Bullshit. First of all, the GPL (in this case) covers development using someone else's source code. You want to compare this to MS, show me MS's version of the license... I'm sure that it's WAY more complex than the GPL.
Please, don't spread anit-MS FUD.
Please, don't spread anti-Linux FUD.
It *doesn't* beat MS on ease-of-end-userness ease-of-making-money-with.
How, exactly, is this relevant to your point? Are you claiming that the GPL impacts ease of use, or ease of development? It does neither of these things; it simply spells out the conditions you must abide by if you want to distribute software based on someone else's (GPL'ed) code.
I have fond memories of waking up on the keyboard from a long night of playing Omega.
Me too.. Omega is the only single game that I ever bought 3 times.. (once for my C64, once for my Amiga, and I recently picked up a copy from a flea market to run under DosEMU..)
If I recall correctly, you had to actually buy all the components of your tanks (including the option of a CPU upgrade), and could then field teams of tanks.
Sort of.. as your tank AI progressed, you were given larger and larger budgets with which to outfit your tanks.. although it only affected the construction of the tank - you could have up to 8 tanks in a simulation (battle), and there was no limit on how much they cost..
I don't recall that the tanks could actually talk to one another though.
Yes, they could, if you outfitted them with a com-link, they could transmit and recieve numeric codes (1-99).. of course, what you did with the codes was entirely up to you:o)
A more interesting game, IMHO was SSI's Omega.. you build the tanks in addition to simply programming them; (so there are trade-offs, where different weapons fire at different speeds, and do different damages.)
There's also much more depth, because the tanks have to find each other, instead of being placed in a simple 'arena'..
until they make one w/ some serious power, 4wd and some serious ground clearance. I'm sticking w/ what I have
read the article..
Because they're starting from scratch, they're not encumbered by limitations of the traditional auto: they put a separate motor into each wheel, which 'one-ups' conventional 4x4 - there's no differential or axle to limit the ground clearance.
With the number of customers Earthlink has, can you really expect them to always keep *every* user with an open-relay off of their network?
Yes, absolutely.
Even if they hired whole teams of people just to perform that one task, new people with open-relays would subscribe faster than they could discover them.
Try this: "With the number of customers Earthlink has, can you really expect the to maintain a helpdesk that can answer the question of *every* user that has a problem?"
Keeping your network secure is part of being an ISP. If they have that many users, then they'll be making enough money to hire people to keep the network secure.
perhaps everyone forgot how to use their computers in the dark ages
Makes sense to me.. it's a commonly known fact that the fall of the Roman Empire (which preceeded the Dark Ages) is directly attributable to the fact that they had no number "zero", and hence couldn't signal the success of their C programs.
All I can remember that in those days we looked at NTP (or maybe it was NNTP??)... All we needed was a simple way to keep system clocks in line, with an accuracy of a few tenths of a second.
Ahem.. you were going to use usenet posts to synchronize your system time?!?!?!
Bwahahahahah...
(wipes tear from eye) *sigh*, that was a good one - To quote FreeLinux, 'To quote Dr. Evil, "Riiiight...".'
Just like X, different strengths and weaknesses...
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Just like the rest of X, Unix fonts have different strengths and weaknesses over Windows.
Here's something to demonstrate the strength of X's font system, while at the same time one of the primary weakness of Windows'.
You have 40 workstations; half run Windows, half run X. You have to install some new fonts - 5 or 6 hundred or so... To do this on windows, you walk to each workstation, insert the CD, copy the fonts, the
On Unix, you walk over to your FONT SERVER, copy the fonts, then type "killall -HUP xfstt"... and all of a sudden, every X workstation has access to the fonts!
If you're administering a lot of machines, X's font system rocks.
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no-one ever complained that you have to recompile your whole kernel with the new hardware support
Maybe they've never complained because it's not true?
If the driver is written correctly (as is everything I've ever tried), and your kernel supports modules (which is every distro I've ever seen) then you _don't_ have to recompile your kernel, you compile the module, do a depmod -a, and modprobe.
The worst you get with Aspartame is headaches and possibly brain tumors.
Yeah, what's he complaining about? Brain tumors aren't so bad..
(Back to reality, now).. one of the great things about (regular) Coke is that it's sweetened with Corn Syrup, which just happens to be almost pure glucose..
Of what importance is this? Simple: Glucose is the brain's primary source of fuel! Research shows that the brain "burns" glucose when you think... so to keep your brain in the best working order, you need a steady supply of it!
Regular Coke has at least one redeeming feature, whereas the diet stuff has none.
Many religions take the bible, the ideas of Jesus, and twist them, Krishnas and Jehovas witnesses for example
Don't forget the Catholics... they're just as bad as JW and Krishnas, and there are more of them!
Seriously, if you believe any major (or even minor) religion hasn't taken liberties with religious texts, then you're naieve in the extreme. If you believe that Catholics are 'above' the other religions in this regard, try doing some (non-Church-supported) reading about the Council of Nicea (you know, the guys who edited the bible and the 'ideas of Jesus' that get accepted as doctrine today)
1. She wouldn't have a career at all if it weren't for the exposure she got
But her point is that NOBODY needs the record companies any more. Or are you suggesting that because the record companies made someone famous (and made 100x the money their 'stars' did), that they should be immune from the laws of economics?
2. The major labels are being facile if they ever pretend to care what happens to the Janis Ians of the world. Those are the artists they're losing money on.
You missed the biggest point of the article: the record companies are not losing money on her or any other artist. The recording contracts are set up so that the only way a record company will lose money on someone, is if the artist stops recording, declares bankruptcy (or dies), and nobody every buys any of their material.
In any other case, the record company can't lose money, because the artist's contract says that they must pay back every expense the record company incurs.
But neo is all powerful inside, right? Well, that pretty much has to change for there to be anything interesting happening.
No, he isn't.
He may be invulnerable to anything within the Matrix, but that's a far cry from being all powerful. He can't create (or restore) life, and is probably not omniscient. So anyone inside with him (including people who can't leave - like the Oracle) would be vulnerable.
There are other ways that he's vulnerable as well (see below)
my prediction is, right at the beginning of the movie, we're going to find out that the machines have changed something about the matrix that takes away some (but not all) of neo and company's power
Not necessarily - think of the Matrix as an OS, with the people and agents as apps, which interface with the OS via an API. Neo is special because he's not bound by the API - he can bang on the hardware directly... so all that's needed to create tension is an agent that has the same bit-banging privelidges too... (from what I've read, this is going to be part of the storyline..)..
think about it: if a cracker and sysadmin both have root on a system, would the sysadmin change the definition of 'root', or would he try to subvert the cracker using existing privelidges? (Assuming he couldn't just disconnect the box from the network and reinstall.. which might be what happens in "reloaded":o)
While it may be possible they will "limit" Neo's power, it's not a requirement - and it would certainly piss off a lot of the people who are going to see it because they want to see Neo kick ass.
Forcing everyone to use DRM will stifle innovation as it limits the uses of the music
This doesn't even scratch the surface.
Forcing everyone to use DRM will eliminate innovation, because nobody except big business will be able to create anything.
The logic goes like this: 1. Everyone is forced to use DRM 2. DRM only works if content is signed 3. "hackers" can remove signatures, so therefore 4. everything that's not signed is pirated.
If you make a recording studio in your basement, and record a song, you will be unable to distribute your own work without (a) signing over copyright to a big studio, or (b) paying huge$$$ to a DRM company for your own cert. Either way, you lose, and your competition (the big labels) win.
I own and use Lightwave and I agree, the interface takes some getting used to.
Interesting, because I've owned and used many rendering programs, including Sculpt-Animate 4D, Caligari, Imagine, C-light, and Lightwave, and I've found that Lightwave's interface was both the easiest to learn, and one of the most powerful.. (and no, Lightwave was not the first one I used.)
I found Caligari (now Truespace) to be the hardest to learn and use, even with the instructional video that came with it.
Does anyone know what the Canadian stance is on the DeCSS issue?
As of right now, there is nothing "official" about it.
The Canadian Copyright board is considering legislation similar to the DMCA, and (for the past year, give or take) has issued a request for public comments, and held public hearings about what should or shouldn't be included in such legislation.
I attented the last day of hearings, held in Edmonton, and I must say that things looked hopeful. There was one guy, who owned a publishing house, who was pro-playback protection, and everyone else (approx 50 or so, including a police officer, teachers, librarians, and even the president of a crypto company) was opposed.
How many hours of watching does that collectors edition get? Most people watch a movie 3 maybe 4 times tops. Add in a watch of the 4 hours of extras and that's 20 hours total.
How many times do you listen to an album? I've listened to some of mine over a thousand.
I'm sorry, are you implying that the amount of use I get out of a product changes how much it costs the manufacturer to produce it?
Do you believe that the CD or DVD is actually a script or sheet music, and that there are little people inside your DVD or CD player that read the script? That would be about the only logical assumption I can come up with to support your theory..
To give you the benefit of the doubt, my sister used to believe that too..
The music industry isn't worried about illegal copying for the current market conditions - they're concerned about the future.
This is 100% true.. but it's WHY they're worried that's the problem.
Up until the recent past (say, 5 years ago), the music labels were the only way to reach a national (or even international) audience... if you wanted to become famous, you needed them.
With the advent of the Internet, that's no longer the case - any musician in the world can get international exposure without needing a record label... it's slowly starting now, but in the future, there will be NO need for a record label at all..
RIAA members are worried about the future, because they realize that they've become obsolete. It's about control, not copyright infringement.
First of all, it wasn't a hard disk, it was a floppy disk.
Second of all, the tape was _MUCH_ slower than the 1541... if you bypassed the OS routines for loading and saving, and writing your own (getting rid of most of the error correction), you could squeeze stock-1541-like performance out of the C64's tape drive (at the expense of tape reliability - tapes stretch and wear out pretty quickly)..
However, with the addition of fast-load software to the 1541, you could boost the speed of a 1541 to much higher than the fastest tape.. not to mention that this worked fine both for both old disks AND new disks (ie. you're still using the old format, so you don't need to re-save everying to get the speed increase)...
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GPL: "Your software is our software
Bullshit. First of all, the GPL (in this case) covers development using someone else's source code. You want to compare this to MS, show me MS's version of the license... I'm sure that it's WAY more complex than the GPL.
Please, don't spread anit-MS FUD.
Please, don't spread anti-Linux FUD.
It *doesn't* beat MS on ease-of-end-userness ease-of-making-money-with.
How, exactly, is this relevant to your point? Are you claiming that the GPL impacts ease of use, or ease of development? It does neither of these things; it simply spells out the conditions you must abide by if you want to distribute software based on someone else's (GPL'ed) code.
I have fond memories of waking up on the keyboard from a long night of playing Omega.
:o)
Me too.. Omega is the only single game that I ever bought 3 times.. (once for my C64, once for my Amiga, and I recently picked up a copy from a flea market to run under DosEMU..)
If I recall correctly, you had to actually buy all the components of your tanks (including the option of a CPU upgrade), and could then field teams of tanks.
Sort of.. as your tank AI progressed, you were given larger and larger budgets with which to outfit your tanks.. although it only affected the construction of the tank - you could have up to 8 tanks in a simulation (battle), and there was no limit on how much they cost..
I don't recall that the tanks could actually talk to one another though.
Yes, they could, if you outfitted them with a com-link, they could transmit and recieve numeric codes (1-99).. of course, what you did with the codes was entirely up to you
I found Robocode to be pretty boring, actually..
A more interesting game, IMHO was SSI's Omega.. you build the tanks in addition to simply programming them; (so there are trade-offs, where different weapons fire at different speeds, and do different damages.)
There's also much more depth, because the tanks have to find each other, instead of being placed in a simple 'arena'..
RTFA
Fuel cells all require platinum.
No, current fuel cells require platinum. This is why GM is researching new methods, instead of using current models of fuel cell.
Read the article, this point is addressed.
Female circumcision is along similar lines as this. Turns intercourse into a purely reproductive process.
I'm sorry, but WHAT!?!?!?!
Maybe it turns it into a purely reproductive process for the woman, but it's still pleasurable for the man.
Female circumcision is about nothing other than female subjugation.
until they make one w/ some serious power, 4wd and some serious ground clearance. I'm sticking w/ what I have
read the article..
Because they're starting from scratch, they're not encumbered by limitations of the traditional auto: they put a separate motor into each wheel, which 'one-ups' conventional 4x4 - there's no differential or axle to limit the ground clearance.
Seriously, go read the article..
Despite much funding from nestle:
Choctonium:
Atomic Number: 118
Atomic Weight: Delicious
Actually, that was Oscar-Meyer; The element with the atomic weight of "Delicious" was Bolognium.
With the number of customers Earthlink has, can you really expect them to always keep *every* user with an open-relay off of their network?
Yes, absolutely.
Even if they hired whole teams of people just to perform that one task, new people with open-relays would subscribe faster than they could discover them.
Try this: "With the number of customers Earthlink has, can you really expect the to maintain a helpdesk that can answer the question of *every* user that has a problem?"
Keeping your network secure is part of being an ISP. If they have that many users, then they'll be making enough money to hire people to keep the network secure.
perhaps everyone forgot how to use their computers in the dark ages
Makes sense to me.. it's a commonly known fact that the fall of the Roman Empire (which preceeded the Dark Ages) is directly attributable to the fact that they had no number "zero", and hence couldn't signal the success of their C programs.
All I can remember that in those days we looked at NTP (or maybe it was NNTP??)... All we needed was a simple way to keep system clocks in line, with an accuracy of a few tenths of a second.
Ahem.. you were going to use usenet posts to synchronize your system time?!?!?!
Bwahahahahah...
(wipes tear from eye)
*sigh*, that was a good one - To quote FreeLinux, 'To quote Dr. Evil, "Riiiight...".'
Just like the rest of X, Unix fonts have different strengths and weaknesses over Windows.
... and all of a sudden, every X workstation has access to the fonts!
Here's something to demonstrate the strength of X's font system, while at the same time one of the primary weakness of Windows'.
You have 40 workstations; half run Windows, half run X. You have to install some new fonts - 5 or 6 hundred or so... To do this on windows, you walk to each workstation, insert the CD, copy the fonts, the
On Unix, you walk over to your FONT SERVER, copy the fonts, then type "killall -HUP xfstt"
If you're administering a lot of machines, X's font system rocks.
no-one ever complained that you have to recompile your whole kernel with the new hardware support
Maybe they've never complained because it's not true?
If the driver is written correctly (as is everything I've ever tried), and your kernel supports modules (which is every distro I've ever seen) then you _don't_ have to recompile your kernel, you compile the module, do a depmod -a, and modprobe.
The worst you get with Aspartame is headaches and possibly brain tumors.
Yeah, what's he complaining about? Brain tumors aren't so bad..
(Back to reality, now).. one of the great things about (regular) Coke is that it's sweetened with Corn Syrup, which just happens to be almost pure glucose..
Of what importance is this? Simple: Glucose is the brain's primary source of fuel! Research shows that the brain "burns" glucose when you think... so to keep your brain in the best working order, you need a steady supply of it!
Regular Coke has at least one redeeming feature, whereas the diet stuff has none.
Many religions take the bible, the ideas of Jesus, and twist them, Krishnas and Jehovas witnesses for example
Don't forget the Catholics... they're just as bad as JW and Krishnas, and there are more of them!
Seriously, if you believe any major (or even minor) religion hasn't taken liberties with religious texts, then you're naieve in the extreme. If you believe that Catholics are 'above' the other religions in this regard, try doing some (non-Church-supported) reading about the Council of Nicea (you know, the guys who edited the bible and the 'ideas of Jesus' that get accepted as doctrine today)
Of course, I probably just fed a troll..
1. She wouldn't have a career at all if it weren't for the exposure she got
But her point is that NOBODY needs the record companies any more. Or are you suggesting that because the record companies made someone famous (and made 100x the money their 'stars' did), that they should be immune from the laws of economics?
2. The major labels are being facile if they ever pretend to care what happens to the Janis Ians of the world. Those are the artists they're losing money on.
You missed the biggest point of the article: the record companies are not losing money on her or any other artist. The recording contracts are set up so that the only way a record company will lose money on someone, is if the artist stops recording, declares bankruptcy (or dies), and nobody every buys any of their material.
In any other case, the record company can't lose money, because the artist's contract says that they must pay back every expense the record company incurs.
'A.I.' was probably the worst f-cking movie I've seen in my entire life.
Then you need to go spend some money at Blockbuster.. For starters, I recommend such (ahem) classics as Tammy and the T-Rex.
Granted, I've not seen AI (and I'm not likely to, until it's played on TV), but "Tammy and the T-Rex" sets a whole new standard for "bad".
But neo is all powerful inside, right? Well, that pretty much has to change for there to be anything interesting happening.
:o)
No, he isn't.
He may be invulnerable to anything within the Matrix, but that's a far cry from being all powerful. He can't create (or restore) life, and is probably not omniscient. So anyone inside with him (including people who can't leave - like the Oracle) would be vulnerable.
There are other ways that he's vulnerable as well (see below)
my prediction is, right at the beginning of the movie, we're going to find out that the machines have changed something about the matrix that takes away some (but not all) of neo and company's power
Not necessarily - think of the Matrix as an OS, with the people and agents as apps, which interface with the OS via an API. Neo is special because he's not bound by the API - he can bang on the hardware directly... so all that's needed to create tension is an agent that has the same bit-banging privelidges too... (from what I've read, this is going to be part of the storyline..)..
think about it: if a cracker and sysadmin both have root on a system, would the sysadmin change the definition of 'root', or would he try to subvert the cracker using existing privelidges? (Assuming he couldn't just disconnect the box from the network and reinstall.. which might be what happens in "reloaded"
While it may be possible they will "limit" Neo's power, it's not a requirement - and it would certainly piss off a lot of the people who are going to see it because they want to see Neo kick ass.
Forcing everyone to use DRM will stifle innovation as it limits the uses of the music
This doesn't even scratch the surface.
Forcing everyone to use DRM will eliminate innovation, because nobody except big business will be able to create anything.
The logic goes like this:
1. Everyone is forced to use DRM
2. DRM only works if content is signed
3. "hackers" can remove signatures, so therefore
4. everything that's not signed is pirated.
If you make a recording studio in your basement, and record a song, you will be unable to distribute your own work without (a) signing over copyright to a big studio, or (b) paying huge$$$ to a DRM company for your own cert. Either way, you lose, and your competition (the big labels) win.
Mc Donalds recently replaced the chicken burger by an artificial silicon-based meat substitute.
Recently?!?! I thought they've been doing it all along - it's called the "Bic Mac"
I own and use Lightwave and I agree, the interface takes some getting used to.
Interesting, because I've owned and used many rendering programs, including Sculpt-Animate 4D, Caligari, Imagine, C-light, and Lightwave, and I've found that Lightwave's interface was both the easiest to learn, and one of the most powerful.. (and no, Lightwave was not the first one I used.)
I found Caligari (now Truespace) to be the hardest to learn and use, even with the instructional video that came with it.
Does anyone know what the Canadian stance is on the DeCSS issue?
As of right now, there is nothing "official" about it.
The Canadian Copyright board is considering legislation similar to the DMCA, and (for the past year, give or take) has issued a request for public comments, and held public hearings about what should or shouldn't be included in such legislation.
The RFC elicted over 600 comments, all of which were published at http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/rp00007e.html. A (very informative) summary of these responses is available at http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/rp00842e.html (Interesting to note that our government considers copyright infringement and "piracy" to be two different things.)
I attented the last day of hearings, held in Edmonton, and I must say that things looked hopeful. There was one guy, who owned a publishing house, who was pro-playback protection, and everyone else (approx 50 or so, including a police officer, teachers, librarians, and even the president of a crypto company) was opposed.
I'm not in the USA and 911 works just dandy here.
Yeah, when in the Philippines, 911 "works" great too...
Only thing is, they answer the phone "Hello, Pizza Hut."
How many hours of watching does that collectors edition get? Most people watch a movie 3 maybe 4 times tops. Add in a watch of the 4 hours of extras and that's 20 hours total.
How many times do you listen to an album? I've listened to some of mine over a thousand.
I'm sorry, are you implying that the amount of use I get out of a product changes how much it costs the manufacturer to produce it?
Do you believe that the CD or DVD is actually a script or sheet music, and that there are little people inside your DVD or CD player that read the script? That would be about the only logical assumption I can come up with to support your theory..
To give you the benefit of the doubt, my sister used to believe that too..
Then she turned 4.
The music industry isn't worried about illegal copying for the current market conditions - they're concerned about the future.
This is 100% true.. but it's WHY they're worried that's the problem.
Up until the recent past (say, 5 years ago), the music labels were the only way to reach a national (or even international) audience... if you wanted to become famous, you needed them.
With the advent of the Internet, that's no longer the case - any musician in the world can get international exposure without needing a record label... it's slowly starting now, but in the future, there will be NO need for a record label at all..
RIAA members are worried about the future, because they realize that they've become obsolete. It's about control, not copyright infringement.
the tape was faster than the hard disk on the C64
First of all, it wasn't a hard disk, it was a floppy disk.
Second of all, the tape was _MUCH_ slower than the 1541... if you bypassed the OS routines for loading and saving, and writing your own (getting rid of most of the error correction), you could squeeze stock-1541-like performance out of the C64's tape drive (at the expense of tape reliability - tapes stretch and wear out pretty quickly)..
However, with the addition of fast-load software to the 1541, you could boost the speed of a 1541 to much higher than the fastest tape.. not to mention that this worked fine both for both old disks AND new disks (ie. you're still using the old format, so you don't need to re-save everying to get the speed increase)...