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Please supply me with ONE quote where Nintendo bashes optical discs or online gaming?

"The Internet games available today are for hard-core gamers. I
don't believe the general public is going to be very interested in them. And I doubt that Net games will turn out to be profitable."
--Hiroshi Yamauchi, former president of Nintendo, E3 2001

"The cartridge has more space for other devices such as a programmable memory, enabling users to do more with their machines ... A Nintendo 64 cartridge contains a memory device that has nearly the same capacity as a CD-ROM ... We hear many convenience stores are disappointed at the inventory risks of carrying CD-ROM games and the slow sales ... Not all game creators who can handle CD-ROM can write for Nintendo 64. The new technology requires new inspiration, imagination and talent."
--Hiroshi Yamauchi, http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/97/0418/cs1.html

Well, there's more than one for you. As an added bonus, the second quote has a helping of BS in it, just like the kind that Sony's PR reps like to serve up.

Rob

I don't know anything more: the story sounds half-apocryphal to me, and I apologise for its vagueness

It's, not apocryphal .

From the article: "They invent their own terminology for what's going on. For example, they call the pointer of the mouse sui, which is Hindi for needle. More interesting is the hourglass that appears when something is happening. Most Indians have never heard of an hourglass. I asked them, "What does that mean?" They said, "It's a damru," which is Hindi for Shiva's drum. [The God] Shiva holds an hourglass - shaped drum in his hand that you can shake from side to side. So they said the sui became a damru when the "thing" [the computer] was doing something."

"The Pentium III will make the Internet a much more consumer-friendly environment," says Jami Dover, Intel's marketing vice president. Surfing today, Dover maintains, is a limited experience because data-transfer rates over ordinary telephone lines do not allow for high-quality audio, video and 3D graphics. "You take people raised on TV and show them a flat, text [Web] page," says Dover. "It's quite a juxtaposition." I guess Intel was hoping the world could go through a phone line with enough compression.

To us this is a nitpick, to the general public this is more confusion in a jargon filled marketplace.

Yeah...there is a problem with Singaporeans and their attitude in general, they even admit it themselves, they are the worst travellers and tend to look down on other races/countries.

It's known as the 'Ugly Singaporean', some references here:

http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/2000/021 8/as.singapore.html

http://sg.polls.yahoo.com/public/archives/95900098 /p-sg-57?m=r

http://www.singapore-window.org/sw03/031120af.htm

Along with Mr Miyagi, other famous singaporean Bloggers are Mr Brown and Xia Xue (Another new one is http://rockson.blogspot.com/).

I recently got into a massive blogwar (almost 600 comments) because of this very attitude, potrayed on her blog by Xia Xue (She called someone a malay fucker, said she wanted to slap them with a pig and 'laughed' at the way Arabic people dressed amongst other things). Her post can be found here: KL Pretty much sucked! This should give you an insight into the common attitude there..

Ummm, yeah, I wonder if Chavez is really interested in helping the US, or if he is more interested in turning poor people into communists?

Gee get thee to the 1950s!

Communism is dead. North Korea is probably the only communist country left in the world, and that's a damn wierd place that no one really knows what is going on inside, so maybe not even that one. Sure, China and powerhouse Cuba may call themselves communist, but they really aren't. Totalitarian? Oh most definately! Communist? No. China stopped being communist the moment Deng Xiaopeng said, "To get rich is glorious." Cuba has a complete capitalist economy based on American dollars.

And if you think that there's some big undercurrent in the US wanting to be communist, again. The KGB tried for years to build a meaningful communist movement and failed. In fact, looking at the since declassified KGB reports from the 50s and 60s shows that the KGB agents reported that it was a wasted effort, and get this... they were losing KGB agents do to defection.

And one more inconvient fact about Chavez. He was democratically elected in an election the Carter Center as flawed, but did not change the outcome. In other words, the election is valid.

So, if you consider that Microsoft shipped 100 million copies of Windows 95 in its first three years, that works out to $0.12 per copy for the song rights. Of course you could argue that the 12 cents could have been better-directed towards bug fixes, but it's not a lot of cash in the whole scheme of things.

...when they shoot some in the back of the head and bill the family for the bullet.

And I won't shed any tears. If they're going to be a murderous dictatorship, they could at least kill some people who deserve it. (No, I'm not defending dictatorships, I just hate spammers.)

Fuck you.

http://www.geocities.com/japanfaq/FAQ-Prices.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4075536.stm

http://www.japanwindow.com/archives/2005/02/

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GE17Ad01.html

http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/95/0818/biz1.html

I strongly disagree to your disagreement. So, here we go: http://www.geocities.com/japanfaq/FAQ-Prices.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4075536.stm http://www.japanwindow.com/archives/2005/02/ http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GE17Ad01.html http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/95/0818/biz1.html Ah, geez. Whatta ya know. Nothing like a bibiolography to bring a house of cards down.

Just so that people know, the bear idea is many years old, and was from Japan

here is a practical application of it, note the date on the article. Here is another take. Note this was out in the field in 2000.

There was also a great telepresence robot bear pair, whereby moving one robot bear would move the resultant other robot bear at the other end of the phone line, but I can't seem to find a link to it.

i dunno maybe b/c they didn't think there would be "insane" people that play the game as a profession.

"Because of the massive amounts of corruption at all levels of government? Organized crime bosses who refuse to let companies set up shop without bribes?" Are you referring to Ukraine or India? Corruption is a way of life in India. http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/96/0216/ed1.html/

Subject: Pig iron [Was: Article: Gates memo calls for security focus]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:16:08 GMT, Alun Jones <alun@texis.com> wrote:

>In article <u0O18.81315$Sj1.32399626@typhoon.ne.mediaone.net> , Simon Chang
><schang@quantumslipstream.net> wrote:
>>It remains to be seen whether Gates & Co. continues to treat inadequate
>>security policy and implementation as just public relations issues.
>

>In Microsoft's favour, look what happened when Gates wrote a memo suggesting
>that the company should get with the Internet. Complete U-turn on the part of
>the whole company, with a huge emphasis on Internet development. What Gates
>says, goes. Just maybe those doomsayers within Microsoft who have been saying
>yes, but what about the security angle? (I presume there are some) will now
>be listened to, and their recommendations acted on. I certainly hope so.
>

I fully admit, it is a Great Leap Forward, just like another one in history...

http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/99/0924/ cn_economy.html
+Mao launched the Great Leap Forward program in 1958, arguably the greatest
+economic folly of the 20th century. To help China surpass the economies of
+Britain and the U.S. in 15 years, he decreed that every Chinese should
+produce smelt iron. Hundreds of millions of citizens neglected farms to make
+low-grade pig iron. Beijing did not know that grain was rotting in the fields

Why the above quote? Check out the language Mr Gates uses in his letter
( see the register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23715.html
). Remind you of the announcements of the old five year plans from
the old Soviet and Maoist regimes? Even down to the use of catch phrases!

If Microsoft's Management is serous ( and given their past pronouncements
on the security of their products - thats a very big if ) , it is a
Herculean but not impossible task ahead. It will not happen overnight.


Microsoft Makes Software Safety a Top Goal - January 17, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/technology/17SEC U.html
+Every developer is going to be told not to write any new line of code, Mr.
+Allchin said, until they have thought out the security implications for the
+product.

YES !!! Finally, but a little too late since almost all of the core OS and
application code has already been written.

Microsoft should have started this process three years ago.
The attempt to turn their current inherently designed insecure products
into a trusted system is like that of turning a sows ear into a silk
purse. The result is more likely to be pots and pans into useless,
unsaleable pig iron. A lot of the core design for many of the products
is going to have to be rewritten.

As for Trustworthy computing See

Avoiding bogus encryption products: Snake Oil FAQ ...
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/cryptography-faq/snake-oi l/
... the warning principals apply as much to secure software
products as it does to cryptographic products.

For software to be Trustworthy it requires that both the source and
build processes be verifiable by public inspection by peers in the
industry. That *requires* an unrestrictive license such as open
source (

But lets get a little real here about the state of the Indian university system; at best, it's grade 13.

This probably explains why so few IIT grads have been accepted into graduate school at places such as MIT, Cal Tech, or Berkeley as well as why IIT campuses rank lower in quality than nearly every other university in Asia. NOT!

Unemployment in Bangalore is 10% source
A more recent source (thehindu.com) gives 10.5% for "urban youth" for Mar 2003, so I figure its still about the same. I can't find the engineering unemployment rate.

So what do they blame? Globalization

Funny how lack of barriers and "protections" are always perceived as the cause for unemployment, no matter which side of the barrier you are on. It's always the other guy's fault. If you want to stop H-1B's, please replace it with an increase in the quotas for citizens. I'd rather have those programmers and doctors as Americans, thank you.

Charlie Trie, John Huang, and Johnny Chung were the 3 key figures involved in bribing American officials. Johnny Chung was born and raised in Taiwan. John Huang was raised in Taiwan.

SoftwareToGo reminds me of the Nintendo Disk Writer systems or the "Game Kiosk" idea for the SNES and GameBoy. (If only in terms of overall concept. I also seem to have this misconception that I was able to reuse old cartridges in the DiskWriter system . . . )

I thought it was a good idea then, and I still think it's a good idea now. Now if we can only get movies and music this way :-)

Muslim doesn't represent terrorism to 2/3 of the world, only the US and the Jewish states (oh that includes the US i think).

And New Yorker stock analysts don't represent oppression to 2/3 of the world, only Marxists (speaking of REAL knock on the door in the middle of the night jackbooted, "workers paradise" gulag opression) and Klansmen/Nazi's (ditto) Ever notice how close either extreme really are to each other? Either way the state will MAKE you be what it wants you to be and all your problems are caused by "The international Banking Conspicary" not your own irresponsible decisions or the failings (corruption, oppression, etc) of your own government.

I won't argue that *some* banks and corporations aren't complicit in oppression around the world but it is governments that are DOING the oppression - gulags, "dissapearances", murders, genocides etc. The argument against those businessmen is NOT generally that the oppress anyone themselves but that they are willing to do business with or aid or seek the aid of those who are. But just as most Arabs are NOT terrorist most businessmen (and certainly most of their employees) are NOT oppresing anyone outside of the fantasies of losers like the KKK (& their islamic equivalent) or other sad little extremists that are upset they are not the ones that get to do the oppressing.

As for Arabs & Muslims not having a reputation outside of the US and the Jewish states (aside from Israel which other state(s) are jewish?) I think you could find a few Pakistani's Indians Filipinos Indonesians, Susanese, Kenyans & Tanzanians, Germans, Brits, Egyptians, Turks, Swedes, French, Austrians, Romanians, etc. etc. etc. that have fairly sound reasons to disagree with you. The point is not that Muslim==Terrorist but that SOME muslims are and the argument you made that because SOME businessmen (or Muslims) are guilty of oppression (or terrorism) that means ALL businessmen (or Muslims) are guilty and deserve to have a plane flown into their office (or drop bombs on their village). If your argument is collective guilt fine - but it is a two-way street and you have no basis if you adhere to it to protest even *intentional* civillian deaths.

BTW what would I want with a loan?

I don't know, I didn't suggets that you did. Just that not getting one, or having to pay it back if you DID get one is not being oppressed. Two contradictory reasons bankers are often accused of "oppressing" people.

Why don't y'all get in a huff when the money is going the other way around? It can't be morally offensive for MS to do it, and then just fine for the anybody else.

Why not? We subverted communists with prosperity. Look here for a discussion of a quote from Deng Xioping: "To get rich is glorious."

False. Widely-spread untruth by terrorist sympathizers, but false.

Well, bin Laden was not actually trained by the CIA themselves. However they were instrumental in putting bin Laden where he is today. The guerilla groups bin Laden fought for in the Soviet-Afghan Conflict were backed by the CIA. This includes the Taliban. Also the group who is in opposition to the Taliban, the United Front is a group we did not support. Now it seems we will do the opposite if we fight Afghanistan.

A quote from a very good article.

America won the Cold War. But in their foreign policy on Afghanistan, they lost. Of course, nobody would argue that if Washington had heavily backed Massoud, he would be in power in Afghanistan now and not the Taleban. Afghan politics are more complex than that. Massoud is a Tajik, not from the Pushtun majority in the country. But by backing Pakistan's line, Washington actually helped divide the guerrillas, arguably prolonging the war. Even worse, Washington's silent support for Pakistan's creation of the Taleban -- a monster that Islamabad now seems unable to control -- helped establish the world's most dangerous breeding ground for terrorists. Osama bin Laden, holed up somewhere in Afghanistan, has a lot to thank the CIA for.

Am I a terrorist sympathizer?

They also have the absolutely kick ass mobile phone system, DoCoMO, that make look wap like the bullshit it is.More Info