"Pre-eminence will undoubtedly be given to the Wright brothers of America when the history of the aeroplane is written, as they were the first to actually make successful flights with a motor-driven aeroplane."
Seems like a glowing endorsement of the Wright brothers over Richard Pearse. Who wrote it? Richard Pearse, in a 1915 newspaper.
"Aeronautical historian Philip Jarrett calls the claims 'grossly misleading'. 'This is local hero stuff. They choose to ignore their hero's own simple factual statements,' says Mr Jarrett."
Freeloader is indeed exceptionally cool. I also recommend Huzzah! from the same company. Finally got round to playing Light Speed, and it's even more fun than it looks - very hectic. Helps if everyone playing the game has at least some idea what's going on, though - first time we played it one player ended up destroying half of his own fleet while failing to interact with the other players or the asteroid at all...
Other highlights in the same general vein:
Lord of the Fries Deluxe Edition - deceptively complex, and the different menus make for almost entirely different strategies. Put together meals at Frydays, the fast food restaurant of the damned.
The Big Idea - requires a bit of creativity, but it's outstanding fun if you've got the right group of people. Pitch bizarre products based on the cards in your hand, and try to invest heavily in the big successes. Anyone fancy investing in Unholy Cat?
Fluxx - about as simple as they come: you draw one card, you play one card, and there's no way to win the game - at first. But manipulating the rules can be great fun.
Aquarius - From the makers of Fluxx, a mind-numbingly simple looking card game that can end up being really rather deep as you try to mislead the other players and build towards a quick victory. Can get a little arbitrary and infuriating at times as players trade hands or goals, but that's part of the fun.
On a slightly larger/more expensive scale, Settlers of Catan is every bit as great as people have been saying, and the various expansion packs (Knights & Cities, Seafarers of Catan) add a lot of variety.
Crimson Skies is another big favourite - it's a truly outstanding game of aerial combat, with an inspired damage system that allows you to damage the individual components of the plane - a truly skilled gunner can eat away the armour and then send an incendiary round straight into the fuel tank. Can you say 'BOOM'? No longer being published, unfortunately - but if you see it, snap it up.
Warhammer Quest destroys lives. A dungeon-crawling boardgame which appeals to the munchkin in every gamer, this is as much about shopping and powering up to ridiculous levels as it is about exploring the dungeons. With the additional characters and dungeon expansion packs it becomes even more addictive.
From a legal point of view, that is. Section 2870 disallows claiming of rights over software written entirely in the employee's own time
except for those inventions that either:
Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer; or
Result from any work performed by the employee for the employer.
Surely this is covered by the first of those provisions - and possibly the second, depending on what the guy's job at Apple is...
It also means that any IM network that tries to implement this is going to have a serious lack of members unless everyone does it at the same time. Who's going to open up their credit card for an IM company they don't even trust on the off chance that it might reduce spim through an untested method that's probably not going to make a difference anyway because, as you say, the spimmers will just be using stolen card details? Everyone will flood to the networks that don't require CC details to sign up.
Not to mention the inevitable spim subcategory - spimmers gathering credit card details from IM users through fake 'identity checks'.
Seems to me we'd need some sort of meta-bonking system, where if you feel someone was bonked unfairly you can notify the service.
It's a painfully over-complex approach anyway, with an obvious nasty side effect of requiring everyone to register their credit card details when they sign up for the IM system.
That's a link to a page suggesting that they're fluctuating because of solar activity, but that the recent rise above and beyond levels of solar activity is probably down to the greenhouse effect. From the linked page:
"While the curves do not match perfectly at any time, they start to diverge noticeably by the 1980's. We interpret this widening gap as evidence for an additional influence on the temperature - over and above what the Sun is causing. We think this is likely to be due to the anthropogenic greenhouse effect."
Nor are you in the spirit of the GPL. The whole point is that the software is supposed to be free. That means that, so long as they respect that right, anyone can use it for whatever they want. Limiting the GPL in this sort of way defeats the entire point of free software in the first place.
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I win.:)
This came up on the BBC Radio 4 interview with the scientist responsible, incidentally. I believe you can discover his response at the BBC website, assuming this is the interview that was broadcast this morning.
In which case it would be bad to use such a signature for communicating with the outside world, but fine to use it for purely internal communications, right?
Pretty impressive technology, but the purpose is still a bit unclear.
I thought we were meant to be nerds - since when did cool technology need a purpose? Build the huge outdoor 360 degree video conferencing system and we'll find a use for it.
Anyone for the biggest game of UT ever? (And don't even try to tell me nobody's going to try to use it for that...)
Apple had the same problem when they launched the 'first' 32-bit desktop machine, which came to market considerably later than the 32-bit Acorn Archimedes machines.
I fully expect them to launch the 'first' 128-bit home machine a year or so after everyone else has them.
Although as has been pointed out elsewhere, the irony in this situation is that the more people are downloading and sharing the file, the more bandwidth is available for download.
Of course, that suggestion has a number of drawbacks: say goodbye to mailing lists, for a start - one message a second isn't going to be enough for them.
Forget proving the violations, SCO still haven't actually specified in any detail what the violations are, which is a necessary first step according to the license snippet they put forward (which you can bet shows their point in the most positive light possible...)
Maybe I'm missing something here, but haven't Sony already announced that the forthcoming PlayStation Portable will be able to play video provided on UMDs?
From a quick look at Sodipodi (tried to edit the colour of a path with it, discovered that the saved file didn't seem to be compatible with Batik, did it in a text editor instead) it's a perfect example of a program that needs an easier interface.:)
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"Pre-eminence will undoubtedly be given to the Wright brothers of America when the history of the aeroplane is written, as they were the first to actually make successful flights with a motor-driven aeroplane."
Seems like a glowing endorsement of the Wright brothers over Richard Pearse. Who wrote it? Richard Pearse, in a 1915 newspaper.
From the rather interesting BBC Magazine article on the history of flight:
"Aeronautical historian Philip Jarrett calls the claims 'grossly misleading'. 'This is local hero stuff. They choose to ignore their hero's own simple factual statements,' says Mr Jarrett."
Winter Corp's own results database shoots to number one in the 'Peak Workload' rankings after being linked to from Slashdot...
Freeloader is indeed exceptionally cool. I also recommend Huzzah! from the same company. Finally got round to playing Light Speed, and it's even more fun than it looks - very hectic. Helps if everyone playing the game has at least some idea what's going on, though - first time we played it one player ended up destroying half of his own fleet while failing to interact with the other players or the asteroid at all...
Other highlights in the same general vein:
Lord of the Fries Deluxe Edition - deceptively complex, and the different menus make for almost entirely different strategies. Put together meals at Frydays, the fast food restaurant of the damned.
The Big Idea - requires a bit of creativity, but it's outstanding fun if you've got the right group of people. Pitch bizarre products based on the cards in your hand, and try to invest heavily in the big successes. Anyone fancy investing in Unholy Cat?
Fluxx - about as simple as they come: you draw one card, you play one card, and there's no way to win the game - at first. But manipulating the rules can be great fun.
Aquarius - From the makers of Fluxx, a mind-numbingly simple looking card game that can end up being really rather deep as you try to mislead the other players and build towards a quick victory. Can get a little arbitrary and infuriating at times as players trade hands or goals, but that's part of the fun.
On a slightly larger/more expensive scale, Settlers of Catan is every bit as great as people have been saying, and the various expansion packs (Knights & Cities, Seafarers of Catan) add a lot of variety.
Crimson Skies is another big favourite - it's a truly outstanding game of aerial combat, with an inspired damage system that allows you to damage the individual components of the plane - a truly skilled gunner can eat away the armour and then send an incendiary round straight into the fuel tank. Can you say 'BOOM'? No longer being published, unfortunately - but if you see it, snap it up.
Warhammer Quest destroys lives. A dungeon-crawling boardgame which appeals to the munchkin in every gamer, this is as much about shopping and powering up to ridiculous levels as it is about exploring the dungeons. With the additional characters and dungeon expansion packs it becomes even more addictive.
From a legal point of view, that is. Section 2870 disallows claiming of rights over software written entirely in the employee's own time
Surely this is covered by the first of those provisions - and possibly the second, depending on what the guy's job at Apple is...That's what Openoffice is for, surely?
It also means that any IM network that tries to implement this is going to have a serious lack of members unless everyone does it at the same time. Who's going to open up their credit card for an IM company they don't even trust on the off chance that it might reduce spim through an untested method that's probably not going to make a difference anyway because, as you say, the spimmers will just be using stolen card details? Everyone will flood to the networks that don't require CC details to sign up.
Not to mention the inevitable spim subcategory - spimmers gathering credit card details from IM users through fake 'identity checks'.
Seems to me we'd need some sort of meta-bonking system, where if you feel someone was bonked unfairly you can notify the service.
It's a painfully over-complex approach anyway, with an obvious nasty side effect of requiring everyone to register their credit card details when they sign up for the IM system.
I don't know, but it's definitiely not in my dictionary...
That's a link to a page suggesting that they're fluctuating because of solar activity, but that the recent rise above and beyond levels of solar activity is probably down to the greenhouse effect. From the linked page:
"While the curves do not match perfectly at any time, they start to diverge noticeably by the 1980's. We interpret this widening gap as evidence for an additional influence on the temperature - over and above what the Sun is causing. We think this is likely to be due to the anthropogenic greenhouse effect."
Nor are you in the spirit of the GPL. The whole point is that the software is supposed to be free. That means that, so long as they respect that right, anyone can use it for whatever they want. Limiting the GPL in this sort of way defeats the entire point of free software in the first place.
I win. :)
This came up on the BBC Radio 4 interview with the scientist responsible, incidentally. I believe you can discover his response at the BBC website, assuming this is the interview that was broadcast this morning.
...that the big bang couldn't have been heard because sound waves wouldn't travel and besides, there was nobody there to hear it anyway?
I'm guessing before I finish typing this post...
I object to that stereotype! I consider myself a hacker, and I'm 6'2"!
But ESR is using it... ...oh, I see.
In which case it would be bad to use such a signature for communicating with the outside world, but fine to use it for purely internal communications, right?
I thought we were meant to be nerds - since when did cool technology need a purpose? Build the huge outdoor 360 degree video conferencing system and we'll find a use for it.
Anyone for the biggest game of UT ever? (And don't even try to tell me nobody's going to try to use it for that...)
But I thought Sun didn't have a Linux strategy...
Apple had the same problem when they launched the 'first' 32-bit desktop machine, which came to market considerably later than the 32-bit Acorn Archimedes machines.
I fully expect them to launch the 'first' 128-bit home machine a year or so after everyone else has them.
Although as has been pointed out elsewhere, the irony in this situation is that the more people are downloading and sharing the file, the more bandwidth is available for download.
Of course, that suggestion has a number of drawbacks: say goodbye to mailing lists, for a start - one message a second isn't going to be enough for them.
Forget proving the violations, SCO still haven't actually specified in any detail what the violations are, which is a necessary first step according to the license snippet they put forward (which you can bet shows their point in the most positive light possible...)
Maybe I'm missing something here, but haven't Sony already announced that the forthcoming PlayStation Portable will be able to play video provided on UMDs?
From a quick look at Sodipodi (tried to edit the colour of a path with it, discovered that the saved file didn't seem to be compatible with Batik, did it in a text editor instead) it's a perfect example of a program that needs an easier interface. :)
More annoyingly, most users think they know how to do UI better. :)
What's my Linux alternative to Adobe Illustrator, out of interest?