Since when has Google become M$'s "archrival"? The only competing products they have are MSN Search and Hotmail. MicroSoft most certainly does NOT make even a fraction of their revenue from these two services so I almost fail to see them as competitors at all.
Just saw this in the MAME forums from David Foley himself.
Quoted text to avoid killing the MAME forums:
Like most things that are spread by rumor, the facts about me, UltraCade
Technologies, and the M.A.M.E. emulation system are quite distorted. I will
try and educate anyone who cares to listen about the reality of our
marketplace and what we are doing and what we are not. Simply put, we are
making an effort to stamp out the commercial sales of M.A.M.E. based systems
that advertise the ability to play thousands of games while relying on the
customer to obtain the ROMs which can not legally be obtained. What we are
not doing is trying to claim ownership of the M.A.M.E. open source emulator
or sue its authors. We are concerned about the commercial marketplace, and
not the readers of the many M.A.M.E. user groups and forums.
I have been working on emulation technology since the mid 80's when I did
work on an emulation project in college. In 1994, while working on games
for companies like Sega and Williams, we developed an emulation of the
arcade games Joust, Defender and Robotron that ran on a Sega Genesis. In
1996, we started the Lucky 8 project which turned into the UltraCade
project. In 1998 we were one of the first companies to acquire the rights to
classic arcade games from various publishers. We have licensed games from
several manufacturers including Capcom, Jaleco, Taito, Stern, Incredible
Technologies, Midway, Atari and more. We have started several projects and
built prototypes for companies like Sega, based on technology that was
licensed from authors from the emulation community. We have licensed
technology from many of the communities programmers, paying them to use
their code in our products and demonstrations. We have been the leader of
the retro arcade movement, and have invested millions of dollars creating a
market for retro games. UltraCade was the first successful multi-game
arcade machine combining many of the old classics. We further enhanced the
market by creating Arcade Legends, our consumer version of the UltraCade
product. We have also paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in licensing
fees to have the right to sell our games.
In the past couple of years, there has been a huge wave of resellers
competing with our UltraCade and Arcade Legends products. They build a
similar style cabinet, install a PC in the machine, load M.A.M.E., and sell
it for a very low price. Lower than we could ever offer our machines for
sale. How? Quite Simple. They profit by stealing others work. If you
look at the web sites, and read the eBay ads they offer machines that "Play
over 4,000 Classic Arcade Games" They then try and skirt the law by
pretending that they are not promoting piracy of these same 4,000 games with
statements like "we don't load the ROMs" but of course, almost all of them
do. The others that don't, they provide you with an instruction sheet with
a link to several web sites where you can illegally download the ROMs, or
provide you with the contact information for a CD/DVD duplication house that
will sell you a set of ROMs for all 4,000 games for less than $200. Would
anyone really buy this arcade machine if they knew that there was no legal
way for them to run over 99% of the games that they were promised, I don't
think so, and if you really look at this without emotion, I'm sure you would
agree. These companies are simply selling the promise of thousands of games
on a machine that can not possibly run them legally. I sometimes hear the
argument, "well, I could go on eBay and buy up all of these games and then
run it", and while plausible, it certainly would not be anywhere near cost
effective, and again, if the customer knew that to legally operate these
games, they have to spend thousands of dollars buying legal ROMs I seriously
doubt that they would consider purchasing a M.A.M.E
I hope someone is looking into porting that DTrace beauty over to linux if it's possible (i.e. if it's messing around in kernel space or is using process/system info only available on Solaris it might not be possible...?)
That's easy, just add RPM to Gentoo if it isn't already in there, make 'emerge' handle SRPM's as well as tarballs, then put all the Fedora SRPM's on the Gentoo mirrors.
Sit back and wait for 3 weeks for everything to build.
Seriously - merge Gentoo and Fedora? They have completely different goals and purposes.
We want the 80gig version with a faster CPU, mainly because 40gigs is too small, which brings us to $599. Add bluetooth, wlan, wireless keyboard and mouse, increase memory from 256 to 512 MB and a a DVD-R and we just make the $1000 mark.
Oh, and we'll need a display of course. A $299 17" LCD which breaks with the nice design? Or a 20" Apple Cinema Display clocking in at $999? The latter brings the total price tag to $2001.
To put it bluntly, Sun are just not there yet. There is no Solaris user and developer _community_.
And before they do something about the following situation:
For only $99, our Solaris Express Subscription Customers are entitled to 12 months of access to our Software Express Community Web Site with the ability to:
* Report a Problem
* Provide Feedback to the Development Team
* Collaborate with other members of the Software Express Community Web Site in a Private Online Forum
* Submit Requests for Product Enhancements
* Access Program Alerts and Latest Development lists
then it's simply not Open Source at all. "Please pay us $99 to help us improve our product"? Come on...
It is also worth noting that the Eclipse Foundation recently introduced the Eclipse Public License, and are in the process of transitioning all code from the CPL to the EPL.
All new contributions will be under the EPL, so if IBM wants to donate anything to the Eclipse project it will be under this license.
Yes, Memory Stick Pro/Duo allready has a maximum (theoretical) capacity of 2TB.
The news is the transfer rate which is more than twice that of High speed MMC cards (currently the fastest available) and six times that of the Memory Stick Pro/Duo.
So there is something to see here, but not a stamp sized 2TB storage device.
Slashdot Mirror
You can't patent something you've already published in a paper (neither can anyone else).
Since when has Google become M$'s "archrival"? The only competing products they have are MSN Search and Hotmail. MicroSoft most certainly does NOT make even a fraction of their revenue from these two services so I almost fail to see them as competitors at all.
which of the researchers had a bad tuna sandwich for lunch on the day of "discovery"...
Yeah, I noticed the same. Your infamous classic is one thing, but if you search for something very recent like Constantine you get absolutely nothing.
Quoted text to avoid killing the MAME forums:
h4xxored teh slashdot spelchekcer!
Don't spend your time on writing business plans, designing a website and choosing logos
Yeah, anyone who's ever tried to run a business can tell you how completely useless those activities are...duh!
http://kandid.sourceforge.net/ is another cool example of computer generated art.
I hope someone is looking into porting that DTrace beauty over to linux if it's possible (i.e. if it's messing around in kernel space or is using process/system info only available on Solaris it might not be possible...?)
I'm not very familiar with web development at all, but does this adress some of your concerns? http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/book/8
That's easy, just add RPM to Gentoo if it isn't already in there, make 'emerge' handle SRPM's as well as tarballs, then put all the Fedora SRPM's on the Gentoo mirrors.
Sit back and wait for 3 weeks for everything to build.
Seriously - merge Gentoo and Fedora? They have completely different goals and purposes.
Or so they claim. $499 you say? Let's see...
We want the 80gig version with a faster CPU, mainly because 40gigs is too small, which brings us to $599. Add bluetooth, wlan, wireless keyboard and mouse, increase memory from 256 to 512 MB and a a DVD-R and we just make the $1000 mark.
Oh, and we'll need a display of course. A $299 17" LCD which breaks with the nice design? Or a 20" Apple Cinema Display clocking in at $999? The latter brings the total price tag to $2001.
Well, it does LOOK good...
The latter
Only 79 results? Worst search engine ever
And before they do something about the following situation:
then it's simply not Open Source at all. "Please pay us $99 to help us improve our product"? Come on...
So, are any of the online bookies taking bets on whether it'll erupt or not?
Java cups you! OK, just had to make one of those soviet russia jokes. Now all I'm missing is one with "insensitive clod"...
..that like LAUNCHCast they'll make this ASP dependent as well, so that us Linux folk will be essentially locked out. Not that I care.
This has got to be bogus.
I can actually read and understand Dubbyahs answers.
It is also worth noting that the Eclipse Foundation recently introduced the Eclipse Public License, and are in the process of transitioning all code from the CPL to the EPL.
All new contributions will be under the EPL, so if IBM wants to donate anything to the Eclipse project it will be under this license.
Actually the article says "560 million pounds" (!). Guess someone was out drinking last night.
Yes, except it'll take you 2-3 weeks to
a) Burn all those DVD's
b) copy them back in at the destination
Any book which has the phrase "Information Superhighway" in the title just CANNOT be worth reading.
Yes, Memory Stick Pro/Duo allready has a maximum (theoretical) capacity of 2TB.
The news is the transfer rate which is more than twice that of High speed MMC cards (currently the fastest available) and six times that of the Memory Stick Pro/Duo.
So there is something to see here, but not a stamp sized 2TB storage device.
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