Where are you getting a license for the software to begin with?
You get a copy of MacOS with your Mac. Assuming you take it off your Mac, wipe the hard drive, and then install your one copy elsewhere, it might be legal. I'd have to read the EULA.
But 99% of EULA's out there allow for one copy on one PC for your license, and if you have MacOS, it is because it is already on your Mac. Putting on any other PC via any other means would be illegal.
Given that there isn't a legally released MacOS X86 for non Mac hardware, then virtualization licenses don't really apply. If you can install MacOS on your hardware, then I'm pretty sure you can install it via VMWare or a similiar option, but it won't be legal.
Don't kopete and gaim both support AOL/ICQ style chats, MSN style chats and IRC? I don't really use either much for lack of time, so I can't say that I've bothered trying Yahoo-style chats.
I am also a very big fan of Malhavoc. That is how I became a fan of PDF books for roleplaying in the first place. I also think Monte Cook's classes are better than the core classes.
Most of these are already online as PDFs with no DRM. I have quite a few of them. Mind you I have quite a few books in hardcover, but I also download a PDF version since so many damned players kept borrowing books and never returned them. When I play, I want a book infront of me. If a player wants a book, I email them a PDF version.
And there is no reason why the PDF versions should be full price.
As a country, does the United States really manufacture anything besides ideas anymore? If intellectual property weren't property, we'd be even more screwed than we are. Conversely, if a global government actually enforced IP laws, the US would be beyond rich.
I've enjoyed many a Nintendo game over the years, though my N64 and GameCube largely gathered dust over the years. I love the concept of force feedback and an analog control. Both were very poorly executed by Nintendo with the N64.
I have a special flight-stick I bought 10 years ago at a computer show. It has floating ball bearings that can sense how you move it through the air. You move the flight stick to the left in air, and your shop moves to the left. So I've been playing with a controller like this for some time. I loved it with X-Wing for about a month, and then it got old.
Nintendo's Wii controller requires you to setup two sensors on the side of your TV which I don't care for. And I'm not sure that game designers will know how to implement this well. Meanwhile, Sony's attempt at copying the technology is both better and worse. The sensor is much more simple. Some feel it is weak. However the advantages are two fold. One, it is in a normal controller than I already enjoy as opposed to a remote shape that I'm concerned about when playing normal games, especially using the virtual console. Secondly, the sensor is in the controller rather than attaching two sensors to my TV.
I'm still reserving judgement until I play with both in my hand. However, 4 years from now, we might either look back and call the Wii a fad/gimmick or pure brilliance. Both are very much distinct possibilities.
Our courts are being tied up with silly lawsuits over patents all day long. Only large companies prosper, while end-users often get the shaft as would be competetors have their products ripped off the shelves.
Isn't it about time for some serious reform on patents and copyrights? How do we protect intellectual property without going absurd?
99% of the worlds viruses and spyware programs run exclusively on Windows. Windows Vista will still execute, and is still vulnerable to these programs. Other Operating Systems are not. This IMMEDIATELY disqualifies any OS that runs Windows 2k/XP apps from being the most secure OS.
ActiveX is still a big part of Vista and IE.
And in early reports on Longhorn they talked about a big part of the new Windows API to allow for a full Windows app to run remotely over a server without even needing to be installed on the PC in the first place. First off, this technology already existed before and was multiplatform. It was called Java. While I haven't heard much about this since the Longhorn days, this really, really scares me.
Windows Defender will stop a program from being installed without your knowledge, but if code can be executed without being installed, how do you protect yourself?
I buy every major console release in every generation. I am not an overt fan on any one system or company.
First off, I don't think the Wii should be in the same discussion as the PS3 or XBox 360. I may happen to buy one if there are games I want to play on the console. However, the cold hard facts are that graphics sell games. A game that looks good will be talked about, and purchased. If Nintendo is smart, they will use style over polygons with the Wii so that their titles will look good. But at the moment, the Wii does not strike me as being next-generation when it is only now approaching the pixel-power of the Xbox, a current-generation console.
If you want to draw a truly fair comparison between the 360 and the PS3, I'm not sure why people compare a $300 price-point to a $600 price point. The $300 360's features do not compare to the $600 PS3. It is an obvious manipulative tactic.
A considerably more fair comparison is the $400 360 which has a HDD to the $500 PS3. Neither unit has HDMI, and both have HDDs. The 360 is out today, is very tangible, has a decent selection of games, and is cheaper. The PS3 has more power, has Sony's name behind it (for better or worse), is likely to offer free online play (and likely to charge however for most if not all downloadable content) and can play hi-def movies.
I am a fan of BluRay. I like having more storage from a PC perspective. I like pushing 1080p. I fully admit that some of Sony's formats in the past have been bad. (Beta was good, but lost despite being a superior format. MiniDiscs were good, but never marketed well. Their audio file format I think was called TRAC or something, and was pretty stupid. UMD is new and the jury is still out. For a few months everyone loved it. If a PSP-redux comes out and UMD burners come out, the format could be salvageable). The fact remains that most of the industry is lending support to BluRay. There are only a total of 7,000 HD-DVD players sold so far in the world. Sony will likely ship 3 million PS3's in 3 months. That will be the end of that format war right there. Movie companies are going to release movies on a format that exists in people's homes. And while BluRay discs were supposed to be more expensive, right now BluRay movies cost the same as HD-DVD movies. Those are the facts.
I'm not sure why the anti-Sony crowd acts like BluRay is the only technology that will downsample if the movie industy decides to be dicks. That applies to both HD-DVD and BluRay. We'll see if the industry keeps to their promise and doesn't include the DRM tags until 2010. By then HDMI-equipped TVs and cheap players should be common anyway. If you want a hi-def movie player, the PS3 is a bargain. If you don't care, the 360 might be more appealing.
If you don't even own a HDTV, then I don't think you're getting the most out of either the 360 or the PS3 and perhaps you should stick with the current generation which is MUCH cheaper. (PS2 is currently outselling the 360. Maybe there is a reason).
Having a dog sidekick makes the list but for some reason interactive content doesn't?
You want to talk about mechanics that revolutionized gameplay. Here are some HUGE omissions from the list.
Pause Button Save Feature Online play Mod tools Creating dynamic content in game (like Sim Life or Spore) Musical Gameplay Force Feedback Analog Controls Alternate Endings Unlockable Content
But having a dog sidekick beat out all those things.
But Gnome is stripped down, simple and utilitarian. It seems to me like the type of desktop that appeals to a man. KDE is curvy, sexy, robust, customizable. It seems to me like the type of desktop that appeals to a woman.
Others have suggested finding an OSS project, which I want to add my support for. However you mentioned specifically that you need deadlines. For that I suggest finding a large project that puts out a roadmap and commits to releasing on schedule. I'm a fan of KDE, and right now they are developing KDE4 and porting all the KDE apps to QT4. There is plenty of work to do, and plenty of it can be done in reasonable clumps. Find a small app, convert it, and keep moving on. The QT4 framework seems pretty nifty and a nice thing to learn.
Personally, I'd love to see Shareaza ported to QT4. It is currently written on MFC, but none of the original developers are active anymore. The Shareaza team has discussed moving away from the MFC framework and rewritting the app for over 2 years, but no one has done it. QT4 would allow for the program to become multiplatform as opposed to being Windows only. It is the only P2P software package that I've seen that handles torrents, Gnutella, Gnutella2 and eDonkey all at the same time with a robust client. It allows you to easily configure discovery services, import security filters, the works. It truly is a great app, and you'd be my personal hero if you managed to port it.
Your logic is that this company is indebted to OpenBSD and must cater to the demands of OpenBSD.
What you miss is that most hardware manufacturers give limited support at best to the *Nix world. Those that release drivers often don't release full documentation or technical specs. This company is releasing that information, but because they are bound by very real laws in this country, they are asking you to fill out a form.
Truly that makes this company evil.
Again, I think people are blowing this way out of proportion. Be grateful that information is being released in the first place, and don't burn what bridges you do have. This is precisely the way to make sure your software doesn't get supported.
Actually export laws do exist regards to cryptography technology. Before you declare someone a liar perhaps you should research your facts.
"US laws, as currently interpreted by the US government, forbid export of most cryptographic software from the US in machine-readable form without government permission. In general, the restrictions apply even if the software is widely-disseminated or public-domain and even if it came from outside the US originally. Cryptography is legally a munition and export is tightly controlled under the EAR Export Administration Regulations."
I am a big fan of software preservation. However, if I only emulate the original copy would that be considered warez now that a new shiny version is back on retail shelves?
Honestly, I wonder if this might spin off a retro-trend in similiar twitch-movie gaming. I don't see why people couldn't make similiar games with DVD systems today. You just branch to various chapters on a disc and hit a button at precisely the right time.
Some of the articles that Slashdot links to requires me to sign up for a service just to read the article. I should publicly throw a fit over that as well. How dare Slashdot require me to give up private data to register for a website just to acquire information in return? This is outrageous! Do people know about this? Alert the press!
Seriously, this is being blown out of proportion. A company is required by law not to export this data outside of the US. You fill out a form and say that you live in the US and you get the data you're requesting. If you're really paranoid, you do what any smart person does and use a spam-email account and a fake address.
What I don't understand is why they just don't verify that you are in the US by IP address. Microsoft and Netscape used to do that when you downloaded browsers with 128-bit encryption or higher due to US Export laws.
Actually a document that is released freely in the public domain can be redistributed. The RIAA gets on people's cases about distributing something that was not released freely to begin with.
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Actually, because of voice and video support, my wife insists on having Yahoo Messenger side-by-side with Gaim. It is an extremely popular feature.
I think the Kopete and Gaim teams should work together on these features personally, but that is just me.
Russia has a raging case of crabs!
Where are you getting a license for the software to begin with?
You get a copy of MacOS with your Mac. Assuming you take it off your Mac, wipe the hard drive, and then install your one copy elsewhere, it might be legal. I'd have to read the EULA.
But 99% of EULA's out there allow for one copy on one PC for your license, and if you have MacOS, it is because it is already on your Mac. Putting on any other PC via any other means would be illegal.
Given that there isn't a legally released MacOS X86 for non Mac hardware, then virtualization licenses don't really apply. If you can install MacOS on your hardware, then I'm pretty sure you can install it via VMWare or a similiar option, but it won't be legal.
Don't kopete and gaim both support AOL/ICQ style chats, MSN style chats and IRC? I don't really use either much for lack of time, so I can't say that I've bothered trying Yahoo-style chats.
With Koepete and Gaim both very robust messengers, I'm not sure why you need to keep Windows just for Yahoo Messenger.
I am also a very big fan of Malhavoc. That is how I became a fan of PDF books for roleplaying in the first place. I also think Monte Cook's classes are better than the core classes.
Most of these are already online as PDFs with no DRM. I have quite a few of them. Mind you I have quite a few books in hardcover, but I also download a PDF version since so many damned players kept borrowing books and never returned them. When I play, I want a book infront of me. If a player wants a book, I email them a PDF version.
And there is no reason why the PDF versions should be full price.
As a country, does the United States really manufacture anything besides ideas anymore? If intellectual property weren't property, we'd be even more screwed than we are. Conversely, if a global government actually enforced IP laws, the US would be beyond rich.
"Also, simply adding that a patent must not harm development, research and progress in the field it applies to would do miracles."
Frivilous is hard to determine, and we'd just choke up our court system on said term. However, the above quote is brilliant.
UForce.
Virtual Boy.
Super Scope Six.
R.O.B.
PowerPad.
PowerGlove.
I can go on.
I've enjoyed many a Nintendo game over the years, though my N64 and GameCube largely gathered dust over the years. I love the concept of force feedback and an analog control. Both were very poorly executed by Nintendo with the N64.
I have a special flight-stick I bought 10 years ago at a computer show. It has floating ball bearings that can sense how you move it through the air. You move the flight stick to the left in air, and your shop moves to the left. So I've been playing with a controller like this for some time. I loved it with X-Wing for about a month, and then it got old.
Nintendo's Wii controller requires you to setup two sensors on the side of your TV which I don't care for. And I'm not sure that game designers will know how to implement this well. Meanwhile, Sony's attempt at copying the technology is both better and worse. The sensor is much more simple. Some feel it is weak. However the advantages are two fold. One, it is in a normal controller than I already enjoy as opposed to a remote shape that I'm concerned about when playing normal games, especially using the virtual console. Secondly, the sensor is in the controller rather than attaching two sensors to my TV.
I'm still reserving judgement until I play with both in my hand. However, 4 years from now, we might either look back and call the Wii a fad/gimmick or pure brilliance. Both are very much distinct possibilities.
Our courts are being tied up with silly lawsuits over patents all day long. Only large companies prosper, while end-users often get the shaft as would be competetors have their products ripped off the shelves.
Isn't it about time for some serious reform on patents and copyrights? How do we protect intellectual property without going absurd?
Thoughts?
Awesome! When you search, does it search across all the networks automatically?
99% of the worlds viruses and spyware programs run exclusively on Windows. Windows Vista will still execute, and is still vulnerable to these programs. Other Operating Systems are not. This IMMEDIATELY disqualifies any OS that runs Windows 2k/XP apps from being the most secure OS.
ActiveX is still a big part of Vista and IE.
And in early reports on Longhorn they talked about a big part of the new Windows API to allow for a full Windows app to run remotely over a server without even needing to be installed on the PC in the first place. First off, this technology already existed before and was multiplatform. It was called Java. While I haven't heard much about this since the Longhorn days, this really, really scares me.
Windows Defender will stop a program from being installed without your knowledge, but if code can be executed without being installed, how do you protect yourself?
I buy every major console release in every generation. I am not an overt fan on any one system or company.
First off, I don't think the Wii should be in the same discussion as the PS3 or XBox 360. I may happen to buy one if there are games I want to play on the console. However, the cold hard facts are that graphics sell games. A game that looks good will be talked about, and purchased. If Nintendo is smart, they will use style over polygons with the Wii so that their titles will look good. But at the moment, the Wii does not strike me as being next-generation when it is only now approaching the pixel-power of the Xbox, a current-generation console.
If you want to draw a truly fair comparison between the 360 and the PS3, I'm not sure why people compare a $300 price-point to a $600 price point. The $300 360's features do not compare to the $600 PS3. It is an obvious manipulative tactic.
A considerably more fair comparison is the $400 360 which has a HDD to the $500 PS3. Neither unit has HDMI, and both have HDDs. The 360 is out today, is very tangible, has a decent selection of games, and is cheaper. The PS3 has more power, has Sony's name behind it (for better or worse), is likely to offer free online play (and likely to charge however for most if not all downloadable content) and can play hi-def movies.
I am a fan of BluRay. I like having more storage from a PC perspective. I like pushing 1080p. I fully admit that some of Sony's formats in the past have been bad. (Beta was good, but lost despite being a superior format. MiniDiscs were good, but never marketed well. Their audio file format I think was called TRAC or something, and was pretty stupid. UMD is new and the jury is still out. For a few months everyone loved it. If a PSP-redux comes out and UMD burners come out, the format could be salvageable). The fact remains that most of the industry is lending support to BluRay. There are only a total of 7,000 HD-DVD players sold so far in the world. Sony will likely ship 3 million PS3's in 3 months. That will be the end of that format war right there. Movie companies are going to release movies on a format that exists in people's homes. And while BluRay discs were supposed to be more expensive, right now BluRay movies cost the same as HD-DVD movies. Those are the facts.
I'm not sure why the anti-Sony crowd acts like BluRay is the only technology that will downsample if the movie industy decides to be dicks. That applies to both HD-DVD and BluRay. We'll see if the industry keeps to their promise and doesn't include the DRM tags until 2010. By then HDMI-equipped TVs and cheap players should be common anyway. If you want a hi-def movie player, the PS3 is a bargain. If you don't care, the 360 might be more appealing.
If you don't even own a HDTV, then I don't think you're getting the most out of either the 360 or the PS3 and perhaps you should stick with the current generation which is MUCH cheaper. (PS2 is currently outselling the 360. Maybe there is a reason).
Having a dog sidekick makes the list but for some reason interactive content doesn't?
You want to talk about mechanics that revolutionized gameplay. Here are some HUGE omissions from the list.
Pause Button
Save Feature
Online play
Mod tools
Creating dynamic content in game (like Sim Life or Spore)
Musical Gameplay
Force Feedback
Analog Controls
Alternate Endings
Unlockable Content
But having a dog sidekick beat out all those things.
But Gnome is stripped down, simple and utilitarian. It seems to me like the type of desktop that appeals to a man. KDE is curvy, sexy, robust, customizable. It seems to me like the type of desktop that appeals to a woman.
Others have suggested finding an OSS project, which I want to add my support for. However you mentioned specifically that you need deadlines. For that I suggest finding a large project that puts out a roadmap and commits to releasing on schedule. I'm a fan of KDE, and right now they are developing KDE4 and porting all the KDE apps to QT4. There is plenty of work to do, and plenty of it can be done in reasonable clumps. Find a small app, convert it, and keep moving on. The QT4 framework seems pretty nifty and a nice thing to learn.
Personally, I'd love to see Shareaza ported to QT4. It is currently written on MFC, but none of the original developers are active anymore. The Shareaza team has discussed moving away from the MFC framework and rewritting the app for over 2 years, but no one has done it. QT4 would allow for the program to become multiplatform as opposed to being Windows only. It is the only P2P software package that I've seen that handles torrents, Gnutella, Gnutella2 and eDonkey all at the same time with a robust client. It allows you to easily configure discovery services, import security filters, the works. It truly is a great app, and you'd be my personal hero if you managed to port it.
That's my suggestion.
Your logic is that this company is indebted to OpenBSD and must cater to the demands of OpenBSD.
What you miss is that most hardware manufacturers give limited support at best to the *Nix world. Those that release drivers often don't release full documentation or technical specs. This company is releasing that information, but because they are bound by very real laws in this country, they are asking you to fill out a form.
Truly that makes this company evil.
Again, I think people are blowing this way out of proportion. Be grateful that information is being released in the first place, and don't burn what bridges you do have. This is precisely the way to make sure your software doesn't get supported.
Actually export laws do exist regards to cryptography technology. Before you declare someone a liar perhaps you should research your facts.
. 5/doc/exportlaws.html
"US laws, as currently interpreted by the US government, forbid export of most cryptographic software from the US in machine-readable form without government permission. In general, the restrictions apply even if the software is widely-disseminated or public-domain and even if it came from outside the US originally. Cryptography is legally a munition and export is tightly controlled under the EAR Export Administration Regulations."
http://www.freeswan.org/freeswan_trees/freeswan-1
The stated criteria was a valid email address and living in the US due to export laws.
I was considering downloading Daphne as it is one of the few classic emulators I don't have.
http://www.daphne-emu.com/
I am a big fan of software preservation. However, if I only emulate the original copy would that be considered warez now that a new shiny version is back on retail shelves?
Honestly, I wonder if this might spin off a retro-trend in similiar twitch-movie gaming. I don't see why people couldn't make similiar games with DVD systems today. You just branch to various chapters on a disc and hit a button at precisely the right time.
Some of the articles that Slashdot links to requires me to sign up for a service just to read the article. I should publicly throw a fit over that as well. How dare Slashdot require me to give up private data to register for a website just to acquire information in return? This is outrageous! Do people know about this? Alert the press!
Seriously, this is being blown out of proportion. A company is required by law not to export this data outside of the US. You fill out a form and say that you live in the US and you get the data you're requesting. If you're really paranoid, you do what any smart person does and use a spam-email account and a fake address.
What I don't understand is why they just don't verify that you are in the US by IP address. Microsoft and Netscape used to do that when you downloaded browsers with 128-bit encryption or higher due to US Export laws.
Actually a document that is released freely in the public domain can be redistributed. The RIAA gets on people's cases about distributing something that was not released freely to begin with.