That must be it. Seems like I read about it in late 90's, as an example of 'evil Sony' (likely in slashdot story). Coulda' sworn the defining bit that I remembered was the name being spelled differently but sounding the same.
Cool beans that you found the real details of it. Love the bit about her being pitted agains the maker of Watchmen's and Betamaxes.
You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of missiles, or nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. "
This is seriously going to impact my Civ and SMAC gaming.
I don't know anything about programming (hardware monkey here) and have no idea what y'all are talkin' about but since it's slow at work, I'm reading every/. thread. D'oh! Since I commented here, I can't mod anyone up or down. Or sideways.
It's really cool that physical special effects are now within reach of regular folks and common computing hardware. What I'm looking forward to is when folks are able to make casts of thousands movies like LotR as well as mapping realistic looking (famous) actors on to either motion captured or animated CGI. This would allow folks to make all the edited to hell/missing movies, without out all the Hollywood post director editing (Golden Compass!).
Yup, meat bags kinda suck off Earth. But if there was a way to copy our consciousness to some kind of hardware exploration vehicle, oh man, I'd love to lend a copy.
Another variation I thought of would be a generation ship that would only need to support a maintenance crew. Wouldn't have to have a large population as you could raise new crew members from test tube. I guess there would need to be some minimum number of folks to make a working society, though. Once they got to a candidate system, would have to then start expanding the population, so that in a few generations (how many kids can one person raise and not go crazy?), colonists could start hitting dirt. Or living in an asteroid belt.
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That must be it. Seems like I read about it in late 90's, as an example of 'evil Sony' (likely in slashdot story). Coulda' sworn the defining bit that I remembered was the name being spelled differently but sounding the same.
Cool beans that you found the real details of it. Love the bit about her being pitted agains the maker of Watchmen's and Betamaxes.
Ooh, I want to see the cartoon Bing burst out with White Christmas. That'll show 'em!
Fooking capitalism! What has capitalism ever done for us?
You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of missiles, or nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. "
This is seriously going to impact my Civ and SMAC gaming.
All right boys, buy him out!
*smash, crash, crush*
Mr. Simpson, you didn't think I got this rich by writing checks did you?
I think there was a little kid's show up in Canadia called Bing and Bong.
Ok, just found it on Wikipedia: Tiny Planets, starring Bing and Bong. This show was back in 2000/2001 so doubt it figures in anything with this story.
But then again, Sony sued Sonny's Restaurant in Boston (I think), because people were pronouncing it 'so-nee'. Sony won.
Ok, this might only relate tangentially to the story but I still think it's funny in a flat cat kinda' way.
Heh. Have a 1911, M1 Carbine, and M1 Garand at home. Much better armed than when I was in the military.
I have Sim Stapler on my iPhone. And I'm allowed to play my music at a reasonable volume.
I was an air craft mechanic and a medic. In Desert Storm, all I had a was a .38 sp revolver. Wouldn't do much for me in CoD.
Now, if all my years of SCA fighter practice and wars was good for something, beside helping out Tandy Leather and Duck brand tape...
The real fun happens at the open bar Christmas party.
Physicists Gone Wild!
Might have been better if they'd called it Dark Mass, as that seems to be the thing we're twigging to about it all.
Cool! I'm COPO!
I don't know anything about programming (hardware monkey here) and have no idea what y'all are talkin' about but since it's slow at work, I'm reading every /. thread. D'oh! Since I commented here, I can't mod anyone up or down. Or sideways.
My bad.
Hey, I was designed (and manufactured) in 1967. I'm still viable. I think.
Ah. On televised golf tournaments the crowd does that quiet clap when a player sinks his shot.
I use it to show approval of a post, when I have nothing to add.
For the Avatar rant I responded to, I really don't think anything further needs to be said.
Check out H. Beam Piper's space battles in his book: Space Viking.
*golf clap*
It's really cool that physical special effects are now within reach of regular folks and common computing hardware. What I'm looking forward to is when folks are able to make casts of thousands movies like LotR as well as mapping realistic looking (famous) actors on to either motion captured or animated CGI. This would allow folks to make all the edited to hell/missing movies, without out all the Hollywood post director editing (Golden Compass!).
Followed by that news kid.
I want my $2.00!
Or Santa Claus. If Tim Burton made a movie with giant robots attacking Santa Claus, I would so stay up late watching that on SyFyLus channel.
What about Hrmm?
Hrmm, hrmm, hrmm
Yup, meat bags kinda suck off Earth. But if there was a way to copy our consciousness to some kind of hardware exploration vehicle, oh man, I'd love to lend a copy.
Another variation I thought of would be a generation ship that would only need to support a maintenance crew. Wouldn't have to have a large population as you could raise new crew members from test tube. I guess there would need to be some minimum number of folks to make a working society, though. Once they got to a candidate system, would have to then start expanding the population, so that in a few generations (how many kids can one person raise and not go crazy?), colonists could start hitting dirt. Or living in an asteroid belt.
Ooh, there's a pornstar or two I'd like to injunct against!
They stomp around with their 5% market share size boots and simply crush competing personal computer vendors like Dell and HP!