but bear in mind that "post-Labor Day" is a very long time
Sure, if you consider next week a "very long time." ReplayTV will apparently be announcing whatever it is at a consumer electronics show here in Indianapolis. Their web site has a "teaser" on the front page about an important news announcement on September 5th...
There are quite a few comments so far, but has anyone actually downloaded it and looked at it? I run an ABit BP-6 with Dual Celerons and I'd be very curious to get my hands on their Kernel config file and compare with what I've got running, but it's not worth getting our Network admin breathing down my neck, so I'll just have to wait until a friend with cable modem downloads it for me.:)
One other quickie - I've seen several comments to the effect that RedHat won't install on a drive off the 66 controller. Not true - I've installed both RH 6.1 and SUSE 6.2 on mine. All it took was passing the right kernel params in when you boot from the install floppy - it's all convered in the Ultra-DMA How-To.
However, I don't believe that The Simpsons would "scale" well to the big screen. Why? Well, look at most Simpsons episodes - they are mainly slap-stick comedy, with the very well placed satire and parody embedded in the script and visual gags.
Would that work on the big screen? Or should I say, would it work for more than an hour? Or even close to an hour and a half?
Two words: Farrelly Brothers. You've basically just described Dumb & Dumber, Something About Mary, etc.. They didn't do too shabby at the box office.
Maybe they're relying on the following type of situation:
1. I download Be. 2. Wow, it's cool, maybe I'll check out the development tools. 3. Wow, they're neat, and Be would be really good for application X, which isn't available for it. I think I'll write it. 4. Gee, although I've written it, I can't sell it because I've got the "Personal" version of Be. But if I pay the $60 for the full version then sell my app as shareware for $10, then everything past user #6 is pure profit.
Just curious, but in the story itself and the postings, I don't see any kind of reference to a source for this story. Maybe I'm missing it - I usually see comments right away when someone posts an unattributed story.
I'm curious about the statement that "It's the first AI to be a principal character in a book." Perhaps I'm not understanding the meaning of this, but according to David Gerrold's web site , the book was published in 1972. 2001 was published in 1968, not to mention one of my favorite Heinlein novels, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, which I believe was published late 50's or so. In those novels, HAL and Mike respectively were major characters. Or am I misunderstanding this post?
Yes, it has a "DOC" extension, but it's not MS word, it's plain text.
One other thing - IANAL, but the very first text of the section is this:
No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. The prohibition contained in the preceding sentence shall take effect at the end of the 2-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this chapter.
The document contains the date "01/05/99" for that section, so does that mean that as long as DeCSS is working before "01/01/2001" (assuming they don't mean 1899...) that it's OK?
Uh, don't want to say anything, but did you by chance mean to type "Test message from account!" in the SUBJECT line of the message you sent, not the CC line?
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but bear in mind that "post-Labor Day" is a very long time
Sure, if you consider next week a "very long time." ReplayTV will apparently be announcing whatever it is at a consumer electronics show here in Indianapolis. Their web site has a "teaser" on the front page about an important news announcement on September 5th...
You think that's bad... I'm looking at the page with IE 5.01 and I still can't read it...
There are quite a few comments so far, but has anyone actually downloaded it and looked at it? I run an ABit BP-6 with Dual Celerons and I'd be very curious to get my hands on their Kernel config file and compare with what I've got running, but it's not worth getting our Network admin breathing down my neck, so I'll just have to wait until a friend with cable modem downloads it for me. :)
One other quickie - I've seen several comments to the effect that RedHat won't install on a drive off the 66 controller. Not true - I've installed both RH 6.1 and SUSE 6.2 on mine. All it took was passing the right kernel params in when you boot from the install floppy - it's all convered in the Ultra-DMA How-To.
However, I don't believe that The Simpsons would "scale" well to the big screen. Why? Well, look at most Simpsons episodes - they are mainly slap-stick comedy, with the very well placed satire and parody embedded in the script and visual gags.
Would that work on the big screen? Or should I say, would it work for more than an hour? Or even close to an hour and a half?
Two words: Farrelly Brothers. You've basically just described Dumb & Dumber, Something About Mary, etc.. They didn't do too shabby at the box office.
Maybe they're relying on the following type of situation:
1. I download Be.
2. Wow, it's cool, maybe I'll check out the development tools.
3. Wow, they're neat, and Be would be really good for application X, which isn't available for it. I think I'll write it.
4. Gee, although I've written it, I can't sell it because I've got the "Personal" version of Be. But if I pay the $60 for the full version then sell my app as shareware for $10, then everything past user #6 is pure profit.
Just curious, but in the story itself and the postings, I don't see any kind of reference to a source for this story. Maybe I'm missing it - I usually see comments right away when someone posts an unattributed story.
I'm curious about the statement that "It's the first AI to be a principal character in a book." Perhaps I'm not understanding the meaning of this, but according to David Gerrold's web site , the book was published in 1972. 2001 was published in 1968, not to mention one of my favorite Heinlein novels, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, which I believe was published late 50's or so. In those novels, HAL and Mike respectively were major characters. Or am I misunderstanding this post?
Here's a link to section 1201, which you can't get to on Cornell's site:
Title 17, Chapter 12
Yes, it has a "DOC" extension, but it's not MS word, it's plain text.
One other thing - IANAL, but the very first text of the section is this:
No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. The prohibition contained in the preceding sentence shall take effect at the end of the 2-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this chapter.
The document contains the date "01/05/99" for that section, so does that mean that as long as DeCSS is working before "01/01/2001" (assuming they don't mean 1899...) that it's OK?
Actually, since the plural of index is indices, and the plural of the appendix is appendices, then the plural of Kleenex would be Kleenices. JFK
Uh, don't want to say anything, but did you by chance mean to type "Test message from account!" in the SUBJECT line of the message you sent, not the CC line?