It's not a hold tag, they do actually register it - it's called domain tasting. You can register a domain and keep it for 5 days before you need to either pay for it or release it.
What NSI are doing is registering the domain for the 5 day period after anyone does a search for the name, making anyone who wants the domain only buy it through them for the 5 days. If after 5 days noone wants it, then NSI can simply release the domain name and not pay a penny.
It sounds like the last thing you would want is to be in this room since it's got 4 racks of computer equipment. Make it a proper little data centre with raised floors, air con, and a seperate power feed, and put your own desk somewhere else in the building where you can talk to people and not be deafened by all the fans spinning.
The location of any lawsuit like this is the easiest part, you could file in the USA, Europe, or pretty much anywhere, since there's a distributor in each one of those regions, and it's the distributor who is in breach of the license, not the manufacturer.
Hacked XBox 360s can only play copied games, there's no other additional features and no homebrew games exist, as the hack still only lets you run signed code from Microsoft.
On our managed printers, an engineer pops in every month or so to do a 10 minute long "service check", and while he's blowing the dust out of the paper feeders he checks the internal counters, then you get a bill for your months usage. Go long enough without the scheduled checks, and the printer shuts itself off.
In WoW each server contains a seperate copy of the game universe, so you never meet or speak to people from another server to the one you're on.
In Eve, each server carries the load of one part of the whole universe, and you travel from server to server seemlessly as you move around the game universe. The 400 people limit is roughly how many people you can get in one small sector of the universe, there's often 100,000 or more people currently online in the overall universe.
The closest Sealand has got to any form of legal recognition is that when some Germans were held hostage on board, the German government sent a diplomat to ask for their return.
From this one act Sealand claims legitimacy, never mind the fact that diplomats get sent to negotiate with organisations all over the world when people are being held as prisoners, it doesn't confer any legal recognition of "statehood" at all.
In 1968 a British judge ruled that Sealand was outside the 3 miles of water around Britain that was claimed at the time as territory, but since then the claim has been extended to 12 miles, which Sealand is obviously within, and the legal status of the platform now hasn't been tested.
I'd agree with you 100% on your final statement, the $100k cost of Oracle licenses really are irrelevant compared to the cost of a failed project, and indeed the development ecosystems built around Oracle and MS SQL Server can easily save their license costs when compared to the "build-it-yourself" structure of MySQL and Postgres. The various open source databases are excellent, but they often won't save you any more.
More likely game (who I've preordered with too) are just blagging it and hoping to get away with it, going to Nintendo with a "We need more stock, we're your biggest pre-order location"
I'm assuming first to 15 million has a pretty good chance, did the Dreamcast sell that many in it's entire life? I had one, but I didn't know anyone else with one.
I dont think the 360 will be totally dominant, but at this point I don't see the Playstation 3 outselling the 360 by enough to first overtake it and then make a significant lead in the market much before Microsoft after ready to launch their next generation.
After all, give that Microsoft pushed the 360 way ahead of when the general public were expecting a replacement for the Xbox and Playstation, what's to stop them doing the same again at the end of 2008?
Quite simply, Nintendo won't manufacture enough Wiis before the end of next year to catch the 360, this is the same issue Sony are going to have.
Microsoft plan to have shipped 15 million 360s by June 2007, Nintendo and Sony are both planning selling around 6 million by that same point. If you take a conservative estimate of 360 production for the final 6 months of 2007, around 5 million units, then both Sony and Nintendo need to make 14 million of their consoles each in 6 months and sell every one to be ahead of Microsoft at the end of 2007. These are the kinds of figures that the total dominant Playstation 2 took years to achieve, it's extremely unlikely either the Playstation 3 or Nintendo Wii will sell anything like as many units in their first year.
There's a piece of software called shozu which does the automatic uploading. it runs on your phone as a j2me application in the background and everytime you take a photo, it resizes it to your specifications and uploads it to your flickr account.
However, like I said it depends on your hardware, which is a bit of a pain. Hopefully someone will come up with an intelligent enough software tool to cope with this soon.
I'm quite happily using wpa with my ubuntu laptop, what it's missing (along with almost every other linux distribution) is a decent configuration application which can cope with the various ways each linux wireless driver supports WPA and other less common features.
Only suse come close to this, but everyone else seems reticent to copy their approach.
Outsourcing costs have definitely gone up, for example a company I worked for a couple of years had it's entire Indian development centre walk out after they were offered a blanket 20% pay rise for them all. The staff considered 20% to be rubbish compared to the offers they were getting from other companies.
The "local memory" referred to here is the graphics card memory, not the system main memory.
So the CPU can write directly to the graphics card memory at very high speed bypassing the GPU, which is a handy trick, but only read from it very slowly. The graphics card itself is much quicker at reading its local memory.
That's true to an extent, but Sony do have a number of partners who's business plans rely on the Playstation 3 being on sale at the end of this year.
If Sony slip the release back, then the likes of EA, Ubisoft, Konami, etc, will make their displeasure quite clear, and might even stop or scaleback the PS3 developments they're doing - after all, the publishers would much prefer 1 system to have 100% marketshare, it would save them a fortune in development costs, and whether it's Sony of Microsoft doesn't really bother them.
Also, Sony are relying on the PS3 to drive Blu-ray in their battle against HD-DVD, if they were to announce that it wouldn't be out until next year, then you'd have some pissed off movie studios who have committed to Blu-ray movies when there's no mass-market players for it.
You might be right, but they have been very vocal with their statements about November. Which just means they'll look very stupid if it does slip into Feb/March.
More likely I suspect they'll put out a token amount in Europe so they can claim a worldwide release and spoil the Xbox 360 christmas sales with "Wait until January for more PS3's" hype, then not ship any more until March..
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It's not a hold tag, they do actually register it - it's called domain tasting. You can register a domain and keep it for 5 days before you need to either pay for it or release it.
What NSI are doing is registering the domain for the 5 day period after anyone does a search for the name, making anyone who wants the domain only buy it through them for the 5 days. If after 5 days noone wants it, then NSI can simply release the domain name and not pay a penny.
It sounds like the last thing you would want is to be in this room since it's got 4 racks of computer equipment. Make it a proper little data centre with raised floors, air con, and a seperate power feed, and put your own desk somewhere else in the building where you can talk to people and not be deafened by all the fans spinning.
The location of any lawsuit like this is the easiest part, you could file in the USA, Europe, or pretty much anywhere, since there's a distributor in each one of those regions, and it's the distributor who is in breach of the license, not the manufacturer.
funplug will sort that for you, have a look at http://www.inreto.de/dns323/fun-plug/ for all you need to know.
Ewan
I'm using a D-Link DNS-323 as well, works great and with the funplug software you can add all sorts of useful stuff to it.
I dont think the correct time is a bleeding edge feature is it?
You must be looking at the wrong Google then, or the wrong AT&T
Maybe this will help:
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=google
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AT
The part you want is 'Mkt Cap' where you'll find google is at $158 Billion and AT&T is at $241 Billion, and AT&Ts net income is over twice Google's.
Hacked XBox 360s can only play copied games, there's no other additional features and no homebrew games exist, as the hack still only lets you run signed code from Microsoft.
On our managed printers, an engineer pops in every month or so to do a 10 minute long "service check", and while he's blowing the dust out of the paper feeders he checks the internal counters, then you get a bill for your months usage. Go long enough without the scheduled checks, and the printer shuts itself off.
In WoW each server contains a seperate copy of the game universe, so you never meet or speak to people from another server to the one you're on.
In Eve, each server carries the load of one part of the whole universe, and you travel from server to server seemlessly as you move around the game universe. The 400 people limit is roughly how many people you can get in one small sector of the universe, there's often 100,000 or more people currently online in the overall universe.
The closest Sealand has got to any form of legal recognition is that when some Germans were held hostage on board, the German government sent a diplomat to ask for their return.
From this one act Sealand claims legitimacy, never mind the fact that diplomats get sent to negotiate with organisations all over the world when people are being held as prisoners, it doesn't confer any legal recognition of "statehood" at all.
In 1968 a British judge ruled that Sealand was outside the 3 miles of water around Britain that was claimed at the time as territory, but since then the claim has been extended to 12 miles, which Sealand is obviously within, and the legal status of the platform now hasn't been tested.
I'd agree with you 100% on your final statement, the $100k cost of Oracle licenses really are irrelevant compared to the cost of a failed project, and indeed the development ecosystems built around Oracle and MS SQL Server can easily save their license costs when compared to the "build-it-yourself" structure of MySQL and Postgres. The various open source databases are excellent, but they often won't save you any more.
More likely game (who I've preordered with too) are just blagging it and hoping to get away with it, going to Nintendo with a "We need more stock, we're your biggest pre-order location"
I'm assuming first to 15 million has a pretty good chance, did the Dreamcast sell that many in it's entire life? I had one, but I didn't know anyone else with one.
I dont think the 360 will be totally dominant, but at this point I don't see the Playstation 3 outselling the 360 by enough to first overtake it and then make a significant lead in the market much before Microsoft after ready to launch their next generation.
After all, give that Microsoft pushed the 360 way ahead of when the general public were expecting a replacement for the Xbox and Playstation, what's to stop them doing the same again at the end of 2008?
Quite simply, Nintendo won't manufacture enough Wiis before the end of next year to catch the 360, this is the same issue Sony are going to have.
Microsoft plan to have shipped 15 million 360s by June 2007, Nintendo and Sony are both planning selling around 6 million by that same point. If you take a conservative estimate of 360 production for the final 6 months of 2007, around 5 million units, then both Sony and Nintendo need to make 14 million of their consoles each in 6 months and sell every one to be ahead of Microsoft at the end of 2007. These are the kinds of figures that the total dominant Playstation 2 took years to achieve, it's extremely unlikely either the Playstation 3 or Nintendo Wii will sell anything like as many units in their first year.
Ewan
You can disable it at the flickr end, by de-authenticating the client.
Ewan
There's a piece of software called shozu which does the automatic uploading. it runs on your phone as a j2me application in the background and everytime you take a photo, it resizes it to your specifications and uploads it to your flickr account.
Ewan
For my card, it was straightforward enough, copying from this webpage
R T2500Old
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Ralink
However, like I said it depends on your hardware, which is a bit of a pain. Hopefully someone will come up with an intelligent enough software tool to cope with this soon.
I'm quite happily using wpa with my ubuntu laptop, what it's missing (along with almost every other linux distribution) is a decent configuration application which can cope with the various ways each linux wireless driver supports WPA and other less common features.
Only suse come close to this, but everyone else seems reticent to copy their approach.
Ewan
Umm, Nvidia did the graphics chip for the Playstation 3, not ATI, I'm not sure what you're on about?
If you'd read the full article, or even the linked to snippet, you'd know this.
Outsourcing costs have definitely gone up, for example a company I worked for a couple of years had it's entire Indian development centre walk out after they were offered a blanket 20% pay rise for them all. The staff considered 20% to be rubbish compared to the offers they were getting from other companies.
The "local memory" referred to here is the graphics card memory, not the system main memory.
So the CPU can write directly to the graphics card memory at very high speed bypassing the GPU, which is a handy trick, but only read from it very slowly. The graphics card itself is much quicker at reading its local memory.
Ewan
That's true to an extent, but Sony do have a number of partners who's business plans rely on the Playstation 3 being on sale at the end of this year.
If Sony slip the release back, then the likes of EA, Ubisoft, Konami, etc, will make their displeasure quite clear, and might even stop or scaleback the PS3 developments they're doing - after all, the publishers would much prefer 1 system to have 100% marketshare, it would save them a fortune in development costs, and whether it's Sony of Microsoft doesn't really bother them.
Also, Sony are relying on the PS3 to drive Blu-ray in their battle against HD-DVD, if they were to announce that it wouldn't be out until next year, then you'd have some pissed off movie studios who have committed to Blu-ray movies when there's no mass-market players for it.
Ewan
You might be right, but they have been very vocal with their statements about November. Which just means they'll look very stupid if it does slip into Feb/March.
More likely I suspect they'll put out a token amount in Europe so they can claim a worldwide release and spoil the Xbox 360 christmas sales with "Wait until January for more PS3's" hype, then not ship any more until March..
You read it, the story was widely reported, but it wasn't true, just another internet rumour.
Sony have committed to a worldwide release in November 2006.
Ewan
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