Darn. I was going to submit Nazi raccoons conquer Europe but I haven't been able to figure out where the Gates connection is. Maybe if I had a fast way of searching large DBs...?
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And if they don't listen, feed them a huge maze of generated links that eventually lead to goatse or something. Or just block their crawler at the router and they can search their intranet.
I dumped a coke into mine but it got better with some cleaning. (One or two keys need a little more work.) I use a scavenged Compaq RT101 on my main machine: small desk space, firm keys and less noise. I hate mushy keyboards.
It'd be good for organizing things. For music, you might want labels that show how the contents are grouped. ("Warning: Contains Everything ABBA.")
For re-recordable stuff, I used to put labels on floppies like "Ron's Scratch Disk #4" so I could find the right one from a pile. At 10 cents a disc, it's not much for reusable, and I have trouble making marker look good.
This would be good for family parties. In my family, extended to aunts, uncles, cousins, cousins' kids, (coming soon) cousins' kids' kids is a scary number, and there are already video tapes copied and circulating of events. (The techoscenti exchange digital photos via email. We need a web site.) A labeled CD/DVD of each event's pictures and videos would be cool.
Hmm... How about xmas cards with a personalized CD rather than a "our news for the year" paper blog letter?
I could see something as simple as good looking labeling acting as a trigger for a lot of home production work, with spin-offs into do-it-yourself audio/video production software. (And small gigs for people who do do-it-for-them work.) Most of it will be junk, but at least labelled nicely!:^)
Development too. One-offs and limited runs like betas or release candidates can be labeled with accurate versioning without mucking around with labels or markers. And it'll be a lot easier to find the right one with different graphics rather than a pile of identical discs with some marker squiggle.
To paraphrase Picard, "BillG, when I look at you now, I won't see a powerful Microsoft officer... but a small boy weeping because he was powerless to protect his Altair BASIC."
Bill's Open Letter to Hobbyists about theft should always be required reading for these discussions.
Hmm. I don't buy computers with OEM Windows. I buy an upgrade for my designated Windows machine. My upgrades trace back to a copy of MSDOS that I can slap in any one damned machine that I feel like. (Note: one, not two or several.)
Any upgrades that tried to enforce more restrictive shrink-wrap licencing on me weren't upgrades and were fraudulently sold as such. (I'm expecting the latest upgrade to Turbo Pascal 2 next week.;)
Not that I'd want to try and defend that view in court, of course.
With the Apple, IBM, Next or Be equivalents we would be considerably FARTHER than we are today.
Too bad that not enough people bought OS/2, NextStep or BeOS then. If they'd made more money at it, then they'd probably still be doing it. Apple doesn't count so much because they are tied to their hardware, but I do recall them being slower than Microsoft to adopt preemptive multitasking back in the day.
I also remember the crunchy corpses of companies that thought they had a captive audience to abuse (and did): Netscape, Adobe, Real (whoops, needs another few minutes on the grill).
Imminent mass end user revolt? I don't recall any pitchforks and torches. Could you expand on that? Name one end user category where Microsoft had a captive audience and this happened.
I'm sure someone would have defended Loverboy by saying that the sex was only possible with the pickups (chocolate, diamonds, mink coat, etc), implying that it was consensual and not rape. Uh-huh, whatever.
Confession: At Nova Games we did have a Loverboy board on loan for a few weeks from our Japanese connection. Not that we spent much time during lunch playing it all the time, of course. (Too busy developing awesome games like this narf!) And, no, I didn't make a copy of the ROMs.
I notice that Loverboy doesn't get any mention. (MAME has it on their Want These ROMs list.) Basically a maze'n'dots coin-op game, with a little perv in a park. After gobbling a pickup, your perv could gobble a ghost, er, woman (without getting arrested). At that point it switched to a fairly graphic screen showing one of several positions. The object was to, umm, get both bar graphs to top at the same time by rhythmic taps on the fire button.
I don't know if anyone ever distributed it, but it toured the trade shows (1984) as a back-at-the-room demo.
Expect a few knock-offs movies. ("Not Tolkien, but wink-wink..") There have been enough Tolkien knock-off books over the years (Shananara), I expect that they're being "explored" for movie possibilities.
I still wonder what a Ring of Darkness by Francis Ford Coppola would be like. With CGI, he could get silly without needing a real army. (And I did wish for a little Ride of the Valkyries during Nazgul/eagle fights and the final rescue.)
Cool, I'll bet that they have hours of Baron Harkonnen, er, Denethor being whacked with a stick! ("Gandalf, why did you hit him? He wasn't saying anything." "Overpowering urge, sorry.")
Hey, I'm a pro at sitting in a chair and not moving for hours at a time, but I still had numb-butt by the end. Okay, at home doing a set of stretches while still watching is possible, so a pause button is optional.
Sounded like someone else had problems: An audable "Ah wud yah jest kiss her so we can go home!" drifted across the theater towards the end. (None of that at home either--unless you want to.) Only one cell phone ring that I heard.
You know, with all the kicking and screaming over RateMyTeachers-type sites, can you imagine how a RateMyDoctors.com site would be received? (Maybe we'll find out)
The US copyright office isn't directly relevant to me, not my country. There were a lot of quirks as the US copyright office shifted over to the Berne convention as well as started dealing with what to do about software.
To learn "a little bit about history", I'd have to forget a lot.
"[..] that regulation may well include a statutory duty to disclose source code and allow it to be used elsewhere."
Where does this assumption that anyone has a right to source code come from? If somebody doesn't provide source code, your right is to not use it, don't buy it! It's as simple as that. If open source can't win economically, then using goverment power to force a win is no win at all. (Using OSS to create closed source in violation of licence is a seperate issue.)
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Yeah, if their cache is 2.5TB, I wonder how large the disk farm is? (And I was so happy about my new 120GB drive, poot!)
Darn. I was going to submit Nazi raccoons conquer Europe but I haven't been able to figure out where the Gates connection is. Maybe if I had a fast way of searching large DBs...?
Last crawled by:
yahoobot on 03/09/04 at 04:12.
spammerscum on 03/05/04 at 14:41.
googlebot on 02/29/04 at 10:38.
machoproducts on 02/23/04 at 18:21.
machoproducts on 02/23/04 at 18:20.
machoproducts on 02/23/04 at 18:18.
Have a nice day!
How unique? Using the URL as a seed, generating content isn't hard. That could lead to a gradual arms-race between spiders and poison. (Some people leave poison pages with email addresses for spammer spiders to harvest.)
If you didn't want your crawler fed a million-zillion pages of /lostsouls/{BF538DE0-71AB-11D8-AD10-00A0248B8F67}. html that link to four other pages like it (and so on), then you should have listened to robots.txt.
User-agent: *
Disallow:
And if they don't listen, feed them a huge maze of generated links that eventually lead to goatse or something. Or just block their crawler at the router and they can search their intranet.
I dumped a coke into mine but it got better with some cleaning. (One or two keys need a little more work.) I use a scavenged Compaq RT101 on my main machine: small desk space, firm keys and less noise. I hate mushy keyboards.
In Canada, they'll just add a bit to the tax on media because no one but pirates ever records to CDs/DVDs/tape...
For re-recordable stuff, I used to put labels on floppies like "Ron's Scratch Disk #4" so I could find the right one from a pile. At 10 cents a disc, it's not much for reusable, and I have trouble making marker look good.
Hmm... How about xmas cards with a personalized CD rather than a "our news for the year" paper blog letter?
I could see something as simple as good looking labeling acting as a trigger for a lot of home production work, with spin-offs into do-it-yourself audio/video production software. (And small gigs for people who do do-it-for-them work.) Most of it will be junk, but at least labelled nicely! :^)
Hmm, personalized novelty coasters... "Joe Sixpack Live at the Hollywood Bowl" I smell profit!
Development too. One-offs and limited runs like betas or release candidates can be labeled with accurate versioning without mucking around with labels or markers. And it'll be a lot easier to find the right one with different graphics rather than a pile of identical discs with some marker squiggle.
Bill's Open Letter to Hobbyists about theft should always be required reading for these discussions.
Any upgrades that tried to enforce more restrictive shrink-wrap licencing on me weren't upgrades and were fraudulently sold as such. (I'm expecting the latest upgrade to Turbo Pascal 2 next week. ;)
Not that I'd want to try and defend that view in court, of course.
Too bad that not enough people bought OS/2, NextStep or BeOS then. If they'd made more money at it, then they'd probably still be doing it. Apple doesn't count so much because they are tied to their hardware, but I do recall them being slower than Microsoft to adopt preemptive multitasking back in the day.
I also remember the crunchy corpses of companies that thought they had a captive audience to abuse (and did): Netscape, Adobe, Real (whoops, needs another few minutes on the grill).
Imminent mass end user revolt? I don't recall any pitchforks and torches. Could you expand on that? Name one end user category where Microsoft had a captive audience and this happened.
I'm sure someone would have defended Loverboy by saying that the sex was only possible with the pickups (chocolate, diamonds, mink coat, etc), implying that it was consensual and not rape. Uh-huh, whatever.
Confession: At Nova Games we did have a Loverboy board on loan for a few weeks from our Japanese connection. Not that we spent much time during lunch playing it all the time, of course. (Too busy developing awesome games like this narf!) And, no, I didn't make a copy of the ROMs.
I don't know if anyone ever distributed it, but it toured the trade shows (1984) as a back-at-the-room demo.
I still wonder what a Ring of Darkness by Francis Ford Coppola would be like. With CGI, he could get silly without needing a real army. (And I did wish for a little Ride of the Valkyries during Nazgul/eagle fights and the final rescue.)
Cool, I'll bet that they have hours of Baron Harkonnen, er, Denethor being whacked with a stick! ("Gandalf, why did you hit him? He wasn't saying anything." "Overpowering urge, sorry.")
Sounded like someone else had problems: An audable "Ah wud yah jest kiss her so we can go home!" drifted across the theater towards the end. (None of that at home either--unless you want to.) Only one cell phone ring that I heard.
I went and saw RoTK yesterday. No intermission. Oww oww oww! Watching it on DVD with a well-stocked fridge and a pause button is the way to go.
You know, with all the kicking and screaming over RateMyTeachers-type sites, can you imagine how a RateMyDoctors.com site would be received? (Maybe we'll find out)
To learn "a little bit about history", I'd have to forget a lot.
Where does this assumption that anyone has a right to source code come from? If somebody doesn't provide source code, your right is to not use it, don't buy it! It's as simple as that. If open source can't win economically, then using goverment power to force a win is no win at all. (Using OSS to create closed source in violation of licence is a seperate issue.)