You are Michael Jackson. You must save the children from the clutches of Mr. Big. You can use your dancing abilities to destroy enemies, or grab your chimp "Bubbles" and turn into the ultimate fighting robot.
Not sure what he turned up, but if his first reaction is to sue Google for it, I'm sure that saying anything unkind about the man may not be far from the mark.
If the patent office is still run the same way as it is now (with the quantity of approvals vs. quality), this will be worthless. Only with true reforms of the patent system (non-obvious patents, abolishment of software patents, protection of inventions, not algorithms) will the patent office really be reformed.
It means you can charge more for a product that is pretty much a customer service item. It's not a core business item, and people who need the product are willing to pay for the priviledge.
It's called "Plea bargaining". Find the most outrageous charge, and then whittle it down until it's somewhere within the ballpark of the actual crime. Will this guy go to prison under the charge of cyber terrorism? I'm betting no. Will he get some cyber misdemeanor charge? Absolutely.
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Just on a whim I did some searching to find an internal PCI modem for my PC. What I saw was rather dismaying. Very few PCI modems aren't Winmodems nowadays, and the ones that aren't are upwards of $50. Not the kind of price you want to add to a pre-built machine.
I can just imagine someone looking over their shoulder, about to "copy that floppy", when out of nowhere a giant seal clubs them to death and the disappears into the night.
How this rebranded "Don't Copy that Floppy" seal is going to deter piracy is beyond me. I'm sure it was as much of a deterrent as that William H. Sessions "Winners don't use drugs" campaign that showed up in arcades in the 90s.
I'm so grateful that I will have to pay a higher cost for my next car just so the car can administer a breathalyzer to me. Maybe they can also have technology to ensure I'm not entering a store without shoes or shirt so the clerk doesn't have to tell me that they can't serve me. This has got to stop before it gets too far out of hand.
Wow! I just can't WAIT to use these new icons! I'm just GIDDY with excitement! All this time I thought Amiga didn't have their crap together, and they go and prove me wrong by releasing these way cool ICONS! Amiga isn't dead! Look at the pretty ICONS! Yeah, your desktop has ICONS, but they're not the official AMIGA ICONS! Oh wowowowowowowow.
So, where do I download the Nautilus tarball for my Linux machine?
I was going to post a comment about the same thing, but you've hit the nail right on the head. Let sony and Microsoft worry about the next big thing in game consoles. We're at a point where these machines are incremental advances of 32 bit gaming. Outside of drastically improved graphical polygon pushing capability, the gaming genres haven't moved much beyond what the 3DO, PSX, and Saturn accomplished in the 1990s. Nintendo is wise to polish the GameCube and diversify its current library rather than drop the whole system in favor of the next notch in the graphical ladder. They'll be in a much better position when the next major jump happens to gaming.
Remember, the Sega Saturn jumped its initial launch date to try to get the edge on the Sony Playstation. In the end the jump hurt them more than helped. Hopefully Microsoft got the developers of launch titles to agree to an aggressive schedule, or they'll be playing second fiddle to the PS3.
Yeah, the old Byte magazine was chock full of goodies back in the day. My parents bought me Popular Computing, but it was a special day when I picked up a copy of Byte. Had the best damn article on the computers behind the making of Tron than anyone else.
Remember kids, if you could fit 12 issues of Byte on your magazine shelf, you're not reading the golden age of Byte.:)
So they got someone who has game industry experience. This doesn't lend credibility to the project, it instead makes me wonder how they got this far without it. Witness the 3DO. They had Tripp Hawkins, who's rhetoric probably could have sold 3DOs to people without electricity or televisions. When the chips were down, and Sony and Sega rolled out their 32 bit machines, 3DO started the hype machine for the M2, which was going to knock everyones socks off. Rumors flew like doves at a wedding. The 3DO faithful would be rewarded for not straying from the one true machine. Months marched on, and the M2 rumors turned to circling like vultures, wondering if the M2 would ever see the light of day. Would Panasonic manufacture it? Almost weekly the answer changed. When it was all said and done, the M2 didn't appear. The revolutionary hardware that would have changed the world of gaming might have shown up in some obscure arcade machines, but the console never showed itself to the waiting public. The hopes died with the hype.
I'm much more jaded nowadays when companies promise to release "the next big thing" without showing hardware sitting on a table hooked to a monitor. Any company can make rendered pictures of hardware, blowmold prototypes, and hire top name executives. What matters is hardware and software. Show me the Phantom running on a table... let me download some games to it and play them. Until then you can blow press releases out of your ass. You won't impress me; I've seen that act before.
Maybe we can code up a plugin that uses Unicast's bandwidth by randomly downloading images from their site every time we receive an ad, up to the amount of space tht the ad consumes. So a 1MB ad ould shoot off a spider to Unicast to download 1MB of images and data from their site. I'm sure they'd love the bandwidth boost. After all, they're asking me to take a hit from my connection for them.
At least tuxracer is playable, if not nearly impossible to advance in without turning in a perfect herring score. In Tuxracer, once you see a herring go by, you might as well not even try.
Actually, wrapped inside those guilty pleasures is a pretty innovative fighting game. The ability to grab your opponents attack and use it against them gives an added depth to the game that a simple block button didn't afford.
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the last two companies I've worked for have had Lotus Sametime. Not sure about licensing or whatnot, but it works.
Now that I re-read my post it sounded like I was being rather harsh. Sorry about that. Yes, Mattel Electronics did have autonomy under the Mattel umbrella.
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You are Michael Jackson. You must save the children from the clutches of Mr. Big. You can use your dancing abilities to destroy enemies, or grab your chimp "Bubbles" and turn into the ultimate fighting robot.
"Dude, i think somebody just uploaded a whole bunch of warez to my WiFi disc from the parking lot".
Not sure what he turned up, but if his first reaction is to sue Google for it, I'm sure that saying anything unkind about the man may not be far from the mark.
If the patent office is still run the same way as it is now (with the quantity of approvals vs. quality), this will be worthless. Only with true reforms of the patent system (non-obvious patents, abolishment of software patents, protection of inventions, not algorithms) will the patent office really be reformed.
It means you can charge more for a product that is pretty much a customer service item. It's not a core business item, and people who need the product are willing to pay for the priviledge.
It's called "Plea bargaining". Find the most outrageous charge, and then whittle it down until it's somewhere within the ballpark of the actual crime. Will this guy go to prison under the charge of cyber terrorism? I'm betting no. Will he get some cyber misdemeanor charge? Absolutely.
Just on a whim I did some searching to find an internal PCI modem for my PC. What I saw was rather dismaying. Very few PCI modems aren't Winmodems nowadays, and the ones that aren't are upwards of $50. Not the kind of price you want to add to a pre-built machine.
Doesn't this lose the main advantages of USB: Devices drawing power from the bus, and high speed? Give me Bluetooth over this anyday.
Yes, but X is old enough that Microsoft might lose the trademark if they challenged it. :)
How this rebranded "Don't Copy that Floppy" seal is going to deter piracy is beyond me. I'm sure it was as much of a deterrent as that William H. Sessions "Winners don't use drugs" campaign that showed up in arcades in the 90s.
Thanks mom!
So, where do I download the Nautilus tarball for my Linux machine?
I was going to post a comment about the same thing, but you've hit the nail right on the head. Let sony and Microsoft worry about the next big thing in game consoles. We're at a point where these machines are incremental advances of 32 bit gaming. Outside of drastically improved graphical polygon pushing capability, the gaming genres haven't moved much beyond what the 3DO, PSX, and Saturn accomplished in the 1990s. Nintendo is wise to polish the GameCube and diversify its current library rather than drop the whole system in favor of the next notch in the graphical ladder. They'll be in a much better position when the next major jump happens to gaming.
Post the location and the SSID outside of the building and on the newsgroups. The warchalkers will do the rest for you. :)
Remember, the Sega Saturn jumped its initial launch date to try to get the edge on the Sony Playstation. In the end the jump hurt them more than helped. Hopefully Microsoft got the developers of launch titles to agree to an aggressive schedule, or they'll be playing second fiddle to the PS3.
Remember kids, if you could fit 12 issues of Byte on your magazine shelf, you're not reading the golden age of Byte. :)
Please tell me you've at least taken it off at night, and have cleaned it. :)
I'm much more jaded nowadays when companies promise to release "the next big thing" without showing hardware sitting on a table hooked to a monitor. Any company can make rendered pictures of hardware, blowmold prototypes, and hire top name executives. What matters is hardware and software. Show me the Phantom running on a table... let me download some games to it and play them. Until then you can blow press releases out of your ass. You won't impress me; I've seen that act before.
Now, if they'd release the changes with the source code as well, THAT would be a story in itself.
Maybe we can code up a plugin that uses Unicast's bandwidth by randomly downloading images from their site every time we receive an ad, up to the amount of space tht the ad consumes. So a 1MB ad ould shoot off a spider to Unicast to download 1MB of images and data from their site. I'm sure they'd love the bandwidth boost. After all, they're asking me to take a hit from my connection for them.
Just a thought.
At least tuxracer is playable, if not nearly impossible to advance in without turning in a perfect herring score. In Tuxracer, once you see a herring go by, you might as well not even try.
I have spent lots of hours recently playing this game. I always find it fun to play games that are hard to explain to other people. :)
Actually, wrapped inside those guilty pleasures is a pretty innovative fighting game. The ability to grab your opponents attack and use it against them gives an added depth to the game that a simple block button didn't afford.
the last two companies I've worked for have had Lotus Sametime. Not sure about licensing or whatnot, but it works.
Now that I re-read my post it sounded like I was being rather harsh. Sorry about that. Yes, Mattel Electronics did have autonomy under the Mattel umbrella.