You're not forced to do anything. You chose to accept the GPL by working with GPL'd code in the first place. If you don't want to GPL your code, then stay clear of existing GPL'd code -- or get a separate, commercial license from the original developers, just as you would for proprietary code. It's that simple.
The first time I heard of him was back in '89 or so, with LZEXE, the executable compressor for DOS that spawned a host of imitators. (Microsoft's EXEPACK predated it, but that was a lot less useful; also less safe.)
I've got Real Player 8 on my system. When I follow the video link, RP8 wants to install RP10 (yuck). If I cancel, it won't let me view the vid. And when I try the link in MPlayer, it immediately says "Stream EOF detected".
The prospect of an entire new empire of life should be celebrated, not bemoaned as an impediment to colonization. It is of infinitely more value to the human race.
Who needs to sink back down into another gravity well, anyway? When we settle off-world, I don't think it will be onto planetary surfaces.
Yes, I think you have it backwards -- i.e., it blocks characters outside that range: those below x20 (control characters), and those above xFF (Unicode characters above the 8-bit range). That last is counterintuitive for those of us who usually think of characters as being only 8-bit.
Just because I can't prove there isn't a "God", for some sufficiently abstract definition of the term, that doesn't make it more reasonable to withold my denial. I can prove, to my own satisfaction, that every actual religion is false. If you stretch the concept of "God" into something that leaves no evidence of its existence, then no, I can't disprove that; but that's certainly not the God of the Bible, and it's not really the conception of God held by any religionist who advances that strawman argument.
All evidence says that the concept of God is purely a human invention. There is simply no reason to believe that it represents anything real. Is it possible? Technically, perhaps. But I don't believe it for a second.
Did you ever consider that -- even though he's never personally visted you -- Santa Claus might be real? You can't prove he isn't! How about the Easter Bunny? The Tooth Fairy? No? Me neither. And that's exactly how I feel about "God", too.
So, yes, I'm an atheist, not an agnostic. Incidentally, I suspect that many people who call themselves agnostics are just atheists trying to avoid offending religionists.
I got tired of QT taking forever to open, or not opening at all, so I associated.mov with MPlayer on my Windows system, just as I'd always used on Linux. Much better.
"Illegal to run your old TV"? This is a dumb remark. You can run it all you want; it just won't pick up anything once the NTSC stations are shut off.
Which won't be happenning by the end of this year, or next year either. But it'll happen soon enough.
Where's the outrage? Well, most people who even know about this issue probably already have ATSC equipment themselves, so they realize how badly NTSC sucks by comparison. I certainly won't miss it.
But anyway, by the time the shutoff does come (again, not this year or the next), receivers will be under $50. Count on it.
On AVSForum the other day, there was a thread asking people to predict the shutoff date. I put 2013, which was a WAG. (I was thinking of the Mayan End Date as much as anything.) Curiously, I just now read that next year is the last that NTSC licenses can be renewed, and seven years is the maximum they might be renewed for -- hence, 2013. Makes me look like I actually knew what I was talking about.
Sharpness: When run in its native resolution, an LCD screen is sharper than a CRT can ever be. A black pixel is all black (well, nearly), while the white pixel next to it is all white; there's no smearing, as on a CRT. This more than makes up for the ostensibly lower contrast ratio of LCD.
Geometry: Straight lines on an LCD are really straight, every time. Lines on a CRT curve (always, to some degree, no matter how "flat" the display) and wiggle (not infrequently).
It's not even that. This is some of the worst methodology I've ever seen, particularly from someone who claims to be an IRC supporter.
What he found was that, in the top 60 channels, 99.9% of occurances of four carefully-selected keywords were in an "illegal" context. Those keywords -- "Norton", "Symantec", "Jasc", and "Microsoft" -- don't exactly make up the bulk of normal people's conversation. Indeed, of the four, "Microsoft" is the only one I'd personally expect to come up in anything but a piracy context, anywhere but on channels specifically devoted to PC help; and rarely at that.
His characterization of this as "99.9% of IRC traffic to the top 60 channels is 'illegal'" isn't even close to being sensible or justifiable from the data he collected.
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The Mac Mini may help to improve this situation. I know what you mean, because I've done it myself: I don't have a modern Mac (my latest is an SE/30), but I've built stuff on the SourceForge compile farm for Mac OS X users -- and that's about all I can do. But now I'm planning to get a Mac Mini, so I'll see how it really works, not just how it looks over an SSH session. I'm thinking other developers will follow suit.
I have to differ. Recently I set up a network for some neighbors -- two computers in a single room, with the router to handle a DSL modem. I went with 802.11b, and it only cost $25 for the whole thing. ($15 router, $5 each card.) For a wired network, the cards would've been no cheaper, plus I'd have the cable cost.
but seriously, if I have the ability to lower other sites of interest in my "genre" in search engine results, without hurting my own results, why WOULDNT I do that??:P
Because you're not an asshole?
In days of yore, when I ran some very popular web sites on certain topics, I occasionally got a request to "trade links". I always told the requesters the same thing: You're free to link to anything on my site. You don't need my permission. That's the way the web works. And by the same token, I'll link to your site if I feel like it. I don't link because you asked me to.
Of course, I wasn't running any ads, and wasn't looking for hits.
If you have an upconverting DVD player, it will only output over HDMI or DVI-HDCP, by order of the MPAA. Whether or not there's a real benefit in upconverting from a 480p source is another question, of course.
Oh, they're not going to stop offering analog. They don't have to, and don't plan to. All they have to do is to make the analog connections lower quality, by forcing them to run at a lower resolution -- "downrezzing". I think 480p (max) is what they have in mind. Of course, no sane manufacturer would voluntarily cripple their hardware this way; that's why you bring in a corrupt Congress and FCC to make it law. Then anyone who wants to see actual high definition will have to adopt HDMI. Everyone else will have to settle for fuzzy 480p, or maybe 480i (NTSC).
Re-reading "Dark Knight" and "V", I can't help but wonder if Frank Miller and Alan Moore are a little embarrased about how completely wrong they were.
Not a chance. Certainly not in the era of Bush II, who's taking Reaganism further than Reagan did.
Reagan and "The Iron Lady" stayed in charge of the US and UK for many years after those books were published, and we managed to not lock away all the gays, blow up the world, or anything else that they were wringing their hands over at the time.
And did you ever think that maybe people like Moore deserve some of the credit for that?
When I connect my Apple Pro USB keyboard to my PC, the Command key maps to the Windows key, Option maps to Alt, and (unsurprisingly) Control is Control.
Hmm. Assuming that the reverse mapping also applies, how would I get Command out of my deliberately-Windows-key-free keyboard (a Model M clone from Unicomp)?
No Apple hardware has ever had PS/2 ports. It's not old-school there; it's non-existent. They went from ADB to USB.
On another note, I went shopping at local B&M stores for a (cheap) USB keyboard the other day, and couldn't find a one. Endless PS/2 keyboards, and plenty of USB mice, but no USB keyboards. Ultimately I settled for an adapter cable ($13.49 at Radio Shack -- cheaper online, but I needed it that day).
I was thinking about how I'd hook this into my current setup, with a PS/2 keyboard and trackball. I think I'd use a PS/2 KVM, and use a PS/2-to-USB adapter only on the Mac side.
Right... AFAIK, these are the only Timex/Sinclair models that were made:
TS1000: Same as the Sinclair ZX81, but with 2K RAM internal instead of 1K.
TS1500: Equivalent to a ZX81 with 16K built-in (it could also accept a RAM pack, for 32K total), but in a slightly retooled ZX Spectrum case.
TS2068: An enhanced version of the ZX Spectrum (48K), in a bigger case with chicklet keys, joystick ports, a cartridge port, and a slightly incompatible ROM and edge connector. Advanced video modes and sound were available, but due to the machine's short life as a product, were not widely supported by software. So basically, it was a Spectrum that couldn't run stock Spectrum software or hardware. But it was my main machine for years, and I loved it.
TS2048: ? I've heard of this as, supposedly, a Portuguese offshoot that was closer to the Spectrum, in a 2068 case. But I've never seen one.
"TS2000" was used for a while prior to release, to refer to the machine that eventually appeared as the 2068. Initial plans were to offer 16K and 48K versions, but the 16K version was dropped. I don't know why the model number became "2068".
That's it in a nutshell. TechTV -- and mainly TSS -- had just about the only decent reporting about computers that I've ever seen on TV. (Although "Computer Chronicles", back in the day, wasn't too bad.) One of my local TV stations, for example, has a technology reporter who does regular segments on the evening news; but basically all he does is reguritate press releases. He's little more than a shill. (I.J. Hudson on Channel 4, I'm talking to you. You suck!) And that's the same thing I saw time and again, program after program, channel after channel -- until I saw TSS.
Not that mainstream print journalism is a lot better, though we do have one very good "tech" columnist in the big local paper (Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post), along with one mediocre one (John Gilroy).
That's the kind of story that's probably all too familiar to many Slashdot readers. Calling my first BBS, back in 1988, I discovered a mistake in the setup that let me gain sysop access. So, I told the (actual) sysops. Did they thank me? No; I got kicked off the board, until the more hackerish of the sysops persuaded the other one to let me back, on "probation". Lesson learned: Never report vulnerabilities -- just exploit them and enjoy.
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You're not forced to do anything. You chose to accept the GPL by working with GPL'd code in the first place. If you don't want to GPL your code, then stay clear of existing GPL'd code -- or get a separate, commercial license from the original developers, just as you would for proprietary code. It's that simple.
The first time I heard of him was back in '89 or so, with LZEXE, the executable compressor for DOS that spawned a host of imitators. (Microsoft's EXEPACK predated it, but that was a lot less useful; also less safe.)
I've got Real Player 8 on my system. When I follow the video link, RP8 wants to install RP10 (yuck). If I cancel, it won't let me view the vid. And when I try the link in MPlayer, it immediately says "Stream EOF detected".
The prospect of an entire new empire of life should be celebrated, not bemoaned as an impediment to colonization. It is of infinitely more value to the human race.
Who needs to sink back down into another gravity well, anyway? When we settle off-world, I don't think it will be onto planetary surfaces.
Yes, I think you have it backwards -- i.e., it blocks characters outside that range: those below x20 (control characters), and those above xFF (Unicode characters above the 8-bit range). That last is counterintuitive for those of us who usually think of characters as being only 8-bit.
Just because I can't prove there isn't a "God", for some sufficiently abstract definition of the term, that doesn't make it more reasonable to withold my denial. I can prove, to my own satisfaction, that every actual religion is false. If you stretch the concept of "God" into something that leaves no evidence of its existence, then no, I can't disprove that; but that's certainly not the God of the Bible, and it's not really the conception of God held by any religionist who advances that strawman argument.
All evidence says that the concept of God is purely a human invention. There is simply no reason to believe that it represents anything real. Is it possible? Technically, perhaps. But I don't believe it for a second.
Did you ever consider that -- even though he's never personally visted you -- Santa Claus might be real? You can't prove he isn't! How about the Easter Bunny? The Tooth Fairy? No? Me neither. And that's exactly how I feel about "God", too.
So, yes, I'm an atheist, not an agnostic. Incidentally, I suspect that many people who call themselves agnostics are just atheists trying to avoid offending religionists.
I got tired of QT taking forever to open, or not opening at all, so I associated .mov with MPlayer on my Windows system, just as I'd always used on Linux. Much better.
"Illegal to run your old TV"? This is a dumb remark. You can run it all you want; it just won't pick up anything once the NTSC stations are shut off.
Which won't be happenning by the end of this year, or next year either. But it'll happen soon enough.
Where's the outrage? Well, most people who even know about this issue probably already have ATSC equipment themselves, so they realize how badly NTSC sucks by comparison. I certainly won't miss it.
But anyway, by the time the shutoff does come (again, not this year or the next), receivers will be under $50. Count on it.
On AVSForum the other day, there was a thread asking people to predict the shutoff date. I put 2013, which was a WAG. (I was thinking of the Mayan End Date as much as anything.) Curiously, I just now read that next year is the last that NTSC licenses can be renewed, and seven years is the maximum they might be renewed for -- hence, 2013. Makes me look like I actually knew what I was talking about.
Sharpness: When run in its native resolution, an LCD screen is sharper than a CRT can ever be. A black pixel is all black (well, nearly), while the white pixel next to it is all white; there's no smearing, as on a CRT. This more than makes up for the ostensibly lower contrast ratio of LCD.
Geometry: Straight lines on an LCD are really straight, every time. Lines on a CRT curve (always, to some degree, no matter how "flat" the display) and wiggle (not infrequently).
It's not even that. This is some of the worst methodology I've ever seen, particularly from someone who claims to be an IRC supporter.
What he found was that, in the top 60 channels, 99.9% of occurances of four carefully-selected keywords were in an "illegal" context. Those keywords -- "Norton", "Symantec", "Jasc", and "Microsoft" -- don't exactly make up the bulk of normal people's conversation. Indeed, of the four, "Microsoft" is the only one I'd personally expect to come up in anything but a piracy context, anywhere but on channels specifically devoted to PC help; and rarely at that.
His characterization of this as "99.9% of IRC traffic to the top 60 channels is 'illegal'" isn't even close to being sensible or justifiable from the data he collected.
The Mac Mini may help to improve this situation. I know what you mean, because I've done it myself: I don't have a modern Mac (my latest is an SE/30), but I've built stuff on the SourceForge compile farm for Mac OS X users -- and that's about all I can do. But now I'm planning to get a Mac Mini, so I'll see how it really works, not just how it looks over an SSH session. I'm thinking other developers will follow suit.
Of course this all depends on $85 in rebates.
In days of yore, when I ran some very popular web sites on certain topics, I occasionally got a request to "trade links". I always told the requesters the same thing: You're free to link to anything on my site. You don't need my permission. That's the way the web works. And by the same token, I'll link to your site if I feel like it. I don't link because you asked me to.
Of course, I wasn't running any ads, and wasn't looking for hits.
It's early yet. The story only just hit Slashdot. See what they're doing in six months, or a year.
If you have an upconverting DVD player, it will only output over HDMI or DVI-HDCP, by order of the MPAA. Whether or not there's a real benefit in upconverting from a 480p source is another question, of course.
Oh, they're not going to stop offering analog. They don't have to, and don't plan to. All they have to do is to make the analog connections lower quality, by forcing them to run at a lower resolution -- "downrezzing". I think 480p (max) is what they have in mind. Of course, no sane manufacturer would voluntarily cripple their hardware this way; that's why you bring in a corrupt Congress and FCC to make it law. Then anyone who wants to see actual high definition will have to adopt HDMI. Everyone else will have to settle for fuzzy 480p, or maybe 480i (NTSC).
This is their plan. Don't let it happen.
No Apple hardware has ever had PS/2 ports. It's not old-school there; it's non-existent. They went from ADB to USB.
On another note, I went shopping at local B&M stores for a (cheap) USB keyboard the other day, and couldn't find a one. Endless PS/2 keyboards, and plenty of USB mice, but no USB keyboards. Ultimately I settled for an adapter cable ($13.49 at Radio Shack -- cheaper online, but I needed it that day).
I was thinking about how I'd hook this into my current setup, with a PS/2 keyboard and trackball. I think I'd use a PS/2 KVM, and use a PS/2-to-USB adapter only on the Mac side.
I just bought a Wintel box without a floppy drive (a Compaq Presario, not a custom job) about two weeks ago.
Anybody know?
Right... AFAIK, these are the only Timex/Sinclair models that were made:
TS1000: Same as the Sinclair ZX81, but with 2K RAM internal instead of 1K.
TS1500: Equivalent to a ZX81 with 16K built-in (it could also accept a RAM pack, for 32K total), but in a slightly retooled ZX Spectrum case.
TS2068: An enhanced version of the ZX Spectrum (48K), in a bigger case with chicklet keys, joystick ports, a cartridge port, and a slightly incompatible ROM and edge connector. Advanced video modes and sound were available, but due to the machine's short life as a product, were not widely supported by software. So basically, it was a Spectrum that couldn't run stock Spectrum software or hardware. But it was my main machine for years, and I loved it.
TS2048: ? I've heard of this as, supposedly, a Portuguese offshoot that was closer to the Spectrum, in a 2068 case. But I've never seen one.
"TS2000" was used for a while prior to release, to refer to the machine that eventually appeared as the 2068. Initial plans were to offer 16K and 48K versions, but the 16K version was dropped. I don't know why the model number became "2068".
That's it in a nutshell. TechTV -- and mainly TSS -- had just about the only decent reporting about computers that I've ever seen on TV. (Although "Computer Chronicles", back in the day, wasn't too bad.) One of my local TV stations, for example, has a technology reporter who does regular segments on the evening news; but basically all he does is reguritate press releases. He's little more than a shill. (I.J. Hudson on Channel 4, I'm talking to you. You suck!) And that's the same thing I saw time and again, program after program, channel after channel -- until I saw TSS.
Not that mainstream print journalism is a lot better, though we do have one very good "tech" columnist in the big local paper (Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post), along with one mediocre one (John Gilroy).
That's the kind of story that's probably all too familiar to many Slashdot readers. Calling my first BBS, back in 1988, I discovered a mistake in the setup that let me gain sysop access. So, I told the (actual) sysops. Did they thank me? No; I got kicked off the board, until the more hackerish of the sysops persuaded the other one to let me back, on "probation". Lesson learned: Never report vulnerabilities -- just exploit them and enjoy.