Yes, it is g++, but Apple renamed it c++. I made a symlink to cc, and named it gcc, so as not to confuse myself. I also compiled & installed bash. If you'd like, you can certainly install the official gcc package from ftp.gnu.org; it should compile and install just fine.
I'm also reading this from work, and fortunately it's not busy today. One observation:
You say consumers are getting dumber. This isn't true. What's happening is, computers are becoming more widespread. Most of the people who are too dumb to use a computer simply weren't using computers a decade ago. Now, in an effort to increase sales, companies have managed to convince those people that they're not too dumb anymore.
On top of this, there is a huge number of people who, for some reason, seem to believe that computers are inherently scary things. Say something that normally makes perfect sense in any other context, and the moment they get the idea that it has to do with computers, they are suddenly reduced to drooling idiots. These are the people who believe that plain-English status and error messages are a secret code that can only be decyphered by computer people. This is the sort of delusion that people need to get over.
There really isn't a business reason for the ISP to protect the user. After all, they don't have a time-based contract. The user can't sue the ISP (I think) for terminating them illegally, unless the ISP refuses to return any prepaid moneys or deposits.
Any ISP that doesn't state that in their terms of service needs to fire their legal department, and probably upper management too. Try to find me an ISP that doesn't reserve the right to terminate accounts at any time for any reason. It's just a good idea, for the same reason supermarkets and other retail stores have little signs that say they reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.
Consider: as more people started using Napster, record sales went UP. People spent MORE money on music. I'll bet you if the RIAA wins this battle, record sales will drop again, and not because of deliberate boycotting.
It's very important to make this distinction!!! We should not be trying to file lawsuits against 0 and 1, even if they may annoy us. Those lawsuits dillute the issue of 2, 3 and 4, which must be stopped.
It looks like paypal@slackware.com but I'm gonna hold off on that for a couple of days until I get confirmation that WindRiver isn't gonna try to steal that.
To be a criminal you must cause another person harm, against their will.
Uhh...
You might want to consult an attorney. Last I checked, it was illegal to do a lot of things that don't harm other people.
Buying alcohol before you're 21 is the first thing that comes to mind. Prostitution is illegal. Buying or selling illegal drugs is illegal. Running a red light when no other cars are on the road is illegal.
It has been said that open source will provide 50% of software for the country. The result of this is less money into the economy. If people now buy one $50 Redhat installer instead of 10,000 Microsoft licenses, there is that much less money into the economy.
Wait a minute, you're saying that people paying RedHat $50 instead of paying Microsoft $100 means $50 less into the economy? Can someone explain this to me? Won't consumers just spend that $50 on something else (maybe hardware?), thereby still injecting the full $100 into the economy? It's just going into RedHat and some other company, instead of into Microsoft.
I would imagine that Apple is scared of torquing-off any developers that have competing projects, but there is really no one left in Home Page's price catagory on the Mac. I think that is sad. How (in 2001) can you ship a product that does not give the user the ability to create web pages out of the box? (Okay, I know there's SimpleText -but you know what I mean!)
iMacs and iBooks come bundled with AppleWorks 6, which does let you create Web pages. AppleWorks is $99, and I'm sure the educational price isn't much above $59.
Good to hear that so many people are concerned about the future of HyperCard, and nice to see this sort of thing on Slashdot. HyperCard is amazingly powerful. Most people don't understand what it is or what it can do - and unfortunately Steve Jobs can be counted among that group.
If anyone's interested, Cannons and Castles is a HyperCard port I did of an old Apple II game. Well, sort of a port and sort of a rewrite. Anyway, if you've got a Mac, or Basilisk II or something, check it out.
This could also be used to prevent users from hacking the binary to make it not display advertising banners! The hacked binary wouldn't return the proper checksum, and you'd get kicked offline with a message saying you're using an unsupported client.
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You say consumers are getting dumber. This isn't true. What's happening is, computers are becoming more widespread. Most of the people who are too dumb to use a computer simply weren't using computers a decade ago. Now, in an effort to increase sales, companies have managed to convince those people that they're not too dumb anymore.
On top of this, there is a huge number of people who, for some reason, seem to believe that computers are inherently scary things. Say something that normally makes perfect sense in any other context, and the moment they get the idea that it has to do with computers, they are suddenly reduced to drooling idiots. These are the people who believe that plain-English status and error messages are a secret code that can only be decyphered by computer people. This is the sort of delusion that people need to get over.
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Any ISP that doesn't state that in their terms of service needs to fire their legal department, and probably upper management too. Try to find me an ISP that doesn't reserve the right to terminate accounts at any time for any reason. It's just a good idea, for the same reason supermarkets and other retail stores have little signs that say they reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.
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Au contraire. Bad laws are meant to be fixed. Write your congressmen.
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Uhh...
You might want to consult an attorney. Last I checked, it was illegal to do a lot of things that don't harm other people.
Buying alcohol before you're 21 is the first thing that comes to mind. Prostitution is illegal. Buying or selling illegal drugs is illegal. Running a red light when no other cars are on the road is illegal.
There are more. I'm tired. Good night everybody!
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Wait a minute, you're saying that people paying RedHat $50 instead of paying Microsoft $100 means $50 less into the economy? Can someone explain this to me? Won't consumers just spend that $50 on something else (maybe hardware?), thereby still injecting the full $100 into the economy? It's just going into RedHat and some other company, instead of into Microsoft.
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This assumes that there's extra-terrestrial life to be found in the first place.
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Sadly, there are not only fake AIM clients that spam, there are also VB scripts that interface with the official Windows AIM client and spam.
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All your Hypercard are belong to us.
Singular noun, plural verb.
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You don't use HyperCard, obviously. There isn't much it can't do, even today, although it's gotten rather clunky about some things.
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iMacs and iBooks come bundled with AppleWorks 6, which does let you create Web pages. AppleWorks is $99, and I'm sure the educational price isn't much above $59.
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If anyone's interested, Cannons and Castles is a HyperCard port I did of an old Apple II game. Well, sort of a port and sort of a rewrite. Anyway, if you've got a Mac, or Basilisk II or something, check it out.
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Oh, OK, I thought I'd seen something more complicated than that. Never mind.
And as you yourself point out, the TOC protocol is a completely-legit way to access the service without ads.
AOL allows TOC clients without ads. They're just pissed off about OSCAR clients.
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