Unfortunately this won't work, since the Free Software Foundation use free (as in the GPL) to refer to many licenses of which most are unrelated to GNU. Nice try, though.
Although it does still make financing a problem, unless investors can be convinced that profits can be generated even if the "estate" isn't "real."
No problem. We just need to set up the South Mars Company (mission statement: "to be a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage on Mars, but nobody to know what it is"), and watch the cash roll in.
I asked if they were looking to porting to Linux and their response was that they were not because they were risk averse.... I ended up not getting the position.
That's probably because you frightened them by mentioning the lawsuit-encumbered Linux. You should have suggested porting to FreeBSD - I'm sure SCO would never dream of attacking... oh, wait a minute...
the FBI will bust in your door and cart you off to Guantanamo.
Now, now, we all know Guantanamo Bay is only for foreigners. Americans go to decent American jails. Still unpleasant, but at least you'll have access to a lawyer.
SCO's beef with the GPL is the same as Microsoft's. It is its so-called "viral" nature. That is, if your software incorporates any code which is GPLed, your software must also be released under a GPL-compatible license.
SCO's argument, as I understand it, is that US copyright law states that you cannot lose control of your work by accident. The GPL states that you cannot revoke the rights it grants: any code which has ever been released under the GPL must always be available under the GPL. SCO are suing IBM for GPLing code SCO claim is theirs, but SCO have also distributed Linux, implicitly accepting the GPL license on the kernel, and therefore implicitly GPLing their code. So if the GPL stands, they have lost the case already. You must have read that argument a thousand times on Slashdot and Groklaw.
So they say: we did not knowingly GPL our IP, so, under US copyright law, it cannot be subject to the GPL, which requires us to relinquish rights we have not agreed to relinquish. Since US copyright law disagrees with the GPL, the GPL violates the law.
Is this true or false? IANAL, so I can't answer that one. But it certainly isn't as cut and dried as you make it sound.
I can still hope that the EVD standard will play Ogg Theora as a bonus. Most DVD players can play VCD, so that isn't too unlikely.
The reason DVD players were designed to play VCD as well is that there was a vast library of existing VCD titles. I'm not aware of any vast libraries using Ogg Theora.
The relevant sound in Japanese is neither L nor R. It does, however, have a very close equivalent in standard American pronunciation, and that's the central consonant of "water".
Darl doesn't care about Unix, Linux, bits, bytes, he's only trying to raise money, and if you look at it through that immoral mindset, then you say anything as long as it maximizes profits.
Immoral? Yes, but as Darl points out, the quest for profit above all else is his legal obligation. If he fails to put shareholder value first, he gets fired, and probably sued as well.
Think carefully before you tell me the "moral" course of action would be to resign rather than push this baseless lawsuit. That's the glib answer, but all that would means is that the company would get someone else with fewer scruples. If you want something different, you need to change the system. Good luck finding an alternative to capitalism that the USA will adopt.
Anyway, I'm drifting, the point is, if Mozilla can get the marketing right and get the word spread about its capabilities, web developers will wake up to how useless IE's standards support is and may start helping push the alternatives.
In this I think you are correct. Remember the state of things back when IE and Navigator were competing? Web designers would use the full features of their preferred browser, and possibly add an emasculated version of the site for those whose tastes differ. But the things I'm thinking of were those little banners you got everywhere - "This Site Best Viewed With Netscape Navigator: Click Here To Install."
If web designers like CSS2, and web designers use CSS2, and web designers put, on their emasculated non-CSS2-versions of their sites, links to simple installers for the Windows version of, say, Firebird, then think of all the clueless users who will click those links, and start using the better browser, without even having to think about what they're doing?
To me, this looks like one of the most likely means by which alternative browsers could gain market share.
Well, once there's a molecular manufacturing machine in every household, [everything will be free] (free as in... volunteer design of material items, just as with current OSS.)
Home audio recording equipment didn't make music free. Home video recording equipment didn't make movies free. Home computers haven't made software free. Why, then, should home manufacturing make consumer goods free?
In all three cases I cite, there is indeed a lively "free" movement. But the old-economy corporations still exist, and more than that, they still control the sectors in which they operate; most people still buy (or pirate) CDs and DVDs, and most people still pay huge premiums for proprietary software.
With the bitter experience of the current digital revolution behind them, the big corporations will incorporate strong DRM in molecular constructors from the beginning. Do you think you'll even be able to use "free" designs in them? Not without violating the DMCA, mate.
My other post here says why I think Gamespy's assessment of dating sims is [censored], so here are some links for anyone who wants to find out about them from people who don't think they're only for the terminally weird:
You already read Megatokyo, right? Check the forums: the "dating sims" forum there includes plenty of information, as well as a FAQ which covers the subject in some depth.
Pity Gamespy chose to take cheap shots at "those wacky Japanese" instead of actually taking an in-depth look at an interesting genre.
I quote: let there be no mistake that Japanese gamers are a sad, lonesome bunch. Taking advantage of their sheer desperation, the Japanese game market is full of dating simulations.
You might as well say, "let there be no mistake that American moviegoers are a sad, lonesome bunch. Taking full advantage of their sheer desperation, Hollywood regularly releases romantic comedies, and some adult movies even contain pornography!"
Or maybe we should try assuming that American gamers are sad and pathetic because they feel a need to play games involving guns and, in some cases (Postal anyone?) mindless killing sprees? I reckon they're compensating, if you know what I mean?
Well, actually no I don't reckon that. I reckon that people playing violent games can be directly compared with people watching violent movies, and likewise that people playing romantic games can be directly compared with people watching romantic movies.
If you use the native Windows port of rxvt supplied with Cygwin instead of Windows console, you can have your 160x60 consoles without problems. (Same goes for the X11 version, but Cygwin/XFree is a touch slow for console work.)
I already think of my Cygwin box as GNU/Windows... as with the Linux case, I have Windows providing a kernel, and Cygwin providing all the utilities necessary to turn it into a real operating system.
I'd be fairly certain that there were hardly any rules for the first few years that cars were on the roads, since there wasn't sufficient public perception that lots of rules were required.
And you'd be absolutely wrong.
Come on, you must have heard about the British law that required early cars to have a man walking in front of them with a red flag.
Let me school you on the meaning of an RPG... It means ROLE PLAYING GAME. Yes, that means playing any role for any type of entertainment.
I'm sorry, but while a case can be made for Second Life being an RPG, yours isn't it. Just because the individual words can be construed in that way, does not mean that the phrase has that meaning as a technical term. In an F1 game, for example, I "play" the "role" of a Formula 1 driver. Does that mean that an F1 game is an RPG? Ask anyone, apart from you, who has any knowledge of gaming genres, and they will answer with a firm "no".
Yes, British English is different from American English; but Microsoft do NOT provide a localised version of Windows for the British market.
They even leave basic things like "color" and "favorites" in the American spellings.
I'd be willing to buy a new copy of Windows for the full retail price if Microsoft would only translate it into my language. Well... I would be if I hadn't already hacked the resources to remove most of the more annoying Americanisms myself, anyway.
Actually the word "choice" is used regularly by Microsoft spokesentities.
"Choice" means that governments must not push free software, because people should have the "freedom" to "choose" Microsoft products.
Remember, Microsoft live in a parallel universe where evil viral software, created by sinister hackers, is unfairly dominating the market, using monopoly tactics to prevent anyone from enjoying the cheaper and better commercial software produced by hard-working professionals who only want to feed their kids.
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Unfortunately this won't work, since the Free Software Foundation use free (as in the GPL) to refer to many licenses of which most are unrelated to GNU. Nice try, though.
Although it does still make financing a problem, unless investors can be convinced that profits can be generated even if the "estate" isn't "real."
No problem. We just need to set up the South Mars Company (mission statement: "to be a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage on Mars, but nobody to know what it is"), and watch the cash roll in.
I asked if they were looking to porting to Linux and their response was that they were not because they were risk averse. ... I ended up not getting the position.
That's probably because you frightened them by mentioning the lawsuit-encumbered Linux. You should have suggested porting to FreeBSD - I'm sure SCO would never dream of attacking... oh, wait a minute...
the FBI will bust in your door and cart you off to Guantanamo.
Now, now, we all know Guantanamo Bay is only for foreigners. Americans go to decent American jails. Still unpleasant, but at least you'll have access to a lawyer.
It'll be Mr. Boies, and he'll be laughing at you.
Visa vi? No, thanks! Real GPL violators prefer Mastercard emacs!
You are missing the point.
SCO's beef with the GPL is the same as Microsoft's. It is its so-called "viral" nature. That is, if your software incorporates any code which is GPLed, your software must also be released under a GPL-compatible license.
SCO's argument, as I understand it, is that US copyright law states that you cannot lose control of your work by accident. The GPL states that you cannot revoke the rights it grants: any code which has ever been released under the GPL must always be available under the GPL. SCO are suing IBM for GPLing code SCO claim is theirs, but SCO have also distributed Linux, implicitly accepting the GPL license on the kernel, and therefore implicitly GPLing their code. So if the GPL stands, they have lost the case already. You must have read that argument a thousand times on Slashdot and Groklaw.
So they say: we did not knowingly GPL our IP, so, under US copyright law, it cannot be subject to the GPL, which requires us to relinquish rights we have not agreed to relinquish. Since US copyright law disagrees with the GPL, the GPL violates the law.
Is this true or false? IANAL, so I can't answer that one. But it certainly isn't as cut and dried as you make it sound.
I can still hope that the EVD standard will play Ogg Theora as a bonus. Most DVD players can play VCD, so that isn't too unlikely.
The reason DVD players were designed to play VCD as well is that there was a vast library of existing VCD titles. I'm not aware of any vast libraries using Ogg Theora.
The relevant sound in Japanese is neither L nor R. It does, however, have a very close equivalent in standard American pronunciation, and that's the central consonant of "water".
Darl doesn't care about Unix, Linux, bits, bytes, he's only trying to raise money, and if you look at it through that immoral mindset, then you say anything as long as it maximizes profits.
Immoral? Yes, but as Darl points out, the quest for profit above all else is his legal obligation. If he fails to put shareholder value first, he gets fired, and probably sued as well.
Think carefully before you tell me the "moral" course of action would be to resign rather than push this baseless lawsuit. That's the glib answer, but all that would means is that the company would get someone else with fewer scruples. If you want something different, you need to change the system. Good luck finding an alternative to capitalism that the USA will adopt.
11 m/s is approximately 21 knots. So the combined airspeed of two European swallows is... (drumroll) 42 knots.
I can't imagine why'd you 'step down' to NWN when you could use Morrowind instead, unless you want your game to be specifically D&D-based.
Multiplayer?
Maybe "a word with more than one bit", if we want him to know what we're talking about?
Anyway, I'm drifting, the point is, if Mozilla can get the marketing right and get the word spread about its capabilities, web developers will wake up to how useless IE's standards support is and may start helping push the alternatives.
In this I think you are correct. Remember the state of things back when IE and Navigator were competing? Web designers would use the full features of their preferred browser, and possibly add an emasculated version of the site for those whose tastes differ. But the things I'm thinking of were those little banners you got everywhere - "This Site Best Viewed With Netscape Navigator: Click Here To Install."
If web designers like CSS2, and web designers use CSS2, and web designers put, on their emasculated non-CSS2-versions of their sites, links to simple installers for the Windows version of, say, Firebird, then think of all the clueless users who will click those links, and start using the better browser, without even having to think about what they're doing?
To me, this looks like one of the most likely means by which alternative browsers could gain market share.
Well, once there's a molecular manufacturing machine in every household, [everything will be free] (free as in ... volunteer design of material items, just as with current OSS.)
Home audio recording equipment didn't make music free. Home video recording equipment didn't make movies free. Home computers haven't made software free. Why, then, should home manufacturing make consumer goods free?
In all three cases I cite, there is indeed a lively "free" movement. But the old-economy corporations still exist, and more than that, they still control the sectors in which they operate; most people still buy (or pirate) CDs and DVDs, and most people still pay huge premiums for proprietary software.
With the bitter experience of the current digital revolution behind them, the big corporations will incorporate strong DRM in molecular constructors from the beginning. Do you think you'll even be able to use "free" designs in them? Not without violating the DMCA, mate.
My other post here says why I think Gamespy's assessment of dating sims is [censored], so here are some links for anyone who wants to find out about them from people who don't think they're only for the terminally weird:
The ren'ai games mailing list.
You already read Megatokyo, right? Check the forums: the "dating sims" forum there includes plenty of information, as well as a FAQ which covers the subject in some depth.
Pity Gamespy chose to take cheap shots at "those wacky Japanese" instead of actually taking an in-depth look at an interesting genre.
I quote: let there be no mistake that Japanese gamers are a sad, lonesome bunch. Taking advantage of their sheer desperation, the Japanese game market is full of dating simulations.
You might as well say, "let there be no mistake that American moviegoers are a sad, lonesome bunch. Taking full advantage of their sheer desperation, Hollywood regularly releases romantic comedies, and some adult movies even contain pornography!"
Or maybe we should try assuming that American gamers are sad and pathetic because they feel a need to play games involving guns and, in some cases (Postal anyone?) mindless killing sprees? I reckon they're compensating, if you know what I mean?
Well, actually no I don't reckon that. I reckon that people playing violent games can be directly compared with people watching violent movies, and likewise that people playing romantic games can be directly compared with people watching romantic movies.
Dec 2nd is better than the early 2004 dates I had seen when it originally got delayed :)
In the article: "Deus Ex: Invisible War will be released in Europe in February 2004."
Looks like I'll be importing a copy, then.
It's the size of a 30" TV, according to this.
/. page, so don't bother moderating this "informative".)
(Link shamelessly blagged from a post further down the
If you use the native Windows port of rxvt supplied with Cygwin instead of Windows console, you can have your 160x60 consoles without problems. (Same goes for the X11 version, but Cygwin/XFree is a touch slow for console work.)
I already think of my Cygwin box as GNU/Windows... as with the Linux case, I have Windows providing a kernel, and Cygwin providing all the utilities necessary to turn it into a real operating system.
I'd be fairly certain that there were hardly any rules for the first few years that cars were on the roads, since there wasn't sufficient public perception that lots of rules were required.
And you'd be absolutely wrong.
Come on, you must have heard about the British law that required early cars to have a man walking in front of them with a red flag.
Let me school you on the meaning of an RPG... It means ROLE PLAYING GAME. Yes, that means playing any role for any type of entertainment.
I'm sorry, but while a case can be made for Second Life being an RPG, yours isn't it. Just because the individual words can be construed in that way, does not mean that the phrase has that meaning as a technical term. In an F1 game, for example, I "play" the "role" of a Formula 1 driver. Does that mean that an F1 game is an RPG? Ask anyone, apart from you, who has any knowledge of gaming genres, and they will answer with a firm "no".
british(yes, it is different!)
Yes, British English is different from American English; but Microsoft do NOT provide a localised version of Windows for the British market.
They even leave basic things like "color" and "favorites" in the American spellings.
I'd be willing to buy a new copy of Windows for the full retail price if Microsoft would only translate it into my language. Well... I would be if I hadn't already hacked the resources to remove most of the more annoying Americanisms myself, anyway.
Actually the word "choice" is used regularly by Microsoft spokesentities.
"Choice" means that governments must not push free software, because people should have the "freedom" to "choose" Microsoft products.
Remember, Microsoft live in a parallel universe where evil viral software, created by sinister hackers, is unfairly dominating the market, using monopoly tactics to prevent anyone from enjoying the cheaper and better commercial software produced by hard-working professionals who only want to feed their kids.
it's worse... a flock of attack penguins backed with some loose Gnus...
I can see the headlines now: BAD GNUS FOR SCO
Not sure how much you'll get a seperate DVD player for but it wont be 20
Richer Sounds are advertising the Acoustic Solutions DVD421 at GBP 29.95 inc VAT.