Sega is proving itself to be cutting-edge-and-then-abandon before technology can take a foothold. I'd hate to see this kill the XBox as Japanese will perceive it as the next Sega Machine.
At least this in line with the XBox Dreamcast compatibility rumor from earlier this year.
Try two self-proclaimed non-violence puzzle places:
Soleau Software and Everett Kaser Games. Soleau has many platform-style puzzlers of the Sokoban and Boulderdash varieties. Kaser also has these, but the best are Sherlock and Honeycomb Hotel. These last two games are like logic word games ("Mr. Johnson likes apples", only completely graphic (picture of a man over a picture of an apple). They teach deduction and observation.
Best of all, they're free to try, and cheap to buy.
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Please judge XBox for XBox. The bundle deal encouraging Microsoft titles would only be anti-competitive if these titles were available for other systems. There are two viable other choices, and XBox, PS2, and GameCube sales will reflect what people want.
What we have here is a Playstation One vs. Jaguar vs. 3DO situation all over again. Which will be the Jag? You decide.
Nintendo is the majority stockholder of Rare, I believe about 75%. They are a Nintendo company. It's nice to see they allow some variety in their games.
Couldn't they at least provide the queries to link to from their Top Ten lists? What's up with the rise and fall of the Carol Brady Maiden Name search? There must have been a Millionaire question or the like. I find the lists to be titillating to the point of frustration.
Doesn't this agreement violate state laws about police powers? If you don't get a speeding ticket, regardless of GPS reading, how can you prove he was speeding? (if a tree falls in a forest...) And lastly, I know enough about GPS that there are occasional errors that could send your readings flying at an impossible rate. I wonder how much in excess of 90mph he was going? 3372mph?
Don't pay more than $650 for a 3670. That is the retail price at Compaq. That means: no Ebay, no MySimon, no Bizrate, nothing. If you do manage to scarf up less than retail, go for it.
The joystick and buttons are crap. Not only are they useless for games (see earlier post), they aren't very robust feeling.
Compaq has sealed up the hole in the stylus silo in later models 3650 and all 3670s. They will fix any dusty screen problems by warranty for free regardless of how long you've had it.
I like the concept. I also feel that Politicians should be responsible for every political sign that ends up illegally polluting our roadways. However, what if a spammer wanted to kill a company by spamming unsolicited ads? Then the company is responsible for something they had absolutely no control over--which is often the case with political signs as well.
Although you and I think it illustrates the absurdity, the US Attorney was actually using it as an argument to surpress free speech. He was citing is as a logical similarity to blatantly terrorist acts. I think Oscar26 nailed it. He was talking down to the judge.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Alter was up next. He started with a hypothetical: What if someone developed a program that could shut off the navigation system in commercial airplanes? What if someone developed a program that could shut off smoke detectors in public buildings? Surely, he said, the government could ban the publication of programs which were a threat to people's lives.
You can make no logical conclusion about DeCSS from this argument. Lives aren't in danger. Safety isn't compromised. This was probably in arguments and he was free to say anything--and apparently he did.
(Moe taps crayon further into Homer's brain)
Homer: Extended Warranty? How can I lose?
Moe (exasperated): Still not dumb enough!
(Tap! Tap!)
Homer: Always trust Microsoft.
Moe: Bingo!
I've got one word for you: boring. I'm in the minority that doesn't like most multiplayer games. Why? Too much emphasis on luck or hack-n-slash. If I like a computer game I want to play it, not watch it.
I completely don't understand Golf as a spectator sport, it's something you do not something you watch. Same thing with bowling, really.
Very true words and extremely underrated reply! Thanks for the insight. A coworker of mine pointed out that you don't go busting patents unless they infringe upon you directly because it costs money. Risk/Benefit analysis rules apply. I think the primary reason for legal training in the IT world is to cover your own butt.
However, it would be nice if the reviewers at the patent office had expert knowledge in the area in which they reviewed patents. For example, in the above article, I'd reject the patent and require a more detailed application because I know of the prior art this patent infringes upon.
...and end this nonsense. I feel sadness when I see legal maneuvering literally steal from other people and companies. If more IT professionals also had law degrees, which is a lot to expect, we could end this.
"Scalable Architecture" is such a non-legal phrase because it is so vague (esp. considering future technologies), that someone should be tugged by the shorthairs until they say "Uncle!" Also the multi-user crap is vague. If you and a friend take turns on the original Wolfenstein 3D, it is multi-user, literally.
Prior art, prior art, prior art! General use, general use, general use! Now I just need a bell, book, and candle to complete the patent revokation!
Sorry to participate in a flame war! No, I'm not right, I'm just conjecturing. However, Nintendo is frequently very late with hardware, N64 notoriously late by over a year. Their CD drive for Super Nintendo vaporized for Nintendo and formed the basis of (quiz!) the Sony Playstation. I have a basis for my opinion, but believe me, I'd love to see the 2001 launch.
Very Anonymous and very cowardly. I humored you and checked the FAQ. No DVD support. The disk is not standard format. No screenshots except the ones from last year. And finally, still stuck on Pokemon. Maybe you should read the FAQ yourself, hmm?
The Gamecube has always had a high potential for vaporware. It's already misting it's way down the schedule, and has almost no chance of a Christmas launch in the US. It is conspicuous that there are very few game screens displayed so far. When any new system is about to debut, there are tons of game screens published.
There are countless things right about the system, but two really big negatives:
No DVD Media. This will drive up the cost of games and cause people to buy PS2s for the DVD movie player.
Pokemon. It isn't the pop-force it used to be. They're putting too much faith in Pikachu power.
I think it'll debut in the US in Oct 2002 or NEVER.
The sound quality aspect of these speakers is conspicuously missing from the article. Must not have much bass. "Singing" greeting cards use this technology, and we all know how good they sound!
These "I declare the banner ad dead" nay sayers never provide decent evidence that banner ads fail to deliver business. They assume a correlation when banner ads were available for two years and business didn't improve or went down in that time. It could be a lot of things.
A better measure of banner ads would be a (*gasp*) human factors study on their psychological influence. Kind of like how they measure television ads with a test audience. The only banners that really catch my attention are the ones that offer discounts for a product I was going to get anyway, or clever adds for movies.
Unfortunately, to be truly noticeable, they probably have to have sight and sound. I've always like the "sink the putt" applet banner. Don't remember what the ad was for, though....
Specifically, @Home TOS forbids you from using your computer as a remote server. Not exactly what the article states, but that's how they can shut down accounts on a P2P network.
The "spirit" of this rule is to prevent someone with a "Hot Prawn" business from serving Megabytes of information and choking the bandwidth from the occasional user. There are times when traffic brings my local node to its proverbial knees, so its not an unwarranted provision.
Every little bit does help. This case sets up precedent which allows Californians to cite in similar suits. If all conditions are the same, the plaintiff (Spammee) should be able to show how California has previously upheld the law. It doesn't help in other states, however, and you need to pursue your own Spammers.
If Kozmo were still worth something, this case would have spawned a class action lawsuit.
As one of the final acts of this sessions state Senate, Maryland signed into law that there be uniform voting procedures throughout the state. This is partially because of the Florida fiasco that Florida didn't get to solve, but also because some districts ran out of ballots. Had Maryland been the swing state, it would have been just as ugly. Being a Marylander, I was glad to hear about voting issues one more time.
Slashdot Mirror
Box Camera.
This technique does better at reducing an image. It is a novelty, but the "projector" is huge.
Contract Conditions = Contradicitions?
Maybe I should read the EULA more carefully.
Everything I touch...turns to mush.
Sega is proving itself to be cutting-edge-and-then-abandon before technology can take a foothold. I'd hate to see this kill the XBox as Japanese will perceive it as the next Sega Machine.
At least this in line with the XBox Dreamcast compatibility rumor from earlier this year.
Soleau Software and Everett Kaser Games. Soleau has many platform-style puzzlers of the Sokoban and Boulderdash varieties. Kaser also has these, but the best are Sherlock and Honeycomb Hotel. These last two games are like logic word games ("Mr. Johnson likes apples", only completely graphic (picture of a man over a picture of an apple). They teach deduction and observation.
Best of all, they're free to try, and cheap to buy.
Please judge XBox for XBox. The bundle deal encouraging Microsoft titles would only be anti-competitive if these titles were available for other systems. There are two viable other choices, and XBox, PS2, and GameCube sales will reflect what people want.
What we have here is a Playstation One vs. Jaguar vs. 3DO situation all over again. Which will be the Jag? You decide.
Nintendo is the majority stockholder of Rare, I believe about 75%. They are a Nintendo company. It's nice to see they allow some variety in their games.
Couldn't they at least provide the queries to link to from their Top Ten lists? What's up with the rise and fall of the Carol Brady Maiden Name search? There must have been a Millionaire question or the like. I find the lists to be titillating to the point of frustration.
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Doesn't this agreement violate state laws about police powers? If you don't get a speeding ticket, regardless of GPS reading, how can you prove he was speeding? (if a tree falls in a forest...) And lastly, I know enough about GPS that there are occasional errors that could send your readings flying at an impossible rate. I wonder how much in excess of 90mph he was going? 3372mph?
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The joystick and buttons are crap. Not only are they useless for games (see earlier post), they aren't very robust feeling.
Compaq has sealed up the hole in the stylus silo in later models 3650 and all 3670s. They will fix any dusty screen problems by warranty for free regardless of how long you've had it.
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I like the concept. I also feel that Politicians should be responsible for every political sign that ends up illegally polluting our roadways. However, what if a spammer wanted to kill a company by spamming unsolicited ads? Then the company is responsible for something they had absolutely no control over--which is often the case with political signs as well.
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Although you and I think it illustrates the absurdity, the US Attorney was actually using it as an argument to surpress free speech. He was citing is as a logical similarity to blatantly terrorist acts. I think Oscar26 nailed it. He was talking down to the judge.
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You can make no logical conclusion about DeCSS from this argument. Lives aren't in danger. Safety isn't compromised. This was probably in arguments and he was free to say anything--and apparently he did.
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(Moe taps crayon further into Homer's brain)
Homer: Extended Warranty? How can I lose?
Moe (exasperated): Still not dumb enough!
(Tap! Tap!)
Homer: Always trust Microsoft.
Moe: Bingo!
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I completely don't understand Golf as a spectator sport, it's something you do not something you watch. Same thing with bowling, really.
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However, it would be nice if the reviewers at the patent office had expert knowledge in the area in which they reviewed patents. For example, in the above article, I'd reject the patent and require a more detailed application because I know of the prior art this patent infringes upon.
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"Scalable Architecture" is such a non-legal phrase because it is so vague (esp. considering future technologies), that someone should be tugged by the shorthairs until they say "Uncle!" Also the multi-user crap is vague. If you and a friend take turns on the original Wolfenstein 3D, it is multi-user, literally.
Prior art, prior art, prior art! General use, general use, general use! Now I just need a bell, book, and candle to complete the patent revokation!
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Lucikly, the (O) will give them to ability to tackle the legal issues to protect their own interests, though.
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Sorry to participate in a flame war! No, I'm not right, I'm just conjecturing. However, Nintendo is frequently very late with hardware, N64 notoriously late by over a year. Their CD drive for Super Nintendo vaporized for Nintendo and formed the basis of (quiz!) the Sony Playstation. I have a basis for my opinion, but believe me, I'd love to see the 2001 launch.
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Very Anonymous and very cowardly. I humored you and checked the FAQ. No DVD support. The disk is not standard format. No screenshots except the ones from last year. And finally, still stuck on Pokemon. Maybe you should read the FAQ yourself, hmm?
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There are countless things right about the system, but two really big negatives:
I think it'll debut in the US in Oct 2002 or NEVER.
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The sound quality aspect of these speakers is conspicuously missing from the article. Must not have much bass. "Singing" greeting cards use this technology, and we all know how good they sound!
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A better measure of banner ads would be a (*gasp*) human factors study on their psychological influence. Kind of like how they measure television ads with a test audience. The only banners that really catch my attention are the ones that offer discounts for a product I was going to get anyway, or clever adds for movies.
Unfortunately, to be truly noticeable, they probably have to have sight and sound. I've always like the "sink the putt" applet banner. Don't remember what the ad was for, though....
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The "spirit" of this rule is to prevent someone with a "Hot Prawn" business from serving Megabytes of information and choking the bandwidth from the occasional user. There are times when traffic brings my local node to its proverbial knees, so its not an unwarranted provision.
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If Kozmo were still worth something, this case would have spawned a class action lawsuit.
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As one of the final acts of this sessions state Senate, Maryland signed into law that there be uniform voting procedures throughout the state. This is partially because of the Florida fiasco that Florida didn't get to solve, but also because some districts ran out of ballots. Had Maryland been the swing state, it would have been just as ugly. Being a Marylander, I was glad to hear about voting issues one more time.
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