What? I'm no gimp pro, but I was not aware that it didn't have color separation abilities. Why not? Maybe I'm ignorant, but isn't color separation just a well-defined linear transformation of RGB values? What am I missing?
...examples of success following this way (Visual Basic and Delphi, for example), but I think a business strategy like that isn't good anymore. See the current developing of Perl version 6 for a very good example of language discussion. Seems to me the owners of Rebol language are limitating the popularization of that language choosing that way of dealing in this issue...
I initially read this as "See the current developing of Perl version 6 for a very good example of language that isn't good anymore."
The initial post was pretty flippant, yes, but seriously, this is a fast browser. I'm impressed. I may switch from konq/kmail if they put local mail file access back into mozilla mail, and netscape's LDAP addressing was nice, too.
If people want a python like language they would just sue python.
Good point. If Larry would round up a few lawyers, he could probably convince a jury that Python is a rip off of his ideas, and then put them out of business. Then, since it's all open source anyway, he could implement Python within Perl. You're really on to something there.
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There is an article by Bjarne Stroustrup about the future of C++ where he goes overboard on this idea.
It goes like this: He wants to overload whitespace, but recognizes that sometimes you want implicit whitespace overloading, such as ab==a*b. So, he proposes limiting all variables to one character. This is possible with unicode, he argues.
The article reads more like science fiction by the time you get to the end. 3-d editors, overloading whitespace along all three spatial axes, etc.
The guy is either a comic genius or completely off his rocker.
the word "stealing" also implies that you took the rights to the property/wealth/etc AWAY from the original owner
Not so. Here's something I stole from www.m-w.com. Look at transitive sense 1A and 1c.
Main Entry: 1steal
Pronunciation: 'stE(&)l
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): stole/'stOl/; stolen/'stO-l&n/; stealing
Etymology: Middle English stelen, from Old English stelan; akin to Old High German stelan to steal
Date: before 12th century intransitive senses 1: to take the property of another wrongfully and especially as an habitual or regular practice 2: to come or go secretly, unobtrusively, gradually, or unexpectedly 3: to steal or attempt to steal a base transitive senses 1 a: to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully <stole a car> b: to take away by force or unjust means <they've stolen our liberty> c: to take surreptitiously or without permission <steal a kiss> d: to appropriate to oneself or beyond one's proper share: make oneself the focus of <steal the show> 2 a: to move, convey, or introduce secretly : SMUGGLEb: to accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner <steal a visit> 3 a: to seize, gain, or win by trickery, skill, or daring <a basketball player adept at stealing the ball> <stole the election> bof a base runner: to reach (a base) safely solely by running and usually catching the opposing team off guard - stealable/'stE-l&-b&l/ adjective - stealernoun - steal a march on: to gain an advantage on unobserved - steal one's thunder: to grab attention from another especially by anticipating an idea, plan, or presentation also: to claim credit for another's idea synonymsSTEAL, PILFER, FILCH, PURLOIN mean to take from another without right or without detection. STEAL may apply to any surreptitious taking of something and differs from the other terms by commonly applying to intangibles as well as material things <steal jewels> <stole a look at the gifts>. PILFER implies stealing repeatedly in small amounts <pilfered from his employer>. FILCH adds a suggestion of snatching quickly and surreptitiously <filched an apple from the tray>. PURLOIN stresses removing or carrying off for one's own use or purposes <printed a purloined document>.
I totally understand that the "Free Tibet" reference appears out of character with the rest of the above post. It is the strongarm takeover and anticompetitive, illegal tactics that MS uses I was referring to. The casualty of DR DOS and the "Microsoft tax" on OEMs are the shining examples.
You are an ultra right-wing piece of shit. The rich get their money by exploiting the poor. So getting money from rich people and giving it back to the poor isn't stealing.. it's justice.
You are an ultra left-wing econonomic ignoramus. Almost everyone, rich or poor, gets their money by working and/or putting themselves or their well-being at risk. The rich either have worked harder or have had their risks pay off. This is not an injustice.
Simply claiming for yourself the rights to the property/wealth/etc. of any other person is stealing. How can you even attempt to argue this point?
Unless they are slaves or there is collusion going on in the labor market (which is illegal unless you are a union) "the poor" are not exploited. They are free to choose if and/or where to work. Of course they don't have as many choices as someone who is well-off, but they can make choices to become well-off. Yes it's hard and it takes time, but it is not unjust. After all, economics isn't about money, it's about choices.
Sometimes I'd like to see what would happen if we let people like you experiment with a world where you implement your economic schemes and remove all incentive to excel. (oh yeah, it's called "communism.")
uhm, because it is different! stealing software is quite different from stealing hardware. when you steal hardware, the inventory level of a store just went down. not so with software
It's supply side stealing vs. demand side stealing. Piracy steals from the demand side. Reducing demand for someone's product is not a bad thing in itself; for instance it is OK if you are offering a competing product. This is not what is happening here.
I am definitely of the opinion that property law will have to be revamped extensively in the face of digital information as property, but I will hardly join in the ill conceived and intellectually disingenuous argument you make: "See, they still have their product, so I didn't really steal it!"
This digital information (e.g. movies, software) was damn expensive to create, even if it is "free" to duplicate. If you want the law to permit duplication of digital content even without the creators authorization, then expect a lot of cheaper-to-produce content out there. "The Phantom Menace" might be that last Star Wars movie, since there would be no reason to produce another. If producers see that the size of the market for actual sales is dwindling, replaced by a mass of people who will get a free copy if they can, then why invest in creating the kind of whiz-bang feasts of decadence that we have come to expect?
Now, an argument can be made that this is not a bad thing. It may indeed usher in a new era of of emphasis on quality rather than quantity in any given work. You can also argue that the marketplace of ideas will be richer, with more people participating.
Absolutely. Internet culture will erase many distinctions across historical, cultural, and geographic boundaries.
I'm not trolling when I say that I'm just glad it's happening at a point in history when America and American culture is dominant. (Hear me out here) I have almost as much to dislike about American culture (not an oxmoron, as the snickering ACs who follow this post will likely assert) as the next guy, but seriously, If the dominant online ethos were the European philosophy of benevolent socialistic government granting limited rights to its citizenry (subjects?) then we'd all be in trouble. Maybe not this year, but soon enough, believe me.
I am thrilled (but not surprised) that it was the United States that provided the environment that allowed the internet (esp. www) to thrive as it has, and I am thrilled that it is the more libertarian cross-section of the population that has been so involved in the propagation of ideals with this medium.
Go ahead, mod me down, but at least read the Cliff's notes to our founding documents first.
Yeah, I know on both counts. I got the Interplay 10th anniversary CD solely for wasteland, but there were enough subtle differences in the keyboard and graphics that I had to resort to the C64 emulated version. Plus, with the 4-disk switching on C64, you can play a game where you keep building the characters while you use fresh map disks so all of the goodies come back:)
I also bought Fallout, and there are a ton of things I like about that game, but as I mentioned in my original post, the party combat system kicks serious ass. I even tried X-COM because somebody told me that it had a similar combat system. No dice. Wasteland will always be my favorite.
What happens to drivers of cars from car rental places if the rental company goes out of business? Can we get a law passed that says that any car rental business that closes its doors must allow all current customers to keep their cars? It's only fair....
Zelda was fun, but I doubt it could hold your interest now. No matter how fond your memories of the old games are, playing them now reveals them to be shallow and tedious.
I have a commodore 64 emulator for the sole purpose of playing Wasteland. I have played it dozens of times, and no, the plot does not change. The graphics are primitive, the sound is virtually non-existent, and the maps are on a square grid.
However, the full-party, turn-based combat is just too good for me to not play. This makes the game exciting even when I know the exact location of the best loot and NPC's. Then there are voluntary limitations: I'll try to play a whole game with no ranged weapons, for instance.
Trying to beat Yopy out of the starting gates probably did it in. With an "untested" technology like Linux on a pen-based PDA, the first one to market suffers the slings and arrows. The second learns from the mistakes of the first. I think they (VR3) probably thought they could snag the market share that Yopy is counting on, but its likely they miscalculated.
Now, what does it mean to be soulless AND teutonic? I am just dying to know.
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Ow
Ow
Yo, pretty ladies around the world
Got a weird thing to show you so tell all the boys and girls
Tell your brother, your sister and your mama too
'Cause we're about to go down and you know just what to do
Wave your hands in the air like you don't care
Glide by the people as they start to look and stare
Do your dance, do your dance, do your dance quick, mama
Come on baby, tell me what's the word
Word up (up, up), everybody say
When you hear the call you've got to get it underway
Word up (up, up), it's the code word
No matter where you say it you know that you'll be heard
Now all you sucker DJ's who think you're fly
There's got to be a reason and we know the reason why
You try to put on those airs and act real cool
But you got to realize that you're acting like fools
If there's music we can use it, we're free to dance
We don't have the time for psychological romance
No romance, no romance, no romance for me, mama
Come on baby, tell me what's the word
Word up (up, up), everybody say
When you hear the call you've got to get it underway, ow
Ow
Dial L for love
Ah... hey hey
Ah hey hey
Now just come on, all you people say
(W-O-R-D up, W-O-R-D up) ah ah ah ah ah
(W-O-R-D up, W-O-R-D up) wooh
(W-O-R-D up) hey hey
(W-O-R-D up) he-hey
Hey hey hey, yeah
Hey hey, no no no no no no no
Yeah, ooh ooh ooh, woh
Tell me like that, like that
Say it like that, now now yeah
That's the word, everybody's got to know the word
Like that, come on
probably reintroduce the old trusted compiler hack,
This (infiltrating the linux community through the prebuilt compiler or even kernel) would actually work to a certain extent with the current Linux community. How many of you are running a home-compiled kernel? [OK, lots] Now keep your hands up if you are running a kernel you comlpiled with a compiler you compiled. [most hands go down.] What kernel were you running when you compiled the compiler? And what compiler did you use on that kernel?
The mechanism for complete infection would not be there, though, since there would be plenty of people and distros out there that would begin to track and maintain the purity of the lineage of their compilers and kernels, but the NSA could get a foothold into the more promiscuous script kiddies community, which they have some incentive to do anyway.
make the default installation more newbie-friendly from a security point of view? The average desktop user probably doesn't want or need BIND, do they?
Apparently, they don't need the ability to rlogin, either. Have you ever done a default "workstation" install? (as opposed to the installer choices of "server" or "custom") The resulting system is probably very secure, but pathetically unusable for typical purposes.
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Oh, you meant intentionally non-profit...
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that isn't good anymore. See the current developing of Perl version 6 for a very good example of language
discussion. Seems to me the owners of Rebol language are limitating the popularization of that language choosing
that way of dealing in this issue
I initially read this as "See the current developing of Perl version 6 for a very good example of language that isn't good anymore."
Ha ha.
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The initial post was pretty flippant, yes, but seriously, this is a fast browser. I'm impressed. I may switch from konq/kmail if they put local mail file access back into mozilla mail, and netscape's LDAP addressing was nice, too.
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Good point. If Larry would round up a few lawyers, he could probably convince a jury that Python is a rip off of his ideas, and then put them out of business. Then, since it's all open source anyway, he could implement Python within Perl. You're really on to something there.
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It goes like this: He wants to overload whitespace, but recognizes that sometimes you want implicit whitespace overloading, such as ab==a*b. So, he proposes limiting all variables to one character. This is possible with unicode, he argues.
The article reads more like science fiction by the time you get to the end. 3-d editors, overloading whitespace along all three spatial axes, etc.
The guy is either a comic genius or completely off his rocker.
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Not so. Here's something I stole from www.m-w.com. Look at transitive sense 1A and 1c.
Main Entry: 1steal /'stOl/; stolen /'stO-l&n/; stealing : to take the property of another wrongfully and especially as an habitual or regular practice : to come or go secretly, unobtrusively, gradually, or unexpectedly : to steal or attempt to steal a base : to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully <stole a car> b : to take away by force or unjust means <they've stolen our liberty> c : to take surreptitiously or without permission <steal a kiss> d : to appropriate to oneself or beyond one's proper share : make oneself the focus of <steal the show> : to move, convey, or introduce secretly : SMUGGLE b : to accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner <steal a visit> : to seize, gain, or win by trickery, skill, or daring <a basketball player adept at steal ing the ball> <stole the election> b of a base runner : to reach (a base) safely solely by running and usually catching the opposing team off guard /'stE-l&-b&l/ adjective : to gain an advantage on unobserved : to grab attention from another especially by anticipating an idea, plan, or presentation also : to claim credit for another's idea
Pronunciation: 'stE(&)l
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): stole
Etymology: Middle English stelen, from Old English stelan; akin to Old High German stelan to steal
Date: before 12th century
intransitive senses
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2
3
transitive senses
1 a
2 a
3 a
- stealable
- stealer noun
- steal a march on
- steal one's thunder
synonyms STEAL, PILFER, FILCH, PURLOIN mean to take from another without right or without detection. STEAL may apply to any surreptitious taking of something and differs from the other terms by commonly applying to intangibles as well as material things <steal jewels> <stole a look at the gifts>. PILFER implies stealing repeatedly in small amounts <pilfered from his employer>. FILCH adds a suggestion of snatching quickly and surreptitiously <filched an apple from the tray>. PURLOIN stresses removing or carrying off for one's own use or purposes <printed a purloined document>.
I totally understand that the "Free Tibet" reference appears out of character with the rest of the above post. It is the strongarm takeover and anticompetitive, illegal tactics that MS uses I was referring to. The casualty of DR DOS and the "Microsoft tax" on OEMs are the shining examples.
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You are an ultra left-wing econonomic ignoramus. Almost everyone, rich or poor, gets their money by working and/or putting themselves or their well-being at risk. The rich either have worked harder or have had their risks pay off. This is not an injustice.
Simply claiming for yourself the rights to the property/wealth/etc. of any other person is stealing. How can you even attempt to argue this point?
Unless they are slaves or there is collusion going on in the labor market (which is illegal unless you are a union) "the poor" are not exploited. They are free to choose if and/or where to work. Of course they don't have as many choices as someone who is well-off, but they can make choices to become well-off. Yes it's hard and it takes time, but it is not unjust. After all, economics isn't about money, it's about choices.
Sometimes I'd like to see what would happen if we let people like you experiment with a world where you implement your economic schemes and remove all incentive to excel. (oh yeah, it's called "communism.")
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stealing software is quite different from stealing hardware. when you steal hardware, the inventory level of a store just went down. not so with software
It's supply side stealing vs. demand side stealing. Piracy steals from the demand side. Reducing demand for someone's product is not a bad thing in itself; for instance it is OK if you are offering a competing product. This is not what is happening here.
I am definitely of the opinion that property law will have to be revamped extensively in the face of digital information as property, but I will hardly join in the ill conceived and intellectually disingenuous argument you make: "See, they still have their product, so I didn't really steal it!"
This digital information (e.g. movies, software) was damn expensive to create, even if it is "free" to duplicate. If you want the law to permit duplication of digital content even without the creators authorization, then expect a lot of cheaper-to-produce content out there. "The Phantom Menace" might be that last Star Wars movie, since there would be no reason to produce another. If producers see that the size of the market for actual sales is dwindling, replaced by a mass of people who will get a free copy if they can, then why invest in creating the kind of whiz-bang feasts of decadence that we have come to expect?
Now, an argument can be made that this is not a bad thing. It may indeed usher in a new era of of emphasis on quality rather than quantity in any given work. You can also argue that the marketplace of ideas will be richer, with more people participating.
But please, don't say it's not stealing.
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Oh, I thought you said overclocks creation....
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I'm not trolling when I say that I'm just glad it's happening at a point in history when America and American culture is dominant. (Hear me out here) I have almost as much to dislike about American culture (not an oxmoron, as the snickering ACs who follow this post will likely assert) as the next guy, but seriously, If the dominant online ethos were the European philosophy of benevolent socialistic government granting limited rights to its citizenry (subjects?) then we'd all be in trouble. Maybe not this year, but soon enough, believe me.
I am thrilled (but not surprised) that it was the United States that provided the environment that allowed the internet (esp. www) to thrive as it has, and I am thrilled that it is the more libertarian cross-section of the population that has been so involved in the propagation of ideals with this medium.
Go ahead, mod me down, but at least read the Cliff's notes to our founding documents first.
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For example: "UUDI". One question the average slashdotter might want to know up front is "WTF is UUDI?"
Please explain your acronym, "WTF?"
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I also bought Fallout, and there are a ton of things I like about that game, but as I mentioned in my original post, the party combat system kicks serious ass. I even tried X-COM because somebody told me that it had a similar combat system. No dice. Wasteland will always be my favorite.
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I have a commodore 64 emulator for the sole purpose of playing Wasteland. I have played it dozens of times, and no, the plot does not change. The graphics are primitive, the sound is virtually non-existent, and the maps are on a square grid.
However, the full-party, turn-based combat is just too good for me to not play. This makes the game exciting even when I know the exact location of the best loot and NPC's. Then there are voluntary limitations: I'll try to play a whole game with no ranged weapons, for instance.
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Better not let Travolta know.
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You asked for it:
Word UpBy: Cameo
Ow
Ow
Yo, pretty ladies around the world
Got a weird thing to show you so tell all the boys and girls
Tell your brother, your sister and your mama too
'Cause we're about to go down and you know just what to do
Wave your hands in the air like you don't care
Glide by the people as they start to look and stare
Do your dance, do your dance, do your dance quick, mama
Come on baby, tell me what's the word
Word up (up, up), everybody say
When you hear the call you've got to get it underway
Word up (up, up), it's the code word
No matter where you say it you know that you'll be heard
Now all you sucker DJ's who think you're fly
There's got to be a reason and we know the reason why
You try to put on those airs and act real cool
But you got to realize that you're acting like fools
If there's music we can use it, we're free to dance
We don't have the time for psychological romance
No romance, no romance, no romance for me, mama
Come on baby, tell me what's the word
Word up (up, up), everybody say
When you hear the call you've got to get it
underway, ow
Ow
Dial L for love
Ah... hey hey
Ah hey hey
Now just come on, all you people say
(W-O-R-D up, W-O-R-D up) ah ah ah ah ah
(W-O-R-D up, W-O-R-D up) wooh
(W-O-R-D up) hey hey
(W-O-R-D up) he-hey
Hey hey hey, yeah
Hey hey, no no no no no no no
Yeah, ooh ooh ooh, woh
Tell me like that, like that
Say it like that, now now yeah
That's the word, everybody's got to know the word
Like that, come on
Ow
Take me real low
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This (infiltrating the linux community through the prebuilt compiler or even kernel) would actually work to a certain extent with the current Linux community. How many of you are running a home-compiled kernel? [OK, lots] Now keep your hands up if you are running a kernel you comlpiled with a compiler you compiled. [most hands go down.] What kernel were you running when you compiled the compiler? And what compiler did you use on that kernel?
The mechanism for complete infection would not be there, though, since there would be plenty of people and distros out there that would begin to track and maintain the purity of the lineage of their compilers and kernels, but the NSA could get a foothold into the more promiscuous script kiddies community, which they have some incentive to do anyway.
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Not to mention that thing where she binds "washing your mouth with soap" to some choice regular expressions.
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His password is "Imelda-Marcos-and-Heidi-Wall-4-eva"
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This has the added obfuscatory benefit of being an absurdity.
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Apparently, they don't need the ability to rlogin, either. Have you ever done a default "workstation" install? (as opposed to the installer choices of "server" or "custom") The resulting system is probably very secure, but pathetically unusable for typical purposes.
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