Modifying hardware in that way is certainly "hacking" in the "original", RMS-cum-ESR meaning, but doesn't the Original Meaning of "Hack" (OMOH) preclude illegal uses of a computer?
In that way, isn't Slashdot doing a disservice to the OMOH by blurring the line between it and the negative Mainstream Meaning of Hack (MMOH)?
I mean, it is an effect of a legislation that expels from legality many playful activities associated with the OMOH, but the deliberate breaking of laws is certainly MMOH, isn't?
Technologically, Skype doesn't bring anything new to the table, true. NetMeeting had voice chat back in the day. Still, the compression algorithm is pretty good, and it's the only way to engage in voice chat between platforms.
I'm on a Mac and it's been a boon for me and my Windows-using long-distance girlfriend. There's a Linux version as well.
"Linear programming" (as well as "mathematical programming", "convex programming", etc.) has little to do with computer programming. It's about finding the solution to problems like maximize f(x) subject to restrictions r1(x)=0.. rn(x)=0, r1(x)>0... rn(x)>0.
Incidentally, the Simplex method -- unlike differential calculus-based methods for more general problems like the Kuhn-Tucker method -- is quite programmable on a computer, and quite efficient.
"Systemagic" and "E-railed" are still my favorite ones. They went sillier after that. "The Ballad of Puffy Hood" is okay-ish, anyway.
"Systemagic" is really a nice song to chant, drunk, with nerd friends."Cracking the bedroom, HEY, cracking the vault, cracking the bedroom HEY SECURE BY DEFAULT. CAAAAAAAAAAAAAN'T FIIIIIIIGHT THE SYSTEMAGIC. ÜBER TRAGIC. CAAAAN'T FIGHT THE SYSTEMAGIC! SYSTEMAGIC!.
I'm in a long distance relationship, and after a lot of research we still can't find another voice chat system that works between Macs and PCs.
Thanks, Skype:~
A case study of why software patents are needed.
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Opera 8 Released
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I usually bring up the case of Dan Bricklin and VisiCalc -- a harrowing story of the man who single-handedly invented business computing as we know it -- but Opera is a good, closer case study.
It's so simple. Opera comes up with the conceptual innovations (say, mouse gestures or tabbed browsing), and then someone can hack up an extension in XUL to duplicate the functionality. Why would someone cough up the bucks to support Opera's R&D? I know I don't.
Granted, futile software patents are granted everyday, sp. when there is significant prior art already, but incentives are really being distorted here. Why would a company even invest in R&D? They can always just begin a company with no significant investment.
This is a schumpeterian collapse scenario, and it's dangerous for the future of technology as a whole.
It's pretty scary. Tell me, what open-source app has come up with a really new concept, if as minor as mouse gestures?
Step 2. Install Windows on [Bochs|VMWare] environment.
Step 3. Run it.
Step 4. kill -9 `ps ax | grep [bochs|vmware]
Step 5. Sing "tadaaaa".
Step 6. Skip the question marks and profit.
Re:Was there ever any doubt?
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CherryOS On Hold
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You can emulate older Macs on a relatively ancient PC very very very well. I used to run a Macintosh Quadra emu on my K6-II/500 before I got an actual Mac -- and I might have gone Mac because of it.
The only piece of the puzzle that's illegal is getting the boot code ROM. If you actually own a Macintosh Quadra, you can rip it and be done with illegally. Or you can hunt around for pir8z0rz, being a (here comes flamebait) a thief:-P
There used to be a great geocities-like free web space provider called altern.org.
I say geocities-like so you get the picture, but it was nothing like geocities. No nonsense interface -- all text, no pictures, no ads --, great webmail interface -- again, all text, no pictures, no ads. It was also the first (maybe the last, I just got my own paid hosting when it got ultracheap -- it wasn't, in the day) free web space provider to support PHP.
Yes, PHP. In the days where extensions were.phtml. I actually only began mucking around with PHP and server-side scripting because altern.org offered it. I still cook up some solutions with PHP and MySQL -- something that'd never have happened without mr. Valentin Lacambre's Flying Circus.
Apparently, the whole thing was ran by a techno-anarchist who prophecized in the future technology would make working unnecessary yadda yadda yadda. A sort of techno-optimist Guy Debord.
One day, one of altern.org's free websites had a parody of a France Telecom logo. Tartalacrem, if I'm not wrong. Legal hell ensued.
Not only it wasn't covered under any kind of fair use provisions, but France Telecom sued VALENTIN LACAMBRE, THE GUY WHO RAN THE FREE SERVICE.
Courts rejected his defense of not being responsible for everything hosted in his server as anyone could anonymously host content. Mr. Lacambre was forced to pay up fines and was told he was still responsible for anything held in altern.org.
So altern.org was taken down. That's France, folks.
Oh, please. At 2 or 3% of desktops, Linux _is_ an unimportant, third-tier platform. That they even bother to release for Linux is a declaration of commitment; expecting them to invest the same resources they invest into the Windows version is just being way too spoiled.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot surrendering to the mainstream, negative meaning of "hack".
:~
I though it was supposed to be a hacker forum
Modifying hardware in that way is certainly "hacking" in the "original", RMS-cum-ESR meaning, but doesn't the Original Meaning of "Hack" (OMOH) preclude illegal uses of a computer?
In that way, isn't Slashdot doing a disservice to the OMOH by blurring the line between it and the negative Mainstream Meaning of Hack (MMOH)?
I mean, it is an effect of a legislation that expels from legality many playful activities associated with the OMOH, but the deliberate breaking of laws is certainly MMOH, isn't?
How does one get out of this riddle?
I've been doing command-line interaction with simple shell scripts containing one Curl cmmand for ages.
Technologically, Skype doesn't bring anything new to the table, true. NetMeeting had voice chat back in the day. Still, the compression algorithm is pretty good, and it's the only way to engage in voice chat between platforms.
I'm on a Mac and it's been a boon for me and my Windows-using long-distance girlfriend. There's a Linux version as well.
is 13 comments away from going Hall of Fame!!
I'm writing a cover letter and rewriting a resumé according to some guidelines from http://www.job-secrets-revealed.com/. It sounds interesting.
A few very talented cartoonists have also banded at Dumbrella many years ago.
"Linear programming" (as well as "mathematical programming", "convex programming", etc.) has little to do with computer programming. It's about finding the solution to problems like maximize f(x) subject to restrictions r1(x)=0 .. rn(x)=0, r1(x)>0... rn(x)>0.
Incidentally, the Simplex method -- unlike differential calculus-based methods for more general problems like the Kuhn-Tucker method -- is quite programmable on a computer, and quite efficient.
.. the song is good.
"Systemagic" and "E-railed" are still my favorite ones. They went sillier after that. "The Ballad of Puffy Hood" is okay-ish, anyway.
"Systemagic" is really a nice song to chant, drunk, with nerd friends."Cracking the bedroom, HEY, cracking the vault, cracking the bedroom HEY SECURE BY DEFAULT. CAAAAAAAAAAAAAN'T FIIIIIIIGHT THE SYSTEMAGIC. ÜBER TRAGIC. CAAAAN'T FIGHT THE SYSTEMAGIC! SYSTEMAGIC!.
Not a food, but my gf spilled it over her keyboard and it essentially melted it.
The dollar is overvalued, foreign goods and labour are cheaper, shit happens. It's devaluing again.
It's funny how the real issue never crosses people's minds.
I'm in a long distance relationship, and after a lot of research we still can't find another voice chat system that works between Macs and PCs.
:~
Thanks, Skype
I usually bring up the case of Dan Bricklin and VisiCalc -- a harrowing story of the man who single-handedly invented business computing as we know it -- but Opera is a good, closer case study.
It's so simple. Opera comes up with the conceptual innovations (say, mouse gestures or tabbed browsing), and then someone can hack up an extension in XUL to duplicate the functionality. Why would someone cough up the bucks to support Opera's R&D? I know I don't.
Granted, futile software patents are granted everyday, sp. when there is significant prior art already, but incentives are really being distorted here. Why would a company even invest in R&D? They can always just begin a company with no significant investment.
This is a schumpeterian collapse scenario, and it's dangerous for the future of technology as a whole.
It's pretty scary. Tell me, what open-source app has come up with a really new concept, if as minor as mouse gestures?
Step 1. Run Bochs or VMWare.
Step 2. Install Windows on [Bochs|VMWare] environment.
Step 3. Run it.
Step 4. kill -9 `ps ax | grep [bochs|vmware]
Step 5. Sing "tadaaaa".
Step 6. Skip the question marks and profit.
You can emulate older Macs on a relatively ancient PC very very very well. I used to run a Macintosh Quadra emu on my K6-II/500 before I got an actual Mac -- and I might have gone Mac because of it.
:-P
The only piece of the puzzle that's illegal is getting the boot code ROM. If you actually own a Macintosh Quadra, you can rip it and be done with illegally. Or you can hunt around for pir8z0rz, being a (here comes flamebait) a thief
Actually, Win32 is an API.
What the hell else can I say?
There should be a self-installing binary.
Wow, it's so simple and so obvious.
is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.
You want quiet, listen to Enya. But don't go around raping the masters because of mundane utilitarian reasons.
There used to be a great geocities-like free web space provider called altern.org.
.phtml. I actually only began mucking around with PHP and server-side scripting because altern.org offered it. I still cook up some solutions with PHP and MySQL -- something that'd never have happened without mr. Valentin Lacambre's Flying Circus.
I say geocities-like so you get the picture, but it was nothing like geocities. No nonsense interface -- all text, no pictures, no ads --, great webmail interface -- again, all text, no pictures, no ads. It was also the first (maybe the last, I just got my own paid hosting when it got ultracheap -- it wasn't, in the day) free web space provider to support PHP.
Yes, PHP. In the days where extensions were
Apparently, the whole thing was ran by a techno-anarchist who prophecized in the future technology would make working unnecessary yadda yadda yadda. A sort of techno-optimist Guy Debord.
One day, one of altern.org's free websites had a parody of a France Telecom logo. Tartalacrem, if I'm not wrong. Legal hell ensued.
Not only it wasn't covered under any kind of fair use provisions, but France Telecom sued VALENTIN LACAMBRE, THE GUY WHO RAN THE FREE SERVICE.
Courts rejected his defense of not being responsible for everything hosted in his server as anyone could anonymously host content. Mr. Lacambre was forced to pay up fines and was told he was still responsible for anything held in altern.org.
So altern.org was taken down. That's France, folks.
I wonder if he got his free mac advertising a Ponzi scheme on /.
Wow.
This is bound to become joke-and-flame fodder for ages and ages.
I can see already all the slashdot comments linking to this story.
Well, I call Bill.
Maybe there should be a Slashdot Hall of Shame, for articles about which no one gives a rotating fuck.
This would certainly qualify, given the ammount of comments.
Oh, please. At 2 or 3% of desktops, Linux _is_ an unimportant, third-tier platform. That they even bother to release for Linux is a declaration of commitment; expecting them to invest the same resources they invest into the Windows version is just being way too spoiled.