The only way I could see it working is if the sharing user somehow got a discount or payback or something for sharing back. More you share, the more benefits you get.
So that means the people who would believe that will be sharing 600 CD's off their 56k line:)
Okay...so if the patent is 45 years old (1958) but was patented in 1987, I see a big catch-22.
If the patent does not start until 1987, then anything doing this from before 1987 should now be prior art.
If anything from before 1987 is not considered prior art because the patent was created in 1958, then the patent should be enforced from that date, not the 1987 date, and therefore expired.
Not that I understand legalese, but I don't think there is any court I could take the manual for say my DVD player in and refer to it as the DVD product.
I wonder if they look at it somehow as providing some sort of help to MAME, which is obviously designed only to traffic in stolen ROMS:)
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~midgley/wince/vnc.html Mind you - it somewhat sucks. Right mouse clicks are missing, but it is there. Terminal Services still works better for win machines.
I am not convinced that most of the spam comes from specialized email applications that can be fooled with a temporarily failure. Can anyone provide numbers on this?
That was my first thought - for two reasons. All a spammer need to to bypass this is setup their own outgoing smtp server - just need disk and bandwidth. Their server would retry just like any MTA and problem solved.
The other though was with all the problems of open-relays. Say that the spam is injected via some program on a PC that doesn't retry - just pumps the stuff out. In theory, the greylist would stop it - however if you can't get people to close open relays, how are you gonna get them to install something like this.
I was just getting ready to post something about this. DVD's with their branching and different audio tracks were going to allow us to have the "made-for-tv" version and release version on the same disc.
My daughter likes Ghostbusters - she likes Slimer. But I have to be fast on the remote otherwise after the ballroom scene, with the "we came, we saw, we kicked it's ass", my little tape recorder will be walking around saying that.
The claim that a director wants his work represented properly is bull. With a few exceptions here and there in comedy punch lines, shit can always be replaced by something else without losing a "vision" (which is usually shit anyway:)
There was a fake St Anger album floating around before the real one made it. It was a bunch of songs by other metal bands - but the mp3's were named the same titles as those on St. Anger.
While that is true(*) I think the poster was trying to say that it doesn't need the other crap to make it a good game. Yeah...lots of shareware is crap, lots of commercial ware is as well - and some on both sides is good. EyeCandy will only go so far to make a game seem good. A good game will seem good regardless of extras.
(*) your argument holds true with something else that comes up here a lot - music. Everytime there is an article about the RIAA, people start going on about how you should ditch anything mainstream for local/indie bands. Well...just because they're indie doesn't mean they are good either...most of it (like mainstream) is crap.
Kinda like the college music attitude of the late 80's, early 90's...it could be someone farting on a bucket, but as long as it wasn't mainstream they would consider it as golden.
It's a problem with society - too many people think that they are the only thing that matters and could care less if they in any way affect someone else. They fell they have some god-given right to do whatever they want, and if you don't like it, well, you are just some jerk who doesn't understand.
First time Caldera was at Networld, the rep was standing there telling people that Linux would run on a 286 and up. I clarified this to him, and he argued with me saying that a 286 would run it (before Elks.)
Some guy was sent away with a Caldera CD to try and install on his 286.
Knew someone like this in college - greasy hair, white skin, toothpick.
Played muds - all day. slept maybe 5 hours a day. Failed out with a.3 GPA. Appealed and was let back in. Failed out again.
He ran off to piss once - so we had his character drop everything and attack the guards or something.
Also, found that the MUD he played, if you connected and typed the username, when it prompted you for the password, you just left it there and it would think you were already connected (c'mon...we were trying to help the kid.)
Probably a bright kid - but had his priorities all messed up.
Between Viggo and Hugh Jackman in X-men, I think if I could have adamantium Narsil shards come out my wrist, I'd be set for life:) Or perhaps the scruffy hair/beard that sticks up (though half the head will need to be shaved for the Vin Disiel look as well)
I just wished they would have ended TTT with Shelob - it would have made for a much more dramatic ending.
But for some reason PJ feels the need to hammer in that men can't handle the ring.
I am also waiting to see how Denethor is handled...hopefully his madness will be done well in RotK.
The GPL pretty well allows users to modify whatever they want, so long as they share what they did with the public.
Nope. The GPL does not require you to share modifications. If I wanna mod the kernel and replace all copies of Linux with *SCO* I can and can keep it to myself.
What it does do is apply conditions to how (if I so choose) I can redistribute my version. I can not add additional restrictions (ie. I can't sell it to you with a more restrictive license - you will have the same rights I had). And if I do distribute just a binary, then I need to make an offer to make that source available - only to whoever I distributed the binary to, not to the world.
(of course, since the source would still be under the GPL, I can't stop the first person who gets the source from making it available to the world.)
The two most common things said wrong about the gpl on here is 1) you MUST give out your changes if you make any and 2) you MUST make them available to everyone. That is simply not true, however the nature of the GPL means that if you do redistribute any changes, then the two will happen one way or the other and you can't stop it.
I hope you're right about IBM not folding at the bluff.
As for the whole SCO thing. SCO claims that somehow a person that had access to the SCO source code put some of that code into Linux. That is how they make the claim. I believe they are pointing fingers at IBM since IBM has been working a lot with Linux and I am guessing has access to the SCO code.
It could have very easily happened in reverse as you suggested...but it could have happened the way SCO suggests - I know I have access to a couple companies proprietary code and I could easily copy it into an open source project and this would be the same situation.
And yes - there is a rumor/allegation that their UnixWare product may have some GPL'd Linux code in it.
Clearer?
To summarize:
sco claims someone put sco code into Linux.
no one knows what code sco is talking about so no one can track down the source.
coming soon - SCO stock toilet paper marketted by IBM:)
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Hmmm...I read it as
:)
"With out GNU, Linux is just a kernel. Please call it GNU/Linux and stop asking about Hurd."
The only way I could see it working is if the sharing user somehow got a discount or payback or something for sharing back. More you share, the more benefits you get.
:)
So that means the people who would believe that will be sharing 600 CD's off their 56k line
Someone I think had posted that is the way it works now, but not in the old days, when this patent was filed.
Okay...so if the patent is 45 years old (1958) but was patented in 1987, I see a big catch-22.
If the patent does not start until 1987, then anything doing this from before 1987 should now be prior art.
If anything from before 1987 is not considered prior art because the patent was created in 1958, then the patent should be enforced from that date, not the 1987 date, and therefore expired.
Oh...sorry Government and sense...my bad
Not that I understand legalese, but I don't think there is any court I could take the manual for say my DVD player in and refer to it as the DVD product.
:)
I wonder if they look at it somehow as providing some sort of help to MAME, which is obviously designed only to traffic in stolen ROMS
I'll complain about PowerDVD - it's flaky in my experience. Usually works, sometimes just completly hangs while trying to load the DVD.
I've not had trouble with WinDVD though.
There is VNC for the PPC.
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~midgley/wince/vnc.html
Mind you - it somewhat sucks. Right mouse clicks are missing, but it is there. Terminal Services still works better for win machines.
When you go on most dc++ forums, you get a disclaimer that you can't use the hub if you ware a member of a law enforcement agency.
:)
So what's the deal? Some 13 year-old puts up a sentence like that and it's all covered.
Right?
I am not convinced that most of the spam comes from specialized email applications that can be fooled with a temporarily failure. Can anyone provide numbers on this?
That was my first thought - for two reasons. All a spammer need to to bypass this is setup their own outgoing smtp server - just need disk and bandwidth. Their server would retry just like any MTA and problem solved.
The other though was with all the problems of open-relays. Say that the spam is injected via some program on a PC that doesn't retry - just pumps the stuff out. In theory, the greylist would stop it - however if you can't get people to close open relays, how are you gonna get them to install something like this.
I was just getting ready to post something about this. DVD's with their branching and different audio tracks were going to allow us to have the "made-for-tv" version and release version on the same disc.
:)
My daughter likes Ghostbusters - she likes Slimer. But I have to be fast on the remote otherwise after the ballroom scene, with the "we came, we saw, we kicked it's ass", my little tape recorder will be walking around saying that.
The claim that a director wants his work represented properly is bull. With a few exceptions here and there in comedy punch lines, shit can always be replaced by something else without losing a "vision" (which is usually shit anyway
There was a fake St Anger album floating around before the real one made it. It was a bunch of songs by other metal bands - but the mp3's were named the same titles as those on St. Anger.
:)
It was a much better album
I played the demo to Freedom Force. Kinda liked it - a fun game. Found it for $20 at a store. Bought it - doesn't run. Go figure.
Still remember getting hooked on the demo to Ultima Underworld though.
While that is true(*) I think the poster was trying to say that it doesn't need the other crap to make it a good game. Yeah...lots of shareware is crap, lots of commercial ware is as well - and some on both sides is good. EyeCandy will only go so far to make a game seem good. A good game will seem good regardless of extras.
(*) your argument holds true with something else that comes up here a lot - music. Everytime there is an article about the RIAA, people start going on about how you should ditch anything mainstream for local/indie bands. Well...just because they're indie doesn't mean they are good either...most of it (like mainstream) is crap.
Kinda like the college music attitude of the late 80's, early 90's...it could be someone farting on a bucket, but as long as it wasn't mainstream they would consider it as golden.
Actually, I like Microsoft. I just hate their business practices.
You know this thing will have a number 3 on the side of it :)
:)
(Sorry - I'm from Georgia and live there and have never gotten the whole NASCAR thing
nah...it wasn't an imax of the movie. It was an imax about the titanic itself.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0297144
Didn't he also produce an imax movie about the titanic with real footage?
:)
Best part was Ms Winslet's drawing scene.
you're right - but could you imagine a beowulf cluster of these :)
Like you said - it isn't just a noise problem.
It's a problem with society - too many people think that they are the only thing that matters and could care less if they in any way affect someone else. They fell they have some god-given right to do whatever they want, and if you don't like it, well, you are just some jerk who doesn't understand.
Fuck them.
First time Caldera was at Networld, the rep was standing there telling people that Linux would run on a 286 and up. I clarified this to him, and he argued with me saying that a 286 would run it (before Elks.)
Some guy was sent away with a Caldera CD to try and install on his 286.
Knew someone like this in college - greasy hair, white skin, toothpick.
.3 GPA. Appealed and was let back in. Failed out again.
Played muds - all day. slept maybe 5 hours a day. Failed out with a
He ran off to piss once - so we had his character drop everything and attack the guards or something.
Also, found that the MUD he played, if you connected and typed the username, when it prompted you for the password, you just left it there and it would think you were already connected (c'mon...we were trying to help the kid.)
Probably a bright kid - but had his priorities all messed up.
Between Viggo and Hugh Jackman in X-men, I think if I could have adamantium Narsil shards come out my wrist, I'd be set for life :) Or perhaps the scruffy hair/beard that sticks up (though half the head will need to be shaved for the Vin Disiel look as well)
I just wished they would have ended TTT with Shelob - it would have made for a much more dramatic ending.
But for some reason PJ feels the need to hammer in that men can't handle the ring.
I am also waiting to see how Denethor is handled...hopefully his madness will be done well in RotK.
The GPL pretty well allows users to modify whatever they want, so long as they share what they did with the public.
Nope. The GPL does not require you to share modifications. If I wanna mod the kernel and replace all copies of Linux with *SCO* I can and can keep it to myself.
What it does do is apply conditions to how (if I so choose) I can redistribute my version. I can not add additional restrictions (ie. I can't sell it to you with a more restrictive license - you will have the same rights I had). And if I do distribute just a binary, then I need to make an offer to make that source available - only to whoever I distributed the binary to, not to the world.
(of course, since the source would still be under the GPL, I can't stop the first person who gets the source from making it available to the world.)
The two most common things said wrong about the gpl on here is 1) you MUST give out your changes if you make any and 2) you MUST make them available to everyone. That is simply not true, however the nature of the GPL means that if you do redistribute any changes, then the two will happen one way or the other and you can't stop it.
I hope you're right about IBM not folding at the bluff.
:)
As for the whole SCO thing. SCO claims that somehow a person that had access to the SCO source code put some of that code into Linux. That is how they make the claim. I believe they are pointing fingers at IBM since IBM has been working a lot with Linux and I am guessing has access to the SCO code.
It could have very easily happened in reverse as you suggested...but it could have happened the way SCO suggests - I know I have access to a couple companies proprietary code and I could easily copy it into an open source project and this would be the same situation.
And yes - there is a rumor/allegation that their UnixWare product may have some GPL'd Linux code in it.
Clearer?
To summarize:
sco claims someone put sco code into Linux.
no one knows what code sco is talking about so no one can track down the source.
coming soon - SCO stock toilet paper marketted by IBM
Funny you should bring that up since Apple computer vs Apple Records is the case that decided that :)