I had an old geocities account that didn't get converted to my yahoo account, and after months of unsuccessful attempts to get the darn thing cancelled, I wrote a letter to the Yahoo person in charge of copyright violations, and explained that Yahoo was violating my copyright to the works posted on that old geocities account. Effectively, by limiting my ability to control the distribution of my copyrighted works, they were violating my copyrights. Not that I wanted to sue or anything, I just wanted those pages gone.
Not long after, that account disappeared, and I was happy.
This is exactly the killer app that Ogg needs for acceptance: a program that syncs songs to your portable player at a lower (user adjustable) bitrate. Even better: You pick out X number of songs. Each time you add a song, it re-calculates what bitrate to shave them all to, to maximize the bitrate used, thereby using all the RAM on the player but getting all your songs in.
We're going to have to create an emulator for the emulator.
Not necessarily. If we have the source code for the emulator, and if it was fairly portable, we can just tweak it and recompile it on future systems. The real difficulty is probably the medium that the data is stored on: sure it may be indestructible, but you're not going to be able to read it on today's DVD drives, or the future's even better drives.
So maybe the problem isn't a software or hardware or medium problem. Maybe the problem is that we just assumed that it would "just work" in the future like it just works now, without putting together a recovery plan. Sure we've got it backed up, but in this case, we need a long-term recovery plan, probably one that requires regular maintenance in order to ensure recoverability.
About BeOS Max Edition: BeOS 5 PE Max Edition is Based on BeOS 5 PE with a number of drivers, add-ons, Athlon XP Patch , P4 Boot img , software. It includes new development tools from the OpenBeOS team Web site, but you will also be able to select the old tools. And contains only freeware and shareware demos. All code it contains is legal under the MIT, GPL, or LGPL licenses.
Not even any mention of BSD licensed code? Well just what is this doing in teh BSD section? Silly editors...
I wonder if there's a way to pollute their blacklist with so many bogus entries that they have to give up.
Probably not easily. Out of all the Xboxen sold, I'd guess it's a small percentage of gamers who go online with them...so you'd have to get a list of serials for those gamers...then dial in to the service with each and every one of them....sounds like a tedious task that really isn't worth it unless you're hell-bent on pissing off Microsoft.
as a side note, you need to compile kdebase and qt both with xinerama support enabled (it's not by default). If you don't compile in xinerama support, KDE will work when you running Xinerama mode, but you'll get windows maximized across all screens, windows in dead areas (if you have different resolutions on each screen) and other annoyances. Fortunately recompiling the above two packages is pretty easy.
However, I do have to admit that some of the ideas on that show are very good.
The key word here being "some". It's gotta be a nice deal for the designers; they get to test out any wacky idea they want, and see if people like it. If people like it, it goes in their portfolio. If not, to their trashcan of shame...Definitely gives them a chance to flex their artistic muscles, but you're definitely taking a chance when you invite them to do your home. I wonder what kind of contracts they make you sign...
My wife's been running Mozilla 1.0 or so on a Mac OS 9.2 system, and while her computer has crashed a couple times while using Mozilla, it crashes equally as frequently using Internet Explorer. It's definitely useable on a Mac.
I think a more important point is that it asks that "Lindows Insiders" don't redistribute Lindows as it was given(sold?) to them exclusively. Sounds like a GPL violation to me.
I think you're right.
From http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html, Section 2b:
You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.
It seems to me that this means that you have to give your work to anyone who wants it if you incorporate GPL'ed code.
our DSL provider tells us our network outage (yeah, we can see their router but no further) is due to the Worldcom debacle. Possibly, though they can be a little flaky themselves sometimes.
Plus there were those pings that had thier TTL expire because they kept bouncing back and forth between two alter.net routers...a whole lotta crap going on today.
They don't technically exist anymore, but they're all for getting their music heard. Download their songs from mp3.com, or the solo songs from the lead guitar/singer, Charles Balter.
But there has been no review board. The companies who write this software have kept it a proprietary trade secret, just like every other proprietary software company. They have refused to allow any kind of review.
Good point, but that's really the Florida voters and legislator's problems. They didn't have to purchase a license for this software. The could have gone with any other number of voting methods (including more traditional voting methods....not every ballot is as confusing or difficult as the infamous butterfly ballot). If they didn't like the terms of the license they could have negotiated and/or pressured for better terms, or gone with a different voting method.
"if the election software is closed source, no amount of training can insure that the software is unbiased and the election results fair."
Well, you've got to trust someone somewhere.
If it's a closed-source system, we can have a review board set up to verify that the code in the election software is fair and unbiased.
If it's an open-source system, you still have to trust the compiler, or the person who installs the software onto the voting terminals, or the person who installs the vote-tallying software at the central server. Or trust the people who oversee those people. Or watch the installer yourself. But by your logic, why should I trust you unless I'm watching too? And why should anyone trust the both of us?
Shut up with your open source championing. It's tangential to this article, not relevant.
Ok, I think your warning is a little drastic, but seriously, what are the negative consequences of capturing the wind's energy? Where would that energy have gone had we not captured it and converted it to electricity? Are we going to alter micro-climates by doing this, or as you suggest, throw the whole earth off kilter?
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I think you should mod up the parent to this post!
me too!
I had an old geocities account that didn't get converted to my yahoo account, and after months of unsuccessful attempts to get the darn thing cancelled, I wrote a letter to the Yahoo person in charge of copyright violations, and explained that Yahoo was violating my copyright to the works posted on that old geocities account. Effectively, by limiting my ability to control the distribution of my copyrighted works, they were violating my copyrights. Not that I wanted to sue or anything, I just wanted those pages gone.
Not long after, that account disappeared, and I was happy.
This is exactly the killer app that Ogg needs for acceptance: a program that syncs songs to your portable player at a lower (user adjustable) bitrate. Even better: You pick out X number of songs. Each time you add a song, it re-calculates what bitrate to shave them all to, to maximize the bitrate used, thereby using all the RAM on the player but getting all your songs in.
I can't wait til this one hits.
We're going to have to create an emulator for the emulator.
Not necessarily. If we have the source code for the emulator, and if it was fairly portable, we can just tweak it and recompile it on future systems. The real difficulty is probably the medium that the data is stored on: sure it may be indestructible, but you're not going to be able to read it on today's DVD drives, or the future's even better drives.
So maybe the problem isn't a software or hardware or medium problem. Maybe the problem is that we just assumed that it would "just work" in the future like it just works now, without putting together a recovery plan. Sure we've got it backed up, but in this case, we need a long-term recovery plan, probably one that requires regular maintenance in order to ensure recoverability.
First you get the sugar. Then you get the power. Then you get the women...
And that's also why Face/Off was so ridiculous...
No, I think the rediculous part is the suctiony *pop* noise the faces make when they come off...
About BeOS Max Edition:
BeOS 5 PE Max Edition is Based on BeOS 5 PE with a number of drivers, add-ons, Athlon XP Patch , P4 Boot img , software. It includes new development tools from the OpenBeOS team Web site, but you will also be able to select the old tools. And contains only freeware and shareware demos. All code it contains is legal under the MIT, GPL, or LGPL licenses.
Not even any mention of BSD licensed code? Well just what is this doing in teh BSD section? Silly editors...
I wonder if there's a way to pollute their blacklist with so many bogus entries that they have to give up.
Probably not easily. Out of all the Xboxen sold, I'd guess it's a small percentage of gamers who go online with them...so you'd have to get a list of serials for those gamers...then dial in to the service with each and every one of them....sounds like a tedious task that really isn't worth it unless you're hell-bent on pissing off Microsoft.
Funny. I just made a "hello world" document using Word 2000 and it was 19 KB
Funnier: I created a "Hello Word" document using Word 2002 and it was 20 KB. Shave off a letter, add a kilobyte.
Not to mention the incomplete ellipsis on the subject line. Of course, maybe that's just a little too picky...
as a side note, you need to compile kdebase and qt both with xinerama support enabled (it's not by default). If you don't compile in xinerama support, KDE will work when you running Xinerama mode, but you'll get windows maximized across all screens, windows in dead areas (if you have different resolutions on each screen) and other annoyances. Fortunately recompiling the above two packages is pretty easy.
However, I do have to admit that some of the ideas on that show are very good.
The key word here being "some". It's gotta be a nice deal for the designers; they get to test out any wacky idea they want, and see if people like it. If people like it, it goes in their portfolio. If not, to their trashcan of shame...Definitely gives them a chance to flex their artistic muscles, but you're definitely taking a chance when you invite them to do your home. I wonder what kind of contracts they make you sign...
My wife's been running Mozilla 1.0 or so on a Mac OS 9.2 system, and while her computer has crashed a couple times while using Mozilla, it crashes equally as frequently using Internet Explorer. It's definitely useable on a Mac.
You do realize that the rest of the cost of those microsoft licenses is coming out of your tuition, right? right?
CowboyNeal posted this story? and the previous one? I thought he was just a made-up poll answer!
The CHAIR, or even some variants such as a STOOL, BENCH, or SOFA, all encompass prior art for your invention, methinks.
I think you're right.
From http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html, Section 2b:
It seems to me that this means that you have to give your work to anyone who wants it if you incorporate GPL'ed code.
our DSL provider tells us our network outage (yeah, we can see their router but no further) is due to the Worldcom debacle. Possibly, though they can be a little flaky themselves sometimes.
Plus there were those pings that had thier TTL expire because they kept bouncing back and forth between two alter.net routers...a whole lotta crap going on today.
They don't technically exist anymore, but they're all for getting their music heard. Download their songs from mp3.com, or the solo songs from the lead guitar/singer, Charles Balter.
I live near UCI, does that count for anything? :p
Fortunately I'm still able to pull reasonable download speeds on my Cox.net cablemodem....
Also, let's put our support behind Google for standing up to this outrageous law....
Are you sure you mean *AAs and not ??AAs?
Cuz, I don't have any reason to suspect that the AAA auto club is really in on anything with MS....
But there has been no review board. The companies who write this software have kept it a proprietary trade secret, just like every other proprietary software company. They have refused to allow any kind of review.
Good point, but that's really the Florida voters and legislator's problems. They didn't have to purchase a license for this software. The could have gone with any other number of voting methods (including more traditional voting methods....not every ballot is as confusing or difficult as the infamous butterfly ballot). If they didn't like the terms of the license they could have negotiated and/or pressured for better terms, or gone with a different voting method.
"if the election software is closed source, no amount of training can insure that the software is unbiased and the election results fair."
Well, you've got to trust someone somewhere.
If it's a closed-source system, we can have a review board set up to verify that the code in the election software is fair and unbiased.
If it's an open-source system, you still have to trust the compiler, or the person who installs the software onto the voting terminals, or the person who installs the vote-tallying software at the central server. Or trust the people who oversee those people. Or watch the installer yourself. But by your logic, why should I trust you unless I'm watching too? And why should anyone trust the both of us?
Shut up with your open source championing. It's tangential to this article, not relevant.
Ok, I think your warning is a little drastic, but seriously, what are the negative consequences of capturing the wind's energy? Where would that energy have gone had we not captured it and converted it to electricity? Are we going to alter micro-climates by doing this, or as you suggest, throw the whole earth off kilter?