If I uderstand it Loki may be dying but it isn't dead. It can still sell and develop; but it can't come up with money to pay debts, so it took legal action [Chapter 11] to buy time.
My logic is:
Did you ever play Quake III Arena? Maybe you wanted to? If the answer is yes to either, now is a great time to legally own a legit version of Q3Arena at the cheapest price you'll ever find... and as a bonus, you'll be helping out a linux game developer with a good record for quality games.
You know that once you have a legal pak0 and CD Key you can run Q3 on any of: linux, win32, macOS 8-9, MacOS X, and um... yeah. See ebgames.com at the low price of $10, why not also get Decent 3? $4 shipping, in stock now, you'll have it in 2 days.
If you're/really/ modivated to help loki, go to their loki store and give them a better profit margin.
Okay that was a bit off topic; maybe if I tossed in a "the devil is in the [code] defects" I'd get a sympathetic funny rating from those who like bad puns. You know who you are...
Wait, when did setting your modem to auto-answer become illegal? Technically in the United Arab Emirates where I lived for a while, all auto-answer modems had to be on special lines that charged a small surcharge to your callers; which is the sort of thing I think your refering to because they all were on the same exchange and cost more money than a normal line. But it was sort of an honor system there.
-Daniel
Whoops. Yup that third party equipment line confuses me too. I meant third party (by which I mean companies that arn't providing the OS as Apple and Microsoft are) which make video codecs. Like say real networks, which you covered. And of course I don't think any desktop oriented video software could compare with the software and hardware of a broadcast quality avid kit, so you can disregard that comment.
Impressed in comparison to.... what? Have you tried some third party video equip? Did you try Quicktime or DV equipment? Have you had any oportunity to look at an avid system?
I tend to agree with the first post. I've just read a ton of the response to this thread and I've got one or two things to say. Rather than point out other games that (sometimes arguably) should be considered as having changed the world, I'll point out exactly what's wrong with saying "Quake changed the world forever."
lets assume "world" means "US pc gaming industry" [remembering that outside the US significantly less games are FPS.]
lets assume that anyone agreeing with this line of thought got into pc gaming only after the pentium processor was widely in use.
lets assume that no one recalls that duke nukem 3D had excellent multi-player capabilities, ran well on 486s, offered both on the ground and arial combat, and generally blew people's minds.
lets assume that descent somehow doesn't qualify as an FPS or as a revolution even though it distictly offered 1st person perspective and much shooting, and it had a full 3D world with 3D models as targets, a [confusingly] 3D map for real, and of course a full 6 degrees of freedom/confusion.... not to mention network play, all on a lowly 486 long before Quake was really real.
Then lets assume that Quake was not a belated catch-up effort to incorporate the better descent style engine, and fuse it with the rather non-fun [the second time] Doom style game play. And toss in some internet functionality that was only just becomming consumer feasable.
Only then can we agree that Quake changed the world forever. Now Q3... that's a fun multiplayer game... though Tribes has some more developed playing.
I recall seeing this device featured on television in that show hosted by Alan Alda. It was at MIT where someone showed a "computer" that collected energy from a piezoelectric component placed in the arc of the shore. With the stored energy it had the capability of trasmitting some information (a business card type thing) to another such device using the wearer's body as an antena and the user's handshake with the user of another such device as both the trigger and means to do so.
Okay. This stuff is some facinating insight. Whether intended or not. The funny thing is though, that it strongly reminds me of the product of an (older) friends' experiment to read a bunch of philosophy books (mostly for classes) in a month, then "relax" by planning to see this movie (in theaters at the time) and taking some LSD to "help".
The result of what he thought the movie was about or trying to say has been a humerous story since, and incidentally sounds similar to this thought. There was less anagram emphasis though. And I'm no good at retelling someone else's story.
People are often saying how original and fun diablo is/was. Well. I've got only one thing to say about their design process. They took a look at what makes games like nethack addictive to the groups that play it, and extended it to appeal to more people with graphics and network play, while seriously removing a large quantity of the specific extra features that make nethack interesting (like praying, offering, searching, encountering your own ghost, geting an artifact like excalibur by dipping your long sword into a fountain... etc.
They just watered down the crack so its more palletable
Thanks, that was usefull info. My problem with slashdot, is that when I write something like "Why doesn't someone convert those formats..." people read it as an "Is everyone but me an idoit?" statement, rather than what it really is which is a "What's wrong with the idea of making DC disc images ISO format?" I guess the correct response then would be "Because ISO images won't boot correctly without some extra processing, hence its easier for most people if the discs are a different format."
you forgot to add water to the meal. normally to get water, you needed a bucket and a well.
luckily, grinding enough wheat produced a big bag of meal, and a bucket contained a couple of loaves worth of water.
A ".iso" format is just a dump of the contents of the disc, at the error-corrected level above the "raw" recording data.
And you, sir, are an idiot.
I may me an idiot, but I'm well aware of 2 things. 1) that an.iso format is in fact just a dump of the disc contents that matter. 2) that the formats in which I've been able to find DC software CD images (legal projects based stuff), are not just dumps of the disc contents, but rather some information which the intended burning software interprets into track divisions, track types, and track data, for which I have no software that makes sense of it.
if that were so then it would be clear that a portion of Sony's motivation in releasing this technology is to move developers away from the "I'm not dead" Dreamcast. DC: "I feel happy!".
anyway, I own a DC and I burn CDs on a mac or under linux, but I have as yet to be able to successfully make anything but a coaster from the various DCMP3, demo, and such releases. I tried to get the broadband passport CD (why it wasn't included with my expensive BBA I'll never understand), but all I can find for any of these are nero images and cd juggeler (something) images. Nero Max on the Mac won't even recognize.nrg images (even with the correct filetype/creator info). Why doesn't someone just convert all those more proprietary image formats to something like a.iso format that'll work with linux and toast?
There's a very simple answer to the evolutionary language issue. There are communities, like the entire CS department at most any decent college, that can make a language distinction between the two words. Then there are those, like journalism (often overly alarmist no less) and those exposed to just journalism, who fail to make a distiction. I don't believe that "hacking" is ever going to mean the same thing for everyone anymore than I believe that the U.S. will correct an age old spelling error that's lead to an error in pronounciation, namely that of the element Al, Aluminium.
Java is entirely unusable; due mostly to a very poorly laid out framework of utility classes. The language on its own would be okayish. Show me a scanf [int main{int i; scanf("%d",&i); exit(i);}] in java. Not as elegent is it?
Java isn't just a language; its a framework of utility classes plus a bytecode virtual machine runtime environment, originally intended to produce good bytecode for embeded applications and now used mostly to make cross platform GUI apps.
I tend to agree that it should be always possible to get the $5000 from this "challenge". You can see my extended thoughts at: article 403
I'm surprised at the number of people using the FAQ's "pigeon hole" theorem backwards. The theorem states that a reversable algorithm cannot be used to represent every piece of data as a piece of data smaller than itself. It does not address being able to pick an algorithm well suited to just one specific piece of data. If there is any data to which no compression alogrithm can be applied to, tailored to, or made for, that's a pretty amazing piece of data, and we should all be made aware of it Mike.
Let us disregard the issue of money and the issue of a specific answer's acceptability and analyze the question
In my opinion any person, given enough time to come up to speed on the subject, and given that that time, plus the time it takes to come up with and implement their solution all multiplied by the factor of time it takes to maintain themselves (eating, resting etc.) during that time, and given that they live that long, can come up with a winning solution to Mike's challenge due to a flaw, not in wording of the challenge, but in Mike's reasoning behind the challenge.
To put a lot of discussion to rest (in my mind) just read the relevent portion of the FAQ in which the challenge is found. i.e. the section entitled "9.2 The counting argument"
Here you'll find, clearly stated, the flaw in trying to find any one algorithm which will always compress data of a fixed length to less than that length. Also you'll see the decent challege by Steve Tate which paraphrased says:
"give me your best algorithm and the size of data it works on, and I'll give you one counter example of data in that size which will not compress with your algorithm."
Mike Goldman's addendum challenge effectivly states:
"I'll give you data in any size you request, you give me data and a program which in total are smaller than the original size and for which the program applied to this data produce my original data."
Reading it in its full context, which aparently a lot of slashdotters didn't, it immediately gives itself up as a challenge which does not hinge on on the mathematical theorem it is presented with.
i.e.
Given, there is no one algorithm which can compress all data, nor a subset of data selected by being a fixed length. Therefore, if you give me an algorithm which claims to compress all data or all data of such a subset, I can give you at least one counter example. It does not follow that I can give you one counter example to all compression algorithms for a given length (of your choice).
The implication of the first challenge is that the poser is confident in both the mathematical theory and either his analytical abilities when studying the given algorithm, or in his ability to test and check against the given algorithm in a sufficient period of time.
Conversely, the implication in the second challenge is that Mike in fact is the possessor of a set of super-data, of which any sub-set cannot be compressed by any algorithm.
Since we live in a time when any data sufficiently limited in size yet sufficiently large enough to offer decent gains when compressed (the challenger may pick that size) can be analyzed fully and with great speed, I think Mike has made a bit of a fool of himself.
I am not saying that Mike can't supply <<the uncompressable data from hell>>, but he will have to go to some lengths to get it. It will likely be selected to be large enough so Mike cannot generate it himself without an algorithm. It cannot be generated with a small input set or that set could be discovered and when coupled with the generator would defeat the challenge. It may be generated from a large set, but the result must show no patterns that can be bitstuffed (see networking) against or more simply generated and indexed for, nor may the source set contain any of the same properties. It may be possible that Mike is collecting this data from a source, i.e. digitizing random radio signals; we may all be interested in any source data which cannot by any reversable algorithm be represented/stored more succinctly particularly without any regard for retaining its meaning while compressed.
In summary, if Mike doesn't want to be giving away money, then he doesn't understand his own challenge's failure to be based on any mathematical certainty (unless I'm wrong and he has some super-data). However Patrick's solution was clearly not compression, though it was the start of a decent form of compression. Had concatenated his file-set and headed it with information as to each file's length in order, he just might have saved space enough for the decompression, particularly if he picked a suffiently large recuring patern that could be generated rather than having to be stored verbatim.
However, I might just be able to claim, that if the universe is deterministic, if the input conditions for the creation of the universe could be represented in less data than a generated block of data which can be represented in that universe, and if I were given enough resources in which to recreate the universe, I should be able to offer the input conditions of the universe and an index into it's ongoing generation which could point-to a generated block of data which exactly matches one provided. I just might be able to give you the process, its inputs, and your data before you've finished generating the data for my participation in the challenge, if in my generated universe I could significantly warp time without affecting the results.
Another related trick which I use is to put the graphics which are necessary for my site in the web space that came with with Earthlink account. I figure I'm paying $20 a month for nothing right now (Earthlink is my backup account in case my DSL goes down, but my Speakeasy DSL has been absolutely rock solid so far) so I don't feel very guilty about offloading my traffic to Earthlink.
This is not a bad suggestion. Particularly the supporting Lynx part. every site should work with lynx unless its an avante garde web site experiment not attempting to be usefull in any way.
But I feel its my duty to inform you that speakeasy, rock solid as it is, has included in most if not all DSL packages, redundant 24/7 nation wide 56K dialup support, in the off chance that you really really needed to email your boss or whatever and felt speakeasy was letting you down in this crucial 7 minute period of downness.
Any account with a shell account can certainly dialup, the others I'm not so sure about.
I'm not talking about the nuclear anihilation of Bumpkin Idaho... (is there such a place?) I'm talking about the right to self-determination. Their own laws fit for their own customs and ideal, NYC for NYC and Bumpkin for Bumpkin. Clearly, if now Bumpkin is selling food, and NYC is buying food there's no reason being seperate nations would upset the ballance. Is your pen made in China, your clothes in Mexico or Italy, and your hard-drive fabbed in Japan?
On the other hand I'm sure NYC is not Bumpkin's most important consumer, nor is Bumpkin NYC's (a sea port) only food source.
I'm sure the residents of Bumpkin, Idaho really appreciated the fancy new theatres built in New York. But hey, screw them, their morallistic reactionary outlook has no place in the new
socialist millenium now, does it?
Your argument has a point. But its a democracy, which by nature, can't make everyone happy. My solution would be a dissolution of the nation into small representative democracies. Bumpkin Idaho doesn't want New York, and clearly, New York doesn't want Bumpkin Idaho. Just call it quits and have everyone agree to secede peacefully from one-another. Its grossly unmanageble as it stands.
Bush, War on Drugs, "you know... for kids!", Tax free Religious organizations my ass.
I believe you're not actually talking about communism per sae but rather socialism. I agree that more government would be handy in some respects, but a better, more cost regulated system of health care might be a better priority. The arguments that maximum cost produces maximum quality of health care are incorrect due to the issue of individual health being related to public health which intrisically depends on accessability by all individuals.
Regardless, $500 million is nothing in respects to the cost of one new plane, fueling/arming an existing miliary training excercise or test, or the cost of a single use offensive weapon. Personally I'm surprised with the limitless military budget that more/research/ hasn't been done in energy/cost efficiency that might have trickled down by now to better electric vehicles or the like for the people.
BTW, Patriotism and nationalism are entirely misplaced sentiments. We should be concentrating on what can be done for the greater humanity rather than attempting to appease conservatives with boldly colored fabrics.
There are other tld providers out there of course; there's no 100% control until by some mishap the aforementioned are illegalized. There's new.net for example.
Either you don't understand the meaning of uptime, or that's a real waste of a laptop letting it just sit there for 2 years..
I could envision it. Everyday between home and work a laptop could continue running on its batteries, then it could run off the first or second power adapter, and charge in the process. If you had something like the pismo apple powerbook, this is perfectly feasable with even a 5 hour commute, additionally the pismo has a working sleepmode which will give one the range of something like 24hours for moving the laptop with-out bringing the system technically down.
I think its you have have confused uptime with being tethered. I'm sure you know that unlike win##, you don't have to reboot to recofigure your network connection for your new subnet if you're using... well just about anything else (any unix, MacOS 7.6 (and up), BeOS la la la).
I looked at a ringMouse page that said : "Increases Productivity: Most efficient way to execute mouse commands. Hands and eyes never have to leave the keyboard or screen."
So I'm wondering, how, if your ring mouse is a 3D spacial pointer, do you use it without moving your hands (to which the ringmouse is attacted) away from your home key position?
-Daniel
I propose:
--irreverently-disrespect-original-authors-wishes
I think that this is fine because if a corporation publishes some crap docs that you want to print or copy from, but they have some lawyer-policy about protecting copyrights, you can feel okay about being irreverent and disrespectful, but if its some author with a firm claim of an original work, then you should feel bad about being irreverent.
I think it should go into the main branch, but I think you should further have to use a special compile option, and that distribution of the binary with that option turned on should be discouraged. That way, you'll someday really need it, and be able to get the source and use the option plus the command line option, but you won't just get it for nothing.
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My logic is: Did you ever play Quake III Arena? Maybe you wanted to? If the answer is yes to either, now is a great time to legally own a legit version of Q3Arena at the cheapest price you'll ever find... and as a bonus, you'll be helping out a linux game developer with a good record for quality games. You know that once you have a legal pak0 and CD Key you can run Q3 on any of: linux, win32, macOS 8-9, MacOS X, and um... yeah. See ebgames.com at the low price of $10, why not also get Decent 3? $4 shipping, in stock now, you'll have it in 2 days.
If you're /really/ modivated to help loki, go to their loki store and give them a better profit margin.
Okay that was a bit off topic; maybe if I tossed in a "the devil is in the [code] defects" I'd get a sympathetic funny rating from those who like bad puns. You know who you are...
-Daniel
Wait, when did setting your modem to auto-answer become illegal? Technically in the United Arab Emirates where I lived for a while, all auto-answer modems had to be on special lines that charged a small surcharge to your callers; which is the sort of thing I think your refering to because they all were on the same exchange and cost more money than a normal line. But it was sort of an honor system there. -Daniel
Whoops. Yup that third party equipment line confuses me too. I meant third party (by which I mean companies that arn't providing the OS as Apple and Microsoft are) which make video codecs. Like say real networks, which you covered. And of course I don't think any desktop oriented video software could compare with the software and hardware of a broadcast quality avid kit, so you can disregard that comment.
-Daniel
- lets assume "world" means "US pc gaming industry" [remembering that outside the US significantly less games are FPS.]
- lets assume that anyone agreeing with this line of thought got into pc gaming only after the pentium processor was widely in use.
- lets assume that no one recalls that duke nukem 3D had excellent multi-player capabilities, ran well on 486s, offered both on the ground and arial combat, and generally blew people's minds.
- lets assume that descent somehow doesn't qualify as an FPS or as a revolution even though it distictly offered 1st person perspective and much shooting, and it had a full 3D world with 3D models as targets, a [confusingly] 3D map for real, and of course a full 6 degrees of freedom/confusion.... not to mention network play, all on a lowly 486 long before Quake was really real.
- Then lets assume that Quake was not a belated catch-up effort to incorporate the better descent style engine, and fuse it with the rather non-fun [the second time] Doom style game play. And toss in some internet functionality that was only just becomming consumer feasable.
Only then can we agree that Quake changed the world forever. Now Q3... that's a fun multiplayer game... though Tribes has some more developed playing.-Daniel
I recall seeing this device featured on television in that show hosted by Alan Alda. It was at MIT where someone showed a "computer" that collected energy from a piezoelectric component placed in the arc of the shore. With the stored energy it had the capability of trasmitting some information (a business card type thing) to another such device using the wearer's body as an antena and the user's handshake with the user of another such device as both the trigger and means to do so.
The result of what he thought the movie was about or trying to say has been a humerous story since, and incidentally sounds similar to this thought. There was less anagram emphasis though. And I'm no good at retelling someone else's story.
-Daniel
-Daniel
Thanks again,
-Daniel
you forgot to add water to the meal. normally to get water, you needed a bucket and a well. luckily, grinding enough wheat produced a big bag of meal, and a bucket contained a couple of loaves worth of water.
I may me an idiot, but I'm well aware of 2 things. 1) that an .iso format is in fact just a dump of the disc contents that matter. 2) that the formats in which I've been able to find DC software CD images (legal projects based stuff), are not just dumps of the disc contents, but rather some information which the intended burning software interprets into track divisions, track types, and track data, for which I have no software that makes sense of it.
anyway, I own a DC and I burn CDs on a mac or under linux, but I have as yet to be able to successfully make anything but a coaster from the various DCMP3, demo, and such releases. I tried to get the broadband passport CD (why it wasn't included with my expensive BBA I'll never understand), but all I can find for any of these are nero images and cd juggeler (something) images. Nero Max on the Mac won't even recognize .nrg images (even with the correct filetype/creator info). Why doesn't someone just convert all those more proprietary image formats to something like a .iso format that'll work with linux and toast?
-Daniel
-Daniel
I'm surprised at the number of people using the FAQ's "pigeon hole" theorem backwards. The theorem states that a reversable algorithm cannot be used to represent every piece of data as a piece of data smaller than itself. It does not address being able to pick an algorithm well suited to just one specific piece of data. If there is any data to which no compression alogrithm can be applied to, tailored to, or made for, that's a pretty amazing piece of data, and we should all be made aware of it Mike.
-Daniel
Let us disregard the issue of money and the issue of a specific answer's acceptability and analyze the question
In my opinion any person, given enough time to come up to speed on the subject, and given that that time, plus the time it takes to come up with and implement their solution all multiplied by the factor of time it takes to maintain themselves (eating, resting etc.) during that time, and given that they live that long, can come up with a winning solution to Mike's challenge due to a flaw, not in wording of the challenge, but in Mike's reasoning behind the challenge.
To put a lot of discussion to rest (in my mind) just read the relevent portion of the FAQ in which the challenge is found. i.e. the section entitled "9.2 The counting argument"
Here you'll find, clearly stated, the flaw in trying to find any one algorithm which will always compress data of a fixed length to less than that length. Also you'll see the decent challege by Steve Tate which paraphrased says:
Mike Goldman's addendum challenge effectivly states:Reading it in its full context, which aparently a lot of slashdotters didn't, it immediately gives itself up as a challenge which does not hinge on on the mathematical theorem it is presented with. i.e.
Given, there is no one algorithm which can compress all data, nor a subset of data selected by being a fixed length.
Therefore, if you give me an algorithm which claims to compress all data or all data of such a subset, I can give you at least one counter example.
It does not follow that I can give you one counter example to all compression algorithms for a given length (of your choice).
The implication of the first challenge is that the poser is confident in both the mathematical theory and either his analytical abilities when studying the given algorithm, or in his ability to test and check against the given algorithm in a sufficient period of time.
Conversely, the implication in the second challenge is that Mike in fact is the possessor of a set of super-data, of which any sub-set cannot be compressed by any algorithm.
Since we live in a time when any data sufficiently limited in size yet sufficiently large enough to offer decent gains when compressed (the challenger may pick that size) can be analyzed fully and with great speed, I think Mike has made a bit of a fool of himself.
I am not saying that Mike can't supply <<the uncompressable data from hell>>, but he will have to go to some lengths to get it. It will likely be selected to be large enough so Mike cannot generate it himself without an algorithm. It cannot be generated with a small input set or that set could be discovered and when coupled with the generator would defeat the challenge. It may be generated from a large set, but the result must show no patterns that can be bitstuffed (see networking) against or more simply generated and indexed for, nor may the source set contain any of the same properties. It may be possible that Mike is collecting this data from a source, i.e. digitizing random radio signals; we may all be interested in any source data which cannot by any reversable algorithm be represented/stored more succinctly particularly without any regard for retaining its meaning while compressed.
In summary, if Mike doesn't want to be giving away money, then he doesn't understand his own challenge's failure to be based on any mathematical certainty (unless I'm wrong and he has some super-data). However Patrick's solution was clearly not compression, though it was the start of a decent form of compression. Had concatenated his file-set and headed it with information as to each file's length in order, he just might have saved space enough for the decompression, particularly if he picked a suffiently large recuring patern that could be generated rather than having to be stored verbatim.
However, I might just be able to claim, that if the universe is deterministic, if the input conditions for the creation of the universe could be represented in less data than a generated block of data which can be represented in that universe, and if I were given enough resources in which to recreate the universe, I should be able to offer the input conditions of the universe and an index into it's ongoing generation which could point-to a generated block of data which exactly matches one provided. I just might be able to give you the process, its inputs, and your data before you've finished generating the data for my participation in the challenge, if in my generated universe I could significantly warp time without affecting the results.
-Daniel
That last part's an odd joke
But I feel its my duty to inform you that speakeasy, rock solid as it is, has included in most if not all DSL packages, redundant 24/7 nation wide 56K dialup support, in the off chance that you really really needed to email your boss or whatever and felt speakeasy was letting you down in this crucial 7 minute period of downness. Any account with a shell account can certainly dialup, the others I'm not so sure about.
-Daniel
I'm not talking about the nuclear anihilation of Bumpkin Idaho... (is there such a place?) I'm talking about the right to self-determination. Their own laws fit for their own customs and ideal, NYC for NYC and Bumpkin for Bumpkin. Clearly, if now Bumpkin is selling food, and NYC is buying food there's no reason being seperate nations would upset the ballance. Is your pen made in China, your clothes in Mexico or Italy, and your hard-drive fabbed in Japan?
On the other hand I'm sure NYC is not Bumpkin's most important consumer, nor is Bumpkin NYC's (a sea port) only food source.
-Daniel
Buy one now and help out: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/dreamcast/
Supported Devices: The text console, the keyboard, the broadband adaptor, the GD-ROM.
You can use NFS and all that stuff. Now it'd be nice to have some devices/libraries to get to the graphics and sound engines.
-Daniel
Your argument has a point. But its a democracy, which by nature, can't make everyone happy. My solution would be a dissolution of the nation into small representative democracies. Bumpkin Idaho doesn't want New York, and clearly, New York doesn't want Bumpkin Idaho. Just call it quits and have everyone agree to secede peacefully from one-another. Its grossly unmanageble as it stands.
Bush, War on Drugs, "you know... for kids!", Tax free Religious organizations my ass.
-Daniel
Regardless, $500 million is nothing in respects to the cost of one new plane, fueling/arming an existing miliary training excercise or test, or the cost of a single use offensive weapon. Personally I'm surprised with the limitless military budget that more /research/ hasn't been done in energy/cost efficiency that might have trickled down by now to better electric vehicles or the like for the people.
BTW, Patriotism and nationalism are entirely misplaced sentiments. We should be concentrating on what can be done for the greater humanity rather than attempting to appease conservatives with boldly colored fabrics.
-Daniel
- daniel
I could envision it. Everyday between home and work a laptop could continue running on its batteries, then it could run off the first or second power adapter, and charge in the process. If you had something like the pismo apple powerbook, this is perfectly feasable with even a 5 hour commute, additionally the pismo has a working sleepmode which will give one the range of something like 24hours for moving the laptop with-out bringing the system technically down.
I think its you have have confused uptime with being tethered. I'm sure you know that unlike win##, you don't have to reboot to recofigure your network connection for your new subnet if you're using ... well just about anything else (any unix, MacOS 7.6 (and up), BeOS la la la).
-Daniel
I looked at a ringMouse page that said : "Increases Productivity: Most efficient way to execute mouse commands. Hands and eyes never have to leave the keyboard or screen." So I'm wondering, how, if your ring mouse is a 3D spacial pointer, do you use it without moving your hands (to which the ringmouse is attacted) away from your home key position?
-Daniel
I think that this is fine because if a corporation publishes some crap docs that you want to print or copy from, but they have some lawyer-policy about protecting copyrights, you can feel okay about being irreverent and disrespectful, but if its some author with a firm claim of an original work, then you should feel bad about being irreverent.
I think it should go into the main branch, but I think you should further have to use a special compile option, and that distribution of the binary with that option turned on should be discouraged. That way, you'll someday really need it, and be able to get the source and use the option plus the command line option, but you won't just get it for nothing.
-Daniel