If I don't want to accept a telephone call from you into my house, that is legal. If everyone in the world decides to not answer when you call, that is legal.
But, if we decide to call your # constantly, thus preventing you from using your phone we are causing harm to you.
Preventing you from using your own facilities is entirely different from us deciding to not listen to you on -our- facilities.
It's the same with Usenet servers. If I don't want to accept news from @home on my news server that is legal. If everybody with a news server does this, that is legal. They are our servers and we can choose what we want to be accepted.
But, if we all decided to launch a massive DOS attack on @Home we would be causing harm to them by tying up their network resource and preventing information to flow into and out of @Home.
Is ASP as date hobbled as JavaScript? JS gets the 4 digit date from your system clock and then automatically subtracts 1900 from it before it puts it into a variable for your use.
Microsoft doesn't need to put any sort of nefarious back doors into the products. They have their shrinkwrap licenses to fall back on if need be.
They lose the anti-trust case and BAM! they just revoke every license the DOJ has for a Microsoft product. This in turn makes another law suit happen and Microsoft get's another few years of unhindered profit growth.
The upside would be that the world would finally get a definitive ruling on whether or not shrinkwrap licenses are legal.
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Two corrections: Word 2K is SDI. All other Office 2K programs are actually MDI but default to behaving as if they are SDI. Photoshop allows you to pull all of your working palettes out of the main window and place them wherever you want. This makes it easy to put all of your tool palettes out on your second monitor and devote your main, large, hi-res monitor to just image display.
There are numerous types of goods/services you can buy online that do not have to be delivered to your door.
Software Music Stamps Information etc...
In these cases, if the internet tax is to be used for road upkeep (as per the original posters comments), then the buyer is being taxed for a service they do not need.
Your double reply only doubly underscores the fact that you don't understand the article at all. If it were another business like your ficitous Radio Shuck then the dispute would have some more legitimacy. But, it's not. EToy was an established name of a group of people who are NOT a business and who are NOT trying to lure customers away from EToys.com via nefarious domain naming. They had the name and the domain years before EToys.com was even registered as a business. Their web site is being used in good faith, and they have a legitimate interest in the domain name (as it is the name of their troupe). It is not trademark infringement. So, it should not be treated as such. EToys.com shouldn't be allowed to do what they are doing.
We have names on the credit screen for our World War II online flight sim, "Air Warrior", that go back to the original Macintosh program from circa 1987-1988.
Agreed. The only comment was that the Amiga fell to the onslaught of MS and Intel. It also said that Commodore didn't properly market the machine.
Bad marketing in the face of a fierce competitor != underhanded practices by that competitor.
Overall, this article shouldn't have been posted. 3-4 scant paragraphs about how this guy learned "other than technical things" at Amiga in the 80s doesn't really qualify as a story about the "Amiga Pioneers".
The Savage 2K was in the news just last week. S3 announced that their dialing down the default speed of the chip to a paltry 125Mhz. This drops the fillrate to less than that of an SDR GeForce 256.
Gecko can be the greatest thing since sliced bread. But, if the entire program is as wobbly as the 4.x series it won't matter one bit.
With 700+ MHz processors who really gives a damn how optimized the rendering engine is? If IE 5.0 on my 900MHz Athlon (just an example) is stable and can render pages brought down by my ADSL modem in the blink of an eye I really won't have cause to switch to NN 5.0 just because it is a couple of milliseconds faster.
Unless AOL has driven the development of Navigator 5.0 to the point that it is an easy to adapt component system you won't see Navigator inside of an AOL client for quite some time. The entire 4.0-5.0 codebase for the AOL client is written to access IE for web browsing. It doesn't just launch IE as a separate program, it uses IE as it's internal web browsing technology.
Even if they stood up now and said, "6.0 will have NN as the browser" we wouldn't see the result of that for at least 12-14 months. That's a horrendously long time to wait for the tide to change.
Actually the government seems to have learned how to market the Landsat 7 stuff. We've been talking to them about purchasing some imagery. The problem is that they have very little of what we want that isn't completely obscurred by clouds.
WinNT, Serice Pack 3 or greater does -not- enable AGP graphics. All it does is treat the AGP slot like a fancy PCI card. There are no AGP transfers happening.
This is only true if you were unfortunate enough to write your game using Direct3D. OpenGL games will be able to take advantage of geometry acceleration without even recompiling. You reap what you sow when you use a Microsoft API.
Not true. Not true at all. If a game is written to only use OpenGL as a rasterization system then it will NOT benefit from HW T&L in the least. Take Tribes as an example. All of the 3D T&L in Tribes is done by the program. This is so they can support a software rendering mode along with GLide and OpenGL. Tribes will not benefit from HW T&L.
Any game that has a software rendering mode, along with OpenGL probably has an internal T&L pipeline and therefore will not benefit from HW T&L.
I've heard that too. One of the long term problems with Iridium was that they would have to incur large amounts of debt every five years because they would have to launch a whole new set of satellites.
The service would never have gotten cheaper over time (by much at least) because the operational costs for the system are beyond belief.
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No, it's completely different.
If I don't want to accept a telephone call from you into my house, that is legal. If everyone in the world decides to not answer when you call, that is legal.
But, if we decide to call your # constantly, thus preventing you from using your phone we are causing harm to you.
Preventing you from using your own facilities is entirely different from us deciding to not listen to you on -our- facilities.
It's the same with Usenet servers. If I don't want to accept news from @home on my news server that is legal. If everybody with a news server does this, that is legal. They are our servers and we can choose what we want to be accepted.
But, if we all decided to launch a massive DOS attack on @Home we would be causing harm to them by tying up their network resource and preventing information to flow into and out of @Home.
Is ASP as date hobbled as JavaScript? JS gets the 4 digit date from your system clock and then automatically subtracts 1900 from it before it puts it into a variable for your use.
Microsoft doesn't need to put any sort of nefarious back doors into the products. They have their shrinkwrap licenses to fall back on if need be.
They lose the anti-trust case and BAM! they just revoke every license the DOJ has for a Microsoft product. This in turn makes another law suit happen and Microsoft get's another few years of unhindered profit growth.
The upside would be that the world would finally get a definitive ruling on whether or not shrinkwrap licenses are legal.
Two corrections: Word 2K is SDI. All other Office 2K programs are actually MDI but default to behaving as if they are SDI. Photoshop allows you to pull all of your working palettes out of the main window and place them wherever you want. This makes it easy to put all of your tool palettes out on your second monitor and devote your main, large, hi-res monitor to just image display.
There are numerous types of goods/services you can buy online that do not have to be delivered to your door.
Software
Music
Stamps
Information
etc...
In these cases, if the internet tax is to be used for road upkeep (as per the original posters comments), then the buyer is being taxed for a service they do not need.
Your double reply only doubly underscores the fact that you don't understand the article at all. If it were another business like your ficitous Radio Shuck then the dispute would have some more legitimacy. But, it's not. EToy was an established name of a group of people who are NOT a business and who are NOT trying to lure customers away from EToys.com via nefarious domain naming. They had the name and the domain years before EToys.com was even registered as a business. Their web site is being used in good faith, and they have a legitimate interest in the domain name (as it is the name of their troupe). It is not trademark infringement. So, it should not be treated as such. EToys.com shouldn't be allowed to do what they are doing.
We have names on the credit screen for our World War II online flight sim, "Air Warrior", that go back to the original Macintosh program from circa 1987-1988.
Agreed. The only comment was that the Amiga fell to the onslaught of MS and Intel. It also said that Commodore didn't properly market the machine.
Bad marketing in the face of a fierce competitor
!= underhanded practices by that competitor.
Overall, this article shouldn't have been posted. 3-4 scant paragraphs about how this guy learned "other than technical things" at Amiga in the 80s doesn't really qualify as a story about the "Amiga Pioneers".
The Savage 2K was in the news just last week. S3 announced that their dialing down the default speed of the chip to a paltry 125Mhz. This drops the fillrate to less than that of an SDR GeForce 256.
Gecko can be the greatest thing since sliced bread. But, if the entire program is as wobbly as the 4.x series it won't matter one bit.
With 700+ MHz processors who really gives a damn how optimized the rendering engine is? If IE 5.0 on my 900MHz Athlon (just an example) is stable and can render pages brought down by my ADSL modem in the blink of an eye I really won't have cause to switch to NN 5.0 just because it is a couple of milliseconds faster.
Unless AOL has driven the development of Navigator 5.0 to the point that it is an easy to adapt component system you won't see Navigator inside of an AOL client for quite some time. The entire 4.0-5.0 codebase for the AOL client is written to access IE for web browsing. It doesn't just launch IE as a separate program, it uses IE as it's internal web browsing technology.
Even if they stood up now and said, "6.0 will have NN as the browser" we wouldn't see the result of that for at least 12-14 months. That's a horrendously long time to wait for the tide to change.
Crappy OS?
Photoshop on IRIX, even though it is one or two versions out of date now, is quite stable and much more powerful than the GIMP, imho.
Actually the government seems to have learned how to market the Landsat 7 stuff. We've been talking to them about purchasing some imagery. The problem is that they have very little of what we want that isn't completely obscurred by clouds.
WinNT, Serice Pack 3 or greater does -not- enable AGP graphics. All it does is treat the AGP slot like a fancy PCI card. There are no AGP transfers happening.
Not true. Not true at all. If a game is written to only use OpenGL as a rasterization system then it will NOT benefit from HW T&L in the least. Take Tribes as an example. All of the 3D T&L in Tribes is done by the program. This is so they can support a software rendering mode along with GLide and OpenGL. Tribes will not benefit from HW T&L.
Any game that has a software rendering mode, along with OpenGL probably has an internal T&L pipeline and therefore will not benefit from HW T&L.
He's got a Master's degree...IN SCIENCE!
Adobe Acrobat Exchange and Distiller 3.02 for Windows (I haven't upgraded to 4.0 yet) list .ZIP as one of the compression schemes you can use.
I know what I'll be using during my distilling sessions now...
Since MMJB 3.0 they've been using the updated Xing encoder that doesn't have the limitation you mention. Your info is a tad dated.
MMJB 4.0 is also my encoder of choice.
Didn't you READ the article.
With this technology Vlassic can corner the market on interplanetary pickle shipments...
After the announcement last week shouldn't the categories be: KibiBot, MebiBot, and GibiBot?
I've heard that too. One of the long term problems with Iridium was that they would have to incur large amounts of debt every five years because they would have to launch a whole new set of satellites.
The service would never have gotten cheaper over time (by much at least) because the operational costs for the system are beyond belief.
Does IBM's PPC motherboard spec include the Apple ROM?
I doubt it.
Without that ROM MacOS won't run.
He's kidding, right?
Has ESR forgotten that the internet worm of the late 80's used a bug in sendmail?
How is that any different than the Melissa virus on Windows? Both problems spread via an insecurity in the mail program.
NT being influenced by VMS can be considered the same as it being based on VMS in a similar way to Metcalffe's claim that Linux is based on Unix.
A modem that has, basically, no hardware. All of the stuff the modem would be doing is handled by the CPU.
It's basically a slot wasting piece of junk that provided an RJ45 jack and some software that is the guts of the device