This open-source story is being brought to you by Disney maker of Tron 2.
Yes we may be a heartless, monopolistic company, but we're not that other heartless monopolistic company who doesn't like open source. We at Disney love open source. Ummm. Look at Pixar! They use Linux! Granted we really don't own Pixar. But we regardless, we love Linux, and open-source, and you.
Just remember, when you think of Tron, think of open-source, and think of buying Tron 2. Better yet, don't think of buying it, just buy it! Hmmm, it is Windows only right now. That's not going to make you very happy.
Maybe WineX will work. Give it a shot, just buy it.
Tron, and open source platform, and a really nifty new game!
Mike
always room for more competition.
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New Linux PVR Box
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Now that I have a TiVo I could never give it up. But the fact this offers network connectivity, 5.1 digital out, and composite video is quite impressive. The price may seem a little steep, but a new TiVo with a lifetime subscription is about 650-700, but this box is subscription free.
The real question is the interface going to be able to compete with TiVo? The ability to do season-passes are (IMO) what will make it or break it.
The [Mozilla] Project needs to get its act together, though. No more rehearsing for the Navel Gazing Split Personality Idiot Savant role. No more antique cars stuffed with vague X-technologies nobody understands anyway. And no, not even one web standard. The Project should put Mozilla on a strict diet and star it as the Viable Alternative to the Senile Evil Dinosaur Usurper in the epic multimedial co-production "Browser Wars II: The Saga Continues".
If the Project does so, it has a future. If it doesn't, it will sink further into obscurity and silly names.
Apparently this guys has been out of the loop. I agree the silly name changes, and change in directions hurt, (hell it confused me too), but now they are on a strict roadmap. The Firebird browser is on a strict diet, it's slicker, leaner and meaner than anything Microsoft has to offer. Even some of the biggest Windows advocates have jumped on the bandwagon.
Hopefully enough eyes will be opened, and will see that the future is Firebird.
Why not just play the game that you already own from the comfort of your couch rather than standing feeding loads of quarters into a machine?
had you of read the full article you would of noticed this:
As well as this, "..winning a race in the arcade game can unlock.. ships or tracks as a special bonus - save that data to a GC memory card and you can play an otherwise unavailable ship or course in the home game."
The web pages you are watching are served by a web server running under the Contiki operating system on an an Ethernut embedded Ethernet board, which consists of a 14 MHz AVR Atmega128 microcontroller with 32 kilobytes of RAM and 128 kilobytes of flash ROM, and a RealTek RTL8019AS Ethernet chip.
Add one good pinch of Slashdottting and you'll have a beautiful baked server in less than 3 seconds.
With Microsoft's desire to have complete market dominance, how long before they start offering schools free, or cut-rate discounts all under the guise of "charity"?
Get 'em hooked early, then they'll never be able to stop using it.
"Unlike Internet spam, wireless phone spam comes with an annoying beep on your phone and a direct price tag," said Janee Briesemeister, senior policy analyst with the Consumers Union in Austin. "Consumers aren't just getting an annoying message they didn't want, they are paying 10 cents for it."
Perhaps because this will directly affect people's pocketbooks we'll see faster legislation. Not unlike taxes, when people start losing money, the louder they become.
"It is unproductive to think of games as âinteractive movies,â(TM) although many people tend to think of games in those terms. Let's be clear: games and films are different media. The techniques, processes, and skills involved in the creation of each are unique and not interchangeable. The metrics by which each is judged are also different, meaning that many of the properties that make for a good film would lead to a lousy game, and vice versa."
How true this is, let's see a list:
Popular/Good Games - Awful Movies
Super Mario Bros.
Street Fighter
Wing Commander
Tomb Rader
Mortal Kombat
Good/Popular Movies - Awful Games
Enter the Matrix
ET
Many (but not all) Star Wars games
Many (but not all) Star Trek games
The Die Hard Series
And yet, these trends will probably never stop. We keep hearing rumblings about a Duke Nukem Movie, a Doom movie, and we're already getting another Tomb Raider flick. But as long as people keep buying these games, and going to see the movies we'll keep being exposed to this dreck.
Why can't we see more games like GTA that skirt the fine line between movie and game?
To help the public grasp this subtle distinction USB 2, which was the old USB 1.1, would have ``Full Speed'' added to its title and USB 2, which was USB 2, would have ``Hi-Speed'' added.
It sounds like whomever came up with this idea was possibly "on speed".
Mike
I don't think Fossil did their homework...
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Palm OS Wristwatch
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· Score: 4, Funny
So whoâ(TM)s the market? The guys who enjoy the nostalgia of the daily beatings, 0% chance that any girl would talk to them, and the smell of the inside of a locker, because they had a Casio CFX-40 Calculator Watch?
They had a discussion about this topic on Talk of the Nation on NPR today. One of the scientists that was on claimed that this report focused mainly on the extremes. For instance the 20% leakage they've been using is a worldwide amount. The national amount in the US is about 2%.
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Well, on the plus side, the summer movie season is almost over.
Mike
This open-source story is being brought to you by Disney maker of Tron 2.
Yes we may be a heartless, monopolistic company, but we're not that other heartless monopolistic company who doesn't like open source. We at Disney love open source. Ummm. Look at Pixar! They use Linux! Granted we really don't own Pixar. But we regardless, we love Linux, and open-source, and you.
Just remember, when you think of Tron, think of open-source, and think of buying Tron 2. Better yet, don't think of buying it, just buy it! Hmmm, it is Windows only right now. That's not going to make you very happy.
Maybe WineX will work. Give it a shot, just buy it.
Tron, and open source platform, and a really nifty new game!
Mike
Now that I have a TiVo I could never give it up. But the fact this offers network connectivity, 5.1 digital out, and composite video is quite impressive. The price may seem a little steep, but a new TiVo with a lifetime subscription is about 650-700, but this box is subscription free.
The real question is the interface going to be able to compete with TiVo? The ability to do season-passes are (IMO) what will make it or break it.
Mike
Firebird is a 6MB download, compared to a 60MB download for IE, I'd say that's a supermodel at a fat camp.
Mike
The [Mozilla] Project needs to get its act together, though. No more rehearsing for the Navel Gazing Split Personality Idiot Savant role. No more antique cars stuffed with vague X-technologies nobody understands anyway. And no, not even one web standard. The Project should put Mozilla on a strict diet and star it as the Viable Alternative to the Senile Evil Dinosaur Usurper in the epic multimedial co-production "Browser Wars II: The Saga Continues".
If the Project does so, it has a future. If it doesn't, it will sink further into obscurity and silly names.
Apparently this guys has been out of the loop. I agree the silly name changes, and change in directions hurt, (hell it confused me too), but now they are on a strict roadmap. The Firebird browser is on a strict diet, it's slicker, leaner and meaner than anything Microsoft has to offer. Even some of the biggest Windows advocates have jumped on the bandwagon.
Hopefully enough eyes will be opened, and will see that the future is Firebird.
Mike
Perhaps Microsoft could implement this in a future version of IE?
Clippy: Were these the type of asian schoolgirl sluts you were looking for?
Mike
"And may God help you if that thing carried the Spice Channel."
-Moe Syzlak
Why not just play the game that you already own from the comfort of your couch rather than standing feeding loads of quarters into a machine?
had you of read the full article you would of noticed this:
As well as this, "..winning a race in the arcade game can unlock.. ships or tracks as a special bonus - save that data to a GC memory card and you can play an otherwise unavailable ship or course in the home game."
actually it's a dupe from the Games Section
Mike
The web pages you are watching are served by a web server running under the Contiki operating system on an an Ethernut embedded Ethernet board, which consists of a 14 MHz AVR Atmega128 microcontroller with 32 kilobytes of RAM and 128 kilobytes of flash ROM, and a RealTek RTL8019AS Ethernet chip.
Add one good pinch of Slashdottting and you'll have a beautiful baked server in less than 3 seconds.
Mike
endangering "substantial goodwill and good reputation" of their meat product
Don't they already endanger the goodwill and "good" reputation by calling it a "meat product"?
Mike
With Microsoft's desire to have complete market dominance, how long before they start offering schools free, or cut-rate discounts all under the guise of "charity"?
Get 'em hooked early, then they'll never be able to stop using it.
Mike
Looks like they answer a lot of Linux questions in the FAQ.
Mike
"Unlike Internet spam, wireless phone spam comes with an annoying beep on your phone and a direct price tag," said Janee Briesemeister, senior policy analyst with the Consumers Union in Austin. "Consumers aren't just getting an annoying message they didn't want, they are paying 10 cents for it."
Perhaps because this will directly affect people's pocketbooks we'll see faster legislation. Not unlike taxes, when people start losing money, the louder they become.
Mike
I must remind everyone, the majority of people who orginally saw this got it from an email.
Mike
would this work with the 007 Hack?
Mike
I wonder how many teraflops Deep Thought could have done?
42.
Mike
How true this is, let's see a list:
Popular/Good Games - Awful Movies
Good/Popular Movies - Awful Games
And yet, these trends will probably never stop. We keep hearing rumblings about a Duke Nukem Movie, a Doom movie, and we're already getting another Tomb Raider flick. But as long as people keep buying these games, and going to see the movies we'll keep being exposed to this dreck.
Why can't we see more games like GTA that skirt the fine line between movie and game?
Mike
The key scientists behind this project are Dr. Bartholemew J. Simpson and Dr. Dennis "The Menace" Mitchell.
Mike
To help the public grasp this subtle distinction USB 2, which was the old USB 1.1, would have ``Full Speed'' added to its title and USB 2, which was USB 2, would have ``Hi-Speed'' added.
It sounds like whomever came up with this idea was possibly "on speed".
Mike
So whoâ(TM)s the market? The guys who enjoy the nostalgia of the daily beatings, 0% chance that any girl would talk to them, and the smell of the inside of a locker, because they had a Casio CFX-40 Calculator Watch?
Mike
it's like my dad always said, "a little competition never hurt anyone."
look at the last time the US had a space race, we achieved what many call the greatest achievement of mankind, we landed on the moon.
Mike
Dean Kamen took a big chance inviting Jeff Bezos, he's lucky Bezos didn't run out and try to patent the idea.
Mike
sounds like you're suffering from SCOverload.
Mike
They had a discussion about this topic on Talk of the Nation on NPR today. One of the scientists that was on claimed that this report focused mainly on the extremes. For instance the 20% leakage they've been using is a worldwide amount. The national amount in the US is about 2%.
Mike