And how many of them are for packages that are considered core and would have workalikes on a basic Microsoft Windows installation? Looking at just the first page of listings I found: One of them is for a game (nethack) and several are for similar applications (most of us only run one email client, for example) and still more of them are different bugs for the same packages (open_ssl and sendmail both appear more than once).
Um, how hard is it to build a monitor with a built-in webcam, or even to affix one to existing monitors? Or are you trying to say that companies would only do this if they could somehow do it without anyone knowing for sure there was a camera in or on the monitor? Maybe a fixed lens that was not integral to the screen itself would be too easy to cover up with a post-it note. But what good does it do to have a live image of someone sitting at a monitor? Have you ever watched a webcam? It's incredibly dull and not likely to tell the company anything except that their employees loked bored or frustrated most of the time.
So what's the big deal? All this means that device makers can tailor the OS and that's exciting how? They still can't share the source with their users or each other and they still have to pay a license fee for each copy of WinCE they sell (of course passing that along to their customers). This may actually help to keep the device market fragmented since now device makers can add small tweaks to their devices that will less feasible to share software across devices. Each device will could a unique proprietary OS instead of a standard proprietary OS.
Maybe they're just having a hard time finding musicians stupid enough to sign their contracts now that "Courtney does the Math" is a number one smash hit.
when you buy software, where you are technically buying a license, not a disk with software on it.
Maybe that's your situation. But when I buy a box with a disc in it, I am buying a box with a disc in it. I have neither signed nor agreed to any "license". I will therefore not be bound by anything above and beyond actual copyright law in regards to that purchase.
Now a large company that buys a small set of source media with software on it may obtain a license to copy that software a certain number of times (typically known as "seats"). But that is a different situation. They usually have signed a legally binding contract.
It's tedious? Give me a break. They are giving away their hard work for the price of registration and accepting a cookie. And you're whining that even that's too much? If you want to pick on the Times, please find a better reason than that.
Am I always the last to know? No sooner do I finally get on the BT bandwagon than there's a BT++?
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Interesting. My iMac rev. A, built in 1998 does not have a PS/2 keyboard, nor any native peripheral ports that are not USB, nor any sort of floppy disk drive. Yet I was able to install Yellow Dog Linux (back in 2000) and Gentoo Linux (in 2002) on it without a problem-- I was also able to install Debian GNU/Linux, but never could get XFree86 to run right (so I went back to YDL at the time). I haven't tried Win XP yet.;)
I never said I approved of the MPAA position (RIAA is for music and have little or nothing to do with the DeCSS case). In fact, all I've said is that it's larger than just "viewing". It's also about a lot of other potential activities, both fair and unfair. My own position is that producers have the right to attempt to copy restrict their media all they want, but that they should have no right to interfere with my use of the media after I've made a purchase. Nor do I support laws like the DMCA that interfere with the right to tinker.
I certainly agree that CSS doesn't prevent piracy. The pros don't need it. They have advanced, expensive hardware that will copy the discs, dupe the covers, and even put a hologram on there if needed. Their goal is to counterfeit the product or fill a black market niche (such as the market for regionless, English subbed copies of Asian films and tv shows).
What CSS and laws against tinkering do is prevent regular people from doing things that may or may not constitute fair use. The same tech that keeps me from watching a movie on a DVD-less device or backing up my purchases also prevents me from setting up a public FTP server with a copy of every movie I've ever watched. IMHO, Johansen is a hero for being the name attached to DeCSS.
It's not just about viewing. The ability to rip a DVD to an unprotected file format opens a Pandora's box of uses, both fair and unfair, that go way beyond simple viewing-- from plain sharing, to fansubbing, to making highlights "reels" or incorporating commercial footage into home movies, to format conversion to enable viewing on devices not equipped with DVD drives.
Highly unlikely to find a Linux system without sed-- it's in the base install for Debian and Gentoo and I suspect most other Linux distros as well. The real point here is that you would probably be better off getting the NVidia drivers from your distribution in package form, which it sounds like is now allowed due to the "Linux Exception" in the license. That way the package maintainer can use whatever tools and config files are appropriate to that distribution.
Right answer, but for the wrong reasons I suspect.
Since most installs are done via shell script or makefile, it's not like this would be that hard to program-- sed or perl are likely to be involved and this isn't tough for either of them. I know it's not as simple as s/nv/nvidia/, but it's not that hard to make sure you only change the right lines and nothing else.
The real problem is finding the right config file to change. Are they in/etc or maybe/etc/X11 or perhaps/usr/X11R6/etc/X11 or any of the other locations (some of which are dynamic) listed at http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/XF86Config.5.h tml. Compound this with the fact that different users may have different relevant config files of their own and you have a problem that the Windows registry probably can't solve either.
Also, in this case, only X, one of its utilities, or the driver install are going to need access to the config file, so locking the whole file isn't an issue. You probably want the whole file locked during driver install, but this wouldn't prevent you from messing with other config files at the same time-- if you can find them;).
Reasonable and worthwhile? In due time these ISOs will be up on RH's own servers and they are going to get hammered, and that's all a giveaway from RH's perspective-- better to have a P2P network sharing the file around and not have the expense of all that bandwidth. From my understanding the way BT works the more people who are downloading a file, the faster downloads get... the exact opposite from a central server. Also, most of RH's revenue stream in this case is likely from those people who wanted to buy a copy to pitch in or to get support, not to get the release seven days early. Unless you can point me to where I can get a.torrent file for the support aspect, I don't think this is nearly the "sabotage" you make it out to be.
Actually it means "easy to detect" or "readily apparent" (both in the dictionary definition of "transparent"). They still might be difficult to solve even once they are found.
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I guess the idea would be to call them "works"-- an existing legal term. Why change the word already in use, especially when it's fairly specific?
In this case, the argument is simple. Geocoding "content" is a meaningless notion. You can geocode computer files, documents, or data streams by including some additional data that constitutes a geocode, but how do you geocode "content"? Content might mean the contents of the document, it might mean the ideas embodied in the document... you want to geocode the ideas or the file/document/stream, which is it?
That you think a Fark photoshop contest would actually improve the state of the GNU logo indicates just how questionable your judgment is in this matter.:)
C might be an ideal systems programming language. But email is not systems programming, is it? Personally I'd prefer mail clients written in any scriptig language (prefer Ruby) over any compiled solution. Of course, both the scripting language and any libraries it might interface with (most importantly, some sort of GUI) would probably be written in C. But that's just my personal preference, not necessarily the best course for the majority.
And these days, isn't just about every day a slow news day? I mean, unless you're looking for war news, it's getting pretty thin out there. Personally I found this a welcome diversion-- even though I strongly disagree with his "replayability" score for the camera. 1) imagine if he'd taken a picture of something cool, like an attractive anime-con fangirl in costume, and 2) I would tend to think "replayability" in a camera would mean the ability to keep taking more pictures, as such the camera offers nearly infinite replayability without any of the repetitiveness you might find in a GameBoy title.
Well. Bummer that Disney will still get a cut (they own Buena Vista) either way.
Looking around it looks like the Japanese release of these features English and French subs, not the English/Cantonese that many of the copies on eBay seem to feature. And the price at cdjapan is insane even before S/H. Oh well.
Yeah, I guess it's time to actually learn Japanese, get a region-free DVD player (or just watch on my computer), and stop having to worry about finding stuff that is either dubbed OR subbed. Thanks for the tips on where to get stuff.
Technically, IDE is four generations out of date. Original IDE -> EIDE -> ATA -> SATA.
Thanks, AC. I guess IDE, EIDE, and ATA all look about the same to us casual observers. SATA is definitely different. That looks really cool, in fact. I can just imagine how much easier my life (currently using five different devices on IDE cables) would be with the HDs on those skinny little serial cables.
None of the games or genres listed has really gone away-- but how many ways can you spin "space shooter"? Especially when a game like Galaga has probably been the hands down classic for almost 20 years.
There is still an annual text adventure contest. FMV and graphic adventure games have been combined with RPGs and resulted in stuff like FF7+. Both existing maze and puzzle games are still quite popular and it's going to be hard to come up with simple maze or puzzle games that are going to be any more fun to play than Ms. Pac-Man or Tetris or even Freecell. As a result, both maze and puzzle games get figured into other games now as sub-games.
Light gun games are no less popular now than when they first came out-- they just aren't being made for home systems as much as for the arcades. And certainly the weird accessory trend continues: soccer ball kicking game, street luge game, skateboard, surfing, Dance Dance, and waterskiing are all games I've seen being played recently. I think the weirdest one is the virtual boxing game where you put on those big red gloves and punch at the screen.
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And how many of them are for packages that are considered core and would have workalikes on a basic Microsoft Windows installation? Looking at just the first page of listings I found: One of them is for a game (nethack) and several are for similar applications (most of us only run one email client, for example) and still more of them are different bugs for the same packages (open_ssl and sendmail both appear more than once).
Um, how hard is it to build a monitor with a built-in webcam, or even to affix one to existing monitors? Or are you trying to say that companies would only do this if they could somehow do it without anyone knowing for sure there was a camera in or on the monitor? Maybe a fixed lens that was not integral to the screen itself would be too easy to cover up with a post-it note. But what good does it do to have a live image of someone sitting at a monitor? Have you ever watched a webcam? It's incredibly dull and not likely to tell the company anything except that their employees loked bored or frustrated most of the time.
So what's the big deal? All this means that device makers can tailor the OS and that's exciting how? They still can't share the source with their users or each other and they still have to pay a license fee for each copy of WinCE they sell (of course passing that along to their customers). This may actually help to keep the device market fragmented since now device makers can add small tweaks to their devices that will less feasible to share software across devices. Each device will could a unique proprietary OS instead of a standard proprietary OS.
Maybe they're just having a hard time finding musicians stupid enough to sign their contracts now that "Courtney does the Math" is a number one smash hit.
when you buy software, where you are technically buying a license, not a disk with software on it.
Maybe that's your situation. But when I buy a box with a disc in it, I am buying a box with a disc in it. I have neither signed nor agreed to any "license". I will therefore not be bound by anything above and beyond actual copyright law in regards to that purchase.
Now a large company that buys a small set of source media with software on it may obtain a license to copy that software a certain number of times (typically known as "seats"). But that is a different situation. They usually have signed a legally binding contract.
It's tedious? Give me a break. They are giving away their hard work for the price of registration and accepting a cookie. And you're whining that even that's too much? If you want to pick on the Times, please find a better reason than that.
Am I always the last to know? No sooner do I finally get on the BT bandwagon than there's a BT++?
Interesting. My iMac rev. A, built in 1998 does not have a PS/2 keyboard, nor any native peripheral ports that are not USB, nor any sort of floppy disk drive. Yet I was able to install Yellow Dog Linux (back in 2000) and Gentoo Linux (in 2002) on it without a problem-- I was also able to install Debian GNU/Linux, but never could get XFree86 to run right (so I went back to YDL at the time). I haven't tried Win XP yet. ;)
I never said I approved of the MPAA position (RIAA is for music and have little or nothing to do with the DeCSS case). In fact, all I've said is that it's larger than just "viewing". It's also about a lot of other potential activities, both fair and unfair. My own position is that producers have the right to attempt to copy restrict their media all they want, but that they should have no right to interfere with my use of the media after I've made a purchase. Nor do I support laws like the DMCA that interfere with the right to tinker.
I certainly agree that CSS doesn't prevent piracy. The pros don't need it. They have advanced, expensive hardware that will copy the discs, dupe the covers, and even put a hologram on there if needed. Their goal is to counterfeit the product or fill a black market niche (such as the market for regionless, English subbed copies of Asian films and tv shows).
What CSS and laws against tinkering do is prevent regular people from doing things that may or may not constitute fair use. The same tech that keeps me from watching a movie on a DVD-less device or backing up my purchases also prevents me from setting up a public FTP server with a copy of every movie I've ever watched. IMHO, Johansen is a hero for being the name attached to DeCSS.
Why would I fire up a P2P client to get Free Software? Most of it is available on either Savanna or SourceForge.
BTW, the rest of what you said is total BS as well.
It's not just about viewing. The ability to rip a DVD to an unprotected file format opens a Pandora's box of uses, both fair and unfair, that go way beyond simple viewing-- from plain sharing, to fansubbing, to making highlights "reels" or incorporating commercial footage into home movies, to format conversion to enable viewing on devices not equipped with DVD drives.
Highly unlikely to find a Linux system without sed-- it's in the base install for Debian and Gentoo and I suspect most other Linux distros as well. The real point here is that you would probably be better off getting the NVidia drivers from your distribution in package form, which it sounds like is now allowed due to the "Linux Exception" in the license. That way the package maintainer can use whatever tools and config files are appropriate to that distribution.
Right answer, but for the wrong reasons I suspect.
/etc or maybe /etc/X11 or perhaps /usr/X11R6/etc/X11 or any of the other locations (some of which are dynamic) listed at http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/XF86Config.5.h tml. Compound this with the fact that different users may have different relevant config files of their own and you have a problem that the Windows registry probably can't solve either.
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Since most installs are done via shell script or makefile, it's not like this would be that hard to program-- sed or perl are likely to be involved and this isn't tough for either of them. I know it's not as simple as s/nv/nvidia/, but it's not that hard to make sure you only change the right lines and nothing else.
The real problem is finding the right config file to change. Are they in
Also, in this case, only X, one of its utilities, or the driver install are going to need access to the config file, so locking the whole file isn't an issue. You probably want the whole file locked during driver install, but this wouldn't prevent you from messing with other config files at the same time-- if you can find them
Reasonable and worthwhile? In due time these ISOs will be up on RH's own servers and they are going to get hammered, and that's all a giveaway from RH's perspective-- better to have a P2P network sharing the file around and not have the expense of all that bandwidth. From my understanding the way BT works the more people who are downloading a file, the faster downloads get... the exact opposite from a central server. Also, most of RH's revenue stream in this case is likely from those people who wanted to buy a copy to pitch in or to get support, not to get the release seven days early. Unless you can point me to where I can get a .torrent file for the support aspect, I don't think this is nearly the "sabotage" you make it out to be.
Actually it means "easy to detect" or "readily apparent" (both in the dictionary definition of "transparent"). They still might be difficult to solve even once they are found.
I guess the idea would be to call them "works"-- an existing legal term. Why change the word already in use, especially when it's fairly specific?
In this case, the argument is simple. Geocoding "content" is a meaningless notion. You can geocode computer files, documents, or data streams by including some additional data that constitutes a geocode, but how do you geocode "content"? Content might mean the contents of the document, it might mean the ideas embodied in the document... you want to geocode the ideas or the file/document/stream, which is it?
Uh, extending the syntax would be extending the language, as any language is a combination of both syntax/grammar and vocabulary. :)
That said, how exactly is MS changing the syntax? Is there really that much syntax in the first place when it comes to XML?
I don't think it would be good for bugs to become transparent. Wouldn't that make them a lot harder to find?
That you think a Fark photoshop contest would actually improve the state of the GNU logo indicates just how questionable your judgment is in this matter. :)
C might be an ideal systems programming language. But email is not systems programming, is it? Personally I'd prefer mail clients written in any scriptig language (prefer Ruby) over any compiled solution. Of course, both the scripting language and any libraries it might interface with (most importantly, some sort of GUI) would probably be written in C. But that's just my personal preference, not necessarily the best course for the majority.
And these days, isn't just about every day a slow news day? I mean, unless you're looking for war news, it's getting pretty thin out there. Personally I found this a welcome diversion-- even though I strongly disagree with his "replayability" score for the camera. 1) imagine if he'd taken a picture of something cool, like an attractive anime-con fangirl in costume, and 2) I would tend to think "replayability" in a camera would mean the ability to keep taking more pictures, as such the camera offers nearly infinite replayability without any of the repetitiveness you might find in a GameBoy title.
Well. Bummer that Disney will still get a cut (they own Buena Vista) either way.
Looking around it looks like the Japanese release of these features English and French subs, not the English/Cantonese that many of the copies on eBay seem to feature. And the price at cdjapan is insane even before S/H. Oh well.
Yeah, I guess it's time to actually learn Japanese, get a region-free DVD player (or just watch on my computer), and stop having to worry about finding stuff that is either dubbed OR subbed. Thanks for the tips on where to get stuff.
My question is: is there an official English-subbed Japanese release of this that I can play in a region 1 player? Or am I seeing only boots on eBay?
Because I'd love to see the movie without funding the Mouse's lobbying efforts against Fair Use and the public domain.
Technically, IDE is four generations out of date. Original IDE -> EIDE -> ATA -> SATA.
Thanks, AC. I guess IDE, EIDE, and ATA all look about the same to us casual observers. SATA is definitely different. That looks really cool, in fact. I can just imagine how much easier my life (currently using five different devices on IDE cables) would be with the HDs on those skinny little serial cables.
None of the games or genres listed has really gone away-- but how many ways can you spin "space shooter"? Especially when a game like Galaga has probably been the hands down classic for almost 20 years.
There is still an annual text adventure contest. FMV and graphic adventure games have been combined with RPGs and resulted in stuff like FF7+. Both existing maze and puzzle games are still quite popular and it's going to be hard to come up with simple maze or puzzle games that are going to be any more fun to play than Ms. Pac-Man or Tetris or even Freecell. As a result, both maze and puzzle games get figured into other games now as sub-games.
Light gun games are no less popular now than when they first came out-- they just aren't being made for home systems as much as for the arcades. And certainly the weird accessory trend continues: soccer ball kicking game, street luge game, skateboard, surfing, Dance Dance, and waterskiing are all games I've seen being played recently. I think the weirdest one is the virtual boxing game where you put on those big red gloves and punch at the screen.