HP will have to pay DM12 ($5.40) for every machine it ships with a device that can store music - in other words, all of them.
Xerox Corporation Sued For Production Of Printer Paper
Newsline 2000
Today, Xerox Corporation recieved notification by several German organizations that it is requried to pay fees for printer paper that it produced. According to German officials, the paper fell under the catagory of 'piracy tool', as it could be used to store pirated music.
According to a representative of the antipiracy movement: "We believe that the elimination of this paper product will be a step forward for antipiracy movements worldwide. Not only is paper used to pirate music, but also to produce illegal copies of books and magazines. Eliminating paper will set a precendent that we can follow through with, to deal with magnetic tape, punch cards, and clay tablets."
Various producers of writing instruments were also required to pay fees, relating to their assistance of the trends to illegally copy information on 'paper'. These 'pens' and 'pencils' that they produce are capable of transcribing illegally copied data at a rate of up to a hundred words a minute on the paper. Said a representative of the movement, "These writing instruments are a big part of the problem. If we can just prevent pens and pencils from being produced, the illegal paper copying trend will end quickly."
ATM Machine
PIN Number
DSL Line
KBPS per second (horrible confusing, because it can actually mean something..)
VDU unit
EBCDIC code
IBM machines (not really, but should be)
Microsoft software (not really, but should be) ...language FORML
DOS operating system ...distribution of BSD (not really, but should be)
TOPS-20 operating system
ARPANET network
OSF Foundation
USG group
TECO editor
Yacc compiler (ouch.. think about it:)
EMACS editor (not really, but should be) ...
I'm pretty sure that repeating part of an abbreviation for clarity has become acceptable through overuse...
I mean, this is sort of obvious. Ii'm sure that most people here have felt weird after staying up for six days straight on only jolt cola and penguin mints to integrate the damn win2k server with the samba/linux network architecture because your idiot boss cannot keep his mouth shut at the department meeting last month about how much his ability to work was 'impaired' by his not being connected directly to the server bank, because he thinks that talking to one of the 'big computers' will make his internet connection faster so he can browse pr0n faster...
I use Windows on one box, Linux on another, a hacked together variant of Minix on a third. For graphics design I have an apple cube. I use each of them, and like all of them equally, with the exception of the Minix one, which sucks, because nobody makes software for it. The problem that I see here is that people do not truely understand the nature of each windowing system.
You are reading this from your own windowing system, (unless you use lynx, and then you are very cool:), most likely a windowing system which you understand very well. If it's windows 98, you probably understand the control panel and the system.ini files. If you're using 2000/NT4, you probably understand the CLI, and how to modify the config files. If you're using KDE or GNOME, you probably understand the command prompt and the configuration manager. If you're using Enlightenment, you like having lots of xterms:). However, the problem is not that you don't religiously know the benefits of your own windowing system, but that you haven't used other windowing systems long enough to understand their benefits.
Example: If you use Linux at home, and go to work on Win2k boxen, you won't learn all of the good things abou Win2k, because you will always be comparing it to Linux. Your instincts hold you back from fully using it, because you are sure that it can't do anything better, or different, than Linux, and that if it does, it does the thing worse.
The problem is you. Spend some time learning Windows, or MacOS, or BeOS, or GNOME, or KDE, or Enlightenment. The real power of all of them only becomes apparent when you approach them with an open mind, looking for how you can best use them. For example, I have written a switcher program for my Windows box to switch between LiteStep and the MS Windows gui/shell. LiteStep allows me to customize Windows nearly as much as the Linux equivalents do, and Windows provides me with a larger market of software and drivers. Don't complain when you can embrace and extend.
If this is not handled the right right way Microsoft will get in trouble for this.
I think that this latest product from Microsoft is very confusing. I thought that I bought the full version, but then it told me that it was based on subscriptions and I'm not sure if it's going to be running in three months.. I think that Microsoft needs to reannounce this product...
Does this mean that I can simply set the date forward a couple of decades when installing, and then set it back to today, so that I have quite a while until it expires?
I USE WordPerfect, yes it's around! It's really nice, too. The only problem would be converting all of those MSOffice documents to Wordperfect documents.. neither uses a standard (HTML) format for storing their stuff.
Except that nobody *actually* gains karma. I have never, ever gained karma, and I haven't heard of a single case in which somebody gained karma by being metamodded. I think that it just decreases karma if you mark the moderation unfair. Actually, does anybody know if it does actually increase karma?
The original 95 just sucks. Sorry about that. I needed to clarify. 95B, and 95C, which is essentialy 98, are nice. (Although some nifty start menu management stuff was added in 98..)
Most of us are familiar with Wine, but Plex86 is fairly new. What Plex86 does is to create a PC virtualization layer. This is not really running Windows 'on Linux', it's more running Windows 'diagonal to' Linux. That was probabilily horribly confusing. Let me explain.
Plex86 starts up Windows, running as a process. All well and good, right? Well, that Windows process is talking directly to the processor most of the time, so it's sort of running next to Linux on the box. HOWEVER, that's only most of the time. Plex86 traps instructions relating to memory, etc.. and keeps Windows contained to a little section of the true memory, etc of the system. Thus, some of the time it's next to Linux, some of the time it's on top of Linux.
As they say on the Plex86 website:
Plex86 will run as much of the operating system and application software natively as possible, the rest being emulated by the PC virtualization monitor.
Interestingly enough, one of the first uses of this kind of virtualization was under IBMs OS/370, which is/was used on big mainframes. If you get the chance, Linux can run under (diagonally from) OS/370, so in theory you could get Win95 on a mainframe. (Gasp.. choke..:)
Yes. Yes it does. You can beowulf cluster twenty emulated linux sessions.
Actually, this gives me an idea... Me:"Yes, I have a 20,000 node beowulf cluster.. how big is it? Oh, it's all in one machine, just a bunch of instances of plex86.."
Hmmm... now I can run Windows95 on top of Linux... hmmm... Why exactly is this a good thing?
-Linux can now port Windows apps better, and draw in a larger userbase
Um, no? Linux is just catching up with Windows 95, as most applications are moving either to ME or to 2000. ME is horribly complex (3x size of 98), and 2000 is a completely different kernal. And 2000 seems to be the long term player for Microsoft. Plus, 95 just sucks. No Windows 98 user would go back to 95 just for increased stability (I never thought that I would have the option, though...:).
-Now you can play Windows games under Linux! No. You can't. Well, you can play some, but slowly. Windows games fall into three catagories: DOS games that Windows runs in dos-boxes, Windows games that do software rendering, and Windows games that use propriety Microsoft stuff in order to run. Now, this can't do the dos-box games (I think..) because they do direct hardware access. It can't do the propriety Microsoft stuff, because that's propriety Microsoft stuff. Finally, it won't be able to do the software rendered games very fast, because the requests are getting filtered on five levels: Game, Windows API, Windows lower-GUI, Plex86, and then the Linux Kernal. Damn, and you thought three layers was slow!
So, with that said, why are we doing this again, instead of concentrating on Win2000?
5) IE is also available for MacOS, MacOS X (Carbon), Solaris and HPUX. I think it would be great if Linux and FreeBSD were supported. I don't care about OS/2, Be, HURD and all that other shit.
IE for MacOS is very nice, as standards compliance goes, and really appears to have been made intelligantly. Probably Microsoft got some help from Apple or somebody to make it...
IE for Solaris sucks. Royally. In addition to being slowwww, it also spawns a dozen background handler processes that (if my hex calc and core dumps are correct) parse and format HTML. The only explaination I can think of is that Windows already has these built into the kernal or somewhere, and IE just calls them, but on Solaris it needs to emulate them. Ouch.
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To be blunt, she talked me out of buying it
Holy shit, are they supposed to do that?!
First we have the presidential election all screwed up, now we can't even get a verdict on which processor to use! What is going on here?!
No. You are being sued in advance.
HP will have to pay DM12 ($5.40) for every machine it ships with a device that can store music - in other words, all of them.
Xerox Corporation Sued For Production Of Printer Paper
Newsline 2000
Today, Xerox Corporation recieved notification by several German organizations that it is requried to pay fees for printer paper that it produced. According to German officials, the paper fell under the catagory of 'piracy tool', as it could be used to store pirated music.
According to a representative of the antipiracy movement: "We believe that the elimination of this paper product will be a step forward for antipiracy movements worldwide. Not only is paper used to pirate music, but also to produce illegal copies of books and magazines. Eliminating paper will set a precendent that we can follow through with, to deal with magnetic tape, punch cards, and clay tablets."
Various producers of writing instruments were also required to pay fees, relating to their assistance of the trends to illegally copy information on 'paper'. These 'pens' and 'pencils' that they produce are capable of transcribing illegally copied data at a rate of up to a hundred words a minute on the paper. Said a representative of the movement, "These writing instruments are a big part of the problem. If we can just prevent pens and pencils from being produced, the illegal paper copying trend will end quickly."
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these...
:)
Sorry, couldn't resist that.
ATM Machine
...language FORML
...distribution of BSD (not really, but should be) :)
...
PIN Number
DSL Line
KBPS per second (horrible confusing, because it can actually mean something..)
VDU unit
EBCDIC code
IBM machines (not really, but should be)
Microsoft software (not really, but should be)
DOS operating system
TOPS-20 operating system
ARPANET network
OSF Foundation
USG group
TECO editor
Yacc compiler (ouch.. think about it
EMACS editor (not really, but should be)
I'm pretty sure that repeating part of an abbreviation for clarity has become acceptable through overuse...
This really sucks. I didn't know who he was, but.. damn. From what I can see of him now, he was a really cool guy.
/. nested, so these two comments were right on top of eachother:
But anyway, I found this amusing. I read
100% Packet Loss (Score:5, Insightful)
It is sad (Score:4, Insightful)
To see all the bad taste of some the post that are put up here...
I mean, this is sort of obvious. Ii'm sure that most people here have felt weird after staying up for six days straight on only jolt cola and penguin mints to integrate the damn win2k server with the samba/linux network architecture because your idiot boss cannot keep his mouth shut at the department meeting last month about how much his ability to work was 'impaired' by his not being connected directly to the server bank, because he thinks that talking to one of the 'big computers' will make his internet connection faster so he can browse pr0n faster...
Wait.. what was I talking about again?
I use Windows on one box, Linux on another, a hacked together variant of Minix on a third. For graphics design I have an apple cube. I use each of them, and like all of them equally, with the exception of the Minix one, which sucks, because nobody makes software for it. The problem that I see here is that people do not truely understand the nature of each windowing system.
:), most likely a windowing system which you understand very well. If it's windows 98, you probably understand the control panel and the system.ini files. If you're using 2000/NT4, you probably understand the CLI, and how to modify the config files. If you're using KDE or GNOME, you probably understand the command prompt and the configuration manager. If you're using Enlightenment, you like having lots of xterms :). However, the problem is not that you don't religiously know the benefits of your own windowing system, but that you haven't used other windowing systems long enough to understand their benefits.
You are reading this from your own windowing system, (unless you use lynx, and then you are very cool
Example: If you use Linux at home, and go to work on Win2k boxen, you won't learn all of the good things abou Win2k, because you will always be comparing it to Linux. Your instincts hold you back from fully using it, because you are sure that it can't do anything better, or different, than Linux, and that if it does, it does the thing worse.
The problem is you. Spend some time learning Windows, or MacOS, or BeOS, or GNOME, or KDE, or Enlightenment. The real power of all of them only becomes apparent when you approach them with an open mind, looking for how you can best use them. For example, I have written a switcher program for my Windows box to switch between LiteStep and the MS Windows gui/shell. LiteStep allows me to customize Windows nearly as much as the Linux equivalents do, and Windows provides me with a larger market of software and drivers. Don't complain when you can embrace and extend.
If this is not handled the right right way Microsoft will get in trouble for this.
I think that this latest product from Microsoft is very confusing. I thought that I bought the full version, but then it told me that it was based on subscriptions and I'm not sure if it's going to be running in three months.. I think that Microsoft needs to reannounce this product...
Does this mean that I can simply set the date forward a couple of decades when installing, and then set it back to today, so that I have quite a while until it expires?
WordPerfect (is it still around?)
I USE WordPerfect, yes it's around! It's really nice, too. The only problem would be converting all of those MSOffice documents to Wordperfect documents.. neither uses a standard (HTML) format for storing their stuff.
have 20 free years of ms products
...
Oh god, what a horrible thought
Except that nobody *actually* gains karma. I have never, ever gained karma, and I haven't heard of a single case in which somebody gained karma by being metamodded. I think that it just decreases karma if you mark the moderation unfair. Actually, does anybody know if it does actually increase karma?
So that's what those Blue Screens are...
.com1, .com2 etc as the .com domain fills...
.coma, .comb, etc?
Surely you mean
Yup. Microsoft.pro.
The original 95 just sucks. Sorry about that. I needed to clarify. 95B, and 95C, which is essentialy 98, are nice. (Although some nifty start menu management stuff was added in 98..)
Yes, because 2:13 isn't that late.
Yes, because the only 9 to 5 schedual real programmers keep includes 2:13 AM.
Yes, because the chances are that the time is wrong: They just got Windows95 booting, would they be concerned about the time settings?
Yes, because Plex86 is open source, so you can check it yourself. :)
use x86, and so x86 virtualization
No, not x86 virt.. just the virtualization by means of command trapping and direct processor access...
Plex86 starts up Windows, running as a process. All well and good, right? Well, that Windows process is talking directly to the processor most of the time, so it's sort of running next to Linux on the box. HOWEVER, that's only most of the time. Plex86 traps instructions relating to memory, etc.. and keeps Windows contained to a little section of the true memory, etc of the system. Thus, some of the time it's next to Linux, some of the time it's on top of Linux.
As they say on the Plex86 website:
Interestingly enough, one of the first uses of this kind of virtualization was under IBMs OS/370, which is/was used on big mainframes. If you get the chance, Linux can run under (diagonally from) OS/370, so in theory you could get Win95 on a mainframe. (Gasp.. choke..
Yes. Yes it does. You can beowulf cluster twenty emulated linux sessions.
Actually, this gives me an idea...
Me:"Yes, I have a 20,000 node beowulf cluster.. how big is it? Oh, it's all in one machine, just a bunch of instances of plex86.."
That way I can run linux on my x86
Or I can run Windows under Linux under Windows... ohhh.. a kalaidoscope of emulating possibilities.. *drool*
Hmmm... now I can run Windows95 on top of Linux... hmmm... Why exactly is this a good thing?
-Linux can now port Windows apps better, and draw in a larger userbase
Um, no? Linux is just catching up with Windows 95, as most applications are moving either to ME or to 2000. ME is horribly complex (3x size of 98), and 2000 is a completely different kernal. And 2000 seems to be the long term player for Microsoft. Plus, 95 just sucks. No Windows 98 user would go back to 95 just for increased stability (I never thought that I would have the option, though...:).
-Now you can play Windows games under Linux!
No. You can't. Well, you can play some, but slowly. Windows games fall into three catagories: DOS games that Windows runs in dos-boxes, Windows games that do software rendering, and Windows games that use propriety Microsoft stuff in order to run. Now, this can't do the dos-box games (I think..) because they do direct hardware access. It can't do the propriety Microsoft stuff, because that's propriety Microsoft stuff. Finally, it won't be able to do the software rendered games very fast, because the requests are getting filtered on five levels: Game, Windows API, Windows lower-GUI, Plex86, and then the Linux Kernal. Damn, and you thought three layers was slow!
So, with that said, why are we doing this again, instead of concentrating on Win2000?
5) IE is also available for MacOS, MacOS X (Carbon), Solaris and HPUX. I think it would be great if Linux and FreeBSD were supported. I don't care about OS/2, Be, HURD and all that other shit.
IE for MacOS is very nice, as standards compliance goes, and really appears to have been made intelligantly. Probably Microsoft got some help from Apple or somebody to make it...
IE for Solaris sucks. Royally. In addition to being slowwww, it also spawns a dozen background handler processes that (if my hex calc and core dumps are correct) parse and format HTML. The only explaination I can think of is that Windows already has these built into the kernal or somewhere, and IE just calls them, but on Solaris it needs to emulate them. Ouch.