Mattel had tried to kill http://www.sorehands.com/mattel [sorehands.com]. When the judge asked Mattel's lawyer what was libelous, Mattel's lawyer asked that their libel claim be dismissed. This was after having to file a 5 inche stack of legal briefs with the court.
I know you know the goal of this, but let me repeat what I gathered from your website for Slashdot readers: It's actually a better outcome for Mattel than you might think. The motion to dismiss it's own claim was rejected, then re-filed and accepted -- without prejudice. This means the company can file more similar libel claims in the future. It seems likely Mattel/TLC will continue to try to intimidate their opponent in this way as long as they possibly can.
at this rate of planetary discovery it seems that a high rate of stars may have jovian size gas giants. Until we have more data though it's a difficult number to determine. However jovian planets are largely hydrogen and helium gas. Potentially they could form anywhere a star could, while earth type planetoids would require enough dense matter to form into solid planets.
Even systems with gas giants hogging the habitable zone have potential for life. With gas giants much larger than Jupiter seeming to be the norm, I'd assume we can expect that the giants would have larger moons better fit to life. So it doesn't matter where those solid objects form; as long as they are caught by a gas giant in the right orbit and happen to have the right composition, life could still arise in that system.
I'd imagine that any new civilization on one of these moons would take less time to inhabit the many moons of a gas giant than we are taking to explore our mere one. So many fascinating spacial wonders would be right up close to entice intelligent beings to explore them. How beautiful it would be to have a Jupiter taking up most of the sky!
Why would I want to pay money to have my story submissions rejected and to be randomly modded down by editors with unlimited points? I get these now for free.
Even that noble goal is a slippery slope to tread. What diseases do we screen for? Cancer? Diabetes? Sickle Cell? ADD? Psoriosis? Dandruff? Halitosis?
Dandrif? Nonsense. There's no way you could possibly screen out dandruff! Dandrif is a disease against which we are powerless. It is only when we put our faith in a power greater than ourselves, such as Head and Shoulders, that we have the strength to overcome it. Yes my friends, there is hope. But you will not find it through such worldly means.
I agree with you, but don't you think you could have said it a bit more elequently? Perhaps you wouldn't be considered flamebait, and might even be taken seriously if you learn to refrain from using phrases like "giant, stinking, smelly, steaming, smoking pile of dog-doo."
I work in a Community College computer lab, (The Windows half, the other half of the college is Apple-only) and I absolutely hate how QuickTime forces itself into the Control Panel, crams itself into the starting programs list and consistantly begs you to upgrade to the pro version every time you open a file with it. I admit that I've never liked the company, but it's not bringing itself into any better standing with non-Apple fans with this kind of behavior. So far only RealPlayer and MSN messenger have managed to top its annoyance-factor.
Try Irfanview. It's small, it's unobtrusive, it's fast and it's freeware. There are plugins for many different media types. If you like it, be sure to thank the author for all of his hard work!
if you check pricewatch RDRAM and DDR have almost identical costs. if someone is charging more for RDRAM then they are just lagging behind the market...
I'm not sure, but I think it might have something to do with Rambus charging higher royalties from it's patents on DDR technology.
Rambus makes money no matter which memory Intel chooses. It just might make more off of RD-RAM. Rambus isn't going belly-up any time soon.
I keep having this picture of archeologists in thousands of years in the future going through all of this stuff, and trying to piece together an old PC. no tech manuals, etc.
(A.P. News 25,237 CE)
Archeologists have made a great advance towards understanding the contents of fossilised "hard disks" with the discovery of what they are calling the "Pornsetta Stone"...
Just a bit of info about Lycoris: It's Desktop/LX distribution used to be Redmond Linux. In January, the company became Lycoris and the website took on a more Apple/iMac-ish look to appeal to new users. Redmond Linux started out with the intention of cutting a distro down to the simplest and most useful components for the new user, and Desktop/LX is actually the first update to the Redmond Linux package. Support for GUI MP3 ripping is "coming soon".
I haven't used it, but I might purchase a copy (I still use Windows) once a version comes out with a 2.6.x core.
You know, I actually kind of like those ThinkGeek ads common at the top of Slashdot. Sometimes I even click on them to learn more about the product. ThinkGeek has some really innovative ads.
([x] feet up, in freezing temperatures with wind... and rain. Hey, can I get a light? Sure can. ThinkGeek Delta Shockproof lighters!)
Well, regardless of the merits of the article, if Mono does happen to "kill" Gnome, it would be better for Linux in general, as KDE will gain the vast majority of users. The standardization of (and consensus upon) a single Linux UI will really help draw in the new user.
The new user:
"What's this? KDE? Gnome? Command line?!? I just want my start button and paperclip, dammit!"
... and then the new user throws away a shiny new Desktop/LX OS and purchases Windows XP.
The gcn needs more processing power than the xbox to make up for the xbox's greater storage space for FMV. Remember what happened with N64 vs. PSX: where PSX used FMV, N64 had to use polygons.
I don't think that's a problem at all. Skies of Arcadia used standard DC polygons for it's sequences, and the game still looked terrific. In fact, I'm a bigger fan of the GameCube because it has less space for FMV. Game companies just go nuts with all of those sequences and tend to forget that the user actually expects to play a game. If I wanted all of that, I'd just go to a theatre. It makes sense to keep the developers on a leash so they don't go overboard.
I was never upset by the performance of my NES due to it's lack of FMV. In fact, it was the most entertaining console I ever owned. I think that's proof right there that you don't need FMV to have a good game system.
Sega didn't design the graphics in the Dreamcast [segatech.com]. Powervr [powervr.com]used their pvr series 2 chip in there
And that was a big mistake on Sega of Japan's part. It cost them 10 million dollars to settle with 3DFX (company or brand, I forget), after the chipmaker sued them for breaking a deal that required Sega to use their chips. Sega of America wanted to go with the 3DFX, and SoJ practically snubbed them when they choose PowerVR. EA games refused to develop for the Dreamcast under the excuse that PowerVR was too difficult compared to the 3DFX they were used to, and that really hurt the console's prospects.
You know, I would be satisfied with a writeable GD-ROM (1.2 GB). DivX;) movies typically take up 2 CDs, so if Sega were to open it up and make GD-RW an option I think it would become more popular than any DVD format, simply because it's lacking that terrible DRM feature.
Plus, wine is made from fruit. Do any of these studies compare a wine-drinking group to one that eats a lot of fruit? I'd wager that you could get all the benefits described in these studies with none of the potential downfalls of alchohol just by eating more fruit.
BeOS. No apps, poor hardware support, and a confused vision killed this OS.
There's that conjecture, and the fact that when a lot of companies were planning to ship BeOS as a dual boot to Windows with new computers, Microsoft's lawyers showed up on their doorstep. They reminded the companies that Microsoft's license agreement would allow the big-M to retaliate in rather nasty ways if they went ahead with the plan.
DR-DOS. It's DOS. DOS is dead.
If that's the case, you might want to inform the people at FreeDos as soon as possible.
Suffice it to say, the problem was only in a beta of win3.x, and not in the final version. But I guess beta Microsoft software can kill competitors, right? Right?
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Mattel had tried to kill http://www.sorehands.com/mattel [sorehands.com]. When the judge asked Mattel's lawyer what was libelous, Mattel's lawyer asked that their libel claim be dismissed. This was after having to file a 5 inche stack of legal briefs with the court.
I know you know the goal of this, but let me repeat what I gathered from your website for Slashdot readers: It's actually a better outcome for Mattel than you might think. The motion to dismiss it's own claim was rejected, then re-filed and accepted -- without prejudice. This means the company can file more similar libel claims in the future. It seems likely Mattel/TLC will continue to try to intimidate their opponent in this way as long as they possibly can.
at this rate of planetary discovery it seems that a high rate of stars may have jovian size gas giants. Until we have more data though it's a difficult number to determine. However jovian planets are largely hydrogen and helium gas. Potentially they could form anywhere a star could, while earth type planetoids would require enough dense matter to form into solid planets.
Even systems with gas giants hogging the habitable zone have potential for life. With gas giants much larger than Jupiter seeming to be the norm, I'd assume we can expect that the giants would have larger moons better fit to life. So it doesn't matter where those solid objects form; as long as they are caught by a gas giant in the right orbit and happen to have the right composition, life could still arise in that system.
I'd imagine that any new civilization on one of these moons would take less time to inhabit the many moons of a gas giant than we are taking to explore our mere one. So many fascinating spacial wonders would be right up close to entice intelligent beings to explore them. How beautiful it would be to have a Jupiter taking up most of the sky!
A brief summary of the article:
"Go Steve!"
"Stupid Steve."
"Stupid Steve."
"Go Steve!"
"Stupid Steve."
"Go Steve!"
[Steve Ballmer takes over and begins to chant "Developers! Developers!"]
Yep. Notice the mod-down on that one, no rating applied, just reduced from 2 to 1.
Why would I want to pay money to have my story submissions rejected and to be randomly modded down by editors with unlimited points? I get these now for free.
Perhaps you're offering quality mod-downs?
Even that noble goal is a slippery slope to tread. What diseases do we screen for? Cancer? Diabetes? Sickle Cell? ADD? Psoriosis? Dandruff? Halitosis?
Dandrif? Nonsense. There's no way you could possibly screen out dandruff! Dandrif is a disease against which we are powerless. It is only when we put our faith in a power greater than ourselves, such as Head and Shoulders, that we have the strength to overcome it. Yes my friends, there is hope. But you will not find it through such worldly means.
I agree with you, but don't you think you could have said it a bit more elequently? Perhaps you wouldn't be considered flamebait, and might even be taken seriously if you learn to refrain from using phrases like "giant, stinking, smelly, steaming, smoking pile of dog-doo."
I work in a Community College computer lab, (The Windows half, the other half of the college is Apple-only) and I absolutely hate how QuickTime forces itself into the Control Panel, crams itself into the starting programs list and consistantly begs you to upgrade to the pro version every time you open a file with it. I admit that I've never liked the company, but it's not bringing itself into any better standing with non-Apple fans with this kind of behavior. So far only RealPlayer and MSN messenger have managed to top its annoyance-factor.
Try Irfanview. It's small, it's unobtrusive, it's fast and it's freeware. There are plugins for many different media types. If you like it, be sure to thank the author for all of his hard work!
Ah, from the mouths of babes (cowards)...
if you check pricewatch RDRAM and DDR have almost identical costs. if someone is charging more for RDRAM then they are just lagging behind the market...
I'm not sure, but I think it might have something to do with Rambus charging higher royalties from it's patents on DDR technology.
Rambus makes money no matter which memory Intel chooses. It just might make more off of RD-RAM. Rambus isn't going belly-up any time soon.
What exactly am I supposed to do with a machine like that?
Distributed computing, of course. Lookie them blocks fly!
I keep having this picture of archeologists in thousands of years in the future going through all of this stuff, and trying to piece together an old PC. no tech manuals, etc.
(A.P. News 25,237 CE)
Archeologists have made a great advance towards understanding the contents of fossilised "hard disks" with the discovery of what they are calling the "Pornsetta Stone"...
It's not an Office killer and Sun knows it.
Pity. I think there are a lot of people out there who would pay good money for software that would kill everybody back at their office.
Oh, you mean MS Office...
Just a bit of info about Lycoris: It's Desktop/LX distribution used to be Redmond Linux. In January, the company became Lycoris and the website took on a more Apple/iMac-ish look to appeal to new users. Redmond Linux started out with the intention of cutting a distro down to the simplest and most useful components for the new user, and Desktop/LX is actually the first update to the Redmond Linux package. Support for GUI MP3 ripping is "coming soon".
I haven't used it, but I might purchase a copy (I still use Windows) once a version comes out with a 2.6.x core.
You know, I actually kind of like those ThinkGeek ads common at the top of Slashdot. Sometimes I even click on them to learn more about the product. ThinkGeek has some really innovative ads.
([x] feet up, in freezing temperatures with wind... and rain. Hey, can I get a light? Sure can. ThinkGeek Delta Shockproof lighters!)
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I have a feeling I've been hit by a Slashdot manager with unlimited points (who thinks I hate Gnome)...
Well, regardless of the merits of the article, if Mono does happen to "kill" Gnome, it would be better for Linux in general, as KDE will gain the vast majority of users. The standardization of (and consensus upon) a single Linux UI will really help draw in the new user.
The new user:
"What's this? KDE? Gnome? Command line?!? I just want my start button and paperclip, dammit!"
... and then the new user throws away a shiny new Desktop/LX OS and purchases Windows XP.
The gcn needs more processing power than the xbox to make up for the xbox's greater storage space for FMV. Remember what happened with N64 vs. PSX: where PSX used FMV, N64 had to use polygons.
I don't think that's a problem at all. Skies of Arcadia used standard DC polygons for it's sequences, and the game still looked terrific. In fact, I'm a bigger fan of the GameCube because it has less space for FMV. Game companies just go nuts with all of those sequences and tend to forget that the user actually expects to play a game. If I wanted all of that, I'd just go to a theatre. It makes sense to keep the developers on a leash so they don't go overboard.
I was never upset by the performance of my NES due to it's lack of FMV. In fact, it was the most entertaining console I ever owned. I think that's proof right there that you don't need FMV to have a good game system.
Sega didn't design the graphics in the Dreamcast [segatech.com]. Powervr [powervr.com]used their pvr series 2 chip in there
And that was a big mistake on Sega of Japan's part. It cost them 10 million dollars to settle with 3DFX (company or brand, I forget), after the chipmaker sued them for breaking a deal that required Sega to use their chips. Sega of America wanted to go with the 3DFX, and SoJ practically snubbed them when they choose PowerVR. EA games refused to develop for the Dreamcast under the excuse that PowerVR was too difficult compared to the 3DFX they were used to, and that really hurt the console's prospects.
Great company. Stupid execs.
Incorrect, DMCA refers to circumventing a protective device
Holy shit! You mean it's become illegal not to wear a condom during sex?!
You know, I would be satisfied with a writeable GD-ROM (1.2 GB). DivX ;) movies typically take up 2 CDs, so if Sega were to open it up and make GD-RW an option I think it would become more popular than any DVD format, simply because it's lacking that terrible DRM feature.
Plus, wine is made from fruit. Do any of these studies compare a wine-drinking group to one that eats a lot of fruit? I'd wager that you could get all the benefits described in these studies with none of the potential downfalls of alchohol just by eating more fruit.
I'll take the Glad Bag!
BeOS. No apps, poor hardware support, and a confused vision killed this OS.
There's that conjecture, and the fact that when a lot of companies were planning to ship BeOS as a dual boot to Windows with new computers, Microsoft's lawyers showed up on their doorstep. They reminded the companies that Microsoft's license agreement would allow the big-M to retaliate in rather nasty ways if they went ahead with the plan.
DR-DOS. It's DOS. DOS is dead.
If that's the case, you might want to inform the people at FreeDos as soon as possible.
Suffice it to say, the problem was only in a beta of win3.x, and not in the final version. But I guess beta Microsoft software can kill competitors, right? Right?
Microsoft's F.U.D. certainly can, and did.
"So, was it good for you?"
"Oh... yeah... fantastic. I'd give it an 8.7."
*Rolls over and quietly sobs into pillow*
Is something bigger/better coming in the next few months?
Yes. But it might take more than a few months to get here.
No, they dress up like the Blue Man Group and think up innovative ways of painting the walls blue.