Or you could just not buy a lexmark printer. Let the market descide, don't legislate to death.
I would agree with you except for one thing. Lexmark is using the DMCA to stop people from refilling ink cartridges. There's a crypto widget in cartridge that contains copyrighted info. Can't duplicate it. Can't reset it. Do so and it's "legislated to death time". The best outcome would be taking the DMCA behind the barn and having either the Supreme Court or Congress shoot it through the head. Since the media conglomerates and electronics monopolists won't permit the death of their dream come true, I'll take what North Carolina is doing as a consolation prize.
Tik-Tok by John Sladek is a black satire novel about the Three Laws. Tik-Tok is a robot whose "Asimov circuits" are defective. Hiliarity ensues as his psychosis and hatred of humans takes over. Could this have been the prototype for Bender? It isn't just stuff like cutting people up with axes. Tik-Tok has business and political ambitions. The hospitals and old folks homes were priceless or rather they were disturbingly pricey with a callous attitude towards deadbeats......
I hate missing out on all those movie trailers, and the sites my little girl goes to, mainly nickjr.com and playhousedisney.com require shockwave. But I've got an old pc running W98 for that.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/
will take care of the movies nicely. But yes, you will need Crossover to handle Shockwave.
Your java installation and Mozilla both need to have been built with the same version of GCC. The Linux distros have mostly transitioned to GCC 3.2 but the commercial stuff often doesn't move as fast as the community on these infrastructure changes. That said, recent distro builds of Mozilla have been built with GCC 3.2. You just have to doublecheck where you are downloading your JRE from to be sure it's been built with 3.2 as well. The Blackdown guys have GCC 3.2 builds of Java 1.4.
Probably the spread is due to the fact that I'm an immigrant from fUSSR, as are most of the people counted above, so being intelligent people we KNOW that left-wing ideology can lead to Bad Things from personal experience and thorough knowledge of history.
Granted but I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Any political ideology can lead to bad things. To a certain type of cynical mind, ideology is a tool. Check your history. Right-wing ideology has led to some extremely Bad Things as well. I wouldn't count on it to save you from them.
So you're saying that I have to give money to MS to excercise my rights as a U.S. citizen? This is pretty damn ugly. MS offends me on many levels. The idea that I have to license a copy of Windows to vote is extremely repugnant. In any case, there are well documented standards for SSL and HTTP. There is absolutely no excuse for a Windows only platform requirement.
If you're stuff is popular/ubiquitous it is going to be reverse engineered no matter what the native platform is. For small timers, "IP rights" are a lose/lose situation. As you say, college kids have no money and you will not win against the likes of MS or IBM.
It has all of the cheeziness of anime intended for 7 year olds. Why do they have to triumphantly say the names of their weaponry when they shoot someone? ULLLTRAAA LASER! MONDO ROCKET!!! Gack! It makes me want to gouge my eyeballs out. Speaking of Galactica, it also abuses stock footage. Anytime a composite robot transforms, it's a mini tripout video so they can disguise the fact they always use the same clip for that transform. It also has the worst of anime asthetics when humans are portrayed: Upside down gumdrops for eyes, ultrapermed color coded hair, no chins, and flapping gaping orifices for mouths. It contains every bit of suckness that an action cartoon intended for (uncritical) young boys can have.
Put them on at 1:00 in the morning on Friday and Saturday nights. It's not hotly contested time and the hardcore fans would tune it. If you're hardcore about something that obscure, you just have to take what you can get.
What if there is a EULA that you agree to when you open the plastic case?
Nonsense. I notice that the business conservatives here are all about respecting property rights UNLESS it is an individual's property rights. EULAs are absolute horseshit. I sign a notarized contract that's one thing. If I see a little piece of paper fall out of a used X-Box I bought off someone, I'm going to use it to make an airplane or light a fireplace. Actually, that goes double for something I pay real money for in a retail establishment.
That little piece of plastic and cheap electronics is my physical property. If I hack it to run Linux, that is none of Bill Gates' business. If he thinks its his business he can blow me. Running Linux has nothing to do with pirating games or cheating on X-Box Live. It does screw with MS' business model but I couldn't give a flying fuck. That's their problem. The phrase "business model" is not a holy sacrement. It entitles to them to nothing.
MS put out a PC with an integrated motherboard and lousy lockout protection and then sold it at a loss. None of this obligates an X-Box owner to anything except not to steal software or cheat on-line.
We're not going to win that war, all of the decisive battles have already been lost, and our legal options are locked up. Either we admit defeat, and give in to a steady stream of Julia Roberts' movies and their ilk, or we fight on in a different arena. I propose that we build a digital library of all recorded works: music, films, books, etc. and put it on Freenet. There is really no other option available to us, and I think that this will be the endgame. Let's do it before technology becomes illegal too.
That won't work. Freenet was designed to allow dissidents in politically repressive societies to communicate. In so far as that goes, it works. It does not make a very good replacement for Napster or Kazaa. Freenet was designed to accomplish political goals not economic ones.
There is another way. It is slow and won't satisfy anyone here but it is viable. The GPL makes a certain corpus of software completely unpalatable and untouchable to the greediest and most unethical corporations. Some of that software has a high value to end users regardless of the political goals associated with the license. So must it be with creative works that are not software. Works can be created that take full advantage of the distorted state of copyright law but can be used freely as long as you don't intend to completely and utterly own rights to derived works for ever and ever amen. Some of that will be popular because it tells a good story, pulls the heartstrings or whatever. Since we can't change infinitely extended and expanded copyrights, let's use it against them.
the public domain in Australia. As far as copyright is concerned (as opposed to trademarks) Mickey Mouse (via Steamboat Willie) has been in the public domain for nearly 20 years. There hasn't exactly been a glut of 'unwholesome' Mickey films in that time.
I do believe that you have let the cat out of the bag. Let the unwholesome Austrailian Mickey comics begin!
Look at panther, with native QT and X11 modes, there is seriously NO need for linux on the desktop
That requires a commitment to expensive Apple hardware. Don't get me wrong. It's nice kit but very expensive for what it is. I can spend less than $600 on the hardware for a Linux box that will perform more than acceptably. The lowest end Apples start at $800 and will be handlily outperformed by the $600 commodity box.
I would say an acceptable commodity desktop that isn't ruled by any one corporation is much needed. I would trust Apple not to screw me as a user more than MS but not a hell of a lot more. Basically, I don't trust any proprietary vendor. They're always looking to raise/collect the rent.
But in most cases, Microsoft was the first to do these things.
I believe Lotus was a full blown groupware suite before Outlook. For all I know, maybe even Lotus wasn't the first. MS is rarely the first to do anything; they are masters at co-opting other proprietary vendors innovations....then claiming them for their own.
BTW, all of the commercial distros have IP in the kernel and even if they go after some floppy based distro hosted in someone's basement, the commercial distros can't permit the attack on their licensing regime. And they'll be in violation of RH's patent as soon as they try anything against a distro.
Potentially, although I still don't think that this situation gets all linux users/distros out of the woods. In other words, SCO might be on the hook to Linus (who owns copyright on the kernel), but Red Hat et al might be on the hook for distributing SCO's code - and they don't have any copyrights to fight back with (well, none that matter here).
Bzzzzzzzzzt! Nice try! Thank you for calling!
RedHat has made considerable contributions to the kernel over the years. They employ Alan Cox and a number of other kernel hackers to directly contribute to the Linux kernel. That means Red Hat does have "copyrights that matter". Can SCO potentially bash RedHat for their IP? Yes, but RedHat can kick them right back for violating their IP. Oh! And some of that has a patent on it. And after they get through playing rowshambay with RedHat, they can play it with the other Linux companies.
All of this assumes that they have the stomach to get multiple ball kicks after IBM's legal team sodomizes them in court.
Uh....no. A "box" is something else entirely and I have severe doubts that 90% of the guys posting here will ever see one in person. While we're at it, a "rig" is not a modified "box". A "rig" is a piece of equipment that same 90% of Slashdotters will have no real use for except self-pleasure. Well, I suppose a "rig" can be a computer after all.
Newer versions of kmail will just display the raw html with a link at the top of the message pane that says:
Note: This is an HTML message. For security reasons, only the raw HTML code is shown. If you trust the sender of this message then you can activate formatted HTML display for this message by clicking here.
"Here" of course being clickable. Its pure entertainment looking at some of the truly evil Outlook-exploiting shit in some of them. I can easily read mails sent to me from trusted users with clueless clients and still not pull images from spammer servers. Kmail Just Works.
I've seen feeder trays for consumer scanners. If you're willing to destroy the binding of the book you're scanning then it becomes easy. Convert the book into individual sheets, scan the evens and then the odds, interleave and run through Clara. Its not as easy as making mp3s but the pieces of the process can be fire and forget.
Myself, I would rather have the dead tree version of anything I'm reading for pleasure. But don't kid yourself that books have to be hard to scan.
In point of fact, Ritchie created Unix to run a chess program, not for telecommunications.
So we've been running copies of the MCP all this time? That could explain a lot. Now if someone would only de-rez McBride with one of those magic frisbees.
The above reference makes feel so dirty. "Did anybody in here watch that movie Tron?" Everybody leaves their hands down and pretends they didn't hear the question.
While dying they have to pay the last bills, the UNIX "IP" would ve a valluable asset that will be sold to the first lawyer willing to sue somebody again.
It won't be IBM. There has to be a room somewhere in Armonk with reams and reams of case material. If they don't use it to stomp SCO they can surely use it against whoever buys that material. Anyway, I don't think IBM is necessarily opposed to buying that IP themselves. They're just not going pay SCO's market cap for it. Once SCO craters, then yeah they'll likely buy it at a fire-sale price just so nobody else can make trouble with it.
The guy in the article made a similar comment and I fail to see how it's relevant at all. The issue here is that IBM licensed some code and SCO is claiming that IBM then used this licensed code in Linux. That SCO also participated in Linux development is utterly irrelevant unless they themselves also put proprietary Unix code into Linux.
That is only one issue. SCO has been claiming that ALL modern operating systems are in some fashion derived from ideas that they own. They have been talking about per CPU licenses for Linux users and that the "free ride" is over. I'd say their previous Open Source participation is EXTREMELY relevant.
Lycoris seems to be Lindows primary competitor in the "messy divorce from Windows" space. The other Linux distros won't hold your hand as much as Lindows and Lycoris although Mandrake comes close. Lycoris is a bit more expensive but they do bundle Crossover for running Office, IE, and IE plugins in Linux browsers. I've never played with either so I can't evaluate how reliable they are and so forth.
I last played with Mandrake in their 7.x days and gave up due to general flakiness. They may be better but since I'm a satisfied Debian user I have n't looked to see how much they've improved.
Apple, what.. this un-stuffing and copying around.... I don't understand how programs don't run with only one big file either. Come to think of it, when you screw up your configuration, how can you delete the.ini or.conf to start over and get the programming running.
There's two main ways binary distributions of software get installed on OS X. One way is.pkg files which are a lot like the.tgz files Slackware uses. They are unpacked when you doubleclick on them and then scripts inside the file move the various bits around, edit the Netinfo db, and so-forth. You may see a step that takes a long time called "Optimizing Files". If I understand correctly, pre-compiled object files are being linked then the resulting binaries copied to wherever. Apparantly, there are some runtime speed-ups to be had from this. Software Update uses packages in the background. This method seems more likely to be used if something has to update or change system files.
The other major method is application bundles. This is a nifty idea that comes from OS X' NextStep heritage. An application bundle is nothing more than a directory full of files with a special resource file inside it that makes the directory look a single file to the Finder and and end user. Among other things, the resource file gives the directory an icon. Most anything that says, "drag this icon to the hard drive to install" is an application bundle. And yes there are tweakish ways of viewing them as directories and playing with the contents. Apps installed this way don't typically muck about with the system.
As for the preferences, those either per user in ~(that's short for "user's home directory"/Library/Preferences (99% of the time what you're looking for will be here) or in/Library/Preferences (be verrrry afraid).
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Or you could just not buy a lexmark printer. Let the market descide, don't legislate to death.
I would agree with you except for one thing. Lexmark is using the DMCA to stop people from refilling ink cartridges. There's a crypto widget in cartridge that contains copyrighted info. Can't duplicate it. Can't reset it. Do so and it's "legislated to death time". The best outcome would be taking the DMCA behind the barn and having either the Supreme Court or Congress shoot it through the head. Since the media conglomerates and electronics monopolists won't permit the death of their dream come true, I'll take what North Carolina is doing as a consolation prize.
Tik-Tok by John Sladek is a black satire novel about the Three Laws. Tik-Tok is a robot whose "Asimov circuits" are defective. Hiliarity ensues as his psychosis and hatred of humans takes over. Could this have been the prototype for Bender? It isn't just stuff like cutting people up with axes. Tik-Tok has business and political ambitions. The hospitals and old folks homes were priceless or rather they were disturbingly pricey with a callous attitude towards deadbeats......
I hate missing out on all those movie trailers, and the sites my little girl goes to, mainly nickjr.com and playhousedisney.com require shockwave. But I've got an old pc running W98 for that.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/
will take care of the movies nicely. But yes, you will need Crossover to handle Shockwave.
Your java installation and Mozilla both need to have been built with the same version of GCC. The Linux distros have mostly transitioned to GCC 3.2 but the commercial stuff often doesn't move as fast as the community on these infrastructure changes. That said, recent distro builds of Mozilla have been built with GCC 3.2. You just have to doublecheck where you are downloading your JRE from to be sure it's been built with 3.2 as well. The Blackdown guys have GCC 3.2 builds of Java 1.4.
Probably the spread is due to the fact that I'm an immigrant from fUSSR, as are most of the people counted above, so being intelligent people we KNOW that left-wing ideology can lead to Bad Things from personal experience and thorough knowledge of history.
Granted but I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Any political ideology can lead to bad things. To a certain type of cynical mind, ideology is a tool. Check your history. Right-wing ideology has led to some extremely Bad Things as well. I wouldn't count on it to save you from them.
So you're saying that I have to give money to MS to excercise my rights as a U.S. citizen? This is pretty damn ugly. MS offends me on many levels. The idea that I have to license a copy of Windows to vote is extremely repugnant. In any case, there are well documented standards for SSL and HTTP. There is absolutely no excuse for a Windows only platform requirement.
If you're stuff is popular/ubiquitous it is going to be reverse engineered no matter what the native platform is. For small timers, "IP rights" are a lose/lose situation. As you say, college kids have no money and you will not win against the likes of MS or IBM.
It has all of the cheeziness of anime intended for 7 year olds. Why do they have to triumphantly say the names of their weaponry when they shoot someone? ULLLTRAAA LASER! MONDO ROCKET!!! Gack! It makes me want to gouge my eyeballs out. Speaking of Galactica, it also abuses stock footage. Anytime a composite robot transforms, it's a mini tripout video so they can disguise the fact they always use the same clip for that transform. It also has the worst of anime asthetics when humans are portrayed: Upside down gumdrops for eyes, ultrapermed color coded hair, no chins, and flapping gaping orifices for mouths. It contains every bit of suckness that an action cartoon intended for (uncritical) young boys can have.
Put them on at 1:00 in the morning on Friday and Saturday nights. It's not hotly contested time and the hardcore fans would tune it. If you're hardcore about something that obscure, you just have to take what you can get.
What if there is a EULA that you agree to when you open the plastic case?
Nonsense. I notice that the business conservatives here are all about respecting property rights UNLESS it is an individual's property rights. EULAs are absolute horseshit. I sign a notarized contract that's one thing. If I see a little piece of paper fall out of a used X-Box I bought off someone, I'm going to use it to make an airplane or light a fireplace. Actually, that goes double for something I pay real money for in a retail establishment.
That little piece of plastic and cheap electronics is my physical property. If I hack it to run Linux, that is none of Bill Gates' business. If he thinks its his business he can blow me. Running Linux has nothing to do with pirating games or cheating on X-Box Live. It does screw with MS' business model but I couldn't give a flying fuck. That's their problem. The phrase "business model" is not a holy sacrement. It entitles to them to nothing.
MS put out a PC with an integrated motherboard and lousy lockout protection and then sold it at a loss. None of this obligates an X-Box owner to anything except not to steal software or cheat on-line.
We're not going to win that war, all of the decisive battles have already been lost, and our legal options are locked up. Either we admit defeat, and give in to a steady stream of Julia Roberts' movies and their ilk, or we fight on in a different arena. I propose that we build a digital library of all recorded works: music, films, books, etc. and put it on Freenet. There is really no other option available to us, and I think that this will be the endgame. Let's do it before technology becomes illegal too.
That won't work. Freenet was designed to allow dissidents in politically repressive societies to communicate. In so far as that goes, it works. It does not make a very good replacement for Napster or Kazaa. Freenet was designed to accomplish political goals not economic ones.
There is another way. It is slow and won't satisfy anyone here but it is viable. The GPL makes a certain corpus of software completely unpalatable and untouchable to the greediest and most unethical corporations. Some of that software has a high value to end users regardless of the political goals associated with the license. So must it be with creative works that are not software. Works can be created that take full advantage of the distorted state of copyright law but can be used freely as long as you don't intend to completely and utterly own rights to derived works for ever and ever amen. Some of that will be popular because it tells a good story, pulls the heartstrings or whatever. Since we can't change infinitely extended and expanded copyrights, let's use it against them.
the public domain in Australia. As far as copyright is concerned (as opposed to trademarks) Mickey Mouse (via Steamboat Willie) has been in the public domain for nearly 20 years. There hasn't exactly been a glut of 'unwholesome' Mickey films in that time.
I do believe that you have let the cat out of the bag. Let the unwholesome Austrailian Mickey comics begin!
Look at panther, with native QT and X11 modes, there is seriously NO need for linux on the desktop
That requires a commitment to expensive Apple hardware. Don't get me wrong. It's nice kit but very expensive for what it is. I can spend less than $600 on the hardware for a Linux box that will perform more than acceptably. The lowest end Apples start at $800 and will be handlily outperformed by the $600 commodity box.
I would say an acceptable commodity desktop that isn't ruled by any one corporation is much needed. I would trust Apple not to screw me as a user more than MS but not a hell of a lot more. Basically, I don't trust any proprietary vendor. They're always looking to raise/collect the rent.
if you're going to sound like an arrogant blowhard of a jackass
Pot meet kettle. Kettle this is pot.
But in most cases, Microsoft was the first to do these things.
I believe Lotus was a full blown groupware suite before Outlook. For all I know, maybe even Lotus wasn't the first. MS is rarely the first to do anything; they are masters at co-opting other proprietary vendors innovations....then claiming them for their own.
Nobody likes a dick. Fuck off.
Pot meet kettle.
BTW, all of the commercial distros have IP in the kernel and even if they go after some floppy based distro hosted in someone's basement, the commercial distros can't permit the attack on their licensing regime. And they'll be in violation of RH's patent as soon as they try anything against a distro.
Potentially, although I still don't think that this situation gets all linux users/distros out of the woods. In other words, SCO might be on the hook to Linus (who owns copyright on the kernel), but Red Hat et al might be on the hook for distributing SCO's code - and they don't have any copyrights to fight back with (well, none that matter here).
Bzzzzzzzzzt! Nice try! Thank you for calling!
RedHat has made considerable contributions to the kernel over the years. They employ Alan Cox and a number of other kernel hackers to directly contribute to the Linux kernel. That means Red Hat does have "copyrights that matter". Can SCO potentially bash RedHat for their IP? Yes, but RedHat can kick them right back for violating their IP. Oh! And some of that has a patent on it. And after they get through playing rowshambay with RedHat, they can play it with the other Linux companies.
All of this assumes that they have the stomach to get multiple ball kicks after IBM's legal team sodomizes them in court.
'Your computer is a "box"'.
Uh....no. A "box" is something else entirely and I have severe doubts that 90% of the guys posting here will ever see one in person. While we're at it, a "rig" is not a modified "box". A "rig" is a piece of equipment that same 90% of Slashdotters will have no real use for except self-pleasure. Well, I suppose a "rig" can be a computer after all.
Newer versions of kmail will just display the raw html with a link at the top of the message pane that says:
Note: This is an HTML message. For security reasons, only the raw HTML code is shown. If you trust the sender of this message then you can activate formatted HTML display for this message by clicking here.
"Here" of course being clickable. Its pure entertainment looking at some of the truly evil Outlook-exploiting shit in some of them. I can easily read mails sent to me from trusted users with clueless clients and still not pull images from spammer servers. Kmail Just Works.
I've seen feeder trays for consumer scanners. If you're willing to destroy the binding of the book you're scanning then it becomes easy. Convert the book into individual sheets, scan the evens and then the odds, interleave and run through Clara. Its not as easy as making mp3s but the pieces of the process can be fire and forget.
Myself, I would rather have the dead tree version of anything I'm reading for pleasure. But don't kid yourself that books have to be hard to scan.
In point of fact, Ritchie created Unix to run a chess program, not for telecommunications.
So we've been running copies of the MCP all this time? That could explain a lot. Now if someone would only de-rez McBride with one of those magic frisbees.
The above reference makes feel so dirty. "Did anybody in here watch that movie Tron?" Everybody leaves their hands down and pretends they didn't hear the question.
While dying they have to pay the last bills, the UNIX "IP" would ve a valluable asset that will be sold to the first lawyer willing to sue somebody again.
It won't be IBM. There has to be a room somewhere in Armonk with reams and reams of case material. If they don't use it to stomp SCO they can surely use it against whoever buys that material. Anyway, I don't think IBM is necessarily opposed to buying that IP themselves. They're just not going pay SCO's market cap for it. Once SCO craters, then yeah they'll likely buy it at a fire-sale price just so nobody else can make trouble with it.
The guy in the article made a similar comment and I fail to see how it's relevant at all. The issue here is that IBM licensed some code and SCO is claiming that IBM then used this licensed code in Linux. That SCO also participated in Linux development is utterly irrelevant unless they themselves also put proprietary Unix code into Linux.
That is only one issue. SCO has been claiming that ALL modern operating systems are in some fashion derived from ideas that they own. They have been talking about per CPU licenses for Linux users and that the "free ride" is over. I'd say their previous Open Source participation is EXTREMELY relevant.
Lycoris seems to be Lindows primary competitor in the "messy divorce from Windows" space. The other Linux distros won't hold your hand as much as Lindows and Lycoris although Mandrake comes close. Lycoris is a bit more expensive but they do bundle Crossover for running Office, IE, and IE plugins in Linux browsers. I've never played with either so I can't evaluate how reliable they are and so forth.
I last played with Mandrake in their 7.x days and gave up due to general flakiness. They may be better but since I'm a satisfied Debian user I have n't looked to see how much they've improved.
Apple, what.. this un-stuffing and copying around.... I don't understand how programs don't run with only one big file either. Come to think of it, when you screw up your configuration, how can you delete the .ini or .conf to start over and get the programming running.
.pkg files which are a lot like the .tgz files Slackware uses. They are unpacked when you doubleclick on them and then scripts inside the file move the various bits around, edit the Netinfo db, and so-forth. You may see a step that takes a long time called "Optimizing Files". If I understand correctly, pre-compiled object files are being linked then the resulting binaries copied to wherever. Apparantly, there are some runtime speed-ups to be had from this. Software Update uses packages in the background. This method seems more likely to be used if something has to update or change system files.
/Library/Preferences (99% of the time what you're looking for will be here) or in /Library/Preferences (be verrrry afraid).
There's two main ways binary distributions of software get installed on OS X. One way is
The other major method is application bundles. This is a nifty idea that comes from OS X' NextStep heritage. An application bundle is nothing more than a directory full of files with a special resource file inside it that makes the directory look a single file to the Finder and and end user. Among other things, the resource file gives the directory an icon. Most anything that says, "drag this icon to the hard drive to install" is an application bundle. And yes there are tweakish ways of viewing them as directories and playing with the contents. Apps installed this way don't typically muck about with the system.
As for the preferences, those either per user in ~(that's short for "user's home directory"