When VCRs were introduced and the Sony case was in the court system, were colleges checking rooms to see if people had these devices? Using university electricity and cable service along with a technology that "hasn't been ruled legal" should obviously be stopped! (I know, I know, it falls apart a little bit with rooms being semi-private and such)
The large content industries (RIAA/MPAA companies, Microsoft, BSA) have done many things to "screw the customer". They get away with bullying distributors and retailers, often by making them sign contracts that they will ONLY carry products that are from the member companies. This not only hurts customers, but also hurts independent artists and workers for independent media companies. They use their huge cash reserves to lobby (read: buy) legislation from governments that takes away fair use rights while increasing copyright lengths. These two things make copyright not a "limited" (in terms of scope and length) law protection but a brutal and perpetual one.
I'm still waiting for the case (in the USA) where an independent developer goes after some company that took his GPL code and is then forced (by court ruling) to open up their whole app or stop using the code. Then Ballmer, SCO, et al can shut up.
Hmm, I wouldn't say everything about MacOS was rosy, though...
1> MacOS did not have memory protection.
2> MacOS was not natively a multi-tasking OS.
3> MacOS let third-party "extensions" do many things to the OS.
I think that if classic MacOS had had a larger market-share during any time after the explosion of the web, some interesting exploits would've surfaced, probably in the form of extension-bearing malware (for example Bonzi buddy)
I suppose I'll just mention that Final Fantasy VII had an amazing story and is probably why it was so well loved,
Stop, just STOP. The reason FF VII was/is "so well loved" is because it was one of those games where a new influx of console-owning sheep finds a halfway decent representation of a genre and proceeds to put it on a throne. Just look at Halo. I know people who love this game. When I complained about not being able to use a mouse/keyboard (in the Xbox version), they were like "WTF keyboards suck! That would be so dumb!".
Sure, it may be "well loved", but look at how many Deer Hunter games there are.
I can buy a song on iTunes for $1 and keep it for the rest of my life, lets just say thats 80 years.
I think you're stretching the comparison a bit far, here. You're assuming the following:
1. Apple is still, after 80 years, in business or has passed the rights on to another company. 2. Your file format and players, after 80 years, are still supported. 3. The computer that originally owned the file, after 80 years, has never failed.
Why haven't the EFF or some other organization funded a legal defense for one of these folks?
If I had enough money to replace all my hard drives (I'm implying something about my current HDs, if you know what I mean), here's what I'd do:
1. Freshly install all OSes. 2. Install P2P programs. 3. Download all the songs THAT I OWN ON CDs. 4. Download all the movies that I own. 4. Wait for RIAA threat. 5. Take it to court. 6. Counter-sue or something for harassment. 7. Get EVERYTHING dropped. 8. Make a mockery of the RIAA/MPAA.
a) Many people who may have worked on HURD are spending time working on linux, either because they think it's interesting or they want to work on something that is more actively developed/used by more people.
b) Microkernel systems are incredibly difficult to design and implement correctly and effectively. Linus Torvalds once said something to the effect that microkernels are like the human brain, where there's a whole bunch of little pieces that come together.
I'm thinking that it depends heavily on the type of things you are doing in CS. Image processing and transformation is one thing that I know uses tons of linear equations. (think photoshop filters)
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Pretty much, um, nothing you can buy at Best Buy. There are some places online that sell Japanese hentai games, but they are all filled with disclaimers YOU MUST BE OF AGE and stuff...
I dunno, I've felt "personality" from characters in some CGI movies (I'm thinking Pixar). The same goes for traditional animation. Some CGI, though, doesn't have any personality at all (I'm remembering the first Resident Evil movie here).
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Here's an analogy for your viewing pleasure:
When VCRs were introduced and the Sony case was in the court system, were colleges checking rooms to see if people had these devices? Using university electricity and cable service along with a technology that "hasn't been ruled legal" should obviously be stopped! (I know, I know, it falls apart a little bit with rooms being semi-private and such)
How are they screwing the customer?
The large content industries (RIAA/MPAA companies, Microsoft, BSA) have done many things to "screw the customer". They get away with bullying distributors and retailers, often by making them sign contracts that they will ONLY carry products that are from the member companies. This not only hurts customers, but also hurts independent artists and workers for independent media companies. They use their huge cash reserves to lobby (read: buy) legislation from governments that takes away fair use rights while increasing copyright lengths. These two things make copyright not a "limited" (in terms of scope and length) law protection but a brutal and perpetual one.
I still have this book, but some pages are missing from the front....
Her "stuff" accepts iPod Shuffle? O_o
I'm still waiting for the case (in the USA) where an independent developer goes after some company that took his GPL code and is then forced (by court ruling) to open up their whole app or stop using the code. Then Ballmer, SCO, et al can shut up.
Hmm, I wouldn't say everything about MacOS was rosy, though...
1> MacOS did not have memory protection.
2> MacOS was not natively a multi-tasking OS.
3> MacOS let third-party "extensions" do many things to the OS.
I think that if classic MacOS had had a larger market-share during any time after the explosion of the web, some interesting exploits would've surfaced, probably in the form of extension-bearing malware (for example Bonzi buddy)
I liked this story, if only because it reminds me of drunken dreams I've had....
I suppose I'll just mention that Final Fantasy VII had an amazing story and is probably why it was so well loved,
Stop, just STOP. The reason FF VII was/is "so well loved" is because it was one of those games where a new influx of console-owning sheep finds a halfway decent representation of a genre and proceeds to put it on a throne. Just look at Halo. I know people who love this game. When I complained about not being able to use a mouse/keyboard (in the Xbox version), they were like "WTF keyboards suck! That would be so dumb!".
Sure, it may be "well loved", but look at how many Deer Hunter games there are.
I can buy a song on iTunes for $1 and keep it for the rest of my life, lets just say thats 80 years.
I think you're stretching the comparison a bit far, here. You're assuming the following:
1. Apple is still, after 80 years, in business or has passed the rights on to another company.
2. Your file format and players, after 80 years, are still supported.
3. The computer that originally owned the file, after 80 years, has never failed.
I dunno, if I legally own that stuff, you could assume that some of the people legally own what they download from you.
Why haven't the EFF or some other organization funded a legal defense for one of these folks?
If I had enough money to replace all my hard drives (I'm implying something about my current HDs, if you know what I mean), here's what I'd do:
1. Freshly install all OSes.
2. Install P2P programs.
3. Download all the songs THAT I OWN ON CDs.
4. Download all the movies that I own.
4. Wait for RIAA threat.
5. Take it to court.
6. Counter-sue or something for harassment.
7. Get EVERYTHING dropped.
8. Make a mockery of the RIAA/MPAA.
Yeah I know, I was just trying to reference something he wrote that wasn't total crap.
Here's my take:
a) Many people who may have worked on HURD are spending time working on linux, either because they think it's interesting or they want to work on something that is more actively developed/used by more people.
b) Microkernel systems are incredibly difficult to design and implement correctly and effectively. Linus Torvalds once said something to the effect that microkernels are like the human brain, where there's a whole bunch of little pieces that come together.
I'm thinking that it depends heavily on the type of things you are doing in CS. Image processing and transformation is one thing that I know uses tons of linear equations. (think photoshop filters)
Breaking news! Microsoft partners with Johnson and Hollings Advertising firm! This is important because Johnson just had a baby! Microsoft and babies!!! What next?
The fact that, other than Star Wars, every creative act he's been involved in has been an unmitigated piece of crap sort of supports this.
You mean like Indiana Jones? Oh wait...
Pretty much, um, nothing you can buy at Best Buy. There are some places online that sell Japanese hentai games, but they are all filled with disclaimers YOU MUST BE OF AGE and stuff...
In corporate America, computer runs YOU.
Are there other areas where Aqua rearranges the desktop depending on context?
Yeah, after 11PM when you click on Safari the CD drive turns into a tissue dispenser.
Oh wait, did you mean the desktop onscreen?
Hither and thither?
I dunno, I've felt "personality" from characters in some CGI movies (I'm thinking Pixar). The same goes for traditional animation. Some CGI, though, doesn't have any personality at all (I'm remembering the first Resident Evil movie here).
My digital headphones go to 1010.
If viewed from the back, it also sorta looks like a PVC pipe. It made me think of a potato gun.
Source code is the form in which all software exists
Use the source?
...sorry.
what exactly does "linux" look like?
..." (note: I'm sure that in with the size of the kernel these days, this bin string will probably come up somewhere. I hope.)
Like this:
"... 1010111000110