First, the Mac still lacks pre-emptive multi-tasking, and it's future has never been brighter, so why should RiscOS be different?
Second, I thought I read that there was already USB support out there, but I could be wrong. It shouldn't be that hard to add. For crying out loud, the hard work has already been done by the linux and *BSD teams in figuring out how to make USB work.
You know, the Falcon line of machines still are being supported and updated. I just recently saw a falcon board that was ATX with PCI support, and still using only a 68040.
I don't know. On the one hand, there is something really appealing about these older, slower, better designed machines. Unfortunatly, they seem to be both more expensive, and are reaching the point where they can't keep up with lintel machines for most purposes.
They say they won't except movies that play first on the net. That should be easy to work around. Just convince a local colege theatre to play your movie for a week. The downside is that means that you have to get a film print made, which costs money (I've heard figures ranging from $600 to $2000). Other than that, if the movie is any good, the theatre owner would probably go in for it if he got to keep most of the proceeds. I'll let you know how it works when I get my first movie made (should only be another 5-10 years from now:) ).
>Linux overseas >OS-Labeled running shoes >But the kimchee sucked
Hmm, the first line is 5 syllables long. The second line is 7 syllables long. So far so good. But wait, the last line is 6 syllables long. Darn. Not a haiku. Besides, haiku are supposed to deal with nature.
Long ago and far away, I used to work in a now defunct retail chain. I can recall going through a store and finding empty boxes, merchandise gone. The complex fold over of the cardboard etc is thought out to prevent just this. Considering the cost of cardboard, vs 50 - 500 dollar product, the trade off is a pain, but understandable.
But it's not a $50-$500 product. It is a $1 product (if that much) that is being highly marked up. Why do you think Bill Gates is so rich?
heck I can even remember people buying a computer, and then returning it, saying it was broken. We would take it apart, and it would be missing the ram, the harddrive, etc. We could not "prove" that they stolen it, but it was obvious that they had. [We didn't have the resources.] We even went to setting up the machine and and running it first, in the store, just to cut down on the theft. it was insane.
Heavy boxes: Is that hard-covered 300 page manual REALLY a necessity?? Especially since it can be put in postscript format? OK, for RPGs this can be a nice touch, but I got Visual Studio 6.0 for my birthday. The box was about 5 pounds!! So many useless manuals that nobody would ever use! Including a 100-page WELCOME NOTE written on thick paper. I swear this stupid pamphlet accounted for most of the box's weight and it served no usefull purpose. Strange thing is consumers actually seem to take weight into consideration!! I've seen men and women holding competing software in each hand and seeing which one weighed more!! It's a funny site, I'm telling you. They buy softare like they buy watermelon.
OK, buying based on weight is stupid. But I like it when software comes with a real manual. I was real pissed to find that the expensive copy of Visual Basic Professional that I order had nothing usefull. A few pamphletes, and 3 CDs (Visual Basic, MSDN, and a tutorial disc). I still use the books that came with Corel Draw 4 that list all the clip art and fonts included (I'm up to Corel Draw 7 now, waiting for 9 to be released for linux). Who wants to have to flip through those on the screen alone? I guess my feelings aren't as strong about this now that I don't pay for most of my software.
Wrong. You obviously haven't tried IE on Unix yet. Using IE on Solaris is awefull. Netscape is bad, but this is far worse. Besides, the binary version for download is not optimized. If you want it to be faster, download the source, and compile with optimizations on and debugging symbols off. You'll get a much faster mozilla.
I think the absolute worst case of EULA abuse are the clauses that forbid performance reporting that are found in Oracle, and most of the other major database vendors.
When KDE was developed GTK existed. KDE was started in October of 1996, and GNOME was started in 97 using the well established GTK+ toolkit, which was initially released in a very stable version (for an early) in July of 1996.
Personally, I prefer GTK, but if KDE would switch to the GPLed clone of Qt (the clone is from the harmony project), then I'd have no problem with debian including it, and I don't think the debian maintainers would have any problems with including it either.
Actually, Word uses embeded codes to. They just refuse to let you see them. In the case of Word, I believe the codes refer to the style usually, and also the codes refer to the variations on the style (say I'm using the normal style and want a few words to be bold.) Frankly, I love the styles idea, but many implementation details drive me batty at work where I have to work on very long Word documents that change styles often. The biggest problem is that Word offers only limited control over the styles.
The two most classic anime movies are Ghost in the Shell, and Akira. As least that's what I was told. I rented both and didn't much care for either. The one other anime movie I've seen is A Wind Named Amnesia. I really loved that one.
In the serials category, I don't really care for the classic Dragonball Z. Sailor Moon is cool. Evangelion is also cool. But my favorite serial is a series called Tenchi Moyu.
I wish I had more money to burn on anime, but as it is I limit myself to what I can borrow or rent. I've seen other films, but I just thought I'd limit myself to what's considered classic, as well as ones that I liked.
I'd buy more games if people would bother making games that run on linux on low end pentium machines. Until then, I vote with my wallet by not buying games that won't run on my hardware.
Not to start a flame war over languages, but I'd imagine that they just like Python better for large projects. Personally, perl has many cool features, but it certainly can be difficult for some people (such as myself) to make it scale to large projects. Other people seem to have no such problem, so I'm sure that it is just a matter of personal taste.
IANAL, but those two items only apply in court and matters involving the federal government, and not always then. For instance, tax violations are presumed guilty until proven innocent because the argument was that proving guilt was too hard.
Anyway, to get back on subject, due process and innocent until proven guilty aren't required of businesses. If Microsoft were to charge you with selling fake copies, due process and innocent until proven guilty are required, however, if they can't cow everyone into denying you access to selling your wares, they have no legal obligation to prove that they were illegal.
Another possible point is that Microsoft may have have a no resale clause in their EULA. I'd drag one out and read it, but I seem to find no Microsoft software handy. Oh well. You know what they say. A computer without Microsoft is like a dog without a ton of bricks on it's head (especially if the computer really is a dog performance wise).
Wake me when one of these companies that open part of their OS either gets usefull revisions back from the communitie, or their newly open code is usefully used in a project that any users care about.
and now we find out that the video signal is messed up in some way "to prevent copying," making the picture quality way less than what it should be.
Uhm, I think we already knew that it was crippled. This article was just telling us that someone had a solution to the crippling problem.
i've stuck with my trusty VCR for 10 years now, and it looks like i will not touch DVD unless one lands on my lap.
The problem is that VCRs suck. The only reason that I don't have a collection of movies is because I refuse to invest money in video tapes other than for blanks to record TV shows I can't watch live. I'd buy DVDs, but I have no reasonable way to play them.
this is a key example of a technology that could have revolutionized at least something, but instead being held back to its toddler years by greedy corporate-types. blah.
Welcome to America. Enjoy the American dream as exercised by the DVD manufactors.
But if it is that simple to pick up the data stream, would a simple hardware hack allow you to pick this data up and feed it into the computer? No DeCSS needed anymore - we'd just need to fly a cable around inside our PC's off the DVD ROM to, say, a high speed serial or ethernet port and slurp away.
Err, DVD-ROMS in computer don't do the decryption. Decryption is the job of either software or the DVD playback board (like the Creative Labs DXr3). That said, it might be possible to chip a DVD board, but what's the point? We still need drivers for the board to use it under linux, so chipping the board would only be usefull for copying DVDs to HD, and at this time, the only reason to do that is piracy (well, a few people might feel that it is their right to be able to burn their own VideoCDs to play in their dedicated VideoCD player, but those people are mostly only in Asia). It would be much better to fight the battle on the DeCSS front rather than investing resources in chipping boards. We DeCSS we don't have to respect teritorial lockouts, but chipped decoder boards would still respect the lockouts.
What ever happens, the IE division should not be split seperately from the other divisions. That would be bad news for everyone.
Think about it. If that precedent was set, then what would happen when Apple decided that using IE sucks, so they develop their own web browser and include it as the default standard web browser for Mac OS XI?
And what about BeOS? They've included a web browser from day one (or at least from the first version that worked on Intel).
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Who wouldn't copy BSD and/or linux components (since this is a GPLd OS, linux works just as well as BSD) when writing a new OS? Even Microsoft does it (wonder where they got their Kerberos code from?) To do otherwise is just adding years onto the ammount of time you have to spend reduplicating the work of people who are likely much smarted than you.
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First, the Mac still lacks pre-emptive multi-tasking, and it's future has never been brighter, so why should RiscOS be different?
Second, I thought I read that there was already USB support out there, but I could be wrong. It shouldn't be that hard to add. For crying out loud, the hard work has already been done by the linux and *BSD teams in figuring out how to make USB work.
You know, the Falcon line of machines still are being supported and updated. I just recently saw a falcon board that was ATX with PCI support, and still using only a 68040.
I don't know. On the one hand, there is something really appealing about these older, slower, better designed machines. Unfortunatly, they seem to be both more expensive, and are reaching the point where they can't keep up with lintel machines for most purposes.
Why don't they make these thing's to run RiscOS anyone know?
They say they won't except movies that play first on the net. That should be easy to work around. Just convince a local colege theatre to play your movie for a week. The downside is that means that you have to get a film print made, which costs money (I've heard figures ranging from $600 to $2000). Other than that, if the movie is any good, the theatre owner would probably go in for it if he got to keep most of the proceeds. I'll let you know how it works when I get my first movie made (should only be another 5-10 years from now :) ).
>Linux overseas
>OS-Labeled running shoes
>But the kimchee sucked
Hmm, the first line is 5 syllables long. The second line is 7 syllables long. So far so good. But wait, the last line is 6 syllables long. Darn. Not a haiku. Besides, haiku are supposed to deal with nature.
But it's not a $50-$500 product. It is a $1 product (if that much) that is being highly marked up. Why do you think Bill Gates is so rich?
Ouch. That would really suck.
OK, buying based on weight is stupid. But I like it when software comes with a real manual. I was real pissed to find that the expensive copy of Visual Basic Professional that I order had nothing usefull. A few pamphletes, and 3 CDs (Visual Basic, MSDN, and a tutorial disc). I still use the books that came with Corel Draw 4 that list all the clip art and fonts included (I'm up to Corel Draw 7 now, waiting for 9 to be released for linux). Who wants to have to flip through those on the screen alone? I guess my feelings aren't as strong about this now that I don't pay for most of my software.
Wrong. You obviously haven't tried IE on Unix yet. Using IE on Solaris is awefull. Netscape is bad, but this is far worse. Besides, the binary version for download is not optimized. If you want it to be faster, download the source, and compile with optimizations on and debugging symbols off. You'll get a much faster mozilla.
I think the absolute worst case of EULA abuse are the clauses that forbid performance reporting that are found in Oracle, and most of the other major database vendors.
Wow. That's not too bad. I wonder if there are any good free (libre) sumerizing tools.
When KDE was developed GTK existed. KDE was started in October of 1996, and GNOME was started in 97 using the well established GTK+ toolkit, which was initially released in a very stable version (for an early) in July of 1996.
Personally, I prefer GTK, but if KDE would switch to the GPLed clone of Qt (the clone is from the harmony project), then I'd have no problem with debian including it, and I don't think the debian maintainers would have any problems with including it either.
Err, more like they confiscate your belongings then boot you out of the county.
Actually, Word uses embeded codes to. They just refuse to let you see them. In the case of Word, I believe the codes refer to the style usually, and also the codes refer to the variations on the style (say I'm using the normal style and want a few words to be bold.) Frankly, I love the styles idea, but many implementation details drive me batty at work where I have to work on very long Word documents that change styles often. The biggest problem is that Word offers only limited control over the styles.
The two most classic anime movies are Ghost in the Shell, and Akira. As least that's what I was told. I rented both and didn't much care for either. The one other anime movie I've seen is A Wind Named Amnesia. I really loved that one.
In the serials category, I don't really care for the classic Dragonball Z. Sailor Moon is cool. Evangelion is also cool. But my favorite serial is a series called Tenchi Moyu.
I wish I had more money to burn on anime, but as it is I limit myself to what I can borrow or rent. I've seen other films, but I just thought I'd limit myself to what's considered classic, as well as ones that I liked.
I'd love to see a redone keen. And actually, there was some mention awhile back of making Keen on the color gameboy.
I'd buy more games if people would bother making games that run on linux on low end pentium machines. Until then, I vote with my wallet by not buying games that won't run on my hardware.
That's why I love computers. Who needs actors, stage, or camera's then? Hehe.
Not to start a flame war over languages, but I'd imagine that they just like Python better for large projects. Personally, perl has many cool features, but it certainly can be difficult for some people (such as myself) to make it scale to large projects. Other people seem to have no such problem, so I'm sure that it is just a matter of personal taste.
IANAL, but those two items only apply in court and matters involving the federal government, and not always then. For instance, tax violations are presumed guilty until proven innocent because the argument was that proving guilt was too hard.
Anyway, to get back on subject, due process and innocent until proven guilty aren't required of businesses. If Microsoft were to charge you with selling fake copies, due process and innocent until proven guilty are required, however, if they can't cow everyone into denying you access to selling your wares, they have no legal obligation to prove that they were illegal.
Another possible point is that Microsoft may have have a no resale clause in their EULA. I'd drag one out and read it, but I seem to find no Microsoft software handy. Oh well. You know what they say. A computer without Microsoft is like a dog without a ton of bricks on it's head (especially if the computer really is a dog performance wise).
Wake me when one of these companies that open part of their OS either gets usefull revisions back from the communitie, or their newly open code is usefully used in a project that any users care about.
I read both UF and AY2k, and of the two, I much prefer the writing and simple graphics of UF.
Perhaps if After-y2k would make a book it would sell well. Nitrozac's merchandise seems to sell quite well.
And it is encouraged by law in some countries.
Uhm, I think we already knew that it was crippled. This article was just telling us that someone had a solution to the crippling problem.
The problem is that VCRs suck. The only reason that I don't have a collection of movies is because I refuse to invest money in video tapes other than for blanks to record TV shows I can't watch live. I'd buy DVDs, but I have no reasonable way to play them.
Welcome to America. Enjoy the American dream as exercised by the DVD manufactors.
What ever happens, the IE division should not be split seperately from the other divisions. That would be bad news for everyone.
Think about it. If that precedent was set, then what would happen when Apple decided that using IE sucks, so they develop their own web browser and include it as the default standard web browser for Mac OS XI?
And what about BeOS? They've included a web browser from day one (or at least from the first version that worked on Intel).
Who wouldn't copy BSD and/or linux components (since this is a GPLd OS, linux works just as well as BSD) when writing a new OS? Even Microsoft does it (wonder where they got their Kerberos code from?) To do otherwise is just adding years onto the ammount of time you have to spend reduplicating the work of people who are likely much smarted than you.