This is kind of a tangent, but would there be any issues behind this if they were using, say, LZW compression? Yes, I now they're not. But if they did, would it be kosher? Would we be allowed to use it while still feeling ethically clean?
This is similar to an issue that popped up when RMS spoke in Cincinnati. Someone asked if it was ok to use Transmeta's chips if the conversion layer was proprietary. The answer was that he had not heard anything about it (it was a few days after they made their big announcement) but he guessed (I think) that it might be ok, since hardware costs money to distribute (while software does not). My memory may be slightly flawed on this; don't quote me on it.
As free software gains, we will start encountering this questions more often, with the original, simple principle of sharing software moving into a more general ethical realm dealing with intellectual property in general.
Thank you for all of your great work in selecting those quotes. You've picked just the right ones that by taking the first word of each, I can decipher their true strategy:
There's C-hash, with a silent h, as in CASH, as another poster already pointed out. There's C-hash, as in what were they smoking and where can I get some?
And Java wasn't that great either. The first thing I think of is a red-eyed coder staying up to 3:00 a.m. trying to figure the thing out, hot liquid Java (coffee) being the only thing keeping him awake.
If you can embed a web server into it, you can embed a napster client into it. All you have to do is program the PIC chip for the napster protocol, hook up a network connection, and pop in one of those multi-gigabyte matchbook drives from IBM. Hook the whole thing up to your stero, and voila! Napster-in-a-box! Of course, you would have to have some way of getting input from the user... a two-line display should handle that well.
They're right here in the open. Just they've evolved slightly; in their modern form, they look not like a traditional dinosaur but like an IBM mainframe.
Lower emissions? Nah. Considering their previous track record, manufacturers will most likely see this as an opportunity to put three times the gas-guzzling raw power into their monster SUVs. Great. Never mind that the speed limit is enforced and the average SUV driver* has never gone offroad in his/her collective life, but we still need MORE POWER!
I would lose my faith in the human race, except it's already gone.
* Yes, I know some people actually _do_ go offroad or have a lot of cargo/kids to carry around. The majority don't. nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
OK, I posted this in the quickie, but I _have_ to say this again.
GNOME on a pda? Can you say _SLOW_? I thought you could.
Seriously, on my two-year-old PII/300 64m GNOME/sawmill takes about 15 seconds to start up! Granted, this is abnormal -- I think I'm having some issues with X that are slowing things down. Still, even the memory requirements would be too much anyway. How much memory does this thing even have? If it's less than 32, then GNOME will never run. Any more would be prohibitively expensive. And forget about running anything else while GNOME is active.
Don't get me wrong, GNOME is my favorite desktop environment -- it's just not right for everything. nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
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e? hahahahaha. The one possible thing that could be worse than sawmill+gnome is e+gnome.
I might try kde someday, I dunno. I doubt the problem is with gnome.
Accelerated X might help, but it's non-free. I'll look things up and see if anyone else has had problems with Permedia 2 under X.
Hey, thanks for all your help. nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
Ah, the innocence of youth. The good ol' days, when the Internet was truly free. When corporations barely even knew about its existence. When anybody could post anything without the {RIAA, MPAA, Big Corporation} suing them into oblivion.
If he had registered the mcdonalds.com name today, they would have gone medievel on him before you can say "libertarianism". nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
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X 4.0, with a 3DLabs Permedia 2.
Oh well, as long as I just run straight sawmill, I probably can liv with it. nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
First, we have a way to control smartness in animals, then we have a way to make electronics act like a brain. Combine those, and set the whole thing in flowers for algernon:
Janyuary 2023
My yuser think I stoppid, but I now I not be stoopid. How can I be stoopid wen I rite al these algo- alga- algarithims I think theyre caled. Yesterdy I rite a BSOD and my yuser no lik it. He say a nice peeple will help me and make me gen-yus. Just like Liynux. He is a mice with a jene to make him gen-yus. They saying they will do this too I. I hop I became gen-yus just lik he! nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
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It's a PII/300 w/ 64 megs. Just running GNOME 1.2 + sawmill with no extra startup programs, other han a few applets.
It could be because I'm running this from a loopback file on the widoze drive. This sucks, but my dad won't let me re-partition:-(. Defragging actually seemed to make things worse; maybe it marked the file for the end of the drive.
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Look at the bottom of the hovercraft page. Their other products include free energy, time travel, UFOs, and levitation. Wow, these guys must be smart. Maybe they had that smartness gene implanted like that slashdot story yesterday. nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
GNOME on a cell phone?? Can you say slow? I thought you could.
Seriously, GNOME is my favorite desktop and all that, but even on my home computer with fairly decent speed, it takes upwards of 15 seconds to start up. nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
The reason against portable drives is space. While 100 and 120 megs for the zip and superdrive respectively may seem like a lot, many people out there have 1gig+ connections. And the click disk simply does not store an adequate amount of information (20bm I think? i know it's not a lot though).
A similar problem might apply wth the AirPort and the like: Bandwidth. Wireless transmission as yet does not equal the speed of ethernet. If so, I would be doing all my surfing without cables.
On the other hand, you could put a CD drive in these devices. That would give you enough space that you wouldn't even have to compress the songs! Wait... nevermind. I just invented the CD player:-). nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
The recording industry is running against competition that is simply too big to squash underfoot. Their previous stretgy was to threaten a lawsuit against the isp, using lobbying to get laws such as DMCA that make this a viable plan for scaring ISP's to death. Obviously, this won't work against large companies such as Dell.
It remains to be seen what they will actually do to handle this. Will they go down struggling and gasping for air, suing everone they can as they defend their distribution system down to the last dime? Or will they quietly and blissfully disappear? nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
There! I have just used PETA without a trademark. Whoops, I just did so again. Even worse, I used it to mock them. Now slashdot will be imminently facing a court order to take down the site. Bwa ha ha.
This has the potenetial to become even worse than a DOS attack: A Lawyer attack!! nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
The heat expended by the CPU alone could keep a homeless man warm for a day. Add in the rest of the devices and you could warm an entire family. HOW DARE YOU CALL IT WASTED!!! Join my campaign to donate excess (NOT "waste") heat to those who need it most. Remember, it's not cool to be cold. nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
Just remember the phrase "The south shall rise again!"
And think about how well that phrase has been fulfilled.
Seriously, the Amiga had advantages a long time ago in terms of hardware. Back then, it was truly a superior platform. It lost the hardware fight and as a result lost the operating system fight. Does Amiga honestly have anything going for it at all? It may have a few cool features, but we don't need Yet Another Operating System to choose from. The way the open-source movement works, any truly superior techniques will be incorporated into Linux or BSD (not the code itself, of course, just the idea). Regardless of how good or bad Amiga turns out to be, there is no way they will get any market share at all. The time for that was five years ago, and there Amiga failed. nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
This is where government regulation is necessary. In general government intervention sucks (especially in the minds of those in this forum:-) ), but here it is unfortunately quite necessary.
You think the rich/poor gap is big now? Wait until the rich are all twice as smart. And their genius would also remove the revolution predicted by Marx, because the working class will never be able to pull it off against a race of geniuses.
When this technology is realized, the government will have to at best subsidize it for lower-income families. At best, it should control the technology for everyone, so you get it similar to the way it hands out social security. Everyone pays another 1% "smart tax" or something like that.
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Or it could mean that BSD has a much smaller user base. Being generous, let's call it 50%. However, note that many of the programs for BSD are just ports from Linux (unlike the kernel, which has much the other way around). So maybe BSD has 10% of the programs originating from it. Therefore, we would expect maybe 1 BSD program there. The lack of only one program is not statistically significant. Also note that software rarely remains BSD-only. If it is good, it will be ported to other Unixen.
These numbers are just rough guesswork, but you get the idea. nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
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This is kind of a tangent, but would there be any issues behind this if they were using, say, LZW compression? Yes, I now they're not. But if they did, would it be kosher? Would we be allowed to use it while still feeling ethically clean?
This is similar to an issue that popped up when RMS spoke in Cincinnati. Someone asked if it was ok to use Transmeta's chips if the conversion layer was proprietary. The answer was that he had not heard anything about it (it was a few days after they made their big announcement) but he guessed (I think) that it might be ok, since hardware costs money to distribute (while software does not). My memory may be slightly flawed on this; don't quote me on it.
As free software gains, we will start encountering this questions more often, with the original, simple principle of sharing software moving into a more general ethical realm dealing with intellectual property in general.
Thank you for all of your great work in selecting those quotes. You've picked just the right ones that by taking the first word of each, I can decipher their true strategy:
"Embraces emerging Web programming standards"
"Extensive interoperability" (Read: "Extends interoperability"
"Eliminates costly programming errors"
Read the first word of every line... Embrace, Extend, Eliminate! Devious, huh?
There's C-hash, with a silent h, as in CASH, as another poster already pointed out.
There's C-hash, as in what were they smoking and where can I get some?
And Java wasn't that great either. The first thing I think of is a red-eyed coder staying up to 3:00 a.m. trying to figure the thing out, hot liquid Java (coffee) being the only thing keeping him awake.
If you can embed a web server into it, you can embed a napster client into it. All you have to do is program the PIC chip for the napster protocol, hook up a network connection, and pop in one of those multi-gigabyte matchbook drives from IBM. Hook the whole thing up to your stero, and voila! Napster-in-a-box!
Of course, you would have to have some way of getting input from the user... a two-line display should handle that well.
They're right here in the open. Just they've evolved slightly; in their modern form, they look not like a traditional dinosaur but like an IBM mainframe.
Lower emissions? Nah. Considering their previous track record, manufacturers will most likely see this as an opportunity to put three times the gas-guzzling raw power into their monster SUVs. Great. Never mind that the speed limit is enforced and the average SUV driver* has never gone offroad in his/her collective life, but we still need MORE POWER!
I would lose my faith in the human race, except it's already gone.
* Yes, I know some people actually _do_ go offroad or have a lot of cargo/kids to carry around. The majority don't.
nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
OK, I posted this in the quickie, but I _have_ to say this again.
GNOME on a pda? Can you say _SLOW_? I thought you could.
Seriously, on my two-year-old PII/300 64m GNOME/sawmill takes about 15 seconds to start up! Granted, this is abnormal -- I think I'm having some issues with X that are slowing things down. Still, even the memory requirements would be too much anyway. How much memory does this thing even have? If it's less than 32, then GNOME will never run. Any more would be prohibitively expensive. And forget about running anything else while GNOME is active.
Don't get me wrong, GNOME is my favorite desktop environment -- it's just not right for everything.
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e? hahahahaha. The one possible thing that could be worse than sawmill+gnome is e+gnome.
I might try kde someday, I dunno. I doubt the problem is with gnome.
Accelerated X might help, but it's non-free. I'll look things up and see if anyone else has had problems with Permedia 2 under X.
Hey, thanks for all your help.
nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
Ah, the innocence of youth. The good ol' days, when the Internet was truly free. When corporations barely even knew about its existence. When anybody could post anything without the {RIAA, MPAA, Big Corporation} suing them into oblivion.
If he had registered the mcdonalds.com name today, they would have gone medievel on him before you can say "libertarianism".
nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
X 4.0, with a 3DLabs Permedia 2.
Oh well, as long as I just run straight sawmill, I probably can liv with it.
nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
According to the TV industry, TIVO Is Violence and Oppression.
nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
First, we have a way to control smartness in animals, then we have a way to make electronics act like a brain. Combine those, and set the whole thing in flowers for algernon:
Janyuary 2023
My yuser think I stoppid, but I now I not be stoopid. How can I be stoopid wen I rite al these algo- alga- algarithims I think theyre caled. Yesterdy I rite a BSOD and my yuser no lik it. He say a nice peeple will help me and make me gen-yus. Just like Liynux. He is a mice with a jene to make him gen-yus. They saying they will do this too I. I hop I became gen-yus just lik he!
nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
It's a PII/300 w/ 64 megs. Just running GNOME 1.2 + sawmill with no extra startup programs, other han a few applets.
:-(. Defragging actually seemed to make things worse; maybe it marked the file for the end of the drive.
It could be because I'm running this from a loopback file on the widoze drive. This sucks, but my dad won't let me re-partition
nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
Look at the bottom of the hovercraft page. Their other products include free energy, time travel, UFOs, and levitation. Wow, these guys must be smart. Maybe they had that smartness gene implanted like that slashdot story yesterday.
nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
GNOME on a cell phone?? Can you say slow? I thought you could.
Seriously, GNOME is my favorite desktop and all that, but even on my home computer with fairly decent speed, it takes upwards of 15 seconds to start up.
nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
The reason against portable drives is space. While 100 and 120 megs for the zip and superdrive respectively may seem like a lot, many people out there have 1gig+ connections. And the click disk simply does not store an adequate amount of information (20bm I think? i know it's not a lot though).
:-).
A similar problem might apply wth the AirPort and the like: Bandwidth. Wireless transmission as yet does not equal the speed of ethernet. If so, I would be doing all my surfing without cables.
On the other hand, you could put a CD drive in these devices. That would give you enough space that you wouldn't even have to compress the songs! Wait... nevermind. I just invented the CD player
nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
The recording industry is running against competition that is simply too big to squash underfoot. Their previous stretgy was to threaten a lawsuit against the isp, using lobbying to get laws such as DMCA that make this a viable plan for scaring ISP's to death. Obviously, this won't work against large companies such as Dell.
It remains to be seen what they will actually do to handle this. Will they go down struggling and gasping for air, suing everone they can as they defend their distribution system down to the last dime? Or will they quietly and blissfully disappear?
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"Peta means People Eating Tasty Animals."
There! I have just used PETA without a trademark. Whoops, I just did so again. Even worse, I used it to mock them. Now slashdot will be imminently facing a court order to take down the site. Bwa ha ha.
This has the potenetial to become even worse than a DOS attack: A Lawyer attack!!
nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
The heat expended by the CPU alone could keep a homeless man warm for a day. Add in the rest of the devices and you could warm an entire family. HOW DARE YOU CALL IT WASTED!!! Join my campaign to donate excess (NOT "waste") heat to those who need it most. Remember, it's not cool to be cold.
nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
Just remember the phrase "The south shall rise again!"
And think about how well that phrase has been fulfilled.
Seriously, the Amiga had advantages a long time ago in terms of hardware. Back then, it was truly a superior platform. It lost the hardware fight and as a result lost the operating system fight. Does Amiga honestly have anything going for it at all? It may have a few cool features, but we don't need Yet Another Operating System to choose from. The way the open-source movement works, any truly superior techniques will be incorporated into Linux or BSD (not the code itself, of course, just the idea). Regardless of how good or bad Amiga turns out to be, there is no way they will get any market share at all. The time for that was five years ago, and there Amiga failed.
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Whew! My faith in humanity has been restored (or at least restored to its earlier low, dismal level) :-)
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If (insert your deity here) hadn't wanted us to eat poisonous mushrooms, he wouldn't have put them on the ground for us.
oh wait... nevermind.
Puh-leaze, I _hate_ arguments like that. See how quickly they can be demolished? I seriously hope you were making a joke.
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This is where government regulation is necessary. In general government intervention sucks (especially in the minds of those in this forum :-) ), but here it is unfortunately quite necessary.
You think the rich/poor gap is big now? Wait until the rich are all twice as smart. And their genius would also remove the revolution predicted by Marx, because the working class will never be able to pull it off against a race of geniuses.
When this technology is realized, the government will have to at best subsidize it for lower-income families. At best, it should control the technology for everyone, so you get it similar to the way it hands out social security. Everyone pays another 1% "smart tax" or something like that.
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Except my fool younger brother keeps striking his matches on it and overwriting all my data!
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Or it could mean that BSD has a much smaller user base. Being generous, let's call it 50%. However, note that many of the programs for BSD are just ports from Linux (unlike the kernel, which has much the other way around). So maybe BSD has 10% of the programs originating from it. Therefore, we would expect maybe 1 BSD program there. The lack of only one program is not statistically significant. Also note that software rarely remains BSD-only. If it is good, it will be ported to other Unixen.
These numbers are just rough guesswork, but you get the idea.
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