Re:Oh that's very responsible of you, SlashDot
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Microsoft News Update
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I just installed a fresh w2k last night, after not being able to get my ATI All in Wonder Radeon 7500 to work with XF86 (what's with that? btw... tried RH7.3, Mdk8.2, and Lycoris to no avail, although they all recognized the card). The only things installed thus far are the OS and the ATI drivers/apps (for running the USB remote and such). I can assure you that this binary took the box out as quick as I could hit enter.
The question was how do we know the animal tests were successful; not whether or not they were. For example, was an other-wise blind dog able to cross a street or handle a maze without 'feeling' his way through, bumping into walls?
It's a new approach at building those emergency boot disks, so that you get exactly what you need/want. I dont' care what you can fit on two floppies; there will be times when you don't have what you need. This tries to address that problem in a rather interesting(if not terribly intuitive) way.
Kinki University in Japan led the research, sponsored by the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan...
That's a mistranslation. The correct English translation would be Corporation for Private Schoolgirls of Japan
God, I love Kinki University.
Re:Too politcal vs. too productive
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LWCE Wrapup
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It's that his politics don't agree with theirs. HP stopped Bruce from doing the DVD demo at the encryption convention, which he was doing to point out how the DMCA protects stupidity. About two days later HP sited the DMCA while trying to stop a press release on a security bug in HP-UX iirc. I'm sure he's just being rational and trying not to burn that bridge.
You just recompile the games we have. I've got a Sharp Zaurus. I've got pacman(i think the origianl rom:) an asteroids game, doom and quake(have to switch between those) on a 256MB compact flash.
I read a comment not long ago that I agree with: turn the movie/tv industry into a "normal" industry. An industry that is relatively easy to break-in to. Where we regard the best as great workers and give them a bit more money; but nothing as absorbitant as $1.5M/week to shoot Friends. More like $125,000 or so for a season. Let everyone work, spend a LOT less money per movie/episode, and make a lot more of them; allowing everyone to work. I'm a capitalist at heart, don't get me wrong; but isn't the industry working somewhat backwards now?
Why did some mega-rich guy just spend $7M USD to win $1M USD? Surely that was academic? There may be little to no business use for this; but so what? You never climbed a hill or mountain just to see the view? When's the last time you just HAD to get away from the city lights to see the stars? Did you spend some money getting away or maybe on a vacation? What about the possibility that a high school senior just got an Xbox for x-mas, and that he wont be able to afford a computer (never had one in his house) for college next fall? Maybe his roommate could throw linux on it for him, costing only the mod_chip. There are countless reasons to do it. If you're the one dishing out the $100,000, then I'd worry; but people have spent a lot more than that on fun.
On a side note, I seem to remember Bill Gates saying that anyone able to get linux on the Xbox has a job waiting for them at M$.
It was this kids way of getting attention for his new start-up. He didn't do anything but demonstrate someone else's technology. I think the article sort of danced around the idea that he's encouraging copying of games, and the rental of those copies. He's only taking a commision on setting-up the rental of games owned by others, after all; what would he care if a few of those games were actually copies.
This is one thing the X-Box got right - port your PC game over in days, not months.
If X-Box development is that easy for PC game developers, why wouldn't the opposite hold true? First example that pops to mind is: Why is Halo not coming out for PC until next August?
And while looking at the source code I've stumbled across the gpl about 10 times. A file named HISTORY lists afaber as the originator. One interesting piece I found was the NeoAudio liscense which "prohibits" asking for money or donations for copies, although they label it "freeware."
Please Support them. I'm sure every bit helps, I've just sent my $5USD.
Re:The death of the zoom tool
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IBM's Deep View
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I believe that ROX Desktop http://rox.sf.net is vector-based, so would scale very well to this screen. It's quick as all-get-out and light to a point that it would be wise to use on a graphic-intensive ws; though I think this bad boy (DeepView) could handle just about any environment you through at it.
Do you mean add to their distribution, or add code to other GPL code? They are also welcome to come out with "Microsoft Linux" with propreitary software bundled in it. It is also fine to tack a per seat license on the propreitary additions, allowing them to effectively make Win2004 right on top of linux without giving much of anything back to the community in way of source code. Read the GPL and know it. Know what it means, as there remain serious questions about loopholes in the rhetoric the GPL uses to get its point across.
You can use crossover plugin from http://www.codeweavers.com which comes with Apple's Quicktime player. Not native, but codeweaver's products kick arse.
There have been some questions lately over the legal/copyright issues surrounding internet archives. In a discussion of the topic here on slashdot, others pointed out the implications of your past, possibly as a child/minor, coming back to haunt you in the form of your newsgroup archives. What, if any, are your thoughts on these topics; and have you faced any interesting legal/moral dilemnas in those areas?
I replied with this thought a bit earlier? Is a proxy server illegal/immoral? That's doing the exact same thing; copying copyrighted material and rebroadcasting it, it just doesn't do it over port 80.
AOL already made a linux client for the Gateway WebPad thingy that ran linux. Other than that, Wal-Mart apparently is an ISP, as they sell dial-up for $10/month probably through NetZero/Juno; but I don't know.
Unfortunately, they don't bypass the need for the eardrum. The sound resonates through your skull; but those vibrations are picked-up by your eardrum, which is a tightly pulled film attached to the nerves that translate its vibrations to sound.
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I just installed a fresh w2k last night, after not being able to get my ATI All in Wonder Radeon 7500 to work with XF86 (what's with that? btw... tried RH7.3, Mdk8.2, and Lycoris to no avail, although they all recognized the card). The only things installed thus far are the OS and the ATI drivers/apps (for running the USB remote and such). I can assure you that this binary took the box out as quick as I could hit enter.
The question was how do we know the animal tests were successful; not whether or not they were. For example, was an other-wise blind dog able to cross a street or handle a maze without 'feeling' his way through, bumping into walls?
It's a new approach at building those emergency boot disks, so that you get exactly what you need/want. I dont' care what you can fit on two floppies; there will be times when you don't have what you need. This tries to address that problem in a rather interesting(if not terribly intuitive) way.
Kinki University in Japan led the research, sponsored by the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan...
That's a mistranslation. The correct English translation would be Corporation for Private Schoolgirls of Japan
God, I love Kinki University.
It's that his politics don't agree with theirs. HP stopped Bruce from doing the DVD demo at the encryption convention, which he was doing to point out how the DMCA protects stupidity. About two days later HP sited the DMCA while trying to stop a press release on a security bug in HP-UX iirc. I'm sure he's just being rational and trying not to burn that bridge.
You just recompile the games we have. I've got a Sharp Zaurus. I've got pacman(i think the origianl rom:) an asteroids game, doom and quake(have to switch between those) on a 256MB compact flash.
I read a comment not long ago that I agree with: turn the movie/tv industry into a "normal" industry. An industry that is relatively easy to break-in to. Where we regard the best as great workers and give them a bit more money; but nothing as absorbitant as $1.5M/week to shoot Friends. More like $125,000 or so for a season. Let everyone work, spend a LOT less money per movie/episode, and make a lot more of them; allowing everyone to work. I'm a capitalist at heart, don't get me wrong; but isn't the industry working somewhat backwards now?
On a side note, I seem to remember Bill Gates saying that anyone able to get linux on the Xbox has a job waiting for them at M$.
It was this kids way of getting attention for his new start-up. He didn't do anything but demonstrate someone else's technology. I think the article sort of danced around the idea that he's encouraging copying of games, and the rental of those copies. He's only taking a commision on setting-up the rental of games owned by others, after all; what would he care if a few of those games were actually copies.
If X-Box development is that easy for PC game developers, why wouldn't the opposite hold true? First example that pops to mind is: Why is Halo not coming out for PC until next August?
And while looking at the source code I've stumbled across the gpl about 10 times. A file named HISTORY lists afaber as the originator. One interesting piece I found was the NeoAudio liscense which "prohibits" asking for money or donations for copies, although they label it "freeware."
Please Support them. I'm sure every bit helps, I've just sent my $5USD.
I believe that ROX Desktop http://rox.sf.net is vector-based, so would scale very well to this screen. It's quick as all-get-out and light to a point that it would be wise to use on a graphic-intensive ws; though I think this bad boy (DeepView) could handle just about any environment you through at it.
Marge, come'ere, this guy does the best Flanders! He's got the moustache and the did-ly.
Cheers.
HAHAHA... that's the third time I read this and finally got it :) Where the hell are my mod points when i need them?
Do you mean add to their distribution, or add code to other GPL code? They are also welcome to come out with "Microsoft Linux" with propreitary software bundled in it. It is also fine to tack a per seat license on the propreitary additions, allowing them to effectively make Win2004 right on top of linux without giving much of anything back to the community in way of source code. Read the GPL and know it. Know what it means, as there remain serious questions about loopholes in the rhetoric the GPL uses to get its point across.
They'll be announcing Office XP for Linux?
It's actually the first book, then they're releasing the 5th and 6th versions. We'll see the 1st, 2nd and 3rd in about 25 years.
You can use crossover plugin from http://www.codeweavers.com which comes with Apple's Quicktime player. Not native, but codeweaver's products kick arse.
There have been some questions lately over the legal /copyright issues surrounding internet archives. In a discussion of the topic here on slashdot, others pointed out the implications of your past, possibly as a child/minor, coming back to haunt you in the form of your newsgroup archives. What, if any, are your thoughts on these topics; and have you faced any interesting legal/moral dilemnas in those areas?
Hey, that's OK. I was over-generalizing on an issue I'm in no way expert. Sorry to upset you so; but thanks for the info.
I replied with this thought a bit earlier? Is a proxy server illegal/immoral? That's doing the exact same thing; copying copyrighted material and rebroadcasting it, it just doesn't do it over port 80.
Let me ask you this... is a proxy server illegal/immoral? That's all this is.
AOL already made a linux client for the Gateway WebPad thingy that ran linux. Other than that, Wal-Mart apparently is an ISP, as they sell dial-up for $10/month probably through NetZero/Juno; but I don't know.
Unfortunately, they don't bypass the need for the eardrum. The sound resonates through your skull; but those vibrations are picked-up by your eardrum, which is a tightly pulled film attached to the nerves that translate its vibrations to sound.