I was planning to get a GP32, but have held off because the lack of good english games. (If I spoke japanese I'd have GP32 and Wonderswan by now). Is there a decent selection of playable games for someone who only speaks english?
Is there any incentive to get a PDA for gaming, as opposed to a $60 GBA?
I'm serious, what is the state of game quality on modern PDAs? Is it analgous to PCs vs Consoles, IMO the PC 'scene' suffers from too many crappy games.
No, if you tell her 'the ingredients are mayo, sweet relish, and ketchup' you've possibly violated the NDA, without specifying quantities or the order they're mixed in.
And remember this is civil court. SCO only has to show they're more likely right than wrong, they dont have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt or any of that criminal court stuff.
>> That doesn't seem like the firmest ground on which to base a lawsuit
Not a trial, but a lawsuit, sure. You're "innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt" in criminal court, but "innocent until proven guilty by a preponderance of the evidence" in civil court.
So the judge is supposed to ask himself "Is SCO more likely right than wrong?"
I don't think it's entirely far-fetched that SCO may be right.
If you worked for McDonalds, and signed an NDA saying that you will not disclose the contents of the secret sauce, and then your sister opens up a burger stand that just happens to have secret sauce on all the burgers, McDonalds would drag you into court for violating the NDA, and they would have to prove it's more likely you told her the recipe than that she figured it out herself.
This is the premise here, except you=IBM, secret sauce=SysV code, and sister=Linux kernel developers.
Why would they poke the T-Rex that is IBM with a stick, unless they think they can bring it down?
We can sit around laughing or bitching or whining or moaning, but what will happen if there turns out to be code in Linux that we dont have the rights to, either by way of trade secrets or patents?
Can all the SysV and other SCO stuff be removed without killing Linux? Would a setback be weeks, months, years, or would it be the end?
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The GDI doesnt care if the browser viewport is in a tab or a seperate form. There's a seperate thread and a CreateWindow call to build it and just as much OS overhead (since iexplore.exe is apt threaded) either way.
The MDI interface is pretty much a thing of the past, not even microsoft pushes it anymore. I find it cumbersome and cluttered looking, I prefer alt-tabbing between browser windows.
I do like how XP 'collapses' the multible instances for you, though.
>> we should instead be teaching them that the world is not always a nice place.
We should answer questions that they have, but we definately shouldnt be forcing or expecting them to grow up by the age of 5 or 6.
There's the saying "you're right to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose". I submit that peoples right to act like assholes stops when my kids are around.
I agree with the parent. Kids shouldnt be allowed to view adult material, and it really shouldn't require anything but some common sense and good faith from the web community to prevent it. But that good faith doesnt exist.
I built a PC for each of my children, for their rooms to do whatever they want with. I dont want to have to sit over their shoulders and watch them constantly, because I want them to be able to learn the computer the way I did, by just screwing around on it. I want them to be independent and learn from doing, like I did.
So I set up a proxy for them, with PICS filtering and other 'standards' (squid and dansguardian, OT: anyone know how to transparently proxy with dansguardian?. The idea was it would make a good enough whitelist.
Now, I'm more worried about the kids finding a pokemon chat room and being stalked by some pedophile than I am about them accidentally seeing a boob.
cartoonnetwork.com has a really cool (kid speaking) c-toon trading game my one kid loves. You watch TV on fridays and they give out codes, which you punch in to the website, to get c-toon cards, and then can play a card game (pokemon like) online with other kids. Whats great about it is that there's absolutely no way for personal information to get across. You dont pick a username, it presents a list of made-up silly names that you choose. You cant chat, you can pick from lists of prewritten phrases. (So no trolls posting ascii goatse)
Anyways, back on topic. I've noticed that some pricks out there put fake PICS and other codes into their porn websites. IMO it's a pretty contemptable way to make another nickel or two off of their banners. Its also IMO criminal, since they're basically marking the content as a childrens site, which is like sticking copies of Hustler into kids hallowe'en bags.
Meh anyways. I dont know what my point is. Some people are just pricks. We wouldnt need laws if they werent. Personally I'm in favor of the kids.us domain, I think it's the best compromise. It gives parents a very simple way to whitelist for younger children. It would be nice if it didnt have to be mandated by government, but if you left the registrars to regulate it, well, they wouldnt.
So it would be better if our tax dollars funded every whiners agenda?
For every 'just' cause citizens take in court, there are three hundred frivolous ones.
The ACLU is hell-bent on making sure noone ever says the word 'God', or celebrates Christmas in public. I don't want to fund that bullshit with my tax dollars.
And if the RIAA gets the "Freedom to listen to whatever the hell you want Act" overturned in Supreme Court, do you want your tax dollars reimbursing them?
It's easier to stick a bandaid on the little cut on the pinky finger than to sew up that gaping gash in the abdomen.
I have no idea how much of residence fees at Cornell go to the 'net connection, but I'd bet dollars to donuts it covers the bandwidth cost and then some.
When I was in school, I paid 60 bucks a month for a 19.2k SLIP connection, and even then they were whining about bandwidth abuse. (Mind you this was in the era of 14.4k modems, but still)
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They suck once you realize it's just an IRC chatroom with graphics that you're paying $40 a month for.
I was planning to get a GP32, but have held off because the lack of good english games. (If I spoke japanese I'd have GP32 and Wonderswan by now). Is there a decent selection of playable games for someone who only speaks english?
Is there any incentive to get a PDA for gaming, as opposed to a $60 GBA?
I'm serious, what is the state of game quality on modern PDAs? Is it analgous to PCs vs Consoles, IMO the PC 'scene' suffers from too many crappy games.
Yeah, well, whenever you see something like that, a wizard did it.
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I dont see it that way. If SCO loses, then everything is pretty much the way it was.
If SCO wins (even if IBM settles), linux kernel hackers are instantly a bunch of hacks who stole someone elses code.
slackware doesnt have the sysv style init, but it does have other SysV stuff, like SysV IPC.
This suit is about a little more than the order your startup scripts run in.
No, if you tell her 'the ingredients are mayo, sweet relish, and ketchup' you've possibly violated the NDA, without specifying quantities or the order they're mixed in.
And remember this is civil court. SCO only has to show they're more likely right than wrong, they dont have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt or any of that criminal court stuff.
>> That doesn't seem like the firmest ground on which to base a lawsuit
Not a trial, but a lawsuit, sure. You're "innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt" in criminal court, but "innocent until proven guilty by a preponderance of the evidence" in civil court.
So the judge is supposed to ask himself "Is SCO more likely right than wrong?"
I don't think it's entirely far-fetched that SCO may be right.
If you worked for McDonalds, and signed an NDA saying that you will not disclose the contents of the secret sauce, and then your sister opens up a burger stand that just happens to have secret sauce on all the burgers, McDonalds would drag you into court for violating the NDA, and they would have to prove it's more likely you told her the recipe than that she figured it out herself.
This is the premise here, except you=IBM, secret sauce=SysV code, and sister=Linux kernel developers.
What if SCO ends up being right in court?
Why would they poke the T-Rex that is IBM with a stick, unless they think they can bring it down?
We can sit around laughing or bitching or whining or moaning, but what will happen if there turns out to be code in Linux that we dont have the rights to, either by way of trade secrets or patents?
Can all the SysV and other SCO stuff be removed without killing Linux? Would a setback be weeks, months, years, or would it be the end?
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Yes it does.
The GDI doesnt care if the browser viewport is in a tab or a seperate form. There's a seperate thread and a CreateWindow call to build it and just as much OS overhead (since iexplore.exe is apt threaded) either way.
No, I agree with you.
The MDI interface is pretty much a thing of the past, not even microsoft pushes it anymore. I find it cumbersome and cluttered looking, I prefer alt-tabbing between browser windows.
I do like how XP 'collapses' the multible instances for you, though.
>> we should instead be teaching them that the world is not always a nice place.
We should answer questions that they have, but we definately shouldnt be forcing or expecting them to grow up by the age of 5 or 6.
There's the saying "you're right to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose". I submit that peoples right to act like assholes stops when my kids are around.
>> Kids get curious around the age of 12 ..
And until that age they should be allowed to be children.
Making kids grow up too soon, and expecting them to be miniature adults when they're 5 or 6 is probably the most damaging thing you can do to them.
I agree with the parent. Kids shouldnt be allowed to view adult material, and it really shouldn't require anything but some common sense and good faith from the web community to prevent it. But that good faith doesnt exist.
I built a PC for each of my children, for their rooms to do whatever they want with. I dont want to have to sit over their shoulders and watch them constantly, because I want them to be able to learn the computer the way I did, by just screwing around on it. I want them to be independent and learn from doing, like I did.
So I set up a proxy for them, with PICS filtering and other 'standards' (squid and dansguardian, OT: anyone know how to transparently proxy with dansguardian?. The idea was it would make a good enough whitelist.
Now, I'm more worried about the kids finding a pokemon chat room and being stalked by some pedophile than I am about them accidentally seeing a boob.
cartoonnetwork.com has a really cool (kid speaking) c-toon trading game my one kid loves. You watch TV on fridays and they give out codes, which you punch in to the website, to get c-toon cards, and then can play a card game (pokemon like) online with other kids. Whats great about it is that there's absolutely no way for personal information to get across. You dont pick a username, it presents a list of made-up silly names that you choose. You cant chat, you can pick from lists of prewritten phrases. (So no trolls posting ascii goatse)
Anyways, back on topic. I've noticed that some pricks out there put fake PICS and other codes into their porn websites. IMO it's a pretty contemptable way to make another nickel or two off of their banners. Its also IMO criminal, since they're basically marking the content as a childrens site, which is like sticking copies of Hustler into kids hallowe'en bags.
Meh anyways. I dont know what my point is. Some people are just pricks. We wouldnt need laws if they werent. Personally I'm in favor of the kids.us domain, I think it's the best compromise. It gives parents a very simple way to whitelist for younger children. It would be nice if it didnt have to be mandated by government, but if you left the registrars to regulate it, well, they wouldnt.
how likely is it that johnny is going to get a sexual image on the internet (likely http) unless he is explicityly looking for it?
You gotta be kidding.
Try doing a google on Britney Spears, and see how many celebrity porn sites show on the list.
It is not the government's responsibility to raise your children, people.
But it is the governments responsibility, their only real responsibility, to make sure the environment in which we raise our children is safe.
So it would be better if our tax dollars funded every whiners agenda?
For every 'just' cause citizens take in court, there are three hundred frivolous ones.
The ACLU is hell-bent on making sure noone ever says the word 'God', or celebrates Christmas in public. I don't want to fund that bullshit with my tax dollars.
And if the RIAA gets the "Freedom to listen to whatever the hell you want Act" overturned in Supreme Court, do you want your tax dollars reimbursing them?
>> By the way, isn't the normal method to sue the small guys first? Suing IBM? IBM!? They're nuts.
Nuts, or perhaps they have a legal leg to stand on, or at least believe strongly enough that they do to bring in the big guns.
It could be the case that there is infringing patented code in linux that the patent holders didnt authorize in any way.
SCO could be right. So then what? How much would linux change with the removal of all the disputed code (most of the SysV subsystems?)
Maybe even MSFT
They have a responsibility to stockholders to take the best offer, not play politics.
Imagine MS owning linux all of a sudden. What a wonderful world it would be with DirectX in linux.
Not with a 2 second lag, he wouldnt.
Q3 doesnt use much bandwidth, it's the low pings that kill ya.
Universities bleed money from every side.
It's easier to stick a bandaid on the little cut on the pinky finger than to sew up that gaping gash in the abdomen.
I have no idea how much of residence fees at Cornell go to the 'net connection, but I'd bet dollars to donuts it covers the bandwidth cost and then some.
When I was in school, I paid 60 bucks a month for a 19.2k SLIP connection, and even then they were whining about bandwidth abuse. (Mind you this was in the era of 14.4k modems, but still)