Your concerns are totaly valid, and I have to admit I made a gross mistake in my post... I had read that number in a Canadian newspaper I consider credible, thing is they made a mistake they corrected. Seems that the actual number of civilian casualties was around 150,000 (which is still WAY too many). I don't remember the exact source of that information (and can't take the time to check it since I'm at work) but I know someone else has posted it in this thread...
Please everyone don't pray for the american soldiers, pray in whatever you believe in for the civilians of Irak. They are by far the ones in most danger and least deserving harm...
Wow I'm surprised of this since most Akira Kurosawa movies were actually ripped off to make western movies. (Seven Samurai became the Magnificient Seven, Yojimbo became for a fistful of dollars etc etc). Considering this I guess we can't blame him for taking a little inspiration back in return:)
From the article : "Under terms of a settlement with Sun, Microsoft was given the right to continue to use early versions of Sun's Java code in Microsoft products for seven years, but made no commitment to do so.
They still could ship Java, not the latest versions. They decided to remove it altogether instead.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
The problem I see is that Microsoft is the one deciding what links to add and to what site it should point. I really like the idea of those smart tags, my two gripes about it are that it is on by default and has to be disabled and that Microsoft is the one deciding what to add.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
It should work the other way around. Instead of needing a particular meta tag to disable it, they should require a meta tag to enable it. That way I doubt many people would see anything wrong with it.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
In your reply, you are assuming that COBOL/MVS, the writer of the original comment, is of english origin. I am a foreigner and I too misunderstood that last sentence from Linus. I thank you for clarifying it but I find it disturbing that you assume everyone here is from english speaking origin.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
PC Game company have been using this kind of technology for a while now. Although I am not sure of the specifics, I know that those protected CDs include some sort of bad sectors that are corrected by most CD burning software. When you try to play the game, if it doesn't see those "bad sectors" on your CD it simply refuses to play. (First game that pops to my mind that does this is Legacy of Kain : Soul Reaver). But you are right, some softwares allow you to burn "raw" copy of the CD and keep those bad sectors (I think that CDRwin and blind read/write for Windows doe the trick) thus allowing you to burn perfectly working CDs.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
You seem to forget one critical point. The success of a console is not about being hackable, it's about game titles. People buy console so they can play top-notch games sitting on the floor in front of their big TV. Give me the name of one, just one, big open source game that's has fun to play as some retail game (I'll take Quake as an exemple) AND has as nice a look and then you might convince me.
Don't get me wrong, I really think the Indrema is a really nice gadget and their contribution will be great even if they fail. I just don't think it will appeal as much to my young nephew who could not care less about opensource. And that's why I think it won't be an economic success.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Actually it's not YOUR responsibility not to share copyrighted material. It's Napster's responsibility to make it unavailable to the other users. Which mean they won't block what you share, they'll block what users are searching by filtering the different queries in accordance to a database of song titles.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
The newspaper analogy is not good IMHO. In newspapers sure everyone notices some ads, everyone sees the big full page (intrusive) ads, but who notices each and every small ad that is in a newspaper?
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Well... my.mp3.com will ask you to insert your CD at random intervals to proove that you indded have the original CD. So if you want to use this service, you have to bring your CDs with you. What is the use of asking them to stream me songs of CDs I own if I have to bring the CDs along?
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Microsoft have no plans to support x86-64, instead choosing their long standing partnership with Intel and focusing on the IA-64
It's weird cause I actually had heard the exact opposite a couple of months ago. Microsoft had prefered the x86-64 because it was more backward compatible with the current CPUs architecture.
Guess that would have to be double-checked.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
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For the same reason some real musicians spend lots of time playing Guitar Hero or Rock Band and like it.
A video game of an activity is NOT the same as the activity it's based on.
that at one point the most serious part of /. would become the poll!
Your concerns are totaly valid, and I have to admit I made a gross mistake in my post... I had read that number in a Canadian newspaper I consider credible, thing is they made a mistake they corrected. Seems that the actual number of civilian casualties was around 150,000 (which is still WAY too many). I don't remember the exact source of that information (and can't take the time to check it since I'm at work) but I know someone else has posted it in this thread...
Sorry for my mistake...
Sorry for that mistake of mine... Turns out the french (my first language as a french Canadian) name for that country actually is Irak and not Iraq...
You forgot kill innocent civilians among the only things war has ever done...
Please everyone don't pray for the american soldiers, pray in whatever you believe in for the civilians of Irak. They are by far the ones in most danger and least deserving harm...
First Gulf war killed 1.5 millions of them.
Wow I'm surprised of this since most Akira Kurosawa movies were actually ripped off to make western movies. (Seven Samurai became the Magnificient Seven, Yojimbo became for a fistful of dollars etc etc). Considering this I guess we can't blame him for taking a little inspiration back in return :)
...the reason why Phantom Menace sucked so much was because I didn't see it on a digital screen??
Silly me... I thought it was because of that Jar Jar thing! I should have known better.
That's it... I want a humanclock slashbox :o)
From the article : "Under terms of a settlement with Sun, Microsoft was given the right to continue to use early versions of Sun's Java code in Microsoft products for seven years, but made no commitment to do so.
They still could ship Java, not the latest versions. They decided to remove it altogether instead.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
The problem I see is that Microsoft is the one deciding what links to add and to what site it should point. I really like the idea of those smart tags, my two gripes about it are that it is on by default and has to be disabled and that Microsoft is the one deciding what to add.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
It should work the other way around. Instead of needing a particular meta tag to disable it, they should require a meta tag to enable it. That way I doubt many people would see anything wrong with it.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Actually Opera has this. There is a bunch of options for cookies, including refusing 3rd partie cookies and filtering by server, domain etc.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
In your reply, you are assuming that COBOL/MVS, the writer of the original comment, is of english origin. I am a foreigner and I too misunderstood that last sentence from Linus. I thank you for clarifying it but I find it disturbing that you assume everyone here is from english speaking origin.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
And how are you supposed to get mp3s of "unrippable" CDs?
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
PC Game company have been using this kind of technology for a while now. Although I am not sure of the specifics, I know that those protected CDs include some sort of bad sectors that are corrected by most CD burning software. When you try to play the game, if it doesn't see those "bad sectors" on your CD it simply refuses to play. (First game that pops to my mind that does this is Legacy of Kain : Soul Reaver). But you are right, some softwares allow you to burn "raw" copy of the CD and keep those bad sectors (I think that CDRwin and blind read/write for Windows doe the trick) thus allowing you to burn perfectly working CDs.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
You seem to forget one critical point. The success of a console is not about being hackable, it's about game titles. People buy console so they can play top-notch games sitting on the floor in front of their big TV. Give me the name of one, just one, big open source game that's has fun to play as some retail game (I'll take Quake as an exemple) AND has as nice a look and then you might convince me.
Don't get me wrong, I really think the Indrema is a really nice gadget and their contribution will be great even if they fail. I just don't think it will appeal as much to my young nephew who could not care less about opensource. And that's why I think it won't be an economic success.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Actually it's not YOUR responsibility not to share copyrighted material. It's Napster's responsibility to make it unavailable to the other users. Which mean they won't block what you share, they'll block what users are searching by filtering the different queries in accordance to a database of song titles.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Well... in the 80s Lamborghini made a car named the Diablo, so I guess Blizzard never could have made a game with that name withouth their consent...
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
The newspaper analogy is not good IMHO. In newspapers sure everyone notices some ads, everyone sees the big full page (intrusive) ads, but who notices each and every small ad that is in a newspaper?
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
I am not sure if microsoft's DNS is down or just fscked up. I can't access it by http://www.microsoft.com but I can with http://microsoft.com
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Because Netscape is now AOL's equivalent of...
Yeah but remember Netscape != Mozilla.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
If you don't like it, bring the CD with you
Well... my.mp3.com will ask you to insert your CD at random intervals to proove that you indded have the original CD. So if you want to use this service, you have to bring your CDs with you. What is the use of asking them to stream me songs of CDs I own if I have to bring the CDs along?
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
Microsoft have no plans to support x86-64, instead choosing their long standing partnership with Intel and focusing on the IA-64
It's weird cause I actually had heard the exact opposite a couple of months ago. Microsoft had prefered the x86-64 because it was more backward compatible with the current CPUs architecture.
Guess that would have to be double-checked.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
You are right, among the previewable file types will be mp3s. By letting your cursor over an mp3 file you will hear the begining of the song.
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...