Nevertheless, two wrongs don't make a right. Monsanto is most definitely *not* in the clear themselves in the lying/tampering department, either.
Both sides have a lot to lose, from each perspective.
If Monsanto's issue here gets brought to public light, and truly *sane* (not profit-driven) decisions are made about an issue which could, potentially, do more damage to the ecosphere than we could *possibly* imagine, then all the more reason for all truths in the case to be exposed, as well as lies.
Perhaps the GM industry *NEEDS* Government regulation - who are we to truly say? In 200 years, Monsanto Inc. may still be around, whereas The Nation of United States of America and its police forces, may not! What could *that* do to our eco-sphere? IF we put gov't regs into effect on the GM trade that *severely* reduce the profits which can be derived from fucking with the genepool now, then we may be saving things from catastrophe further down the line, in... say... 200 or 300 years time.
The genepool can do some pretty heavy things in 200 years. Those Wheat, Inc. (tm) branded stalks growing in someones field, blown off a truck flatbed, *could* be the enemy of the future. We just do not know.
Hopefully, the Canadian Supreme Court (or whatever it is), will serve justice at a public policy level where other courts failed.
Too many times, corporations get away with things like this because there simply hasn't been public policy for the technological proceedings, and lower courts treat cases on a black vs. white basis - who broke what laws we already have on the books, not might one day have.
Cases such as this - mega-corp vs. little guy - are good to know about, regardless of 'liars vs. liars' issues. Dismissing them on moral grounds such as this will cause you to lose sight of the big picture...
Sorry, but words are important, and diluting their definition with marketing dreck is just not on, particularly in this day and age.
Attitudes such as yours are incorrigible because they allow for language to devalue itself, when in fact the value of language is in the participants' ability to understand each other, based on skillful use of words commonly defined.
The word 'enterprise' means 'business activity', and any skillful deployment of Linux technology in such an area *deserves* attention by those for whom "Enterprise" is not just a place for twibbles and scam, as in those for whom an enterprise is a source of livelihood and who thus stand to benefit from what Linux has to offer.
Arguing about words in a debate instead of focusing on the activities those words describe is a cheap foul!
Well, there were already plenty of games I liked, and I didn't need more, heh heh... but yeah, sounds good. I'll go hunt down an emu, and fire it up, just for the sake of clarity and fun.
I remember the days of Archon... my friend had it for his C64, but I ignored games like that for my Oric/Speccie setup because I'm an arcade junkie and... to an arcade junkie, Archon just looks like fancy chess. I was too busy playing JSW or Elite, most of the time, to care about Archon and its ilk... but, one thing is clear, Archon had a *huge* following in the 8-bit gamer days.
I never did get to the bottom of what was so good about Archon as a game - perhaps you'd care to elucidate?
This is just the sort of snobby elitish pedantism which gets Linux into trouble, consistently. Lets see, how about we call your company "too small" to be called a "company"...
The word 'enterprise' is not a 'class' of business nor does it imply any 'size of business'.
The word 'enterprise' simply means "A business organization." as opposed to an educational institution, or personal user.
Please learn to use a dictionary, and especially work on your 'marketing dreck filter 101' language skills.
Whatever Microsoft (or IBM) may have done to this word, getting Linux installed in this budding enterprise is a damned fine thing. Hats off to to the entire crew of the Display Works crew for proving that yes... Linux *is* ready for most enterprises...
The second and third videos don't look like they're realtime to me... I imagine its just clipped video scaled, rotated, and alphamapped...
If she was hitting the "Start" key and the menu was being build and displayed, and all that, I would be a little happier with what I saw. But as it is, and knowing MS' track record of shoddy demo's, I'm gonna pass all judgement on Longhorn until I hear chimps talking about it on the bus.
And most of all, The Internet means sitting at noisy and unreliable machines that would land any self-respecting consumer manufacturer with a class action suit.
He's got a point here. The general public has a perception of "The Internet" as being something you can only access when you're sitting in front of a very boring, very uncomfortable, beige box PC sitting in some corner away from the other comforts of life.
The fact, though, that modern manufacturers are designing Internet-enabled devices (hey, we've considered it, even) which can provide Internet-class services in devices which *are* reliable, and which *are* pleasing/aesthetic to use, gives hope.
Being able to walk around my house with a Clie NX70V and WLAN has made the Internet a *much* more useful thing to me than it always used to in the beigebox days... well, actually, being able to roam freely around the place with a tiBook changed things drastically, too.
It won't be long until I can pretty much get on the 'net anywhere in town with the NX70V, and then... I think the Internet will be very, very much alive, thank you very much. As it is, there are already 'off-the-net' networks springing up in big cities... I know of at least two WLAN nets in Amsterdam (not far from here), for example, which are open and run in 10.1.1.0 subnets.
I bet it won't be long until WLAN's in most major cities begin to rival the bandwidth scenario we faced in the early 90's, even, when the Commons was waaay open, and new nodes were welcomed willingly by anyone already lucky enough to be on fast bandwidth.
The Internet is not dying. Its changing, as it always has, and becoming more and more important. And if the main trunks get subjugated, it will only be because everyone else has moved on to meatspace-community-scale WLAN networks, which can't be controlled by *anyone*.
NASA reported today that a software bug in their ODEEFUS hiring software system, a module intended to convert from metric to feet, has resulted in nation-wide employee panics, stupidity, and hysteria.
This marks the 2nd (or, in NASA terminology, 1.99996th) time that such a software bug has occurred. A NASA official, who asked not to be named, said that "It was just a lousy misplaced colon".
It will have a big effect on sales, for the simple fact that announcing *any* price cut into Press-Release land will put give favourable "Impressions" (marketing speak) to thousands and thousands of potential customers who may be tipped over the edge by the notion of 'XBox is cheaper now, maybe its time to buy'.
Never, ever forget that the Press Release Machine is why companies do things like this.
Conspiracy theories aside, the F-1 production facility and engineering archives were all lost in a fire.
To build the F-1 today, we would have to re-engineer it completely from scratch... including all blueprints, designs, test material, etc. That this was all lost is a travesty, but hey... we've moved on.
I'm from Perth, and remember staying up all night to try and catch a glimpse of Skylab as it came crashing down.
The next day there were news reports on big chunks that had landed all over the place. Nobody was hurt if I remember correctly, but it was funny to see one picture of a typical Aussie wheatbelt'er, standing next to a big ball of shredded super hight tech O2 tank in the middle of his paddock.
That really was the beginning of my personal "Space Love Era", heh heh... Skylab, you piece of shit you! Why didn't you stay up!!!
Its not uncommon for manufacturers to design 'jump switch' upgrades in their gear.
Apple do it in all their laptops, for example. The tiBook 400/500 difference was a simple jumper switch; anyone with a 400mhz tiBook can upgrade to 500mhz easily enough.
Its a common practice. A lot of manufacturers do it, and its not a myth - its quite convenient for cost/inventory purposes, not to mention product-line diversification.
Theres a fine line between arbitrary 'market price structures' and manufacturing, and usuall that fine line has a jumper across it...
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I don't believe you.
I think there *is* room for a 'fourth' console.
Its just that it had better Seriously Kick Ass if it wants to compete.
Frankly, looking at the existing stock, I can think of at least 10 ways a new 'under the radar' console could compete.
Come on. Does *nobody* remember the actual lessons of MSX? eh?
Okay, I'll give you a hint:
a) There will *always* be a 'dying' console in the console war. Work on the *games*, not the 'marketing'.
Here's another:
b) He who has the most software, wins.
Anyone wanting to build a new console to compete with PS2/XBOX/GC need only keep in mind those two rules, and then get to work.
Complacency is fine, but you wait until someone comes up with a console which breaks some rules. It could, and might, happen.
I was referring to Quicktime, dude. The *other* Apple IP.
... yeah, right. I'm sure the folks at Stac would have something interesting to say about that ongoing commitment to IP.
Or Apple, for that matter.
Lets just put it this way on the revenues issue: when it comes to Genetic Law, I would rather corporations were not writing them.
Nevertheless, two wrongs don't make a right. Monsanto is most definitely *not* in the clear themselves in the lying/tampering department, either.
... say ... 200 or 300 years time.
Both sides have a lot to lose, from each perspective.
If Monsanto's issue here gets brought to public light, and truly *sane* (not profit-driven) decisions are made about an issue which could, potentially, do more damage to the ecosphere than we could *possibly* imagine, then all the more reason for all truths in the case to be exposed, as well as lies.
Perhaps the GM industry *NEEDS* Government regulation - who are we to truly say? In 200 years, Monsanto Inc. may still be around, whereas The Nation of United States of America and its police forces, may not! What could *that* do to our eco-sphere? IF we put gov't regs into effect on the GM trade that *severely* reduce the profits which can be derived from fucking with the genepool now, then we may be saving things from catastrophe further down the line, in
The genepool can do some pretty heavy things in 200 years. Those Wheat, Inc. (tm) branded stalks growing in someones field, blown off a truck flatbed, *could* be the enemy of the future. We just do not know.
Hopefully, the Canadian Supreme Court (or whatever it is), will serve justice at a public policy level where other courts failed.
Too many times, corporations get away with things like this because there simply hasn't been public policy for the technological proceedings, and lower courts treat cases on a black vs. white basis - who broke what laws we already have on the books, not might one day have.
Cases such as this - mega-corp vs. little guy - are good to know about, regardless of 'liars vs. liars' issues. Dismissing them on moral grounds such as this will cause you to lose sight of the big picture...
He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!
Sorry, but words are important, and diluting their definition with marketing dreck is just not on, particularly in this day and age.
Attitudes such as yours are incorrigible because they allow for language to devalue itself, when in fact the value of language is in the participants' ability to understand each other, based on skillful use of words commonly defined.
The word 'enterprise' means 'business activity', and any skillful deployment of Linux technology in such an area *deserves* attention by those for whom "Enterprise" is not just a place for twibbles and scam, as in those for whom an enterprise is a source of livelihood and who thus stand to benefit from what Linux has to offer.
Arguing about words in a debate instead of focusing on the activities those words describe is a cheap foul!
Dictionaries, people! It's what they're for!!
Well, there were already plenty of games I liked, and I didn't need more, heh heh ... but yeah, sounds good. I'll go hunt down an emu, and fire it up, just for the sake of clarity and fun.
I remember the days of Archon ... my friend had it for his C64, but I ignored games like that for my Oric/Speccie setup because I'm an arcade junkie and ... to an arcade junkie, Archon just looks like fancy chess. I was too busy playing JSW or Elite, most of the time, to care about Archon and its ilk... but, one thing is clear, Archon had a *huge* following in the 8-bit gamer days.
I never did get to the bottom of what was so good about Archon as a game - perhaps you'd care to elucidate?
This is just the sort of snobby elitish pedantism which gets Linux into trouble, consistently. Lets see, how about we call your company "too small" to be called a "company" ...
... Linux *is* ready for most enterprises...
The word 'enterprise' is not a 'class' of business nor does it imply any 'size of business'.
The word 'enterprise' simply means "A business organization." as opposed to an educational institution, or personal user.
Please learn to use a dictionary, and especially work on your 'marketing dreck filter 101' language skills.
Whatever Microsoft (or IBM) may have done to this word, getting Linux installed in this budding enterprise is a damned fine thing. Hats off to to the entire crew of the Display Works crew for proving that yes
The second and third videos don't look like they're realtime to me... I imagine its just clipped video scaled, rotated, and alphamapped ...
...
If she was hitting the "Start" key and the menu was being build and displayed, and all that, I would be a little happier with what I saw. But as it is, and knowing MS' track record of shoddy demo's, I'm gonna pass all judgement on Longhorn until I hear chimps talking about it on the bus.
Until then, ho hum
... has some Mars models (fliable) available here in case anyone wants to try and get a feel for the flight dynamics of this sort of trip.
...
Pretty interesting, though I don't suppose there's an ARES model for X-plane yet, I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't one soon
And most of all, The Internet means sitting at noisy and unreliable machines that would land any self-respecting consumer manufacturer with a class action suit.
... I think the Internet will be very, very much alive, thank you very much. As it is, there are already 'off-the-net' networks springing up in big cities ... I know of at least two WLAN nets in Amsterdam (not far from here), for example, which are open and run in 10.1.1.0 subnets.
He's got a point here. The general public has a perception of "The Internet" as being something you can only access when you're sitting in front of a very boring, very uncomfortable, beige box PC sitting in some corner away from the other comforts of life.
The fact, though, that modern manufacturers are designing Internet-enabled devices (hey, we've considered it, even) which can provide Internet-class services in devices which *are* reliable, and which *are* pleasing/aesthetic to use, gives hope.
Being able to walk around my house with a Clie NX70V and WLAN has made the Internet a *much* more useful thing to me than it always used to in the beigebox days... well, actually, being able to roam freely around the place with a tiBook changed things drastically, too.
It won't be long until I can pretty much get on the 'net anywhere in town with the NX70V, and then
I bet it won't be long until WLAN's in most major cities begin to rival the bandwidth scenario we faced in the early 90's, even, when the Commons was waaay open, and new nodes were welcomed willingly by anyone already lucky enough to be on fast bandwidth.
The Internet is not dying. Its changing, as it always has, and becoming more and more important. And if the main trunks get subjugated, it will only be because everyone else has moved on to meatspace-community-scale WLAN networks, which can't be controlled by *anyone*.
{Except the manufacturers...}
NASA reported today that a software bug in their ODEEFUS hiring software system, a module intended to convert from metric to feet, has resulted in nation-wide employee panics, stupidity, and hysteria.
This marks the 2nd (or, in NASA terminology, 1.99996th) time that such a software bug has occurred. A NASA official, who asked not to be named, said that "It was just a lousy misplaced colon".
Wake me up when they attach the frickin' lasers.
It figures that Americans try to force-feed their *CRAP* on the rest of the world, you mean, and then get all pissy when it gets rejected ...
It will have a big effect on sales, for the simple fact that announcing *any* price cut into Press-Release land will put give favourable "Impressions" (marketing speak) to thousands and thousands of potential customers who may be tipped over the edge by the notion of 'XBox is cheaper now, maybe its time to buy'.
Never, ever forget that the Press Release Machine is why companies do things like this.
so where *ARE* the DOA fashion shoot photo sites? Surely one of those stampeding uber-geeks had a digital camera at the ready, if not all of them ...
Sheesh. Don't make me have to google for "DOA fashion booth babes" people. It could get ugly.
Ummm... "Serena St. Germaine" is a porno name if ever there was one.
/.'er and all...
Surely you should know that, being a
Conspiracy theories aside, the F-1 production facility and engineering archives were all lost in a fire.
... including all blueprints, designs, test material, etc. That this was all lost is a travesty, but hey ... we've moved on.
To build the F-1 today, we would have to re-engineer it completely from scratch
I'm from Perth, and remember staying up all night to try and catch a glimpse of Skylab as it came crashing down.
... Skylab, you piece of shit you! Why didn't you stay up!!!
The next day there were news reports on big chunks that had landed all over the place. Nobody was hurt if I remember correctly, but it was funny to see one picture of a typical Aussie wheatbelt'er, standing next to a big ball of shredded super hight tech O2 tank in the middle of his paddock.
That really was the beginning of my personal "Space Love Era", heh heh
Dude, don't forget "Deep Throat".
Yeah, right, good point, there's just a small matter of PAYING FOR IT!!
Well, I dunno. If I could buy a 17" alBook with a 1ghz PC processor in it, you can bet your ass I would!
...
Still, if I could buy a 17" alBook with a 1ghz PPC processor in it, you can bet your ass I would as well, heh heh
Its not uncommon for manufacturers to design 'jump switch' upgrades in their gear.
Apple do it in all their laptops, for example. The tiBook 400/500 difference was a simple jumper switch; anyone with a 400mhz tiBook can upgrade to 500mhz easily enough.
Its a common practice. A lot of manufacturers do it, and its not a myth - its quite convenient for cost/inventory purposes, not to mention product-line diversification.
Theres a fine line between arbitrary 'market price structures' and manufacturing, and usuall that fine line has a jumper across it...