Actually, it was two things... First, as you noted, it was *intended* to be different enough to shield Marvel/CanWest/Tribune Entertainment from any lawsuit brought by Fox. In this, it was unsuccessful -- At last notice, Tribune settled with Fox & was suing Marvel to re-coup damages.
Second, it was an ego-stroke for the new executives (Avi Arad, primarily) to re-invent the X-Men.
No, nor should the lack of originality be too much of a shock, given that Citizen was part of the group that designed and manufactured the REX. (Motorola, Franklin, and Citizen) As it stands, this looks to be roughly the size of a REX with touch-screen data entry added.
This could've been a Palm Pilot killer back in the day, but I fail to see a market for this in the States. I don't see anyone making headway against the Palm/PocketPC duopoly here...
This isn't necessarily a problem for NetFlix if their management team is up to the challenge.
Wal-Mart tried to scuttle Amazon.com in 1999. That failed. Last I heard, Wal-Mart went crawling back to Amazon to have them manage their online retailling operations.
I agree with the notion that the CPU ID was a good idea tarnished by overzealous marketing types.
Most of the "professional" processors I have dealt with (IBM's POWER series, Sun's Sparc, HP's PA-RISC(?)) have supported this to implement software licenses that do not need to be recreated whenever you change NIC's or HD's.
This functionality comes in rather convenient when implementing upgrades to your infrastructure, should it involve multiple servers.
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Actually, it was two things... First, as you noted, it was *intended* to be different enough to shield Marvel/CanWest/Tribune Entertainment from any lawsuit brought by Fox. In this, it was unsuccessful -- At last notice, Tribune settled with Fox & was suing Marvel to re-coup damages.
Second, it was an ego-stroke for the new executives (Avi Arad, primarily) to re-invent the X-Men.
No, nor should the lack of originality be too much of a shock, given that Citizen was part of the group that designed and manufactured the REX. (Motorola, Franklin, and Citizen) As it stands, this looks to be roughly the size of a REX with touch-screen data entry added.
This could've been a Palm Pilot killer back in the day, but I fail to see a market for this in the States. I don't see anyone making headway against the Palm/PocketPC duopoly here...
Fink is the name of the system -- It's on sourceforge
This isn't necessarily a problem for NetFlix if their management team is up to the challenge.
Wal-Mart tried to scuttle Amazon.com in 1999. That failed. Last I heard, Wal-Mart went crawling back to Amazon to have them manage their online retailling operations.
Ahh, yes. Yet another follower of Kibo.
The link goes to a thread regarding Iraqi oil, not anything remotely 'Net related.
I haven't looked at the linux sources for a long time, but weren't they SVR-free? I thought they owed far more to BSD and GNU than to USL/SCO.
If I'm mistaken, the question becomes why wasn't the lesson learned from the USL / BSD legal mess?
I agree with the notion that the CPU ID was a good idea tarnished by overzealous marketing types.
Most of the "professional" processors I have dealt with (IBM's POWER series, Sun's Sparc, HP's PA-RISC(?)) have supported this to implement software licenses that do not need to be recreated whenever you change NIC's or HD's.
This functionality comes in rather convenient when implementing upgrades to your infrastructure, should it involve multiple servers.
As things go, I don't believe that Marvel decided the file format of the trailer -- I think that was left to the discretion of Fox.