Don't forget to consider the fact that "UNIX" is full of BSD code (remember the BSD lawsuit), and linux has a lot (well some) BSD code in it as well, more or less modified. How do we know it wasn't this code they showed?
Religions do the same as the cults except they reinforce positives.
Ah yes. Witchburnings, persecution, suicidebombings and generally killing those not believing in YOUR god does strike me as a positive reinforcement. Face it, the only difference between a religion and a cult is the amount of followers and wether or not the size of the hat shows how important you are.
This is so pathetic (and typical of alot of users on Slashdot). A filesharing program gets cleared in court due to the fact that there actually ARE alot of legit ways and reasons to use one, and immediately the slashdot forum is filled up with lame posts along the line of "woohoo, open season on warez, most DVDrips when he dies wins" Seriously, you don't give a fsck about the legit reasons at all. Bunch of hippocrites.
I dare you to admit it openly wihout resorting to posting AC.
(English is not my first language, so if there are any grammatical or spelling errors you nitpicking ACs who has nothing interesting to say anyway can lay of the lameness)
Damn! They use gotos in the development of windows?!
I know understand why it keeps crashing..
I'm sitting at a Win2K machine at the moment so I can't do a search, but I am willing to bet my karma on that you would find goto statements in the linux kernel code as well...
Vectrex game system. Brilliant platform, gave people that true arcade vector graphics feel, decent sound (considering this came out about the same time as the Colecovision), and an all in one package the size of a first gen Macintosh.
Don't forget that it had a game that talked: Spike. "Eek! Help! Spike!" "Oh no! Molly" And when you died Spike went: "Darn it"
Granted, the "music" for the game was annoying, not to mention how horrible the game itself was. Gimme Scramble on the Vectrex any day!
Might well be that it's of more practical value to study the two separately.
Maybe I should have been clearer in my statement saying "You cannot use...".
The complexity that arise from trying to analyze a "macro situation" with a "micro theory" becomes so unwieldy and overwhelming that it is more practical to pretend that there is an uncrossable barrier between the two.
We know how people act individually, and yet we can't extrapolate the behavior of entire societies from this.
...Asimov argues (yes I know it's "just" SciFi) that you need an overwhelmingly large amount of "individuals" to extrapolate the behaviour of "societies", and you don't even have to know how the individuals act individually.
I agree with him, we knew how the solarsystem (society)worked long before we knew how atoms (individuals) worked.
You cannot use the knowledge of individuals to analyze society, just as you cannot use the knowledge of society to analyze individuals. If you want to know how society works, study society, not individuals.
These are just my opinions though.
(Don't call me redundant if somebody else wrote something similar while I wrote this =) )
Stowell also denied that SCO would target other Linux distributions, basically suggesting that it would be suicide for SCO to do such a thing. "Microsoft would love to see that happen," he said. Instead Stowell suggested that SCO would take out after other unidentified operating systems that drive something from Unix and hinted that that might mean Microsoft itself since Boies was involved.
He says it himself that he knows it would be suicide, and hints that it might actually be Microsoft who is the target.
You could slap on a Sigma Designs MPEG2/DivX chip on it.
That would mean it wouldn't just be a MAME console though, but slap on a DVD-ROM and a decent soundcard and you'd have a Home Entertainment Center or something...
Thats the Nintendo trademark. Ever since Gunpei Yokoi invented the Game & Watch and the original GameBoy (and the little + for controlling them) people think nintendo when they see it (I wouldn't be surprised if it was trademarked).
My first thought when I saw the GBA SP was "Wow, looks like an old Game & Watch Multiscreen" (think Donkey Kong), which is a plus for me, beeing a collector of those things. =)
Retro or not, the GBA SP doesn't have the usual "This is just for kids" feeling that Nintendos products usually has. And why not, it's not just for the kids, as they say in the pressrelase.
No. If that many countries where against it then the law wouldn't have been passed in the first case.
It's not uncommon for countries in the EU to be sloppy when it comes to implementing the "federal" laws (EU is more of a federation than a union), it's just that we geeks don't care about laws for export of ducks eggs or the color on the governmental envelopes, so we don't know about those.
I am not so sure. It depends on how rabid the MPAA lawyers are
MPAA and it's lawyers have no jurisdiction in Norway (last time I checked).
It all comes down to what the NORWEGIAN prosecutors standpoint on the issue is. Somehow I seriously doubt that she will bring this any further after the wrist slap from the court saying that there was no evidence at all that he had broken any laws.
Jon was prosecuted in a Norwegian court, under Norwegian law. Believe it or not, in countries like that consumers still have rights. (And judges has brains).
This won't even affect the EU version of DMCA either, since Norway isn't a member of the EU.
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Don't forget to consider the fact that "UNIX" is full of BSD code (remember the BSD lawsuit), and linux has a lot (well some) BSD code in it as well, more or less modified. How do we know it wasn't this code they showed?
Ah yes. Witchburnings, persecution, suicidebombings and generally killing those not believing in YOUR god does strike me as a positive reinforcement.
Face it, the only difference between a religion and a cult is the amount of followers and wether or not the size of the hat shows how important you are.
The other name you had in mind for it was "Windux", right?
Trick question!
Slashdotposters don't have lives...
=)
I knew it. One of those ACs would be so annoyed he'd waste a modpoint on modding me down as either Troll or Offtopic.
Coward.
This is so pathetic (and typical of alot of users on Slashdot).
A filesharing program gets cleared in court due to the fact that there actually ARE alot of legit ways and reasons to use one, and immediately the slashdot forum is filled up with lame posts along the line of "woohoo, open season on warez, most DVDrips when he dies wins"
Seriously, you don't give a fsck about the legit reasons at all.
Bunch of hippocrites.
I dare you to admit it openly wihout resorting to posting AC.
(English is not my first language, so if there are any grammatical or spelling errors you nitpicking ACs who has nothing interesting to say anyway can lay of the lameness)
How about the last part of the article?
"We don't need a partner for years and years."
=)
Equlibirum, Dagon and Donnie Darko.
End of rant.
D'oh, that one is better than my comment.
Oh well, atleast I was first with a (predictable)GNU/Anything joke... =)
GNU/Happy birthday.
(Sorry)
..they mention "Hero's engine"
Wasn't the guy named Heron? The same guy with the nifty formula for getting the area of any triangle by just knowing the length of the sides?
Let s be the sum of the sides a,b and c divided by two
s=(a+b+c+)/2
The area T of the triangle is then:
T=(s(s-a)(s-b)(s-c))^1/2
Can't say I can trust a scientific article that doesn't even get the names right.
That's because it's danish.
"There are cars on the street tonight".
(Yes, he was pulling your leg, how sad for him that a former enemy (I'm from Sweden) exposed his nefarious plans! =)
I'm sitting at a Win2K machine at the moment so I can't do a search, but I am willing to bet my karma on that you would find goto statements in the linux kernel code as well...
Don't forget that it had a game that talked: Spike.
"Eek! Help! Spike!"
"Oh no! Molly"
And when you died Spike went: "Darn it"
Granted, the "music" for the game was annoying, not to mention how horrible the game itself was.
Gimme Scramble on the Vectrex any day!
I guess the same can be said for CD-ROMs, DVDs and the internet.
That's why the floppy, LaserDisc and BBSes failed... =)
Now if they made THAT game playable over the net.. woah... /DaBj
Maybe I should have been clearer in my statement saying "You cannot use...".
The complexity that arise from trying to analyze a "macro situation" with a "micro theory" becomes so unwieldy and overwhelming that it is more practical to pretend that there is an uncrossable barrier between the two.
"societies", and you don't even have to know how the individuals act individually.
I agree with him, we knew how the solarsystem (society)worked long before we knew how atoms (individuals) worked.
You cannot use the knowledge of individuals to analyze society, just as you cannot use the knowledge of society to analyze individuals.
If you want to know how society works, study society, not individuals.
These are just my opinions though.
(Don't call me redundant if somebody else wrote something similar while I wrote this =) )
Just curios, but wouldn't EMPing your clothes constitute a breach of the DMCA somehow?
"Sir, you are not emitting a signal, are you aware that this is in violation of the DMCA? You will have to come with us Sir."
[Still not sure wehter I'm joking or not}
He says it himself that he knows it would be suicide, and hints that it might actually be Microsoft who is the target.
You could slap on a Sigma Designs MPEG2/DivX chip on it.
That would mean it wouldn't just be a MAME console though, but slap on a DVD-ROM and a decent soundcard and you'd have a Home Entertainment Center or something...
Thats the Nintendo trademark. Ever since Gunpei Yokoi invented the Game & Watch and the original GameBoy (and the little + for controlling them) people think nintendo when they see it (I wouldn't be surprised if it was trademarked).
My first thought when I saw the GBA SP was "Wow, looks like an old Game & Watch Multiscreen" (think Donkey Kong), which is a plus for me, beeing a collector of those things. =)
Retro or not, the GBA SP doesn't have the usual "This is just for kids" feeling that Nintendos products usually has. And why not, it's not just for the kids, as they say in the pressrelase.
No. If that many countries where against it then the law wouldn't have been passed in the first case.
It's not uncommon for countries in the EU to be sloppy when it comes to implementing the "federal" laws (EU is more of a federation than a union), it's just that we geeks don't care about laws for export of ducks eggs or the color on the governmental envelopes, so we don't know about those.
MPAA and it's lawyers have no jurisdiction in Norway (last time I checked).
It all comes down to what the NORWEGIAN prosecutors standpoint on the issue is. Somehow I seriously doubt that she will bring this any further after the wrist slap from the court saying that there was no evidence at all that he had broken any laws.
No it can't.
Jon was prosecuted in a Norwegian court, under Norwegian law. Believe it or not, in countries like that consumers still have rights. (And judges has brains).
This won't even affect the EU version of DMCA either, since Norway isn't a member of the EU.