Frankly, I don't see why they should make people pay for a service they're not providing They're going to be mp3 pimps. The people that use their service will be the whores.
Since when a website ever directly killed anyone? ACTUALLY, now I come to think of it, there was a virus years ago (that you could get over the internet, and possibly a website), that when it infected your computer o/ced your cpu that it set the computer on fire (or something like that), and a couple of people died because of it.
problems with players renting most racing games as opposed to purchasing them. If most racing games didn't suck, maybe more people would buy them. Coders should spend more time coding, instead of trying to rush out the game for Christmas/Easter/Yom Kippur/Whatever.
because all sir haxalot does is post early with links to places that are EASILY found by almost anyone if they care to, but a moderator will compulsively mod up informative because he doesn't want to waste his mod points.
Then he can post an Amazon link and get it clicked on like all the links in all his other posts. The effect is further amplified as it's highly visible, near the top as he's posting at +2 because of said karma-whoring.
Basically, it's because it's Sir Haxalot doing it, and he's taking advantage of Slashdot's structure to make money for himself. I say ignore it on principal, Amazon be damned. Slashdot could just as easily put it's own referral link in the article itself, but they don't because it would be a conflict of interest. That doesn't mean everyone else should attempt to ride it's coattails. Heh I wish I was making money.
The MT-32 emulation project, which is an offshoot of the DosBox project recently received a cease and desist letter regarding the use of the PCM samples from the synthesizer. Normally this would be an open and shut case, but it just so happens that U.S. Copyright law (specifically 17 U.S.C. section 405) shows that Roland lost their copyright because nowhere did they explicity register it, and registering (or atleast copyright marking) was required before 1989. The MT-32, of course, was produced in 1987. You can find more details at the emulation forum on Vogons" In particular, read through this thread for Canadacow's response to Roland's lawyers, for the type of response that most lawyers probably don't expect from most programmers.
Fortunately he didn't mention:
John(3:16) For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Why SCO Started All This. No. Really. Friday, October 10 2003 @ 10:18 PM EDT
Back in June, there was a protest by Linux users at SCO headquarters, which received some coverage in the press, including here on Groklaw. I now have a transcript of the conversation between SCO CEO Darl McBride and the protesters. I've also listened to the tape to verify the accuracy of the transcript, and you can do the same if you can play.ogg files, here. There are a couple of places where the sound isn't clear, so I've indicated that in the transcript.
McBride talks about a number of issues, such as SGI, whether SCO intended to sue end users or commercial only, how and when they discovered the alleged "infringement", Caldera's contributions to Linux, and whether Debian is a safe version of GNU/Linux to use because of its noncommercial nature. He also tells them that SCO isn't interested in suing individual users or even small commercial users. Its beef, he says, is with the "Unix vendor community", UNIX-licensing companies switching to Linux and donating code to Linux so they don't have to pay any more royalties to SCO for Unix code, "the vendors that are getting an economic incentive to reducing the amount of royalties that they pay by virtue of taking our property and putting it into Linux, then turn around and saying it's a free system." He mentions that they were talking about 64-way systems, not home users.
He also says they found "hundreds of thousands of lines of code that are infringing against our contracts." Note the plural on contracts. He claims the increase in functionality in Linux is because of "vendors" that SCO has "confidentiality agreements" with. Again, note the plural.
A lot has changed since June, but it's clear that when this began, SCO had in mind a very small pool of targets, UNIX vendors being a small group of companies. What stands out is that I think you'll see how polite the Linux group is, how friendly the conversation was even when strong points were being made by each side, McBride praising them several times and at the end thanking them for their input and calling them "awesome". How different this reality is from the ugly portrait he has tried to paint in the media of users of GNU/Linux software allegedly "attacking" SCO. And when you hear or read it, ask yourself, how accurate were news reports of this event? But judge for yourself and draw your own conclusions.
Transcript of informal group chit-chat with Darl McBride
June 20, 2003
Members of the Provo Linux Users Group (PLUG), along with other Linux and Unix group members and concerned individuals in the area held a protest against SCO on June 20, 2003. This protest began in front of SCO headquarters in the afternoon. The official PLUG protest web site, with pictures and video, can be seen at http://mirror.lug-nut.com/
After protesting in front of the SCO corporate offices (on a cul-de-sac), many in the group moved to a more visible location, a busy intersection nearby. A little while later, Darl McBride stopped by for an informal chit-chat with the demonstrators on his way home. Here is what was said during the 23-minute conversation.
The Cast:
Darl: SCO CEO Darl McBride
P: Protester (the collective group, with various individuals asking questions)
C: Cameraman
Pleasant Grove Police Officer: Pleasant Grove Police Officer
Darl: So, how's the day going?
P: Oh, pretty well. We had more people than we expected. We talked to some of your engineers outside, and they're really nice people.
Darl(0:11): So how did all that go?
P: Oh, really well . ..
Darl(0:16): So you guys are just convinced that we're Satanic? Is that it?
P: No, no, no.
P: Just greedy, that's all.
P: We wouldn't use those words. We would use different ones.
P: We don't say Satanic, but we don't respect what's happening.
P: Yeah, I mean, we obviously don't know what's going
At the risk of losing carma (sorry, reference to the game Carmageddon), I'd like to point out that this fellow seems to be trying to herald a new type of first poster. His posts are equally vaccuous as the simple troll poster's "Frist Psot", yet the folks with mod points often mod him/her/it up simply because its is the first msg they see whilst basking in the glory of finding that they have mod points.
When I have moderator points, I immediately go to articles posted *not to the main page*. I'll go first to the 'Science' category and look for comments worthy of mod'ing up. Incidentally, I may find a few trolls or flamboyantly igoramous comments that might need mod'd down, but those are few. The trolls and whores frequent the articles posted to the main page so that they may enjoy their 15ms of fame. So sue me.
For one thing, Kahane Chai itself is already on the list. For another, if the same thing happened with a book publisher, TV channel, or whatever this wouldn't even be on Slashdot. Yes but this didn't happen with a book publisher, TV channel, or whatever, which is why it's on Slashdot.
IMO the parent post (the one asking for modding down, not the one linking to Google cache) should be modded as flamebait. You're obviously Realistic_Dragon, thanks.
"Minigui a GUI for embedded Linux devices that offers a GPL alternative to QT/Embedded and other embedded guis has become a 'stable, viable alternative,' according to a recent Linux Devices article. Lots of screenshots on their site, including PDA apps, a web browser and a virtual console."
Considering I haven't read Cyberbooks, your post means nothing to me. Why not share with the rest of us what Bova's point was? Computer genius Carl Lewis has invented the "Cyberbook," an electronic device that instantly and inexpensively brings the written word to the masses. But not everyone warms to Carl's ideas. Add corporate spies, authors threatening to strike, and a wave of mysterious murders, and you have Ben Bova at his best.
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Frankly, I don't see why they should make people pay for a service they're not providing
They're going to be mp3 pimps. The people that use their service will be the whores.
He sure sucks a mean dick. :(
Uhoh, someone to scared to post with their account so they have to post AC, boohoo
Since when a website ever directly killed anyone?
ACTUALLY, now I come to think of it, there was a virus years ago (that you could get over the internet, and possibly a website), that when it infected your computer o/ced your cpu that it set the computer on fire (or something like that), and a couple of people died because of it.
problems with players renting most racing games as opposed to purchasing them.
If most racing games didn't suck, maybe more people would buy them. Coders should spend more time coding, instead of trying to rush out the game for Christmas/Easter/Yom Kippur/Whatever.
because all sir haxalot does is post early with links to places that are EASILY found by almost anyone if they care to, but a moderator will compulsively mod up informative because he doesn't want to waste his mod points.
Then he can post an Amazon link and get it clicked on like all the links in all his other posts. The effect is further amplified as it's highly visible, near the top as he's posting at +2 because of said karma-whoring.
Basically, it's because it's Sir Haxalot doing it, and he's taking advantage of Slashdot's structure to make money for himself. I say ignore it on principal, Amazon be damned. Slashdot could just as easily put it's own referral link in the article itself, but they don't because it would be a conflict of interest. That doesn't mean everyone else should attempt to ride it's coattails.
Heh I wish I was making money.
The MT-32 emulation project, which is an offshoot of the DosBox project recently received a cease and desist letter regarding the use of the PCM samples from the synthesizer. Normally this would be an open and shut case, but it just so happens that U.S. Copyright law (specifically 17 U.S.C. section 405) shows that Roland lost their copyright because nowhere did they explicity register it, and registering (or atleast copyright marking) was required before 1989. The MT-32, of course, was produced in 1987. You can find more details at the emulation forum on Vogons" In particular, read through this thread for Canadacow's response to Roland's lawyers, for the type of response that most lawyers probably don't expect from most programmers.
you're fucking pathetic.
Sorry? I'm not allowed to quote The Bible now?
Fortunately he didn't mention:
John(3:16)
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Now do you remember?
No, but as you posted that link I know what happened, thanks.
Why SCO Started All This. No. Really.
.ogg files, here. There are a couple of places where the sound isn't clear, so I've indicated that in the transcript.
.
Friday, October 10 2003 @ 10:18 PM EDT
Back in June, there was a protest by Linux users at SCO headquarters, which received some coverage in the press, including here on Groklaw. I now have a transcript of the conversation between SCO CEO Darl McBride and the protesters. I've also listened to the tape to verify the accuracy of the transcript, and you can do the same if you can play
McBride talks about a number of issues, such as SGI, whether SCO intended to sue end users or commercial only, how and when they discovered the alleged "infringement", Caldera's contributions to Linux, and whether Debian is a safe version of GNU/Linux to use because of its noncommercial nature. He also tells them that SCO isn't interested in suing individual users or even small commercial users. Its beef, he says, is with the "Unix vendor community", UNIX-licensing companies switching to Linux and donating code to Linux so they don't have to pay any more royalties to SCO for Unix code, "the vendors that are getting an economic incentive to reducing the amount of royalties that they pay by virtue of taking our property and putting it into Linux, then turn around and saying it's a free system." He mentions that they were talking about 64-way systems, not home users.
He also says they found "hundreds of thousands of lines of code that are infringing against our contracts." Note the plural on contracts. He claims the increase in functionality in Linux is because of "vendors" that SCO has "confidentiality agreements" with. Again, note the plural.
A lot has changed since June, but it's clear that when this began, SCO had in mind a very small pool of targets, UNIX vendors being a small group of companies. What stands out is that I think you'll see how polite the Linux group is, how friendly the conversation was even when strong points were being made by each side, McBride praising them several times and at the end thanking them for their input and calling them "awesome". How different this reality is from the ugly portrait he has tried to paint in the media of users of GNU/Linux software allegedly "attacking" SCO. And when you hear or read it, ask yourself, how accurate were news reports of this event? But judge for yourself and draw your own conclusions.
Transcript of informal group chit-chat with Darl McBride
June 20, 2003
Members of the Provo Linux Users Group (PLUG), along with other Linux and Unix group members and concerned individuals in the area held a protest against SCO on June 20, 2003. This protest began in front of SCO headquarters in the afternoon. The official PLUG protest web site, with pictures and video, can be seen at http://mirror.lug-nut.com/
After protesting in front of the SCO corporate offices (on a cul-de-sac), many in the group moved to a more visible location, a busy intersection nearby. A little while later, Darl McBride stopped by for an informal chit-chat with the demonstrators on his way home. Here is what was said during the 23-minute conversation.
The Cast:
Darl: SCO CEO Darl McBride
P: Protester (the collective group, with various individuals asking questions)
C: Cameraman
Pleasant Grove Police Officer: Pleasant Grove Police Officer
Darl: So, how's the day going?
P: Oh, pretty well. We had more people than we expected. We talked to some of your engineers outside, and they're really nice people.
Darl(0:11): So how did all that go?
P: Oh, really well . .
Darl(0:16): So you guys are just convinced that we're Satanic? Is that it?
P: No, no, no.
P: Just greedy, that's all.
P: We wouldn't use those words. We would use different ones.
P: We don't say Satanic, but we don't respect what's happening.
P: Yeah, I mean, we obviously don't know what's going
like, why is my 1ghz XP box sooo slooow? :P
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those.
At the risk of losing carma (sorry, reference to the game Carmageddon), I'd like to point out that this fellow seems to be trying to herald a new type of first poster. His posts are equally vaccuous as the simple troll poster's "Frist Psot", yet the folks with mod points often mod him/her/it up simply because its is the first msg they see whilst basking in the glory of finding that they have mod points.
When I have moderator points, I immediately go to articles posted *not to the main page*. I'll go first to the 'Science' category and look for comments worthy of mod'ing up. Incidentally, I may find a few trolls or flamboyantly igoramous comments that might need mod'd down, but those are few. The trolls and whores frequent the articles posted to the main page so that they may enjoy their 15ms of fame.
So sue me.
For one thing, Kahane Chai itself is already on the list. For another, if the same thing happened with a book publisher, TV channel, or whatever this wouldn't even be on Slashdot.
Yes but this didn't happen with a book publisher, TV channel, or whatever, which is why it's on Slashdot.
Since when a website ever directly killed anyone?
How long have you been a member?
1 year? something like that
www.eonline.com
In fact it's the ugliest thing in my room. :P
What about yourself? Ok lame joke, so sue me
I think we /.ers can easily manage to get Google cache for some page when we want
Really?
IMO the parent post (the one asking for modding down, not the one linking to Google cache) should be modded as flamebait.
You're obviously Realistic_Dragon, thanks.
You not only managed to try (and fail) to post the google cache, you also did it after I'd posted the google cache for all the links here
"Minigui a GUI for embedded Linux devices that offers a GPL alternative to QT/Embedded and other embedded guis has become a 'stable, viable alternative,' according to a recent Linux Devices article. Lots of screenshots on their site, including PDA apps, a web browser and a virtual console."
I'm working on two 18" TFT's at the moment. :(
You smell
Considering I haven't read Cyberbooks, your post means nothing to me. Why not share with the rest of us what Bova's point was?
Computer genius Carl Lewis has invented the "Cyberbook," an electronic device that instantly and inexpensively brings the written word to the masses. But not everyone warms to Carl's ideas. Add corporate spies, authors threatening to strike, and a wave of mysterious murders, and you have Ben Bova at his best.
anybody who has read Cyberbooks by Ben Bova
Cyberbooks by Ben Bova
They're books, but on a screen that hurts your eyes! Yay!