The key point in the AOL suit is that AOL's reliance on volunteers was essentially a substitute for hiring paid employees. The lawyers are taking advantage of the volunteers being given free subscriptions to AOL to say that they were, in fact, employees who were being paid for their services.
Volunteers for the Open Directory project are not being paid in any way. What would they be paid with, anyway? ODP is a non-profit entity. And that's what makes the AOL case a completely seperate matter from real volunteerism. AOL's community leaders were working for a corporate entitity with a profit motive. ODP is non-profit. FSF is non-profit. LDP is non-profit. Gutenberg is non-profit. Volunteers for these organizations are working out of their own charity with no expectation of compensation. What AOL was doing was enticing "volunteers" with the prospect of free service. And if they stopped "volunteering" they'd have to start paying their $21.95/month. I'd pay the same to access dmoz.org whether I volunteered there or not. (That is, US$0.)
So while this may be a concern for outfits like RedHat or Andover, it's a non-issue for non-profits and real volunteers.
And we get flustered when the MPAA says open source is thievery.
Did this thought process at any time consider whether doing this would be legal? I assume this would come under the jurisdiction of Australian law. I know that the US forbids retransmission of television, and iCrave took advantage of Canada's less restrictive laws. But what would the situation be down there?
I don't mean to argue against breaking the law when the law is unjust. I understand hosting a mirror of DeCSS, and before that PGP, and before that the E911 document, etc. And yes, the IOC is way out of control and needs a serious bitch-slapping. But what you're saying sounds not so much like a righteous stand, as it does a greedy child lusting after the cookie jar.
Unless, of course, you intend to do this without using any "official" broadcast material. In which case, I wish you all the luck in the world. Unfortunately, I doubt that would be enough. But hey, you can't expect to accomplish anything if you're afraid of the impossible.
The new Apple Display Connector is quasi-proprietary. It bears many similarities to the ANSI digital video connector, but adds five pins (the X-shape on one side of it) for carrying analog signals. Do the math and you'll notice that Apple is back to using sync-on-green. But that only matters if you use the analog, the other pins seem to match the ANSI spec. An adapter is still needed because the shape of the connectors is different, and of course the sync-on-green nastiness for analog; but the switches and dials are (hopefully) a thing of the past since it uses DDC.
Question: Is the DDC in the new ANSI spec compatible with the DDC in current VGA monitors?
iCab uses the WASTE text engine, so it supports multiple languages without hassle. There are also localized versions for English, German, Japanese, Chinese (trad. and simp.), French, and Dutch. But any version can handle any encoding (or input method) that you have installed in the system. (MacOS is cool like that;-)
There's a concise overview of internationalization on MacOS at http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~n-iyanag/researchTools/ unicodeandmacos.html
(I can't seem to find the WASTE homepage, if it exists.)
Yeah, I know. I'm posting way too much to this thread. But I just noticed this in the full review for iCab and had to share.
"Also, iCab lacks an email program, though it does support sending mail. To receive email, you need a third-party client such as Eudora or Netscape Messenger."
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Uhm... *Netscape*Messenger*??!!!?! What, pray tell, is the point of using an alternative browser if you have to install *another* browser just to read mail?!
I am now almost convinced that the reviewer a)has no idea what he's talking about and b)is only doing this "review" as FUD.
Oh, and if you're wondering what else one can use for email on Macs, there's Eudora, Outlook Express, Mailsmith, PowerMail, Mulberry, or the old, discontinued, unsupported, but damn if it still ain't the best, Claris Emailer. (Hey, I hear there are still people who use Cyberdog for mail.)
To propogate the myth that the only reasonable choice of browsers is between NS and IE, they toss up a poorly designed (even for cnet standards) review of a butt-ugly browser that's just a wrapper for IE anyways, a browser that's actually a real alternative and has been highly praised, so they lambast it by making a huge issue of its price. And then they actually "recommend" a browser that none of their Windows-using readers could use even if they wanted. (As if any of them know how to find BasiliskII, much less the necessary Macintosh ROM needed to use it.)
The reason iCab doesn't enable scripting by default is because it is still about 60% broken. The "2.1" version number is deceptive as iCab has never had an official, non-beta release.
And I take issue with the comment about iCab being the "ugliest of the lot". iCab is actually has my favorite interface of any browser simply because it adds only a button bar. No panes, no popup menus, no gizmos cluttering up your screen. This was especially welcome when I first started using it on a measly 640x480 screen -- try using Mozilla with that little real estate.
But the real reason to applaud iCab is that it's just done right. Between the plethora of options (the reviewer seemed to not notice the cookie filtering), utter lack of bloat, and an impressive level of support for MacOS technologies (drag-and-drop, contextual menus, data detectors, keychain, internet config). But also, even though that page only provided a PPC download link, iCab runs marvelously on 68k Macs. I can't comment on the speed though, since my Mac is only 25MHz (and Basilisk ain't much better). But I suspect the fault is more that of MacOS than iCab.
Incidentally, I think they should've recommended Opera. As I said before, iCab is still only pre-release. And it seems they only faulted Opera for costing money. Well, the iCab guys have all but promised that they will be charging for the full release. iCab still has a lot that needs to improve, such as scripting and plug-ins. Meanwhile Opera has a more-than-competent scripting support and handles email and news, and of course a larger audience (including nascent Mac support).
Seems like the reviewer spent too much time fiddling with preferences to notice that iCab is incomplete. I agree that all other browsers could learn a lot from iCab. (Hey Mozilla guys! You've got filtering in there, but what's the point if I can't edit the filtering rules?) But it's not that good form to recommend a beta product for Macintosh to an audience that's looking for a full-featured release product on Windows.
ObTopic: So, if the heroine were to convert to Christianity, I guess she'd be a "Born-again Ash" too. <rimshot>
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Well, there is at least one case where a book gained a bit whilst being exported from the UK to US, and that's Douglas Adams's "Life, the Universe, and Everything." For some confusing, complicated reason that nobody seems to remember, two chapters were left out when it went to press. Then when the US version was done, Adams managed to get them back in as an epilogue; and later UK versions also contain them.
There's also one other difference between the US and UK versions, but I don't remember why this is (or even if there is any reason), but the whole bit at the party with the guy who won a Rory for The Most Gratuitous Usage of the word "Belgium" in a Serious Screenplay, in the UK version the word was changed to just "Fuck" and a large chunk of humour excised in the process.
Yes, I became desensitized to the unforsakable "You must restart your computer for changes to take effect" dialog that I sought out and learned the trick of holding down shift as you click "OK" in the restart dialog to only restart Windows, and not reboot. So I got in the habit of telling Windows, "No, dammit, I don't want to restart now!" and later, when I finished all my finagling, do a quick restart. I kept this up until very recently, using 98se, when I once clicked on "Yes" and lo-and-behold, Windows was smart (sic) enough to do a quick restart on its own. 'Course, I don't think it does so when changing the display adapterr.
Okay, sure, quick restarts are nothing compared to `killall -HUP inetd` (or similar procedures in BeOS), but what do you expect from an OS that doesn't even know the difference between a device and a regular file. (Ever try renaming something to 'NUL'?)
The only other saving grace is that often, particularly with the Network cpanel, the message to restart is just a suggestion, and not a requirement. I've ignored it plenty of times after changing, say, DNS, and it accepts the changes without restarting. Sure, you'd probably want to fit in a restart sometime in the not-too-distant future, but this *is* Windows we're talking about -- it'll eventually schedule a restart whether you like it or not.;-)
As for your video card troubles, why are you bothering with Detonator3 for a TNT2? I don't know of any significant changes in the TNT portion since Detonator2. In fact, a few benchmarks show a decrease in performance for older cards. I've settled on 5.33 for my TNT, and am leaving the 6.x< for the GeForce and beyond.
What you were thinking of is Basilisk II. Of course, as with any Mac emulator, you need a (preferebly legal) ROM image to run it. Basilisk will take any 512k or greater ROM, and I think it has to be 32-bit clean (so SE/30 or earlier is out).
I don't want to live in a world where I license everything and own nothing.
What's the ratio of people in the US who rent/lease a home to those who own? And of those owners, how many have a mortgage (which shouldn't, technically, be called "owning")? And how many of those people who actually do own their own home have taken a lien against it, or put it up for collateral so they could finance a new car or pay for some repairs? When you come right down to it, not only do pitifully few people in this country actually own their own home, but many of those who don't own are oblivious to the fact.
The writer doesn't seem to know which one to use, so he uses them both.
One mention each for RMS and ESR. No mention of GNU, FSF, and he calls Linux an "experimental unix".
I do not envy the flames this article is going to receive.
"Presidential Committee Recommends Research for Open Sores"
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That level of perfectionism does sound absurd, but then I remembered how many of my lego pieces ended up with teeth marks on them. (Sometimes, that's the only way to get it apart.) In retrospect, I can see how anything cheaper would have broken much too quickly.
Lego has been showing up on/. pretty often lately. Makes me wonder, is there anybody alive who hasn't ever played with legos? (Well, outside of underdeveloped countries, naturally.)
Okay, I found it. See, I had skipped over the parables because they are, by definition, allegorical (and thus not to be interpreted literally). My interpretion is that he is speaking of other people who have strayed from the "flock" (believers), but are still "his" (he is their god), so he must search them out and bring them "back into the fold" (make them believe). So not much to support the knowledge of extra-terrestrial life. (But, in the vague, enigmatic way that is the bible, not denying it either.)
I also recall talking with a Morman some years back and he mentioned that the Book of Morman talks about God's "other children" or something like that. But I've read pitifully little of BoM so I can't say for certain if that's true or the guy was a nut-job. (But aren't all Mormans?)
the Black Parrot:
ps - I still can't find the "Blessed are the trolls" reference, but I'm just sure it's in there somewhere
Sometimes, they would put this weird attachment on the 140' telescope that would quickly move the receiver back and forth about twice a second
IANARA (... Radio Astronomer), but that sounds like they were using paralax to do stereo imaging. The new dish can probably do the same thing, except using the movable panels to shift the reflector (so it'll be quieter).
Just found this article today at the NYTimes (with that silly registration thing). Basically, a guy in Germany came up with the exremely clueful idea that we should be looking for conditions that favor a process of metabolism, rather (or in addition to) merely playing witch's brew with an inert mixture of chemicals, and hoping that the molecules will suddenly start dancing a petri waltz.
Read the article, or look it up someplace else. A report in Science by Dr. George D. Cody. And the original theory was proposed by Dr. Günther Wächtershäuser.
Oh, and absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Just wanted to remind everyone of that.
<somber_prophetic_voice>I have sheep in other folds whereof you know not, and I now go to visit them.</somber_prophetic_voice>
Uhm.... Reference please? I couldn't find anything resembling this in my bible (Today's English Version).
As to the original tro... poster's remark. Yeah, and I'm sure he would have been sure to mention that the Earth orbits the Sun, which is itself in orbit with the Milky Way galaxy. Oh, except he didn't... too bad for Galileo.
Funny how up until not much less than a year ago, the big deal was supposed to be "thin-clients" and "network computing".
I'd like to propose a corollary to Moore's Law: The direction of trends and buzzwords will reverse every 16-18 months.
I expect that pretty soon MS will start emphasizing that DotNet will allow easier person-to-person sharing of files rather than the centralized management features.
Slashdot Mirror
The key point in the AOL suit is that AOL's reliance on volunteers was essentially a substitute for hiring paid employees. The lawyers are taking advantage of the volunteers being given free subscriptions to AOL to say that they were, in fact, employees who were being paid for their services.
Volunteers for the Open Directory project are not being paid in any way. What would they be paid with, anyway? ODP is a non-profit entity. And that's what makes the AOL case a completely seperate matter from real volunteerism. AOL's community leaders were working for a corporate entitity with a profit motive. ODP is non-profit. FSF is non-profit. LDP is non-profit. Gutenberg is non-profit. Volunteers for these organizations are working out of their own charity with no expectation of compensation. What AOL was doing was enticing "volunteers" with the prospect of free service. And if they stopped "volunteering" they'd have to start paying their $21.95/month. I'd pay the same to access dmoz.org whether I volunteered there or not. (That is, US$0.)
So while this may be a concern for outfits like RedHat or Andover, it's a non-issue for non-profits and real volunteers.
And we get flustered when the MPAA says open source is thievery.
Did this thought process at any time consider whether doing this would be legal? I assume this would come under the jurisdiction of Australian law. I know that the US forbids retransmission of television, and iCrave took advantage of Canada's less restrictive laws. But what would the situation be down there?
I don't mean to argue against breaking the law when the law is unjust. I understand hosting a mirror of DeCSS, and before that PGP, and before that the E911 document, etc. And yes, the IOC is way out of control and needs a serious bitch-slapping. But what you're saying sounds not so much like a righteous stand, as it does a greedy child lusting after the cookie jar.
Unless, of course, you intend to do this without using any "official" broadcast material. In which case, I wish you all the luck in the world. Unfortunately, I doubt that would be enough. But hey, you can't expect to accomplish anything if you're afraid of the impossible.
The new Apple Display Connector is quasi-proprietary. It bears many similarities to the ANSI digital video connector, but adds five pins (the X-shape on one side of it) for carrying analog signals. Do the math and you'll notice that Apple is back to using sync-on-green. But that only matters if you use the analog, the other pins seem to match the ANSI spec. An adapter is still needed because the shape of the connectors is different, and of course the sync-on-green nastiness for analog; but the switches and dials are (hopefully) a thing of the past since it uses DDC.
Question: Is the DDC in the new ANSI spec compatible with the DDC in current VGA monitors?
For the last time, Apple is *NOT* abandoning the PowerPC for Intel hardware.
iCab uses the WASTE text engine, so it supports multiple languages without hassle. There are also localized versions for English, German, Japanese, Chinese (trad. and simp.), French, and Dutch. But any version can handle any encoding (or input method) that you have installed in the system. (MacOS is cool like that ;-)
/ unicodeandmacos.html
There's a concise overview of internationalization on MacOS at http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~n-iyanag/researchTools
(I can't seem to find the WASTE homepage, if it exists.)
Yeah, I know. I'm posting way too much to this thread. But I just noticed this in the full review for iCab and had to share.
"Also, iCab lacks an email program, though it does support sending mail. To receive email, you need a third-party client such as Eudora or Netscape Messenger."
.....
Uhm... *Netscape*Messenger*??!!!?! What, pray tell, is the point of using an alternative browser if you have to install *another* browser just to read mail?!
I am now almost convinced that the reviewer a)has no idea what he's talking about and b)is only doing this "review" as FUD.
Oh, and if you're wondering what else one can use for email on Macs, there's Eudora, Outlook Express, Mailsmith, PowerMail, Mulberry, or the old, discontinued, unsupported, but damn if it still ain't the best, Claris Emailer. (Hey, I hear there are still people who use Cyberdog for mail.)
To propogate the myth that the only reasonable choice of browsers is between NS and IE, they toss up a poorly designed (even for cnet standards) review of a butt-ugly browser that's just a wrapper for IE anyways, a browser that's actually a real alternative and has been highly praised, so they lambast it by making a huge issue of its price. And then they actually "recommend" a browser that none of their Windows-using readers could use even if they wanted. (As if any of them know how to find BasiliskII, much less the necessary Macintosh ROM needed to use it.)
In other words, the review is anti-Opera FUD.
...or links
...or w3m
...or wannaBe^2
The reason iCab doesn't enable scripting by default is because it is still about 60% broken. The "2.1" version number is deceptive as iCab has never had an official, non-beta release.
And I take issue with the comment about iCab being the "ugliest of the lot". iCab is actually has my favorite interface of any browser simply because it adds only a button bar. No panes, no popup menus, no gizmos cluttering up your screen. This was especially welcome when I first started using it on a measly 640x480 screen -- try using Mozilla with that little real estate.
But the real reason to applaud iCab is that it's just done right. Between the plethora of options (the reviewer seemed to not notice the cookie filtering), utter lack of bloat, and an impressive level of support for MacOS technologies (drag-and-drop, contextual menus, data detectors, keychain, internet config). But also, even though that page only provided a PPC download link, iCab runs marvelously on 68k Macs. I can't comment on the speed though, since my Mac is only 25MHz (and Basilisk ain't much better). But I suspect the fault is more that of MacOS than iCab.
Incidentally, I think they should've recommended Opera. As I said before, iCab is still only pre-release. And it seems they only faulted Opera for costing money. Well, the iCab guys have all but promised that they will be charging for the full release. iCab still has a lot that needs to improve, such as scripting and plug-ins. Meanwhile Opera has a more-than-competent scripting support and handles email and news, and of course a larger audience (including nascent Mac support).
Seems like the reviewer spent too much time fiddling with preferences to notice that iCab is incomplete. I agree that all other browsers could learn a lot from iCab. (Hey Mozilla guys! You've got filtering in there, but what's the point if I can't edit the filtering rules?) But it's not that good form to recommend a beta product for Macintosh to an audience that's looking for a full-featured release product on Windows.
Maybe /. should start wrapping links with the akamai trick so they are automatically cached.
is /usr/bin/tcsh okay?
/usr/bin/bash
Anyway, I'd rather use
ObTopic: So, if the heroine were to convert to Christianity, I guess she'd be a "Born-again Ash" too. <rimshot>
Well, there is at least one case where a book gained a bit whilst being exported from the UK to US, and that's Douglas Adams's "Life, the Universe, and Everything." For some confusing, complicated reason that nobody seems to remember, two chapters were left out when it went to press. Then when the US version was done, Adams managed to get them back in as an epilogue; and later UK versions also contain them.
There's also one other difference between the US and UK versions, but I don't remember why this is (or even if there is any reason), but the whole bit at the party with the guy who won a Rory for The Most Gratuitous Usage of the word "Belgium" in a Serious Screenplay, in the UK version the word was changed to just "Fuck" and a large chunk of humour excised in the process.
Yes, I became desensitized to the unforsakable "You must restart your computer for changes to take effect" dialog that I sought out and learned the trick of holding down shift as you click "OK" in the restart dialog to only restart Windows, and not reboot. So I got in the habit of telling Windows, "No, dammit, I don't want to restart now!" and later, when I finished all my finagling, do a quick restart. I kept this up until very recently, using 98se, when I once clicked on "Yes" and lo-and-behold, Windows was smart (sic) enough to do a quick restart on its own. 'Course, I don't think it does so when changing the display adapterr.
;-)
Okay, sure, quick restarts are nothing compared to `killall -HUP inetd` (or similar procedures in BeOS), but what do you expect from an OS that doesn't even know the difference between a device and a regular file. (Ever try renaming something to 'NUL'?)
The only other saving grace is that often, particularly with the Network cpanel, the message to restart is just a suggestion, and not a requirement. I've ignored it plenty of times after changing, say, DNS, and it accepts the changes without restarting. Sure, you'd probably want to fit in a restart sometime in the not-too-distant future, but this *is* Windows we're talking about -- it'll eventually schedule a restart whether you like it or not.
As for your video card troubles, why are you bothering with Detonator3 for a TNT2? I don't know of any significant changes in the TNT portion since Detonator2. In fact, a few benchmarks show a decrease in performance for older cards. I've settled on 5.33 for my TNT, and am leaving the 6.x< for the GeForce and beyond.
What you were thinking of is Basilisk II. Of course, as with any Mac emulator, you need a (preferebly legal) ROM image to run it. Basilisk will take any 512k or greater ROM, and I think it has to be 32-bit clean (so SE/30 or earlier is out).
Oh, I think you dropped this, </a>
What's the ratio of people in the US who rent/lease a home to those who own? And of those owners, how many have a mortgage (which shouldn't, technically, be called "owning")? And how many of those people who actually do own their own home have taken a lien against it, or put it up for collateral so they could finance a new car or pay for some repairs? When you come right down to it, not only do pitifully few people in this country actually own their own home, but many of those who don't own are oblivious to the fact.
The writer doesn't seem to know which one to use, so he uses them both.
One mention each for RMS and ESR. No mention of GNU, FSF, and he calls Linux an "experimental unix".
I do not envy the flames this article is going to receive.
"Presidential Committee Recommends Research for Open Sores"
That level of perfectionism does sound absurd, but then I remembered how many of my lego pieces ended up with teeth marks on them. (Sometimes, that's the only way to get it apart.) In retrospect, I can see how anything cheaper would have broken much too quickly.
/. pretty often lately. Makes me wonder, is there anybody alive who hasn't ever played with legos? (Well, outside of underdeveloped countries, naturally.)
Lego has been showing up on
Okay, I found it. See, I had skipped over the parables because they are, by definition, allegorical (and thus not to be interpreted literally). My interpretion is that he is speaking of other people who have strayed from the "flock" (believers), but are still "his" (he is their god), so he must search them out and bring them "back into the fold" (make them believe). So not much to support the knowledge of extra-terrestrial life. (But, in the vague, enigmatic way that is the bible, not denying it either.)
I also recall talking with a Morman some years back and he mentioned that the Book of Morman talks about God's "other children" or something like that. But I've read pitifully little of BoM so I can't say for certain if that's true or the guy was a nut-job. (But aren't all Mormans?)
Oh, most definitely. There's no doubting that!
IANARA (... Radio Astronomer), but that sounds like they were using paralax to do stereo imaging. The new dish can probably do the same thing, except using the movable panels to shift the reflector (so it'll be quieter).
Tazmanian Tigers? I don't believe they exist.
Just found this article today at the NYTimes (with that silly registration thing). Basically, a guy in Germany came up with the exremely clueful idea that we should be looking for conditions that favor a process of metabolism, rather (or in addition to) merely playing witch's brew with an inert mixture of chemicals, and hoping that the molecules will suddenly start dancing a petri waltz.
Read the article, or look it up someplace else. A report in Science by Dr. George D. Cody. And the original theory was proposed by Dr. Günther Wächtershäuser.
Oh, and absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Just wanted to remind everyone of that.
Uhm.... Reference please? I couldn't find anything resembling this in my bible (Today's English Version).
As to the original tro... poster's remark. Yeah, and I'm sure he would have been sure to mention that the Earth orbits the Sun, which is itself in orbit with the Milky Way galaxy. Oh, except he didn't... too bad for Galileo.
Ohyeah? I'd like to see somone enter using Brainf*ck! Or at least Befunge.
Bragging rights... hell, I would worship anyone who did this. (And I'm talking virgin sacrifices, et. al.)
I think it's already been done
http://www.penny-arcade.com/v iew.php3?date=2000-08-09
Funny how up until not much less than a year ago, the big deal was supposed to be "thin-clients" and "network computing".
I'd like to propose a corollary to Moore's Law: The direction of trends and buzzwords will reverse every 16-18 months.
I expect that pretty soon MS will start emphasizing that DotNet will allow easier person-to-person sharing of files rather than the centralized management features.