Getting shot is not exactly something you want to do on the battlefield either!
LiIon is dangerous stuff - inflammable and probably also poisonous. It is now illegal in many/most countries to sell LiIon cells without short circuit protection circuitry because of the risk of explosion/fire. Ask uncle google about "lithium ion safety" or check out http://www.sri.com/news/releases/04-06-98.html
"Unfortunately I don't think it's going to be a case of who's right and who's wrong but rather Nintendo has a bigger legal budget than ZD."
Look how complex the argument gets in just a few hours. Nintendo can afford to run this through the courts. ZD can't. Good old American justice at work! The Statue of Liberty should hold a briefcase and a cellphone - not symbols of justice and liberty.
Surely there must be a distinction between owning equipment that has the potential to be used for copyright infringement and actually using it for illegal purposes. CD burners, floppy drives etc are legal so I can't see why this product can't be legal too.
Unfortunately I don't think it's going to be a case of who's right and who's wrong but rather Nintendo has a bigger legal budget than ZD.
What's new? They already tried with "Stinger" and only picked up some Samsung biz... and Stinger was much broader than WinCE.
WinCE is far too fat/slow/power hungry to run as a cellphone OS. This means that either you need to go with something like Intel PCA (essentially once CPU to do the phone part and another CPU to run the WinCE PDA part) or you can achieve a sigle CPU solution by using a really tight little OS to run the phone part and use WinCE to do the PDA stuff. Even Symbian phones do this and Symbian is much more efficient than Wince.
I don't think the WinCE PDAphone will win any friends through its nice UI. Start buttons just don't work nicely for phones. In Europe the Symbian phones outsell all other PDAs.
Likely though M$ will make some inroads through.NET FUD. Big mobile operations (eg. the army of Cocacola sales reps) could easily go for this kinda thing.
Also of interest is Microsoft getting in the sack with Qualcomm with their BREW phone application achitecture. Again, this could likely lock people into a proprietary Microsoft back-end. Depressing stuff....
In the bad old days of Unux the geek control was high. Unix was real he-man stuff. Can't use vi, awk and sed... go away.
No wonder MSDOS got a pat on the head with its simple concepts.
Apart from the aunt tillies, there are a lot of people who are technically savvy, but don't want to learn the kernel config tools yet.
The same goes for kppp etc. Sure I could learn how to set up ppp, but I don't need to. kppp makes it easier to do something that would otherwise be a grind to learn.
Why put up barriers that don't need to be there? Barriers and Open are multually exclusive.
IMHO any tool that makes it easier for someone to get going is a good thing.
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LiIon is dangerous stuff - inflammable and probably also poisonous. It is now illegal in many/most countries to sell LiIon cells without short circuit protection circuitry because of the risk of explosion/fire. Ask uncle google about "lithium ion safety" or check out http://www.sri.com/news/releases/04-06-98.html
So much for detail....
I'm no lawyer, but to take deliberate steps to subvert an open specification and lock out competition is surely an anti-trust violation.
Look how complex the argument gets in just a few hours. Nintendo can afford to run this through the courts. ZD can't. Good old American justice at work! The Statue of Liberty should hold a briefcase and a cellphone - not symbols of justice and liberty.
Surely there must be a distinction between owning equipment that has the potential to be used for copyright infringement and actually using it for illegal purposes. CD burners, floppy drives etc are legal so I can't see why this product can't be legal too.
Unfortunately I don't think it's going to be a case of who's right and who's wrong but rather Nintendo has a bigger legal budget than ZD.
WinCE is far too fat/slow/power hungry to run as a cellphone OS. This means that either you need to go with something like Intel PCA (essentially once CPU to do the phone part and another CPU to run the WinCE PDA part) or you can achieve a sigle CPU solution by using a really tight little OS to run the phone part and use WinCE to do the PDA stuff. Even Symbian phones do this and Symbian is much more efficient than Wince.
I don't think the WinCE PDAphone will win any friends through its nice UI. Start buttons just don't work nicely for phones. In Europe the Symbian phones outsell all other PDAs.
Likely though M$ will make some inroads through .NET FUD. Big mobile operations (eg. the army of Cocacola sales reps) could easily go for this kinda thing.
Also of interest is Microsoft getting in the sack with Qualcomm with their BREW phone application achitecture. Again, this could likely lock people into a proprietary Microsoft back-end. Depressing stuff....
The universe came from nothing right? All that energy came from nothing right?
I still reckon the guy has his head in a bucket of Guinness though.
In the bad old days of Unux the geek control was high. Unix was real he-man stuff. Can't use vi, awk and sed... go away. No wonder MSDOS got a pat on the head with its simple concepts. Apart from the aunt tillies, there are a lot of people who are technically savvy, but don't want to learn the kernel config tools yet. The same goes for kppp etc. Sure I could learn how to set up ppp, but I don't need to. kppp makes it easier to do something that would otherwise be a grind to learn. Why put up barriers that don't need to be there? Barriers and Open are multually exclusive. IMHO any tool that makes it easier for someone to get going is a good thing.