Actually, Apple had it's own Unix a long time ago. It was called A/UX and it ran on many of the 68k macs (no PowerPC). It was pretty slick. It had this cool System 7 intigration thing, and IIRC it could run normal MacOS binaries. Pitty Apple hasn't opensourced it, or at least made it free. The people in comp.unix.aux are really informative if you have any questions.
Just curious, but why wasn't this on Taco Hell ( http://slashdot.org/tacohell/ )? It seems like that would be the apropriate testing area. I guess that's just for testing things with slash itself, but still...
Ok, the logical reason for Palm to buy Be's ip is so they can do stuff with BeIA. I'm told that the developement platform is BeOS. Besides the BeIA developers, and already existing loyal BeOS users, will BeOS be getting any new users? probably not. At least while Be owned it I could tell myself that things would eventually turn for the better, even though Be hasn't done anything with it in a year. Now BeOS users will slowly start being grouped with the likes of other high quality, yet fairly dead, OS'es. This is bad. It will devide the BeOS community. BeBox owners will be grouped with Amiga owners, but those that use BeOS on a mac or pc will be grouped with the OS/2 users. Please don't do that to us. We will remain loyal to Be and the BeOS. Don't sweep us away. This is exactly why I wish I was still a mac user. Instead I'll have to boot up linux. I wonder how the Next people survived. I feel dirty.
It has been said that illustrator is a descriptive word, telling what the product does, and so it's ok. A few courts agree with this too. Anyone remember when Micro$oft went after the maker of HFS Explorer (utility for making mac partition files for use with emulators)? Since HFS Explorer let's you explorer the contents of HFS partition files, they were allowed to keep the name. KIllustrator allows you to make illustrations and so it should be protected in the same manner.
So they've created.store,.firm,.mp3,.pic,.movie,.game, and so on... but where is the.dot? why don't any of these companies bow down before cmdrtaco and make a dot tld. then we could really have a slash dot
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As I recal, it was called "Donald Duck in Math-Magic-Land" I think it only showed him how to "play the diamonds" and how that related back to simple geometry. I think Donald's way of winning came from the "if I hit the ball hard enough, it will eventually knock something in" school of billiards.
Just to clarify for everyone, it was the marathon 2: Durandal engine source that was released, not marathon infinity. so the title should read "Bungie's Marathon 2 on Linux".
What about Oregon (and that other state)? Would I have to pay taxes to the state were my purchase comes from, even though I live in happy tax free Oregon? Would I pay an equivelent amount of taxes to Oregon that I would pay to the other state?
Someone of little consequence once said that there is no such thing as 100% secure software that doesn't use a dongle. Now we have hard disks that do the encryption themselves, kinda like a dongle. Fortunately for us, it is in effect using the same dongle for everything. Thats worse than using the same password for all your accounts. This protection can easily be broken by intercepting the protocol to the hard disk, and telling it a constant "magic cookie" value. We will be free, just a little slower.
...A plug-in for the browser is able to control an audio CD or other device for playing the musical recording...
Hmmm... sounds like we can't even play our own cd's anymore. One could easily make the argument that winamp is a browser. it uses plugins to play everything. it also looks up cds and stuff over the net and that is probably the main offense. don't you just hate these patents that have almost infinite amounts of prior art. It's a shame that this kind of thing has to happen. Now a bunch of smaller people are going to get squashed like bugs untill one of the giants stubs their toes on this rediculous patent.
100 billion eh? Maybe evil mister bill will build his own space station to compete with the ISS. Eventually it will capture 95% of the market of ignorent stargazers. Then he will force any one who makes telescopes to pay him large sums of money and only allow them to veiw his space station. Bwuhahahaha!!!
Do you remember a while back when it got out that somebody in St. Petersburg had access to the Windows source? They needed to compile a custom version of Windows to run on a big blob of fungus. Those millions of dollars that they needed to keep it in the sky was really for M$ to upgrade their system. Unfortunately their connection got cut off too soon.
If it crushs the people who use windows, then the msn collective will just brainwash new ones. We should make it land on redmond so we can kill the fungus were it starts.
Oh wait, you ment the ignorant massess of voters. In that case, is it possible to make it go back in time and kill all the colonists? Only if they succesfully manuver mir through the four dimensional maze
The article mentioned that the existence or nonexistence of florescent materials in the layers determins whether data is there or not... How easily would they be able to make devices for home users to record there own disks? I go through a 50 pack of cd-r's in about a month. If I could burn these disks then I could save alot of money.
damn, i knew i forgot something (hadn't seen that one in a while). the fungi on mir will cause as rampant epidemic of pink eye that will be blamed on a condiment company.
I know where it'll land. I have a little box that shows me the future. It said that Mir will land on a boy named Kenny McCormic, in a little hick mountain town called South Park, in Colorado. This will all happen on October 31st.
Slashdot Mirror
Evil doesn't even begin to describe it. I know how I feel after 20 minutes. Can you imagine how it would feel to regain sensation after 19 years?
Two words:
Pins and needles!
If it's anything like CSS was, then we have nothing to worry about :P
All These Worlds Are Yours, Except Europa, Attempt No Landing There
Protagonist? that's the character from snow crash, not cryptonomicon.
A/UX needed at least a Motorola 68030
I thought it could run on a 68020 as long as you had an FPU.
they're a little new to this Unix thing.
Actually, Apple had it's own Unix a long time ago. It was called A/UX and it ran on many of the 68k macs (no PowerPC). It was pretty slick. It had this cool System 7 intigration thing, and IIRC it could run normal MacOS binaries. Pitty Apple hasn't opensourced it, or at least made it free. The people in comp.unix.aux are really informative if you have any questions.
so does this mean Microsoft will kill IBM, and merge with Apple?
Just curious, but why wasn't this on Taco Hell ( http://slashdot.org/tacohell/ )? It seems like that would be the apropriate testing area. I guess that's just for testing things with slash itself, but still...
Ok, the logical reason for Palm to buy Be's ip is so they can do stuff with BeIA. I'm told that the developement platform is BeOS. Besides the BeIA developers, and already existing loyal BeOS users, will BeOS be getting any new users? probably not. At least while Be owned it I could tell myself that things would eventually turn for the better, even though Be hasn't done anything with it in a year. Now BeOS users will slowly start being grouped with the likes of other high quality, yet fairly dead, OS'es. This is bad. It will devide the BeOS community. BeBox owners will be grouped with Amiga owners, but those that use BeOS on a mac or pc will be grouped with the OS/2 users. Please don't do that to us. We will remain loyal to Be and the BeOS. Don't sweep us away. This is exactly why I wish I was still a mac user. Instead I'll have to boot up linux. I wonder how the Next people survived. I feel dirty.
bah, doesn't anyone use INTERCAL ? I guess that's more like drinking cyanide than shooting yourself, but still...
It has been said that illustrator is a descriptive word, telling what the product does, and so it's ok. A few courts agree with this too. Anyone remember when Micro$oft went after the maker of HFS Explorer (utility for making mac partition files for use with emulators)? Since HFS Explorer let's you explorer the contents of HFS partition files, they were allowed to keep the name. KIllustrator allows you to make illustrations and so it should be protected in the same manner.
So they've created .store, .firm, .mp3, .pic, .movie, .game, and so on... but where is the .dot? why don't any of these companies bow down before cmdrtaco and make a dot tld. then we could really have a slash dot
As I recal, it was called "Donald Duck in Math-Magic-Land" I think it only showed him how to "play the diamonds" and how that related back to simple geometry. I think Donald's way of winning came from the "if I hit the ball hard enough, it will eventually knock something in" school of billiards.
Just to clarify for everyone, it was the marathon 2: Durandal engine source that was released, not marathon infinity. so the title should read "Bungie's Marathon 2 on Linux".
What about Oregon (and that other state)? Would I have to pay taxes to the state were my purchase comes from, even though I live in happy tax free Oregon? Would I pay an equivelent amount of taxes to Oregon that I would pay to the other state?
Someone of little consequence once said that there is no such thing as 100% secure software that doesn't use a dongle. Now we have hard disks that do the encryption themselves, kinda like a dongle. Fortunately for us, it is in effect using the same dongle for everything. Thats worse than using the same password for all your accounts. This protection can easily be broken by intercepting the protocol to the hard disk, and telling it a constant "magic cookie" value. We will be free, just a little slower.
...A plug-in for the browser is able to control an audio CD or other device for playing the musical recording...
Hmmm...
sounds like we can't even play our own cd's anymore. One could easily make the argument that winamp is a browser. it uses plugins to play everything. it also looks up cds and stuff over the net and that is probably the main offense. don't you just hate these patents that have almost infinite amounts of prior art. It's a shame that this kind of thing has to happen. Now a bunch of smaller people are going to get squashed like bugs untill one of the giants stubs their toes on this rediculous patent.
100 billion eh? Maybe evil mister bill will build his own space station to compete with the ISS. Eventually it will capture 95% of the market of ignorent stargazers. Then he will force any one who makes telescopes to pay him large sums of money and only allow them to veiw his space station. Bwuhahahaha!!!
Do you remember a while back when it got out that somebody in St. Petersburg had access to the Windows source? They needed to compile a custom version of Windows to run on a big blob of fungus. Those millions of dollars that they needed to keep it in the sky was really for M$ to upgrade their system. Unfortunately their connection got cut off too soon.
If it crushs the people who use windows, then the msn collective will just brainwash new ones. We should make it land on redmond so we can kill the fungus were it starts. Oh wait, you ment the ignorant massess of voters. In that case, is it possible to make it go back in time and kill all the colonists? Only if they succesfully manuver mir through the four dimensional maze
The article mentioned that the existence or nonexistence of florescent materials in the layers determins whether data is there or not... How easily would they be able to make devices for home users to record there own disks? I go through a 50 pack of cd-r's in about a month. If I could burn these disks then I could save alot of money.
Apple, IMO has failed to put an easy Macintosh GUI on Unix.
What about A/UX ? That was system 7 on top of a unix, and it was easy.
damn, i knew i forgot something (hadn't seen that one in a while). the fungi on mir will cause as rampant epidemic of pink eye that will be blamed on a condiment company.
the scott adams method didn't work for the dilbert tv show, what makes you think it'll work for where mir will land?
I know where it'll land. I have a little box that shows me the future. It said that Mir will land on a boy named Kenny McCormic, in a little hick mountain town called South Park, in Colorado. This will all happen on October 31st.