Well it did lock me out and I'm using netscape 4.51 on a Sparcstation 10 - even though its supposedly supported by their site (there browser unsupported screen even says I'm supported).
Not that I give a rip - I don't live in the UK, but it is worrysome about things to come.
Well one thing you are missing is the fact that the MPAA wants to treat its physical (the physical DVD and the licensed DVD player) property as intelectual property. But it does so without a license agreement.
There is a significant distinction between the two. Licensed software technically belongs to the company who made it - and they have a right (I still can't believe this is legal in the world today) to revoke the license. The physical tape or disk belongs to you and you alone.
Don't believe me? - then why does Jack Valentine take issue on the first sale doctorine - they'd like it if you A) paid for content each and everytime you viewed it and B) never have the right to re-sell videos that you bought (first sale doctorine). On the other hand I guess they'd never claim they could take back you're player (and maybe the content?) if you attempted to bypass copyright controlls or illegally reverse engineer the device or the software it runs. But then again the limits of their litigation knows no bounds.
Don't we all live in our little caves? I mean everyone holds onto whatever computing platform they like best. Obviously nothing is perfect - otherwise we'd all be using that product.
Can you really tell me an OS that has everything everyone wants? I mean I hardly ever use my Amiga for anything anymore, but sometimes I find its best for batch processing image files the way I want it to.
I have used OS/2 in the past and found its GUI to be very repsonive and its multitasking capabilities above and beyond most OS's on X86. Thing that killed me about it was the lack of driver support.
Except in most states repo men are allowed to tresspass on private property to get the car back. They are just not allowed to break locked gates or open garages or take the car with you in it.
Which just means if you have a parking lot with a guard that makes the rounds every so ofte you're car is fair game (most of Intel's lots in Oregon are like this).
You're right the Japansese do you a different TV format - its called NTSC 4.43 - but I'll tell you right now 99.99% of all US NTSC TV sets will display NTSC 4.43 just fine.
How do I know this? - I've got japanese hardware including a J-sony PSX that works just fine on every tv set I've plugged them into in the US.
I was miffed when I found out that I couldn't run Mac OS-x on my 6100/60 - which when I bought it they said it will run the native OS when it comes out. Well it finally came out (bought this computer in 94 I think) - and I probably will never be able to run it.
That - and the fact the max amout of ram this computer will take is 72 megs of ram (yeah it'll probably do more with some nifty hack...).
I have a friend that was working for collab.net in SF. I was down there doing something at Alexa.com and he mentioned that evening that they were going to shut down sourcexchange - mostly to streamline the company to go IPO. He hired someone to help collab.net do that, but he got fired today by that same person - never mentioned that would happen - in fact he was looking forward to the next year.
Doesn't get away from the fact that I just sold several PS2 games because they were unplayable (ala - Oni) or to hard (midnight club) or they were just shoot-a-thons (ala gungriffon blaze). As far as I can tell there's maybe 3 good games for it (at least that I've seen) - DOA2, SSX and RR5.
Lately I can't get enough of Phantasy Star Online. I still think (aside from the fact that sega is not going to make the DC anymore) that the biggest comptetition to the X-Box would have been the DC - because of its great graphics and proven online capability.
Is that according to the article (the presentation) it will ship with 14-20 availble titles. As a PS2 owner I think this is funny because its more titles then the Playstation 2 currently has availble in the US right now - and that sucks. (okay there's maybe 14-20 games in total - but the local games shop only had 8 different titles availble).
I'm worried that the X-Box will come out and everyone will blame MS for destroying sony in the market - but in reality sony is treating the US market like crap right now. I've heard there's tons of Japanese titles for the thing (and most US PS2 sites list these as released titles), but you can't buy them - and if you could you can't run them.
I know - everyone does it - so that makes it okay. I personally think its misleading to put faked pictures on game boxes, in game magazines and other advertisements. How many of you bought an Emplant board based on all those faked pictures of it running Windows 3.1 and Doom on a "stock" A4000. I mean I believed them at first.
I think one of the big deal about MS-Xbox doing it is that they have hyped it up so much you'd think it could do lens flares in real time. I mean I believed that too.
Sounds kinda like Compact Flash RAM on my IPaq. I've got an ethernet controller and a wireless ethernet card for my CF slot. The cool about about that is that ALL (well most) WinCE machines have CF slots - and there all standard.
As far as MP3's and videos are concerned I can already play both out of the box.
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Its funny it says that because I get that unsupported browser message when I use netscape 4.51 on my Sparcstation 10.
Not that I give a rip - I don't live in the UK, but it is worrysome about things to come.
Actually they were the third country in the world to launch an artificial sattelite to orbit the earth.
But diesel cars and trucks are responsible for a huge amout of particulate pollution too.
3D Studio was a toy by comparison - sure you have a 3000$ PC, but 3DS was almost 3000 dollars too and its harder to use.
Plus you have no animation tools (something the PC still lacks in big time) like ADPro or ImageFX.
There is a significant distinction between the two. Licensed software technically belongs to the company who made it - and they have a right (I still can't believe this is legal in the world today) to revoke the license. The physical tape or disk belongs to you and you alone.
Don't believe me? - then why does Jack Valentine take issue on the first sale doctorine - they'd like it if you A) paid for content each and everytime you viewed it and B) never have the right to re-sell videos that you bought (first sale doctorine). On the other hand I guess they'd never claim they could take back you're player (and maybe the content?) if you attempted to bypass copyright controlls or illegally reverse engineer the device or the software it runs. But then again the limits of their litigation knows no bounds.
Nah - I've got ya beat there too. My Yamaha CRW4001T cost 509$ :). Still works great though.
Bitch and moan all you want - .40 - even a dollar is cheap - especially considering the price per megabyte.
Can you really tell me an OS that has everything everyone wants? I mean I hardly ever use my Amiga for anything anymore, but sometimes I find its best for batch processing image files the way I want it to.
I have used OS/2 in the past and found its GUI to be very repsonive and its multitasking capabilities above and beyond most OS's on X86. Thing that killed me about it was the lack of driver support.
I guess one thing they forgot is that 503 area code in oregon in the early 90's was the whole state, not just the northern half of it.
Its hard to have sympathy for someone who seems to have plenty of money for other things (like a million dollar house).
Which just means if you have a parking lot with a guard that makes the rounds every so ofte you're car is fair game (most of Intel's lots in Oregon are like this).
How do I know this? - I've got japanese hardware including a J-sony PSX that works just fine on every tv set I've plugged them into in the US.
But that thing looks like its been to the moon and back... (which is a comment someone made about my car)
Heh - my ipaq has a 340 megabyte microdrive :).
That - and the fact the max amout of ram this computer will take is 72 megs of ram (yeah it'll probably do more with some nifty hack...).
Most of the chips in my computer are made and designed in Taiwan - and if not there are designed in the US and made in Taiwan. What about them?
I have a friend that was working for collab.net in SF. I was down there doing something at Alexa.com and he mentioned that evening that they were going to shut down sourcexchange - mostly to streamline the company to go IPO. He hired someone to help collab.net do that, but he got fired today by that same person - never mentioned that would happen - in fact he was looking forward to the next year.
Lately I can't get enough of Phantasy Star Online. I still think (aside from the fact that sega is not going to make the DC anymore) that the biggest comptetition to the X-Box would have been the DC - because of its great graphics and proven online capability.
I'm worried that the X-Box will come out and everyone will blame MS for destroying sony in the market - but in reality sony is treating the US market like crap right now. I've heard there's tons of Japanese titles for the thing (and most US PS2 sites list these as released titles), but you can't buy them - and if you could you can't run them.
PXE is not a brand of ethernet controller anyhow - its a booting prototcol based on hardware ethernet addresses.
Forgive me if this has been discussed already - but how do the clients boot? Is it with PIIXE ethernet cards? If so that is really quite cool.
I think one of the big deal about MS-Xbox doing it is that they have hyped it up so much you'd think it could do lens flares in real time. I mean I believed that too.
As far as MP3's and videos are concerned I can already play both out of the box.
I just found out that these orinoco cards (formerly wavelan) will work with my Ipaq - very cool :). Too bad I go to Portland State University.