I'm a light PS2 gamer. I probably have $750 worth of games. Most PS2 owners probably have twice that (just a guess.) Backwards compatibility is about still being able to use the investment I have made in the games - the price of the hardware is small by comparison.
exactly how much off a @#$# China cares about what anybody thinks of them. I mean, gee whiz, if they're willing to shoot their citizens in the street (Tianneman Sq (sp?)) do you really think some UN resolution is going to matter?
Maybe he didn't write it for lay persons. Do you expect a physics paper in a scholarly magazine to be written for lay persons? Just because you didn't understand it, does not make it bad.
the Motion Picture Association of America will control your television set."
At which point I won't have one.
There is something to be said for getting older and not giving a *&@# about keeping current as-far-as TV shows are concerned. I could'nt even tell you who is sleeping with who on Friends;-) You know what? I don't miss it either.
They're readying the next format now anyway. They know that DeCSS has made no dent at all in their revenues. But they won't make that mistake (letting the keys out) again.
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I doubt it. That sounds like a little revisionism to me.
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" China's fledgeling legal system often favours the little guy against big, faceless multinationals". Make that against American multinationals. They don't favor their own very much when they're enslaved by Chinese companies.
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I'm a light PS2 gamer. I probably have $750 worth of games. Most PS2 owners probably have twice that (just a guess.) Backwards compatibility is about still being able to use the investment I have made in the games - the price of the hardware is small by comparison.
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This place is getting a little crowded.
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This is dead in the water at that price.
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exactly how much off a @#$# China cares about what anybody thinks of them. I mean, gee whiz, if they're willing to shoot their citizens in the street (Tianneman Sq (sp?)) do you really think some UN resolution is going to matter?
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If I could get the RIAA et al to give me $150K+ I could buy CDs for the rest of my life.
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Maybe he didn't write it for lay persons. Do you expect a physics paper in a scholarly magazine to be written for lay persons? Just because you didn't understand it, does not make it bad.
FWIW, I did not understand most of it myself.
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these WMD jokes were old months ago.
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the Motion Picture Association of America will control your television set."
;-) You know what? I don't miss it either.
At which point I won't have one.
There is something to be said for getting older and not giving a *&@# about keeping current as-far-as TV shows are concerned. I could'nt even tell you who is sleeping with who on Friends
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sounds like he's angling to get MS to throw in with him. Did he mention xbox as a compeitor? (no, I didn't rtfa)
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Maybe if you spend a few weekends dealing with MS "bugs" you would have a new appreciation.
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Yeah, a chance at new batteries vs. possible plague. Sounds like a reasonable risk to me. At least as long as someone else does the dying.
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No, safe for monopoly. One in particular.
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Isn't Kerry from MA?
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Otherwise, no need to be training any new programmers.
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on whether MS tries to patent it.
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They're readying the next format now anyway. They know that DeCSS has made no dent at all in their revenues. But they won't make that mistake (letting the keys out) again.
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I doubt it. That sounds like a little revisionism to me. BC
doesn't she bablle on like that?
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maybe there is someone in India who would make a cheaper CEO for HP too. How about that?
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The ability of the vitriolic liberal to take a subject and warp it to his own perverse ends never ceases to amaze.
Heard any good Ghandi jokes lately?
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they invented the sub-compact PC. How INNOVATIVE.
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a bad thing. I think that CBS article is somewhat slanderous too.
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" China's fledgeling legal system often favours the little guy against big, faceless multinationals". Make that against American multinationals. They don't favor their own very much when they're enslaved by Chinese companies. BC
How can you defend a monopolist with a clear concience (sp?) ? BC