Right, I remember one of the early comments from CEO SCO... that one of the major similarities were the consistent and repeated spelling errors as shown in the most recent example they released.
While sometimes spelling errors are consistent among diffrent programers, wouldn't it not be wise to.
1. Strip out all the comments into a diffrent file 2. Peform a spell check, isolate mispelled words 3. Scan the linux kernel for these mispellings
The old rule in the past, there was an old rule. If you are making a profit from it, then you need to ask permision before using the material. Basicly if you are making money, then you need to compensate the artist in question.
For example, I don't know where I read this (probally slashdot)... In Ronald Reagan's '84 presidental campain he decided to use the song "Born in the USA" without consulting Bruce Springstein on the subject. Bruce was not happy as he felt Reagan's use was not consistent with his anti-war sentiment.
Now... the campain managers probally thought it was perfectly OK to use this song. Why wouldn't it be, after all it was played on the radio day and night.
Ah so. You think you nephew being taught to steal is a good thing. As much as I do not like the RIAA you sons teacher needs to be arrested. He is the leader of a ring of thieves. I hope someone gets caught and the "ring leader" has to pay.
Righto. First of all, you are no more qualified to judge whether or not it's steeling then the teacher is because you are not the copyright holder. For all you know... my newphew brought in a bunch of Billy Ray tracks who's copyright had expired.
Now, I agree with you to a degree that this teacher should be educating kids on copyrights and how to actually get the permission from the copyright holders as well as how to actually do this. I've tried contacting the approperate numbers located in the flyleaf of material the kids use, thanks in part to the local library. The result to my inquary has been neither negative or postive, no one who I talked to was willing to give written permision for educational use of the tracks. The only written permision i've seen is by Bruce Springstien. I tried to turn my newphew on to music released under an open license, material that you have full permision to do what ever you please. I've tried talking to the teacher about the subject, but he just doesn't give a shit.
The funny thing is, you can't say it's theft, the RIAA can't actually say it's theft. In fact the only people who can say it's a *violation of copyright* are the copyright holders. In the past, schools have been given carte blanche to use music anyway they please, being about education and all. What reasonable artist would deny the use of his work for education gradeschool kids?
I simply pointed out the fact that in my newphews case, he is required contribute to the school's library for use by the students in the morning bulletens, as well as other video production projects. He can do so via P2P networks which is strongly encouraged, or by taking CDs and ripping them at school which can be borrowed from the city library.
We have enough problems without teachers telling students it is OK to steal. Theft is theft. If you do not have the rights then don't do it. In no way shape or form can the "morning announcements" be more important than than teaching students not respect the property of others.
Righto... this isn't shoplifting. They are taught actually to respect their property by giving credits and not to plagerize other people's work. Now whether or not this is acceptable use is a judgement call for the copyright holders. People generally don't know any better... why should they? It never was a problem to take vinyl into a school before. In band and choir you are just given lyric sheets and told to play and sing.
Never has it ever been an issue till the RIAA started extorting money from the Girl Scouts without considering the rights of the copyright holders. Now this on the other had, this is *theft*.
You think people downloading music are doing it becaues they "need" to?
Actually, they do!
My newphew is part of the video production class at school. Using older PowerPCs they produce the morning announcements, which include music clips. He is encouraged, and required to download music to add to the schools's archive of music. Not doing do would greatly affect his grade.
It goes without saying the teacher involved is doing something that could get the kids sued... it didn't change the credits reflecting that napster was responcible for providing the music, since changed to kazza.
Stowell said SCO was careful in crafting the license to avoid giving users the impression that "we were giving them a Unix license with carte-blanche availability to do whatever they wanted to with the code." SCO also wants customers to be aware that the license is a binary, run-time-only license to the Unix code found in Linux. It does not give them the right to change that code or contribute it to other programs, Stowell said.
We will give you a license to run this code we fail to identify. It's not a license to all unix code but only the code we claim is in linux kernels 2.4 and 2.5, and it's a binary only license but we don't actually compile it, someone else does. We won't actually tell you what you are paying for, and what you may not modify or contribute to. You are just going to have to trust us.
Well... I think it's only approperate to respond in binary... Enclosed is a hex represnation so in order to bypass the lameness filter
Then she said, well, then do you want to buy some of our books, $9-10 each (Author Hubbard of course). Then I said err no
I only remember this vaguely when this Dianetics was new. I remember some websites popping up offering free I.Q. tests, again without any details what so ever on the site. The web was new as this was circa 1992, and I thought to my self what the hell. The end result no matter what you answered was "you can benifit from Dianetics by L Ron Hubbard"
My impression at the time wasn't really negative or positive tward Dianetics, I rather thought that it was just a faux religion out of another Hubbard book for those sci-fi readers who wanted more background and insight into these fiction societies.
10-10-xxx is something that i've used in the past, but no longer. Why? Because it is taxed like any other service. This wouldn't be SO bad if it wasn't for the fact that each 10-10-xxx number you use gets taxed in it self. One day, I had a massive phonebill, and it was all in taxes from each of the respective 10-10-xxx services I used. Not only that, but I had a service fee ontop of the usual taxes that were repeated for the privliage of having all my charges apear on one bill. This is double-dipping taxing and should be illegal and is a valuable argument for proposed taxes on VoIP service. I switched to calling cards and disconnected my LD service in protest of this policy. I pay the tax, I pay it once, as I should.
If you want to tax VoIP, then by all means tax it... but tax the line not the service. While those of us will bitch about the idea of taxing any form of service over wire, this is the only fair way to way to tax the public for useful services we take for granted. This way we don't get into disputes as to which form of traffic is taxed. The line gets taxed to pay for services that use lines themselves. This unfortunatly is the only fair way to do it.
It's silly to make a point after so many replys but hey, this was a valid point brought up in the UK.
There was some objection by police in the UK regarding Doctor Who when ever aliens disguised them selves as police officers. The argument went something like this, "You can tell a kid there is no such things as monsters, you can't tell them there is no such thing as policemen".
While i'm not about censorship... I would submit that there is no replacement for good parenting. Part of a parent's job is to talk to there kids about such issues like going outside and blowing away people is bad.
As well as being able to add programs with ease(?). Could be a smart security system that would contact approperate people in the event an alarm is triggered, or a spiffy ethernet sniffer, or if 16 megs is enough, a nice way to smuggle on a quake server to your workplace.
How about using unmanned fuel cell airplanes? It could follow the tracks, ahead of the train, reporting back what it sees, AND be able to stop in time.
I was thinking something similar to point cars, though I used the term pilot my self, but hey same concept.
Fuel Cell airplanes are interesting... also ultra light solar craft would be an option as well i'd imagine. Though, after further thought I'm thinking that anything too mechanical would be too costly to implement on such a wide scale.
Idealy some form of track patrol would be needed, your airplane post sparked an idea. Glider / kite / balloon pulled along by the train's own movement. Technicaly it wouldn't go ahead of the track, but would give you a heck of a better view. Not so cool as a point car nor fuel cell aircraft, but lower cost and useful, well till you hit a tunnel that is.
While I'm a big fan of UPS, I would tend to think that older observation techniques would probally be required. Like track number and mile (kilometer post) to report an obstruction and other issues. UPS is cool and i'm sure it would enhance this... it sound to me like they don't really have the people power in place. The artical reads as if UPS is going the work, and that is just silly. You still need something in the field in order to actually report this shit.
This concept / artical I'd find more interesting if they were creating a system to actually detect these dangers, and using UPS speed the process of making an ID between danger and nearest train. Whether this a car outfited to ride the rails with a handly little alert button, or some form of automated skid with a camera onboard to ride the rail and mission control can make the valued judgements.
A sub-compact auto side pilot traveling ahead of the would be far more interesting.
But it still won't know when a cow is on the tracks. If the driver is awake, this really shouldn't be necessary.
By the time you see the cow, it's already too late is the generall impression I get. The only means to resolving this issue would be with radio tags, cameras, or a pilot ahead of the train.
I was just thinking about this.... I'm sure it's possible that a computer can do somewhat accurate grammar checks. I'm sure it's possible for students to make a note of something the computer flags as being incorrect and take it to the teacher for dialog. This level of interaction is the actual teaching.
If teachers employ such a program to do accurate grammar checks, then all you need to do is turn in the following for the best grade
See dick. See dick run. Run dick run. See dick's ball. Dick's ball is red.
Spelling and grammar are perfect! Content wise it's about a boy who runs with a red ball. What this has to do with the cost of tea in China or the actual assignment means nothing to a computer. A human would see this and say it it reads like a first grade Dick and Jane book.
Unfortunatly, Spelling/grammar typicaly is looked at as well as the ideas and expression, no more or less so then published work.
I too am jaded by the stupid grammar and spelling police because this isn't really what you would call a professional published work, but rather a corkboard.
Is this a good thing... just as soon as the students get wind of the software the teachers are using to grade their papers how much are you willing to bet the students will get a copy for them selves?
I see this as being a useful tool for students, but not for grading. Let the teacher be the final judge.
I'm not going to dispute amateur radio license still requring morse code, only pointing out one reason why it should still be learned by radio operators.
The spark gap transmitter is the most simple means of transmiting radio information over a distance of many many miles, thousands of miles with the right antenna. Let's say a plane crashes, such a device can easily be scraped together with the spare parts and bits of metal very very easily. Such an emergency plan would be most useful if the operator knew morse code and could relay last known position, but still be useful to tap out the code every one knows.. SOS and let search and rescue zero in on the signal.
Though I will freely admit that this would only be useful in cases where aid is needed out of range of modern mobile phones and if your existing radio was bust, but never the less it's a last resort technique that works.
Yeah, I just thought that any sort of troubleshooting that should need to occur would be pretty darn difficult without being able to tell what's really going on. If it ever gets into a really bad state, it would be nearly impossible to recover your expensive little box...
I've zapped two motherboard roms in my life, one due to virus, another I believe pentium 66 was zapped due to bad flash procedure. Both became expensive paper weights, in both cases having a monitor was pretty much worthless, unless the only feature you need is a blinking cursor.
I agree troubleshooting does require feedback, and a display is most handy, but you can have your display connected via the network or via a local port.
Even though it's not running Windows, surely some sort of display would be semi-necessary? I'd hate being stuck with a useless paperweight after getting haxored or whatever...
Not really... routers do quite well with aux ports and or web management, true *nix boxes do perfectly well with remote access / console ports. Dedicated devices often don't need displays. Though if you zap the roms on any device, it's going to be a paperwight unless you can get replacements.
Myst, the first version released before CD-rom drives were standard equipment, was a single CD. I can't remember the exact release date, but it was circa 1994 or so.
I remember being somewhat annoyed at the fact that I couldn't borrow a CD-rom drive to copy it to my hard drive as I only had a 1/2 gig drive in the first place.
Keep in mind the fact that this was a game designed to run *well* under a 68030 based mac or a 386pc without a math/co if i'm remembering correctly. If my memory is correct, this would mean NO jpeg compression what so ever. I believe they also had to resort to 8 bit graphics in order to actually get the bugger to fit on a single CD.
While I'm not a mac person, Myst was actually made for the Mac platform in the first place. It seems to be a major fuck you to the people who actually made Myst popular.
I remember Myst version 1. I typicaly didn't play video games on the PC, so as I didn't really have a spiffy video card. As a result, I found gameplay much more acceptable on the Mac. It was one of the new applications you could show the average PC user what a stock Mac can do that your PC could not. I think it was probally the first time I had to actually invest in a sound card as well.
This does however fit with the Myst theme of *we will not support this platform*. I also remember that people who made Myst never supported windows NT because they felt it was a business rather then a home platform.
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Because e is the most common vowel in the alphabet. Most books are typicaly filled with the letter E.
La Disparition is a book without the letter E. Gilbert Adair translated this book into English titled "A Void".
There are a few other books who got by without the leter E. You can get details you can get off the amazon website in case you are curious.
Right, I remember one of the early comments from CEO SCO... that one of the major similarities were the consistent and repeated spelling errors as shown in the most recent example they released.
While sometimes spelling errors are consistent among diffrent programers, wouldn't it not be wise to.
1. Strip out all the comments into a diffrent file
2. Peform a spell check, isolate mispelled words
3. Scan the linux kernel for these mispellings
Or non-profit library.
The old rule in the past, there was an old rule. If you are making a profit from it, then you need to ask permision before using the material. Basicly if you are making money, then you need to compensate the artist in question.
For example, I don't know where I read this (probally slashdot)... In Ronald Reagan's '84 presidental campain he decided to use the song "Born in the USA" without consulting Bruce Springstein on the subject. Bruce was not happy as he felt Reagan's use was not consistent with his anti-war sentiment.
Now... the campain managers probally thought it was perfectly OK to use this song. Why wouldn't it be, after all it was played on the radio day and night.
Ah so. You think you nephew being taught to steal is a good thing. As much as I do not like the RIAA you sons teacher needs to be arrested. He is the leader of a ring of thieves. I hope someone gets caught and the "ring leader" has to pay.
Righto. First of all, you are no more qualified to judge whether or not it's steeling then the teacher is because you are not the copyright holder. For all you know... my newphew brought in a bunch of Billy Ray tracks who's copyright had expired.
Now, I agree with you to a degree that this teacher should be educating kids on copyrights and how to actually get the permission from the copyright holders as well as how to actually do this. I've tried contacting the approperate numbers located in the flyleaf of material the kids use, thanks in part to the local library. The result to my inquary has been neither negative or postive, no one who I talked to was willing to give written permision for educational use of the tracks. The only written permision i've seen is by Bruce Springstien. I tried to turn my newphew on to music released under an open license, material that you have full permision to do what ever you please. I've tried talking to the teacher about the subject, but he just doesn't give a shit.
The funny thing is, you can't say it's theft, the RIAA can't actually say it's theft. In fact the only people who can say it's a *violation of copyright* are the copyright holders. In the past, schools have been given carte blanche to use music anyway they please, being about education and all. What reasonable artist would deny the use of his work for education gradeschool kids?
I simply pointed out the fact that in my newphews case, he is required contribute to the school's library for use by the students in the morning bulletens, as well as other video production projects. He can do so via P2P networks which is strongly encouraged, or by taking CDs and ripping them at school which can be borrowed from the city library.
We have enough problems without teachers telling students it is OK to steal. Theft is theft. If you do not have the rights then don't do it. In no way shape or form can the "morning announcements" be more important than than teaching students not respect the property of others.
Righto... this isn't shoplifting. They are taught actually to respect their property by giving credits and not to plagerize other people's work. Now whether or not this is acceptable use is a judgement call for the copyright holders. People generally don't know any better... why should they? It never was a problem to take vinyl into a school before. In band and choir you are just given lyric sheets and told to play and sing.
Never has it ever been an issue till the RIAA started extorting money from the Girl Scouts without considering the rights of the copyright holders. Now this on the other had, this is *theft*.
You think people downloading music are doing it becaues they "need" to?
Actually, they do!
My newphew is part of the video production class at school. Using older PowerPCs they produce the morning announcements, which include music clips. He is encouraged, and required to download music to add to the schools's archive of music. Not doing do would greatly affect his grade.
It goes without saying the teacher involved is doing something that could get the kids sued... it didn't change the credits reflecting that napster was responcible for providing the music, since changed to kazza.
We will give you a license to run this code we fail to identify. It's not a license to all unix code but only the code we claim is in linux kernels 2.4 and 2.5, and it's a binary only license but we don't actually compile it, someone else does. We won't actually tell you what you are paying for, and what you may not modify or contribute to. You are just going to have to trust us.
Well... I think it's only approperate to respond in binary... Enclosed is a hex represnation so in order to bypass the lameness filter
46 55 43 4B 20 5A 4F 55 21 21 21
Then she said, well, then do you want to buy some of our books, $9-10 each (Author Hubbard of course). Then I said err no
I only remember this vaguely when this Dianetics was new. I remember some websites popping up offering free I.Q. tests, again without any details what so ever on the site. The web was new as this was circa 1992, and I thought to my self what the hell. The end result no matter what you answered was "you can benifit from Dianetics by L Ron Hubbard"
My impression at the time wasn't really negative or positive tward Dianetics, I rather thought that it was just a faux religion out of another Hubbard book for those sci-fi readers who wanted more background and insight into these fiction societies.
Blessed be the moderators, trolls, and the holy mockery. Blessed are we who enjoy their ranting.
Slashdot, i'm not worthy to preview, but only click submit and I will be reticuled.
Now it is time to pass out the jesus wafers(tm)
10-10-xxx is something that i've used in the past, but no longer. Why? Because it is taxed like any other service. This wouldn't be SO bad if it wasn't for the fact that each 10-10-xxx number you use gets taxed in it self. One day, I had a massive phonebill, and it was all in taxes from each of the respective 10-10-xxx services I used. Not only that, but I had a service fee ontop of the usual taxes that were repeated for the privliage of having all my charges apear on one bill. This is double-dipping taxing and should be illegal and is a valuable argument for proposed taxes on VoIP service. I switched to calling cards and disconnected my LD service in protest of this policy. I pay the tax, I pay it once, as I should.
If you want to tax VoIP, then by all means tax it... but tax the line not the service. While those of us will bitch about the idea of taxing any form of service over wire, this is the only fair way to way to tax the public for useful services we take for granted. This way we don't get into disputes as to which form of traffic is taxed. The line gets taxed to pay for services that use lines themselves. This unfortunatly is the only fair way to do it.
It's silly to make a point after so many replys but hey, this was a valid point brought up in the UK.
There was some objection by police in the UK regarding Doctor Who when ever aliens disguised them selves as police officers. The argument went something like this, "You can tell a kid there is no such things as monsters, you can't tell them there is no such thing as policemen".
While i'm not about censorship... I would submit that there is no replacement for good parenting. Part of a parent's job is to talk to there kids about such issues like going outside and blowing away people is bad.
As well as being able to add programs with ease(?). Could be a smart security system that would contact approperate people in the event an alarm is triggered, or a spiffy ethernet sniffer, or if 16 megs is enough, a nice way to smuggle on a quake server to your workplace.
Memo to self... don't drink and post!
How about using unmanned fuel cell airplanes? It could follow the tracks, ahead of the train, reporting back what it sees, AND be able to stop in time.
I was thinking something similar to point cars, though I used the term pilot my self, but hey same concept.
Fuel Cell airplanes are interesting... also ultra light solar craft would be an option as well i'd imagine. Though, after further thought I'm thinking that anything too mechanical would be too costly to implement on such a wide scale.
Idealy some form of track patrol would be needed, your airplane post sparked an idea. Glider / kite / balloon pulled along by the train's own movement. Technicaly it wouldn't go ahead of the track, but would give you a heck of a better view. Not so cool as a point car nor fuel cell aircraft, but lower cost and useful, well till you hit a tunnel that is.
IMNATD [I am not a train driver]
While I'm a big fan of UPS, I would tend to think that older observation techniques would probally be required. Like track number and mile (kilometer post) to report an obstruction and other issues. UPS is cool and i'm sure it would enhance this... it sound to me like they don't really have the people power in place. The artical reads as if UPS is going the work, and that is just silly. You still need something in the field in order to actually report this shit.
This concept / artical I'd find more interesting if they were creating a system to actually detect these dangers, and using UPS speed the process of making an ID between danger and nearest train. Whether this a car outfited to ride the rails with a handly little alert button, or some form of automated skid with a camera onboard to ride the rail and mission control can make the valued judgements.
A sub-compact auto side pilot traveling ahead of the would be far more interesting.
But it still won't know when a cow is on the tracks. If the driver is awake, this really shouldn't be necessary.
By the time you see the cow, it's already too late is the generall impression I get. The only means to resolving this issue would be with radio tags, cameras, or a pilot ahead of the train.
If teachers employ such a program to do accurate grammar checks, then all you need to do is turn in the following for the best grade
Spelling and grammar are perfect! Content wise it's about a boy who runs with a red ball. What this has to do with the cost of tea in China or the actual assignment means nothing to a computer. A human would see this and say it it reads like a first grade Dick and Jane book.
Unfortunatly, Spelling/grammar typicaly is looked at as well as the ideas and expression, no more or less so then published work.
I too am jaded by the stupid grammar and spelling police because this isn't really what you would call a professional published work, but rather a corkboard.
Is this a good thing... just as soon as the students get wind of the software the teachers are using to grade their papers how much are you willing to bet the students will get a copy for them selves?
I see this as being a useful tool for students, but not for grading. Let the teacher be the final judge.
Spark gap transmitters have been illegal since about 1925.
Great... if i'm stranded somewhere in the middle of nowhere they can come and ticket me. By all means!
I'm not going to dispute amateur radio license still requring morse code, only pointing out one reason why it should still be learned by radio operators.
The spark gap transmitter is the most simple means of transmiting radio information over a distance of many many miles, thousands of miles with the right antenna. Let's say a plane crashes, such a device can easily be scraped together with the spare parts and bits of metal very very easily. Such an emergency plan would be most useful if the operator knew morse code and could relay last known position, but still be useful to tap out the code every one knows.. SOS and let search and rescue zero in on the signal.
Though I will freely admit that this would only be useful in cases where aid is needed out of range of modern mobile phones and if your existing radio was bust, but never the less it's a last resort technique that works.
Yeah, I just thought that any sort of troubleshooting that should need to occur would be pretty darn difficult without being able to tell what's really going on. If it ever gets into a really bad state, it would be nearly impossible to recover your expensive little box...
I've zapped two motherboard roms in my life, one due to virus, another I believe pentium 66 was zapped due to bad flash procedure. Both became expensive paper weights, in both cases having a monitor was pretty much worthless, unless the only feature you need is a blinking cursor.
I agree troubleshooting does require feedback, and a display is most handy, but you can have your display connected via the network or via a local port.
Even though it's not running Windows, surely some sort of display would be semi-necessary? I'd hate being stuck with a useless paperweight after getting haxored or whatever...
Not really... routers do quite well with aux ports and or web management, true *nix boxes do perfectly well with remote access / console ports. Dedicated devices often don't need displays. Though if you zap the roms on any device, it's going to be a paperwight unless you can get replacements.
Myst, the first version released before CD-rom drives were standard equipment, was a single CD. I can't remember the exact release date, but it was circa 1994 or so.
I remember being somewhat annoyed at the fact that I couldn't borrow a CD-rom drive to copy it to my hard drive as I only had a 1/2 gig drive in the first place.
Keep in mind the fact that this was a game designed to run *well* under a 68030 based mac or a 386pc without a math/co if i'm remembering correctly. If my memory is correct, this would mean NO jpeg compression what so ever. I believe they also had to resort to 8 bit graphics in order to actually get the bugger to fit on a single CD.
I have NO clue about Riven though.
While I'm not a mac person, Myst was actually made for the Mac platform in the first place. It seems to be a major fuck you to the people who actually made Myst popular.
I remember Myst version 1. I typicaly didn't play video games on the PC, so as I didn't really have a spiffy video card. As a result, I found gameplay much more acceptable on the Mac. It was one of the new applications you could show the average PC user what a stock Mac can do that your PC could not. I think it was probally the first time I had to actually invest in a sound card as well.
This does however fit with the Myst theme of *we will not support this platform*. I also remember that people who made Myst never supported windows NT because they felt it was a business rather then a home platform.
My comment was in reference to "Max Headroom" where the Headmaster was officaly called the head sysop.
Little billy... report to the head sysop!
They're going to advertise Linux during televised NFL games? Isn't that sort of like advertising beer during Oprah?
t p://lib1.store.vip.sc5.yahoo.com/lib/redlightru nner/1984.mov
It's no more diffrent then that classic Apple add that was aired during the 1984 superbowl. It used the rater approperate George Orwell reference.
http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/quicktime/1984.mov
ht
[sorry, can only find quicktime versions]
I'll agree, I don't watch football, I don't like football. But alot of people do watch football.