I agree with your point. We should be able to do a whole bunch of things with computers now, like buy one software application and run it on any platform, bus MS screwed that. And as for the web, the way they mess around with standards is detrimental to its development as well. I can recall in the early 90's, I had a Mac, and I noticed sometimes when I modified the system, all the programs would work with the modifications except for MS products because they didn't follow programming standards for the platform. That's when I started noticing just how far they go just to be as uncooperative as they could. They play dirty and good software just isn't their priority. If you like computers and software, you just can't like these guys because of the potential they are depriving you of. Computers are capable of doing so much more and it's infuriating that they're being stifled and there seems to be no ends to it in sight.
I think what the fuss is really about is that Real wanted and alliance with Apple, without being very friendly about it by threatening to seek to team up with Microsoft if Apple refused, and Apple refused them anyway. Now Real has forced the issue. It seems that the CEO of Real Networks, Rob Glaser, is being very abrasive in his business dealings. Real has already been criticised for some of their questionable practices by consumers and doesn't seem to be a reputable company to be involved with.
If Real can crack the iPod, then someone should be able to make tools for converting unprotected.rm formats to.mp3 because that doesn't circumvent any copy protection and shouldn't be subject to the DMCA according to Real's argument. Does anybody know of any?
Having the lower one as the touch screen on the same panel as the controls while viewing the game on the upper screen would be the logical way to go. However, the article says "The unit includes a new storage slot for the touch screens stylus" then says "Dual screens, chat functions, a touch screen...", so it's confusing to tell if the stylus is for the touch screens or if that was a typo and they meant "touch screen's stylus". I presume the second statement "a touch screen" means that the latter is correct and they simply missed an apostrophe, so I think you're right.
Then again, it could all be errors in quotes or translation from Japanese and both screens could be touch screens; both having touch capabilities would just be added functionality that wouldn't hurt. For example, if you were running some kind of paint program for use with the stylus, the upper screen could be used for editing the image, while the lower screen could be used for selecting the editing tool and color. Or the upper screen could be used for selecting text and the lower screen could be used for text entry like the Grafitti area on the Palm handhelds or a screen keyboard. Having a stylus means that it will probably have PDA-like capabilities, and having one screen that doesn't work with the stylus would be a hindrance for it working as a PDA.
Isn't the second screen there so you can leave stuff like maps open?
The article says that it has touch screens. Perhaps the second screen is meant to have buttons customised for whatever game is being played. This way they could actually be labelled with names to clearly define their function, and they could work like GUI elements like sliders.
It costs a lot of money to send people into space instead of just satellites and probes. The money for this comes from the taxpayers, and the US Government is keeping an eye on NASA's manned activities since the Columbia Tragedy. It's not out of character for him to say something like that, because he deals with satellites and, like the article said, actually launched America's first satellite to successfully orbit the Earth back on January 31, 1958. He probably never really saw having humans in space as being extremely helpful to space exploration.
The loss of human lives has reprecussions in the way congress financially supports NASA, and James Van Allen probably sees a move to less manned space flights as a method of retaining that financial support for other expensive projects that need to be done. Maybe he is sincere in what he says, or maybe he is just saying it to appease congress while secretly harboring an excitement for the colonisation of space.
I personally would still like to see space colonised. With things like gigantic space stations, and biospheres. But space stations are probably going to all end up like ocean liners or and malls anyway.
What if a terrorist gets a job at a software company? Where's the hope of catching the bugs then? It seems to me that closed-source software is more susceptible than open-source.
Your piss is generally not as salty as sea water, the dehydratign effect isn't as severe, it's at best a break even scenario, except your not as thirsy psychologically.
And how did you find this out?!?
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All it takes is one cracked copy to be leaked online for it to be proliferated for downloading. Copy protecting a CD just makes it more difficult for the masses to legitimately get it onto their computers and MP3 players, and it creates a greater demand to download songs illegaly. Not to mention a lot of music that people download are rare music tracks they can't find at the local music store anyway.
Having CD's that don't use copy protection allows users not only have backups of their music, but it also allows them to re-rip their music into newer, improved compression algorithms. Computers are the new stereo systems. If record companies don't sell CD's of uncompressed music for them, then they might as well sell music on 8-tracks.
If record companies had any sense, they would have gotten into the music downloading business early on when it started. I'm sure people wouldn't have a problem subscribing to a service that would allow them to download music that didn't have errors on it at full speed from a dedicated server, rather than having to wade through error-prone, chaotically meta-tagged P2P copies at snail-pace download speeds. People actually pay for some P2P programs anyway. The record companies could have integrated music downloading with a subscription service and players that work like radios. They could delegate percentages of subscription fees to songs according to how often they are played, or let users pay for music that they choose to keep copies of, while disposing of music the user doesn't listen to in order to free hard drive space.
I really don't think users really care about price as much as they care about easy access. It took a while for copy-protected CD's to come about. CD burners and copiers have been around for years, yet people still chose to buy CD's rather than try and find a way to get free burned copies.
Stallman is going to have to find a serious financial hook to lure companies with.
What about this...
If you are a hardware manufacturer, you will be locked into paying exhorbent licensing fees and be forced to adhere to standards dictated by a monopoly.
If you are a software producer and your software becomes popular, you will have to sell your company or have your software plagerised then upstaged and possibly locked out at the operating system level, and end up being run out of the business.
If you go along with this system and have a dispute, you will have no legal recourse to challenge a monopoly that has the financial, legal, and political clout to be convicted of breaking laws, pursued by the US government, and get away with a slap on the wrist.
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I agree with your point. We should be able to do a whole bunch of things with computers now, like buy one software application and run it on any platform, bus MS screwed that. And as for the web, the way they mess around with standards is detrimental to its development as well. I can recall in the early 90's, I had a Mac, and I noticed sometimes when I modified the system, all the programs would work with the modifications except for MS products because they didn't follow programming standards for the platform. That's when I started noticing just how far they go just to be as uncooperative as they could. They play dirty and good software just isn't their priority. If you like computers and software, you just can't like these guys because of the potential they are depriving you of. Computers are capable of doing so much more and it's infuriating that they're being stifled and there seems to be no ends to it in sight.
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I think what the fuss is really about is that Real wanted and alliance with Apple, without being very friendly about it by threatening to seek to team up with Microsoft if Apple refused, and Apple refused them anyway. Now Real has forced the issue. It seems that the CEO of Real Networks, Rob Glaser, is being very abrasive in his business dealings. Real has already been criticised for some of their questionable practices by consumers and doesn't seem to be a reputable company to be involved with.
If Real can crack the iPod, then someone should be able to make tools for converting unprotected .rm formats to .mp3 because that doesn't circumvent any copy protection and shouldn't be subject to the DMCA according to Real's argument. Does anybody know of any?
If your invitation to Gates' place got "lost in the mail", you can read about a Microsoft intern who got to have dinner with the big cheese.
Anyone wonder if this Bill (antitrust guy) gets as close to his interns as the other Bill (impeachment guy)?Enough "G"s in the title?
it took four people to come up with that!
I wonder how many Microsoft employees it takes to screw in a light bulb.
IIRC, only the bottom screen is a touchscreen.
Having the lower one as the touch screen on the same panel as the controls while viewing the game on the upper screen would be the logical way to go. However, the article says "The unit includes a new storage slot for the touch screens stylus" then says "Dual screens, chat functions, a touch screen...", so it's confusing to tell if the stylus is for the touch screens or if that was a typo and they meant "touch screen's stylus". I presume the second statement "a touch screen" means that the latter is correct and they simply missed an apostrophe, so I think you're right.
Then again, it could all be errors in quotes or translation from Japanese and both screens could be touch screens; both having touch capabilities would just be added functionality that wouldn't hurt. For example, if you were running some kind of paint program for use with the stylus, the upper screen could be used for editing the image, while the lower screen could be used for selecting the editing tool and color. Or the upper screen could be used for selecting text and the lower screen could be used for text entry like the Grafitti area on the Palm handhelds or a screen keyboard. Having a stylus means that it will probably have PDA-like capabilities, and having one screen that doesn't work with the stylus would be a hindrance for it working as a PDA.
Isn't the second screen there so you can leave stuff like maps open?
The article says that it has touch screens. Perhaps the second screen is meant to have buttons customised for whatever game is being played. This way they could actually be labelled with names to clearly define their function, and they could work like GUI elements like sliders.
And this is a problem because....?
It costs a lot of money to send people into space instead of just satellites and probes. The money for this comes from the taxpayers, and the US Government is keeping an eye on NASA's manned activities since the Columbia Tragedy. It's not out of character for him to say something like that, because he deals with satellites and, like the article said, actually launched America's first satellite to successfully orbit the Earth back on January 31, 1958. He probably never really saw having humans in space as being extremely helpful to space exploration.
The loss of human lives has reprecussions in the way congress financially supports NASA, and James Van Allen probably sees a move to less manned space flights as a method of retaining that financial support for other expensive projects that need to be done. Maybe he is sincere in what he says, or maybe he is just saying it to appease congress while secretly harboring an excitement for the colonisation of space.
I personally would still like to see space colonised. With things like gigantic space stations, and biospheres. But space stations are probably going to all end up like ocean liners or and malls anyway.
Electronic forums like /. and K5 are, to some degree, the modern equivalent of the Green Dragon.
And so is the Caffeine section of ThinkGeek.
What if a terrorist gets a job at a software company? Where's the hope of catching the bugs then? It seems to me that closed-source software is more susceptible than open-source.
What if a cult gets involved with a software company?
"Ha ha!" (Nelson)
Don't forget Darl McBride as the Mouth of Sauron!
Oh, he'd be an orafice, alright. I just don't think it would be the mouth.
Stallman as Saruman: "One Freedom to rule them all."
More appropriately, that would be Bill Gates as Sauron: "One OS to rule them all."
Your piss is generally not as salty as sea water, the dehydratign effect isn't as severe, it's at best a break even scenario, except your not as thirsy psychologically.
And how did you find this out?!?
Got Urine?
In Soviet Russia you don't x-ray your coke can... your coke can x-rays you!
One more reality show like "Wife Swapping" and I'm going to kill my TV
In Soviet Russia you don't kill your TV... your TV kills you!
All it takes is one cracked copy to be leaked online for it to be proliferated for downloading. Copy protecting a CD just makes it more difficult for the masses to legitimately get it onto their computers and MP3 players, and it creates a greater demand to download songs illegaly. Not to mention a lot of music that people download are rare music tracks they can't find at the local music store anyway.
Having CD's that don't use copy protection allows users not only have backups of their music, but it also allows them to re-rip their music into newer, improved compression algorithms. Computers are the new stereo systems. If record companies don't sell CD's of uncompressed music for them, then they might as well sell music on 8-tracks.
If record companies had any sense, they would have gotten into the music downloading business early on when it started. I'm sure people wouldn't have a problem subscribing to a service that would allow them to download music that didn't have errors on it at full speed from a dedicated server, rather than having to wade through error-prone, chaotically meta-tagged P2P copies at snail-pace download speeds. People actually pay for some P2P programs anyway. The record companies could have integrated music downloading with a subscription service and players that work like radios. They could delegate percentages of subscription fees to songs according to how often they are played, or let users pay for music that they choose to keep copies of, while disposing of music the user doesn't listen to in order to free hard drive space.
I really don't think users really care about price as much as they care about easy access. It took a while for copy-protected CD's to come about. CD burners and copiers have been around for years, yet people still chose to buy CD's rather than try and find a way to get free burned copies.
Stallman is going to have to find a serious financial hook to lure companies with.
What about this...
SCO has some flacid babblings about "methods and concepts"
Those aren't the only flaccid things over at SCO.
I'd pay anything to see Darl getting reamed by Judge Judy.
What would have been better is if she handled the Microsoft antitrust trial :)
3. Possession for commercial purposes, AND
3. Possession for commercial purposes, OR
Well, it seems that the High Court doesn't know about Boolean Logic... or plain logic for that matter :/
Interesting note: the bone to pick is actually with the "is"
Yes, the use of the word "is" matters a lot legally, according to Bill Clinton.
I know pad2pad will assemble some of the more commonplace components, but I can't see them running to large-sized chips, and anything up to a QFP100
Yes, but it isn't the size that matters, it's how you use it :P