You said, "they should be able to do what is in the best interest of their own company, after all, this is America, right?"
Well, companies have to follow the rules just like everyone else, even though this is America (apple pie and streets of gold).
They don't have free reign to do whatever suits their budget and tolerance for stupidity.
The message being more important than the medium?!
Blasphemey!
That's the reason I hate all of those bullshit highschool projects that require powerpoint.
It doesn't matter how well you know your subject material. As long as you have some pretty pictures, it's ok.
The US isn't a market economy, it's a mixed economy; meaning that most matters are left up to the companies but there ARE regulations that must be followed and are there for a reason.
Yay! So now they can charge the same amount (or more) for using even LESS of their bandwidth on video that isn't going to be much higher quality than what they sell now.
I just love getting screwed!
Yep. Valenti's solution to not being able to use DVD excerpts in academic works was to "buy the VHS version".
Not much of a fucking solution at all when there aren't going to be VHS copies of newly released titles.
RSA doesn't rely on 'prime numbers being obscure'.
It relies on the (as of yet) fact that multiplying is extremely fast and easy, and factoring is time-consuming and difficult (although parallel-izable).
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Well, Project Manhigh only tested the high-speed high-altitude deployment 'chutes. Their tests never left the atmosphere, and didn't really involve any kind of reentry procedure.
Most of the hardcore gamers I know would/have take(n) the time to learn how to do things in Linux because they aren't worried about screwing up things. They are fairly compitent about hardware and software interactions, and wouldn't be too thrown off by different methods of doing things in alternate OS's.
If you want to see more software like this in the future, then pay them; because otherwise, you can't expect anything in return.
I stay as far away from 'copyright infringing' on software as I can. I wouldn't touch it with a 20' pole.
The reason is that by following the liscences and restrictions, I see just how good/bad they are.
This has really shown me the benefit of Free software (GPL, BSD, etc.) over non-Free.
Well, here's a good quote from George Bernard Shaw that applies well to RMS:
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world.
Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves.
All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
I guess what that means is that because RMS is so hardcore pure GNU philosoply, he makes you think and question what it is that YOU believe in. That's a good thing.
Sometimes he does seem to act like a whiny brat. Oh well, though.
After the first few games, it just got monotinous (sp?). If the weapons were a little more diverse (but not to the overkill extent of UT), and the maps were more interesting, it might improve the longevity of the game.
CTF games always degenerated into team deathmatch, and the same situations occured over and over again.
I guess I'm just more of a counterstrike/aq2/TF guy.
After the first few games, it just got monotinous (sp?). If the weapons were a little more diverse (but not to the overkill extent of UT), and the maps were more interesting, it might improve the longevity of the game.
CTF games always degenerated into team deathmatch, and the same situations occured over and over again.
I guess I'm just more of a counterstrike/aq2/TF guy.
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Photons *are* quantum particles (inasmuch as a photon is just the manefestation of a string at a certain frequency).
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I think you've watched 'Hackers' one too many times...
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Uhm. He just said "MacOS X doesn't support GL acceleration" and you replied with "Yes Quake3 does!".
Notice the difference?
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You said, "they should be able to do what is in the best interest of their own company, after all, this is America, right?"
Well, companies have to follow the rules just like everyone else, even though this is America (apple pie and streets of gold).
They don't have free reign to do whatever suits their budget and tolerance for stupidity.
--
The message being more important than the medium?!
Blasphemey!
That's the reason I hate all of those bullshit highschool projects that require powerpoint.
It doesn't matter how well you know your subject material. As long as you have some pretty pictures, it's ok.
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The US isn't a market economy, it's a mixed economy; meaning that most matters are left up to the companies but there ARE regulations that must be followed and are there for a reason.
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Yay! So now they can charge the same amount (or more) for using even LESS of their bandwidth on video that isn't going to be much higher quality than what they sell now.
I just love getting screwed!
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Yep. Valenti's solution to not being able to use DVD excerpts in academic works was to "buy the VHS version".
Not much of a fucking solution at all when there aren't going to be VHS copies of newly released titles.
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Don't you mean 'republic' instead of 'democracy'?
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I was just wondering...
What IS the directory structure of MacOS 10?
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'regain control' of WHAT?
If they were even concious, they would have been in extreme shock and wouldn't have known what was happening anyway.
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RSA doesn't rely on 'prime numbers being obscure'.
It relies on the (as of yet) fact that multiplying is extremely fast and easy, and factoring is time-consuming and difficult (although parallel-izable).
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Well, Project Manhigh only tested the high-speed high-altitude deployment 'chutes. Their tests never left the atmosphere, and didn't really involve any kind of reentry procedure.
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Knowing how to make illegal substances is not illegal.
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Most of the hardcore gamers I know would/have take(n) the time to learn how to do things in Linux because they aren't worried about screwing up things. They are fairly compitent about hardware and software interactions, and wouldn't be too thrown off by different methods of doing things in alternate OS's.
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Don't forget MS Office: ...7, 97, 2000, 10
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Howbout an Alan Cox action figure?
ALAN COX!
Now with rapid-action KEYBOARD and BEARD!
:)
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A man that can confuse and disorient hundreds daily with just his sig...
Amazing!
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Bravo!
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Well, you can generally assume that the next few releases will be working on whatever is marked (DEVELOPMENT) in the kernel.
That being:
More USB devices
More multimedia devices
Firewire
DevFS
RiserFS (soon to be incorporated into the kernel)
HFS(+)
NTFS stuff
etc.
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Yes, they wrote 85% of the kernel in those two weeks.
They didn't need to eat or sleep (or deficate).
Their only motivation?
The Wired vaporware list.
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Well, what I tell people is that:
If you want to see more software like this in the future, then pay them; because otherwise, you can't expect anything in return.
I stay as far away from 'copyright infringing' on software as I can. I wouldn't touch it with a 20' pole.
The reason is that by following the liscences and restrictions, I see just how good/bad they are.
This has really shown me the benefit of Free software (GPL, BSD, etc.) over non-Free.
--
Well, here's a good quote from George Bernard Shaw that applies well to RMS:
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world.
Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves.
All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
I guess what that means is that because RMS is so hardcore pure GNU philosoply, he makes you think and question what it is that YOU believe in. That's a good thing.
Sometimes he does seem to act like a whiny brat. Oh well, though.
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After the first few games, it just got monotinous (sp?). If the weapons were a little more diverse (but not to the overkill extent of UT), and the maps were more interesting, it might improve the longevity of the game.
CTF games always degenerated into team deathmatch, and the same situations occured over and over again.
I guess I'm just more of a counterstrike/aq2/TF guy.
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After the first few games, it just got monotinous (sp?). If the weapons were a little more diverse (but not to the overkill extent of UT), and the maps were more interesting, it might improve the longevity of the game.
CTF games always degenerated into team deathmatch, and the same situations occured over and over again.
I guess I'm just more of a counterstrike/aq2/TF guy.
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