#!/usr/bin/perl # 472-byte qrpff, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz <sipb-iap-dvd@mit.edu> # MPEG 2 PS VOB file -> descrambled output on stdout. # usage: perl -I <k1>:<k2>:<k3>:<k4>:<k5> ; qrpff # where k1..k5 are the title key bytes in least to most-significant order
Presuming you're not joking, Accessibility is a bit of a buzz word of late, which talks of the concept of making something (in this case a computer) accessible to everyone regardless of their physical ability.
As far as the web is concerned, there is the WAI which seeks to get people to make web pages that (by sticking to standards mainly) are easily navigated by people who may not have the ability to see a page, for example.
I began work on GNU Emacs in September 1984, and in early 1985 it was beginning to be usable. This enabled me to begin using Unix systems to do editing; having no interest in learning to use vi or ed, I had done my editing on other kinds of machines until then.
At this point, people began wanting to use GNU Emacs, which raised the question of how to distribute it. Of course, I put it on the anonymous ftp server on the MIT computer that I used. (This computer, prep.ai.mit.edu, thus became the principal GNU ftp distribution site; when it was decommissioned a few years later, we transferred the name to our new ftp server.) But at that time, many of the interested people were not on the Internet and could not get a copy by ftp. So the question was, what would I say to them?
I could have said, "Find a friend who is on the net and who will make a copy for you." Or I could have done what I did with the original PDP-10 Emacs: tell them, "Mail me a tape and a SASE, and I will mail it back with Emacs on it." But I had no job, and I was looking for ways to make money from free software. So I announced that I would mail a tape to whoever wanted one, for a fee of $150. In this way, I started a free software distribution business, the precursor of the companies that today distribute entire Linux-based GNU systems.
Erm, mandating use of a piece of software does not deny you the freedom to run it.
Could you not argue that freedom to run also extends to the freedom to NOT run it?
Besides, I am not sure why you are so upset about this anyway. Why is it so much better when everyone is forced to run Windows without a choice, eh?
Forcing anyone to use anything is inherently wrong, IMO.
If it was mandated for the entire population, it would indeed change how free the software is, I believe.
Think of the four freedoms that Free Software offers you:-
# The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0). # The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this. # The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2). # The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
Now I don't think any mandated software offers you the freedom to run. What's free about it if you HAVE to run it?
To fill the 40GB iPod with 40,000 songs you'd spend $39,600 - but also, you'd have managed to squeeze 75% extra onto the unit, which is pretty remarkable.
That is of course, assuming that 10,000 songs = 40Gb. With AAC it might well be slightly more.
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Wanted: Someone to get the juice out of my keyboard and off my screen after reading this comment.
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# 472-byte qrpff, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz <sipb-iap-dvd@mit.edu>
# MPEG 2 PS VOB file -> descrambled output on stdout.
# usage: perl -I <k1>:<k2>:<k3>:<k4>:<k5> ; qrpff
# where k1..k5 are the title key bytes in least to most-significant order
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And I screwed up my link there - w3.org
Presuming you're not joking, Accessibility is a bit of a buzz word of late, which talks of the concept of making something (in this case a computer) accessible to everyone regardless of their physical ability.
As far as the web is concerned, there is the WAI which seeks to get people to make web pages that (by sticking to standards mainly) are easily navigated by people who may not have the ability to see a page, for example.
It's just a slow news day, but I think it's only changed in the very very latest Panther builds.
Actually he *did* charge for EMACS all those years ago..
Excerpt taken from: http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html
GNU Emacs
I began work on GNU Emacs in September 1984, and in early 1985 it was beginning to be usable. This enabled me to begin using Unix systems to do editing; having no interest in learning to use vi or ed, I had done my editing on other kinds of machines until then.
At this point, people began wanting to use GNU Emacs, which raised the question of how to distribute it. Of course, I put it on the anonymous ftp server on the MIT computer that I used. (This computer, prep.ai.mit.edu, thus became the principal GNU ftp distribution site; when it was decommissioned a few years later, we transferred the name to our new ftp server.) But at that time, many of the interested people were not on the Internet and could not get a copy by ftp. So the question was, what would I say to them?
I could have said, "Find a friend who is on the net and who will make a copy for you." Or I could have done what I did with the original PDP-10 Emacs: tell them, "Mail me a tape and a SASE, and I will mail it back with Emacs on it." But I had no job, and I was looking for ways to make money from free software. So I announced that I would mail a tape to whoever wanted one, for a fee of $150. In this way, I started a free software distribution business, the precursor of the companies that today distribute entire Linux-based GNU systems.
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Erm, mandating use of a piece of software does not deny you the freedom to run it. Could you not argue that freedom to run also extends to the freedom to NOT run it? Besides, I am not sure why you are so upset about this anyway. Why is it so much better when everyone is forced to run Windows without a choice, eh? Forcing anyone to use anything is inherently wrong, IMO.
If it was mandated for the entire population, it would indeed change how free the software is, I believe.
Think of the four freedoms that Free Software offers you:-
# The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
# The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
# The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
# The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
Now I don't think any mandated software offers you the freedom to run. What's free about it if you HAVE to run it?
"France... country that made Jerry Lewis famous for christ's sake!" - Denis Leary.
As someone from Devon, I resent that.
Anyway, look out for International Talk Like A Pirate Day
It's Logic not ProTools, but yeah.
And what URL do they give for iTunes Music Store on commercials? Why, it's www.applemusic.com
Anyone in the UK want to buy a 30Gb iPod? ;)
To fill the 40GB iPod with 40,000 songs you'd spend $39,600 - but also, you'd have managed to squeeze 75% extra onto the unit, which is pretty remarkable.
That is of course, assuming that 10,000 songs = 40Gb. With AAC it might well be slightly more.
That's it, sorry.. my mistake.
Maybe you should convince AOL Time Warner Bugs Bunny Inc to buy your team.
I thought many other US Schools were sponsored by soft drink companies, by sports-goods companies, etc.
I heard of a case where a kid at a Pepsi-School was sent home after drinking a Coke.
Perhaps the same will happen with Linux and Mac OS X users at Microsoft School.
Article about Corporate Coke here.
Hopefully there can be some valuable lessons learned from this tragedy. Hopefully something like this will never happen again.
I DON'T LIKE SPAM!!!
Imagine a Beowul... wrong parent, dagnabbit.
Microsoft manage to test Windows and various other applications with thousands of pieces of hardware and hundreds of combinations thereof.
Yeah, and look what a piece of crap Windows is...
60gb? Woah. Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of those... ;)
Er... just so you're aware...
An entry level eMac is $1,199 CND and a Titanium PowerBook is $2849 CND...
http://www.apple.com/canadastore/ is your friend.
Excuse me, are you saying that 12:00 doohickey does something?