Because Microsoft uses incredibly proprietary formats. These days, it's not even a file format you could call as such, is a serialized COM stream. That means it's dependent on the processor type, OS, etc., and therefore extremely difficult to reverse-engineer.
What you mean is, VB is now an interpreted language with the interpreter built into an executable with the source. I really don't think you can call it "compiling." Same thing goes for Java "compilers".
You can't rip it or play it directly. You put the CD in your drive and it sends you to a site where you can download a player / ripper / copier (or already-protected digital copies) which limits how many times you can copy it or whatever.
As someone else posted, it at least TRIES to recognize that fair use, while trying to limit piracy.
Books are copied before they are used, as well. In order to actually read a book, I have to shine a light on it, which throws a "copy" of the current page in the form of photons towards my eyes.
Copying isn't copying if the data isn't rewritten to a different permanent medium than the original.
your later examples are codes, not ciphers. Codes like you say are basically unbreakable, but require that the parties know ahead of time what might be said. Ciphers are capable of communicating anything which can be written down.
I bet I can get around any of this, all I need is a proxy server running on campus on port 80. LOL! But breaking it would probably violate the DMCA. Oh no, proxy servers are now all illegal!
I doubt very strongly that the answer to getting around the censorship is a proxy server. And censoring access to the internet has absolutely nothing to do with the DMCA, since the Internet as a whole is not copyrighted.
Basically, the submitter has no real clue, and was trying to increase his chances of getting his submission accepted by linking it to a popular geek issue, the DMCA.
IMO, Windows 2000 is the best desktop operating system available. Everything I have seen or heard about XP leads me to believe that it is a piece of monopolistically hogtied shit. I will not upgrade if I have any say in the matter. I'm not fond of Linux desktops but I would go there before XP.
Those lyrics are a reference to the novel "The Stranger" by Albert Camus, a french existentialist writer. The main character, Meursault, finds an Arab man on the beach and kills him for no reason at all.
Frodo was indeed young, the Lord Of the Rings starts out with him at 33 (and Bilbo at "eleventy-one", or 111). 33 was considered to be just "coming of age," so it would equate with about 18 or 21 in human years (emotionally speaking), but of course hobbits are small, so a youngish hobbit would look like a young child.
I don't think that in a free-fall environment like that, the cabin spinning would cause nausea. The nauseous effect comes from the inner-ear fluids being sloshed about in strange ways, including "floating", which is why free-fall itself can cause nausea. Spinning the cabin would simulate gravity, causing the inner-ear fluid to settle in a normal way.
My question is: what if the mice die en route? How many are there going to be?
...just like economists talk about the 1974 dollar as being a standard to refer to (when discussing values from different years, to account for inflation) I guess scientists will start having to use "dated kilograms".
For example: "Pluto masses 1.203e12 Kg? Is that in 1993 or 2001 kilograms?"
The guy uses the word "incredibly" four or five times in this short interview, to describe just about every aspect of the game. I think the game will be credibly realistic, but I doubt it's nearly as much of a quantum leap as this guy says it's going to be...I doubt any of us will really be incredulous.
You probably agree with Al Gore that Americans "deserve low gas prices" and Californians "have a right to cheap electricity." If life is unfair, let's get the government to fix it.
Why not quit your whining and stop buying CDs? You don't "deserve" anything at all, and if you let the CD companies bilk you, you have no one to blame but yourself.
X is great if you define great as a GUI protocol for running applications over a network. Unfortunately, that's not how applications are run today. I have my OWN processor, thank you very much, and I don't need to run Mozilla off of a honkin' big Solaris server. It's nice to be ABLE to, and sure, that flexibility is an advantage. Unfortunately, flexibility also has drawbacks, because you can't optimize for the specific cases. How fast do you think Direct3D would run over a network? The whole point of accelerator video cards is REDUCING the bottleneck between CPU/RAM/video. If X is going to survive, it doesn't necessarily have to drop the networked-application functionality, but it's sure as hell going to have to implement a "I know I'm running as both client as server, let me optimize" mode.
This is exactly the sort of thing we need (assuming it actually works). Like Harlan Ellison said, "Information wants to be free" is bullshit when we're talking about people's livelihoods depending on selling that information. A good program like this would allow legitimate, beneficial "fair uses" and prevent outright theft and piracy.
You see, contrary to what the typical, self-centered pseudo-anarchist pirate-citizen believes, it is NOT beneficial for music and other forms of art to be freely stolen.
Saying the perl script is 7 lines long is inane, since line breaks in code are meaningless. In a compiled program, what matters is the object code size, and in an interpreted language, it's the size of the script in bytes.
Coming soon...the Linux kernel in one line of code...
What's with the GIGANTIC Oracle ad? I honestly couldn't read the frigging article, the ad flashed so much. Banner ads are okay, but not animated GIF's in the MIDDLE of the article...
Yes, Chuck D is smart as hell. Why did you feel you had to point that out, Taco? Would you have appended the same phrase to a sentence about Gates, or some other pasty white boy techie?
Launching stuff into space is a risky and difficult process. All these problems are why NASA used to build triply-redundant probes (Mariners, Voyagers, etc) and then send two or three of them.
Anyone who's ever programmed on a REAL production system will attest to the fact that it's the last few obscure bugs that are the most difficult to find. The difference between a 99.99% bug-free product and a 100% bug free one is enormous.
I just wanted to tell Dave Lebling, since I see that he's posting on this thread, that _Enchanter_ is probably my favorite game ever, and definitely the first I played seriously. I think I was 8 or 10 years old at the time, and parts of it scared the shit out of me! I was honestly too scared to go into some parts of the map, particularly the part with the monster you had to trap by redrawing the map. I only finished the game because I got the hintbook, one of the cool old InvisiClue ones.
One of my favorite parts was the spell which would summon the Implementers. A couple of programmers appear, and look confused, and one comments that it must be a glitch in the system...
You have to admit, there's a miniscule chance that the translation is just a coincidence. Hell, it could be insoluble gibberish, but enough "analysis" produces a (somewhat) meaningful translation.
That line is a joke. Humor. Fun. You see, when Linus releases a new patch collection, he (usually) prefaces it with a line similar to the above. I believe that in one of the recent releases, Linus quipped about how it had the blessing of the pope, who "(shh) nobody tell--plays Quake3 behind locked doors".
It is pretty much impossible for Linus to thoroughly test the code he releases, particularly the stuff submitted to him by other developers, which often is for hardware he doesn't have. This is part of the development process. When he releases a new mini-version, everyone gets it and tries it out, and bugs are found.
If you believe that testing in Linux is faulty, well then, sign up and do some QA, and quit your fucking whining.
The real "culprit" is the French ISPs, or anyone who allows French citizens to access this illegal data. How can the American company Yahoo be blamed, or even its French presence, (yahoo.fr) which has already removed the auctions?
The government should prohibit ISPs from displaying this data, if it wants to censor anything. And then make it illegal for French citizens to connect to foreign ISPs.
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Because Microsoft uses incredibly proprietary formats. These days, it's not even a file format you could call as such, is a serialized COM stream. That means it's dependent on the processor type, OS, etc., and therefore extremely difficult to reverse-engineer.
All of the screenshots on the Sun site are of the Windows version. What does it look like under X Windows?
What you mean is, VB is now an interpreted language with the interpreter built into an executable with the source. I really don't think you can call it "compiling." Same thing goes for Java "compilers".
You can't rip it or play it directly. You put the CD in your drive and it sends you to a site where you can download a player / ripper / copier (or already-protected digital copies) which limits how many times you can copy it or whatever.
As someone else posted, it at least TRIES to recognize that fair use, while trying to limit piracy.
Books are copied before they are used, as well. In order to actually read a book, I have to shine a light on it, which throws a "copy" of the current page in the form of photons towards my eyes.
Copying isn't copying if the data isn't rewritten to a different permanent medium than the original.
your later examples are codes, not ciphers. Codes like you say are basically unbreakable, but require that the parties know ahead of time what might be said. Ciphers are capable of communicating anything which can be written down.
I bet I can get around any of this, all I need is a proxy server running on campus on port 80. LOL! But breaking it would probably violate the DMCA. Oh no, proxy servers are now all illegal!
I doubt very strongly that the answer to getting around the censorship is a proxy server. And censoring access to the internet has absolutely nothing to do with the DMCA, since the Internet as a whole is not copyrighted.
Basically, the submitter has no real clue, and was trying to increase his chances of getting his submission accepted by linking it to a popular geek issue, the DMCA.
IMO, Windows 2000 is the best desktop operating system available. Everything I have seen or heard about XP leads me to believe that it is a piece of monopolistically hogtied shit. I will not upgrade if I have any say in the matter. I'm not fond of Linux desktops but I would go there before XP.
Those lyrics are a reference to the novel "The Stranger" by Albert Camus, a french existentialist writer. The main character, Meursault, finds an Arab man on the beach and kills him for no reason at all.
Frodo was indeed young, the Lord Of the Rings starts out with him at 33 (and Bilbo at "eleventy-one", or 111). 33 was considered to be just "coming of age," so it would equate with about 18 or 21 in human years (emotionally speaking), but of course hobbits are small, so a youngish hobbit would look like a young child.
I don't think that in a free-fall environment like that, the cabin spinning would cause nausea. The nauseous effect comes from the inner-ear fluids being sloshed about in strange ways, including "floating", which is why free-fall itself can cause nausea. Spinning the cabin would simulate gravity, causing the inner-ear fluid to settle in a normal way.
My question is: what if the mice die en route? How many are there going to be?
...just like economists talk about the 1974 dollar as being a standard to refer to (when discussing values from different years, to account for inflation) I guess scientists will start having to use "dated kilograms".
For example: "Pluto masses 1.203e12 Kg? Is that in 1993 or 2001 kilograms?"
Just to be pedantic, it was not legal for "white people to own slaves." It was legal (in some states) for anyone to own slaves.
The guy uses the word "incredibly" four or five times in this short interview, to describe just about every aspect of the game. I think the game will be credibly realistic, but I doubt it's nearly as much of a quantum leap as this guy says it's going to be...I doubt any of us will really be incredulous.
You probably agree with Al Gore that Americans "deserve low gas prices" and Californians "have a right to cheap electricity." If life is unfair, let's get the government to fix it.
Why not quit your whining and stop buying CDs? You don't "deserve" anything at all, and if you let the CD companies bilk you, you have no one to blame but yourself.
X is great if you define great as a GUI protocol for running applications over a network. Unfortunately, that's not how applications are run today. I have my OWN processor, thank you very much, and I don't need to run Mozilla off of a honkin' big Solaris server. It's nice to be ABLE to, and sure, that flexibility is an advantage. Unfortunately, flexibility also has drawbacks, because you can't optimize for the specific cases. How fast do you think Direct3D would run over a network? The whole point of accelerator video cards is REDUCING the bottleneck between CPU/RAM/video. If X is going to survive, it doesn't necessarily have to drop the networked-application functionality, but it's sure as hell going to have to implement a "I know I'm running as both client as server, let me optimize" mode.
This is exactly the sort of thing we need (assuming it actually works). Like Harlan Ellison said, "Information wants to be free" is bullshit when we're talking about people's livelihoods depending on selling that information. A good program like this would allow legitimate, beneficial "fair uses" and prevent outright theft and piracy.
You see, contrary to what the typical, self-centered pseudo-anarchist pirate-citizen believes, it is NOT beneficial for music and other forms of art to be freely stolen.
Saying the perl script is 7 lines long is inane, since line breaks in code are meaningless. In a compiled program, what matters is the object code size, and in an interpreted language, it's the size of the script in bytes.
Coming soon...the Linux kernel in one line of code...
What's with the GIGANTIC Oracle ad? I honestly couldn't read the frigging article, the ad flashed so much. Banner ads are okay, but not animated GIF's in the MIDDLE of the article...
Yes, Chuck D is smart as hell. Why did you feel you had to point that out, Taco? Would you have appended the same phrase to a sentence about Gates, or some other pasty white boy techie?
Launching stuff into space is a risky and difficult process. All these problems are why NASA used to build triply-redundant probes (Mariners, Voyagers, etc) and then send two or three of them.
Anyone who's ever programmed on a REAL production system will attest to the fact that it's the last few obscure bugs that are the most difficult to find. The difference between a 99.99% bug-free product and a 100% bug free one is enormous.
I just wanted to tell Dave Lebling, since I see that he's posting on this thread, that _Enchanter_ is probably my favorite game ever, and definitely the first I played seriously. I think I was 8 or 10 years old at the time, and parts of it scared the shit out of me! I was honestly too scared to go into some parts of the map, particularly the part with the monster you had to trap by redrawing the map. I only finished the game because I got the hintbook, one of the cool old InvisiClue ones.
One of my favorite parts was the spell which would summon the Implementers. A couple of programmers appear, and look confused, and one comments that it must be a glitch in the system...
You have to admit, there's a miniscule chance that the translation is just a coincidence. Hell, it could be insoluble gibberish, but enough "analysis" produces a (somewhat) meaningful translation.
That line is a joke. Humor. Fun. You see, when Linus releases a new patch collection, he (usually) prefaces it with a line similar to the above. I believe that in one of the recent releases, Linus quipped about how it had the blessing of the pope, who "(shh) nobody tell--plays Quake3 behind locked doors".
It is pretty much impossible for Linus to thoroughly test the code he releases, particularly the stuff submitted to him by other developers, which often is for hardware he doesn't have. This is part of the development process. When he releases a new mini-version, everyone gets it and tries it out, and bugs are found.
If you believe that testing in Linux is faulty, well then, sign up and do some QA, and quit your fucking whining.
The real "culprit" is the French ISPs, or anyone who allows French citizens to access this illegal data. How can the American company Yahoo be blamed, or even its French presence, (yahoo.fr) which has already removed the auctions?
The government should prohibit ISPs from displaying this data, if it wants to censor anything. And then make it illegal for French citizens to connect to foreign ISPs.