What about welfare for the the druggie who can't hold a job? What about the cost of medical care for him when he overdoses? There's my tax dollars at work.
How much do you suppose it costs to keep someone in a prison?
According to Peter McWilliams, $29 billion is spent annually to catch and incarcerate "drug possessors, users, manufacturers, and traffickers" - that's your tax dollars at work.
I saw O Brother months ago in the UK (September-ish?) and really enjoyed it - anyone know why it's only just come out in the US? This is the opposite of what usually happens...
(and as luck would have it, I'm in the US at the moment, so I get to see it on the big screen again:) )
What I'd like is an option in (insert OS here) to allow me to say "Now, I'm not going to add any more new hardware, or move anything around, so stop trying to detect EVERYTHING every time I start up, and write some sort of static image, and boot in 3 seconds next time".
What is Windows (in particular) *doing* during that time? I have a processor that can do hundreds of millions of instructions per second, it can't really be actually processing during that time...
"Shanghai Noon" (which was only stupid
deliberately and as a form of send-up).
Shanghai Noon is one of the weaker Jackie Chan movies I've seen lately - check out (for example) the original Police Story, or Armor Of God for vintage Chan - he kicks ass in every sense.
Rob/VA/Whoever: Can't you have some sort of macro set up so that when you post the weekly Spam/Napster/Microsoft story, it automatically posts all the standard replies?
It would save everybody discussing whether my house is like your mailserver, or your gun rack, and whether musicians make money again and again. I expect with the geek-minutes saved in not posting the same long rants over and over, it would be possible to have another really really good X IRC client (with skins, perhaps), or another clock [ae]pplet.
Well - 25mm (1 inch-ish)/90dpi = 0.24mm (roughly the dot-pitch of my monitor). I'm guessing the DPI for my screen ('typical' seems to vary between about 75 and 90). If monitor manufacturers thought they could claim the maximum resolution of their monitors was higher, I'm sure they would.
I didn't say anything about CDs - my point was regarding the size of the 'audience' for the OS, which some AC claimed (admittedly trollishly) that was the reason for Linux' failure. Did you read past the 'Right'?
How can an OS successfully traget both high end servers and desktop class boxes in the same distro? It can't! and because of this Linux is dying.
Right, NT 4 didn't do this. The difference between Workstation and Server is (depending on who you believe) a few registry settings, or the equivalent of a kernel re-compile. They did just fine, and back in 1995/96 it wasn't so much because MS were the huge monopoly - they were competing on Novell's turf.
Well yes - it's a format for storing video on standard CDs. Since it predates DVD by about 5 years, it had a perfectly legitimate use for 5 years. I use it to be able to present MPEG video without needing a PC.
In these day of "cheap" DVcams, and multiple competing and expensive DVDr standards, I would have said that VCD (and SVCD) is still a useful format for "legitimate" use.
Oh wait - but you can infringe copyright with it too.
Where did you get them? I haven't seen even a few anywhere! It was French language, ideally with switchable subtitles I was after - mostly popular things: Jeunet/Caro, Tati and so on.
Play247 already do this sort of thing [...] They get around import restrictions by sending each order in a seperate jiffy bag, and not selling the goods for more than £18 each (Good over £18 are taxable on import).
Indeed - I'd recommend DVD Box Office in Canada who do the same thing (separate jiffybags), and also free postage worldwide. They are the reason that most of my DVDs are region 1 - I can save roughly 5 pounds per disc buying from Canada, not to mention getting releases a lot sooner (Ferris Bueller, 6 months), and intact (Fight Club).
Does this mean that French movie studios might actually start releasing movies on DVD?
Considering the relative strength of the French movie industry (compared to other European countries), you might expect to be able to get at least some "big name" french movies on DVD.
On the actual topic: I thought that EC law didn't allow 'selective import' within the Community? Isn't this why the whole of Europe is one region in the first place? Doesn't that apply in reverse in this situuation?
Put it this way, back when I met you off the train to introduce you, yadda yadda yadda (remember the red jacket?:), if JSP and Servlets were around, you'd have been writing Java instead of Cold Fusion code for that thing you did.
Licensing - As I understand it, Microsoft is throwing out the traditional video game licensing model. Forget paying royalties, and forget about having to get a game approved by the console manufacturer.
Which often is cited as one of the reasons for Atari's ultimate failure with the 2600 and friends - a glut of shite games over which they had no control. Obviously Warner didn't help either.
How would you know to go to the ML users group to find out about ML? How would you know you might be interested in ML?
Nowithstanding that the article describes using ML to illustrate a point, and precisely not to say ML is so great.
(I haven't actually got the first clue about ML specifically, but I've been through my share of languages over the years - substitute your favourite language you don't know about - Lua, Snobol, Forth...)
I mean, there's a Pascal-to-C converter, for crissake!
I've always understood the point of p2c was to be able to run pascal code in an environment with no Pascal but with a C compiler - namely most unix-like ones. I think the original AT&T Unix used to have a portable pascal compiler, but it was encumbered in some way by licensing issues. Same thing with f2c - I only ever used that once, to get an old bit of VAX Fortran running on SunOS.
I never looked at the C code at all - if it's anything like the quality of the a2p awk converter that perl has, then it's hardly a great example of how to use the host language.
But if the material is in the public domain, and you read it on radio (say), which I assume is the gist of the restriction, rather than bedtime stories, who is to say what you read it from?
A copyright is fine - a license for performance on a particular edition of a book with identical words in it to another unrestricted book is ridiculous.
Slashdot Mirror
Check out original story on the release as well -- many people seem to have missed it, and keep submitting it.
It must be because Slashdot has only posted this story once - everyone knows real stories are duplicated at least once, if not more.
This guy has an IDE interface for the DC, apparently, which seems to be 5 chips on some veroboard.
What about welfare for the the druggie who can't hold a job? What about the cost of medical care for him when he overdoses? There's my tax dollars at work.
How much do you suppose it costs to keep someone in a prison?
According to Peter McWilliams, $29 billion is spent annually to catch and incarcerate "drug possessors, users, manufacturers, and traffickers" - that's your tax dollars at work.
I saw O Brother months ago in the UK (September-ish?) and really enjoyed it - anyone know why it's only just come out in the US? This is the opposite of what usually happens...
:) )
(and as luck would have it, I'm in the US at the moment, so I get to see it on the big screen again
What I'd like is an option in (insert OS here) to allow me to say "Now, I'm not going to add any more new hardware, or move anything around, so stop trying to detect EVERYTHING every time I start up, and write some sort of static image, and boot in 3 seconds next time".
What is Windows (in particular) *doing* during that time? I have a processor that can do hundreds of millions of instructions per second, it can't really be actually processing during that time...
"Shanghai Noon" (which was only stupid
deliberately and as a form of send-up).
Shanghai Noon is one of the weaker Jackie Chan movies I've seen lately - check out (for example) the original Police Story, or Armor Of God for vintage Chan - he kicks ass in every sense.
Where did you get your french DVDs?
Rob/VA/Whoever: Can't you have some sort of macro set up so that when you post the weekly Spam/Napster/Microsoft story, it automatically posts all the standard replies?
It would save everybody discussing whether my house is like your mailserver, or your gun rack, and whether musicians make money again and again. I expect with the geek-minutes saved in not posting the same long rants over and over, it would be possible to have another really really good X IRC client (with skins, perhaps), or another clock [ae]pplet.
Well - 25mm (1 inch-ish)/90dpi = 0.24mm (roughly the dot-pitch of my monitor). I'm guessing the DPI for my screen ('typical' seems to vary between about 75 and 90). If monitor manufacturers thought they could claim the maximum resolution of their monitors was higher, I'm sure they would.
You misspelled "possessive".
(Incorrect Grammar During Dictionary Flame, -3)
I didn't say anything about CDs - my point was regarding the size of the 'audience' for the OS, which some AC claimed (admittedly trollishly) that was the reason for Linux' failure. Did you read past the 'Right'?
How can an OS successfully traget both high end servers and desktop class boxes in the same distro? It can't! and because of this Linux is dying.
Right, NT 4 didn't do this. The difference between Workstation and Server is (depending on who you believe) a few registry settings, or the equivalent of a kernel re-compile. They did just fine, and back in 1995/96 it wasn't so much because MS were the huge monopoly - they were competing on Novell's turf.
Sun is the OS in Massive Loss.
And VCD as lots of legitmate uses?
Well yes - it's a format for storing video on standard CDs. Since it predates DVD by about 5 years, it had a perfectly legitimate use for 5 years. I use it to be able to present MPEG video without needing a PC.
In these day of "cheap" DVcams, and multiple competing and expensive DVDr standards, I would have said that VCD (and SVCD) is still a useful format for "legitimate" use.
Oh wait - but you can infringe copyright with it too.
Where did you get them? I haven't seen even a few anywhere! It was French language, ideally with switchable subtitles I was after - mostly popular things: Jeunet/Caro, Tati and so on.
Play247 already do this sort of thing [...] They get around import restrictions by sending each order in a seperate jiffy bag, and not selling the goods for more than £18 each (Good over £18 are taxable on import).
Indeed - I'd recommend DVD Box Office in Canada who do the same thing (separate jiffybags), and also free postage worldwide. They are the reason that most of my DVDs are region 1 - I can save roughly 5 pounds per disc buying from Canada, not to mention getting releases a lot sooner (Ferris Bueller, 6 months), and intact (Fight Club).
Does this mean that French movie studios might actually start releasing movies on DVD?
Considering the relative strength of the French movie industry (compared to other European countries), you might expect to be able to get at least some "big name" french movies on DVD.
On the actual topic: I thought that EC law didn't allow 'selective import' within the Community? Isn't this why the whole of Europe is one region in the first place? Doesn't that apply in reverse in this situuation?
Only the ssh.com implementation.
OpenSSH supports SSH2 for free (beer and speech).
**original Homebrew Computer Club member***
:) Curious mind would like to know...
Has this got anything to do with all your posts being monospaced? Are you somehow still posting from your Altair?
so the doctor was likely wrong
Put it this way, back when I met you off the train to introduce you, yadda yadda yadda (remember the red jacket?:), if JSP and Servlets were around, you'd have been writing Java instead of Cold Fusion code for that thing you did.
No, I don't. Have we met? What thing?
Licensing - As I understand it, Microsoft is throwing out the traditional video game licensing model. Forget paying royalties, and forget about having to get a game approved by the console manufacturer.
Which often is cited as one of the reasons for Atari's ultimate failure with the 2600 and friends - a glut of shite games over which they had no control. Obviously Warner didn't help either.
How would you know to go to the ML users group to find out about ML? How would you know you might be interested in ML?
Nowithstanding that the article describes using ML to illustrate a point, and precisely not to say ML is so great.
(I haven't actually got the first clue about ML specifically, but I've been through my share of languages over the years - substitute your favourite language you don't know about - Lua, Snobol, Forth...)
I mean, there's a Pascal-to-C converter, for crissake!
I've always understood the point of p2c was to be able to run pascal code in an environment with no Pascal but with a C compiler - namely most unix-like ones. I think the original AT&T Unix used to have a portable pascal compiler, but it was encumbered in some way by licensing issues. Same thing with f2c - I only ever used that once, to get an old bit of VAX Fortran running on SunOS.
I never looked at the C code at all - if it's anything like the quality of the a2p awk converter that perl has, then it's hardly a great example of how to use the host language.
But if the material is in the public domain, and you read it on radio (say), which I assume is the gist of the restriction, rather than bedtime stories, who is to say what you read it from?
A copyright is fine - a license for performance on a particular edition of a book with identical words in it to another unrestricted book is ridiculous.