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While it would be unbelieveably cool (there were rumors of a scheme-to-Theme converter for MacOS for a while, actually) you're talking some really interesting programming stunts. Among others, you'd have to teach Linux how to access the resource fork of a Mac file. I'm not sure it's ever really been able to do that; even something like gzip just discards the resource fork completely.
If it were possible it'd be great; I'd love using some of Albie Wong's or even Layne Karkruff's work on my machine. They do great schemes, and their they'd absolutely rock on E.
Why? Because, if people can upload and download ANYTHING to their Rios, then the Rio becomes a simple "storage device" which just happens to have the extra feature of being able to play back MP3's. Then RIAA will probably not be able to touch it, considering it doesn't seem to be able to touch the makers of any other storiage device.
By the way, the online service you're thinking of was eWorld. They were very heavily based on AOL, actually. It was all right from what I know; I never joined but I played around with the client a few times. Either way it only lasted for about two years, then Apple shut it down. It was never all that popular anyway.
Is the type of thing Ellison suggested even legal? I don't think they're allowed to store that much info. True, they need some if they are members of FDIC, but not that much, and I don't think it's legal anyway.
It has to do with the number of developers. There are simply more developers for Windows and MacOS at the present time. That may change.
Another thing: Most developers on Unix and MacOS are new to Open-Source. They tend to find it very exciting. I'm coordinating a project for an Open-Source MacOS ICQ clone, for example; my single announcement of it is buried in the ICQ messageboards (I don't want to really "go public" until I have at least basic functionality working), and I'm still getting e-mails from people wanting to help
It isn't particularly practical, though. While the idea of a huge starship taking 10,000 years to travel to a new planet appleas to the romantic inside us all, it wouldn't work out. Someone mentioned the idea of war; this could possibly be avoided by carefully screening the original passengers to make sure that they would be friendly with everyone and instill the same values in their children. But first you have the financial cost (no one's got enough money to build the thing), construction considerations (you'd have to build it in orbit), and the fact that it's too darn slow.
I think we should wait for a couple of technological breakthroughs, chiefest among them force fields (that way the ship could go much faster, using the force fields to sweep debris harmlessly out of the way before it ever reached the ship) before we try this thing.
this may seem trivial, but the second and third pages have a discrepancy... the tubes run into the top on one, and the sides, with valves on the other.
Yes. The second page showed the "normal" setup. THe third page showed a modified version.
if I could just buy the board, no operating system, then I would be interested
For the hundred billionth time, you can. IBM sells them, and I believe Motorola does too. And of course you can always get them used on eBay or many other places.
Well, consider that this law only affects France. The rest of the world doesn't have this privilege. However, the law makes France an example. When crime does not rise significantly more and what rise there is (if any) cannot be blamed on crypto, governments will lose their only valid excuse to limit it: fear of encryption use in crime. This will spark protests which can only lead to free encryption for everyone, eventually.
So, we need to do whatever's possible tohelp this process along. Those Slashdotters who live in France can do much, but there's got to be something the others can do.
Here's the thing. Divx sucks. It's inferior technology with a higher price tag, cleverly disguised so that it looks cheaper in the beginning. Everyone on Slashdot knows that. Most others don't. A few unfortunates will have to learn it the hard way.
Once they do, however, the word will spread, and Divx will die the quick, nasty death it deserves. It doesn't need our help.
One: this never happens to anyone but the most psychotic users who do stupid things to their computer to see if it still works (hell, I'm one such user and it never happens to me either).
Two: Were that ever to happen, they use the CD. Unlike more archaic machines, Macs all the way back to the Plus can boot from a CD-ROM drive.
The whole point of computing is that it is supposed to be accessible to everyone. To discriminate like that, especially for a Linux user (remember that the Linux philosophy is supposed to be "open computing for everybody") is simply bad.
Yeah; I don't like this "virtual floppy" idea, though I suppose it could be used for other things. But it's atill a Good Thing; it makes the idea of sending files over the Net more accessible to people, and that is never bad.
Yeah; was that last bit really necessary? More likely they'll get punished by the media, which is most definitely not God even if many uninformed people take the words of the media as gospel (sorry, bad pun; couldn't resist).
Dollar is absolutely the worst possible name for money.
Um, quick question: why? I've never noticed anything wrong with it.
Heck, the dollar bills don't even feel like money, just pieces of paper.
Another question: what is money supposed to feel like? By the way, there is a reason that dollar bills feel the way they do. It's the first line of defense against counterfieters. You'd be surprised at the number of counterfieters who were caught by cashiers who noticed the money "didn't feel right." Enough, apparently, to convince the government to keep the bills, and you know that must have taken a rather impressive feat.
But Billy didn't invent the personal computer market as we know it. Apple did with its original systems. Then it reinvented it with the Mac (FUN FACT: Though it didn't last very long, very early on in the history of the Mac it was the dominant operating system; DOS would not overtake it until later). Even before Apple, personal computers existed, though they were so different from what we know today that I doubt they could really be called personal computers.
Gates stole the market (almost literally, actually); he didn't invent it.
Don't expect on this being cheap. I was on a cruise recently. The rate for ship-to-shore calls was $15.50 per minute (needless to say I made no such calls). Internet charges would undoubtedly be quite similar. I think I'll just temporarily unsubscribe from my mailing lists before going on vacation in the future, as I do now.
Those who've read my previous posts know that I'm a viscious Mac-defender. Well, for once I'm going to have to blast Apple. This is greedy lunacy, an attempt to control what weas supposed to be an open-standard. I find it completely repugnant, and once again I go back to my argument that Steve Jobs is an insane fool, albeit lucky enough that a few of his ideas, which usually look like the work of the proverbial million monkeys on a million typewriters, actually do occasionally turn out Hamlet or some other really good thing.
Fortunately, Apple won't succeed in this gesture. Why? Because Apple wasn't the only FireWire developer. Texas Instruments makes it too, and they don't do this. So if you want FireWire, get it from them.
come on jobs is a control freak oss is COMPLETELY antithetical to his isntincts.
You so sure about that? Then I ask you, why hasn't he killed MkLinux? Actually, here's a better one: if Jobs hates OSS so much, why do the OSX developer CD's include the source to the entire command-line layer, even though it's BSD so they don't have to do that?
Yeah, Jobs is still warming up to the idea of OSS. And yes, I'll admit, he's a control freak. But don't underestimate him.
actually...the black CD has an extra layer of plastic for scratch resistance and it reflects at a lower intensity than say, a gold or silver even.
I guess that makes sense. I was thinking more in terms of piracy protection (though I suppose it could be used to do that also, if Sony were to work with the laser to get it just right).
And I'd imagine there were more bad sectors; I only knew about the 15th. Thanks for clearing those issues up, though.
Must you post things like this? You realize this thread is going to baloon to something like 300 comments in the next few minutes as the Apple-bashers start in on you. I'm not certain of the number of known bugs in the two operating systems (though last I heard they were quite close, and I can't remember who was ahead; both demolished Win32 though). And everyone knows you don't insult Linux on Slashdot unless you want to be reduced to ashes in the barrage of flames.
Much faster than what? Than a PSX chip? Sure. That goes without saying; most of us wouldn't be caught dead using a computer with equivalent chips to those found in modern game consoles. The thing is, a console chip can pour every last cycle into some game-devoted activity. Similar chips in "real" computers can't do this; they have other things to worry about too. So much, in fact, that you need a fast machine to even come close to the speed of a PSX when running PSX games.
Out of the box, VGS cannot read burned CD's or imports. It checks for these.
However, within a day of its release, unofficial cracks were out which "modchipped" VCS, so to speak, allowing these CD's to work with VCS.
By the way, the color of the CD means absolutely nothing; the fact that a PSX CD is colored black is nothing more than a marketing gimmick. The copy-protection is accomplished by other means (for example, if I'm not mistaken, the 15th sector of a real PSX disc has a bad CRC).
Apparently the NSA chiefs have been watching the X-Files too much:)
I never liked the NSA or CIA anyway; they seem to have an annoying tendency to put their own interests above those of the people they're supposed to be serving. Case in point: at one time the CIA had a particular spy satellite which, it was found, had another use: it could be used to help detect breast cancer much earlier than the technology of the time. Before the CIA would release it, however, they actually had to be convinced that women's health was "a matter of national security."
See what I mean? And the NSA is more or less the same way. Perhaps if they started looking out for the people more than themselves I'd feel differently, but I have yet to see particularly much evidence that they've done that.
I think I might go for trying to patent some critical element of a computer and/or software. Then I'd grant free licenses to everyone except Microsoft.
Come to think of it, IBM recently patented the wheel; maybe I'll go patent fire. Or the lever even.
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While it would be unbelieveably cool (there were rumors of a scheme-to-Theme converter for MacOS for a while, actually) you're talking some really interesting programming stunts. Among others, you'd have to teach Linux how to access the resource fork of a Mac file. I'm not sure it's ever really been able to do that; even something like gzip just discards the resource fork completely.
If it were possible it'd be great; I'd love using some of Albie Wong's or even Layne Karkruff's work on my machine. They do great schemes, and their they'd absolutely rock on E.
-Millennium
Why? Because, if people can upload and download ANYTHING to their Rios, then the Rio becomes a simple "storage device" which just happens to have the extra feature of being able to play back MP3's. Then RIAA will probably not be able to touch it, considering it doesn't seem to be able to touch the makers of any other storiage device.
By the way, the online service you're thinking of was eWorld. They were very heavily based on AOL, actually. It was all right from what I know; I never joined but I played around with the client a few times. Either way it only lasted for about two years, then Apple shut it down. It was never all that popular anyway.
Is the type of thing Ellison suggested even legal? I don't think they're allowed to store that much info. True, they need some if they are members of FDIC, but not that much, and I don't think it's legal anyway.
It has to do with the number of developers. There are simply more developers for Windows and MacOS at the present time. That may change.
Another thing: Most developers on Unix and MacOS are new to Open-Source. They tend to find it very exciting. I'm coordinating a project for an Open-Source MacOS ICQ clone, for example; my single announcement of it is buried in the ICQ messageboards (I don't want to really "go public" until I have at least basic functionality working), and I'm still getting e-mails from people wanting to help
It isn't particularly practical, though. While the idea of a huge starship taking 10,000 years to travel to a new planet appleas to the romantic inside us all, it wouldn't work out. Someone mentioned the idea of war; this could possibly be avoided by carefully screening the original passengers to make sure that they would be friendly with everyone and instill the same values in their children. But first you have the financial cost (no one's got enough money to build the thing), construction considerations (you'd have to build it in orbit), and the fact that it's too darn slow.
I think we should wait for a couple of technological breakthroughs, chiefest among them force fields (that way the ship could go much faster, using the force fields to sweep debris harmlessly out of the way before it ever reached the ship) before we try this thing.
this may seem trivial, but the second and third pages have a discrepancy ... the tubes run into the top on one, and the sides, with valves on the other.
Yes. The second page showed the "normal" setup. THe third page showed a modified version.
if I could just buy the board, no operating system, then I would be interested
For the hundred billionth time, you can. IBM sells them, and I believe Motorola does too. And of course you can always get them used on eBay or many other places.
It'll take a couple of years. Why do I say this?
Well, consider that this law only affects France. The rest of the world doesn't have this privilege. However, the law makes France an example. When crime does not rise significantly more and what rise there is (if any) cannot be blamed on crypto, governments will lose their only valid excuse to limit it: fear of encryption use in crime. This will spark protests which can only lead to free encryption for everyone, eventually.
So, we need to do whatever's possible tohelp this process along. Those Slashdotters who live in France can do much, but there's got to be something the others can do.
Here's the thing. Divx sucks. It's inferior technology with a higher price tag, cleverly disguised so that it looks cheaper in the beginning. Everyone on Slashdot knows that. Most others don't. A few unfortunates will have to learn it the hard way.
Once they do, however, the word will spread, and Divx will die the quick, nasty death it deserves. It doesn't need our help.
One: this never happens to anyone but the most psychotic users who do stupid things to their computer to see if it still works (hell, I'm one such user and it never happens to me either).
Two: Were that ever to happen, they use the CD. Unlike more archaic machines, Macs all the way back to the Plus can boot from a CD-ROM drive.
The whole point of computing is that it is supposed to be accessible to everyone. To discriminate like that, especially for a Linux user (remember that the Linux philosophy is supposed to be "open computing for everybody") is simply bad.
Yeah; I don't like this "virtual floppy" idea, though I suppose it could be used for other things. But it's atill a Good Thing; it makes the idea of sending files over the Net more accessible to people, and that is never bad.
Yeah; was that last bit really necessary? More likely they'll get punished by the media, which is most definitely not God even if many uninformed people take the words of the media as gospel (sorry, bad pun; couldn't resist).
Dollar is absolutely the worst possible name for money.
Um, quick question: why? I've never noticed anything wrong with it.
Heck, the dollar bills don't even feel like money, just pieces of paper.
Another question: what is money supposed to feel like? By the way, there is a reason that dollar bills feel the way they do. It's the first line of defense against counterfieters. You'd be surprised at the number of counterfieters who were caught by cashiers who noticed the money "didn't feel right." Enough, apparently, to convince the government to keep the bills, and you know that must have taken a rather impressive feat.
But Billy didn't invent the personal computer market as we know it. Apple did with its original systems. Then it reinvented it with the Mac (FUN FACT: Though it didn't last very long, very early on in the history of the Mac it was the dominant operating system; DOS would not overtake it until later). Even before Apple, personal computers existed, though they were so different from what we know today that I doubt they could really be called personal computers.
Gates stole the market (almost literally, actually); he didn't invent it.
Don't expect on this being cheap. I was on a cruise recently. The rate for ship-to-shore calls was $15.50 per minute (needless to say I made no such calls). Internet charges would undoubtedly be quite similar. I think I'll just temporarily unsubscribe from my mailing lists before going on vacation in the future, as I do now.
Those who've read my previous posts know that I'm a viscious Mac-defender. Well, for once I'm going to have to blast Apple. This is greedy lunacy, an attempt to control what weas supposed to be an open-standard. I find it completely repugnant, and once again I go back to my argument that Steve Jobs is an insane fool, albeit lucky enough that a few of his ideas, which usually look like the work of the proverbial million monkeys on a million typewriters, actually do occasionally turn out Hamlet or some other really good thing.
Fortunately, Apple won't succeed in this gesture. Why? Because Apple wasn't the only FireWire developer. Texas Instruments makes it too, and they don't do this. So if you want FireWire, get it from them.
I didn't like the devils, but I liked that one they used for the "Case" button (I couldn't seem to find it elsewhere on the site though).
Still no El Capitans/Yosemities/iMacs, but these are very nice. Great for those who stick with Intels for whatever reason.
come on jobs is a control freak oss is COMPLETELY antithetical to his isntincts.
You so sure about that? Then I ask you, why hasn't he killed MkLinux? Actually, here's a better one: if Jobs hates OSS so much, why do the OSX developer CD's include the source to the entire command-line layer, even though it's BSD so they don't have to do that?
Yeah, Jobs is still warming up to the idea of OSS. And yes, I'll admit, he's a control freak. But don't underestimate him.
actually...the black CD has an extra layer of plastic for scratch resistance and it reflects at a lower intensity than say, a gold or silver even.
I guess that makes sense. I was thinking more in terms of piracy protection (though I suppose it could be used to do that also, if Sony were to work with the laser to get it just right).
And I'd imagine there were more bad sectors; I only knew about the 15th. Thanks for clearing those issues up, though.
Must you post things like this? You realize this thread is going to baloon to something like 300 comments in the next few minutes as the Apple-bashers start in on you. I'm not certain of the number of known bugs in the two operating systems (though last I heard they were quite close, and I can't remember who was ahead; both demolished Win32 though). And everyone knows you don't insult Linux on Slashdot unless you want to be reduced to ashes in the barrage of flames.
Much faster than what? Than a PSX chip? Sure. That goes without saying; most of us wouldn't be caught dead using a computer with equivalent chips to those found in modern game consoles. The thing is, a console chip can pour every last cycle into some game-devoted activity. Similar chips in "real" computers can't do this; they have other things to worry about too. So much, in fact, that you need a fast machine to even come close to the speed of a PSX when running PSX games.
Out of the box, VGS cannot read burned CD's or imports. It checks for these.
However, within a day of its release, unofficial cracks were out which "modchipped" VCS, so to speak, allowing these CD's to work with VCS.
By the way, the color of the CD means absolutely nothing; the fact that a PSX CD is colored black is nothing more than a marketing gimmick. The copy-protection is accomplished by other means (for example, if I'm not mistaken, the 15th sector of a real PSX disc has a bad CRC).
Apparently the NSA chiefs have been watching the X-Files too much :)
I never liked the NSA or CIA anyway; they seem to have an annoying tendency to put their own interests above those of the people they're supposed to be serving. Case in point: at one time the CIA had a particular spy satellite which, it was found, had another use: it could be used to help detect breast cancer much earlier than the technology of the time. Before the CIA would release it, however, they actually had to be convinced that women's health was "a matter of national security."
See what I mean? And the NSA is more or less the same way. Perhaps if they started looking out for the people more than themselves I'd feel differently, but I have yet to see particularly much evidence that they've done that.
I think I might go for trying to patent some critical element of a computer and/or software. Then I'd grant free licenses to everyone except Microsoft.
Come to think of it, IBM recently patented the wheel; maybe I'll go patent fire. Or the lever even.