Anyone else notice the judges references to the case Scientology brought against Netcom?
The Religious Technology Center is (or was) a front organization for Scientology whose purpose was to hold Scientology's copyrights and then sue people who post anything from their matierial or even replied to a message which contained fragments of something from their material. They seem to have no understanding of the concept of "Fair Use". Most of them are available to someone who spends more then 5 minutes looking for them.
Can anyone find the reference to an alledged method used to indirectly intimidate judges hearing their cases?
Even though this isn't a copyright case, is there a defense which goes along the lines of, "I had to reverse engineer it to write my own player".
Below is from another post. He is dead on about the configuration. Use Java as your platform and then your interface will be very portable using compatiblity libraries for system dependant calls (duh). You then have almost a set-top box. You can control the connection and even download updated information or upgrades during off hours. Think of the support options this gives you, the support guy can dial into your machine and boot into a maintenence partion to fix your system.
Using Mandrake Linux 6.0 or later you get a free copy of the most well known and used distribution of Linux.
They are trying to use Intel's 810 chipset and a cheap CPU. The problem is the 810 chipset has everything supported through USB and the modem is a softmodem, even worse then a WinModem piece of crap. USB isn't fully supported by Linux yet so you can't have mouse support. The 810 has a emulation mode to let it use a USB keyboard so the rest of the machine doesn't know it isn't a normal keyboard. These cheap motherboards have a sound card built it which really increases the Linux support problems.
You end up with a cheap machine you can't do anything with until the hardware makers give you specialized drivers or some hacker whips up one. Neither is something big PC OEMs want to do.
It's funny though, watching PC/Windows experts not having a clue about how to install/navigate/use a Linux system. Being an expert in MS proprietary software gets you squat in the rest of the industry, although I did hear that someone started porting the COM libraries to Linux. As a side note, I find it interesting that one of the more useful features of ATL are templates that wrap your interfaces in classes so you don't have to worry about their scope anymore. I wonder why that "feature" wasn't included in COM to begin with.
Don't get me started on COM...
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--- Quoted post below --- I have no idea how this will be implemented, but here's how I would do it. Create a "system" partition to contain the OS and software, a swap partition, a config partition, and a data partition. Only give the user access to the data partition. Store application configuration information on the config partition. If the OS dies for any reason, boot to the special CD that ships with the PC, and the "system" partition will be wiped and reloaded. On the software side, it would be virtually maintenance free, and user data would not be wiped out if you had to delete the system partition.
When we bought our house it wasn't wired for cable. My wife happens to work for Tandy and they were having an incredible special on DirecTV packages which let us get the dish and receiver for around $35. We pay around $30 a month for a few hundred free channels and probably over a hundred pay-per-view channels which carry movies that are a month or two out of the theatres. The only thing we really don't get in our package is the HBO/Skinemax/Showtime type networks but you can if you want to pay more. We've never missed them. I don't think that renting your equipment really saves you any money but some people don't like spending $100-200 up front. I could be wrong but I think that only DirecTV offers the Sunday Ticket type sports arrangements that offers all televised games.
Bottom line is that we really like our DirecTV setup but the other guys is right, spend money on the upgraded receiver, you'll like the speed and improved interface.
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Anyone else notice the judges references to the case Scientology brought against Netcom?
The Religious Technology Center is (or was) a front organization for Scientology whose purpose was to hold Scientology's copyrights and then sue people who post anything from their matierial or even replied to a message which contained fragments of something from their material. They seem to have no understanding of the concept of "Fair Use". Most of them are available to someone who spends more then 5 minutes looking for them.
Can anyone find the reference to an alledged method used to indirectly intimidate judges hearing their cases?
Even though this isn't a copyright case, is there a defense which goes along the lines of, "I had to reverse engineer it to write my own player".
Isn't Quebec the 'Alien' province?
Below is from another post. He is dead on about the configuration. Use Java as your platform and then your interface will be very portable using compatiblity libraries for system dependant calls (duh). You then have almost a set-top box. You can control the connection and even download updated information or upgrades during off hours. Think of the support options this gives you, the support guy can dial into your machine and boot into a maintenence partion to fix your system.
Using Mandrake Linux 6.0 or later you get a free copy of the most well known and used distribution of Linux.
They are trying to use Intel's 810 chipset and a cheap CPU. The problem is the 810 chipset has everything supported through USB and the modem is a softmodem, even worse then a WinModem piece of crap. USB isn't fully supported by Linux yet so you can't have mouse support. The 810 has a emulation mode to let it use a USB keyboard so the rest of the machine doesn't know it isn't a normal keyboard. These cheap motherboards have a sound card built it which really increases the Linux support problems.
You end up with a cheap machine you can't do anything with until the hardware makers give you specialized drivers or some hacker whips up one. Neither is something big PC OEMs want to do.
It's funny though, watching PC/Windows experts not having a clue about how to install/navigate/use a Linux system. Being an expert in MS proprietary software gets you squat in the rest of the industry, although I did hear that someone started porting the COM libraries to Linux. As a side note, I find it interesting that one of the more useful features of ATL are templates that wrap your interfaces in classes so you don't have to worry about their scope anymore. I wonder why that "feature" wasn't included in COM to begin with.
Don't get me started on COM...
I disavow all knowledge of this post, its a pigment of your fimagination
--- Quoted post below ---
I have no idea how this will be implemented, but here's how I would do it. Create a "system" partition to contain the OS and software, a swap partition, a config partition, and a data partition. Only give the user access to the data partition. Store application configuration information on the config partition. If the OS dies for any reason, boot to the special CD that ships with the PC, and the "system" partition will be wiped and reloaded. On the software side, it would be virtually maintenance free, and user data would not be wiped out if you had to delete the system partition.
When we bought our house it wasn't wired for cable. My wife happens to work for Tandy and they were having an incredible special on DirecTV packages which let us get the dish and receiver for around $35. We pay around $30 a month for a few hundred free channels and probably over a hundred pay-per-view channels which carry movies that are a month or two out of the theatres. The only thing we really don't get in our package is the HBO/Skinemax/Showtime type networks but you can if you want to pay more. We've never missed them. I don't think that renting your equipment really saves you any money but some people don't like spending $100-200 up front. I could be wrong but I think that only DirecTV offers the Sunday Ticket type sports arrangements that offers all televised games.
Bottom line is that we really like our DirecTV setup but the other guys is right, spend money on the upgraded receiver, you'll like the speed and improved interface.
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