I wasn't sure if you were arguing that WINE was or wasn't an emulator. I'll agree with you that it is. An emulator allows an unmodified program built for one environment to work in another. That is all. WINE is obviously not emulating an entire PC running Windows. It doesn't need to. It emulates the program execution environment (system calls, system services, et cetera) provided by a Windows operating system and translates it in realtime to another execution environment, UNIX (et alius). WINE therefore is an emulator. Quod erat demonstrandum.
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You're mixing metaphors here. Lesstif is an another implementation of Motif (yes, drop-in). Mono seems like it is an alternative (drop-in) implementation of.NET.
WINE, on the other hand, is not realy a drop-in replacement for Windows. You can't install WINE on a new machine and have a full Windows-compatible replacement. It seems like ReactOS is closer to a drop-in replacement.
But you're still right. WINE is not an emulator. It is a runtime binary environment translation and exection environment. Hmm... that still sounds a lot like an emulator.
It's a good thing there are no well-financed, dedicated groups of people with deliberate long-term plans for malice against the West (especially the United States).
Your engineering degree doesn't mean squat if your solution costs ten times what another solution would cost. The question isn't if they got the technology to work or not. They know the technology is sound and systems are demonstrable. The main problem with getting any product to market is getting the cost down. A LCoS display is of no use if it costs $10,000. They also need to make the performance of the product (color, brightness, contrast, picture quality) meet or exceed the expections consumers have from competing technologies (DLP, LCD, Plasma, CRT, et cetera). They should have taught you in school that getting the job done "at any price" is not acceptable. There's always a cost factor in the specifications (or at least there should be).
Hell, for $900 or so you can get a very nice 30" widescreen HDTV by Panasonic or Sony. Just move your chair a little closer to the screen and you've got higher resolution than plasma screens and better brightness than LCD screens.
Of course, it weighs 250 pounds and is 2 feet deep, but you can't have everything.
Is that any different from what we have now (i.e., research scientists employed by corporations to develop new technologies and patentable discoveries)?
Suppose someone wants a meal. They can either grow potatoes themselves using instructions available for free and cook a meal using a free recipe or they can go to a resturant and buy a meal. Being able to grow food yourself hasn't killed the market for resturants.
Okay, there are a couple of posters here to whom I can better explain my ideas.
First of all, one of the ways in which software piracy hurts the economy is not in a direct way. Suppose someone wants Photoshop, but doesn't want to pay $500. Suppose he can afford to pay perhaps $100. There are a LOT of these people out there. Many of them right now pirate Photoshop. However, there are photo manipulation programs out there that cost around $100 that they could legitimately buy. If these people with $100 didn't pirate Photoshop, then there would be a larger market for $100 photo manipulation softwares. Some company would hire programmers and software designers and marketers to produce and sell $100 photo manipulation software.
By the way, with digital cameras being so popular, the market for photo manipulation software has exploded recently and there are many more choices available. Your Mom and Dad generally don't buy a digital camera and then go onto suprnova or torrentreactor. They'll either use the software that came with the camera (and the camera maker paid the developer a couple of dollars to include) or they will buy some low-cost program or maybe they will go all-out and buy Photoshop. Personally, I think this is a Good Thing. Money changes hands, people are employed, the market grows, more choices are available.
Second, as far as affecting society being more serious than affecting an individual: of course a crime against society is more serious. Look at the case of the Rosenbergs for example. In one sense, they just copied some information and gave that copy to someone else. Sounds like copyright infringment, maybe. No one was directly injured by it. The original people still had their information. However, they gave vital information on the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. For this they were found guilty of treason against the United States and were executed. Obviously that's an extreme example, but it does show how a seemingly simple crime can be elevated in seriousness when it affects a large number of people, an industry, or an entire nation.
Lastly, regarding free software: Free software is just filling another segment in the market for software, even if it is at a $0 price point. I think the best part about free software is that it raises the bar for commercial software. Any program that someone is charging money for had better be superior to free alternatives otherwise it's not a good value. Also, commercial software companies have obviously not had a problem competing with free software in most cases.
...but an individual rapist affects only a handful of individuals. Someone unlawfully distributing software like this is negatively affecting the economy and social structure of the United States of America. The United States economy has for a large number of people become an intellectual property economy. Many people don't want to go back to the days where they had to toil in factories for minimum wage. Instead, we'd rather be writing software, making games, making movies, writing music, or designing products that get assembled in China by poor workers there. Anyway, people like this--whether they are distibuting for profit or not--are undermining the economy of the United States and we will not allow that to happen.
If you want "free software", use free software that's really free.
putting men on the moon wasn't just a job, it was an adventure and it was a dream.
But they did get paid. And they didn't get paid a below-average salary plus stock options that may or may not be worth something someday. And they were doing a great duty to their country by fighting the communists in the space race. Where is that spirit today? Maybe in companies building anti-terrorist weapons or something?
What's the most important thing about what this guy did?
Documentation. He documented every step of the way everything that he did. It's something that's lacking in a lot of geeky projects and it's something that I commend this guy at doing an awesome job at.
I have a method. Arbitrarily make 0b01111111 equal to 450. Everything else is as usual. It will make math a pain in the ass though. And it's not going to help with any data compression.:-)
Say you want to go from Hollywood to West LA or from the airport to downtown. A bike isn't going to help you. Los Angeles is too spread out. Getting from anywhere to anywhere in Los Angeles takes between one and two hours anytime during the day. And that's in a car. Getting around LA sucks.
1. Move to Japan 2. Learn Japanese 3. Get job with Japanese game developer 4. Develop innovative creative game 5.... 6. Profit (in the Japanese market, Americans don't buy creative innovative games).
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A compatibility layer is basically the same thing as an emulator. That's what the original poster and I sort of agree about.
I wasn't sure if you were arguing that WINE was or wasn't an emulator. I'll agree with you that it is. An emulator allows an unmodified program built for one environment to work in another. That is all. WINE is obviously not emulating an entire PC running Windows. It doesn't need to. It emulates the program execution environment (system calls, system services, et cetera) provided by a Windows operating system and translates it in realtime to another execution environment, UNIX (et alius). WINE therefore is an emulator. Quod erat demonstrandum.
You're mixing metaphors here. Lesstif is an another implementation of Motif (yes, drop-in). .NET.
Mono seems like it is an alternative (drop-in) implementation of
WINE, on the other hand, is not realy a drop-in replacement for Windows. You can't install WINE on a new machine and have a full Windows-compatible replacement. It seems like ReactOS is closer to a drop-in replacement.
But you're still right. WINE is not an emulator. It is a runtime binary environment translation and exection environment. Hmm... that still sounds a lot like an emulator.
I think the rest of the story is "GNAA Wants j00!!!". I'm sure it's a test of an automatic slashdot-posting troll bot.
I think the best thing to do it go to a walmart and just sticker random items, so that random people are buying the altered items.
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I think I remember Amazon was doing something similar a while back...
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/09/06/14182
It's a good thing there are no well-financed, dedicated groups of people with deliberate long-term plans for malice against the West (especially the United States).
Oh wait...
I think he meant \$$\infty$.
I've been doing a lot of TeX lately. Heh heh.
I meant $10,000 as a consumer display device. $10,000 would be cheap if we were talking about a digital projector for a movie theater.
Your engineering degree doesn't mean squat if your solution costs ten times what another solution would cost. The question isn't if they got the technology to work or not. They know the technology is sound and systems are demonstrable. The main problem with getting any product to market is getting the cost down. A LCoS display is of no use if it costs $10,000. They also need to make the performance of the product (color, brightness, contrast, picture quality) meet or exceed the expections consumers have from competing technologies (DLP, LCD, Plasma, CRT, et cetera). They should have taught you in school that getting the job done "at any price" is not acceptable. There's always a cost factor in the specifications (or at least there should be).
Hell, for $900 or so you can get a very nice 30" widescreen HDTV by Panasonic or Sony. Just move your chair a little closer to the screen and you've got higher resolution than plasma screens and better brightness than LCD screens.
Of course, it weighs 250 pounds and is 2 feet deep, but you can't have everything.
Is that any different from what we have now (i.e., research scientists employed by corporations to develop new technologies and patentable discoveries)?
Hindsight is 20/20.
Anyway, Edison wasn't much of a scientist, he was a better entrepeneur.
Suppose someone wants a meal. They can either grow potatoes themselves using instructions available for free and cook a meal using a free recipe or they can go to a resturant and buy a meal. Being able to grow food yourself hasn't killed the market for resturants.
Okay, there are a couple of posters here to whom I can better explain my ideas.
First of all, one of the ways in which software piracy hurts the economy is not in a direct way. Suppose someone wants Photoshop, but doesn't want to pay $500. Suppose he can afford to pay perhaps $100. There are a LOT of these people out there. Many of them right now pirate Photoshop. However, there are photo manipulation programs out there that cost around $100 that they could legitimately buy. If these people with $100 didn't pirate Photoshop, then there would be a larger market for $100 photo manipulation softwares. Some company would hire programmers and software designers and marketers to produce and sell $100 photo manipulation software.
By the way, with digital cameras being so popular, the market for photo manipulation software has exploded recently and there are many more choices available. Your Mom and Dad generally don't buy a digital camera and then go onto suprnova or torrentreactor. They'll either use the software that came with the camera (and the camera maker paid the developer a couple of dollars to include) or they will buy some low-cost program or maybe they will go all-out and buy Photoshop. Personally, I think this is a Good Thing. Money changes hands, people are employed, the market grows, more choices are available.
Second, as far as affecting society being more serious than affecting an individual: of course a crime against society is more serious. Look at the case of the Rosenbergs for example. In one sense, they just copied some information and gave that copy to someone else. Sounds like copyright infringment, maybe. No one was directly injured by it. The original people still had their information. However, they gave vital information on the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. For this they were found guilty of treason against the United States and were executed. Obviously that's an extreme example, but it does show how a seemingly simple crime can be elevated in seriousness when it affects a large number of people, an industry, or an entire nation.
Lastly, regarding free software: Free software is just filling another segment in the market for software, even if it is at a $0 price point. I think the best part about free software is that it raises the bar for commercial software. Any program that someone is charging money for had better be superior to free alternatives otherwise it's not a good value. Also, commercial software companies have obviously not had a problem competing with free software in most cases.
...but an individual rapist affects only a handful of individuals. Someone unlawfully distributing software like this is negatively affecting the economy and social structure of the United States of America. The United States economy has for a large number of people become an intellectual property economy. Many people don't want to go back to the days where they had to toil in factories for minimum wage. Instead, we'd rather be writing software, making games, making movies, writing music, or designing products that get assembled in China by poor workers there. Anyway, people like this--whether they are distibuting for profit or not--are undermining the economy of the United States and we will not allow that to happen.
If you want "free software", use free software that's really free.
How does OS X handle this problem?
Actually, he did say "British football", which is of course different from American football.
Later, he referred to "international soccer".
I'd recommend browsing around on http://www.2ch.net/ or http://slashdot.jp/.
Since it's obvious you don't believe in anything you'll fall for everything. The free ipods isn't a hoax. Get a clue.
It may not be a hoax, but it's not really free. It's "sign up for services and sell your friends' personal information for an iPod".
But they did get paid. And they didn't get paid a below-average salary plus stock options that may or may not be worth something someday. And they were doing a great duty to their country by fighting the communists in the space race. Where is that spirit today? Maybe in companies building anti-terrorist weapons or something?
What's the most important thing about what this guy did?
Documentation. He documented every step of the way everything that he did. It's something that's lacking in a lot of geeky projects and it's something that I commend this guy at doing an awesome job at.
I have a method. Arbitrarily make 0b01111111 equal to 450. Everything else is as usual. It will make math a pain in the ass though. And it's not going to help with any data compression. :-)
Say you want to go from Hollywood to West LA or from the airport to downtown. A bike isn't going to help you. Los Angeles is too spread out. Getting from anywhere to anywhere in Los Angeles takes between one and two hours anytime during the day. And that's in a car. Getting around LA sucks.
1. Move to Japan ...
2. Learn Japanese
3. Get job with Japanese game developer
4. Develop innovative creative game
5.
6. Profit (in the Japanese market, Americans don't buy creative innovative games).