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Looking Closely at the Restrictions of Linux on the PS2
Hal-kun writes: "I wrote an interesting article about Sony's upcoming Linux distro for the PS2 and some intellectual property concerns I have with it. It's an intresting look at how Sony limits the ability to have full access to the system, yet being able to keep it under GPL."
There are paragraph breaks... If you pick up a book or a newspaper, you'll frequently see the same paragraph style. Nothing wrong with that.
/Janne
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
I haven't seen that before.
Good for at least one laugh.
"Survival of the fittest Max, and we've got the fucking gun!" - Pi
I have now read it, but he could sure use a proof reader :-)
All I want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that too much to ask ~~ Randall Munroe
I dunno where you get all this anger against Sony.
Sure it went after Bleem & VGS.. but it had its own reasons (invest hundres of millions of dollars to render PSX famous and someone comes over to ride their horse).
As far as I know, Sony never bothered any *non-commercial* emulators. They knew PSEmu full well but they never even sent an email of warning.
Surely Bleem alerted a bunch of American lawyers, and you might have got in touch with them as an indirect result. But you are not writing from a jail, are you ?
In case, if you haven't noticed, Sony is possibly ready to give up on the super-closed-console approach in order to slowdown Microsoft. Even if they try to keep it somewhat close, they know it won't hold for long.
This is a great chance for Linux, and a great chance for the present and future hacker community to have a fresh new cool system to use in place of the same old PC.
You are not wishing that Sony would ship it's hardware expansion with Windows XP & IE, are you ?
Otsukaresama
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You are an idiot. There are idiots everywhere, not just in the United States and you are proof. I am the product of an american education system and I run rings around Japanese graduate students that come here for an education. Just because the average is low doesnt tell you anything about american education. What it does tell you is that there are a lot of people here that don't value that education. Why do you think that the US has so many good Universities? Because there are a lot of smart people here that's why. Here, not in Japan! There are smart people and dumb people everywhere, so dont make it seem like all Japanese are smarter than all Americans, because let me tell you, I have met some real fucking dumb Japanese people. I have met some smart ones too though (and cute).
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I may be wrong here, but I don't think that Japanese children are any smarter or dumber than their American counterparts. In fact I would wager that most of the children (baring genetic disorders or malnutrition) are pretty much the same world over.
The biggest difference is the educational system and the goals that the educational system has. If what you say is true, then Japan has math skills and computer programming as goals for it's educational system. Germany, the last time I checked (which was about a decade ago) didn't teach history, art or music in their public education system. The US public schools were aimed at turning out factory workers. They did a very good job turning out factory workers, it's just that we don't need factory workers anymore and the system hasn't caught up. Does that mean that German students are artistically challenged? Perhaps.
At the moment, I would supplement the public education of my children in the US, especially if you have other goals than to be factory workers in mind for them.
Of course higher education is a completely different matter. In most of the rest of the world you have to pass all kinds of complicated tests to get into college (hence the high suicide rate of students in those countries) but once you get it, you basically get a free ride. In the US any idiot with enough money can get into college, but the better ones make you work your bottom off to graduate. Is it any wonder why most of the rest of the world wants to go to graduate school here in the states?
I guess what I am saying it that it isn't that the intelligence of Japanese children is any better or worse than American children, it's that they are a product of completely different educational systems.
No one is inherently better or worse than anyone else.
Just my $0.02 (Canadian, before taxes)