It's not particularly small. Compare it to
a Sony Vaio C1, here are the
specifications. The Vaio C1 is 249 x 152 x 27 mm, and weighs 1.1kg. That includes keyboard, screen, 30GB hard drive, and a battery. And the Vaio even has a Crusoe processor. What's so
good about the "Ezmo"?
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Don't worry about the government making GPLd software illegal. It would only affect you if you lived
in a stupid country that made encryption illegal. People who live in free countries would still be able to write
and use free software.
We hope the project will make money, of course, but we already know that we can make a living if I write regular novels. (I'm going to continue to write standard books as well as Shadowmarch - there will be announcements on the site about my other projects.) We're very willing to
try this as an experiment. But if people start passing too many free copies of the Shadowmarch story around and we get to the point where it doesn't pay for itself anymore, then I'll have to stop doing it, and nobody (me included) will get to find out where it's going. But I don't want to put too much emphasis on that. Most net-users are honest folk anyway, and my readership has always been the best of the best in all ways.
It looks like they intend to make money using the
"please don't steal our stuff" model.
It should be interesting to see if it works.
I'm a burglar. I steal about 200 CDs a week.
I don't know why people are complaining! It
leads to more CD sales because people have to
replace those CDs! So it must be good, right?
One item I didn't see mentioned in the story: if commercial code is closed-source, how can you spot stolen^H^H^H^H^H^Hnoncompliant code? Much harder with a stripped binary...
And what does "copyright" mean on a piece of sourcecode anyway? What can somebody do with some GPL'd code and then release non-GPL'd code?
Can I take 10% of a source file as "fair use"?
Can I search and replace all variable names to be new, different variable names and then it's a new piece of code?
Can I type in my "new" code looking at the old code and changing all the names?
Can I look at the GPL'd code and work out the algorithms and write my new code based on that?
I don't know. Does anybody have any ideas? Lots of books are written that have very similar plots and stories, but they aren't copyright violations. How does copyright work with source code?
Your not complaining. If information can't be accessible, what's the point? If the audience isn't being reached, the creators of it have to know or they won't change the site.
They should beable to work out that people can't find stuff if they take the time to look at their logfiles. For example, I have been to this site quite a few times searching for something specific that should be easy to find on that site. I have never successfully found it on the site. I was looking for a telnet server for Windows NT. I used the search function on the site, and found nothing. I did an alta vista search and found a page with the information I wanted and a link to the site that had the software I wanted! The company running a site which has a box saying "search this site" should log failed searches and work out why their search function is failing to give people what they want.
Also, I don't like transparent GIFs. People make these GIFs and then make them transparent, assuming that my browser will have a white background. So for users with a black background, often the GIF looks really crappy, or in the case of diagrams, often totally invisible! If they want to assume that users will have a white background so that their GIF will look good, why don't they just use a non-transparent GIF with a white background???
Ok, I only have a slight programming knowledge, so I honestly don't know. What is;; for??? I'm serious.
In C programming, you can write an infinite loop with for(;;) like this: for(;;) { /* do something */ }
It's not particularly good style, though, because it's not obvious what it means. A better way to do it is like this: while(TRUE) { /* do something */ }
However, you would have to be pretty inexperienced in C programming to not know about for(;;). That's why the guy was going off about the programmer who called them.
Technically I would have to control the actual server that you could connect to and issue the proper command via say something like javascript, an internal browser command, or java, and possibly activeX.
No, you would have to control the computer I am using to post. You need to run a program on my computer to find out my Processor ID. I like using Lynx as a web browser. Is the Lynx development team going to add code to make Lynx send the Processor ID? I don't think so. And if they did, I can keep using the version I've already got which doesn't transmit the ID. If some operating system that included a browser started transmitting the code, use a different operating system. Write your own! Write a filter that takes the code out of the packets going into your Ethernet card driver.
A processor ID code is actually a good idea. You don't HAVE to use software that tells everybody in the world your ID number, you know. You could control where the code is sent to.
What's the big deal about the Processor ID anyway? I'm posting this using a Pentium III. Go ahead, tell me what my Processor ID is. Does Linux blurt the ID all over the web? Does Lynx tell everybody the ID number? Does Netscape? Does ANY software actually TRANSMIT the ID number ANYWHERE???
Jamming itself is quite simple. You just pump out a bunch of signals on the same frequencies as the GPS wants to use. However, there is another problem for the wannabe jammer, which is that if you start jamming something, then you are generating lots of radio waves which can be detected. Your enemy simply triangulates where the jamming is coming from, and within a minute of turning on your jammer, you will have artillery falling all over your position.
A bunch of 155mm shells will probably convince you that jamming is not such a good idea.
Have you looked at AOL's main page lately? I don't mean the one at aol.com, but the one AOL members see when they log on. If you're a Linux user, the answer is obviously "no" unless you borrow a friend's computer (and AOL account), because AOL doesn't allow Linux folks to access their system.
So maybe it's time for a new online service, which only allows people to connect up with Linux? It could be called "Linux OnLine"! LOL! If somebody tries to connect up with a proprietary OS, they get redirected to a random download site for Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/ FreeDOS or some other FREE OS! LOL! LOL! LOL! Connect up to LOL today! LOL's main page should have news for Linux users who aren't super-elite ha>ors, with tips and tricks for using Linux, places to go to get new software, previews, reviews, hardware help, the possibilities are endless!
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It's not particularly small. Compare it to a Sony Vaio C1, here are the specifications. The Vaio C1 is 249 x 152 x 27 mm, and weighs 1.1kg. That includes keyboard, screen, 30GB hard drive, and a battery. And the Vaio even has a Crusoe processor. What's so good about the "Ezmo"?
Don't worry about the government making GPLd software illegal. It would only affect you if you lived in a stupid country that made encryption illegal. People who live in free countries would still be able to write and use free software.
> News for nerds,
It's not news. Where's the news?
> Stuff that matters.
Where's the "stuff that matters"? This certainly doesn't matter.
I'm a burglar. I steal about 200 CDs a week. I don't know why people are complaining! It leads to more CD sales because people have to replace those CDs! So it must be good, right?
And what does "copyright" mean on a piece of sourcecode anyway? What can somebody do with some GPL'd code and then release non-GPL'd code?
- Can I take 10% of a source file as "fair use"?
- Can I search and replace all variable names to be new, different variable names and then it's a new piece of code?
- Can I type in my "new" code looking at the old code and changing all the names?
- Can I look at the GPL'd code and work out the algorithms and write my new code based on that?
I don't know. Does anybody have any ideas? Lots of books are written that have very similar plots and stories, but they aren't copyright violations. How does copyright work with source code?Your not complaining. If information can't be accessible, what's the point? If the audience isn't being reached, the creators of it have to know or they won't change the site.
They should beable to work out that people can't find stuff if they take the time to look at their logfiles. For example, I have been to this site quite a few times searching for something specific that should be easy to find on that site. I have never successfully found it on the site. I was looking for a telnet server for Windows NT. I used the search function on the site, and found nothing. I did an alta vista search and found a page with the information I wanted and a link to the site that had the software I wanted! The company running a site which has a box saying "search this site" should log failed searches and work out why their search function is failing to give people what they want.
Also, I don't like transparent GIFs. People make these GIFs and then make them transparent, assuming that my browser will have a white background. So for users with a black background, often the GIF looks really crappy, or in the case of diagrams, often totally invisible! If they want to assume that users will have a white background so that their GIF will look good, why don't they just use a non-transparent GIF with a white background???
Ok, I only have a slight programming knowledge, so I honestly don't know. What is ;; for??? I'm serious.
/* do something */
/* do something */
In C programming, you can write an infinite loop with for(;;) like this:
for(;;)
{
}
It's not particularly good style, though, because it's not obvious what it means. A better way to do it is like this:
while(TRUE)
{
}
However, you would have to be pretty inexperienced in C programming to not know about for(;;). That's why the guy was going off about the programmer who called them.
Technically I would have to control the actual server that you could connect to and issue the proper command via say something like javascript, an internal browser command, or java, and possibly activeX.
No, you would have to control the computer I am using to post. You need to run a program on my computer to find out my Processor ID. I like using Lynx as a web browser. Is the Lynx development team going to add code to make Lynx send the Processor ID? I don't think so. And if they did, I can keep using the version I've already got which doesn't transmit the ID. If some operating system that included a browser started transmitting the code, use a different operating system. Write your own! Write a filter that takes the code out of the packets going into your Ethernet card driver.
A processor ID code is actually a good idea. You don't HAVE to use software that tells everybody in the world your ID number, you know. You could control where the code is sent to.
BRING BACK THE PROCESSOR ID!!!
What's the big deal about the Processor ID anyway? I'm posting this using a Pentium III. Go ahead, tell me what my Processor ID is. Does Linux blurt the ID all over the web? Does Lynx tell everybody the ID number? Does Netscape? Does ANY software actually TRANSMIT the ID number ANYWHERE???
Jamming itself is quite simple. You just pump
out a bunch of signals on the same frequencies
as the GPS wants to use. However, there is
another problem for the wannabe jammer, which
is that if you start jamming something, then
you are generating lots of radio waves which
can be detected. Your enemy simply triangulates
where the jamming is coming from, and within
a minute of turning on your jammer, you will
have artillery falling all over your position.
A bunch of 155mm shells will probably convince
you that jamming is not such a good idea.
10000 Gigabits in a sugar cube! Zowie! Let me be the first to say:
TEN THOUSAND GIGABITS SHOULD BE ENOUGH FOR ANYBODY!
And you can quote me on that.
cheers
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