Is not only are they at many times taking the law into their own hands (and somewhat frivolously I might add), but could also be tying up mass amounts of the legal system in such a venture. In the end, will hurt not only those being sued unjustly, but all of the country as the legal system gets bogged down by idiotic cases.
Ah yes... the other most-popular format of downloads from Kazaa. Probably even moreso than music in fact, at least in terms of filesize/bandwidth... but you don't hear any of the pornstars complaining. I think they long ago figured out that saturating kazaa with "promo clips" was more profitable than trying to fight it.
The best way to write a closed-source program using open-source code would be to make it very modularized, and keep all the OS modules visible while the custom-coded stuff hidden?
In a related note: I've been playing around with Mesa lately, and thinking that once I get the knack of it I might build a 3dGL engine for myself (I've build a small one before on DirectX). Now, does this mean I must reveal where I call the Mesa functions, or just keep the Mesa modules themselves seperate (a non-issue in most cases)? If I must reveal where I make calls to Mesa, I could see 2 solutions:
Make the engine, make the source visible, and use it as a wrapper for whatever apps uses the engine.
Or, alternately, could I hide the full source, but make an "attachment" of sorts that documents the various functions, anywhere these is a call to the OS source, but omits anything that doesn't (complicated, and annoying).
Really, I think that having the engine open-source is great, and companies have done this. The actual game content (environment code, graphics, etc) can be held under private ownership - which means that you can sell it, but anyone could make their own game based on your engine?
At least I think this is how it would work. Please feel free to correct me, as I could use the advice anyhow.
From what I've seen, SCO hasn't yet taken any linux users to court... but that doesn't stop the huge flood of anti-linux FUD from them either. Keep in mind that court is only part of the battle. Spreading a lot of bad word-of-mouth and propoganda can be commmercially damaging for the reputation of 'nix, in the long-run too.
Oh yes, and evolution and many is pretty much a ripoff, but that still doesn't make the general anti-linux FUD right.
That's how it works. With transplants becoming basically a way to extend life... people kept demanding more organs. Since the idea of being chopped into parts freaked people out, crime decreased, which resulted in lesser crimes being upgraded to a "death via dissassemblement" in order to keep the organ banks up.
Are you running a server or are you just a client? Have you considered blocking them (if you run a server) or asking to have them blocked (by your provider, if a client).
Rodents will gnaw on cage bars, etc, in order to keep their teeth filed down. If not, they can grow too long, or get ingrown I believe, which can be painful and sometimes fatal if not treated. For rodents that are in a cage without bars (aquarium glass, or whatever) I recommend making sure they have a block to chew on. Per stores tend to carry them
Oh, and as a side-note... falling of the top was probably just the result of a thing called gravity. Even an agile rodent hanging off their would get heady/tired after awhile I would think?
I found that one of my biggest beefs with ZoneAlarm is the sheer lag it impeded upon my connections. Not that it's a bad product, I found it extremely useful for locking certain apps from internet access (non-infected apps that liked to "call home") - but when I switched to using an old PC as a routing server things become much faster.
Of course, back then I didn't know IPtables... but there are other solutions that do just as well. 486's with dual-NICS can run as these... but hell an older P1 will handle it very nicely and you can find peopel giving them away now.
Of course, ad-aware will always be my friend... and I'm using Norton (just the AV, not the drain-your-resources-suite) so I can't comment on AVG until I try it out later (when my norton subscription runs out, most likely).
The only reason I could think of that somebody would want to run ENIAC is the same reason that they would want to display it: historical properties, nostalgia, etc.
If they do run it, I recommend placing it beside a Ti-83 calculator so people can do a comparison:-)
Now somebody needs to start a host server for it, and a project. We've got spam RBL's... so why not an RIAA block-list? Anybody subscribing could get a list of daily entries, and a modified apache could display appropriate websites to RIAA-originating requests (maybe a forward to goatse, wouldn't that be great) or perhaps just drop/ignore their packets entirely via firewalling.
Me, I'm for something that randomizes between goatse and tubgirl, etc... with a regularly update block-list of RIAA-friendly IP's to enjoy it. Hell, they likely may check for FTP/HTTP sites on heavy kazaa-use addresses, or subnets. Let's give 'em something fun to look at.
If large companies are even now outsourcing jobs to often lower-quality, but significantly cheaper IT workers in third-world countries - what's to stop companies from similarly going to cheaper, and possibly more efficient, AI in 50 years?
I mean, let's be completely honest. Where I live, minimum wage was amended so that employees on "training" get a lesser minimum wage for the first X term of their employment. The result: even though there are rules against it... fast-food areas now have significantly more "trainee" employees as they are cheaper, where longer-term employees don't tend to get as many hours or are more harshly watched for fireable penalties. The result: good luck getting your burger order right.
That being said, you think that if it becomes cheaper to replace people with machines, that they aren't going to be looking at it in the next 10-20 let alone 50.
I think that doom definately caught on more. This is very likely in part due to doom's (at the time) exceptional multiplayer FPS abilities, in conjunction with what was just a very well made environment for the time.
If you had a decent-sized company... and Microsoft basically took your product/ideas, stuck them in their product, and shipped it out everywhere, how would you end up?
You might want to focus on how InterTrust ended up as an IP-only company...
Clarify this: are they looking at making ENIAC functional again?
If you were careful, there's not really much reason you couldn't give your home PC a good hosing down. Water doesn't kill computers... water+electricity does, so just give it a long dry-off session afterwards, and beware of areas prone to pooling.
Still, a good loving application of compressed air and hand-scrubbing the case is just fine in itself.
"SCO is dying" a troll? Hell, they're being a bit loud about it, but they are definately starting to go through the death throes.
In a year or two from now... I'd expect "BSD is dying" might be replaced with "SCO is dying"... and then it'll only be funny 'cause SCO will be long past dead by then (as Slashdot newbies say "SCO-who?")
Vegimite? I'm think that last time I heard they were using it to poison the rats.
All-in-all... I figure if aussies can eat the stuff (concentrated yeast extract, black... not overtly tasty though I found it tolerable) then they are a force to be reckoned with. Just sit on the SCO execs and force-feed them some until they come around...
"Good god, they enjoy this stuff??? They're not human!!! we repent... we repent!!!"
Maybe somebody needs to go out and help dig up the various ways we can legally fight back against SCO et al. Various countries, various investigative bodies, various laws.... it's confusing. If somebody in the legal "know" gives us the options, then perhaps more groups will form together as an organized coalition again the "evils that be (tm)".
Yes, I already know about donating to the EFF, etc... but how about organized legal or political opposition? What are my options there
p.s. from experience I can say that Linux is gaining ground within various branches/sectors of the Canadian gov't... so perhaps they'd be more open-minded about such things?
and I can reproduce it for my own use
I'm not selling the fork, and I'm not performing music for others. I may use the fork on my own, assuming I have reproduced it.
It's vanilla flavoured (as opposed to completely-crap-flavored) Whey-based (but low-carb) Protein powder.
I'll have to check my BBQ sauce... I usually go for hot stuff as opposed to sweet. Did you know that eating a lot of hot peppers etc is supposed to help, as it bumps your metabolism for awhile (it can also send you to "flush" before you absorb too much food, depending on what you eat, but that's not entirely healthy).
Pirated/DivX
a) No lines
b) Your own food/popcorn/etc
c) Convenience - watch whenever you want
d) Comfort (couch)
e) No noisy idiots in the stands
f) No frickin' commercials
Live
a) Big screen
b) Better sounds (most times)
c) Groupwatch (group-laugh for comedy is often better)
d) "Moral Issues"
e) Employs workers (forget overpaid actors, I mean theatre staff)
Better quality video/sound (no lossy "cam" divX)
You know which really gets me about seeing things live. It's not the $8-10 fee (CAD), it's the fricking commercials. Previews, ok, they show me what other movies I might like. But I do not pay $10 to see a commercial for the newest Mazda/sport-drink/etc. Bad movies are even worse. Take a good plot/theme and massacre it (Hulk movie, specifically the ending)... or hype something up and have it be nothing like the previews (DreamCatcher). Some movies are so bad that I would be upset if I took the time to download them, much less paid to watch them (and I did pay, much to my dissappointment).
I think the best idea would be to put a bunch of "part-movies" on the net. That is, cut the movie off about partway through, somewhat like a long preview. That way, I can see which ones I think would really suck, and the good ones would entice watchers to come see the whole thing... P2P could be a tool that either helps or hurts the movie "industry", it just depends on the use
Atkins diet... geeks getting a bit rounder, geeze did one of my co-workers post this up to catch my attention?
I've been roughly following the diet for the last month or so, limiting myself to about 20g of carbs or as close as I can. Lots of meat (hey, meat is a good thing), protein powder, and I go blading a few times a week.
So far, my weight has stayed near the same, but the tummy and various other odd jiggles have become noticably more tucked (third-party opinion, not just my own).
Really, if you like the BBQ, you can do pretty well. Also, grab yourself a decent blender, some ice-cube trays, and fresh berries. Blending up a shake with strawberries and vanilla is probably the best way to make that protein-powder crap taste actually pretty good (berries generally low on carbs, but beware as many other fruits are not).
Oh, and don't worry about the fat on meats, as mentioned above, fat doesn't make you fat in most cases. It does make you feel full though...
Lay off the potato chips and (for me the hard one) pasta and you'll do fine. Coffee is also a good thing, and I believe you can have lower-sugar ice-cream and some other goodies that are unusual for "dieting" as well.
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Is not only are they at many times taking the law into their own hands (and somewhat frivolously I might add), but could also be tying up mass amounts of the legal system in such a venture. In the end, will hurt not only those being sued unjustly, but all of the country as the legal system gets bogged down by idiotic cases.
Interesting... I've always assumed that the RIAA wasn't lead by a head, so much as a collection of asses...
Heck, how about masturbation for that matter
Ah yes... the other most-popular format of downloads from Kazaa. Probably even moreso than music in fact, at least in terms of filesize/bandwidth... but you don't hear any of the pornstars complaining. I think they long ago figured out that saturating kazaa with "promo clips" was more profitable than trying to fight it.
Nobody copies our country music and gets away with it (even if they don't get caught, they suffer)!!!
Are you sure that the CRIA can do anything about this, they may only have authorization over matters of Canadian artists.
Take a bit longer to get rolling... but they're oh-so-much more effective at squashing ignorance companies than the flinging of small pebbles.
We're just sharpening our pitchforks. We haven't poked anyone with them yet.
Key word being yet. Somebody help me heat up this tar while we're at it...
The best way to write a closed-source program using open-source code would be to make it very modularized, and keep all the OS modules visible while the custom-coded stuff hidden?
In a related note: I've been playing around with Mesa lately, and thinking that once I get the knack of it I might build a 3dGL engine for myself (I've build a small one before on DirectX). Now, does this mean I must reveal where I call the Mesa functions, or just keep the Mesa modules themselves seperate (a non-issue in most cases)? If I must reveal where I make calls to Mesa, I could see 2 solutions:
Make the engine, make the source visible, and use it as a wrapper for whatever apps uses the engine.
Or, alternately, could I hide the full source, but make an "attachment" of sorts that documents the various functions, anywhere these is a call to the OS source, but omits anything that doesn't (complicated, and annoying).
Really, I think that having the engine open-source is great, and companies have done this. The actual game content (environment code, graphics, etc) can be held under private ownership - which means that you can sell it, but anyone could make their own game based on your engine?
At least I think this is how it would work. Please feel free to correct me, as I could use the advice anyhow.
From what I've seen, SCO hasn't yet taken any linux users to court... but that doesn't stop the huge flood of anti-linux FUD from them either. Keep in mind that court is only part of the battle. Spreading a lot of bad word-of-mouth and propoganda can be commmercially damaging for the reputation of 'nix, in the long-run too.
Oh yes, and evolution and many is pretty much a ripoff, but that still doesn't make the general anti-linux FUD right.
That's how it works. With transplants becoming basically a way to extend life... people kept demanding more organs. Since the idea of being chopped into parts freaked people out, crime decreased, which resulted in lesser crimes being upgraded to a "death via dissassemblement" in order to keep the organ banks up.
Just finished reading the book Flatlander: The collected tales of Gil "the Arm" Hamilton.. It covers the organleggers in a lot of detail (Gil being a cop assigned to hunting 'leggers), and is a great read
Are you running a server or are you just a client? Have you considered blocking them (if you run a server) or asking to have them blocked (by your provider, if a client).
Rodents will gnaw on cage bars, etc, in order to keep their teeth filed down. If not, they can grow too long, or get ingrown I believe, which can be painful and sometimes fatal if not treated. For rodents that are in a cage without bars (aquarium glass, or whatever) I recommend making sure they have a block to chew on. Per stores tend to carry them
Oh, and as a side-note... falling of the top was probably just the result of a thing called gravity. Even an agile rodent hanging off their would get heady/tired after awhile I would think?
I found that one of my biggest beefs with ZoneAlarm is the sheer lag it impeded upon my connections. Not that it's a bad product, I found it extremely useful for locking certain apps from internet access (non-infected apps that liked to "call home") - but when I switched to using an old PC as a routing server things become much faster.
Of course, back then I didn't know IPtables... but there are other solutions that do just as well. 486's with dual-NICS can run as these... but hell an older P1 will handle it very nicely and you can find peopel giving them away now.
Of course, ad-aware will always be my friend... and I'm using Norton (just the AV, not the drain-your-resources-suite) so I can't comment on AVG until I try it out later (when my norton subscription runs out, most likely).
The only reason I could think of that somebody would want to run ENIAC is the same reason that they would want to display it: historical properties, nostalgia, etc.
:-)
If they do run it, I recommend placing it beside a Ti-83 calculator so people can do a comparison
Now somebody needs to start a host server for it, and a project. We've got spam RBL's... so why not an RIAA block-list? Anybody subscribing could get a list of daily entries, and a modified apache could display appropriate websites to RIAA-originating requests (maybe a forward to goatse, wouldn't that be great) or perhaps just drop/ignore their packets entirely via firewalling.
Me, I'm for something that randomizes between goatse and tubgirl, etc... with a regularly update block-list of RIAA-friendly IP's to enjoy it. Hell, they likely may check for FTP/HTTP sites on heavy kazaa-use addresses, or subnets. Let's give 'em something fun to look at.
If large companies are even now outsourcing jobs to often lower-quality, but significantly cheaper IT workers in third-world countries - what's to stop companies from similarly going to cheaper, and possibly more efficient, AI in 50 years?
I mean, let's be completely honest. Where I live, minimum wage was amended so that employees on "training" get a lesser minimum wage for the first X term of their employment. The result: even though there are rules against it... fast-food areas now have significantly more "trainee" employees as they are cheaper, where longer-term employees don't tend to get as many hours or are more harshly watched for fireable penalties. The result: good luck getting your burger order right.
That being said, you think that if it becomes cheaper to replace people with machines, that they aren't going to be looking at it in the next 10-20 let alone 50.
I think that doom definately caught on more. This is very likely in part due to doom's (at the time) exceptional multiplayer FPS abilities, in conjunction with what was just a very well made environment for the time.
Great, an IP only company. Wonderful
If you had a decent-sized company... and Microsoft basically took your product/ideas, stuck them in their product, and shipped it out everywhere, how would you end up?
You might want to focus on how InterTrust ended up as an IP-only company...
Clarify this: are they looking at making ENIAC functional again?
If you were careful, there's not really much reason you couldn't give your home PC a good hosing down. Water doesn't kill computers... water+electricity does, so just give it a long dry-off session afterwards, and beware of areas prone to pooling.
Still, a good loving application of compressed air and hand-scrubbing the case is just fine in itself.
"SCO is dying" a troll? Hell, they're being a bit loud about it, but they are definately starting to go through the death throes.
In a year or two from now... I'd expect "BSD is dying" might be replaced with "SCO is dying"... and then it'll only be funny 'cause SCO will be long past dead by then (as Slashdot newbies say "SCO-who?")
Vegimite? I'm think that last time I heard they were using it to poison the rats.
All-in-all... I figure if aussies can eat the stuff (concentrated yeast extract, black... not overtly tasty though I found it tolerable) then they are a force to be reckoned with. Just sit on the SCO execs and force-feed them some until they come around...
"Good god, they enjoy this stuff??? They're not human!!! we repent... we repent!!!"
e.g. EU or Oz
What about Canada? We use linux too eh?
Maybe somebody needs to go out and help dig up the various ways we can legally fight back against SCO et al. Various countries, various investigative bodies, various laws.... it's confusing. If somebody in the legal "know" gives us the options, then perhaps more groups will form together as an organized coalition again the "evils that be (tm)".
Yes, I already know about donating to the EFF, etc... but how about organized legal or political opposition? What are my options there
p.s. from experience I can say that Linux is gaining ground within various branches/sectors of the Canadian gov't... so perhaps they'd be more open-minded about such things?
and I can reproduce it for my own use
I'm not selling the fork, and I'm not performing music for others. I may use the fork on my own, assuming I have reproduced it.
I think you missed the question?
It's vanilla flavoured (as opposed to completely-crap-flavored) Whey-based (but low-carb) Protein powder.
I'll have to check my BBQ sauce... I usually go for hot stuff as opposed to sweet. Did you know that eating a lot of hot peppers etc is supposed to help, as it bumps your metabolism for awhile (it can also send you to "flush" before you absorb too much food, depending on what you eat, but that's not entirely healthy).
Pirated/DivX
a) No lines
b) Your own food/popcorn/etc
c) Convenience - watch whenever you want
d) Comfort (couch)
e) No noisy idiots in the stands
f) No frickin' commercials
Live
a) Big screen
b) Better sounds (most times)
c) Groupwatch (group-laugh for comedy is often better)
d) "Moral Issues"
e) Employs workers (forget overpaid actors, I mean theatre staff)
Better quality video/sound (no lossy "cam" divX)
You know which really gets me about seeing things live. It's not the $8-10 fee (CAD), it's the fricking commercials. Previews, ok, they show me what other movies I might like. But I do not pay $10 to see a commercial for the newest Mazda/sport-drink/etc. Bad movies are even worse. Take a good plot/theme and massacre it (Hulk movie, specifically the ending)... or hype something up and have it be nothing like the previews (DreamCatcher). Some movies are so bad that I would be upset if I took the time to download them, much less paid to watch them (and I did pay, much to my dissappointment).
I think the best idea would be to put a bunch of "part-movies" on the net. That is, cut the movie off about partway through, somewhat like a long preview. That way, I can see which ones I think would really suck, and the good ones would entice watchers to come see the whole thing... P2P could be a tool that either helps or hurts the movie "industry", it just depends on the use
Atkins diet... geeks getting a bit rounder, geeze did one of my co-workers post this up to catch my attention?
I've been roughly following the diet for the last month or so, limiting myself to about 20g of carbs or as close as I can. Lots of meat (hey, meat is a good thing), protein powder, and I go blading a few times a week.
So far, my weight has stayed near the same, but the tummy and various other odd jiggles have become noticably more tucked (third-party opinion, not just my own).
Really, if you like the BBQ, you can do pretty well. Also, grab yourself a decent blender, some ice-cube trays, and fresh berries. Blending up a shake with strawberries and vanilla is probably the best way to make that protein-powder crap taste actually pretty good (berries generally low on carbs, but beware as many other fruits are not).
Oh, and don't worry about the fat on meats, as mentioned above, fat doesn't make you fat in most cases. It does make you feel full though...
Lay off the potato chips and (for me the hard one) pasta and you'll do fine. Coffee is also a good thing, and I believe you can have lower-sugar ice-cream and some other goodies that are unusual for "dieting" as well.