And how many people that use windows know about it? Can't check it, any improvements will remain in windows not even a thank you.
BSD is like giving a person a fish. Linux is beating them over the head to get off their ass and learn how to fish.
MS uses BSD. What has MS given to BSD? IBM uses Linux. What has IBM given to Linux?
You are a nice guy but you are living in a world with extremely selfish people. They don't see you giving your code away as being nice, they see you as a sucker doing free work without them having to do anything back.
The 9/11 terrorists had perfectly legal passports. So they wouldn't have been stopped no matter how good the biometrics. The various terrorist organisations got plenty of members who spend enough time in the west to get legal papers. They really don't need to bother with forgeries.
This isn't about the war on terrorism or even "regular" crime. It is about the war on illegal papers as used in illegal immigration.
Another point is that many european countries are getting closer and closer to introducing mandatory ID to be carried at all times. Add RFID tags and the next easy step will be to add RFID receivers everywhere to track every person.
What, current law would prohibit it? So? This is europe, home of the holocaust. It is not what use tracking everyone will have now. It is what it will be used for 20 yrs from now.
The newspaper being filled with ads helps the newspaper make money so they can sell it at current prices. So newspaper ads save me money. SPAM costs me money. If I don't buy the newspaper I don't get the ads. If I don't buy spam I still get spam.
Well actually I don't get spam but that is because I use a very paranoid email strategy.
Nothing special so no need for special treatment. Yet unlike say the World Cup or the American Superbowl who don't pretend to be any more then they are, entertainment, we are told again and again that the olympics are supposed to be something extra and this explains why goverments spend billions on it.
They ain't been about peace. EVER. The ancient greeks banned anyone of lesser race or sex (lesser by greek standards). In sparta, part of greece women had far more rights, not what we would considere equal but far far superior to anything women anywhere would have for millenia to come, and they performed sports. Not during the olympics however. Just saw a docu on it and a spartan women owning a winning horse team was not even allowed to see her team win.
The modern games have never been anything else but a giant propaganda machine. Wich such niceties as the nazis hosting it, the boycotts by the americans and soviets and the munich masacre the games have even lost the pretence of being about anything more then sporters being paid by the state not to work.
When someone dies during the Tour de France it has been known that the entire group of cyclist let the team of the dead person win by driving over the finishing line together. Their at least there are more important things then winning.
How many sporters at the munich olympics made even 1 symbolic protest? Was any of them intrestted in anything else but winning?
Peace through sports? Not until we get rid of the sporters and those who measure the worth of their country through beating other countries.
So why should I pay a monthly fee to play something wich doesn't even come close to being quake? Granted I prefer cooperative versions but am up for team games as well. BUT I don't like CS. Why? You most likely end up playing not with skilled players but with players who learned every trick on their favorite maps. How can you tell skilled players vs map learners? Map learners will bitch like hell when a new map comes on and moan in every new game how it is to hard.
Anyway Quake and its ilk are one segment of the market. Most MMO are trying to copy the PvP element but making it in such a way that casual players only got the pistol while the hardcore kiddies got an unlimited ammo BFG and that is costing you 15 bucks a month.
Would CS be so succesfull if you could only start hunting terrorist after first spending a month shooting bunnies?
It doesn't matter what base you use. Your computer uses base 2 but can count far higher then 1 (the maximum value you can express with 1 digit in base 2.) The maximum value you can express with 1 digit in base 10 (the one most humans use) is of course 9. No one would suggest that most humans can therefore only count to 9.
If this tribe calculated 0, 1, 2, many, many 1, many 2 or something like it there would be no trouble. Just confusing for base 10 users.
But it seems this tribe doesn't have/need the concept of higher numbers.
What I would like to know if they understand the concept of zero. The invention of 0 is a usually considered a pretty big step in western culture and one arabs like to claim as their contribution to the world. If this tribe wich can only count to 2 understands 0 then it would make an intresting find.
They may not have a need to count higher numbers but me thinks it is very important to know the difference between 1 fish and 0 fish.
What may also be intresting is that if you need language to count and animals can count does that mean that all animals that can count have a language. And not just a language of "food" "danger" "sex" but a language with "1" "2" "3" etc?
Welcome to MS marketing my friend. MS always does this. Don't switch, don't buy something else, don't go to the competitor. We will have it all in the next version and MORE!!! Then the next version comes close to release and most of it will have been delayed into the next version.
The older people will remember MS promising the sky to stop people from adopting OS/2 and the younger can look to Longhorn. Not even close to release yet and it is already being stripped and things MS promised to be in XP but really where in Longhorn are now definitly going to be in "who cares". WinFS anyone? How long has MS been promising a better filesystem?
This little announcement grabbed MS a few headlines. None of the media will be coming back to MS in a few weeks and ask them why they haven't delivered. Journalists ain't even smart enough to question goverments on breaking campaign promises. Far easier to copy paste the next press release.
Just what the gamer needs. More Max Payne. Games that are finished in a couple of hours with no replay. Bleeeeeeh.
You like Max Payne? Well good for you. There is probably a market for it but that does not mean that every game has to be a Max Payne.
There is a market for short simple games. There is a market for incredibly hard non-ending games. And there is a market for everything in between.
Accusing Deus EX 2 of being to long suggest this guy is either a really bad player or just a very bad organizer. If anything version 2 was a lot smaller and was over far too quickly.
Same with games like Elite Force wich can be completed in a couple of hours. I am expected to pay full price for that? Sorry, I grew up on games that charged full price but gave me weeks of gameplay. Hours is not going to cut it.
And having unplayed games on the shelf shows that this guy needs to get a grip on his life. He buys games he never plays? Isn't that like those shopaholics?
If we don't kill this guy then we will soon have an extra edition of the Lord of the Rings. The super cut, 1 hour for the entire trilogy. War and Peace, reader digests version. Baldur's gate, the lets not mess about version, you roll up a god and kill the bad guy on the first map. No need for all that boring endless roleplaying crap.
If you want a fast game go play tetris. A lot of games by their nature have to be long. You can't simulate a flight between London and New York in 2 minutes. Landing on the beaches of normandy will at least take you as long as walking a few hundred meters of terrain. Telling a complex tale of growing up is going to take more then 5 minutes. Driving around the nurburg ring is not going to be done in a 2 minute game.
Can't play all the games out there? Cry me a river. BUY only the games you really want and give the rest of the money to charity.
It arrived after many many other horribly bugged MMO games and frankly I doubt anyone bothers anymore.
However I still think the PvP is hurting business. It will never be as good as PvP counterstrike style with some of those game becoming very big, played a demo with 256 players in the field.
It simply isn't fun to be a casual player in a game dominated by kiddies. SWG is the prime example, they are so focussed on the balacing of combat that they fail to see the constant drain of players going on. The recent 14 day demo had plenty of new players coming in and many many played the full 14 days and then asked, so what can I do now. I fought everything, is there anymore. The answer? No. An MMO game where you can see everything in 2 weeks is not going to sell many monthly subscriptions.
That is the real killer. Some people like diablo games. Some don't. Sales figures suggest that current MMO games are targetting the wrong audience.
Well not entirely true, I do get a few of the nigerian types on my address for the apache mailing list but they are pretty straightforward.
Only spam I see is what people show in stories like these.
So I was wrong. Lets just hope then that since these ISP's will be kicking paying customers from their networks that they will make certain that they got the right person. I can see it being a problem for "shady" but non-spamming companies that have spamming rivals, think porn sites. But non-spamming porn companies are good customers and ISP's need those.
And it hasn't happened. Why not? Well for one I think the game industry has no clue. Nor do most gamers. Why? Wich is the most popular PC game? No it is not a trick answer like solitair. Just check sales figures of full priced real PC games. The answer? The Sims. Still selling at full price (although by now bundled with 1 or 2 expansions) years later.
Yet the sims online was a total failure. I think the reason for this is both simple and important.
What was the difference between The Sims and The Sims online?
The sims is a non-competitive game. It is totally impossible to compare the "performance" of one player vs another. The Sims as played by those still playing it is perhaps even a coorperative game. Most of the content is not created by Maxis/EA but by the users and shared by the users. I even think that people don't by the expansions for the extra content but for the extra capability it gives the community to create their own content.
Compare this with the sims online where there is no user created content and that introduces competition with other players. Plus now you gotta work for every credit in game (Many The Sims player use the moneycheat to get the money they need for their family). The Sims is a game where you let your creative juices flow. The Sims online is a grind to compete.
The Sims is also a good example because the sales figures show that the people that play it are not afraid to spend money. Even content downloaded is often paid for as most of the "free" content is hosted from a central site that requires a subscription to offset hosting costs. Add the constant expansions and The Sims player have easily spend hundreds of dollars.
Most MMO games seem obsessed with adding competition even PvP. Sure online combat games are popular but is it popular with the right crowd? Is it possible that people who like Counter Strike will never pay for a MMO version of it? After all why should they, they got their MMO free.
Paid for MMO games perhaps should aim at a different audience. An audience that prefers to have something more then just a grind to compete on a ladder game. Competition gives winners and losers. People are not going to pay money each month to loose to some 12 yr old kid that can afford to spend 24/7 learning every exploit in the game.
Game industry take note. With every leet counter stike kiddie you attract to your game you loose 10 people that just want to have fun.
I am not saying the a massive CS game won't work or sell. Just that at their is a different market as well. Second Life is an example of this.
What I would like to see in a game. No PvP except maybe in arena's with very clear rules and no cheats. A low lvl/irregular player is not worthless, read this as not making it compulsery to first grind to lvl X before you can do anything fun/usefull. Police that constantly checks for assholes ruining it for everyone else. Ban people that can't behave. 1 asshole can easily turn of dozens of players.
Growth would be nice too, you start as a kid with no skills and weak stats, then grow up and eventually grow old and then die. Give the option to retire and make the next character related to the first. A child an apprentice or similar. This neatly would avoid insanely high characters but a child would inherit money and some basic skills avoiding you to start a new low lvl character once you reached the XP ceiling.
But most importantly the game should still be fun when you remove the multi player element.
To many games now are very basic Diablo clones. Nothing wrong with diablo but not everyone likes it and there is no market for dozens like it.
Spam is already becoming unreadable with the leet spelling and insertion of random words and phrases. Now they are going to link to random sites as well? So the customer, already not very bright, will now have to first do a enigma style decoding to get the sales messages and then do a guess as to wich link to click?
The harder spam becomes to send the better it is. There is no instant cure, stop watching Oprah you american. The real world requires you to work had on multiple fronts to solve a problem. This is just one tiny drop on the hot plate. But together with all the other little drops it is making a difference.
As a dutch person (yeah from the country called amsterdam in germany) I get a large number of tv statiosn from different countries. Hell when I grew up the second tv-channel you could receive was a foreign channel:P Depending on where you lived, germany, england or belgium.
Now with cable you get it all plus CNN for the american. I also recently seen the BBC rebroadcast a news program from ABC if I remember correctly.
Anyway. Over the last 2 decades I seen a gradual dumbing down of the TV news. Every more eleborate intro's, more "coming up next/previews" that only was time and more and more "human interest stories". The dutch NOS took a nosedive when the bitch from the childerens news went to the main news but didn't bother to change her tone of voice.
The belgian news is "boring" but doesn't give you the idea that you are a stupid 11yr old kid being talked down too. Just 30 minutes of news. But even they are slipping.
The BBC has long lost all credibilty. Dutch news is a complete joke and CNN never had credibilty.
You know the really bad thing? The old 8 o'clock tv news was often the most watched program loosing only to soccer matches in viewing ratings. So exactly why did they change? To get more viewers? They failed. They lost viewers. So they change it more and more to loose more viewers.
I think that for some sick reason they want to make the program to reach everyone and in doing so alienate everyone. Perhaps tv viewing audiences ain't the stupid ones. Perhaps it is tv makers that don't get "grown-up" news.
Cities in holland in case you didn't know. Amsterdam is the Capitol but Den Haag is the seat of goverment and also where the International Court is housed. Arnhem is of course the city from a bridge to far.
Ohio is a province by european standards. As long as we can find the big cities in america that is pretty good. You can't expect everyone to know every tiny little piece in a country.
But not being able to tell the oceans is pathetic. A dutch person should be able to tell where the north-sea is. It is the bloody sea at our west coast and the waddenzee is to the north. If you don't know that you should be locked up for being too stupid..
IBM makes generally good quality stuff. You can't really go wrong with their old AIX servers (don't know about the new ones but the RS6000 is so solid it is silly) but they have the kind of price card that makes you go "Yea! GODS, why don't you just ask for my soul and be done with it."
If you can afford it then it is worth it but no-one can ever claim IBM is cheap. You don't need silly licensing and software taxes when you sell your stuff with markups that would make Steve Jobs gag.
To see if he could. Wich really makes you wonder what linus added with linux that made it such a huge hit. Writing an OS is nothing special, it is pretty standard stuff if you are high enough up in the computer sciences.
Not like there aren't plenty of free OS out there either. Yet something clicked with linux. If you knew what that was you could make billions. Well at least make billions by selling MS the antidote:P
This is version 2. The previous one still holds the record for smallest but this one doesn't use a cord for its power. It also adds a camera and some leds for..... well you got to have leds eh. Blue ones for extra speed!
The gamegear was better but not light years ahead. The PSP seems to be far more powerfull then the GBA. Will this make a difference? Don't know but I think the DS is far from a sure winner, lets not forget the GBA and GBA SP had some serious design flaws. No reason nintendo can't screw up the DS as well.
Further more in the time of the Gameboy Nintendo was THE company. That is no longer the case. Nintendo is now an also ran in console land and Sony has the shelf space.
Frankly I like my gba but the screen is poor and the graphics are at best passable. I am ready for a more powerfull handheld. The DS sounds intresting but it is all going to depend on how well the split screen is used. Unless they come up with some truly great games I think the PSP is going to win IF Sony is smart enough to just put it on display with a running demo and does not screw up the battery life. Then again real hardcore gamers will probably get both anyway.
Those that can, do.
Those that can't, teach.
Those that can't teach, administrate.
Those that can't administrate, elect the administration.
These people where voted into power. When the greeks invented democracy they were very carefull not to give it to the stupid/poor/women/non-greeks. Western democracy ain't that smart. We don't require you to be an upstanding citizen. Just for you to have survived to be a certain age. Don't blame goverment for being elected. Blame the idiots who voted for the goverment.
MS is all about being locked into using their software. Give it away free now and collect when the next version comes along. All those people who say they can't switch to linux/apple/whatever because their apps don't run on it, it costs to much to switch, their people can only work with windows? They are exactly where MS wants them. Slaves. Check pricing of windows. It gone up and up and up. Way above inflation. Oh they give discounts for now because people can still switch but it is becoming harder to resist.
IF MS ever gets it anti-piracy really working we are in for a real suprise. When MS can demand that everyone pays their price and no-one can switch anymore we have given control away.
Look at the new licensing system. People paid up for it in the hope of getting the new OS to replace 2000 and they got nothing. Their was a tiny outcry on it and then nothing. MS got away with charging people for nothing. Nice trick. Except better ones in the future.
Switching from 2000 to linux is difficult. Switching from Active Directory 2003 to linux will be very very hard. Switching from longhorn to linux may well be impossible.
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BSD is like giving a person a fish. Linux is beating them over the head to get off their ass and learn how to fish.
MS uses BSD. What has MS given to BSD? IBM uses Linux. What has IBM given to Linux?
You are a nice guy but you are living in a world with extremely selfish people. They don't see you giving your code away as being nice, they see you as a sucker doing free work without them having to do anything back.
The BSD license allows you to use the code without ever having to give back. Exactly the way business uses it.
The only thing you need to know about BSD is that Microsoft favours it.
This isn't about the war on terrorism or even "regular" crime. It is about the war on illegal papers as used in illegal immigration.
Another point is that many european countries are getting closer and closer to introducing mandatory ID to be carried at all times. Add RFID tags and the next easy step will be to add RFID receivers everywhere to track every person.
What, current law would prohibit it? So? This is europe, home of the holocaust. It is not what use tracking everyone will have now. It is what it will be used for 20 yrs from now.
Well actually I don't get spam but that is because I use a very paranoid email strategy.
The modern games have never been anything else but a giant propaganda machine. Wich such niceties as the nazis hosting it, the boycotts by the americans and soviets and the munich masacre the games have even lost the pretence of being about anything more then sporters being paid by the state not to work.
When someone dies during the Tour de France it has been known that the entire group of cyclist let the team of the dead person win by driving over the finishing line together. Their at least there are more important things then winning.
How many sporters at the munich olympics made even 1 symbolic protest? Was any of them intrestted in anything else but winning?
Peace through sports? Not until we get rid of the sporters and those who measure the worth of their country through beating other countries.
Anyway Quake and its ilk are one segment of the market. Most MMO are trying to copy the PvP element but making it in such a way that casual players only got the pistol while the hardcore kiddies got an unlimited ammo BFG and that is costing you 15 bucks a month.
Would CS be so succesfull if you could only start hunting terrorist after first spending a month shooting bunnies?
If this tribe calculated 0, 1, 2, many, many 1, many 2 or something like it there would be no trouble. Just confusing for base 10 users.
But it seems this tribe doesn't have/need the concept of higher numbers.
What I would like to know if they understand the concept of zero. The invention of 0 is a usually considered a pretty big step in western culture and one arabs like to claim as their contribution to the world. If this tribe wich can only count to 2 understands 0 then it would make an intresting find.
They may not have a need to count higher numbers but me thinks it is very important to know the difference between 1 fish and 0 fish.
What may also be intresting is that if you need language to count and animals can count does that mean that all animals that can count have a language. And not just a language of "food" "danger" "sex" but a language with "1" "2" "3" etc?
The older people will remember MS promising the sky to stop people from adopting OS/2 and the younger can look to Longhorn. Not even close to release yet and it is already being stripped and things MS promised to be in XP but really where in Longhorn are now definitly going to be in "who cares". WinFS anyone? How long has MS been promising a better filesystem?
This little announcement grabbed MS a few headlines. None of the media will be coming back to MS in a few weeks and ask them why they haven't delivered. Journalists ain't even smart enough to question goverments on breaking campaign promises. Far easier to copy paste the next press release.
You like Max Payne? Well good for you. There is probably a market for it but that does not mean that every game has to be a Max Payne.
There is a market for short simple games. There is a market for incredibly hard non-ending games. And there is a market for everything in between.
Accusing Deus EX 2 of being to long suggest this guy is either a really bad player or just a very bad organizer. If anything version 2 was a lot smaller and was over far too quickly.
Same with games like Elite Force wich can be completed in a couple of hours. I am expected to pay full price for that? Sorry, I grew up on games that charged full price but gave me weeks of gameplay. Hours is not going to cut it.
And having unplayed games on the shelf shows that this guy needs to get a grip on his life. He buys games he never plays? Isn't that like those shopaholics?
If we don't kill this guy then we will soon have an extra edition of the Lord of the Rings. The super cut, 1 hour for the entire trilogy. War and Peace, reader digests version. Baldur's gate, the lets not mess about version, you roll up a god and kill the bad guy on the first map. No need for all that boring endless roleplaying crap.
If you want a fast game go play tetris. A lot of games by their nature have to be long. You can't simulate a flight between London and New York in 2 minutes. Landing on the beaches of normandy will at least take you as long as walking a few hundred meters of terrain. Telling a complex tale of growing up is going to take more then 5 minutes. Driving around the nurburg ring is not going to be done in a 2 minute game.
Can't play all the games out there? Cry me a river. BUY only the games you really want and give the rest of the money to charity.
However I still think the PvP is hurting business. It will never be as good as PvP counterstrike style with some of those game becoming very big, played a demo with 256 players in the field.
It simply isn't fun to be a casual player in a game dominated by kiddies. SWG is the prime example, they are so focussed on the balacing of combat that they fail to see the constant drain of players going on. The recent 14 day demo had plenty of new players coming in and many many played the full 14 days and then asked, so what can I do now. I fought everything, is there anymore. The answer? No. An MMO game where you can see everything in 2 weeks is not going to sell many monthly subscriptions.
That is the real killer. Some people like diablo games. Some don't. Sales figures suggest that current MMO games are targetting the wrong audience.
Then again maybe it is just the bugs.
Only spam I see is what people show in stories like these.
So I was wrong. Lets just hope then that since these ISP's will be kicking paying customers from their networks that they will make certain that they got the right person. I can see it being a problem for "shady" but non-spamming companies that have spamming rivals, think porn sites. But non-spamming porn companies are good customers and ISP's need those.
Yet the sims online was a total failure. I think the reason for this is both simple and important.
What was the difference between The Sims and The Sims online?
The sims is a non-competitive game. It is totally impossible to compare the "performance" of one player vs another. The Sims as played by those still playing it is perhaps even a coorperative game. Most of the content is not created by Maxis/EA but by the users and shared by the users. I even think that people don't by the expansions for the extra content but for the extra capability it gives the community to create their own content.
Compare this with the sims online where there is no user created content and that introduces competition with other players. Plus now you gotta work for every credit in game (Many The Sims player use the moneycheat to get the money they need for their family). The Sims is a game where you let your creative juices flow. The Sims online is a grind to compete.
The Sims is also a good example because the sales figures show that the people that play it are not afraid to spend money. Even content downloaded is often paid for as most of the "free" content is hosted from a central site that requires a subscription to offset hosting costs. Add the constant expansions and The Sims player have easily spend hundreds of dollars.
Most MMO games seem obsessed with adding competition even PvP. Sure online combat games are popular but is it popular with the right crowd? Is it possible that people who like Counter Strike will never pay for a MMO version of it? After all why should they, they got their MMO free.
Paid for MMO games perhaps should aim at a different audience. An audience that prefers to have something more then just a grind to compete on a ladder game. Competition gives winners and losers. People are not going to pay money each month to loose to some 12 yr old kid that can afford to spend 24/7 learning every exploit in the game.
Game industry take note. With every leet counter stike kiddie you attract to your game you loose 10 people that just want to have fun.
I am not saying the a massive CS game won't work or sell. Just that at their is a different market as well. Second Life is an example of this.
What I would like to see in a game. No PvP except maybe in arena's with very clear rules and no cheats. A low lvl/irregular player is not worthless, read this as not making it compulsery to first grind to lvl X before you can do anything fun/usefull. Police that constantly checks for assholes ruining it for everyone else. Ban people that can't behave. 1 asshole can easily turn of dozens of players.
Growth would be nice too, you start as a kid with no skills and weak stats, then grow up and eventually grow old and then die. Give the option to retire and make the next character related to the first. A child an apprentice or similar. This neatly would avoid insanely high characters but a child would inherit money and some basic skills avoiding you to start a new low lvl character once you reached the XP ceiling.
But most importantly the game should still be fun when you remove the multi player element.
To many games now are very basic Diablo clones. Nothing wrong with diablo but not everyone likes it and there is no market for dozens like it.
They are closing of their own paying customers. You can bet they are going to check, this is not the bubble anymore when ISP's ruled.
The harder spam becomes to send the better it is. There is no instant cure, stop watching Oprah you american. The real world requires you to work had on multiple fronts to solve a problem. This is just one tiny drop on the hot plate. But together with all the other little drops it is making a difference.
Now with cable you get it all plus CNN for the american. I also recently seen the BBC rebroadcast a news program from ABC if I remember correctly.
Anyway. Over the last 2 decades I seen a gradual dumbing down of the TV news. Every more eleborate intro's, more "coming up next/previews" that only was time and more and more "human interest stories". The dutch NOS took a nosedive when the bitch from the childerens news went to the main news but didn't bother to change her tone of voice.
The belgian news is "boring" but doesn't give you the idea that you are a stupid 11yr old kid being talked down too. Just 30 minutes of news. But even they are slipping.
The BBC has long lost all credibilty. Dutch news is a complete joke and CNN never had credibilty.
You know the really bad thing? The old 8 o'clock tv news was often the most watched program loosing only to soccer matches in viewing ratings. So exactly why did they change? To get more viewers? They failed. They lost viewers. So they change it more and more to loose more viewers.
I think that for some sick reason they want to make the program to reach everyone and in doing so alienate everyone. Perhaps tv viewing audiences ain't the stupid ones. Perhaps it is tv makers that don't get "grown-up" news.
Ohio is a province by european standards. As long as we can find the big cities in america that is pretty good. You can't expect everyone to know every tiny little piece in a country.
But not being able to tell the oceans is pathetic. A dutch person should be able to tell where the north-sea is. It is the bloody sea at our west coast and the waddenzee is to the north. If you don't know that you should be locked up for being too stupid..
IBM makes generally good quality stuff. You can't really go wrong with their old AIX servers (don't know about the new ones but the RS6000 is so solid it is silly) but they have the kind of price card that makes you go "Yea! GODS, why don't you just ask for my soul and be done with it."
If you can afford it then it is worth it but no-one can ever claim IBM is cheap. You don't need silly licensing and software taxes when you sell your stuff with markups that would make Steve Jobs gag.
Not like there aren't plenty of free OS out there either. Yet something clicked with linux. If you knew what that was you could make billions. Well at least make billions by selling MS the antidote :P
It can supposedly hover on its own. That makes it a robot. Next dumb question please.
This is version 2. The previous one still holds the record for smallest but this one doesn't use a cord for its power. It also adds a camera and some leds for..... well you got to have leds eh. Blue ones for extra speed!
Could a solar panel be light enough and still deliver enough juice?
Further more in the time of the Gameboy Nintendo was THE company. That is no longer the case. Nintendo is now an also ran in console land and Sony has the shelf space.
Frankly I like my gba but the screen is poor and the graphics are at best passable. I am ready for a more powerfull handheld. The DS sounds intresting but it is all going to depend on how well the split screen is used. Unless they come up with some truly great games I think the PSP is going to win IF Sony is smart enough to just put it on display with a running demo and does not screw up the battery life. Then again real hardcore gamers will probably get both anyway.
Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach. Those that can't teach, administrate. Those that can't administrate, elect the administration. These people where voted into power. When the greeks invented democracy they were very carefull not to give it to the stupid/poor/women/non-greeks. Western democracy ain't that smart. We don't require you to be an upstanding citizen. Just for you to have survived to be a certain age. Don't blame goverment for being elected. Blame the idiots who voted for the goverment.
IF MS ever gets it anti-piracy really working we are in for a real suprise. When MS can demand that everyone pays their price and no-one can switch anymore we have given control away.
Look at the new licensing system. People paid up for it in the hope of getting the new OS to replace 2000 and they got nothing. Their was a tiny outcry on it and then nothing. MS got away with charging people for nothing. Nice trick. Except better ones in the future.
Switching from 2000 to linux is difficult. Switching from Active Directory 2003 to linux will be very very hard. Switching from longhorn to linux may well be impossible.