I remember that. There was on on the Model 38 at a hospital I worked at. On night we where doing a test of the hospital back up generators. They would power the computer but not the AC. There was a problem getting back on mains power, as the temperature started to get really high we started to do a shutdown. It took a while and the head of the department said that if it hit 95 in the machine room and the system still wasn't down that we would pull the big red switch. We got mains power and AC back on at 92 and safe shutdown about a minute after that. Don't worry the 38 only handled admin tasks. The labs ran on a Data General Eclipse that was in another room and didn't put out much heat.
Thanks I was going to mention it was an International holiday. I am afraid that history education in most countries is pretty lacking. On the eleventh hour, eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 WWI ended. It was a bloody war that took millions of lives. I think it is a day well worth remembering.
Actually the real hilarity of this is in the description of the Babelfish in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. "The Babelfish by removing all barriers to communications has resulted to more and bloddery wars than any other discovery in the Galaxy."
A game console from Apple does make sense. I think we will see Apple getting into games for the iPhone in a pretty big way even if they are just simple Tetris type games. How many game consoles can be supported. I don't know. If it can only be two then live would really be ugly if our choices where only Sony and Microsoft. If Sony totaly fails with the PS3 I doubt that will be the end of Sony game consoles. Heck them failing might be the best thing that ever happened. Maybe they will back away from DRM everything and produce a great PS4. Now would I like to see Sony Totally fail! Yes I would. I think it would send a huge message that DRM is doomed to fail. I just don't think I will see it happen. I do think that Blueray is just about dead.
Actually I got mine at noon and there where no lines at the store. Also it is a Toshiba and it plays HD-DVDs just fine so the quality is fine with me. It will not matter what you think about the quality of the players or the quality of the people that buy them. Numbers will count and Sony is already losing money on the PS3 so they can not cut the price much more. I bet you didn't read the article did you? "At the same time, he played down the importance of the battle, saying it was mostly a matter of prestige whose format wins out in the end.
"It doesn't mean as much as all that," Stringer said. He added that he believed there was an opportunity of uniting the two camps under one format before he became CEO, and he wishes he could travel back in time to make that happen."
So it doesn't matter all that much who wins... Yea they never really cared anyway. It was all about prestige...... Baloney. Game over.
"You'll feel that way until your mom/sister/gf/wife gets breast cancer, loses her hair to chemo and then loses part or all of her breast(s) to surgery. After that happens, you'll wonder why we don't have better chemo treatments (ones that don't make you go bald) or why we need to hack off big lumps of flesh to make sure the cancer doesn't come back. I guarantee that you'll think that cancer research needs more funding and that searching for aliens suddenly doesn't seem so important."
Actually I have had a good friend's mother die of breast cancer. And I have seen many people die of cancer. I think more funding could be good but back to your comment. ""You'll feel that way until your mom/sister/gf/wife gets breast cancer, loses her hair to chemo and then loses part or all of her breast(s) to surgery. " I wouldn't care. As long as she is cured. My friend's mother wouldn't do those treatments because she felt she wold be less of a woman. I told my friend and my wife both the same thing. Loss your hair, loss your breast. I don't want to loose you. A breast or hair MEAN NOTHING!!!!!! The person means everything! So yes I don't care if they go bald or loose a breast because in the long run the hair will grow back and the breast doesn't matter.
You see I think Sony has seen the sales figures from the under $100 HD-DVD players. BestBuy sold out and I think Walmart did as well. When Black Friday comes I think HD-DVD players will be back below $100. At that price people will buy them just because they bought an HDTV last Black-Friday. The winner of the format wars will be the first to get below $100. When it reaches that price point it becomes a why not purchase. My guess is that this announcement is to prep us for Sony to start supporting HD-DVD.
Well it doesn't like at all like a toddler toy to me. It seems like the beads are way to small to start with. Sure it should be taken off the market. I just wonder if it being made in China has ANYTHING to do with it.
Your remark is unfair because they didn't pass the stupid pro-telecom laws that your elected officials did and are building the fiber network that your state forbids. You feel that you are cultural superior and there for must find some excuse for their success in this area. Hence you make up some excuse to why they did with no proof and state it as fact. Then you bring up unrelated facts that you feel supports your viewpoint. Simple fact is that the people in the Utah/Salt Lake Valley are building the fiber network you wish your state would allow your city to build.
Same reason that we got the "Walmart's Wii Ripoff" story on Slashdot. There does seem to be a problem with Chinese companies making unsafe products and with their government inspection system. Things like the lead paint on toys. This one may be a case of "We never knew that would happen!". So yes I have to agree that this may be unfairly being lumped into the China is evil category.
One it isn't racist. It is an observation of a market. If I said NO Japanese person would buy a US made console then that would be racist. PRGs are a lot more popular in Japan than the US. FPS are more popular in the US than Japan. Guess what, I am am not a huge FPS fan and I do like RPGs. My favorite games are RTS games and Flight Simulator. You are correct that part of it is being attractive to Japanese tastes. The problem is that Japanese software companies don't really seem interested in porting to the XBox. Again I would say that is part of the the Japanese market being nationalistic when it comes to game consoles. It has nothing to do with being Xenophobic or racist. It has everything to do with cultural bias. Every culture has them as part of their culture. The people in France will never think that wine or cheese from the US is as good as French wine and cheese. English beer will never sell as well as German beer in Germany. A Japanese style cruiser style motorcycle will never be as good as a Harley Davidson even if it is technically a very good prodcut. The XBox is very unlikely to ever be an important development target for Japanese game companies. Of course if a company makes a REALLY GOOD PRODUCT like Toyota trucks and Apple notebooks then they can over come that cultural bias. BUT FOR GOODNESS SAKES STOP MAKING EVERYTHING ABOUT RACE WHEN THIS HAS NOTING TO DO WITH RACE! A person of Japanese decent living in the US is as likely to want to by an XBox as someone of Irish decent living in the US.
"So what should I do if Virtual Console has very few of the specific NES titles I want?" Why ask me? I was saying legally pirating software is pirating software. Somebody somewhere still holds the copyright to those games. If they are copyrighted at all. If they never filed a copyright then you are good to go. I would love to see companies that go bye bye release there work into the public domain. Legally your are infringing on copyrights by playing those games on emulators. Ethically that is up to you, it isn't my job to judge you or to absolve you.
Or in other words, he is right. It was a press release. Heck not even a screen shot. Right now it is all buzz and no substance. The great software part... Well there is MAME for WinCE/Mobile. There are some very good applications for Windows Mobile. They do have millions of customers and many devices.
"I don't understand why it's so hard for people to understand that violent fantasies -- not actions, but fantasies -- are therapeutic and cathartic. Dante wasn't a crazed devil because he imagined and wrote The Divine Comedy. Nor was Shakespeare because he wrote King Lear and Macbeth. Look at just about any piece of creative work and you will find violence and usually a non-psychotic who wrote it." Where is your documentation? Sorry but if you are having fantasies about kill people because they are a less human than you then I don't think they therapeutic.
Not even close to the same thing. 1. With VHS you could borrow a friends VHS deck to watch the tapes. You can not with DRM content. 2. With VHS tapes you could sell them on Ebay if you didn't want to buy a new VHS deck. 3. With VHS tapes you could have gotten tuner card for you PC and dumped them to your PC as a back up and burned your own DVDs.
What the DRM content providers are giving you is the right to use the media. You don't own the media, you can not resell it when you don't want it anymore and you can not make backups of it. Well if I am buying just the right to use the media then they are under an obligation to make sure that I can use that media. I don't condone piracy and I don't do it myself but I sure wouldn't every buy a DRMed video from the MBL again! When you are talking about material that is broadcast then things seem a bit fuzzy. If I record the show myself that is fine. But if I forget to record the show and download it then that is illegal? I will not even start on the "rules" that NFL put on their broadcast games. Heck just talking about a game you saw on TV seems to be violation of their rules. The media producers would love it if. You had to pay every time you watched a show or listened to a song. You couldn't skip over any commercials. Get up and go the bathroom when the commercials are on. Then you have the people that think they should pay for nothing. I say a Pox on both their houses. The problem is that DRM provides no benift to anyone. Well except the DRM producers.
As far as being a financial failure I just don't know if I trust that. I wonder if you may not be seeing Hollywood style accounting there. Only being popular in North America? North America is a HUGE market. I frankly don't think that an American made console will ever do well in Japan. The Japanese market is far more nationalistic than the US market. Heck PCs had a hard time making it in Japan. Fujitsu and a few other Japanese PC manufactures made MS-DOS but not PC compatible machines for years that dominated the Japanese market. Only when the Japanese made a big push in laptops in the US did that really change in Japan. Selling a US console in Japan is probably harder then selling a Japanese cowboy hat in the US. The Japanese are going to buy Japanese video game consoles and that is that. I do agree with your third point. However I wouldn't count the 360 out as a Playstation killer. The Wii is the current run away hit but with the hard core gamers I know the 360 is the current king. They love the online play and they love the graphics. The 360 seem to be the king of HD gaming in North America and Europe.
Well the Virtual Console on the Wii has shown that old games do still have value. The manufactures also sell them in game packs for modern PC. Heck I bought a console that has like 40 old 2600 games. So is it stealing? Legally I would say yes. How you feel about it up to you.
Encryption doesn't solve the noise problem. It is really hard to listen for weak signals when you are transmitting a strong one. Also you still have to set up a ground station and then retransmit the data back to Virgina. Also even with an optical link you would encrypted the data.
I have heard of them. And I know they are well respected. It is just as I have gotten older I have less and less time to actually listen to music. I have a wife and a job so spending and hour tuned out and listening to an album just doesn't happen all that often.
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Why would you want to run it on Qemu?
You could install Linux or Windows and run them under Qemu and then install the SDK but why?
I remember that. There was on on the Model 38 at a hospital I worked at. On night we where doing a test of the hospital back up generators. They would power the computer but not the AC. There was a problem getting back on mains power, as the temperature started to get really high we started to do a shutdown. It took a while and the head of the department said that if it hit 95 in the machine room and the system still wasn't down that we would pull the big red switch.
We got mains power and AC back on at 92 and safe shutdown about a minute after that. Don't worry the 38 only handled admin tasks. The labs ran on a Data General Eclipse that was in another room and didn't put out much heat.
Thanks I was going to mention it was an International holiday. I am afraid that history education in most countries is pretty lacking. On the eleventh hour, eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 WWI ended. It was a bloody war that took millions of lives. I think it is a day well worth remembering.
Actually the real hilarity of this is in the description of the Babelfish in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
"The Babelfish by removing all barriers to communications has resulted to more and bloddery wars than any other discovery in the Galaxy."
A game console from Apple does make sense. I think we will see Apple getting into games for the iPhone in a pretty big way even if they are just simple Tetris type games.
How many game consoles can be supported. I don't know. If it can only be two then live would really be ugly if our choices where only Sony and Microsoft.
If Sony totaly fails with the PS3 I doubt that will be the end of Sony game consoles. Heck them failing might be the best thing that ever happened. Maybe they will back away from DRM everything and produce a great PS4.
Now would I like to see Sony Totally fail! Yes I would. I think it would send a huge message that DRM is doomed to fail. I just don't think I will see it happen. I do think that Blueray is just about dead.
You make an assumption that no one else would bring out a console. Maybe Apple would. Maybe Google would, maybe Sega would comeback.
Actually I got mine at noon and there where no lines at the store.
Also it is a Toshiba and it plays HD-DVDs just fine so the quality is fine with me.
It will not matter what you think about the quality of the players or the quality of the people that buy them. Numbers will count and Sony is already losing money on the PS3 so they can not cut the price much more.
I bet you didn't read the article did you?
"At the same time, he played down the importance of the battle, saying it was mostly a matter of prestige whose format wins out in the end.
"It doesn't mean as much as all that," Stringer said. He added that he believed there was an opportunity of uniting the two camps under one format before he became CEO, and he wishes he could travel back in time to make that happen."
So it doesn't matter all that much who wins... Yea they never really cared anyway. It was all about prestige......
Baloney. Game over.
"You'll feel that way until your mom/sister/gf/wife gets breast cancer, loses her hair to chemo and then loses part or all of her breast(s) to surgery. After that happens, you'll wonder why we don't have better chemo treatments (ones that don't make you go bald) or why we need to hack off big lumps of flesh to make sure the cancer doesn't come back. I guarantee that you'll think that cancer research needs more funding and that searching for aliens suddenly doesn't seem so important."
Actually I have had a good friend's mother die of breast cancer. And I have seen many people die of cancer. I think more funding could be good but back to your comment.
""You'll feel that way until your mom/sister/gf/wife gets breast cancer, loses her hair to chemo and then loses part or all of her breast(s) to surgery. "
I wouldn't care. As long as she is cured. My friend's mother wouldn't do those treatments because she felt she wold be less of a woman.
I told my friend and my wife both the same thing. Loss your hair, loss your breast. I don't want to loose you.
A breast or hair MEAN NOTHING!!!!!! The person means everything!
So yes I don't care if they go bald or loose a breast because in the long run the hair will grow back and the breast doesn't matter.
You see I think Sony has seen the sales figures from the under $100 HD-DVD players. BestBuy sold out and I think Walmart did as well. When Black Friday comes I think HD-DVD players will be back below $100. At that price people will buy them just because they bought an HDTV last Black-Friday. The winner of the format wars will be the first to get below $100. When it reaches that price point it becomes a why not purchase.
My guess is that this announcement is to prep us for Sony to start supporting HD-DVD.
"It's important that they succeed."
Why? Really why is it important to anyone but themselves that they succeed?
The HD images from lunar orbit is the achievement. Not getting to lunar orbit.
Just as HD images from the Challenger deep would be a an achievement.
Well it doesn't like at all like a toddler toy to me. It seems like the beads are way to small to start with.
Sure it should be taken off the market. I just wonder if it being made in China has ANYTHING to do with it.
Your remark is unfair because they didn't pass the stupid pro-telecom laws that your elected officials did and are building the fiber network that your state forbids.
You feel that you are cultural superior and there for must find some excuse for their success in this area.
Hence you make up some excuse to why they did with no proof and state it as fact. Then you bring up unrelated facts that you feel supports your viewpoint.
Simple fact is that the people in the Utah/Salt Lake Valley are building the fiber network you wish your state would allow your city to build.
Same reason that we got the "Walmart's Wii Ripoff" story on Slashdot.
There does seem to be a problem with Chinese companies making unsafe products and with their government inspection system. Things like the lead paint on toys. This one may be a case of "We never knew that would happen!".
So yes I have to agree that this may be unfairly being lumped into the China is evil category.
One it isn't racist. It is an observation of a market. If I said NO Japanese person would buy a US made console then that would be racist.
PRGs are a lot more popular in Japan than the US. FPS are more popular in the US than Japan. Guess what, I am am not a huge FPS fan and I do like RPGs. My favorite games are RTS games and Flight Simulator.
You are correct that part of it is being attractive to Japanese tastes. The problem is that Japanese software companies don't really seem interested in porting to the XBox. Again I would say that is part of the the Japanese market being nationalistic when it comes to game consoles.
It has nothing to do with being Xenophobic or racist. It has everything to do with cultural bias. Every culture has them as part of their culture. The people in France will never think that wine or cheese from the US is as good as French wine and cheese. English beer will never sell as well as German beer in Germany. A Japanese style cruiser style motorcycle will never be as good as a Harley Davidson even if it is technically a very good prodcut. The XBox is very unlikely to ever be an important development target for Japanese game companies. Of course if a company makes a REALLY GOOD PRODUCT like Toyota trucks and Apple notebooks then they can over come that cultural bias.
BUT FOR GOODNESS SAKES STOP MAKING EVERYTHING ABOUT RACE WHEN THIS HAS NOTING TO DO WITH RACE!
A person of Japanese decent living in the US is as likely to want to by an XBox as someone of Irish decent living in the US.
"So what should I do if Virtual Console has very few of the specific NES titles I want?"
Why ask me? I was saying legally pirating software is pirating software.
Somebody somewhere still holds the copyright to those games. If they are copyrighted at all.
If they never filed a copyright then you are good to go. I would love to see companies that go bye bye release there work into the public domain.
Legally your are infringing on copyrights by playing those games on emulators. Ethically that is up to you, it isn't my job to judge you or to absolve you.
Or in other words, he is right. It was a press release. Heck not even a screen shot. Right now it is all buzz and no substance.
The great software part... Well there is MAME for WinCE/Mobile. There are some very good applications for Windows Mobile. They do have millions of customers and many devices.
"I don't understand why it's so hard for people to understand that violent fantasies -- not actions, but fantasies -- are therapeutic and cathartic. Dante wasn't a crazed devil because he imagined and wrote The Divine Comedy. Nor was Shakespeare because he wrote King Lear and Macbeth. Look at just about any piece of creative work and you will find violence and usually a non-psychotic who wrote it."
Where is your documentation?
Sorry but if you are having fantasies about kill people because they are a less human than you then I don't think they therapeutic.
It only has one ATA and no SATA ports so it wouldn't make a good NAS
Yea but it takes DDR and not DDR2. That actually drives up the cost of memory :(
Not even close to the same thing.
1. With VHS you could borrow a friends VHS deck to watch the tapes. You can not with DRM content.
2. With VHS tapes you could sell them on Ebay if you didn't want to buy a new VHS deck.
3. With VHS tapes you could have gotten tuner card for you PC and dumped them to your PC as a back up and burned your own DVDs.
What the DRM content providers are giving you is the right to use the media. You don't own the media, you can not resell it when you don't want it anymore and you can not make backups of it.
Well if I am buying just the right to use the media then they are under an obligation to make sure that I can use that media.
I don't condone piracy and I don't do it myself but I sure wouldn't every buy a DRMed video from the MBL again! When you are talking about material that is broadcast then things seem a bit fuzzy.
If I record the show myself that is fine. But if I forget to record the show and download it then that is illegal? I will not even start on the "rules" that NFL put on their broadcast games. Heck just talking about a game you saw on TV seems to be violation of their rules.
The media producers would love it if.
You had to pay every time you watched a show or listened to a song.
You couldn't skip over any commercials.
Get up and go the bathroom when the commercials are on.
Then you have the people that think they should pay for nothing. I say a Pox on both their houses. The problem is that DRM provides no benift to anyone. Well except the DRM producers.
As far as being a financial failure I just don't know if I trust that. I wonder if you may not be seeing Hollywood style accounting there.
Only being popular in North America? North America is a HUGE market. I frankly don't think that an American made console will ever do well in Japan. The Japanese market is far more nationalistic than the US market. Heck PCs had a hard time making it in Japan. Fujitsu and a few other Japanese PC manufactures made MS-DOS but not PC compatible machines for years that dominated the Japanese market. Only when the Japanese made a big push in laptops in the US did that really change in Japan. Selling a US console in Japan is probably harder then selling a Japanese cowboy hat in the US. The Japanese are going to buy Japanese video game consoles and that is that.
I do agree with your third point. However I wouldn't count the 360 out as a Playstation killer. The Wii is the current run away hit but with the hard core gamers I know the 360 is the current king. They love the online play and they love the graphics. The 360 seem to be the king of HD gaming in North America and Europe.
Well the Virtual Console on the Wii has shown that old games do still have value. The manufactures also sell them in game packs for modern PC. Heck I bought a console that has like 40 old 2600 games.
So is it stealing? Legally I would say yes. How you feel about it up to you.
Encryption doesn't solve the noise problem. It is really hard to listen for weak signals when you are transmitting a strong one.
Also you still have to set up a ground station and then retransmit the data back to Virgina.
Also even with an optical link you would encrypted the data.
I have heard of them. And I know they are well respected. It is just as I have gotten older I have less and less time to actually listen to music. I have a wife and a job so spending and hour tuned out and listening to an album just doesn't happen all that often.