home-made ChatCords will be in violation of the company's intellectual property rights
That isn't true at all! The only thing in violation would be someone else making it for you (and giving or selling it to you).
It is totally legal to build one at home and use it personally - there isn't anything wrong with that. Patents keep others from launching a commercial venture with your idea.
I bet that it will be cut down for tv, but Adult Swim seems to be making a fortune selling DVD's. Give it a year and that is what they will really be pushing, "Get the full story at adultswim.com" or some other genius marketing maneuver
I like how people bitch about the lack of 'news for nerds' on this site lately. Then, when something comes along that's truely nerd worthy, everybody becomes a smart ass.
It's like when you go into a strip club: suddenly you are an expert in taste and "this" or "that" woman isn't good enough for you.
Doubt me? Look at the women outside of the club you wouldn't mind sleeping with - then go into the club and watch how you hold those dollars so tightly.
Worth it when you find 4 Gary Cooper movies (2 Disc set) for $4 and Return of the Pink Panther for another $4. I guess it all depends on your taste, but there is stuff in there for everyone (Airheads, Freddy Got Fingered, Road to Bali, The Man with Two Brains, etc).
I'm thinking that this type of thing should be good for screensavers and other hacks. I'd like to see Electric Sheep (http://electricsheep.org/)run entirely on the GPU.
Yahoo news posts a story about him cracking yet another protection mechanism, implying parallels with his past work. This news then spreads to Slashdot.
Funny, I found this via my Google homepage - top story, middle column
Never even looked at Google video, never cared. For some reason I *need* to now. Good job Google.
The whole point of having extreme organizations in culture is to remind us of certain points of view and moral obligations. When something rather crazy is happening, something most people don't tolerate, we support them. Most of the time they just chime in and let us know what they think.
It's the reason so many people are trashed on Slashdot. Gates has a vision, and a group behind him, RMS, the same - and so forth from McNealy to Jobs...
They all hit the mark from time to time, but other than that most people are just moving on in their own lives. But if they didn't offer their opinions then a lot of people wouldn't know what to think. Just like politics, science debate, whatever. Greenpeace isn't bad, they just miss the mark. A broken mouth piece shouts a few truths every few months.
Google Earth is a broadband, 3D application that not all computers can run.
* Apple Macintosh computers are not supported at this time (but we are working on it).
* Windows-based desktop PCs older than 4 years old may not be able to run it.
* Windows-based notebook PCs older than 2 years old may not be able to run it.
It's the funniest thing I've read today. I like telling users: Your computer is too old! I'm amazed that the recommended configuration is the same as Doom III...
I've looked into replacing the board - the machine is 6 years old. A mobo replacement would cost about $150.
As far as buying *any* hardware, I say "why" when a 30 cent DVD will give me a functioning machine. I just wanted a place to store settings, and a file share serves that purpose.
My question is, then why does my FCC taxes go up when I add DSL into my services? I'm almost to a point where intellectually I want to say "Fuck Cable". The line is expensive and programming is totally raping you in the wallet. All of these services have gotten cut throat and we lose everytime.
Phone, Cable, Satellite - all three dominate the advertising space, all three lie about one of the others to get their products sold. None of their lies are true. DSL *is* cheaper than cable, and the connection in my experience is the same when living where both are wired early in often. DSL requires you to purchase service with an ISP, cable doesn't. Your DSL's phone line makes you pay long distance, cable doesn't. Satellite *has* to make it's 'broadcast' digital yet their HDTV signal isn't as high as it could be (on certain channels) - they say cable isn't 100% digital - doesn't matter because 80-90% of the televisions aren't digital, high definition televisions - and not all the satellite and cable channels are HDTV either (of course).
Really, my cable and phone companies offer the same services except programming over the "phone line". A pure satellite phone is far off due to latency - but they are transmitting data. Why are you telling me they are different? It is because the medium... the protocols involved in establishing a connection and transmitting the data? You are taxing just the POTS way of doing it?
This is ridiculous, how can you tax a protocol? Not to mention this taxing has created a favorable status among government.
You are 100% right. If companies moved to OpenGL or other standards and got away from using DirectX for everything we could rejoice.
I say that software developers need to band together with gaming card makers like Nvidia, ATI, Creative Labs, etc and maybe even Microsoft to help develop an "open enough" standard framework (get RMS in there to remind them of his points, however they aren't going to listen). Game developers are going to use some non-standard mechanisms to enhance games or restrict their platforms, that is a no brainer. Halo isn't going to use entirely open standards - never. Some MMORPG's just aren't going to open everything up (Blizzard).
If we agree on, say GL, we can do what we always have done: let everyone implement their own solution - letting Microsoft think theirs is the best. Make the agreed upon reference code BSD licensed, or all of the functions BSD licensed so that even from corporations we see open, free (as in beer) snippits of code.
It sure would allow Apple owners to get into the market more. Microsft likes using BSD licensed code, DirectX 20 (Or DirectXXX) could rely on it like the TCP stack has - I see nothing wrong with that. Open ideas that can be implemented privately are good when you can't reach totally free software. Microsoft will no doubt use the BSD type of license to tie their implementation into Windows really tight - they like doing that and are good at it.
If game developers started developing with Linux and Apple* computers in mind a few years ago, they would see right now the danger of using a proprietary extension. Once the market is made you don't want 1000 angry customers compaining online and on the phone - this would keep them in check. Problem is, the voice of the linux gamer isn't that loud because he doesn't get suprised when something doesn't work. Gamers should be talking to developers, not complaining about DirectX or blaming Microsoft.
This is all speculation/theory and really isn't based on any facts... (*games often work on the Macintosh but not always of course)
It actually does make sense. Not only is it too costly to try and support every format, open or not, and it is too costly to ensure there is licensed software on every machine you may or may not use for documents... but you wouldn't change the language to make the government inaccessible would you?
Before this it was almost like saying: Mandarin only please!
Not everyone knows Mandarin in Norway - but some do I'm sure. People who are more well off would be able to get training, and as with everything, some smart people would be able to learn it on their own (think piracy). This leaves many other people out of the loop however.
From a cost standpoint, imagine this:
You've written a proposal and want to have it shown on the projector at the next town hall meeting. Should you, and the government, need to worry about what copy of Powerpoint is on the machine connected to the projector? In a company it is easy to ensure that every machine has a copy and that copy is a valid, licensed copy. However, governments often buy computers as they need them and can't blanket every machine with the same software package.
If you want to take a document to Bob in land development, and you work in the health department, is that going to be a problem? Using open formats makes it easier to ask: "Do you have word processing software?". You don't get to his machine and find out that your versions mismatch or that he is using something that understands your document like a foriegn language.
There are enough options out there, of course I can't get over why HTML doesn't stand out the most (when it comes to Word Processing). Mozilla Office anyone?
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home-made ChatCords will be in violation of the company's intellectual property rights
That isn't true at all! The only thing in violation would be someone else making it for you (and giving or selling it to you).
It is totally legal to build one at home and use it personally - there isn't anything wrong with that. Patents keep others from launching a commercial venture with your idea.
I bet that it will be cut down for tv, but Adult Swim seems to be making a fortune selling DVD's. Give it a year and that is what they will really be pushing, "Get the full story at adultswim.com" or some other genius marketing maneuver
he's used Windows the most, and he sees a world of Windows domination...
I like how people bitch about the lack of 'news for nerds' on this site lately. Then, when something comes along that's truely nerd worthy, everybody becomes a smart ass.
It's like when you go into a strip club: suddenly you are an expert in taste and "this" or "that" woman isn't good enough for you.
Doubt me? Look at the women outside of the club you wouldn't mind sleeping with - then go into the club and watch how you hold those dollars so tightly.
Wal-Mart dumps a bunch of DVD movies into a bin and sells them for about $4 a piece. You need to dig but you do find some gems in there if you look.
Worth it when you find 4 Gary Cooper movies (2 Disc set) for $4 and Return of the Pink Panther for another $4. I guess it all depends on your taste, but there is stuff in there for everyone (Airheads, Freddy Got Fingered, Road to Bali, The Man with Two Brains, etc).
Why do you hate America?
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Yeah, it's the hometown of my favorite smokes: "Black & Milds"
From the Unix fortune file:
The mature bohemian is one whose woman works full time.
The big question - What will Microsoft do when it does have the right CEO?
I say the next reality show should be people trying out for Ballmer's job.
Imagine the commercials: "See ten people fight it out for control of America's richest company"
Whaaat?
then
Yeeaah!
And said all that remains to be done by the user is click:
Oh Kaaay
First rule about Coconut Monkey fight club, don't talk about Coconut Monkey fight club!
I had that article on my fridge for years, along with a coconut monkey who sat on top of the freezer and protected my popsicles.
My plan is complete!
I'm thinking that this type of thing should be good for screensavers and other hacks. I'd like to see Electric Sheep (http://electricsheep.org/)run entirely on the GPU.
Yahoo news posts a story about him cracking yet another protection mechanism, implying parallels with his past work. This news then spreads to Slashdot.
Funny, I found this via my Google homepage - top story, middle column
Never even looked at Google video, never cared. For some reason I *need* to now. Good job Google.
No, Microsoft got giddy and jumped the gun on a bunch of features that later turned into bugs...
The whole point of having extreme organizations in culture is to remind us of certain points of view and moral obligations. When something rather crazy is happening, something most people don't tolerate, we support them. Most of the time they just chime in and let us know what they think.
It's the reason so many people are trashed on Slashdot. Gates has a vision, and a group behind him, RMS, the same - and so forth from McNealy to Jobs...
They all hit the mark from time to time, but other than that most people are just moving on in their own lives. But if they didn't offer their opinions then a lot of people wouldn't know what to think. Just like politics, science debate, whatever. Greenpeace isn't bad, they just miss the mark. A broken mouth piece shouts a few truths every few months.
...when you skipped the first part:
Google Earth is a broadband, 3D application that not all computers can run.
* Apple Macintosh computers are not supported at this time (but we are working on it).
* Windows-based desktop PCs older than 4 years old may not be able to run it.
* Windows-based notebook PCs older than 2 years old may not be able to run it.
It's the funniest thing I've read today. I like telling users: Your computer is too old! I'm amazed that the recommended configuration is the same as Doom III...
I've looked into replacing the board - the machine is 6 years old. A mobo replacement would cost about $150.
As far as buying *any* hardware, I say "why" when a 30 cent DVD will give me a functioning machine. I just wanted a place to store settings, and a file share serves that purpose.
funny, sounds like the same problem they had with Microsoft...
poor Dell, getting locked into products because of the tactics their "friends" use...
Is it irony you are going for?
The link defeats the Firefox pop-up blocker...
funny, I heard it was "Big Cotton"
My question is, then why does my FCC taxes go up when I add DSL into my services? I'm almost to a point where intellectually I want to say "Fuck Cable". The line is expensive and programming is totally raping you in the wallet. All of these services have gotten cut throat and we lose everytime.
Phone, Cable, Satellite - all three dominate the advertising space, all three lie about one of the others to get their products sold. None of their lies are true. DSL *is* cheaper than cable, and the connection in my experience is the same when living where both are wired early in often. DSL requires you to purchase service with an ISP, cable doesn't. Your DSL's phone line makes you pay long distance, cable doesn't. Satellite *has* to make it's 'broadcast' digital yet their HDTV signal isn't as high as it could be (on certain channels) - they say cable isn't 100% digital - doesn't matter because 80-90% of the televisions aren't digital, high definition televisions - and not all the satellite and cable channels are HDTV either (of course).
Really, my cable and phone companies offer the same services except programming over the "phone line". A pure satellite phone is far off due to latency - but they are transmitting data. Why are you telling me they are different? It is because the medium... the protocols involved in establishing a connection and transmitting the data? You are taxing just the POTS way of doing it?
This is ridiculous, how can you tax a protocol? Not to mention this taxing has created a favorable status among government.
You are 100% right. If companies moved to OpenGL or other standards and got away from using DirectX for everything we could rejoice.
I say that software developers need to band together with gaming card makers like Nvidia, ATI, Creative Labs, etc and maybe even Microsoft to help develop an "open enough" standard framework (get RMS in there to remind them of his points, however they aren't going to listen). Game developers are going to use some non-standard mechanisms to enhance games or restrict their platforms, that is a no brainer. Halo isn't going to use entirely open standards - never. Some MMORPG's just aren't going to open everything up (Blizzard).
If we agree on, say GL, we can do what we always have done: let everyone implement their own solution - letting Microsoft think theirs is the best. Make the agreed upon reference code BSD licensed, or all of the functions BSD licensed so that even from corporations we see open, free (as in beer) snippits of code.
It sure would allow Apple owners to get into the market more. Microsft likes using BSD licensed code, DirectX 20 (Or DirectXXX) could rely on it like the TCP stack has - I see nothing wrong with that. Open ideas that can be implemented privately are good when you can't reach totally free software. Microsoft will no doubt use the BSD type of license to tie their implementation into Windows really tight - they like doing that and are good at it.
If game developers started developing with Linux and Apple* computers in mind a few years ago, they would see right now the danger of using a proprietary extension. Once the market is made you don't want 1000 angry customers compaining online and on the phone - this would keep them in check. Problem is, the voice of the linux gamer isn't that loud because he doesn't get suprised when something doesn't work. Gamers should be talking to developers, not complaining about DirectX or blaming Microsoft.
This is all speculation/theory and really isn't based on any facts... (*games often work on the Macintosh but not always of course)
It actually does make sense. Not only is it too costly to try and support every format, open or not, and it is too costly to ensure there is licensed software on every machine you may or may not use for documents... but you wouldn't change the language to make the government inaccessible would you?
Before this it was almost like saying: Mandarin only please!
Not everyone knows Mandarin in Norway - but some do I'm sure. People who are more well off would be able to get training, and as with everything, some smart people would be able to learn it on their own (think piracy). This leaves many other people out of the loop however.
From a cost standpoint, imagine this:
You've written a proposal and want to have it shown on the projector at the next town hall meeting. Should you, and the government, need to worry about what copy of Powerpoint is on the machine connected to the projector? In a company it is easy to ensure that every machine has a copy and that copy is a valid, licensed copy. However, governments often buy computers as they need them and can't blanket every machine with the same software package.
If you want to take a document to Bob in land development, and you work in the health department, is that going to be a problem? Using open formats makes it easier to ask: "Do you have word processing software?". You don't get to his machine and find out that your versions mismatch or that he is using something that understands your document like a foriegn language.
There are enough options out there, of course I can't get over why HTML doesn't stand out the most (when it comes to Word Processing). Mozilla Office anyone?