WebTV was the old ISP-using-proprietary-hardware-and-your-TV technology that Microsoft acquired. That has nothing to do with the article linked to.
The article is about downloading TV episodes over the Web, which has nothing to do with WebTV.
Criminy, people just love CamelCasing words, and will do so on the thinnest excuse.
Neither the German nor the English text says anything at all about any legal action by LinuxTag.
The piece in heise.de does say that lawyers have sent each other nastygrams. Lawyers do that all the time, I hear.
I get the sense that people don't know what LinuxTag is. It's a trade show.
Nowhere in any of the linked articles does anyone say what the legal theory for a lawsuit against SCO would be...especially by a trade show! Frankly, it'd be more of a story if there were such information.
Nothin' to see here, people, move along...
Chris Baldwin spends hours out of his every day laboriously crosshatching Bruno. Does he ask us to pay? No, never. Should he? Well, based on his journal, we could all worry less about his health if he did.
First, a quick disclaimer: I have no personal or financial interest in any of these. I own no stock in Adobe or Wacom. Consarnit, I can't even draw.
One of the best comics on Modern Tales are Patent Pending, a drama that is drawn by the same guy who does the comedy Goats (which is free). Two other awe-inspiring MT strips are Makeshift Miracle and American Born Chinese, the former for its art and the latter for its psychological insight.
One syndrome I dislike seeing in Slashdot is the tendency to sound the trumpets any time we see the word "free," without inquiring into the context.
The nice folks at Rocketbox say that they are committed to providing Web comics that you don't have to pay to access the archives of. That appears to be a slap at Modern Tales, which is using exactly that model so that its cartoonists can see a dime or two of compensation.
Well, okay. Never mind that sites like Modern Tales have only a minimal cost (a coupla greenbacks per month). Never mind that if you visit Modern Tales each time your favorite comic comes out new, you never have to surrender a nickel. Never mind that you can set up a damn cron job and grab each comic when it comes out, thus making sure you don't miss any.
This is worthy of the front page of Slashdot?
I'd be impressed and interested if the comics were free-as-in-speech. Okay, maybe I'd be more impressed if Rocketbox's Top 10 list wasn't empty.
How exactly does Rocketbox plan to pay for its bandwidth bills? Let alone help its cartoonists afford their next ramen noodles? They don't say, as far as I can see.
This is frivolous. And it should be noted that most of the best Web comics (on or off Modern Tales, or with any revenue model) have not even been mentioned so far. I will mention some in a separate post.
Imagine an enormous pair of scissors, many light-years on a side. Now imagine opening and closing the blades.
The spot where the two blades come together might well travel faster than light, since it is not a physical object...it's simply a point in space. It also doesn't bear any information, since its location at any instant is just a matter of computation.
IANAP, but I take it that the story here is the same kind of thing. What's traveling fast here is the peak of the pulse, not the electrons in the pulse itself. Because this pulse will bear information (unlike the intersection point of the scissors), it is limited to the speed of light.
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If so, watch out: there's been a security leek!
WebTV was the old ISP-using-proprietary-hardware-and-your-TV technology that Microsoft acquired. That has nothing to do with the article linked to. The article is about downloading TV episodes over the Web, which has nothing to do with WebTV. Criminy, people just love CamelCasing words, and will do so on the thinnest excuse.
IE works just fine. In fact, IE is oblivious to the fact that it isn't running on a physical PC.
My serial HotSync works fine too. I just mapped the virtual machine's serial port to my physical machine's serial port, and that was that.
Neither the German nor the English text says anything at all about any legal action by LinuxTag. The piece in heise.de does say that lawyers have sent each other nastygrams. Lawyers do that all the time, I hear. I get the sense that people don't know what LinuxTag is. It's a trade show. Nowhere in any of the linked articles does anyone say what the legal theory for a lawsuit against SCO would be...especially by a trade show! Frankly, it'd be more of a story if there were such information. Nothin' to see here, people, move along...
Chris Baldwin spends hours out of his every day laboriously crosshatching Bruno. Does he ask us to pay? No, never. Should he? Well, based on his journal, we could all worry less about his health if he did.
First, a quick disclaimer: I have no personal or financial interest in any of these. I own no stock in Adobe or Wacom. Consarnit, I can't even draw.
One of the best comics on Modern Tales are Patent Pending, a drama that is drawn by the same guy who does the comedy Goats (which is free). Two other awe-inspiring MT strips are Makeshift Miracle and American Born Chinese, the former for its art and the latter for its psychological insight.
Three free strips deserving of special mention are Wigu, Achewood, and Scary-Go-Round.
Note that none of these strips concern teenagers who play video games. Hope that's not too much of a disappointment for anyone.
One syndrome I dislike seeing in Slashdot is the tendency to sound the trumpets any time we see the word "free," without inquiring into the context.
The nice folks at Rocketbox say that they are committed to providing Web comics that you don't have to pay to access the archives of. That appears to be a slap at Modern Tales, which is using exactly that model so that its cartoonists can see a dime or two of compensation.
Well, okay. Never mind that sites like Modern Tales have only a minimal cost (a coupla greenbacks per month). Never mind that if you visit Modern Tales each time your favorite comic comes out new, you never have to surrender a nickel. Never mind that you can set up a damn cron job and grab each comic when it comes out, thus making sure you don't miss any.
This is worthy of the front page of Slashdot?
I'd be impressed and interested if the comics were free-as-in-speech. Okay, maybe I'd be more impressed if Rocketbox's Top 10 list wasn't empty.
How exactly does Rocketbox plan to pay for its bandwidth bills? Let alone help its cartoonists afford their next ramen noodles? They don't say, as far as I can see.
This is frivolous. And it should be noted that most of the best Web comics (on or off Modern Tales, or with any revenue model) have not even been mentioned so far. I will mention some in a separate post.
Imagine an enormous pair of scissors, many light-years on a side. Now imagine opening and closing the blades. The spot where the two blades come together might well travel faster than light, since it is not a physical object...it's simply a point in space. It also doesn't bear any information, since its location at any instant is just a matter of computation. IANAP, but I take it that the story here is the same kind of thing. What's traveling fast here is the peak of the pulse, not the electrons in the pulse itself. Because this pulse will bear information (unlike the intersection point of the scissors), it is limited to the speed of light.
Earth to Microsoft: use SMTP! How about your beloved SOAP over SMTP, even!
The trouble with all these established protocols is that it's too late for our friends in Redmond to proprietary-ize them.