That's actually hara-kiri, or belly-slitting. While hara-kiri is correct, it is considered crass in Japanese. The proper term to use is seppuku, which is the ritualistic suicide to which you infer.
Send a DMCA cease and desist letter against yourself and the provider. That ought to get them to stop rather quickly. There are plenty of examples on the net to purloin for your needs.
On the news today, the US Govt is now leafletting Iraq and playing popular Arabic music along with "news" as part of its propoganda campaign against Saddam Hussein.
What I want to know is if the military or the government is paying the proper royalties to the rights holders of that music, and if they even got permission to broadcast it.
Actually IBM also had the source to all windows versions up to (but not including) Windows 95 and Windows NT.
Because the two parties had a code-sharing agreement, IBM made it's own version of Windows and bundled it along with OS/2 2.x and later.
The interesting thing was they used the Watcom C/C++ compiler, and it built a faster version of Windows than the MS's own C compiler.
One of the last gasps OS/2 was making before IBM pulled the plug on OS/2 as a consumer OS, was the headaches getting Win32 to run reliably on it.
I'd know more from my memory at that point, but at that time I rescued a NeXT cube from my college and dumped the PC to work on a UNIX workstation for the next few years.
When I went to install my CD-ROM drive on a stable OS/2 Warp (that's 3.0 unless otherwise specificed, for you younguns), the OS ended up formatting my hard drive and doing a fresh install -- WITHOUT MY CONSENT!
I had this happen once: when I was installing a copy of the Japanese Windows 95 on a laptop. It just blew away the existing OS/2 installation from the get-go. Whether this was a one-time user-error, a bug, or deliberate I'll never know because OS/2 was permanently off the machine at that time.
MS DOS 6.2 was a real hoot when you are an OS/2 user. The install detects an OS/2 installation and helpfully suggests to the user they should upgrade to DOS 6.2. If you install anyway, it disabled Boot Manager.
I know as a fact that CDROMs were proprietary back then too. IDE and SCSI were out, but Mitsumi was a very popular proprietary bus drive back then, and other (SCSI or proprietary) drives that attached to SoundBlaster and ProAudioSpecrum cards were still very common. It was not out of place to have to make a copy of the install disk, copy a driver, and edit the config.sys. This also usually involved removing uneeded drivers as well. Not for the faint of heart.
Not all of us home computer users with 200GB of files happen to have $5,000 in their back pockets for a backup device.
A home user with 200GB of files should drop the Jergens and Kleenex long enough to get a DVD-R and some blanks and burn that pr0n onto DVD so they free up all but 10GB of that drive space and get to watch that pr0n on TV, where it belongs.
Yes, but at 170MB, the BIOS of the computer didn't have to jump through hoops trying to get by the 512MB limit on early drives.
Load a modern drive into your early '94 computer and see what I mean.
This comes from a bitter experience I had with a 1998 or so machine that refused to work with drives larger than 8GB. It was wonderful, since at the time, the smallest drive readily available was 10GB. "A dual Pentium Pro would make a great Web and mail server" I said to myself. I'll just put this new 60GB drive in and see...
I have a 2GB HP Drive that has been powered down since 1998. I fired that puppy up last August, and it refused to spin at all.
I disconnected the drive and "rotated" it by spinning it (whole drive) quickly, hoping the inertia of the platters would break the "stiction".
It worked, and now the drive powers up with no probems.
Now I also have a 1992-era Seagate 5 1/4" fullheight SCSI drive that's been powered down for even longer. Last I remembered, it sounded like it was gonna die hearing it sloooowly spin up. (I think I can, I think I can...). As far as I care, it can stay spun down.
You could always rotate out the drives every so often *while they still work*. Wipe them and sell them on e-bay. Or use them to upgrade other equipment around the office.
As long as we are on that track, the Internet was designed to withstand nuclear attack, so its obviously the best choice: archive, encrypt and have others mirror your data.
I know, I know, how do you get these people to do it? And how much will it cost? Easy, and I can get them to do it for free.
Name the backup DIVX_The_Twin_Towers.avi and put it up on Gnutella or WinMX. Problem solved.
I recently went from Windows to Mac, and the time difference of games being released for both platforms is amazing, from 0 days (Warcraft 3) to years (Aliens Vs. Predator).
One problem is why should I pay $50 for a game for the Mac (or Linux) when the PC version is in the $5-10 bargain bin? I ran across this problem with AvP, why pay $30-40 for it when I can get the same thing for the PC for $10? or for $40-50 I can buy the newly-released AvP2 for the PC? Or Star Trek Elite Force, I can buy that just when everyone and their dog has forgotten completely about it.
The other problem is that if its an online game and assuming the version I get can network play with Windows users, what users will be around after 6 months to a year? Mainly diehards. Not a great place for a beginner.
Console games are different, there's another whole world of gamers out there for consoles, either those who can't afford/don't want computers for the kids, or those who don't want to hassle with the games on a PC. I have a Mac, but don't have an Xbox. I want to try out Halo, but I'm not going to buy yet another console just to do it.
Games for consoles just didn't compare to PC's to me. I usually went for Flight Sims/RPG's, and back in the 8 and 16-bit console days, there was a world of difference between the PC's Ultima and Falcon AT, and the NES's Zelda and Top Gun. That's not necessarily the case now.
Laws like this do nothing but raise costs for consumers. Does anyone in their right mind think HP, etc., will simply eat the cost of this? No. The only reason they're doing it is because it's in California (home base of American liberalism), and if they don't, they'll be totally demonized by militant environmentalists and human rights activists playing on your emotions rather than hard, scientific data
Well, growing up in California did teach me a bit about the environment, and how a bit of effort can go a long way.
If you lived in CA since the 70's-80's, and remember the 'Smog Alerts' where you could see the haze in the air, the burning eyes, and the difficulty breathing... Compared to now with much cleaner air. I can't recall the last time we had one of these alerts.
We pay a good price for all this too. Special CA emissions standards, mantadory smog checks, and who knows what other special taxes, but you can breathe again.
Environmental whackos are a'plenty here, but they do cause occasional good when they aren't linking hands around old oak trees.
Compare this to Dimtri and the DMCA fiasco, all he really did was innovate and try to do something different and make a buck in the process, and for what end result? To get sued for their intended innovation in business? Although I admit there are a million differences I wanted to use a well known case for comparison, so please spare the flames about adobe e-book vs misleading (looking) ads, the point is that it was innovation that lead both people on their path.
You are forgetting the important difference between Elcomsoft and Bonzi:
Who is getting screwed by the defendant.
Elcomsoft did the one thing that was a mistake, that is piss off Adobe. Adobe happens to be a corporation with corporate laws like the DMCA and plenty of government lawyers to back it up. I would guess that the prosecution of Elcomsoft isn't costing Adobe any money now that its a federal matter. Bonzi is screwing over Joe SixPack, and all the other grandmas, kids, and clueless people on the net. What laws to they have to protect them? Not very many. Is the government going to help? Nope, just look at the actions of the FTC inthis matter and all the action being done against spam. That's why there are lawyers and the class action - the government wants nothing to to with it. If it weren't for the class action, no one would have the resources to go after Bonzi.
Bonzi annouces that they were awarded a patent on "a method of specifying an ip address in order to make it non-routable on the internet" and demands everyone with a router or other NAT device to pay up or else.
Hah, and I thought all those complaints of a Senate "death watch" were just political B.S.
Like him or not, circling over him like vultures hoping for him to kick over and create another "upset" to win back the Senate majority is simply tasteless. It's political trolling.
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That's actually hara-kiri, or belly-slitting. While hara-kiri is correct, it is considered crass in Japanese. The proper term to use is seppuku, which is the ritualistic suicide to which you infer.
Send a DMCA cease and desist letter against yourself and the provider. That ought to get them to stop rather quickly. There are plenty of examples on the net to purloin for your needs.
On the news today, the US Govt is now leafletting Iraq and playing popular Arabic music along with "news" as part of its propoganda campaign against Saddam Hussein.
What I want to know is if the military or the government is paying the proper royalties to the rights holders of that music, and if they even got permission to broadcast it.
Where can I report them for IP violations? WIPO?
Would this be... wait for it...
A borgasm ?
If "The Mummy" was good, then the Roger Corman flick "Humanoids from the Deep" was a masterpiece.
The only thing 'Humanoids' was missing that's present in similar modern films is the tentacles.
Actually IBM also had the source to all windows versions up to (but not including) Windows 95 and Windows NT.
Because the two parties had a code-sharing agreement, IBM made it's own version of Windows and bundled it along with OS/2 2.x and later.
The interesting thing was they used the Watcom C/C++ compiler, and it built a faster version of Windows than the MS's own C compiler.
One of the last gasps OS/2 was making before IBM pulled the plug on OS/2 as a consumer OS, was the headaches getting Win32 to run reliably on it.
I'd know more from my memory at that point, but at that time I rescued a NeXT cube from my college and dumped the PC to work on a UNIX workstation for the next few years.
If the cashier's check was good, then the sale is complete, and it is no longer his Mac.
Since he was scammed, his property was stolen, not sold.
Possession != Ownership
I was always lead to believe that MS worked on versions prior to OS/2 2.0, mainly the 1.x versions. 2.0 came about after the split, AFAIR.
I had this happen once: when I was installing a copy of the Japanese Windows 95 on a laptop. It just blew away the existing OS/2 installation from the get-go. Whether this was a one-time user-error, a bug, or deliberate I'll never know because OS/2 was permanently off the machine at that time.
MS DOS 6.2 was a real hoot when you are an OS/2 user. The install detects an OS/2 installation and helpfully suggests to the user they should upgrade to DOS 6.2. If you install anyway, it disabled Boot Manager.
I know as a fact that CDROMs were proprietary back then too. IDE and SCSI were out, but Mitsumi was a very popular proprietary bus drive back then, and other (SCSI or proprietary) drives that attached to SoundBlaster and ProAudioSpecrum cards were still very common. It was not out of place to have to make a copy of the install disk, copy a driver, and edit the config.sys. This also usually involved removing uneeded drivers as well. Not for the faint of heart.
Two popular games at the time ran pretty good:
X-wing and Doom.
Had hours of fun with them both.
Ugly huh? Then what do you call Windows 95?
When 95 came out it was pretty much a copy of the OS/2 desktop, with a taskbar added to the bottom.
A home user with 200GB of files should drop the Jergens and Kleenex long enough to get a DVD-R and some blanks and burn that pr0n onto DVD so they free up all but 10GB of that drive space and get to watch that pr0n on TV, where it belongs.
Yes, but at 170MB, the BIOS of the computer didn't have to jump through hoops trying to get by the 512MB limit on early drives.
Load a modern drive into your early '94 computer and see what I mean.
This comes from a bitter experience I had with a 1998 or so machine that refused to work with drives larger than 8GB. It was wonderful, since at the time, the smallest drive readily available was 10GB. "A dual Pentium Pro would make a great Web and mail server" I said to myself. I'll just put this new 60GB drive in and see...
And for the SCSI-lover crowd:
I have a 2GB HP Drive that has been powered down since 1998. I fired that puppy up last August, and it refused to spin at all.
I disconnected the drive and "rotated" it by spinning it (whole drive) quickly, hoping the inertia of the platters would break the "stiction".
It worked, and now the drive powers up with no probems.
Now I also have a 1992-era Seagate 5 1/4" fullheight SCSI drive that's been powered down for even longer. Last I remembered, it sounded like it was gonna die hearing it sloooowly spin up. (I think I can, I think I can...). As far as I care, it can stay spun down.
You could always rotate out the drives every so often *while they still work*. Wipe them and sell them on e-bay. Or use them to upgrade other equipment around the office.
That will help lower the total cost.
As long as we are on that track, the Internet was designed to withstand nuclear attack, so its obviously the best choice: archive, encrypt and have others mirror your data.
I know, I know, how do you get these people to do it? And how much will it cost? Easy, and I can get them to do it for free.
Name the backup DIVX_The_Twin_Towers.avi and put it up on Gnutella or WinMX. Problem solved.
Your argument is correct, IMHO.
I recently went from Windows to Mac, and the time difference of games being released for both platforms is amazing, from 0 days (Warcraft 3) to years (Aliens Vs. Predator).
One problem is why should I pay $50 for a game for the Mac (or Linux) when the PC version is in the $5-10 bargain bin? I ran across this problem with AvP, why pay $30-40 for it when I can get the same thing for the PC for $10? or for $40-50 I can buy the newly-released AvP2 for the PC? Or Star Trek Elite Force, I can buy that just when everyone and their dog has forgotten completely about it.
The other problem is that if its an online game and assuming the version I get can network play with Windows users, what users will be around after 6 months to a year? Mainly diehards. Not a great place for a beginner.
Console games are different, there's another whole world of gamers out there for consoles, either those who can't afford/don't want computers for the kids, or those who don't want to hassle with the games on a PC. I have a Mac, but don't have an Xbox. I want to try out Halo, but I'm not going to buy yet another console just to do it.
Games for consoles just didn't compare to PC's to me. I usually went for Flight Sims/RPG's, and back in the 8 and 16-bit console days, there was a world of difference between the PC's Ultima and Falcon AT, and the NES's Zelda and Top Gun. That's not necessarily the case now.
I got your Mouse-O-Matic(TM) right here.
Well, growing up in California did teach me a bit about the environment, and how a bit of effort can go a long way.
If you lived in CA since the 70's-80's, and remember the 'Smog Alerts' where you could see the haze in the air, the burning eyes, and the difficulty breathing... Compared to now with much cleaner air. I can't recall the last time we had one of these alerts.
We pay a good price for all this too. Special CA emissions standards, mantadory smog checks, and who knows what other special taxes, but you can breathe again.
Environmental whackos are a'plenty here, but they do cause occasional good when they aren't linking hands around old oak trees.
You are forgetting the important difference between Elcomsoft and Bonzi:
Who is getting screwed by the defendant.
Elcomsoft did the one thing that was a mistake, that is piss off Adobe. Adobe happens to be a corporation with corporate laws like the DMCA and plenty of government lawyers to back it up. I would guess that the prosecution of Elcomsoft isn't costing Adobe any money now that its a federal matter. Bonzi is screwing over Joe SixPack, and all the other grandmas, kids, and clueless people on the net. What laws to they have to protect them? Not very many. Is the government going to help? Nope, just look at the actions of the FTC inthis matter and all the action being done against spam. That's why there are lawyers and the class action - the government wants nothing to to with it. If it weren't for the class action, no one would have the resources to go after Bonzi.
Bonzi annouces that they were awarded a patent on "a method of specifying an ip address in order to make it non-routable on the internet" and demands everyone with a router or other NAT device to pay up or else.
Like him or not, circling over him like vultures hoping for him to kick over and create another "upset" to win back the Senate majority is simply tasteless. It's political trolling.
And exactly what is odd about seeing Amtrak and derail in the same sentence? I do all the time in the newspaper...
It brings back memories of that Sesame Street parody where "Kremit" and Big Bird are taking bong hits and having idle chitchat.
I can imagine the same with Steve and Woz discussing naming the computer with all the haze, gurgling and bubbling noises and inane giggling.