Penguin Computing will most likely not support the whole DeCSS case (atleast not in the near future). When you go to configure a system they give you the option of adding a DVD-ROM drive, but when you click on the link for more info (here), they give you this bit of info:
"Please note: There is currently no support under Linux for watching DVD movies."
Maybe they want to support it, but they are afraid of lawsuits.
...would anyone want to register microsoft.god? Microsoft.666 maybe. Microsoft.god seems like what Bill will register when he decides to gather his killer robots and take over the world.
I can just picture him after the ruling to break up M$, on the news saying: "We offered a comprimise to the DOJ, but they turned it down. So now my mechanical slaves will take over the world! Hahahahaha ALL HAIL MICROSOFT!" Then all TV screens all over the world turn black and then display the M$ logo. He will have support too because there were subliminal messages in all Windows operating systems.
Then the rebels will gather in preperation to invade Redmond. They will airlift a penguin into the M$ building, who is hiding machine guns and bombs under its wings. It blows past Bill's minions and gets to the secret underground lair, just in time to see Bill putting on his human skin (he IS a robot after all!). Bill is alarmed and pushes a button under his desk, which sends in hundreds of killer robots that surround our hero. Fortunatly, all the robots are running Windows CE and they happen to come up with an "Illegal Error"! They all fall down, useless. However Bill is still active because he just rebooted, so he has about 30 seconds left until he crashes, and with no one to revive him, he is doomed. But Tux wants to take him out in style, so he aims, and... "HASTA LA VISTA BABY!!!!!".
It's nice to see that they picked up something from "Computers for Dummies". Seriously who thought that they would actually accept M$'s offer? They could break M$ into a million peices, but all that would to is make a couple of jobs for mindless "yes men" who would just be minions of Gates anyway.
A funny tidbit... I was watching NBC while reading the article and a M$ commercial came on. The one with Bill giving a speech on how Microsoft brought us into the new millinium (lmao!). Anyone else think that Gates sounds like he was just castrated?
Childish? Yeah, I guess it's pretty childish to actually want applications to use!!
I was speaking specificly about games, something that could be considered childish by some people's standards (not mine!). You have to admit it is kind of amazing how something that was dismissed as just this is now perhaps the biggest driving force in the computer industry.
Another point could be the directory names, what they mean and how they work in relation to the OS and other programs. It can seem a bit intimidating at first ("What the &*$# is a/var?/proc? didn't I already see that doctor?) I know that you couldn't just go and change them, but maybe in the newbie version there could be symlinks to them? This may not be an issue for some people but I know it was for me the first time I saw unix.
Well, the main response I get when telling some Windows-using friends of mine about the advantages of Linux, the only reason they're sticking with it isn't because they think linux is to complicated, but rather so they can play games (like Half-Life Counterstrike in particular). This may sound childish, but I bet this is why thousands of others are holding back. To reach the mainstream users, WE NEED MORE PORTS!!!
The posts that M$ wants removed can easily be copied into a small text file and mirrored all over diffrent sites (like DeCSS)! I say start a movement to do this, and put up a page of links where people can enter the URL of their mirror and eventually there would be thousands of copies spread all around the internet. It seems to be working for 2600 and the DeCSS movement.
...and if nothing else, atleast Bill Gates will lose some money paying lawyers to individually go to each website and threaten the admin. Just a thought.
Why does everybody start b!tching whenever a story is posted on/. a day after it is reported on another site? It takes time for someone to send in the story, and then for one of the moderators to find it among thousands of crap stories, and then actually post it! I really don't check many (if any) other places every day, so it's news to me and 90% of the other readers. Talk about snobby.
Go down to a Funcoland (if you can still find one) and for around $20 you'll get a SNES, Genesis, or NES with about 10 games, 2 controllers, all cables and stuff and even a few game guides and magazines. The original Mario Brothers on NES is $0.02!!! In fact, almost all the 8-bit games can be had for under $5, and the 16-bit ones for no more than $10 (usually much less). This is because of all the kids who sold off their classic systems so they could buy a $400 Playstation or something back when they were new.
Keep in mind though that it would be stupid to go there with $100 just to get every game for the system. Not every game on these systems are classics (in fact, there's only about 20 or so). But sure, if you dont already have one of the old systems, this route is much better. I'd much rather have a peice of hardware sitting next to my TV than the right to access some bits on my VMU.
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But I seriously doubt that it puts out any more heat than an average plant when burned. Why not burn something useless like tobacco? To me this seems like an atrocity and overall just a waste of buds.
Besides, you know that there's gonna be kids inhaling the smoke coming from it (how's that for a "power plant"?) which will probably also contain worse things, such as toxic gas fumes.
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"An Irish scheme to burn cannabis as a fuel..."
And just how does that work? Cannabis fuel? Heat your house with cannabis? Um, well, I guess after I smoke one too many bowls i do feel a bit hotter... but that's probably from freaking out to electronica songs.
Yes well you go knock yourself out builing a beowulf of C64's and Amiga 500's. You might just get a whole 10 MHz of processing power and a MB or two of RAM. Whoa I think the DOJ is gonna be after you for weilding such power!
Use your old C64 for electronics projects. Other than that though, these really are useless. But any computer today can be rendered useless by installing Windows >:)
Well, since the games will be put onto a CD-R disk, won't you need a MOD chip in whatever Playstation your using? This isn't a problem for me but it is for alot of my friends who don't have MOD chips and don't feel confident in their own skill to take a soldering iron to their PSX's chipset.
While this does sound very cool, I dont think it will actaully be a reality for a number of years. They havent even perfected speech recognition yet. How about taking it one step at a time IBM? I think good speech recognition would be more practical than a shoddy ion-reciever-thingamagig...
Besides, I could see a dark side of this technology; just imagine if the government forces (cops, feds, etc) had these things and they started imprisoning people for thinking "badly"? Yes it's sort of sci-fi, but still it could happen. Who knows?
Those screens looked pretty blue to me... which means it must be windows pulling another one of it's wonderfull faults. Seriously though my bet would be on a unix derivitive (bsd, linux, etc). NASA knows what its doing (well, not really but lets just say they do for the sake of argument) so the chances of using anything M$ is nill.
But then again, I also think the space program hasn't acomplished anything big enough to justify the billions spent on it. And why does everyone assume that all of us hackers/nerds are into sci-fi (or anything to do with space for that matter)? Ugh.
You must be kidding me. I hope this site gets 0wn3d very soon. I have my own way of supporting Metallica... I have every one of their CDs, and I'm always there when they go on tour. They've got more money than they can spend right now. Every CD goes platnum, so why do they care if people trade MP3s of their songs? If anything that promotes sales by having a sort of "try before you buy" system! What am I supposed to do? Go out and buy every album my friends say has a good song on it only to find out that I think it sucks?
Ah the Newton... The Simpsons did a spoof on that a while back. Nelson wrote "Beat Up Martin" and it recognised it as "Eat up Martha"... I guess the writers have had a similar experience.
As for M$ stability, well, isn't that an oxymoron? Although I really dont know about CE... but I can say my Dreamcast never crashed >:)
Does this mean NBC has no legal right to sue 2600 & co. for having their domain (www.fucknbc.com) pointing to NBC's site? I already assumed they didn't even before I heard about this ruling, but still, it helps.
To me this whole lawsuit is just as stupid as the amazon.com patent on an idea (their associates program). Oh well, there will always be money hungry corprate pigs out there (especially on the internet!) no matter what. Another victory for the people 8^)
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Penguin Computing will most likely not support the whole DeCSS case (atleast not in the near future). When you go to configure a system they give you the option of adding a DVD-ROM drive, but when you click on the link for more info (here), they give you this bit of info:
"Please note: There is currently no support under Linux for watching DVD movies."
Maybe they want to support it, but they are afraid of lawsuits.
...would anyone want to register microsoft.god? Microsoft.666 maybe. Microsoft.god seems like what Bill will register when he decides to gather his killer robots and take over the world.
I can just picture him after the ruling to break up M$, on the news saying: "We offered a comprimise to the DOJ, but they turned it down. So now my mechanical slaves will take over the world! Hahahahaha ALL HAIL MICROSOFT!" Then all TV screens all over the world turn black and then display the M$ logo. He will have support too because there were subliminal messages in all Windows operating systems.
Then the rebels will gather in preperation to invade Redmond. They will airlift a penguin into the M$ building, who is hiding machine guns and bombs under its wings. It blows past Bill's minions and gets to the secret underground lair, just in time to see Bill putting on his human skin (he IS a robot after all!). Bill is alarmed and pushes a button under his desk, which sends in hundreds of killer robots that surround our hero. Fortunatly, all the robots are running Windows CE and they happen to come up with an "Illegal Error"! They all fall down, useless. However Bill is still active because he just rebooted, so he has about 30 seconds left until he crashes, and with no one to revive him, he is doomed. But Tux wants to take him out in style, so he aims, and... "HASTA LA VISTA BABY!!!!!".
The world is once again safe for democracy.
It's nice to see that they picked up something from "Computers for Dummies". Seriously who thought that they would actually accept M$'s offer? They could break M$ into a million peices, but all that would to is make a couple of jobs for mindless "yes men" who would just be minions of Gates anyway.
A funny tidbit... I was watching NBC while reading the article and a M$ commercial came on. The one with Bill giving a speech on how Microsoft brought us into the new millinium (lmao!). Anyone else think that Gates sounds like he was just castrated?
Childish? Yeah, I guess it's pretty childish to actually want applications to use!!
I was speaking specificly about games, something that could be considered childish by some people's standards (not mine!). You have to admit it is kind of amazing how something that was dismissed as just this is now perhaps the biggest driving force in the computer industry.
Another point could be the directory names, what they mean and how they work in relation to the OS and other programs. It can seem a bit intimidating at first ("What the &*$# is a /var? /proc? didn't I already see that doctor?) I know that you couldn't just go and change them, but maybe in the newbie version there could be symlinks to them? This may not be an issue for some people but I know it was for me the first time I saw unix.
Well, the main response I get when telling some Windows-using friends of mine about the advantages of Linux, the only reason they're sticking with it isn't because they think linux is to complicated, but rather so they can play games (like Half-Life Counterstrike in particular). This may sound childish, but I bet this is why thousands of others are holding back. To reach the mainstream users, WE NEED MORE PORTS!!!
The posts that M$ wants removed can easily be copied into a small text file and mirrored all over diffrent sites (like DeCSS)! I say start a movement to do this, and put up a page of links where people can enter the URL of their mirror and eventually there would be thousands of copies spread all around the internet. It seems to be working for 2600 and the DeCSS movement.
...and if nothing else, atleast Bill Gates will lose some money paying lawyers to individually go to each website and threaten the admin. Just a thought.
Why does everybody start b!tching whenever a story is posted on /. a day after it is reported on another site? It takes time for someone to send in the story, and then for one of the moderators to find it among thousands of crap stories, and then actually post it! I really don't check many (if any) other places every day, so it's news to me and 90% of the other readers. Talk about snobby.
...that I can point out to religious zealots when they come up with another fable about how some guy with a funky beard created everything!
Go down to a Funcoland (if you can still find one) and for around $20 you'll get a SNES, Genesis, or NES with about 10 games, 2 controllers, all cables and stuff and even a few game guides and magazines. The original Mario Brothers on NES is $0.02!!! In fact, almost all the 8-bit games can be had for under $5, and the 16-bit ones for no more than $10 (usually much less). This is because of all the kids who sold off their classic systems so they could buy a $400 Playstation or something back when they were new.
Keep in mind though that it would be stupid to go there with $100 just to get every game for the system. Not every game on these systems are classics (in fact, there's only about 20 or so). But sure, if you dont already have one of the old systems, this route is much better. I'd much rather have a peice of hardware sitting next to my TV than the right to access some bits on my VMU.
But I seriously doubt that it puts out any more heat than an average plant when burned. Why not burn something useless like tobacco? To me this seems like an atrocity and overall just a waste of buds.
Besides, you know that there's gonna be kids inhaling the smoke coming from it (how's that for a "power plant"?) which will probably also contain worse things, such as toxic gas fumes.
"An Irish scheme to burn cannabis as a fuel..."
And just how does that work? Cannabis fuel? Heat your house with cannabis? Um, well, I guess after I smoke one too many bowls i do feel a bit hotter... but that's probably from freaking out to electronica songs.
This plant is surely magic >:)
Yes well you go knock yourself out builing a beowulf of C64's and Amiga 500's. You might just get a whole 10 MHz of processing power and a MB or two of RAM. Whoa I think the DOJ is gonna be after you for weilding such power!
Use your old C64 for electronics projects. Other than that though, these really are useless. But any computer today can be rendered useless by installing Windows >:)
Well, since the games will be put onto a CD-R disk, won't you need a MOD chip in whatever Playstation your using? This isn't a problem for me but it is for alot of my friends who don't have MOD chips and don't feel confident in their own skill to take a soldering iron to their PSX's chipset.
Now if only i could afford that 2TB disk...
While this does sound very cool, I dont think it will actaully be a reality for a number of years. They havent even perfected speech recognition yet. How about taking it one step at a time IBM? I think good speech recognition would be more practical than a shoddy ion-reciever-thingamagig...
Besides, I could see a dark side of this technology; just imagine if the government forces (cops, feds, etc) had these things and they started imprisoning people for thinking "badly"? Yes it's sort of sci-fi, but still it could happen. Who knows?
Those screens looked pretty blue to me... which means it must be windows pulling another one of it's wonderfull faults. Seriously though my bet would be on a unix derivitive (bsd, linux, etc). NASA knows what its doing (well, not really but lets just say they do for the sake of argument) so the chances of using anything M$ is nill.
But then again, I also think the space program hasn't acomplished anything big enough to justify the billions spent on it. And why does everyone assume that all of us hackers/nerds are into sci-fi (or anything to do with space for that matter)? Ugh.
You must be kidding me. I hope this site gets 0wn3d very soon. I have my own way of supporting Metallica... I have every one of their CDs, and I'm always there when they go on tour. They've got more money than they can spend right now. Every CD goes platnum, so why do they care if people trade MP3s of their songs? If anything that promotes sales by having a sort of "try before you buy" system! What am I supposed to do? Go out and buy every album my friends say has a good song on it only to find out that I think it sucks?
Thats all I have to say about that...
Ah the Newton... The Simpsons did a spoof on that a while back. Nelson wrote "Beat Up Martin" and it recognised it as "Eat up Martha"... I guess the writers have had a similar experience.
As for M$ stability, well, isn't that an oxymoron? Although I really dont know about CE... but I can say my Dreamcast never crashed >:)
...they're called politicians! Janet Reno is their leader.
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Actually I didn't even realise it was April 1st until I checked /. Hmm... I can't believe it didn't say anything on my Far Side calender!
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Does this mean NBC has no legal right to sue 2600 & co. for having their domain (www.fucknbc.com) pointing to NBC's site? I already assumed they didn't even before I heard about this ruling, but still, it helps.
To me this whole lawsuit is just as stupid as the amazon.com patent on an idea (their associates program). Oh well, there will always be money hungry corprate pigs out there (especially on the internet!) no matter what. Another victory for the people 8^)
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Just thinking of that name gives me a headache..... wasn't the bananarama's some kind of music group or something?