I think the main problem with this concept is that any garage-group capable of putting out their own quality game is going to have their talent hired out from under them to work at the real studios. The only thing that might spurr a group of developers to want to do a renegade after-hours project would be to pursue creative freedom that's not available under the helm of a major studio. So in that case, you might see a few super-gorefests with huge bare tits running on the indrema.
I guess that all depends on the source of human imprecision. If it's in the muscles of the hands, then yeah, this would make brain-controlled robotic arms ideal for surgery (perhaps brain surgery to implant more robotic arm controllers?). If the imprecision is caused by vision or faulty processing by the brain, then no. I guess you could get around the vision imperfections with those other technologies people are discussing here, but if you can lick that problem, might as well have a CPU running the whole she-bang!
This doesn't break any laws so far as I see mentioned on the site. He doesn't say where he got the roms for the cartridges. If he downloaded them from the net, then ok, he broke some laws. If he bought all those cartridges at flea markets, this thing is totally legal. If he were to mass produce this thing for selling, he would need a licensing agreement with the copyright holders of the games in his system.
"LinuxPPC runs on
PowerPC computers
with a PCI bus. If your
computer is
NuBus-based, you can
run MkLinux. LinuxPPC
will not run on these
machines."
So I guess this 11 year old you've been observing is a pretty tough-ass hacker to have ported LinuxPPC to a nubus computer like the 6116CD. Whoah!
But to get serious here for a minute and address the original poster's comment about installing Win2k on these charity boxes...Who is going to foot the bill for the license? The OS alone will cost more than what these computers are worth. And if the hardware could handle Win2k, then it doesn't sound like it's going to be donated to the charities anytime soon. To state the obvious, this looks like an ideal situation for a free OS that runs on obsolete hardware. There are plenty of choices out there....
How are you going to ask for help without divulging who you are voting for? Having to ask, "Does this mean I'm voting for Gore or Buchannon?" certainly is comprimising a person's right to a private ballot.
On a side note, old people driving slow used to really annoy me. Then one day as I blazed around an old codger in his Dodge Dart, I made a statistical observation.. Perhaps these people aren't driving slow because they're old. Maybe they're old because they're driving slow.
This is my take on florida. It may not jive with yours, so that's why I present it.
Gore made the politically astute move of supporting Elian's stay in the US. The cuban-americans are supporting him for that. But they actually make up only a small fraction of the voting populace of the state. The stronger vote in Florida are the retirees. Many of which are jewish. They like Lieberman. They also are big Sammy Haggar fans and love the notion of Gore putting Social Security funds in a three-lock-box.
Perhaps the tariff is so high because Sony had previously convinced the Japanese govt. that the PS2 might be
usable for missle guidance systems. DVD player, 3-d gaming platform, computer, missle guidance system, is there anything out there that this black slab can't do?
However, the Ministry of International Trade and
Industry has decided that PlayStation 2 should be
the first game console to join a list of 130
export-restricted items of Japanese computer
technology. People hoping to take two or more
PlayStation 2 consoles out of Japan will now need
permission from the authorities.
The government's concern centres on a powerful processor responsible for the console's realistic
graphics. Experts believe this could be converted for use in missiles that read visual information to
home in on targets. Sony said it did not expect the restrictions to affect PlayStation 2's release in
other countries.
I haven't read everything there is published out there about this case, but I believe that the defense you are talking about is one of many arguments Napster is presenting. In such a case, a defendent will usually submit a list of defenses, and the claimant (the RIAA) must then attack them all. The defendent will submit even the most ridiculous defenses because it would really suck to lose and not know whether the judge might have accepted such and such. I think it would be neat if the home recording act defense would be the one that gets them off the hook, but I think if they do survive, it'll be the ISP defense. Fingers are crossed.
If the court finds in favor of Napster, this opens up a lot of potental to 'free' IP that has otherwise been sat on.
If napster is undefeated in court, this isn't the precedent that will be set. In fact, it might win due to existing precedents. Due to the complexities of the impact on IP law that you mentioned, it's highly unlikely that the court would rule that RIAA v. Napster now means you can freely copy anything whose copyright is owned by a third party.
IF the court sides with napster, it will be because napster is a service provider that maintains an index of files that individuals have available on their own servers. This is analogous to the indexes that yahoo.com, lycos.com, google.com provide for html documents on web servers. Precedent has been established that relinquishes a service providers responsibility for the content streaming through its pipes because monitoring it would make the service unfeasible to provide. (napster distinguishing pirated Snoop Dog mp3's from high school piano recitals is akin to yahoo checking that some guys web page doesn't contain scanned text from an electronics repair manual.) Any court, when it can, will choose to rule on established precedents rather than forging a new one.
The one attack that can knock down the service provider defense is if the service can be proved to have no non-illicit use. So Napster proves legitimacy for the distribution service by entering into an agreement with BMG. Bingo. Now rather than claiming that one out of a million of the traded mp3's is really a garage band's demo mp3, Napster will be able to point at this agreement.
Of course this is all moot, though, as Napster will quickly go out of business as users shift to competing free services. Those record companies are so crafty!
I have a colleague who's working on a project where the oxidation process of ferrous metals is harnessed for what is hoped to be enough energy to power an automobile. It's a lot like the hydrogen fuel cell, but a much slower process with a (currently) much lower energy yield. Unfortunately, the project is highly controversial, and though it receives no federal funding, it has its opponents nonetheless. The most vehemous opponent, his neighbor, has already called the city three times to have the eyesore hauled away.
Not to be a jerk here, but that's a very human-centric view of things--
a billion
light years old which puts its current appearance being that long ago in years way before there even was any human skulls in
existance to model it on.
Perhaps human skulls have been modelled after this thing?
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As for the HD expansion you were hoping for, get an external firewire case and punch in whatever HD you choose. Set that brick on the floor or up to 64 feet away and you'll be fine. I am pretty certain the ram is PC100 SDRAM and you can put like 2 gigs of ram in the cube.
This may be limited to the Austin area. Time Warner cable refuses to provide cable modem access if the subscriber does not subscribe to cable tv service. This is contrary to the original description of the service (prior to its roll-out a few years back) and also the operating policies of time warner in other markets. I didn't have cable tv, so in order to get roadrunner service, I had to subscribe to cable tv, which added like $10 to the montly service fee. Since I have a satellite dish, this amounts to bundling. I suspect this is a violation of the Sherman Anti Trust Act.
I used to tell them to hang on and then I'd set the phone down. A few months ago, though, my friend and I brainstormed an even more resource-sapping strategy...
As soon as the person says, "Can I speak with Seth Johnson?" I immediately respond in a very calm and civil tone, "I'd like to speak with your manager. Please put your manager on the phone." Then I put the phone down and walk away. I've stayed on and listened and they always seem to run off and disturb him or her. Really evokes a deer in the headlights response from the TM. These operations always threaten their employees with the risk that a manager might be listening to the call, so they seem pretty nervous about disobeying a reasonable request like this.
Next time I get a manager on the phone, though, I think I'm going to use some of these other suggestions like the phone sex approach on that person. When you get down to it, the people in the trenches (the TM's) are just dumb beasts, so it doesn't seem humane to whip on them. The real cretins here are the managers. The ones who make more money than the TM's without having to endure the abuse. And they deserve the most abuse! They're the ones who are really dedicated to harrassing us, have been doing it long enough to get promoted, and may be considering building a lifelong career out of harrassing us, whereas the TM's can be a bright person suffering through a summer of poor job prospects...
In Mac OS 8.6 and 9.0.x, the scroll buttons can be put in one place. It's a preference in the appearance control panel. Don't know if they migrated that option over to OS X, though.
Still, I think readers have no idea what you're referring to here:
and sucked creative energy out of the market
Please provide the name of a company that has injected more creative energy into the market. You may have a point that colored computers are 'hype', but the iMac certainly did have an impact on the industry. What are its competitors doing that is so creative? Dell? Microsoft? Gateway?
This whole protection scheme depends on the participation of every hardware manufacturer. The funny thing here is that it's not enforced by any law. It's just a coalition of companies. There'll be no incentive for consumers to purchase SDMI compliant hardware, and very little incentive for manufacturers to build SDMI compliant devices.
I think the fact that every car you can buy in America has a speedometer that registers above the legal speed limit in any state (except montana where they have no speed limit) is a sign that consumers and manufacturers find hardware limitations like SDMI to be a hindrance rather than a value-add.
Ralph Dressel provided Fiserv with the results of what would have been an expensive internal controls audit for free
I can bet you that the execs at this company would have preferred the security audit at even ten times the price over this public revelation of their faulty security. In addition to the execs, I imagine the people who got pink slips over this would also have preferred the audit.
Expecting people to try to hack this standard using a 100% SDMI compliant environment is like saying "Our bulletproof vest works perfectly, so long as you shoot our SDMI-compatible bullets at it." You think I'm going to wear one of those? Screw that. Additionally, do you think I'm going to buy SDMI-compatible bullets if I know they're less effective than the regular cop-killer bullets made possible by DuPont?
Sorry for stating the obvious here, but the heroic flaw with systems like this is that there'll always be renegade products available that don't adhere to the 'standard', and unlike the case with DVDs, consumers can simply choose to play content not encumbered by SDMI.
Could you do me a favor and ask your friend where my company would be able to order a few of those posters? We could really use the security upgrade over here.
the failure of that lawsuit paved the way for other emulators such as Bleem to hit the market (not that it wasn't already in development when the suit hit). Connectix deserves credit for having the guts to stand up against the behemoth and set a precedent such as this. So yeah, I guess you missed it.
My friend has worked at Cyberplus for a few summers now on their Emstat product. It has a java gui and connects to an Oracle backend running on Solaris. Not sure if the java front end will run on linux or not, though. Sorry. Here's the
product info.
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