Check back through old slashdot articles. Not including it in the box was a plan to give specific numbers to Linux purchases, to try to convince other retailers and distributors to carry other Linux games. This was reported in great detail a couple weeks ago.
All VCRs, including the Dual-Deck[tm] VCR, are affected by Federal legislation that was passed in October 1998, commonly referred to as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. One of the effects of this new law requires that all VCRs sold after April 2000 recognize a type of anticopying signal that prevents consumers from making a usable copy of videotapes encoded with that type of anticopying signal. We have modified our current models of Dual-Deck[tm] VCRs so that if they are purchased prior to April 2000, they will continue to operate as originally designed for the lifetime of the VCR. If they are purchased after April 2000, they will recognize and respond to the anticopying signal as required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
The problem is, things like region locking in players can be mandated by law. I haven't checked if the DMCA requires it, but the DMCA _does_ require macrovision in VCRs.
The site is slashdotted, so I can't read the article, but I can't believe that merely challenging laws which might interfere with one's activities is grounds for treason. If I disagree with, say, the speed limit and lobby my representatives to get it removed, I'm challenging the law but I'd suggest that I'm not being treasonous. If that alone were grounds for treason, simply disagreeing with the government at _all_ could be treasonous. So much for freedom.
Having finally gotten to read the article, it looks like even the man under investigation can't find out any specifics. If the government can start investigating you for treason (which is punishable by death) on a whim, I think it's time to move elsewhere.
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Interesting... what Amiga keyboard did that? The US keyboards for the 500, 2000, 3000, 4000, 600, CDTV, etc were all the same as a standard PC keyboard (except it had a decent control key). I don't remember the 1000 keyboard (it's been a while since I've visited it). But all the ones I used had both ' and `, in the same positions as a decent PC keyboard.
Must have been a weird UK keyboard thing.
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It seems to me that you're arguing against zenning. The point isn't whether one interface is faster than another for an operation. The point is that if you don't have to think to use whatever interface(s) you're using, you will do you work faster and happier than if you're constantly deciding what interface to use.
The act of moving your hand to the mouse breaks your train of consciousness and even if that single operation is faster, the entire task will probably take longer, or be more error prone.
The problem is, ALT-TAB _is_ especially bad to some users, namely users of Emacs, since there are a lot of useful emacs commands which use that keystroke.
I am not afraid to belittle Project Gutenberg. I sign my name, too! That's why you're an anonymous coward, right?
At 2337 books (last time I ran a count), PG is nearly 1/4 the OLBP. It's been doing this for a long time, and somehow, keeps meeting its goals of exponential production. No, it doesn't list books by Dewey or by category like IPL or OLBP. Also unlike IPL and OLBP, it's actively involved in putting works in online format.
Indexes are nice, but third parties can (and are) doing indexes. Without people doing scanning and keyboarding, those indexes won't have much to index. PG provides a single point of contact if you want to scan, proofread, or archive etexts. Ever try looking for a book and found the server down? Collections like PG minimize that problem, because a work is no longer in the hands of a single person who may decide they're sick of it taking up their web space.
As for preferring rich markup to plain text, it's easy for you to _add_ that markup. Usually, at least 70% of the work can be quickly automated. And keeping plain text means it's maximally useful, since you have a simple base to provide whatever markup you want, be that HTML, LaTeX, MS Word, whatever. If they'd been rich markup from the start, do you think that the texts from 1991 would be in HTML? What about when we switch over to some XML-based markup? And what happens after that?
If it makes you feel better, don't think of PG as finished product. Think of it as raw material, and put together your own site with richly marked up texts and scripts to do web-cites of specific chapters, sections, etc. I think that would be a very valuable thing to have, but it will certainly be easier for having so much of the grunt work done for you.
The problem isn't remembering passwords you use on a regular basis. The problem is remembering the string of random characters for the account you haven't used in two months.
Here we see another man, using what can only be described as trade secrets to create an unliscenced DVD player over the internet.
So? AFAIK, trade secrets are not protected from random people reverse engineering them, but from actual theft of said information. If you take a publically available product and figure out how it works, I don't believe trade secret law offers any protection.
So, the question is did the authors of this use any stolen info to break DVD info? If they didn't, then they didn't do anything wrong.
And they're different from the MP3 spreaders in another way. They're trying to make it possible for owners of licensed copies of DVDs to play them. If you can't see that's a world of difference from distributing copyrighted works, you should go into a corner and think for a while.
I have here a Toshiba Satellite 315CDS. New, it cost my wife somewhere around $2000. With the settlement, we're entitled to somewhere around $200-400 and around a $200 coupon for toshiba products. That's around 20% of the purchase price, at least.
The GPL requires that you provide source to anyone you give a binary. That's it. If I do some mods to Emacs and don't give you a binary, you have no right to request the source. The freedom to make private modifications is a freedom RMS recognizes as important.
So if RH decided not to provide an FTP site, it would be ok. It would piss a lot of people off, but it wouldn't violate the GPL. They wouldn't be the first company to sell GPLed software that way.
Emacs and XEmacs are staying split mostly for two reasons.
The first is that RMS won't put any sizable code into Emacs without legal papers assigning copyright to the FSF or placing the work in the public domain. (One line bug fixes are ok, though.) Given that RMS has been burned in the past, this is an understandable position. But it does mean that he can't simply lift code from other GPLed stuff (ie, XEmacs) without the author signing said papers. Since XEmacs doesn't do this, the specific author of a piece of code isn't always known, or may be difficult to contact.
The second reason is due to a personality conflict between certain XEmacs developers and RMS. Since I'm not a party to any of the conflicts, I can't comment in detail, but it does make getting those legal papers a bit more difficult (read as "hell will freeze over first").
I prefer to create, and that is a skill that I have and in our world if people find my skills worthwhile they will pay me money.
Open source doesn't prevent that. In fact, it's more likely that you'll be paid for exercising your skills than pulling in money from exercising your skills once. In other words, people with needs will pay you to address those needs by programming instead of purchasing a license to software which may or may not address their needs.
This isn't a case of donating spare cycles to a project. This is a case of donating spare COMPUTERS.
Take a quick look at the registration form. The minimal machine they're interested has a 400Mhz CPU, 32MB RAM, and 256MB disk space they can devote to the task. They'd prefer that you have a 600Mhz machine with over 2GB to devote. They say themselves that the system requirements are about equivalent to a state-of-the-art game... a game you'll be running for about a year.
Unlike distributed.net, I'll bet this is going to have serious repercussions on your usage of your own computer. (After all, it'll take quite a bit to swap out when you come back to your machine.) And what do you get for this? Well, in 50 years we'll know if your random simulation was better than any random simulations. At which point...
If you'd like to participate in this, you'd might as well fedex your machine to them so that they can put them on a high-speed network and beowulf them. With the kind of data they need, the network latency is going to be bad... (distributing things by CD?!)
I don't know any techies with Swiss Army knives. Although I'm sure there are one or two out there in the world, the vast majority of techies I know have Leathermans, with Gerber coming in second.
Besides, what self-respecting techie would want an iKnife?
Autorpm has been around for a while, which can also check for updates and install them. The major differences with RH's (that I know of, I don't have it yet) are:
* A priority FTP server for registered users * It comes with RH standard. Not everyone knows about autorpm.
AFAIK, X itself doesn't provide outlines, ligature or kerning information, and some other junk. If X doesn't provide it, I'd doubt that xprint would, and if so, it's deficient. (Think for a moment why almost no linux word processor uses X fonts for much of anything. It's not because they're stupid.)
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Check back through old slashdot articles. Not including it in the box was a plan to give specific numbers to Linux purchases, to try to convince other retailers and distributors to carry other Linux games. This was reported in great detail a couple weeks ago.
Now, I haven't used Debian, but how do the scripts run before and after (un)installs differ from RPM pre and post scripts?
According to their FAQ
All VCRs, including the Dual-Deck[tm] VCR, are affected by Federal legislation that was passed in October 1998, commonly referred to as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. One of the effects of this new law requires that all VCRs sold after April 2000 recognize a type of anticopying signal that prevents consumers from making a usable copy
of videotapes encoded with that type of anticopying signal. We have modified our current models of Dual-Deck[tm] VCRs so that if they are
purchased prior to April 2000, they will continue to operate as originally designed for the lifetime of the VCR. If they are purchased after April 2000, they will recognize and respond to the anticopying signal as required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
The problem is, things like region locking in players can be mandated by law. I haven't checked if the DMCA requires it, but the DMCA _does_ require macrovision in VCRs.
The site is slashdotted, so I can't read the article, but I can't believe that merely challenging laws which might interfere with one's activities is grounds for treason. If I disagree with, say, the speed limit and lobby my representatives to get it removed, I'm challenging the law but I'd suggest that I'm not being treasonous. If that alone were grounds for treason, simply disagreeing with the government at _all_ could be treasonous. So much for freedom.
Having finally gotten to read the article, it looks like even the man under investigation can't find out any specifics. If the government can start investigating you for treason (which is punishable by death) on a whim, I think it's time to move elsewhere.
Interesting... what Amiga keyboard did that? The US keyboards for the 500, 2000, 3000, 4000, 600, CDTV, etc were all the same as a standard PC keyboard (except it had a decent control key). I don't remember the 1000 keyboard (it's been a while since I've visited it). But all the ones I used had both ' and `, in the same positions as a decent PC keyboard.
Must have been a weird UK keyboard thing.
It seems to me that you're arguing against zenning. The point isn't whether one interface is faster than another for an operation. The point is that if you don't have to think to use whatever interface(s) you're using, you will do you work faster and happier than if you're constantly deciding what interface to use.
The act of moving your hand to the mouse breaks your train of consciousness and even if that single operation is faster, the entire task will probably take longer, or be more error prone.
The problem is, ALT-TAB _is_ especially bad to some users, namely users of Emacs, since there are a lot of useful emacs commands which use that keystroke.
At 2337 books (last time I ran a count), PG is nearly 1/4 the OLBP. It's been doing this for a long time, and somehow, keeps meeting its goals of exponential production. No, it doesn't list books by Dewey or by category like IPL or OLBP. Also unlike IPL and OLBP, it's actively involved in putting works in online format.
Indexes are nice, but third parties can (and are) doing indexes. Without people doing scanning and keyboarding, those indexes won't have much to index. PG provides a single point of contact if you want to scan, proofread, or archive etexts. Ever try looking for a book and found the server down? Collections like PG minimize that problem, because a work is no longer in the hands of a single person who may decide they're sick of it taking up their web space.
As for preferring rich markup to plain text, it's easy for you to _add_ that markup. Usually, at least 70% of the work can be quickly automated. And keeping plain text means it's maximally useful, since you have a simple base to provide whatever markup you want, be that HTML, LaTeX, MS Word, whatever. If they'd been rich markup from the start, do you think that the texts from 1991 would be in HTML? What about when we switch over to some XML-based markup? And what happens after that?
If it makes you feel better, don't think of PG as finished product. Think of it as raw material, and put together your own site with richly marked up texts and scripts to do web-cites of specific chapters, sections, etc. I think that would be a very valuable thing to have, but it will certainly be easier for having so much of the grunt work done for you.
WPO2000 Suite is still on track for release, last I heard. The beta should be happenning reasonably soon.
The problem isn't remembering passwords you use on a regular basis. The problem is remembering the string of random characters for the account you haven't used in two months.
Yes, it did exist before RMS wrote the GNU version. But AFAIK, he wrote the TECO version....
So? AFAIK, trade secrets are not protected from random people reverse engineering them, but from actual theft of said information. If you take a publically available product and figure out how it works, I don't believe trade secret law offers any protection.
So, the question is did the authors of this use any stolen info to break DVD info? If they didn't, then they didn't do anything wrong.
And they're different from the MP3 spreaders in another way. They're trying to make it possible for owners of licensed copies of DVDs to play them. If you can't see that's a world of difference from distributing copyrighted works, you should go into a corner and think for a while.
Personally, I prefer nethack, but here are a few rogues (all character-based)
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/games/dungeon/
I have here a Toshiba Satellite 315CDS. New, it cost my wife somewhere around $2000. With the settlement, we're entitled to somewhere around $200-400 and around a $200 coupon for toshiba products. That's around 20% of the purchase price, at least.
Does PNG have anything to recommend it over UNcompressed GIFs?
Yes, it's compressed, and can go up to 24bpp.
The GPL requires that you provide source to anyone you give a binary. That's it. If I do some mods to Emacs and don't give you a binary, you have no right to request the source. The freedom to make private modifications is a freedom RMS recognizes as important.
So if RH decided not to provide an FTP site, it would be ok. It would piss a lot of people off, but it wouldn't violate the GPL. They wouldn't be the first company to sell GPLed software that way.
Emacs and XEmacs are staying split mostly for two reasons.
The first is that RMS won't put any sizable code into Emacs without legal papers assigning copyright to the FSF or placing the work in the public domain. (One line bug fixes are ok, though.) Given that RMS has been burned in the past, this is an understandable position. But it does mean that he can't simply lift code from other GPLed stuff (ie, XEmacs) without the author signing said papers. Since XEmacs doesn't do this, the specific author of a piece of code isn't always known, or may be difficult to contact.
The second reason is due to a personality conflict between certain XEmacs developers and RMS. Since I'm not a party to any of the conflicts, I can't comment in detail, but it does make getting those legal papers a bit more difficult (read as "hell will freeze over first").
I prefer to create, and that is a skill that I have and in our world if people find my skills worthwhile they will pay me money.
Open source doesn't prevent that. In fact, it's more likely that you'll be paid for exercising your skills than pulling in money from exercising your skills once. In other words, people with needs will pay you to address those needs by programming instead of purchasing a license to software which may or may not address their needs.
Upgrade now!
I confirm that Patience is dead.... must check for updates.
This isn't a case of donating spare cycles to a project. This is a case of donating spare COMPUTERS.
Take a quick look at the registration form. The minimal machine they're interested has a 400Mhz CPU, 32MB RAM, and 256MB disk space they can devote to the task. They'd prefer that you have a 600Mhz machine with over 2GB to devote. They say themselves that the system requirements are about equivalent to a state-of-the-art game... a game you'll be running for about a year.
Unlike distributed.net, I'll bet this is going to have serious repercussions on your usage of your own computer. (After all, it'll take quite a bit to swap out when you come back to your machine.) And what do you get for this? Well, in 50 years we'll know if your random simulation was better than any random simulations. At which point...
If you'd like to participate in this, you'd might as well fedex your machine to them so that they can put them on a high-speed network and beowulf them. With the kind of data they need, the network latency is going to be bad... (distributing things by CD?!)
I don't know any techies with Swiss Army knives. Although I'm sure there are one or two out there in the world, the vast majority of techies I know have Leathermans, with Gerber coming in second.
Besides, what self-respecting techie would want an iKnife?
Autorpm has been around for a while, which can also check for updates and install them. The major differences with RH's (that I know of, I don't have it yet) are:
* A priority FTP server for registered users
* It comes with RH standard. Not everyone knows about autorpm.
The update CDs are simply errata on a CD, with an automated install script (since rpm -Uvh * will install rpms you hadn't installed previously).
It's really best if you have a low bandwidth connection, and can't download all those updates all the time.
AFAIK, X itself doesn't provide outlines, ligature or kerning information, and some other junk. If X doesn't provide it, I'd doubt that xprint would, and if so, it's deficient. (Think for a moment why almost no linux word processor uses X fonts for much of anything. It's not because they're stupid.)