Nice point, but what about solar panels ? They don't seem to pollute at all, and the general public would seem to have an interest in efficient technology if they get rebates for the power they generate. It's hardly something I'd want to rely on as a primary source of power, but it would definately help on those hot sunny days when everyone is running an air-conditioner.
and see if it can allow a program to use more than 640k of RAM (for some reason we can't with 6.22
Oh man, do I feel old and I'm only 23. It's _DOS_, and the 640k limit was probably the most dispised thing about it. You may be interested in a DOS Extender, which gives you protected mode and access to more memory.
There's really only one application of this : portable porn. Now you can carry all the best money shots with you wherever you go. Oh wait, most of the target audience never goes outside their house anyway.
Or Freenet will be outlawed (imagine THAT in the good old US of A), and the media companies, under immunity from prosecution, will put hundreds stealth nodes on Freenet to collect IP addresses for federal cases.
1. Opening their own document, and as the copyright holder they can't very well be infringing upon themselves (though if this were possible no doubt the RIAA would find a way, but that is another topic).
Circumvention is illegal, regardless of who owns the copyright, or if there even is a copyright (ie : an encrypted public domain work).
2. Opening a document gievn to them by the copyright holder, in which they have been granted express use of the document.
We buy DVDs under a licence to view them. That would seem to imply that the copyright holder has granted us permission to view them. Yet decrypting DVDs, regardless of the motive, seems to be illegal.
They'll probably have some rehash of Windows XP, with more media features. Yes, I know they've already released one such product, but I'm betting that they will release another.
I foresee a time where we will have GAIM and GAIM-Pro with GAIM still being open source, but GAIM-Pro being enabled by a for-pay plugin with closed source.
The GPL forbids this, you will never see a closed source "Gaim-PRO" unless it is a complete rewrite. Thank you Richard Stallman for your forsight.
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I've used Hotmail since before Microsoft owned it. When you already have a Hotmail account and your IM client supports multiple protocols using MSN messenger seems like a no-brainer. Well, it used to anyway. I always try to give technology a fair shake, and use whatever is good regardless of the politics. Microsoft has stabbed me in the back for it on more than one occasion, and I can't say I didn't see this one coming. I'm trying to set up my own mail server (biggest technical obstacle is the wife), in anticipation of the day that Hotmail is Windows only.
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I think we all know who the most famous guy in IT really is. Don't mod me troll, you know it's true.
I bet all the subsribers were thinking the same thing 20 minutes ago : "What the fuck ? We're paying to see this _crap_ early ?"
Yeah, like Timothy McVeigh.
Nice point, but what about solar panels ? They don't seem to pollute at all, and the general public would seem to have an interest in efficient technology if they get rebates for the power they generate. It's hardly something I'd want to rely on as a primary source of power, but it would definately help on those hot sunny days when everyone is running an air-conditioner.
and see if it can allow a program to use more than 640k of RAM (for some reason we can't with 6.22
Oh man, do I feel old and I'm only 23. It's _DOS_, and the 640k limit was probably the most dispised thing about it. You may be interested in a DOS Extender, which gives you protected mode and access to more memory.
HAHAHAHAHA Damn.
Ok, next question: where do I find the chicken suit ?
Too bad the Iraqis aren't using this system, we could hack in and elect Saddam Hussein: "What ?! The war was for nothing ?!"
There's really only one application of this : portable porn. Now you can carry all the best money shots with you wherever you go. Oh wait, most of the target audience never goes outside their house anyway.
That's called an alpha release - KABOOM!
Atzilla leastzilla theyzilla won'tzilla getzilla suedzilla byzilla moviezilla studioszilla.
Another AOL luser trying to pretend he uses Linux instead of Windows 98.
Or Freenet will be outlawed (imagine THAT in the good old US of A), and the media companies, under immunity from prosecution, will put hundreds stealth nodes on Freenet to collect IP addresses for federal cases.
Damn, we should have blasted those Martians while we had the chance!
If this isn't extortion, By God, I don't know what is.
HEY! In America it's called a business model
People might switch to OpenOffice, KOffice, etc., if it didn't take them 10 seconds to start up...
Yeah, we all know how Microsoft solved that problem - by making Office load automatically at boot.
I post all my emails to my website and search them with Google.
1. Opening their own document, and as the copyright holder they can't very well be infringing upon themselves (though if this were possible no doubt the RIAA would find a way, but that is another topic).
Circumvention is illegal, regardless of who owns the copyright, or if there even is a copyright (ie : an encrypted public domain work).
2. Opening a document gievn to them by the copyright holder, in which they have been granted express use of the document.
We buy DVDs under a licence to view them. That would seem to imply that the copyright holder has granted us permission to view them. Yet decrypting DVDs, regardless of the motive, seems to be illegal.
They'll probably have some rehash of Windows XP, with more media features. Yes, I know they've already released one such product, but I'm betting that they will release another.
Fellow Slashdotters, may I suggest a new poll : How many emails does it take to fill a hand ?
I foresee a time where we will have GAIM and GAIM-Pro with GAIM still being open source, but GAIM-Pro being enabled by a for-pay plugin with closed source.
The GPL forbids this, you will never see a closed source "Gaim-PRO" unless it is a complete rewrite. Thank you Richard Stallman for your forsight. .
KDE programs almost always have a kapital k, kernel programs use lowercase.
Better yet, they could call it "Rinux".
I've used Hotmail since before Microsoft owned it. When you already have a Hotmail account and your IM client supports multiple protocols using MSN messenger seems like a no-brainer. Well, it used to anyway. I always try to give technology a fair shake, and use whatever is good regardless of the politics. Microsoft has stabbed me in the back for it on more than one occasion, and I can't say I didn't see this one coming. I'm trying to set up my own mail server (biggest technical obstacle is the wife), in anticipation of the day that Hotmail is Windows only.
I've really enjoyed our discussion, thanks.