You might like Blue & Grey, built on the Myth II engine. I'm not a Civil War buff, and never played the game you're talking about, but the engine I'm talking about has all your desiderata and the people who put together b&g weren't just kiddieing around.
CAESAR(recovering his self-possession). Pardon him. Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
80GB on paper is more like a quarter mile. I agree with all the other eye-rollers here: anybody expects google to not archive is too stupid to do business with, likewise with anybody who expects them to not comply with an ordinary subpoena.
All the same, the notion of them delivering a few metric tons of paper does get a grin. Congress haven't caught up with Stallman yet: no "preferred form" restrictions.
Two people have pointed out "AAC" refers to the wrong part of this discussion -- the audio encoding, not the DRM encoding. They're right. I know better now. Thanks.
"Free" is jargon in this context, every bit as misleading to the unwary as it is in the GPL. If I understand it properly, barriers to entry quite simply constitute corruption of a "free", as economists use the word, market. So regulations and anti-trust departments that exist to flatten those barriers are, paradoxically as it seems, not only designed but needed to ensure a free market.
Silicon.com, at least, have it right: this is about forcing Apple to at least license the AAC format, and it looks like they're toying with breaking DRM entirely.
Good. Apple have been getting passes from the technical community on a few things. They've earned them. But they have no competition as targets for this kind of legislation, and someone had to fire the first shot. Good for the French.
And what part of "No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law" do you think I should wait for them to violate before thinking Bush/Ashcroft bad?
The anti-druggies (not the inflatable doll's fault) dropped property from that list, and get away with it because they only do it to people they say are drug dealers.
Now Bush and Ashcroft have dropped liberty from that list, but you don't care because they only do it to people they say are terrorists.
So we should wait for them to start offing people they say are bad, before we say they're bad? Is that what you're saying?
Or do you think they're fine upstanding people who blithely violate the oaths we all saw them swear to on national television?
Or perhaps you don't think at all, period. That's perhaps the kindest way of seeing it. Want a cracker?
Interesting. I don't think these numbers will settle it either way: it's true that most of them make Darwin look, uhh, primitive, but check the bcopy results, and somebody please post who it was said ~to a first-order approximation, the kernel is bcopy~.
what exactly is the incentive to get it fixed in a timely manner?
Pride.
Not the sin, but the joy of doing a job well.
Look at it this way: every line of free software was written by someone who would rather be working on that particular piece of software than doing anything else in the world.
I don't like it when my code breaks on people. Not because the boss will yell, not because people will think I'm a screwup, but because my code screwed up. I hate it when that happens.
If it took 20 minutes last year, it's going to take 20 minutes this year because
That's true of weather simulations and such, because chaotic systems require infinite precision to model accurately.
It's not true of generating images: there are very definite limits on what the human eye can perceive. For instance, a spectrum with three spikes in fixed locations can trick us into thinking we're seeing damn near anything. We're not yet good enough at tickling electrons to fool it completely, but there's nothing saying we can't, and lots of demos that we're already close.
A whole lot of the IT spending these days is on MCSEs and VBA jockeys. I happen to agree that most of it's worthless at best: one of MS's sneakiest strategies, the way I see it, was to make software that was so overengineered and underbeta'd that it needed at least reasonable intelligence and more-than-reasonable dedication to get it running and keep it that way. God knows how many people's livelihoods now depend on MS keeping up the river of crap.
So what surprise is it that people notice?
And no, I don't think MS has a monopoly on crap. There are too many people on this planet, and not enough to do. Thus, the war on drugs and now the defense of the homeland: rice bowls for people who can show up reliably, pay attention, hold a conversation and follow orders. Same with a lot of jobs, IT not excepted.
Right. EXPENSIVE LAWYERS will tell you you need lots of legal folderol. How predictable.
They're also the ones saying you have to put "Caution: Keep Hands Away From Blades" on lawnmowers.
I think the "no warranty" could be strengthened, along the lines of "The authors warrant that this software will occupy otherwise-useful space, and is fit for that purpose." That, I guess, would preempt any "you have to have a warranty" arguments.
tell app "Finder" to tell every document file of the entire contents of the front window whose name ends with ".htm" to set its name to its name & "l"
Apple agreed long ago that user-scriptable interfaces are necessary. I can't find it in my heart to blame them for not blatting "CLI come home! All is forgiven!", but I wish they had. I've gone from dissing it to an abiding respect over the years.
Yah, it's not perfect. Far from it. But Applescript is more potent and more approachable than every shell whose name ends with "sh".
Speaking as one who can point out awful flaws in both the Applescript and sh script versions, Jim
Yah, and the real crying shame is, they all have close personal relationships with that inflated doll. But because it's the country, not aides, getting fucked, the Republican party just stays quiet. Besides, they got THEIR guy to write "The Death of Outrage", so no fair getting outraged at _them_. Hell, it's probably illegal or something. I'm probably using technical means to violate copyright protection, right here, using the book title without permission, so you probably won't hear from me any more. I expect the FBI by tomorrow noon. I probably stole more than a quarter million dollars of the American Taxpayer's money already, just in FBI salaries to hunt me down for this heinous crime. Better bend over and kiss my laptop goodbye.
In itself, that's not anti-competitive. It's unfortunate at best that the DOJ focused on this. IE is still free. If MS had begun charging for it at some point after the damage was done, then they'd be arguably guilty of predatory pricing.
Yes, I know, they seriously didn't want Netscape controlling what could be done in a browser, because Netscape was on the road to providing a consumer-friendly emacs-with-a-pretty-face, and MS scouts aren't stupid. That's hardball competition, modern style (i.e. without what barbarians would recognize as honor or pride).
If you want anti-competitive behavior, try MS's attempted sabotage on Java, or their demanding license fees on every x86-compatible computer sold even if sold with a competing OS, or most of the other behavior in the findings of fact.
But it is hard holding the line against a world which is irrationally hostile to the plaform you happen to like.
It's been that way since the Macs first came out. The MS crowd despised, very vocally, even the notion of multiple fonts, and calling them "folders", and mice, and, umm, "windows".
Microsoft threatens to do a license audit of all your PCs. You can either:
Find 50,000 license certificates spread among 15 campuses, 10,000 of which are remote laptop users, and 1,000 of those are overseas, all within the two week preparation period Microsoft gives you before the audit
Swallow the blue pill and become a 100% Microsoft shop.
3.Tell MS to take a hike. If they want to allege fraud, tell them to get a warrant.
The government team apparently had every intention of introducing the documents as part of its own case -- as the courtroom rules require -- but
botched that attempt several weeks ago by apparently misunderstanding the court's rules on the introduction of witnesses.
I'd be very interested in a complete audit of every financial transaction on these yahoos for the past decade and the rest of their lives. Screwups like that "just happening" in the trial of a company with $36BN cash? Uh huh. Maybe somebody buys that. I bet it's M$.
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You might like Blue & Grey, built on the Myth II engine. I'm not a Civil War buff, and never played the game you're talking about, but the engine I'm talking about has all your desiderata and the people who put together b&g weren't just kiddieing around.
All the same, the notion of them delivering a few metric tons of paper does get a grin. Congress haven't caught up with Stallman yet: no "preferred form" restrictions.
Two people have pointed out "AAC" refers to the wrong part of this discussion -- the audio encoding, not the DRM encoding. They're right. I know better now. Thanks.
"Free" is jargon in this context, every bit as misleading to the unwary as it is in the GPL. If I understand it properly, barriers to entry quite simply constitute corruption of a "free", as economists use the word, market. So regulations and anti-trust departments that exist to flatten those barriers are, paradoxically as it seems, not only designed but needed to ensure a free market.
Good. Apple have been getting passes from the technical community on a few things. They've earned them. But they have no competition as targets for this kind of legislation, and someone had to fire the first shot. Good for the French.
If you have a Mac, the board to get is, hands down, GoBan.
BSA: piracy costs the industry $100T/yr!!!
JVC: we gotcha covered, guaranteed!!
Heh heh heh. Heeere, kittykittykitty.
The anti-druggies (not the inflatable doll's fault) dropped property from that list, and get away with it because they only do it to people they say are drug dealers.
Now Bush and Ashcroft have dropped liberty from that list, but you don't care because they only do it to people they say are terrorists.
So we should wait for them to start offing people they say are bad, before we say they're bad? Is that what you're saying?
Or do you think they're fine upstanding people who blithely violate the oaths we all saw them swear to on national television?
Or perhaps you don't think at all, period. That's perhaps the kindest way of seeing it. Want a cracker?
Interesting. I don't think these numbers will settle it either way: it's true that most of them make Darwin look, uhh, primitive, but check the bcopy results, and somebody please post who it was said ~to a first-order approximation, the kernel is bcopy~.
Not the sin, but the joy of doing a job well.
Look at it this way: every line of free software was written by someone who would rather be working on that particular piece of software than doing anything else in the world.
I don't like it when my code breaks on people. Not because the boss will yell, not because people will think I'm a screwup, but because my code screwed up. I hate it when that happens.
It's not true of generating images: there are very definite limits on what the human eye can perceive. For instance, a spectrum with three spikes in fixed locations can trick us into thinking we're seeing damn near anything. We're not yet good enough at tickling electrons to fool it completely, but there's nothing saying we can't, and lots of demos that we're already close.
Two years sounds about right to me.
So what surprise is it that people notice?
And no, I don't think MS has a monopoly on crap. There are too many people on this planet, and not enough to do. Thus, the war on drugs and now the defense of the homeland: rice bowls for people who can show up reliably, pay attention, hold a conversation and follow orders. Same with a lot of jobs, IT not excepted.
They're also the ones saying you have to put "Caution: Keep Hands Away From Blades" on lawnmowers.
I think the "no warranty" could be strengthened, along the lines of "The authors warrant that this software will occupy otherwise-useful space, and is fit for that purpose." That, I guess, would preempt any "you have to have a warranty" arguments.
Yah, it's not perfect. Far from it. But Applescript is more potent and more approachable than every shell whose name ends with "sh".
Speaking as one who can point out awful flaws in both the Applescript and sh script versions,
Jim
"hmhmhm..."
Yah, and the real crying shame is, they all have close personal relationships with that inflated doll. But because it's the country, not aides, getting fucked, the Republican party just stays quiet. Besides, they got THEIR guy to write "The Death of Outrage", so no fair getting outraged at _them_. Hell, it's probably illegal or something. I'm probably using technical means to violate copyright protection, right here, using the book title without permission, so you probably won't hear from me any more. I expect the FBI by tomorrow noon. I probably stole more than a quarter million dollars of the American Taxpayer's money already, just in FBI salaries to hunt me down for this heinous crime. Better bend over and kiss my laptop goodbye.
Yes, I know, they seriously didn't want Netscape controlling what could be done in a browser, because Netscape was on the road to providing a consumer-friendly emacs-with-a-pretty-face, and MS scouts aren't stupid. That's hardball competition, modern style (i.e. without what barbarians would recognize as honor or pride).
If you want anti-competitive behavior, try MS's attempted sabotage on Java, or their demanding license fees on every x86-compatible computer sold even if sold with a competing OS, or most of the other behavior in the findings of fact.
3.Tell MS to take a hike. If they want to allege fraud, tell them to get a warrant.