Well, here I go, mod me offtopic but I noticed SlashDot wont let me reload a page... at least not directly.
I am using Firefox 1.0+ and after I load a page in slashdot and click the reload button it gets disabled... I am using tabs so I just have to to another tab an return, and the reload is again enabled... is this normal???
Now, worst than that. Imagine what will happen if for some, any reason your data is lost in their servers.
Of course, as the EULA will state, the service goes with no warrantay and AS IS. So after that you will just be screwed.
And there you have another point, I sincerely preffer to buy a house than to rent it, if I rent software, they will have me grabbed-by-the-b4115 until I die, and surely DRMd in some way. It is similar to iTunes, once they grab you, you pay, or scream...
Sincerely I think that approach is just useful as sun approach, for "processing" tasks, no information storing or "application rental"
In some way, I agree with GP, NeroLinux is the first attempt by Ahead to a Linux-burning software. I think they may been only testing the ground (and market) to see how may people use his program in Linux.
I have not seen NeroLinux working but, I guess that appart from "brand recognition" one thing I will search is similar interface, if NeroLinux has a similar interface than Nero for windows then I will surely use it because I am familiar with it, and I think several people will use because of this. I have seen people that does not want to use OOo just because the File/configure page option is in Format menu (Format Page i think), now this IS better but, they are used to the MS stupid way...
As for the lack of options, well, as some other poster said, some people just want to burn something! and the most straightforward way they have it, the better.
You see, for some people, if they open a program and then they see a window with different panels (file system tree, current selected folder option and CD compilation information), they just stare at the screen and say now what?, so thats why Wizzards came in, you tell the computer what you want to burn, you add your files and you start burning, KISS.
Again, Ahead is a profitting company so I guess they are only testing the ground, and after that they may put out a full featured version at some cost.
And, in my opinion, it is great for companies to make software, (does not matter if it is closed, or if it does not have all the options as in other OS), if more and more companies start developing Linux software then we have more and more closed and you-must-buy software for linux, so people wont get scared because "they dont have to pay for it!" (believe I know ppl that think that because something is all free then there must be a catch).
What would you say if there was a single player version of Halo 2(i kno, i kno... its microsoft but, it is just an example). You will say it sucks?, well I wont think so, because the OS community could hack around it and add some "extra value" for the game so people would want to change to Linux.
I totally agree with you, you see, I have a kind of addiction for a game called Tactics Arena, I started like a year ago, and now, I am in my PhD, and well, it takes me a lot of effort to just stop playing the darn thing...
During High School and University I smoked, I usually smoked with my friends at the Uni and at some parties, but I never smoked more than 3 cigars a day (and not every day), but one time I thought, what the heck I dont do any excersice and I smoke, I wont get to 35! so I just stopped smoking, and yep, unlike this TacticsAO game I could do it without effort.
To me you know you are addict when you realize you cant really get out of it...
They say they will end the production of the Mozilla suite but, in fact, that wont happen, anyone can just get the sourcecode and as others have said, fork it.
I only wonder if someone would really like to stand as the project leader and officially the contact for the "outside world", because of the big monster that Mozilla had become.
Talking about instructions: . En un secador de pelo de Sears: NO USAR MIENTRAS SE DUERME. (Vaya! Precisamente el momento del día que suelo dedicar a mi cabello) 2. En una bolsa de Fritos: PUEDES RESULTAR GANADOR! NO SE REQUIERE NINGUNA COMPRA!BUSCA EN EL INTERIOR! (Vaya! Un regalo para chorizos) 3. En una caja de jabón Dial: INDICACIONES: UTILIZAR COMO JABÓN NORMAL. (Y eso cómo es?) 4. En algunas comidas congeladas Swan: "SUGERENCIA PARA SERVIR: DESCONGELAR PRIMERO." (Pero recuerda, sólo es una sugerencia) 5. En un hotel que proporcionaba un gorro para la ducha en una caja: "VALE PARA UNA CABEZA" (?????) 6. En el postre de Tiramisú de la marca Tesco (impreso en la parte de abajo de la caja): "NO VOLTEAR EL ENVASE." (Oooohhh! Demasiado tarde! Has perdido! Este me encanta) 7. En el pudding de Mark&Spencer: ATENCIÓN: EL PRODUCTO ESTARÁ CALIENTE DESPUÉS DE CALENTARLO. (Seguro?)(Experimentamos?) 8. En un paquete de una plancha Rowenta: NO PLANCHAR LA ROPA SOBRE EL CUERPO. (El de quién?) 9. En una medicina contra el catarro para niños de Boot: NO CONDUZCA AUTOMÓVILES NI MANEJE MAQUINARIA PESADA DESPUÉS DE USAR ESTE MEDICAMENTO. (Podríamos reducir un montón de accidentes de la construcción si consiguiéramos mantener alejados de las palas excavadoras a esos individuos de 5 años) 10. En las pastillas para dormir de Nytol: ADVERTENCIA: PUEDE PRODUCIR SOMNOLENCIA. (Hombre, eso espero!) 11. En un cuchillo de cocina coreano (Ging Su): IMPORTANTE: MANTENER FUERA DEL ALCANCE DE LOS NIÑOS Y LAS MASCOTAS (!!!!!! Pero qué clase de mascotas tiene la gente en Corea?) 12. En una tira de luces de Navidad fabricadas en China: SÓLO PARA USAR EN EL INTERIOR O EN EL EXTERIOR. (Ojo, única y exclusivamente) 13. En los cacahuates de Sainsbury: AVISO: CONTIENE CACAHUATES. (Trabajará Enrique Iglesias para Sainsbury?) 14. En un paquete de frutos secos de American Airlines: INSTRUCCIONES: ABRIR EL PAQUETE, COMER LOS FRUTOS SECOS. (Bueno, tengamos en cuenta que en sus aviones viajan personas de muy diferentes culturas y costumbres) 15. En una sierra eléctrica sueca: NO INTENTE DETENER LA SIERRA CON LAS MANOS. (Sin palabras!!!!!!!!)
For your delight... I translated some of them: 1. In a Sears hair dryer: Do not use while slpeeping 2. In a Fritos chips bag: You could be a winner! No buying is required! Look inside the bag! 3. In a box of Dial Soap: Instructions: Use as normal soap. 4. In some Swan frozen food: Serving suggestion: Unfreeze first. 6. In a Tesco dessert box (printed in the bottom side of the box): "Do not turn the package" 7. In the Mark & Spencer pudding: Attention the product will be hot after heating 8. In a package of a Roventa ironer: Do not iron the clothes over the body. 11. In a kitchen knife from korea: Important: keep out of the reach of children and mascots. 13. In the Sainsbury peanuts: Attention: Contains penauts.
If the problem is with bandwidth use, why are you bringing the law into this? Filter it because it soaks up all your bandwidth, don't make up stupid excuses like "it's illegal" when it's not true.
Or he could only limit the bandwith of the default ports...
I think there is nothing confusing here, the Library does not sell information, it only lets the people get it.
Now, I dont really know how the libraries work (about the law) if they have only to buy the books/videos/cds or they need to pay to have the "right" to share it with the citizens
Ok, I read it. It is really interesting but I think it wont be possible to use that software if I am to sell it "the right way". Because I think there are some uses with breaking the DRM lock (or whatever that means)of a file and that is in itself ilegal (i remember a story in/. about someone who downloaded a song from iTunes with only silence and break the DRM and published it on the internet).
I think I did not understood your post, you are telling me that by law *i am not allowed to sell my own CD*?? (I ask it sincerely) now, I know that depends in the country I am. Here is when I would like to know some law...
Sincerely, I have bought some albums from allofmp3, I downloaded iTunes but, well, they do not have the music i like (stratovarius, symphony x, children of boddom, etc etc) and he music is really expensive.
But I would like to make an experiment, what do you do when you buy a CD and you do not like it?? I usually sell it, dont you?
Is it possible to make the same thing with a music from iTunes? it must be, because I am paying for the right of the song no? after I pay for them, they are my bytes! and only mine! does anyone know anything behind this?
well, I posted another other interesint thoughts here
but well, i guess my karma is not good so people does not hear me in this soup opera called slashdot...
btw. sorry for all the spelling erros and horrors... here its 2:00 am... and I need to finish a frigging article =oS I guess I should not been reading/. at all
I seriously think that the problem is the *AA are trying to focus the problem in a way better to them.
This is, every time I read that making a copy of some copyrighted material is illegal or about how sharing a file is Illegal and all the similarties that people try to find with other "Real Life" examples like this Wall Mart example, I think they are all wrong.
I personally think that, the way music/video and EVERY other kind of information should be treated is like books.
You see, before Internet was broadly adopted as medium for trading copyrighted material THE place where you could get some of those CD's, videos or other places where libraries, same as books (I personally use P2P networks to get books).
Now, when you go to a library, lets say you get a book, you dont pay anything. In Mexico, you can take that book to a stationary shop and ask them to copy it (all of it, from cover to cover) I dont know if it is not legal but, anyway you can do it.
IIRC, in the US they can not do that, but you can ALWAYS go to your house, turn on your Xerox (or scanner/printer) and make a copy for yourself.
I am going to the main point now, if instead of a book, I get a CD, what is the difference? I guess there are libraries with lots of musical material (and here in the UK, my library has lots of videos, which I can get and RIP).
Now, the *AA's are suing people who is sharing that material, but according to that, shouldnt they sue libraries to? they are sharing more than a lot of people! maybe its not online but, it IS the same.
It is up to you, if you go there and get the movie, and you can always copy it and return it so as someone else said, no one loses anything because at the end you wont copy it.
So, what if for example, I open a "Digital Library", with all the "E-books", some videos and audio available. What is the difference between that an the normal library? In that library, I offer all those books and everything for free (I have paid for all and everyone of them, as libraries do or maybe someone who owned the e-book, cd, etc donated it).
So, I am not doing anything bad or am I? Any user could come to my library and get whatever item is currently available.
For me that raises another question. If in that library I have music, and well, I buy a some music from iTunes, and I want to make it available, I cant do it can I?.
And, one last thing is, when I buy a CD/DVD I watch it, and after several plays, I can sell it. What if I buy a CD in iTunes?? I again, can not do that (at least I cant but if it is possible, correct me).
This gives me an Idea, ok, imagine I buy a CD in iTunes, and listen to it, but at the end, i dont like it. What should I do with MY cd? I dont want it, I want to sell it, so, could I go to Ebay and sell it?
Because all o the things I mentioned before and others I think what this **AA just wanting to screw the people. And personally think that record labels are also trying to screw musicians, and they should be independent (something as that Stinger thing Valve did) and sell their music on the internet. At the end, they could sell their music directly via iTunes, allofmp3 or any other place without having to pay all the royalties to those darn corporations.
That is funny but what about owning an Xbox? and connecting it to a normal monitor?. It theoretically has all the abilities as a computer but it is a Gaming Console isnt it?
Or maybe by that date I will be able to surf the net and run Winamp Shoutcast with my cell phone so will they have to "tax" any device?
Well, sorry for replying to myself... this may be moded down offtopic into oblivion, but... "To remember is to live, and everyone wants to live more" so, do you remember any of these pages? or have you ever wondered how was Slashdot back in 1997?? what about ebay or oooh... the good now defunct Hotmail
in 1996...
I am thinking in other good sites to look at (oh yeah, look at Google and Apple in 1996.
That is a cool page, it is interesting to see how the Yahoo! homepage has evolved from the one you show until what it is today, I was curious(??) and went to The Archive of course, between months there is not much difference, but what about between each year!
The sad thing, is that the archive only have yahoo! pages from 1996...
Great page that, but, I think they have already been good results in Autonomous Combat - Computer Generated Corces research which yielded quite good results in '97.
Now, about the Asimov's 1st rule... darn Americans.. . they will drive us to oblivion...
I think the Eclipse platform has a great Java Debbuger, I used while making an app with something called JADE (java agent development kit) which spawn 1 thread per agent, and I had to work with lots of agents/threads (more than 10).
I found the debbuger useful when debbuging these threads, and of course, you could also try to
write your own debbuger
Mod me offtopic if you like but parent gave me a cool idea.
I am in the AI/game research field, and well, every new AI book I read tells that the new groundbreaking technology for games is AI, because now graphics are really advanced etc etc etc.
Now, I am wondering, maybe in a few years there will be some sort of "AI" card. I am thinking in a PCI card which will provide games with some sort of capability to execute AI routines (of course outside the PC).
Now, being paranoic, I should not have posted this here, if I wanted to make som 1,2,3... proffit with this.
What a game using this card will need is to separate the "normal" AI and the "Improved" AI, and of course this special Card should need an appropiate API (maybe the guys at OpenAI would get things going again...).
Is there anything like this now?? at least for testing?.
I think parent have a point, I would mod you up if I had points.
I told my father to download Knoppix (we dont live near) so he could try this "Linux" thing, now he started to use Knoppix just for fun, and he liked it but after some time he has told me he does not want to use it from the CD, and asked me if there was a way to put it in the computer (I am using his own words... ok?).
Now, I know I just can not tell him to do what the GP wrote, he will be more than lost and he will just trhow away his Knoppix CD... he has windows in his current machine, with all his files etc etc.
I told him about installing Mandrake or other OS, but he told me he wanted this Knoppix because he was used to it.
So, well, I think yes, parent has a point, there could be an easy way to install it. (I can tell my father to resize his partition using Partition Magic, so its no problem for dual booting).
Well, I think there's a missing option in all the posts I have seen in this thread, It could be possible for you to create software A which uses B and C, but just DO NOT distribute B+C, and only A, and let the other people (users) to get BC when they need them.
This way you need to make A quite modular in order to "interact" with B and C, and if you like you could also modify (GPL'd of course) BC in some way to "interact" with your program.
Something like if MSOffice would allow Save As.SXW files, just for interoperability with 'other' software.
If weather and driving directions are all they have in there bag of goodies then they do NOT have much longer to live.
I point you to Google Maps. http://maps.google.com/
And I point you to :
Map24
Its far better than Gmap AND it has more than US maps... for us [un]fortunately living outside US.
Slashdot Mirror
.do you have some weird extensions installed?
.2
...
lol, excepting:
OpenDownload 0.2.1
Adblock v.5 d2
Disable Targets for downloads 0.8
User Agent Switcher 0.6.1
Image-show-hide 0.1.4.4
lasttab 1.1
miniT 0.4
QuickTabPrefToggle 0.0.4
Tabbrowser prefferences 1.2.2
FlashBlock 1.3.0.1
Disable targets for downloads 0.9
Nuke Anything 0.2
Tab Clicking options 0.5
Download manager tweak 0.5
Extended status bar 1.1
Session Saver
Tab X 0.5a Ultra
FlashGot 0.5.7.7
SpellBound 0.7.3
OpenDownload 0.2.1
I do not know what could be making a conflict... =OS
Now, being serious, it is strange that it only happens in slashdot pages
Well, here I go, mod me offtopic but I noticed SlashDot wont let me reload a page... at least not directly.
I am using Firefox 1.0+ and after I load a page in slashdot and click the reload button it gets disabled... I am using tabs so I just have to to another tab an return, and the reload is again enabled... is this normal???
Now, worst than that. Imagine what will happen if for some, any reason your data is lost in their servers.
Of course, as the EULA will state, the service goes with no warrantay and AS IS. So after that you will just be screwed.
And there you have another point, I sincerely preffer to buy a house than to rent it, if I rent software, they will have me grabbed-by-the-b4115 until I die, and surely DRMd in some way. It is similar to iTunes, once they grab you, you pay, or scream...
Sincerely I think that approach is just useful as sun approach, for "processing" tasks, no information storing or "application rental"
In some way, I agree with GP, NeroLinux is the first attempt by Ahead to a Linux-burning software. I think they may been only testing the ground (and market) to see how may people use his program in Linux.
I have not seen NeroLinux working but, I guess that appart from "brand recognition" one thing I will search is similar interface, if NeroLinux has a similar interface than Nero for windows then I will surely use it because I am familiar with it, and I think several people will use because of this. I have seen people that does not want to use OOo just because the File/configure page option is in Format menu (Format Page i think), now this IS better but, they are used to the MS stupid way...
As for the lack of options, well, as some other poster said, some people just want to burn something! and the most straightforward way they have it, the better.
You see, for some people, if they open a program and then they see a window with different panels (file system tree, current selected folder option and CD compilation information), they just stare at the screen and say now what?, so thats why Wizzards came in, you tell the computer what you want to burn, you add your files and you start burning, KISS.
Again, Ahead is a profitting company so I guess they are only testing the ground, and after that they may put out a full featured version at some cost.
And, in my opinion, it is great for companies to make software, (does not matter if it is closed, or if it does not have all the options as in other OS), if more and more companies start developing Linux software then we have more and more closed and you-must-buy software for linux, so people wont get scared because "they dont have to pay for it!" (believe I know ppl that think that because something is all free then there must be a catch).
What would you say if there was a single player version of Halo 2(i kno, i kno... its microsoft but, it is just an example). You will say it sucks?, well I wont think so, because the OS community could hack around it and add some "extra value" for the game so people would want to change to Linux.
I totally agree with you, you see, I have a kind of addiction for a game called Tactics Arena, I started like a year ago, and now, I am in my PhD, and well, it takes me a lot of effort to just stop playing the darn thing...
During High School and University I smoked, I usually smoked with my friends at the Uni and at some parties, but I never smoked more than 3 cigars a day (and not every day), but one time I thought, what the heck I dont do any excersice and I smoke, I wont get to 35! so I just stopped smoking, and yep, unlike this TacticsAO game I could do it without effort.
To me you know you are addict when you realize you cant really get out of it...
This story reminds me about the Phrack final issue story.
They say they will end the production of the Mozilla suite but, in fact, that wont happen, anyone can just get the sourcecode and as others have said, fork it.
I only wonder if someone would really like to stand as the project leader and officially the contact for the "outside world", because of the big monster that Mozilla had become.
Talking about instructions:
. En un secador de pelo de Sears: NO USAR MIENTRAS SE DUERME. (Vaya! Precisamente el momento del día que suelo dedicar a mi cabello)
2. En una bolsa de Fritos: PUEDES RESULTAR GANADOR! NO SE REQUIERE NINGUNA COMPRA!BUSCA EN EL INTERIOR! (Vaya! Un regalo para chorizos)
3. En una caja de jabón Dial: INDICACIONES: UTILIZAR COMO JABÓN NORMAL. (Y eso cómo es?)
4. En algunas comidas congeladas Swan: "SUGERENCIA PARA SERVIR: DESCONGELAR PRIMERO." (Pero recuerda, sólo es una sugerencia)
5. En un hotel que proporcionaba un gorro para la ducha en una caja: "VALE PARA UNA CABEZA" (?????)
6. En el postre de Tiramisú de la marca Tesco (impreso en la parte de abajo de la caja): "NO VOLTEAR EL ENVASE." (Oooohhh! Demasiado tarde! Has perdido! Este me encanta)
7. En el pudding de Mark&Spencer: ATENCIÓN: EL PRODUCTO ESTARÁ CALIENTE DESPUÉS DE CALENTARLO. (Seguro?)(Experimentamos?)
8. En un paquete de una plancha Rowenta: NO PLANCHAR LA ROPA SOBRE EL CUERPO. (El de quién?)
9. En una medicina contra el catarro para niños de Boot: NO CONDUZCA AUTOMÓVILES NI MANEJE MAQUINARIA PESADA DESPUÉS DE USAR ESTE MEDICAMENTO. (Podríamos reducir un montón de accidentes de la construcción si consiguiéramos mantener alejados de las palas excavadoras a esos individuos de 5 años)
10. En las pastillas para dormir de Nytol: ADVERTENCIA: PUEDE PRODUCIR SOMNOLENCIA. (Hombre, eso espero!)
11. En un cuchillo de cocina coreano (Ging Su): IMPORTANTE: MANTENER FUERA DEL ALCANCE DE LOS NIÑOS Y LAS MASCOTAS (!!!!!! Pero qué clase de mascotas tiene la gente en Corea?)
12. En una tira de luces de Navidad fabricadas en China: SÓLO PARA USAR EN EL INTERIOR O EN EL EXTERIOR. (Ojo, única y exclusivamente)
13. En los cacahuates de Sainsbury: AVISO: CONTIENE CACAHUATES. (Trabajará Enrique Iglesias para Sainsbury?)
14. En un paquete de frutos secos de American Airlines: INSTRUCCIONES: ABRIR EL PAQUETE, COMER LOS FRUTOS SECOS. (Bueno, tengamos en cuenta que en sus aviones viajan personas de muy diferentes culturas y costumbres)
15. En una sierra eléctrica sueca: NO INTENTE DETENER LA SIERRA CON LAS MANOS. (Sin palabras!!!!!!!!)
For your delight... I translated some of them:
1. In a Sears hair dryer: Do not use while slpeeping
2. In a Fritos chips bag: You could be a winner! No buying is required! Look inside the bag!
3. In a box of Dial Soap: Instructions: Use as normal soap.
4. In some Swan frozen food: Serving suggestion: Unfreeze first.
6. In a Tesco dessert box (printed in the bottom side of the box): "Do not turn
the package"
7. In the Mark & Spencer pudding: Attention the product will be hot after
heating
8. In a package of a Roventa ironer: Do not iron the clothes over the body.
11. In a kitchen knife from korea: Important: keep out of the reach of children
and mascots.
13. In the Sainsbury peanuts: Attention: Contains penauts.
If the problem is with bandwidth use, why are you bringing the law into this? Filter it because it soaks up all your bandwidth, don't make up stupid excuses like "it's illegal" when it's not true.
Or he could only limit the bandwith of the default ports...
Amazon==Bookstore != Library
I think there is nothing confusing here, the Library does not sell information, it only lets the people get it.
Now, I dont really know how the libraries work (about the law) if they have only to buy the books/videos/cds or they need to pay to have the "right" to share it with the citizens
Ok, I read it. It is really interesting but I think it wont be possible to use that software if I am to sell it "the right way". Because I think there are some uses with breaking the DRM lock (or whatever that means)of a file and that is in itself ilegal (i remember a story in /. about someone who downloaded a song from iTunes with only silence and break the DRM and published it on the internet).
I think I did not understood your post, you are telling me that by law *i am not allowed to sell my own CD*?? (I ask it sincerely) now, I know that depends in the country I am. Here is when I would like to know some law...
Anyway, thanks for the link
Please, repeat with me:
C#
is not a Microsoft product
Sincerely, I have bought some albums from allofmp3, I downloaded iTunes but, well, they do not have the music i like (stratovarius, symphony x, children of boddom, etc etc) and he music is really expensive.
But I would like to make an experiment, what do you do when you buy a CD and you do not like it?? I usually sell it, dont you?
Is it possible to make the same thing with a music from iTunes? it must be, because I am paying for the right of the song no? after I pay for them, they are my bytes! and only mine! does anyone know anything behind this?
well, I posted another other interesint thoughts here but well, i guess my karma is not good so people does not hear me in this soup opera called slashdot...
btw. sorry for all the spelling erros and horrors... here its 2:00 am... and I need to finish a frigging article =oS I guess I should not been reading /. at all
I seriously think that the problem is the *AA are trying to focus the problem in a way better to them.
This is, every time I read that making a copy of some copyrighted material is illegal or about how sharing a file is Illegal and all the similarties that people try to find with other "Real Life" examples like this Wall Mart example, I think they are all wrong.
I personally think that, the way music/video and EVERY other kind of information should be treated is like books.
You see, before Internet was broadly adopted as medium for trading copyrighted material THE place where you could get some of those CD's, videos or other places where libraries, same as books (I personally use P2P networks to get books).
Now, when you go to a library, lets say you get a book, you dont pay anything. In Mexico, you can take that book to a stationary shop and ask them to copy it (all of it, from cover to cover) I dont know if it is not legal but, anyway you can do it.
IIRC, in the US they can not do that, but you can ALWAYS go to your house, turn on your Xerox (or scanner/printer) and make a copy for yourself.
I am going to the main point now, if instead of a book, I get a CD, what is the difference? I guess there are libraries with lots of musical material (and here in the UK, my library has lots of videos, which I can get and RIP).
Now, the *AA's are suing people who is sharing that material, but according to that, shouldnt they sue libraries to? they are sharing more than a lot of people! maybe its not online but, it IS the same.
It is up to you, if you go there and get the movie, and you can always copy it and return it so as someone else said, no one loses anything because at the end you wont copy it.
So, what if for example, I open a "Digital Library", with all the "E-books", some videos and audio available. What is the difference between that an the normal library? In that library, I offer all those books and everything for free (I have paid for all and everyone of them, as libraries do or maybe someone who owned the e-book, cd, etc donated it).
So, I am not doing anything bad or am I?
Any user could come to my library and get whatever item is currently available.
For me that raises another question. If in that library I have music, and well, I buy a some music from iTunes, and I want to make it available, I cant do it can I?.
And, one last thing is, when I buy a CD/DVD I watch it, and after several plays, I can sell it. What if I buy a CD in iTunes?? I again, can not do that (at least I cant but if it is possible, correct me).
This gives me an Idea, ok, imagine I buy a CD in iTunes, and listen to it, but at the end, i dont like it. What should I do with MY cd? I dont want it, I want to sell it, so, could I go to Ebay and sell it?
Because all o the things I mentioned before and others I think what this **AA just wanting to screw the people. And personally think that record labels are also trying to screw musicians, and they should be independent (something as that Stinger thing Valve did) and sell their music on the internet. At the end, they could sell their music directly via iTunes, allofmp3 or any other place without having to pay all the royalties to those darn corporations.
Well, that where my $2 MXN.
mmm does anyone have a link??? =oP
That is funny but what about owning an Xbox? and connecting it to a normal monitor?. It theoretically has all the abilities as a computer but it is a Gaming Console isnt it?
Or maybe by that date I will be able to surf the net and run Winamp Shoutcast with my cell phone so will they have to "tax" any device?
Well, sorry for replying to myself... this may be moded down offtopic into oblivion, but... "To remember is to live, and everyone wants to live more" so, do you remember any of these pages? or have you ever wondered how was Slashdot back in 1997?? what about ebay or oooh... the good now defunct Hotmail in 1996...
I am thinking in other good sites to look at (oh yeah, look at Google and Apple in 1996.
Any other recommendation??
That is a cool page, it is interesting to see how the Yahoo! homepage has evolved from the one you show until what it is today, I was curious(??) and went to The Archive of course, between months there is not much difference, but what about between each year!
The sad thing, is that the archive only have yahoo! pages from 1996...
Great page that, but, I think they have already been good results in Autonomous Combat - Computer Generated Corces
research which yielded quite good results in '97.
Now, about the Asimov's 1st rule... darn Americans.. . they will drive us to oblivion...
I think the Eclipse platform has a great Java Debbuger, I used while making an app with something called JADE (java agent development kit) which spawn 1 thread per agent, and I had to work with lots of agents/threads (more than 10).
I found the debbuger useful when debbuging these threads, and of course, you could also try to write your own debbuger
Mod me offtopic if you like but parent gave me a cool idea.
I am in the AI/game research field, and well, every new AI book I read tells that the new groundbreaking technology for games is AI, because now graphics are really advanced etc etc etc.
Now, I am wondering, maybe in a few years there will be some sort of "AI" card. I am thinking in a PCI card which will provide games with some sort of capability to execute AI routines (of course outside the PC).
Now, being paranoic, I should not have posted this here, if I wanted to make som 1,2,3... proffit with this.
What a game using this card will need is to separate the "normal" AI and the "Improved" AI, and of course this special Card should need an appropiate API (maybe the guys at OpenAI would get things going again...).
Is there anything like this now?? at least for testing?.
I think parent have a point, I would mod you up if I had points. I told my father to download Knoppix (we dont live near) so he could try this "Linux" thing, now he started to use Knoppix just for fun, and he liked it but after some time he has told me he does not want to use it from the CD, and asked me if there was a way to put it in the computer (I am using his own words... ok?). Now, I know I just can not tell him to do what the GP wrote, he will be more than lost and he will just trhow away his Knoppix CD... he has windows in his current machine, with all his files etc etc. I told him about installing Mandrake or other OS, but he told me he wanted this Knoppix because he was used to it. So, well, I think yes, parent has a point, there could be an easy way to install it. (I can tell my father to resize his partition using Partition Magic, so its no problem for dual booting).
LOL mod parent up Funny!!! =OD I personally dont have anything against Italy but well, you know...
Well, I think there's a missing option in all the posts I have seen in this thread, It could be possible for you to create software A which uses B and C, but just DO NOT distribute B+C, and only A, and let the other people (users) to get BC when they need them.
.SXW files, just for interoperability with 'other' software.
This way you need to make A quite modular in order to "interact" with B and C, and if you like you could also modify (GPL'd of course) BC in some way to "interact" with your program.
Something like if MSOffice would allow Save As
If weather and driving directions are all they have in there bag of goodies then they do NOT have much longer to live.
I point you to Google Maps. http://maps.google.com/
And I point you to : Map24 Its far better than Gmap AND it has more than US maps... for us [un]fortunately living outside US.