R. personal (not "actiongram") email;
S. personal email with in-district postal address for reply;
I was assuming that any personal email would be in-district and that a modified actiongram email (where you rewrite it in your own words) was the same thing, but good catches.
And is it actually
1 personal appearance = 50,000 emails? Thought it was about 1 = 1000.
A lot of/.ers like email and tech forms of communication. Can you give us any insight into which methods work best? I've provided what I think might be a ranking order, from best to worst, in terms of methods of communicating with a legislator on a bill, based on my experience, but could you give us any ratios?
An example might be: 1 personal appearance at his office = 2 conversations at a house party = 100 handwritten letters = 200 handwritten postcards = 1000 typed letters = 50,000 emails.
Here's my list of methods I can think of:
A. talking with legislator when he's gardening or fixing the car on a bill;
B. lunch or coffee (one on one);
C. personal appearance at his office (phoned in ahead, as a constituent);
D. personal conversation at a house party or fundraiser (more than 1 minute);
E. question at a constituency open house (as advertised in local papers) (usually have 20-40 people);
F. handwritten postcard with cool pics on other side;
G. handwritten postcard found free in coffee shop or movie house;
H. handwritten letter, hand addressed;
I. typed letter, hand signed, with hand P.S.;
J. typed postcard, hand signed, with hand P.S.;
K. fax, hand signed;
L. actiongram faxed letter like on EDF or EFF;
M. actiongram email, modified from boilerplate in own words;
N. actiongram email, boilerplate;
O. wierd knick knack gift, like a techie toy we have tons of, wrapped up in a box and sent;
P. wierd knick knack gift, connected to issue;
Q. boring gift, like stapler remover from local Kiwanas
Anything I missed?
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Some might say this isn't where the market needs to be, but this is starting to hit the sweet spot.
Most people want a way to surf the Net and be able to watch (and control) their TV and stereo. This gives them both, is priced reasonably, and has a reasonable form factor.
I'll buy one when it hits the $500 price mark - looks right to me, and better than the $1600 Linux webpad previously covered on/.
1. Europe is growing rapidly, but not pulling Africa along with it.
2. Asia/Pacific is moving from a US-centric model to a Pacific model centered in Japan and Australia.
Both of these are fairly good things for the Net, and the first has positive implications for Privacy rights and where the Net will change, as the US fails to take the lead on things such as opt-in email requirements and consumer privacy, but the EU provides and enforces them. This will be the major battle of the zeros decade, as well as the transparency and ubiquity of the Net in most European countries and their direct colonies.
The breakdown of the US-centric Pacific/Asian model is probably good, as it was a bad fit before, but has negative implications for Privacy and also for Piracy. However, it may lead to increased growth of open source computing, as these regions deal with both growth and a downturn in economic fortunes. The need for servers and Net components will increase, but pressure to drop prices will most certainly kill MSFT control of this area, which will help force open source into most transparent background Net technology.
So the question then is, is this good for Open Source computing? I mean, this gives us dollar metrics like the IDG and other measurement people want, but the end work product couldn't be described as beneficial, so it's really not that good that this happens.
Of course, the same could be argued about a Win2K or WinXP hacked clone - but the utility in solving nuclear equations and modeling explosions is not as high.
Even a suitcase bomb requires that you have:
1. component parts - detonator, nuclear material, shaping material
2. supercomputer to model the charge shape and impact velocities
3. willingness to deliver the material (even if lead shielded)
We know that they have #3, this HP open source supercomputer may give them #2, now they only have to pick up #1 - maybe Pakistan or the Taliban have such and will sell them to raise cash or create more problems for us.
And his existence on the Net/Web certainly predates that of Yahoo! in all reasonable perceptions. Back when I was an author publishing in Australia and New Zealand, I remember his strong establishment of his trademark, long before the.com explosion was a glimmer in any of our eyes. Under international law, and considering his global reach even then, his true right is obviously much stronger than the current usurper, regardless of how much money and how many lawyers they may have.
One might hope he uses his rights under the DCMA to subvert their web engines and redirect them to various other places.
I can't say this is good. Noone likes those popup ads that lock you in, and do other unethical things. However, I dont think it's good for the government, or anyone, to say it's illegal/disallowed.
Like killing people, blowing up things, or taking your PC from your home while you're at school?
Namely, You are connecting to THEIR machine.
Mail server administrators block spam because they are using their resources, why can't these people claim the same? After all, you're using THEIR resources, shouldnt they have the right to send any data on a connection that YOU initiated? (Though I realize you might not have intentionally made that connection; they can be sneaky, but the point remains.)
I just don't like regulation, If it's bad and wrong, it's the clients job to work with the received data. But noone's blaming Microsoft, Netscape, Mozilla, or Konq (and you really can't blame the last 2, they're implementing things to take care of this junk).
Target a solution, rather than the cause and punishment.
Wrong. Some people send spam with http get requests to request an image, then use the request to track who responded and what server it was. I did not consent to this.
Basically, it comes down to privacy. I have the right to shoot intruders in my home with a gun. I should be able to do the same to the CEO and execs of the spam firms that use such tricks.
Now that Netscape is dead, the problems unfortunately remain. Browsers shouldn't have scripting embedded in them, period. If you like scripting, then you have to expect and put up with this crap. There's no way to legislate people to stop doing things like this.
No, there is a way to legislate this. We programmers just don't want to admit that the language is wrong, that we may be forced, due to unintended consequences, to amend the Javascript code.
And this is something the FCC or FTC could require be fixed, just as they can change the standards for HDTV (FCC due to communications standards, FTC due to trade implications).
The only way to stop them is to disable scripting on your browser. The more flexibility a program has, the less secure it is. Scripting adds almost no value to websites, and is now just a tool of marketers, used more against you than for you. They track you with it. They take over your web experience with it. They keep tabs on what you're doing... and sometimes even take over your machine when flaws are discovered and exploited. I have serious problems with other people running their code on my machine, and therefore disable all scripting.
Consequantly, I don't every seem to have any problems with pop-up windows, pop-under windows, "trapped" browsers, infinite-loop "back" buttons, etc.
Turn off scripting. Encourage websites to stop using it. The web is full of more than enough bloated crap already. While you're at it, get rid of flash, and all the rest of the plugins.
I do this too, but yahoo, slashdot, and cNet all try to pop up Javascript - it's boring clicking "No" each time, but a lot better knowing they can't run the code on my PC. And I don't get to choose which browser I use at work, or the default settings...
Look, I've got nothing against people (not businesses) sending me email cause they ran into me at a party and want to get in touch with me.
But I get up to 100 emails per account per day, and more than half of that is spam. Much has fraudulent headers.
There is no US Constitutional right to spam people, or the anti-spam fax laws would have been tossed. Congress is a patsy for the commercial interests. It sounds like Europe's elected officials also get money from the pro-opt-out commercial interests.
But I don't have time to get 50 x 4 = 200 unsolicited opt-out emails every day. And the act of opting-out allows them to know that I'm a live account and send me more spam.
Give me Opt-In or Give me Death!
And if I have to move to Europe to get the Right to Privacy that I should have as a US citizen, than maybe I'll just move to France or Spain and get rid of all these intrusions.
Somthing so vile that almost all terrorists, criminals, and other bad people use...
Somthing that is so easy to get ahold of that anyone can get them.
And that is... Pants! Yes, Pants! Just about every crime is commited by someone that is wearing pants! (unless you're in Scotland).
We need to stop the insanity by cutting off the supply of pants to the world. Heaven forbid that somone commits a crime becouse it was so easy to get some pants.
And that's why freedom-loving true blooded Americans are buying Utilikilts in record numbers. They're manufactured in the US right here in Seattle, where terrorists tried to blow up the Space Needle, and all the fine workers there love their Fremont neighborhood location.
So, buy American! Get rid of your pants - only terrorists would wear them!
The reason why the record industry is doing poorly is because they sued Napster and shut them down. I used Napster to listen to music I liked but couldn't find on the radio. If I liked a song enough I went out and actually bought the CD that the song existed on. It isn't enough for me to download the song onto the one machine I have dedicated for that task, I wanted to be able to listen to the whole CD and that meant that I bought it.
Have to agree. I've gotten to the point where I'll buy the CD direct from the Artist or at something like WOMAD where I can be sure I get a good CD, but will only buy CDs if they have MP3 versions too nowadays.
The whole thing just hurts my head, so I just am balking at sending any more money the corporate music pathway, and finding myself turning into other music forms where people don't pull tricks like this.
Agreed, using the "downgraded" CD wording is a good idea, and helps consumers understand they're buying defective product. To help with that we need a "downgraded" CD list site, which lists all the CDs proven to be "downgraded for your listening displeasure".
Catchy alternative CD labels should also be used. Let's say that we heard that N'Sync came out with a new CD entitled "All Your Hearts" (this is totally made up, by the way, as an example).
We would then have on such a site a listing as follows:
Manufacturer - Artist - CD Title - Downgraded Title
Sony - N'Sync - All Your Hearts - Some of your Hearts
Is that AMD has continued to gain market share, but in a declining market where Intel is engaging in price wars.
So basically, AMD is winning the chip market battle, but fewer chips are being bought and to get the return, they have to drop the price even lower than usual, as Intel isn't overcharging as much as they usually do.
None of this is likely to change before January 2002.
I haven't closely inspected the BSD license, personally. If in fact, as you say, it's a loophole in it, and by going the BSD route instead of GPL, the author created a vulnerability, then it's a useful object lesson.
Basically it comes down to this:
If you want intellectual property for you and your heirs, go the trade secret or commercial (private code) copyright route. Patents for key technologies are included in this.
If you want to improve society and just want recognition and "free bheer", than go GPL.
If you are unsure, choose BSD. This may be the worst of the above choices, but you can feel honorable nonetheless, even if it's not GPL.
If you are truly a good samaritan, consider GPL with public patents (ones granted to the UN or some useful agency or for public use).
1. Is this a case of a lift or merely a reverse engineer from the original structs for the devices? Could it be that both this person and the kernal koder read the same docs and specs? Or could someone have read his spec and then a kernal koder did a clean room create by asking questions of the person who read the spec. Both are protected uses, and MSFT uses similar things all the time.
2. Is it possible the kernel koder saw a non-copyright version of the code passed thru another hand, from when this person was working on the first set of code and passed it around for comment? If so, while there is implicit copyright, there is not declared copyright, and this is more an oversight than a theft.
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So only fakes. Not really difficult with something that is essentially a PC. Vaporware, obviously.
Are you implying that MSFT would lie to us and show us vaporware?
Oh, wait... MSFT.
Never mind...
Maybe Nintendo GameCube will come with a package
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My guess is Nintendo will do some cool bundles for the Thanksgiving and Christmas ones, where you pay $200 but get an extra game or a Pokemon version instead.
The controllers are going to be Game Boy Advance - throwing in spares eats into the GBA upgrade path from the GB Color that they're looking at right now.
Now if they could just release some of the cool Japan-only games for North America and throw those in the bundle, that would be severely cool.
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MSFT missed their ship date and indications are the consumers won't buy many xBox units due to pricing and lack of games that sustain interest.
NTDOY is doing well, but the Japanese market is even worse than ours - my $10K in Nintendo is down to $7K right now due to currency.
It looks like Nintendo will have a killer year, so if I had spare cash, I'd buy some Nintendo on the Nikkei exchange with US dollars.
My guess is Nintendo will win, MSFT will end up third. MSFT needed to be second to stay in the race, so they're dead by 2004 is my guess.
I'm holding my NTDOY stock. I'm not selling my MSFT stock, since it's 90 percent a holding company and the xBox failing won't impact profits much, just another failed product.
I said: Of course, I believe Catch 22 is a copyrighted phrase, since it appears in copyrighted books and movies. In which case both of us are liable to be sued, most likely by the company that owns the right to the movie.
and AC said: Well, it's not like Joseph Heller's would be suing you, what with him being dead and all that.
Like that stopped the estates of Disney, ERB, and many other writers. They still have copyright.
Many of the spectrum correction bits that Clinton allowed released to the public may go back to encrypted mode, too, since they can be used for accurate attacks.
Wouldn't want to be a pilot near Afghanistan right now - might have to switch to visual especially if the radar jamming is activated.
After all, we just sent down a whole mess of our ESWBs from here, and they're not there for the sunshine...
THATS the term i was looking for earlier!!! Catch 22!! That's the risk the talked about but couldnt think of the right phrase!
Of course, I believe Catch 22 is a copyrighted phrase, since it appears in copyrighted books and movies. In which case both of us are liable to be sued, most likely by the company that owns the right to the movie.
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A couple variations you missed:
R. personal (not "actiongram") email;
S. personal email with in-district postal address for reply;
I was assuming that any personal email would be in-district and that a modified actiongram email (where you rewrite it in your own words) was the same thing, but good catches.
And is it actually
1 personal appearance = 50,000 emails? Thought it was about 1 = 1000.
A lot of /.ers like email and tech forms of communication. Can you give us any insight into which methods work best? I've provided what I think might be a ranking order, from best to worst, in terms of methods of communicating with a legislator on a bill, based on my experience, but could you give us any ratios?
An example might be: 1 personal appearance at his office = 2 conversations at a house party = 100 handwritten letters = 200 handwritten postcards = 1000 typed letters = 50,000 emails.
Here's my list of methods I can think of:
A. talking with legislator when he's gardening or fixing the car on a bill;
B. lunch or coffee (one on one);
C. personal appearance at his office (phoned in ahead, as a constituent);
D. personal conversation at a house party or fundraiser (more than 1 minute);
E. question at a constituency open house (as advertised in local papers) (usually have 20-40 people);
F. handwritten postcard with cool pics on other side;
G. handwritten postcard found free in coffee shop or movie house;
H. handwritten letter, hand addressed;
I. typed letter, hand signed, with hand P.S.;
J. typed postcard, hand signed, with hand P.S.;
K. fax, hand signed;
L. actiongram faxed letter like on EDF or EFF;
M. actiongram email, modified from boilerplate in own words;
N. actiongram email, boilerplate;
O. wierd knick knack gift, like a techie toy we have tons of, wrapped up in a box and sent;
P. wierd knick knack gift, connected to issue;
Q. boring gift, like stapler remover from local Kiwanas
Anything I missed?
Some might say this isn't where the market needs to be, but this is starting to hit the sweet spot.
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Most people want a way to surf the Net and be able to watch (and control) their TV and stereo. This gives them both, is priced reasonably, and has a reasonable form factor.
I'll buy one when it hits the $500 price mark - looks right to me, and better than the $1600 Linux webpad previously covered on
The main things one gets from this are:
1. Europe is growing rapidly, but not pulling Africa along with it.
2. Asia/Pacific is moving from a US-centric model to a Pacific model centered in Japan and Australia.
Both of these are fairly good things for the Net, and the first has positive implications for Privacy rights and where the Net will change, as the US fails to take the lead on things such as opt-in email requirements and consumer privacy, but the EU provides and enforces them. This will be the major battle of the zeros decade, as well as the transparency and ubiquity of the Net in most European countries and their direct colonies.
The breakdown of the US-centric Pacific/Asian model is probably good, as it was a bad fit before, but has negative implications for Privacy and also for Piracy. However, it may lead to increased growth of open source computing, as these regions deal with both growth and a downturn in economic fortunes. The need for servers and Net components will increase, but pressure to drop prices will most certainly kill MSFT control of this area, which will help force open source into most transparent background Net technology.
Cool!
So the question then is, is this good for Open Source computing? I mean, this gives us dollar metrics like the IDG and other measurement people want, but the end work product couldn't be described as beneficial, so it's really not that good that this happens.
Of course, the same could be argued about a Win2K or WinXP hacked clone - but the utility in solving nuclear equations and modeling explosions is not as high.
Even a suitcase bomb requires that you have:
1. component parts - detonator, nuclear material, shaping material
2. supercomputer to model the charge shape and impact velocities
3. willingness to deliver the material (even if lead shielded)
We know that they have #3, this HP open source supercomputer may give them #2, now they only have to pick up #1 - maybe Pakistan or the Taliban have such and will sell them to raise cash or create more problems for us.
is that Iraq and Afghanistan could develop their own nuclear bomb programs.
Think about it. Mandrake supercomputer cluster + determination + funds = more fun for us.
And all the attempts by the NSA to restrict code will be meaningless.
And his existence on the Net/Web certainly predates that of Yahoo! in all reasonable perceptions. Back when I was an author publishing in Australia and New Zealand, I remember his strong establishment of his trademark, long before the .com explosion was a glimmer in any of our eyes. Under international law, and considering his global reach even then, his true right is obviously much stronger than the current usurper, regardless of how much money and how many lawyers they may have.
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One might hope he uses his rights under the DCMA to subvert their web engines and redirect them to various other places.
It's only fitting
One would think some enterprising fellow would make some nice labels that say "Consumer Warning: This CD Is Defective".
...
Truth in advertising
I'd buy a roll.
I can't say this is good. Noone likes those popup ads that lock you in, and do other unethical things. However, I dont think it's good for the government, or anyone, to say it's illegal/disallowed.
Like killing people, blowing up things, or taking your PC from your home while you're at school?
Namely, You are connecting to THEIR machine.
Mail server administrators block spam because they are using their resources, why can't these people claim the same? After all, you're using THEIR resources, shouldnt they have the right to send any data on a connection that YOU initiated? (Though I realize you might not have intentionally made that connection; they can be sneaky, but the point remains.)
I just don't like regulation, If it's bad and wrong, it's the clients job to work with the received data. But noone's blaming Microsoft, Netscape, Mozilla, or Konq (and you really can't blame the last 2, they're implementing things to take care of this junk).
Target a solution, rather than the cause and punishment.
Wrong. Some people send spam with http get requests to request an image, then use the request to track who responded and what server it was. I did not consent to this.
Basically, it comes down to privacy. I have the right to shoot intruders in my home with a gun. I should be able to do the same to the CEO and execs of the spam firms that use such tricks.
After all, it's home invasion, no?
Now that Netscape is dead, the problems unfortunately remain. Browsers shouldn't have scripting embedded in them, period. If you like scripting, then you have to expect and put up with this crap. There's no way to legislate people to stop doing things like this.
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No, there is a way to legislate this. We programmers just don't want to admit that the language is wrong, that we may be forced, due to unintended consequences, to amend the Javascript code.
And this is something the FCC or FTC could require be fixed, just as they can change the standards for HDTV (FCC due to communications standards, FTC due to trade implications).
The only way to stop them is to disable scripting on your browser. The more flexibility a program has, the less secure it is. Scripting adds almost no value to websites, and is now just a tool of marketers, used more against you than for you. They track you with it. They take over your web experience with it. They keep tabs on what you're doing... and sometimes even take over your machine when flaws are discovered and exploited. I have serious problems with other people running their code on my machine, and therefore disable all scripting.
Consequantly, I don't every seem to have any problems with pop-up windows, pop-under windows, "trapped" browsers, infinite-loop "back" buttons, etc.
Turn off scripting. Encourage websites to stop using it. The web is full of more than enough bloated crap already. While you're at it, get rid of flash, and all the rest of the plugins.
I do this too, but yahoo, slashdot, and cNet all try to pop up Javascript - it's boring clicking "No" each time, but a lot better knowing they can't run the code on my PC. And I don't get to choose which browser I use at work, or the default settings
or why I learned to love opt-in.
Look, I've got nothing against people (not businesses) sending me email cause they ran into me at a party and want to get in touch with me.
But I get up to 100 emails per account per day, and more than half of that is spam. Much has fraudulent headers.
There is no US Constitutional right to spam people, or the anti-spam fax laws would have been tossed. Congress is a patsy for the commercial interests. It sounds like Europe's elected officials also get money from the pro-opt-out commercial interests.
But I don't have time to get 50 x 4 = 200 unsolicited opt-out emails every day. And the act of opting-out allows them to know that I'm a live account and send me more spam.
Give me Opt-In or Give me Death!
And if I have to move to Europe to get the Right to Privacy that I should have as a US citizen, than maybe I'll just move to France or Spain and get rid of all these intrusions.
There is something we all need to stop...
Somthing so vile that almost all terrorists, criminals, and other bad people use...
Somthing that is so easy to get ahold of that anyone can get them.
And that is... Pants! Yes, Pants! Just about every crime is commited by someone that is wearing pants! (unless you're in Scotland).
We need to stop the insanity by cutting off the supply of pants to the world. Heaven forbid that somone commits a crime becouse it was so easy to get some pants.
And that's why freedom-loving true blooded Americans are buying Utilikilts in record numbers. They're manufactured in the US right here in Seattle, where terrorists tried to blow up the Space Needle, and all the fine workers there love their Fremont neighborhood location.
So, buy American! Get rid of your pants - only terrorists would wear them!
I've seen and watched almost every episode, from my first days in black and white as a kid.
And I have to say, minor technicalities aside, this is the best pilot in terms of creating a good series since then.
Yes, the biodecon scene was too obvious, but it was better in its entirety than the promo teasers led one to believe.
And the Vulcans being a little more emotional than they liked to admit was a very nice touch. The whole power shift between everyone is quite nice.
So long as they cut back on the transporter use, and let a few transporter accidents slip through, I can live with it.
And even though I loved Captain Proton, I'm very glad the Holodeck is gone.
Let the discovery begin!
The reason why the record industry is doing poorly is because they sued Napster and shut them down. I used Napster to listen to music I liked but couldn't find on the radio. If I liked a song enough I went out and actually bought the CD that the song existed on. It isn't enough for me to download the song onto the one machine I have dedicated for that task, I wanted to be able to listen to the whole CD and that meant that I bought it.
Have to agree. I've gotten to the point where I'll buy the CD direct from the Artist or at something like WOMAD where I can be sure I get a good CD, but will only buy CDs if they have MP3 versions too nowadays.
The whole thing just hurts my head, so I just am balking at sending any more money the corporate music pathway, and finding myself turning into other music forms where people don't pull tricks like this.
Agreed, using the "downgraded" CD wording is a good idea, and helps consumers understand they're buying defective product. To help with that we need a "downgraded" CD list site, which lists all the CDs proven to be "downgraded for your listening displeasure".
Catchy alternative CD labels should also be used. Let's say that we heard that N'Sync came out with a new CD entitled "All Your Hearts" (this is totally made up, by the way, as an example).
We would then have on such a site a listing as follows:
Manufacturer - Artist - CD Title - Downgraded Title
Sony - N'Sync - All Your Hearts - Some of your Hearts
Is that AMD has continued to gain market share, but in a declining market where Intel is engaging in price wars.
So basically, AMD is winning the chip market battle, but fewer chips are being bought and to get the return, they have to drop the price even lower than usual, as Intel isn't overcharging as much as they usually do.
None of this is likely to change before January 2002.
I haven't closely inspected the BSD license, personally. If in fact, as you say, it's a loophole in it, and by going the BSD route instead of GPL, the author created a vulnerability, then it's a useful object lesson.
Basically it comes down to this:
If you want intellectual property for you and your heirs, go the trade secret or commercial (private code) copyright route. Patents for key technologies are included in this.
If you want to improve society and just want recognition and "free bheer", than go GPL.
If you are unsure, choose BSD. This may be the worst of the above choices, but you can feel honorable nonetheless, even if it's not GPL.
If you are truly a good samaritan, consider GPL with public patents (ones granted to the UN or some useful agency or for public use).
1. Is this a case of a lift or merely a reverse engineer from the original structs for the devices? Could it be that both this person and the kernal koder read the same docs and specs? Or could someone have read his spec and then a kernal koder did a clean room create by asking questions of the person who read the spec. Both are protected uses, and MSFT uses similar things all the time.
2. Is it possible the kernel koder saw a non-copyright version of the code passed thru another hand, from when this person was working on the first set of code and passed it around for comment? If so, while there is implicit copyright, there is not declared copyright, and this is more an oversight than a theft.
So only fakes. Not really difficult with something that is essentially a PC. Vaporware, obviously.
... MSFT.
...
Are you implying that MSFT would lie to us and show us vaporware?
Oh, wait
Never mind
My guess is Nintendo will do some cool bundles for the Thanksgiving and Christmas ones, where you pay $200 but get an extra game or a Pokemon version instead.
The controllers are going to be Game Boy Advance - throwing in spares eats into the GBA upgrade path from the GB Color that they're looking at right now.
Now if they could just release some of the cool Japan-only games for North America and throw those in the bundle, that would be severely cool.
MSFT missed their ship date and indications are the consumers won't buy many xBox units due to pricing and lack of games that sustain interest.
NTDOY is doing well, but the Japanese market is even worse than ours - my $10K in Nintendo is down to $7K right now due to currency.
It looks like Nintendo will have a killer year, so if I had spare cash, I'd buy some Nintendo on the Nikkei exchange with US dollars.
My guess is Nintendo will win, MSFT will end up third. MSFT needed to be second to stay in the race, so they're dead by 2004 is my guess.
I'm holding my NTDOY stock. I'm not selling my MSFT stock, since it's 90 percent a holding company and the xBox failing won't impact profits much, just another failed product.
Cool! Regional GPS brownouts ...
Kind of suspected that, but had no proof. Just remember the spectrum charts from my days in the military and doing some work for cell phone providers.
I said: Of course, I believe Catch 22 is a copyrighted phrase, since it appears in copyrighted books and movies. In which case both of us are liable to be sued, most likely by the company that owns the right to the movie.
and AC said: Well, it's not like Joseph Heller's would be suing you, what with him being dead and all that.
Like that stopped the estates of Disney, ERB, and many other writers. They still have copyright.
Many of the spectrum correction bits that Clinton allowed released to the public may go back to encrypted mode, too, since they can be used for accurate attacks.
...
Wouldn't want to be a pilot near Afghanistan right now - might have to switch to visual especially if the radar jamming is activated.
After all, we just sent down a whole mess of our ESWBs from here, and they're not there for the sunshine
THATS the term i was looking for earlier!!! Catch 22!! That's the risk the talked about but couldnt think of the right phrase!
Of course, I believe Catch 22 is a copyrighted phrase, since it appears in copyrighted books and movies. In which case both of us are liable to be sued, most likely by the company that owns the right to the movie.
Aaaaaahhhhh!
Catch 22!