Try reading the license sometime. They can of course distribute their own 'distribution' for profit - they just have to leave the source open and note their changes.
especially given the political situation and current fiscal policy that implies huge deficits well into the future.
Funding sources shouldn't be a problem for the creative. Option a) you promise to resell some Mars rocks. BOOM, instant fortunes are made as corporations outbid each other to have a Mars rock on display in their CEO's office.
b) you start up a NASA lottery, charging $20 a ticket or something... with non cash prizes like "a moon rock", "a mars rock", or "trip for two to ISS". Finance NASA and stimulate new interest and involvement with one step.
c) allow corporate advertisements on the higher profile items, like the ship or the probes, suits, etc. Blatant whoring, but who cares if it gets us to Mars.
This is just the sort of thing Bush should be doing besides screwing up foriegn policy... he should be making bold moves to strengthen the economy and increase American prestige, and a NASA Mars mission is just the way to do that. Too bad he doesn't have Kennedy's balls.
Even more spooky, even if you correct for the speed-of-light delay between the observers and the events, their observed time intevals will still not match up.
What the HELL are you talking about?
Thanks...
All of you people out there who say "Snood is just a crappy bust-a-move" obviously have never even PLAYED Snood, or at least not for more than a few minutes. I also guarantee that you didn't read the rules of the game, so you really don't know how much better Snood is and basically you are just talking out your ass. Snood is a great game - please, give it another try. It helps to register your version as well, to unlock all the puzzles and features. Basically, stop poo-pooing on this great game. Support it, and it's creator, and more games will come!
This decision may be a great stride towards interoperability, finally... BUT, we must still continue to watch Microsoft like a hawk! They will stop at nothing to squirm right out and continue "business as usual". I just don't know if this resolution is going to be enough in the long run.
Sorry for the late post, but I just saw this article and I have to wonder if it isn't a bunch of crap on Microsoft's part. Let's say Australia calls the bluff, and doesn't do a thing. Is Microsoft seriously NOT going to sell Xbox in that market? And miss out on the chance to purchase that much more mindshare? Please. It would just be a bigger incentive for the modchip makers.
Microsoft is just full of itself, and trying to spread FUD like usual.
The human mind is really good at spotting differences. When you read the words "Microsoft" and "Micro$oft" you instantly know that those are very different words. It therefore follows that domain names with different spellings are easily distinguishable and completely distinct.
The domain "micro$oft.com" is not in any way confusable with the domain "microsoft.com". They are different. You have to push different keys on the keyboard to get to these sites.
Now, if some buisness were to have a link to the "micro$oft.com" domain and say "Click here to get to MICROSOFT!" then THEY should get a C&D letter. NOT the owners of the "micro$oft.com" domain.
Any other use of litigation regarding particular choices of domain names is an abuse, and should be stopped.
We'll have to start with the Christmas season '02, in which small techy gadgets are very popular but COMBO devices (like cellphone/PDA combos) are not (as folks can get better values and better products buying them individually). The PC industry will have another slow season, scraping the barrel with the last of the folks who havent upgraded to 1Ghz yet. Tech prices will be better than ever, but no one is buying.
3G phones will continue to be vapor and/or SUCK monumentally. Telecoms will die slowly.
We won't see any real retribution for the evildoers of the Enron-esque financial disasters. 2002 will go down as the year that Gen X lost their shirts.
The War on Iraq will slowly fade away, despite frantic efforts by GWB, because no one wants to start WWIII over Hussein (ie, the UN will insist on inspections, not war). Inspections will resume, and be more effective. The American public will forget about it after the terrible Christmas season they had despite low tech prices.
Microsoft will introduce a new console summer 2003, after the current XBox gets completely emulated on standard PCs. The new console will suck, and no one will buy it. They will respond with a broken service pack for XP, in a bitter attempt to annoy everyone.
Lastly, near thanksgiving 2003, the Enterprise will mysteriously appear over Washington DC from the future, and the Slashdot servers will die in the ensuing chaos.
What this looks like to me is that a new "MM-enabled" chip would be able to run existing x86 code fine, but run "MM-optimized" code much faster. One of the main problems of x86, tying certain operations to certain registers, can only be worked around with a re-compile into this "MM-optimized" code.
If you're going to redesign the chip... then re-compile the code... why not just DROP X86?!?!?
Methinks you are COMPLETELY WRONG. All patents are patents on IMPLEMENTATIONS, not ideas.
Here's an example:
You can't patent the idea of using a magnet to sort metallic objects out of a vat of sand.
You CAN patent a particular device that uses a magnet to sort metallic objects out of a vat of sand. The description of the device, including plans to build it... that is patentable. No one else can build THAT PARTICULAR device without paying you money, but they CAN do the same job with DIFFERENT devices.
You are completely mistaken to say that all patents are ideas, not implementations... stop spreading fallacy, you are confusing people (and, obviously, the moderators that bumped you up).
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Were one to "wax eloquently", one would have to be able to apply a coat of wax in a stylish manner. Perhaps you meant "wax eloquent", which means to become eloquent. Good try, though.
Uhhh...
you made a boo boo it was not a bad one though hope you learned something.
Touchscreens are the way to go if you're thinking of a new paradigm in physically interacting with a computer. Sure, touchscreens have been around forever, but do YOU have one? Why not?
It would be neat to see more 'toys' come out that interfaced with my computer in some way... but to say that people will give up their keyboard and mouse for a Teddy bear is a bit of a stretch.
Inertia doesn't keep things moving in a circle. IE, if you were to get up a few miles above the Earth and suddenly cancel gravity, you would actually fly off in a tangential manner out into space, as you would be losing the vector that was maintaining your circular trajectory around the Earth (namely, the gravity that was pulling you down). Taking that further, if you really TRULY cancelled gravity, you'd rocket off tangential to Earth's orbit around the Sun as well... and the Sun's orbit around the Galaxy, etc...
ACK! Nevermind, I found a WHITE LED in my parts bin, and it TOTALLY works! Nice and bright. And, since it's white, it matches up nicely with the translucent blue in the mouse shell! Looks perfect, and works wonderfully!
The Logitech Cordless Optical takes two AAs (3 volts)... I must have used a 5 volt blue LED (I had a couple a blue's on hand, see, but I'm not sure of their specs) and it is COMPLETELY weak. Put it all together, barely lights, won't move a pixel.
So, I'm popping back int he red until I can figure out a Better Way (perhaps a real 3 Volt Blue, or maybe just hack in more POWER!)
That is seriously neat! I'd shamelessly rip it off, if I owned a plain and boring m$ mouse. My Logitech cordless optical mouse is pretty sweet looking, all by itself however. I HAVE pondered adding blue LEDs...
Does anyone know if you can swap out the red one for a blue one, or if that will screw up the works? Just curious...
OMG I so much hate that damn whistling noise! It's horrible, working in a computer lab and cringing every time anybody turns on their monitor. Just one more benefit that would be brought on by extensive adoption of flat panel monitors.
He means throwing money around to other folks, and getting them to build stuff for M$ to put their name on. The XBox is completely third-party designed and manufactured, with m$ holding the 'creative license'.
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Try reading the license sometime. They can of course distribute their own 'distribution' for profit - they just have to leave the source open and note their changes.
Stop spreading falsehoods, please.
especially given the political situation and current fiscal policy that implies huge deficits well into the future.
Funding sources shouldn't be a problem for the creative. Option a) you promise to resell some Mars rocks. BOOM, instant fortunes are made as corporations outbid each other to have a Mars rock on display in their CEO's office. b) you start up a NASA lottery, charging $20 a ticket or something... with non cash prizes like "a moon rock", "a mars rock", or "trip for two to ISS". Finance NASA and stimulate new interest and involvement with one step. c) allow corporate advertisements on the higher profile items, like the ship or the probes, suits, etc. Blatant whoring, but who cares if it gets us to Mars.
This is just the sort of thing Bush should be doing besides screwing up foriegn policy... he should be making bold moves to strengthen the economy and increase American prestige, and a NASA Mars mission is just the way to do that. Too bad he doesn't have Kennedy's balls.
Even more spooky, even if you correct for the speed-of-light delay between the observers and the events, their observed time intevals will still not match up. What the HELL are you talking about? Thanks...
All of you people out there who say "Snood is just a crappy bust-a-move" obviously have never even PLAYED Snood, or at least not for more than a few minutes. I also guarantee that you didn't read the rules of the game, so you really don't know how much better Snood is and basically you are just talking out your ass.
Snood is a great game - please, give it another try. It helps to register your version as well, to unlock all the puzzles and features.
Basically, stop poo-pooing on this great game. Support it, and it's creator, and more games will come!
Amen to that. Whether a kid gets a video game is the responsibility of the parent, regardless of its debatably arbitrary voilence/sex/evil rating.
:o)
Whatever... kids who are properly parented will succeed, and the kids who aren't won't. Things will sort out when the Revolutioin comes!
This decision may be a great stride towards interoperability, finally... BUT, we must still continue to watch Microsoft like a hawk! They will stop at nothing to squirm right out and continue "business as usual". I just don't know if this resolution is going to be enough in the long run.
Meanwhile, my conversion to Linux continues...
Sorry for the late post, but I just saw this article and I have to wonder if it isn't a bunch of crap on Microsoft's part. Let's say Australia calls the bluff, and doesn't do a thing. Is Microsoft seriously NOT going to sell Xbox in that market? And miss out on the chance to purchase that much more mindshare? Please. It would just be a bigger incentive for the modchip makers.
Microsoft is just full of itself, and trying to spread FUD like usual.
Is "DOW" a trademark? Does that mean that WinDOWs infringes? I thought not.
The human mind is really good at spotting differences. When you read the words "Microsoft" and "Micro$oft" you instantly know that those are very different words. It therefore follows that domain names with different spellings are easily distinguishable and completely distinct.
The domain "micro$oft.com" is not in any way confusable with the domain "microsoft.com". They are different. You have to push different keys on the keyboard to get to these sites.
Now, if some buisness were to have a link to the "micro$oft.com" domain and say "Click here to get to MICROSOFT!" then THEY should get a C&D letter. NOT the owners of the "micro$oft.com" domain.
Any other use of litigation regarding particular choices of domain names is an abuse, and should be stopped.
We'll have to start with the Christmas season '02, in which small techy gadgets are very popular but COMBO devices (like cellphone/PDA combos) are not (as folks can get better values and better products buying them individually). The PC industry will have another slow season, scraping the barrel with the last of the folks who havent upgraded to 1Ghz yet. Tech prices will be better than ever, but no one is buying.
3G phones will continue to be vapor and/or SUCK monumentally. Telecoms will die slowly.
We won't see any real retribution for the evildoers of the Enron-esque financial disasters. 2002 will go down as the year that Gen X lost their shirts.
The War on Iraq will slowly fade away, despite frantic efforts by GWB, because no one wants to start WWIII over Hussein (ie, the UN will insist on inspections, not war). Inspections will resume, and be more effective. The American public will forget about it after the terrible Christmas season they had despite low tech prices.
Microsoft will introduce a new console summer 2003, after the current XBox gets completely emulated on standard PCs. The new console will suck, and no one will buy it. They will respond with a broken service pack for XP, in a bitter attempt to annoy everyone.
Lastly, near thanksgiving 2003, the Enterprise will mysteriously appear over Washington DC from the future, and the Slashdot servers will die in the ensuing chaos.
What this looks like to me is that a new "MM-enabled" chip would be able to run existing x86 code fine, but run "MM-optimized" code much faster. One of the main problems of x86, tying certain operations to certain registers, can only be worked around with a re-compile into this "MM-optimized" code.
If you're going to redesign the chip... then re-compile the code... why not just DROP X86?!?!?
Methinks you are COMPLETELY WRONG. All patents are patents on IMPLEMENTATIONS, not ideas.
Here's an example:
You can't patent the idea of using a magnet to sort metallic objects out of a vat of sand.
You CAN patent a particular device that uses a magnet to sort metallic objects out of a vat of sand. The description of the device, including plans to build it... that is patentable. No one else can build THAT PARTICULAR device without paying you money, but they CAN do the same job with DIFFERENT devices.
You are completely mistaken to say that all patents are ideas, not implementations... stop spreading fallacy, you are confusing people (and, obviously, the moderators that bumped you up).
OMG, are you dense? Or have I been trolled?
Were one to "wax eloquently", one would have to be able to apply a coat of wax in a stylish manner. Perhaps you meant "wax eloquent", which means to become eloquent. Good try, though.
Uhhh...
you made a boo boo
it was not a bad one though
hope you learned something.
Touchscreens are the way to go if you're thinking of a new paradigm in physically interacting with a computer. Sure, touchscreens have been around forever, but do YOU have one? Why not?
It would be neat to see more 'toys' come out that interfaced with my computer in some way... but to say that people will give up their keyboard and mouse for a Teddy bear is a bit of a stretch.
Inertia doesn't keep things moving in a circle. IE, if you were to get up a few miles above the Earth and suddenly cancel gravity, you would actually fly off in a tangential manner out into space, as you would be losing the vector that was maintaining your circular trajectory around the Earth (namely, the gravity that was pulling you down). Taking that further, if you really TRULY cancelled gravity, you'd rocket off tangential to Earth's orbit around the Sun as well... and the Sun's orbit around the Galaxy, etc...
difference between "learned" and "learnt"
"I am a learned man."
"I learnt something new today."
Enjoy.
ACK! Nevermind, I found a WHITE LED in my parts bin, and it TOTALLY works! Nice and bright. And, since it's white, it matches up nicely with the translucent blue in the mouse shell! Looks perfect, and works wonderfully!
Hooray for PC mods at 1 AM!
Now time for bed.
Crap... ok, just tried it.
The Logitech Cordless Optical takes two AAs (3 volts)... I must have used a 5 volt blue LED (I had a couple a blue's on hand, see, but I'm not sure of their specs) and it is COMPLETELY weak. Put it all together, barely lights, won't move a pixel.
So, I'm popping back int he red until I can figure out a Better Way (perhaps a real 3 Volt Blue, or maybe just hack in more POWER!)
FYI.
That is seriously neat! I'd shamelessly rip it off, if I owned a plain and boring m$ mouse. My Logitech cordless optical mouse is pretty sweet looking, all by itself however. I HAVE pondered adding blue LEDs...
Does anyone know if you can swap out the red one for a blue one, or if that will screw up the works? Just curious...
OMG I so much hate that damn whistling noise! It's horrible, working in a computer lab and cringing every time anybody turns on their monitor.
Just one more benefit that would be brought on by extensive adoption of flat panel monitors.
My 6th grade center (circa 1988) had a lab full of atari 800's that we "learned to progam" on.
Confused the poo out of me - I had an Apple IIe at home.
Me - "Why doesn't this program I wrote at school work at home, teach?"
Teach - "Dunno, your computer at home is different."
Me - "But why?"
Teach - "I dunno... here's an A. Now be quiet."
Ah, the good ol' days.
Limiting yourself to inflexible grammar rules is the first step towards 1984. Besides, English is stupidly structured anyway. Grok?
He means throwing money around to other folks, and getting them to build stuff for M$ to put their name on. The XBox is completely third-party designed and manufactured, with m$ holding the 'creative license'.
Not having drivers posted on their site is gay.
Too true. guess I'll have to wait for the CD, and fill my time hacking on the linux drivers...