Funny, Rational and Toghethersoft seem to have made a nice business out of their successors: UML designers. Is a technolgy a flop just because it evolves into a better product?
8" floppies
Again: Is a technolgy a flop just because it evolves into a better product (5.25", 3.5")?
Now, those silly English 3" diskettes - that is a different story. (Used with Archimedes, Amstrad and Oric home computers.)
RS-232 serial port (25 pins, of which 4 are used)
What are you smoking? RS-232 evolved into using 9-pin connectors, and has only relatively recently been superseded by USB. For the longevity alone, how can you call it a flop? The Centronics parallell port would have been a far better example.
Audio Cassettes for data storage
Did you ever own a home computer in the 1980s? 90% of them used cassette storage. How is that a flop? Apart from the C64, attempts to introduce alternative storage media for them failed. Sinclair Microdrive, anyone?
Commodore 16
Why single out the C16? The +/4 (C16's big brother) was a bigger flop in that it was marketed to small businesses at a time when PCs started to go down in price. CD-32? A500+? Commodore made a lot of costly mistakes, the C16 wasn't among them.(IIRC it sold reasonably well as a "small C64".)
MSX
Is American success the only criteria? MSX remained popular in Asia, living through multiple generations.
One thing that I'd like to know is why does nobody create any 2D games anymore?
Because with 2D it's hard for the developers to constantly frustrate the players with "dancing" or uncontrollable camera positions that make it harder than necessary to play a game. Yes, Kingdom Hearts, I am talking about you.
Good 2D games for PS2? Get Guilty Gear XX/2X (glorious 2D beat-em-up) or Contra: Shattered Soldier (3D graphics but hard, 2D gameplay).
That's English, and it's thanks to such thinking that the rather large portion of the world that writes non-English as their native language had to battle with the stupid 7-bit limitation in transport protocols.
The images on the doors are concessions to illiterates... which is why, in 100% literate Norway, doors are usually labeled with the words "Herrer" and "Damer". What, you don't know Norwegian? Take a pick, then.
No. "Public domain" is a legal term in compyright law that roughly seems to mean "do whatever you want with it". When copyrights expire, that's where a work ends up (with the usual lobbyist-induced limitations if it's a "work for hire" and all that of course).
The GPL is a license on stuff not in the public domain (ie. that someone holds a copyright to) which lists a whole crapload of restrictions on what you can do with the licensed stuff when you get it.
But even if the GPL is invalid the authors still retain their copyright. It's unclear what SCO's vultures have been smoking if they believe that authors lose copyright if there is an error in a license document regarding the work.
It would be as if there was an unenforcable clause in the legal warning on a DVD, the entire contents became freely distributable...
MS can create NET 2.0, but is has to be backwards compatible with older versions or people wouldn't use it.
Yes they would, because even 1.0 and 1.1 aren't fully compatible.
Case in point: Microsoft has a nice, simple, localhost-only open-source web server/ASP.Net container called Cassini. I compiled this for use with Borland C#Builder, but ended up compiling using 1.0 libraries. Noticing it failed to start an ASP.Net app compiled to 1.1 APIs, I saw it complained that my app did not extend the class I obviously could see it extended.
The explanation was that my app, linked with 1.1's version of the class did not count as extending Cassini's 1.0 version of the same class.
(I might have been able to get around it by writing one of those semi-cryptic XML.config files, but instead compiled Cassini using 1.1 libs.)
Only if you consider pixel count to be more important than how it actually looks.
2. No mouse control.
Er, it's a "limitation" that game authors are aware of, hence console games don't need one.
3. Inability to mod games.
Is that something you do often?
4. Investment in console is not an investment in PC hardware upgrade or other PC games.
What you seem to write is that your PC expenses are too high for you to afford a console - which isn't so strange...
5. Consoles depreciate faster than PCs.... because this is patently false: Console makers are on a 4-5 year cycle, while PC graphics card makers are on a six-month cycle. The latest and greatest PS2 title runs on my years-old PS2, the latest and greatest PC game might require an investment in more hardware - possibly costing as much as a $99 console in its own right.
6. Inability to store several games at once?
"Store" meaning...? If you mean "lack of install nightmares", yes, except some XBox games seem to install stuff and require patches. But then they're just restricted PCs anyway.
7. Internet gameplay almost impossible without service, even if free, is monitored.
Whereas multiplayer in the same room is thousandfold easier. Consoles are for the social gamer.
8. Inability to easily run servers.
It seems you are focused/limited to one particular genre og game, and that genre is not very present on consoles...
10. Poor games. Except for Halo, Most games are arcade style with very little emphasis on visualization/realism technologies that made PC games so exciting...ex, Half-Life2.
Ah, you are focused on the niche of first-person shooters. Well, yes, these are generally better on PCs, unlike fighting games and platformers which are way better on consoles.
11. Developers are "trapped" by the console's limited OS infrastructure.
Or, looked at in a different way, they don't have to spend months testing their game in a million different configurtations or list two pages worth of what configurations they have tested with.
12. Consoles are "toaster" technology that doesn't impart any requirement for the user to "learn" anything new.
I believe that SCO's position is that software under GPL is public domain.
That's not for SCO to say, that's for the copyright holders to say. And the copyright holders have chosen to allow others to use it under the restrictions put forth in their chosen license. And the GPL is far more restricting than the legal definition of the "public domain".
Because rewarding people based on intelligence and hard work
Charmingly naive. By that rule, university professors and construction workers should be paid more than, say, Hollywood stars that command $20 mill for a movie role. Which doesn't happen.
The reason so many Americans equate socialism to communism is because of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) which as everyone knows was a communist nation.
In which case they should also be wary of democracy because of the German Democratic Republic (aka. East Germany) which as everyone knows was a communist nation.
Child pornography is harmful and ought to be banned.
If the pictures depict real children, they can be harmful, and any sexual acts would likely be. But e.g. drawings etc. aren't. And apparently parents have been branded child pornographers just for taking pictures of their own nude children, pictures that wouldn't raise an eyebrow on my side of the Atlantic...
Political agitation is protected by the Constitution.
As long as they aren't labeled "unamerican", "unpatriotic" or "an act against the war effort".
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Funny, Rational and Toghethersoft seem to have made a nice business out of their successors: UML designers. Is a technolgy a flop just because it evolves into a better product?
8" floppies
Again: Is a technolgy a flop just because it evolves into a better product (5.25", 3.5")?
Now, those silly English 3" diskettes - that is a different story. (Used with Archimedes, Amstrad and Oric home computers.)
RS-232 serial port (25 pins, of which 4 are used)
What are you smoking? RS-232 evolved into using 9-pin connectors, and has only relatively recently been superseded by USB. For the longevity alone, how can you call it a flop? The Centronics parallell port would have been a far better example.
Audio Cassettes for data storage
Did you ever own a home computer in the 1980s? 90% of them used cassette storage. How is that a flop? Apart from the C64, attempts to introduce alternative storage media for them failed. Sinclair Microdrive, anyone?
Commodore 16
Why single out the C16? The +/4 (C16's big brother) was a bigger flop in that it was marketed to small businesses at a time when PCs started to go down in price. CD-32? A500+? Commodore made a lot of costly mistakes, the C16 wasn't among them.(IIRC it sold reasonably well as a "small C64".)
MSX
Is American success the only criteria? MSX remained popular in Asia, living through multiple generations.
One thing that I'd like to know is why does nobody create any 2D games anymore?
Because with 2D it's hard for the developers to constantly frustrate the players with "dancing" or uncontrollable camera positions that make it harder than necessary to play a game. Yes, Kingdom Hearts, I am talking about you.
Good 2D games for PS2? Get Guilty Gear XX/2X (glorious 2D beat-em-up) or Contra: Shattered Soldier (3D graphics but hard, 2D gameplay).
It's a list, separated by commas, with an OR for the last element. Not AND. You only needs to match one of the terms and not all.
Got back to Logic Programming 101 or whatever.
Backward compatibility. Lots of UTF-8 "character" values are outside the range existing DNS servers deal with.
runs on english
That's English, and it's thanks to such thinking that the rather large portion of the world that writes non-English as their native language had to battle with the stupid 7-bit limitation in transport protocols.
Thanks for nothing.
You mean, unlike your use of "insensitive clods" which certainly cannot be offensive...
How tolerant is tolerant? Every religion is inherently intolerant since it implicitly claims other religions are wrong - should religions be banned?
First slaves arrived in
the British colonial city
Jamestown in 1619
Centuries before that, Vikings for instance had held European raid captives as slaves. Go figure.
However the S&M community has faced this same problem long ago
I thought the S&M community was a different on from the one that master/slave seems most to apply to, namely Dominance & Submission?
The images on the doors are concessions to illiterates ... which is why, in 100% literate Norway, doors are usually labeled with the words "Herrer" and "Damer". What, you don't know Norwegian? Take a pick, then.
I doubt it is anatomically possible to "keep it in" until your bladder pops.
I think a full-ish bladder, a three-point safety belt and a collision will do nicely for that.
Where do the YY deviants of Alien 3 go?
(Joke: I know, there cannot be YY humans because the X chromosome programs a girl before the Y chromosome reprograms into a boy.)
A well-dressed person of any color
Dressist!
As long as it's better than the atrocity Enter the Matrix I am happy.
Anyway, Revolutions was better than Reloaded in almost all respects.
Distracted by sports?!?
Doesn't ESPN still send from "Magic: the Gathering" card game tournaments?
the GPL ISN'T in the public domain?
No. "Public domain" is a legal term in compyright law that roughly seems to mean "do whatever you want with it". When copyrights expire, that's where a work ends up (with the usual lobbyist-induced limitations if it's a "work for hire" and all that of course).
The GPL is a license on stuff not in the public domain (ie. that someone holds a copyright to) which lists a whole crapload of restrictions on what you can do with the licensed stuff when you get it.
But even if the GPL is invalid the authors still retain their copyright. It's unclear what SCO's vultures have been smoking if they believe that authors lose copyright if there is an error in a license document regarding the work.
It would be as if there was an unenforcable clause in the legal warning on a DVD, the entire contents became freely distributable...
IANAL and all that.
Nokia used to make rubber boots ("Wellingtons"). I'd say any mobile phone is an abandonment of those roots.
regclean, Mcafee Virusscan, Mcafee Regclean,
This man is teh w1zzrd! He has run both Microsoft and McAfee's regclean programs! A man of the wurlde!
MS can create NET 2.0, but is has to be backwards compatible with older versions or people wouldn't use it.
.config files, but instead compiled Cassini using 1.1 libs.)
Yes they would, because even 1.0 and 1.1 aren't fully compatible.
Case in point: Microsoft has a nice, simple, localhost-only open-source web server/ASP.Net container called Cassini. I compiled this for use with Borland C#Builder, but ended up compiling using 1.0 libraries. Noticing it failed to start an ASP.Net app compiled to 1.1 APIs, I saw it complained that my app did not extend the class I obviously could see it extended.
The explanation was that my app, linked with 1.1's version of the class did not count as extending Cassini's 1.0 version of the same class.
(I might have been able to get around it by writing one of those semi-cryptic XML
1. Graphics are inferior.
... because this is patently false: Console makers are on a 4-5 year cycle, while PC graphics card makers are on a six-month cycle. The latest and greatest PS2 title runs on my years-old PS2, the latest and greatest PC game might require an investment in more hardware - possibly costing as much as a $99 console in its own right.
Only if you consider pixel count to be more important than how it actually looks.
2. No mouse control.
Er, it's a "limitation" that game authors are aware of, hence console games don't need one.
3. Inability to mod games.
Is that something you do often?
4. Investment in console is not an investment in PC hardware upgrade or other PC games.
What you seem to write is that your PC expenses are too high for you to afford a console - which isn't so strange...
5. Consoles depreciate faster than PCs.
6. Inability to store several games at once?
"Store" meaning...? If you mean "lack of install nightmares", yes, except some XBox games seem to install stuff and require patches. But then they're just restricted PCs anyway.
7. Internet gameplay almost impossible without service, even if free, is monitored.
Whereas multiplayer in the same room is thousandfold easier. Consoles are for the social gamer.
8. Inability to easily run servers.
It seems you are focused/limited to one particular genre og game, and that genre is not very present on consoles...
10. Poor games. Except for Halo, Most games are arcade style with very little emphasis on visualization/realism technologies that made PC games so exciting...ex, Half-Life2.
Ah, you are focused on the niche of first-person shooters. Well, yes, these are generally better on PCs, unlike fighting games and platformers which are way better on consoles.
11. Developers are "trapped" by the console's limited OS infrastructure.
Or, looked at in a different way, they don't have to spend months testing their game in a million different configurtations or list two pages worth of what configurations they have tested with.
12. Consoles are "toaster" technology that doesn't impart any requirement for the user to "learn" anything new.
I will conclude with the words "Elitist prick".
I believe that SCO's position is that software under GPL is public domain.
That's not for SCO to say, that's for the copyright holders to say. And the copyright holders have chosen to allow others to use it under the restrictions put forth in their chosen license. And the GPL is far more restricting than the legal definition of the "public domain".
IANAL and all that, though.
Dont have to pay the author anything.
You have to pay whatever org was set up to manage to copyrights after his death, though.
Because rewarding people based on intelligence and hard work
Charmingly naive. By that rule, university professors and construction workers should be paid more than, say, Hollywood stars that command $20 mill for a movie role. Which doesn't happen.
The reason so many Americans equate socialism to communism is because of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) which as everyone knows was a communist nation.
In which case they should also be wary of democracy because of the German Democratic Republic (aka. East Germany) which as everyone knows was a communist nation.
He did write, direct, and produce episode 4 by himself
.... producer .... executive producer .... producer (special edition)
Produced by
Gary Kurtz
George Lucas
Rick McCallum
So: Not exactly.
Child pornography is harmful and ought to be banned.
If the pictures depict real children, they can be harmful, and any sexual acts would likely be. But e.g. drawings etc. aren't. And apparently parents have been branded child pornographers just for taking pictures of their own nude children, pictures that wouldn't raise an eyebrow on my side of the Atlantic...
Political agitation is protected by the Constitution.
As long as they aren't labeled "unamerican", "unpatriotic" or "an act against the war effort".