It may actually suprise some of you, but there are valid innovations in the software industry. Patents like One Click are NOT innovations because they have direct parrallels to daily life, a really nice resturant might keep the CC# of a good customer on file so that he never has to show it again. Apple INVENTED it font technology from scratch when Adobe wanted to charge an arm and a leg for Post Script. If you don't license it from Apple, you can use it. If GNU kids, as smart and clearly innovative as they can be (Sendmail, Apache, Who knows how many scripting languages), can even come up with their own fonts, it merely attacks the coders credibility.
In light of this, for crying out loud Apple, if you are really sueing (since./ didn't bother to actually check the link which has NOTHING to do with Apple sueing)....IT'S A FONT TECHNOLOGY. I can understand going after ColorSync violators, thats your baby, buy Fonts....thats just being a greedy corporation.
Right before I quit MUD'ing many years ago, I once stayed up 40 hours straight with a new character. A low 30's character helped me get up to level 8 (out of 50), he went to bed, woke up the next day and I was level 42, and soon there after made it to level 50.
Dartmud, ahh, memories. I tested Dartmud and played up till the wipe when they went public. Jason the Rowan, best theif who ever lived. From what I hear, Jason is part of the game now.
Dartmud is one of the oldest LP muds around. Btw, Dartmud has been "up" for longer than 7 years, when I joined in late 92' testing had been going on for at least 2 years already.
I started playing it right after I started MUDing. Played Silly Mud (one of the VERY first DiKus, they are responsible for much of the base code and cities in DiKus) and later some of it's deviants.
I remeber hearing,back then, that the govt of Australia had outlawed MUD'ing because it was using up 75% of their bandwidth. Text using up 75% of the bandwidth, my how times have changed.
One word of warning for people who want to start playing a MUD, MUDing is more addictive than cocaine and makes IRC look like a caffine habit in comparision. It WILL make you anti-social, it WILL break up your relationships, it WILL lower your grades in school.
Authors Guild: Hey, you can't do that! How will authors make a profit?
Amazon: First, we CAN do that and we WILL. Second, If you didn't charge so damn much for new books, people wouldn't buy used books.
Authors Guild: We have to charge so much for new books, because author revenue is lost with the sale of used books.
Amazon: Do the authors you represent actually own the copyright on their works?
Authors Guild: Ummm. SOME of them MIGHT, I'd have to check.
Amazon: I didn't think so. Do the authors you represent get more than 50% of the profits from the sales AFTER they pay their publishers for promotional costs.
Authors Guild: Umm...err...
Amazon: I didn't think so. Maybe if publishers actually let the author keep their copyright, keep a majority of the profit, AND sold your books at a reasonable price, then people wouldn't NEED to buy used books. The fact that a used market exists and thrives merely demonstrates the fact that publishers are gouging customers for a new books.
Authors Guild: Well, we wouldn't have to charge so much if there wasn't a used...
1. You can BUY SuSE at BestBuy with a pre-release of 2.4. With all due respect: I, who don't even like Linux that much, know it is reasonable to beleive 2.4 (final) is going to be out in the next couple of weeks
2. You can BUY MacOS X Public Beta from Apple. It is well known that Apple is going to announce in just 2 weeks a final ship date for OS X. Futhermore, it is very widely beleived that it will ship in Feb.
3. They quote The Register. I like the Register, I think they are a good source of humor, but for crying out loud, it like quoting The Onion. No credibility.
"What part of Whistler also runs on Itanium do you not understand? Whistler is in beta; what stage is the linux crud in?"
"Microsoft however will not be supplying a version of Windows for Itanium until sometime in the fall of next year, several months after the expected May release of the new processor."
Heh. Uhh. I repeat. What part of " "first Itanium boxes must have Linux to run" didn't you understand?"
Did you bother to read the posting and/or the article? Ahh...gotta love a good Troll. They work better when they are funny though.
Linux supports every damn appliances on the market. You name it, if it has a processor, Linux runs on it. This is news only insofar as the first Itanium boxes MUST have Linux to run, but you know being the first to the market does NOT mean you will keep that market. Just ask Woz how powerful the company he co-founded became.
All this may be well and true, but in the real world, when companies go out of business:
people loose jobs
shareholders loose money
creditors are lucky to get all of thier money back.
These are not good things. With the death of 3dfx, it brings Nvidia one step closer to completly having the high end 3-D card all to itself. I don't think anyone wants this.
"Until now, the only useful thing I've really seen come out of that research was the Optical Intellimouse."
Close but no cigar. The mouse is actually using HP patents, not Microsoft. The only thing I've seen come from MS is a talking paperclip in a word processor.
"it will still be the best codec around, hand down, in terms of quality and compression. Right now RealVideo and Quicktime are only holding on by their name-recognition..."
Err. Wrong. Microsofts "advancements" lag Apples by a long shot. Keep in mind MPEG4 is based of Quicktime 4.
Even though they often are technological neophytes, script kiddies pose
a big threat to corporate security. While "people laugh at them," says
Spitzner, "they've compromised an awful lot of corporate sites."
And this, my comrades, is EXACTLY why the "dotcom shakeout" happened. When Job Admin can't keep a 10 year from breaking into his site using a script, which by the way takes advantage of a 3 month old exploit and the kid barely understands, how can one expect that site to make a profit.
A GUI is more than a file manager it's more than a desktop. It's a way work can be done. It's more than drag n drop. It's more than scripting. It's more than application communication services. Look at Windows. Each feature by itself is not problemmatic. How they interact with each other is the problem. I have a Windows. I'm write this on it. It's internet service is provide via PPP shared by natd on MacOS X PB. I can tell you this. MacOS X may not have an Apple menu (which most users don't ever use anyways), or an Application menu, but all the elements of a good GUI are there. Everything flows. I have yet to see a SINGLE error message. It's been on for 65 days. Daily use. Everything behaves EXACTLY like it did in MacOS 9 (with the exception that in the PB Bluebox isn't so transparent with copy/paste drag/drop). From what I've seen of what Eazel is doing, it's better than Gnome, but it isn't a MacOS yet. Mac users aren't going to switch to Linux when MacOS X PB is more usefull than RedHat7 and still much easier to use than Windows, and most likely Nautilus 1.0.
"I wonder how this will impact.NET and Corel's participation. "
Umm...I'm willing to bet this IS Corel's participation in.NET. "Sell your Linux assests and we will give you 'undocumented' info on.NET. There by allowing us (Microsoft) to appear NOT to have a monolopy, when in fact we can put you out of business on a whim.
Around noon, when I was having lunch with my wife, this came up on the radio (the FTC approval) right after the vote. Her first words were, "Great, now we can see Bugs Bunny using AOL in cartoons. I hope they show the computer catch fire..."
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It may actually suprise some of you, but there are valid innovations in the software industry. Patents like One Click are NOT innovations because they have direct parrallels to daily life, a really nice resturant might keep the CC# of a good customer on file so that he never has to show it again. Apple INVENTED it font technology from scratch when Adobe wanted to charge an arm and a leg for Post Script. If you don't license it from Apple, you can use it. If GNU kids, as smart and clearly innovative as they can be (Sendmail, Apache, Who knows how many scripting languages), can even come up with their own fonts, it merely attacks the coders credibility.
In light of this, for crying out loud Apple, if you are really sueing (since ./ didn't bother to actually check the link which has NOTHING to do with Apple sueing)....IT'S A FONT TECHNOLOGY. I can understand going after ColorSync violators, thats your baby, buy Fonts....thats just being a greedy corporation.
How do you think a possible Feb OS X release date will affect acceptance of LinuxPCC among owners G3/G4's?
Right before I quit MUD'ing many years ago, I once stayed up 40 hours straight with a new character. A low 30's character helped me get up to level 8 (out of 50), he went to bed, woke up the next day and I was level 42, and soon there after made it to level 50.
Dartmud is one of the oldest LP muds around. Btw, Dartmud has been "up" for longer than 7 years, when I joined in late 92' testing had been going on for at least 2 years already.
I started playing it right after I started MUDing. Played Silly Mud (one of the VERY first DiKus, they are responsible for much of the base code and cities in DiKus) and later some of it's deviants.
I remeber hearing,back then, that the govt of Australia had outlawed MUD'ing because it was using up 75% of their bandwidth. Text using up 75% of the bandwidth, my how times have changed.
One word of warning for people who want to start playing a MUD, MUDing is more addictive than cocaine and makes IRC look like a caffine habit in comparision. It WILL make you anti-social, it WILL break up your relationships, it WILL lower your grades in school.
Authors Guild: Hey, you can't do that! How will authors make a profit?
Amazon: First, we CAN do that and we WILL. Second, If you didn't charge so damn much for new books, people wouldn't buy used books.
Authors Guild: We have to charge so much for new books, because author revenue is lost with the sale of used books.
Amazon: Do the authors you represent actually own the copyright on their works?
Authors Guild: Ummm. SOME of them MIGHT, I'd have to check.
Amazon: I didn't think so. Do the authors you represent get more than 50% of the profits from the sales AFTER they pay their publishers for promotional costs.
Authors Guild: Umm...err...
Amazon: I didn't think so. Maybe if publishers actually let the author keep their copyright, keep a majority of the profit, AND sold your books at a reasonable price, then people wouldn't NEED to buy used books. The fact that a used market exists and thrives merely demonstrates the fact that publishers are gouging customers for a new books.
Authors Guild: Well, we wouldn't have to charge so much if there wasn't a used...
Amazon: Shaddup!
Note, a look for "decss source code" brings back as the FIRST LINK the previous link. Good job RIAA, keep up the good work.
Man, if they can make fancy wireless toys like this, why can't they bring back the PXL-2000. It would probabally cost the same and be a LOT neater.
2. You can BUY MacOS X Public Beta from Apple. It is well known that Apple is going to announce in just 2 weeks a final ship date for OS X. Futhermore, it is very widely beleived that it will ship in Feb.
3. They quote The Register. I like the Register, I think they are a good source of humor, but for crying out loud, it like quoting The Onion. No credibility.
"Microsoft however will not be supplying a version of Windows for Itanium until sometime in the fall of next year, several months after the expected May release of the new processor."
Heh. Uhh. I repeat. What part of " "first Itanium boxes must have Linux to run" didn't you understand?"
Did you bother to read the posting and/or the article? Ahh...gotta love a good Troll. They work better when they are funny though.
What part of "first Itanium boxes must have Linux to run" didn't you understand?
Linux supports every damn appliances on the market. You name it, if it has a processor, Linux runs on it. This is news only insofar as the first Itanium boxes MUST have Linux to run, but you know being the first to the market does NOT mean you will keep that market. Just ask Woz how powerful the company he co-founded became.
#!/bin/sh #s1a5h D07 3d170r v3r51on 2.3.3020 while [ ${keyword} = '3dfx'|'MPAA'|'linux' ];do post ${article} done
Since when does taking pictures of your monitor count as a screenshot?
people loose jobs
shareholders loose money
creditors are lucky to get all of thier money back.
These are not good things. With the death of 3dfx, it brings Nvidia one step closer to completly having the high end 3-D card all to itself. I don't think anyone wants this.
Close but no cigar. The mouse is actually using HP patents, not Microsoft. The only thing I've seen come from MS is a talking paperclip in a word processor.
SInce you are the third person to say this...I ask you point to one spot i called quicktime 4 a codec....
Using a Mac and Quicktime, one can already do real time encoding without any special cards.
Err. Wrong. Microsofts "advancements" lag Apples by a long shot. Keep in mind MPEG4 is based of Quicktime 4.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/x-men/fullscreen _trailer3.html
If you have a high bandwith connection the 300K streams looks quite impressive. DVD quality.
And this, my comrades, is EXACTLY why the "dotcom shakeout" happened. When Job Admin can't keep a 10 year from breaking into his site using a script, which by the way takes advantage of a 3 month old exploit and the kid barely understands, how can one expect that site to make a profit.
Everyone could speak freely on their soapbox so long as the soapbox was made of gold.....
A GUI is more than a file manager it's more than a desktop. It's a way work can be done. It's more than drag n drop. It's more than scripting. It's more than application communication services. Look at Windows. Each feature by itself is not problemmatic. How they interact with each other is the problem. I have a Windows. I'm write this on it. It's internet service is provide via PPP shared by natd on MacOS X PB. I can tell you this. MacOS X may not have an Apple menu (which most users don't ever use anyways), or an Application menu, but all the elements of a good GUI are there. Everything flows. I have yet to see a SINGLE error message. It's been on for 65 days. Daily use. Everything behaves EXACTLY like it did in MacOS 9 (with the exception that in the PB Bluebox isn't so transparent with copy/paste drag/drop). From what I've seen of what Eazel is doing, it's better than Gnome, but it isn't a MacOS yet. Mac users aren't going to switch to Linux when MacOS X PB is more usefull than RedHat7 and still much easier to use than Windows, and most likely Nautilus 1.0.
Here are some for Unix based Operating Systems. Here is one for Macintosh that still runs in OS 9.
Umm...I'm willing to bet this IS Corel's participation in .NET. "Sell your Linux assests and we will give you 'undocumented' info on .NET. There by allowing us (Microsoft) to appear NOT to have a monolopy, when in fact we can put you out of business on a whim.