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1394 Trade Association Adopts FireWire Brand
MaxVlast writes in that the
The 1394 Trade Association has adopted the FireWire trademark, logo and symbol as a brand identity for the IEEE 1394 connection standard in a "no-fee license agreement" between 1394ta and Apple. Apple has also granted 1394ta the right to sub-license the FireWire Trademark for use on products, packaging and promotion of the standard.
I don't believe it! the site was /. after 1 post! Ouch, that's gotta hurt
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"And may your days be long upon the earth."
WTF are you smoking? I was just there.
Hmm, how long has the Gameboy had a black and white screen until they used color?
People who consider the Nintendo Game Boy inferior tend to ignore the fact that its backlit color competitors (Game Gear, Atari Lynx, and Genesis Nomad) were much larger and ran about four to five hours on a set of six AA batteries. The original GB ran 20 to 30 hours on a set of four. The current GBA with the Afterburner internal frontlight runs 10 to 15 hours on two AA batteries.
In the 6 months that I've been doing GBA development, the biggest problem I've run into has been the audio system's complete lack of response below 400 Hz. Thus my jungle tracks become drum and ... silence.
Will I retire or break 10K?
It was $1 _per port_, and chipsets probably cost in the range of $8 or so to make.
I only repeat what the internal feeling was amongst the 1394 community, and I think that feeling is justified. I saw a number of chipsets that were going to have 1394 mysteriously lose that feature around this period.
I didn't realise that dissing Apple would be such a bone of contention. I find it quite funny, actually. They've done some cool things in their time, and this wasn't one of them. A little objectivity would be a good idea here.
Flamebait=2? I didn't just make this stuff up you know. Get a grip.
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