I am taking exception to their allegation #4. I have done a more than cursory glance at their website and i dont see anything that looks like a photograph to me. Every picture of the console looks like a 3D rendering to me.
I even sat thru the vacuous low quality '500k' video and say nothing that resembled an actual photograph. Whatever IL is carrying on about there seems to be no actual pictures. HardOCP not asking for them is irrelevant. Consumers examine the content on the site not in a press packet. also when I looked at the site when the first letter was sent, i also saw no pictures that i would identify as photos.
On 2 other notes, i noticed in the one mockup in the/href= "http://www.infiniumlabs.com/phantom_produ ct_sheet.pdf" product specs i noticed the ethernet right above the AC power input. That really doesn't give me warm fuzzies. Not to mention tha microsecond glimpse you get of the rotating console in the WMV advertising blitz video shows a different port output. (not that this is really surprising for beta HW)
The video blurb goes on to say that it has the most games of any console. I'll believe it when i see it. Also as a console "designed by gamers for gamers" one of the selling points is 'pay for play'. I cant say i know any gamers that want that.
The whole thing give me the 'real player' feeling. Not actual innovation going on.. just a venue to try and sell content.
it hardly matters who they sue, there will be a nearly instantaneous filing of an injunction until the case against IBM is done. Everything SCO would be suing on is currently part of another lawsuit. I have a hard time seeing any judge letter a second suit go forward while the facts of ownership are in question.
if ppl send money to SCO and IBM (or anyone) buys the fuming remnants of SCO once their suit is over, they are under no onus to refund any money. And as elsewhere in the thread has said the license is just for SCO IP (whatever dubious things that is) not necessarily linux or any alleged IP in linux. So its the equivalent of buying a bottle with the invisible fairy in it. if you can see it it will work magic for you, if not..well you still have an invisible fairy. You may end up with a license for something worthless.
I have an old family friend that works as a chemist as Kodak and as i recall its been hard times for a while. For ages of course Kodak's bred and butter has been film and associated chemicals. With the masses switching and of course the long standing competition there is just less and less pie to go round.
Of course on the flip side Kodak does have some good r&d, and with the future of OLEDs and such there may yet be a future.
a friend introduced me to bluetooth a couple of years ago and i was 'ho hum', i had the feeling then and do now that bluetooth will end up much as isdn did, first out of the gate and will end up mostly forgotten. just a hunch
As much as i dislike usb on a technical POV, it purpose for low speed devices like KBs mice personal printers scanners cameras and so on makes a wireless variant stronger. because 1) its already pervasive, and given point 1, the wireless part can be handled at the low level in firmware and no one has to retool rework or reprogram for another wireless API.
On a side note to this discussion i saw something wholly disturbing at a rest stop today : "Support out troops abroad and at home" it was a poster soliciting donations for the NYPD benevolent assoc. Frankly i am going to have nightmares for the rest of my life because of that. Civil law enforcement are not 'troops' and equating them as such really has the nauseating feeling of the blurring lines of the civilian and military. I am very much afraid that it may be way to late to turn away from the eventual police state.
Keep these points in mind,
* ceding more power to the govt causes it/them to want more (for reference please see the abuses of power at the FBI under JE hoover and the reforms that were put in place after his reign.)
* the criminalization of civil matters (look at the actions of the RIAA MPAA, and the use of not only federal resources, but their own legally allowed goons to threaten and harass)
* Govt influence is being bought and sold by big money (see again RIAA/MPAA and Senator Disney (Hollings)
* The rather insane need by certain govt officials to amend the constitution to limit the freedoms and liberties of the citizenry (where as the document lays out the restrictions of the powers of the govt.)
* The drive of some to also remove the miranda warning as to put people into a coercive situation with law enforcement and deprive them of at least the cognizance of their rights.
* People being held without charges and without counsel.
There are a lot of people that benefit from having these powers to arbitrarily make inconvenient people go away temporally or permanently, and even a well meaning leader may not be able to reverse the course.
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Ya know that one really bothers me. It feels like it almost borders on fraud. I mean since SCO is the one who caused this problem saying that their product is better because SCO isnt suing themselves feels like fraud.
Its kinda like they poisoning the well and then pulling into town with your cart and mule selling 'brother Darl's olde tyme health tonic'
I expect SCO will try and claim they own the though processes that go into making anything that behaves in any way like unix. So multitasking, like talking to your wife and thinking about your mistress, would be one or making wild claims in the press while at the same time not fulfilling a court order to show evidence, that would be one too. I suppose pumping and dumping stock might also be. I mean just examples.
Id like to say the same to bungie for selling out, breaking their promise of having mac halo (the original development platform) out 2 years ago. I wont play halo now or ever. if you gave me a copy id burn it and send it back to bungie, postage due.
is a good slapping by the/. effect also a violation of their TOS?
I recall several sites that their TOS dont allow you to actually read the site or the TOS.
Not to mention briefly at the NYS DOH they had a policy that forbade you from (effectively) accessing the internet as it was their policy to not allow you to download copyrighted information.
Not log ago there was an article about not only how ipv6 isnt needed, but that since its 'new' code, it has a lot of problems that have long since been worked out of ipv4. Is this an example of that? Should we worry?
I have to ask myself that with all of the decades of experience that has gone into ipv4 development and hacking and exploiting, are these fears justified? Have all the glitches in ipv4 been found? and if so isnt it trivial to avoid the same early mistakes in ipv6. Does this particular problem have a ipv4 analog? Is it even a stack theory issue? Is it just an implementation oversight?
Well i dont want to stereotype here, but i would have played extensively had they had a macintosh version. Myst has always been cerebral, and with all the 'twitchy' games out there for windows in retrospect it seems to have been doomed to failure.
i havent seen a boot block virus in nearly 10 years. In fact if you were to run down the list of recent viruses id have you say you'd be hard pressed to find one. All of the recent ones rely on windows. So 'security' is all about DRM
Well if they are allegedly using PM g5s for make xbox 2 games, im sure we will get empty promises of games for the mac RSN, that will eventually show up when no one wants to buy them anymore.
Besides this also implies that the x2 wont be using windows as the nightmare it would take to port it to non x86.
Well these bubbled and donut shaped nuclei are very intresting, Im not up on my nuclear physics, but these heavy nuclei have a problem that the strong force isnt quite strong enough to keep all the protons hanging (so close?) together. In a donut shape you have the same number of nuclei in a larger volume, may end up being more stable as so many positive charges arent jammed so close together.
Well if comcast refuses to state in the contract what the terms are and then cancels you for violation of the contract i think that still fall under fraud. Its certainly acting in bad faith. I wonder when the fcc is gonna stop in. I certainly expect some state AGs to get on this. slapping down a big name company for customer abuse is good on a resume.
I suppose this was bound to happen but frankly, the movies are long enough already, if they added in all this other crap you'd need a damned diaper to make it thru 1 movie.
If by now you haven't gotten clued in and protected yourself against the wave of viruses that have eaten windows for lunch for the past 5 years then you as a business deserve to waste thousands of dollars on this one.
If you cant be bothered to hire ppl who have no sense then to open everything that comes to them without seeing what it is then you deserve to waste thousands of dollars on this.
If you cant be bothered to have someone on your staff who is qualified to run your network and not just the person who can setup the copier and the fax machine, well you deserve to waste thousands of dollars on this.
Well slice it which ever way you want, this jives with what i hear about the virtual water cooler. gcc is all well and good on x86 (as where its been tweaked for ages) but not always the best elsewhere. MacOS X is where i hear this mostly. The more aggressively it get used outside of x86 land the more it will get tweaked.
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I am taking exception to their allegation #4. I have done a more than cursory glance at their website and i dont see anything that looks like a photograph to me. Every picture of the console looks like a 3D rendering to me.
/href=u ct_sheet .pdf" product specs i noticed the ethernet right above the AC power input. That really doesn't give me warm fuzzies. Not to mention tha microsecond glimpse you get of the rotating console in the WMV advertising blitz video shows a different port output. (not that this is really surprising for beta HW)
I even sat thru the vacuous low quality '500k' video and say nothing that resembled an actual photograph. Whatever IL is carrying on about there seems to be no actual pictures. HardOCP not asking for them is irrelevant. Consumers examine the content on the site not in a press packet. also when I looked at the site when the first letter was sent, i also saw no pictures that i would identify as photos.
On 2 other notes, i noticed in the one mockup in the
"http://www.infiniumlabs.com/phantom_prod
The video blurb goes on to say that it has the most games of any console. I'll believe it when i see it. Also as a console "designed by gamers for gamers" one of the selling points is 'pay for play'. I cant say i know any gamers that want that.
The whole thing give me the 'real player' feeling. Not actual innovation going on.. just a venue to try and sell content.
SCO will sue a linux user in n+1 days.
it hardly matters who they sue, there will be a nearly instantaneous filing of an injunction until the case against IBM is done. Everything SCO would be suing on is currently part of another lawsuit. I have a hard time seeing any judge letter a second suit go forward while the facts of ownership are in question.
if ppl send money to SCO and IBM (or anyone) buys the fuming remnants of SCO once their suit is over, they are under no onus to refund any money. And as elsewhere in the thread has said the license is just for SCO IP (whatever dubious things that is) not necessarily linux or any alleged IP in linux. So its the equivalent of buying a bottle with the invisible fairy in it. if you can see it it will work magic for you, if not..well you still have an invisible fairy. You may end up with a license for something worthless.
I have an old family friend that works as a chemist as Kodak and as i recall its been hard times for a while. For ages of course Kodak's bred and butter has been film and associated chemicals. With the masses switching and of course the long standing competition there is just less and less pie to go round.
Of course on the flip side Kodak does have some good r&d, and with the future of OLEDs and such there may yet be a future.
a friend introduced me to bluetooth a couple of years ago and i was 'ho hum', i had the feeling then and do now that bluetooth will end up much as isdn did, first out of the gate and will end up mostly forgotten. just a hunch
As much as i dislike usb on a technical POV, it purpose for low speed devices like KBs mice personal printers scanners cameras and so on makes a wireless variant stronger. because 1) its already pervasive, and given point 1, the wireless part can be handled at the low level in firmware and no one has to retool rework or reprogram for another wireless API.
On a side note to this discussion i saw something wholly disturbing at a rest stop today : "Support out troops abroad and at home" it was a poster soliciting donations for the NYPD benevolent assoc. Frankly i am going to have nightmares for the rest of my life because of that. Civil law enforcement are not 'troops' and equating them as such really has the nauseating feeling of the blurring lines of the civilian and military. I am very much afraid that it may be way to late to turn away from the eventual police state.
Keep these points in mind,
* ceding more power to the govt causes it/them to want more (for reference please see the abuses of power at the FBI under JE hoover and the reforms that were put in place after his reign.)
* the criminalization of civil matters (look at the actions of the RIAA MPAA, and the use of not only federal resources, but their own legally allowed goons to threaten and harass)
* Govt influence is being bought and sold by big money (see again RIAA/MPAA and Senator Disney (Hollings)
* The rather insane need by certain govt officials to amend the constitution to limit the freedoms and liberties of the citizenry (where as the document lays out the restrictions of the powers of the govt.)
* The drive of some to also remove the miranda warning as to put people into a coercive situation with law enforcement and deprive them of at least the cognizance of their rights.
* People being held without charges and without counsel.
There are a lot of people that benefit from having these powers to arbitrarily make inconvenient people go away temporally or permanently, and even a well meaning leader may not be able to reverse the course.
Ya know that one really bothers me. It feels like it almost borders on fraud. I mean since SCO is the one who caused this problem saying that their product is better because SCO isnt suing themselves feels like fraud.
Its kinda like they poisoning the well and then pulling into town with your cart and mule selling 'brother Darl's olde tyme health tonic'
begone foul open source demons begone!
I expect SCO will try and claim they own the though processes that go into making anything that behaves in any way like unix. So multitasking, like talking to your wife and thinking about your mistress, would be one or making wild claims in the press while at the same time not fulfilling a court order to show evidence, that would be one too. I suppose pumping and dumping stock might also be. I mean just examples.
The only successful tool in social engineering is a LART.
Id like to say the same to bungie for selling out, breaking their promise of having mac halo (the original development platform) out 2 years ago. I wont play halo now or ever. if you gave me a copy id burn it and send it back to bungie, postage due.
i wonder who they think they are gonna send the bill to.
is a good slapping by the /. effect also a violation of their TOS?
I recall several sites that their TOS dont allow you to actually read the site or the TOS.
Not to mention briefly at the NYS DOH they had a policy that forbade you from (effectively) accessing the internet as it was their policy to not allow you to download copyrighted information.
Not log ago there was an article about not only how ipv6 isnt needed, but that since its 'new' code, it has a lot of problems that have long since been worked out of ipv4. Is this an example of that? Should we worry?
I have to ask myself that with all of the decades of experience that has gone into ipv4 development and hacking and exploiting, are these fears justified? Have all the glitches in ipv4 been found? and if so isnt it trivial to avoid the same early mistakes in ipv6. Does this particular problem have a ipv4 analog? Is it even a stack theory issue? Is it just an implementation oversight?
Does anyone have any insight?
Well i dont want to stereotype here, but i would have played extensively had they had a macintosh version. Myst has always been cerebral, and with all the 'twitchy' games out there for windows in retrospect it seems to have been doomed to failure.
i havent seen a boot block virus in nearly 10 years. In fact if you were to run down the list of recent viruses id have you say you'd be hard pressed to find one. All of the recent ones rely on windows. So 'security' is all about DRM
Well if they are allegedly using PM g5s for make xbox 2 games, im sure we will get empty promises of games for the mac RSN, that will eventually show up when no one wants to buy them anymore.
Besides this also implies that the x2 wont be using windows as the nightmare it would take to port it to non x86.
ok i shall end my baseless speculation.
you know you wanna mod me as troll. its ok:)
Well these bubbled and donut shaped nuclei are very intresting, Im not up on my nuclear physics, but these heavy nuclei have a problem that the strong force isnt quite strong enough to keep all the protons hanging (so close?) together. In a donut shape you have the same number of nuclei in a larger volume, may end up being more stable as so many positive charges arent jammed so close together.
Things are gonna get interesting.
as i dont have an xbox seeing that screen shot all i could think was "wow rvb2 is gonna be sweet"
umm which "proprietary utility" is this?
Well if comcast refuses to state in the contract what the terms are and then cancels you for violation of the contract i think that still fall under fraud. Its certainly acting in bad faith. I wonder when the fcc is gonna stop in. I certainly expect some state AGs to get on this. slapping down a big name company for customer abuse is good on a resume.
I suppose this was bound to happen but frankly, the movies are long enough already, if they added in all this other crap you'd need a damned diaper to make it thru 1 movie.
If by now you haven't gotten clued in and protected yourself against the wave of viruses that have eaten windows for lunch for the past 5 years then you as a business deserve to waste thousands of dollars on this one.
If you cant be bothered to hire ppl who have no sense then to open everything that comes to them without seeing what it is then you deserve to waste thousands of dollars on this.
If you cant be bothered to have someone on your staff who is qualified to run your network and not just the person who can setup the copier and the fax machine, well you deserve to waste thousands of dollars on this.
Well slice it which ever way you want, this jives with what i hear about the virtual water cooler. gcc is all well and good on x86 (as where its been tweaked for ages) but not always the best elsewhere. MacOS X is where i hear this mostly. The more aggressively it get used outside of x86 land the more it will get tweaked.
Move along nothing to see here.