The Windows Media Player is one of the few things I really miss in Linux; A good media player, (which I must admit I think the later versions are) is a must-have for any modern operative system. So as long as it's fairly stable and doesn't contain any backdoors, I think it would be very nice to have it on Linux. The real question is why MS would want to do this, since it weakens their own platform? =)
Err. I must point out that per definition humans from diffrent regions such as Africa, Europe (where I'm from) , Asia and so on, aren't diffrent races, in fact they're one and the same race, Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
I would think RPGs would be better suited to the female (tm) mentality, but we all remember what the pictures in the D&D books were like.
Well at least over here (Sweden), there's a lot of female roleplayers, specially livers. It took something around 20-25 years for this to come around since the first RPGs came out, so I think we can expect the same trend in computer games. I know a lot more girls play computer games than they used to, so basically I think it's only a matter of time.
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What if the popular "home brew" Mozilla distros decide to fake their user agent strings?
I'm sorry to say it, but there's already a LOT of browsers out there faking the user agent strings. Filtering out them like that doesn't simply work. It's much better just to tell the customers what browsers are bad, and why, and also what browsers they recommend.
"It seems to me that the GNU License allows forking, but all forks must be free. The Artistic License seem to allow commercial, closed-source forks. But if preventing forks is important, GPL doesn't seem to stop it. So why not just use the Artistic License? Then the authors can some day make money out of a commercial fork if they need to pay the bills!"
Well, the GPL doesn't stop you from making money on your work, you just have to supply the source code of the original and what you've changed. This is in my opinion the Right Thing(TM). If you are using someone elses code, and they're open-source believers, it's not more than right, that any derative of their work also should be open-source. And if it's not the case of using some previous code, you can always set your license yourself, so then it's no problem.
We must take a stand NOW! The australians are more and more getting cut off from the internet. Not just this, but previous censorships.
"What does that have to do with me?", I hear you ask? "I don't live in Australia" might be a thought that comes to you. But it's not that easy. If other countries and companies sees that it's possible to completly deny a country free access to the web, it won't be soon until more and more countries takes up this practice. And yes, it might even happen to you.
So let's stand up for the Australians, while there is still some time. Make your voice heard to the australian goverment. Protest, put up websites spreading information, do whatever you want, just do something, because soon it could be you, who are the victim.
There's one big fault with this whole license idea, which severly differs it from a drivers license. When I'm driving around the roads, the road owner (possibly the state) and the people in the cars around me, certainly don't know who I am, where I'm from and where I'm going. On the internet with this kind of scheme they would, which is a pretty big privacy concern! My actions should only be known by me, noone else!
Well it's very nice to see something like this come out, but does anyone know if it's Fischer Price or some other, sub-company that's made the decision to publish on that amount of platforms?
Transmeta and Linus is always fun and interesting, but it can get to much of the good stuff. When things like "I've heard from my hairdresser whose seventh cousins' husband knows someone that works at Transmeta, that they're doing hamsterhairdryers." is posted as a separate story, it's gone ot far. If you feel the urge to post every Transmeta rumor (you know, you could just wait until they actually DO something) then please put them together in quickie type box. =)
I'm not so sure most of the arguments laid out above, about people wouldn't buy the games anyway. I often get a game from a friend and test it out. If I find it to be very good, I'll buy it. For example StarCraft, Alpha Centauri, Baldurs Gate and others. The reason I do this, is because I'm a programmer. I don't earn a living being a programmer (I'm a student) but I recognize there are those who are, and how much I want to have Open Source and free-as-in-beer software, I do realize that these people need money to feed them.
My friends don't reason this way. Even though they think a game is great, and would buy it, they don't as long as they get it pirated. I think it has alot to do with how you perceive the single programmers role in the final product.
Anyway. My basic conclusion is that even though it's probably incredibly blown out of proportion, most people WOULD buy more games if they didn't pirate.
Well..I'm studying CS at the Institute of Tech here in Lund, Sweden. We have around 14-15% girls, and according to older students it's more or less raising every year. But as it seems to be everywhere else to, we're the part of the school with the least number of girls.
I don't think this will work as well as people seem to think. The thing is that what a majority of people are used to running is unfortunately Windows. But when they come to the univeristy and there's something else there, people become curious and tries it out. And once you've felt the power of un*x you don't want to go back. And those already convinced of un*x's superiority isn't very likely to use Windows =). At least this is the case on my university (University of Lund, Sweden), which runs SunOS on most computers. There are NT rooms, but those are almost always empty, while the SunOS (Sparc 1,5,10) are always full. So, no, I don't think we should worry all to much.
Excellent work, it's good to see that at least some internet things live up to their hype. =) Now I don't even have to visit both slashdot and linuxtoday.
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The Windows Media Player is one of the few things I really miss in Linux; A good media player, (which I must admit I think the later versions are) is a must-have for any modern operative system. So as long as it's fairly stable and doesn't contain any backdoors, I think it would be very nice to have it on Linux. The real question is why MS would want to do this, since it weakens their own platform? =)
Err. I must point out that per definition humans from diffrent regions such as Africa, Europe (where I'm from) , Asia and so on, aren't diffrent races, in fact they're one and the same race, Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
I would think RPGs would be better suited to the female (tm) mentality, but we all remember what the pictures in the D&D books were like.
Well at least over here (Sweden), there's a lot of female roleplayers, specially livers. It took something around 20-25 years for this to come around since the first RPGs came out, so I think we can expect the same trend in computer games. I know a lot more girls play computer games than they used to, so basically I think it's only a matter of time.
I'm sorry to say it, but there's already a LOT of browsers out there faking the user agent strings. Filtering out them like that doesn't simply work. It's much better just to tell the customers what browsers are bad, and why, and also what browsers they recommend.
Well, the GPL doesn't stop you from making money on your work, you just have to supply the source code of the original and what you've changed. This is in my opinion the Right Thing(TM). If you are using someone elses code, and they're open-source believers, it's not more than right, that any derative of their work also should be open-source. And if it's not the case of using some previous code, you can always set your license yourself, so then it's no problem.
We must take a stand NOW! The australians are more and more getting cut off from the internet. Not just this, but previous censorships.
"What does that have to do with me?", I hear you ask?
"I don't live in Australia" might be a thought that comes to you. But it's not that easy. If other countries and companies sees that it's possible to completly deny a country free access to the web, it won't be soon until more and more countries takes up this practice. And yes, it might even happen to you.
So let's stand up for the Australians, while there is still some time. Make your voice heard to the australian goverment. Protest, put up websites spreading information, do whatever you want, just do something, because soon it could be you, who are the victim.
There's one big fault with this whole license idea, which severly differs it from a drivers license. When I'm driving around the roads, the road owner (possibly the state) and the people in the cars around me, certainly don't know who I am, where I'm from and where I'm going. On the internet with this kind of scheme they would, which is a pretty big privacy concern! My actions should only be known by me, noone else!
What does the GPL say about this? Can you exclude a single group of persons from the software. Anyone that's into the GPL legals that know?
Well it's very nice to see something like this come out, but does anyone know if it's Fischer Price or some other, sub-company that's made the decision to publish on that amount of platforms?
Transmeta and Linus is always fun and interesting, but it can get to much of the good stuff. When things like "I've heard from my hairdresser whose seventh cousins' husband knows someone that works at Transmeta, that they're doing hamsterhairdryers." is posted as a separate story, it's gone ot far. If you feel the urge to post every Transmeta rumor (you know, you could just wait until they actually DO something) then please put them together in quickie type box. =)
Just my 0.02 euro.
I'm not so sure most of the arguments laid out above, about people wouldn't buy the games anyway. I often get a game from a friend and test it out. If I find it to be very good, I'll buy it. For example StarCraft, Alpha Centauri, Baldurs Gate and others. The reason I do this, is because I'm a programmer. I don't earn a living being a programmer (I'm a student) but I recognize there are those who are, and how much I want to have Open Source and free-as-in-beer software, I do realize that these people need money to feed them.
My friends don't reason this way. Even though they think a game is great, and would buy it, they don't as long as they get it pirated. I think it has alot to do with how you perceive the single programmers role in the final product.
Anyway. My basic conclusion is that even though it's probably incredibly blown out of proportion, most people WOULD buy more games if they didn't pirate.
For those of you that it seg faults, try
altering line 244 in the patch from
+ FILE *f = popen("ps", "rt");
to
+ FILE *f = popen("ps", "r");
and then patch and compile. At least it fixed it
for me.
Well..I'm studying CS at the Institute of Tech here in Lund, Sweden. We have around 14-15% girls,
and according to older students it's more or less raising every year. But as it seems to be everywhere else to, we're the part of the school with the least number of girls.
I don't think this will work as well as people seem to think. The thing is that what a majority of people are used to running is unfortunately Windows. But when they come to the univeristy and there's something else there, people become curious and tries it out. And once you've felt the power of un*x you don't want to go back. And those already convinced of un*x's superiority isn't very likely to use Windows =). At least this is the case on my university (University of Lund, Sweden), which runs SunOS on most computers. There are NT rooms, but those are almost always empty, while the SunOS (Sparc 1,5,10) are always full. So, no, I don't think we should worry all to much.
Excellent work, it's good to see that at least some internet things live up to their hype. =)
Now I don't even have to visit both slashdot and linuxtoday.