Heard - my wii is just more fun - and it is easy to just grab a single game once in a while. My wife and sons thinks the same btw. Makes for a great party gimmick too:)
Just out of curiousity: What is the decent data rate you get on CDMA ? Being from Europe I only know GSM/EDGE, where the theoretical limit is 384 kBit/s (daily use is more like ~200 kBit/s). This could make it a little painful to buy songs from iTS over the air (> 1 minute download time for your average song)
.. and maybe we should add that even the public companies (radio, hospitals etc.) must compete on market terms, and is regulated by the danish version of antitrust laws just like private companies.
The NeoOffice 2.0 (now in a closed beta with native widgets and dialogs) is probably the closest you'll ever get to a native OpenOffice on mac. It is for all intents and purposes the same OO as the windows or linux version - everything is to be found the same places, the only difference is the looks (which are better on the mac imho).
Being in Europe where first to file is the norm, I can say that first to file does not mean that prior art doesn't count - anything that has been published anywhere (including your own publications of the invention in question) counts as prior art - which is why that system requires that you are very secret about your work until the application has been filed. Here we get to see patent applications 18 months after filing, and we get to submit prior art to the examiner (if we so wish) before the patent is granted. I guess that these two things are needed also to make the system work.
... This won't fly. Just look at this. Even though market share is dropping, having > 60% of the number of units sold is still remarkable. And with the whole top 10 being Apple and no. 10 being the large video iPod at a 3.6% share, there is clearly no big competition - just a lot of small competition. The second best companys bestseller is doing worse than 3.6% market share. And the Nano flew in as no. 2 in just half a month. Unbelievable.
No - but as a father to a 7 year old boy, I'm actually the part of the target audience - I can afford to spend the money and have some fun together with my son. For me $249 is not too much - I still have legos from when I was a kid (including working motors, electric train rails and pneumatics), so I consider it a long term investment.
Yes - the official stand now is, that as long as you leave the trademark alone you are welcome to tinker. So no LegOS operating system - but BrickOS is a-ok. After all - isn't tinkering and hacking what LEGO is all about ?
Pre-PC age musicians used sequencers to record music. Nearly all of these had a scroll wheel to scroll through menus, notes, disk contents etc. Hardly new or obvious in any way.
Actually the commision is more than the civil service. All legislative initiative lies with the commision, not the council or the parliament. Furthermore, although the commisioners are appointed by the government in each country (whatever that happens to be at the date every 5 years where the commision is re-appointed) they are not representing neither the country nor the government that appointed them in any way. That is in my mind the biggest flaw of the european system as it is. Too much of the early footwork is taking place in the commision, which is outside democratic control (direct or indirect). In my view this is upside down. Legislative initiatives should come from the parliament, with the commission then ironing out the kinks, and with the council as the last rubber stamp.
... And they indirectly have a big consumer-electronics presence through PS3 and XBox 360. They will be making a fair amount of cash on selling PPC derivatives to these machines.
... And it is working too. I've been a linux user for nearly 10 years now, but growing up I don't feel the same need for tinkering with my system anymore, but I still want a solid base system (I.E not windows). This thing made me drool the first time I saw it, and it still does. Price is about right, features is just what *I* need (probably modulo some extra RAM) and I will get what is basically a user friendly BSD system - great. So what if it lacks FW800 - I just need the USB connectivity for connecting my external MIDI adapters - and I actually don't mind paying for some software to add the little that the base OS X lacks in functionality.
I am *very* close to go out and buy one. My only problem is which one.
Funny you should mention China. I've bought excellent DVD players from there WITHOUT Macrovision on the output, WITHOUT any notion of region coding and at a very low price too. Great for me, since I can watch any movie I want - and even plug it into my sons so-old-it-does-not-have-SCART TV with good results. Note that this is not in any way use that hurts the movie makers - quite the contrary. Why should that be illegal ? It is extremely ironic that we need China to deliver us freedom...
Hmmm. I don't think the risk of being kidnapped is that big in Legoland, Denmark (being from Denmark I can tell you that the max. 5 child kidnappings we have here every year makes big headlines every time). However Legoland in Billund has a lot of very big playgrounds with a lot of exits, tunnels and stuff, so it is virtually impossible to keep an eye on your kid all the time - especially if you (as I do) have more than one. I for one will rent one of these when I go this summer - not to rely on it solely, but last time my son actually *did* slip by, and was quite hard to find again.
That has always bothered me too. Here in Denmark you can buy anonymous SIM cards at every gas station with $5-$50 worth of talk time. Pop it in your phone and talk - no need to wait for someone to enable the card in the network. It has its own phone number and will work for 6 months. If I could only get that in the states, I wouldn't mind having a phone just for when I'm in the states.
However if my car engine stopped randomly, or my brakes or steering would suddenly lock up on the highway, I would instantly switch to another brand. If the same just was true in computing...
Actually looking a little closer at w3schools, they actually run their own stats showing a different (and somewhat encouraging) picture. Although at this growth rate it will take some time before it is even. However I've heard several web site managers state that they will start taking non-IE browsers serious when they reach more than 10% market share, since then it will start to hurt not supporting them. So there is hope.
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This is exactly why a system like this has failed here in Denmark. The danish system is decentralized, so that each "bill" is a smart-card. The money are drawn by having the cash terminal tell the card to decrease its value and then the cash is registered in the terminal instead. This is then turned into real money by a clearinghouse - but there is no need to be online all the time. This is actually quite clever, and we've seen batterydriven terminals and all, but the problem is that paying for your goods in the supermarket is the smallest market for cash. All the everyday situations where you turn over cash to someone else is not possible with the card, and hence people prefer the cash.
Actually a fun story goes that Sony (the movie company) was very much against that Sony (the computer company) put DVD player capabilities into the PS2, especially since the PS2 was supposed to have an RGB output (I don't know if it has that now) where Macrovision is not mandatory according to the DVD specs (your PC does not output Macrovision to your monitor - that's why). Furthermore they had a very large internal debate on the ability to switch off region coding on PS2. Sony (the computer guys) wanted this to be easy (since that feature really sells in Europe), but Sony (the movie guys) were scared to hell about it since it would destroy their abilities to control the DVD market in the way they do now. When the same company cannot agree with itself it shows that something is wrong with the way things are handled in the content business (but we knew that already).
Given the fact that both germany, france and others are buying into Linux now, with good support from IBM, I see very little chance that this will succeed in Europe or Asia (the latter being the most important since they make our motherboards). Also the heavy investments in Linux from IBM will leave at least one major player out of the conspiracy. Palladium won't work unless M$ can control the server side too, and with all the Apache servers out there and with players like Sun and IBM not buying into this, it will probably die a slow but certain death.
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Heard - my wii is just more fun - and it is easy to just grab a single game once in a while. My wife and sons thinks the same btw. Makes for a great party gimmick too :)
Firstly, show me any OSX user that does not run their Mac as an admin user.
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Just out of curiousity: What is the decent data rate you get on CDMA ? Being from Europe I only know GSM/EDGE, where the theoretical limit is 384 kBit/s (daily use is more like ~200 kBit/s). This could make it a little painful to buy songs from iTS over the air (> 1 minute download time for your average song)
.. and maybe we should add that even the public companies (radio, hospitals etc.) must compete on market terms, and is regulated by the danish version of antitrust laws just like private companies.
The NeoOffice 2.0 (now in a closed beta with native widgets and dialogs) is probably the closest you'll ever get to a native OpenOffice on mac. It is for all intents and purposes the same OO as the windows or linux version - everything is to be found the same places, the only difference is the looks (which are better on the mac imho).
Being in Europe where first to file is the norm, I can say that first to file does not mean that prior art doesn't count - anything that has been published anywhere (including your own publications of the invention in question) counts as prior art - which is why that system requires that you are very secret about your work until the application has been filed. Here we get to see patent applications 18 months after filing, and we get to submit prior art to the examiner (if we so wish) before the patent is granted. I guess that these two things are needed also to make the system work.
... This won't fly. Just look at this. Even though market share is dropping, having > 60% of the number of units sold is still remarkable. And with the whole top 10 being Apple and no. 10 being the large video iPod at a 3.6% share, there is clearly no big competition - just a lot of small competition. The second best companys bestseller is doing worse than 3.6% market share. And the Nano flew in as no. 2 in just half a month. Unbelievable.
No - but as a father to a 7 year old boy, I'm actually the part of the target audience - I can afford to spend the money and have some fun together with my son. For me $249 is not too much - I still have legos from when I was a kid (including working motors, electric train rails and pneumatics), so I consider it a long term investment.
For starteres there is this page. And there is also an official SDK from Lego.
Yes - the official stand now is, that as long as you leave the trademark alone you are welcome to tinker. So no LegOS operating system - but BrickOS is a-ok. After all - isn't tinkering and hacking what LEGO is all about ?
Pre-PC age musicians used sequencers to record music. Nearly all of these had a scroll wheel to scroll through menus, notes, disk contents etc. Hardly new or obvious in any way.
Actually the commision is more than the civil service. All legislative initiative lies with the commision, not the council or the parliament. Furthermore, although the commisioners are appointed by the government in each country (whatever that happens to be at the date every 5 years where the commision is re-appointed) they are not representing neither the country nor the government that appointed them in any way. That is in my mind the biggest flaw of the european system as it is. Too much of the early footwork is taking place in the commision, which is outside democratic control (direct or indirect). In my view this is upside down. Legislative initiatives should come from the parliament, with the commission then ironing out the kinks, and with the council as the last rubber stamp.
... And they indirectly have a big consumer-electronics presence through PS3 and XBox 360. They will be making a fair amount of cash on selling PPC derivatives to these machines.
That is the first time I've seen a dupe at the same time as the original is on the front page. Wow again.
... And it is working too. I've been a linux user for nearly 10 years now, but growing up I don't feel the same need for tinkering with my system anymore, but I still want a solid base system (I.E not windows). This thing made me drool the first time I saw it, and it still does. Price is about right, features is just what *I* need (probably modulo some extra RAM) and I will get what is basically a user friendly BSD system - great. So what if it lacks FW800 - I just need the USB connectivity for connecting my external MIDI adapters - and I actually don't mind paying for some software to add the little that the base OS X lacks in functionality. I am *very* close to go out and buy one. My only problem is which one.
Funny you should mention China. I've bought excellent DVD players from there WITHOUT Macrovision on the output, WITHOUT any notion of region coding and at a very low price too. Great for me, since I can watch any movie I want - and even plug it into my sons so-old-it-does-not-have-SCART TV with good results. Note that this is not in any way use that hurts the movie makers - quite the contrary. Why should that be illegal ? It is extremely ironic that we need China to deliver us freedom ...
Hmmm. I don't think the risk of being kidnapped is that big in Legoland, Denmark (being from Denmark I can tell you that the max. 5 child kidnappings we have here every year makes big headlines every time). However Legoland in Billund has a lot of very big playgrounds with a lot of exits, tunnels and stuff, so it is virtually impossible to keep an eye on your kid all the time - especially if you (as I do) have more than one. I for one will rent one of these when I go this summer - not to rely on it solely, but last time my son actually *did* slip by, and was quite hard to find again.
That has always bothered me too. Here in Denmark you can buy anonymous SIM cards at every gas station with $5-$50 worth of talk time. Pop it in your phone and talk - no need to wait for someone to enable the card in the network. It has its own phone number and will work for 6 months. If I could only get that in the states, I wouldn't mind having a phone just for when I'm in the states.
However if my car engine stopped randomly, or my brakes or steering would suddenly lock up on the highway, I would instantly switch to another brand. If the same just was true in computing...
Actually looking a little closer at w3schools, they actually run their own stats showing a different (and somewhat encouraging) picture. Although at this growth rate it will take some time before it is even. However I've heard several web site managers state that they will start taking non-IE browsers serious when they reach more than 10% market share, since then it will start to hurt not supporting them. So there is hope.
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This is exactly why a system like this has failed here in Denmark. The danish system is decentralized, so that each "bill" is a smart-card. The money are drawn by having the cash terminal tell the card to decrease its value and then the cash is registered in the terminal instead. This is then turned into real money by a clearinghouse - but there is no need to be online all the time. This is actually quite clever, and we've seen batterydriven terminals and all, but the problem is that paying for your goods in the supermarket is the smallest market for cash. All the everyday situations where you turn over cash to someone else is not possible with the card, and hence people prefer the cash.
But as long as M$ allows E-Mail clients and even Media Players to execute random code at will, the "local user" is a matter of definition.
Actually a fun story goes that Sony (the movie company) was very much against that Sony (the computer company) put DVD player capabilities into the PS2, especially since the PS2 was supposed to have an RGB output (I don't know if it has that now) where Macrovision is not mandatory according to the DVD specs (your PC does not output Macrovision to your monitor - that's why). Furthermore they had a very large internal debate on the ability to switch off region coding on PS2. Sony (the computer guys) wanted this to be easy (since that feature really sells in Europe), but Sony (the movie guys) were scared to hell about it since it would destroy their abilities to control the DVD market in the way they do now. When the same company cannot agree with itself it shows that something is wrong with the way things are handled in the content business (but we knew that already).
Given the fact that both germany, france and others are buying into Linux now, with good support from IBM, I see very little chance that this will succeed in Europe or Asia (the latter being the most important since they make our motherboards). Also the heavy investments in Linux from IBM will leave at least one major player out of the conspiracy. Palladium won't work unless M$ can control the server side too, and with all the Apache servers out there and with players like Sun and IBM not buying into this, it will probably die a slow but certain death.