whereas many, many publishers today are still pushing their new chaff, waiting for you to spend your hard-earned cash on their non-refundable crap.
Agreed. For instance, I would happily pay, say, $20 today for a version of Ultima V which was adopted to run with current video drivers and processor speeds (without the need to dig for Moslo and VESA drivers). But I would never buy Ultima IX, simply because all reports indicate it's a dog on anything but a 3dfx/Glide system, and I am a Matrox faithful.
On the other hand, I've tried a few of the "classics" i remembered from my youth on the CCS64 emulator, and, well, I was kinda wrong in my recollection.:-)
No: Look at how it "fits". As soon as you plug something into the ports in the back you cannot open or close the lid, because the handle will be stopped by the cables. WTFWTT? The iBook handle, on the other hand, is placed in a less problematic spot.
See, no other browser available lets you take the java plug-in from sun and make it the *DEFAULT* java virtual machine (which would be a very excellent thing... theirs are almost always stable, unlike the bundled v.m.'s)
Except Opera 4, at least on Windows 95 and NT. For Linux, IBM's implementation is considered faster than Sun's except it may not support Netscape's plugin architecture.
Not only that, but they had their distributed software running on hundreds of workstations. Most ordinary people don't have access to that all on their own either. Not yet.
Sure they have. Just write a variant of distributed.net as a trojan/virus thingy, then make a deal with one of the top 10 pr0n sites. Thousands of workstations in a flash!:-)
They don't count: They are independent of what your purpose with driving is, just for how long and where. Fuel tax can be compared to the "normal" (and AFAIK uncontested) ISP connection charges. Toll roads are perhaps more akin to a particular site's membership cost or whatever.
If by some reason I can't think of they manage to force merchants to pay then the sites will probably pass it on as an "AT&T surcharge" - this will piss off AT&Ts customers.
I can see it now: just below "CA residents add 8% sales tax" on the order form is the "AT&T customers add 2% corporate greed"...:-)
I am just waiting for some highway authority to say: "Hey! Your customers drove on our roads to get to your mall! You owe us a percentage of sales!"
The metering is for phone connections, and possibly some other services: I have cable net access and pay a flat rate per month.
And "slower net adaption" is hardly accurate for e.g. Norway, Iceland and Finland, all of which either are at the same percentage of internet users - or even more - than the USA.
But if we deduct the Spanish speaking part you get close to 225 mill.:-)
Second, about 4,500 million don't speak English, hardly most.
But "speaking" is hardly the same as "prefer to use daily". I would be saddened if I couldn't get websites etc. in Norwegian here in Norway just because ASCII only had support for restricted languages. Quick, how do you write the English word "naïve" using just ASCII? The ï character "encodes" pronounciation information; lost if you use i.
Explorer (not necessarily Internet Explorer) is an integrated part of the OS.
Um, nope. The Windows Explorer is a shell on top of the OS services, it can be replaced; For instance, if you install MSIE 4 with the Captive Deskslop option.
Has there been any word from Atari yet? They're still out there aren't they? I remember something about a 64-bit system a while back.
The Jaguar was, like most other of their later products, killed by stupid marketing, low volume, and not realizing software sells systems, not the other way around. I presume there was a limit to the number of times you could play Tempest 2000 until it got boring.
However, they did have a portable system - the Lynx - which beat the Gameboy in every respect except the three that counted:
Marketing (Nintendo, you know)
Power consumption
It didn't ship with Tetris
The VCSp seems to comsume even more power than Sega's GameGear, so I doubt anyone would be interested in marketing such a thing. Even though I would definitely buy one, just to play Haunted House again...
Your notion of a wealthy individual bankrolling the initial development while perhaps sarcastic is EXACTLY how capitalism in general works.
No, it's how feudalism works. Capitalism works by X suppliers providing Y consumers with goods, and the consumers paying what they are willing.
What do you think Venture Capitalists are?
Today's equivalents to the old aristocrats spending money on arts. Except that the venture capitalists expect to get x times their money back from their investment.
In an alternative model, the State pays for "free" goods, that's usually referred to as socialism, but seems closer to what you advocate.
What do you think stock offerings are for?
For all practical purposes, lottery tickets instead of cash. Pity the fool etc., but luckily for those who get the offerings, the market has stupidly blown tech stocks way higher than they deserve to be.
However, the allocation of resources will ultimately be most efficient with Open Development models.
Whose resources? Contrary to what you may think, the grocer actually wants money for the food he sells, I cannot pay him with potential money.
Yes, but that's the difference. When a person buys a copy of the software, they don't get the time and effort.
They contribute to compensation for already spent time and effort. Do you really think software companies have an endless supply of money? They spend money (salaries etc.) in advance expecting an income based on sales, and divide the total cost on the number of units expected sold. It's called a budget, apparently an alien concept to the million startups which expect heaps of money from IPOs and press releases instead of any actual effort on their part.
Unless, of course, you want to go to a model where some wealthy individual pays the $1,000,000 cost up front, then from the goodness of her heart freely distributes the software. But I doubt that would work in a capitalist society.
A better model would be where people pay for improvements to existing, free software.
I smell a chicken and egg situation here. How did that "free" software come to be, unless someone paid for it?
Is this a different version than the 3.5 I (apparently) have on my Vx now? How do I find the actual version number of the OS? All the standard apps have 3.5 version numbers on their "About" pages, including "Applications" and "Hotsync".
I won't cry 'censorship' -- that's not what this is. MP3.com is a private organization, and can make whatever rules they wish within the bracket of established law.
Certainly. However, if reading of DeCSS has "offensive lyrics", why haven't they removed bands like Jerk or Testicular Flatulence? Oh, sorry, I forgot that it's purely politics again.
(To those wondering, I found those bands by searching for "Anal Cunt", the most offensive band I could remember the name of. Though I have no records by them...:-P)
You can say that again. I remember working for a company in 1996 which distributed FTP Software's products. Their implementation of Winsock 32 (according to the tech docs) had support for IPv6 already then.
As I understand it, this only has a direct effect in the US - the various products that we in the rest of the world have been using for ages haven't been subject to this patent because it's a US-only patent.
IIRC, they also applied for patents in Great Britain, Germany, France and maybe another. Other countries were "off the hook", but products using the algorithm could not be exported to countries where the patent was in effect.
Shortly thereafter, the MPAA asked for a ban on negative movie reviews, which contribute to reduced number of moviegoers and thus infringe on MPAA members' income. MPAA spokespeople had no comment on the Movie Reviewers Association response that it would be smarter for MPAA members to make good movies instead.
How, pray tell, can the MPAA make money with DeCSS?
Because the MPAA represents makers of movies, who will benefit because more people will be able to play DVDs and thus have an incentive for buying them. The CSS system limits what systems can be used to play a DVD, the DeCSS code circumvents this so that drivers can be written for platforms the drive vendors don't consider "lucrative" because then they have to pay lots of money to the consortium.
If they really cared about piracy they would go after the factories in China or wherever which spit out bit-for-bit copies of the DVDs, because - and this is what the recent lawsuits don't want you to think about: You don't need, and have never needed DeCSS to copy a DVD. You just need it to descramble the data for viewing. As a side-effect, you can take that stream and save it, but you could do that with any video stream, even if your descrambling driver was licensed from CSS.
Sadly, this goes unreported in the press, and you instead end up with ignorants like John Taschek voicing off after swallowing the "arguments" of the business - even if the MPAA does not benefit from CSS at all.
Is the question really interesting at all? It apparently took a mere 10 million years for a land-based mammal to evolve into whales. In five billion years, humans might even have evolved into energy-based creatures like in Babylon 5. For certain, they will not lokka bit like the humans of today - who don't even look like the humans of a trifle 10,000 years ago.
No, IIRC Jini is the "glue" between Java-enabled devices on some communication network, where a device announces to the others what services it provides: For instance, a printer could tell a network that it provides printing, so that e.g. a scanner could send directly to it.
My hope is that hydrogen will become the major energy source in the next 10 years
Why? Hydrogen on Earth is not a source of energy, but a way of transforming electrical energy into thermo-chemical by "splitting" H2O and later get the energy back as heat when you burn it. As such, you will need to provide that electrical energy first, and the means of producing that would need to be non-polluting as well.
Or were you thinking about extracting it from the Sun?
Who`d have guessed that sonys inferior psx would trump the n64 and kill the saturn...
The PSX had a lead start, resulting in more units and more games in the market at the N64's introduction. Also, the N64 uses Nintendo's cartridge system and is way more controlled with respect to what games can be made for it, which leads to fewer and more expensive titles.
Judging by reports on IGN's FGN site, the N64 and DC are also both dying re support, since everyone and their grandmother are focusing on the P2X and/or XBox.
What was suprising was that Sony went for that market at all, despite Sega and Nintendo's dominance.
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The auction ended at... $5,100 - some people definitely have more money than brains.
(A really good graphics card can make the ASCII characters much clearer, though, which is a plus.)
Agreed. For instance, I would happily pay, say, $20 today for a version of Ultima V which was adopted to run with current video drivers and processor speeds (without the need to dig for Moslo and VESA drivers). But I would never buy Ultima IX, simply because all reports indicate it's a dog on anything but a 3dfx/Glide system, and I am a Matrox faithful.
On the other hand, I've tried a few of the "classics" i remembered from my youth on the CCS64 emulator, and, well, I was kinda wrong in my recollection. :-)
No: Look at how it "fits". As soon as you plug something into the ports in the back you cannot open or close the lid, because the handle will be stopped by the cables. WTFWTT? The iBook handle, on the other hand, is placed in a less problematic spot.
Except Opera 4, at least on Windows 95 and NT. For Linux, IBM's implementation is considered faster than Sun's except it may not support Netscape's plugin architecture.
Sure they have. Just write a variant of distributed.net as a trojan/virus thingy, then make a deal with one of the top 10 pr0n sites. Thousands of workstations in a flash! :-)
Toll roads
They don't count: They are independent of what your purpose with driving is, just for how long and where. Fuel tax can be compared to the "normal" (and AFAIK uncontested) ISP connection charges. Toll roads are perhaps more akin to a particular site's membership cost or whatever.
I can see it now: just below "CA residents add 8% sales tax" on the order form is the "AT&T customers add 2% corporate greed"... :-)
I am just waiting for some highway authority to say: "Hey! Your customers drove on our roads to get to your mall! You owe us a percentage of sales!"
And "slower net adaption" is hardly accurate for e.g. Norway, Iceland and Finland, all of which either are at the same percentage of internet users - or even more - than the USA.
But if we deduct the Spanish speaking part you get close to 225 mill. :-)
Second, about 4,500 million don't speak English, hardly most.
But "speaking" is hardly the same as "prefer to use daily". I would be saddened if I couldn't get websites etc. in Norwegian here in Norway just because ASCII only had support for restricted languages. Quick, how do you write the English word "naïve" using just ASCII? The ï character "encodes" pronounciation information; lost if you use i.
Um, nope. The Windows Explorer is a shell on top of the OS services, it can be replaced; For instance, if you install MSIE 4 with the Captive Deskslop option.
The Jaguar was, like most other of their later products, killed by stupid marketing, low volume, and not realizing software sells systems, not the other way around. I presume there was a limit to the number of times you could play Tempest 2000 until it got boring.
However, they did have a portable system - the Lynx - which beat the Gameboy in every respect except the three that counted:
- Marketing (Nintendo, you know)
- Power consumption
- It didn't ship with Tetris
The VCSp seems to comsume even more power than Sega's GameGear, so I doubt anyone would be interested in marketing such a thing. Even though I would definitely buy one, just to play Haunted House again...No, it's how feudalism works. Capitalism works by X suppliers providing Y consumers with goods, and the consumers paying what they are willing.
What do you think Venture Capitalists are?
Today's equivalents to the old aristocrats spending money on arts. Except that the venture capitalists expect to get x times their money back from their investment.
In an alternative model, the State pays for "free" goods, that's usually referred to as socialism, but seems closer to what you advocate.
What do you think stock offerings are for?
For all practical purposes, lottery tickets instead of cash. Pity the fool etc., but luckily for those who get the offerings, the market has stupidly blown tech stocks way higher than they deserve to be.
However, the allocation of resources will ultimately be most efficient with Open Development models.
Whose resources? Contrary to what you may think, the grocer actually wants money for the food he sells, I cannot pay him with potential money.
They contribute to compensation for already spent time and effort. Do you really think software companies have an endless supply of money? They spend money (salaries etc.) in advance expecting an income based on sales, and divide the total cost on the number of units expected sold. It's called a budget, apparently an alien concept to the million startups which expect heaps of money from IPOs and press releases instead of any actual effort on their part.
Unless, of course, you want to go to a model where some wealthy individual pays the $1,000,000 cost up front, then from the goodness of her heart freely distributes the software. But I doubt that would work in a capitalist society.
A better model would be where people pay for improvements to existing, free software.
I smell a chicken and egg situation here. How did that "free" software come to be, unless someone paid for it?
Is this a different version than the 3.5 I (apparently) have on my Vx now? How do I find the actual version number of the OS? All the standard apps have 3.5 version numbers on their "About" pages, including "Applications" and "Hotsync".
Certainly. However, if reading of DeCSS has "offensive lyrics", why haven't they removed bands like Jerk or Testicular Flatulence? Oh, sorry, I forgot that it's purely politics again.
(To those wondering, I found those bands by searching for "Anal Cunt", the most offensive band I could remember the name of. Though I have no records by them... :-P)
You can say that again. I remember working for a company in 1996 which distributed FTP Software's products. Their implementation of Winsock 32 (according to the tech docs) had support for IPv6 already then.
IIRC, they also applied for patents in Great Britain, Germany, France and maybe another. Other countries were "off the hook", but products using the algorithm could not be exported to countries where the patent was in effect.
Shortly thereafter, the MPAA asked for a ban on negative movie reviews, which contribute to reduced number of moviegoers and thus infringe on MPAA members' income. MPAA spokespeople had no comment on the Movie Reviewers Association response that it would be smarter for MPAA members to make good movies instead.
Because the MPAA represents makers of movies, who will benefit because more people will be able to play DVDs and thus have an incentive for buying them. The CSS system limits what systems can be used to play a DVD, the DeCSS code circumvents this so that drivers can be written for platforms the drive vendors don't consider "lucrative" because then they have to pay lots of money to the consortium.
If they really cared about piracy they would go after the factories in China or wherever which spit out bit-for-bit copies of the DVDs, because - and this is what the recent lawsuits don't want you to think about: You don't need, and have never needed DeCSS to copy a DVD. You just need it to descramble the data for viewing. As a side-effect, you can take that stream and save it, but you could do that with any video stream, even if your descrambling driver was licensed from CSS.
Sadly, this goes unreported in the press, and you instead end up with ignorants like John Taschek voicing off after swallowing the "arguments" of the business - even if the MPAA does not benefit from CSS at all.
Is the question really interesting at all? It apparently took a mere 10 million years for a land-based mammal to evolve into whales. In five billion years, humans might even have evolved into energy-based creatures like in Babylon 5. For certain, they will not lokka bit like the humans of today - who don't even look like the humans of a trifle 10,000 years ago.
Once internet protocols stop catering to whatever archaic systems out there that are limited to 7-bit transport, the scheme would work.
No, IIRC Jini is the "glue" between Java-enabled devices on some communication network, where a device announces to the others what services it provides: For instance, a printer could tell a network that it provides printing, so that e.g. a scanner could send directly to it.
Why? Hydrogen on Earth is not a source of energy, but a way of transforming electrical energy into thermo-chemical by "splitting" H2O and later get the energy back as heat when you burn it. As such, you will need to provide that electrical energy first, and the means of producing that would need to be non-polluting as well.
Or were you thinking about extracting it from the Sun?
The PSX had a lead start, resulting in more units and more games in the market at the N64's introduction. Also, the N64 uses Nintendo's cartridge system and is way more controlled with respect to what games can be made for it, which leads to fewer and more expensive titles.
Judging by reports on IGN's FGN site, the N64 and DC are also both dying re support, since everyone and their grandmother are focusing on the P2X and/or XBox.
What was suprising was that Sony went for that market at all, despite Sega and Nintendo's dominance.