One thing that people keep forgetting is that the brilliance of Napster was that we all shared bandwidth with each other and everyone carried the burden of distributing files. Kazaa does an even an even better job at this. Now that this is a pay thing, does napster plan to host a large number of files itself? Or will they still depend on their users to host the files for them? If Napster hosts the files, how will they pay for all the bandwidth they will need?
I think you are leaving out Dune 2. I think it was truly the first widespread RTS (real time strategy). It's only fault was that it didn't have multi-player and you couldn't select multiple units. But it was way ahead of its time.
Too bad Westwood blew it with Command and Conquer.
PayPal has a great subscriptiong processing system. I have been using it for 6 months and have processed $5000.00 worth of transactions without a glitch.
I do routinely transfer all of my funds to my bank account because of some of the complaints I've read.
Yes and no. Remember that spam is an advertising tool that companies/individuals use to draw you to something. If you live in the U.S., then companies that try to advertise to you will most-likely also be in the U.S. I don't think it matters where the SMTP server that the email bounced off of is, it just matters where the person wanting to advertise to you is.
In most cases, this will be the same country that you live in. We can also assume that Europe will jump on the band wagon and pass similar laws. This leaves 3rd world countries. Now you have to remember that not only do the servers have to be in the 3rd world country, but also the company soliciting also must be in the third world country in order for them to remain immune.
According to this article about Crusoe laptops, it seems that Transmeta didn't deliver the chips in time to get them into the laptops:
Sony Corp and Fujitsu Ltd on Wednesday postponed the launch of new personal computers originally planned for later this week, blaming the delayed development of Transmeta Corp's (TMTA) power-efficient chips.
(Reuters)
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It depends on what you mean by portable. If a laptop is "portable", then you can run SNES, old dos games, NES, gameboy, SEGA, PS2, etc. emulators on your laptop.
If you mean a gameboy is portable, it's only a few more iterations until we get there. Right now, I run PocketNes and it works great! Genesis and Lynx emulators also exist. I haven't tried Lynx but the Genesis one is still too slow. If you are willing to run Linux on your iPaq, you can run SNES. As for people who want XT, there is even an 80186 emulator! That means you can run DOS on top of WinCE! They even have screenshots of Windows 3.0 running on a PocketPC.
In short, I am amazed at my iPaq. These things are actually powerful enough to be classified as PC's. These 200Mhz handhelds are what sat on desktops in 1997. Check out Gateway's homepage as of 1/1/1997, they are selling P166's.
Speaking of digital actors, there is a Bruce Lee movie coming out. The new movie will star a digitized Bruce Lee. They even have people impersonating his voice!
This discussion wouldn't be complete without a link to the online Yale Style Manual. For anyone interested in web design principles, I highly recommend it.
For those of you who have never heard of it, the Yale Style Manual basically came out of the Yale medical school as they started studying what to do with their own website. Some of their stuff is out-dated (they still recommend 640x480), but most of the book is quite informative.
I have seen all kinds of warez sites that force you to vote in order to get to parts of the site. Others could have frames that forge a vote each time a visitor comes to their site. While this is an intriguing idea, I don't see how it could work.
The whole idea of Google's PageRank was to count each link from another indexed site as a vote. What was wrong with that scheme? Doesn't everyone currently think Google is the best engine out there? If so why "fix" it?
I like the suggestion someone else made about showing the vote results but not having them acutally affect the search results.
My understanding is that Blackberry and Palm VII run on some kind of pager network that has much better coverage than a cdpd network. If this is the case, is there anything out there that will let a PocketPC or even a laptop (pcmcia) interface with this network?
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One thing that people keep forgetting is that the brilliance of Napster was that we all shared bandwidth with each other and everyone carried the burden of distributing files. Kazaa does an even an even better job at this. Now that this is a pay thing, does napster plan to host a large number of files itself? Or will they still depend on their users to host the files for them? If Napster hosts the files, how will they pay for all the bandwidth they will need?
I think you are leaving out Dune 2. I think it was truly the first widespread RTS (real time strategy). It's only fault was that it didn't have multi-player and you couldn't select multiple units. But it was way ahead of its time.
Too bad Westwood blew it with Command and Conquer.
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I do routinely transfer all of my funds to my bank account because of some of the complaints I've read.
Yes and no. Remember that spam is an advertising tool that companies/individuals use to draw you to something. If you live in the U.S., then companies that try to advertise to you will most-likely also be in the U.S. I don't think it matters where the SMTP server that the email bounced off of is, it just matters where the person wanting to advertise to you is.
In most cases, this will be the same country that you live in. We can also assume that Europe will jump on the band wagon and pass similar laws. This leaves 3rd world countries. Now you have to remember that not only do the servers have to be in the 3rd world country, but also the company soliciting also must be in the third world country in order for them to remain immune.
According to this article about Crusoe laptops, it seems that Transmeta didn't deliver the chips in time to get them into the laptops:
Sony Corp and Fujitsu Ltd on Wednesday postponed the launch of new personal computers originally planned for later this week, blaming the delayed development of Transmeta Corp's (TMTA) power-efficient chips.
(Reuters)
It depends on what you mean by portable. If a laptop is "portable", then you can run SNES, old dos games, NES, gameboy, SEGA, PS2, etc. emulators on your laptop.
If you mean a gameboy is portable, it's only a few more iterations until we get there. Right now, I run PocketNes and it works great! Genesis and Lynx emulators also exist. I haven't tried Lynx but the Genesis one is still too slow. If you are willing to run Linux on your iPaq, you can run SNES. As for people who want XT, there is even an 80186 emulator! That means you can run DOS on top of WinCE! They even have screenshots of Windows 3.0 running on a PocketPC.
In short, I am amazed at my iPaq. These things are actually powerful enough to be classified as PC's. These 200Mhz handhelds are what sat on desktops in 1997. Check out Gateway's homepage as of 1/1/1997, they are selling P166's.
Speaking of digital actors, there is a Bruce Lee movie coming out. The new movie will star a digitized Bruce Lee. They even have people impersonating his voice!
This discussion wouldn't be complete without a link to the online Yale Style Manual. For anyone interested in web design principles, I highly recommend it.
For those of you who have never heard of it, the Yale Style Manual basically came out of the Yale medical school as they started studying what to do with their own website. Some of their stuff is out-dated (they still recommend 640x480), but most of the book is quite informative.
I have seen all kinds of warez sites that force you to vote in order to get to parts of the site. Others could have frames that forge a vote each time a visitor comes to their site. While this is an intriguing idea, I don't see how it could work.
The whole idea of Google's PageRank was to count each link from another indexed site as a vote. What was wrong with that scheme? Doesn't everyone currently think Google is the best engine out there? If so why "fix" it?
I like the suggestion someone else made about showing the vote results but not having them acutally affect the search results.
I don't know much about virii, but couldn't someone write a virus that looks like this FBI thing and fool the virus detector into letting it slip by?
My understanding is that Blackberry and Palm VII run on some kind of pager network that has much better coverage than a cdpd network. If this is the case, is there anything out there that will let a PocketPC or even a laptop (pcmcia) interface with this network?