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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."
Don't know if it's interesting or not... I simply cannot be bothered to read it! Where are the paragraph breaks? It's one of the simplest things...
Lets play with numbers a bit...
We have all been to those meetings where someone wants over 100 percent.
How about achieving 103 percent?
Here's a little math that might prove helpful in the future.
What makes life 100 percent?
If,
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
can be represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 2122 23 24 25 26
Then,
H A R D W O R K
8 1 18 4 23 15 18 11 = 98% only
K N O W L E D G E
11 14 15 23 12 5 4 7 5 = 96% only
But,
A T T I T U D E
1 20 20 9 20 21 4 5 = 100 %
And,
B U L L S H I T
2 21 12 12 19 8 9 20 = 103%
So, it stands to reason that hard work and knowledge will get you
close, but attitude and bullshit will put you over the top.
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
intresting and dumb
?Geez, I?m sure you could?ve used a something to make it less readable. All those ?question marks? make it impossible for me to get through more than one paragraph.?
Bulls are color blind.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered PlayStation community when recently IGN confirmed that PlayStation2 accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all consoles. Coming on the heels of the latest IGN survey which plainly states that PlayStation2 has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. PlayStation2 is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent comprehensive gaming tests.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict PlayStation2's future. The hand writing is on the wall: PlayStation2 faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for PlayStation2 because PlayStation2 is dying. Things are looking very bad for PlayStation2. As many of us are already aware, PlayStation2 continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. In-house Sony projects are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Sony leader Ken Kutaragi states that there are 7000 users of PlayStation2. How many users of Dreamcast are there? Let's see. The number of PlayStation2 versus Dreamcast posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Dreamcast users. Xbox posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Dreamcast posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Xbox. A recent article put GameCube at about 80 percent of the console market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 GameCube users. This is consistent with the number of GameCube Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Sega, abysmal sales and so on, Sega went out of business and was taken over by Microsoft who sell another troubled console. Now Microsoft is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that PlayStation2 has steadily declined in market share. PlayStation2 is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If PlayStation2 is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. PlayStation2 continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, PlayStation2 is dead.
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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)