Funny; I've never had to login to buy something on the net, nor do I have to keep lists of credit card numbers and records. Just as in mortar-and-brick stores, my one credit card seems to work everywhere.
Several of us have been working on another Ultima remake, Exult, for nearly three years. But my ultimate goal is to end up with a game engine and tools for making new games in the same style.
The DOS crashes, the crumby DOS command-line, the Windows 3.1 inability to run in 386 protected-mode, the daily Windows95 crashes... all due to heat.
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Fortunately, since the copyright laws hadn't been extended to ridiculous lengths, you don't need Toto's, or anyone's, permission to distribute or rewrite L. F. Baum's Oz stories, as they started going into the public domain in the 1950's.
If the law passes, your 'digital device' may not allow you to remotely login to computers in countries that don't have compatible versions of the SSSCA.
Besides, didn't you read the license on your candy bar (the fine print below the nutrition information)? You automatically agreed to its terms when you unpeeled it.
You don't really own the candy, but have only purchased a license to ingest it; and you are prohibited from intermingling it with other products.
I'll second that. KDE is a nice general environment, but I use BlackBox exclusively at home when I'm doing software development. I'm amazed at how fast it pops up after logging in through XDM; it's usually ready to go by the time my hand has reached the mouse.
A question: Suppose one connects to the internet using one of those cheap 'internet appliances', like the SMC, and then has PC's of various OS's behind the firewall. Would that be illegal?
Simple: When your employer buys you health insurance, they get to deduct the expense from their taxes, but you don't have to treat it as income. If they skipped the insurance and just paid you the money, you would have to pay taxes on it.
So it's a case of enlightened self-interest on the part of employers. The down side is that we consumers are no longer responsible for our health costs, so we have less incentive to keep them down.
For decades, that was how they operated. Tires had to be replaced every year. Cars wore out at around 50,000 miles. Then the Japanese cars arrived, and people saw what they were missing.
The new business model - provide high-quality, long-lasting vehicles - does seem to be working quite well for the companies. They can charge a lot more for the cars, and the high-tech features ensure that customers still have to bring them in regularly for service.
What I found amusing (maybe annoying) is that he barely mentioned the frame-based architecture of KWord documents. I consider this to be one of the more advanced word-processing features, and one that MS would have a hard time adding to its huge code base.
On the other hand, spell-checking in real-time is no big deal at all, and also a feature that many of us would just as soon do without.
People who made their living developing office applications were already scared away about a decade ago when Microsoft started to drive all its competitors out of business.
The rest of us, who constitute the vast majority of developers, write software to support hardware, or for internal company purposes.
I'd be quite willing to do the above... if my OSS project was something I worked on full-time, and someone was paying me.
But, like many projects, it's something that I work on for fun in my free time. I appreciate patches from users, and am never nasty about them. But it may be days, weeks, or even months before I or one of the 5-6 other developers, has the time to deal with them.
There are several open-source games being developed using SDL. Mine is developed mostly on Linux (one developer uses Win2000), but about 90% of the users are on Windows.
If you design carefully, you can end up with most of your code completely independent of the platform it runs on.
People may post that, but they're wrong. The ONLY reason there are more Windows games is that more people are paid to develop those games. And the only reason for that is that there are more Windows users.
We've had experience before when WWII ended. Japan had been led by militants, but that didn't mean all Japanese were our enemies. We got rid of the bad guys, and supported the country in setting up a democracy.
Our enemy isn't Afganistan, but the terrorists operating there and the Taliban who support them. They have plenty of enemies themselves, and we can support them. If we're smart, we'll also help the country rebuild.
That's okay. Lots of the rest of us will hold and keep buying through our 401K's. Anyone with a little knowledge of history knows that war is as likely to improve the economy as hurt it.
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Funny; I've never had to login to buy something on the net, nor do I have to keep lists of credit card numbers and records. Just as in mortar-and-brick stores, my one credit card seems to work everywhere.
Several of us have been working on another Ultima remake, Exult, for nearly three years. But my ultimate goal is to end up with a game engine and tools for making new games in the same style.
Baum's books were written from ~1900 - 1917. As copywrite used to last only 56 years, they passed into the public domain starting in the 1950's.
But the movie will probably stay copywrited forever, since Congress keeps extending the term.
And you pay ~ $200 for it, a cost which, unlike that of the hardware, never seems to go down.
The DOS crashes, the crumby DOS command-line, the Windows 3.1 inability to run in 386 protected-mode, the daily Windows95 crashes... all due to heat.
Fortunately, since the copyright laws hadn't been extended to ridiculous lengths, you don't need Toto's, or anyone's, permission to distribute or rewrite L. F. Baum's Oz stories, as they started going into the public domain in the 1950's.
What's next is a divorce where one spouse claims that the other's yelling amounted to 'domestic terrorism'.
If the law passes, your 'digital device' may not allow you to remotely login to computers in countries that don't have compatible versions of the SSSCA.
You don't really own the candy, but have only purchased a license to ingest it; and you are prohibited from intermingling it with other products.
No eyewitness accounts? I see him at the mall every year, as do millions of others.
I'll second that. KDE is a nice general environment, but I use BlackBox exclusively at home when I'm doing software development. I'm amazed at how fast it pops up after logging in through XDM; it's usually ready to go by the time my hand has reached the mouse.
They actually had a specification for it on their website a couple years ago. But it was one of the messiest, most convoluted thing I've ever seen.
A question: Suppose one connects to the internet using one of those cheap 'internet appliances', like the SMC, and then has PC's of various OS's behind the firewall. Would that be illegal?
So it's a case of enlightened self-interest on the part of employers. The down side is that we consumers are no longer responsible for our health costs, so we have less incentive to keep them down.
...just take a look at sourceforge.net. Oh, were you asking about paying jobs? Sorry...
I don't have the link, but I believe this has been done by someone else.
The new business model - provide high-quality, long-lasting vehicles - does seem to be working quite well for the companies. They can charge a lot more for the cars, and the high-tech features ensure that customers still have to bring them in regularly for service.
On the other hand, spell-checking in real-time is no big deal at all, and also a feature that many of us would just as soon do without.
The rest of us, who constitute the vast majority of developers, write software to support hardware, or for internal company purposes.
But, like many projects, it's something that I work on for fun in my free time. I appreciate patches from users, and am never nasty about them. But it may be days, weeks, or even months before I or one of the 5-6 other developers, has the time to deal with them.
Or, you could tell the BIOS, in the power-saving section, to power down the hard drive after a given number of minutes. My old 486 MB has this option.
If you design carefully, you can end up with most of your code completely independent of the platform it runs on.
People may post that, but they're wrong. The ONLY reason there are more Windows games is that more people are paid to develop those games. And the only reason for that is that there are more Windows users.
Our enemy isn't Afganistan, but the terrorists operating there and the Taliban who support them. They have plenty of enemies themselves, and we can support them. If we're smart, we'll also help the country rebuild.
That's okay. Lots of the rest of us will hold and keep buying through our 401K's. Anyone with a little knowledge of history knows that war is as likely to improve the economy as hurt it.