I'd suggest using one of the bare-bones windowmanagers like blackbox. Take apps from kde, gnome or both (configure them to look the same, there are some themes that are available for both, like the next-clones and notif/motif.).
Slashdot has a comment area so things like this can pop up when the news is doubtful. Unlike many other "news" sites. Slashdot maybe wrong about as often as they are, but at least we'll find out by checking the comments.
Many region 2 dvd's are really crap. Bad quality, subtitles you can't turn off, non-widescreen... and there's not nearly as many. There are tons of great movies that are only available as region 1.
(Personally, I don't have a DVD player and I only have one DVD, "Blood of Dragon Peril." which is a regionless (region 0) DVD.)
I long for the day when discs with ogg theora flourish.
It's a pun, but it is insightful. I'm sure the poster did know that it wasn't war as in "war".
Wardriving, however, is sort of a guerilla tactic. It's not entirely legit but it is a good thing. "Take to the routers and the warchalks." (Yeah, I've been reading that Sterling speech a lot.)
As for the film, the way I heard it was that the practise got it's name from the film and the film got it's name from a game that's played in the movie.
Free/open source fixes all of those things. With open source - file formats should be no trouble, so that's issue #1. It's generally interoperable, and it's in itself (by having source) an "open standard", so that's #2. As for #3, if the code is open then anyone could hire anyone to fix the bugs. Just in case the vendor folds. As for #4 -- open source wins again. #5: huh? why not just have open source from the beginning?
Open source also fixes a lot of the problems you don't directly adress, like allowing easy fixing and allowing more ability to share, and more control over the workplace (via source) to government workers.
...but it's actually a good idea, since this way they cater to the warez-ers as well. Imagine some annoying teen buying a computer. "Linux, FreeBSD? Uhh.." vs. "No OS? Good, I'll ask someone give me a copy of Windows eXPloitation and help me install it."
"So, software writen today must anticipate changes to all future versions? How much sense does that make?"
xml.openoffice.org
That's what the x in xml is. Exstensible.
Government using proprietary software would suck.
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"It's no more right for the OSS community to lock people in"
You'd think that it would be obvious that you can't lock somebody up in an open prison, but apparently not...
A) The existance of high-quality free, open source software is something that would benefit almost everyone, so you can see why I would be pissed at spending time and money dealing with a government that (directly or indirectly) funds proprietary software.
B) A proprietary program is locked in to a particular vendor. I don't like my government being "ruled" by a third party (like Redmond or Cupertino). Entering a contract with Microsoft is like dealing with the devil. You can't use the source and you have to obey the shots they call.
C) If there is some free program missing that does not do what non-free software can do - well, it has to be written then, hasn't it? This law would only help that, not hinder it. Most economics systems can be financed as custom software anyway, which is in no conflict to free software.
D) "Non-freeness", or not having source freely available, is such a big drawback for most software that I can't think of a case where it would be "superior" to free software. Do you want your government using Outlook, Word or Flash? I certainly don't.
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Wouldn't faster computers only mean faster "thinking", not better? I guess that's why they have clocks at tournaments.
To be honest I still lose against GNU chess if it plays with the opening book. But it opened my eyes to use my knights better.
Yeah. My school has wifi so I thought this would be a good idea.
Starting it as a grassroots movement would be great and for times when you're out in the country you'd connect to the internet some other way.
("Why do you sound so bad?" "Well, I'm calling over a modem.")
We could start a cooperative making cheap phones for all who wanted, but, since the network would be free, also allowing pda/wireless or laptops or phones from competitors et cetera.
Oh, maybe some of the phones could be relay stations as well as end units. That'd be cool.
Why I can see that producers of content would want even harsher copyright laws (and that we consumers would of course want to oppose them) - why do the laws have to be so stupid? We're fighting a large, powerful, dumb power. That doesn't make it less threatening but it does make it more annoying and frustrating. That they want to forbid free copying of movies among friends (legal in, for example, Sweden now but probably not for long) I can see. Why they're fighting DeCSS and things like that I can't. That's just dumb.
They've been working on chess computers for like a gazillion years. They've been working on go computers for what... since the eighties?
Chess computers aren't just "mindless bruteforced automatons", but tuned for the player they're going to meet.
If they would've put in as much energy making a go computer - if go would have been as popular as chess - they would be, well, maybe not as far as chess programs are today (because there are more possible moves in go and it is very different from chess), but almost.
Face it, as much as I long for the day when go is more popular than chess - currently chess is "the classic game" in many people's (including geeks) minds.
I saw go players in the park two days ago! Go is spreading!
Would that work? Build some "special phone hardware" that can use current 802.11 hotspots to connect to the internet. This would be a nice incentive for people to put up more hotspots, and it would also mean free calls.
We should probably use some free, existing voice-over-IP net so people could still call with their computers and stuff like that.
I just got my first go board a few days before the article on K5. Coincidence. I didn't know it was in "a beautiful mind". I like go better than hex because hex is frustrating when you fall behind. (I felt that) there's often a clear leader. Sure, the leader can "slip up", do a mistake, and the game is good again, but...
I've played a lot of Othello but never mastered it really. Fiddly to flip those pieces. I played gAttaxx some, too, when I was playing with the old Gnome.
Go is bad if you're clumsy at finger work, at least the board I have. Unlike Gomoku or Hex you have to pick up stones occasionally, when they DIE.
Go is a really nice game, I prefer it over Shogi. I've never won a shogi game in my life. Shogi is like trying to learn chess all over again.
You can have static, fixed, relative or absolute positioning, you can easily place items whereever you want to on the page. IMHO it's MUCH easier than tables but it's very different. Just learn it.
The fact that it's class based with inheritance makes it even better.
Sure, thanks! Me and my friends will gladly share our music, video and books while you and your friends will just sit in isolation hoarding your stuff because "sharing is theft!".
That's a great idea, actually. Even if it wouldn't work (I can't see why not), it would be a great art stunt, a real message to the number hoarders. Can someone start work on this ASAP?
Actually, the soviet system still was very hierarchical and unfair. Statist marxism, especially the leninist or post-leninist versions, does not appeal much to me.
Why would any country want to host a parasitic company that hoards it's software and calls copying stealing? Newsflash: copying = constructive since you combat scarcity; copyright = destructive since you create scarcity.
If, as you say, recieving things that has has value without paying the price is theft, then you were a thief on your last birthday (or whenever you last recieved a gift).
Theft is taking something *from someone* That other person actually has to lose something. (No, not "earn less". If you have a lemonade stand and I set up another lemonade stand and compete with you, am I a thief?)
Unauthorized copying is a crime and if you think it's immoral, please say so instead of using the old "it's theft"-bullshit. Or are you afraid your arguments don't hold up without that connection to something so frowned upon as theft?
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Yeah, but it wasn't GPL by then, IIRC.
"In this new case, you have to look at J1 to work out your encoding scheme, so the encoding scheme is a derivative work."
No, this can be automated.
Make your own J2, or use some old Mary Shelley book or whatever, then have a bot xor it with P2 to create F(), and then put up that webpage.
I'd suggest using one of the bare-bones windowmanagers like blackbox. Take apps from kde, gnome or both (configure them to look the same, there are some themes that are available for both, like the next-clones and notif/motif.).
Slashdot has a comment area so things like this can pop up when the news is doubtful. Unlike many other "news" sites. Slashdot maybe wrong about as often as they are, but at least we'll find out by checking the comments.
Price isn't the only issue here.
Many region 2 dvd's are really crap. Bad quality, subtitles you can't turn off, non-widescreen... and there's not nearly as many. There are tons of great movies that are only available as region 1.
(Personally, I don't have a DVD player and I only have one DVD, "Blood of Dragon Peril." which is a regionless (region 0) DVD.)
I long for the day when discs with ogg theora flourish.
It's a pun, but it is insightful. I'm sure the poster did know that it wasn't war as in "war".
Wardriving, however, is sort of a guerilla tactic. It's not entirely legit but it is a good thing. "Take to the routers and the warchalks." (Yeah, I've been reading that Sterling speech a lot.)
As for the film, the way I heard it was that the practise got it's name from the film and the film got it's name from a game that's played in the movie.
I thought the film was good, I recommend it.
". . That's exactly what I had back in 1980 with Radio Shack Color Basic." ...and the bad part is...?
Free/open source fixes all of those things. With open source - file formats should be no trouble, so that's issue #1. It's generally interoperable, and it's in itself (by having source) an "open standard", so that's #2. As for #3, if the code is open then anyone could hire anyone to fix the bugs. Just in case the vendor folds. As for #4 -- open source wins again. #5: huh? why not just have open source from the beginning?
Open source also fixes a lot of the problems you don't directly adress, like allowing easy fixing and allowing more ability to share, and more control over the workplace (via source) to government workers.
...but it's actually a good idea, since this way they cater to the warez-ers as well. Imagine some annoying teen buying a computer. "Linux, FreeBSD? Uhh.." vs. "No OS? Good, I'll ask someone give me a copy of Windows eXPloitation and help me install it."
If it's not better, make it better. Quartz is not free.
"So, software writen today must anticipate changes to all future versions? How much sense does that make?"
xml.openoffice.org
That's what the x in xml is. Exstensible.
"It's no more right for the OSS community to lock people in"
You'd think that it would be obvious that you can't lock somebody up in an open prison, but apparently not...
A) The existance of high-quality free, open source software is something that would benefit almost everyone, so you can see why I would be pissed at spending time and money dealing with a government that (directly or indirectly) funds proprietary software.
B) A proprietary program is locked in to a particular vendor. I don't like my government being "ruled" by a third party (like Redmond or Cupertino). Entering a contract with Microsoft is like dealing with the devil. You can't use the source and you have to obey the shots they call.
C) If there is some free program missing that does not do what non-free software can do - well, it has to be written then, hasn't it? This law would only help that, not hinder it. Most economics systems can be financed as custom software anyway, which is in no conflict to free software.
D) "Non-freeness", or not having source freely available, is such a big drawback for most software that I can't think of a case where it would be "superior" to free software. Do you want your government using Outlook, Word or Flash? I certainly don't.
Wouldn't faster computers only mean faster "thinking", not better? I guess that's why they have clocks at tournaments.
To be honest I still lose against GNU chess if it plays with the opening book. But it opened my eyes to use my knights better.
Yeah. My school has wifi so I thought this would be a good idea.
Starting it as a grassroots movement would be great and for times when you're out in the country you'd connect to the internet some other way.
("Why do you sound so bad?" "Well, I'm calling over a modem.")
We could start a cooperative making cheap phones for all who wanted, but, since the network would be free, also allowing pda/wireless or laptops or phones from competitors et cetera.
Oh, maybe some of the phones could be relay stations as well as end units. That'd be cool.
Why I can see that producers of content would want even harsher copyright laws (and that we consumers would of course want to oppose them) - why do the laws have to be so stupid? We're fighting a large, powerful, dumb power. That doesn't make it less threatening but it does make it more annoying and frustrating. That they want to forbid free copying of movies among friends (legal in, for example, Sweden now but probably not for long) I can see. Why they're fighting DeCSS and things like that I can't. That's just dumb.
They've been working on chess computers for like a gazillion years. They've been working on go computers for what... since the eighties?
Chess computers aren't just "mindless bruteforced automatons", but tuned for the player they're going to meet.
If they would've put in as much energy making a go computer - if go would have been as popular as chess - they would be, well, maybe not as far as chess programs are today (because there are more possible moves in go and it is very different from chess), but almost.
Face it, as much as I long for the day when go is more popular than chess - currently chess is "the classic game" in many people's (including geeks) minds.
I saw go players in the park two days ago! Go is spreading!
Would that work? Build some "special phone hardware" that can use current 802.11 hotspots to connect to the internet. This would be a nice incentive for people to put up more hotspots, and it would also mean free calls.
We should probably use some free, existing voice-over-IP net so people could still call with their computers and stuff like that.
I just got my first go board a few days before the article on K5. Coincidence. I didn't know it was in "a beautiful mind". I like go better than hex because hex is frustrating when you fall behind. (I felt that) there's often a clear leader. Sure, the leader can "slip up", do a mistake, and the game is good again, but...
I've played a lot of Othello but never mastered it really. Fiddly to flip those pieces. I played gAttaxx some, too, when I was playing with the old Gnome.
Go is bad if you're clumsy at finger work, at least the board I have. Unlike Gomoku or Hex you have to pick up stones occasionally, when they DIE.
Go is a really nice game, I prefer it over Shogi. I've never won a shogi game in my life. Shogi is like trying to learn chess all over again.
You can have static, fixed, relative or absolute positioning, you can easily place items whereever you want to on the page. IMHO it's MUCH easier than tables but it's very different. Just learn it.
The fact that it's class based with inheritance makes it even better.
You mean like K-meleon? That already exists.
Sure, thanks! Me and my friends will gladly share our music, video and books while you and your friends will just sit in isolation hoarding your stuff because "sharing is theft!".
That's a great idea, actually. Even if it wouldn't work (I can't see why not), it would be a great art stunt, a real message to the number hoarders.
Can someone start work on this ASAP?
Actually, the soviet system still was very hierarchical and unfair. Statist marxism, especially the leninist or post-leninist versions, does not appeal much to me.
Why would any country want to host a parasitic company that hoards it's software and calls copying stealing? Newsflash: copying = constructive since you combat scarcity; copyright = destructive since you create scarcity.
If, as you say, recieving things that has has value without paying the price is theft, then you were a thief on your last birthday (or whenever you last recieved a gift).
Theft is taking something *from someone* That other person actually has to lose something. (No, not "earn less". If you have a lemonade stand and I set up another lemonade stand and compete with you, am I a thief?)
Unauthorized copying is a crime and if you think it's immoral, please say so instead of using the old "it's theft"-bullshit. Or are you afraid your arguments don't hold up without that connection to something so frowned upon as theft?