Hello? N-gage does full 3D polygon graphics. It runs a brilliant version of Pro-Skater, which is a full 3-D world for your skateboard. You can't run pro-skater on Game boy because it has no 3D graphics, but n-gage runs it brilliantly.
Underpowered? What does that mean? It's a series 60 Symbian phone that runs a whole ton of apps. It runs the same software as other Nokia top of the line phones. Battery life is excellent. What's crappy about it?
Exactly right. N-gage is a bloody brilliant phone, at a cheap price, that also happens to play some damned addictive games with full 3D graphics. Even without the games, n-gage is the best value phone on the market. But some of these games beat GB-Advance hands down. They may not beat Nintendo-DS, but hey this is a phone. You can actually stick the thing in your pocket.
Nokia is in this one for the long haul. Everyone knows that people play games on their mobile phones. Only thing is that n-gage can play much better games.
BTW, the newer games that have recently come out, are bloody excellent games. The phone itself is the cheapest way to get a series 60 phone. Don't write this one off, Nokia is going to pull through on this one.
I would have thought having the roulette wheel on a boat would make it *more* random rather than less random. Any unpredictable movement you can insert into the equation is good for randomness.
>I'm a bit surprised that ESR would point out the >Apche vs. IIS differences when Microsoft could >come back by pointing out you can always run >Apache on Windows if you want to.
Irrelevant. The point is whether Open Source is a viable alternative or not. MS absolutely doesn't want you messing with Apache on any platform, because if all your apps are open source, you are no longer locked into Windows OS.
>How often do I need to know how much one liter of >pure water weighs at sea level at whatever the >standard temperature is?
It's a pretty good guesstimate reference point for most people. If someone says something weighs 2kg I think "Oh yeah, about as much as a 2 litre bottle of Coca-cola. Yeah I know it doesn't count the bottle etc, but it's a useful mental model.
Firstly, I really really doubt that it will be real open source, so much as Sun's pseudo open source (aka Java). I can understand Sun's desire to prevent forks and retain compatibility, but that doesn't make it real open source.
Secondly, won't SCO have something to say about this? I would have thought there were some contracts to do with Unix that would prevent them open sourcing it. I know Sun "bought out" the rights, but surely that didn't include open sourcing the whole thing and destroying SCO's ability to licence Unix to other people?
Is this the same as the last commercial Ingres product? I wonder if this includes all the tools that Ingres had. Like report generators and application generators. Would be cool I guess if it has all that.
Does anybody really WANT Amazon to be storing our searches on their server forever and a day? Even the "edit history" feature apparently only allows you to "hide" old entries. This sux big time!! I guess it's a marketing ploy.
Redhat became a kind of standard, because nearly everyone was using it. Thus your best hope for getting an app to run was on Redhat, because it was a defacto standard.
In the future, if everybody except the big corporates starts running Fedora, then won't Fedora become the new standard and the Red Hat enterprise thingy will become an also-ran?
Sure, in theory the big corporates want more stability, less updates. But when push comes to shove will they be able to handle running an OS that is marginalised to a small fraction of the Linux market, let alone the entire OS market? You may find them running Fedora, simply because it is more standard. Or Redhat may lose the OS market to a different Linux vendor.
This is a great idea in theory, but the fact is for most people simple == good enough. This thing is sure to be a real tricky thing to use at first, and it will take ages for apps to support it probably. For most people it will be pure bloatware.
On the other hand, maybe Microsoft will pull a beauty out of the hat.... Naaahhhhhhh.
Maybe I'm crazy, but why is forcing someone to share "the dark side of free software???"
Furthermore, the FSF isn't demanding damages or money, they're only asking their licence to be obeyed. How is this "worse than commercial" like those clowns at SCO asking for big $$$ for supposed harm?
They should get a clue. Nobody strapped anybody down and forced them to use free software. And nobody is now trying to enforce some obscure clause in some new way. They are simply asking for the #1 tenet of the GPL to be upheld. Sheesh.
The problem is not that something like sitefinder isn't a good idea. The problem is that putting it in the root name servers is the wrong place for it. Something like a browser plugin or browser feature is the correct place for it. Users can have the feature, and it may even be good, but this is the dead wrong way to implement it.
Sun is saying that they WON'T indemnify against Linux use on the server. But given that Sun has a valid UNIX licence, and they can distribute as many UNIX kernels as they wish, how could SCO argue that a Linux user who got their kernel from Sun is not a valid licencee? And how would Sun be able to stand up in court and say that they sold Linux to someone without a valid licence, yet they're not responsible?
Why doesn't Linus change the kernel to remove licencing to SCO? Next time SCO wants some Linux code to implement Linux compatibility in Unixware, they won't have permission to even look at the code, and they'll be screwed.
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Hello? N-gage does full 3D polygon graphics. It runs a brilliant version of Pro-Skater, which is a full 3-D world for your skateboard. You can't run pro-skater on Game boy because it has no 3D graphics, but n-gage runs it brilliantly.
Underpowered? What does that mean? It's a series 60 Symbian phone that runs a whole ton of apps. It runs the same software as other Nokia top of the line phones. Battery life is excellent. What's crappy about it?
Exactly right. N-gage is a bloody brilliant phone, at a cheap price, that also happens to play some damned addictive games with full 3D graphics. Even without the games, n-gage is the best value phone on the market. But some of these games beat GB-Advance hands down. They may not beat Nintendo-DS, but hey this is a phone. You can actually stick the thing in your pocket.
Nokia is in this one for the long haul. Everyone knows that people play games on their mobile phones. Only thing is that n-gage can play much better games.
BTW, the newer games that have recently come out, are bloody excellent games. The phone itself is the cheapest way to get a series 60 phone. Don't write this one off, Nokia is going to pull through on this one.
If cars are communicating with each other, how long till someone hacks it and makes a traffic jam?
I'll second this guy that you should check out Versant. Will save you a bunch of time.
I would have thought having the roulette wheel on a boat would make it *more* random rather than less random. Any unpredictable movement you can insert into the equation is good for randomness.
>I'm a bit surprised that ESR would point out the
>Apche vs. IIS differences when Microsoft could
>come back by pointing out you can always run
>Apache on Windows if you want to.
Irrelevant. The point is whether Open Source is a viable alternative or not. MS absolutely doesn't want you messing with Apache on any platform, because if all your apps are open source, you are no longer locked into Windows OS.
>How often do I need to know how much one liter of
>pure water weighs at sea level at whatever the
>standard temperature is?
It's a pretty good guesstimate reference point for most people. If someone says something weighs 2kg I think "Oh yeah, about as much as a 2 litre bottle of Coca-cola. Yeah I know it doesn't count the bottle etc, but it's a useful mental model.
Firstly, I really really doubt that it will be real open source, so much as Sun's pseudo open source (aka Java). I can understand Sun's desire to prevent forks and retain compatibility, but that doesn't make it real open source.
Secondly, won't SCO have something to say about this? I would have thought there were some contracts to do with Unix that would prevent them open sourcing it. I know Sun "bought out" the rights, but surely that didn't include open sourcing the whole thing and destroying SCO's ability to licence Unix to other people?
Is this the same as the last commercial Ingres product? I wonder if this includes all the tools that Ingres had. Like report generators and application generators. Would be cool I guess if it has all that.
Does anybody really WANT Amazon to be storing our searches on their server forever and a day? Even the "edit history" feature apparently only allows you to "hide" old entries. This sux big time!! I guess it's a marketing ploy.
Maybe we all better work in the toilet.
Never assign to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity....
Ok, where do I download the patch from? I don't want to go through that blackout again....
Sounds like IBM are really worried that they will lose the SCO lawsuit.
N O T !!!!!
They remind me of SCO. Try and blame everybody and sue everybody, and see what sticks. Just no integrity left in the business community it seems.
Who cares? If Sun, or IBM want to run with Linux, good luck to them.
Redhat became a kind of standard, because nearly everyone was using it. Thus your best hope for getting an app to run was on Redhat, because it was a defacto standard.
In the future, if everybody except the big corporates starts running Fedora, then won't Fedora become the new standard and the Red Hat enterprise thingy will become an also-ran?
Sure, in theory the big corporates want more stability, less updates. But when push comes to shove will they be able to handle running an OS that is marginalised to a small fraction of the Linux market, let alone the entire OS market? You may find them running Fedora, simply because it is more standard. Or Redhat may lose the OS market to a different Linux vendor.
Why is the above analysis not correct?
This is a great idea in theory, but the fact is for most people simple == good enough. This thing is sure to be a real tricky thing to use at first, and it will take ages for apps to support it probably. For most people it will be pure bloatware.
On the other hand, maybe Microsoft will pull a beauty out of the hat.... Naaahhhhhhh.
Maybe I'm crazy, but why is forcing someone to share "the dark side of free software???"
Furthermore, the FSF isn't demanding damages or money, they're only asking their licence to be obeyed. How is this "worse than commercial" like those clowns at SCO asking for big $$$ for supposed harm?
They should get a clue. Nobody strapped anybody down and forced them to use free software. And nobody is now trying to enforce some obscure clause in some new way. They are simply asking for the #1 tenet of the GPL to be upheld. Sheesh.
I agree. I'm far from convinced that sockets have anything to do with X being slow. In any case, doesn't X have a shared memory option?
The point is, let's see some benchmarks PROVING that sockets slow things up before going off at some tangent to replace them.
The problem is not that something like sitefinder isn't a good idea. The problem is that putting it in the root name servers is the wrong place for it. Something like a browser plugin or browser feature is the correct place for it. Users can have the feature, and it may even be good, but this is the dead wrong way to implement it.
Sun is saying that they WON'T indemnify against Linux use on the server. But given that Sun has a valid UNIX licence, and they can distribute as many UNIX kernels as they wish, how could SCO argue that a Linux user who got their kernel from Sun is not a valid licencee? And how would Sun be able to stand up in court and say that they sold Linux to someone without a valid licence, yet they're not responsible?
Why doesn't Linus change the kernel to remove licencing to SCO? Next time SCO wants some Linux code to implement Linux compatibility in Unixware, they won't have permission to even look at the code, and they'll be screwed.