Check out this article over at ign.com. Nintendo is claiming 2:1 sales over the xbox and 25% more units sold than the PS2 in it's first week.
I have a relative who works for Best Buy corporate and she says the Gamecube is outselling the Xbox across the US in their stores by a substantial margin as well.
Xbox will be dead in a year. The game industry doesn't give a shit about third place (ask Sega).
They didn't ingore mine. While I usually use spamcop, I know they bounce everything from them, so I manually submitted a complaint to them. About a week later I received a response saying they took appropriate action against the user according to their AUP... blah, blah....
I've been using credit and ATM cards at gasoline stations (petrol pumps) for more than 6 years in the U.S.. Did you think that Shell or Mobil had modem hookups to banks?
I agree. I have a relative who works for Best Buy (the corporate headquarters), and she says the gamecube is destroying the xbox in terms of untis sold across all of their stores in the US. She couldn't remember the exact figures... but it wasn't even close. Could it be the $100 extra? probably.
Since just about every major browser allows you to accept/deny/view/modify/delete coolies... what's the big deal? Banning X10 ads... now that's something worth considering.
yeah, but the AUTHOR added the links to his own work. He knew where the links would be and where they were going to. Micorsofts plan takes the control away from the author, and gives it to microsoft.
Ok, it wasn't "people like you". But there is a substantial portion of the Mac crowd that thinks every anouncement is going to be the greatest thing ever (tm), and they provide the hoop-la, and absurdly high expectations, not Apple.
All Apple did was hold a press conference for a new product. While you may abhor marketing and advertising, if you think it isn't necessary you're a fool.
I think the device is innovative in a couple of ways.
1) it syncs with your desktop
2) it charges itself while syncing, through the firewire cable, not a power cord (unless you want to use the powercord)
3) it's incredibly small and light
4) the price isn't bad, considering you can buy the drive inside it for $399, the same price as the ipod.
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On that note, is 9.2.1 actually available independantly of OS X
Or if you are close enough, go to an Apple store and ask for the 10.1 update pack. It includes 10.1 (you need the original 10 disc to install it) and a full verison of 9.2.1. They'll give it to you no questions asked, and no proof of ownership.
I use my macs for content creation, the money I spend on software is usualy a lot more than the computer (even a mac), so a few hundred extra for a mac doesn't matter to me. I get a qualtiy machine (with a warranty and high quality parts) that has a proven track record in a production environment.
My macs help me make money... a lot more than I pay for them. You see, to some people, and this is true of a lot of mac people, the computer is a tool that we use for an end product, not just something to play games and look at porn on.
The discussion wasn't about monitors, it was about the decoding of the MPEG on the DVD...
I doubt a PCI-card decoder (or even a software decoder... probably what he has) is going to compare to a high-end dedicated decoder.
As far as 24 fps... while film is shot at 24fps, when it ends up on your DVD it is either in NTSC format (29.97 fps) or PAL (25 fps).
Please send me a link to this magical monitor that can scale the image up... I'm really interested in that. Does the monitor have some sort of processor build into it?
When I posted the text, the site was down... everyone was getting 403 or 500 errors. I read the article eariler, so I grabbed it from my cache. I'm sure the author would rather have someone read their article from a different site, than not have access to it at all.
What harm was done? Sure they might loss a couple of ad impressions, but they save server/bandwidth resources. And if you noticed, I left all copyright/author information intact.
Their server seems to be having problems... here is the text...
WIPO Arbitrators Stern In Domain 'Hijacking' Rulings
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By Steven Bonisteel, Newsbytes
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND,
19 Oct 2001, 5:20 PM CST
A pair of companies - including Swiss food giant Nestle - have received unusually stern rebukes from international arbitrators who say the firms attempted to abuse a procedure that is supposed to sort out disputes over the ownership of Internet domain names.
In two separate decisions published this week, arbitrators refereeing disputes on behalf of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said the companies that had accused others of being cybersquatters were in fact attempting to "reverse hijack" the Internet addresses in question.
Findings of reverse hijacking are relatively rare under ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), even though the system for settling disputes over conflicts between trademark holder and domain-name registrants has seen more than 4,500 cases in less than two years.
But even rarer was the severity of the spanking received by Nestle at the hands of three arbitrators assigned by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Also accused of reverse hijacking - but reprimanded less harshly by another trio of WIPO arbitrators - was Boston-area software company Aspen Grove, which had attempted to claim the domain AspenGrove.com from a family in Salt Lake City.
Nestle had turned to WIPO's Arbitration and Mediation Center, one of four organizations accredited to resolve UDRP complaints, in a bid to evict another Swiss company, Pro Fiducia Treuhand AG, from the Internet address Maggi.com.
Nestle said the registration of Maggi.com clearly encroached on the trademark it holds for its Maggi brand of sauces and soups.
It complained that Pro Fiducia Treuhand, a financial and management consulting firm with some 40 employees, had no legitimate claim on the Maggi.com domain and that it had registered and used the address in bad faith because, after five years, the company had not made use of the domain for a Web site.
But Pro Fiducia Treuhand says there's a reason it is listed as the holder of Maggi.com: its chairman, Romeo Maggi, had provided the company contact information when he registered the domain for his personal use in 1996.
In his response to WIPO after Nestle's complaint, Maggi said he still plans to use the address to build a Web site for his family and that he had informed Nestle's lawyers of that when they contacted him in 1999. Maggi said appeals from Nestle for the domain actually led to a meeting between the two sides in Geneva a year ago.
The panel of WIPO arbitrators, led by Washington, D.C.-based international business law specialist Dennis Foster, ruled it was clear that Maggi had a legitimate interest in the Maggi.com domain. But what seemed to annoy the trio was that nowhere in Nestle's complaint did its lawyers mention the existence of the Pro Fiducia Treuhand chairman.
"The panel finds the failure of (Nestle)... to set out any of the clearly lengthy background to this dispute is surprising," the panel said in a written ruling.
Pointing out that Nestle had certified in its complaint that the information it provided was, "to the best of (its) knowledge, complete and accurate," the arbitrators wrote: "The panel does not see how that could properly have been said."
"(Nestle) has... avoided the full story," the panel wrote. "As a result of its rather lengthy dealings with Mr. Maggi, (Nestle) was aware that Mr. Maggi intended to use the domain name for personal use, yet (it) ignores these negotiations in the complainant and fails to even mention (Maggi's) alleged personal interest in the domain name."
"In fact the initial complaint misstated the registration record by failing to name Mr. Maggi as the administrative contact, an error later corrected when noted by the WIPO staff," the panel said. "Had Mr. Maggi failed to defend his position, perhaps complainant's lack of candor might have resulted in a decision in its favor."
"Having instead been exposed, that lack of candor concerning material facts, tied with the lack of legal merit to (Nestle's) position, leads us to the conclusion that this complaint wasbrought in bad faith and constitutes an abuse of the administrative proceeding."
In the case of the battling Aspen Groves, the workflow-software company from the east coast had complained that Michael Clark of Salt Lake City had no right to AspenGrove.com and that, as in the Maggi.com dispute, the lack of an active Web site at the address suggested a cybersquatter was at work.
Lawyers for Aspen Grove argued that, "by continuing to use the domain name without offering any or little content or any legitimate business use, (Clark) has confused (Aspen Grove's) prospective clients and business partners and has diluted the value of (its) trademark and reputation."
In a response filed on his behalf, Clark's lawyers blasted the notion that the lack of a commercial Web site constituted bad-faith use on an Internet address.
"Domain names may be owned by individuals and utilized solely for personal use," Clark's lawyers argued. "The rule advocated by (Aspen Grove) - that maintenance of a domain name without construction of a commercial Web site is tantamount to bad faith - ignores the history of the Internet and the World Wide Web, is inconsistent with the (UDRP), and is generally poor public policy."
Clark told Newsbytes that his family has used the domain - which reminded them of the aspens around their home at the time the address was registered - for personal communication, including e-mail and the sharing of family photos, for more than four years.
But the real clincher for the WIPO panel led by Mark Partridge, an intellectual property lawyer in Chicago, was that Clark had registered his domain in January of 1997 - a date which was not only before Aspen Grove applied to trademark its name, but which also pre-dated Aspen Grove's incorporation as a company.
Argued Clark's lawyers, "The complaint is based on the incredible premise that a business is ipso facto entitled to a domain name despite the fact that a private individual has registered and continuously used the domain name before the business even existed."
The WIPO arbitrators agreed, saying Aspen Grove's weak claim on a trademark and the fact that Clark's registration was two years ahead of the software company's incorporation justified a reverse-hijacking ruling.
"The panel finds the complainant, even though apparently knowledgeable and assisted by reputable counsel, nonetheless chose to file a complaint without a colorable claim and thus abused the ICANN proceeding," the arbitrators wrote.
Reported by Newsbytes.com, http://www.newsbytes.com .
Yes, actually, because even a P2 500 with a decent video card, and a sound card with digital out, blows away the high end progressive scan DVD set tops.
You have GOT to be joking.... please, tell me you aren't serious.
This is not a test on the emergency broadcast system
This is the real thing
Sit back watch it crumble, see the drowning watch the fall
I feel just terrible about it, that's sarcasm, let it burn
I'm gonna make at toast when it falls apart
I'm gonna raise my glass abuv my heart
Then someone shouts that's what they get!
For all the years of hit and run for all the piss broke bands on VH one
Where did all their money go don't we all know
Parasitic music industry as it destroys itself
We'll show them how it's supposed to be
Music written from devotion not ambithicin, not for fame
Zero people are exploited there are no tricks up or sleeve
Were gonna fight against the mass appeal
Were gonna kill the seven record deal
Make records that have more then one good song
The dinosaurs will slowly die and I do believe no one will cry
I'm just fucking glad I'm gonna be there to watch the fall
Prehistoric music industry three feet in la brea tar
Extinction never felt so good
If you think anyone will feel badly you are sadly mistaken
The time has come for evolution fuck collusion kill the big five
What ever happened to the handshake whatever happened to deals no one would break whatever happened to integrity
It's still there it always was for playing music just because
A million reasons why all dinosaurs must (will) die
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Check out this article over at ign.com. Nintendo is claiming 2:1 sales over the xbox and 25% more units sold than the PS2 in it's first week.
I have a relative who works for Best Buy corporate and she says the Gamecube is outselling the Xbox across the US in their stores by a substantial margin as well.
Xbox will be dead in a year. The game industry doesn't give a shit about third place (ask Sega).
They didn't ingore mine. While I usually use spamcop, I know they bounce everything from them, so I manually submitted a complaint to them. About a week later I received a response saying they took appropriate action against the user according to their AUP... blah, blah....
When I buy a new lock, the locksmith doesn't send a key to the FBI, why are the AV companies (basically) doing this??
I've been using credit and ATM cards at gasoline stations (petrol pumps) for more than 6 years in the U.S.. Did you think that Shell or Mobil had modem hookups to banks?
are you saying you think those are wireless?
I agree. I have a relative who works for Best Buy (the corporate headquarters), and she says the gamecube is destroying the xbox in terms of untis sold across all of their stores in the US. She couldn't remember the exact figures... but it wasn't even close. Could it be the $100 extra? probably.
Since just about every major browser allows you to accept/deny/view/modify/delete coolies... what's the big deal? Banning X10 ads... now that's something worth considering.
yeah, but the AUTHOR added the links to his own work. He knew where the links would be and where they were going to. Micorsofts plan takes the control away from the author, and gives it to microsoft.
I swear, about 5 stories a week on slashdot are straight from memepool.com and the submitters never credit the site.
good call... Apple raised the price in the UK by 20 pounds without an explanation... that must be why
Ok, it wasn't "people like you". But there is a substantial portion of the Mac crowd that thinks every anouncement is going to be the greatest thing ever (tm), and they provide the hoop-la, and absurdly high expectations, not Apple.
All Apple did was hold a press conference for a new product. While you may abhor marketing and advertising, if you think it isn't necessary you're a fool.
I think the device is innovative in a couple of ways.
1) it syncs with your desktop2) it charges itself while syncing, through the firewire cable, not a power cord (unless you want to use the powercord)
3) it's incredibly small and light
4) the price isn't bad, considering you can buy the drive inside it for $399, the same price as the ipod.
Here ya go, free for the taking: http://www.info.apple.com/validate/agree.taf?item= 921&lang=&geo=us
Or if you are close enough, go to an Apple store and ask for the 10.1 update pack. It includes 10.1 (you need the original 10 disc to install it) and a full verison of 9.2.1. They'll give it to you no questions asked, and no proof of ownership.
finally someone who "gets" it. gig- I couldn't agree with you more.
What kind of hoop-la did Apple make? They sent out invitations to select press people.
They didn't email the fucking cutomers, they didn't have ANYTHING on their site until after the media event today.
All they did was send out an invitation that said something to the effect of: Come check out our new groundbreaking product. Hint: It's not a Mac"
What do you expect them to say: "Hey, we got this thing... it's sorta cool, well actually it sucks ass, but come check it out anyways.
The hoop-la was created by the ridiculous mac "news" sites and people like you.
t has to be able to run iTunes, which is available for Mac OS 9 too.
You forgot gigabit ethernet.
I use my macs for content creation, the money I spend on software is usualy a lot more than the computer (even a mac), so a few hundred extra for a mac doesn't matter to me. I get a qualtiy machine (with a warranty and high quality parts) that has a proven track record in a production environment.
My macs help me make money... a lot more than I pay for them. You see, to some people, and this is true of a lot of mac people, the computer is a tool that we use for an end product, not just something to play games and look at porn on.
1,000 songs, not hours. Still, more than 10 hours worth.
The discussion wasn't about monitors, it was about the decoding of the MPEG on the DVD...
I doubt a PCI-card decoder (or even a software decoder... probably what he has) is going to compare to a high-end dedicated decoder.
As far as 24 fps... while film is shot at 24fps, when it ends up on your DVD it is either in NTSC format (29.97 fps) or PAL (25 fps).
Please send me a link to this magical monitor that can scale the image up... I'm really interested in that. Does the monitor have some sort of processor build into it?
When I posted the text, the site was down... everyone was getting 403 or 500 errors. I read the article eariler, so I grabbed it from my cache. I'm sure the author would rather have someone read their article from a different site, than not have access to it at all.
What harm was done? Sure they might loss a couple of ad impressions, but they save server/bandwidth resources. And if you noticed, I left all copyright/author information intact.
Their server seems to be having problems... here is the text...
... to set out any of the clearly lengthy background to this dispute is surprising," the panel said in a written ruling.
... avoided the full story," the panel wrote. "As a result of its rather lengthy dealings with Mr. Maggi, (Nestle) was aware that Mr. Maggi intended to use the domain name for personal use, yet (it) ignores these negotiations in the complainant and fails to even mention (Maggi's) alleged personal interest in the domain name."
WIPO Arbitrators Stern In Domain 'Hijacking' Rulings
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Printer-Friendly Version
By Steven Bonisteel, Newsbytes
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND,
19 Oct 2001, 5:20 PM CST
A pair of companies - including Swiss food giant Nestle - have received unusually stern rebukes from international arbitrators who say the firms attempted to abuse a procedure that is supposed to sort out disputes over the ownership of Internet domain names.
In two separate decisions published this week, arbitrators refereeing disputes on behalf of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said the companies that had accused others of being cybersquatters were in fact attempting to "reverse hijack" the Internet addresses in question.
Findings of reverse hijacking are relatively rare under ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), even though the system for settling disputes over conflicts between trademark holder and domain-name registrants has seen more than 4,500 cases in less than two years.
But even rarer was the severity of the spanking received by Nestle at the hands of three arbitrators assigned by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Also accused of reverse hijacking - but reprimanded less harshly by another trio of WIPO arbitrators - was Boston-area software company Aspen Grove, which had attempted to claim the domain AspenGrove.com from a family in Salt Lake City.
Nestle had turned to WIPO's Arbitration and Mediation Center, one of four organizations accredited to resolve UDRP complaints, in a bid to evict another Swiss company, Pro Fiducia Treuhand AG, from the Internet address Maggi.com.
Nestle said the registration of Maggi.com clearly encroached on the trademark it holds for its Maggi brand of sauces and soups.
It complained that Pro Fiducia Treuhand, a financial and management consulting firm with some 40 employees, had no legitimate claim on the Maggi.com domain and that it had registered and used the address in bad faith because, after five years, the company had not made use of the domain for a Web site.
But Pro Fiducia Treuhand says there's a reason it is listed as the holder of Maggi.com: its chairman, Romeo Maggi, had provided the company contact information when he registered the domain for his personal use in 1996.
In his response to WIPO after Nestle's complaint, Maggi said he still plans to use the address to build a Web site for his family and that he had informed Nestle's lawyers of that when they contacted him in 1999. Maggi said appeals from Nestle for the domain actually led to a meeting between the two sides in Geneva a year ago.
The panel of WIPO arbitrators, led by Washington, D.C.-based international business law specialist Dennis Foster, ruled it was clear that Maggi had a legitimate interest in the Maggi.com domain. But what seemed to annoy the trio was that nowhere in Nestle's complaint did its lawyers mention the existence of the Pro Fiducia Treuhand chairman.
"The panel finds the failure of (Nestle)
Pointing out that Nestle had certified in its complaint that the information it provided was, "to the best of (its) knowledge, complete and accurate," the arbitrators wrote: "The panel does not see how that could properly have been said."
"(Nestle) has
"In fact the initial complaint misstated the registration record by failing to name Mr. Maggi as the administrative contact, an error later corrected when noted by the WIPO staff," the panel said. "Had Mr. Maggi failed to defend his position, perhaps complainant's lack of candor might have resulted in a decision in its favor."
"Having instead been exposed, that lack of candor concerning material facts, tied with the lack of legal merit to (Nestle's) position, leads us to the conclusion that this complaint wasbrought in bad faith and constitutes an abuse of the administrative proceeding."
In the case of the battling Aspen Groves, the workflow-software company from the east coast had complained that Michael Clark of Salt Lake City had no right to AspenGrove.com and that, as in the Maggi.com dispute, the lack of an active Web site at the address suggested a cybersquatter was at work.
Lawyers for Aspen Grove argued that, "by continuing to use the domain name without offering any or little content or any legitimate business use, (Clark) has confused (Aspen Grove's) prospective clients and business partners and has diluted the value of (its) trademark and reputation."
In a response filed on his behalf, Clark's lawyers blasted the notion that the lack of a commercial Web site constituted bad-faith use on an Internet address.
"Domain names may be owned by individuals and utilized solely for personal use," Clark's lawyers argued. "The rule advocated by (Aspen Grove) - that maintenance of a domain name without construction of a commercial Web site is tantamount to bad faith - ignores the history of the Internet and the World Wide Web, is inconsistent with the (UDRP), and is generally poor public policy."
Clark told Newsbytes that his family has used the domain - which reminded them of the aspens around their home at the time the address was registered - for personal communication, including e-mail and the sharing of family photos, for more than four years.
But the real clincher for the WIPO panel led by Mark Partridge, an intellectual property lawyer in Chicago, was that Clark had registered his domain in January of 1997 - a date which was not only before Aspen Grove applied to trademark its name, but which also pre-dated Aspen Grove's incorporation as a company.
Argued Clark's lawyers, "The complaint is based on the incredible premise that a business is ipso facto entitled to a domain name despite the fact that a private individual has registered and continuously used the domain name before the business even existed."
The WIPO arbitrators agreed, saying Aspen Grove's weak claim on a trademark and the fact that Clark's registration was two years ahead of the software company's incorporation justified a reverse-hijacking ruling.
"The panel finds the complainant, even though apparently knowledgeable and assisted by reputable counsel, nonetheless chose to file a complaint without a colorable claim and thus abused the ICANN proceeding," the arbitrators wrote.
Reported by Newsbytes.com, http://www.newsbytes.com .
17:20 CST
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© 2001 The Washington Post Company
hmm....
Forbidden
Your client is not allowed to access the requested object.
Anyone else getting this error?
Yes, actually, because even a P2 500 with a decent video card, and a sound card with digital out, blows away the high end progressive scan DVD set tops.
You have GOT to be joking.... please, tell me you aren't serious.
This is not a test on the emergency broadcast system
This is the real thing
Sit back watch it crumble, see the drowning watch the fall
I feel just terrible about it, that's sarcasm, let it burn
I'm gonna make at toast when it falls apart
I'm gonna raise my glass abuv my heart
Then someone shouts that's what they get!
For all the years of hit and run for all the piss broke bands on VH one
Where did all their money go don't we all know
Parasitic music industry as it destroys itself
We'll show them how it's supposed to be
Music written from devotion not ambithicin, not for fame
Zero people are exploited there are no tricks up or sleeve
Were gonna fight against the mass appeal
Were gonna kill the seven record deal
Make records that have more then one good song
The dinosaurs will slowly die and I do believe no one will cry
I'm just fucking glad I'm gonna be there to watch the fall
Prehistoric music industry three feet in la brea tar
Extinction never felt so good
If you think anyone will feel badly you are sadly mistaken
The time has come for evolution fuck collusion kill the big five
What ever happened to the handshake whatever happened to deals no one would break whatever happened to integrity
It's still there it always was for playing music just because
A million reasons why all dinosaurs must (will) die
--NOFX