I don't know about Windows, but good old dos certainly had some good virii! Ping-Pong and Cascade definitly improved the "look and feel" of the command line (Not to mention my wordperfect 4.2 files)
In memory of Douglas Adams, I would think that the difference in the decay rate, measured in some universal time measure (ie not based on the rotational speed of some utterly insignificant planet circling an unregarded yellow star in the unfashionable western spiral arm of this galaxy)
is 42.
That would make The Question something like....
ow damn, now the universe has been replaced by something even more bizarre, and we'll have to start measuring everything all over again!
This may have been asked or said before, but has the MPAA (or whoever devised CSS) patented it (and it's descrambler obviously?) What if they had? In that case DeCSS would be in violation of patent law, and it might be a very different situation.
Of course, they'd have to make the algorithme public, but that doesn't matter, it already is (now)
Flying 32 miles high is not quite getting into space. That's about the altitude of the ozone layer IIRC.
Too bad for the guy, he's going to kill himself trying to not reach space. Why not just go for the extra 150 miles or so, and pass some satelites? Or crash into them, that would be a cool way to die.
Notice how the first time they were trying to do it with a bubble of vacuum, instead of a bubble of gas. I guess that just didn't work right. -------------------------------------
"The leading documented cause of death among Right Whales is being struck by boats . .."
This might be because nearly every whale being struck by a boat is going to be noticed by the people on that boat. So probably their going to write some entry in their ships log saying:
5-7-2001 : rather noisy encounter with large seamammal. Made excelent dinner.
A whale dying of some other cause, say second hand smoking, might just sink to the bottom or float around until it rots away.
I can imagine horsebreeders and other people in the "horse industry" were not particularly happy about the first cars, which suddenly appeared on "their" roads. Horses became largely obsolete for transportation. Likewise, the part of the music industry involved in the fysical distribution is just going to become obsolete. This happens. Too bad for those involved, but things change as technology advances.
What if the RIAA was representing horsebreeders at the beginning of last century? Would they be filing suits against Ford, for disturbing horses on the road with noise and fumes, claiming the cars steal resources from the horses?
Of course the situation is not quite the same, but I wonder why the music industry should be any different from any other obsoleted industry. -------------------------------------
Slashdot Mirror
that should be this link for divx info.
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Hey I just managed to use gnutella for a legitimate cause for the first time!
Just searching for "joke txt" gave me about 1000 jokes in 5 minutes.
Ow wait, these jokes might be copyrighted, get rid of them!
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Actually there was an article on /. about this some time ago : http://slashdot.org/articles/01/03/30/146227.shtml
seems like that answers your question.
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I don't know about Windows, but good old dos certainly had some good virii! Ping-Pong and Cascade definitly improved the "look and feel" of the command line (Not to mention my wordperfect 4.2 files)
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In memory of Douglas Adams, I would think that the difference in the decay rate, measured in some universal time measure (ie not based on the rotational speed of some utterly insignificant planet circling an unregarded yellow star in the unfashionable western spiral arm of this galaxy) is 42.
That would make The Question something like....
ow damn, now the universe has been replaced by something even more bizarre, and we'll have to start measuring everything all over again!
Sorry, couldn't help myself there.
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This may have been asked or said before, but has the MPAA (or whoever devised CSS) patented it (and it's descrambler obviously?) What if they had? In that case DeCSS would be in violation of patent law, and it might be a very different situation.
Of course, they'd have to make the algorithme public, but that doesn't matter, it already is (now)
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All it proves is that intelligence is not the primary success factor for reproduction.
(That explains a lot, doesn't it.)
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Flying 32 miles high is not quite getting into space. That's about the altitude of the ozone layer IIRC.
Too bad for the guy, he's going to kill himself trying to not reach space. Why not just go for the extra 150 miles or so, and pass some satelites? Or crash into them, that would be a cool way to die.
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Notice how the first time they were trying to do it with a bubble of vacuum, instead of a bubble of gas. I guess that just didn't work right.
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"The leading documented cause of death among Right Whales is being struck by boats . . ."
This might be because nearly every whale being struck by a boat is going to be noticed by the people on that boat. So probably their going to write some entry in their ships log saying :
5-7-2001 : rather noisy encounter with large seamammal. Made excelent dinner.
A whale dying of some other cause, say second hand smoking, might just sink to the bottom or float around until it rots away.
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I can imagine horsebreeders and other people in the "horse industry" were not particularly happy about the first cars, which suddenly appeared on "their" roads. Horses became largely obsolete for transportation. Likewise, the part of the music industry involved in the fysical distribution is just going to become obsolete. This happens. Too bad for those involved, but things change as technology advances. What if the RIAA was representing horsebreeders at the beginning of last century? Would they be filing suits against Ford, for disturbing horses on the road with noise and fumes, claiming the cars steal resources from the horses? Of course the situation is not quite the same, but I wonder why the music industry should be any different from any other obsoleted industry.
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