I paid nearly $8.50 for my ticket, the fourth-highest I've ever paid for a movie ticket in my history. To put that dollar amount into perspective, imagine a stack of apples about two dozen high. That's how many apples you could get for $8.50.
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While I agree with this, I don't think their is any harm from people trying to develop *any* sort of GUI. What we've got is an OS that is seperated from all the graphical windowing crap, and we'll always have the command line (damn well better, anyway). Any sort of GUI can be built on top of the OS, and I'd like to see that start to happen, even if I don't end up using it...
I used to have a somewhat radical FVWM config (back on my old Atari NetBSD box...ahhh, those were the days...). Now that I've got my PeeCee & Redhat, Enlightenment is the thing. So what does Enlightenment have that FVWM doesn't? [rant] uhm, how about eye candy? Not a single friggin thing is any more usable than what I had on the BSD box, it's just the eye candy factor is up'd by 10X. On top of that, xterm is still my most used application. Unless that changes (and I doubt it will), I don't see *my* need for a new fangled GUI. However, I'm sure that other users who have hissy fits when they see a cursor will want to some spiffy eye candy flashy gizmo thing to make them feel all warm and fuzzy.
But if a third party (let's call the third party XYZ) made proprietary changes and didn't release the source code, wouldn't XYZ run into problems when the next release of the software comes out?
What I mean is, I release WhizzBang 1.0 under the GPL. XYZ makes proprietary changes & doesn't distribute the changes. Now I release WhizzBang 2.0 with the added functionality of doing laundry. If XYZ wants WhizzBang 2.0, they'll have to merge their proprietary changes into 2.0, which may very well cause conflicts with the newer version.
So is their a point where XYZ will wake up and realize they're putting too much effort merging proprietary code back into WhizzBang? If XYZ released their changes under the GPL and merged the changes into the main branch, then their upgrade path suddenly becomes a lot simpler.
So how does this effect us free software hackers? When we release enhancements in a manner that merging 3rd party code becomes a hassle?
It's been awhile since I've played with mame (xmame), but what I really liked was finding out the internals of those old games and poking around in the memory. With Mame you can set watches on memory locations in a pretty cool way, and it allows you to change memory as the game runs. This allows for some hardcore cheetin'!
Set up a watch for when your deflector shield in the old Atari vector graphics Star Wars game gets hit, then fly straight through fireballs & towers without taking damage. Or give yourself powerups in other games. I finally got past that old Nintendo Punch-Out game, and without using $10 in quarters!
According to this Jan 2, 2000 Reuter's article, crackers have broken into Lloyd's in the past. I could just imagine the sales pitch, "never mind that I just crashed my car, let me sell you some auto insurance..."
NPR's Morning Edition had a 3 part series on how the NSA is becoming dated due to stronger encryption & other matters. It's a pretty decent report.
The run dates were 3/14/2000 - 3/16/2000 and they're in Real Audio format (RealNetworks? NSA? Coincidence? ok, that's even a little too paranoid for even me!).
Are you referring to the jCVS client? Lots of people here at work use it, but I think that's mainly because they're on Windoze boxes. But when I show them tkCVS (ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/NEW/) they're really impressed. It's most useful for viewing branches and stuff, otherwise I just stick to the command line. (this really makes my Windoze coworker's heads spin!)
The USPTO just has to grant patents, I mean how else are they going to get any income? And the big companies know how to push their "novel" ideas through the patent office. It's pathetic.
I've been tracking this for awhile now. Know how many patents are issued weekly? 2900 on a slow week, close to 3500+ if things get busy. My stats show that 30% of these patents are going to public companies (I only track patents going to public companies). Take a look at the crap those companies are patenting: MSFT, IBM, etc (self-plug: easily do-able on my site). Bunch-o-loons is what they are.
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I paid nearly $8.50 for my ticket, the fourth-highest I've ever paid for a movie ticket in my history. To put that dollar amount into perspective, imagine a stack of apples about two dozen high. That's how many apples you could get for $8.50.
I used to have a somewhat radical FVWM config (back on my old Atari NetBSD box...ahhh, those were the days...). Now that I've got my PeeCee & Redhat, Enlightenment is the thing. So what does Enlightenment have that FVWM doesn't? [rant] uhm, how about eye candy? Not a single friggin thing is any more usable than what I had on the BSD box, it's just the eye candy factor is up'd by 10X. On top of that, xterm is still my most used application. Unless that changes (and I doubt it will), I don't see *my* need for a new fangled GUI. However, I'm sure that other users who have hissy fits when they see a cursor will want to some spiffy eye candy flashy gizmo thing to make them feel all warm and fuzzy.
What I mean is, I release WhizzBang 1.0 under the GPL. XYZ makes proprietary changes & doesn't distribute the changes. Now I release WhizzBang 2.0 with the added functionality of doing laundry. If XYZ wants WhizzBang 2.0, they'll have to merge their proprietary changes into 2.0, which may very well cause conflicts with the newer version.
So is their a point where XYZ will wake up and realize they're putting too much effort merging proprietary code back into WhizzBang? If XYZ released their changes under the GPL and merged the changes into the main branch, then their upgrade path suddenly becomes a lot simpler.
So how does this effect us free software hackers? When we release enhancements in a manner that merging 3rd party code becomes a hassle?
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Set up a watch for when your deflector shield in the old Atari vector graphics Star Wars game gets hit, then fly straight through fireballs & towers without taking damage. Or give yourself powerups in other games. I finally got past that old Nintendo Punch-Out game, and without using $10 in quarters!
cheetin' like crazy
According to this Jan 2, 2000 Reuter's article, crackers have broken into Lloyd's in the past. I could just imagine the sales pitch, "never mind that I just crashed my car, let me sell you some auto insurance..."
The run dates were 3/14/2000 - 3/16/2000 and they're in Real Audio format (RealNetworks? NSA? Coincidence? ok, that's even a little too paranoid for even me!).
Are you referring to the jCVS client? Lots of people here at work use it, but I think that's mainly because they're on Windoze boxes. But when I show them tkCVS (ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/NEW/) they're really impressed. It's most useful for viewing branches and stuff, otherwise I just stick to the command line. (this really makes my Windoze coworker's heads spin!)
The USPTO just has to grant patents, I mean how else are they going to get any income? And the big companies know how to push their "novel" ideas through the patent office. It's pathetic.
I've been tracking this for awhile now. Know how many patents are issued weekly? 2900 on a slow week, close to 3500+ if things get busy. My stats show that 30% of these patents are going to public companies (I only track patents going to public companies). Take a look at the crap those companies are patenting: MSFT, IBM, etc (self-plug: easily do-able on my site). Bunch-o-loons is what they are.
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