Calm down. I have nothing against consoles, per se. I meant the "should" part more from an economic POV. I'm not signing any petitions to have them outlawed and I'm totally opposed to age restrictions and the like.
I just think they're a waste. With the advances that are being made on the desktop, I can't see any value in throwing away buttloads of money on a console that can only play games.
I'm not much of an advocate of Network Computers either. I see how you *could* run all your apps over the net and rent your software and storage, but with the price of PCs dropping and speed increases, I just don't see any advantage there. I guess I feel the same about game consoles. Sure, they have better graphics right now, but the PCs will catch up in a short amount of time.
A few years back, consoles filled a pretty important role in that they were more affordable than a full-blown PC. But PCs get cheaper and consoles (+ games) get more and more expensive. I see less and less market for consoles, and *that* is why I think they should die. Their niche is shrinking. IMHO. sorry.
Why are parents catering so much to their kids every whim. They *need* to spend almost an hour a day playing games? And they have to play the latest greatest?
I feel like a grumpy old man saying it, but in my day, we had the 2600 and we loved it. I can play those same games today on my linux box. If I can still be entertained with crappy graphics and lame sound, I don't see why a kid can't. I'm gonna go play adventure now...
> Consoles will survive as long as parents aren't willing to pay $2000...
But the parents have to buy a desktop PC (which continue to drop in price) anyways just so there kids can do their homework. The console then becomes redundant.
Well, *maybe* if they actually had the copyright on it. They don't. They didn't write the book. They didn't transcribe the text. They don't own it. Even the most Disney-friendly congressmen have yet to propose that copyright be retroactively extended 135 years.
And even if they did, I don't think they'd be allowed to restrict you from lending the book out. Libraries lend books all the time (and CDs, too!).
And just who did Ebay "point their finger at" when they had all those troubles? They blamed Sun, but that didn't get them back online immediately. And in the end, Sun said it was Ebay's fault because Ebay didn't apply patches provided by Sun.
The bottom line is that you've got to have your own staff to support your machines. The whole "I can blame the vendor" approach is nonsense considering the EULAs and court decisions not holding vendors responsible.
Nixon *did* seek a recount. Quite a few, actually. Didn't really give up until Dec 19.
Of course, he did the whole public "I accept defeat" deal, but he by no means backed down gracefully. He even went so far as to claim that Ike had encouraged him to "look into Illinois" but that he declined "for the good of the country". That's how Nixon describes it, at least. In reality, Ike withdrew support for a recount after 1 day.
> how does logging transactions act as a serious blow to democracy?
Ask Martin Luther King, Jr. The FBI tapped his phones (because of his "subversive" activities) and discovered that he was having affairs. They used this "evidence" in an attempt to blackmail him.
By definition, a protestor wants his government to alter their course of action. They may protest peacefully and legally, but they are still going against their government. Giving this type of power to the government gives them the ability to disrupt and destroy anyone who opposes them.
Wether it be opposition to Civil Rights or just an old-fashioned Final Solution, governments have a pretty bad history when it comes to abuse of their power.
When you start maker, a process called fm_flb starts and continues to run after you exit Maker. All I needed to do was 'killall fm_flb' and then you reset LD_PRELOAD and start Maker again (fm_flb will eventually shut down on its own after a few hours).
The static time version doesn't work (Maker probably really needs the clock to keep ticking), but setting the clock back 1-hour worked. Then I tried 1 day (86400 seconds), and Maker then claims that "No licenses are currently installed. Run in demo mode?"
Their solution to the high cost of litigation: "We're always right and no one can ever sue us over anything!"
I mean, there's just no arguing with that kind of logic. If you give consumers any rights, they're likely to want those rights enforced in a court. Any Correct Thinking legislature should see the obvious threat the Business Interests.
Of course, the difference there was that they were American companies who were not allowed, by American law, to export outside the US.
It would be interesting if the US had taken the French perspective and demanded that all foreign countries block any American site that attempted to export US Crypto software.
Fine, but they're telling an American company, in the US, what traffic they should accept. The Judge should be barking orders at French ISPs, not Yahoo!.
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If it's really peaked, does this mean that the eternal September will be coming to a close?
hope so...
Calm down. I have nothing against consoles, per se. I meant the "should" part more from an economic POV. I'm not signing any petitions to have them outlawed and I'm totally opposed to age restrictions and the like.
I just think they're a waste. With the advances that are being made on the desktop, I can't see any value in throwing away buttloads of money on a console that can only play games.
I'm not much of an advocate of Network Computers either. I see how you *could* run all your apps over the net and rent your software and storage, but with the price of PCs dropping and speed increases, I just don't see any advantage there. I guess I feel the same about game consoles. Sure, they have better graphics right now, but the PCs will catch up in a short amount of time.
A few years back, consoles filled a pretty important role in that they were more affordable than a full-blown PC. But PCs get cheaper and consoles (+ games) get more and more expensive. I see less and less market for consoles, and *that* is why I think they should die. Their niche is shrinking. IMHO. sorry.
Why are parents catering so much to their kids every whim. They *need* to spend almost an hour a day playing games? And they have to play the latest greatest?
I feel like a grumpy old man saying it, but in my day, we had the 2600 and we loved it. I can play those same games today on my linux box. If I can still be entertained with crappy graphics and lame sound, I don't see why a kid can't. I'm gonna go play adventure now...
> Consoles will survive as long as parents aren't willing to pay $2000 ...
But the parents have to buy a desktop PC (which continue to drop in price) anyways just so there kids can do their homework. The console then becomes redundant.
> Consoles may be competitive against $1500+ PCs...
Yeah, but it's getting harder to live w/out a $1500 computer at home anyways.
But who am I to say. I play 2600 games with Stella and that's good enough for me.
Gaming won't die, but consoles will (and should).
> It's the same as a CD.
Well, *maybe* if they actually had the copyright on it. They don't. They didn't write the book. They didn't transcribe the text. They don't own it. Even the most Disney-friendly congressmen have yet to propose that copyright be retroactively extended 135 years.
And even if they did, I don't think they'd be allowed to restrict you from lending the book out. Libraries lend books all the time (and CDs, too!).
Yeah, but /. won't let me update my nickname.
Coming to you from beyond the grave...
He wasn't talking about ML, he was talking about strong typing.
A few things I like about books on my Palm (using TealDoc):
1) Backlight lets me read at night w/out keep the wife up.
2) Auto-scrolling lets me read faster.
3) It's smaller than a book, so it's more comfortable to hold. I often find myself rolling from side to side when I change pages on a paper book.
4) It's always with me.
And just who did Ebay "point their finger at" when they had all those troubles? They blamed Sun, but that didn't get them back online immediately. And in the end, Sun said it was Ebay's fault because Ebay didn't apply patches provided by Sun.
The bottom line is that you've got to have your own staff to support your machines. The whole "I can blame the vendor" approach is nonsense considering the EULAs and court decisions not holding vendors responsible.
> Perhaps even make the lives of others better
I imagine the lives of the folks that sold all these toys are better...
Do most would-be kidnappers draw the line at violating their NDAs?
Of course, he did the whole public "I accept defeat" deal, but he by no means backed down gracefully. He even went so far as to claim that Ike had encouraged him to "look into Illinois" but that he declined "for the good of the country". That's how Nixon describes it, at least. In reality, Ike withdrew support for a recount after 1 day.
See The fallacy of Nixon's graceful exit at salon for more info.
> how does logging transactions act as a serious blow to democracy?
Ask Martin Luther King, Jr. The FBI tapped his phones (because of his "subversive" activities) and discovered that he was having affairs. They used this "evidence" in an attempt to blackmail him.
By definition, a protestor wants his government to alter their course of action. They may protest peacefully and legally, but they are still going against their government. Giving this type of power to the government gives them the ability to disrupt and destroy anyone who opposes them.
Wether it be opposition to Civil Rights or just an old-fashioned Final Solution, governments have a pretty bad history when it comes to abuse of their power.
Why would Sun object to the use of their java logo but *not* object to the use of the Sun logo?
Well, they used it less than 1 month ago, and the topicsun.gif still exists, and still shows up if you search for sun.
When you start maker, a process called fm_flb starts and continues to run after you exit Maker. All I needed to do was 'killall fm_flb' and then you reset LD_PRELOAD and start Maker again (fm_flb will eventually shut down on its own after a few hours).
The static time version doesn't work (Maker probably really needs the clock to keep ticking), but setting the clock back 1-hour worked. Then I tried 1 day (86400 seconds), and Maker then claims that "No licenses are currently installed. Run in demo mode?"
FrameMaker does not make use of DS.
The thing is, the beta worked really well. They could charge $100 for an extended license and they'd sell at least a few at virtually zero cost.
Their solution to the high cost of litigation: "We're always right and no one can ever sue us over anything!"
I mean, there's just no arguing with that kind of logic. If you give consumers any rights, they're likely to want those rights enforced in a court. Any Correct Thinking legislature should see the obvious threat the Business Interests.
Of course, the difference there was that they were American companies who were not allowed, by American law, to export outside the US.
It would be interesting if the US had taken the French perspective and demanded that all foreign countries block any American site that attempted to export US Crypto software.
> Let the French make their own laws...
Fine, but they're telling an American company, in the US, what traffic they should accept. The Judge should be barking orders at French ISPs, not Yahoo!.
Day one? Not quite... AOL originally used Netscape.
I haven't got time to give you a history lesson, but why not go seek out Judge Jackson's "Findings of Facts" and see what all the fuss is about.