Linux and OpenSource do not threaten Intellectual Property. You can not threaten something that doesn't exist. IP is a fiction invented in the late 18th century by the English Crown in order to overthrow the freedom of the press.
The greatest works of the English language come from the time where IP wasn't a thought in anyone's mind. Marlowe, Shakespere, Ben Jonson, Chaucer, all before IP. Supposedly the greatest work in any Western language was made with the Open Source mentality, the Bible.
So I say it's time to end this fiction and get back to real innovation!
Ye do not Grok. I'm not even going to bother with Slashdot anymore. Go to Arstechnica if you want an intelligent discussion of this book. It's obvious that one won't get one out of Slashdot.
http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?q=Y& a=tpc&s=50009562&f=34709834& amp;m=479099823
Here's an interesting review of the book, unlike those above.
http://search3.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastwe b?getdoc+book-rev+bookrev-arch+12806+1+w AAA+stranger%7Ein%7Es%7Ea%7Estrange%
No he didn't you idiot. Some of Nader's votes would've gone to Bush as well, about 25% of them. Gore would've gotten 40% of them. The others wouldn't have voted. Also if you add the Buchanan votes (who would've voted for Bush). Then you still get a Bush victory. So shove it.
In my senior year of high school (1997-98) we had a shift in theatre teachers at my school. We went from a "Geek" who showed us the art behind the stage, we performed "Midsummer Night's Dream", "Good Woman of Sezwan", "Diviners", "La Bete", and two plays that he had written "Zombies", a play very much in line with the Evil Dead Series and some of the bad other zombie movies, and "Life Machine" a play modeled on "Machinal" which focused on the horrors of mankind and what we as a people can do to stop them. These plays were about making people think, about not taking things at face value and standing up for what you believe in.
This teacher left to go on and make movies, and his candidates for replacement came down to a teacher very much like him (one that would treat theatre as an art) and a teacher who thought of it as pure entertainment, who had no concept of art. Guess who the school picked? No not the educator but the entertainer. She went on to pick Neil Simon's "Fools" and "Bye-Bye Birde" for the plays that we were going to do. It was a radical shift.
Once the year started, we had elections for our theatre club president, the art side ran a candidate, the entertainment side ran a candidate, and there were two compromise candidates. The vote came back as 16 (entertainment), 15 (art), 14 (comp.#1), 13 (comp#2). The teacher had counted the votes, and the entertainment candidate was her daughter. The vote count of course reeked of setup. No vote is that close and perfect. Then we had auditions for "Fools" and oddly enough her daughter got the lead (she was not a good actress, and only got extra parts the year before), while I and my art group didn't get any parts ( I was the lead supporting actor in all the plays the previous year, the lead actor graduated. Also the lead supporting actress from the year before was in the group, and the light man and the sound guy). The lightman wasn't picked for the crew, and neither was the sound guy. It was a purge of the art group.
We decided to let them have their theatre and we would start an alternative theatre group on the campus. We had several teachers who helped us out, and one was willing to be our advisor and director (Our sci-fi english teacher and an actor and former theatre teacher). We went to the prinicpal and pleaded our case, we empasized the educational ascpect of our theatre group, and how the other regime pushed us out and how fishy the election was.
She rejected our new theatre group totally, but she did set up a grevience hearing that she would moderate between 4 people from our group and the theatre teacher. We should have never accepted that, because once we got there it was a setup. The theatre teacher had violated the rules and brought 5 of her groupies and through out the meeting they ganged up on me personally and accused me of slander and emotional abuse. Anyone who knows me, knows that I would do no such thing. We weren't able to get a single grevience in. Then afterwards we were forbidden to have anything to do with theatre in that school and I was personally made an example of and suspended.
My parents came down the next day and bitched out the principal. While the suspension stayed, it was never put on my record, and she was forced to whipe out my PE requirement and allow me to change my classes at anytime. I thought of going public with this before and figured no one would care or let alone believe that facism regins supreme at our schools and education is the furthest thing from educators minds.
A 50% cut in our millitary budget would still leave us with the largest millitary budget in the world. We have strong European Allies, they can defend themselves. Taiwan can withstand anything China can currently throw at it thanks to China's lack of a real Navy. North and South Korea are getting on the path to peacefull reunification. Iraq was never a big threat to the US. Sheesh Italy could have beat them alone with their hands tied behind their backs. There is no threat out there that justifies this huge budget. Strip out all the waste, focus on millitary research and training officers. Then we'll be ready for anything that can come at us.
Well if the P4 is only for marketing speed, and not real performance then all AMD has to do is go back to P-rating their processors. So a 1.2 GHz Athlon is now labeled a 1.5 PGHz Athlon. That would let them keep up.
Who in their right mind would get one of these Prism Handsprings if they could get an iPaq for $50 more. The iPaq has more memory, is quicker, is easier on the eyes (higher res and cleartype). You can play MP3s on the iPaq without an addon, and you can put Linux on it if you want. Now only if Compaq can get more iPaqs out. If they can the Prism is one dead duck.
That goes for SACD and DVD-A. I have a nice DVD drive in my computer and if neither of them are able to play on it then they won't be purchased. They just aren't that much better. MP3 will reign supreme for me, until another codec can come around that will make music smaller and sound as nice. I don't want to have to keep millions of CDs/DVDs around, that's why I turned to MP3. DVD-A will be a dead duck if it's not compatible with current DVD drives. SACD is just a bad idea, both are really. These people need to focus on.mp3 or a codec like it, that is where the future is.
I'm a college student and mine was a gift from my parents to help me in school. And like the common college student I am dirt poor. So of course the first thing I did was scour the web for some cool freeware progs for it. To my chagrin there were basicly none, PocketTV was the only thing I could find. What is even worse is that I would have to pay to get a damn registry editor for the thing. Games are out of the question, they tend to cost $30 and up for anything remotely worthwhile. I guess I'm just not the market for this type of device. Execept I have already fallen in love with it. I have just finished reading "Timeline" on it, and have vowed not to read a regular book if I don't have to. The screen is crisp, and easily visible outside. Plus it's smaller than the average paperback, the pages don't rustle in the wind, or tear if you handle them too roughly. I take all my class notes on it, because the handwriting recognition is wonderful and is natural unlike Grafiti.
So to the point now, Linux would be wonderful with it, if it can find a way to replicate the functions that already come with it. I wouldn't want to give up MS Reader, just to gain a few nice games. Plus I wouldn't want to give up the handwriting recognition. But I would love to gain some games, espicially XBill (I don't know why, but it is the perfect game when you don't feel like doing anything). I would love to ditch MS Media Player for XMMS. So save us college students! Make the linPaq a reality.
I have a compromise. Use Apache and Windows 2000, like I do. I'm serving a simple website for my honors society, and an eBook collection. Unfortunetly I don't have another computer so I have to host on mine. I like Linux and would probably use it for most things if I didn't need DVD and TV out of my computer. But Apache Win32 works well enough for me, while IIS was a memory hog, and was a pain in the butt.
I know I'm probably going to be flamed for this but I personally like the Microsoft.lit format for eBooks. They are a lot less strenuous on the eyes than.txt and.doc, and even.pdf. Microsoft Reader is the best eBook reader that I have seen. The only problem is that it isn't an open format, which is too bad, because MS actually has something nice here. This is actually the main reason I got my iPaq, so I can use it to read books. I've gather a collection of about 400 eBooks in.lit format, I keep them on my windows partition and sync whatever book I want to read to my iPaq. It saves a lot of space (physical space) to keep the books on my computer than on my bookshelf. Plus come on who doesn't want to read books like they do on Star Trek?
Maxtor sent me an 8.4 GB (7.85 real GB)to replace my 6.8 GB (6.4 real GB) when they didn't have anymore. I think they are obliged to send you a new drive, not a referb. Plus it's probably cheaper for them send you a new one anyway.
Has anyone actually tried to watch VHS on a monitor. I did once I got my ATi All-in-Wonder, damn was it crappy. TV is better resolution than VHS. DivX is far better than VHS, it doesn't stand up to DVD, but I think it is perfect for recording television. A 1 hour TV show usually is about 150-200 MB. Plus the encoding time isn't too bad, and it plays smoother than Quicktime with the Soreson codec. Actually the only DivX that I wasn't able to play on my K6-2 450 was the Matrix trailer from the DivX site.
Actually with the Live! Value OEM you can add the LiveDrive to it. You can't with the original Live! Value, as long as your model is CT48xx you can add the LiveDrive. The new Live! Value is CT4830, the old one was CT4760.
No you won't. The Duron 700 MHz beats the Celeron 566@850 MHz, go take a look at the benchmarks at Anandtech. Don't waste your money on a crappy but overclockable Celeron, even overclocked they can't beat a Duron.
I get a steady 1.5 Mbps down, and a not as steady 128kbps up. I'm less than 5k feet from my CO. I think there's one reason why they haven't capped me down yet. I'm probably the only person being serveced by that CO. I live in Mira Loma, CA (the hick suburb of Riverside, CA), so I think I'm safe. But it does piss me off when at least 20% of the time the damn mail servers go down.
Life sims aren't new. They began with Alter Ego and Little Computer People on the Commodore 64. Will Wright even acknowledged Little Computer People as a major influence for the Sims.
One must look to Europe and Funcom. They made "The Longest Journey", called the best game you can't buy by Gamespot. Adventure games are still being made in Europe. Also be on the look out for Simon the Sorcerror 3D by Adventure Soft.
The Civilization series is not an example of War games, they are Turn Based Strategy games. War games are a subset of these games and of RTS too, they only focus on War. An example would be Sid Meier's Gettysburg and Antitem.
I'm sorry my friend but Zelda isn't an adventure game, it's an action-adventure-rpg game much like Diablo II. The death that is talked about is the real adventure game, like Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, King's Quest. Real adventures hardly ever showed up on consoles, only one that I can think of and that's King's Quest V for the NES.
It may be according to the 10th, but the courts are very very lax about upholding that one. Pretty much the 10th has been dead since the Civil War ended with a Northern (Federal) victory. Also the Constitution is schizo on the powers issue because of the "neccissary and proper" clause that gives Congress the ability to grow with the country. The courts tend to favor that clause above the 10th.
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Linux and OpenSource do not threaten Intellectual Property. You can not threaten something that doesn't exist. IP is a fiction invented in the late 18th century by the English Crown in order to overthrow the freedom of the press. The greatest works of the English language come from the time where IP wasn't a thought in anyone's mind. Marlowe, Shakespere, Ben Jonson, Chaucer, all before IP. Supposedly the greatest work in any Western language was made with the Open Source mentality, the Bible. So I say it's time to end this fiction and get back to real innovation!
explain Black Cauldron then...
Ye do not Grok. I'm not even going to bother with Slashdot anymore. Go to Arstechnica if you want an intelligent discussion of this book. It's obvious that one won't get one out of Slashdot. http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?q=Y& a=tpc&s=50009562&f=34709834& amp;m=479099823
Here's an interesting review of the book, unlike those above.
http://search3.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastwe b?getdoc+book-rev+bookrev-arch+12806+1+w AAA+stranger%7Ein%7Es%7Ea%7Estrange%
No he didn't you idiot. Some of Nader's votes would've gone to Bush as well, about 25% of them. Gore would've gotten 40% of them. The others wouldn't have voted. Also if you add the Buchanan votes (who would've voted for Bush). Then you still get a Bush victory. So shove it.
In my senior year of high school (1997-98) we had a shift in theatre teachers at my school. We went from a "Geek" who showed us the art behind the stage, we performed "Midsummer Night's Dream", "Good Woman of Sezwan", "Diviners", "La Bete", and two plays that he had written "Zombies", a play very much in line with the Evil Dead Series and some of the bad other zombie movies, and "Life Machine" a play modeled on "Machinal" which focused on the horrors of mankind and what we as a people can do to stop them. These plays were about making people think, about not taking things at face value and standing up for what you believe in. This teacher left to go on and make movies, and his candidates for replacement came down to a teacher very much like him (one that would treat theatre as an art) and a teacher who thought of it as pure entertainment, who had no concept of art. Guess who the school picked? No not the educator but the entertainer. She went on to pick Neil Simon's "Fools" and "Bye-Bye Birde" for the plays that we were going to do. It was a radical shift. Once the year started, we had elections for our theatre club president, the art side ran a candidate, the entertainment side ran a candidate, and there were two compromise candidates. The vote came back as 16 (entertainment), 15 (art), 14 (comp.#1), 13 (comp#2). The teacher had counted the votes, and the entertainment candidate was her daughter. The vote count of course reeked of setup. No vote is that close and perfect. Then we had auditions for "Fools" and oddly enough her daughter got the lead (she was not a good actress, and only got extra parts the year before), while I and my art group didn't get any parts ( I was the lead supporting actor in all the plays the previous year, the lead actor graduated. Also the lead supporting actress from the year before was in the group, and the light man and the sound guy). The lightman wasn't picked for the crew, and neither was the sound guy. It was a purge of the art group. We decided to let them have their theatre and we would start an alternative theatre group on the campus. We had several teachers who helped us out, and one was willing to be our advisor and director (Our sci-fi english teacher and an actor and former theatre teacher). We went to the prinicpal and pleaded our case, we empasized the educational ascpect of our theatre group, and how the other regime pushed us out and how fishy the election was. She rejected our new theatre group totally, but she did set up a grevience hearing that she would moderate between 4 people from our group and the theatre teacher. We should have never accepted that, because once we got there it was a setup. The theatre teacher had violated the rules and brought 5 of her groupies and through out the meeting they ganged up on me personally and accused me of slander and emotional abuse. Anyone who knows me, knows that I would do no such thing. We weren't able to get a single grevience in. Then afterwards we were forbidden to have anything to do with theatre in that school and I was personally made an example of and suspended. My parents came down the next day and bitched out the principal. While the suspension stayed, it was never put on my record, and she was forced to whipe out my PE requirement and allow me to change my classes at anytime. I thought of going public with this before and figured no one would care or let alone believe that facism regins supreme at our schools and education is the furthest thing from educators minds.
A 50% cut in our millitary budget would still leave us with the largest millitary budget in the world. We have strong European Allies, they can defend themselves. Taiwan can withstand anything China can currently throw at it thanks to China's lack of a real Navy. North and South Korea are getting on the path to peacefull reunification. Iraq was never a big threat to the US. Sheesh Italy could have beat them alone with their hands tied behind their backs. There is no threat out there that justifies this huge budget. Strip out all the waste, focus on millitary research and training officers. Then we'll be ready for anything that can come at us.
Well if the P4 is only for marketing speed, and not real performance then all AMD has to do is go back to P-rating their processors. So a 1.2 GHz Athlon is now labeled a 1.5 PGHz Athlon. That would let them keep up.
It will be called Rupert! And the scientific community will call it Persephone.
Who in their right mind would get one of these Prism Handsprings if they could get an iPaq for $50 more. The iPaq has more memory, is quicker, is easier on the eyes (higher res and cleartype). You can play MP3s on the iPaq without an addon, and you can put Linux on it if you want. Now only if Compaq can get more iPaqs out. If they can the Prism is one dead duck.
That goes for SACD and DVD-A. I have a nice DVD drive in my computer and if neither of them are able to play on it then they won't be purchased. They just aren't that much better. MP3 will reign supreme for me, until another codec can come around that will make music smaller and sound as nice. I don't want to have to keep millions of CDs/DVDs around, that's why I turned to MP3. DVD-A will be a dead duck if it's not compatible with current DVD drives. SACD is just a bad idea, both are really. These people need to focus on .mp3 or a codec like it, that is where the future is.
I'm a college student and mine was a gift from my parents to help me in school. And like the common college student I am dirt poor. So of course the first thing I did was scour the web for some cool freeware progs for it. To my chagrin there were basicly none, PocketTV was the only thing I could find. What is even worse is that I would have to pay to get a damn registry editor for the thing. Games are out of the question, they tend to cost $30 and up for anything remotely worthwhile. I guess I'm just not the market for this type of device. Execept I have already fallen in love with it. I have just finished reading "Timeline" on it, and have vowed not to read a regular book if I don't have to. The screen is crisp, and easily visible outside. Plus it's smaller than the average paperback, the pages don't rustle in the wind, or tear if you handle them too roughly. I take all my class notes on it, because the handwriting recognition is wonderful and is natural unlike Grafiti. So to the point now, Linux would be wonderful with it, if it can find a way to replicate the functions that already come with it. I wouldn't want to give up MS Reader, just to gain a few nice games. Plus I wouldn't want to give up the handwriting recognition. But I would love to gain some games, espicially XBill (I don't know why, but it is the perfect game when you don't feel like doing anything). I would love to ditch MS Media Player for XMMS. So save us college students! Make the linPaq a reality.
I have a compromise. Use Apache and Windows 2000, like I do. I'm serving a simple website for my honors society, and an eBook collection. Unfortunetly I don't have another computer so I have to host on mine. I like Linux and would probably use it for most things if I didn't need DVD and TV out of my computer. But Apache Win32 works well enough for me, while IIS was a memory hog, and was a pain in the butt.
I know I'm probably going to be flamed for this but I personally like the Microsoft .lit format for eBooks. They are a lot less strenuous on the eyes than .txt and .doc, and even .pdf. Microsoft Reader is the best eBook reader that I have seen. The only problem is that it isn't an open format, which is too bad, because MS actually has something nice here. This is actually the main reason I got my iPaq, so I can use it to read books. I've gather a collection of about 400 eBooks in .lit format, I keep them on my windows partition and sync whatever book I want to read to my iPaq. It saves a lot of space (physical space) to keep the books on my computer than on my bookshelf. Plus come on who doesn't want to read books like they do on Star Trek?
Maxtor sent me an 8.4 GB (7.85 real GB)to replace my 6.8 GB (6.4 real GB) when they didn't have anymore. I think they are obliged to send you a new drive, not a referb. Plus it's probably cheaper for them send you a new one anyway.
Has anyone actually tried to watch VHS on a monitor. I did once I got my ATi All-in-Wonder, damn was it crappy. TV is better resolution than VHS. DivX is far better than VHS, it doesn't stand up to DVD, but I think it is perfect for recording television. A 1 hour TV show usually is about 150-200 MB. Plus the encoding time isn't too bad, and it plays smoother than Quicktime with the Soreson codec. Actually the only DivX that I wasn't able to play on my K6-2 450 was the Matrix trailer from the DivX site.
Actually with the Live! Value OEM you can add the LiveDrive to it. You can't with the original Live! Value, as long as your model is CT48xx you can add the LiveDrive. The new Live! Value is CT4830, the old one was CT4760.
That puzzle is actually very easy if you have any knowledge of Latin.
No you won't. The Duron 700 MHz beats the Celeron 566@850 MHz, go take a look at the benchmarks at Anandtech. Don't waste your money on a crappy but overclockable Celeron, even overclocked they can't beat a Duron.
Hmmm.... Sounds kinda like Animal Farm. Keep changing the terms, then state that they were always that way.
I get a steady 1.5 Mbps down, and a not as steady 128kbps up. I'm less than 5k feet from my CO. I think there's one reason why they haven't capped me down yet. I'm probably the only person being serveced by that CO. I live in Mira Loma, CA (the hick suburb of Riverside, CA), so I think I'm safe. But it does piss me off when at least 20% of the time the damn mail servers go down.
Life sims aren't new. They began with Alter Ego and Little Computer People on the Commodore 64. Will Wright even acknowledged Little Computer People as a major influence for the Sims.
One must look to Europe and Funcom. They made "The Longest Journey", called the best game you can't buy by Gamespot. Adventure games are still being made in Europe. Also be on the look out for Simon the Sorcerror 3D by Adventure Soft.
The Civilization series is not an example of War games, they are Turn Based Strategy games. War games are a subset of these games and of RTS too, they only focus on War. An example would be Sid Meier's Gettysburg and Antitem.
I'm sorry my friend but Zelda isn't an adventure game, it's an action-adventure-rpg game much like Diablo II. The death that is talked about is the real adventure game, like Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, King's Quest. Real adventures hardly ever showed up on consoles, only one that I can think of and that's King's Quest V for the NES.
It may be according to the 10th, but the courts are very very lax about upholding that one. Pretty much the 10th has been dead since the Civil War ended with a Northern (Federal) victory. Also the Constitution is schizo on the powers issue because of the "neccissary and proper" clause that gives Congress the ability to grow with the country. The courts tend to favor that clause above the 10th.