I though that when the CC DivX thing died, they did some remote update to all the DivX players (at least the ones that dialed in after the decision) that pretty much told the player to go away and just play anything put in it.
I would guess the final thing that MightyWords should do if it goes out of business is to release a reader that does not deny access to the content.
I mentioned this on one of the last MS articles and without even mentioning Linux was accused of attacking linux;)
I agree though...who cares if IE comes with the OS or not. They go so hung up on that one thing, which even if you remove the blue E, it'll still the HTML control will still be there in every file window.
But they missed all of the dealing that MS has done - all so a computer company could ship Netscape or something instead - not that any company in their right mind would do that.
Amen to that. Saving to a cassette tape, hooked to a TV.
I have memories of being a kid and my parents asleep on the couch (me and my two younger sisters had probably worn them out). I was laying on the floor in front of the TV with the zx81 entering in BASIC code.
I remember typing in 10 PRINT "some very very very long text string that I don't quite remember now"
and being so upset that it either gave me an error or truncated the text string because it was too long.
I also remember the skiing program that came in the manual where you had to manuvuer your little black dot to the bottom of the screen between other dots that were the gates.
I really need to buy another one of those - I think my Dad still has our old one.
Quasi-related. Lets say I have a bunch of machines sitting around. Is there anything the end user would use Beowulf for?
I don't mean - would it make vi run faster. I understand the very basics at least. But aside from having to write my own code to take advantage of the cluster, are there apps already beowulfized?
I could see where POVRay would be a good app to do this to. Have the controlling machine ship off each line of the rendering to a machines CPU and come back with the result a lot faster.
With enough machines that were fast enough, you could almost provide a real time rendered view of a work in progress.
...Execute search MS - terms: cluster Results: Microsoft Clustering, formally known as wolfpack.
...Execute talk: Yes...MS does clustering, what would it take to convince you to use ours.
I think if I was in the customer's position, I'd agree to it just to shove it back in their face when I ask how it distributes the computing load etc...of course that would be
blah blah blah computing load blah blah ...Execute search MS - terms: computing load Fuzzy Logic Results: Microsoft Clustering, formally known as wolfpack. Use for load balancing.
Does it matter if the restriction exists? For all they care, you could microwave your CD and use it as an ash tray. They are not going after the gamers, they are going after the people implementing binetd - I guess claiming that by implemnting a protocol they are now infringing on some copywrite.
But, they don't really need to own the game to do this. All they need to do is get two friends with a copy of diablo and a sniffer. In theory, they should be able to write binetd without ever touching the game itself.
Regardless, I think you have some serious issues with your relations and peanut butter you need to sort out first:)
The story has more holes in it than most hollywood plots of late.
It sounds like the girl went to the police about it, then the police posed as a 15 year old to catch the guy.
I don't see where any wiretapping or anything similar went on. Obviously the girl went to police after the fact, so they couldn't tap into that. Perhaps she brought a printout of the conversation - it doesn't say. And then when the police posed as the 15 year old, they caught him in the act.
About the closest is says is that the police looking at the messages should be subject to wiretap procedures - however, I'm guessing that the girl took the messages to the police. Nothing was recorded by the police - this is akin to the witness saying the defendant said such and such in a phone conversation with me, but with photographic memory.
I could see his complaint if the police had intercepted the messages in real-time by tapping into the line of communication (a sniffer at the ISP or something like that).
I suppose he could have claimed the girl modified the content of the messages in the printout if one existed, but since he got caught red-handed...oh well.
Some interesting stuff...not bad given what you listed as his gear. But like you said, a SB Live is pretty much the bottom of the barrel for doing something like this. Stop by Guitar Center or something like that and look at their sound cards.
I wonder how far we are from an artist that has a breakthrouh hit that is on a CD produced at home?
Get Cakewalk or any of the current audio tools, a decent sound card, and decent mics, fix your garage up a bit, and there you go. Cost of probably around $2,000 total.
Going with a big company, you get a fancy studio and a producer, who will help you make your track sound just like everything else out there. (Okay...where would Def Leppard be without Mutt Lange - I'll concede that!)
Then again, some of the stuff I listen to on a regular basis either a) was recoded on a shoestring like this, or b) was recorded a while ago and the recording quality is probably the same as what can be done at home now.
Then again, I am also sick of all the overpolishing done on most modern stuff.
Okay...if I was to write a book tomorrow and it had to wait until 75 years after my death, then we're talking (optimistically here) about 110 years. Now, assuming that I am like everything else - just a one-hit wonder flash in the pan - chances are that my book will not still be published 110 years from now, or even 11.0 years from now.
To me it seems that public domain makes works avail to people that would otherwise just be stored in a vault and not avail.
So, perhaps it should become public domain 1-2 years after last sale (sale being the time that a publisher made the item avail to a store for resell). This way if the publisher doesn't think enough of the item to keep trying to move it (ie. a useless item, not profitable) then it becomes public domain and the public can decide if it's worth it or not. This way, one way or another it is avail to the public. If it is a marketable item, then the creator is still making money. If it is not, then nothing is lost.
Books - well, if it hasn't been published, then the text of the book becomes public domain. This way if a book becomes a classic (Lord of the Rings) then every year or two it gets republished. Still avail to the public.
CD's - this would have to be done on a song by song basis - that way "Safety Dance" could be published on a "Greatest Hits" CD every so often, but any other song that noone's heard of (except possibly Pop Goes The World) would fall into the public.
Movies - same as books really - keep it avail to the consumer or let go.
I guess it comes down to shit or get off the pot with the items. Either use it because it is a valuable property like you claim, or let others use it.
Of course there would probably have to be stipulations in there that producing a one-off of a movie, selling it to yourself doesn't count, etc... and there should still be a max limit.
I don't use Debian anymore cause I got real sick of dselect. I hear things are much better now, but oh well. I haven't used Slackware since Patrick went off the follow the Grateful Dead YEARS ago.
Like you said, I have all the RH quirks, and all of our other systems are RH, so it makes sense to stick with one version - same for OpenBSD not really being an option.
Time to get a slightly better junk notebook methinks.
Probably for the same reason you have to be 18 to buy a video of two people fucking - whatever that may be.
While I agree that perhaps a 10 year old doesn't need to be getting head shots and watching porn, I also think that 18 is a bit high (at least for the head shots). Hell, I saw Star Wars when I was like 7 or 8, and I knew that when someone got shot, they were dead, and that it was just a movie.
I have a 486-dx4100 notebook. It has 12 MB of ram (maybe 16 - it's been a while) and a 540MB hard drive. How do I get RH7.2 on there?
Can't boot off CD, it doesn't have one. Can't net install because it bitches about the memory. I just want to setup some simple network things on it (snmp tools, ssh, tcpdump, etc...). Years ago I was able to put RH5.2 on it via the network, but somehow in 2 versions the network code must have ballooned up.
No...don't support the monopoly in Redmond. Use GNU/Lindex instead.:)
Hell...buy a new keyboard for it - I hate going around to offices where the people have been using that computer for about 6 years. It is the most disgusting color I've ever seen
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Hmmm...the IE source code. Isn't that just a wrapper around the HTML control? Gonna be pretty short source.
Same problem the DoJ had - lets focus on IE without realizing that the functionality is buried much deeper.
I though that when the CC DivX thing died, they did some remote update to all the DivX players (at least the ones that dialed in after the decision) that pretty much told the player to go away and just play anything put in it.
I would guess the final thing that MightyWords should do if it goes out of business is to release a reader that does not deny access to the content.
Oh...that Canadian film, filmed in Canada with a buch of Canadian actors?
That's okay...when he first started talking about Knobs, I was thinking of all my pricess Leia fantasys.
That would be Dr. Who and reversing the polarity of the neutron flow :)
If it was Star Trek they would have just run a level 3 diagnostic.
paperback books.
I have a copy of some thick book like Dune or Magician that was about $2.99 in 1979. Now that book is about $10.
Same book - possibly new cover art.
I mentioned this on one of the last MS articles and without even mentioning Linux was accused of attacking linux ;)
I agree though...who cares if IE comes with the OS or not. They go so hung up on that one thing, which even if you remove the blue E, it'll still the HTML control will still be there in every file window.
But they missed all of the dealing that MS has done - all so a computer company could ship Netscape or something instead - not that any company in their right mind would do that.
Amen to that. Saving to a cassette tape, hooked to a TV.
I have memories of being a kid and my parents asleep on the couch (me and my two younger sisters had probably worn them out). I was laying on the floor in front of the TV with the zx81 entering in BASIC code.
I remember typing in
10 PRINT "some very very very long text string that I don't quite remember now"
and being so upset that it either gave me an error or truncated the text string because it was too long.
I also remember the skiing program that came in the manual where you had to manuvuer your little black dot to the bottom of the screen between other dots that were the gates.
I really need to buy another one of those - I think my Dad still has our old one.
Sigh.
I wonder if spam and corn is one of Hormel's new recipies?
So, what I'm seeing here is that if anyone does something to me over the internet that I don't like, I get corn?
;)
Lets send this solution to everyone via mass e-mails labeled "MAKE CORN FAST!!!"
Quasi-related. Lets say I have a bunch of machines sitting around. Is there anything the end user would use Beowulf for?
I don't mean - would it make vi run faster. I understand the very basics at least. But aside from having to write my own code to take advantage of the cluster, are there apps already beowulfized?
I could see where POVRay would be a good app to do this to. Have the controlling machine ship off each line of the rendering to a machines CPU and come back with the result a lot faster.
With enough machines that were fast enough, you could almost provide a real time rendered view of a work in progress.
blah blah blah blah Linux cluster blah blah blah.
...Execute search MS - terms: cluster
Results: Microsoft Clustering, formally known as wolfpack.
...Execute talk: Yes...MS does clustering, what would it take to convince you to use ours.
I think if I was in the customer's position, I'd agree to it just to shove it back in their face when I ask how it distributes the computing load etc...of course that would be
blah blah blah computing load blah blah
...Execute search MS - terms: computing load
Fuzzy Logic Results: Microsoft Clustering, formally known as wolfpack. Use for load balancing.
Does it matter if the restriction exists? For all they care, you could microwave your CD and use it as an ash tray. They are not going after the gamers, they are going after the people implementing binetd - I guess claiming that by implemnting a protocol they are now infringing on some copywrite.
:)
But, they don't really need to own the game to do this. All they need to do is get two friends with a copy of diablo and a sniffer. In theory, they should be able to write binetd without ever touching the game itself.
Regardless, I think you have some serious issues with your relations and peanut butter you need to sort out first
DD kicked ass in Twin Peaks. Much better than his role in "Beethoven"
The story has more holes in it than most hollywood plots of late.
It sounds like the girl went to the police about it, then the police posed as a 15 year old to catch the guy.
I don't see where any wiretapping or anything similar went on. Obviously the girl went to police after the fact, so they couldn't tap into that. Perhaps she brought a printout of the conversation - it doesn't say. And then when the police posed as the 15 year old, they caught him in the act.
About the closest is says is that the police looking at the messages should be subject to wiretap procedures - however, I'm guessing that the girl took the messages to the police. Nothing was recorded by the police - this is akin to the witness saying the defendant said such and such in a phone conversation with me, but with photographic memory.
I could see his complaint if the police had intercepted the messages in real-time by tapping into the line of communication (a sniffer at the ISP or something like that).
I suppose he could have claimed the girl modified the content of the messages in the printout if one existed, but since he got caught red-handed...oh well.
Some interesting stuff...not bad given what you listed as his gear.
But like you said, a SB Live is pretty much the bottom of the barrel for doing something like this. Stop by Guitar Center or something like that and look at their sound cards.
Like I said - there would need to be some sort of criteria that is matched. Just listing it should not be good enough.
Though I suppose it's not fair if a publisher was to have the work available but no one ordered it for their store to say that they lose the rights.
This must be why laws are so long - to come up with ideas, then fixes around the loopholes and special conditions, etc...
I wonder how far we are from an artist that has a breakthrouh hit that is on a CD produced at home?
Get Cakewalk or any of the current audio tools, a decent sound card, and decent mics, fix your garage up a bit, and there you go. Cost of probably around $2,000 total.
Going with a big company, you get a fancy studio and a producer, who will help you make your track sound just like everything else out there. (Okay...where would Def Leppard be without Mutt Lange - I'll concede that!)
Then again, some of the stuff I listen to on a regular basis either a) was recoded on a shoestring like this, or b) was recorded a while ago and the recording quality is probably the same as what can be done at home now.
Then again, I am also sick of all the overpolishing done on most modern stuff.
There is really no workable solution. Either the creator or the public is gonna get the bad end of the deal.
Okay...if I was to write a book tomorrow and it had to wait until 75 years after my death, then we're talking (optimistically here) about 110 years. Now, assuming that I am like everything else - just a one-hit wonder flash in the pan - chances are that my book will not still be published 110 years from now, or even 11.0 years from now.
To me it seems that public domain makes works avail to people that would otherwise just be stored in a vault and not avail.
So, perhaps it should become public domain 1-2 years after last sale (sale being the time that a publisher made the item avail to a store for resell). This way if the publisher doesn't think enough of the item to keep trying to move it (ie. a useless item, not profitable) then it becomes public domain and the public can decide if it's worth it or not. This way, one way or another it is avail to the public. If it is a marketable item, then the creator is still making money. If it is not, then nothing is lost.
Books - well, if it hasn't been published, then the text of the book becomes public domain. This way if a book becomes a classic (Lord of the Rings) then every year or two it gets republished. Still avail to the public.
CD's - this would have to be done on a song by song basis - that way "Safety Dance" could be published on a "Greatest Hits" CD every so often, but any other song that noone's heard of (except possibly Pop Goes The World) would fall into the public.
Movies - same as books really - keep it avail to the consumer or let go.
I guess it comes down to shit or get off the pot with the items. Either use it because it is a valuable property like you claim, or let others use it.
Of course there would probably have to be stipulations in there that producing a one-off of a movie, selling it to yourself doesn't count, etc... and there should still be a max limit.
Just my idea. I dunno.
Schnucks - there is a store name I haven't heard in 17 years.
No real content here.
You'd think so...but it appears all anyone is concerened about is getting a version of windows that doesn't have IE.
I don't use Debian anymore cause I got real sick of dselect. I hear things are much better now, but oh well. I haven't used Slackware since Patrick went off the follow the Grateful Dead YEARS ago.
Like you said, I have all the RH quirks, and all of our other systems are RH, so it makes sense to stick with one version - same for OpenBSD not really being an option.
Time to get a slightly better junk notebook methinks.
Probably for the same reason you have to be 18 to buy a video of two people fucking - whatever that may be.
While I agree that perhaps a 10 year old doesn't need to be getting head shots and watching porn, I also think that 18 is a bit high (at least for the head shots). Hell, I saw Star Wars when I was like 7 or 8, and I knew that when someone got shot, they were dead, and that it was just a movie.
I have a 486-dx4100 notebook. It has 12 MB of ram (maybe 16 - it's been a while) and a 540MB hard drive. How do I get RH7.2 on there?
Can't boot off CD, it doesn't have one. Can't net install because it bitches about the memory. I just want to setup some simple network things on it (snmp tools, ssh, tcpdump, etc...). Years ago I was able to put RH5.2 on it via the network, but somehow in 2 versions the network code must have ballooned up.
No...don't support the monopoly in Redmond. Use GNU/Lindex instead. :)
Hell...buy a new keyboard for it - I hate going around to offices where the people have been using that computer for about 6 years. It is the most disgusting color I've ever seen