Or just use an nVidia card. They provide full-featured, fast drivers that knock the socks off even the Windows drivers of ATI cards.
In the future they may even come with DRM build right in. Think instant compliance no effort or even choice on the Linux users part.
They may not be open source, but I'll take features, speed, and stability over source anyday (if you really want source, you can always use the nv driver, too).
Microsoft and nVidia on Xbox: nVidia: "But we don't want to change the Linux PC drivers to include drm. This wasn't part of the deal."
Microsoft:"Pray I do not alter the deal any further."
Is anyone else getting the feeling that ATI and their helpful specs are all talk?
Now that is a good question AC.
Aditionally does anyone know what state the open source driver is in? Is it developed more quickly or more slowly becasue of it's closed counterpart.
Sorry for the slow response, I didn't think you would respond.
"Actually I voted for Nader"
"He was far worse. Erasure of the 1st Amendment by making it so only the government can do political speech."
Could you be more specific. Which policy was this?
Not to mention Nader's grandiose and greedy scheme to insert the government into many more aspects of our private lives. A vote for Nader is a vote for ultrafascism, pure and simple.
Fashisism? Socialism reform maybe, but I seriously doubt Nader would ever start a military campain he absolutly didn't have to. Monarchies of that nature burn out pretty quick without war. I think you would have impressed me more by calling him a communist. I think his reform would be more towards beating up industries with a high profit margin and little care outside their own needs. I saw him speak on Microsoft, he has an understanding of underhanded tactics few politicians openly do.
" Nader represents the interest of 1% of the people, fortunately."
We will never know as long as the Democrats and Republicans run the debates as a bipartisan event. I am very weary of party politics in this age of unlimmited party contributions.
Just for the record I think Nader is a bit of a kook. I can't imagine him as a great commander and chief, nor can I see him as being slick enough to lie for our country when neccessary. I went a green party meeting just for kicks and was just a bit weirded out.
Stopping unlimmited "donations" (see bribes) is important enough to elect some who is not well rounded. If I feel this way, others likely do to. It's actually kind of scary.
"Wow you pegged my flaim bait meter.
Facts=.1"
"
I did have the facts on this one. The so-called "campaign finance reforms" attempt to censor unwanted political speech either by banning it directly or indirectly by attacking funding. No wonder the ACLU (which unfortunately happens to favor government control of campaigns) does not like them because of this."
If you believe that speech==money crap then perhaps I am wasting my time. Right now companies can buy laws at will. I'd give you examples in your favorite area, if you would let me know what that is.
The ACLU is not exactly my favorite right now, they are ignoring copyright/software/Internet issues way to much. I am not about government control of campains, I am about limiting corperate financial influence on lawmaking by matching personal donations and lowering the bar for assistance for third party candidates. Nader won the election for Bush and yet still won't recieve funding next election (if he runs.) thats nuts. Oh and from the senate hearings on the Mccain Fiengold bill I think x free hours advertising for candidates on broadcast anything would greatly reduce the money chase.
"You think you can trust that more [Fox] ? Bwaaaaa ha ha ha ha he he snarf."
"Yes, because it is less biased, and more accurate when compared to other sources."
That is probably true. It dosn't mean that it is unbiased enough or all the time. My favorites are NYTimes, USNews and World Reports, NPR, and Lehrer news hour. and a slew of online sources. Any one source or type of news source is unreliable. They have interests too, and Fox has plenty of interests. Consider the sources parent.
"I am not right or left"
"Yet you chose a far-left candidate."
Yea and I though Gulianni was great too. Aren't republicans usually considered the right?
"I don't what to do with this. I'm not even sure we are having the same conversation.
"
"
Just think with a critical mind when it comes to so called "reforms" that censor political speech of everyone except for the government, incumbents, and "the media"."
I do think, often. I need you to be more specific. Spell it out for us. What do you consider political speech and how do these people/parites/comments I made earlier threaten it?
Could you tell us a little more about yourself AC? Perhaps you could create an account?
If brand recognition is anything like in the US, Adobe apps are a killer app for some. Here come 100,000 more copies of Red Flag.
I wonder if someone in Redmond just said in slow motion... Ohhhhhh shhiiiiiiiiitttt.
Since Adobe is being pirated out of a profit anyway they have nothing to lose. I wonder what percentage of illegit copies of Photoshop are running on legit copies of Windows? Oh wait, they can still fire up paint.exe.:)
You know just like the newly emotional commander Data when the enterprise crashed to the ground....
"ooooooohhhhh shhhhiiitttt".
I enjoyed that way to much, perhaps I'm mental or somthing.
I have been looking for a solid confirmation of the 7500.
I don't care to buy hardware from a company that might oprhan me or DRM me, when their priorities change(only a fool would argue that Microsoft dosn't carry a big club in their xbox deal). GPL is required for software infrastructure in my book.
Do you know what the highest Linux card that works with video capture and 3d is? Is it the 32meg Radeon AIW? Is there a 7500 aiw type tv card?
Actually I voted for Nader and would have gladly voted for McCain or Bradly. The only positive thing I can say about Bush's Jr policies is his (theoretical, stated) defense of freedom of speech, and Gore (tipper baby) was the worst on the free speech front. I was a single issue voter if neccesary last election.
Wow you pegged my flaim bait meter.
Accusations=5
Logical method=.3
Facts=.1
A/(L+F)=12.5
Ideally A/LF should equal one or lower. I may not be perfect but at least I never broke ten before.
Time/Warner? You must be watching CNN. Hence the left-wing anti-free-speech stance. Grow up and watch Fox."
You think you can trust that more? Bwaaaaa ha ha ha ha he he snarf.
Other than occational observations I find all tv media to be simplistic and slanted. I am not right or left, I think they are both asking the wrong questions and fighting on the wrong issues. For instance I look at abortion they fight over life vs right to choose. The question should be "What charitaristics of our humanity, define life as worth protecting?", and "could this law be used as a social tool, who benifits and who gets hurt?"
like most things of importance, the devil is in the details.
"Such "reforms" mean nothing less than destroying the heart and intent of the 1st Amendment by censoring political speech. As long as there is some respect for civil liberties, such outrageous reforms will always fail."
I don't what to do with this. I'm not even sure we are having the same conversation.
" Minor nitpick: we're not dumb enough to go to war over something as stupid as IP. We'll first invent some flimsy excuse and then demonize the other country's leaders, THEN we'll go to war. "
Exactly. I don't doubt that DC will wag the dog as much as necessary to fool the public. I was definatly talking about the real reason, not the offical one.
Actually this statment shows just how far the dual FCC/Copyright monopoly has brought most people from the truth.
Side note (diverging)
Maybe the FCC should require that all TV broadcasts be without copright. Its our airwaves so it should be our content(whos the pirate in that light.) That alone would give the truth a fighting chance. I would say shortening copright length would fix things (a superior solution) but that won't stand a chance in the congress either. Not that I think this or any other reform stands a chance in the USA. Not till soft money stops. It's not even clear that soft money will stop, since it took fifteen years to stop in the thirties and then you could drag individuals through the mud rather than the totaly ambiguous party corruption. Perhaps MCCain was our last chance.
I'm not even what to do to fix this damn country. We can't even tell people it's broken unless Time/Warner says it's OK
Maybe rogue imperialist/terror states like mainland China and Iraq might do this, but ol' Russia seems to be firmly in the camp of the "free world" at this time.
I agree that Russia falls in the free world, but do we? There is a travel advisory on the US for Russian computer specialists.
Totalitarian economies are rarely very strong... a "League of Evil Nations" with Iraq, mainland China, North Korea, Libya, and other pariahs would be brutal but not very powerful.
I can totally see how you thought I meant a "league of evil nations." I meant somthing more like a progressivly growing aliance specificly designed to exclude us based on our law anbd practice. If the US becomes to much of a bully, wouldn't it be simpler for say the EU to just ignore us in it's dealings with Russia. It's just a few pen strokes away.
The next big war will be over Intellectual property. As manufacturing costs become neglegable, designs, plans, art, bulk raw materials and land will the only things worth anything. When the entire economy revolves around Ip law and IP law is corrupt, fudalism prevails and "free" countries like Russia might just square off with us on our Human rights abuses.
IP is not a bad idea, but the monoplies it produces must be much more limited. There is way to much disparity, and the gap is growing, quickly.
Software patents look a little scarrier now don't they.
But someone has got to ask the obvious. Is anyone playing devils advocite in DC?
What happens if a large chunk the embargoed countries start there own UN, world bank and WTO? It wouldn't get anywhere if Iraq joined up but it might with say China,the Ukraine and Russia on board for starters.
Isn't our trade policy putting us at millitary and financial risk. A unified world can still kick our ass at war and maybe even trade.
It wouldn't be NVidia's fault of MS decided to stop licensing the APIs to them (or priced them out of existence). Or are you really going to blame NVidia on something caused by MS?"
I'm not blaming them entirely, to do so would be to blame them for Microsoft's dominance. I'm blame people who don't see that GPLed drivers will be used long after propriatary ones are orphaned.
Always use GPLed software for infrastructure. OS connection to your video card is infrastructure. I do blame NVidia for not seeing that "cicumstances beyond their control" might leave Linux running NVidia owners out in the cold. That qualifies as not caring on their part.
Along the same vein I wish Windows drivers were GPLed as well. I feel awfull for all those sysadmins who automaticly respond "I don't know, I'll contact Microsoft" to all questions.
All of a sudden "just trust them" dosn't sound like a good idea when it comes to NVidea.
Mark my words, if things keep going the way they are , NVidea will become the Troll Tech everyone originally feared. The GPL has more power for consumers then many want you to see.
It was nice knowing you high end 3d on Linux. You will be missed.
You could be arrested at any time. You are always breaking some law. An opportunity by police to make a detailed analisys of any persons life will turn up enough evidance of broken laws to send them to jail. If they are still making trouble for powerful people when they get out, rinse lather, repeat.
How long can a capitalist country remain a police state before is becomes a fascist state?
I wonder if the next Einstein has already fled the country? I wonder what "disruptive" science he will be/is master of?
I think most (immediately post high schoolers) who don't want to be branded the "to stupid for a fraternity" idiot will say...
"I might trust Microsoft to make me a good PC, but
I'm not stupid enough to buy a MTV computer."
Is it broken logic, sure, but probably how it will go.
Incidentally, I think any Media vendor branded content embellished PC type thing will flop to similar reasoning.
"What they think I'm stupid enough to buy the Disney PC? What if I want to watch bugs bunny."
The only thing that keeps the WB minivan dvd honest is minivan competition.
MTV is taking a money hit as a favor. Somtimes it's easier to pretend an idea stands a chance despite knowing you will fail. This probably started as "but Jack what can we do?" at a board meeting.
Do Debian's rules explicitly disallow a major version upgrade? Even for security reasons? I believe that boxes are already being exploited. Even if there isn't example code, I'm sure there will be soon. Why wait?
It seems to me that widespread use and critical funtion of this package might warrant a major version upgrade on a stable release.
Please understand that I have infinate gratitude toward the Debian people, but I also have broadband Debian stable boxes.
and a side note... Someone actually modded the top parent down. WTF? Even if I was wrong those are completely on topic questions. Someone metamod that guy.
They announced this as being their most profitable quarter in the companies entire history.
Good!
Even blowing away the original NES and Gameboy sales quarters. They are MAKING MONEY off each HARDWARE unit of the GameCube which MS and Sony are NOT.
I did not know that Nintendo is making money on the consoles.
They are LOSING money in hopes to sell more systems and the games will rake the lost revune back. This is what a lot of console makers do.. The system is not their money maker, it's the games. Well, Nintendo has BOTH money makers with the Gamecube. DVD playerback was never an option.
If you look at the PS2 and XBox they have so many compatability issues it's not even funny. Who would want a DVD player that doesn't play hardly any movies? Akira doesnt work on ANY of them. Even after Sonys 4 software ROM revisions for their DVD player Akira STILL hangs.
That sucks.
If you look at the lists for both systems there are countless awesome movies that just dont work. THATS why Nintendo didnt chose DVD playback. Trying to keep a console compatable for movies (Which isnt even the point of a console!) is a frustrating business.
I imagine that would be very expensive for them to maintain. That doesn't mean it would be too expensive to make it worth their while though.
Nintendo has already claimed the crown, IMO. I have 1 friend with an XBox, and know 3 others with a Gamecube, and 2 with PS2s. The fact that my friends are asking me to bring my Gamecube to their apts to play Super Smash Bro's tells me something: Sony and MS have no hope when Zelda/Mario/Metroid are out within the year.
As long as GTA3 is out for PS2 only there will be buyers. As for Microsoft...
I agree almost everything you said except I don't understand one thing...
If Microsofts offcial stockholder statments discuss.Net as a future segment of their profit stategy, shouldn't the SEC investigate this a a possible fraud on the stockholders?
Don't people go to jail for fradulent websites artifically boosting a companies outlook? Don't people go to jail for defacing say CNN? Is this better or worse for Microsoft because they manipulated another companies site rather than generating their own?
The PS2 will always be #1 this round, it's got such a head start and massive game library it'd be impossible to say otherwise.
Very true the US numbers don't look as good. I am more concerned with my US options as a US person.
Thanks everyone for responding. I said what I said with some scepticism myself.
A few things from the comments so far....
Yes what I said was speculation, if it wasn't it would be history.
I am assuming the 2 console rule. Which means PS2 has one of the slots down cold. The other is up for grabs. Since Xbox is going after grownups and Game Cube for kids, they are not competing heavily yet. They will start competing eventually though, it's just a matter of time before somebody starts that fight. This will go to round two.
When they do start competing heavily, it will be to late for Nintendo to start this moving.
If Nintendo's lawyers say they can't do an inital release region free they can still make the chip physically very modular and use a commonly understood unencrypted flash protocol to program it. Then the aftermarket will take care of the last step. Voltage/burnout problems are not unworkable. Don't underestimate the virute of customizability even for customers who don't understand what the good part of customization is. The key here is plausible denyability. The current lack of DVD ability is the perfect guise for reconstruction.
DVDs are exploding. In the past two months Blockbuster dumped half it's VHS section and balanced out DVD's and VHS for floorspace. In another year some things will be dvd only. People without geek budgets will need players.
I believe Nintendo is about to recieve an ass wooping. Goodbye Mario, it was fun. Assuming that the there is only room for two consoles, Xbox will get the slot. Xbox has two things that Game cube dosn't. DVD playback capability, and an easy, low effort revenue stream for successful Win PC game makers. So how can Nintendo win? By making it a draw. Nintendo has a superior brand name recognition in this relm, which always wins in a draw.
What could Microsofts weakness be? What do SONY and Microsoft have in common that Nintendo does not?
Their first priority is to DRM and content control. Microsoft is betting on BIG deals with the RIAA and MPAA member companies. Put simply they can't piss them off.
So what should Nintendo do? Simple. Modify the gamecube to play DVDs from any region. Make sure the DVD decoding is totally controled by one EASILY removable chip that is accessable by simply lifting a simple panel.
Won't the MPAA sue? You bet they will and it will be great for Nintendo. When the MPAA sues Nintendo they should convert to region based chips to signify cooperation.
This is a quadrupal win for Nintendo.
They get free advertising as the "hackers" console
They have an easily upgradable (to region free) chip
They have a referance chip to reverse engineer. If Nintendo does it right there will be a half dozen aftermarket upgrades in a month.
They have plausable deniability.
Now the DVD argument is moot. And the vaster game base from Xbox is countered by a hassle free, region free, dvd player built into Game Cube. Kick in the name recognition and Nintendo can relax and watch Microsoft DRM itself out of existance.
I have been living my life knowing that all the evidance would incinerated.
Now earth will float around the universe forever as an icy tomb waiting to be dug up, until some alien race finds it and gets pissed enough at human beings to cut earth v3 out of dvd region 1 or somthing.
You think they could of told us this before we voted for Reagan.
If you have to populate the movie theatre with teenage girls to get the numbers you want then fine. If nsync is is in the movie, then every clone should be a member of nsync.
Tell me that wouldn't be ironic, funny and growing Darth Vader evil. The woodeness of their acting should be directly proportional to the number of clones killed. If it isn't funny enough than make more boy bands into clones and kill them. Nuke a whole planet if you have to. The teeny booper girls will be happy and the geeks/dweeb/fans_for_more_than_five_minutes will just have to laugh if you take it far enough.
Different people should get different things out of a good movie. I think episode 1 was a little too one size fits all. How many good kids cartoons have hidden adult humor or perversion.
thunder, Thunder, Thunder Cats HOOOOOOOO!!!
Hey Nsync, embrace the dark side, you will more powerfull than you could possibly imagine.
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In the future they may even come with DRM build right in. Think instant compliance no effort or even choice on the Linux users part.
They may not be open source, but I'll take features, speed, and stability over source anyday (if you really want source, you can always use the nv driver, too).
Microsoft and nVidia on Xbox:
nVidia: "But we don't want to change the Linux PC drivers to include drm. This wasn't part of the deal."
Microsoft:"Pray I do not alter the deal any further."
Is anyone else getting the feeling that ATI and their helpful specs are all talk?
Now that is a good question AC.
Aditionally does anyone know what state the open source driver is in? Is it developed more quickly or more slowly becasue of it's closed counterpart.
"Actually I voted for Nader"
"He was far worse. Erasure of the 1st Amendment by making it so only the government can do political speech."
Could you be more specific. Which policy was this?
Not to mention Nader's grandiose and greedy scheme to insert the government into many more aspects of our private lives. A vote for Nader is a vote for ultrafascism, pure and simple.
Fashisism? Socialism reform maybe, but I seriously doubt Nader would ever start a military campain he absolutly didn't have to. Monarchies of that nature burn out pretty quick without war. I think you would have impressed me more by calling him a communist. I think his reform would be more towards beating up industries with a high profit margin and little care outside their own needs. I saw him speak on Microsoft, he has an understanding of underhanded tactics few politicians openly do.
" Nader represents the interest of 1% of the people, fortunately."
We will never know as long as the Democrats and Republicans run the debates as a bipartisan event. I am very weary of party politics in this age of unlimmited party contributions.
Just for the record I think Nader is a bit of a kook. I can't imagine him as a great commander and chief, nor can I see him as being slick enough to lie for our country when neccessary. I went a green party meeting just for kicks and was just a bit weirded out.
Stopping unlimmited "donations" (see bribes) is important enough to elect some who is not well rounded. If I feel this way, others likely do to. It's actually kind of scary.
"Wow you pegged my flaim bait meter. Facts=.1"
" I did have the facts on this one. The so-called "campaign finance reforms" attempt to censor unwanted political speech either by banning it directly or indirectly by attacking funding. No wonder the ACLU (which unfortunately happens to favor government control of campaigns) does not like them because of this."
If you believe that speech==money crap then perhaps I am wasting my time. Right now companies can buy laws at will. I'd give you examples in your favorite area, if you would let me know what that is.
The ACLU is not exactly my favorite right now, they are ignoring copyright/software/Internet issues way to much. I am not about government control of campains, I am about limiting corperate financial influence on lawmaking by matching personal donations and lowering the bar for assistance for third party candidates. Nader won the election for Bush and yet still won't recieve funding next election (if he runs.) thats nuts. Oh and from the senate hearings on the Mccain Fiengold bill I think x free hours advertising for candidates on broadcast anything would greatly reduce the money chase.
"You think you can trust that more [Fox] ? Bwaaaaa ha ha ha ha he he snarf."
"Yes, because it is less biased, and more accurate when compared to other sources."
That is probably true. It dosn't mean that it is unbiased enough or all the time. My favorites are NYTimes, USNews and World Reports, NPR, and Lehrer news hour. and a slew of online sources. Any one source or type of news source is unreliable. They have interests too, and Fox has plenty of interests. Consider the sources parent.
"I am not right or left"
"Yet you chose a far-left candidate."
Yea and I though Gulianni was great too. Aren't republicans usually considered the right?
"I don't what to do with this. I'm not even sure we are having the same conversation. "
" Just think with a critical mind when it comes to so called "reforms" that censor political speech of everyone except for the government, incumbents, and "the media"."
I do think, often. I need you to be more specific. Spell it out for us. What do you consider political speech and how do these people/parites/comments I made earlier threaten it?
Could you tell us a little more about yourself AC? Perhaps you could create an account?
I wonder if someone in Redmond just said in slow motion... Ohhhhhh shhiiiiiiiiitttt.
Since Adobe is being pirated out of a profit anyway they have nothing to lose. I wonder what percentage of illegit copies of Photoshop are running on legit copies of Windows? Oh wait, they can still fire up paint.exe. :)
You know just like the newly emotional commander Data when the enterprise crashed to the ground.... "ooooooohhhhh shhhhiiitttt".
I enjoyed that way to much, perhaps I'm mental or somthing.
I don't care to buy hardware from a company that might oprhan me or DRM me, when their priorities change(only a fool would argue that Microsoft dosn't carry a big club in their xbox deal). GPL is required for software infrastructure in my book.
Do you know what the highest Linux card that works with video capture and 3d is? Is it the 32meg Radeon AIW? Is there a 7500 aiw type tv card?
Wow you pegged my flaim bait meter.
Accusations=5
Logical method=.3
Facts=.1
A/(L+F)=12.5
Ideally A/LF should equal one or lower. I may not be perfect but at least I never broke ten before.
Time/Warner? You must be watching CNN. Hence the left-wing anti-free-speech stance. Grow up and watch Fox."
You think you can trust that more? Bwaaaaa ha ha ha ha he he snarf.
Other than occational observations I find all tv media to be simplistic and slanted. I am not right or left, I think they are both asking the wrong questions and fighting on the wrong issues. For instance I look at abortion they fight over life vs right to choose. The question should be "What charitaristics of our humanity, define life as worth protecting?", and "could this law be used as a social tool, who benifits and who gets hurt?" like most things of importance, the devil is in the details.
"Such "reforms" mean nothing less than destroying the heart and intent of the 1st Amendment by censoring political speech. As long as there is some respect for civil liberties, such outrageous reforms will always fail."
I don't what to do with this. I'm not even sure we are having the same conversation.
Exactly. I don't doubt that DC will wag the dog as much as necessary to fool the public. I was definatly talking about the real reason, not the offical one.
Actually this statment shows just how far the dual FCC/Copyright monopoly has brought most people from the truth.
Side note (diverging)
Maybe the FCC should require that all TV broadcasts be without copright. Its our airwaves so it should be our content(whos the pirate in that light.) That alone would give the truth a fighting chance. I would say shortening copright length would fix things (a superior solution) but that won't stand a chance in the congress either. Not that I think this or any other reform stands a chance in the USA. Not till soft money stops. It's not even clear that soft money will stop, since it took fifteen years to stop in the thirties and then you could drag individuals through the mud rather than the totaly ambiguous party corruption. Perhaps MCCain was our last chance.
I'm not even what to do to fix this damn country. We can't even tell people it's broken unless Time/Warner says it's OK
I agree that Russia falls in the free world, but do we? There is a travel advisory on the US for Russian computer specialists.
Totalitarian economies are rarely very strong... a "League of Evil Nations" with Iraq, mainland China, North Korea, Libya, and other pariahs would be brutal but not very powerful.
I can totally see how you thought I meant a "league of evil nations." I meant somthing more like a progressivly growing aliance specificly designed to exclude us based on our law anbd practice. If the US becomes to much of a bully, wouldn't it be simpler for say the EU to just ignore us in it's dealings with Russia. It's just a few pen strokes away.
The next big war will be over Intellectual property. As manufacturing costs become neglegable, designs, plans, art, bulk raw materials and land will the only things worth anything. When the entire economy revolves around Ip law and IP law is corrupt, fudalism prevails and "free" countries like Russia might just square off with us on our Human rights abuses.
IP is not a bad idea, but the monoplies it produces must be much more limited. There is way to much disparity, and the gap is growing, quickly.
Software patents look a little scarrier now don't they.
What happens if a large chunk the embargoed countries start there own UN, world bank and WTO? It wouldn't get anywhere if Iraq joined up but it might with say China,the Ukraine and Russia on board for starters.
Isn't our trade policy putting us at millitary and financial risk. A unified world can still kick our ass at war and maybe even trade.
I'm not blaming them entirely, to do so would be to blame them for Microsoft's dominance. I'm blame people who don't see that GPLed drivers will be used long after propriatary ones are orphaned.
Always use GPLed software for infrastructure. OS connection to your video card is infrastructure. I do blame NVidia for not seeing that "cicumstances beyond their control" might leave Linux running NVidia owners out in the cold. That qualifies as not caring on their part.
Along the same vein I wish Windows drivers were GPLed as well. I feel awfull for all those sysadmins who automaticly respond "I don't know, I'll contact Microsoft" to all questions.
All of a sudden "just trust them" dosn't sound like a good idea when it comes to NVidea.
Mark my words, if things keep going the way they are , NVidea will become the Troll Tech everyone originally feared. The GPL has more power for consumers then many want you to see.
It was nice knowing you high end 3d on Linux. You will be missed.
Thanks for the link, I'm going black myself.
What type of cdrom should I get? Why Philips of course. ATAPI is good, but philips is better.
Or am I getting carried away?
Remember, geeks recommend ALOT. Great products start with us.
How long can a capitalist country remain a police state before is becomes a fascist state?
I wonder if the next Einstein has already fled the country? I wonder what "disruptive" science he will be/is master of?
"I might trust Microsoft to make me a good PC, but I'm not stupid enough to buy a MTV computer."
Is it broken logic, sure, but probably how it will go.
Incidentally, I think any Media vendor branded content embellished PC type thing will flop to similar reasoning.
"What they think I'm stupid enough to buy the Disney PC? What if I want to watch bugs bunny."
The only thing that keeps the WB minivan dvd honest is minivan competition.
MTV is taking a money hit as a favor. Somtimes it's easier to pretend an idea stands a chance despite knowing you will fail. This probably started as "but Jack what can we do?" at a board meeting.
I need some blank cdr's too.
Now I have a brand to tell people to buy when they ask me.
I was planning on doing exactly that.
Do Debian's rules explicitly disallow a major version upgrade? Even for security reasons? I believe that boxes are already being exploited. Even if there isn't example code, I'm sure there will be soon. Why wait?
It seems to me that widespread use and critical funtion of this package might warrant a major version upgrade on a stable release.
Please understand that I have infinate gratitude toward the Debian people, but I also have broadband Debian stable boxes.
and a side note... Someone actually modded the top parent down. WTF? Even if I was wrong those are completely on topic questions. Someone metamod that guy.
Or did they rig their package so protocol verion 1 doesn't allow your box to hacked?
Or are they just ignoring the huge exploit problems with the ssh1 protocol?
Good!
Even blowing away the original NES and Gameboy sales quarters. They are MAKING MONEY off each HARDWARE unit of the GameCube which MS and Sony are NOT.
I did not know that Nintendo is making money on the consoles.
They are LOSING money in hopes to sell more systems and the games will rake the lost revune back. This is what a lot of console makers do .. The system is not their money maker, it's the games. Well, Nintendo has BOTH money makers with the Gamecube. DVD playerback was never an option.
If you look at the PS2 and XBox they have so many compatability issues it's not even funny. Who would want a DVD player that doesn't play hardly any movies? Akira doesnt work on ANY of them. Even after Sonys 4 software ROM revisions for their DVD player Akira STILL hangs.
That sucks.
If you look at the lists for both systems there are countless awesome movies that just dont work. THATS why Nintendo didnt chose DVD playback. Trying to keep a console compatable for movies (Which isnt even the point of a console!) is a frustrating business.
I imagine that would be very expensive for them to maintain. That doesn't mean it would be too expensive to make it worth their while though.
Nintendo has already claimed the crown, IMO. I have 1 friend with an XBox, and know 3 others with a Gamecube, and 2 with PS2s. The fact that my friends are asking me to bring my Gamecube to their apts to play Super Smash Bro's tells me something: Sony and MS have no hope when Zelda/Mario/Metroid are out within the year.
As long as GTA3 is out for PS2 only there will be buyers. As for Microsoft...
I agree almost everything you said except I don't understand one thing...
With such insightful comments why are you an AC?
If Microsofts offcial stockholder statments discuss .Net as a future segment of their profit stategy, shouldn't the SEC investigate this a a possible fraud on the stockholders?
Don't people go to jail for fradulent websites artifically boosting a companies outlook? Don't people go to jail for defacing say CNN? Is this better or worse for Microsoft because they manipulated another companies site rather than generating their own?
The PS2 will always be #1 this round, it's got such a head start and massive game library it'd be impossible to say otherwise.
Very true the US numbers don't look as good. I am more concerned with my US options as a US person.
Thanks everyone for responding. I said what I said with some scepticism myself.
A few things from the comments so far....
Yes what I said was speculation, if it wasn't it would be history.
I am assuming the 2 console rule. Which means PS2 has one of the slots down cold. The other is up for grabs. Since Xbox is going after grownups and Game Cube for kids, they are not competing heavily yet. They will start competing eventually though, it's just a matter of time before somebody starts that fight. This will go to round two.
When they do start competing heavily, it will be to late for Nintendo to start this moving.
If Nintendo's lawyers say they can't do an inital release region free they can still make the chip physically very modular and use a commonly understood unencrypted flash protocol to program it. Then the aftermarket will take care of the last step. Voltage/burnout problems are not unworkable. Don't underestimate the virute of customizability even for customers who don't understand what the good part of customization is. The key here is plausible denyability. The current lack of DVD ability is the perfect guise for reconstruction.
DVDs are exploding. In the past two months Blockbuster dumped half it's VHS section and balanced out DVD's and VHS for floorspace. In another year some things will be dvd only. People without geek budgets will need players.
What could Microsofts weakness be? What do SONY and Microsoft have in common that Nintendo does not?
Their first priority is to DRM and content control. Microsoft is betting on BIG deals with the RIAA and MPAA member companies. Put simply they can't piss them off.
So what should Nintendo do? Simple. Modify the gamecube to play DVDs from any region. Make sure the DVD decoding is totally controled by one EASILY removable chip that is accessable by simply lifting a simple panel.
Won't the MPAA sue? You bet they will and it will be great for Nintendo. When the MPAA sues Nintendo they should convert to region based chips to signify cooperation.
This is a quadrupal win for Nintendo.
- They get free advertising as the "hackers" console
- They have an easily upgradable (to region free) chip
- They have a referance chip to reverse engineer. If Nintendo does it right there will be a half dozen aftermarket upgrades in a month.
- They have plausable deniability.
Now the DVD argument is moot. And the vaster game base from Xbox is countered by a hassle free, region free, dvd player built into Game Cube. Kick in the name recognition and Nintendo can relax and watch Microsoft DRM itself out of existance.I'd buy a GameCube DVD, wouldn't you?
I have been living my life knowing that all the evidance would incinerated.
Now earth will float around the universe forever as an icy tomb waiting to be dug up, until some alien race finds it and gets pissed enough at human beings to cut earth v3 out of dvd region 1 or somthing.
You think they could of told us this before we voted for Reagan.
If you have to populate the movie theatre with teenage girls to get the numbers you want then fine. If nsync is is in the movie, then every clone should be a member of nsync.
Tell me that wouldn't be ironic, funny and growing Darth Vader evil. The woodeness of their acting should be directly proportional to the number of clones killed. If it isn't funny enough than make more boy bands into clones and kill them. Nuke a whole planet if you have to. The teeny booper girls will be happy and the geeks/dweeb/fans_for_more_than_five_minutes will just have to laugh if you take it far enough.
Different people should get different things out of a good movie. I think episode 1 was a little too one size fits all. How many good kids cartoons have hidden adult humor or perversion.
thunder, Thunder, Thunder Cats HOOOOOOOO!!!
Hey Nsync, embrace the dark side, you will more powerfull than you could possibly imagine.
Perhaps I could elaberate with my intended question.
Do you think board members should make themselves avalible for financial audits?
If so...
How deep into the board members lives can the audits go and how long after their stay on the board should their financial records be reviewed?
"RPM can do some very handy stuff that DEB can't - like verify packages,..."
I have read that the dpkg based " debsums -a " is inferior to " rpm -Va ", but noone could quite explain why.
Anybody feel like going into it?