This may be redundant, but I thought I should mention it anyway: does anyone else think this is more of the deal MS formed with Apple years ago?
-MS gives Apple money to stay in the game -Apple sets up MS Explorer as the default browser, and now ships MS Explorer exclusively in Mac OS X -MS puts in Firewire support, which Apple primarily developed and has on nearly all their hardware
Given the pattern, Apple probably owes MS something next. Maybe touting Office on their web site?
I'm still waiting for a version of Mac OS X that can run on Intel machines.:) Really pretty system and I sorta like it.
Except for the fact that it used a sentance right out of the commercials that Mastercard apparently has the rights to.
I would think using the word "Mastercard" would be considered fair use, while saying a phrase like "There are some things that money can't buy. For everything else there's Mastercard" would be blatant copyright infringement.
I've seen other parodies on this theme (the one with the Flyers fan beating up the Devils fan was funny, even though I'm a Devils fan) but they always omit the last sentance. So it ends "Watching a Devils fan get beat: priceless".
I would think that Mastercard is "just being forced to protect its copyright" (as so many Slashdotters seem to argue when an open source web site gets socked). Plus, the subject matter wasn't exactly what I'd call "decent", but that's another, subjective discussion for later.
I don't see his homepage as "shrugging off" anything. Clearly he was caused a great injustice, but his universal declarations to not trust one's employer and "no employer is nice" is bullshit. I'm working for one on the side right now, as I finish college.
You have to take a lot of what he said with a grain of salt. This guy was screwed. It would be paranoia to say everyone with an interest in writing their own software would be equally as screwed.
Out of curiousity (and as a fellow writer coming out of college), why do these online "experiments" produce episodic stories at all? Why not release the whole story in one shot?
One of the strongest facets to the Gutenberg project, in my mind, was that you could read all of Ulysses by gophering to the site, in one sitting.
Unless there's real monitary reasons, I'd be much more willing to release whole stories instead of episodes.
Does anyone find it ironic that the same "landgrab" in 1998-1998 Roblimo is quick to retort as being viable in the future, was the one that brought Slashdot into being?
How is this different from the current system where they have copies of your car keys' configurations at the dealership, and all you have to do is call them up to order new ones. To me, this is entirely the same.
Of course, your '85 probably has that nice feature of sticking a coat hanger down the side of the window to unlock it too.
I could care less. If you don't like it (or want to venture into conspiracy theories) don't use Microsoft products. Plain and simple.
You'll have to watch yourself if you leave the house when.NET starts growing, but it can be done.
OR, better yet, help produce open source SOAP solutions for FreeBSD/Linux/name your OS. Fight the power if you feel like it.
Myself, I honestly don't care. If it's not Microsoft it'll be someone else, and I'm not like most nerds who cower in the corner of their dim apartments, fearing social interaction and a "violation" of some uber-innate privacy. I also happen to like and use a few Microsoft products regularly (Notably IE and Win2K. I use StarOffice for word processing, g++ and the development tools in Linux). To each his own.
I honestly don't care if it pushs said pixels "better", I'm like most people: if it ain't going faster than what I've got for what I'm playing, I ain't going to buy it.
It's like owning a Porche which you regularly drive above 90 mph, and some salesman offering you a Toyota Camera that can reach that speed, burning class cleaner but taking a longer rating. "It burns fuel better." I don't care if it burns fuel better! I'm interested in speed.
For now I have Voodoo 3500 that has performed more than admirably, even with its 16MB of RAM and inability to render 32-bit 3D graphics. I don't push my games past 800x600 resolution anyway, because I'm interested in them looking fast and smooth more than pretty. The way things are standing, I'll probably by a GeForce 2 Pro.
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You would think that a movie title with the single word "Blow" would be sufficient.
I've never been a big nVidia fan (the last two cards I bought were Voodoo's -- perfect for running Unreal Tournament), but I'm wondering if we'll see better results once they leave reference board land. It's possible that the drivers may have internally left a few diagnostic switches on for nVidia engineers to mull over, and perhaps the final boxed product will run substantially better than these tests show.
As it stands now, I found the results to be more than a little disappointing. INAE (I'm not an engineer), but if your company makes a new card it should always be faster than your previous cards. Period.
Although, I guess what someone else said is true. This would be a fine time to buy a GeForce 2 Pro...
I disagree with the aspect of closing down the 3DFX driver sites. Unless you have a really good source to back that up, I'm under the understanding that nVidia did it as a cost-cutting measure to consolidate the two companies. It was a bad decision.
Japanese culture won't be properly assimilated into American culture until translation for more works and entertainment is properly done (which, with over 20 years of experience with video games, still doesn't seem to occur). The whole "All your base are belong to us" thing is a good example; the title "Cowboy Bebop" is a more recent example.
I once read that it was still being determined if the quirky dialogues in the Zelda games were due to bad translation or Dan Olsen's (the guy who translates Japanese games for Nintendo) sense of humor.
The Japanese learn English fairly early. Americans rarely learn Japanese. Until better translations can occur, the best parody of the current state of the Japan-US union will be Mojo-Dojo from The Powerpuff Girls. In fact, the whole show parodies just about every Japanese animation convention imaginable.
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-MS gives Apple money to stay in the game
-Apple sets up MS Explorer as the default browser, and now ships MS Explorer exclusively in Mac OS X
-MS puts in Firewire support, which Apple primarily developed and has on nearly all their hardware
Given the pattern, Apple probably owes MS something next. Maybe touting Office on their web site?
I'm still waiting for a version of Mac OS X that can run on Intel machines. :) Really pretty system and I sorta like it.
But what about wireless networking? It'd be nice if most 802.11b cards worked right out of the box.
But I'm a KDE user. KDE2 since a few months ago.
I would think using the word "Mastercard" would be considered fair use, while saying a phrase like "There are some things that money can't buy. For everything else there's Mastercard" would be blatant copyright infringement.
I've seen other parodies on this theme (the one with the Flyers fan beating up the Devils fan was funny, even though I'm a Devils fan) but they always omit the last sentance. So it ends "Watching a Devils fan get beat: priceless".
I would think that Mastercard is "just being forced to protect its copyright" (as so many Slashdotters seem to argue when an open source web site gets socked). Plus, the subject matter wasn't exactly what I'd call "decent", but that's another, subjective discussion for later.
What high-titled games did they have coming out for it anyway? I don't see any.
In other words, there is absolutely nothing here that's interesting unless you're a diehard GNOME programmer. Move along, people.
I think part of it also is that they don't want the other sites to lose ad revenue.
Damn man, 17 mods? Is that a record?
Yeah, but the guy writes whole books in real life. Not serials. This is completely different for him.
You have to take a lot of what he said with a grain of salt. This guy was screwed. It would be paranoia to say everyone with an interest in writing their own software would be equally as screwed.
One of the strongest facets to the Gutenberg project, in my mind, was that you could read all of Ulysses by gophering to the site, in one sitting.
Unless there's real monitary reasons, I'd be much more willing to release whole stories instead of episodes.
As an aside, has anyone been able to install KDE 2.0 or 2.1 to RedHat 7.0 without crashing the system on startup?
Does anyone find it ironic that the same "landgrab" in 1998-1998 Roblimo is quick to retort as being viable in the future, was the one that brought Slashdot into being?
If it has KDE2 I'm game.
where Linus calls MacOS X crap, which has been posted on every media outlet from here to Cupertino?
Of course, your '85 probably has that nice feature of sticking a coat hanger down the side of the window to unlock it too.
You'll have to watch yourself if you leave the house when .NET starts growing, but it can be done.
OR, better yet, help produce open source SOAP solutions for FreeBSD/Linux/name your OS. Fight the power if you feel like it.
Myself, I honestly don't care. If it's not Microsoft it'll be someone else, and I'm not like most nerds who cower in the corner of their dim apartments, fearing social interaction and a "violation" of some uber-innate privacy. I also happen to like and use a few Microsoft products regularly (Notably IE and Win2K. I use StarOffice for word processing, g++ and the development tools in Linux). To each his own.
Uh, there isn't a single thing in the article about MS violating our privacy. Did you read it?
It's like owning a Porche which you regularly drive above 90 mph, and some salesman offering you a Toyota Camera that can reach that speed, burning class cleaner but taking a longer rating. "It burns fuel better." I don't care if it burns fuel better! I'm interested in speed.
For now I have Voodoo 3500 that has performed more than admirably, even with its 16MB of RAM and inability to render 32-bit 3D graphics. I don't push my games past 800x600 resolution anyway, because I'm interested in them looking fast and smooth more than pretty. The way things are standing, I'll probably by a GeForce 2 Pro.
You would think that a movie title with the single word "Blow" would be sufficient.
As it stands now, I found the results to be more than a little disappointing. INAE (I'm not an engineer), but if your company makes a new card it should always be faster than your previous cards. Period.
Although, I guess what someone else said is true. This would be a fine time to buy a GeForce 2 Pro...
I disagree with the aspect of closing down the 3DFX driver sites. Unless you have a really good source to back that up, I'm under the understanding that nVidia did it as a cost-cutting measure to consolidate the two companies. It was a bad decision.
Absolutely nothing. The GeForce 2 Pro, in the tests, beat the GeForce3 handily in most areas.
But I don't want MS to die.
I once read that it was still being determined if the quirky dialogues in the Zelda games were due to bad translation or Dan Olsen's (the guy who translates Japanese games for Nintendo) sense of humor.
The Japanese learn English fairly early. Americans rarely learn Japanese. Until better translations can occur, the best parody of the current state of the Japan-US union will be Mojo-Dojo from The Powerpuff Girls. In fact, the whole show parodies just about every Japanese animation convention imaginable.