Can I borrow your crystal ball? I figure if it can predict the (as yet unannounced) price of a console a year before its release I could use it to make a killing on the stock exchange...
The 'Nintendo sells millions of extra GCs at Walmart' myth has been pretty much debunked by Nintendo's own sales figures. And since they track shipped figures rather than sell-through (well they would - it's where they get paid, and they can't track sales to consumers as accurately) the fact that they're stopping production due to overstocking suggests the numbers are worse for them than their reports suggest.
I agree 100% that Nintendo are no Sega at the moment, but to claim that they are doing 'fine and dandy' in the US is just a little delusional IMO.
Accurate worldwide sales figures are a little difficult to come by, but all the numbers I've seen suggest that there's very little difference between GC and XBox in terms of units sold. XBox is dead in the water in Japan, GC is in a fairly similar state in the US, and not much better off in Europe.
No, I read through it in detail before even looking at the comments, so I saw little things you might have missed. Like the fact that the 'intro' was posted at 4:30PM, and the meaty analysis of the merits and flaws of the RedHat case was posted at 9:30AM. Hence my suggestion that you read from the bottom up, in the order that the information was posted.
If you do try this, don't forget to let us all know how it goes. I'd be interested in hearing how SCO UK are responding to the whole thing - it might, after all, just be the US side of things that's going lawsuit crazy. I know I'd feel kind of embarassed if I were a foreign arm of SCO.:)
Also, might be interesting to check up on the relevant laws in the UK and see if SCO are even more open to being taken down for fraud/extortion over here.
Clue: read from the bottom up (ie. in the order things were posted). Seems to me he does a pretty good job of stating the facts before springing out terms like 'jerkheads'.
I didn't say their case would be a good one: just that there almost certainly is some code which they can show to some extent might have been taken from their codebase. It seems pretty much the case that even if the entirity of Linux were SCO source code with the copyright stripped out and replaced with "(c) 1998 L1NuX T0RVAlD5!!!1 SC0 SUxX0RZ!!1" they've done enough to ensure that they still don't have a leg to stand on...
I can't see SCO not having any evidence on their side (no matter how tenuous) - my guess would be that there is disputed code, that it's not terribly impressive, and that SCO know full well that the moment it's made public, it will be out of the kernel and replaced with something better.
If I were cynical, I might suggest that SCO's desperate attempts to make sure that nobody can actually find out what parts of the code are in question represent a transparent attempt to make sure this doesn't happen.
Maybe I'm just odd, but I'd rather learn a language for its beauty than how useful it is. Maybe that's because I've already got a couple of the 'useful' ones under my belt. Which is why, if I ever get round to it, the next language I'm going to learn is Welsh (which despite the jokes has more vowels than English)...
I have a degree in computer science. The day you will get a college degree, or at least some formal qualification, you won't need to go around saying: I am a "Java programmer".
What utter garbage. I'd describe myself primarily as a Java programmer, and I've got a college degree, a masters degree and a bucketful of professional qualifications.
Who are you that you can say what can be important in someone else situation?
I don't know. Who are you that you can say the same? There are plenty of cases where Java can be used in shell scripts, or where the same functionality can be achieved using a tool such as Ant (which is very widely used these days). Startup time isn't always the be all and end all of what people need from their programs. If it is, then obviously there are better tools than Java. I'd have hoped that at some point they'd have taught you in your college degree that there are plenty of tools out there and that there's such a thing as picking the right tool for a given job. That tool may be Java, it may be perl, it may be lovingly hand-crafted assembly code.
The fact that you seem to ignore that means that you also ignore the things that you can do with the JDK that you can't do with gcj, and ignore the requirements people may have that your preferred way of working doesn't address. And also, it seems, the fact that some people don't agree with your blanket generalisations.
Good point. I suppose you also get the 'feeling scared' category there - they're trading music anyway, but they care about the copyright laws because they fear the RIAA will be beating down their door and taking their computer away...
No, I think it's more to do with tight-fisted bastards who want to get stuff for free even when they know they should be paying for it. I'd be willing to bet that only a very small percentage of those people are trading exclusively in files that would have been in the public domain if it weren't for recent copyright law changes, for example.
It's no big surprise to discover that most people who violate copyright laws aren't concerned about violating copyright laws. I'm more surprised by the other third - do they represent the traders of legal files (new Linux distros, freely tradeable music etc.) or the truly stupid?
Who cares whether Apple makes it? The same applies to [b]any[/b] similar MP3 player - personally my first thought was of the Neuros, which has this functionality built-in.
Directly? No. But then the iPod's headphone amp isn't capable of generating an FM radio signal directly either, so I'm assuming we're allowed the luxury of some hardware in between (either using the car stereo's amp, which would be the preferable option, or another small amp).
The poor quality of cassette players is at least partly down to the poor quality of the storage medium, something which is avoided with an iPod and a decent quality cassette adapter, of course. There's almost certainly some degradation, but then there's almost certainly some degradation in transmitting the signal over FM as well.
As for a hardware hack that modulates the signal onto the aerial cable directly, why not just go for the easier option and build an input jack that lets you drive the car speakers from your iPod? Probably just as easy, almost certainly better quality sound reproduction.:)
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Actually, they might well do. But at least it would be easy to tell who won the argument by a quick count of limbs.
Google says:
Eminem - 2,230,000
Mozart - 1,970,000
Burger - 1,670,000
Caviar - 575,000
Piss - 2,750,000
Chardonnay - 742,000
Your point?
Well, you can already get Gimp for PS2, so Nintendo have to catch up somehow. ;)
Can I borrow your crystal ball? I figure if it can predict the (as yet unannounced) price of a console a year before its release I could use it to make a killing on the stock exchange...
The 'Nintendo sells millions of extra GCs at Walmart' myth has been pretty much debunked by Nintendo's own sales figures. And since they track shipped figures rather than sell-through (well they would - it's where they get paid, and they can't track sales to consumers as accurately) the fact that they're stopping production due to overstocking suggests the numbers are worse for them than their reports suggest.
I agree 100% that Nintendo are no Sega at the moment, but to claim that they are doing 'fine and dandy' in the US is just a little delusional IMO.
Let's see how the PSP launch goes before being too certain of that...
Accurate worldwide sales figures are a little difficult to come by, but all the numbers I've seen suggest that there's very little difference between GC and XBox in terms of units sold. XBox is dead in the water in Japan, GC is in a fairly similar state in the US, and not much better off in Europe.
Really? I thought SCO's corporate anthem was the Doom Song from Invader Zim...
No, I read through it in detail before even looking at the comments, so I saw little things you might have missed. Like the fact that the 'intro' was posted at 4:30PM, and the meaty analysis of the merits and flaws of the RedHat case was posted at 9:30AM. Hence my suggestion that you read from the bottom up, in the order that the information was posted.
If you do try this, don't forget to let us all know how it goes. I'd be interested in hearing how SCO UK are responding to the whole thing - it might, after all, just be the US side of things that's going lawsuit crazy. I know I'd feel kind of embarassed if I were a foreign arm of SCO. :)
Also, might be interesting to check up on the relevant laws in the UK and see if SCO are even more open to being taken down for fraud/extortion over here.
Clue: read from the bottom up (ie. in the order things were posted). Seems to me he does a pretty good job of stating the facts before springing out terms like 'jerkheads'.
AIUI, the PS2 Linux is based around kernel 2.2, and as a result isn't included.
I didn't say their case would be a good one: just that there almost certainly is some code which they can show to some extent might have been taken from their codebase. It seems pretty much the case that even if the entirity of Linux were SCO source code with the copyright stripped out and replaced with "(c) 1998 L1NuX T0RVAlD5!!!1 SC0 SUxX0RZ!!1" they've done enough to ensure that they still don't have a leg to stand on...
I can't see SCO not having any evidence on their side (no matter how tenuous) - my guess would be that there is disputed code, that it's not terribly impressive, and that SCO know full well that the moment it's made public, it will be out of the kernel and replaced with something better.
Well, duh. The problem would go away.
If I were cynical, I might suggest that SCO's desperate attempts to make sure that nobody can actually find out what parts of the code are in question represent a transparent attempt to make sure this doesn't happen.
That's nothing - he can do that with both of his faces as well.
Maybe I'm just odd, but I'd rather learn a language for its beauty than how useful it is. Maybe that's because I've already got a couple of the 'useful' ones under my belt. Which is why, if I ever get round to it, the next language I'm going to learn is Welsh (which despite the jokes has more vowels than English)...
There's no place like localhost? I don't get it... Surely it should read "There's no place like ~/.."?
What utter garbage. I'd describe myself primarily as a Java programmer, and I've got a college degree, a masters degree and a bucketful of professional qualifications.
I don't know. Who are you that you can say the same? There are plenty of cases where Java can be used in shell scripts, or where the same functionality can be achieved using a tool such as Ant (which is very widely used these days). Startup time isn't always the be all and end all of what people need from their programs. If it is, then obviously there are better tools than Java. I'd have hoped that at some point they'd have taught you in your college degree that there are plenty of tools out there and that there's such a thing as picking the right tool for a given job. That tool may be Java, it may be perl, it may be lovingly hand-crafted assembly code.
The fact that you seem to ignore that means that you also ignore the things that you can do with the JDK that you can't do with gcj, and ignore the requirements people may have that your preferred way of working doesn't address. And also, it seems, the fact that some people don't agree with your blanket generalisations.
Good point. I suppose you also get the 'feeling scared' category there - they're trading music anyway, but they care about the copyright laws because they fear the RIAA will be beating down their door and taking their computer away...
No, I think it's more to do with tight-fisted bastards who want to get stuff for free even when they know they should be paying for it. I'd be willing to bet that only a very small percentage of those people are trading exclusively in files that would have been in the public domain if it weren't for recent copyright law changes, for example.
It's no big surprise to discover that most people who violate copyright laws aren't concerned about violating copyright laws. I'm more surprised by the other third - do they represent the traders of legal files (new Linux distros, freely tradeable music etc.) or the truly stupid?
Who cares whether Apple makes it? The same applies to [b]any[/b] similar MP3 player - personally my first thought was of the Neuros, which has this functionality built-in.
Directly? No. But then the iPod's headphone amp isn't capable of generating an FM radio signal directly either, so I'm assuming we're allowed the luxury of some hardware in between (either using the car stereo's amp, which would be the preferable option, or another small amp).
The poor quality of cassette players is at least partly down to the poor quality of the storage medium, something which is avoided with an iPod and a decent quality cassette adapter, of course. There's almost certainly some degradation, but then there's almost certainly some degradation in transmitting the signal over FM as well.
:)
As for a hardware hack that modulates the signal onto the aerial cable directly, why not just go for the easier option and build an input jack that lets you drive the car speakers from your iPod? Probably just as easy, almost certainly better quality sound reproduction.