Sun has always required copyright assignment to their branch of OOO. This was one of the reasons they could dual-license the codebase in the firstplace. A copyright holder can release derivatives under any license he likes. This doesn't have to affect Star Office one bit. Come to think of it, Sun hasn't gone from 2 licenses to 1. They've gone from 3 to 2. You can use the codebase as proprietary Staroffice binaries with some added templates and other features or you can use the LGPL derivative.
And to think you posted that with a device that is arguably high technology. Gee. It's a good thing those practical thinkers at Signetics and Intel didn't listen to those shifty eyed physicists.....
So you can use science for real things, like physics and design of military weapons and consumer goods, but the rest of it is so much speculative nonsense.
Newsflash. The same people that don't like evolution only like physics when it can be used to attack evolution. The rest of the time it gives rise to uncomfortable facts like the Earth being round and the Universe being billions of years old. They'll get around to rest of the so-called "useful" sciences once those pesky life sciences have been properly re-aligned. I'm also glad people like you don't decide what is "useful" in science. After a demonstration of electrical phenomena, the Queen of England asked Micheal Faraday what of what possible use was all this nattering about electricity. He replied, "Of what use is a newborn babe." Sheesh.
Science is all about being wrong. 99% of it is long painful slogging through mucky fields of sheer wrong and trivialities to find the occaisional nugget of right. I'm mildly amazed that Scientists Can Be Wrong is a subject of discussion. This is only a problem when people who don't have any idea how science works expect scientists to be some sort of infallible priesthood. It also doesn't help when the press seizes on new research that hasn't endured years of attacks and splashes it all over the place. It is as though Firebird 0.3 is headlined as the New Killer App. The press is the worst offender in this regard.
You can't show people evolving any more than someone else can show God making something. It's immaterial, unprovable, and so why fight over it?
You can show things that reproduce really fast evolving. It is quite easy with microorganisms and it isn't too awful bad with insects like fruit flies. It's a bit harder with some fast reproducing plants and an absolute pisser with anything that takes more than a week or two to reproduce. One can still do things like genome tracing and compare and contrast with currently living things that haven't changed in a long time. It is hard to show people evolving. It isn't all that hard to show the effects of evolution on people. Unless of course you live in the US.......
but a petawatt laser is not something you can fit on a kitchen bench!
It'd kick ass if one would though! Think of all the fun to be had burning surgically neat holes through iron bars and drilling junk jewelry. The possibilities for fun destruction boggle the mind.
Make it work exactly wacktly like Photoshop or I'll...or I'll...or I'll whinge. Yeah! That's it! I'll whinge and then I'll whinge some more until..until...you've had enough! And then I'll post some flames!
iTunes show a little bit of the Vision the parent poster mentioned. Convienient, correct, sanely tagged downloads from fast easily searched servers for a reasonable price. In time, such a thing could be more ubiquitous that DVDs are now. Of course, they'll have to rein in this urge to make it as obnoxious, hostile to the customer, DRMed to dogs and back if the intention is a product people will actually fork over money for. Come to think of it, just enough DRM to appease the control freaks but removable by those with a little time and savvy might be a bit of Vision as well.
I dont see how. I'm the proud owner of several Vec's and and have repaired a good many vector display's in my day (well, back in the day).
Since code is written to "plot" a vector then how could a CRT display this? Thats the whole point of a vector display vs a CRT. One plot's the image in real time, while the other does it line by line. The ion gun on a vector display actually draws the vectors. The CRT builds an image, line by line and then starts all over again.
An o-scope in XY mode is a vector display. It's been a looong time but I've even hard coded circuitry to draw vectors stored in SRAM. Google for lissajous patterns.
An o-scope CRT doesn't work like the CRT in a raster monitor. Modern o-scopes may well sample waveforms and display on a scan-line CRT but the older ones worked just like Vectrex displays. In time base mode, an internal oscillator sweeps the beam horizontally and the input signal causes vertical deflection. Just the thing for viewing electrical waveforms. In XY mode with no signal input, all you see is a dot in the center of the screen. One input channel causes vertical deflection and the other causes horizontal deflection. Most scopes also have an input that can vary the intensity of dot at any given time (or quench it entirely...come to think of it the vectrex has to have that signal as well). If you soldered some shielded leads to the correct places in a Vectrex, it can drive an o-scope that is in XY mode.
Check out the ZVG. This devices connects to an ECP compliant printer port and can be used to drive XY displays. They mention that both o-scopes and Vectrex displays are suitable to be used with their device. There are even versions of MAME that can use one of these devices to play the vector games. You could have arcade Star Wars on one of your Vectrex displays with this thing. It'd be black and white of course and the Vectrex display may not be fast enough to handle all of the vectors it throws out but you would recognize the display.
The intro to this article says that Baer himself disparaged earlier works because they used o-scopes as a display. Not a troll. Chapter 1 of his new book damn near queers the whole deal.
The only point I was trying to make was Baer seems to think that only home televisions are Right and Holy and that He was the Prophet. THAT is what I was calling BS on. Yes, Baer's invention of the home video game is significant; I wasn't disputing that. No, this invention did not give him the right to dis the giants whose shoulders he was standing on.
So what about the Vectrex? This was a home gaming console that sold for a reasonable amount of money in the early eighties that used a vector display. And yes, if you tap a Vectrex' PCB in the correct places you can play Minestorm on an o-scope.
Baer says that only his games are valid "first games" because they were the first to utilize a regular television set. I call bullshit. Baer's notable work in no way invalidates the true videogames that came before his.
Incidentally, I liked the look of vector games. I especially liked color vector games like Tac-Scan. Sega made a ton of good ones and so did Atari. I'd definitely be a novelty, but I'd love to see a vector game done with the computing power we have now. It seems that money was getting to be a real problem throwing polygons around back then.....
Some subset of that 50 is what most people had or rented more than once. It wasn't until I started playing with emulators that I too was introduced to the Smorgasbord o' Crap effect. Well, I take that back. During the videogame crash of '84, I picked up scads of 2600 titles for $10 or less. Maybe one in three of those had any replay value. But then then the glut of mediocre titles and half-baked vaporware from the publishers/manufacturers then was what caused the crash.
On through the NES, Genesis, and SNES periods I pretty much saw the same selection of titles when I went to people's houses. And those playable titles are what we are remembering today. The good playable titles are still coming out for today's consoles but I think they are bit harder to find. It seems like almost everything is a licensed title or a franchise. The amount of money it takes to make a modern title seems to worsen the problem as the beancounters insist on "sure things". This leaves less room for the wild experimentation and wider genres of earlier console generations.
They are placing way too much stock in the undesirability of lo-def then. Multitudes are going to have inexpensive lo-def screens for years to come. Hell, they'll even be content with those screens. I've been watching recorded reruns of this and that on VHS for years. It looks like ass granted but once I get into a movie or show it doesn't matter that much. I just need it to be watchable; everything doesn't have to be some uber-THX experience. From all of the lo-def content being traded around, it seems that I'm not the only one that feels that way.
On anything less than a 30" screen, DVD in it's current form is more than acceptable for most people. They intend to limit analog streams to that level of quality. That level of quality is more than good enough for most people. I might pay a little extra for the super hi-def content but I'm not going to put up with overpriced kit that is full of evil chips. If the overpriced evil is the only way to get it, I can live without it and not suffer in the process.
Should anyone find a weakness in a widely deployed player then sit on it a bit. Wait for adoption of the flawed device to peak and THEN release the crack. Of course, the MPAA and their toadies will go nutz revoking keys and forcing firmware upgrades all over the place. Many of which will fail and cause discontent. Even worse, some discs will likely not just play. From Joe Sixpack's point of view, it will be a random problem. This works even better if several such vulnerabilities are known and can be released serially for maximum effect.
People have been well trained to think of IT mishaps as normal. TVs have to Just Work. Joe Sixpack isn't going to understand when you explain to him that the reason why he can't watch Girls Gone Wild 10 is because some hacker in Argentina cracked his model of player and got it's key revoked. One answer to this is to pursue cracking not as a means in and of itself but as a way of baiting the MPAA types into a frothing rabid frenzy.
We all know what happened when Old Yeller got that way don't we?
They wouldn't eliminate blackjack any more than I would eliminate a server that got rooted. I'd close the hole and reload the server. The casinos have found that whack-a-mole is a game you can get ahead on. It just requires eternal vigilance.
I have no doubt that scams and systems suceeed more often than the casinos would like you to think. The trick for the casinos is to see to it that no one scheme works more than a few times. Would-be scammers and systemers just have to be wise enough not to get too greedy and run the scheme too long.
I was under the impression that the move to x86 was largely Apple being fed up with their CPU suppliers. If Intel has to devote a chip line to make a special Apple-only SKU that could defeat the major purpose of the arch switch. Such chips would also cost Apple more per unit than simply using Intel's commodity processors. It would also complicate being able to play AMD off of Intel. Granted Apple has made no such noises but why close off an option? I don't believe Apple will use a unique CPU instruction set to defeat piracy.
A simple co-processor that implements some essential function could be a way to do this without restarting their CPU supply issues.
Yes it does. I have used the Linux based NT password changing CD on Windows 2000 and XP Pro (various service packs). Barring a major change in how passwords are stored in the registry, it will work for some time to come. As a matter of fact, it will let you change any registry key if you know what you are looking for. I don't believe you can browse the registry in any friendly sort of way with it but you can rewrite any arbitrary key by name.
I suppose an encrypted registry could break this but that is fraught with difficulties all it's own.
So music leads to misery, eh? Make an exception and get yourself a copy of Joe's Garage. Among other things, it is a devastating satire of that very idea.
Of all the things you can get in trouble with, even the most trite or profane music is fairly innocuous. Could it be that some of these people were destined to be directionless flakes regardless of their taste in entertainment? Just get rid of everything that makes life worth living and then....life will be worth living. Makes sense to me!
I've read that if you have the original 3DO cd then you can drop the movies into the UQM data directory and it will use them. The movies have a separate copyright and Toys For Bob couldn't release them.
Except for some odd bits of dialog missing, I believe the UQM maintainers have re-implemented the most important features of the PC version.
I've wondered if business method patents couldn't be used against some of these IP-only firms. Since there are thousands of trite business method patents to go along with all of the trite software patents, surely some of these could be stretched to apply to any business. Even a so-called business like a IP troll firm should be vulnerable to some of these.
0.40 of UQM is fantastic. It supports various scaling options now. The biadv scaler is absolutely beautiful; the game looks good at 800x600 and above resolutions. It also gives you the option of 3DO graphical menus or the PC menus. The in-game graphics of course are the 3DO versions which are superior to the old PC version. It is even better to play now than it was then.
The Precursors are recreating the MOD music the game originally shipped with and have replaced about 75% of the in-game ditties and larger pieces. They supply this music in both ready to listen forms and in a form that can be dropped in UQM's data directory. It adds some atmosphere to an already good game.
The FSF doesn't hold title to much if any of the Linux kernel. Once it is known in detail which code was misappropriated then we can talk about who has standing to sue. Linus probably has standing regardless.
We aren't just talking about Darl ranting to LinuxInsider here. SCO has repudiated the GPL directly to a federal judge in a court of law. They are legally on record saying they do not believe the GPL is enforcable. They have also demonstrably acted that way with at least one piece of software. Couldn't the developer of any arbitrary GPL software cite those statements in court as proof that SCO doesn't intend to comply the license?
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Sun has always required copyright assignment to their branch of OOO. This was one of the reasons they could dual-license the codebase in the firstplace. A copyright holder can release derivatives under any license he likes. This doesn't have to affect Star Office one bit. Come to think of it, Sun hasn't gone from 2 licenses to 1. They've gone from 3 to 2. You can use the codebase as proprietary Staroffice binaries with some added templates and other features or you can use the LGPL derivative.
Just curious here.
Have any of these "bounty hunters" ever been handed a good old fashioned country ass-whipping by his dorm buddies?
If science can be wrong, then why trust it?
And to think you posted that with a device that is arguably high technology. Gee. It's a good thing those practical thinkers at Signetics and Intel didn't listen to those shifty eyed physicists.....
So you can use science for real things, like physics and design of military weapons and consumer goods, but the rest of it is so much speculative nonsense.
Newsflash. The same people that don't like evolution only like physics when it can be used to attack evolution. The rest of the time it gives rise to uncomfortable facts like the Earth being round and the Universe being billions of years old. They'll get around to rest of the so-called "useful" sciences once those pesky life sciences have been properly re-aligned. I'm also glad people like you don't decide what is "useful" in science. After a demonstration of electrical phenomena, the Queen of England asked Micheal Faraday what of what possible use was all this nattering about electricity. He replied, "Of what use is a newborn babe." Sheesh.
Science is all about being wrong. 99% of it is long painful slogging through mucky fields of sheer wrong and trivialities to find the occaisional nugget of right. I'm mildly amazed that Scientists Can Be Wrong is a subject of discussion. This is only a problem when people who don't have any idea how science works expect scientists to be some sort of infallible priesthood. It also doesn't help when the press seizes on new research that hasn't endured years of attacks and splashes it all over the place. It is as though Firebird 0.3 is headlined as the New Killer App. The press is the worst offender in this regard.
You can't show people evolving any more than someone else can show God making something. It's immaterial, unprovable, and so why fight over it?
You can show things that reproduce really fast evolving. It is quite easy with microorganisms and it isn't too awful bad with insects like fruit flies. It's a bit harder with some fast reproducing plants and an absolute pisser with anything that takes more than a week or two to reproduce. One can still do things like genome tracing and compare and contrast with currently living things that haven't changed in a long time. It is hard to show people evolving. It isn't all that hard to show the effects of evolution on people. Unless of course you live in the US.......
I'm sure the grandparent knows all of this. He's just being snarky.
but a petawatt laser is not something you can fit on a kitchen bench!
It'd kick ass if one would though! Think of all the fun to be had burning surgically neat holes through iron bars and drilling junk jewelry. The possibilities for fun destruction boggle the mind.
Make it work exactly wacktly like Photoshop or I'll...or I'll...or I'll whinge. Yeah! That's it! I'll whinge and then I'll whinge some more until..until...you've had enough! And then I'll post some flames!
iTunes show a little bit of the Vision the parent poster mentioned. Convienient, correct, sanely tagged downloads from fast easily searched servers for a reasonable price. In time, such a thing could be more ubiquitous that DVDs are now. Of course, they'll have to rein in this urge to make it as obnoxious, hostile to the customer, DRMed to dogs and back if the intention is a product people will actually fork over money for. Come to think of it, just enough DRM to appease the control freaks but removable by those with a little time and savvy might be a bit of Vision as well.
I dont see how. I'm the proud owner of several Vec's and and have repaired a good many vector display's in my day (well, back in the day).
Since code is written to "plot" a vector then how could a CRT display this? Thats the whole point of a vector display vs a CRT. One plot's the image in real time, while the other does it line by line. The ion gun on a vector display actually draws the vectors. The CRT builds an image, line by line and then starts all over again.
An o-scope in XY mode is a vector display. It's been a looong time but I've even hard coded circuitry to draw vectors stored in SRAM. Google for lissajous patterns.
An o-scope CRT doesn't work like the CRT in a raster monitor. Modern o-scopes may well sample waveforms and display on a scan-line CRT but the older ones worked just like Vectrex displays. In time base mode, an internal oscillator sweeps the beam horizontally and the input signal causes vertical deflection. Just the thing for viewing electrical waveforms. In XY mode with no signal input, all you see is a dot in the center of the screen. One input channel causes vertical deflection and the other causes horizontal deflection. Most scopes also have an input that can vary the intensity of dot at any given time (or quench it entirely...come to think of it the vectrex has to have that signal as well). If you soldered some shielded leads to the correct places in a Vectrex, it can drive an o-scope that is in XY mode.
Check out the ZVG. This devices connects to an ECP compliant printer port and can be used to drive XY displays. They mention that both o-scopes and Vectrex displays are suitable to be used with their device. There are even versions of MAME that can use one of these devices to play the vector games. You could have arcade Star Wars on one of your Vectrex displays with this thing. It'd be black and white of course and the Vectrex display may not be fast enough to handle all of the vectors it throws out but you would recognize the display.
The intro to this article says that Baer himself disparaged earlier works because they used o-scopes as a display. Not a troll. Chapter 1 of his new book damn near queers the whole deal.
The only point I was trying to make was Baer seems to think that only home televisions are Right and Holy and that He was the Prophet. THAT is what I was calling BS on. Yes, Baer's invention of the home video game is significant; I wasn't disputing that. No, this invention did not give him the right to dis the giants whose shoulders he was standing on.
So what about the Vectrex? This was a home gaming console that sold for a reasonable amount of money in the early eighties that used a vector display. And yes, if you tap a Vectrex' PCB in the correct places you can play Minestorm on an o-scope.
Baer says that only his games are valid "first games" because they were the first to utilize a regular television set. I call bullshit. Baer's notable work in no way invalidates the true videogames that came before his.
Incidentally, I liked the look of vector games. I especially liked color vector games like Tac-Scan. Sega made a ton of good ones and so did Atari. I'd definitely be a novelty, but I'd love to see a vector game done with the computing power we have now. It seems that money was getting to be a real problem throwing polygons around back then.....
Some subset of that 50 is what most people had or rented more than once. It wasn't until I started playing with emulators that I too was introduced to the Smorgasbord o' Crap effect. Well, I take that back. During the videogame crash of '84, I picked up scads of 2600 titles for $10 or less. Maybe one in three of those had any replay value. But then then the glut of mediocre titles and half-baked vaporware from the publishers/manufacturers then was what caused the crash.
On through the NES, Genesis, and SNES periods I pretty much saw the same selection of titles when I went to people's houses. And those playable titles are what we are remembering today. The good playable titles are still coming out for today's consoles but I think they are bit harder to find. It seems like almost everything is a licensed title or a franchise. The amount of money it takes to make a modern title seems to worsen the problem as the beancounters insist on "sure things". This leaves less room for the wild experimentation and wider genres of earlier console generations.
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They are placing way too much stock in the undesirability of lo-def then. Multitudes are going to have inexpensive lo-def screens for years to come. Hell, they'll even be content with those screens. I've been watching recorded reruns of this and that on VHS for years. It looks like ass granted but once I get into a movie or show it doesn't matter that much. I just need it to be watchable; everything doesn't have to be some uber-THX experience. From all of the lo-def content being traded around, it seems that I'm not the only one that feels that way.
On anything less than a 30" screen, DVD in it's current form is more than acceptable for most people. They intend to limit analog streams to that level of quality. That level of quality is more than good enough for most people. I might pay a little extra for the super hi-def content but I'm not going to put up with overpriced kit that is full of evil chips. If the overpriced evil is the only way to get it, I can live without it and not suffer in the process.
Should anyone find a weakness in a widely deployed player then sit on it a bit. Wait for adoption of the flawed device to peak and THEN release the crack. Of course, the MPAA and their toadies will go nutz revoking keys and forcing firmware upgrades all over the place. Many of which will fail and cause discontent. Even worse, some discs will likely not just play. From Joe Sixpack's point of view, it will be a random problem. This works even better if several such vulnerabilities are known and can be released serially for maximum effect.
People have been well trained to think of IT mishaps as normal. TVs have to Just Work. Joe Sixpack isn't going to understand when you explain to him that the reason why he can't watch Girls Gone Wild 10 is because some hacker in Argentina cracked his model of player and got it's key revoked. One answer to this is to pursue cracking not as a means in and of itself but as a way of baiting the MPAA types into a frothing rabid frenzy.
We all know what happened when Old Yeller got that way don't we?
They wouldn't eliminate blackjack any more than I would eliminate a server that got rooted. I'd close the hole and reload the server. The casinos have found that whack-a-mole is a game you can get ahead on. It just requires eternal vigilance.
I have no doubt that scams and systems suceeed more often than the casinos would like you to think. The trick for the casinos is to see to it that no one scheme works more than a few times. Would-be scammers and systemers just have to be wise enough not to get too greedy and run the scheme too long.
Double ROT-13 is soooo 20th century. I'm using ROT-26!
I was under the impression that the move to x86 was largely Apple being fed up with their CPU suppliers. If Intel has to devote a chip line to make a special Apple-only SKU that could defeat the major purpose of the arch switch. Such chips would also cost Apple more per unit than simply using Intel's commodity processors. It would also complicate being able to play AMD off of Intel. Granted Apple has made no such noises but why close off an option? I don't believe Apple will use a unique CPU instruction set to defeat piracy.
A simple co-processor that implements some essential function could be a way to do this without restarting their CPU supply issues.
They can handle this with a short shot commuter flight. I know those Red-Eye flights to Brazil and Asia had to be playing hob with their systems.
Yes it does. I have used the Linux based NT password changing CD on Windows 2000 and XP Pro (various service packs). Barring a major change in how passwords are stored in the registry, it will work for some time to come. As a matter of fact, it will let you change any registry key if you know what you are looking for. I don't believe you can browse the registry in any friendly sort of way with it but you can rewrite any arbitrary key by name.
I suppose an encrypted registry could break this but that is fraught with difficulties all it's own.
So music leads to misery, eh? Make an exception and get yourself a copy of Joe's Garage. Among other things, it is a devastating satire of that very idea.
Of all the things you can get in trouble with, even the most trite or profane music is fairly innocuous. Could it be that some of these people were destined to be directionless flakes regardless of their taste in entertainment? Just get rid of everything that makes life worth living and then....life will be worth living. Makes sense to me!
I've read that if you have the original 3DO cd then you can drop the movies into the UQM data directory and it will use them. The movies have a separate copyright and Toys For Bob couldn't release them.
Except for some odd bits of dialog missing, I believe the UQM maintainers have re-implemented the most important features of the PC version.
I've wondered if business method patents couldn't be used against some of these IP-only firms. Since there are thousands of trite business method patents to go along with all of the trite software patents, surely some of these could be stretched to apply to any business. Even a so-called business like a IP troll firm should be vulnerable to some of these.
0.40 of UQM is fantastic. It supports various scaling options now. The biadv scaler is absolutely beautiful; the game looks good at 800x600 and above resolutions. It also gives you the option of 3DO graphical menus or the PC menus. The in-game graphics of course are the 3DO versions which are superior to the old PC version. It is even better to play now than it was then.
The Precursors are recreating the MOD music the game originally shipped with and have replaced about 75% of the in-game ditties and larger pieces. They supply this music in both ready to listen forms and in a form that can be dropped in UQM's data directory. It adds some atmosphere to an already good game.
The FSF doesn't hold title to much if any of the Linux kernel. Once it is known in detail which code was misappropriated then we can talk about who has standing to sue. Linus probably has standing regardless.
We aren't just talking about Darl ranting to LinuxInsider here. SCO has repudiated the GPL directly to a federal judge in a court of law. They are legally on record saying they do not believe the GPL is enforcable. They have also demonstrably acted that way with at least one piece of software. Couldn't the developer of any arbitrary GPL software cite those statements in court as proof that SCO doesn't intend to comply the license?