Yes, but people understand that they don't own the video that they rent. Do they understand that they don't own the video they "purchase", only the media? NO! Same goes for software.
The original premise of the market economy is that customers would be smart enough to choose the best service over a weaker service. Now, that's not the case anymore. Nobody reads the license agreement before they hit 'OK'. Is this good for the consumer? No! Is this what corporate america wants? Yes!
It's very nice for them - they can put basically put anything they want into agreement, and people will go along with it. They'll lease instead of buy, because they don't know what they're signing.
What's up with the OpenGL vs. DirectX? It's never made much of a difference to me. Maybe you're using a different refresh rate in OpenGL. Look in to increasing that.
BTW, the first time I played Descent, I got motion sickness, vertigo, and otherwise was very sick to my stomach. Cool game.
Actually I read the QPL recently, and it (to my suprise) doesn't have any restrictions like that. It simply states that you have to link it with another open-source program, which is also a restriction in the GPL (but not LGPL). The reason that you can't make a Windows program with QT without paying them is that they never gave you the source to the QT library for Windows.
I've been recieving spam recently, and most of it just gets forwarded to abuse@$name_of_isp. Is there some way to make an auto-daemon that accomplishes this purpose by
Planting it's email address in places like/.
Finding the "remove" address and responding (to get more spam)
And sending email to abuse@ each ISP that is being named, as well as the originating mail server?
Or am I smoking crack, or has this already been done?
BTW, spammers, feel free to harvest my email address *hehe* - I've noticed that quite a lot of spam uses yahoo accounts.
Actually, the best method would be with a Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange. Each user generates a secret key (let's call it x) and a public key, which is some k^x mod n. The values of k, n, and k^x mod n are published, and x is kept secret. These values can be verified to be unique if k, n, and k^x mod n are unique. To authenticate yourself, the server sends you k^y mod n, where y is the server's secret key and k and n are your values, and the server takes your published k^x mod n and raises that to y mod n. You take k^y mod n and raise it to x. You are now each in possession of the same number, k^(x*y) mod n, and can use that to encrypt a message and send it from yourself.
This garuntees that
The server can tell that you are the same person who connected previously with your key, every time.
The method is secure (it's security is linked to the security of RSA, through discrete log).
I didn't find a problem with the Open Group's license for Motif. It seemed to be a bastardized GPL that only let people use it on other Open Source platforms. Big deal.
Obviously, RMS spent too much time analyzing the license. He clains that the license is incompatible with most GNU/Linux distrobutions. Where? Why? He doesn't say. Maybe he's just reading too much into it.
Actually, TOG's licence reminded me of the QT licensing issues - TOG wants to get paid for commercial users of Motif. Hmmm....
Funny, I thought that all of KDE was now under the Artistic License, which is much more lenient about these things, and would make it legal to distribute? Or is this what the 3k bonus is for? The letter isn't clear to me.
The wosrt part of this is that Excite@Home, of which (correct me if I'm wrong) AT&T is a majority holder, has a monopoly on the ISP as well. It's as if AOL owned you phone line and was the only ISP to connect to. Sound scary? Sure.
The anti-cable monopoly fight has been going on for a while. I can have two cable TV providers where I live - AT&T (formerly TCI) and Ameritech. There's only one cable internet ISP, as well as Ameritech is getting out of the business.
Just think: in a little bit,
Your TV will come from AT&T
Your Internet will come from AT&T
Your wireless will come from AT&T
Your regular phone service will come from AT&T through the cable system.
Does a monopoly of cable sound like a good idea now? NO!
I am a TCI @Home subscriber, and I feel that my current level of service is inadequate. @Home simply stinks as an ISP, and TCI's cable services is horrible. How does this merger affect this? Now, there is no choice of cable TV provider in my area (Ameritech is leaving the business), and there is no choice of cable ISP.
What we have is a monopoly - a monopoly that does unfair things like cracking down on every Linux user that leaves a "Thanks for installing Apache" web page on their box, a monopoly with laughably inadequate technical support, a monopoly that doesn't deal with the 50 per day script-kiddie crack attempts against my box.
And it needs to stop. Mediaone should not be allowed to merge with AT&T - instead, they should expand into AT&T's market and compete to bring good cable internet service to the area.
Actually, I think a satalite similar to OSCAR (Orbital? Sattelite Carrying Ameteur Radio, sorry, no link) with a PSK-31 (sorry, no link - a digital mode) transmitter would be best. You could probly even telnet to it, and do karma whoring from above earth! (Ok, that last comment was OT and trolling, but don't mod the whole thing down because of it).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that 4.3 K/s is about the same as the bandwith for iDEN (Nextel)'s voice component. A working phone on that bandwith budget is quite possible. You just don't get super-mega internet-video-shebang.
Actully, this guy isn't informative. The article states that fake officials tried to buy the arms, operating under the name of Sealand. It didn't diss Sealand. Sealand didn't do anything wrong.
Actually, D3 stunk on the market despite being an Editor's Choice in almost every magazine in existance. The linux market might bring them the sales they need.
On a related note, anybody know if there's going to be a Linux version of Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force? It uses the Q3 engine.
What bothered me was on level two, where the guide bot would lead you into a chemical-plant room and then give you no help whatsoever. Usually, tho, I don't even use the GB. Nice to see that they put the gowingnut cheat from D2 as part of the game.
Has anybody else noticed visual artifacts with the nVidia drivers (.90?) I'm running XF86 4.0 on RHL 6.1, and when I run an X program, while the performance rocks, there's subtle visual artifacts all over the black areas of the screen. Card is a TNT2.
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There already is one. It's called a Use Tax. The EU's tax will be no easier to enforce than the Use Tax.
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Yes, but people understand that they don't own the video that they rent. Do they understand that they don't own the video they "purchase", only the media? NO! Same goes for software.
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It's very nice for them - they can put basically put anything they want into agreement, and people will go along with it. They'll lease instead of buy, because they don't know what they're signing.
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BTW, the first time I played Descent, I got motion sickness, vertigo, and otherwise was very sick to my stomach. Cool game.
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Actually I read the QPL recently, and it (to my suprise) doesn't have any restrictions like that. It simply states that you have to link it with another open-source program, which is also a restriction in the GPL (but not LGPL). The reason that you can't make a Windows program with QT without paying them is that they never gave you the source to the QT library for Windows.
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- Planting it's email address in places like
/. - Finding the "remove" address and responding (to get more spam)
- And sending email to abuse@ each ISP that is being named, as well as the originating mail server?
Or am I smoking crack, or has this already been done?BTW, spammers, feel free to harvest my email address *hehe* - I've noticed that quite a lot of spam uses yahoo accounts.
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This garuntees that
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Maybe the first exclusively digital, but Disney's Dinosaur was also shown in digital at some theaters.
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But it's not in the public domain. They made up a whole licencse!
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Obviously, RMS spent too much time analyzing the license. He clains that the license is incompatible with most GNU/Linux distrobutions. Where? Why? He doesn't say. Maybe he's just reading too much into it.
Actually, TOG's licence reminded me of the QT licensing issues - TOG wants to get paid for commercial users of Motif. Hmmm....
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Funny, I thought that all of KDE was now under the Artistic License, which is much more lenient about these things, and would make it legal to distribute? Or is this what the 3k bonus is for? The letter isn't clear to me.
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I don't have a lot of bucks. ISDN==$. DSL==$. It's usally faster than 56k. It's just some of the problems that make it frustrating!
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The anti-cable monopoly fight has been going on for a while. I can have two cable TV providers where I live - AT&T (formerly TCI) and Ameritech. There's only one cable internet ISP, as well as Ameritech is getting out of the business.
Just think: in a little bit,
- Your TV will come from AT&T
- Your Internet will come from AT&T
- Your wireless will come from AT&T
- Your regular phone service will come from AT&T through the cable system.
Does a monopoly of cable sound like a good idea now? NO!---------------------------------
What we have is a monopoly - a monopoly that does unfair things like cracking down on every Linux user that leaves a "Thanks for installing Apache" web page on their box, a monopoly with laughably inadequate technical support, a monopoly that doesn't deal with the 50 per day script-kiddie crack attempts against my box.
And it needs to stop. Mediaone should not be allowed to merge with AT&T - instead, they should expand into AT&T's market and compete to bring good cable internet service to the area.
Just another disgruntled TCI subscriber.
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Damn - what did you use to generate this???
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Actually, I think a satalite similar to OSCAR (Orbital? Sattelite Carrying Ameteur Radio, sorry, no link) with a PSK-31 (sorry, no link - a digital mode) transmitter would be best. You could probly even telnet to it, and do karma whoring from above earth! (Ok, that last comment was OT and trolling, but don't mod the whole thing down because of it).
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but that 4.3 K/s is about the same as the bandwith for iDEN (Nextel)'s voice component. A working phone on that bandwith budget is quite possible. You just don't get super-mega internet-video-shebang.
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Is it just me or is lately the time for worms? Between this (and all the other VBS worms), and the /. worm going around...
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Actully, this guy isn't informative. The article states that fake officials tried to buy the arms, operating under the name of Sealand. It didn't diss Sealand. Sealand didn't do anything wrong.
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BeOS runs in it's own space even if you install it in windows. It just kicks out windows and boots up, the same way the used to boot BeOS on the mac.
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On a related note, anybody know if there's going to be a Linux version of Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force? It uses the Q3 engine.
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ELSA makes 3d glasses that plug into a 16MB TNT, and others for later cards (i think). They run around 100 bucks. I dunno if they work under Linux.
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What bothered me was on level two, where the guide bot would lead you into a chemical-plant room and then give you no help whatsoever. Usually, tho, I don't even use the GB. Nice to see that they put the gowingnut cheat from D2 as part of the game.
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Has anybody else noticed visual artifacts with the nVidia drivers (.90?) I'm running XF86 4.0 on RHL 6.1, and when I run an X program, while the performance rocks, there's subtle visual artifacts all over the black areas of the screen. Card is a TNT2.
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Wow - the perfect argument. How come nobody else thought of this?
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