Well, I think he said that, but it was already out of the bag at that point that RCU was code that IBM needed to make sure it had the rights to distribute.
So, he doesn't want to know in the future where things come from, as in this type of law, ignorance DOES make one innocent.. whereas with more physical laws, ignorance of a law does NOT make one innocent...
But, at this point, he already knew.
Kind of like where I'm at, we sell a lot of radio transmitters. If someone tells me they are going to take some stuff that's licensed for use only in the U.S., and ship it out to Iran, they sure as hell aren't buying it from me. But, if they don't tell me they are going to send it there, it's none of my business to ask. (ie, I can't say to the guy with the Indian accent, "hey, i notice your accent.. you aren't going to be using these radios outside of the U.S. are you?")
Hmm.. Very cool looking program. Sure beats buying a KVM switch and cables if you have two monitors... Now, if there's a software solution for a KVM switch.. heh..
I don't mean to detract from that awesome goal, but since you mention yourself that it's a lot more useful to use the 5-man Tapper score as the One To Beat.. doesn't it seem odd that the game would just reset back to the beginning difficulty and such when you hit lev 256? Just doesn't seem fair that if anyone can hit the 256 that it should even continue on.. that at that point perhaps it should become a -speed- contest.. now, let's see who can get to the game reset the fastest?:)
So the Fed would say, for example, that I can't play back-to-back songs from say Vatic[a.n] because that would infringe on copyright laws, that apply to webcasters?
All my previously broken modules compiled.
They all loaded.
No modules paniced the kernel.
I have 80MB free after boot (debian testing) before loading X (used to have about 45MB). Load X (fvwm2), and Mozilla, and still have 35MB free.
This is moving faster than I have ever seen Linux move. Ever.
PIII/600MHz, 128MB ram, 9GB SCSI and 4GB EIDE drives.
The only RPG's i've played in memorable history were the Baldur's Gate series, and the original SSI Gold Box AD&D titles.. and in every one of those, I named my characters by their classes. The fighter was called "Fighter", the Cleric/Fighter/Mage was called "CFMU".. that way I didn't have to constantly look at the info sheets to figure out who the hell I was controlling with a party of 7 indistinct icons.
I see a TON of messages on this subject talking stuff like "I played D&D 1st edition, before it was AD&D.."...
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons IS the first edition. It was simply called "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons". Dungeons & Dragons came out -after- that as they tried to simplify the concepts to attract new players.
So, REAL AD&D players know that the first edition is AD&D not D&D.
At the time, I don't know if GCC and company even -worked- on HP/UX or AIX (I know they do now, although the last time I used HP/UX, it was still fairly well crippled compared to most other *nixes in the libc area) at the time.. but i was pretty thoroughly disgusted that I couldn't get -any- of the software that i wanted to run on these machines to run, because they were written for gcc.. which I thought was the normal for the world at the time. doh.
Course, the programs I wanted were IRC and MUDs and other non-professional type applications. I'm sure AIX and HP/UX worked fine for people who needed Unix for their business... but it sure didn't work so good for my personal interests. That's where BSD came in.
In fact, I only remebmer there really being 4 *nixes that I ever ran into.. BSD(+BSD based systems), Sys V (I also used Sys III), AIX, HP/UX.
oh, duh, SunOS as well. make that 5 now. SunOS and BSD machines that I frequented regularly had a complete suite (or at least complete enough that I could make it complete) of GNU tools, so those were the machines that those of us building IRC and MUDs and such went for.
actually, I logged into an AIX box once.. probably in the very early 90's.. it didn't have ANY GNU tools installed, so I was lost as to why nothing worked the way I expected it to, and went back to BSD machines primarily...
2.4 actually had some fairly serious flaws in the middle of it, but the modifications that were done that caused those flaws were, imho, necessary for further evolution.
Certainly pre-2.6 should squash out most bugs, however !! remember the vast majority of Linux users out there are NOT likely playing with 2.5.x or will be with pre-2.6!
The stress tests that come from 2.6.0 being announced and suddenly being unleashed upon tens of thousands more users (or hundreds of thousands more machines) than 2.5.x is will shake out all remaining serious flaws.
Back in my day, all we -had- was make config. And that was a new thing then! I may be recalling incorrectly, but I think the first ver of Linux that I used actually used a config.h with defines.. I may be wrong, though, that might be other software.
22 columns, but upper/lower case selectable.. the VIC-20 sure was neat for it's time. lol
at least when compared to a computer the same company produced later, the Plus/4. The Plus/4 had all the same hardware as the VIC-20, but with an "improved" BASIC that was ten times more functional, but took up all your available RAM.
I think he meant specfically different ways to navigate.
The only significant navigation tool that I've seen was IBM's WebExplorer, that was bundled with OS/2 Warp.. rather than just having "forward" and "backward" buttons, it would keep track of everywhere that you had visited in recent history, in a tree view, and allow you to get back to any point that was still in it's history, very easily. It was way cool.. and has yet to be duplicated in -any- browser.
So, what is the problem with running X-Box games on the PC? Since the X-Box is just a slightly modified PC.. what stops a regular PC from running X-Box games? hmm...
Heh! Oddly enough, I've jsut recently migrated from KDE to FVWM2.. I like FVWM MUCH more than KDE. This might have something to do with the fact that my primary machine has 128MB ram, and apparently you need a few GB to keep from being in Swapper Hell with KDE3.. (i'm exaggerating.. slightly..)
By the time the HURD matures, I'd be willing to bet your kids will be studying it in college CS classes.
Back in the DAY, I used to hang out on several Unix System III systems, that had replaced almost all of the stock AT&T Unix programs with GNU versions.
The GNU software also basically runs *BSD, for most people, I think, or if not (I haven't seen BSD since before FreeBSD/NetBSD even existed) it could certainly easily be made to.
I've been considering taking the Linux kernel and writing a new environment that isn't based on GNU or Unix. Just to see what a crazy guy like me could come up with. Never really had the motivation though.
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Well, I think he said that, but it was already out of the bag at that point that RCU was code that IBM needed to make sure it had the rights to distribute.
.. whereas with more physical laws, ignorance of a law does NOT make one innocent...
So, he doesn't want to know in the future where things come from, as in this type of law, ignorance DOES make one innocent
But, at this point, he already knew.
Kind of like where I'm at, we sell a lot of radio transmitters. If someone tells me they are going to take some stuff that's licensed for use only in the U.S., and ship it out to Iran, they sure as hell aren't buying it from me. But, if they don't tell me they are going to send it there, it's none of my business to ask. (ie, I can't say to the guy with the Indian accent, "hey, i notice your accent.. you aren't going to be using these radios outside of the U.S. are you?")
'shot down an "exhaust tube" (an exhaust tube)' ..
... ?
shouldn't that be...
'shot down an "exhaust tube" (darl mcbride's anus)'
Hmm.. Very cool looking program. Sure beats buying a KVM switch and cables if you have two monitors... Now, if there's a software solution for a KVM switch.. heh..
Well, congratulations there, Greg.
.. doesn't it seem odd that the game would just reset back to the beginning difficulty and such when you hit lev 256? Just doesn't seem fair that if anyone can hit the 256 that it should even continue on.. that at that point perhaps it should become a -speed- contest .. now, let's see who can get to the game reset the fastest? :)
I don't mean to detract from that awesome goal, but since you mention yourself that it's a lot more useful to use the 5-man Tapper score as the One To Beat
But, we were talking about the rules that say you can't play like ten songs in a row from one artist, or certain artists together, things like that.
So the Fed would say, for example, that I can't play back-to-back songs from say Vatic[a.n] because that would infringe on copyright laws, that apply to webcasters?
Or would it only apply to Creed?
Sounds like crack induced hysteria to me.
ok, someone still has to pay the $0.0007 per song per listener. The whole thing made absolutely no sense.
Could anyone please explain to me where these webcast rules come from that everyone has been talking about?
The RIAA may have rules for how their music can be played, what artists, in what orders, and what not.. but I highly doubt the Fed gives one shit.
And, the whole thing makes absolutely no sense. Basically, what you're proposing, is make software that automatically pays them what they want.
So, where's the dissidence?
i just went from 2.5.73 to 2.5.75.
All my previously broken modules compiled.
They all loaded.
No modules paniced the kernel.
I have 80MB free after boot (debian testing) before loading X (used to have about 45MB). Load X (fvwm2), and Mozilla, and still have 35MB free.
This is moving faster than I have ever seen Linux move. Ever.
PIII/600MHz, 128MB ram, 9GB SCSI and 4GB EIDE drives.
hehe.. i guess i'm just not that imaginative. lol
I just do dumb stuff (well, maybe not)..
.. that way I didn't have to constantly look at the info sheets to figure out who the hell I was controlling with a party of 7 indistinct icons.
The only RPG's i've played in memorable history were the Baldur's Gate series, and the original SSI Gold Box AD&D titles.. and in every one of those, I named my characters by their classes. The fighter was called "Fighter", the Cleric/Fighter/Mage was called "CFMU"
I NEED to point this out.
.." ...
I see a TON of messages on this subject talking stuff like "I played D&D 1st edition, before it was AD&D
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons IS the first edition. It was simply called "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons". Dungeons & Dragons came out -after- that as they tried to simplify the concepts to attract new players.
So, REAL AD&D players know that the first edition is AD&D not D&D.
You ahve me curious. What's this "blurring gender lines" "without being homosexual"? Hmm..
At the time, I don't know if GCC and company even -worked- on HP/UX or AIX (I know they do now, although the last time I used HP/UX, it was still fairly well crippled compared to most other *nixes in the libc area) at the time.. but i was pretty thoroughly disgusted that I couldn't get -any- of the software that i wanted to run on these machines to run, because they were written for gcc.. which I thought was the normal for the world at the time. doh.
Course, the programs I wanted were IRC and MUDs and other non-professional type applications. I'm sure AIX and HP/UX worked fine for people who needed Unix for their business... but it sure didn't work so good for my personal interests. That's where BSD came in.
In fact, I only remebmer there really being 4 *nixes that I ever ran into.. BSD(+BSD based systems), Sys V (I also used Sys III), AIX, HP/UX.
oh, duh, SunOS as well. make that 5 now. SunOS and BSD machines that I frequented regularly had a complete suite (or at least complete enough that I could make it complete) of GNU tools, so those were the machines that those of us building IRC and MUDs and such went for.
lol
actually, I logged into an AIX box once.. probably in the very early 90's.. it didn't have ANY GNU tools installed, so I was lost as to why nothing worked the way I expected it to, and went back to BSD machines primarily...
2.4 actually had some fairly serious flaws in the middle of it, but the modifications that were done that caused those flaws were, imho, necessary for further evolution.
Certainly pre-2.6 should squash out most bugs, however !! remember the vast majority of Linux users out there are NOT likely playing with 2.5.x or will be with pre-2.6!
The stress tests that come from 2.6.0 being announced and suddenly being unleashed upon tens of thousands more users (or hundreds of thousands more machines) than 2.5.x is will shake out all remaining serious flaws.
Back in my day, all we -had- was make config. And that was a new thing then! I may be recalling incorrectly, but I think the first ver of Linux that I used actually used a config.h with defines .. I may be wrong, though, that might be other software.
I'm going back to 0.98 here.
22 columns, but upper/lower case selectable.. the VIC-20 sure was neat for it's time. lol
at least when compared to a computer the same company produced later, the Plus/4. The Plus/4 had all the same hardware as the VIC-20, but with an "improved" BASIC that was ten times more functional, but took up all your available RAM.
I think he meant specfically different ways to navigate.
The only significant navigation tool that I've seen was IBM's WebExplorer, that was bundled with OS/2 Warp.. rather than just having "forward" and "backward" buttons, it would keep track of everywhere that you had visited in recent history, in a tree view, and allow you to get back to any point that was still in it's history, very easily. It was way cool.. and has yet to be duplicated in -any- browser.
So, what is the problem with running X-Box games on the PC? Since the X-Box is just a slightly modified PC.. what stops a regular PC from running X-Box games? hmm...
After loan paybacks, and other support issues taken out, I see $400/month in actual cash. And I make $40k/year.
Well, that was the whole joke :-)
It's kind of like waiting for Duke Nuke'em Forever.
I've been waiting for the HURD since I was in middle school. I'm 27, now.
Heh! Oddly enough, I've jsut recently migrated from KDE to FVWM2 .. I like FVWM MUCH more than KDE. This might have something to do with the fact that my primary machine has 128MB ram, and apparently you need a few GB to keep from being in Swapper Hell with KDE3.. (i'm exaggerating.. slightly..)
By the time the HURD matures, I'd be willing to bet your kids will be studying it in college CS classes.
Back in the DAY, I used to hang out on several Unix System III systems, that had replaced almost all of the stock AT&T Unix programs with GNU versions.
The GNU software also basically runs *BSD, for most people, I think, or if not (I haven't seen BSD since before FreeBSD/NetBSD even existed) it could certainly easily be made to.
I've been considering taking the Linux kernel and writing a new environment that isn't based on GNU or Unix. Just to see what a crazy guy like me could come up with. Never really had the motivation though.