Wow, that's even worse! This sounds like we've got a major potential lawsuit from those who are visually impaired. I would think that the equal access laws such as the ADA would have strong precidence over this.
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Same reason to capitalize the first and third letter of a name such as McWhatever. Part of the choice in creating the spelling of a proper name is to decide on capitalization issues.
Actually, that brings one of the main features that works in ksh but not in bash or pdksh, which is:
some_command |read varname
For whatever reason, varname is never set in bash or pdksh. What makes this particular operation so difficult? Do most shells execute the read after pipe in a sub process?
The article makes mention that projects like distributed.net and seti@home are successfull because participants donate their unused cycles for a project they feel good about. However, it would be rather difficult to get a large enough number of volunteers to sign up for tasks they are indifferent to, even if they get paid a small amount, because we are dealing with insignifficant sums (to the participants).
Therefore, I propose that projects such as Popular Power, etc., abandon the idea of paying individuals a few nickles for some amount of cpu processing, but instead pay the charitable organization of the individuals choice.
For example, you could sign up your machine on, i.e, Team FSF, and for every X number of opperations your machine computes for these distributed projects, a dollar would be donated to the FSF.
Actually, all they need is those static straps that attach to the heal of your shoes. When I used to work at a memory manufacturing company, the factory floor was conductive/grounded, and the factory workers had heal straps with a piece that would be tucked into their shoe. There'd be enough sweat buildup in the socks so the strap wouldn't have to directly contact the skin.
No, it was strictly that VHS was more "open" than Beta. Sony strictly controlled who could make players, and even controlled who could sell content for Beta (you had to have a license from Sony). When two things are both good enough, the open one usually wins out over closed.
This may even have been a situation where management wasn't aware of any violation, it could have been one of the programmers taking a "short-cut" by "borrowing" some code from the GPL'd program without informing his boss. I'm sure this happens all the time, seeing how many programmers I've run accross who are less than competent, they may resort to this in order to make their boss think they are being productive.
This is known as a "Post Office Patent", but it won't stand up in court. The reason is, you could mail yourself an un-sealed empty envelope, then at some later date, put someone elses work in it, seal it, then clame that as proof you initiated the work first.
As to the original topic of why to register your copyrights... when it comes to court, if you don't have a registered copyright, the burden of proof is in you, whereas a registerd copyright puts the burden of proof on the other party.
Simple. You give your code away under the terms of the GPL. It is also possible to give a seperate (independent) license to specific parties if they don't want do be bound by the GPL (assuming you own the copyright to all the code in your GPL program). Usually, this involves money transfer. (i.e., if you wanted to use a part of my GPL'd code in your proprietary project, and not make your whole project GPL'd, you can pay me money for a seperate non-GPL'd license).
So, triple damages would be three times what you would have charged for that alternative license.
Pitfall II was rather easy to get a perfect score in (hmm, I wonder why I only managed it once?). The trickiest part was the Condors (i think?), they would fly in a sine-wave pattern. I ended up making up a template I could hold on the screen at the highest fligt point, and use it to measuer where I had to stand in order for the condor to fly over me.
This was the PCjr version of Pitfall II (cartridge game).
One of the major complaints about svgalib is that if a program does nasty things and doesn't clean up properly, or crashes, it can leave your display hosed. What I thought about doing is creating an svgalibd that would link to svgalib, and a replacement svgalib that impliments all the functions as calls to svgalibd through sockets or shared memory. Therefore, svgalibd can act as a traffic cop, and the individual user programs wouldn't need to be suid root.
Does anyone see any reason why this wouldn't be practicle?
I will be putting together a custom Linux or BSD distribution ISO image, that when booted up will auto-install onto the HD. Once running, input will be taken from a generic remote control (via the IR Receiver), and output to the LCD display module. No monitor or keyboard involved. To load songs into the unit, you put a cd in the drive, select the tracks to copy, and enter a destination playlist number from the remote. To play songs, you select the playlist number, then either random play within the playlist, or select the individual track. The interface will basicaly mimmic a 200-disk CD changer (no song titles, etc., but it should be simple enough to use that anyone's parents should be able to figure it out).
Maybe I should set up a web site for this project (as if there aren't enough MP3 player sites out there already).
You guys are all missing the point (why DOS? what DOS apps?)... the point of Plex86 (which used to be called FreeMWare, but was renamed), is to provide a Free VMware work-alike. It's goals are to be able to run ANY os under Linux (and possibly other OS's), but getting something simple like DOS to boot is the first step.
Personally, I think they've come pretty far in only a few months. BTW, this project grew out of the BOCHS project (which provides an Intel platform emulator under Unix), the difference is, Plex86 doesn't emulate an x86 CPU, it runs x86 code natively and traps privlidged instructions (and also pulls some other tricks to trap non-trapple privlidged instructions) so that it can run an alternate OS under Linux at near-native performance (about 80 - 90% of the native hardware). This is so you don't have to dual boot. Also, unlike Wine, Plex86 will allow you to boot any support OS under under it (just like VMWare).
I've got an external SCSI Orb, and it works great with Linux and *BSD. It shows up as a scsi hard drive.
The only problem is it isn't supported as removeable media. If you boot up without a disk in the drive, linux won't see the drive, and swapping disks once linux is booted doesn't work to well.
Lets put this in another context. Lets say I own a restaurant, which has a number of regular customers. There is a gang of thugs who doesn't like a particuar customer of mine, so they decide to break a few windows/smash some furniture/etc. in my restaurant. Can I tell that customer that I will no longer serve him? What if the gang doesn't like this person due to regligious or ethnic reasons? Would it then be against the law for me to deny service (due to his race, etc.)?
The problem (preceived) is due to the fact that this is a transcript of a phone interview. Written language and spoken language are presented in two uniquely different formats. Especially during an interview situation, where thoughts are spoken as they occure. I'm sure that if you hear an audio version of this interview, it will make a lot more sense than the transcribed version.
For other examples of this, take a look at the transcript for some Barbra Walters interviews (or turn on close caption on your TV). The person being interviewed sounds a lot dumber in the written transcript than in the audio/video recording.
>If you want to look at the real culprits. I'd go >for the record labels. How much does it cost to >produce, package and market an album?
This was addressed in the interview. Basicly, the record company looses a lot of money on artists that don't go anywhere. Therefore, the $17.95 you pay for a CD goes to not only pay off the marketing/promotion for that artist, but also for the money lost on all the other artists the record company signed, which don't make it.
The RSA pattent isn't valid in EU due to the algorithm being published before the patent was filed. In the US, you have one year after publication to file the patent, but in the EU, it has to be filed prior to publication (at least, this is the story that I read about somewhere).
Better yet, have account #3, post the address far and wide (various news groups, etc.). Use this for a "spam trap". Compute a CRC on each message that goes into this account, and compare with CRC's of messages in your real account, and filter out matches.
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I think he was making a pun, since Gnomes logo is a foot, it follows it is easier to use your feet/toes with gnome...
Wow, that's even worse! This sounds like we've got a major potential lawsuit from those who are visually impaired. I would think that the equal access laws such as the ADA would have strong precidence over this.
Same reason to capitalize the first and third letter of a name such as McWhatever. Part of the choice in creating the spelling of a proper name is to decide on capitalization issues.
Actually, with it being January in Chicago, my a/c works wonderful with windows open.
some_command |read varname
For whatever reason, varname is never set in bash or pdksh. What makes this particular operation so difficult? Do most shells execute the read after pipe in a sub process?
Therefore, I propose that projects such as Popular Power, etc., abandon the idea of paying individuals a few nickles for some amount of cpu processing, but instead pay the charitable organization of the individuals choice.
For example, you could sign up your machine on, i.e, Team FSF, and for every X number of opperations your machine computes for these distributed projects, a dollar would be donated to the FSF.
Actually, all they need is those static straps that attach to the heal of your shoes. When I used to work at a memory manufacturing company, the factory floor was conductive/grounded, and the factory workers had heal straps with a piece that would be tucked into their shoe. There'd be enough sweat buildup in the socks so the strap wouldn't have to directly contact the skin.
No, it was strictly that VHS was more "open" than Beta. Sony strictly controlled who could make players, and even controlled who could sell content for Beta (you had to have a license from Sony). When two things are both good enough, the open one usually wins out over closed.
This may even have been a situation where management wasn't aware of any violation, it could have been one of the programmers taking a "short-cut" by "borrowing" some code from the GPL'd program without informing his boss. I'm sure this happens all the time, seeing how many programmers I've run accross who are less than competent, they may resort to this in order to make their boss think they are being productive.
As to the original topic of why to register your copyrights... when it comes to court, if you don't have a registered copyright, the burden of proof is in you, whereas a registerd copyright puts the burden of proof on the other party.
So, triple damages would be three times what you would have charged for that alternative license.
This was the PCjr version of Pitfall II (cartridge game).
Does anyone see any reason why this wouldn't be practicle?
Except Amazon's pattent also covers "any guester", so this won't pass muster.
I've added up the components that would comprise my MP3 (or OGG) player that I'm building next month...
- Integrated Motherboard -- $75.00
- 64Meg Ram -- $64.00
- 200mhz CPU -- $40.00
- 27Gb HD -- $135.00
- Case & Power -- $40.00
- IR Receiver -- $35.00
- Matrix Orbital LCD -- $80.00
- CD-RW drive -- $135.00
I will be putting together a custom Linux or BSD distribution ISO image, that when booted up will auto-install onto the HD. Once running, input will be taken from a generic remote control (via the IR Receiver), and output to the LCD display module. No monitor or keyboard involved. To load songs into the unit, you put a cd in the drive, select the tracks to copy, and enter a destination playlist number from the remote. To play songs, you select the playlist number, then either random play within the playlist, or select the individual track. The interface will basicaly mimmic a 200-disk CD changer (no song titles, etc., but it should be simple enough to use that anyone's parents should be able to figure it out).(Amptron PM599-LMR)integraded audio/vidoe/10BT
Maybe I should set up a web site for this project (as if there aren't enough MP3 player sites out there already).
This would be similar to saying that it's OK to steal towles from a hotel room, since part of the rates you pay are to cover stolen towles.
>As long as you stay away from those gotos. ;-)
Unless, of course, you were writing a recipe for a certain pasta dish...
Personally, I think they've come pretty far in only a few months. BTW, this project grew out of the BOCHS project (which provides an Intel platform emulator under Unix), the difference is, Plex86 doesn't emulate an x86 CPU, it runs x86 code natively and traps privlidged instructions (and also pulls some other tricks to trap non-trapple privlidged instructions) so that it can run an alternate OS under Linux at near-native performance (about 80 - 90% of the native hardware). This is so you don't have to dual boot. Also, unlike Wine, Plex86 will allow you to boot any support OS under under it (just like VMWare).
The only problem is it isn't supported as removeable media. If you boot up without a disk in the drive, linux won't see the drive, and swapping disks once linux is booted doesn't work to well.
But, from what I hear, the heat and a/c are electric based, and if you run either one, your gas milage drops in half.
Lets put this in another context. Lets say I own a restaurant, which has a number of regular customers. There is a gang of thugs who doesn't like a particuar customer of mine, so they decide to break a few windows/smash some furniture/etc. in my restaurant. Can I tell that customer that I will no longer serve him? What if the gang doesn't like this person due to regligious or ethnic reasons? Would it then be against the law for me to deny service (due to his race, etc.)?
For other examples of this, take a look at the transcript for some Barbra Walters interviews (or turn on close caption on your TV). The person being interviewed sounds a lot dumber in the written transcript than in the audio/video recording.
This was addressed in the interview. Basicly, the record company looses a lot of money on artists that don't go anywhere. Therefore, the $17.95 you pay for a CD goes to not only pay off the marketing/promotion for that artist, but also for the money lost on all the other artists the record company signed, which don't make it.
The RSA pattent isn't valid in EU due to the algorithm being published before the patent was filed. In the US, you have one year after publication to file the patent, but in the EU, it has to be filed prior to publication (at least, this is the story that I read about somewhere).
I filter out about 90% of my spam that way.