You know what's horrible? I've stacks and stacks of 3.5 floppies. And they're everywhere... I found one under a couch cushion recently. The worst part is that even though I haven't touched any of them in ages, I simply can't bring myself to toss them out. Who knows when I may need that lil collection of GIFs from 1994. And I'm too lazy to move em to CD-R. *sigh*
There are two quotes from this message by Eric Allman of Sendmail, Inc. that are pretty interesting...
On the open source side, the sendmail MTA is routinely bundled into other larger systems, notably open source operating system releases such as Linux and BSD distributions as well as commercial closed-source systems such as Solaris and AIX. Bundlers would need to execute their own copy of the RFSIPL. Those systems are in turn sometimes incorporated into other products, which would seemingly require another layer of patent licenses, and so on down the tree. As a practical matter, this makes the decision to include sendmail with Sender ID into their release more problematic. This is obviously not desirable from our point of view.
And...
While these are pragmatic rather than legal reasons, our likely decision at Sendmail will be to distribute our Sender ID implementation as a separate package that is not required to run the sendmail MTA under a distinct (possibly modified) Sendmail Open Source license. Open source users will have the option of downloading and installing the Sender ID package should they want the additional functionality. Bundlers will be able to choose whether they want to include the Sender ID technology or not, but will still be able to use the base sendmail MTA without additional IPR issues.
I'll be really interested to find out what the take of some Linux Distros will be on this.
So... Microsoft claims to be fighting the good fight on spam. But they then require a license to use Sender ID. It's my hope that people will have the sense to use regular SPF, and let Sender-ID die.
On the larger map, notice the rectangular lattice on the USAian plains and around Rio and Buenos Aires. (Possibly an artifact, but it doesn't show up in most other places with similar amounts of light.)
I seem to remember from middle school history lessons that the US government sent surveyors out to map and portion up much of the country to the west. I think that they did this in blocks of a mile square or so.
When cities and roads came into being in these areas, they tended to follow these "blocks". I could even see this to an extent growing up in rural southern Wisconsin. The most often used roads and county highways tend to form a block pattern made up of large squares of land.
Anyway, this might be a partial explaination for some of that lattice look to some of the lights. Europe was populated way before any surveyors came along to lay down lines, and Rio/Buenos Aires were probably settled in a haphazard fashion by the empire builders/colonists/missionaries before anyone decided to go in-land and start mapping the place.
Create a "My Radio" option and a "My Radio" guide. If I would like to listen to KFOG's "Live at the Archives" on Wednesday morning at 3 a.m., so be it. If I would like to get a season pass to Howard Stern, great. These files should be saved to MP3 and be portable.
Will never, ever happen. Not in an non-DRM format like MP3, anyway. The RIAA would be alllll over that.
It's probably for all the pretty prerendered movies. I'm pretty sure that, for example, the FMVs in FFX are just MPEG2 with some sort of Sony wrapper. That game had at least 3GB of FMV on it. If they were in HD, they might make good use of a 25GB disc.
but this was a dead duck even before the FCC's blessing. At least that's how it looks to me. This thing is DRM encumbered to the point of major inconvenience for consumers. It's just another great feature that got butchered by DRM.
Well, it seems to have rebounded. But just in case it dies again, this is a snipped from the forum that is kind of important...
Note:
Skype 1.0 is currently only compatible with Windows XP and Windows 2000. We are working on an immediate update, and recommend that you do not upgrade at this time if you are using Windows 98 or Windows ME.
A restaurant I once worked at subscribed to a commercial music service (satellite, I think) specifically for businesses which play music for it's customers. Fees to the music industry were collected in some fashion as part of the cost of this service.
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To do the really nifty stuff has never been easy out of the box. Sure, you could throw a sprite up on the screen in BASIC on the C=64, but to do something really neat you had to learn 6502 assembly.
My first home machine was a TI-99/4a bought for me by my parents. It didn't take too long for me to get tired of my little "space shuttle" dodging blocks, and I wanted to do more. That meant getting and learning extra stuff, whether it meant the Extended Basic module or getting the expansion box so I could use C or Pascal.
I would honestly hope that this is because Yahoo is trying to improve IM service. I've been using Yahoo! Messenger since it was Yahoo! Pager, and I'm plain tired myself and others in my list appearing to drop off and then back onto the service every half an hour.
Yahoo has some nice features, but I'm also left wondering when the shoe will drop and I'll end up with spyware or giant ads with it. I haven't looked at Jabber in quite a while, and I know that it tries to be compatible with other IM services. But only for chat... I actually use my webcam with Yahoo. Yeah, I know there are alternatives, but it's just convenient to have it in one package.
I really shouldn't hit "Submit" without first having morning coffee.
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You know what's horrible? I've stacks and stacks of 3.5 floppies. And they're everywhere... I found one under a couch cushion recently. The worst part is that even though I haven't touched any of them in ages, I simply can't bring myself to toss them out. Who knows when I may need that lil collection of GIFs from 1994. And I'm too lazy to move em to CD-R. *sigh*
On the open source side, the sendmail MTA is routinely bundled into other larger systems, notably open source operating system releases such as Linux and BSD distributions as well as commercial closed-source systems such as Solaris and AIX. Bundlers would need to execute their own copy of the RFSIPL. Those systems are in turn sometimes incorporated into other products, which would seemingly require another layer of patent licenses, and so on down the tree. As a practical matter, this makes the decision to include sendmail with Sender ID into their release more problematic. This is obviously not desirable from our point of view.
And...
While these are pragmatic rather than legal reasons, our likely decision at Sendmail will be to distribute our Sender ID implementation as a separate package that is not required to run the sendmail MTA under a distinct (possibly modified) Sendmail Open Source license. Open source users will have the option of downloading and installing the Sender ID package should they want the additional functionality. Bundlers will be able to choose whether they want to include the Sender ID technology or not, but will still be able to use the base sendmail MTA without additional IPR issues.
I'll be really interested to find out what the take of some Linux Distros will be on this.So... Microsoft claims to be fighting the good fight on spam. But they then require a license to use Sender ID. It's my hope that people will have the sense to use regular SPF, and let Sender-ID die.
I seem to remember from middle school history lessons that the US government sent surveyors out to map and portion up much of the country to the west. I think that they did this in blocks of a mile square or so.
When cities and roads came into being in these areas, they tended to follow these "blocks". I could even see this to an extent growing up in rural southern Wisconsin. The most often used roads and county highways tend to form a block pattern made up of large squares of land.
Anyway, this might be a partial explaination for some of that lattice look to some of the lights. Europe was populated way before any surveyors came along to lay down lines, and Rio/Buenos Aires were probably settled in a haphazard fashion by the empire builders/colonists/missionaries before anyone decided to go in-land and start mapping the place.
Will never, ever happen. Not in an non-DRM format like MP3, anyway. The RIAA would be alllll over that.
It's probably for all the pretty prerendered movies. I'm pretty sure that, for example, the FMVs in FFX are just MPEG2 with some sort of Sony wrapper. That game had at least 3GB of FMV on it. If they were in HD, they might make good use of a 25GB disc.
A 25GB key would sure be resistant to brute force attacks. ;)
How's that for typing skills? ;)
but this was a dead duck even before the FCC's blessing. At least that's how it looks to me. This thing is DRM encumbered to the point of major inconvenience for consumers. It's just another great feature that got butchered by DRM.
Note:
Skype 1.0 is currently only compatible with Windows XP and Windows 2000. We are working on an immediate update, and recommend that you do not upgrade at this time if you are using Windows 98 or Windows ME.
Is it just me, or is the Skype site unreachable this morning? Heh.
A restaurant I once worked at subscribed to a commercial music service (satellite, I think) specifically for businesses which play music for it's customers. Fees to the music industry were collected in some fashion as part of the cost of this service.
My first home machine was a TI-99/4a bought for me by my parents. It didn't take too long for me to get tired of my little "space shuttle" dodging blocks, and I wanted to do more. That meant getting and learning extra stuff, whether it meant the Extended Basic module or getting the expansion box so I could use C or Pascal.
Ah, memories.
The Gay Agenda at work! Free toaster ovens all around! ;)
Yahoo has some nice features, but I'm also left wondering when the shoe will drop and I'll end up with spyware or giant ads with it. I haven't looked at Jabber in quite a while, and I know that it tries to be compatible with other IM services. But only for chat... I actually use my webcam with Yahoo. Yeah, I know there are alternatives, but it's just convenient to have it in one package.
I really shouldn't hit "Submit" without first having morning coffee.