The ruling in Japan happened in March and was just a report from the JFTC, it did not involve any court action. Until, of course, the official filing suit happened today...
That is assuming that they're not the ones doing the beating...
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In the game man, in the game!!;)
Actually in the Day of Defeat community I play in, there is entire clan made up of wives and girlfriends of players. Their husbands/boyfriends played so much Day of Defeat, they ended up joining the game just to spend time with their significant other.
LOL. I've had girlfriends who thought playing games was a waste of time, they didn't last long, my current (of 1 & 1/2 years) is quite happy for me to play games, as long as its not too much.
Discovering girls doesn't mean gaming has to die. However I did go from being a top notch FPS player to a barely okay one.;)
As for games. The Half life mods Counter strike and Day of defeat are the two games in the last 5 years that have kept me coming back. Good enough graphics, with good game play. All in all they provide the best online experience, they are fun whether you're playing for 15 minutes, or all night long. As long as you can find a well controlled server (i.e. one where the idiots are kicked off quickly).
And then of course there is civalisation. Civ 1 for many years, then Civ 3. I still play Civ 3 or Free Civ every few months.
I always got the feeling the life expectancy, or rather the lack there of, of old AMD's was the fact that they ran so hot. While Intels ran nice and cool (well cooler).
With the addition of the AMD64 though, the tables seem to have turned. They run much cooler, while the competing p4's seem to have serious issues. Will be interesting to see in a few years which of the current generation have the ability to last.
That said, those old intel P2 and P3's just seem to keep going and going.
In the end, any model that results in the creator/industry getting money will probably result in people trying to bypass it.
Slap an advert into a downloadable movie, someone will remove it. Do some form of micropayments, people will still go for the free option.
While I'm sure they will still be able to make money from various methods, I feel that the number of bands/movies/whatever will begin to decrease as their respective industries have to focus more and more on a select few to make their profit.
Blocking ads won't end free content on the Web. It will lead to innovation and new opportunities.
Oh thats true, but you have to ask whether its actually what you really want? It will lead to several things. Innovation in ways to get advertising on you screen (something we don't want, since most of these innovations are worse than the stock standard banner ad), or generating income through merchandising.
Unless of course you know of some innovation that will allow small entertaining sites to make some money without acting like the movie business. But of course you don't actually point out any real innovations, just that they might be there in the future...
They haven't been burnt into the minds (I use the word mind loosely here) of the MTV generation. A lot of coke sniffing marketing types determine who is beautiful and popular.
As long as foreign machines are not allowed on the network.
My company used to have the attitude that their well firewalled network + NAT was nice and secure. And it was, until someone plugged an infected laptop into the network (I think it was blaster, could be wrong).
Thankfully my 2k box was uptodate with patches. However the network became unusable for at least a day.
There was a time when I used a trackball at work. Once you're used to it, its quite easy to use, but I could never do as well in fps games with a trackball as I could with a mouse. So my home machine always had a mouse.
As long as my desk is set up right I never have any ergonomic issues with my mouse, so in the end, the trackball stopped getting used.
While anything is possible, microsoft is not in the business of making money from sueing. Yes they have patents, do they use them in the same way as SCO, no.
If web site owners don't LIKE adblocking, perhaps they should have thought of that before they got so damned obnoxious about shoving their flashing banners and popup adverts in our faces in the first place.
So because some advertisers put annoying intrusive ads on their pages, you block the low key, text only ads from google as well?
I'm not sure whether you're being sarcastic or not?
I know many people (myself included) that use the calendar and address book features of our cell phones. Though I know almost no one who uses their cell phones built in games (not including ngage users).
Okay, so maybe they are not primary features. But I wouldn't buy a cell phone without calendar and address book functions, since I use them regularly and I have no intention of carrying around a PDA as well to do those functions.
I honestly cannot remember when last I did not feel the need to have my cell phone on me whenever I leave the house. I know that cell phone service in some countries is apparently bad, but here in the 3rd world (South Africa) our cell phone service is very good, so I'd assume that most of the 1st world does have good service.
Anyway, the point is, even if ipod sales grow and grow, I'm willing to bet mp3 playing phones will grow more (especially outside of the US). The end result will be that the ipod will become just another player, a cool one admittedly, but definitely holding a smaller percentage of the market than it does now.
To bring this back to the original topic, I think Ballmer may be right. When longhorn comes out and MSN search is embedded in every aspect of the OS (I assume they will do this), google may find their market share dropping drastically. It all comes down to the fact that the vast majority of people (ie. not the/. crowd) will use whatever is there, be it the mp3 player that came with their phone, or the search that came with their OS.
MS is just doing what MS does best, adopt and improve. Well, okay, just adopt. But they have managed to do that pretty consistently over the last decade.
Now I would have been very surprised if they had NOT included tabbed browsing.
You've got to admit, this: "After being used for a day or two, the mainboard would get so hot it would warp and unseat some of the chips. Apple refused to install a fan to fix the problem and instructed users to drop the machine on their desk to bang the chips back into place." is pretty damn impressive as far as flops go.:P
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The ruling in Japan happened in March and was just a report from the JFTC, it did not involve any court action. Until, of course, the official filing suit happened today...
New day, new news.
That is assuming that they're not the ones doing the beating...
;)
err
In the game man, in the game!!
Actually in the Day of Defeat community I play in, there is entire clan made up of wives and girlfriends of players. Their husbands/boyfriends played so much Day of Defeat, they ended up joining the game just to spend time with their significant other.
LOL. I've had girlfriends who thought playing games was a waste of time, they didn't last long, my current (of 1 & 1/2 years) is quite happy for me to play games, as long as its not too much.
;)
Discovering girls doesn't mean gaming has to die. However I did go from being a top notch FPS player to a barely okay one.
As for games. The Half life mods Counter strike and Day of defeat are the two games in the last 5 years that have kept me coming back. Good enough graphics, with good game play. All in all they provide the best online experience, they are fun whether you're playing for 15 minutes, or all night long. As long as you can find a well controlled server (i.e. one where the idiots are kicked off quickly).
And then of course there is civalisation. Civ 1 for many years, then Civ 3. I still play Civ 3 or Free Civ every few months.
I always got the feeling the life expectancy, or rather the lack there of, of old AMD's was the fact that they ran so hot. While Intels ran nice and cool (well cooler).
With the addition of the AMD64 though, the tables seem to have turned. They run much cooler, while the competing p4's seem to have serious issues. Will be interesting to see in a few years which of the current generation have the ability to last.
That said, those old intel P2 and P3's just seem to keep going and going.
In the end, any model that results in the creator/industry getting money will probably result in people trying to bypass it.
Slap an advert into a downloadable movie, someone will remove it. Do some form of micropayments, people will still go for the free option.
While I'm sure they will still be able to make money from various methods, I feel that the number of bands/movies/whatever will begin to decrease as their respective industries have to focus more and more on a select few to make their profit.
Blocking ads won't end free content on the Web. It will lead to innovation and new opportunities.
Oh thats true, but you have to ask whether its actually what you really want? It will lead to several things. Innovation in ways to get advertising on you screen (something we don't want, since most of these innovations are worse than the stock standard banner ad), or generating income through merchandising.
Unless of course you know of some innovation that will allow small entertaining sites to make some money without acting like the movie business. But of course you don't actually point out any real innovations, just that they might be there in the future...
Its times like this that you have to link to penny arcade
They haven't been burnt into the minds (I use the word mind loosely here) of the MTV generation. A lot of coke sniffing marketing types determine who is beautiful and popular.
As long as foreign machines are not allowed on the network.
My company used to have the attitude that their well firewalled network + NAT was nice and secure. And it was, until someone plugged an infected laptop into the network (I think it was blaster, could be wrong).
Thankfully my 2k box was uptodate with patches. However the network became unusable for at least a day.
What's sad is that purposefully making that many errors doesn't distinguish it from most posts here.
Set your threshhold to 1. /. becomes a hell of a lot easier to get through then. :P
I doubt it. Battery limitations will still render this useless for your average family car for some time.
However I'm sure this could be applied in many other areas of industry where electric motors are already being used.
I'm sure there are people out there who want to continue using PC's but would like a simple, stylish, small PC.
Just because Apple already did it, doesn't mean no one else should ever try.
Slashdotters bash windows with a passion, some do it so much it could be considered a hobby, does that count?
There was a time when I used a trackball at work. Once you're used to it, its quite easy to use, but I could never do as well in fps games with a trackball as I could with a mouse. So my home machine always had a mouse.
As long as my desk is set up right I never have any ergonomic issues with my mouse, so in the end, the trackball stopped getting used.
If I compare you to a nazi bigot can I then call godwin and get all the zealots to shut up?
While anything is possible, microsoft is not in the business of making money from sueing. Yes they have patents, do they use them in the same way as SCO, no.
"But some brain-damaged people can't comprehend sarcasm" So over half the world is brain damaged?
If web site owners don't LIKE adblocking, perhaps they should have thought of that before they got so damned obnoxious about shoving their flashing banners and popup adverts in our faces in the first place.
So because some advertisers put annoying intrusive ads on their pages, you block the low key, text only ads from google as well?
I'm not sure whether you're being sarcastic or not?
I know many people (myself included) that use the calendar and address book features of our cell phones. Though I know almost no one who uses their cell phones built in games (not including ngage users).
Okay, so maybe they are not primary features. But I wouldn't buy a cell phone without calendar and address book functions, since I use them regularly and I have no intention of carrying around a PDA as well to do those functions.
I honestly cannot remember when last I did not feel the need to have my cell phone on me whenever I leave the house. I know that cell phone service in some countries is apparently bad, but here in the 3rd world (South Africa) our cell phone service is very good, so I'd assume that most of the 1st world does have good service.
/. crowd) will use whatever is there, be it the mp3 player that came with their phone, or the search that came with their OS.
Anyway, the point is, even if ipod sales grow and grow, I'm willing to bet mp3 playing phones will grow more (especially outside of the US). The end result will be that the ipod will become just another player, a cool one admittedly, but definitely holding a smaller percentage of the market than it does now.
To bring this back to the original topic, I think Ballmer may be right. When longhorn comes out and MSN search is embedded in every aspect of the OS (I assume they will do this), google may find their market share dropping drastically. It all comes down to the fact that the vast majority of people (ie. not the
And you think Apple don't patent completely arbitrary "inventions" either?
Someone needs to attend capitalism 101...
MS is just doing what MS does best, adopt and improve. Well, okay, just adopt. But they have managed to do that pretty consistently over the last decade.
Now I would have been very surprised if they had NOT included tabbed browsing.
You've got to admit, this: "After being used for a day or two, the mainboard would get so hot it would warp and unseat some of the chips. Apple refused to install a fan to fix the problem and instructed users to drop the machine on their desk to bang the chips back into place." is pretty damn impressive as far as flops go. :P