My Super Nintendo crashed. Once. I was playing Donkey Kong Country, had just found a new bonus area, and suddenly a weird glitch caused the screen to fill with ostrich parts (various tiles that composed Espresso the ostrich) and freeze.
I was extremely surprised, then pissed.
I will be surprised and then pissed again if Microsoft gets the typical gamer used to the idea of crashing. --
I've tried one of those renegade nameservers before. It was crap. It slowed down DNS tremendously and then went down a while later, and it took me a while to figure out why my DNS queries took so long - it was timing out for the server I had at the top of the list.
For something like this to work, you'd have to convince an ISP to switch their root servers, so the users could use such a nameserver without having to deal with some shaky server out in God knows where. --
I think that having it exist in a form where it takes a bit of skill to enable it is fine. It takes just as much skill to download a cheat program, assuming the person already wants to cheat. And there will always be people who want to cheat.
This driver could have had some cool uses besides cheating, though. --
You can't decry one model of the Universe until you have another one that explains experimental findings better. MOBE didn't do any experiments, he just mangled the definitions of physics terms. The burden of proof is on you, I mean MOBE.
Looks like he's got multiple Slashdot accounts, too. --
There's another page somewhere which discusses crackpot theories... however, that page is written by MOBE2001, a crackpot himself (though he calls everyone else one), who loves to troll Slashdot with his "theory". --
What else do you expect from Clarke's worst book? 3001 basically consisted of rehashed ideas from his much better earlier books, which were set in a more reasonable timeframe. It seems that Clarke just wasn't thinking about the radical changes that could occur in one _thousand_ years. Perhaps he was disillusioned by the fact that there was no sign of HAL or manned space travel to other planets coming about in 2001. Frankly, I think there will be more of a head-exploding change between the technology of 2000 and 3000 as between 1000 and 2000, because of the way technology grows exponentially.
That would be a miracle? The price of gasoline in America is definitely too low, considering that people can buy SUVs without thinking twice about the gas prices _or_ the environment.
We need another gas shortage (not the wimpy price increase we had in 1999) so that the people who drive gas-guzzling cars would be as screwed as they deserve to be. --
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If you want a version of Mozilla which was rushed out the door, use Netscape 6.0. If you feel masochistic, that is. --
MojoNation has the right idea by using the laws of supply and demand. You spend Mojo (which might one day have an exchange rate for real money) to download files, and gain it for serving the files, processing searches, etc. If you serve files from your site which people want, you get more Mojo from the downloads.
They've even considered a method of paying the artists/creators/whatever of the files within MojoNation.
Unfortunately, MojoNation is about as useful as Freenet in its current form (which isn't saying much at all). Making a usable file sharing system out of it is a long way off, and even further off is getting the Mojo economy to work. --
Ah! If "allegory" means "making bizarre comparisons using three different abstractions", then I can do that too!
Ready? The reader's expected response to the author's "NO MEAT" hypothesis would be "GET REAL". The letters in "GET REAL" can be rearranged to spell "LARGE ET". This obviously signifies the subconscious expression that the author is, in fact, an oversized being from outer space.
Maybe I should publish a book called "Leonard F. Wheat's "Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey": A Triple Allegory": A Space Allegory". --
I assume you include the GPL in "open source and free software licenses". The GPL (a) works because of the fact that it removes restrictions on use and adds none, and (b) explicitly states that GPL'd code must be free to use anywhere in the world. Other licenses are similar. --
Your argument is incredibly muddled. The GPL is not a shrink wrap license, given that you can choose not to "accept" the GPL and you still have a right to use and modify (but not distribute) the software.
And "as long as you've paid money for" what? RedHat is trying to make it so that _open source_ code does not require a warranty. RedHat doesn't sell the code, they sell the package, the manual, and support. The code is there for free on their Web site. And this clause wouldn't just apply to code that RedHat uses, but ALL Open Source code.
If the UCITA ends up being passed in more states, at least OSS won't be as screwed it would be under the current UCITA. Of course, it would be better if states did the sensible thing, namely, reading the UCITA, laughing at the fact that someone thought something so ludicrous could be passed, and tossing it in the trash, but it's always good to have a Plan B. --
"Cow-orkers" is in fact an intentional respelling of "co-workers", popularized by Scott Adams (the Dilbert cartoonist). Sorry to burst your bubble of happy typo-mocking. --
Slashdot tends not to accept things you actually wrote, just links to other places. But that would be a great thing to put on Kuro5hin. --
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In other words, the author has granted you the right of unlimited use through the 'failure' to restrict it.
No, under copyright law the use of software is by default unrestricted.
As much as it seems you'd like to argue, you and the parent poster are saying the same thing. Since the GPL adds no restrictions, you get unlimited use from copyright law. --
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My Super Nintendo crashed. Once. I was playing Donkey Kong Country, had just found a new bonus area, and suddenly a weird glitch caused the screen to fill with ostrich parts (various tiles that composed Espresso the ostrich) and freeze.
I was extremely surprised, then pissed.
I will be surprised and then pissed again if Microsoft gets the typical gamer used to the idea of crashing.
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I've tried one of those renegade nameservers before. It was crap. It slowed down DNS tremendously and then went down a while later, and it took me a while to figure out why my DNS queries took so long - it was timing out for the server I had at the top of the list.
For something like this to work, you'd have to convince an ISP to switch their root servers, so the users could use such a nameserver without having to deal with some shaky server out in God knows where.
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I think that having it exist in a form where it takes a bit of skill to enable it is fine. It takes just as much skill to download a cheat program, assuming the person already wants to cheat. And there will always be people who want to cheat.
This driver could have had some cool uses besides cheating, though.
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FreeDB _gives_ people everything for free. Why should people have to pay CDDB if they're using FreeDB instead?
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You can't decry one model of the Universe until you have another one that explains experimental findings better. MOBE didn't do any experiments, he just mangled the definitions of physics terms. The burden of proof is on you, I mean MOBE.
Looks like he's got multiple Slashdot accounts, too.
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There's another page somewhere which discusses crackpot theories... however, that page is written by MOBE2001, a crackpot himself (though he calls everyone else one), who loves to troll Slashdot with his "theory".
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Then again, crackpottery is relative, as MOBE2001 demonstrates by calling every other spacetime physicist one.
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You know, it's not exactly like Neil could have said "That's one small step for man... wait, let me try that again."
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What else do you expect from Clarke's worst book? 3001 basically consisted of rehashed ideas from his much better earlier books, which were set in a more reasonable timeframe. It seems that Clarke just wasn't thinking about the radical changes that could occur in one _thousand_ years. Perhaps he was disillusioned by the fact that there was no sign of HAL or manned space travel to other planets coming about in 2001. Frankly, I think there will be more of a head-exploding change between the technology of 2000 and 3000 as between 1000 and 2000, because of the way technology grows exponentially.
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That would be a miracle? The price of gasoline in America is definitely too low, considering that people can buy SUVs without thinking twice about the gas prices _or_ the environment.
We need another gas shortage (not the wimpy price increase we had in 1999) so that the people who drive gas-guzzling cars would be as screwed as they deserve to be.
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You can get them online, if you're willing to order them overseas, at http://www.bbcshop.com/bbc_shop/dept.asp?dept%5Fid =101&shop=bbc
However you obtain it, listening to the radio series is the best way you can pay your respect to Douglas Adams. The radio series is the brilliant humor that made Douglas Adams famous in the first place. So please, listen to these episodes, and laugh your ass off in memory of him.
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If you want a version of Mozilla which was rushed out the door, use Netscape 6.0. If you feel masochistic, that is.
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Thank you - that is a very appropriate response to people who assume that Slashdot is a single entity with one opinion on everything.
I am not PurpleBob of Borg. You will not be assimilated.
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They've even considered a method of paying the artists/creators/whatever of the files within MojoNation.
Unfortunately, MojoNation is about as useful as Freenet in its current form (which isn't saying much at all). Making a usable file sharing system out of it is a long way off, and even further off is getting the Mojo economy to work.
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Ah! If "allegory" means "making bizarre comparisons using three different abstractions", then I can do that too!
Ready? The reader's expected response to the author's "NO MEAT" hypothesis would be "GET REAL". The letters in "GET REAL" can be rearranged to spell "LARGE ET". This obviously signifies the subconscious expression that the author is, in fact, an oversized being from outer space.
Maybe I should publish a book called "Leonard F. Wheat's "Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey": A Triple Allegory": A Space Allegory".
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The fact is that they're by far the best internet service around. They've even changed some things to make their service work better on Linux.
Even if it weren't for that, for broadband it's a choice between them and Verizon DSL. Yuck.
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RedHat is doing this for the good of the free software community. There's nothing odd about that - it's the reason for their existence, after all.
RedHat could still choose to offer a warranty, if they feel they need to do so to compete with Microsoft.
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Cool, I didn't know that.
:)
However, I covered my ass with the word "popularized", so I was still technically right.
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I assume you include the GPL in "open source and free software licenses". The GPL (a) works because of the fact that it removes restrictions on use and adds none, and (b) explicitly states that GPL'd code must be free to use anywhere in the world. Other licenses are similar.
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Your argument is incredibly muddled. The GPL is not a shrink wrap license, given that you can choose not to "accept" the GPL and you still have a right to use and modify (but not distribute) the software.
And "as long as you've paid money for" what? RedHat is trying to make it so that _open source_ code does not require a warranty. RedHat doesn't sell the code, they sell the package, the manual, and support. The code is there for free on their Web site. And this clause wouldn't just apply to code that RedHat uses, but ALL Open Source code.
If the UCITA ends up being passed in more states, at least OSS won't be as screwed it would be under the current UCITA. Of course, it would be better if states did the sensible thing, namely, reading the UCITA, laughing at the fact that someone thought something so ludicrous could be passed, and tossing it in the trash, but it's always good to have a Plan B.
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"Cow-orkers" is in fact an intentional respelling of "co-workers", popularized by Scott Adams (the Dilbert cartoonist). Sorry to burst your bubble of happy typo-mocking.
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Slashdot tends not to accept things you actually wrote, just links to other places. But that would be a great thing to put on Kuro5hin.
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No, under copyright law the use of software is by default unrestricted.
As much as it seems you'd like to argue, you and the parent poster are saying the same thing. Since the GPL adds no restrictions, you get unlimited use from copyright law.
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IE.
I'm not saying I like that fact, but there is no open-source equivalent to IE.
I'm hoping Mozilla can surpass it, but it doesn't look like it will anytime soon.
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