They just don't seem to get the "Microsoft, everywhere, all the time" dogma. It's a wonder anything works over there.
Well, in France, this dogma is all the most true. Universities buy PC with Windows, even when they want to put Linux or another Unix. When Windows 95 was out, we were the first to switch to it. French magazines were applauding each new flavor of Windows for being almost perfect. And I think we have here some of the most Windows addicts. Etc.
I find the article has one particular interesting point. An "excuse" to mount an abandonware site is that many people bought the game but don't have the original disks any more (because they are corrupted).
It is not an unfair excuse. When I got my CDR burner, I have archived my old games on a CD. I haven't been unable to put them all since some disks became unreadable.
I am not a lawyer but I remember if a game (or just a piece of software) has copy protection, the editor must provide a piece of backup if the customer ask it. I don't think this is limited in the time. I don't think if I ask some game editor for 15 years old game's disks, it will send them to me. But finally, some of them won't forget they own copyright on these titles...
However, I don't know any game editor for computer (not for console) that have fought this kind of "piracy". Do someone knows one ?
I don't know how you see democracy, but for me, the congress man is choosen by citizens directly or not (I am not american, I don't know how you choose congressman). At ICANN, you must have a personal treasure to put a TLD in a basket. Or you must be a decision taker in some business (and not a small). Sorry, but it is not very democratic.
What I like with the ICANN is their democratic system. To propose a new TLD, you must pay 20000 $US. How can they stay serious when they speak of democraty ?
This remember me an old joke. When the TI 92 appeared in France, many guys say that with a calc like this one, you could go to Polytechnique (one of the most valued "Grande Ecole") without any problem. Someone pointed that Polytechnique would have hired the calc since it is far less expensive that the user.:)
In my mean, all the power we put in calc will go in games. Algebric capabilities will become useless. If you are a scientist, you will use Maple or Mathematica. If you are at school, the calc will not be allowed.
In fact, it will just be a new geek-tool.
Since DOS drivers, VxD drivers can still run on WinME, DOS is still here. Windows Me is just a new flavor of Windows 9x. There is no rewrite of the system. But Microsoft wants to get ride of DOS. A simple way is to hide it. Officialy, there is no mean to fo in DOS mode, so DOS mode doesn't exist.
About the compatibility issue. At each new version of Windows, MS makes a step against other OSes. Not something too big. Not something too visible. For example, with NT 4, the HPFS support has disappeared. HPFS is used by OS/2 and is an "old" version of NTFS. There is no drawback to leave HPFS. Except the fact that a user can still share data with another OS. Windows 2000 introduced some disfunction in the IBM Boot Manager. Why ? I don't know.
If we go backward in the time, we can find that a DR DOS user had problem to install Windows 3.1 but no problem with Windows 3.0 (which is older than DR DOS 6). Why ? We don't know.
We can't pull a definitive conclusion, but we can say that MS is not trying to maintain compatibility with other systems.
Understanding a makefile is not very easy. Especially when it is a recursive one. I think a make showme which only shows what will be done when you'll type make install is a good improvement.
You can already do this if you have time or a very fast computer by compiling the first time with/tmp as a prefix.
You can use make uninstall to reverse the installation of a Makefile.
The problem is that you generally don't keep the Makefile. A good idea would be to keep the Makefile in some sort of database.
I don't think that everything must converge. Each device can gain Internet access, but not every device will be used to browse. We have seen it with cellular phones. Even if the technology evolve, cellular phones must be kept tiny or just small. There will never be used for regular browsing. Reading mail, OK, getting quotes, OK, but not reading./ for example.
It's like the pocketStation : you start to play your game on your cellular phone and you finish on your Playstation at home. Who will play on a cellular phone ?
I think that one of the use is an electronical paper : a paper which is in fact a flat screen. You can print many times on it. I don't remember who the first introduced this concept.
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Well, in France, this dogma is all the most true. Universities buy PC with Windows, even when they want to put Linux or another Unix. When Windows 95 was out, we were the first to switch to it. French magazines were applauding each new flavor of Windows for being almost perfect. And I think we have here some of the most Windows addicts. Etc.
Germany is far away... And has always been.
I find the article has one particular interesting point. An "excuse" to mount an abandonware site is that many people bought the game but don't have the original disks any more (because they are corrupted).
It is not an unfair excuse. When I got my CDR burner, I have archived my old games on a CD. I haven't been unable to put them all since some disks became unreadable.
I am not a lawyer but I remember if a game (or just a piece of software) has copy protection, the editor must provide a piece of backup if the customer ask it. I don't think this is limited in the time. I don't think if I ask some game editor for 15 years old game's disks, it will send them to me. But finally, some of them won't forget they own copyright on these titles...
However, I don't know any game editor for computer (not for console) that have fought this kind of "piracy". Do someone knows one ?
I don't know how you see democracy, but for me, the congress man is choosen by citizens directly or not (I am not american, I don't know how you choose congressman). At ICANN, you must have a personal treasure to put a TLD in a basket. Or you must be a decision taker in some business (and not a small). Sorry, but it is not very democratic.
What I like with the ICANN is their democratic system. To propose a new TLD, you must pay 20000 $US. How can they stay serious when they speak of democraty ?
This watch was done with Microsoft.
This remember me an old joke. When the TI 92 appeared in France, many guys say that with a calc like this one, you could go to Polytechnique (one of the most valued "Grande Ecole") without any problem. Someone pointed that Polytechnique would have hired the calc since it is far less expensive that the user. :)
In my mean, all the power we put in calc will go in games. Algebric capabilities will become useless. If you are a scientist, you will use Maple or Mathematica. If you are at school, the calc will not be allowed.
In fact, it will just be a new geek-tool.
Since DOS drivers, VxD drivers can still run on WinME, DOS is still here. Windows Me is just a new flavor of Windows 9x. There is no rewrite of the system. But Microsoft wants to get ride of DOS. A simple way is to hide it. Officialy, there is no mean to fo in DOS mode, so DOS mode doesn't exist.
About the compatibility issue. At each new version of Windows, MS makes a step against other OSes. Not something too big. Not something too visible. For example, with NT 4, the HPFS support has disappeared. HPFS is used by OS/2 and is an "old" version of NTFS. There is no drawback to leave HPFS. Except the fact that a user can still share data with another OS. Windows 2000 introduced some disfunction in the IBM Boot Manager. Why ? I don't know.
If we go backward in the time, we can find that a DR DOS user had problem to install Windows 3.1 but no problem with Windows 3.0 (which is older than DR DOS 6). Why ? We don't know.
We can't pull a definitive conclusion, but we can say that MS is not trying to maintain compatibility with other systems.
Understanding a makefile is not very easy. Especially when it is a recursive one. I think a make showme which only shows what will be done when you'll type make install is a good improvement. /tmp as a prefix.
You can already do this if you have time or a very fast computer by compiling the first time with
You can use make uninstall to reverse the installation of a Makefile.
The problem is that you generally don't keep the Makefile. A good idea would be to keep the Makefile in some sort of database.
I don't think that everything must converge. Each device can gain Internet access, but not every device will be used to browse. We have seen it with cellular phones. Even if the technology evolve, cellular phones must be kept tiny or just small. There will never be used for regular browsing. Reading mail, OK, getting quotes, OK, but not reading ./ for example.
It's like the pocketStation : you start to play your game on your cellular phone and you finish on your Playstation at home. Who will play on a cellular phone ?
I think that one of the use is an electronical paper : a paper which is in fact a flat screen. You can print many times on it. I don't remember who the first introduced this concept.