesn't make sense at first... but it's like being too good of a system administrator. If you do your job too well... the company won't need you anymore.
From ApacheCon Day 3: "Fowler noted the major contributions Sun has made not only to Apache and related projects such as Tomcat, but also in non-Apache related projects such as the Gnome desktop and OpenOffice.org."
I believe Sun is having a hard time finding a direction, right now. Hardware? Software? Work on free stuff? Beat Microsoft? I wonder where they are going to end up.
Yes. Virtual reality on a cell phone. That'll work.
That's why the media loves them. And that's why I think I would love it. I don't like my PDA because the screen is too small. I don't like to surf the net on my phone because the screen is too small. I want something that is about the size of a piece of paper. Microsoft did not invent it... but they will get the word out (the bastards).