Hay now... Intel started a very long time ago by making the first memory chips in the early 1960s. This saved HUGE amounts of money as memory chips were cheeper than data drums, faster and could store more information. They also created ROMs, and Micro processors (CPUs on a chip)... Starting with the 4004.. this was used in mainframes as cheap control logic for hardware. But it wasn't very powerful and users complainned of it's limits. 4040 (an extended programming language) 8008 (8 bits [Byte] instead of 4 bits [nibble]) 8080... the chip used in the first kit computers. Z80.. an 8080 clone made by Zilog... Intel was allready a larg company at the time tiny Zilog surfaced and Intel did NOTHING to stop them. Intel could have easly rolled over on Zilog... At this time IBM was suing everyone for all kinds of crazy things.. a few years later MOS would be sued allmost into oblivion paving the way for MOS to be bought out by Commodore and turn a typowriter and programmable calculator company into a home computer company with it's own microchips.
During a time when it would be EASY and justifyable to be evil Intel took the high road. Commodore and Apple fought using the same tricks handed down by IBM. Thow Commodore and Apple didn't resort to pushing anyone off the market (Not something they could have done anyway) but buying out dying compays someone tried to crush so they don't have to rely on anyone outside who might pull something at a bad time.
Intel started "second sourcing" having compeating companys make and sell Intels chips so people will feel comfortable buying Intels chips knowing Intel can not pull anything on them.
Thats not an evil company....
Intel continued to make x/86 legacy chips becouse there is still a demand.. allbeit an artifical one created by Microsoft. Thats not Intels fault. Also Intel was NOT copritive with Microsoft.
Microsoft HAS tried to create a happy sybotic relationship. Intels responce was to help Linux and add support to GCC for new Intel chips.
More recently... Intels founder died... Intel is now runned by a soulless corprate hivemind mentality. Such things are netoreously evil.
But Intels evil is the kind that is self intrested. Intel compeates like any other company. Some times it dose things we don't like.. But unlike the Borg we can whack it's cybernetic backside with a twig and while it dose no injury the mindless entity responds by learning not to do the bad thing. Like any advanced darwinistic AI.
Intel knows Linux is GOOD... Linux sells chips... Intel makes chips Linux sells chips.. Linux good... Intel make 3D chips Linux sell chips.. Linux sell ANY chips.. Linux better than Microsoft. If allience is forced Intel choises Linux... Microsoft knows... If Intel make powerful RISC chips Linux sell chips.. Microsoft don't... If Intel make big blunder in chip designe Linux fix... See we don't need to recall it's fixed in the operating system. Linux gooood
After donations from a environmental cleanup company... How to care 101:
After donations from a larg apathetic corprate empire... Now to not care 101:
I guess it'll all depend on who donated money to your university.... Or grade school... Or kinder....
Ohhh look the legue for mindless obedience is finding the local K - 12 schools...
Now.. Mind you 100 years from now they won't care about Linux, iMacs, Intel or Slashdot.... But they... it's quite posable.. that they don't care about anything at all... ever... again....
Today: Shortly after Microsoft donates money to XYZ University the University staff addopt strange antiUnix policys and starts offering classes in Microsoft notepad...
Tomarow: Shortly after VA/Andover/Slashdot donates money to XYZ University the University staff addopt antiWindows policys (Such as banning anything that may carry e-mail viruses or other such defects from the university network "to protect it from bombardment vea viruses" requiring all e-mail be RFC standard text so it may be readable and prohibiting any hardware or software not compatable/ported with/to Linux to be sold at the University book store).
and offering new classes (Such as how to get First Post) as well as cancling a few (Such as how to use Microsoft Excell)
Now note above... This could happen WITH OUT VA/Andover/Slashdot asking ANYTHING of the University.. They just do it so that VA/Andover/Slashdot will be pleased with them. They'd do far worse than any Linux Zellot has ever advocated in the name of making Slashdot happy.
This probably explains all the strange pro-Microsoft policys at Universitys over the years. Maybe Napster should start making donations to Universitys... Maybe Universitys who won't ban Napster are receaving funding from Real Networks, or some other company who dose a piratable protocall or dose MP3s... Maybe the Universitys who do ban Napster are receaving funding from the Music industry....
My mother showed me a list of collage classes I could take (my sister wants me back in collage to learn stuff I allready know or don't care about) it was a bunch of computer classes (Ahh my sister saw computer classes my mother didn't look) Microsoft... Microsoft... umm Microsoft... NT... CE... While I am reading this off I am padding with classes like "The fine art of MsNotePad, How to win MsSolintare, The reasons why Linux is evil". A few years ago I got a similer pamplet stuffed in my hands. Full of Mac and Unix classes. Poof.. all gone... all Microsoft Windows classes now... and most of it is garbage... I allready know this stuff... "How to use MsOffice" Don't... use StarOffice or something smiler... I'm holding for KDE Office but I'm elcheapo and want free... but I'm not stupid... advocate for Star or other existing commertal office pacage for Linux... while downloading KDE office..
Anyway... I end up laughing when I see classes in supposidly user friendly technologys... I guess this is why... Now if there is a class in pirating MP3 music with Napster... I'm there...:)
You win the prize:) Someone else points out that Bill Gates didn't say it (urben legend) and Linus knew you needed more...
Also when Bill Gates made his comment programs were packed in 64k..
The 640k memory Limit on Dos was a hardware issue... The Intel processor only addresses 1 meg in "native" mode... the 8088/86 only addressed 640k... While a 286 can have much more ram than 640k it can only be accessed in protected mode... So it is out of the reach of DOS. And thats why MsDos can only access 640k of ram.. that and if it trys to access the full meg programs crash...
However.... during the same time period programmers were saying "I need 4 meg of ram all to myself" for mainframes... it was only a matter of time before they'd start demanding it on home computers.... But... no... we need 16 meg of VIDEO ram... and 512meg of system ram... 10 gig HD... 100 meg removable disk... and 128k BPS feed...
I mean... IBM expected us to dump the PC a long time ago... Who knows... Anyway at time it was rummored to have been said... it was true....
First (as it was allready said) open API =! open source... You simply document the interface not how the operating system works.
Microsoft is basicly saying it won't tell you how to write code for Windows. You must use our compiler or a blessed compiler (like Corel/Imprise C++.. now you see why Corel wants to give away the compiler)
Open source means yes the part of the source you give away must be free... otherwise it is liccensed source...
Even if it's not in a recompilable form (such as only part of the code) it's still free for someone to add the missing code and build a Windows clone around...
Microsoft is being anil Microsoft wants Windows to be an operating system... part of that means documenting the API. But Microsoft wants Windows to BE a software pacage where only Microsoft can sell software. Think about this.. Dosn't Windows run just a bit to much like a software pacage? Everything bundled together? I mean it makes no sence as an operating system but makes perfict sence as a software pacage.
Of course like any software pacage Microsoft wants to protect the API so no one else can write software for it. But Windows isn't a closed develuper environment. Other companys can and do write software for Windows. It is sold as an operating system and reguardless of how it is writen it is an operating system.
Microsoft wishes to be the only company in history to close off programming access. To limit who may write code for Windows.
IBM, Commodore and Apple went as far as to PAY companys like Microsoft to port software to the systems they make. There isn't any reason for them to block programmers from writing code... No reason to not document the interface into the software, and hardware. Commodore pacaged programming directions with the computers they sold. Apples intro to computers was a programming tutorial. It was all so importent to computer makers that they teach programming to as many users as posable and encurage free software develupment.
But Microsoft has discuraged free software develupment..
They simply don't want anyone writing code for Windows... Microsoft has been saying "Go away" to software develupers for a long time... and this is just annother such insult...
I wish software develupers would lissen and stop writing code for a company who clearly dosn't want your code. Write code for a platform that wants your code... code for Linux, MacOs and BeOS.
Where would we be if Microsoft didn't exist? Lets examine this...
Did Microsoft create the Internet? Was it built on or with anything Microsoft created? Did Microsoft even have a hand it in? No...
Did Microsoft develup any of the technologys we use today? Or any technologys at all? No
The first kit computer might have had no Basic becouse no one would make it for them. Net impact... Maybe home computers of the 1970s to 1980s would have had something other that Basic built it... maybe... we arn't even shure of that..
IBM PC was originally going to have CP/M 86 preinstalled... instead it had Dos.. pritty much the same thing only cheapper... So the IBM PC might have been $50 cheapper... Let's see I couldn't afford a $20,000 PC but I could afford a $19,950 PC... Oh and Windows... Microsoft Windows was the THIRD attempt... the FIRST attempt would be GEM OS... and GEM OS sucked... Hack... Digital Research not only made the operating system Dos replace and Windows replaced but in all likelyhood Digital Research would have pulled the same stunts Microsoft pulled... given the chance... so the net impact... If Microsoft never existsed.... I wouldn't have had such an easy argument explaining why the Digital Research Monopoly wasn't centeral to todays technology....
Micrsoft has done nothing... but chance the names and faces...
When I was a kid you could get pinball toy machines. Some keep score. They were extreamly simplifyed versions of the archade machines.
Throw in todays technology and you could build home pinball machines.
One of the big defects of the home video game market is convencing costummers to buy new game consoles. You must discontinue old units to keep the cash flow. With pinball each game is imbeded in the hardware. They are insepreable. Also you could nock them off for less than full game consoles (probably more than game cartrages). Battery powered, cheapper and non-vertual. Good for pulling game addicted timmy into the real world or just an easy way to give your kid hours of arcade enjoyment. Plus a golden market from the pinball wizards of the 70's and 80's.
I think the market is ripe... It's a matter of time before someone leaps on it...
Pinball isn't a video game... it's a reality game:) (there's a slogen for ya... now go build em)
He is a political Eliza.... That speech is a basic political speech... Just change things around for the occasion.... It could be an Eliza or just a silly person..
It is kinda funny.. pointing out the kind of nonsence that gets passed off as insightful..
> When video games began to "invade" (pun intended),
Video games from outer space:)
I'm slightly younger than you... 30... I saw video games come in.. Space invaders..
I allways saw video games and pinball as diffrent kinds of games.
Pinball isn't dead.. just not mass market... I expect arcade style video games to fade into a nitch market as well over time. Maybe when I'm 60 and your 65:)
Re:100% of the time? C'mon - that's crap.
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Video game machines usually use the same logic. They don't wear out that fast and when they do you can swap out the damaged board with a replacement (just move the roms).
One point is video game logic boards get tested.. Usally trial by fire I admit.. but the newer the machine the more tested the logic. Upgrades are made only when they are needed.
Fix the damaged board and set it aside for the next breakdown. (It's cheaper to fix than to throw away)
You are right however. You never have 100% uptime. But thanks to swapout replacements you can get a video game machine up and running faster.
Also he is wrong about the heavy pinball machines.. It's the bulk... It takes two people to carry a pinball machine becouse the weight is distributed over the whole machine. With a video game you place it on a dolly and carry it away... But one person CAN move a video game machine off the floor... One strong person.. But.. video game machines are heavyer...
I personnally prefer the old Asteroids game.. the arcade machine not the home versions or the clones. The clones are nice.. But give me that raster display... Sadly raster displays burn up a lot faster than normal CRT displays... havn't seen any raster machines made sence the 1980s
Ehh sorta It's not the weight but the shape of the machines. The pinball machines are lighter and bulkyer.. You can fit one video game machine on a dolly and carry it away.
On many video game systems there is a basic machine and the roms change. It's usually pritty easy to swap out parts... No need to accually repair damaged parts when you can replace them. Any idiot can handle that...
Pinball machines must accually be repaired...
Video games have SOME moving parts
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For the most part true.. However arcade machines are not up 100% of the time.
Video games don't usually take up floor space when dead becouse they can be removed with a hand cart (not easy but doable). The parts that usually die are coin box, joystick and buttons.. Those parts can usually be swapped out with replacement parts. Over time the screen burns out.. That can be replaced but it's not so simple... Eventually the ROMs start to show some age... if you clone the roms in advance then it's a matter of keeping the logic intact. The ROMs and logic however take a matter of 10 to 20 years... By that time the machine has allready become obsolete.
Compare this with pinball.. any sensor, bumper etc can go out. Lights burn out.. byond costummer abuse you have a heavy ball banging around slamming into every sensor... eventually something is going to break.
I personnaly never got into pinball... I see the addiction... But to often I'd get the ball to bounce between two bumpers.. rack up a nice little score... only to find the sensors were dead... The score reads 0....
Also I dislike the bodymass environment of the archade (excluding one place.. but it was also had dart boards and a pool hall in the back... and I played darts). (Stopped playing when all the dart boards went to safty darts..)
I get the vague feeling that was a troll, but it at least makes me feel better to be writing this. I KNOW it's a troll...:) And ditto... Do a Google search on Bluepoint... They make a chinese Linux destro.
He is basicly lying... It didn't take much to find the stock ticker BTW...
I think the AC is saying he dosn't believe your a lawyer or a graduate from Harverd. And I strongly agree with his position... You are to good a lier to be a lawyer...
That and you curse a lot... not a very.. umm profesional addatude...
I've seen some pathetic legal experts but you sir take the cake...
This is incase anyone reading at mod -1 accually takes you sereously instead of seeing you for the outragous lier that you are.
Hello legal type person allow me to give you my own history.... Age 15 started busness ran same until age 23. Sence then I ran for office (and lost)... In short I have a lot of experence in BS.
Everyone lives within a community... It's just a part of being a part of socity.
Linux Weekly News - "For a lot of people who watch the Linux business community Bluepoint came, well, out of the blue. What is this company, and how did it manage to go public so quietly?" First note... even Bluepoint is part of a community. They are a new company. Moreover they are not a US firm but in fact in China. The objective of the company seems to be to introduce it's version of Linux to Chiniese busnesses. Thats just my point of view. This company could also be just annother "Linux One". Bluepoint isn't the first company to have the name Linux. For example VA Linux Systems. Who own Andover.. who own Slashdot... And do not own Linux. At least your living up to the lawyer stereotype. Thats kinda sad too becouse most lawyers are honnest people. You however seem to sling the BS better than any politician....
Being a part of a community is no more illegal than breathing air. Your not stupid... your simply full of it. In fact I am not telling you ANYTHING you don't allready know... Excluding the fact that I also know...
There has been some FUD going around about how you can not sue Linux. It is true.... and FUD...
Basicly.. you can not sue Linux or anyone who develups Linux for a defect in Linux due to the GPL. The GPL contains a shrinkwrap liccens that says you can not sue for defects in Linux.
Now here is the FUD part... You can not sue Microsoft eather... Same reason...
Most (if not all) develupers have a shrinkwrap liccens that says you may not sue for software defects. Not Sendmail not RedHat, Not Microsoft and not Sun Microsystems. If a bug happends it's totally your problem.... no matter what your using...
In short... Real world... the lawyers have allready resolved this problem...
Based on comments from Bill Gates and from an MP3 of a radio ad... Microsofts idea of education on software piracy is to tell people copying sofware (any software) is theft and illegal. There is NO effort made to seprate free software from commertal software... All software is commertal therefor copying is theft..
I agree totally.... In a world where all software is free.. there is no software theft
How do you pirate Windows?
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Unless you built your PC from ground up you bought Windows. The only piracy is in people stealing the next version up... and even that is minimal...
So where is the piracy? I smell dinial..
I think Microsoft is bodycounting.. Meaning they believe EVERY PC runs Windows... every PC that is in use that dosn't account for a sale must therefor have stolen Windows.
This might have made sence back when MsDos was all there was for PCs.. but even then CP/M-86 did exist so there never was a time when all PCs ran Dos. and cerenly no time when all PCs run Windows.
Microsoft is also piracy paranoid. It did hurt them rather badly in the start. It dosn't justify what they have done but it dose explain it.
In the end I think Microsoft is looking at ex-Windows users or users who never did use Windows and count them as having stolen the latest version of Windows.
I personnaly recomend every user who dose not receave a CD... contact Microsofts piracy department and complain.. becouse obveously if you never get the media.. the software was stolen...
One parellel is the software community and the art community. As one profesional programmer put it.. programmers are artists...
Right now programming is treated as a comodity not at artform where as paintings and sculptures are treated as pure art. The reality being they are all comoditys and art.
Byond the "comodity" vs "art" market they end up being pritty much the same.
The commertal software community says bad things about open source and open source says bad things of commertal software... In art the artists community seeks to go after artists who give art away. It's "unfair" to other artists when one artist gives his/her work away. If you lissen to the comments from the commertal software community you'll hear a re-occuring theam. Copying software is illegal... A radio ad is asking teachers and parents to punish children if they use ANY software they did not pay for. Even if that software is public domain, freeware, shareware or demoware.
In the other end... Open source would have you believe selling software is evil. Free artists seem to have a similer opinion of comertal artists.
Also expensive software develupment tools and unusual liccens agreements restrict if not prevent free software develupment. Simillerly it is difficult if not imposable for a free artist to have his/her work displayed at art shows.
Also commertal software develupers at times are treated shabbly by some VARs (selling copys of commertal software or worse giving same away). Commertal artists get simmiler treatment by art shows with volintears returnning art damaged after the show.
I'm sure other parellels can also be drawn... But I've more than made my point..
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Hay now...
Intel started a very long time ago by making the first memory chips in the early 1960s.
This saved HUGE amounts of money as memory chips were cheeper than data drums, faster and could store more information.
They also created ROMs, and Micro processors (CPUs on a chip)...
Starting with the 4004.. this was used in mainframes as cheap control logic for hardware. But it wasn't very powerful and users complainned of it's limits.
4040 (an extended programming language) 8008 (8 bits [Byte] instead of 4 bits [nibble])
8080... the chip used in the first kit computers.
Z80.. an 8080 clone made by Zilog... Intel was allready a larg company at the time tiny Zilog surfaced and Intel did NOTHING to stop them.
Intel could have easly rolled over on Zilog... At this time IBM was suing everyone for all kinds of crazy things.. a few years later MOS would be sued allmost into oblivion paving the way for MOS to be bought out by Commodore and turn a typowriter and programmable calculator company into a home computer company with it's own microchips.
During a time when it would be EASY and justifyable to be evil Intel took the high road. Commodore and Apple fought using the same tricks handed down by IBM. Thow Commodore and Apple didn't resort to pushing anyone off the market (Not something they could have done anyway) but buying out dying compays someone tried to crush so they don't have to rely on anyone outside who might pull something at a bad time.
Intel started "second sourcing" having compeating companys make and sell Intels chips so people will feel comfortable buying Intels chips knowing Intel can not pull anything on them.
Thats not an evil company....
Intel continued to make x/86 legacy chips becouse there is still a demand.. allbeit an artifical one created by Microsoft. Thats not Intels fault.
Also Intel was NOT copritive with Microsoft.
Microsoft HAS tried to create a happy sybotic relationship. Intels responce was to help Linux and add support to GCC for new Intel chips.
More recently... Intels founder died...
Intel is now runned by a soulless corprate hivemind mentality. Such things are netoreously evil.
But Intels evil is the kind that is self intrested.
Intel compeates like any other company. Some times it dose things we don't like.. But unlike the Borg we can whack it's cybernetic backside with a twig and while it dose no injury the mindless entity responds by learning not to do the bad thing. Like any advanced darwinistic AI.
Intel knows Linux is GOOD... Linux sells chips... Intel makes chips Linux sells chips.. Linux good... Intel make 3D chips Linux sell chips.. Linux sell ANY chips.. Linux better than Microsoft. If allience is forced Intel choises Linux... Microsoft knows...
If Intel make powerful RISC chips Linux sell chips.. Microsoft don't... If Intel make big blunder in chip designe Linux fix... See we don't need to recall it's fixed in the operating system.
Linux gooood
After donations from a environmental cleanup company...
How to care 101:
After donations from a larg apathetic corprate empire...
Now to not care 101:
I guess it'll all depend on who donated money to your university....
Or grade school...
Or kinder....
Ohhh look the legue for mindless obedience is finding the local K - 12 schools...
Now.. Mind you 100 years from now they won't care about Linux, iMacs, Intel or Slashdot....
But they... it's quite posable.. that they don't care about anything at all...
ever... again....
Some things shouldn't be sponsered....
Today:
:)
Shortly after Microsoft donates money to XYZ University the University staff addopt strange antiUnix policys and starts offering classes in Microsoft notepad...
Tomarow:
Shortly after VA/Andover/Slashdot donates money to XYZ University the University staff addopt antiWindows policys (Such as banning anything that may carry e-mail viruses or other such defects from the university network "to protect it from bombardment vea viruses" requiring all e-mail be RFC standard text so it may be readable and prohibiting any hardware or software not compatable/ported with/to Linux to be sold at the University book store).
and offering new classes (Such as how to get First Post)
as well as cancling a few (Such as how to use Microsoft Excell)
Now note above... This could happen WITH OUT VA/Andover/Slashdot asking ANYTHING of the University.. They just do it so that VA/Andover/Slashdot will be pleased with them. They'd do far worse than any Linux Zellot has ever advocated in the name of making Slashdot happy.
This probably explains all the strange pro-Microsoft policys at Universitys over the years. Maybe Napster should start making donations to Universitys...
Maybe Universitys who won't ban Napster are receaving funding from Real Networks, or some other company who dose a piratable protocall or dose MP3s... Maybe the Universitys who do ban Napster are receaving funding from the Music industry....
My mother showed me a list of collage classes I could take (my sister wants me back in collage to learn stuff I allready know or don't care about) it was a bunch of computer classes (Ahh my sister saw computer classes my mother didn't look) Microsoft... Microsoft... umm Microsoft... NT... CE... While I am reading this off I am padding with classes like "The fine art of MsNotePad, How to win MsSolintare, The reasons why Linux is evil". A few years ago I got a similer pamplet stuffed in my hands. Full of Mac and Unix classes. Poof.. all gone... all Microsoft Windows classes now... and most of it is garbage...
I allready know this stuff... "How to use MsOffice" Don't... use StarOffice or something smiler... I'm holding for KDE Office but I'm elcheapo and want free... but I'm not stupid... advocate for Star or other existing commertal office pacage for Linux... while downloading KDE office..
Anyway... I end up laughing when I see classes in supposidly user friendly technologys...
I guess this is why...
Now if there is a class in pirating MP3 music with Napster... I'm there...
You win the prize :)
Someone else points out that Bill Gates didn't say it (urben legend)
and Linus knew you needed more...
Also when Bill Gates made his comment programs were packed in 64k..
The 640k memory Limit on Dos was a hardware issue...
The Intel processor only addresses 1 meg in "native" mode... the 8088/86 only addressed 640k...
While a 286 can have much more ram than 640k it can only be accessed in protected mode...
So it is out of the reach of DOS.
And thats why MsDos can only access 640k of ram.. that and if it trys to access the full meg programs crash...
However.... during the same time period programmers were saying "I need 4 meg of ram all to myself" for mainframes... it was only a matter of time before they'd start demanding it on home computers....
But... no... we need 16 meg of VIDEO ram... and 512meg of system ram... 10 gig HD... 100 meg removable disk... and 128k BPS feed...
I mean... IBM expected us to dump the PC a long time ago...
Who knows...
Anyway at time it was rummored to have been said... it was true....
Bill Gates....
Linus knows you'll need more... He just didn't care about doing it in an alpha release
First (as it was allready said) open API =! open source... You simply document the interface not how the operating system works.
Microsoft is basicly saying it won't tell you how to write code for Windows. You must use our compiler or a blessed compiler (like Corel/Imprise C++.. now you see why Corel wants to give away the compiler)
Open source means yes the part of the source you give away must be free... otherwise it is liccensed source...
Even if it's not in a recompilable form (such as only part of the code) it's still free for someone to add the missing code and build a Windows clone around...
Microsoft is being anil
Microsoft wants Windows to be an operating system... part of that means documenting the API.
But Microsoft wants Windows to BE a software pacage where only Microsoft can sell software.
Think about this.. Dosn't Windows run just a bit to much like a software pacage? Everything bundled together?
I mean it makes no sence as an operating system but makes perfict sence as a software pacage.
Of course like any software pacage Microsoft wants to protect the API so no one else can write software for it.
But Windows isn't a closed develuper environment. Other companys can and do write software for Windows.
It is sold as an operating system and reguardless of how it is writen it is an operating system.
Microsoft wishes to be the only company in history to close off programming access. To limit who may write code for Windows.
IBM, Commodore and Apple went as far as to PAY companys like Microsoft to port software to the systems they make.
There isn't any reason for them to block programmers from writing code... No reason to not document the interface into the software, and hardware.
Commodore pacaged programming directions with the computers they sold.
Apples intro to computers was a programming tutorial.
It was all so importent to computer makers that they teach programming to as many users as posable and encurage free software develupment.
But Microsoft has discuraged free software develupment..
They simply don't want anyone writing code for Windows...
Microsoft has been saying "Go away" to software develupers for a long time... and this is just annother such insult...
I wish software develupers would lissen and stop writing code for a company who clearly dosn't want your code.
Write code for a platform that wants your code... code for Linux, MacOs and BeOS.
>First, this is the world that Microsoft created.
Where would we be if Microsoft didn't exist?
Lets examine this...
Did Microsoft create the Internet? Was it built on or with anything Microsoft created? Did Microsoft even have a hand it in? No...
Did Microsoft develup any of the technologys we use today? Or any technologys at all? No
The first kit computer might have had no Basic becouse no one would make it for them. Net impact... Maybe home computers of the 1970s to 1980s would have had something other that Basic built it... maybe... we arn't even shure of that..
IBM PC was originally going to have CP/M 86 preinstalled... instead it had Dos.. pritty much the same thing only cheapper... So the IBM PC might have been $50 cheapper... Let's see I couldn't afford a $20,000 PC but I could afford a $19,950 PC...
Oh and Windows... Microsoft Windows was the THIRD attempt... the FIRST attempt would be GEM OS... and GEM OS sucked...
Hack... Digital Research not only made the operating system Dos replace and Windows replaced but in all likelyhood Digital Research would have pulled the same stunts Microsoft pulled... given the chance... so the net impact...
If Microsoft never existsed....
I wouldn't have had such an easy argument explaining why the Digital Research Monopoly wasn't centeral to todays technology....
Micrsoft has done nothing... but chance the names and faces...
When I was a kid you could get pinball toy machines. Some keep score.
:) (there's a slogen for ya... now go build em)
They were extreamly simplifyed versions of the archade machines.
Throw in todays technology and you could build home pinball machines.
One of the big defects of the home video game market is convencing costummers to buy new game consoles. You must discontinue old units to keep the cash flow.
With pinball each game is imbeded in the hardware. They are insepreable.
Also you could nock them off for less than full game consoles (probably more than game cartrages).
Battery powered, cheapper and non-vertual.
Good for pulling game addicted timmy into the real world or just an easy way to give your kid hours of arcade enjoyment.
Plus a golden market from the pinball wizards of the 70's and 80's.
I think the market is ripe... It's a matter of time before someone leaps on it...
Pinball isn't a video game... it's a reality game
He is a political Eliza....
That speech is a basic political speech...
Just change things around for the occasion....
It could be an Eliza or just a silly person..
It is kinda funny.. pointing out the kind of nonsence that gets passed off as insightful..
And scary enough... it makes sence...
> When video games began to "invade" (pun intended),
:)
:)
Video games from outer space
I'm slightly younger than you... 30...
I saw video games come in.. Space invaders..
I allways saw video games and pinball as diffrent kinds of games.
Pinball isn't dead.. just not mass market...
I expect arcade style video games to fade into a nitch market as well over time. Maybe when I'm 60 and your 65
Video game machines usually use the same logic. They don't wear out that fast and when they do you can swap out the damaged board with a replacement (just move the roms).
One point is video game logic boards get tested.. Usally trial by fire I admit.. but the newer the machine the more tested the logic.
Upgrades are made only when they are needed.
Fix the damaged board and set it aside for the next breakdown. (It's cheaper to fix than to throw away)
You are right however. You never have 100% uptime. But thanks to swapout replacements you can get a video game machine up and running faster.
Also he is wrong about the heavy pinball machines.. It's the bulk...
It takes two people to carry a pinball machine becouse the weight is distributed over the whole machine. With a video game you place it on a dolly and carry it away...
But one person CAN move a video game machine off the floor... One strong person..
But.. video game machines are heavyer...
I personnally prefer the old Asteroids game.. the arcade machine not the home versions or the clones. The clones are nice.. But give me that raster display...
Sadly raster displays burn up a lot faster than normal CRT displays... havn't seen any raster machines made sence the 1980s
Ehh sorta
It's not the weight but the shape of the machines.
The pinball machines are lighter and bulkyer.. You can fit one video game machine on a dolly and carry it away.
On many video game systems there is a basic machine and the roms change.
It's usually pritty easy to swap out parts... No need to accually repair damaged parts when you can replace them. Any idiot can handle that...
Pinball machines must accually be repaired...
For the most part true..
However arcade machines are not up 100% of the time.
Video games don't usually take up floor space when dead becouse they can be removed with a hand cart (not easy but doable).
The parts that usually die are coin box, joystick and buttons.. Those parts can usually be swapped out with replacement parts.
Over time the screen burns out.. That can be replaced but it's not so simple...
Eventually the ROMs start to show some age... if you clone the roms in advance then it's a matter of keeping the logic intact.
The ROMs and logic however take a matter of 10 to 20 years... By that time the machine has allready become obsolete.
Compare this with pinball.. any sensor, bumper etc can go out. Lights burn out.. byond costummer abuse you have a heavy ball banging around slamming into every sensor... eventually something is going to break.
I personnaly never got into pinball...
I see the addiction... But to often I'd get the ball to bounce between two bumpers.. rack up a nice little score... only to find the sensors were dead... The score reads 0....
Also I dislike the bodymass environment of the archade (excluding one place.. but it was also had dart boards and a pool hall in the back... and I played darts).
(Stopped playing when all the dart boards went to safty darts..)
Yeah aint it a stinker :)
I get the vague feeling that was a troll, but it at least makes me feel better to be writing this. :) And ditto...
I KNOW it's a troll...
Do a Google search on Bluepoint... They make a chinese Linux destro.
He is basicly lying... It didn't take much to find the stock ticker BTW...
I think the AC is saying he dosn't believe your a lawyer or a graduate from Harverd.
And I strongly agree with his position...
You are to good a lier to be a lawyer...
That and you curse a lot... not a very.. umm profesional addatude...
I've seen some pathetic legal experts but you sir take the cake...
This is incase anyone reading at mod -1 accually takes you sereously instead of seeing you for the outragous lier that you are.
Hello legal type person allow me to give you my own history....
Age 15 started busness ran same until age 23. Sence then I ran for office (and lost)...
In short I have a lot of experence in BS.
Everyone lives within a community...
It's just a part of being a part of socity.
Linux Weekly News - "For a lot of people who watch the Linux business community Bluepoint came, well, out of the blue. What is this company, and how did it manage to go public so quietly?"
First note... even Bluepoint is part of a community. They are a new company. Moreover they are not a US firm but in fact in China. The objective of the company seems to be to introduce it's version of Linux to Chiniese busnesses. Thats just my point of view. This company could also be just annother "Linux One".
Bluepoint isn't the first company to have the name Linux. For example VA Linux Systems. Who own Andover.. who own Slashdot... And do not own Linux.
At least your living up to the lawyer stereotype. Thats kinda sad too becouse most lawyers are honnest people. You however seem to sling the BS better than any politician....
Being a part of a community is no more illegal than breathing air.
Your not stupid... your simply full of it.
In fact I am not telling you ANYTHING you don't allready know...
Excluding the fact that I also know...
There has been some FUD going around about how you can not sue Linux.
It is true.... and FUD...
Basicly.. you can not sue Linux or anyone who develups Linux for a defect in Linux due to the GPL. The GPL contains a shrinkwrap liccens that says you can not sue for defects in Linux.
Now here is the FUD part...
You can not sue Microsoft eather... Same reason...
Most (if not all) develupers have a shrinkwrap liccens that says you may not sue for software defects.
Not Sendmail not RedHat, Not Microsoft and not Sun Microsystems.
If a bug happends it's totally your problem.... no matter what your using...
In short... Real world... the lawyers have allready resolved this problem...
Based on comments from Bill Gates and from an MP3 of a radio ad...
Microsofts idea of education on software piracy is to tell people copying sofware (any software) is theft and illegal.
There is NO effort made to seprate free software from commertal software... All software is commertal therefor copying is theft..
I'm all for education... but not for lying...
I say next week we send Kurt e-mail informming him that Rob Malda on Geeks In Space each week asks us to e-mail him just to annoy him.
I think he'll be better for the knowladge...
I also recomend using 'leet speak or other mutations to thwart his procmail filters...
So it's an ineffective attempt...
Microsoft dosn't really know much of anything about Linux anyway...
Picture from StarTrek III The Search for Spock.
When the Exel.. whatever... the Transwarp driven prototype Scotty sabotoged...
Picture the sean where the transwarp drive is enganged to go after the Enterprise....
"Transwarp drive in 5.. 4... 3... 2... 1..."
"Good mornning Capten"
open service pannel to find Microsoft Windows logo....
I agree totally....
In a world where all software is free.. there is no software theft
Unless you built your PC from ground up you bought Windows.
... contact Microsofts piracy department and complain.. becouse obveously if you never get the media.. the software was stolen...
The only piracy is in people stealing the next version up... and even that is minimal...
So where is the piracy?
I smell dinial..
I think Microsoft is bodycounting..
Meaning they believe EVERY PC runs Windows... every PC that is in use that dosn't account for a sale must therefor have stolen Windows.
This might have made sence back when MsDos was all there was for PCs.. but even then CP/M-86 did exist so there never was a time when all PCs ran Dos. and cerenly no time when all PCs run Windows.
Microsoft is also piracy paranoid. It did hurt them rather badly in the start. It dosn't justify what they have done but it dose explain it.
In the end I think Microsoft is looking at ex-Windows users or users who never did use Windows and count them as having stolen the latest version of Windows.
I personnaly recomend every user who dose not receave a CD
Microsoft will love that.....
One parellel is the software community and the art community.
As one profesional programmer put it.. programmers are artists...
Right now programming is treated as a comodity not at artform where as paintings and sculptures are treated as pure art. The reality being they are all comoditys and art.
Byond the "comodity" vs "art" market they end up being pritty much the same.
The commertal software community says bad things about open source and open source says bad things of commertal software...
In art the artists community seeks to go after artists who give art away. It's "unfair" to other artists when one artist gives his/her work away.
If you lissen to the comments from the commertal software community you'll hear a re-occuring theam. Copying software is illegal... A radio ad is asking teachers and parents to punish children if they use ANY software they did not pay for. Even if that software is public domain, freeware, shareware or demoware.
In the other end... Open source would have you believe selling software is evil. Free artists seem to have a similer opinion of comertal artists.
Also expensive software develupment tools and unusual liccens agreements restrict if not prevent free software develupment.
Simillerly it is difficult if not imposable for a free artist to have his/her work displayed at art shows.
Also commertal software develupers at times are treated shabbly by some VARs (selling copys of commertal software or worse giving same away). Commertal artists get simmiler treatment by art shows with volintears returnning art damaged after the show.
I'm sure other parellels can also be drawn... But I've more than made my point..