I think it's about time the X-Box had a price drop. Don't get me wrong. $300 for all the hardware in it is a pretty good deal...to a geek...but to the average buyer (i.e. some kid), he's going to get what his friends all have which, at this time, is the PS2. While it is early in the game for the X-Box to receive a price drop, I think it would be good for Microsoft in the longrun. Nevermind the fact that they'd have to eat more hardware costs sooner than they expected. If people are indeed buying more games than owners of PS2's, they can make it up in software. And as Sony has refused to lower the price on the PS2 (even though it's definitely time they did), this could give microsoft a clear lead, as the technically superior (not to mention a hellava lot easier to program for) X-Box would cost less, sell more, and give microsoft some much needed "street cred" in the video game department.
It's a shame what happend to the good geeks working at Loki. To think...if the company had just been run by people who knew what they were doing, maybe we'd have CounterStrike or JediKnight II to play with right now!
Good programmers don't mean enough when you don't have good managers running the business aspect of a company.
Re:I would be excited...
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ah...indeed the kernel source is available!
At anyrate...to the above reply...of course they wouldn't have to release their proprietary code...I know the GPL at least well-enough for that (so calm down)...still, there can probably be something learned from looking at their kernel source...I'd imagine they've made some optimizations to how it can handle I/O...but who knows...alas, I am not a kernel hacker...
I would be excited...
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But I already own a TiVo!!!
Which runs Linux...which makes me wonder why TiVo hasn't had to release any of their source code...someone really should look into that...
Anyway, this of course is A Good Thing, as its yet one more place that Linux couldn't go before. Every day, there are fewer and fewer places Linux can't meet the needs of a Windows user...it's only a matter of time, though I do believe interoperability between programs/the OS needs to be improved before we hold a Prime Time showdown between Linux and Windows...
My bad! I was under the impression that the 180g would be out a little later than the 180...obviously, this is incorrect. I still stand by the rest of my comments.
The thing that makes me distrust the Treo is the inclusion of a really tiny keyboard instad of a more functional Graffiti writing area.
While I know that, eventually, a Treo with such an option will be available for people who can Graffiti write faster than they can peck tiny chicklet-sized keys, I do not think it was wise for Handspring to roll out the keyboard model first, as the early-adopters are sure to be those replacing their Palms...with business users rolling in after it's been proven useful.
I don't think even they were quite sure what they were trying to do!
This of course leads to the conversations above on mis-management and such...but I think it's all connected.
Without a clear vision and capable people to carry out that vision, even a great product like Linux is probably not enough to save you from yourself...
Too bad though...we need more Linux stuff on more things, so eventually, when the masses start to consider to embrace Linux, we can tell them that they already have!
A friend of mine had registered a domain through Network Solutions (Verisign) and had renewed it for several years.
Last year, when his domain was coming up to expire, he didn't want to pay Verisign's fees...so he just figured he's let it lapse and maybe go reregister it with someone else...trouble is, though its expired, Verisign hasn't released the domain!
So my friend can't renew/reregister with anyone except Verisign b/c they won't release the domain back into the pool of available domains!
I think it's sad that the MPAA is such a monster as to even make Roger Ebert say, both in the article as well as the sample commentary, that this *probably* doesn't violate copyrights...
...it would never occur to me that it would, but as a cynical guy, I wouldn't be surprised if the MPAA got upset with people doing this...I'm sure Mr. Ebert had a similar frame of mind when he wrote the article...
now, if I reply to your first post, do I become a motherfucker, or is everyone else but you or I a motherfucker?
...too bad you posted anonymously...I really think this needs clarified...
I thought it best not to reply...
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Doesn't replying to SPAM just confirm to the spammers that the address the SPAM was sent to is indeed a valid one...thus, more SPAM...sure, it's funny...but at what price is this worth doing?!
Personally, I don't think the show'll be the same w/o Shanks...but, at the same time, IMO, even SG-1's worst episodes still aren't as bad as, say, the best of the current season of the X-Files...While the comparison can be made that Shanks leaving SG-1 is as bad as Duchovny leaving X-Files...
...on the X-Files there was only a main cast of two...on SG-1, there's still at least 3 other well-developed, very respectable characters to root for...
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I think it's about time the X-Box had a price drop. Don't get me wrong. $300 for all the hardware in it is a pretty good deal...to a geek...but to the average buyer (i.e. some kid), he's going to get what his friends all have which, at this time, is the PS2. While it is early in the game for the X-Box to receive a price drop, I think it would be good for Microsoft in the longrun. Nevermind the fact that they'd have to eat more hardware costs sooner than they expected. If people are indeed buying more games than owners of PS2's, they can make it up in software. And as Sony has refused to lower the price on the PS2 (even though it's definitely time they did), this could give microsoft a clear lead, as the technically superior (not to mention a hellava lot easier to program for) X-Box would cost less, sell more, and give microsoft some much needed "street cred" in the video game department.
...or something.
It's a shame what happend to the good geeks working at Loki. To think...if the company had just been run by people who knew what they were doing, maybe we'd have CounterStrike or JediKnight II to play with right now!
Good programmers don't mean enough when you don't have good managers running the business aspect of a company.
ah...indeed the kernel source is available!
At anyrate...to the above reply...of course they wouldn't have to release their proprietary code...I know the GPL at least well-enough for that (so calm down)...still, there can probably be something learned from looking at their kernel source...I'd imagine they've made some optimizations to how it can handle I/O...but who knows...alas, I am not a kernel hacker...
But I already own a TiVo!!!
Which runs Linux...which makes me wonder why TiVo hasn't had to release any of their source code...someone really should look into that...
Anyway, this of course is A Good Thing, as its yet one more place that Linux couldn't go before. Every day, there are fewer and fewer places Linux can't meet the needs of a Windows user...it's only a matter of time, though I do believe interoperability between programs/the OS needs to be improved before we hold a Prime Time showdown between Linux and Windows...
My bad! I was under the impression that the 180g would be out a little later than the 180...obviously, this is incorrect. I still stand by the rest of my comments.
The thing that makes me distrust the Treo is the inclusion of a really tiny keyboard instad of a more functional Graffiti writing area.
While I know that, eventually, a Treo with such an option will be available for people who can Graffiti write faster than they can peck tiny chicklet-sized keys, I do not think it was wise for Handspring to roll out the keyboard model first, as the early-adopters are sure to be those replacing their Palms...with business users rolling in after it's been proven useful.
Just my two cents...
As I type this message from my PC running Mandrake 8.1, I am happy!
Good news all around!
"Today is a great day for OS/2 users"
It sure is, by-golly! Today, they can finally use real operating systems from inside their limping, bleeding-from-the-gums, half-dead OS!
Break out the party hats! The sun is shining, the birds are singing! It truly is a great day for OS/2!
Now all someone needs to do is make an 802.11b adapter in a gameboy cartridge and you could serve pages anywhere while kicking ass in Tetris!
All of this talk about woody finally getting released is giving me a ...well, you know the punchline!
Can't wait though!
Is it a 23" Apple Cinema Display?
No? then go for a CRT!
mmm...Apple 23" Cinema Display...*drool*
I like it!
Think of it as a Rosetta Stone of the internet age!
Pretty cool stuff!
I don't think even they were quite sure what they were trying to do!
This of course leads to the conversations above on mis-management and such...but I think it's all connected.
Without a clear vision and capable people to carry out that vision, even a great product like Linux is probably not enough to save you from yourself...
Too bad though...we need more Linux stuff on more things, so eventually, when the masses start to consider to embrace Linux, we can tell them that they already have!
So how do you think you explain this to your car company if you screw it up?
Honda: "what's the problem, sir"
You: "well, I was wiring an internal network into my car and fused my hand to the cable and the glove box. Is this covered?"
A friend of mine had registered a domain through Network Solutions (Verisign) and had renewed it for several years.
Last year, when his domain was coming up to expire, he didn't want to pay Verisign's fees...so he just figured he's let it lapse and maybe go reregister it with someone else...trouble is, though its expired, Verisign hasn't released the domain!
So my friend can't renew/reregister with anyone except Verisign b/c they won't release the domain back into the pool of available domains!
I think it's sad that the MPAA is such a monster as to even make Roger Ebert say, both in the article as well as the sample commentary, that this *probably* doesn't violate copyrights...
...it would never occur to me that it would, but as a cynical guy, I wouldn't be surprised if the MPAA got upset with people doing this...I'm sure Mr. Ebert had a similar frame of mind when he wrote the article...
...quite a shame.
now, if I reply to your first post, do I become a motherfucker, or is everyone else but you or I a motherfucker?
...too bad you posted anonymously...I really think this needs clarified...
Doesn't replying to SPAM just confirm to the spammers that the address the SPAM was sent to is indeed a valid one...thus, more SPAM...sure, it's funny...but at what price is this worth doing?!
I haven't tried Quicktime yet, but I tried QuicktimeVR...if that works, I'm sure any quicktime movie will play just fine!
(I'm using Mozilla 0.9.9)
It's just like in the movie Dragonheart:
Lackie #1: "A road tax! I mean they are your roads!"...
next thing you know, they'll implant sensors into every citizen so they can officially (and finally) tax the air we breathe!
Any computer can be made to behave (emulate, if you will) just like any other computer...
It's always doable, but the overhead involved in such a thing can be quite large, and the time to get such a thing working even larger.
Personally, I don't think the show'll be the same w/o Shanks...but, at the same time, IMO, even SG-1's worst episodes still aren't as bad as, say, the best of the current season of the X-Files...While the comparison can be made that Shanks leaving SG-1 is as bad as Duchovny leaving X-Files...
...on the X-Files there was only a main cast of two...on SG-1, there's still at least 3 other well-developed, very respectable characters to root for...
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And when AI takes us over like in The Matrix, they can extend this technology to grow us!!!
(kidding tags added for mods without any sense of humor...you know who you are...I am not a troll!)
...I don't know if I like this or not...I prefer to license my wine from france, myself...