You do know that the Dreamcast can be hooked up to a VGA monitor, right? And that the PS2 will support HDTV?
At any rate, I play Q3A & UT on my computer with a GeForce 256. I play at either 640x480 or 800x600, I can't remember which. But, I still have playing driving games on the computer because of the horrid controllers. Maybe if NAMCO released the NeGcon for the PC, I'd change. But, I never say "Man, I wish I could run Gran Turismo at a higher resolution" because resolution isn't the limiting factor in graphics rendering right now. If that were the case computer game graphics would be able to look as realistic as Spin City.
The reason the PlayStation 2 has a DVD-ROM drive is so that games can contain more than 650MB worth of logic & media. So that the next Resident Evil doesn't require disc swapping... you know, cool shit.
I wouldn't call Windows 2000 stable. At least not based on my experience with it. It crashed within 1 hour of being installed on my computer for the first time.
I thought Red Hat's core business what the server market. Anyway...
Is the conflict of interest that you're talking about between Red Hat/Ericson and Transmeta any worse that the conflict of interest between Gnome and KDE? Or do you just consider this one worse because someone may be giving Linus Torvalds' employeer some competition?
Well, Red Hat is based in Research Triangle Park. Ericson also has a campus in RTP. I'm assuming that Ericson was therefore a much more likely candidate for a partnership than Nokia or Motorola. (I don't think either of them have a campus in RTP)
I would rather see Red Hat partner with Nokia, because I like their phones much better than Ericson's. However, geography is still a very powerful assest.
If Napster was purely about pirating music, they wouldn't have bothered with giving it chat functionality. If you want to pirate music on Napster, you search on the band or song name. If you want to discover new music from indie groups, then you would need to chat with other Napster users.
This brings up a point... if Napster and software/services like it are decided to be illegal because of the DMCA, couldn't someone launch another lawsuit against the makers of VCRs, and time-shifting machines? I'm thinking this result of Napster-likes being declared illegal would be good. If VCRs' legality is challenged based off of a Napster precedent, then it may help reverse any Napster precedent because the people will not stand for their VCRs to be taken away -- they've had them too long.
Regardless of Napster's motivations for creating Napster, the service itself is not illegal. There are legitimate purposes for Napster, therefore Napster should win.
RIAA is pulling a moral stand here, trying to assasinate Napster's character. If Napster is a greedy, corporate entity like RIAA says it is, I'm still going to root for them over the greedy, corporate entity of RIAA!
Yeah, but then you'd have to push and pull on the pedal. This would probably require you to strap in or lock into the pedal as some bikers do. You'd also probably need a resistence point in the middle so people don't accidently brake. Overall, it'd have zero improvements.
Someone may say you could shift the pedal between gas and brake with some form of toggle as Mac users do with their one mouse button. However this wouldn't work because someone that has the accelerator all the way down, and suddenly needs to brake would more than likely toggle and end up slamming on the brakes when a light tap is what they needed.:)
Unfortunately 'they' are offering 'us' large sums of money to be corrupted, or they are convincing 'us' that unless we conform to their way 'we' will not sell anything.
Case in point: RIO. Diamond's first few RIOs were MP3 players, they were sued by RIAA. Diamond won and continued to sell the RIO, however their new & improved RIO has been corrupted by SDMI.
I want them to stay. MP3's are fine, but I still want a tangible product, otherwise I'm not willing to pay. I'd never pay for a MP3, even if they sounded as good as CDs.
She could do what I've heard museums do with art. If there is a copy of a work of art, it's only going to be of what's visible through the frame, not of the entire canvas. So, the copy won't have the edges of the real painting that are on file. Your friend could crop her art down a bit, and display that, if there is any dispute the original uncropped version should suffice as proof.
In her specific case, I would think the portion with the copyright mark still on it would suffice.
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As long as it can do 480P, I'm happy.
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You do know that the Dreamcast can be hooked up to a VGA monitor, right? And that the PS2 will support HDTV?
At any rate, I play Q3A & UT on my computer with a GeForce 256. I play at either 640x480 or 800x600, I can't remember which. But, I still have playing driving games on the computer because of the horrid controllers. Maybe if NAMCO released the NeGcon for the PC, I'd change. But, I never say "Man, I wish I could run Gran Turismo at a higher resolution" because resolution isn't the limiting factor in graphics rendering right now. If that were the case computer game graphics would be able to look as realistic as Spin City.
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The reason the PlayStation 2 has a DVD-ROM drive is so that games can contain more than 650MB worth of logic & media. So that the next Resident Evil doesn't require disc swapping... you know, cool shit.
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Does anyone have a transcript of his speech?
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I didn't say it crashed on an hourly basis, I said it crashed within the first hour. My computer runs Win98 and Linux fine so it isn't the hardware.
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I wouldn't call Windows 2000 stable. At least not based on my experience with it. It crashed within 1 hour of being installed on my computer for the first time.
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That doesn't stop them from going after China's market.
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Java competes with Windows 98 for the PC Platform market.
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I think there is a big outsourcing center for Microsoft Support in Iowa. I could be wrong.
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I wouldn't call Windows 2000 a good product.
The only reason people (including myself) consider IE a good Web browser is because Netscape is so bad right now.
Microsoft doesn't make mouses, they market them. Logitech makes their mouses.
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RJR-Nabisco was formed because RJR forsaw problems with the tobacco industry and wished to invest in other markets to keep itself alive.
Regardless, Nabisco is now owned by Phillip Morris.
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I thought Red Hat's core business what the server market. Anyway...
Is the conflict of interest that you're talking about between Red Hat/Ericson and Transmeta any worse that the conflict of interest between Gnome and KDE? Or do you just consider this one worse because someone may be giving Linus Torvalds' employeer some competition?
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Well, Red Hat is based in Research Triangle Park. Ericson also has a campus in RTP. I'm assuming that Ericson was therefore a much more likely candidate for a partnership than Nokia or Motorola. (I don't think either of them have a campus in RTP)
I would rather see Red Hat partner with Nokia, because I like their phones much better than Ericson's. However, geography is still a very powerful assest.
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If Napster was purely about pirating music, they wouldn't have bothered with giving it chat functionality. If you want to pirate music on Napster, you search on the band or song name. If you want to discover new music from indie groups, then you would need to chat with other Napster users.
...just pointing that out.
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This brings up a point... if Napster and software/services like it are decided to be illegal because of the DMCA, couldn't someone launch another lawsuit against the makers of VCRs, and time-shifting machines? I'm thinking this result of Napster-likes being declared illegal would be good. If VCRs' legality is challenged based off of a Napster precedent, then it may help reverse any Napster precedent because the people will not stand for their VCRs to be taken away -- they've had them too long.
:)
Anyone want to sue Sony?
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Ever looked at HTML?
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Regardless of Napster's motivations for creating Napster, the service itself is not illegal. There are legitimate purposes for Napster, therefore Napster should win.
RIAA is pulling a moral stand here, trying to assasinate Napster's character. If Napster is a greedy, corporate entity like RIAA says it is, I'm still going to root for them over the greedy, corporate entity of RIAA!
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Only as long as the SDMI group thinks it is OK for the RIO to. SDMI devices have the ability to turn off the playing of 'evil' files.
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This is an executive summary for those that fell asleep after the first paragraph.
"Blah, blah, blah, nothing meaningful."
Geez, I'm starting to agree with everyone about Katz.
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Yeah, but then you'd have to push and pull on the pedal. This would probably require you to strap in or lock into the pedal as some bikers do. You'd also probably need a resistence point in the middle so people don't accidently brake. Overall, it'd have zero improvements.
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Someone may say you could shift the pedal between gas and brake with some form of toggle as Mac users do with their one mouse button. However this wouldn't work because someone that has the accelerator all the way down, and suddenly needs to brake would more than likely toggle and end up slamming on the brakes when a light tap is what they needed.
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Unfortunately 'they' are offering 'us' large sums of money to be corrupted, or they are convincing 'us' that unless we conform to their way 'we' will not sell anything.
Case in point: RIO. Diamond's first few RIOs were MP3 players, they were sued by RIAA. Diamond won and continued to sell the RIO, however their new & improved RIO has been corrupted by SDMI.
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I want them to stay. MP3's are fine, but I still want a tangible product, otherwise I'm not willing to pay. I'd never pay for a MP3, even if they sounded as good as CDs.
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Cars are concrete, physical. Music is abstract, logical. Big difference.
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She could do what I've heard museums do with art. If there is a copy of a work of art, it's only going to be of what's visible through the frame, not of the entire canvas. So, the copy won't have the edges of the real painting that are on file. Your friend could crop her art down a bit, and display that, if there is any dispute the original uncropped version should suffice as proof.
In her specific case, I would think the portion with the copyright mark still on it would suffice.
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Trying to hide your ignorance by essentially saying "you know what I meant" is pretty sad.
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