As a non-US citizen, residing in the US, I can tell you this: I have no rights.
A little known fact about immigrants - until they're naturalized, they're not protected by the Constitution, or any of the other 'benefits' of being a US citizen...
So, if someone 'puts' an E-book on my machine, and a decryptor, then it's okay for me to break into my own system using the software they left for me?
Because those people wouldn't actually be *guilty* of anything more than just putting some software on my system. They didn't do the decryption on a system they didn't own, after all.
What's the DMCA law say about making a *copy* on someone elses machine, for safe-keeping? The notion of 'selling disk space for another system', as it were...
He was *angry enough about something* to want to kill another human being. Defense issues asside, the police *shouldn't have had to be in a position to defend themselves in the first place*.
Corporate greed has overshadowed proper management of politics.
We just make a new protocol when the bandwidth reuires it.
Wouldn't it be cool to be able to hire two people who can *invent* a new language of communication, in realtime, which only *the two of them* could understand, depending on the subject matter being discussed...
Kinda weird and sci-fi, I guess, but then again: so was email, once.
Be interesting to hear the analyses about this one when it's all over.
Ummm.... you're *completely* missing the point.
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The point of this distro is not to solve the age-old mysical problem of linux: no apps.
The point of this distro is to put linux in a *much better* position to become an architecture for development of *hardware-based* music systems using open source tools.
This distro should be at the *end* of the MIDI chain, not trying to drive the front of it.
(In my opinion, software sequencing is held in too high regard by musicians. try playing synth music *live* as much as possible, and see where that takes you for a while... but I digress...)
I'm excited by this distro because it means that with the right tools, and good MIDI *input* capabilities, I could write a pretty fucking amazing hardware sampler system...
Better than Emu. Better than Akai. And yes, even better than the Yamaha samplers.
I don't presume it because it's different, I just don't want to move to PalmDA and have difficulty with my *HUGE* contact databases on the new environment.
It's sorta like the MS Word/.DOC situation, you know what I mean? It's not the app that matters, its the fileformat.
I want to see screenshots of the apps. If I can't seamlessly move from PalmOS Phonebook to LinuxDA Phonebook, then LinuxDA is *NOT READY FOR RELEASE TO ANYONE*.
Make it seamless from v1.0, or make a lot of disappointment. Maybe they've got a good handle on this issue, but in case they dont: it needs to be addressed as a priority from LinuxDA Version 1.0 onwards...
I want to know what sort of tools for development on LinuxDA are available *now*. Are they as good as the PalmOS tools that are available too? If it's not super brainfart easy to develop apps for the LinuxDA environment, without any monkery, then it should be... as soon as possible.
I look forward to checking this out a bit more when the download becomes available. As a developer for Palm, this sort of thing is very interesting...
Thermophiles, the only inhabitants of the Lost City, include archaea, a recently discovered class of organisms which scientists believe are among the most primitive on earth.
Right above NT Administrators, yet only a couple rungs below/. readers.
Because when the service goes down, you can still use them to create a decent wireless network in "node relay" mode.
Tie a bunch of them together over a wide range, and you can use them to leapfrog all the way back to your own bandwidth.
For me, this will work just fine. I live a block away from my office, where I have good bandwidth, and I won't have much difficulty getting the local coffeeshops to let me set up a wireless modem or two to act as node relays back to the home base...
Yeah, though. It is a shame Ricochet is going belly-up. They provided a really, really good service. I can't work out how they managed to lose out - their service rocks, and I'm perfectly happy paying $79.95 a month for it... never seen an unhappy customer, including the 7 people I signed up for their service myself.
Better than I can say for the average ISP, I'd imagine...
Be nice if details on setting up an ssh link between the two were included so that:
1. The X link is compressed.
2. The X link is encrypted.
That way we'd have the ultimate fast/secure connection, and it'd be a lot handier for folks that want to use their X Terminal from anywhere on the 'net...
Generally, a good article though. Note the age of the author - good stuff!
For one thing, it banded together the Japanese electronic giants, and it got the TRON project started.
I'm not kidding - they called the project TRON - *before* the movie came out.
TRON was, (and still is) essentially an effort to establish a standard kernel for all consumer electronic devices made in Japan. It succeeded - pretty every major Japanese electronics powerhouse has a TRON-compatible kernel in their toolkits, and everything from Microwave ovens to Minidisc records and even electronic musical instruments (Yamaha) have TRON-compatible kernels in them.
It may not have resulted in the massive neural net that the original scientists conceived in the very early 80's, but it did result in a lot of very easy embedded systems development in the late 80's...
Oh, and it's also kind of cool for us reverse engineering types that like to pry open the box.
Not to mention the possibility that, having successfully pulled it off, he gets swamped with cash from other space investors who want him to build private rockets just like this for those crazy enough to follow in his footsteps.
If he pulls it off, it's the beginning of a new space race, mark my words. The 'racetrack' this time: our own backyards...
I hope he makes it. I really, really hope he does.
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As a non-US citizen, residing in the US, I can tell you this: I have no rights.
A little known fact about immigrants - until they're naturalized, they're not protected by the Constitution, or any of the other 'benefits' of being a US citizen...
Speak for yourself.
I'm using hash oil for fule in *my* tent!
Pollution never looked so sweet.
But seriously: where do we start? I wanna get off this chunk of rock. It hurts my ass.
FBI?
KGB?
OSS?
EFF?
*core dump. Unable to parse universe.
So, if someone 'puts' an E-book on my machine, and a decryptor, then it's okay for me to break into my own system using the software they left for me?
Because those people wouldn't actually be *guilty* of anything more than just putting some software on my system. They didn't do the decryption on a system they didn't own, after all.
What's the DMCA law say about making a *copy* on someone elses machine, for safe-keeping? The notion of 'selling disk space for another system', as it were...
Ummm... don't miss the point:
He was *angry enough about something* to want to kill another human being. Defense issues asside, the police *shouldn't have had to be in a position to defend themselves in the first place*.
Corporate greed has overshadowed proper management of politics.
We just make a new protocol when the bandwidth reuires it.
...
Wouldn't it be cool to be able to hire two people who can *invent* a new language of communication, in realtime, which only *the two of them* could understand, depending on the subject matter being discussed
Kinda weird and sci-fi, I guess, but then again: so was email, once.
Almost any integer, eh?
None of my int's are good enough.
bah-dumpsh!
Count me in.
We should take a lot of weed with us.
... on a potential future target, if you ask me.
Be interesting to hear the analyses about this one when it's all over.
The point of this distro is not to solve the age-old mysical problem of linux: no apps.
The point of this distro is to put linux in a *much better* position to become an architecture for development of *hardware-based* music systems using open source tools.
This distro should be at the *end* of the MIDI chain, not trying to drive the front of it.
(In my opinion, software sequencing is held in too high regard by musicians. try playing synth music *live* as much as possible, and see where that takes you for a while... but I digress...)
I'm excited by this distro because it means that with the right tools, and good MIDI *input* capabilities, I could write a pretty fucking amazing hardware sampler system...
Better than Emu. Better than Akai. And yes, even better than the Yamaha samplers.
:)
I don't presume it because it's different, I just don't want to move to PalmDA and have difficulty with my *HUGE* contact databases on the new environment.
It's sorta like the MS Word/.DOC situation, you know what I mean? It's not the app that matters, its the fileformat.
I want to see screenshots of the apps. If I can't seamlessly move from PalmOS Phonebook to LinuxDA Phonebook, then LinuxDA is *NOT READY FOR RELEASE TO ANYONE*.
Make it seamless from v1.0, or make a lot of disappointment. Maybe they've got a good handle on this issue, but in case they dont: it needs to be addressed as a priority from LinuxDA Version 1.0 onwards...
I want to know what sort of tools for development on LinuxDA are available *now*. Are they as good as the PalmOS tools that are available too? If it's not super brainfart easy to develop apps for the LinuxDA environment, without any monkery, then it should be... as soon as possible.
I look forward to checking this out a bit more when the download becomes available. As a developer for Palm, this sort of thing is very interesting...
And, thankfully, the reproductive opportunities present in both cases lets Mamma Nature do the weedin' ...
Thermophiles, the only inhabitants of the Lost City, include archaea, a recently discovered class of organisms which scientists believe are among the most primitive on earth.
/. readers.
Right above NT Administrators, yet only a couple rungs below
So how do you find out about these channels then if they're kept so secret?
If so, what's the chances of getting a few CD-ROM's of it... it'd be definitely something I'd want to hang on to, personally.
reality.sgi.com has been a friend of mine.
CD-ROM's weren't a good media to ship software on, either, because "the average consumer didn't have a CD-ROM drive".
Because when the service goes down, you can still use them to create a decent wireless network in "node relay" mode.
... never seen an unhappy customer, including the 7 people I signed up for their service myself.
Tie a bunch of them together over a wide range, and you can use them to leapfrog all the way back to your own bandwidth.
For me, this will work just fine. I live a block away from my office, where I have good bandwidth, and I won't have much difficulty getting the local coffeeshops to let me set up a wireless modem or two to act as node relays back to the home base...
Yeah, though. It is a shame Ricochet is going belly-up. They provided a really, really good service. I can't work out how they managed to lose out - their service rocks, and I'm perfectly happy paying $79.95 a month for it
Better than I can say for the average ISP, I'd imagine...
Be nice if details on setting up an ssh link between the two were included so that:
1. The X link is compressed.
2. The X link is encrypted.
That way we'd have the ultimate fast/secure connection, and it'd be a lot handier for folks that want to use their X Terminal from anywhere on the 'net...
Generally, a good article though. Note the age of the author - good stuff!
For one thing, it banded together the Japanese electronic giants, and it got the TRON project started.
...
I'm not kidding - they called the project TRON - *before* the movie came out.
TRON was, (and still is) essentially an effort to establish a standard kernel for all consumer electronic devices made in Japan. It succeeded - pretty every major Japanese electronics powerhouse has a TRON-compatible kernel in their toolkits, and everything from Microwave ovens to Minidisc records and even electronic musical instruments (Yamaha) have TRON-compatible kernels in them.
It may not have resulted in the massive neural net that the original scientists conceived in the very early 80's, but it did result in a lot of very easy embedded systems development in the late 80's
Oh, and it's also kind of cool for us reverse engineering types that like to pry open the box.
:)
And, it looks like you did a good job sorting it out.
Great site, and a great service. Thank you!
... Ogg Vorbis has a linux version with sour ...
Oh. Never mind.
That is pretty cool.
Question.
Is it like this?
\SomeAppDir\!Application
\SomeAppDir\!Application\!Sprites
etc.
Or is it like this?
\SomeAppDir\!Application
\SomeAppDir\!Sprites
etc.
Just curious... RISC OS sounds fun.
It would indeed be an incredible feat.
Not to mention the possibility that, having successfully pulled it off, he gets swamped with cash from other space investors who want him to build private rockets just like this for those crazy enough to follow in his footsteps.
If he pulls it off, it's the beginning of a new space race, mark my words. The 'racetrack' this time: our own backyards...
I hope he makes it. I really, really hope he does.