Hello.
hundreds and hundreds of people have already read this piece of email, and now YOU are the lucky one. Send this mail to 5 friends, and you'll have luck for a year! But if you break the chain...you could have bad luck for years and years. Just look at what happened to John. He failed to send this note to 5 friends. the next day he was eaten by a gang of ravenous rabid weasels! or what happened to Mary: she DID send this mail to 5 friends. 3 days later she won a million in the lottery. 367 days later though, we sued her for copyright infringement...
Ah.. but broadening DVD usage to include linux users sounds like a significant commercial purpose. Not for the makers of DeCSS, but for the moviemakers. Just a thought...
No matter what the company the guy works for does, he will ALWAYS have the right to put his name in the program he wrote, whether it's work for hire or whatever. Since he (co?)wrote the software he has that right. For the rest.. well.. I dont know much of the situation, so can't really comment if a company was 'duped' into using the GPL, or if they knew what they were doing. If the company knew: Kudos for pushing the GPL. If they didn't it's not that good.
>"Computer code is not purely expressive any more than the assassination of a political figure is purely a political statement," Kaplan wrote in his opinion today.
Wasn't there this controversy recently about the good old US of A wanting to legalize assassination of foreign political leaders?
>To all of you have read the Wheel of Time series, Richard Stallman is looking an awful lot like the prophet. Hmmm, I wonder who the Dragon Reborn is....
I have no idea.. but the MS/Corel thing reminds me of MS as a draghkar.. first a kiss of death, then leave a living corpse..
[snip]
Schrijf een tussen-n als het eerste deel van de samenstelling:
niet op een e eindigt en een meervoud heeft op -en: bloemenmand, leeuwendeel
een persoon aanduidt en een meervoud heeft op -en: blindeninstituut, ziekenhuis
[snip]
(translation)
Use the extra 'n' when the first part of the compound word:
-doesn't end in 'e' and has a plural ending in 'en'
-denotes a person and has a plural ending in 'en'
koe ends in 'e', so no 'n'. koeieuier stands. Now I would like to hear Bush pronounce this.
>[snip] or calling a particularly well-constructed brick wall art.
found this one interesting. I sometimes like to compare coding to architecture. An architect CAN be an artist (Gaudi, Rietveld), but isn't necessarily. Also, architecture can be a science since thinking up a building 150 meters high that won't topple at the third gust of wind can be quite a challenge (probably.. I'm no architect). Sure.. the brick wall isn't art (usually it isn't, art's a weird thing at times), but Gaudi's cathedral is definately a work of art. Where do architects draw the line? I have no idea.. but I think the situation is similar.
hmm.. I must say I rather enjoyed the game of Master of Magic 2 days ago. And that's not even mentioning ZAngband or Angband, both of which I also regularly play. My imagination in picturing monsters and my actions is WAY better, and at higher resolution, than full 3D, 1600x1200, raytraced objects.
the fee notice up front will probably be mandatory in europe, just like it is for non-standard phone-numbers (1-800 and the likes). ofcourse.. international rates will vary but those are conveniently placed in a table in my phonebook(I count interstate and international in the same category, because in europe it is)
the new ST will probably not have a space-setting. It'll take place on a planet, which may be under fire from a new threat to the federation. Crew will consist partly of federation personnel (about half), other half is from the indigenous population who will have invented space-flight, but not warptech. Add some cloak-and-dagger stuff, the occasional infiltration, some beginning trade with the Ferengi (possibly the world is brought into the federation by the ferengi, as they provided warp-tech to the "primitive" natives). Occasional visits by Q are optional.
lynx is a bad example. AFAIK pages that are accessible to the blind (like government's pages) are often tested by opening'em with lynx. The sentiment was OK, the example happened to be one that's not all that good:)
>The future: Music will be only permitted via direct brain transmission that is immediately wiped from memory after listening.
Finally, this is something we need. I heard Hanson on the radio. hmmmmbop. can't get it out of my head! No! The pain! aaaarrrgghh!
I just hope I won't have this inexplicable craving for Pepsi from the subliminable (is that the right spelling, Mr. Bush?) messages embedded in the music.
>Making a copy of copyrighted material is copyright infringment. If you can't grasp that simple fact, you are an idiot.
why thank you..
I specifically have the right, by law, to make copies for private, noncommercial use. I am also explicitly allowed to give a copy to a friend, which is basically what napster does(although it being non-commercial is debatable..). I am allowed to make a tape to play in the car from a cd I bought. By your explanation MP3 players (a change in media, usually CD to mp3 player) are very, very illegal.
so.... anyone started reverse engineering the DSPs yet? what you describe is interoperability, in which case reverse engineering is very specifically allowed. Although I admit I am not bound by any DMCA..
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1 word: Intercal
I shudder at the thought.
//rdj
Hello.
hundreds and hundreds of people have already read this piece of email, and now YOU are the lucky one. Send this mail to 5 friends, and you'll have luck for a year! But if you break the chain...you could have bad luck for years and years. Just look at what happened to John. He failed to send this note to 5 friends. the next day he was eaten by a gang of ravenous rabid weasels! or what happened to Mary: she DID send this mail to 5 friends. 3 days later she won a million in the lottery. 367 days later though, we sued her for copyright infringement...
//rdj
it didn't turn into koeienuier. it's still koeieuier in the new spelling. koe ends in e, and is an exception. stupid new spelling.
//rdj
Oh great.. Now microsoft is gonna invent a cure for the common cold, and prohibit anyone from making their own boogers..
//rdj
Ah.. but broadening DVD usage to include linux users sounds like a significant commercial purpose. Not for the makers of DeCSS, but for the moviemakers. Just a thought...
//rdj
-IJ is 2 letters, pronounced as one. It has no equivalent in english. Sound is closer to 'i' (as in 'like')
-ui does not have an equivalent sound in english. the 'ou' and 'au' are both pronounced as 'ou' in english
-G can be pronounced in 3 different ways: zj, the guttural G and the soft G. the 2 latter ones are exclusive, since they are regional variants.
//rdj
No matter what the company the guy works for does, he will ALWAYS have the right to put his name in the program he wrote, whether it's work for hire or whatever. Since he (co?)wrote the software he has that right. For the rest.. well.. I dont know much of the situation, so can't really comment if a company was 'duped' into using the GPL, or if they knew what they were doing. If the company knew: Kudos for pushing the GPL. If they didn't it's not that good.
//rdj
>"Computer code is not purely expressive any more than the assassination of a political figure is purely a political statement," Kaplan wrote in his opinion today.
Wasn't there this controversy recently about the good old US of A wanting to legalize assassination of foreign political leaders?
//rdj
move to europe. I could use a new neighbour.
//rdj
>To all of you have read the Wheel of Time series, Richard Stallman is looking an awful lot like the prophet. Hmmm, I wonder who the Dragon Reborn is....
I have no idea.. but the MS/Corel thing reminds me of MS as a draghkar.. first a kiss of death, then leave a living corpse..
//rdj
hmm.. not according to Van Dale's dictionary.
[snip]
Schrijf een tussen-n als het eerste deel van de samenstelling:
niet op een e eindigt en een meervoud heeft op -en: bloemenmand, leeuwendeel
een persoon aanduidt en een meervoud heeft op -en: blindeninstituut, ziekenhuis
[snip]
(translation)
Use the extra 'n' when the first part of the compound word:
-doesn't end in 'e' and has a plural ending in 'en'
-denotes a person and has a plural ending in 'en'
koe ends in 'e', so no 'n'. koeieuier stands. Now I would like to hear Bush pronounce this.
//rdj
>[snip] or calling a particularly well-constructed brick wall art.
found this one interesting. I sometimes like to compare coding to architecture. An architect CAN be an artist (Gaudi, Rietveld), but isn't necessarily. Also, architecture can be a science since thinking up a building 150 meters high that won't topple at the third gust of wind can be quite a challenge (probably.. I'm no architect). Sure.. the brick wall isn't art (usually it isn't, art's a weird thing at times), but Gaudi's cathedral is definately a work of art. Where do architects draw the line? I have no idea.. but I think the situation is similar.
//rdj
well.. factoring in Moore's law (+1 year = x2 speed)
assuming a creationist view of the world (created 6000 years ago)
1 day = 24 * 60 * 60 sec = 86400 seconds
6 days = 518400 seconds
518400 / 2^6000 = 3.425 * 10^-1801 seconds.
Yup. That's pretty fast
//rdj
drop the bikinis, and it may..
//rdj
master of magic, 2 days ago... Oh how I wish it was MoM2...
//rdj
hmm.. I must say I rather enjoyed the game of Master of Magic 2 days ago. And that's not even mentioning ZAngband or Angband, both of which I also regularly play. My imagination in picturing monsters and my actions is WAY better, and at higher resolution, than full 3D, 1600x1200, raytraced objects.
//rdj
the fee notice up front will probably be mandatory in europe, just like it is for non-standard phone-numbers (1-800 and the likes). ofcourse.. international rates will vary but those are conveniently placed in a table in my phonebook(I count interstate and international in the same category, because in europe it is)
//rdj
and don't forget the "musical" spinoffs, like Mr. Spock singing about Bilbo Baggins...
the new ST will probably not have a space-setting. It'll take place on a planet, which may be under fire from a new threat to the federation. Crew will consist partly of federation personnel (about half), other half is from the indigenous population who will have invented space-flight, but not warptech. Add some cloak-and-dagger stuff, the occasional infiltration, some beginning trade with the Ferengi (possibly the world is brought into the federation by the ferengi, as they provided warp-tech to the "primitive" natives). Occasional visits by Q are optional.
//rdj
lynx is a bad example. AFAIK pages that are accessible to the blind (like government's pages) are often tested by opening'em with lynx. The sentiment was OK, the example happened to be one that's not all that good :)
//rdj
Plus the fact that I have a minimum of direct influence on government, and I have NO influence on big business.
//rdj
illegal in the US != illegal everywhere
Nuff said.
//rdj
>The future: Music will be only permitted via direct brain transmission that is immediately wiped from memory after listening.
Finally, this is something we need. I heard Hanson on the radio. hmmmmbop. can't get it out of my head! No! The pain! aaaarrrgghh!
I just hope I won't have this inexplicable craving for Pepsi from the subliminable (is that the right spelling, Mr. Bush?) messages embedded in the music.
//rdj
>Making a copy of copyrighted material is copyright infringment. If you can't grasp that simple fact, you are an idiot.
why thank you..
I specifically have the right, by law, to make copies for private, noncommercial use. I am also explicitly allowed to give a copy to a friend, which is basically what napster does(although it being non-commercial is debatable..). I am allowed to make a tape to play in the car from a cd I bought. By your explanation MP3 players (a change in media, usually CD to mp3 player) are very, very illegal.
//rdj
so.... anyone started reverse engineering the DSPs yet? what you describe is interoperability, in which case reverse engineering is very specifically allowed. Although I admit I am not bound by any DMCA..
//rdj