The main reason to enter into such an agreement is simple - PS1 is not the current emphasis of Sony's development. Sony does not want to see a VGS for PlayStation 2. That's the bottom line. Sony knows that video cards and hardware will put the PC in a position to emulate PS2 within a year, and this is a move to cut off that threat.
Let 'em emulate our old platform. But stay the fsck away from PS2!
Hollywood and the consumer electorics industries already have too much invested to abort a full out switchover to "real" HDTV. An analog signal is not going to carry the digital content managment information to make anti-copy schemes work. As Linux users, we are only too aware of the lengths to with the MPAA will go to controll your ability to read, store, and copy, content that you paid for.
Also, if analog TV continues to work as always, there is no urgency for the consumer to buy the (overpriced) new TVs. VCRs will continue to work (and we can't have that). Big Mega corps want to send internet, instant messaging, and cookies to your TV. That doesn't work with analog.
The government will continue with the conversion to full HDTV because:
Inertia makes it the easiest path.
Hollywood money has already paid off the right people.
All of these new toys the CE inustry wants to sell you are going to generate alot of $$$, and that's good for the economy, and it's taxable.
Copyright issues are at steak, and the government has been on Hollywood's side so far, there is no reason to believe that's going to change.
It's only a matter of time until CD manufacturers embed a UID scheme into players so a CD will be linked to a specific player (Divx style) so the used CD market will be defeated.
You can bet the RIAA has been taking notes on the region coding scheme DVDs employ.
Hilary B. Rosen, president and chief executive officer, Recording Industry Association of America, had some interesting quotes that the free performance of music is a threat to artists and bad for the music business.
"The public performance of music in high school plays, churches, garage jam seasons, and "open mike nights" constitutes a threat and policy makers need to be educated to understand that threat."
Lars Ulrich of the band Metallica had strong opinions on the subject.
"While some bars might think it's OK to have an amateur band playing original music performing on penny pitcher night, what they are really doing is threatening the American Way(tm)"
In a similar story, the MPAA has been using lobbying efforts to make the public distribution of free home videos such as weddings, childbirths, public sporting events illegal as all of these events have all been portrayed in major Hollywood films. As such, the MPAA feels these free alternatives have an unfair competitive advantage as there is usually no production overhead involved and film industry unions were not employed in the production of these home videos.
I remember how the shit hit the fan when everyone thought the NSA had a backdoor built into Windows, but nobody finds anything alarming here. Do we really believe the NSA are acting like white hats and acting to make Linux and BSD more secure by contributing NSA code?
The only people I trust less with my computer than Microsoft is the U.S. Govenment.
I wonder why there hasn't been a good book explaining at a high-level how the kernel works with the rest of the files in a particular distro. Of course, there would need to be diferent books for each distro, but for those of use who are still learning how it's all wired together it would be illuminating. Even a decent flowchart would be a nice tool.
Of course, if there is such a thing and I've overlooked it, please flame me.
Some of you will read this and think I am flamebaiting, but I'm going to level some fair criticism at Slashdot. If I were a troll, I'd post as an AC. You'll notice I didn't do that.
This is another fine example of the submision process being broken. I submitted this story Monday evening when the news broke. It was dismissed early yesterday, the same day the lawsuit was filed and same day this story impacted on most news websites.
2001-01-03 03:32:11 MicroSoft faces $5bn dollar racial lawsuit (articles,microsoft) (rejected)
Taco, since you don't check stories anyway, why don't you rework the submission review process? Let those who moderate have a hand in the responsibilities, since you seem to have better things to do. At they very least, allow the submission queue to be viewable by all. I suspect there are many good stories that are being killed that your readers would like to see.
"There are whispers that Spielberg is coming on board to help with the editing and story. It's a total shambles! Everyone wants another Empire Strikes Back......the team is aware of this, but we're a long way off."
I think it's unlikely, but if such a far fetched thing were true - that Lucas would swallow his pride and hand EP2 to Spielberg - I have a better suggestion. Get Gary Kurtz (Co-producer of SW and Empire) and Brian Daily (ghost writer for SW and Empire) back on for this movie and salvage what is available.
Anyone who has read, or tried to read, drafts 1,2, or 3 of The Star Wars knows Lucas can't write. Brian Daley adapted what he saw and wrote the forth draft of The Star Wars (or A New Hope as it's called nowadays). Lucas has such low confidence in his writing skills he had Carrie Fisher read EP1 and offer suggestions on how to punch up the dialogue.
For EP1, Lucas surrounded himself with 'yes-men'. Gary Kurtz was the only person who would challenge Lucas during the making of SW and Empire. On Empire, Lucas didn't go to Norway and didn't spend much time at Pinewood Studios. When Irvin Kershner needed a solution to a problem, he didn't turn to Lucas, he went to Kurtz. As a result, much of Empire was made without Lucas' direct involvement. Lucas supposedly went ballistic at the slower pace of some scenes and the more adult direction Empire took when he saw rushes.
A wedge was thrust between Lucas and Kurtz when Empire went over budget. Lucas needed three million to finish production, and he was forced to go to 20th Century Fox to get the money. Empire had been an independent film until that point. Lucas blamed Kurtz for taking the film over budget, and never forgave him. Kurtz wasn't asked to participate in the making of Jedi.
There's a great book "The Making of The Empire Strikes Back" that casts light on the personal conflicts involved in making that film. A good read in you're a Star Wars nut. It really drives home the fact that Empire turned out to be a great movie in spite of Lucas, not because of him.
In Kurtz's final interview for the book, the author asks his what he thought of Jedi, and Kurtz lets go with both barrels. Jedi is nothing like the sequel that was planed when they were making Empire. Anybody who thinks Lucas has a master plan for a "Saga" will quickly realize how that claim is so untrue.
What's messed up here is there is no desire by fandom.com to compete with fandom.tv , but instead the empty minded impulse to sue it out of existence.
In the real world if you have two large restaurants across the street from each other, they compete. The goal is to lure the other guy's customers over. The way you do that is by making a superior product. If I trademarked "BBQ" and went running around trying to sue BBQ restaurants, I'd get the crap kicked out of me. So why does this kind of thing fly on the internet?
What do you feel are the merits of emulation/virtualization as opposed to creating a native software clone?
Do you think that you may unintentionally slow development of Linux-native software solutions for people migrating away from Windows or other operating systems? Some of the urgency for developing in Linux is lost if people who have come to Linux from Windows just carry all of the old baggage with.
Also, in the commercial sector we have seen some software products use Wine (IBM Websphere for instance) rather than offering a true Linux version.
Gates insists that the only place that's willing to redefine the interface is his own company. OS X may look cool, he says, but it's "just sexy widgets."
Gates doesn't get it. I'm a Linux person, but even I appreciate the new direction at Apple. More than the sexy widgets, OS X sits on a BSD kernal that's a hellava lot more stable than Win ME or Win 2000. He's oversimplifing to a fault. Unlike his latest Windows offerings, Apple is accually marketing something NEW.
In terms of the GUI design, I can hardly knock Aqua, being that it is a progression of the NeXTSTEP interface (but "lickable") and that NeXTSTEP UI is the fondation for Gnome, KDE, WM, and a multitude of Window Managers that we are using.
A couple of groups have attempted to produce a crude graphical interface, but until a new company named Eazel came along, no one was willing to take the step to create a world-class interface.
JEERS!! I'll take my Gnome desktop any day over Windows! Crude desktop my ass! I think the existing GUIs for Linux kick ass! I look forward to seeing what Easle might give me, and Amiga for that matter. But Steve Levy is pooh-poohing what he clearly doesn't understand.
I guess I'm used to having the option of throwing whatever Window Manager I think looks pimpin' on top of Xfree86. How tightly intregrated is Aqua to the OS? Apple's site shows a couple layers of APIs between Darwin and Aqua.
Can the GUI be replaced while maintaining compatability? That's an honest question, not an invite to flame. Perhaps OS X users might be happier with a port of X, running Enlightenment and eMac.
Let's see: Gov. Bush has a Master's is Business and GRADUATED from Yale and Harvard.
Vice President Gore FLUNKED divinity school and dropped out of law school.
Gov. Bush used to be a jet pilot.
Al Gore invented fighter jets.
I VOTED FOR GEORGE W. BUSH! I'M PROUD I DID! AND I'VE READ ENOUGH ONE SIDED CRAP ON THIS SITE TO TELL THE STAFF OF SLASHDOT TO TAKE MY KARMA AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS!!!
I imagine the pretty screenshots are on a high end system. I couldn't find any mention of system requirements under Linux. Does anybody know what kind of monster box it will take to run this?
You can't ambush somebody with a contract.
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If common sense applied here, this is how I see the Cue-cat deal (in the mail, not Ratshack).
My sister asked for me to look after her dog recently while she went on vacation. Nice dog, but I took this dog into my house and looked after it, with the understanding that I would have to give it back. I had to be responsible for this animal. It was a favor, and I had the right to say no. With DC sending you this in the mail they are saying "here, take care of this thing for us. You're responsible for returning it eventually."
This company is asking for you to do them a favor (enter into a contract to take care of and return their private property) without asking you if you are willing to participate. If I was never given the chance to say "NO", why should I be obligated? DC is abandoning this equipment in my mailbox.
So, let's say my sister had been a further pain it the butt by saying "Checkers (her dog) likes to play the game fetch with a stick, and only with a stick. Not a frisbee. And she only eats Alpo." If my sister had said this, I'd tell her to find someone else to take care of her dog. I'm doing her a favor, so she can cut me some slack. Well, in the case of DC, I didn't ask for this responsibility, so I'll do what I damn well please. Don't like it, DC? Include some return postage.
The other aspect of this is the personal information being collected. Where does it tell me in the EULA that I can't use the Cue-cat to collect personal information about myself for myself? Why can't I use this thing to index my stuff and keep the info in MY DB instead of theirs?
I'm not an enemy of this company. I have no problem with someone trying to make a buck. But if I receive one of these in the mail without my consent, it's mine, and I bet the laws governing the US mail would take priority over DC's EULA.
If common sense applied here, this is how I see the Cue-cat deal (in the mail, not Ratshack).
My sister asked for me to look after her dog recently while she went on vacation. Nice dog, but I took this dog into my house and looked after it, with the understanding that I would have to give it back. I had to be responsible for this animal. It was a favor, and I had the right to say no. With DC sending you this in the mail they are saying "here, take care of this thing for us. You're responsible for returning it eventually."
This company is asking for you to do them a favor (enter into a contract to take care of and return their private property) without asking you if you are willing to participate. If I was never given the chance to say "NO", why should I be obligated? DC is abandoning this equipment in my mailbox.
So, let's say my sister had been a further pain it the butt by saying "Checkers (her dog) likes to play the game fetch with a stick, and only with a stick. Not a frisbee. And she only eats Alpo." If my sister had said this, I'd tell her to find someone else to take care of her dog. I'm doing her a favor, so she can cut me some slack. Well, in the case of DC, I didn't ask for this responsibility, so I'll do what I damn well please. Don't like it, DC? Include some return postage.
The other aspect of this is the personal information being collected. Where does it tell me in the EULA that I can't use the Cue-cat to collect personal information about myself for myself? Why can't I use this thing to index my stuff and keep the info in MY DB instead of theirs?
I'm not an enemy of this company. I have no problem with someone trying to make a buck. But if I receive one of these in the mail without my consent, it's mine, and I bet the laws governing the US mail would take priority over DC's EULA.
Antipatents are a cool concept, but the only legal legs it has is proof of "prior-art". Proving "prior-art" in court might snag you enough to buy a Diet Coke(TM) US 002 013 023 029 030 033 040 050.
...the developer I spoke with said that the company's plans were not intended as an "emergency escape plan" in the event that Linux overtakes Windows on the desktop. Instead, Microsoft will leverage Linux as an entry point to Windows, "in the same way it does with the Macintosh version of Office."
An entry point to Windoze? How many people here used Linux as an exit point FROM Windows?
I have a sneaking suspicion none of this is going to be open source... even if they are using open source code to make it work.
So will they include a free distro with the software?
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Let 'em emulate our old platform. But stay the fsck away from PS2!
Sarastic humor, yes. Troll No. He makes a point and does it with brevity. Shame on the moderator who trolled that reply.
Also, if analog TV continues to work as always, there is no urgency for the consumer to buy the (overpriced) new TVs. VCRs will continue to work (and we can't have that). Big Mega corps want to send internet, instant messaging, and cookies to your TV. That doesn't work with analog.
The government will continue with the conversion to full HDTV because:
Inertia makes it the easiest path.
Hollywood money has already paid off the right people.
All of these new toys the CE inustry wants to sell you are going to generate alot of $$$, and that's good for the economy, and it's taxable.
Copyright issues are at steak, and the government has been on Hollywood's side so far, there is no reason to believe that's going to change.
It's only a matter of time until CD manufacturers embed a UID scheme into players so a CD will be linked to a specific player (Divx style) so the used CD market will be defeated.
You can bet the RIAA has been taking notes on the region coding scheme DVDs employ.
Lars Ulrich of the band Metallica had strong opinions on the subject.
In a similar story, the MPAA has been using lobbying efforts to make the public distribution of free home videos such as weddings, childbirths, public sporting events illegal as all of these events have all been portrayed in major Hollywood films. As such, the MPAA feels these free alternatives have an unfair competitive advantage as there is usually no production overhead involved and film industry unions were not employed in the production of these home videos.
I remember how the shit hit the fan when everyone thought the NSA had a backdoor built into Windows, but nobody finds anything alarming here. Do we really believe the NSA are acting like white hats and acting to make Linux and BSD more secure by contributing NSA code?
The only people I trust less with my computer than Microsoft is the U.S. Govenment.
I wonder why there hasn't been a good book explaining at a high-level how the kernel works with the rest of the files in a particular distro. Of course, there would need to be diferent books for each distro, but for those of use who are still learning how it's all wired together it would be illuminating. Even a decent flowchart would be a nice tool.
Of course, if there is such a thing and I've overlooked it, please flame me.
Let the cumputers decide when to fire the Lazer. Good idea. Everyone knows software never makes mistakes.
Some of you will read this and think I am flamebaiting, but I'm going to level some fair criticism at Slashdot. If I were a troll, I'd post as an AC. You'll notice I didn't do that.
This is another fine example of the submision process being broken. I submitted this story Monday evening when the news broke. It was dismissed early yesterday, the same day the lawsuit was filed and same day this story impacted on most news websites.
Taco, since you don't check stories anyway, why don't you rework the submission review process? Let those who moderate have a hand in the responsibilities, since you seem to have better things to do. At they very least, allow the submission queue to be viewable by all. I suspect there are many good stories that are being killed that your readers would like to see.
What would be a good place? Hmmmm...
hmmmmm...
From AICN:
"There are whispers that Spielberg is coming on board to help with the editing and story. It's a total shambles! Everyone wants another Empire Strikes Back......the team is aware of this, but we're a long way off."
I think it's unlikely, but if such a far fetched thing were true - that Lucas would swallow his pride and hand EP2 to Spielberg - I have a better suggestion. Get Gary Kurtz (Co-producer of SW and Empire) and Brian Daily (ghost writer for SW and Empire) back on for this movie and salvage what is available.
Anyone who has read, or tried to read, drafts 1,2, or 3 of The Star Wars knows Lucas can't write. Brian Daley adapted what he saw and wrote the forth draft of The Star Wars (or A New Hope as it's called nowadays). Lucas has such low confidence in his writing skills he had Carrie Fisher read EP1 and offer suggestions on how to punch up the dialogue.
For EP1, Lucas surrounded himself with 'yes-men'. Gary Kurtz was the only person who would challenge Lucas during the making of SW and Empire. On Empire, Lucas didn't go to Norway and didn't spend much time at Pinewood Studios. When Irvin Kershner needed a solution to a problem, he didn't turn to Lucas, he went to Kurtz. As a result, much of Empire was made without Lucas' direct involvement. Lucas supposedly went ballistic at the slower pace of some scenes and the more adult direction Empire took when he saw rushes.
A wedge was thrust between Lucas and Kurtz when Empire went over budget. Lucas needed three million to finish production, and he was forced to go to 20th Century Fox to get the money. Empire had been an independent film until that point. Lucas blamed Kurtz for taking the film over budget, and never forgave him. Kurtz wasn't asked to participate in the making of Jedi.
There's a great book "The Making of The Empire Strikes Back" that casts light on the personal conflicts involved in making that film. A good read in you're a Star Wars nut. It really drives home the fact that Empire turned out to be a great movie in spite of Lucas, not because of him.
In Kurtz's final interview for the book, the author asks his what he thought of Jedi, and Kurtz lets go with both barrels. Jedi is nothing like the sequel that was planed when they were making Empire. Anybody who thinks Lucas has a master plan for a "Saga" will quickly realize how that claim is so untrue.
This sounds great, but until they at least have a working beta isn't this story better suited for Sourceforge?
'Till then, it's vapor.
What's messed up here is there is no desire by fandom.com to compete with fandom.tv , but instead the empty minded impulse to sue it out of existence.
/. out of existence too?
In the real world if you have two large restaurants across the street from each other, they compete. The goal is to lure the other guy's customers over. The way you do that is by making a superior product. If I trademarked "BBQ" and went running around trying to sue BBQ restaurants, I'd get the crap kicked out of me. So why does this kind of thing fly on the internet?
On the Internet(© AOL) people and companies are claiming to own words, ideas and concepts despite prior art. "One Click Shopping", "Toys.com" - oh, don't show any pictures of Apple's new cube before Steve Jobs gets a chance! Why do we have to put up with crap like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act? Or corporate attorneys busting up conversations about DeCSS?
We may have FREE software, but we may not have a FREE internet to distribute it on for long.
I fear that you better cherish your homepages, because in a few years, they will make you a target.
My only other question: If Andover hadn't purchased Slashdot, would Andover have sued
What do you feel are the merits of emulation/virtualization as opposed to creating a native software clone?
Do you think that you may unintentionally slow development of Linux-native software solutions for people migrating away from Windows or other operating systems? Some of the urgency for developing in Linux is lost if people who have come to Linux from Windows just carry all of the old baggage with.
Also, in the commercial sector we have seen some software products use Wine (IBM Websphere for instance) rather than offering a true Linux version.
Gates insists that the only place that's willing to redefine the interface is his own company. OS X may look cool, he says, but it's "just sexy widgets."
Gates doesn't get it. I'm a Linux person, but even I appreciate the new direction at Apple. More than the sexy widgets, OS X sits on a BSD kernal that's a hellava lot more stable than Win ME or Win 2000. He's oversimplifing to a fault. Unlike his latest Windows offerings, Apple is accually marketing something NEW.
In terms of the GUI design, I can hardly knock Aqua, being that it is a progression of the NeXTSTEP interface (but "lickable") and that NeXTSTEP UI is the fondation for Gnome, KDE, WM, and a multitude of Window Managers that we are using.
A couple of groups have attempted to produce a crude graphical interface, but until a new company named Eazel came along, no one was willing to take the step to create a world-class interface.
JEERS!! I'll take my Gnome desktop any day over Windows! Crude desktop my ass! I think the existing GUIs for Linux kick ass! I look forward to seeing what Easle might give me, and Amiga for that matter. But Steve Levy is pooh-poohing what he clearly doesn't understand.
I guess I'm used to having the option of throwing whatever Window Manager I think looks pimpin' on top of Xfree86. How tightly intregrated is Aqua to the OS? Apple's site shows a couple layers of APIs between Darwin and Aqua.
Can the GUI be replaced while maintaining compatability? That's an honest question, not an invite to flame. Perhaps OS X users might be happier with a port of X, running Enlightenment and eMac.
Whoa... You're pretty gifted with the language yourself.
Let's see: Gov. Bush has a Master's is Business and GRADUATED from Yale and Harvard.
Vice President Gore FLUNKED divinity school and dropped out of law school.
Gov. Bush used to be a jet pilot.
Al Gore invented fighter jets.
I VOTED FOR GEORGE W. BUSH! I'M PROUD I DID! AND I'VE READ ENOUGH ONE SIDED CRAP ON THIS SITE TO TELL THE STAFF OF SLASHDOT TO TAKE MY KARMA AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS!!!
Pokemon Pengachu vs. Pokemon Itsy!
I imagine the pretty screenshots are on a high end system. I couldn't find any mention of system requirements under Linux. Does anybody know what kind of monster box it will take to run this?
If common sense applied here, this is how I see the Cue-cat deal (in the mail, not Ratshack).
My sister asked for me to look after her dog recently while she went on vacation. Nice dog, but I took this dog into my house and looked after it, with the understanding that I would have to give it back. I had to be responsible for this animal. It was a favor, and I had the right to say no. With DC sending you this in the mail they are saying "here, take care of this thing for us. You're responsible for returning it eventually."
This company is asking for you to do them a favor (enter into a contract to take care of and return their private property) without asking you if you are willing to participate. If I was never given the chance to say "NO", why should I be obligated? DC is abandoning this equipment in my mailbox.
So, let's say my sister had been a further pain it the butt by saying "Checkers (her dog) likes to play the game fetch with a stick, and only with a stick. Not a frisbee. And she only eats Alpo." If my sister had said this, I'd tell her to find someone else to take care of her dog. I'm doing her a favor, so she can cut me some slack. Well, in the case of DC, I didn't ask for this responsibility, so I'll do what I damn well please. Don't like it, DC? Include some return postage.
The other aspect of this is the personal information being collected. Where does it tell me in the EULA that I can't use the Cue-cat to collect personal information about myself for myself? Why can't I use this thing to index my stuff and keep the info in MY DB instead of theirs?
I'm not an enemy of this company. I have no problem with someone trying to make a buck. But if I receive one of these in the mail without my consent, it's mine, and I bet the laws governing the US mail would take priority over DC's EULA.
If common sense applied here, this is how I see the Cue-cat deal (in the mail, not Ratshack).
My sister asked for me to look after her dog recently while she went on vacation. Nice dog, but I took this dog into my house and looked after it, with the understanding that I would have to give it back. I had to be responsible for this animal. It was a favor, and I had the right to say no. With DC sending you this in the mail they are saying "here, take care of this thing for us. You're responsible for returning it eventually."
This company is asking for you to do them a favor (enter into a contract to take care of and return their private property) without asking you if you are willing to participate. If I was never given the chance to say "NO", why should I be obligated? DC is abandoning this equipment in my mailbox.
So, let's say my sister had been a further pain it the butt by saying "Checkers (her dog) likes to play the game fetch with a stick, and only with a stick. Not a frisbee. And she only eats Alpo." If my sister had said this, I'd tell her to find someone else to take care of her dog. I'm doing her a favor, so she can cut me some slack. Well, in the case of DC, I didn't ask for this responsibility, so I'll do what I damn well please. Don't like it, DC? Include some return postage.
The other aspect of this is the personal information being collected. Where does it tell me in the EULA that I can't use the Cue-cat to collect personal information about myself for myself? Why can't I use this thing to index my stuff and keep the info in MY DB instead of theirs?
I'm not an enemy of this company. I have no problem with someone trying to make a buck. But if I receive one of these in the mail without my consent, it's mine, and I bet the laws governing the US mail would take priority over DC's EULA.
Antipatents are a cool concept, but the only legal legs it has is proof of "prior-art". Proving "prior-art" in court might snag you enough to buy a Diet Coke(TM) US 002 013 023 029 030 033 040 050.
...the developer I spoke with said that the company's plans were not intended as an "emergency escape plan" in the event that Linux overtakes Windows on the desktop. Instead, Microsoft will leverage Linux as an entry point to Windows, "in the same way it does with the Macintosh version of Office."
An entry point to Windoze? How many people here used Linux as an exit point FROM Windows?
I have a sneaking suspicion none of this is going to be open source... even if they are using open source code to make it work.
So will they include a free distro with the software?
After all, they have to hack through my proxy before they can see my other machines, and that makes them guilty of computer crimes....
Is such a policy enforcable by any practical means?