I disagree-- you draw comparisons between ISA and PCI (well, the previous author did too, to be fair), then state that this situation does not exist with these new motherboard/case design requirements. But it does, the new ATX standard exists soley to support newer processors (I don't see how this couldn't benefit future AMD processors as they move forward). The new power supply standards will benefit AMD as well, since it's their processors that have notoriously drawn the MOST power from motherboards.
If these aren't "better alternatives", I don't know what are.
...the reason it won't really apply is because it was a patent dispute. Not to be redundant, but as you said, the copyright suits are undecided and those are what would carry the most weight in the 2600 case.
A case that I think *does* apply to this is the Sega v. Accolade case (hosted on www.eff.org in their case law section, so they're already aware of it, I'm not sure if the defense brought it up however..). In that case, Accolade reverse engineered the Sega Genesis to create compatible games for the console. After releasing some titles for the system, Sega made a change to their hardware to display the Sega logo everytime the system booted (or rather, whenever code from the cartridge issued a specific, BUT REQUIRED, initialization instruction).
The similarities here are that Accolade was reverse engineering the console for compatibilities sake. Really, the case of DeCSS is the same-- except in this case, the end result desired was a piece of code/software which could decode and play the content. (Although it could go both ways, couldn't it? Now that CSS's algorithm is known, you could (if you desired anyway) encode your own content.
But back to the Connectix case; I admit, I wish it could be applied, but for the reasons you stated, I just don't think it can. Maybe the appeals judge will be more inviting of case law and the idea that the motion picture industry is basically trying to create their own monopoly. (And HOPEFULLY the appeals judge will be more mindful of the 1st amendment!)
Every corporation (for some reason that still eludes me) tends to incorporate in Deleware. Don't ask me why, since almost *none* of them have their HQ in the state. (For an example of this Deleware habit, look at the MPAA vs. 2600 legal documents that have the full listing of the plaintiffs-- almost all of them end with a statement along the lines of "a corporation lawfully incorporated in the state of Deleware".)
My personal guesses so far?
A. It's cheaper to register as a business in Deleware (Wow, look Mr. CEO, we saved $5 on this business registration, won't our investors just LOVE that!).
B. Something to do with tax laws perhaps?
C. Something to do with more favorable state laws with relation to business?
If anyone has any ideas as to why 75% of businesses incorporate in Deleware, I'd be curious to know the *real* answer.
As for the lawsuit: I'm glad someone is finally fighting Rambus on all of it's BS-- claiming to own patents on technology that has been around and in use this long is utterly absurd, especially considering how Rambus acquired those technologies (EG: JEDEC).
Your point? The SNES used 8-bit palletized color, except it chose those colors from a larger array of 32,768 colors. (Ultimately the most it could display at once was 256, and that was only in specific screen modes, usually ones not that friendly to developers).
About the photos, they look VERY nice, better than I imagined they'd look. Definately something I plan to buy when it's released (hey, I'm a Mario Kart addict, so sue me).
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I disagree-- you draw comparisons between ISA and PCI (well, the previous author did too, to be fair), then state that this situation does not exist with these new motherboard/case design requirements. But it does, the new ATX standard exists soley to support newer processors (I don't see how this couldn't benefit future AMD processors as they move forward). The new power supply standards will benefit AMD as well, since it's their processors that have notoriously drawn the MOST power from motherboards.
If these aren't "better alternatives", I don't know what are.
...the reason it won't really apply is because it was a patent dispute. Not to be redundant, but as you said, the copyright suits are undecided and those are what would carry the most weight in the 2600 case.
A case that I think *does* apply to this is the Sega v. Accolade case (hosted on www.eff.org in their case law section, so they're already aware of it, I'm not sure if the defense brought it up however..). In that case, Accolade reverse engineered the Sega Genesis to create compatible games for the console. After releasing some titles for the system, Sega made a change to their hardware to display the Sega logo everytime the system booted (or rather, whenever code from the cartridge issued a specific, BUT REQUIRED, initialization instruction).
The similarities here are that Accolade was reverse engineering the console for compatibilities sake. Really, the case of DeCSS is the same-- except in this case, the end result desired was a piece of code/software which could decode and play the content. (Although it could go both ways, couldn't it? Now that CSS's algorithm is known, you could (if you desired anyway) encode your own content.
But back to the Connectix case; I admit, I wish it could be applied, but for the reasons you stated, I just don't think it can. Maybe the appeals judge will be more inviting of case law and the idea that the motion picture industry is basically trying to create their own monopoly. (And HOPEFULLY the appeals judge will be more mindful of the 1st amendment!)
Every corporation (for some reason that still eludes me) tends to incorporate in Deleware. Don't ask me why, since almost *none* of them have their HQ in the state. (For an example of this Deleware habit, look at the MPAA vs. 2600 legal documents that have the full listing of the plaintiffs-- almost all of them end with a statement along the lines of "a corporation lawfully incorporated in the state of Deleware".)
My personal guesses so far?
A. It's cheaper to register as a business in Deleware (Wow, look Mr. CEO, we saved $5 on this business registration, won't our investors just LOVE that!).
B. Something to do with tax laws perhaps?
C. Something to do with more favorable state laws with relation to business?
If anyone has any ideas as to why 75% of businesses incorporate in Deleware, I'd be curious to know the *real* answer.
As for the lawsuit: I'm glad someone is finally fighting Rambus on all of it's BS-- claiming to own patents on technology that has been around and in use this long is utterly absurd, especially considering how Rambus acquired those technologies (EG: JEDEC).
Your point? The SNES used 8-bit palletized color, except it chose those colors from a larger array of 32,768 colors. (Ultimately the most it could display at once was 256, and that was only in specific screen modes, usually ones not that friendly to developers).
About the photos, they look VERY nice, better than I imagined they'd look. Definately something I plan to buy when it's released (hey, I'm a Mario Kart addict, so sue me).