You do realize that this could never happen in a system where only AUTHORIZED programs could change your Internet settings, right?
Good.
This just shows that the Windows security model (no security at all) is inadequate for the Internet age. It's time for something, ANYTHING, better. <*cough* capability systems *cough*>
Since this is an Internet enterprise, the CRTC is not regulating it. There is an entire news release on the subject, but here is the important bit:
Broadcasting
Regarding whether content on the Internet is broadcasting as defined by the Broadcasting Act, the CRTC has made the following points:
1.Everything transmitted over the Internet that is predominantly alphanumeric text is by definition not broadcasting under the Broadcasting Act. 2.Material transmitted over the Internet, which is significantly "customizable" or capable of being uniquely tailored by the individual user, does not involve the transmission of programs for reception by the public and is, therefore, not broadcasting. 3.The remaining material would fall within the definition of broadcasting under the Broadcasting Act, but will be exempt from regulation for the following reasons:
(in part) The new media complement, rather than substitute for traditional broadcasting. Before the new media could substitute for traditional media, key technological and other developments would have to take place.
This case may force the CRTC to reexamine its position, however, since iCrave's business is doing just that!
The bottom line is that standard copyright law should take over, and iCrave should lose IMHO.
In any event, even if the CRTC did have control, iCrave would need to get a license before it could distribute those TV programs.
The processor and mobo in mine has been the same since I believe early 1997. (like January early)
VS440FX mobo with PPro 180 o/c to 200 (big f'ing deal)
I still have the original hard drive, albeit now as a secondary.
The last upgrade I did was I believe last summer when I bought 32 additional megs of RAM to double my complement because Solaris was swapping ALL THE TIME. It still could use more though, especially when running GNOME + Enlightenment (sawmill doesn't work?! so I am using icewm)
Here's the stuff I really need to get though:
* AMD K6-III @ 400 MHZ with mobo and 64 MB SDRAM * Logitech Wingman Formula Force wheel
And I think that will be sufficient to let me enjoy Grand Prix Legends (a bloody Windows game, the petition to port it failed:-( Don't see the reason as an OpenGL renderer was released for it)
I will mention that my anemic computer still probably runs Quake 3 Arena better than the Nintendo 64 could
If it weren't for games, IMHO the need to upgrade would be much less.
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
Therefore, you can charge as much as you want for the binaries, as long as you make the source available seperately for free.
However, if you aren't a Black or Red Mage or Wizard, then there's no chance of you ever learning it. Then there's the problem of finding the proper Black Magic shop...
At least strong enough to produce a good TV commercial where because some guy doesn't know the Athalon is faster than the Pentium III, he causes a train to smash into the building he's working in.
Although they can't be doing that well, since I've only seen it once as opposed to the millions and millions of times Intel commercials have aired.
Well, technically the complaints are invalid. However, Epic Megagames did a poor job by only releasing the 3dfx renderer. If they had released the 3dfx, OpenGL/Mesa, and software renderers (and it seems they will NOT release the software renderer from the README), then there would be at least a chance to play Unreal Tournament on PowerPC, albeit in the perfectly functional, but ugly, software mode.
So, yes, there should be complaints from all LinuxPPC users, as well as the Alpha users, all 100 of them. <j/k>
Well, if THAT were true, you couldn't use GNU's software on anything but Linux, since you have to link against a non-GPLed (or LPGLed) C library for it to work.
On the other hand, the executable depends on libUT.so (or whatever it would be called), so it would probably violate the spirit of the GPL.
Rememeber, the GPL forbids using GPLed code in proprietary applications, not necessarily the other way around.
FWIW, this is majorly cool, unless you're an average Joe who doesn't give a rat's ass about C code in general and just want to frag people.
If you do care, OTOH, you'll be able to produce all kinds of new clients...
Depends on what type of tubes it takes. A lot of the highest-priced audio amplifiers still use them because, supposedly, it makes the sound better.
The problem is getting thousands of them. Imagine calling up your local music store:
"Can I help you?" "Yes, I need 10,000 12AX7s and 5000 EL84s." "What in the world do you need them for?" "Well, I'm in charge of refurbising an old computer... Hello? HELLO?"
Hmmm... If the best audio equipment uses tubes, does that mean your computer will crash less if it uses tubes instead of transistors?;-)
IIRMCCC, nitric acid tends to turn skin yellow more than burn (unless it's REALLY concentrated.)
Sulfuric acid is better because it will tend to suck the hydrogen and oxygen out of organic coumpounds, leving carbon and a few other elements. MUAHAHAHAHAHAH...
Any CONCENTRATED acid should do the trick, though. (except carbonic;-)
That's "If I Remember My Chemistry Classes Correctly"
I was raised by COMPUTE! Seriously! Though I didn't get as much as I should have out of them, because I read the magazine but made my mom input the programs (I was not even a teenager yet;-)
I think the reason COMPUTE! is now "writing about the meaning of life" is for two reasons:
1. Eventually it got to the point where you didn't have a programming language (Does Hypercard still come with Macs?) installed on your computer, not even QBasic. Therefore, there was no reason to publish programs you had to pay $$$ to use.
2. The publishers of OMNI (the paranormal magazine) bought them;-)
Of course, if COMPUTE! were the same as it was "back in the day", it would have the same program written in FORTRAN 77, FORTRAN 90, and FORTRAN 95, or maybe in Lisp and Scheme;-)
Actually, something like COMPUTE! could be created for Linux and *BSD systems, because you get many programming languages with your OS distribution for nothing.
Y2K non-compliant HUMANS are going to kill us all, or as many as feasible.
A Y2K non-compliant human is defined as one who:
a. Anticipates that the world will end at 00:00:00.00 Jan 1 2000 local time; b. Believe that a. gives him or her license to break any and all laws that apply to society, including but not limited to: looting, arson, murder, rape, revolution via militia group, or any other acts of violence not described here.
Suggested remedies for Y2K non-compliant humans include:
a. Placing them in a state-approved mental institution for therapy, including but not limited to psychoanalysis, electro-shock therapy, primal scream therapy, etc., until such time as their beliefs have been proven false;
b. Killing them before they kill you. This is only suggested as a very last resort, however, as the likelyhood that a jury will believe a preempitive self-defense defense is less than 1 trillion to one.
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You do realize that this could never happen in a system where only AUTHORIZED programs could change your Internet settings, right?
Good.
This just shows that the Windows security model (no security at all) is inadequate for the Internet age. It's time for something, ANYTHING, better.
<*cough* capability systems *cough*>
is the proper tag for that one.
;-)
#define IANAL
#define IANAC
Since this is an Internet enterprise, the CRTC is not regulating it. There is an entire news release on the subject, but here is the important bit:
Broadcasting
Regarding whether content on the Internet is broadcasting as defined by the Broadcasting Act, the CRTC has made the following points:
1.Everything transmitted over the Internet that is predominantly alphanumeric text is by definition not broadcasting under the Broadcasting Act.
2.Material transmitted over the Internet, which is significantly "customizable" or capable of being uniquely tailored by the individual user, does not involve the transmission of programs for reception by the public and is, therefore, not broadcasting.
3.The remaining material would fall within the definition of broadcasting under the Broadcasting Act, but will be exempt from regulation for the following reasons:
(in part) The new media complement, rather than substitute for traditional broadcasting. Before the new media could substitute for traditional media, key technological and other developments would have to take place.
This case may force the CRTC to reexamine its position, however, since iCrave's business is doing just that!
The bottom line is that standard copyright law should take over, and iCrave should lose IMHO.
In any event, even if the CRTC did have control, iCrave would need to get a license before it could distribute those TV programs.
It's probably a good thing Linus's lawyers got them to cease and desist; nevertheless, I'd be more inclined to look for
OpenSourceProgrammers.org
OpenSourceProgramming.org
first!
My video system is a Stealth 3d 2000 Pro ("upgraded" from Stealth 3D 2000 -- what a waste of $$$) and a Voodoo Graphics. So that's moldy as well.
I'll bite.
:-( Don't see the reason as an OpenGL renderer was released for it)
The processor and mobo in mine has been the same since I believe early 1997. (like January early)
VS440FX mobo with PPro 180 o/c to 200 (big f'ing deal)
I still have the original hard drive, albeit now as a secondary.
The last upgrade I did was I believe last summer when I bought 32 additional megs of RAM to double my complement because Solaris was swapping ALL THE TIME. It still could use more though, especially when running GNOME + Enlightenment (sawmill doesn't work?! so I am using icewm)
Here's the stuff I really need to get though:
* AMD K6-III @ 400 MHZ with mobo and 64 MB SDRAM
* Logitech Wingman Formula Force wheel
And I think that will be sufficient to let me enjoy Grand Prix Legends (a bloody Windows game, the petition to port it failed
I will mention that my anemic computer still probably runs Quake 3 Arena better than the Nintendo 64 could
If it weren't for games, IMHO the need to upgrade would be much less.
on television or in a magazine.
I'd rather have a microwave with a microphone that automatically shuts off when popcorn is as done as it's going to get.
Bzzt. Thanks for playing.
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2
above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above
on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing
source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on
a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for
noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b
above.)
Therefore, you can charge as much as you want for the binaries, as long as you make the source available seperately for free.
So who wants to write a Voodoo 3500 driver for it?
;-)
Well... no.
0 110...
Assembly looks something like this (note this is probably not valid:)
LDA $EAX,10
STA 0XFF800000
The machine code would look more like this:
10010101001010111001111001110110101001010011110
Yes, you can translate that to your favorite base, but that's all the computer actually understands. (excepting ENIAC which understood base-10)
I STILL say Dreamcast sounds like a Fender guitar, not a game system.
(well, ok, that would be dreamcaster)
And PSX sounds better than Playstation.
Try "Stone".
However, if you aren't a Black or Red Mage or Wizard, then there's no chance of you ever learning it. Then there's the problem of finding the proper Black Magic shop...
I hear from very good sources that RedHat will not be buying the following companies:
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
McDonalds
Pfizer
General Electric
General Motors
Commonwealth Edison
National Semiconductor
Well, you asked for it...
From AMD's own press release on their site:
AMD Athlon processors are now manufactured on AMD's aluminum 0.18-micron process technology in Fab 25 in Austin, Texas.
So I have no idea what comes from Dresden...
You better believe it.
At least strong enough to produce a good TV commercial where because some guy doesn't know the Athalon is faster than the Pentium III, he causes a train to smash into the building he's working in.
Although they can't be doing that well, since I've only seen it once as opposed to the millions and millions of times Intel commercials have aired.
Funny, I remember one of the Amigas doing 4096 colors. Which one? Or maybe you needed an add-on card?
Well, technically the complaints are invalid. However, Epic Megagames did a poor job by only releasing the 3dfx renderer. If they had released the 3dfx, OpenGL/Mesa, and software renderers (and it seems they will NOT release the software renderer from the README), then there would be at least a chance to play Unreal Tournament on PowerPC, albeit in the perfectly functional, but ugly, software mode.
So, yes, there should be complaints from all LinuxPPC users, as well as the Alpha users, all 100 of them. <j/k>
#define IANAL TRUE
Well, if THAT were true, you couldn't use GNU's software on anything but Linux, since you have to link against a non-GPLed (or LPGLed) C library for it to work.
On the other hand, the executable depends on libUT.so (or whatever it would be called), so it would probably violate the spirit of the GPL.
Rememeber, the GPL forbids using GPLed code in proprietary applications, not necessarily the other way around.
FWIW, this is majorly cool, unless you're an average Joe who doesn't give a rat's ass about C code in general and just want to frag people.
If you do care, OTOH, you'll be able to produce all kinds of new clients...
mmm... multihead... GGI...
I'll take a La-Z-Boy any day of the week.
;-)
I'll also need a Reality Wall or Room system and SGI-compatible remote controllers to play Quake!
Depends on what type of tubes it takes. A lot of the highest-priced audio amplifiers still use them because, supposedly, it makes the sound better.
;-)
The problem is getting thousands of them. Imagine calling up your local music store:
"Can I help you?"
"Yes, I need 10,000 12AX7s and 5000 EL84s."
"What in the world do you need them for?"
"Well, I'm in charge of refurbising an old computer... Hello? HELLO?"
Hmmm... If the best audio equipment uses tubes, does that mean your computer will crash less if it uses tubes instead of transistors?
IIRMCCC, nitric acid tends to turn skin yellow more than burn (unless it's REALLY concentrated.)
;-)
Sulfuric acid is better because it will tend to suck the hydrogen and oxygen out of organic coumpounds, leving carbon and a few other elements. MUAHAHAHAHAHAH...
Any CONCENTRATED acid should do the trick, though. (except carbonic
That's "If I Remember My Chemistry Classes Correctly"
I seem to remember $50 or $60, but maybe that was 6.0.
I was raised by COMPUTE! Seriously! Though I didn't get as much as I should have out of them, because I read the magazine but made my mom input the programs (I was not even a teenager yet ;-)
;-)
;-)
I think the reason COMPUTE! is now "writing about the meaning of life" is for two reasons:
1. Eventually it got to the point where you didn't have a programming language (Does Hypercard still come with Macs?) installed on your computer, not even QBasic. Therefore, there was no reason to publish programs you had to pay $$$ to use.
2. The publishers of OMNI (the paranormal magazine) bought them
Of course, if COMPUTE! were the same as it was "back in the day", it would have the same program written in FORTRAN 77, FORTRAN 90, and FORTRAN 95, or maybe in Lisp and Scheme
Actually, something like COMPUTE! could be created for Linux and *BSD systems, because you get many programming languages with your OS distribution for nothing.
Y2K non-compliant HUMANS are going to kill us all, or as many as feasible.
A Y2K non-compliant human is defined as one who:
a. Anticipates that the world will end at 00:00:00.00 Jan 1 2000 local time;
b. Believe that a. gives him or her license to break any and all laws that apply to society, including but not limited to: looting, arson, murder, rape, revolution via militia group, or any other acts of violence not described here.
Suggested remedies for Y2K non-compliant humans include:
a. Placing them in a state-approved mental institution for therapy, including but not limited to psychoanalysis, electro-shock therapy, primal scream therapy, etc., until such time as their beliefs have been proven false;
b. Killing them before they kill you. This is only suggested as a very last resort, however, as the likelyhood that a jury will believe a preempitive self-defense defense is less than 1 trillion to one.
It's better in Cockney anyway.