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But are there any good submarine games for it? Tairan writes: "In an effort to sell off 2 million Dreamcasts before jumping out of the hardware business, Sega has lowered the prices of Dreamcasts to $99.00. If you don't already have one, better get down to your local gaming store now!"
Frankly, I'd really rather have an Aeron chair The tri-voweled reader nettdata writes: "Remember this old article that talked about a dot-commer including a Lego desk in his contract? Well, I think I've found the guy! Sun's Dot Com Builder page is doing a feature article on Blue Nile, and the picture in the article shows their CTO sitting at a Lego Desk.
Look here[1][, then look here[2] and tell me they aren't the same!"
![here[1][](http://dcb.sun.com/images/bluenile_img1.jpg){kind=link}
![here[2]](http://www.ericharshbarger.org/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?desk_21.jpg+lego/images/desk){kind=link}
Mr. Harshbarger's work continues to amaze, astound and befuddle. Where are all the Lincoln Log sculptures, and desks made of bright yellow Tonka truck metal?
Tell me again how sheep's bladders may be used to prevent earthquakes ... Geoffrey S. Zub of Vistaource passed on that company's Official Word on the Applix spinoff, which he says "can be attributed to Allison Antalek, Marketing Communications." It reads thus:
"In December 2000 the Company entered into discussions with several possible buyers and expects to consummate a divestiture or otherwise discontinue the business in the first quarter of 2001.Pop quiz, no cheating: Would you be likely to buy a new car from a company that had just "discontinued operations"?If you have consistently followed VistaSource through 2000, you will recall two key announcements:
VistaSource has been on a path to divest from Applix throughout the year 2000. In December, this culminated in discussions with possible buyers. The term 'discontinued operations' is a common legal and finance term used in these situations and should not raise concern about VistaSource's long term viability. Our Anyware offering is a leading technology from which we offer customizable, web-enabled, server centric, real-time solutions, and we will continue to focus our business to grow in this market segment. The exercises over the past twelve months have further focused our business on our key differentiators as we look to grow to prominence in 2001. We look forward to your continued support and to your business in the future.
- April 24th press release launching VistaSource as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Applix.
- October 19th press release announcing the engagement of FAC/Equities to explore strategic alternatives for VistaSource, including its possible divestiture.
Best Regards,
Allison Antalek
Marketing Communications
VistaSource, Inc."
Please don't throw another penguin on the barbie, 'K, mate? Last but not least, the indefatiguable Marc Merlin posted word of his newest wrap-up / conference report, with pictures, of the recent linux.conf.au 2001. Marc braved jetlag, the dangers of flying, and proximity to dangerous creatures like kangaroos and awful jellyfish to bring you these pictures and words, but he's dedicated. (Check out his license plate for proof.) As his report puts it, "If you noticed the absence of Showfloor pictures, it's simply because there was no Showfloor. This was a hacker's conference, not a tradeshow, and I'd say that it was just as well." Some great pix in here! Thanks, Marc.
I think nintendo and MS will come out on Top in the near future. From what I have read, the X-Box is really demanding as far as quality, they won't let games be published if they are using the xbox's potential for something special. Nintendo is freakin nintendo, they have put out some of the best games ever made like marios,zeldas, and the best game of all time - Super Metroid. The gamecube's graphics are astouding as I am sure the X-box's will be too.
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The sentence:
The term 'discontinued operations' is a common legal and finance term used in these situations and should not raise concern about VistaSource's long term viability.
is a common marketing term called putting a good spin on bad news. Sheesh, I know this is what marketers do, but sometimes I'm still amazed at the crap these people can spew with a straight face.
Shop Smart, Shop S-mart!
Same stat, different sources. The error is the mis-use of "North America" to mean USA. What it should say is; US sales of the DC were somewhere between 3.9 and 4.5 million units (depending on who you ask), far short of the March '01 goal of 7.5 million.
I asked Eric, and he confirmed that it was Blue Nile that he built it for.
And I do find it terribly ironic, that Sun implies that the CTO built it himself, given that Eric worked for Sun for several years out here in CA.
"Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs." P.J. O'Rourke
I know I can delve all I want into biases here, but I honestly don't think Wired has anything against Apple. Hell, they were the ones who published the "pray" cover story for Apple a few years ago, prompting people to help it return.
- I don't care if they globalize against free speech. All my best free thoughts are done in my head.
26 is the magic number for the +1 bonus, not for moderation...
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"It's tough to be bilingual when you get hit in the head."
If it makes you feel any better, I bought an Atari Jaguar(on clearence), the video game equivalent of wearing a "kick me" sign on one's back.
The MacNN article only seems to contest the statement from Wired News that Mr. Jobs used profanity in every sentance. Obviously this isn't true, we all know this. It's called hyberbole, the stretching of the truth to emphasize your point. Hyberbole is a fairly common device that writers use to make their writing more vivid and we should all know when it is happening and how to interpret it. When Wired News says in an editorial piece "Every sentence he uttered -- every single one -- contained an expletive" we should be able to interpret that as "Mr. Jobs used profanity in quantities that many would consider excessive." The fact that Mr. Jobs may have uttered a sentance during the session which did not contain an expletive is neither news nor grounds for discrediting Mr. Kahney's article on Wired News.
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I don't want free as in beer. I just want free beer.
I just knew that Blue Nile would also be on FuckedCompany.com when I saw that Sun ad...
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RTFJ.
dreadlocked Rastafarian animal.
Chronic the Hemphog's brother, perhaps?
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One analyst said the company sold 4.5 million game units in the United States since its introduction -- well off the company's goal of 7.5 million systems sold by March 2001. Another analyst said North American sales were even more anemic, amounting to a mere 3.9 million units.
Appears they had to buy back 600,000 units from Canada and Mexico. That *is* pretty bad.
Bitchslapped. Neat.
http://www.rcpt.to/~james/2001/lca-2001/
NEW YORK: Eight Amici or "friend of the court" briefs were filed today in support of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's appeal of an injunction against 2600 Magazine, which banned the media site from publishing and linking to information under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) last August.
Warning the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals of the danger to free expression posed by the DMCA, diverse groups including the American Civil Liberties Union, Association for Computing Machinery, American Library Association and others asked the appellate court to overturn a lower court's ruling. Last year, a district court in New York barred 2600 Magazine from publishing or linking to DeCSS, the computer code that was at the heart of a controversy the magazine was covering. Other groups filing briefs with the appellate court include journalists, law professors, educators, cryptographers, computer programmers and academics -- all warning the appellate court of the impingement upon First Amendment freedoms that result from the lower court's dangerous interpretation of the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions and broad elimination of fair use rights.
Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig, who co-sponsored an amicus brief with NYU's Yochai Benkler, explained the harm to freedom of expression posed by the lower court's broad granting of rights to the movie studios under the DMCA. "The First Amendment limits the scope of copyright. It should also limit the scope of code that protects copyright. That is the core issue in this case," Lessig said.
Hey, Marc! Can you say "obsession"? I knew you could!
Honestly, brother... I love Linux too (I administer Linux boxen), but isn't that perhaps a tad too much lovin'?
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In an effort to sell off 2 million Dreamcasts before jumping out of the hardware business
Slashdot | Sega Announces Dreamcast Sucessor
This is starting to get to become like the MIR issue. Are they in the devel business, or are they out? In, or out? Please, please please, Oh All Powerful Editors, make up your mind.
As for a good Dreamcast game, an upcoming one (according to IGN) is based on the hugely popular Blue Submarine 6 series, which is also one of my favorite. If you haven't seen the anime, go rent/buy/download it somewhere.
Information is the catalyst for revolution
I submitted this, but it didn't make the cut, and since I fell below the 26-karma level (for no apparent reason; I haven't moderated in a while, got modded up a few times, and still it falls....but I digress) I have no fear of posting it here.
Remember the Wired article talking about how profane Steve Jobs was at a recent reseller meeting? We even talked about it just the other day. Well, MacNN has a different take on the subject after talking to some of the attendees.
Er, if you care.
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I found some of the other photos that were near the lego desk to be quite amusing... I mean, I've heard of flat girls, but this just gives the concept a whole new meaning. And pale! Did the "naked and petrefied" guy get to her or something? :-)