I was just wondering something after reading the story on news.com On http://www.playmediasystems.com/clients.htm Mediaplay says that the below stated.
"Computer Scientist and PlayMedia co-founder Tomislav Uzelac invented and licensed the AMP(TM) L3d 0.7 Series Engine to a 19-year-old student and audio applications hobbyist named Justin Frankel in September of 1997."
But on http://www.playmediasystems.com/playmedia_sues_nul lsoft.htm Mediaplay stat's
"PlayMedia's lawsuit alleges that the code for AMP was written by PlayMedia principal Tomislav Uzelac and thereafter copied to create WinAmp as a derivative work. Nullsoft attempted to obtain a license to use AMP in its software early last year, the suit alleges, but an agreement was not reached."
Are there different terms to "licensed"? I Don't understand how one can stat something on one page of there yet another on another section? Will there be fallow up stores of this? Did anyone contact Nullsoft and ask them about the subject? I am a Registered Winamp user and don't wish to see such a great little company get hammered by legal costs.
Do you notice how these articles always start out by saying that linux is not for the mainstream yet, stay away and wait? Then you flip the page and there is an article "How to install linux"
Rather a good point is also implied here: Isn't Stallman's positon that look-and-feel is also a tool of the Great Satan? If Stallman isn't making the same class of claim here, then I do not understand what he is saying. How odd that he's saying that if it is his ox-- or vision of 'Nix-- that's gored, then what he has previously called evil is actually OK.
Hypocrisy, any one?
And so far as I can tell, ADM Hopper was the proponent of developing a more symbolic language; not exactly the mother of the genre, but very close.
Intel is obviously hitting a brick wall with their legacy CISC technology. MERCED has been delayed once again, and their Pentium III is no better than the PII with some tweaks.
So what do they do? Steal from others, of course. Intel has learned lessons from Microsoft very well - "Money talks, and competition be damned. If we can't make it ourselves we will just buy out their engineer talent."
If you were hoping for a rather more insightful and in-depth review of the philosophical differences of RMS, Torvalds, et al., then I offer you my essay on Philosophies of Free Software and Intellectual Property (69KB), which examines a broad range of philosophical approaches to free software and intellectual property (without heavily advocating any of them).
Here's why (I believe I found this at junkbuster.org): In order to get rid of junk mail, this guy set himself up a "company" (just filed the papers and forms, but didn't hire anyone) called something like "Ad Effectiveness 'R Us". When he'd get junk mail from people he'd send them back a letter saying "This is your free trial evaluation: I've reviewed your ad and found it to be somewhat effective. Further evaluations will be invoiced at $500/item. Receipt of further items by me will be taken as acknoledgement that you want a non-free eval."
Anyway, you see my point. The junk mailer doesn't have to specifically acknowledge the deal, they just have to have been notified that any future behavior will be interpreted as acknowledgement.
Yeah! I can play a mean game of Karateka...I think I still have that 5 1/4 floppy here somewhere.
What about the TI99/4A in all it's brushed stainless steel glory. That was actually the first one I owned. I know it wasn't the best, but I must've had a hundred cassette tapes with my little basic programs on there. hahaha
Let's bring back cassette tape storage!
---- "Wars, conflict, it's all business. One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero. Numbers sanctify."
I myself check Voodoo Extreme and Everquest Stratics quite often (http://www.voodooextreme.com and http://eqss.stratics.com/). Also, stock quotes would be great.
At max output, a neuron fires roughly every 300 ms. Mind you, a whole bundle of neurons can fire at a much faster rate. Also, it is thought that the frequency of a neuron's firing contains the information, not a single pulse.
Note: you'll need some real horsepower to view the fast bitrate RealVideos of the 480x216 version smoothly. My Pentium 200MMX and PowerbookG3 (250) weren't enough, but my dual PII 400Mhz was...
colin olkowski http://www.thecosmos.com MP3 Music Share
This man obviously has no idea what he's talking about. Broadcast.com gets $100 from an IPO and all their competitive intellegence can come up with is that, "No one has the economic incentive to keep it (MP3) alive"?
Broadcast.com seems to be in the RIAA's back pocket, and I'm sure none of their clients have requested MP3 encoding. They're scared to death of it. The RIAA and the major Labels are so far behind the curve it seems that they can only resort to making controversial statements like "Mp3 is dead".
Man, it's like some people never took combinatorics...
First, the question is "how long can a domain name be?". I don't know the answer, but I'm going to guess around 25. Next we ask "how many characters are available for use in a domain name". Alpha/Numeric/SomePunc gives ~40.
So we have 40 C 25 (40 choose 25). We have no stricture on uniqueness (can't I name my domain "rrrrrrrrrrrr.com"?) so this is 40^25 (40 possibilities in each of 25 locations). Now add to that the fact that we can be in one of about 10 different TLDs and we get 10*(40^25).
Slashdot Mirror
Posted by Doctor P:
Me being from the Banana Republic and our currency being in small marble sized balls. So we call them ball sacks. hehehe
Posted by oliverc:
l lsoft.htm Mediaplay stat's
I was just wondering something after reading the story on news.com
On http://www.playmediasystems.com/clients.htm Mediaplay says that the below stated.
"Computer Scientist and PlayMedia co-founder Tomislav Uzelac invented and licensed the AMP(TM) L3d 0.7 Series Engine to a 19-year-old student and audio applications hobbyist named Justin Frankel in September of 1997."
But on http://www.playmediasystems.com/playmedia_sues_nu
"PlayMedia's lawsuit alleges that the code for AMP was written by PlayMedia principal Tomislav Uzelac and thereafter copied to create WinAmp as a derivative work. Nullsoft attempted to obtain a license to use AMP in its software early last year, the suit alleges, but an agreement was not reached."
Are there different terms to "licensed"? I Don't understand how one can stat something on one page of there yet another on another section? Will there be fallow up stores of this? Did anyone contact Nullsoft and ask them about the subject? I am a Registered Winamp user and don't wish to see such a great little company get hammered by legal costs.
Posted by Mr. Assembly:
Do you notice how these articles always start out by saying that linux is not for the mainstream yet, stay away and wait? Then you flip the page and there is an article "How to install linux"
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
You made two errors:
1) Elementary error: Domain names can be more than alphanumeric. There's a few punctuation marks thrown in, like hyphens.
2) As noted in another comment, you forgot to include domain names that are less than 26 characters long.
Posted by DrDrieux:
Rather a good point is also implied here: Isn't Stallman's positon that look-and-feel is also a tool of the Great Satan? If Stallman isn't making the same class of claim here, then I do not understand what he is saying. How odd that he's saying that if it is his ox-- or vision of 'Nix-- that's gored, then what he has previously called evil is actually OK.
Hypocrisy, any one?
And so far as I can tell, ADM Hopper was the proponent of developing a more symbolic language; not exactly the mother of the genre, but very close.
Cheers,
Drieux
Posted by US Marine:
Intel is obviously hitting a brick wall with their legacy CISC technology. MERCED has been delayed once again, and their Pentium III is no better than the PII with some tweaks.
So what do they do? Steal from others, of course. Intel has learned lessons from Microsoft very well - "Money talks, and competition be damned. If we can't make it ourselves we will just buy out their engineer talent."
If you were hoping for a rather more insightful and in-depth review of the philosophical differences of RMS, Torvalds, et al., then I offer you my essay on Philosophies of Free Software and Intellectual Property (69KB), which examines a broad range of philosophical approaches to free software and intellectual property (without heavily advocating any of them).
The Famous Brett Watson, famous at nutters org
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
I don't think you need written ack.
Here's why (I believe I found this at junkbuster.org): In order to get rid of junk mail, this guy set himself up a "company" (just filed the papers and forms, but didn't hire anyone) called something like "Ad Effectiveness 'R Us". When he'd get junk mail from people he'd send them back a letter saying "This is your free trial evaluation: I've reviewed your ad and found it to be somewhat effective. Further evaluations will be invoiced at $500/item. Receipt of further items by me will be taken as acknoledgement that you want a non-free eval."
Anyway, you see my point. The junk mailer doesn't have to specifically acknowledge the deal, they just have to have been notified that any future behavior will be interpreted as acknowledgement.
Posted by The Incredible Mr. Limpett:
Yeah! I can play a mean game of Karateka...I think I still have that 5 1/4 floppy here somewhere.
What about the TI99/4A in all it's brushed stainless steel glory. That was actually the first one I owned. I know it wasn't the best, but I must've had a hundred cassette tapes with my little basic programs on there. hahaha
Let's bring back cassette tape storage!
----
"Wars, conflict, it's all business. One murder makes a
villain. Millions a hero. Numbers sanctify."
Posted by The guy in the next cubicle:
Actually, Finland *was* once occupied by the USSR, which would make it a one-time Communist country.
Posted by Akira410:
Rofl, I wanted www.dot.com for a while to. Looks like its taken. Oh pooty. Or at least i think it is. Im too tired to check. heh
Posted by Akira410:
John,
Sounds like a great idea! Would like to help me with the implementation of the new slashdotcolon protocol? I would love your assistance =)
heheheheh
*chuckle*
R.
Posted by bckslash:
I myself check Voodoo Extreme and Everquest Stratics quite often (http://www.voodooextreme.com and http://eqss.stratics.com/). Also, stock quotes would be great.
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
What's wrong with the current name?
Posted by Phantom of the Operating Syste:
At max output, a neuron fires roughly every
300 ms. Mind you, a whole bundle of neurons can fire at a much faster rate. Also, it is thought that the frequency of a neuron's firing contains the information, not a single pulse.
I have put up RealVideo 5.0 and the MPEG version (as well as the Quicktimes) at:
http://solo.gatech.edu/
Note: you'll need some real horsepower to view the fast bitrate RealVideos of the 480x216 version smoothly. My Pentium 200MMX and PowerbookG3 (250) weren't enough, but my dual PII 400Mhz was...
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
The only FTP site I could find had a version number of 0.1.17--that can't be right. Where's the latest?
Posted by frodo_bag:
colin olkowski
http://www.thecosmos.com
MP3 Music Share
This man obviously has no idea what he's talking about. Broadcast.com gets $100 from an IPO and all their competitive intellegence can come up with is that, "No one has the economic incentive to keep it (MP3) alive"?
Broadcast.com seems to be in the RIAA's back pocket, and I'm sure none of their clients have requested MP3 encoding. They're scared to death of it. The RIAA and the major Labels are so far behind the curve it seems that they can only resort to making controversial statements like "Mp3 is dead".
Posted by Akira410:
Heh, How much worse can we get?
http://slashdot.dot
ach tee tee pee colon slash slash slash dot dot dot
Heh. Poor guy. Rofl.. Try to tell it to someone over the phone:
http:///...
eheh
Posted by Wayne Steele:
I'm all for open standards. Tell me how BeOS not being open source prevents it from following open standards?
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
...at least the last time I tried to use them about 3 months ago.
A lot of the basic properties are there, but there's very little in the way of tutorials on higher level stuff.
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
It's "EUNUCHS".
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
Could you please explain how Linux continues to flourish then?
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
Man, it's like some people never took combinatorics...
First, the question is "how long can a domain name be?". I don't know the answer, but I'm going to guess around 25. Next we ask "how many characters are available for use in a domain name". Alpha/Numeric/SomePunc gives ~40.
So we have 40 C 25 (40 choose 25). We have no stricture on uniqueness (can't I name my domain "rrrrrrrrrrrr.com"?) so this is 40^25 (40 possibilities in each of 25 locations). Now add to that the fact that we can be in one of about 10 different TLDs and we get 10*(40^25).
This is about 1.125899906843e+41.
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
How do you get to be a root DNS server owner?