Yes, that's *one* of the things apt does. Configured properly (it's configured properly by default, BTW) it will also install source packages which you can configure however you desire. It provides the benefit of allowing you to build from source only the packages you deem necissary to reconfigure so you don't waste half your life compiling. Very handy. Next time you're on a debian system, try the 'apt-get source' command and it's various options.
It's a multiplayer game... so just have everyone bring their GBAs when they come over to play. I have a feeling that that's what Nintendo and Square are thinking, rather than having one person buy 4 GBAs so that people can come over and play on them. I think it'll work well enough within my circle of friends, since most of them have GBAs, but probably not for everyone.
Even still, I do plan on getting an extra GBA just in case (besides, my girlfriend wants one of her own).
It makes sense to me too. I know lots of people with GBAs, but few with Cubes. I know that there'll be people over playing this game on my Cube with their own GBA. I also used the "My girlfriend wants one" excuse to pick up a second GBA for this game. I even admitted to my ulterior motive. She didn't care. She just wanted to be able to play Golden Sun without having to compete for time on the system with me.
I just wish there was a wireless link for the GBAs. I finally got rid of the controller wires by getting Wavebirds, and now I'm going to have link cables stretching across the room. How hard can it be to make a transmitter module. It could use existing Wavebird recievers to connect to a Cube, and they could talk to each other directly.
So, what you're saying is that we should halt the progress of technology because it may coause people to have to find new jobs? There's a whole english word speciffically for people like you: luddite.
These people will now be avaliable to do other things. Just because their current jobs are gone doesn't mean that they won't be employed ever again.
So what happens when a terrorist with a bomb explodes the plane over a city as it is landing or taking off.
Short answer: Everybody on the plane dies.
Better question: Why would somebody do that? The amount of destruction is fairly low compared to other, easier things a terrorist can do (like setting the same bomb off in a subway station or something). That means that it's less likely sombody will do that than something else. Is it really worth billions of dollars and tons of wasted time of every traveler just to make the terrorist jump through a few extra hoops before beating the system anyway?
it says that the user has to be able to adjust the rate of scrolling, which is not a terribly necesary feature imo.
It doesn't say how though... It could be as simple as pushing the "down" button faster or more slowly. That's pretty useful when you can only scroll one item at a time.
This patent is and interface patent on an interface that allows you to scroll through a list of videos one item at a time. You could make a system that didn't violate it by only displaying one video item at a time in a page style instead of list style, or by displaying a multiple item list but change the entire list on a button press instead of scrolling one at a time, which is arguably more useful anyway. This patent is pretty narrow as to the type of interface it covers. Congratualtions Microsoft, you have exclusive rights to an annoying interface.
Somebody should patent exactly this, but add a claim for a "page down" feature. Microsoft will be forced to cross license that patent in order to implement this one in a user-pleasing fashion.
Aside from the fact that your math is a little off (0.326%, not 0.00326%), it seems to me that what you're saying is that Apple is doing better than most companies that introduced servers in the last few years. There are hundreds of companies that sell low to mid range 1U servers, and most of them would love to have a $14 million dollar quarter immediatly after product launch. A third of a percent of a multi-billion dollar market is not too shabby, especially compared to none of that market.
It's not market share or revenue that keeps you in business, it's profit. If you have enough market share and revenue to make a profit you're successful. I know it hurts you to think of Apple that way, but that's how it works.
we get atrocities like American Idol and Joe Millionaire
You know, they make shows for many types of viewers. You can't expect *all* the shows to be made for your tastes. At least nobody's forcing you to actually watch Joe Millionaire. For now at least...
Either way, it's yet another reason to buy a TiVo instead of building your own (yes, I wrote that correctly). If you're using a TiVo companies will be paying attention to what you watch and potentially using the info to determine what to put on in the future. Build your own and they won't.
It has always been very easy to get replacement parts for older NES and SNES systems to keep them in full working order dispite thousands of hours of play time and countles cartridge removals and insertions... until now. I suspect that with Nintendo no longer needing parts to build new systems, the manufacture of the parts will stop too. It can't hurt to order a few extra cartridge slots and other components now in case you need them in the future and they are no longer available.
I just found Postal 2 to have load times far far longer than any other game I'd played of late, and my own impatience forced me to quit early.
You had to buy it to find out there were bad load times. The publisher doesn't care if you ever play the game, only that they get your money. As far as they're concerned you've cast your vote in the "loved it" column.
Since there are no stores left that take returns on software, I'm surprised they even bother trying to make good games anymore. All they really need to do is make a really cool box and buy some reviewers and go back to using the (now free) original quake engine.
If a DVD publisher sells you a DVD with the promise you can play it for your own personal use, with the provisions that you not gain financially by it and that you only play it on previously approved devices, that's fine.
That would be fine except that it doesn't say anywhere on the package or in the store that the disc is only for use in approved devices. They do say it's only for use in particular regions, but that's hardly the same thing. You can't agree to terms that are not presented, no matter how many dollars are paid in the transaction.
This is completely ignoring the fact that paying money for a product in no way implies contractual obligations. Not all transactions are contracts, and terms typically are not implied, they must be stated.
One last thing. This isn't a lawsuit about contract violation, it's about trade secret law. Even if your contract arguments were the whole story, on trade secret grounds this case should be laughed out of court.
Given that 3dRealms certainly has to be doing something and given that they have been working on DNF with an Unreal engine since before Half-Life had shipped, they may be just as distant from their foundation as Valve is.
The big secret is that Duke Nukem Forever is going to be cel shaded.
I've had a TiVo for four years now, and two years ago I switched from cable to DirecTV (I moved out of digital cable range and was tired of paying >$50/month). Using the S-Video connector on the DirectTV reciever and encoding with the "medium" setting looks as good as straight analog cable did, and with the digital cable system I had, the local networks were all still analog anyway.
Overall, I'd have to say that even with lossy compression, using the TiVo as a filter results in higher quality output on the screen, even if the video quality is slightly degraded. FOr me it's the difference between enjoying a few good shows every evening and not being able to stand to watch...
Your calculations certainly don't take transmission losses into account, and there are many places in the US where there will never be a wind farm (and don't even get me started about building high tension power distribution lines near people's property). They've been trying to build a wind farm here in Massachusetts for three years and the environmentalists won't allow it. Go figure.
I was listening to NPR the other day, and there was an interview discussing the shortcomings of the democratic party in recent elections and how they should fix it to get more votes. He said the party lacked deciceveness and their traditional themes. He said something very close to "Go out there and do some traditional libral things.. Get out there and oppose something.". I wish I could remember who it was, and that there were non-audio transcripts availble quickly online so I could get it exactly right but I think that sums things up nicely for this discussion. It doesn't matter how you generate power, as long as it's not nuclear, and as long as you do it somewhere else. If it's not a hazzard it's an eye-sore, and if it's not an eye-sore someone will oppose it for the sake of opposing something.
Ditto with everyone else in tech, except the tech writers.
Who, it's worth mentioning, probably don't use Microsoft applications to write their documentation.
Right now they have licenses for everyone, but when it comes time to "upgrade" from Office2k I'm sure they'll go along with, if not insist that, the techs run Open Office.
When the time comes they won't have that choice. They'll have to buy a license for everyone or not get the mega discounts that Microsoft offers. They could go out and spend $300+ dollars a copy at retail but it would probably cost almost as much as a site license, and they'd get audited by the BSA for acting like the rest of the sheep. It'll be Open Office for all, or for none.
Or maybe I'm wrong and just pissed because I work at a Linux company, and we own more windows licenses than computers, and we don't even run windows.
It has interesting implications for independent contractors who write toolkits they use for all their projects.
Always request specific language in your employment contract to deal with this. I've never had trouble getting a company that was trying to hire me to exempt any 'utility' code that I brought in with me or enhanced while I was working there from the copyright assignment clause. They won't do it if you don't ask though.
The problem is that every single user who has problems goes and bitches repeatedly in multiple online forums about it, and people who enjoy it don't say anything.
How will advocates convince home users (a large chunk of that 95%)
Home users are not the issue here (and not the largest part of the 95% anyways). Businesses that may have, internally, 99% of their hardware running windows and 1% and growing running something else may choose another manufacturer's product because it supports 100% of thir machines. All you need to loose is one big sale and it would have been worthwhile to pay a developer a few thousand dollars to write a Linux driver. Are you saying companies should give up on trying to maximize profits, and start shooting for 95% instead?
As far as the users of the machine are concerned, it does keep it accurate. All the processes on the system are stopped. No running processes == not up from the user's point of view.
You should read that page more closely. These switches don't provide power over ethernet, they use it. They still require the expensive upstream switch unless you want a power supply for your wall jack.
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Nope, Apt installs binaries.
Yes, that's *one* of the things apt does. Configured properly (it's configured properly by default, BTW) it will also install source packages which you can configure however you desire. It provides the benefit of allowing you to build from source only the packages you deem necissary to reconfigure so you don't waste half your life compiling. Very handy. Next time you're on a debian system, try the 'apt-get source' command and it's various options.
It's a multiplayer game ... so just have everyone bring their GBAs when they come over to play. I have a feeling that that's what Nintendo and Square are thinking, rather than having one person buy 4 GBAs so that people can come over and play on them. I think it'll work well enough within my circle of friends, since most of them have GBAs, but probably not for everyone.
Even still, I do plan on getting an extra GBA just in case (besides, my girlfriend wants one of her own).
It makes sense to me too. I know lots of people with GBAs, but few with Cubes. I know that there'll be people over playing this game on my Cube with their own GBA. I also used the "My girlfriend wants one" excuse to pick up a second GBA for this game. I even admitted to my ulterior motive. She didn't care. She just wanted to be able to play Golden Sun without having to compete for time on the system with me.
I just wish there was a wireless link for the GBAs. I finally got rid of the controller wires by getting Wavebirds, and now I'm going to have link cables stretching across the room. How hard can it be to make a transmitter module. It could use existing Wavebird recievers to connect to a Cube, and they could talk to each other directly.
So, what you're saying is that we should halt the progress of technology because it may coause people to have to find new jobs? There's a whole english word speciffically for people like you: luddite.
These people will now be avaliable to do other things. Just because their current jobs are gone doesn't mean that they won't be employed ever again.
So what happens when a terrorist with a bomb explodes the plane over a city as it is landing or taking off.
Short answer: Everybody on the plane dies.
Better question: Why would somebody do that? The amount of destruction is fairly low compared to other, easier things a terrorist can do (like setting the same bomb off in a subway station or something). That means that it's less likely sombody will do that than something else. Is it really worth billions of dollars and tons of wasted time of every traveler just to make the terrorist jump through a few extra hoops before beating the system anyway?
it says that the user has to be able to adjust the rate of scrolling, which is not a terribly necesary feature imo.
It doesn't say how though... It could be as simple as pushing the "down" button faster or more slowly. That's pretty useful when you can only scroll one item at a time.
This patent is and interface patent on an interface that allows you to scroll through a list of videos one item at a time. You could make a system that didn't violate it by only displaying one video item at a time in a page style instead of list style, or by displaying a multiple item list but change the entire list on a button press instead of scrolling one at a time, which is arguably more useful anyway. This patent is pretty narrow as to the type of interface it covers. Congratualtions Microsoft, you have exclusive rights to an annoying interface.
Somebody should patent exactly this, but add a claim for a "page down" feature. Microsoft will be forced to cross license that patent in order to implement this one in a user-pleasing fashion.
Aside from the fact that your math is a little off (0.326%, not 0.00326%), it seems to me that what you're saying is that Apple is doing better than most companies that introduced servers in the last few years. There are hundreds of companies that sell low to mid range 1U servers, and most of them would love to have a $14 million dollar quarter immediatly after product launch. A third of a percent of a multi-billion dollar market is not too shabby, especially compared to none of that market.
It's not market share or revenue that keeps you in business, it's profit. If you have enough market share and revenue to make a profit you're successful. I know it hurts you to think of Apple that way, but that's how it works.
Yeah, I used to buy PC games there...
They don't take returns anymore. They changed their policy a few weeks ago.
we get atrocities like American Idol and Joe Millionaire
You know, they make shows for many types of viewers. You can't expect *all* the shows to be made for your tastes. At least nobody's forcing you to actually watch Joe Millionaire. For now at least...
I thought they had planned to do this all along.
Either way, it's yet another reason to buy a TiVo instead of building your own (yes, I wrote that correctly). If you're using a TiVo companies will be paying attention to what you watch and potentially using the info to determine what to put on in the future. Build your own and they won't.
Actually quite a few stores - like GAME - take games back for a full refund
Can you post a link? I've never heard of that store and I don't know if there are any in my area.
It has always been very easy to get replacement parts for older NES and SNES systems to keep them in full working order dispite thousands of hours of play time and countles cartridge removals and insertions... until now. I suspect that with Nintendo no longer needing parts to build new systems, the manufacture of the parts will stop too. It can't hurt to order a few extra cartridge slots and other components now in case you need them in the future and they are no longer available.
I just found Postal 2 to have load times far far longer than any other game I'd played of late, and my own impatience forced me to quit early.
You had to buy it to find out there were bad load times. The publisher doesn't care if you ever play the game, only that they get your money. As far as they're concerned you've cast your vote in the "loved it" column.
Since there are no stores left that take returns on software, I'm surprised they even bother trying to make good games anymore. All they really need to do is make a really cool box and buy some reviewers and go back to using the (now free) original quake engine.
If a DVD publisher sells you a DVD with the promise you can play it for your own personal use, with the provisions that you not gain financially by it and that you only play it on previously approved devices, that's fine.
That would be fine except that it doesn't say anywhere on the package or in the store that the disc is only for use in approved devices. They do say it's only for use in particular regions, but that's hardly the same thing. You can't agree to terms that are not presented, no matter how many dollars are paid in the transaction.
This is completely ignoring the fact that paying money for a product in no way implies contractual obligations. Not all transactions are contracts, and terms typically are not implied, they must be stated.
One last thing. This isn't a lawsuit about contract violation, it's about trade secret law. Even if your contract arguments were the whole story, on trade secret grounds this case should be laughed out of court.
Given that 3dRealms certainly has to be doing something and given that they have been working on DNF with an Unreal engine since before Half-Life had shipped, they may be just as distant from their foundation as Valve is.
The big secret is that Duke Nukem Forever is going to be cel shaded.
I've had a TiVo for four years now, and two years ago I switched from cable to DirecTV (I moved out of digital cable range and was tired of paying >$50/month). Using the S-Video connector on the DirectTV reciever and encoding with the "medium" setting looks as good as straight analog cable did, and with the digital cable system I had, the local networks were all still analog anyway.
Overall, I'd have to say that even with lossy compression, using the TiVo as a filter results in higher quality output on the screen, even if the video quality is slightly degraded. FOr me it's the difference between enjoying a few good shows every evening and not being able to stand to watch...
Your calculations certainly don't take transmission losses into account, and there are many places in the US where there will never be a wind farm (and don't even get me started about building high tension power distribution lines near people's property). They've been trying to build a wind farm here in Massachusetts for three years and the environmentalists won't allow it. Go figure.
I was listening to NPR the other day, and there was an interview discussing the shortcomings of the democratic party in recent elections and how they should fix it to get more votes. He said the party lacked deciceveness and their traditional themes. He said something very close to "Go out there and do some traditional libral things.. Get out there and oppose something.". I wish I could remember who it was, and that there were non-audio transcripts availble quickly online so I could get it exactly right but I think that sums things up nicely for this discussion. It doesn't matter how you generate power, as long as it's not nuclear, and as long as you do it somewhere else. If it's not a hazzard it's an eye-sore, and if it's not an eye-sore someone will oppose it for the sake of opposing something.
Ditto with everyone else in tech, except the tech writers.
Who, it's worth mentioning, probably don't use Microsoft applications to write their documentation.
Right now they have licenses for everyone, but when it comes time to "upgrade" from Office2k I'm sure they'll go along with, if not insist that, the techs run Open Office.
When the time comes they won't have that choice. They'll have to buy a license for everyone or not get the mega discounts that Microsoft offers. They could go out and spend $300+ dollars a copy at retail but it would probably cost almost as much as a site license, and they'd get audited by the BSA for acting like the rest of the sheep. It'll be Open Office for all, or for none.
Or maybe I'm wrong and just pissed because I work at a Linux company, and we own more windows licenses than computers, and we don't even run windows.
It has interesting implications for independent contractors who write toolkits they use for all their projects.
Always request specific language in your employment contract to deal with this. I've never had trouble getting a company that was trying to hire me to exempt any 'utility' code that I brought in with me or enhanced while I was working there from the copyright assignment clause. They won't do it if you don't ask though.
The problem is that every single user who has problems goes and bitches repeatedly in multiple online forums about it, and people who enjoy it don't say anything.
I'll stop using my phone and headset if you stop driving your kids around.
How will advocates convince home users (a large chunk of that 95%)
Home users are not the issue here (and not the largest part of the 95% anyways). Businesses that may have, internally, 99% of their hardware running windows and 1% and growing running something else may choose another manufacturer's product because it supports 100% of thir machines. All you need to loose is one big sale and it would have been worthwhile to pay a developer a few thousand dollars to write a Linux driver. Are you saying companies should give up on trying to maximize profits, and start shooting for 95% instead?
If that 95% wants 100% interoperability, failure to support the other 5% can be costly.
As far as the users of the machine are concerned, it does keep it accurate. All the processes on the system are stopped. No running processes == not up from the user's point of view.
You should read that page more closely. These switches don't provide power over ethernet, they use it. They still require the expensive upstream switch unless you want a power supply for your wall jack.