true, but as soon as you do that, MS undercuts you on players and on cut-rate music services. Realize that even though iTunes is only 1 music service all of the competition use MS tools for their client/server parts. Right now the competition is Apple versus everybody else [as proxy for MS] if apple goes down MS wins!!
Great answer! We'll never be free of it if Apple gives in to supporting it on iPod!!!! In effect if iPod supports wma apple will win the immediate battle for iPods, but we will loose the rights war for good as well as any hope of choice for digital music formats!!!
They seem to suffer from beaurocacy problems...in that the story seems to want to go longer and tell you more, but was cut off in the front office. Also, the anime scene seems to combine media formats without really feeling the need to explain when they do so...i.e. Things are explained outside the "cartoon" on paper that make things make much more sense.
That said, we americans aren't used to seeing "between" the symbols like japanese are. Alot of the things in NGE are plays on religous symbols that mean much different things over here...
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Yes, but as Relena explained to Hero the human form is favored because it humanized combat again...eventually armies will tire of "remote control" warfare and mass murder of troops. Also, once you are fighting militas with only small arms like in Iraq, you need fewer troops anyway...the giant "demon" robot would instill hoplessness, fear, and dread in the poplace you wish to control. Fewer people would attack them. Also, they'd survive most surprise attacks enough to retaliate quickly and ruthlessly.
You have to figure in 2-3 generations of machines they would be more flexable in close quarters than tanks [can't get shot at] or light vehicals [enough armor for small arms fire], and less fragile than aircraft because they don't have to fly. In addition they have the ability to be armed with all the normal military arms...but simply "pick up" or "flip over" most wheeled vehicles without firing a shot!
But for BUSINESS PURPOSES Linux doesn't really have many drawbacks other than being shut out of some software. But the main software dirth is for home users, cute stuff, home perphials, etc that most businesses don't really want on there networks anyway. In that respect Limited, difficult to modify software is a feature not a bug.
What I've found is that all the pieces exist for a perfectly functioning Linux office right now...the only problem is dealing with those 1 or 2 windows apps floating around. But to go 100% linux is actually easier than mixing right now.
But do you think they'd tollerate full R/W support from Linux without trying to break it? That, or WinFS is going to be a different scheme alltogether just to stick it to OSS.
Remember Microsoft is a Corperation of the USA...linux hackers are just Citizens [or maybe even Foriegn citizens...the horror]
It's not bais if it's in response to a personal attack! Google's not responsible to protect the "rights" of those who attack them...Google has a shot here to play twice as dirty as SCO...they ought to take it...and get other companies to follow along! After all, where whould SCOs stock be if the "normal" investors were cut off from all the propaganda?
Sorry to confuse you....But working in a manufacturing role, teh automakers are always squealing about six-sigma this, quality that....and this little toy company has them beat with little plastic blocks!
Due to DMCA and other wonderful stuff, you'll probably never see a native OSS driver for NTFS...it's an encrypted filesystem. AS for WHY...almost all PCs sold nowdays come with NTFS...the OEMs sell them that way. Short of asking a user to reformat their drive, you can't get fat32 on newer boxes...and Knoppix is aimed at users who don't want to/can't modify their windows install.
It just works! That's the kicker. Sure, it's probably no better than the current crop of pay-for distros, but that's the point. The pay-for distros don't have much BETTER hardware detection either...and knoppix is based on Debian sources + a little tweaking that they publish back under GPL. Oh yeah, it's not "commercial"...that's the big deal!!!
The real issue is that they haven't morphed something like Bionicle into the mindstorms project. There's some good stuff in there and Bionicle is a great intro into how the mindstorm type pieces work...Plus there are some really useful parts in there.
What lego needs are bigger techinic parts...It's very difficlt to build a usable size robot...something that could climb REAL stairs, or pick up a real object. They need better connecting pieces for robots too...and prehaps some larger [12" in one direction] framing pieces with more powerful motors.
Perhaps they could sell a license to the evolution robotics [ER1] people! Their software is what Mindstorms really needs...and lego can make the parts. The problem is that the mindstorm parts never really came down enough to buy the kind of quantities you need for really useful and dynamic robots...I've got some great tabletop ideas, but i'd take 500-1000$$ to get enough techinc parts to build them!
Actcually Bionicle has great mechanical pieces for building and articulating robots with...far more complex motions are possible with those parts...and they have better structure too for things like gear boxes. It's a little secret I've never seen too many people pick up on. Not to mention that it fattens up their manufacturing for the small techinical bits that sets like mindstorms use..axles and such
Really, I posted above that I have 25+ year old blocks that are still as tight snapping as ones fresh from the store...and match EXACTLY!!! That's incredible quality for any manufacturing...even the automakers are hard pressed to duplicate that kind of effort...That is what makes them worth the money!!
Even more amazing is the long term quality...I have blocks from my older brother and sister...25+ years old that still snap together exactly and tightly to brand new parts fresh from the store!!! Not even GM and other automakers are that good!!!
You have a good point...they should have adapted mindstorms to ER1 type robots. In addition to being limited by electronics, the plastic pieces themselves were the biggest problem I had...too hard to build bigger, durable robots...like survive a fall of a stair or two and get back up..
I'd agree, what's needed are more simle parts and less flashy stuff. You know how hard [and expensive] it is to get enough parts to build a decent sized castle nowdays! They need more buckets of 2x4 colored blocks...in more useful colors. That said, Lego needs to adapt it's piece size to make it more friendly to robot builders...The current technic pieces are too small and poorly joining for anything except matchbox sized toys. Building anything moving that exceeds 12" in any direction is extremely flaky.
Couldn't Google just erase all web presence of SCO at this point...And they might just toss some weight around with the other search engines too...Perhaps the tech press should stop front page reporting of all SCO based news...
If that company is smart, they'll make sure to include proper instructions for settling so the people can get it right...and another batch of coupons for their product along with the notice so they can get a second chance at getting that check! Right now there's nothing shaddy going on...thing of Lindows as accepting the competition's coupons or a used car salesman matching another dealer's prices. This is good and fair and right...just how capitalism should be. Bill G has hidden his nerdy butt behind lawyers and money for far to long and Robertson is calling him out to wheel and deal! Gates is clever at stacking the deck... but robertson is a true player...Hopefully more people will warm up to that idea.
hey it's better than fair and definately not irresponsible on Lindows' part. After all, they are competition...MS had a legal obligation they could take advantage of...they were found guilty [or settled to prevent it] of price gouging their customers...it's more than fair for another business to capitalize on that fact and maybe sneak some monetary rewards in there. Lindows is the first company to pick up and play MS game instead of whining about it...they do something. Sure it's crazy, but that's how to take down MS. Much of MS tactics were crazy/borderline illegal at the time too. Lindows is willing to fight fire with fire here...that's real compeition, none of this woosey compete on the merits of the software stuff like netscape or BeOS...They're getting down and dirty and playing Billy's game on his turf. Eventually, Robertson will strike it lucky...he only needs once to be really rich.
Robertson is willing to use MS tactics as a playbook against them even if it's not pretty...it is fun to watch! It also shows how spoiled sport MS really is about this stuff.
There was nothing wrong at all...it was a MS trying to get out of paying on a technicallity! After all, MS & the state of CA both accept digital signitures and "mouse Clicks" as legally binding...there were even electronic actions MS was allowed to take to fufill it's part of the settlement. They just didn't like Lindows mooching as the middleman.
Frankly, Lindows was mearly filing by proxy...in order to ensure MS compliance to the class action by addressing thousands of claims in one place...given most people's experience with rebates [lost, incomplete, stolen...] it seems fair and decent for them to do this. they had a vested interest after all. Their customers got something for free...or at MS expense that they wouldn't have had as much of a chance getting directly from MS. as long as Lindows is willing to eat the loss of the claims but not backcharging the claimants, They still haven't done anyting wrong...and if they eat the loss they could still win brownie points at MS expense...Lindows really can't loose here...The get MS money, or get MS bad publicity as spoil sports...
You want Mepis [www.mepis.org] It's a knoppix-based Live CD distro that works as both a live CD and an installed distro. It's designed with a few of the Knoppix kinks worked out so that the LiveCD can "help" the installed version out when their's trouble...perfect for corperate environments. Also, it's based on Debian...so you can always get your favorite stuff if you get bored/ need special configs!
That's absolutely true...also dogs have behavior that is good to immitate in a robot...it's an easier thing to build a robot dog than a robot people...a good reasonable place to start.
On the other hand a "dog" type robot that would mimic the protective nature of a real dog, while carrying supplies would be a welcome thing on the battle field. Start thinking like FPS here...in the real world there aren't medpacks convienantly stashed by the enemy in a safe corner out of range of the guns...but these robots could take medical supplies, spare ammo, etc to troops in buildings, caves and other spaces no vehicle can follow. That extra bit of help could be the difference between a successful or failed mission...or more dead troops. Or, They could be programmed to home on fallen troops taking communications and medical supplies to a soilder rather than pulling another soilder from the mission...
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true, but as soon as you do that, MS undercuts you on players and on cut-rate music services. Realize that even though iTunes is only 1 music service all of the competition use MS tools for their client/server parts. Right now the competition is Apple versus everybody else [as proxy for MS] if apple goes down MS wins!!
Great answer! We'll never be free of it if Apple gives in to supporting it on iPod!!!! In effect if iPod supports wma apple will win the immediate battle for iPods, but we will loose the rights war for good as well as any hope of choice for digital music formats!!!
That said, we americans aren't used to seeing "between" the symbols like japanese are. Alot of the things in NGE are plays on religous symbols that mean much different things over here...
You have to figure in 2-3 generations of machines they would be more flexable in close quarters than tanks [can't get shot at] or light vehicals [enough armor for small arms fire], and less fragile than aircraft because they don't have to fly. In addition they have the ability to be armed with all the normal military arms...but simply "pick up" or "flip over" most wheeled vehicles without firing a shot!
What I've found is that all the pieces exist for a perfectly functioning Linux office right now...the only problem is dealing with those 1 or 2 windows apps floating around. But to go 100% linux is actually easier than mixing right now.
I was getting at "it's free" in addition to being nearly as good as "commercial" distros..
Remember Microsoft is a Corperation of the USA...linux hackers are just Citizens [or maybe even Foriegn citizens...the horror]
Sorry to confuse you....But working in a manufacturing role, teh automakers are always squealing about six-sigma this, quality that....and this little toy company has them beat with little plastic blocks!
Due to DMCA and other wonderful stuff, you'll probably never see a native OSS driver for NTFS...it's an encrypted filesystem. AS for WHY...almost all PCs sold nowdays come with NTFS...the OEMs sell them that way. Short of asking a user to reformat their drive, you can't get fat32 on newer boxes...and Knoppix is aimed at users who don't want to/can't modify their windows install.
It just works! That's the kicker. Sure, it's probably no better than the current crop of pay-for distros, but that's the point. The pay-for distros don't have much BETTER hardware detection either...and knoppix is based on Debian sources + a little tweaking that they publish back under GPL. Oh yeah, it's not "commercial"...that's the big deal!!!
What lego needs are bigger techinic parts...It's very difficlt to build a usable size robot...something that could climb REAL stairs, or pick up a real object. They need better connecting pieces for robots too...and prehaps some larger [12" in one direction] framing pieces with more powerful motors.
Perhaps they could sell a license to the evolution robotics [ER1] people! Their software is what Mindstorms really needs...and lego can make the parts. The problem is that the mindstorm parts never really came down enough to buy the kind of quantities you need for really useful and dynamic robots...I've got some great tabletop ideas, but i'd take 500-1000$$ to get enough techinc parts to build them!
Actcually Bionicle has great mechanical pieces for building and articulating robots with...far more complex motions are possible with those parts...and they have better structure too for things like gear boxes. It's a little secret I've never seen too many people pick up on. Not to mention that it fattens up their manufacturing for the small techinical bits that sets like mindstorms use..axles and such
Really, I posted above that I have 25+ year old blocks that are still as tight snapping as ones fresh from the store...and match EXACTLY!!! That's incredible quality for any manufacturing...even the automakers are hard pressed to duplicate that kind of effort...That is what makes them worth the money!!
Even more amazing is the long term quality...I have blocks from my older brother and sister...25+ years old that still snap together exactly and tightly to brand new parts fresh from the store!!! Not even GM and other automakers are that good!!!
You have a good point...they should have adapted mindstorms to ER1 type robots. In addition to being limited by electronics, the plastic pieces themselves were the biggest problem I had...too hard to build bigger, durable robots...like survive a fall of a stair or two and get back up..
I'd agree, what's needed are more simle parts and less flashy stuff. You know how hard [and expensive] it is to get enough parts to build a decent sized castle nowdays! They need more buckets of 2x4 colored blocks...in more useful colors. That said, Lego needs to adapt it's piece size to make it more friendly to robot builders...The current technic pieces are too small and poorly joining for anything except matchbox sized toys. Building anything moving that exceeds 12" in any direction is extremely flaky.
Couldn't Google just erase all web presence of SCO at this point...And they might just toss some weight around with the other search engines too...Perhaps the tech press should stop front page reporting of all SCO based news...
If that company is smart, they'll make sure to include proper instructions for settling so the people can get it right...and another batch of coupons for their product along with the notice so they can get a second chance at getting that check! Right now there's nothing shaddy going on...thing of Lindows as accepting the competition's coupons or a used car salesman matching another dealer's prices. This is good and fair and right...just how capitalism should be. Bill G has hidden his nerdy butt behind lawyers and money for far to long and Robertson is calling him out to wheel and deal! Gates is clever at stacking the deck... but robertson is a true player...Hopefully more people will warm up to that idea.
hey it's better than fair and definately not irresponsible on Lindows' part. After all, they are competition...MS had a legal obligation they could take advantage of...they were found guilty [or settled to prevent it] of price gouging their customers...it's more than fair for another business to capitalize on that fact and maybe sneak some monetary rewards in there. Lindows is the first company to pick up and play MS game instead of whining about it...they do something. Sure it's crazy, but that's how to take down MS. Much of MS tactics were crazy/borderline illegal at the time too. Lindows is willing to fight fire with fire here...that's real compeition, none of this woosey compete on the merits of the software stuff like netscape or BeOS...They're getting down and dirty and playing Billy's game on his turf. Eventually, Robertson will strike it lucky...he only needs once to be really rich.
Robertson is willing to use MS tactics as a playbook against them even if it's not pretty...it is fun to watch! It also shows how spoiled sport MS really is about this stuff.
Frankly, Lindows was mearly filing by proxy...in order to ensure MS compliance to the class action by addressing thousands of claims in one place...given most people's experience with rebates [lost, incomplete, stolen...] it seems fair and decent for them to do this. they had a vested interest after all. Their customers got something for free...or at MS expense that they wouldn't have had as much of a chance getting directly from MS. as long as Lindows is willing to eat the loss of the claims but not backcharging the claimants, They still haven't done anyting wrong...and if they eat the loss they could still win brownie points at MS expense...Lindows really can't loose here...The get MS money, or get MS bad publicity as spoil sports...
You want Mepis [www.mepis.org] It's a knoppix-based Live CD distro that works as both a live CD and an installed distro. It's designed with a few of the Knoppix kinks worked out so that the LiveCD can "help" the installed version out when their's trouble...perfect for corperate environments. Also, it's based on Debian...so you can always get your favorite stuff if you get bored/ need special configs!
That's absolutely true...also dogs have behavior that is good to immitate in a robot...it's an easier thing to build a robot dog than a robot people...a good reasonable place to start.
On the other hand a "dog" type robot that would mimic the protective nature of a real dog, while carrying supplies would be a welcome thing on the battle field. Start thinking like FPS here...in the real world there aren't medpacks convienantly stashed by the enemy in a safe corner out of range of the guns...but these robots could take medical supplies, spare ammo, etc to troops in buildings, caves and other spaces no vehicle can follow. That extra bit of help could be the difference between a successful or failed mission...or more dead troops. Or, They could be programmed to home on fallen troops taking communications and medical supplies to a soilder rather than pulling another soilder from the mission...