Well, if someone was serious about it. The Crystal/Cirrus CS8900A has an 8-bit interface mode. There are a number of projects on the web interfacing it to several 8-bit processors. Someone could conceivably make a cartridge containing an ethernet interface and the Contiki Desktop in ROM (I'm not holding my breath though).
Selling a crippled CD without labelling to indicate that it is crippled is fraud, pure and simple. Even if the "CD/compacd disk" logo were missing, you could probably argue sucessfully that it is fraud, simply because "a reasonable person" will presume a shiny flat disk with music on it is a CD, in the absence of anything to suggest otherwise.
Lol, I remember a couple of years ago in the Foxtrot comic strip. Jason and his friend Marcus went trick-or-treating wearing t-shirts that said, "IRS Audit Team".
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According to the article, "VisionTek was the number one retailer of NVIDIA based VidCards in North America". So, you're right, nVidia isn't going alway, but this is a major blow to their retail distribution in north america.
In addition, the foreclosure of VisionTek comes at a critical time in their marketing battle with ATI who will (according to the article) start shipping their Radeon 9700 Pro card this week. All of this just before the start of the Christmas buying season. (Christmas buying season already! *shudder*)
On the other hand, I would prefer to pop in the install CD, answer a couple of questions, then go and get a cup of coffee while the installation proceeds and come back 20 minutes later to a complete install (well, ideally anyway). Instead of having to stay there and babysit the installation (i.e., which word processor, which web browser, which email program, etc).
I think the issue is, Lycoris choose one-of-each application that is "good enough" to start with. Then included a Software Installer to let the user customize their installation.
But I know what you're saying, it's really just a matter of preference. Fortunately for you, most distros still take the swiss army knife approach.
I haven't tried the Lycoris distro yet, but I think I'll give it a try.
The Lycoris install, while allowing you to play Solitare while it chugs away (very cool), leaves you with ONE word processor, ONE web browser, etc. While this may be nice for newer users, it just doesn't quite appeal to me...
That's funny, one of the things that bothers me about most of the popular distros is they insist on installing too many word processors, web browsers, etc. What the hell am I going to do with 4 word processors, 3 spread sheets, 6 web browsers, 12 email programs, etc. Just give me one of each and if I don't like it, I can install my own choice, thank you very much.
Anime is not exempt from the so called Spurgeon's Revelation: In any given medium, about 95% of something is going to be a bunch of crap (paraphrased).
Correction. That should be Sturgeon's Law, "Ninety percent of everything is crap".
Let's say company A, out of the goodness of their heart, announces they will release a patent. Before they do so, however, they sell the rights to company B. Company B has no obligation to honor the promise.
It depends on exactly what rights company A sells company B.
For example, if company A sells non-exclusive rights to company B and then company A releases the patent to the public domain, well tough luck for company B.
On the other hand, if company A sells exclusive rights to company B, then there's no way company A can rerelease the patent to anyone.
I don't know about that. The FYE arcade at the mall has about a dozen networked PCs (in addition to the standard arcade fare). They have a selection of network games and have regularly scheduled Clanwars. My impression is they're doing reasonably well.
Fund the Library of Congress to establish a underground data repository next to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility. Print out the data on archive quality paper and store it in a controlled atmospheric environment. Then use the nuclear waste to run thermoelectric generators to power the facility.
That should be good for a couple thousand years.
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Note to the humor impaired. Yes, I'm joking.
I guess I'll just have to stick to RedHat, TinyLinux and Lycoris.
Is it just me? Or does Lycoris sound like a mouthwash?
Re:There ARE other ways
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Fair IP Laws?
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I believe that Walt Disney should enjoy some protection for his mouse (but not for enternity).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume good old Mickey Mouse (and Minney and Goofy, et al) are protected by Trademark Laws, not Copyright. I don't have a problem with that.
I assume that means nobody could legally produce a new Mickey Mouse(tm) cartoon, but could (if copyright was a sane duration) legally reproduce and sell old, out-of-copyright Disney movies.
I'd like to know if anyone has succeeded in porting a Free operating system to the Xbox.
Someone has to break the encryption on the DVDs first or make a mod chip that lets you boot unencrypted CDs. Hasn't happened yet, but it's only a matter of time.
Then you have the problem of adding a keyboard and mouse to the Xbox. But that should be too hard.
The new license "contained provisions that were more favorable to Microsoft than the previous versions of the corresponding agreements Gateway had negotiated," Fama [Gateway's group counsel] testified.
[Jim Desler, Microsoft spokesman] said. "All of the government parties, including the non-settling states, took the position that Microsoft should have uniform terms among OEMs."
Clearly the intent of imposing uniform terms was to mandate less restrictive contracts with OEMs. You gotta love it when Microsoft imposes the most restrictive contract terms with their OEMs and then blames it on the courts. That's chutzpah!
Second, to people bemoaning the absense of mars missions and moon bases. Why go?
I think we can mark the beginning of the end of the human spirit when the majority of people say, "Why bother."
Re:Not too serious...
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I'd expect that PC manufacturers will make this protection easy to disable, either by bypassing a chip or removing it, etc... A little solder and or ingenuity and PRESTO! we'll all be modding our PC's!
Many, many years ago, Congress passed a law prohibiting the sale of scanners that could receive cell phone frequencies. Initially, most manufacturers merely put jumper settings to turn that frequency range on or off. Congress modified the law prohibiting the easy bypassing of the locked-out frequencies, so it is now near impossible to mod scanners to receive cell phone frequencies (at least the old analog freq's).
In a similar vein, Congress could require computer manufacturers to make it impossible to circumvent built-in copy protection or else.
*ahem* Of course, with $20 worth of parts from Radio Shack you can build a converter to convert cell phone frequencies to a range that your scanner can receive.
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Kind of like Perl.
I know, I know, -1 off-topic.
Which just proves the old adage, "Never design a rocket booster when you're hungry."
Didn't Loki write a graphical installer for Linux? I can't access the Loki site from work to check because it's blocked by websense (ha).
Well, if someone was serious about it. The Crystal/Cirrus CS8900A has an 8-bit interface mode. There are a number of projects on the web interfacing it to several 8-bit processors. Someone could conceivably make a cartridge containing an ethernet interface and the Contiki Desktop in ROM (I'm not holding my breath though).
I would think that would come under the Implied Warranty Of Merchantability.
But, as I understand it, as long as they don't distribute it and only use it for internal use, I don't see any violation of the GPL license.
If a company is using GPL'ed software and/or libraries in a commercial product, you might want to talk to the FSF lawyer.
ComFM
Lol, I remember a couple of years ago in the Foxtrot comic strip. Jason and his friend Marcus went trick-or-treating wearing t-shirts that said, "IRS Audit Team".
According to the article, "VisionTek was the number one retailer of NVIDIA based VidCards in North America". So, you're right, nVidia isn't going alway, but this is a major blow to their retail distribution in north america.
In addition, the foreclosure of VisionTek comes at a critical time in their marketing battle with ATI who will (according to the article) start shipping their Radeon 9700 Pro card this week. All of this just before the start of the Christmas buying season. (Christmas buying season already! *shudder*)
That's almost like a Zen koan. Is it still spyware if it tells you it's spying on you?
On the other hand, I would prefer to pop in the install CD, answer a couple of questions, then go and get a cup of coffee while the installation proceeds and come back 20 minutes later to a complete install (well, ideally anyway). Instead of having to stay there and babysit the installation (i.e., which word processor, which web browser, which email program, etc).
I think the issue is, Lycoris choose one-of-each application that is "good enough" to start with. Then included a Software Installer to let the user customize their installation.
But I know what you're saying, it's really just a matter of preference. Fortunately for you, most distros still take the swiss army knife approach.
I haven't tried the Lycoris distro yet, but I think I'll give it a try.
That's funny, one of the things that bothers me about most of the popular distros is they insist on installing too many word processors, web browsers, etc. What the hell am I going to do with 4 word processors, 3 spread sheets, 6 web browsers, 12 email programs, etc. Just give me one of each and if I don't like it, I can install my own choice, thank you very much.
Correction. That should be Sturgeon's Law, "Ninety percent of everything is crap".
It depends on exactly what rights company A sells company B.
For example, if company A sells non-exclusive rights to company B and then company A releases the patent to the public domain, well tough luck for company B.
On the other hand, if company A sells exclusive rights to company B, then there's no way company A can rerelease the patent to anyone.
#include IANAL.h
I don't know about that. The FYE arcade at the mall has about a dozen networked PCs (in addition to the standard arcade fare). They have a selection of network games and have regularly scheduled Clanwars. My impression is they're doing reasonably well.
Don't forget conspiracy to commit murder. That's a capital offense.
Fund the Library of Congress to establish a underground data repository next to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility. Print out the data on archive quality paper and store it in a controlled atmospheric environment. Then use the nuclear waste to run thermoelectric generators to power the facility.
That should be good for a couple thousand years.
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Note to the humor impaired. Yes, I'm joking.
Now there's an idea I like! Next time we have to fight a war, we'll just ship the enemy a bunch of computers and challenge them to a game of CS.
Is it just me? Or does Lycoris sound like a mouthwash?
I believe that Walt Disney should enjoy some protection for his mouse (but not for enternity).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume good old Mickey Mouse (and Minney and Goofy, et al) are protected by Trademark Laws, not Copyright. I don't have a problem with that.
I assume that means nobody could legally produce a new Mickey Mouse(tm) cartoon, but could (if copyright was a sane duration) legally reproduce and sell old, out-of-copyright Disney movies.
I'd like to know if anyone has succeeded in porting a Free operating system to the Xbox.
Someone has to break the encryption on the DVDs first or make a mod chip that lets you boot unencrypted CDs. Hasn't happened yet, but it's only a matter of time.
Then you have the problem of adding a keyboard and mouse to the Xbox. But that should be too hard.
But aside from the bragging rights, who cares.
They do, they're called posters.
[Jim Desler, Microsoft spokesman] said. "All of the government parties, including the non-settling states, took the position that Microsoft should have uniform terms among OEMs."
Clearly the intent of imposing uniform terms was to mandate less restrictive contracts with OEMs. You gotta love it when Microsoft imposes the most restrictive contract terms with their OEMs and then blames it on the courts. That's chutzpah!
I think we can mark the beginning of the end of the human spirit when the majority of people say, "Why bother."
Many, many years ago, Congress passed a law prohibiting the sale of scanners that could receive cell phone frequencies. Initially, most manufacturers merely put jumper settings to turn that frequency range on or off. Congress modified the law prohibiting the easy bypassing of the locked-out frequencies, so it is now near impossible to mod scanners to receive cell phone frequencies (at least the old analog freq's).
In a similar vein, Congress could require computer manufacturers to make it impossible to circumvent built-in copy protection or else.
*ahem* Of course, with $20 worth of parts from Radio Shack you can build a converter to convert cell phone frequencies to a range that your scanner can receive.