The launch date was not the same date you could by this beast in a store. So in reality, it's only slipping by seven to ten days.
On the other side of the coin, does this matter? How many people are of the opinion "I gots to get me a next generation game system now! I don't care which it is. Whoever is first to market gets my money."
The reality of the situation is that if you were going to get an Xbox, you're still going to. If you were getting a Cube, you're still going to, just a week later. In this type of situation, first to market by a few days means very little.
How can they truly demonstrate the MP3.com is responsible for putting these songs up on Napster?
I was just thinking the same thing. Can you prove a files origin, whether it be audio, video, or data? Me thinks not, unless it's somehow digtially signed. I never used MP3.Com, so maybe they did some kind of watermarking. If not, then we're obviously missing some facts; I don't think a tech savy lawyer would try and prove an association from Napster to Mp3.Com based on a file name, bit rate, etc.
Then again, maybe they're going to supponea someone to say, "Yep, that's my copy of Boys on the Radio (Hole). I downloaded it from MP3.Cpm and uploaded to Napster. I'd recognize that encoding rate anywhere."
Not that I'm encouraging it, but how can riaa.com NOT have been DDOS'd by now? Haven't they pissed just about everyone off in some way shape or form.
They claim that people who downloaded MP3s from mp3.com contributed them to napster, so MP3.com owes them.
At least they aren't suing:
* Intel/AMD for providing chips that enable computers to function. Thus making Internet piracy possible.
* U Illinois for creating a means of accessing web sites where said info can be traded (watch out Berners-Lee!)
* The US government for funding the creation of the internet, which has enabled piracy to run rampant.
* My parents. For obviously not teaching me right from wrong.
I'm so sick of law suits I can't even tell if I was kidding....
If that were to happen, people might come to Linux like people came to CD-ROMs when Myst came out ("If you build it, they will come").
As a linux zealot, my first response is hell yeah. Right on brother. The realistic response is yeah right. It's one thing to add a CD-ROM drive or video board to your hardware to play the latest game, it's another thing to learn a whole new operating system, no matter how cool the game looks. It's not like upgrading from 98 to 2000 to play some game, going from windows to linux is like a life changing type of thing if you're a windows only user.
Should we worry about releasing games solely for Linux?
Unfortunately, this is a money question. Can any comany recoup it's development costs by releasing only on linux? Maybe. I tend to think that they're just aren't enough people out there playing games on linux to make the kind of numbers worth it. Look at Loki. They're doing a great job, but struggling. Of course, what things be different if they had newer/better games. Not everyone likes Civ and FPS type stuff.
Blizzard, right now, is one of the top game companies. If they did something on the order of Diablo III on linux only, I'm willing to bet that we would see a major shift of people using linux. You're going to need something that major to make people convert in my opinion.
Personally, I'm going to wait and see how Neverwinter Nights handles it. I've pre-ordered mine, have you? That's the closest thing us Linux people have to a killer game that's not rumor or speculation.
Is there some hidden internet that I'm not aware of that has amazing functionality only available to Windows users?
Off the top of my head, how about shockwave and more importantly Shockwave arcade? If you need a few minutes to kill while your brain regenerates, shockwave arcade has a ton of neat little video games.
I'm sure ther eare others, this is just one of the ones that annoys me. Yeah, yeah, I know it's Shockwave's fault for not supporting us, the point is that there ARE sites that just don't cut it on Linux.
until we we complete the transition, which will hopefully take only however long it takes for us to incrementally update all the critical data. We should see you by 9.
What is it with American elections? Isn't ticking the box on a voting slip good enough?
You obviously didn't pay attention to our last election.
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As the 2.4.x kernel series has been headed to higher and higher revision (x) numbers, I've been wondering what will occur when those numbers are exhausted. Seeing as how we're at 2.4.9, will all the next revisions be 2.4.9.x? It's probably way too early for 2.6. --Alex
Presumably at some point, Linus will issue a freeze and we'll move on to the 2.5 devleopment series, leaving only O&M on the 2.4 line.
Was is Doris Day in Shawshank or someone else? I don't think it was Doris Day, she wasn't as much of a sex-object as she was a sweetheart type. Maybe I'm wrong.
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There really is some intelligence and talent working for this company
Depends on how you look at it I guess. What have these guys done lately. Some were big names years ago, but what have you done for me lately? Kinda like my next door neighbors at LoudCloud down here in Sunnyvale. Mark has a great name, with the whole Netscape thing and all, but does anyone see LoudCloud as a contender in a few years? Times have changed from the days of hectic coding a browser.
You can found and get funding often based on names of people, but unless these guys can deliver, they're screwed. I guess I'm just saying that it's often hard to tell from a bio blurb if these guys were a force at their previous company. I mean, yeah, I came from NASA, but I didn't have a lot to do with building the ISS. But I do agree with you that we should wait and see what happens before judging anyone.
What's it cost to launch the shuttle? Seems like it would make more sense to just use the $13 mil to get that bad boy up into space right now instead of wasting it all...
Heh...not even close. And unlike most technology, don't expect this price to go down over the years...
Sorry if this was dicussed, but the site was already slashdotted.
I lived in San Francisco last year and saw Keanu and Lawrence (just to name two) all the damn time in the city. Hanging out at the bars in Northbeach, at dinner South of Market, etc.
My question is, why were these guys always in the city hanging out? Did they ever get any filming done? I'm kind of saying this tongue in cheek, but it's a valid question. I had always heard the Hollywood myth: actors work such long days, filming is hard work, blah blah. Lawrence didn't look very stressed; chilling out with his ever present sunglasses and a frosty beer...
It's probable that you don't understand the difference between right and wrong.
Uhh, I don't think you know the difference between right and wrong. Intruding onto my property either computer-wise or property-wise is illegal in the united states without either prior consent or a warrant. Since warrants don't really exist in the cyber world, anyone intruding into my system for whatever reason is wrong and also illegal.
What I'm discouraging is people trespassing on my system without my prior consent. If I want a patch (as in your case of buggy software), I'll initiate the transaction thank you. I don't want anything pushed to me.
A while ago (months?) someone had a "beneficial" virus, that was making the rounds and fixing security holes in Windows I believe. The name escapes me. The author (who publicly claimed responsibility) caught quite a bit of flak over it. Who knows what kind of hidden payload your packaging in addition to the helpful features.
Personally, I feel a virus is a virus, regardless if your intentions were good. You're not any better than the hundreds of losers out there creating this mess. If you want to warn me of security holes in my system, send me an e-mail that doesn't contain a virus.
I suppose now we need an open source equivalent to Dolby's AC-3 encoding.
Never going to happen. I doubt the open source movement has enough clout to go up against movie studios. As we see with Ogg Voris, even if you provide a superior encoding standard (AC3 sounds pretty damn good), what are the chances that movie studios will switch and encode to your spec? Then movie theatres will have to buy new hardware, etc.
Normally I don't reply to myself, but I've sent the EFF some mail asking how we go about contacting Dmitry to see if he's intersted in making some new American friends over a beer. I'll post the answers. If people are interested, feel free to email me a christopher.keller@bigfoot.org and we'll take this off-line.
Looks like we have at least a few people interested in 'get out of jail' hang out. How do we get a hold of him? Where's he staying? I guess we should contact the FSF?
Probably only applicable to those of us in Silicon Valley, but is anyone else interested in taking him out for a beer and some decent food? Show him the parts of the US that don't suck....
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On the other side of the coin, does this matter? How many people are of the opinion "I gots to get me a next generation game system now! I don't care which it is. Whoever is first to market gets my money."
The reality of the situation is that if you were going to get an Xbox, you're still going to. If you were getting a Cube, you're still going to, just a week later. In this type of situation, first to market by a few days means very little.
In a similar stance, the Coca-Cola Company has been given the lifetime achievement award by the ACM for keeping programmers coding
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I was just thinking the same thing. Can you prove a files origin, whether it be audio, video, or data? Me thinks not, unless it's somehow digtially signed. I never used MP3.Com, so maybe they did some kind of watermarking. If not, then we're obviously missing some facts; I don't think a tech savy lawyer would try and prove an association from Napster to Mp3.Com based on a file name, bit rate, etc.
Then again, maybe they're going to supponea someone to say, "Yep, that's my copy of Boys on the Radio (Hole). I downloaded it from MP3.Cpm and uploaded to Napster. I'd recognize that encoding rate anywhere."
Not that I'm encouraging it, but how can riaa.com NOT have been DDOS'd by now? Haven't they pissed just about everyone off in some way shape or form.
At least they aren't suing:
* Intel/AMD for providing chips that enable computers to function. Thus making Internet piracy possible.
* U Illinois for creating a means of accessing web sites where said info can be traded (watch out Berners-Lee!)
* The US government for funding the creation of the internet, which has enabled piracy to run rampant.
* My parents. For obviously not teaching me right from wrong.
I'm so sick of law suits I can't even tell if I was kidding....
Someone mod this parent up. Seems like a worthwhile patch.
If that were to happen, people might come to Linux like people came to CD-ROMs when Myst came out ("If you build it, they will come").
As a linux zealot, my first response is hell yeah. Right on brother. The realistic response is yeah right. It's one thing to add a CD-ROM drive or video board to your hardware to play the latest game, it's another thing to learn a whole new operating system, no matter how cool the game looks. It's not like upgrading from 98 to 2000 to play some game, going from windows to linux is like a life changing type of thing if you're a windows only user.
Should we worry about releasing games solely for Linux?
Unfortunately, this is a money question. Can any comany recoup it's development costs by releasing only on linux? Maybe. I tend to think that they're just aren't enough people out there playing games on linux to make the kind of numbers worth it. Look at Loki. They're doing a great job, but struggling. Of course, what things be different if they had newer/better games. Not everyone likes Civ and FPS type stuff.
Blizzard, right now, is one of the top game companies. If they did something on the order of Diablo III on linux only, I'm willing to bet that we would see a major shift of people using linux. You're going to need something that major to make people convert in my opinion.
Personally, I'm going to wait and see how Neverwinter Nights handles it. I've pre-ordered mine, have you? That's the closest thing us Linux people have to a killer game that's not rumor or speculation.
I know people I work with who still haven't achieved adult-level language skills...
The article was talking schools. The original poster made no such distinction.
Off the top of my head, how about shockwave and more importantly Shockwave arcade? If you need a few minutes to kill while your brain regenerates, shockwave arcade has a ton of neat little video games.
I'm sure ther eare others, this is just one of the ones that annoys me. Yeah, yeah, I know it's Shockwave's fault for not supporting us, the point is that there ARE sites that just don't cut it on Linux.
So said mission control the Mars polar lander....
You obviously didn't pay attention to our last election.
Presumably at some point, Linus will issue a freeze and we'll move on to the 2.5 devleopment series, leaving only O&M on the 2.4 line.
Nope, you're right. It was Rita Hayworth.
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Depends on how you look at it I guess. What have these guys done lately. Some were big names years ago, but what have you done for me lately? Kinda like my next door neighbors at LoudCloud down here in Sunnyvale. Mark has a great name, with the whole Netscape thing and all, but does anyone see LoudCloud as a contender in a few years? Times have changed from the days of hectic coding a browser.
You can found and get funding often based on names of people, but unless these guys can deliver, they're screwed. I guess I'm just saying that it's often hard to tell from a bio blurb if these guys were a force at their previous company. I mean, yeah, I came from NASA, but I didn't have a lot to do with building the ISS. But I do agree with you that we should wait and see what happens before judging anyone.
Heh...not even close. And unlike most technology, don't expect this price to go down over the years...
I lived in San Francisco last year and saw Keanu and Lawrence (just to name two) all the damn time in the city. Hanging out at the bars in Northbeach, at dinner South of Market, etc.
My question is, why were these guys always in the city hanging out? Did they ever get any filming done? I'm kind of saying this tongue in cheek, but it's a valid question. I had always heard the Hollywood myth: actors work such long days, filming is hard work, blah blah. Lawrence didn't look very stressed; chilling out with his ever present sunglasses and a frosty beer...
Tell that to Cisco.....Yeah, yeah, I know you meant from the ISP sense....
Uhh, I don't think you know the difference between right and wrong. Intruding onto my property either computer-wise or property-wise is illegal in the united states without either prior consent or a warrant. Since warrants don't really exist in the cyber world, anyone intruding into my system for whatever reason is wrong and also illegal.
What I'm discouraging is people trespassing on my system without my prior consent. If I want a patch (as in your case of buggy software), I'll initiate the transaction thank you. I don't want anything pushed to me.
Personally, I feel a virus is a virus, regardless if your intentions were good. You're not any better than the hundreds of losers out there creating this mess. If you want to warn me of security holes in my system, send me an e-mail that doesn't contain a virus.
Never going to happen. I doubt the open source movement has enough clout to go up against movie studios. As we see with Ogg Voris, even if you provide a superior encoding standard (AC3 sounds pretty damn good), what are the chances that movie studios will switch and encode to your spec? Then movie theatres will have to buy new hardware, etc.
What was that article about multi-tasking decreasing performance....sorry.
Normally I don't reply to myself, but I've sent the EFF some mail asking how we go about contacting Dmitry to see if he's intersted in making some new American friends over a beer. I'll post the answers. If people are interested, feel free to email me a christopher.keller@bigfoot.org and we'll take this off-line.
Looks like we have at least a few people interested in 'get out of jail' hang out. How do we get a hold of him? Where's he staying? I guess we should contact the FSF?
Probably only applicable to those of us in Silicon Valley, but is anyone else interested in taking him out for a beer and some decent food? Show him the parts of the US that don't suck....