While this doesn't solve the long-term problem, you can get alot of useful updates from:
http://www.pkgmaster.com/
It's run by Taco (but not CmdrTaco) and he used to work for Cobalt (as did I). He releases lots of goodies and things like OpenSSH faster than Sun ever did.
Also... someone could resurrect the RaQs if they wanted to as Sun has open sourced the code for the Qube 3 at:
http://open.cobaltqube.org/
While the Qube didn't have the RaQ's virtual hosting, it wouldn't be a massive stretch to extend the Qube software. Better yet, the Qube software is BSD licensed, not GPL licensed, making it alot more feasible for another company to make a commercial product out of it.
It doesn't matter what part you are talking about... Republican, Democrat, Green, Libertarian, Socialist, Reform, whatever... there are always extremists/fundamentalists/whatever in each party that can give it a bad name. Heck, even "moderates" can make a party look bad. The smaller the party the more these fringe elements will taint that party.
Part of the problem with the word Libertarian is that it refers both to a political party (a'la Democrat) -and- a political belief system (a'la Left-wing / Liberal). It tends to confuse folks.
Environmentally speaking the general policy from the Libertarian party is that protecting nature is good but too much regulation is bad as it is often driven by non-environmental motivations. As such, a Libertarian worried about the destruction of a public park from polluting industries might argue for increased privatization of public lands instead of higher fines on the company and/or higher taxes to reclaim the land since the idea is that the private land owner would be more diligent about protecting their property.
I personally think that is a nice ideal but not always a realistic method in today's world... but I tend more to the liberal side of the environmental arguments.
You might be interested in http://Libertarian.org/ if you want more info.
However, on other issues, particularly in the environment, they are very "Right Wing".
What a terrible generalization.
Many people, like myself, many friends, and others in my family, call themselves Libertarian due to having more conservative economic views, but more liberal social views (and that is usually the accepted connotation of Libertarian as I have heard it). Nothing mentioned about the environment -unless- you view the environment purely in economic terms, which is plain and simply short sighted.
On the environment, especially open spaces/parks, conservation, pollution and recycling, most Libertarians I know are definitely more liberal than conservative, but not as accutely liberal as the Greens.
Why doesn't someone find out what Mandrake thinks about this? They may be perfectly happy to have their software get out now without having to pay any of the bandwidth costs.
But as long as the laser is tracking the same distance at the same speed, it wouldn't matter. Reverse your bits and then pad enough to the beginning (of a regular CD, "end" of a GC CD) of the disc so that the last bit you write (again, on a regular CD) is in the same position as the first bit of a GC CD. In theory at least.
From what others are saying, the disc spins the proper direction but reads from the outside-in. So, a reversal of bits + proper padding algorithm may just work.
However, reading the articles it also seems like what the hack involves is a buffer overload which allows you to load games via ethernet, so the whole mess of CD issues appears to be avoided entirely by this hack.
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No. No he's not. Just look at the other posts around his... and note the recent articles talking about Microsoft taking a greater interest in BIOS development.
Is it the only reason for the delay? Doubtful. But it surely contributes at least on an intellectual / planning level if not strategically.
I've used a slimjim at least twice to get into my own car.
My wife works at a mall where the guards use them to let owners into their own cars repeatedly (only for mall employees who have registered their vehicle).
Your comparison of slimjim users equaling probably thieves is just as flawed as the record labels assumptions about CDs in computers.
Ya know, that ability to unpack/repack a file has even better uses. With a little XML editing that presentation that you put off until the last minute, then spent all night working on, can be made to look as if you started it 15 days ago and had been open for nearly 100 hours;)
Wow... 3... then in that case every single scientist who is either being stifled or worried about being stifled must have already been interviewed. And these were only in relation to PATRIOT specifically, not the administration's policies having similar effects in general.
I see where you're coming from, but that IMO is the biggest problem with liberals today. We are too disorganized politically. How many innovative scientists do you think we've -lost- due to the current Bush shenanigans (hint: read up on what the PATRIOT act and its ilk have done to the ability of scientists to be honest with their reports versus having to fudge or simply not research in certain areas to keep their jobs).
The more the liberal community cedes the political realm, the harder it will be to be liberal in other aspects of life. Like it or not, politics is a very large part of how the world runs. Everytime one liberal quits voting or quits running for office it weakens their cause and simultaneously strengthens all oppoising sides.
FWIW I'm more Libertarian as I get older, but that means I'm a social/privacy liberal. I vote Libertarian where feasible (and when the candidate isn't a dipstick, being a small party is like a magnet for folks who've been rejected everywhere else). However to keep with strength in numbers I vote Democrat in the larger elections and I will keep doing so until there is enough of a Libertarian political base to be effective because the divisions (like voting for Nader in 2000) are just WAY too good for the other side. The "other" side for me is not necessarily Republican (I voted for a couple last time just because they had better platforms) but is all sides that are social/privacy conservatives.
If everyone would pay attention to issues and vote their morals, I wouldn't have to go through this to such a degree and I would agree 100% with your original post. But the world is grey.
So, why don't all the ISP router admins get together and route all requests for 64.94.110.11 into the bit-bucket, or even better, configure all DNS servers to report it as non-existent.
If you want to get really smart about it, since VeriSign could simply change the * record later, pull a copy of the root zone each day and grep the * record to blackhole whatever it calls for.
Or designate one source to do this and pull from this source.
A few large ISPs could seriously affect Verisign's ability to do this in the future and a little grassroots campaign like this can shape future policies at other companies.
Podran me, but taht wluod be "trlol", "torll", "tlrol" or "tlorl".
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A story that will likely change if they can win a couple of other suits as precedent. It's not over until SCO is no longer in existence in any form or all their cases are lost.
People don't seem to get it.
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Mutating Linux to remove infringing code will not remove SCO's ability to take to court the distributors of any version of Linux which infringed, -past- or present. Likewise the users of such distributions, -past- or present. Irregardless of whether the distribution was freely given away or bundled as a priced product.
I agree with you that Linux will overcome the issue if it is so proven to be real, but that will not indemnify people who have transgressed. That will likely be -extremely- costly to Linux vendors and users and will damage the adoption of Linux (whether that is a good or a bad thing depends on your view of commercializing Linux) for years to come.
However I disagree that SCO can not harm Linux. The only way the community will come out without severe damage will be if SCO's case if flatly disproven and/or is deemed invalid due to SCO having distributed Linux and/or infringing on code they didn't own -prior- to SCO's code (if it really was such) being introduced into Linux.
NOTE: I'm not saying SCO is or is not right... that's for the courts, lawyers and experts to prove. I'm only trying to illustrate just how deeply damaging this case can be. It is even possible that anyone who can be proved to have used or distributed a 2.4 kernel may be at risk.
Besides, you don't consider the idea of reverting back to the 2.2 kernel (your extreme example) to be "harm" to Linux?
I didn't know a thing about the lawsuit, who made the movie, or anything else about it when I saw the trailer.
Both times I saw the trailer this weekend I thought to myself "interesting, maybe someone finally made a Storyteller movie".
It most definitely has a strong resemblance in the trailer. Enough that WW fans will immediately associate the two. If the trailer is an accurate portrayal of the movie, then I can see a lawsuit having teeth.
While the Storyteller stuff is "just" an interpretation of myths and legends that have been around for centuries (or more), it is a very specific interpretation of them.
Apart from the utter pointlessness of 64-bit gaming for the coming years because of the comparatively humble data requirements of current games
That's a chickenegg argument. Games today don't use more data transfer than the 32bit platform provides, but they -would- if they -could-. Data transfer has been a complaint of game architects since Quake II came out. They can't do it without alienating their customers until the hardware to support it is prevalent in the market. And honestly, that won't happen until Intel decides to support Yamhill -or- until a vast majority of new PC sales are based on the Athlon64.
So you're right, we still have years until there is a reason for 64bit gaming, but it is due to the hardware not being consumer level, not due to the people who make games.
You know, I'm all for having the right to purchase a song online. I love digital music. I never listen to my physical CDs anymore, just the ripped versions I created.
BUT...
* When you sell off a CD, you are selling a physical item and at least in theory that is some measure of protection against you keeping a copy after having sold it.
NOTE: This to me is an argument not for being able to sell "used" digital copies, but against being able to sell even used CDs anymore. When CDs came out the technology for consumers to digitally copy discs just wasn't there. Sort of like when the authors of the US Constitution were talking about firearms they were thinking muskets, not automatic rifles. The technology changed but no one realizes that the "rights" associated with them should also change.
* When you buy a CD or a digital song the artist gets some of that money. With digital copies the artist's percentage usually grows dramatically. When you resell that same item, the artist gets -nothing- out of the deal except for possibly a miniscule growth in fan base.
While the RIAA is a crappy organization, I believe they are going to go down just as inevitably all empires do. Let us not take the artists down with them.
Remember, you have rights to fair personal use, just like with software. But if you read the fine print selling that software "used" is often forbidden by the license terms. Perhaps artists and record companies will have to start defining similar terms. It certainly would not be hard at all to package digital records with a player, calling the whole package "software", the songs "content" and then being MUCH more restrictive on terms. Something like that will happen if people continue to try to erode the rights of the author and publisher. It is not all about consumer rights. Those publishers of digital music are trying to offer an alternative we've all been screaming for for years... do we really want to turn them off of it now?
Bottom line for me... if you're going to buy a digital recording online, do it from the source so that the artist gets their money AND it is made clear that online downloads are becoming more popular.
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While this doesn't solve the long-term problem, you can get alot of useful updates from:
... someone could resurrect the RaQs if they wanted to as Sun has open sourced the code for the Qube 3 at:
http://www.pkgmaster.com/
It's run by Taco (but not CmdrTaco) and he used to work for Cobalt (as did I). He releases lots of goodies and things like OpenSSH faster than Sun ever did.
Also
http://open.cobaltqube.org/
While the Qube didn't have the RaQ's virtual hosting, it wouldn't be a massive stretch to extend the Qube software. Better yet, the Qube software is BSD licensed, not GPL licensed, making it alot more feasible for another company to make a commercial product out of it.
It doesn't matter what part you are talking about ... Republican, Democrat, Green, Libertarian, Socialist, Reform, whatever ... there are always extremists/fundamentalists/whatever in each party that can give it a bad name. Heck, even "moderates" can make a party look bad. The smaller the party the more these fringe elements will taint that party.
... but I tend more to the liberal side of the environmental arguments.
Part of the problem with the word Libertarian is that it refers both to a political party (a'la Democrat) -and- a political belief system (a'la Left-wing / Liberal). It tends to confuse folks.
Environmentally speaking the general policy from the Libertarian party is that protecting nature is good but too much regulation is bad as it is often driven by non-environmental motivations. As such, a Libertarian worried about the destruction of a public park from polluting industries might argue for increased privatization of public lands instead of higher fines on the company and/or higher taxes to reclaim the land since the idea is that the private land owner would be more diligent about protecting their property.
I personally think that is a nice ideal but not always a realistic method in today's world
You might be interested in http://Libertarian.org/ if you want more info.
What a terrible generalization.
Many people, like myself, many friends, and others in my family, call themselves Libertarian due to having more conservative economic views, but more liberal social views (and that is usually the accepted connotation of Libertarian as I have heard it). Nothing mentioned about the environment -unless- you view the environment purely in economic terms, which is plain and simply short sighted.
On the environment, especially open spaces/parks, conservation, pollution and recycling, most Libertarians I know are definitely more liberal than conservative, but not as accutely liberal as the Greens.
Why doesn't someone find out what Mandrake thinks about this? They may be perfectly happy to have their software get out now without having to pay any of the bandwidth costs.
But as long as the laser is tracking the same distance at the same speed, it wouldn't matter. Reverse your bits and then pad enough to the beginning (of a regular CD, "end" of a GC CD) of the disc so that the last bit you write (again, on a regular CD) is in the same position as the first bit of a GC CD. In theory at least.
From what others are saying, the disc spins the proper direction but reads from the outside-in. So, a reversal of bits + proper padding algorithm may just work.
However, reading the articles it also seems like what the hack involves is a buffer overload which allows you to load games via ethernet, so the whole mess of CD issues appears to be avoided entirely by this hack.
No. No he's not. Just look at the other posts around his ... and note the recent articles talking about Microsoft taking a greater interest in BIOS development.
Is it the only reason for the delay? Doubtful. But it surely contributes at least on an intellectual / planning level if not strategically.
I've used a slimjim at least twice to get into my own car.
My wife works at a mall where the guards use them to let owners into their own cars repeatedly (only for mall employees who have registered their vehicle).
Your comparison of slimjim users equaling probably thieves is just as flawed as the record labels assumptions about CDs in computers.
Ya know, that ability to unpack/repack a file has even better uses. With a little XML editing that presentation that you put off until the last minute, then spent all night working on, can be made to look as if you started it 15 days ago and had been open for nearly 100 hours ;)
Wow ... 3 ... then in that case every single scientist who is either being stifled or worried about being stifled must have already been interviewed. And these were only in relation to PATRIOT specifically, not the administration's policies having similar effects in general.
n -e col30.html
http://www.suntimes.com/output/zinescene/cst-fi
http://www.mafhoum.com/press4/129P1.htm
http://www.thorsett.org/archives/000013.html
http://www.research.ucla.edu/ocga/memo_OFAC.htm
Still believe 10 is a high number?
I see where you're coming from, but that IMO is the biggest problem with liberals today. We are too disorganized politically. How many innovative scientists do you think we've -lost- due to the current Bush shenanigans (hint: read up on what the PATRIOT act and its ilk have done to the ability of scientists to be honest with their reports versus having to fudge or simply not research in certain areas to keep their jobs).
The more the liberal community cedes the political realm, the harder it will be to be liberal in other aspects of life. Like it or not, politics is a very large part of how the world runs. Everytime one liberal quits voting or quits running for office it weakens their cause and simultaneously strengthens all oppoising sides.
FWIW I'm more Libertarian as I get older, but that means I'm a social/privacy liberal. I vote Libertarian where feasible (and when the candidate isn't a dipstick, being a small party is like a magnet for folks who've been rejected everywhere else). However to keep with strength in numbers I vote Democrat in the larger elections and I will keep doing so until there is enough of a Libertarian political base to be effective because the divisions (like voting for Nader in 2000) are just WAY too good for the other side. The "other" side for me is not necessarily Republican (I voted for a couple last time just because they had better platforms) but is all sides that are social/privacy conservatives.
If everyone would pay attention to issues and vote their morals, I wouldn't have to go through this to such a degree and I would agree 100% with your original post. But the world is grey.
Been playing this morning after seeing this comment. I agree with what you say all too well :)
Bastard.
There should be a "+.5 Almost Funny" rating :)
We just need a tag-team celebrity deathmatch between them.
don't you automatically trust flyingbuttmonkeys.com?
So, why don't all the ISP router admins get together and route all requests for 64.94.110.11 into the bit-bucket, or even better, configure all DNS servers to report it as non-existent.
If you want to get really smart about it, since VeriSign could simply change the * record later, pull a copy of the root zone each day and grep the * record to blackhole whatever it calls for.
Or designate one source to do this and pull from this source.
A few large ISPs could seriously affect Verisign's ability to do this in the future and a little grassroots campaign like this can shape future policies at other companies.
Podran me, but taht wluod be "trlol", "torll", "tlrol" or "tlorl".
A story that will likely change if they can win a couple of other suits as precedent. It's not over until SCO is no longer in existence in any form or all their cases are lost.
Mutating Linux to remove infringing code will not remove SCO's ability to take to court the distributors of any version of Linux which infringed, -past- or present. Likewise the users of such distributions, -past- or present. Irregardless of whether the distribution was freely given away or bundled as a priced product.
... that's for the courts, lawyers and experts to prove. I'm only trying to illustrate just how deeply damaging this case can be. It is even possible that anyone who can be proved to have used or distributed a 2.4 kernel may be at risk.
I agree with you that Linux will overcome the issue if it is so proven to be real, but that will not indemnify people who have transgressed. That will likely be -extremely- costly to Linux vendors and users and will damage the adoption of Linux (whether that is a good or a bad thing depends on your view of commercializing Linux) for years to come.
However I disagree that SCO can not harm Linux. The only way the community will come out without severe damage will be if SCO's case if flatly disproven and/or is deemed invalid due to SCO having distributed Linux and/or infringing on code they didn't own -prior- to SCO's code (if it really was such) being introduced into Linux.
NOTE: I'm not saying SCO is or is not right
Besides, you don't consider the idea of reverting back to the 2.2 kernel (your extreme example) to be "harm" to Linux?
I didn't know a thing about the lawsuit, who made the movie, or anything else about it when I saw the trailer.
Both times I saw the trailer this weekend I thought to myself "interesting, maybe someone finally made a Storyteller movie".
It most definitely has a strong resemblance in the trailer. Enough that WW fans will immediately associate the two. If the trailer is an accurate portrayal of the movie, then I can see a lawsuit having teeth.
While the Storyteller stuff is "just" an interpretation of myths and legends that have been around for centuries (or more), it is a very specific interpretation of them.
RED UNS GO FASTA!
Why do I never have mod points when I need them, and never get a chance to use them when I have them?
The parent of this post should be getting +1 Insightful, but instead will have to live with this note until someone else gets it.
forgot to convert my text properly ... chickenegg was meant to be chicken<->egg.
Apart from the utter pointlessness of 64-bit gaming for the coming years because of the comparatively humble data requirements of current games
That's a chickenegg argument. Games today don't use more data transfer than the 32bit platform provides, but they -would- if they -could-. Data transfer has been a complaint of game architects since Quake II came out. They can't do it without alienating their customers until the hardware to support it is prevalent in the market. And honestly, that won't happen until Intel decides to support Yamhill -or- until a vast majority of new PC sales are based on the Athlon64.
So you're right, we still have years until there is a reason for 64bit gaming, but it is due to the hardware not being consumer level, not due to the people who make games.
You know, I'm all for having the right to purchase a song online. I love digital music. I never listen to my physical CDs anymore, just the ripped versions I created.
... do we really want to turn them off of it now?
... if you're going to buy a digital recording online, do it from the source so that the artist gets their money AND it is made clear that online downloads are becoming more popular.
BUT...
* When you sell off a CD, you are selling a physical item and at least in theory that is some measure of protection against you keeping a copy after having sold it.
NOTE: This to me is an argument not for being able to sell "used" digital copies, but against being able to sell even used CDs anymore. When CDs came out the technology for consumers to digitally copy discs just wasn't there. Sort of like when the authors of the US Constitution were talking about firearms they were thinking muskets, not automatic rifles. The technology changed but no one realizes that the "rights" associated with them should also change.
* When you buy a CD or a digital song the artist gets some of that money. With digital copies the artist's percentage usually grows dramatically. When you resell that same item, the artist gets -nothing- out of the deal except for possibly a miniscule growth in fan base.
While the RIAA is a crappy organization, I believe they are going to go down just as inevitably all empires do. Let us not take the artists down with them.
Remember, you have rights to fair personal use, just like with software. But if you read the fine print selling that software "used" is often forbidden by the license terms. Perhaps artists and record companies will have to start defining similar terms. It certainly would not be hard at all to package digital records with a player, calling the whole package "software", the songs "content" and then being MUCH more restrictive on terms. Something like that will happen if people continue to try to erode the rights of the author and publisher. It is not all about consumer rights. Those publishers of digital music are trying to offer an alternative we've all been screaming for for years
Bottom line for me