Universal toolroads == universal tracking
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Every Road a Toll Road
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The proponents of this either deliberately neglect or silently want the tracking information linking the citizens to their movements. This is the thinnest mask over, and potentially the biggest intrusion in modern times into personal freedoms. This would give GB the ability to know where a large portion of their populace was when outside their homes. If _every_ road was a toll road, then it would be simple enough to just have a tax based on your odometer reading when you renew, along with the odometer being required to be functioning, that would serve the goal and be much less intrusive.
"The whole "you can mess with the BSD/Mach stuff" in OS X is nothing more than a bone thrown to the community. The stuff they use is already out there, so it's better for Apple to just let it remain so. People buy-into the idea that Apple is somehow a reasonably friendly company that won't screw you over. But that's a fantasy, I'm afraid. One proven countless times by various actions by the company as it has strived to maintain it's control over every aspect of the platform and the experince a user has interacting with it."
Of course this explains the open source quicktime server that is on both Mac and Intel...
Apple put SCSI in the custom chipsets long ago. Since the dayss of Woz, Apple has been one of the more innovative support chipset makers, they just don't sell them to anyone.
Isn't the banding together of the most powerful industry leaders to create and distribute a technology with low internal license fees to the patent holders involved and high barriers to entry for new companies actionable under the Antitrust laws? It gives an unfair advantage that does not benefit the consumer. I can't imaging the cost for an outside company to license this technology to produce the new discs in light of the worldwide fees tacked onto current media to offset piracy. And these don't go to the artists, but the organizations set up to protect the artists, so it would seem that this should be actionable as well. If you have a litigious industry, just help them along.:-)
When you sign the petition, let them know that you are going to suggest Cartoon Network pick up Futurama. Then go to Cartoon Network's feedabck page and let them know that you'd like them to pick up the show if Fox drops it!
Wow, what about even older RTSes
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I played net-trek on PDP-10s, 11s and Vaxes in the late-70s. These had the features of RTS mentioned just with text based graphics. Multi-player realtime action with texty goodness. I played non-multiplayer trek in the mid-70s. Empire and multiplayer Empire (I particularly like XEmpire with its cool graphics and would love to find an old source drop of it!, particularly the networked varient with multi-player support). Not to mention some other single player RTS like Rogue and DND (not to be confused with Dungeon, the text script game). All of these had a running clock, items or status to recover, entity interactions, and many were multi-player networked games. And of course the trade based games.
Pre-Internet (with the capitalized I) on the Merit network was a game (that was banned _often_ by the system administrators) that created an adaptive universe to travel through (local copies of the universe were "patched" to have dimensional rifts when the local universe synced to a remote universe and the on-the-fly universe creation overlaped between the two universe, sometimes entire rifts winked out of existance (when sys admins quashed them:-) losing all that was in them at the time. I would love to find a copy of Galaxy!
It is as much fun to watch as the undergrad at MSU who hooked up the 117VAC to an Interdata open chassis computer (sans intervention of that pesky DC powersupply) and blew neat conical pieces of ceramic out of most of the chips on the exposed processor card.:-)
Now that was a "cluster" bomb.
ROTFLOL at fond memories from days long past (well it seems long past at least)
Music artists get to control distro by the 'Net. Folks who publish in print collections gleaned from the 'Net. Wow. Authors actually having to be considered when their work is distributed. This will make the new alliances of the record companies to distribute over the 'Net really interesting as they have already claimed they had the right to do this. The MPAA can't be to happy either. Nor will the leaches of the net who publish others works originally distro'ed on the 'Net for free as printed works at outrageous prices. Obviously if you have waived the rights contractually, well, too bad.
Apple notebooks had this innovation long ago. They have since moved on to more advanced features. This is another blatent case of Windows hardware playing catch-up to the Apple Wunderkind driven machina.
Apple helped fund development of Linux for running on Macintoshes. They provided people and other resources as well as previously undisclosed hardware specifications that enabled all the Macintosh efforts. The author seems to have missed that. Somewhat one-sided ranting. If they wanted the software under GPL the authors would have placed it under GPL. If they wanted their software to be more acceptable to corporate lawyers, the true open-source is the way to go.
I suggest those angered by this convicition add a limitation to any software the put under open source or GPL to disallow use by the prosecutors office, the jury members, and all of Intel. Then send a note to the prosecutors office and Intel informing them of this restriction and the reason for it. Then actively develop very useful software and contribute it everywhere appropriate. Buy AMD processors. Let Intel know why.
MSI also makes a BOOK PC with 815 chipset, two PCIs, FireWIRE/1394, etc.
I bought one off a seller on eBay and it is pretty sweet. It also has S-Video and composite out, as well as a built in (pretty basic) sound card equivalent.
Roughly 2.5 in. x 13 in. x 11 in.
I did a cross country trip just about a year ago with a Cobalt Qube 2 as a server, my Sprint PCS phone for WAN connections and an 802.11b network (an Apple Airport connected to the Qube, a G3 Powerbook, and a CTX P166 notebook).
It worked fine in transit and from motel rooms to the car. Sprint PCS (using the Startac phone in digital modem mode) connecting back to my home network and out to the world as needed.
Traditionally the US does not extend any protections to titles. (Recognition of the limited number of rational choices?) For example the movie "Jack Frost". One is about a maniac killer turned snowman, the other about a "dad" turned snowman. Quite different movies, same title, no fuss.
If consumers threaten to involve the PUC (Public Utilities Commision) (so the control of pricing and quality of service is taken out of the software producers hands) Would that be enough to get them to change their minds. I could easily see subscription-ware being held to reliability standards, refunds for lost time, price caps, etc.
It presumes a DTD to use XML. Also XML, being what it is allows the creation of constructs that reference DB queries in a standard manner, this would allow you to define table constructs and queries to fill the tables as well as other external sub-document referents to approach the OpenDoc ex-standard of Apple, IBM, Novel, et al capabilities. Windows Access and others already allows XML formated export of databases.
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The proponents of this either deliberately neglect or silently want the tracking information linking the citizens to their movements. This is the thinnest mask over, and potentially the biggest intrusion in modern times into personal freedoms. This would give GB the ability to know where a large portion of their populace was when outside their homes.
If _every_ road was a toll road, then it would be simple enough to just have a tax based on your odometer reading when you renew, along with the odometer being required to be functioning, that would serve the goal and be much less intrusive.
"The whole "you can mess with the BSD/Mach stuff" in OS X is nothing more than a bone thrown to the community. The stuff they use is already out there, so it's better for Apple to just let it remain so. People buy-into the idea that Apple is somehow a reasonably friendly company that won't screw you over. But that's a fantasy, I'm afraid. One proven countless times by various actions by the company as it has strived to maintain it's control over every aspect of the platform and the experince a user has interacting with it."
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Of course this explains the open source quicktime server that is on both Mac and Intel
Apple put SCSI in the custom chipsets long ago. Since the dayss of Woz, Apple has been one of the more innovative support chipset makers, they just don't sell them to anyone.
Isn't the banding together of the most powerful industry leaders to create and distribute a technology with low internal license fees to the patent holders involved and high barriers to entry for new companies actionable under the Antitrust laws? It gives an unfair advantage that does not benefit the consumer. I can't imaging the cost for an outside company to license this technology to produce the new discs in light of the worldwide fees tacked onto current media to offset piracy. And these don't go to the artists, but the organizations set up to protect the artists, so it would seem that this should be actionable as well. If you have a litigious industry, just help them along. :-)
When you sign the petition, let them know that you are going to suggest Cartoon Network pick up Futurama. Then go to Cartoon Network's feedabck page and let them know that you'd like them to pick up the show if Fox drops it!
I played net-trek on PDP-10s, 11s and Vaxes in the late-70s. These had the features of RTS mentioned just with text based graphics. Multi-player realtime action with texty goodness. I played non-multiplayer trek in the mid-70s. Empire and multiplayer Empire (I particularly like XEmpire with its cool graphics and would love to find an old source drop of it!, particularly the networked varient with multi-player support). Not to mention some other single player RTS like Rogue and DND (not to be confused with Dungeon, the text script game). All of these had a running clock, items or status to recover, entity interactions, and many were multi-player networked games. And of course the trade based games.
:-) losing all that was in them at the time. I would love to find a copy of Galaxy!
Pre-Internet (with the capitalized I) on the Merit network was a game (that was banned _often_ by the system administrators) that created an adaptive universe to travel through (local copies of the universe were "patched" to have dimensional rifts when the local universe synced to a remote universe and the on-the-fly universe creation overlaped between the two universe, sometimes entire rifts winked out of existance (when sys admins quashed them
It is as much fun to watch as the undergrad at MSU who hooked up the 117VAC to an Interdata open chassis computer (sans intervention of that pesky DC powersupply) and blew neat conical pieces of ceramic out of most of the chips on the exposed processor card. :-)
Now that was a "cluster" bomb.
ROTFLOL at fond memories from days long past (well it seems long past at least)
MacCentral restores via a reference in this article.
My favorite part of the claims is the typo. They use MEG and MEG2 as examples in some claims. I'd guess M$ Word spell hexer did that for them.
See the full patent at the USPTO database here.
Music artists get to control distro by the 'Net. Folks who publish in print collections gleaned from the 'Net. Wow. Authors actually having to be considered when their work is distributed. This will make the new alliances of the record companies to distribute over the 'Net really interesting as they have already claimed they had the right to do this. The MPAA can't be to happy either. Nor will the leaches of the net who publish others works originally distro'ed on the 'Net for free as printed works at outrageous prices. Obviously if you have waived the rights contractually, well, too bad.
No Windows "Full Blown" on StrongArm might be a reason ;-)
Apple notebooks had this innovation long ago. They have since moved on to more advanced features. This is another blatent case of Windows hardware playing catch-up to the Apple Wunderkind driven machina.
Apple helped fund development of Linux for running on Macintoshes. They provided people and other resources as well as previously undisclosed hardware specifications that enabled all the Macintosh efforts. The author seems to have missed that. Somewhat one-sided ranting. If they wanted the software under GPL the authors would have placed it under GPL. If they wanted their software to be more acceptable to corporate lawyers, the true open-source is the way to go.
I suggest those angered by this convicition add a limitation to any software the put under open source or GPL to disallow use by the prosecutors office, the jury members, and all of Intel. Then send a note to the prosecutors office and Intel informing them of this restriction and the reason for it. Then actively develop very useful software and contribute it everywhere appropriate. Buy AMD processors. Let Intel know why.
MSI also makes a BOOK PC with 815 chipset, two PCIs, FireWIRE/1394, etc. I bought one off a seller on eBay and it is pretty sweet. It also has S-Video and composite out, as well as a built in (pretty basic) sound card equivalent. Roughly 2.5 in. x 13 in. x 11 in.
I did a cross country trip just about a year ago with a Cobalt Qube 2 as a server, my Sprint PCS phone for WAN connections and an 802.11b network (an Apple Airport connected to the Qube, a G3 Powerbook, and a CTX P166 notebook). It worked fine in transit and from motel rooms to the car. Sprint PCS (using the Startac phone in digital modem mode) connecting back to my home network and out to the world as needed.
Traditionally the US does not extend any protections to titles. (Recognition of the limited number of rational choices?) For example the movie "Jack Frost". One is about a maniac killer turned snowman, the other about a "dad" turned snowman. Quite different movies, same title, no fuss.
If consumers threaten to involve the PUC (Public Utilities Commision) (so the control of pricing and quality of service is taken out of the software producers hands) Would that be enough to get them to change their minds. I could easily see subscription-ware being held to reliability standards, refunds for lost time, price caps, etc.
http://www.nevis.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/man.sh?man=s sh Doesn't the wide distribution without the (TM) attribute prior to the P&TO issuance dilute these claims?
Telex makes the t-1400 and the t-1900
It presumes a DTD to use XML. Also XML, being what it is allows the creation of constructs that reference DB queries in a standard manner, this would allow you to define table constructs and queries to fill the tables as well as other external sub-document referents to approach the OpenDoc ex-standard of Apple, IBM, Novel, et al capabilities. Windows Access and others already allows XML formated export of databases. Rise CyberDog! Rise! ...