It's also not "free" if the ad software is proprietary.
Who wants to bet that this sceme uses required, pre-compiled, proprietary binaries to do its thing.
I doubt many platforms will be supported anyway.
Secondly, the recent stories about napster, regarding the fact that users have "cracked" their DRM technique... when will the software world learn that people want control over what is and is not on their machines, and have the means with which to manifest this control.
Midi devices can be internal or external. Really MIDI is a type of networking protocol that is used for instruments to communicate with one another, but it has come to mean collections of sounds or compositions made by sequencing pre-recorded midi sounds
I think ranking search results by who pays more to google is a poor idea, but there is no reason that google should not be able to display a banner or something. Just so long as it is obvious that advertising is going on. They shouldn't try to sneak ads in with the search results though.
I know what happened. An alien spacecraft was whizzing by, and the slightly intoxicated driver crushed his 72oz beer can and threw it out the window.
Yes, much to our dismay, and as prophesied by Star Craft, space has rednecks too. Big ones. With beer cans.
I have been using vidalinux for several months now. Vidalinux isn't really yet another distrobution, think of it more as a very easy way to install gentoo. and gentoo, once installed, is an ideal operating system. At this point, there is no way to tell that my system originated from vidalinux, because every package has, by now, been updated by portage.
But those of you who have been wanting to try gentoo, but have been turned off by the annoying installation process, definately give vidalinux a try.
As for the guy that asked about the software and games bundled with the distro, remember that vidalinux comes preconfigured to access the gentoo repositories, and therefore has access to a pleathora of software.
if this were to happen, which I find highly unlikely, for one thing there would be a fork straight away. It would be just like the Xorg and Xfree split. Also, under the bsd license commercial proprietary software can integrate the open-source work, so why would anyone slave away at developing linux, only to have their work immediately integrated into commercial applications, the original developers not to see a dime. There is all kinds of bsd code in windows, for example.
With constant advances in speech recognition, I wonder why this technology is so slow to integrate into the operating environment.
What would be wrong with incorporating speech recognition.
"Mozilla, go to google, search for boobies"
Perhaps they are blocking it because anything that uses the term "Windows" they consider to be a threat. Just look how "Lindows" Has had to change it's website to l---ws.com in several European countries
Do you think the fact that arcades are often less than profitable has anything to do with the fact that to play a game you often have to pay a dollar for a very few minutes of game-time?
I have been to many arcades and often I see machines sitting unused for large amounts of time. Wouldn't it be more proffitable to charge a quarter a game? I bet people would be much more inclined at that point to pump in the quarters.
It is just hard to convince oneself that they are going to be getting their moneys worth when a game costs a dollar to play.
This is facinating I have to say, but to think of taking my time to learn a made up language when there are so many real languages that do exist that could be useful to learn!
though I have never used gentoo, I have compiled pleanty of packages for linux for my own personal use and I have found that they are usualy a bit speedier that the binary package, however I think a better performance test would have been to use some sort of highly computational software like computing seti packets or something like that, or doing a very complex math problem or something, Opening a spreadsheet is sort of subjective, and is probably not a very good benchmark
If you think you have ADD then one word for you - Adderal - It is most effective even if you don't have ADD. Just take one and you will be shockingly productive!
oh yeah and physical activity might help also, but who really knows? Getting work DONE is unnatural for humans. We have to find special motivation for each of us. If you are having such a hard time getting this specific work done, then it obviously doesn't intrest you that much, perhaps you should check out another field of study!
There are 2 big reasons that I have a dual-boot system with Red Hat 8 and Windows XP-pro. Big Old Number 1 is of course GAMES. I enjoy video games and I feel that right at this point the games that I want to run run better in Windows-XP than WINE. I have tried to configure WINE to my satisfaction, but it is more complicated than I enjoy dealing with (I have given it a try several times all to my dissapointment) Wine is just more complicated than I suspect the average user is willing to deal with, and the fact that you still have to use Windows DLLS to get it to function in top form kind of takes the wind out of my "to hell with microsoft" sails. Someone needs to make an open-source remake of Half-Life. That would just be cool. What we really need is an open source 3d game engine. The engine could then be used to run all sorts of games written for it. Also if it were capable of properly displaying models for other engines it would be nice. Like an open source 3d engine that could display Quake III, Half-Life, and maybe eventualy Doom 3 models and levels and whatnot. Ah if only I could program. (I am trying my hardest to learn by the way. I am already going to school for other things or I would take classes.) Also in the games category is video drivers. Nearly all video cards can be configured automaticaly using Redhat or Mandrake (and probably others, but I haven't tried them) But they do not have opengl/direct3d/glide hardware acceleration enabled or configured by default. After hosing my system three times while trying to install glut, mesa, and Linux Nvidia drivers, I finaly succeeded. I now have fully functioning openGL support, but I am geeky and I suspect that I was willing to put more effort into configuring my video card than most people. I can, for the life of me, not figure out why video game companies do not just as a given, write their games so that they are easily portable to Linux/bsd/solaris whatever. If the company didn't want to invest the time to port their game, they could release the source code under a license that would not allow it to be used in commercial applications, and just have the community port it, which time has shown that people are willing to do. I think a linux doom port was out 3 or 4 days after the source was released. The company could hold on to the data files necessary to run the game and sell those, but release the source code to the executables, sort of how iD did with Doom. Just a thought there. Also the volume of linux users suggests that, even if games were not compatible with linux out of the box, the company could put linux binaries on their website and use the data files from the purchased CD. There could just be a "surgeon general's warning" sort of lable on the box that said something like "Linux Binaries available at www.blah.com" or whatever.
My second reason is the learning curve associated with Linux. I remeber the first time I tried to install a Slackware system. I don't remeber which version it was but it was a long time ago. I ordered my 4 cd set for like $9 or something from cdrom.com -- remeber when they were cool? I got it home and busted out with partition magic and then proceeded to do terrible things to my hard disk. I managed to get a working installation, but it has taken me several years of playing around on and off to get familiar with Linux to the point that it is useful to me. There is still so much I don't understand about the system, but if development continues to go in the direction it has previously, linux will be easier and easier to use and configure. There are some things I just do not know how to do with Linux yet. Hardcore n00bs are in trouble if they don't have a lot of free time to learn the system. There are pleanty of great books and websites and whatnot, but linux is advancing faster than most documentation keeps up. Just as a side note I think I am going to build myself a "linux from scratch" when I get an extra hard drive. I feel like that will help me learn the system even better. I still can't get my damned printer to work. The thing that irritates me the most is that my printer works great in Mandrake, but not in Redhat, but in Mandrake, my mouse usualy doesn't work, but sometimes it will. That is so irritating. just as another side note, my mouse is an IBM optical mouse called the "optical navigator" or something. If anyone knows why this would screw up in Mandrake let me know.
While there is no GPL-style license for music that I know of, you are free to create one if you so desire. You need not flash your doctorate of juris prudence, just write up a license and if you can get artists to agree to it then you have them by the balls. At this stage as far as the general philosopy of American business goes, I can't imagine why an artist would choose to GPL-style license a work of h/is/ers. In their early career, if they wanted to give out their music, they are free to do so as it is. Later on if they want to copyright their music, they are free to do that. Of course it all depends on the provisions of the license that they agree to. Perhapse an artist could agree that one specific recording of a given work could be distributed freely forever, but if they wanted to copyright the song later they would be able to, and only that original recording could be distributed. That is one possibility, but even that seems kind of silly. ANYWAY ---- It seems to me that a GPL-style license would accomplish nothing, be it for the artist or the consumer. The real problem here is the whole concept of informational property. If anything about the publishing/music/software/movie/porno/whatever industry needs to change, it is the whole idea that an idea, be it bits burnt into foil on a CD, or video reproduced by magnetic resonance on a tape or hard drive, can be bought and sold. I don't mean to sound like the old whiny Indian complaining about how you can't sell the sky or whatever, but I think it is unreasonable to require payment for access to information. People don't look at it this way, but copyright laws create the possibility for "Thought Crime" Let us just assume for a moment that Bigass Software Company X has developed a utility that performs an exciting function that lots of people would like to have. This utility is copywritten I happen to stumble across the source code, and with my superior memory am able to recall every line of code required to make this utility. Suppose I tell someone else the source code, and have therefore, burnt into h/is/er neurons an ILLEGAL COPY of the software. Lets take it even farther than the source code. Perhaps I am one of those weird fucks who understand machine code. Perhaps I remember how to type the machine code into whatever system we are talking about and end up with a funtional binary., Wow, I am really getting illegal now. Not because I have stolen anything, but because I am able to comprehend something in my mind that someone else *claims* to have understood first, I am a criminal. Blah.
yeah I just had a question for whoever knows the answer. Ok so when a star gets old and dies and whatnot and collapses into a black hole, isn't it true that there is no way for any matter to escape at this point? I thought that this was because the gravity was such that space time curved so sharply that even light would find itself in a perpetual orbit around the black hole if it fell below the event horizon. I always have this picture in my mind of how that might work. ( of course there is no way to visualize it because light couldn't communicate information in a human decypherable way in this state, but you know. ) My thought was that if you could shine a laser at the exact point of the event horizon, the light would instantly loop around and form a perfect eternal circle arount the black hole, If you kept shining the laser for a year, and then were able to look at the event horizon as if it were coming straight on, like watching the sun rise, you would see all of the photons you had propelled into the black hole over that years time all at once, in a perpetual orbit. That is, assuming some space rock or star or something didn't cross their path while plumeting to their doom. Just sick visual imagery, I don't think I am getting my point across.
ok But my question was this: If the big bang was an explosion of energy that contained all of the energy ever to exist (and later to cool into matter -- I don't understand that at all, btw) Why was the gravitational pull of all of this shit not enough to curve/rip spacetime into the one big black hole, and creation end there?
Also I have heard something to the effect that black holes slowly evaporate by emitting X-rays. If other forms of electromagnetic radiation (light and such) can not escape, then what is special about X-rays? And if black holes do slowly lose mass due to x-ray evaporation, then do they explode all at once when they get back down to a mass that can not sustain such compression, thus weakening gravity, thus exploding bigger, thus weakening gravity some more? Any insight? sorry for my ignorance in physics.
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well.... it's for addressing memory in the ram
It's also not "free" if the ad software is proprietary. Who wants to bet that this sceme uses required, pre-compiled, proprietary binaries to do its thing. I doubt many platforms will be supported anyway. Secondly, the recent stories about napster, regarding the fact that users have "cracked" their DRM technique... when will the software world learn that people want control over what is and is not on their machines, and have the means with which to manifest this control.
How about you find a way to lower the market price of always on high-speed connections and don't try to compromise to the detriment of everyone else?
Midi devices can be internal or external. Really MIDI is a type of networking protocol that is used for instruments to communicate with one another, but it has come to mean collections of sounds or compositions made by sequencing pre-recorded midi sounds
I couldn't bare to read past the mastrubating into hats paragraph
Next he will be sued by Asimov's estate for violation of his Intellectual Property.
I think ranking search results by who pays more to google is a poor idea, but there is no reason that google should not be able to display a banner or something. Just so long as it is obvious that advertising is going on. They shouldn't try to sneak ads in with the search results though.
If fans are footing the bill they better make the episodes an hour long and not run any damn commercials.
I know what happened. An alien spacecraft was whizzing by, and the slightly intoxicated driver crushed his 72oz beer can and threw it out the window. Yes, much to our dismay, and as prophesied by Star Craft, space has rednecks too. Big ones. With beer cans.
that is clearly the moon's "primary weapon" obviously this station has gone long unused as it is covered in "space dust"
I have been using vidalinux for several months now. Vidalinux isn't really yet another distrobution, think of it more as a very easy way to install gentoo. and gentoo, once installed, is an ideal operating system. At this point, there is no way to tell that my system originated from vidalinux, because every package has, by now, been updated by portage. But those of you who have been wanting to try gentoo, but have been turned off by the annoying installation process, definately give vidalinux a try. As for the guy that asked about the software and games bundled with the distro, remember that vidalinux comes preconfigured to access the gentoo repositories, and therefore has access to a pleathora of software.
if this were to happen, which I find highly unlikely, for one thing there would be a fork straight away. It would be just like the Xorg and Xfree split. Also, under the bsd license commercial proprietary software can integrate the open-source work, so why would anyone slave away at developing linux, only to have their work immediately integrated into commercial applications, the original developers not to see a dime. There is all kinds of bsd code in windows, for example.
With constant advances in speech recognition, I wonder why this technology is so slow to integrate into the operating environment. What would be wrong with incorporating speech recognition. "Mozilla, go to google, search for boobies"
benedict I forgot to say
I want one!!
....except, like, if they gave coke away for free... and it was a superior product, but pepsi paid the coke crowd to advertise for them...
Perhaps they are blocking it because anything that uses the term "Windows" they consider to be a threat. Just look how "Lindows" Has had to change it's website to l---ws.com in several European countries
Do you think the fact that arcades are often less than profitable has anything to do with the fact that to play a game you often have to pay a dollar for a very few minutes of game-time? I have been to many arcades and often I see machines sitting unused for large amounts of time. Wouldn't it be more proffitable to charge a quarter a game? I bet people would be much more inclined at that point to pump in the quarters. It is just hard to convince oneself that they are going to be getting their moneys worth when a game costs a dollar to play.
I used to walk by that thing every day on the way to class and I never knew it was a code! I thought it was just art for art's sake. Silly me.
This is facinating I have to say, but to think of taking my time to learn a made up language when there are so many real languages that do exist that could be useful to learn!
though I have never used gentoo, I have compiled pleanty of packages for linux for my own personal use and I have found that they are usualy a bit speedier that the binary package, however I think a better performance test would have been to use some sort of highly computational software like computing seti packets or something like that, or doing a very complex math problem or something, Opening a spreadsheet is sort of subjective, and is probably not a very good benchmark
If you think you have ADD then one word for you - Adderal - It is most effective even if you don't have ADD. Just take one and you will be shockingly productive! oh yeah and physical activity might help also, but who really knows? Getting work DONE is unnatural for humans. We have to find special motivation for each of us. If you are having such a hard time getting this specific work done, then it obviously doesn't intrest you that much, perhaps you should check out another field of study!
There are 2 big reasons that I have a dual-boot system with Red Hat 8 and Windows XP-pro. Big Old Number 1 is of course GAMES. I enjoy video games and I feel that right at this point the games that I want to run run better in Windows-XP than WINE. I have tried to configure WINE to my satisfaction, but it is more complicated than I enjoy dealing with (I have given it a try several times all to my dissapointment) Wine is just more complicated than I suspect the average user is willing to deal with, and the fact that you still have to use Windows DLLS to get it to function in top form kind of takes the wind out of my "to hell with microsoft" sails. Someone needs to make an open-source remake of Half-Life. That would just be cool. What we really need is an open source 3d game engine. The engine could then be used to run all sorts of games written for it. Also if it were capable of properly displaying models for other engines it would be nice. Like an open source 3d engine that could display Quake III, Half-Life, and maybe eventualy Doom 3 models and levels and whatnot. Ah if only I could program. (I am trying my hardest to learn by the way. I am already going to school for other things or I would take classes.) Also in the games category is video drivers. Nearly all video cards can be configured automaticaly using Redhat or Mandrake (and probably others, but I haven't tried them) But they do not have opengl/direct3d/glide hardware acceleration enabled or configured by default. After hosing my system three times while trying to install glut, mesa, and Linux Nvidia drivers, I finaly succeeded. I now have fully functioning openGL support, but I am geeky and I suspect that I was willing to put more effort into configuring my video card than most people. I can, for the life of me, not figure out why video game companies do not just as a given, write their games so that they are easily portable to Linux/bsd/solaris whatever. If the company didn't want to invest the time to port their game, they could release the source code under a license that would not allow it to be used in commercial applications, and just have the community port it, which time has shown that people are willing to do. I think a linux doom port was out 3 or 4 days after the source was released. The company could hold on to the data files necessary to run the game and sell those, but release the source code to the executables, sort of how iD did with Doom. Just a thought there. Also the volume of linux users suggests that, even if games were not compatible with linux out of the box, the company could put linux binaries on their website and use the data files from the purchased CD. There could just be a "surgeon general's warning" sort of lable on the box that said something like "Linux Binaries available at www.blah.com" or whatever. My second reason is the learning curve associated with Linux. I remeber the first time I tried to install a Slackware system. I don't remeber which version it was but it was a long time ago. I ordered my 4 cd set for like $9 or something from cdrom.com -- remeber when they were cool? I got it home and busted out with partition magic and then proceeded to do terrible things to my hard disk. I managed to get a working installation, but it has taken me several years of playing around on and off to get familiar with Linux to the point that it is useful to me. There is still so much I don't understand about the system, but if development continues to go in the direction it has previously, linux will be easier and easier to use and configure. There are some things I just do not know how to do with Linux yet. Hardcore n00bs are in trouble if they don't have a lot of free time to learn the system. There are pleanty of great books and websites and whatnot, but linux is advancing faster than most documentation keeps up. Just as a side note I think I am going to build myself a "linux from scratch" when I get an extra hard drive. I feel like that will help me learn the system even better. I still can't get my damned printer to work. The thing that irritates me the most is that my printer works great in Mandrake, but not in Redhat, but in Mandrake, my mouse usualy doesn't work, but sometimes it will. That is so irritating. just as another side note, my mouse is an IBM optical mouse called the "optical navigator" or something. If anyone knows why this would screw up in Mandrake let me know.
While there is no GPL-style license for music that I know of, you are free to create one if you so desire. You need not flash your doctorate of juris prudence, just write up a license and if you can get artists to agree to it then you have them by the balls. At this stage as far as the general philosopy of American business goes, I can't imagine why an artist would choose to GPL-style license a work of h/is/ers. In their early career, if they wanted to give out their music, they are free to do so as it is. Later on if they want to copyright their music, they are free to do that. Of course it all depends on the provisions of the license that they agree to. Perhapse an artist could agree that one specific recording of a given work could be distributed freely forever, but if they wanted to copyright the song later they would be able to, and only that original recording could be distributed. That is one possibility, but even that seems kind of silly. ANYWAY ---- It seems to me that a GPL-style license would accomplish nothing, be it for the artist or the consumer. The real problem here is the whole concept of informational property. If anything about the publishing/music/software/movie/porno/whatever industry needs to change, it is the whole idea that an idea, be it bits burnt into foil on a CD, or video reproduced by magnetic resonance on a tape or hard drive, can be bought and sold. I don't mean to sound like the old whiny Indian complaining about how you can't sell the sky or whatever, but I think it is unreasonable to require payment for access to information. People don't look at it this way, but copyright laws create the possibility for "Thought Crime" Let us just assume for a moment that Bigass Software Company X has developed a utility that performs an exciting function that lots of people would like to have. This utility is copywritten I happen to stumble across the source code, and with my superior memory am able to recall every line of code required to make this utility. Suppose I tell someone else the source code, and have therefore, burnt into h/is/er neurons an ILLEGAL COPY of the software. Lets take it even farther than the source code. Perhaps I am one of those weird fucks who understand machine code. Perhaps I remember how to type the machine code into whatever system we are talking about and end up with a funtional binary., Wow, I am really getting illegal now. Not because I have stolen anything, but because I am able to comprehend something in my mind that someone else *claims* to have understood first, I am a criminal. Blah.
yeah I just had a question for whoever knows the answer. Ok so when a star gets old and dies and whatnot and collapses into a black hole, isn't it true that there is no way for any matter to escape at this point? I thought that this was because the gravity was such that space time curved so sharply that even light would find itself in a perpetual orbit around the black hole if it fell below the event horizon. I always have this picture in my mind of how that might work. ( of course there is no way to visualize it because light couldn't communicate information in a human decypherable way in this state, but you know. ) My thought was that if you could shine a laser at the exact point of the event horizon, the light would instantly loop around and form a perfect eternal circle arount the black hole, If you kept shining the laser for a year, and then were able to look at the event horizon as if it were coming straight on, like watching the sun rise, you would see all of the photons you had propelled into the black hole over that years time all at once, in a perpetual orbit. That is, assuming some space rock or star or something didn't cross their path while plumeting to their doom. Just sick visual imagery, I don't think I am getting my point across. ok But my question was this: If the big bang was an explosion of energy that contained all of the energy ever to exist (and later to cool into matter -- I don't understand that at all, btw) Why was the gravitational pull of all of this shit not enough to curve/rip spacetime into the one big black hole, and creation end there? Also I have heard something to the effect that black holes slowly evaporate by emitting X-rays. If other forms of electromagnetic radiation (light and such) can not escape, then what is special about X-rays? And if black holes do slowly lose mass due to x-ray evaporation, then do they explode all at once when they get back down to a mass that can not sustain such compression, thus weakening gravity, thus exploding bigger, thus weakening gravity some more? Any insight? sorry for my ignorance in physics.