You just have to consider the target audience. The fact of the matter is, that just now, people who use Gnutella are almost all there to get copyrighted materials without paying for them.
I'm not judging that.
But these same people will almost always have a level of technical expertise which will enable them to get the crack as well. Sightsound should aim more at the website distribution model they have just now, which is targeted at a different audience. The Gnutella idea is just as silly as setting up an iRC fserve, or putting it on some l33t ftp.
Also, what's to stop people putting the crack (for there is no doubt in my mind that there WILL be one) on Gnutella with the same or similar filename as the movie, so users searching for the movie will get the crack in the search results at the same time? At the end of the day, I do like this endorsement of Gnutella as a legitimate distribution medium, but it's just not going to work!
Anyone actually know how many they sold? Certainly, it's not enough, and consdering that this is Sega's last chance, they're going to need to do something better than try and sell it all on again.
...and I'm a little ashamed to say it, but I truly get more enjoyment out of the electronic versions. There's something about a real pinball table that irritates me - it's lack of precision, unpredictability, and even flaws. Not to mention the requirement to pour in hundreds of pounds;-)
No doubt these same irritations are exactly what veteran players of real tables like so much - but for some reason, I enjoy the predictable and understandable universe of the software version, where I know the entirety of what's going on. Is this a bad thing? Possibly. But it's what I am.
Sheesh - I haven't been this deep since... hmmm... no, never mind;-)
One of the problems is of course that with an internally developed project, there will be many eccentricities, code that depends on other proprietry code, and perhaps even sensitive data within the project as a whole. If the company is to open source a project, it will probably have to remove these, and this could turn into quite a lot of work. Which would then be judged too costly.
We're talking here about wholesale, contract prices. Once the RAM reaches the user, it's gonna be a heck of a lot more expensive. My guess is that the price hike is gonna be much more than that, due to extortionate markup along the way. What's the deal with 6 dollars for 64mb, anyway? Buy.com is offering it for $57.95, so somewhere along the way, some whacking great profit is being made.
Here in the UK, we have WAP already, and despite the industry's best efforts to prove the contrary, it's damn boring. Ok, great, I can surf "webpages" for 5 pence a minute (~ 8 cents) in 96x96 pixel resolution. Now what.
Incidentally, if you have a cellphone which can send SMS messages, check out Excell which converts SMS to email for free (150 character limit, though). Also, I think Quios convert email to SMS for free, although I can't ever seem to get it working properly;-) For UK users, email to SMS is free and (semi) reliable at Genie.
Lots more gory info at MobilServer, which seems to be written in Czech sometimes *frown*
Let's try to keep the postings here to a certain standard of maturity. We must appear (because we ARE) to be Microsoft's peers, not Microsoft's unruly next door neighbours' children. If this ever reaches court (who knows, let's hope not), and Microsoft can show 400 postings which say "fuCk yOU mICRo$oft", it won't help too much. Keep calm, keep thinking.
Well, I don't think I'll be downloading it, and it looks like nobody else has yet, either... because IMDB has a page for it, but with no reviews and no ratings yet (as of 14.13 BST).
I don't think that even Microsoft would make a serious attempt to enforce the patent - plus, proving prior use on apt, rpm, whatever, which would be ever so easy, renders Microsoft's patent useless anyway.
The fact still remains that this particular project is interesting to the majority of the slashdot readership, so whether it's a commercial enterprise or not, it's still interesting to hear about. OK, so the guy gets some info from us - I don't care *shrug*
Linux is not ready for the desktop (we should do a poll, perhaps?).
I think the principal reason is that despite its great price, ethic, and even now its expanding range of available software titles... it's still a different interface. MS Windows is just the default way that a computer works, to the most of the computer using population. Until X can emulate that (and then progressively lead away from that), Linux will never hit the desktop in a big way.
Where are the actual computers located for these people? I'm assuming that they haven't laid in some fancy T3s into these remote places just to do DNS...
Same question goes for all these small domains (.tv,.nu, etc).
how can you patent for x=1 to x=20, y=x^2 (yep, as far as I can see that's an algorithm).
How?! (see, question and exclamation, must be confused...)
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Not to sound religiously aetheist....
the bible (and indeed many/all religious texts) weave fact into fiction and back around again. Lunar eclipses aren't rare. Probably someone knew about blood red eclipses and thought it sounded pretty good thrown in in the religious sense.
Read Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. That's my bible:-)
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You just have to consider the target audience. The fact of the matter is, that just now, people who use Gnutella are almost all there to get copyrighted materials without paying for them.
I'm not judging that.
But these same people will almost always have a level of technical expertise which will enable them to get the crack as well. Sightsound should aim more at the website distribution model they have just now, which is targeted at a different audience. The Gnutella idea is just as silly as setting up an iRC fserve, or putting it on some l33t ftp.
Also, what's to stop people putting the crack (for there is no doubt in my mind that there WILL be one) on Gnutella with the same or similar filename as the movie, so users searching for the movie will get the crack in the search results at the same time? At the end of the day, I do like this endorsement of Gnutella as a legitimate distribution medium, but it's just not going to work!
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Anyone actually know how many they sold? Certainly, it's not enough, and consdering that this is Sega's last chance, they're going to need to do something better than try and sell it all on again.
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...and I'm a little ashamed to say it, but I truly get more enjoyment out of the electronic versions. There's something about a real pinball table that irritates me - it's lack of precision, unpredictability, and even flaws. Not to mention the requirement to pour in hundreds of pounds ;-)
;-)
No doubt these same irritations are exactly what veteran players of real tables like so much - but for some reason, I enjoy the predictable and understandable universe of the software version, where I know the entirety of what's going on. Is this a bad thing? Possibly. But it's what I am.
Sheesh - I haven't been this deep since... hmmm... no, never mind
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Who moderated this to funny? It's for real! doh :-)
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Did anyone see that someone posted the incomplete source to COMMAND.COM way back?
http://slashdot.org/co mments.pl?sid=00/06/08/0647212&cid=574.
Have to love this bit:
; REV 1.50
; Some code for new 2.0 DOS, sort of HACKey. Not enough time to
; do it right.
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I think everybody, without exception, will take issue with the statement that:
Apple is currently the only company other than Windows, Inc. with a viable consumer operating system
OK, Linux isn't 100% user friendly to people weened on Windows. But has anyone heard of X over at Infoasis? Evidently not.
All the same, I must say it'd tickle my fancy to be able to run MacOS on my lil AMD chip.
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One of the problems is of course that with an internally developed project, there will be many eccentricities, code that depends on other proprietry code, and perhaps even sensitive data within the project as a whole. If the company is to open source a project, it will probably have to remove these, and this could turn into quite a lot of work. Which would then be judged too costly.
:-)
Just another obstacle...
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We're talking here about wholesale, contract prices. Once the RAM reaches the user, it's gonna be a heck of a lot more expensive. My guess is that the price hike is gonna be much more than that, due to extortionate markup along the way. What's the deal with 6 dollars for 64mb, anyway? Buy.com is offering it for $57.95, so somewhere along the way, some whacking great profit is being made.
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Go for WAP, and hence WML files. They're easy, industry standard *crosses fingers*, and fun(tm).
Much stricter standards than HTML though. But maybe that's a good thing.
WML FAQ here
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Here in the UK, we have WAP already, and despite the industry's best efforts to prove the contrary, it's damn boring. Ok, great, I can surf "webpages" for 5 pence a minute (~ 8 cents) in 96x96 pixel resolution. Now what.
;-) For UK users, email to SMS is free and (semi) reliable at Genie.
Incidentally, if you have a cellphone which can send SMS messages, check out Excell which converts SMS to email for free (150 character limit, though). Also, I think Quios convert email to SMS for free, although I can't ever seem to get it working properly
Lots more gory info at MobilServer, which seems to be written in Czech sometimes *frown*
Ok, enough advertising
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Check out http://slashdot.org/articles/00/ 01/19/1452243.shtml, (Motorola's methanol batteries), and http://slashdot.org/articles/98 /12/31/1414239.shtml (same kinda article).
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I think that at the time, it was far from clear that the USA was "clearly the superior superpower". Hindsight is 20:20.
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Option 1:
Option 2: Nuke the moon!!!
Such an easy decision.
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Let's try to keep the postings here to a certain standard of maturity. We must appear (because we ARE) to be Microsoft's peers, not Microsoft's unruly next door neighbours' children. If this ever reaches court (who knows, let's hope not), and Microsoft can show 400 postings which say "fuCk yOU mICRo$oft", it won't help too much. Keep calm, keep thinking.
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Random made up statistic to prove point:
Let's say they looked at 10 million lines of code. Well, 0.139% is 13900 lines of code. Not insignificant.
Duh.
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Looks like a resounding victory for the FSF. But respect to Sun, who, despite being a big ole commercial company, still have managed a huge input.
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Well, I don't think I'll be downloading it, and it looks like nobody else has yet, either... because IMDB has a page for it, but with no reviews and no ratings yet (as of 14.13 BST).
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0239860
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I don't think that even Microsoft would make a serious attempt to enforce the patent - plus, proving prior use on apt, rpm, whatever, which would be ever so easy, renders Microsoft's patent useless anyway.
Then, again, why did they register it? Weird.
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The fact still remains that this particular project is interesting to the majority of the slashdot readership, so whether it's a commercial enterprise or not, it's still interesting to hear about. OK, so the guy gets some info from us - I don't care *shrug*
Take it easy!
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Linux is not ready for the desktop (we should do a poll, perhaps?).
I think the principal reason is that despite its great price, ethic, and even now its expanding range of available software titles... it's still a different interface. MS Windows is just the default way that a computer works, to the most of the computer using population. Until X can emulate that (and then progressively lead away from that), Linux will never hit the desktop in a big way.
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Also a 5 byte program to reboot the computer:
N BOOT.COM
A 0100
jmp f000:fff0
<carriage return>
RCX
5
W
Q
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Where are the actual computers located for these people? I'm assuming that they haven't laid in some fancy T3s into these remote places just to do DNS...
.nu, etc).
Same question goes for all these small domains (.tv,
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...at all, if you're running Netscape 4.08 on Solaris. Page fails to render at all. Gotta love it.
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As a Brit, I ask you...
how can you patent for x=1 to x=20, y=x^2 (yep, as far as I can see that's an algorithm).
How?! (see, question and exclamation, must be confused...)
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Not to sound religiously aetheist....
:-)
the bible (and indeed many/all religious texts) weave fact into fiction and back around again. Lunar eclipses aren't rare. Probably someone knew about blood red eclipses and thought it sounded pretty good thrown in in the religious sense.
Read Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. That's my bible
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