The Mach and BSD used in NeXTSTEP and Rhapsody are proprietary derivatives; you can't just slap Rhapsody onto an off-the-shelf Mach implementation. An OSS release would change this, and allow it to run better with other systems.
Attacking Linux is like shooting at a cloud of gas. It's not going to have much in the way of results.
If Apple release the Mach microkernel under OSX, this will allow Linux and OSX to coexist more easily, even possibly running at the same time. If it's a useful UI toolkit or technology, it'll get ported in some form (witness what happened with Borland's Turbo Vision, a formerly DOS-only framework). If it's something trivial and wholly dependent on proprietary technologies, nothing much will happen one way or the other.
Apparently they changed their name from Kentucky Fried Chicken to KFC, because they use genetically engineered birds which are legally not "chickens" anymore.
Ain't nothin' new buddy... Ask Shakespear..
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Actually, what Shakespeare really wrote was "first thing we do, let's kill all the editors", but that never made it past the first draft.
Never fear, brave Linuxers. Microsoft isn't going to port Office to Linux until it becomes completely apparent to everyone and their dog that Windows 2000 won't fly.
Perhaps everyone at MS is already aware of that. 35 million lines of code (written using Microsoft's cowboy coding practices too), release delays, bugs galore. They've even put on hold their plans to replace 95/98 with NT. Perhaps they've realised that if they get it out in 2000, it will be a bloodbath, doing worse damage to their reputation than shelving it indefinitely...
Compare this to Apple and Copland. They knew that the rewrite of the overgrown and convoluted MacOS wasn't going to fly, and binned it. And NT is more of a problem than MacOS was.
Given that the US patent office seems to employ crack smokers in its application checking department, who's to say that something cannot be patented?
Case in point: Microsoft's style sheet patent.
Get Billy Boy Gates to sponsor it.
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But then it would be contractually obliged to use Windows NT for all the controls. The right sequence of blue screens could send it burning up through the atmosphere or cause the oxygen-reclamation systems to fail.
Not that MS would be overly concerned... they after all want to use Wintendo NT in medical embedded applications... probably because product-liability lawsuits have yet to catch up to substandard software.
If there are no other laws, it could be done as a private corporate state. That also eliminates having to jump through hoops, or the risk of some clueless gerontocrat deciding to ban a key technology out of fear of the unknown.
Come to think of it, wonder how long it will be before the Ayn Rand freaks colonise L5.
I recall hearing that some phone books include copyright traps (i.e., bogus entries, often for fictional characters). This would suggest that phone books can be copyrighted. Street directories and atlases certainly can.
If this goes to court, it will be interesting. Someone sold the database to Escient, and presumably the question would become whether that someone owned the data.
If Escient owns the CDDB data and want to be bastards, they can put in copyright traps, i.e., listings for nonexistant CDs. That way, they can tell if cdindex uses their data, and if so, sue the servers. Even without explicit copyright traps, things such as spelling mistakes, idiosyncratic use of upper/lower case, punctuation, &c., could make a case.
Someone should code an AGI interpreter as a Java applet, and put it on the web, with some games (free, of course). The games could be played online, and for hack value, saved games could perhaps even be stored in cookies (gzipped and base-64ed). That would arguably be even cooler than the Infocom-Z-code-in-CGI pages.
Britain is not the US. I very much doubt that Britain could hypothetically get away with lobbing cruise missiles at, say, Libya, if Tony Blair was caught in a sex scandal. China is probably the only other nation that would have that amount of clout right now.
Russia has a LOT of ex-KGB types, crypto specialists, crackers, &c., who haven't been paid for ages. It also has ruthless organised criminals with lots of ambition, the kind of bare-faced audacity that comes from thriving in anarchy and enough money to hire said spooks. This could be some Russian mafia group's idea of a "nice little earner".
The First Law of Hollywood Movies: All heroes must be recognisable 20th-century Americans, unless their ethnic identity is part of the gimmick (i.e., The Avengers and other swinging-60s Cool Brittannia fare). You lose audience mind-share if you ask people to identify with Britons, French, New Zealanders and other weird foreigners.
Besides, everybody knows the Americans saved the world in WW2, Henry Ford invented the automobile and Bill Gates invented the Internet.
Well we have a Social Security system that is about to collapse because it is unsound, we have a Medicare (health care for elderly) which has similar problems. Both are defrauded at incredible rates, but are too big to police. We have a Welfare system that has about 75% overhead
Americans are scared to let the government that constructed these programs to have a hand at Universal Health Care, with good reason I think.
Australia has universal health care (called Medicare, though available to the non-elderly as well). Visits to the doctor (up to a point) and many treatments are bulk-billed (paid for by Medicare), and medicine is subsidised. We seem to manage just fine without much fraud or loss.
Also, if the Americans are so paranoid about socialism, why do they have no problems with a multi-billlion-dollar military-industrial complex, a vast industry all paid for by the state? Surely that is a shining example of all-American Socialism.
There is one solution: just forget about it. Forget all about sex (it's just another neurochemical high). Forget about "having a girlfriend" as a symbol of social acceptance. (Symbols are themselves meaningless.) Reject the social conditioning and genetic programming that tells you to find a mate; you are more than a puppet of your genes. That's ultimately all that courtship is about; your genes looking for ways to reproduce themselves.
Instead focus on enjoying what is to be enjoyed, be it conversation with friends or seeing films or playing in a band or photographing landscapes, with no goal in mind other than to enjoy what you're doing. (That's the important part. If you go out for the purpose of trying to find a partner, it won't work.)
Stop angsting. You've survived so far alone, and you can survive for longer. Besides, not being alone brings its own share of problems. Having a girlfriend does not guarantee happiness; if you're prone to unhappiness, all it does is trade your existing discontent for new kinds. And throw out all your Smiths records.
Become content with being alone; find satisfaction within. Get out from in front of the computer for the purpose of enjoying what life has to offer you now. Widen your interests, and make the best use of your life as it is now. Above all things, to thine own self be true.
Perhaps you won't then always be alone; but even if you are, you'll have a better time of it.
-- "Life is unfair, kill yourself or get over it." -- Black Box Recorder
Wonder how long until someone writes Linux software for using the DexDrive...
Not that I'd be able to use it then... I'm out of serial ports (my modem and Pilot take one each), and also out of interrupts for new ones. Bring on the day of USB peripherals...
With all due respect, there is a big difference between Enlightenment themes and professional graphic design. A good graphic designer would have more of a sense of balance and restraint, an instinct which tells them when to add and when to subtract. Good graphic design is like Japanese art: the negative space is as important as the figure (perhaps even more). And chunky chrome frames, glowing skulls and half-naked women holding swords are not most people's definition of "restraint".
For examples of what professionals would make of the technology, have a look at Kaleidoscope. It's a Mac program, so there are almost certainly graphic design professionals among the few hundred or so scheme authors. And some of the schemes look very elegant.
-- acb [not a designer by profession, though a fan of good graphic design]
Presumably Nintendo have a clause in the license agreement to their software that prohibits making ROM images or reading the ROM on anything other than a Nintendo console (sort of like reverse-engineering clauses). If this is the case, then UltraHLE may have no purpose other than to play illegally copied games or software read in violation of the agreement. As such, with no legal use, UltraHLE would clearly be illegal.
They'll need all the luck they can get stamping it out... it'll no doubt be on the offshore data havens with all the mp3s and Microsoft Office copies.
Leviticus 20:13 states that homosexuals must be put to death. Do you agree with this? Would you carry out the sentence?
I saw a TV documentary recently which interviewed convicted gay-bashers. The testimony of one convict (who said that he did it because he was taught that that's what the Bible commanded) is an argument that the Bible (or parts of it) should be kept out of the hands of those prone to hatred.
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The Mach and BSD used in NeXTSTEP and Rhapsody are proprietary derivatives; you can't just slap Rhapsody onto an off-the-shelf Mach implementation. An OSS release would change this, and allow it to run better with other systems.
Attacking Linux is like shooting at a cloud of gas. It's not going to have much in the way of results.
If Apple release the Mach microkernel under OSX, this will allow Linux and OSX to coexist more easily, even possibly running at the same time. If it's a useful UI toolkit or technology, it'll get ported in some form (witness what happened with Borland's Turbo Vision, a formerly DOS-only framework). If it's something trivial and wholly dependent on proprietary technologies, nothing much will happen one way or the other.
Would it be possible to show statistics on the relative popularity of the boxes?
Apparently they changed their name from Kentucky Fried Chicken to KFC, because they use genetically engineered birds which are legally not "chickens" anymore.
Actually, what Shakespeare really wrote was "first thing we do, let's kill all the editors", but that never made it past the first draft.
Never fear, brave Linuxers. Microsoft isn't going to port Office to Linux until it becomes completely apparent to everyone and their dog that Windows 2000 won't fly.
Perhaps everyone at MS is already aware of that. 35 million lines of code (written using Microsoft's cowboy coding practices too), release delays, bugs galore. They've even put on hold their plans to replace 95/98 with NT. Perhaps they've realised that if they get it out in 2000, it will be a bloodbath, doing worse damage to their reputation than shelving it indefinitely...
Compare this to Apple and Copland. They knew that the rewrite of the overgrown and convoluted MacOS wasn't going to fly, and binned it. And NT is more of a problem than MacOS was.
Was that the "16-year-old teenage girl" someone was auctioning a week or two ago?
Given that the US patent office seems to employ crack smokers in its application checking department, who's to say that something cannot be patented?
Case in point: Microsoft's style sheet patent.
But then it would be contractually obliged to use Windows NT for all the controls. The right sequence of blue screens could send it burning up through the atmosphere or cause the oxygen-reclamation systems to fail.
Not that MS would be overly concerned... they after all want to use Wintendo NT in medical embedded applications... probably because product-liability lawsuits have yet to catch up to substandard software.
If there are no other laws, it could be done as a private corporate state. That also eliminates having to jump through hoops, or the risk of some clueless gerontocrat deciding to ban a key technology out of fear of the unknown.
Come to think of it, wonder how long it will be before the Ayn Rand freaks colonise L5.
I recall hearing that some phone books include copyright traps (i.e., bogus entries, often for fictional characters). This would suggest that phone books can be copyrighted. Street directories and atlases certainly can.
If this goes to court, it will be interesting. Someone sold the database to Escient, and presumably the question would become whether that someone owned the data.
If Escient owns the CDDB data and want to be bastards, they can put in copyright traps, i.e., listings for nonexistant CDs. That way, they can tell if cdindex uses their data, and if so, sue the servers. Even without explicit copyright traps, things such as spelling mistakes, idiosyncratic use of upper/lower case, punctuation, &c., could make a case.
Someone should code an AGI interpreter as a Java applet, and put it on the web, with some games (free, of course). The games could be played online, and for hack value, saved games could perhaps even be stored in cookies (gzipped and base-64ed). That would arguably be even cooler than the Infocom-Z-code-in-CGI pages.
Britain is not the US. I very much doubt that Britain could hypothetically get away with lobbing cruise missiles at, say, Libya, if Tony Blair was caught in a sex scandal. China is probably the only other nation that would have that amount of clout right now.
Russia has a LOT of ex-KGB types, crypto specialists, crackers, &c., who haven't been paid for ages. It also has ruthless organised criminals with lots of ambition, the kind of bare-faced audacity that comes from thriving in anarchy and enough money to hire said spooks. This could be some Russian mafia group's idea of a "nice little earner".
Aren't most of the Caribbean anonymous banking havens British colonies?
The First Law of Hollywood Movies: All heroes must be recognisable 20th-century Americans, unless their ethnic identity is part of the gimmick (i.e., The Avengers and other swinging-60s Cool Brittannia fare). You lose audience mind-share if you ask people to identify with Britons, French, New Zealanders and other weird foreigners.
Besides, everybody knows the Americans saved the world in WW2, Henry Ford invented the automobile and Bill Gates invented the Internet.
Well we have a Social Security system that is about to collapse because it is
unsound, we have a Medicare (health care for elderly) which has similar problems.
Both are defrauded at incredible rates, but are too big to police. We have a
Welfare system that has about 75% overhead
Americans are scared to let the government that constructed these programs to
have a hand at Universal Health Care, with good reason I think.
Australia has universal health care (called Medicare, though available to the non-elderly as well). Visits to the doctor (up to a point) and many treatments are bulk-billed (paid for by Medicare), and medicine is subsidised. We seem to manage just fine without much fraud or loss.
Also, if the Americans are so paranoid about socialism, why do they have no problems with a multi-billlion-dollar military-industrial complex, a vast industry all paid for by the state? Surely that is a shining example of all-American Socialism.
There is one solution: just forget about it. Forget all about sex (it's just another neurochemical high). Forget about "having a girlfriend" as a symbol of social acceptance. (Symbols are themselves meaningless.) Reject the social conditioning and genetic programming that tells you to find a mate; you are more than a puppet of your genes. That's ultimately all that courtship is about; your genes looking for ways to reproduce themselves.
Instead focus on enjoying what is to be enjoyed, be it conversation with friends or seeing films or playing in a band or photographing landscapes, with no goal in mind other than to enjoy what you're doing. (That's the important part. If you go out for the purpose of trying to find a partner, it won't work.)
Stop angsting. You've survived so far alone, and you can survive for longer. Besides, not being alone brings its own share of problems. Having a girlfriend does not guarantee happiness; if you're prone to unhappiness, all it does is trade your existing discontent for new kinds. And throw out all your Smiths records.
Become content with being alone; find satisfaction within. Get out from in front of the computer for the purpose of enjoying what life has to offer you now. Widen your interests, and make the best use of your life as it is now. Above all things, to thine own self be true.
Perhaps you won't then always be alone; but even if you are, you'll have a better time of it.
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"Life is unfair, kill yourself or get over it."
-- Black Box Recorder
If you can't beat 'em, up the clockspeed.
And then you can say "we've upped our clockspeed, so up yours."
-- acb [sorry, couldn't resist...]
Wonder how long until someone writes Linux software for using the DexDrive...
Not that I'd be able to use it then... I'm out of serial ports (my modem and Pilot take one each), and also out of interrupts for new ones. Bring on the day of USB peripherals...
With all due respect, there is a big difference between Enlightenment themes and professional graphic design. A good graphic designer would have more of a sense of balance and restraint, an instinct which tells them when to add and when to subtract. Good graphic design is like Japanese art: the negative space is as important as the figure (perhaps even more). And chunky chrome frames, glowing skulls and half-naked women holding swords are not most people's definition of "restraint".
For examples of what professionals would make of the technology, have a look at Kaleidoscope. It's a Mac program, so there are almost certainly graphic design professionals among the few hundred or so scheme authors. And some of the schemes look very elegant.
-- acb [not a designer by profession, though a fan of good graphic design]
Hate to tell you this, but they could be right.
Presumably Nintendo have a clause in the license agreement to their software that prohibits making ROM images or reading the ROM on anything other than a Nintendo console (sort of like reverse-engineering clauses). If this is the case, then UltraHLE may have no purpose other than to play illegally copied games or software read in violation of the agreement. As such, with no legal use, UltraHLE would clearly be illegal.
They'll need all the luck they can get stamping it out... it'll no doubt be on the offshore data havens with all the mp3s and Microsoft Office copies.
Leviticus 20:13 states that homosexuals must be put to death. Do you agree with this? Would you carry out the sentence?
I saw a TV documentary recently which interviewed convicted gay-bashers. The testimony of one convict (who said that he did it because he was taught that that's what the Bible commanded) is an argument that the Bible (or parts of it) should be kept out of the hands of those prone to hatred.
I've looked at a demo of Logic, and went away convinced that the name was chosen ironically. The UI seemed to be somewhat less than intuitive.