Actually, it is really hard to figure out. The top 500 list is only of those people that have bothered to register their systems with the top 500 list in the first place. If you have a system that beats all of these systems, but don't register with the group, you don't get listed.
From the article, it really looks like they are cracking down specifically on illegal copies of these games, and not the games themselves. The way I am taking it is if you were to purchase a legal copy of one of these games in China, you would be good to go.
I remember the old DEC Multia that had a pair of PC slots in the back of it. Guess what? No one used them. This machine has pretty much everything one could want built in, and if it doesn't, the device that you want to plug into it probably comes in a USB/firewire flavor. It is pointless and costly to put something like PC card compatibility into something that very few people will ever use.
Plus, if you REALLY need that PC Card compatibility, you can always go for something like this:
This boil-up may or may not cause the UK to change their laws, at least for now. But what is going to happen when it comes time for the music of The Beatles to be affected by this? If these laws aren't changed now, this flap is just going to occur again then, and probably with a lot more fervor.
Don't get me wrong here, I am for keeping the laws the way they are. I just see a lot more controversy looming in the future.
This used to be the same way with Ford vehicles (heck, it might still be...who knows) When I decided I wanted to upgrade the crappy radio in my 91 Explorer, I went down to the dealership and asked if I could borrow their tool to pop it out real quick...they had no problem with this, and even showed me how. Sometimes you just have to go to the right place, and for a dealership to do something as simple as this gives them good customer satisfaction, which means that the customer will very likely return for repeat business.
So long as Lucas doesn't get near the directors chair, it will be fine. Lucas needs to go sit in the processing labs and continue to make new and exciting special effects, and leave the directing to people who actually have a clue.
Remove the cost of building highways? Ummm...have you looked at what a good portion of the traffic is on the highways is these days?
Trucks.
Cargo shipping is one of the biggest reasons for the highways these days, and I really don't foresee the use of "small aircraft" as being a good replacement for the trucking industry at this time.
Frankly the vast majority of these people (all your average joe non-techy person) could have cared less what OS they had as long as it WORKED. If the Sun Desktop works well and does the things Average Joe Consumer wants (which are web surfing, E-mail and possibly chat mainly) then the customers likely won't even notice it's not Windows on their computer.
One thing I see as being a problem with this is that there are a large number of people out there on AOL. Being on AOL, they are very likely also the ones that will be frequenting the Walmart website and seeing this machine.
What happens when they get this machine home and want to install the AOL software onto it?
I use an Apple USB keyboard on my PC. On this keyboard, the Alt key and the Windows key are swapped, so it is possible for me to do the three finger salute with just two fingers...my thumb laid out length-wise across the CTRL and ALT keys, and another finger on the DEL key.
Sure, run a lot of copper through the house. But what you can also do is run fibre to certain parts of the house, like the attic or something. You don't have to do wall mounts or anything, just have the fibre in the walls. Then, when it does come down to actually needing fibre, you have it run, you just need to hook it up in the right places.
It's a very creative interpretation of Microsoft's licensing terms, and one I imagine Microsoft didn't have in mind."
Do you really think that Microsoft didn't think of this possibility? Do you really think that amongst all of their lawyers, advertising people, etc. they couldn't think of an outcome such as this?
Heck, it wouldn't surprise me if Dell went to Microsoft and asked them what the other options were, and Microsoft told them that this WAS one of them!
It's pretty easy to get rid of a large number of the litigation cases...make it a loser pays system. Then people that are suing left and right might start thinking about what the outcome will be before they actually sue.
He's certainly not very wise, considering how badly the Jedi get blindsided by the Dark Side.
You think him not wise. I think he knows exactly what is going on. I think he has seen what is going to happen and just isn't telling anyone. Throughout the movie he is looking at those around him that are doing stupid things and just sort of shaking his head at their stupidity.
Remember, he knows quite well that the two sides of the force must have balance. For a long time now there has been a large presense of the light side of the force, but where has the dark side been? No where. He knows that in order for such a large amount of the light side of the force to be available, there must also be a dark side element out there.
Well, this looks like a hair brained scheme by a senator that has been in office for so long that he has no idea about what is going on in the real world. Some statistics:
Party: Democrat Year of Birth: 1922 (That makes him 80 years old) First time in office: 1966 Political career started: 1949
He also graduated from The Citadel, which has it's own problems.
We actually just handled this delivery yesterday, a 3 tesla head scanner from Siemens. This piece of equipment takes up about half of a flat bed trailer, and had to be craned off of the trailer for delivery.
The move of the magnet off of the flatbed went fine, and there it was sitting outside the building, waiting to be moved in. They had some floatation pads under it that made it pretty easy to move around when air pressure was applied to them, so getting it up to the building was pretty easy... until they reached the building entrance.
Turns out they had not planned for the entrance to be a bit to short for the magnet, and it wouldn't fit through the doorway. This is a multi-million dollar piece of equipment, but no one thought to see if they could get it inside the building.
Eventually the Siemens guys decided to partially dismantle the magnet (fortunately it was just a part of the control console that had to be dismantled, and not the coils), and it fit through the entrance with about a quarter inch to spare.
Apparently IBM's drives are supposed to be quiet, but I got one and they are anything but.
IBM Drives can be quiet, but very often you have to use their drive tuning software in order to get them to be quiet. Search around the IBM website for this utility. Unfortunately, you pay for the quiet drives with some amount of performance. Also, I am not sure if this tuning program applies to laptop drives.
I think that every time I were to receive a ticket for this from one of these cameras, I would contest it in court. There is no proof that you were driving the car at the time, so why should you receive points against your record for the crime, not to mention the cost of the ticket and the rise in your insurance costs?
Linux clusters were used by Dreamworks to do the images, and SGI Octanes, O2's, and Origins were used for the rendering. SGI's article details it to some extent.
If you remember - for a long time no professional chess player would play a computer. I'm curious as to what the reasoning was behind this. Maybe they thought it's best to concentrate on learning how people play the game and not how a computer plays.
Just throwing out an idea here, but perhaps chess masters rely not only on their minds to play a good game, but also on the body language and expressions that their opponent displays. With a computer, this kind of data transmission is removed, and all the chess master has to rely on is his/her own intellect.
I received a mailer from 3com recently advertising this very card, offering one of them to institutions as a freebie if the institution qualified. The mailer itself was a piece of work: You had to unfold it to find out what it was, and on each of the folds was the word "ping". When you got to the center of it, it had something about being hacked, and then the rest of the ad talked about getting this piece of equipment for your protection, etc.
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So what? The only thing that statement was likely to do was to further aggravate the already-unhappy manager...
I think that was the idea. He tends to blow his top pretty quick, which explains why the cops were almost called...
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I work for an educational institution, and one of the doctors that I work for recently had an experience at the local Best Buy.
He had just bought a harddrive and taken it home, only to find that inside the sealed box was a can of tuna. This is something so utterly rediculous, he decided to back up his case. He called the tuna manufacturer and found that the code stamped on the bottom of the can showed that the can had been shipped to the same county as the manufacturer of the harddrive.
So now it is time to go to the store and try to get a replacement. Of course, everyone knows the story. The manager refused to honor the story, even when presented with this amount of evidence.
The next step was for our doctor in question to go to a bigger regional manager and tell the story. When this manager heard the information about the problem and had looked up the purchasing history of this doctor, he immediately had a new harddrive waiting for the doctor.
I have left quite a bit out of this story, including the bit about where the police were almost called and where the doctor notes to the first manager that he makes more in a month than the manager does in a year, but you get the idea.
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Actually, it is really hard to figure out. The top 500 list is only of those people that have bothered to register their systems with the top 500 list in the first place. If you have a system that beats all of these systems, but don't register with the group, you don't get listed.
From the article, it really looks like they are cracking down specifically on illegal copies of these games, and not the games themselves. The way I am taking it is if you were to purchase a legal copy of one of these games in China, you would be good to go.
I remember the old DEC Multia that had a pair of PC slots in the back of it. Guess what? No one used them. This machine has pretty much everything one could want built in, and if it doesn't, the device that you want to plug into it probably comes in a USB/firewire flavor. It is pointless and costly to put something like PC card compatibility into something that very few people will ever use.
Plus, if you REALLY need that PC Card compatibility, you can always go for something like this:
http://www.arstech.com/usbpcmcia.htm
This boil-up may or may not cause the UK to change their laws, at least for now. But what is going to happen when it comes time for the music of The Beatles to be affected by this? If these laws aren't changed now, this flap is just going to occur again then, and probably with a lot more fervor.
Don't get me wrong here, I am for keeping the laws the way they are. I just see a lot more controversy looming in the future.
This used to be the same way with Ford vehicles (heck, it might still be...who knows) When I decided I wanted to upgrade the crappy radio in my 91 Explorer, I went down to the dealership and asked if I could borrow their tool to pop it out real quick...they had no problem with this, and even showed me how. Sometimes you just have to go to the right place, and for a dealership to do something as simple as this gives them good customer satisfaction, which means that the customer will very likely return for repeat business.
So long as Lucas doesn't get near the directors chair, it will be fine. Lucas needs to go sit in the processing labs and continue to make new and exciting special effects, and leave the directing to people who actually have a clue.
Remove the cost of building highways? Ummm...have you looked at what a good portion of the traffic is on the highways is these days?
Trucks.
Cargo shipping is one of the biggest reasons for the highways these days, and I really don't foresee the use of "small aircraft" as being a good replacement for the trucking industry at this time.
Frankly the vast majority of these people (all your average joe non-techy person) could have cared less what OS they had as long as it WORKED. If the Sun Desktop works well and does the things Average Joe Consumer wants (which are web surfing, E-mail and possibly chat mainly) then the customers likely won't even notice it's not Windows on their computer.
One thing I see as being a problem with this is that there are a large number of people out there on AOL. Being on AOL, they are very likely also the ones that will be frequenting the Walmart website and seeing this machine.
What happens when they get this machine home and want to install the AOL software onto it?
I use an Apple USB keyboard on my PC. On this keyboard, the Alt key and the Windows key are swapped, so it is possible for me to do the three finger salute with just two fingers...my thumb laid out length-wise across the CTRL and ALT keys, and another finger on the DEL key.
Umm...I would think Qantas would be the best choice...they are the ones that have yet to crash.
Anyone notice that the first release date is on the anniversary of Atari's inception? Yerp, Atari was founded on June 28th, 1972.
Sure, run a lot of copper through the house. But what you can also do is run fibre to certain parts of the house, like the attic or something. You don't have to do wall mounts or anything, just have the fibre in the walls. Then, when it does come down to actually needing fibre, you have it run, you just need to hook it up in the right places.
It's a very creative interpretation of Microsoft's licensing terms, and one I imagine Microsoft didn't have in mind."
Do you really think that Microsoft didn't think of this possibility? Do you really think that amongst all of their lawyers, advertising people, etc. they couldn't think of an outcome such as this?
Heck, it wouldn't surprise me if Dell went to Microsoft and asked them what the other options were, and Microsoft told them that this WAS one of them!
It's pretty easy to get rid of a large number of the litigation cases...make it a loser pays system. Then people that are suing left and right might start thinking about what the outcome will be before they actually sue.
He's certainly not very wise, considering how badly the Jedi get blindsided by the Dark Side.
You think him not wise. I think he knows exactly what is going on. I think he has seen what is going to happen and just isn't telling anyone. Throughout the movie he is looking at those around him that are doing stupid things and just sort of shaking his head at their stupidity.
Remember, he knows quite well that the two sides of the force must have balance. For a long time now there has been a large presense of the light side of the force, but where has the dark side been? No where. He knows that in order for such a large amount of the light side of the force to be available, there must also be a dark side element out there.
Well, this looks like a hair brained scheme by a senator that has been in office for so long that he has no idea about what is going on in the real world. Some statistics:
Party: Democrat
Year of Birth: 1922 (That makes him 80 years old)
First time in office: 1966
Political career started: 1949
He also graduated from The Citadel, which has it's own problems.
We actually just handled this delivery yesterday, a 3 tesla head scanner from Siemens. This piece of equipment takes up about half of a flat bed trailer, and had to be craned off of the trailer for delivery.
The move of the magnet off of the flatbed went fine, and there it was sitting outside the building, waiting to be moved in. They had some floatation pads under it that made it pretty easy to move around when air pressure was applied to them, so getting it up to the building was pretty easy... until they reached the building entrance.
Turns out they had not planned for the entrance to be a bit to short for the magnet, and it wouldn't fit through the doorway. This is a multi-million dollar piece of equipment, but no one thought to see if they could get it inside the building.
Eventually the Siemens guys decided to partially dismantle the magnet (fortunately it was just a part of the control console that had to be dismantled, and not the coils), and it fit through the entrance with about a quarter inch to spare.
Apparently IBM's drives are supposed to be quiet, but I got one and they are anything but.
IBM Drives can be quiet, but very often you have to use their drive tuning software in order to get them to be quiet. Search around the IBM website for this utility. Unfortunately, you pay for the quiet drives with some amount of performance. Also, I am not sure if this tuning program applies to laptop drives.
I think that every time I were to receive a ticket for this from one of these cameras, I would contest it in court. There is no proof that you were driving the car at the time, so why should you receive points against your record for the crime, not to mention the cost of the ticket and the rise in your insurance costs?
Linux clusters were used by Dreamworks to do the images, and SGI Octanes, O2's, and Origins were used for the rendering. SGI's article details it to some extent.
If you remember - for a long time no professional chess player would play a computer. I'm curious as to what the reasoning was behind this. Maybe they thought it's best to concentrate on learning how people play the game and not how a computer plays.
Just throwing out an idea here, but perhaps chess masters rely not only on their minds to play a good game, but also on the body language and expressions that their opponent displays. With a computer, this kind of data transmission is removed, and all the chess master has to rely on is his/her own intellect.
I received a mailer from 3com recently advertising this very card, offering one of them to institutions as a freebie if the institution qualified. The mailer itself was a piece of work: You had to unfold it to find out what it was, and on each of the folds was the word "ping". When you got to the center of it, it had something about being hacked, and then the rest of the ad talked about getting this piece of equipment for your protection, etc.
So what? The only thing that statement was likely to do was to further aggravate the already-unhappy manager...
I think that was the idea. He tends to blow his top pretty quick, which explains why the cops were almost called...
I work for an educational institution, and one of the doctors that I work for recently had an experience at the local Best Buy.
He had just bought a harddrive and taken it home, only to find that inside the sealed box was a can of tuna. This is something so utterly rediculous, he decided to back up his case. He called the tuna manufacturer and found that the code stamped on the bottom of the can showed that the can had been shipped to the same county as the manufacturer of the harddrive.
So now it is time to go to the store and try to get a replacement. Of course, everyone knows the story. The manager refused to honor the story, even when presented with this amount of evidence.
The next step was for our doctor in question to go to a bigger regional manager and tell the story. When this manager heard the information about the problem and had looked up the purchasing history of this doctor, he immediately had a new harddrive waiting for the doctor.
I have left quite a bit out of this story, including the bit about where the police were almost called and where the doctor notes to the first manager that he makes more in a month than the manager does in a year, but you get the idea.
...will they bring back Softporn, the precursor to Leisure Suit Larry.
:)
For that matter, when are we going to see an OSS release of all of this stuff?