Marathon wasn't the only classic Mac game (and I never really cared for it anyway). I remember playing and loving Spin Doctor and Power Pete as a kid, and there were probably a few others.
I update Gentoo with "nice -n 19 emerge --update whatever" at a very low priority
You can stick a PORTAGE_NICENESS variable into your/etc/make.conf, and you won't have to type out the nice command--Portage will take care of it for you.
I use PORTAGE_NICENESS="10" and everything else works fine while compiling.
Re:Two things I want to see added to the GPL
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Dude, I wasn't complaining that the GPL was ``viral'', I was praising it. It was the only word that came to mind at the time.
Re:Two things I want to see added to the GPL
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how am I to know if a patent I hold could "possibly" be applied to a GPL program?
Alright, here's a better, sneakier solution: the licensee irrevocably forfeits any patents the licensee thinks the software would infringe on. So, if you you have accepted the GPL anywhere and you want to keep your patents, don't use them against any GPL software. Don't even try to spread any FUD about GPL software infringing on your patents, because the minute there's any sort of record that you think a piece of GPL software infringes on your patents, you lose them. Oh, and watch out for friends who are Linda Tripp wannabees..
I can't even use it to defend myself from, say, Microsoft
That's the point. I'm taking the reason RMS created the GPL and applying it to patents. RMS wanted to turn the law against itself, to use copyright law to weaken copyright. The GPL was ``viral'' for a reason. Discriminating goes against the spirit of free software. If you release something under the GPL (or any free license), you can't deny it to someone just because you don't like them. My idea is in the same spirit as that.
If I burn you a Linux kernel onto a CD-ROM without source code or a written offer to get source code, then I'm not legally allowed to watch my Tivo... WTF?
Under the current GPL, you would no longer be legally allowed to distribute Linux anymore, either. Besides, I don't care so much about the one violation part as I care about the one acceptance part. It ties in with the patent suggestion, you see. Thus, if you accept even one piece of GPL software, you can't try to use any patents against any GPL software at all without losing them.
Oh, and how would it be unenforcable? It's a mutual agreement between all parties involved, just like GPL2, only with more parties. However, it would only cover GPL3 software--software licensed only under GPL2 wouldn't be covered.
It's never work. You'd have griefers modbombing people. Hmmm...just like Slashdot.
Two things I want to see added to the GPL
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Here's what I'd love to see in GPL v3:
1) By accepting the GPL, you agree to irrevocably forfeit any patent that the software might possibly infringe on.
2) There is to be One GPL to cover all software written under the GPL. In other words, ``acceptance of this license is considered acceptance of this license for each and every work licensed under the GPL''. Same goes for violating it--if you violate the GPL, you've just violated the GPL for each and every work licensed under it.
What we need is a browser that prompts for our keyphrase the first time a site requires authentication during our session. We should need only one keyphrase per user.
KDE does something similar to this, called KWallet. It stores all your passwords in an encrypted wallet that only requires your wallet passphrase to unlock. Better yet, since it's done at the desktop level, it works for anything, including KDE's IM client, Kopete. I just enter my wallet passphrase soon after I start X (one of the very first things I do after starting X is logging onto AIM), and I don't have to worry about passwords for any of my IM accounts or, if I feel like using Konqueror that day, my webpage passwords. IIRC, it lasts until I exit my X session.
The only thing the government can do is reduce the number of terrorists to an acceptable level.
In other words, the government can't do anything worth a damn about terrorism. There's no such thing as an acceptable number of terrorists greater than zero, and it's impossible for the government to reduce the number of terrorists to zero.
I really hope Viper Lair sues you for attempting to DoS their server.
You're really a horrible person.
Re:Hooray for dumbing down?
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it's easier to click once than to type in a file name
No, it's not. Visual metaphor and spatial navigation have always been very hard for me. By far the most natural interface for me is simply typing the damn name, preferably with the help of regexes.
I hope someone makes a patch
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Anyone willing to make a patch for GIMP 2.2 that will replace the horrific new open and save dialogs with the old ones?
Indeed. The new GTK open/save dialogs SUCK. Horribly.
I liked the old one. It supports regex matching, and makes it pleasant to use the keyboard. The new one has neither.
I won't be upgrading to 2.2 unless someone either forks it or releases a patch using the old dialogs. If I knew the GTK API, I'd do it myself, but alas...
There was also Tom Landry Strategy Football, way back in the day. I don't think they had a license, as they never used any real team names or player names. I think they just had Landry's personal endorsement and that was it...
If you've never played it, you missed out. Best. Sports. Game. Ever. Normally, I hate sports games, but I loved this one. Sadly, I can't play it now--it was only available for DOS, Mac, and Amiga. Dosemu on Linux seems to choke on it, and my Win2k install can't play DOS games. *sigh*
As far as I'm concerned, as long as patents are legal in the US, the US is not a free country. It's less non-free than some other countries, but that doesn't make it free.
Re:First impressions from a MacOS X User
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Play dumb all you want, it was quite obvious what my reference was. You also avoided the challenge completely. Fitting.
I'm sorry, but what the fuck are you talking about? Your posts, both of them, make absolutely no sense whatsoever, so I've come to the conclusion that you're either stupid or a troll. Probably both.
2. Don't support software patents, and the only way for Microsoft to protect its IP is through obscurity.... choose one
I'll choose this one, thank you very much. At least this way, some OSS project can always reverse-engineer Microsoft's stuff. Look at Samba, for example--it's actually runs better than Microsoft's own SMB implementation, and if software patents were involved, a higher-quality implementation simply wouldn't exist.
But they're not allowed to come into people's houses and harrass them. Not if they don't want to be charged with trespassing and breaking & entering--and that's assuming the house owner's shotgun doesn't do them in first (assuming the state has sane home defence laws). That's the difference.
This is how Microsoft has won basically every battle it faced in the 90's anyways. IE supported NS extensions, Windows supports Novell, UNIX. Word supports Corel, etc..
Don't you get the game yet? If given the option of Netscape X and IE, you'd choose Netscape X because it can do everything IE does, PLUS Firefox built-in features. If you want to start weaning ppl off IE, its better to attack with a good migration plan.
Remember that this didn't work for OS/2. OS/2 was capable of running Windows apps in addition to its own apps, and look where it is now. Barely supported and virtually unused. Sadly, it seems that ``embrace and extend'' only works for Microsoft, at least financially-speaking...
IM basically requires both parties to be at a computer and logged in at the same time.
This is why I miss the old ICQ. It used to be able to let you send a message to someone who wasn't online. Quite useful. Then AOhelL swallowed them up...
The number of elementary particles in the universe is estimated to be around an 80-digit number. It would be impossible to even write every 100-digit number in existance--you'd run out of matter in the universe first. Even if that were possible, just imagine the time it would take to even look at each one...
It's really interesting to think of all the hard limits in the universe caused by things like this.
Slashdot Mirror
Marathon wasn't the only classic Mac game (and I never really cared for it anyway). I remember playing and loving Spin Doctor and Power Pete as a kid, and there were probably a few others.
I update Gentoo with "nice -n 19 emerge --update whatever" at a very low priority
/etc/make.conf, and you won't have to type out the nice command--Portage will take care of it for you.
You can stick a PORTAGE_NICENESS variable into your
I use PORTAGE_NICENESS="10" and everything else works fine while compiling.
Dude, I wasn't complaining that the GPL was ``viral'', I was praising it. It was the only word that came to mind at the time.
how am I to know if a patent I hold could "possibly" be applied to a GPL program?
... WTF?
Alright, here's a better, sneakier solution: the licensee irrevocably forfeits any patents the licensee thinks the software would infringe on. So, if you you have accepted the GPL anywhere and you want to keep your patents, don't use them against any GPL software. Don't even try to spread any FUD about GPL software infringing on your patents, because the minute there's any sort of record that you think a piece of GPL software infringes on your patents, you lose them. Oh, and watch out for friends who are Linda Tripp wannabees..
I can't even use it to defend myself from, say, Microsoft
That's the point. I'm taking the reason RMS created the GPL and applying it to patents. RMS wanted to turn the law against itself, to use copyright law to weaken copyright. The GPL was ``viral'' for a reason. Discriminating goes against the spirit of free software. If you release something under the GPL (or any free license), you can't deny it to someone just because you don't like them. My idea is in the same spirit as that.
If I burn you a Linux kernel onto a CD-ROM without source code or a written offer to get source code, then I'm not legally allowed to watch my Tivo
Under the current GPL, you would no longer be legally allowed to distribute Linux anymore, either. Besides, I don't care so much about the one violation part as I care about the one acceptance part. It ties in with the patent suggestion, you see. Thus, if you accept even one piece of GPL software, you can't try to use any patents against any GPL software at all without losing them.
Oh, and how would it be unenforcable? It's a mutual agreement between all parties involved, just like GPL2, only with more parties. However, it would only cover GPL3 software--software licensed only under GPL2 wouldn't be covered.
It's never work. You'd have griefers modbombing people. Hmmm...just like Slashdot.
Here's what I'd love to see in GPL v3:
1) By accepting the GPL, you agree to irrevocably forfeit any patent that the software might possibly infringe on.
2) There is to be One GPL to cover all software written under the GPL. In other words, ``acceptance of this license is considered acceptance of this license for each and every work licensed under the GPL''. Same goes for violating it--if you violate the GPL, you've just violated the GPL for each and every work licensed under it.
I really, really hate pedantic assholes who claim that ``democracy'' refers only to direct democracy.
What we need is a browser that prompts for our keyphrase the first time a site requires authentication during our session. We should need only one keyphrase per user.
KDE does something similar to this, called KWallet. It stores all your passwords in an encrypted wallet that only requires your wallet passphrase to unlock. Better yet, since it's done at the desktop level, it works for anything, including KDE's IM client, Kopete. I just enter my wallet passphrase soon after I start X (one of the very first things I do after starting X is logging onto AIM), and I don't have to worry about passwords for any of my IM accounts or, if I feel like using Konqueror that day, my webpage passwords. IIRC, it lasts until I exit my X session.
The only thing the government can do is reduce the number of terrorists to an acceptable level.
In other words, the government can't do anything worth a damn about terrorism. There's no such thing as an acceptable number of terrorists greater than zero, and it's impossible for the government to reduce the number of terrorists to zero.
I really hope Viper Lair sues you for attempting to DoS their server.
You're really a horrible person.
it's easier to click once than to type in a file name
No, it's not. Visual metaphor and spatial navigation have always been very hard for me. By far the most natural interface for me is simply typing the damn name, preferably with the help of regexes.
Anyone willing to make a patch for GIMP 2.2 that will replace the horrific new open and save dialogs with the old ones?
Please...the new ones are completely unusable.
Indeed. The new GTK open/save dialogs SUCK. Horribly.
I liked the old one. It supports regex matching, and makes it pleasant to use the keyboard. The new one has neither.
I won't be upgrading to 2.2 unless someone either forks it or releases a patch using the old dialogs. If I knew the GTK API, I'd do it myself, but alas...
Ok first of all it's not the RIAC- it is the CRIA.
So, does that rhyme with ``creep'' or with ``crybaby''?
Both are fitting...
Dude, you just hit the nail on the head. Thank you.
It is not anyone's right to break the law, no matter how silly the law is.
No. If a law is Immoral, it is everyone's Moral Responsibility to break that law.
And I bet you would just love intellectual property laws if you had any intellectual property.
Wow. This just goes to show that you have no concept of how anyone can have Morals.
There was also Tom Landry Strategy Football, way back in the day. I don't think they had a license, as they never used any real team names or player names. I think they just had Landry's personal endorsement and that was it...
If you've never played it, you missed out. Best. Sports. Game. Ever. Normally, I hate sports games, but I loved this one. Sadly, I can't play it now--it was only available for DOS, Mac, and Amiga. Dosemu on Linux seems to choke on it, and my Win2k install can't play DOS games. *sigh*
Outlaw them, they're Immoral.
As far as I'm concerned, as long as patents are legal in the US, the US is not a free country. It's less non-free than some other countries, but that doesn't make it free.
Play dumb all you want, it was quite obvious what my reference was. You also avoided the challenge completely. Fitting.
I'm sorry, but what the fuck are you talking about? Your posts, both of them, make absolutely no sense whatsoever, so I've come to the conclusion that you're either stupid or a troll. Probably both.
2. Don't support software patents, and the only way for Microsoft to protect its IP is through obscurity. ... choose one
I'll choose this one, thank you very much. At least this way, some OSS project can always reverse-engineer Microsoft's stuff. Look at Samba, for example--it's actually runs better than Microsoft's own SMB implementation, and if software patents were involved, a higher-quality implementation simply wouldn't exist.
KKK rallies are allowed to romp through cities
But they're not allowed to come into people's houses and harrass them. Not if they don't want to be charged with trespassing and breaking & entering--and that's assuming the house owner's shotgun doesn't do them in first (assuming the state has sane home defence laws). That's the difference.
This is how Microsoft has won basically every battle it faced in the 90's anyways. IE supported NS extensions, Windows supports Novell, UNIX. Word supports Corel, etc..
Don't you get the game yet? If given the option of Netscape X and IE, you'd choose Netscape X because it can do everything IE does, PLUS Firefox built-in features. If you want to start weaning ppl off IE, its better to attack with a good migration plan.
Remember that this didn't work for OS/2. OS/2 was capable of running Windows apps in addition to its own apps, and look where it is now. Barely supported and virtually unused. Sadly, it seems that ``embrace and extend'' only works for Microsoft, at least financially-speaking...
Worst. UI. Ever? Perhaps--either that, or it's pretty damn close.
IM basically requires both parties to be at a computer and logged in at the same time.
This is why I miss the old ICQ. It used to be able to let you send a message to someone who wasn't online. Quite useful. Then AOhelL swallowed them up...
The number of elementary particles in the universe is estimated to be around an 80-digit number. It would be impossible to even write every 100-digit number in existance--you'd run out of matter in the universe first. Even if that were possible, just imagine the time it would take to even look at each one...
It's really interesting to think of all the hard limits in the universe caused by things like this.