Distributed Proofreading actually contributes to the public domain. Show the politicians that it's important by giving them a thriving public domain that they will want to supply with new works.
I built one to hook up to my MP3 server, and it's worked great. Now my server has a cron job to play the appropriate playlists at certain times of day. The other benefit is that it can do non-MP3 things, such as download the weather forecast and read it (using festival) to me. I also made a pretty simple web interface for when I need to pick songs to play or create a new playlist.
Here's a link to my model. I've been very happy with it. It took about 15 hours to put together (including time to learn to solder).
I know that a troll started this, but I've thought about creationism vs evolution a lot, and here is my conclusion:
The bible says "When I was a child, I spake as a child. Now that I have grown, I put away childish things." The bible has a very simple (childlike) explanation of how the world came into existence. We now have a more detailed theory that does not deny the existence of God (grown). There is no reason to think that now, with our understanding of genetics and mutations, that we can't understand some of the methods that God used. The bible didn't elaborate on those methods because none of the people of the time could have understood them.
My random thoughts.
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In my life, I'm starting to really believe in the concept of social evolution. We have no right to judge Lincoln on how we view things today, because the world had not been awakened to the fact that the races are equal. At that moment the world (most of it at least) was still awakening to the fact that people should not be enslaved. If you had proposed to Lincoln that evolution be taught in school, then he probably have opposed it. Lincoln could not have seen 100 years into the future, just like we can't see 100 years into the future. Lincoln's feelings then do not excuse those people who have those feelings now. We currently have more than enough evidence to show that the races are equal, and that there is no rightful postion of authority. I will not support any use of Lincoln's statements in a manner which seeks to excuse racism. To that effect, I don't think that Zico is a racist, just trying to point out that Lincoln was human.
I'm amazed that _every_ time Jon Katz says something about a movie, I always feel the exact opposite way. I enjoyed Titan A.E. because it was your standard minimal plot - lots of pretty stuff movie. I hated The Matrix because it was your standard minimal plot - lots of pretty stuff movie trying to be a techno-religious event. I read Katz's reviews in the hopes that I will know what movies to avoid. Tell me what Hemos thinks.
You're wrong, becuase copyright allows the GPL to be _enforcable_ without copyright, noone has to distribute any modified code, because the original author no longer has the right to demand that modified code be distributed.
What you're forgetting is that Loki uses SDL for most of its ports. SDL is open source and will run on most systems (granted the Mac port apparently needs work). With more programmers porting SDL to their favorite platform, Loki will be able to port more games to that platform.
SDL is an open source library for graphics, sound, cd audio, and joysticks (and soon it will have OpenGL as well). The cross-platform stuff will come, and you can help. http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL
If you like space sims, check out Descent: Freespace and Freespace 2 by Volition (they split off from Parallax). They're really nice looking games, but they're windows-only right now.
The problem is probably that the keys generate 2-byte sequences. The special keys on my HP Pavilion do. X won't recognize them at all. Read the Keyboard HOWTO. You can probably get them to work at the console, but I haven't gotten them to work in X. I'm hoping for a little more documentation on XKB in the new release so I can figure out how to use them in X.
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More people need to actually help things by proofreading at: Distributed Proofreading.
Distributed Proofreading actually contributes to the public domain. Show the politicians that it's important by giving them a thriving public domain that they will want to supply with new works.
I built one to hook up to my MP3 server, and it's worked great. Now my server has a cron job to play the appropriate playlists at certain times of day. The other benefit is that it can do non-MP3 things, such as download the weather forecast and read it (using festival) to me. I also made a pretty simple web interface for when I need to pick songs to play or create a new playlist.
Here's a link to my model. I've been very happy with it. It took about 15 hours to put together (including time to learn to solder).
I know that a troll started this, but I've thought about creationism vs evolution a lot, and here is my conclusion:
The bible says "When I was a child, I spake as a child. Now that I have grown, I put away childish things." The bible has a very simple (childlike) explanation of how the world came into existence. We now have a more detailed theory that does not deny the existence of God (grown). There is no reason to think that now, with our understanding of genetics and mutations, that we can't understand some of the methods that God used. The bible didn't elaborate on those methods because none of the people of the time could have understood them.
My random thoughts.
In my life, I'm starting to really believe in the concept of social evolution. We have no right to judge Lincoln on how we view things today, because the world had not been awakened to the fact that the races are equal. At that moment the world (most of it at least) was still awakening to the fact that people should not be enslaved. If you had proposed to Lincoln that evolution be taught in school, then he probably have opposed it. Lincoln could not have seen 100 years into the future, just like we can't see 100 years into the future. Lincoln's feelings then do not excuse those people who have those feelings now. We currently have more than enough evidence to show that the races are equal, and that there is no rightful postion of authority. I will not support any use of Lincoln's statements in a manner which seeks to excuse racism. To that effect, I don't think that Zico is a racist, just trying to point out that Lincoln was human.
I'm amazed that _every_ time Jon Katz says something about a movie, I always feel the exact opposite way. I enjoyed Titan A.E. because it was your standard minimal plot - lots of pretty stuff movie. I hated The Matrix because it was your standard minimal plot - lots of pretty stuff movie trying to be a techno-religious event. I read Katz's reviews in the hopes that I will know what movies to avoid. Tell me what Hemos thinks.
You're wrong, becuase copyright allows the GPL to be _enforcable_ without copyright, noone has to distribute any modified code, because the original author no longer has the right to demand that modified code be distributed.
What you're forgetting is that Loki uses SDL for most of its ports. SDL is open source and will run on most systems (granted the Mac port apparently needs work). With more programmers porting SDL to their favorite platform, Loki will be able to port more games to that platform.
SDL is an open source library for graphics, sound, cd audio, and joysticks (and soon it will have OpenGL as well). The cross-platform stuff will come, and you can help. http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL
If you like space sims, check out Descent: Freespace and Freespace 2 by Volition (they split off from Parallax). They're really nice looking games, but they're windows-only right now.
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The problem is probably that the keys generate 2-byte sequences. The special keys on my HP Pavilion do. X won't recognize them at all. Read the Keyboard HOWTO. You can probably get them to work at the console, but I haven't gotten them to work in X. I'm hoping for a little more documentation on XKB in the new release so I can figure out how to use them in X.