Never got it to sound very good though. Occasionally I got a few second of nice music, but otherwise it played as expected.
I'm curious how much setup time is needed to get it to produce music like you hear in their samples, how many runs it took them to get their samples, etc.
Apparently DirectX already supports all of this, and other past products have used this idea, so this is nothing new.
Your old boss is an idiot. If you believe in your skills, become a high priced security consultant. Live cheaply, study hard, and party the 3 out of 4 days that you're not working.
Copyright is an incentive to create. People can share if they want. Without copyright, there would be no more incentive to create public works than there is today, perhaps even less. For example, the GPL relies on copyright to keep derivative works in the public domain.
It's software patents that everyone should be fighting, whereby someone with money to spare can buy from the government the right to collect fees on the original works of others, regardless of if those others came up with the same ideas entirely on their own.
It took about 30 seconds to load, so I'm posting the letter here:
Dear Darl,
Many smarter people than me have demolished your arguments around the idea that anyone has knowingly stolen any property from you. Yet you continue to refuse to tell anyone what it is that you claim has been stolen. So your arguments against others ring very hollow. It is like my claiming you broke into the trunk of my car and stole something from me. But then I refuse to tell anyone, the police or anyone else, what was stolen, or even allow anyone to look in the trunk of my car. Your strategy would be laughable if it were not costing everyone involved huge amounts and of time and effort to correct your errors and respond to your lawyers.
Secondly, no one is arguing against copyright. Everyone agrees Intellectual Property, from trademark law, to copyrights and patents, is a good thing.
Ok, so maybe Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation, the inventor of the GPL license, thinks it is not a good idea to copyright software. But even Richard thinks copyright has its place to enable authors to earn a living. Free markets are not so fragile that a new idea like the GPL can threaten them. The only thing that can threaten free markets in a democracy is fear. Fear can cause well-meaning governments to enact flawed legislation. The kind of legislation the DMCA represents. The DMCA is the equivalent of trying to stop break-and-entry of homes by making screwdrivers illegal. Breaking and entering should be illegal. Allowing honest citizens to own innocent tools that evildoers might use to break and enter must remain perfectly legal. It is the crook who should be sent to jail, not the tool nor the owner of the tool.
The Supreme Court case that you misrepresent in your latest open letter demonstrates the Justices think too much of a good thing may no longer be so good. The case you quote (Eldred vs Ashcroft) was accepted by the Supreme Court specifically because they wanted to consider whether copyright, enacted by the founding fathers with a term of 14 years, may be getting stretched a little too far at its current 95 years. The case was decided based on the Justices concluding that it was up to Congress, not the Supreme Court, to set the terms of copyright law. Groups like Creative Commons are working to fix in the marketplace the problems caused by recent expansions of copyright terms. But then you seem to have little respect for the marketplace.
The sad thing about your arguments is that you undermine them by running your company so badly. SCO's revenues from the sale of goods and services (not counting some very odd license "revenue") have fallen every quarter since you took over SCO. Corporate America does not illegally download anyone's property to save a few bucks. They purchase the best product and services available from the companies they trust the most. You and your team have proven to be incapable of producing good products, at least not as good as those from other suppliers. These self-serving "open letters" make SCO appear extremely untrustworthy. So you have violated both of the customer service rules you should be focused on honoring.
Darl, for the sake of your case in front of the courts, for the sake of your company's ability to win customers, for the sake of everyone's blood pressure, and to save yourself further personal embarrassment, you might want to be less vocal. All you are doing is causing your audience to educate themselves. Once everyone understands how wrong you are your stock price will suffer. Hmmm, suddenly when I think about it - you might in fact be doing us all a favor.
They should have done all this 5 years ago, I'll have to rework parts of my sites to work with them, but the document pretty much says they've fixed all the internet/adware/spyware/virus related security problems we've been complaining about the most, and added popup restrictions.
Just last week I set up my first Lightwave render farm. Unfortunately all the systems in the rendering farm were over 5 years old. The main problem I ran into, beyond our artist having placed all his files outside his content directory, and the farm being slower than some of our newer PC's, was that the systems were very short on memory (96 to 128 mb each), so we'll be upgrading them soon.
For a rendering cluster, I'd look for the systems that provide the best price / floating point performance ratio, and max out the ram. A brief pass through Tom's Hardware seems to suggest that Intel gets better lightwave performance, though I can't say for certain.
And NewTek released "ScreamerNet for Linux" as an update to 7.5 sometime in the past year, but I haven't tried it and obviously not every plugin will work. If you're stuck with an Microsoft OS, I think screamernet will run on any version of Windows.
Be aware that I've never used lightwave so I can't possibly be an expert on it.
I pay charter for 768/128 and they've started giving me 2048/128.
I don't see a serious problem with capping unlimited HOME internet access accounts, aside from them saying unlimited. If I myself won't reach the high limit, then the ISP capping the few extreme downloaders will allow me to continue paying less.
is that someone could take UserBSD, and for a small fortune, make something better but closed source and patented. Then the work that everyone else put into it would be used against them.
I know one who was 12. She was 9. The girl's parents pressed charges when he reached 18 and he was found guilty of statutory rape. He says it was consentual, but that's not a factor in those cases and the parents wanted to see him in jail.
He also impregnated my 17 year old ex-girlfriend when he was 22 and fresh out of jail, but nobody did anything about it and they married soon after.
Face scanners failed miserably in airports AFAIK, so why do they expect them to work in schools. And besides, for almost every adult in america, there's probably at least one registered sex offender out there who bears a striking resemblence to them.
Just give out photos of missing children and local sex offenders to several staff members and save a fortune.
Some time after the company I work part time for moved into their new building, I noticed that the only vent leading into the server room came from the heater, while the rest of the office had air conditioning. Perhaps someone messed up the blueprints, I don't know. I got to explain to my boss and others why they need to stop closing the server room doors whenever they see them open. Hopefully they'll budget to get air conditioning in there by next summer.
I'm not saying that the Lindows isn't obviously made to sound like Windows, but that the Windows trademark, should have been invalid in the first place. Aside from being a common household word, the X Window System (X11) predates Windows by several years. If anything, Microsoft violated them. And Lindows uses XFree86, which is more or less a descendent of the the X Window System.
Is that students learn about good database design and the full querying power offered by relational databases.
Access is an excellent prototyping tool, which saves you a lot of the typing and repetition involved in developing database apps. But for any just about any useful project they're faced with in real life, SQL knowledge will be a must. If they learn Access, and the price was right (academic discounts), that's all good and fun but the focus of the class should not be to get them hooked on a proprietary, non-scalable database app if you want them to get a good education. Don't let their final project be without coding.
They were accused of that during the last round of attacks, because they all ceased during business hours and resumed afterward.
I suspect that they don't provide any form of person to person customer service at this point. I know first hand that they don't answer phone calls from other businesses. The company I work for tried to contact them several times over the phone, trying almost a dozen numbers over about a week, because someone listed them as a reference.
I hate games that require the original CD to be in the drive. I own all my CD games, but I'm not in a rush to buy new games from the manufacturers who care more about piracy than user satisfaction. My cd-rom drive sounds like a jet engine whenever it has to speed up, and CD's don't last forever. Some games go even further and ask for a serial code to be entered each time they're played, like the voyager elite force holomatch. That's just wrong. They didn't advertise those "features". That's not what I paid for. And I should be able to get the advertised quality out of what I've legally purchased. If they put in unadvertised limits that reduce the program to less than I was promised, I should be within my moral right to overcome them.
I hope they get raped by countersuits if they ever prosecute a paying customer for cracking their "protection".
Should a minor release of an expensive, proprietary text editor really count as front page material on Slashdot? Clearly few people are interested, or else there would be more comments.
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ICQ clients used to crash instantly if you set your clock past 2038.
Never got it to sound very good though. Occasionally I got a few second of nice music, but otherwise it played as expected.
I'm curious how much setup time is needed to get it to produce music like you hear in their samples, how many runs it took them to get their samples, etc.
Apparently DirectX already supports all of this, and other past products have used this idea, so this is nothing new.
Your old boss is an idiot. If you believe in your skills, become a high priced security consultant. Live cheaply, study hard, and party the 3 out of 4 days that you're not working.
HAHAHAHAHA
Maybe when it comes out I'll have a system powerful enough to run it.
Copyright is an incentive to create. People can share if they want. Without copyright, there would be no more incentive to create public works than there is today, perhaps even less. For example, the GPL relies on copyright to keep derivative works in the public domain.
It's software patents that everyone should be fighting, whereby someone with money to spare can buy from the government the right to collect fees on the original works of others, regardless of if those others came up with the same ideas entirely on their own.
Better not have it say "Free Darl!" or the other inmates might get the wrong idea. Plus, kevlar underwear would probably be a better choice.
It took about 30 seconds to load, so I'm posting the letter here:
Dear Darl,
Many smarter people than me have demolished your arguments around the idea that anyone has knowingly stolen any property from you. Yet you continue to refuse to tell anyone what it is that you claim has been stolen. So your arguments against others ring very hollow. It is like my claiming you broke into the trunk of my car and stole something from me. But then I refuse to tell anyone, the police or anyone else, what was stolen, or even allow anyone to look in the trunk of my car. Your strategy would be laughable if it were not costing everyone involved huge amounts and of time and effort to correct your errors and respond to your lawyers.
Secondly, no one is arguing against copyright. Everyone agrees Intellectual Property, from trademark law, to copyrights and patents, is a good thing.
Ok, so maybe Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation, the inventor of the GPL license, thinks it is not a good idea to copyright software. But even Richard thinks copyright has its place to enable authors to earn a living. Free markets are not so fragile that a new idea like the GPL can threaten them. The only thing that can threaten free markets in a democracy is fear. Fear can cause well-meaning governments to enact flawed legislation. The kind of legislation the DMCA represents. The DMCA is the equivalent of trying to stop break-and-entry of homes by making screwdrivers illegal. Breaking and entering should be illegal. Allowing honest citizens to own innocent tools that evildoers might use to break and enter must remain perfectly legal. It is the crook who should be sent to jail, not the tool nor the owner of the tool.
The Supreme Court case that you misrepresent in your latest open letter demonstrates the Justices think too much of a good thing may no longer be so good. The case you quote (Eldred vs Ashcroft) was accepted by the Supreme Court specifically because they wanted to consider whether copyright, enacted by the founding fathers with a term of 14 years, may be getting stretched a little too far at its current 95 years. The case was decided based on the Justices concluding that it was up to Congress, not the Supreme Court, to set the terms of copyright law. Groups like Creative Commons are working to fix in the marketplace the problems caused by recent expansions of copyright terms. But then you seem to have little respect for the marketplace.
The sad thing about your arguments is that you undermine them by running your company so badly. SCO's revenues from the sale of goods and services (not counting some very odd license "revenue") have fallen every quarter since you took over SCO. Corporate America does not illegally download anyone's property to save a few bucks. They purchase the best product and services available from the companies they trust the most. You and your team have proven to be incapable of producing good products, at least not as good as those from other suppliers. These self-serving "open letters" make SCO appear extremely untrustworthy. So you have violated both of the customer service rules you should be focused on honoring.
Darl, for the sake of your case in front of the courts, for the sake of your company's ability to win customers, for the sake of everyone's blood pressure, and to save yourself further personal embarrassment, you might want to be less vocal. All you are doing is causing your audience to educate themselves. Once everyone understands how wrong you are your stock price will suffer. Hmmm, suddenly when I think about it - you might in fact be doing us all a favor.
Thanks, Bob.
Bob Young, CEO Lulu.com
They should have done all this 5 years ago, I'll have to rework parts of my sites to work with them, but the document pretty much says they've fixed all the internet/adware/spyware/virus related security problems we've been complaining about the most, and added popup restrictions.
Maybe it won't benefit you personally. But overall it's faster and more scalable than previous kernels.
Just last week I set up my first Lightwave render farm. Unfortunately all the systems in the rendering farm were over 5 years old. The main problem I ran into, beyond our artist having placed all his files outside his content directory, and the farm being slower than some of our newer PC's, was that the systems were very short on memory (96 to 128 mb each), so we'll be upgrading them soon.
For a rendering cluster, I'd look for the systems that provide the best price / floating point performance ratio, and max out the ram. A brief pass through Tom's Hardware seems to suggest that Intel gets better lightwave performance, though I can't say for certain.
And NewTek released "ScreamerNet for Linux" as an update to 7.5 sometime in the past year, but I haven't tried it and obviously not every plugin will work. If you're stuck with an Microsoft OS, I think screamernet will run on any version of Windows.
Be aware that I've never used lightwave so I can't possibly be an expert on it.
I pay charter for 768/128 and they've started giving me 2048/128.
I don't see a serious problem with capping unlimited HOME internet access accounts, aside from them saying unlimited. If I myself won't reach the high limit, then the ISP capping the few extreme downloaders will allow me to continue paying less.
Mod that up.
I'll hunt them down after this is over and email any future employers saying "This person will try to steal your IP."
is that someone could take UserBSD, and for a small fortune, make something better but closed source and patented. Then the work that everyone else put into it would be used against them.
I know one who was 12. She was 9. The girl's parents pressed charges when he reached 18 and he was found guilty of statutory rape. He says it was consentual, but that's not a factor in those cases and the parents wanted to see him in jail.
He also impregnated my 17 year old ex-girlfriend when he was 22 and fresh out of jail, but nobody did anything about it and they married soon after.
Face scanners failed miserably in airports AFAIK, so why do they expect them to work in schools. And besides, for almost every adult in america, there's probably at least one registered sex offender out there who bears a striking resemblence to them.
Just give out photos of missing children and local sex offenders to several staff members and save a fortune.
Some time after the company I work part time for moved into their new building, I noticed that the only vent leading into the server room came from the heater, while the rest of the office had air conditioning. Perhaps someone messed up the blueprints, I don't know. I got to explain to my boss and others why they need to stop closing the server room doors whenever they see them open. Hopefully they'll budget to get air conditioning in there by next summer.
I'm not saying that the Lindows isn't obviously made to sound like Windows, but that the Windows trademark, should have been invalid in the first place. Aside from being a common household word, the X Window System (X11) predates Windows by several years. If anything, Microsoft violated them. And Lindows uses XFree86, which is more or less a descendent of the the X Window System.
Is that students learn about good database design and the full querying power offered by relational databases.
Access is an excellent prototyping tool, which saves you a lot of the typing and repetition involved in developing database apps. But for any just about any useful project they're faced with in real life, SQL knowledge will be a must. If they learn Access, and the price was right (academic discounts), that's all good and fun but the focus of the class should not be to get them hooked on a proprietary, non-scalable database app if you want them to get a good education. Don't let their final project be without coding.
They were accused of that during the last round of attacks, because they all ceased during business hours and resumed afterward.
I suspect that they don't provide any form of person to person customer service at this point. I know first hand that they don't answer phone calls from other businesses. The company I work for tried to contact them several times over the phone, trying almost a dozen numbers over about a week, because someone listed them as a reference.
I hate games that require the original CD to be in the drive. I own all my CD games, but I'm not in a rush to buy new games from the manufacturers who care more about piracy than user satisfaction. My cd-rom drive sounds like a jet engine whenever it has to speed up, and CD's don't last forever. Some games go even further and ask for a serial code to be entered each time they're played, like the voyager elite force holomatch. That's just wrong. They didn't advertise those "features". That's not what I paid for. And I should be able to get the advertised quality out of what I've legally purchased. If they put in unadvertised limits that reduce the program to less than I was promised, I should be within my moral right to overcome them.
I hope they get raped by countersuits if they ever prosecute a paying customer for cracking their "protection".
They also have a site running Windows 2000.
note: I checked this several weeks ago. But netcraft seems to be down at the moment so I can't re-verify
So that's what that checkbox did.
I was using the processes tab. I avoid the applications tab because it's basically useless and is no more effective than clicking X.
Should a minor release of an expensive, proprietary text editor really count as front page material on Slashdot? Clearly few people are interested, or else there would be more comments.