I'd assume that the average/. reader is more likely to buy a disc from a local record store that will stock interesting things from smaller labels than your average brittany spears fare you might find at wal mart.
this practice was put into place to stop the giant megoplies like wal mart and their ilk from crushing the local record stores by keeping them from selling cd's at a price less than the LOCAL and INDEPENDANT record store in your town could purchase them.
you might save a few bucks, but that's what the giant corporations are always going to sell people on, yes? what did you give up for those dollars?
this will do very little to benefit anybody but sony, and i'd be pretty shocked to see if anybody actually ships one of these. the entire console industry runs by selling the console at a loss and making money off the game licensing. sony isn't relinquishing control of the software licensing. so if, say, sega made a ps2 clone, they'd ahve to sell it at a loss to compete with sony's unit, and then they wouldn't see any money from the licensed software. this whole thing in non sensical.
If gnullsoft would have had the foresight to assign copyright of gnutella to the FSF immediately upon relase, AOL would not have been in the position to yank the software and insist on the cesation of further development. The FSF so far has done pretty good in acting in the interests of the open source community, and it's just this sort of thing that they are there for. Once you've handed over the copyright, it's now their lawyers that AOL needs to go against, not yours.
>Sega has to support Bleem! because it was ruled >a legal application by the courts.
ermm.. no. sega doesn't have to license anything it doesn't want to. to make a dreamcast game, you need to get a license to create the game. this is true of the psx, the n64, etc. this is one of the primary reasons the dc used the GD-ROM format. you can't get a GD-ROM without going through sega. so if sega doesn't want a particular game on their console, they just don't license it, plain and simple. the court ruling said sony can't stop bleem! from being produced to run on other systems (like the PC or mac), which is a very different thing.
read the link you provide. there is no open telnet port on the dc, the person who thought they discovered the hole in fact discovered the widely known netcom telnet proxy.
i find it pretty odd that sega would be authorizing a port of bleem! to the dreamcast. sega loses money for every dreamcast they sell. they make the money back again when you buy games. the same is true for sony and nintendo incidentally.
so what i don't get is why the hell sega would want a psx emulator on their platform. if people buy a dc and bleem, they can buy psx games and play them on their dc. the money for the psx games lines sony's pockets, not sega's. sega winds up losing money on the dc, and never recouping it on the software sales because people are buying psx games.
i read katz's article, and then i read the comments following. first, there's complaints that katz is expressing opinion without any facts! ohmigod! we've been so brainwashed by the "objectivity" of modern media that we don't see the agenda behind the story. i'll take somebody with a clearly stated opinion over a hidden agenda any day. at least the author of an opinion piece is very clear about where they come from. the only thing you know about the motivation behind the story on "dateline" tonight is that it's primary purpose is to make money. second is the opinion that corporatism isn't so bad. hey, it gave us the internet! bullshit. it's given you a whitewashed version of the internet, with governments the world `round itching to restrict the bejeesus out of it, precisely because it's become a corporate communications channel. disney doesn't want smut on their internet, goddamnit, so the government better do something about it! better still if there weren't any offensive content at all. better still if there wasn't any content at all except that which is favorable to the corporations. for a community so anti-microsoft, and so pro-open source, one would think that there would be a few more supporters of these ideas here. what's been proven instead -/.'ers don't like to have their ideas challenged, they don't like new ideas that might even be different from their own! they'd prefer to keep their heads down and code, and let the giant corporate machine roll straight over them. you might be better served to save yourself the time flaming katz and fill out that employment application for microsoft, they're looking for a bunch of mindless cattle that can code much like yourselves.
There are two projects that make me VERY interested in this product, but the lack of ethernet really kills it. I do a bit of mobile live video production for clubs and parties ("vj" if you will). This would be a GREAT size unit for taking on the road. 2 for music matched vis, maybe one for DVD and another for VJAMM/Composite Station/Motion Dive video work. Throw in a KVM, dump the s-video to the mix board, and this would be one truely portable digital video station. Neat! I also find my self on the road a lot demoing and installing server software (typically Novell products.) This would be a great way to pack up 8 servers in a small bag with a decent KVM and small hub. Walk into the customer, plug into a keyboard, monitor, mouse, and power, and you have an instant network.
All of this is of course mostly useless without the ethernet support. It'd work for the video stuff, but it would be pretty kludgy. And I'm pretty certain that USB support for NetWare isn't coming any time soon:)
The Library of Congress isn't the congressional records. It's basically a regular library that's run by the US government, with lots and lots and lots of books.
Actually, they probably will release it under $200, as Sega, Sony, and Nintendo have all learned that anything over that price point won't sell well in America. Every console out there is sold at a loss for the hardware vendor. They then license the technology to software providers, and make the money back that way. Sega loses an estimated $100 per Dreamcast sold, and makes it back when you've purchased your third game. I'm sure MS is looking to have a platform that they can control - unlike the PC.
This I think falls far more closely into the realm of spiritual mysticism with a little bit of scientific humbug thrown in to acheive some sense of validity. Read "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" for another fine example of this sort of trash. I don't know enough about quantum mechanics execpt to know that it's pretty damn difficult to understand. I think it was Feynman who said that anybody who thinks quantum mechanics makes sense doesn't udnerstand it at all (I'm paraphrasing and I might even have the source wrong - sue me.) That of course makes it a wonderful vehicle for burying philosophical garbage under the guise of science. This sort of huxtorism has been with us for millenia - explain the unexplainable through spirituality. I suppose it's nice to see that human conciousness has managed to evolve spirituality to fit into a world that is finding less and less of a need for it.
This is silly as the general grounds are just about useless. Decompiled code of any reasonable large app will look like garbage, especially if it's wintel based. It wouldn't be of use to anybody.
Well, if you're in the states you'll have a ground on your power outlets that you should be able to use. The third prong (the round one) should be grounded both to the electrical box (if it's metal) and to earth ground somewhere in the building.
Being a bit of a Quake nut with a penchant for traveling to distant LAN parties, I've created what I think to be the ultimate in portable LAN party systems. Portability, ease of setup, power, and of course good looks all being of primary importance. To start with, you need a portable rack. SKB cases makes just such a thing, shock mounted for your computing pleasure. If you get one, I also suggest picking up the caster set, cause once you load all your stuff into it, it's gonna be heavy. Check out http://www.skbcases.com/cases/racks/shockmount.h tml for the racks. Next, you can find ATX rack cases for about $150 new on pricewatch. One PII 400 running win 98 and one dual PPro 200 running Mandrake 7 fill the bottom 8 RUs of a 12 RU rack. The 98 machine for Quake (of course), and the linux box for running game servers, file sharing, etc. A rackmount KVM you can find for $100-$200, depending on the features. Some of the more expensive ones fit into one RU, which I'd recommend as it leaves you more room for other stuff.
You might want network electronics in the rack - I chose an 8 port 10/100 switch that again fits into one rack unit. Cable management is nice to have (and looks good too), and it's cheap! Pick up a one unit cable management tray from Mid Atlantic for 20-30 bones. Finally, the system just won't look good enough without the Fhurman power conditioning and light module. The power conditioning you can get with any power strip, but it won't be rack mounted, and it won't have those two pop-out dimmable lights to illuminate your rack. For $20 more, get the unit that also displays the incoming line voltage - more blinking lights are good! With all this, I'm out of rack room, which is a shame as I'd like to get something mounted in there for sound....
I found most of these pieces at Full Compass (http://www.fullcompass.com) a pro audio mail order outfit in Wisconsin. I only mention this because my customer experience with them has been great, and they have their full catalog online in.pdf. Their prices are good and their service is great, and they have all sorts of nifty rack mount stuff (cases, power conditioners, and more...)
I've been a long time customer of Amazon for books and media. Amazon has a history of providing first rate customer service and great products at reasonable prices. Sure, I might be able to save a dollar or two on a particular DVD or CD if I dig around for deals, but that dollar has bought me the assurance of service that I've always received from Amazon. If a product is in, it ships immediately. If it isn't, I'm notified, along with an accurate(!) ETA. I've been down the path with other "discount" on-line retailers, and the suffering and headache just isn't worth it.
I'm disturbed to find however that Amazon has chosen to file suit to protect what is ostensibly an obvious idea in e-commerce. Amazon has gone out of it's way to make it _harder_ for me to deal with other retailers, by not allowing them to use common sense features that I've encountered at Amazon. Innovation is important, and intellectual rights should be protectable. However I find it reprehensible that a company that is the first out of the gate to implement a common sense technology like "1 click shopping" deems it necessary to become litigious in the face of other on-line retailers updating their software with similar features.
Thus, it is with great regret that I feel I must join with Richard Stallman on a boycott of Amazon. It's with "regret", because I really haven't found anybody on-line who really does what Amazon does. I've always felt a sense of security in purchasing a product from Amazon. I know that when I order something, I'm going to get it and that any problems can be taken care of promptly and easily. This is still the case, but I also now feel that I have to take an ethical stance for something I believe in - namely, that obvious features aren't patentable just because somebody has spent the time necessary to write the software before anybody else.
Let Amazon stand on it's own merit. It's been a great company and a raging success in the marketplace. Frivolous lawsuits make the company appear petty and childish and do a great disservice to the company's image.
The "boycott" of Amazon has been detailed here: http://linuxtoday.com/stories/13652.html
I just want to reiterate, this story is strictly the result of a mis interpretation of a statement made in Japanese. Check out http://dreamcast.ign.com/news/12062.html
Sega takes a loss every time they sell a DreamCast, as does Sony and Nintendo for their hardware. The console hardware is sold below cost, but the hardware manufacturers makes t back every time you buy a game. Sega not only makes money off of sales of their own software (like Sonic Adventure or House of the Dead), but they also make money from the licensing fees paid by thrid party publishers. This makes it pretty damn profitable to be the producer of a hardware platform, so I would doubt that Sega would want to leave this market anytime soon.
I find it mildly amusing that MS cites Linux lack of support for Plug and Play, Power Management, or USB, when NT 4.0 does none of these things either...
This is a bout as ridiculous as anything I've seen
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First: boy does this site suck. Looks like a retarded 4 year old chimp on methamphetamines designeded this in the midst of a particularly violent flashback. In notepad.
Second: The premise is silly. All of a sudden, they are able to turn my house into a finely tuned resonating cavity for the entire ferquency range? You must be kidding. Sheet rock doesn't resonate for just about anything. Well designed and well constructed speakers are expensive cause... they're well designed and well constructed.
I appreciate that the vast majority of readers here believe Microsoft to be the devil, but for crying out loud, put down you banner for a second and look at the tech. This is really an honest to goodness new mouse. As an avid computer user and a raving Quake player, any advancement in mouse technology is good, Microsoft or not. I want to find out how to get a demo of one of these, this looks hot. I'm buying one, probably two as soon as they're available.
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Check out what is probably the best gnutella clone out there, with built in spam filtering:
http://gnotella.nerdherd.net/
I'd assume that the average /. reader is more likely to buy a disc from a local record store that will stock interesting things from smaller labels than your average brittany spears fare you might find at wal mart.
this practice was put into place to stop the giant megoplies like wal mart and their ilk from crushing the local record stores by keeping them from selling cd's at a price less than the LOCAL and INDEPENDANT record store in your town could purchase them.
you might save a few bucks, but that's what the giant corporations are always going to sell people on, yes? what did you give up for those dollars?
this will do very little to benefit anybody but sony, and i'd be pretty shocked to see if anybody actually ships one of these. the entire console industry runs by selling the console at a loss and making money off the game licensing. sony isn't relinquishing control of the software licensing. so if, say, sega made a ps2 clone, they'd ahve to sell it at a loss to compete with sony's unit, and then they wouldn't see any money from the licensed software. this whole thing in non sensical.
If gnullsoft would have had the foresight to assign copyright of gnutella to the FSF immediately upon relase, AOL would not have been in the position to yank the software and insist on the cesation of further development. The FSF so far has done pretty good in acting in the interests of the open source community, and it's just this sort of thing that they are there for. Once you've handed over the copyright, it's now their lawyers that AOL needs to go against, not yours.
>Sega has to support Bleem! because it was ruled >a legal application by the courts.
ermm.. no. sega doesn't have to license anything it doesn't want to. to make a dreamcast game, you need to get a license to create the game. this is true of the psx, the n64, etc. this is one of the primary reasons the dc used the GD-ROM format. you can't get a GD-ROM without going through sega. so if sega doesn't want a particular game on their console, they just don't license it, plain and simple. the court ruling said sony can't stop bleem! from being produced to run on other systems (like the PC or mac), which is a very different thing.
read the link you provide. there is no open telnet port on the dc, the person who thought they discovered the hole in fact discovered the widely known netcom telnet proxy.
read the story before you quote it.
i find it pretty odd that sega would be authorizing a port of bleem! to the dreamcast. sega loses money for every dreamcast they sell. they make the money back again when you buy games. the same is true for sony and nintendo incidentally.
so what i don't get is why the hell sega would want a psx emulator on their platform. if people buy a dc and bleem, they can buy psx games and play them on their dc. the money for the psx games lines sony's pockets, not sega's. sega winds up losing money on the dc, and never recouping it on the software sales because people are buying psx games.
this doesn't make a whole lot of sense...
i read katz's article, and then i read the comments following. first, there's complaints that katz is expressing opinion without any facts! ohmigod! we've been so brainwashed by the "objectivity" of modern media that we don't see the agenda behind the story. i'll take somebody with a clearly stated opinion over a hidden agenda any day. at least the author of an opinion piece is very clear about where they come from. the only thing you know about the motivation behind the story on "dateline" tonight is that it's primary purpose is to make money. second is the opinion that corporatism isn't so bad. hey, it gave us the internet! bullshit. it's given you a whitewashed version of the internet, with governments the world `round itching to restrict the bejeesus out of it, precisely because it's become a corporate communications channel. disney doesn't want smut on their internet, goddamnit, so the government better do something about it! better still if there weren't any offensive content at all. better still if there wasn't any content at all except that which is favorable to the corporations. for a community so anti-microsoft, and so pro-open source, one would think that there would be a few more supporters of these ideas here. what's been proven instead - /.'ers don't like to have their ideas challenged, they don't like new ideas that might even be different from their own! they'd prefer to keep their heads down and code, and let the giant corporate machine roll straight over them. you might be better served to save yourself the time flaming katz and fill out that employment application for microsoft, they're looking for a bunch of mindless cattle that can code much like yourselves.
There are two projects that make me VERY interested in this product, but the lack of ethernet really kills it. I do a bit of mobile live video production for clubs and parties ("vj" if you will). This would be a GREAT size unit for taking on the road. 2 for music matched vis, maybe one for DVD and another for VJAMM/Composite Station/Motion Dive video work. Throw in a KVM, dump the s-video to the mix board, and this would be one truely portable digital video station. Neat! I also find my self on the road a lot demoing and installing server software (typically Novell products.) This would be a great way to pack up 8 servers in a small bag with a decent KVM and small hub. Walk into the customer, plug into a keyboard, monitor, mouse, and power, and you have an instant network.
:)
All of this is of course mostly useless without the ethernet support. It'd work for the video stuff, but it would be pretty kludgy. And I'm pretty certain that USB support for NetWare isn't coming any time soon
The Library of Congress isn't the congressional records. It's basically a regular library that's run by the US government, with lots and lots and lots of books.
Actually, they probably will release it under $200, as Sega, Sony, and Nintendo have all learned that anything over that price point won't sell well in America. Every console out there is sold at a loss for the hardware vendor. They then license the technology to software providers, and make the money back that way. Sega loses an estimated $100 per Dreamcast sold, and makes it back when you've purchased your third game. I'm sure MS is looking to have a platform that they can control - unlike the PC.
This I think falls far more closely into the realm of spiritual mysticism with a little bit of scientific humbug thrown in to acheive some sense of validity. Read "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" for another fine example of this sort of trash. I don't know enough about quantum mechanics execpt to know that it's pretty damn difficult to understand. I think it was Feynman who said that anybody who thinks quantum mechanics makes sense doesn't udnerstand it at all (I'm paraphrasing and I might even have the source wrong - sue me.) That of course makes it a wonderful vehicle for burying philosophical garbage under the guise of science. This sort of huxtorism has been with us for millenia - explain the unexplainable through spirituality. I suppose it's nice to see that human conciousness has managed to evolve spirituality to fit into a world that is finding less and less of a need for it.
This is silly as the general grounds are just about useless. Decompiled code of any reasonable large app will look like garbage, especially if it's wintel based. It wouldn't be of use to anybody.
Well, if you're in the states you'll have a ground on your power outlets that you should be able to use. The third prong (the round one) should be grounded both to the electrical box (if it's metal) and to earth ground somewhere in the building.
Being a bit of a Quake nut with a penchant for traveling to distant LAN parties, I've created what I think to be the ultimate in portable LAN party systems. Portability, ease of setup, power, and of course good looks all being of primary importance. To start with, you need a portable rack. SKB cases makes just such a thing, shock mounted for your computing pleasure. If you get one, I also suggest picking up the caster set, cause once you load all your stuff into it, it's gonna be heavy. Check outh tml for the racks. Next, you can find ATX rack cases for about $150 new on pricewatch. One PII 400 running win 98 and one dual PPro 200 running Mandrake 7 fill the bottom 8 RUs of a 12 RU rack. The 98 machine for Quake (of course), and the linux box for running game servers, file sharing, etc. A rackmount KVM you can find for $100-$200, depending on the features. Some of the more expensive ones fit into one RU, which I'd recommend as it leaves you more room for other stuff.
.pdf. Their prices are good and their service is great, and they have all sorts of nifty rack mount stuff (cases, power conditioners, and more...)
http://www.skbcases.com/cases/racks/shockmount.
You might want network electronics in the rack - I chose an 8 port 10/100 switch that again fits into one rack unit. Cable management is nice to have (and looks good too), and it's cheap! Pick up a one unit cable management tray from Mid Atlantic for 20-30 bones. Finally, the system just won't look good enough without the Fhurman power conditioning and light module. The power conditioning you can get with any power strip, but it won't be rack mounted, and it won't have those two pop-out dimmable lights to illuminate your rack. For $20 more, get the unit that also displays the incoming line voltage - more blinking lights are good! With all this, I'm out of rack room, which is a shame as I'd like to get something mounted in there for sound....
I found most of these pieces at Full Compass (http://www.fullcompass.com) a pro audio mail order outfit in Wisconsin. I only mention this because my customer experience with them has been great, and they have their full catalog online in
I've been a long time customer of Amazon for books and media. Amazon has a history of providing first rate customer service and great products at reasonable prices. Sure, I might be able to save a dollar or two on a particular DVD or CD if I dig around for deals, but that dollar has bought me the assurance of service that I've always received from Amazon. If a product is in, it ships immediately. If it isn't, I'm notified, along with an accurate(!) ETA. I've been down the path with other "discount" on-line retailers, and the suffering and headache just isn't worth it.
I'm disturbed to find however that Amazon has chosen to file suit to protect what is ostensibly an obvious idea in e-commerce. Amazon has gone out of it's way to make it _harder_ for me to deal with other retailers, by not allowing them to use common sense features that I've encountered at Amazon. Innovation is important, and intellectual rights should be protectable. However I find it reprehensible that a company that is the first out of the gate to implement a common sense technology like "1 click shopping" deems it necessary to become litigious in the face of other on-line retailers updating their software with similar features.
Thus, it is with great regret that I feel I must join with Richard Stallman on a boycott of Amazon. It's with "regret", because I really haven't found anybody on-line who really does what Amazon does. I've always felt a sense of security in purchasing a product from Amazon. I know that when I order something, I'm going to get it and that any problems can be taken care of promptly and easily. This is still the case, but I also now feel that I have to take an ethical stance for something I believe in - namely, that obvious features aren't patentable just because somebody has spent the time necessary to write the software before anybody else.
Let Amazon stand on it's own merit. It's been a great company and a raging success in the marketplace. Frivolous lawsuits make the company appear petty and childish and do a great disservice to the company's image.
The "boycott" of Amazon has been detailed here: http://linuxtoday.com/stories/13652.html
I just want to reiterate, this story is strictly the result of a mis interpretation of a statement made in Japanese. Check out http://dreamcast.ign.com/news/12062.html
Sega takes a loss every time they sell a DreamCast, as does Sony and Nintendo for their hardware. The console hardware is sold below cost, but the hardware manufacturers makes t back every time you buy a game. Sega not only makes money off of sales of their own software (like Sonic Adventure or House of the Dead), but they also make money from the licensing fees paid by thrid party publishers. This makes it pretty damn profitable to be the producer of a hardware platform, so I would doubt that Sega would want to leave this market anytime soon.
I find it mildly amusing that MS cites Linux lack of support for Plug and Play, Power Management, or USB, when NT 4.0 does none of these things either...
First: boy does this site suck. Looks like a retarded 4 year old chimp on methamphetamines designeded this in the midst of a particularly violent flashback. In notepad.
Second: The premise is silly. All of a sudden, they are able to turn my house into a finely tuned resonating cavity for the entire ferquency range? You must be kidding. Sheet rock doesn't resonate for just about anything. Well designed and well constructed speakers are expensive cause... they're well designed and well constructed.
These thing an an affront to my own intelligence.
Good god, guys... This thing looks cool!
I appreciate that the vast majority of readers here believe Microsoft to be the devil, but for crying out loud, put down you banner for a second and look at the tech. This is really an honest to goodness new mouse. As an avid computer user and a raving Quake player, any advancement in mouse technology is good, Microsoft or not. I want to find out how to get a demo of one of these, this looks hot. I'm buying one, probably two as soon as they're available.