The problem is that you can't RENT a video without a DRM format that expires after a week or so. This model will eventually replace the video store since it is much more convenient.
Perhaps you could somehow retroactively connect it with the Q continum books that came out in the ST:TNG series a couple years ago...the entity playing God reminds me alot of the antagonists in those books.
The entity playing G-d was one of the antagonists in the books. As was the thing from Day of the Dove.
I haven't seen too much of that from Sony, just from Philips, and then only because CDDA on non-Red Book silver disks with music on them would be a trademark violation. Trademarks are "defend it or lose it", unlike other forms of IP.
In the settlement it talks about MS having to disclose information only to companies with a sound business model that meats critera set out by MS. Where does OSS fall?
Ah, yes. The infamous section III.J.2. Well, in the past, Microsoft has made its opinion of Open Source quite clear.
If you look at the amount of money actually given to politicans, it's scarily low. What's shocking is not whether they will sleep with you for money...it's how low their prices are.
Reminds me of an old story...
A man walks up to a woman, and asks her, "Would you sleep with me for $1million?"
She says yes. He then asks, "Would you sleep with me for $10?"
Shocked, she replies, "What kind of woman do you think I am?!?"
He answers, "We've already established that. What were doing now is haggling on price."
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OK, troll. It's not "yet-another-coin-op-arcade-game", it's a custom US Army military simulation.
The problem is that you can't RENT a video without a DRM format that expires after a week or so. This model will eventually replace the video store since it is much more convenient.
Nice try. One word. "DivX".
Seeing as most /.ers are straight males, I bet the slashdot poll would say "Janeway".
Shatner's answer would have to be either Kirk or Janeway.
Perhaps you could somehow retroactively connect it with the Q continum books that came out in the ST:TNG series a couple years ago...the entity playing God reminds me alot of the antagonists in those books.
The entity playing G-d was one of the antagonists in the books. As was the thing from Day of the Dove.
Since we all know that IBM hated Capt. Kirk because of his habit of killing computers...
:-)
Do you ever get the urge to talk the Priceline supercomputer to death?
Damn! You took my question!
Please mod this guy up +1 Funny.
There's a reason for that. It's called "Free Market".
Rather than mandating one type of service *cough*GSM Europe*cough*, they're letting all the standards duke it out.
AT&T is TDMA, Sprint and Verizon are CDMA (I Think), T-Mobile and Cingular are GSM.
Eventually, the best service will win out.
Did anybody else think they'd come up with a new product when they read the headline?
Considering that the only design win MS had gotten recently dropped them.
Disclaimer: I believe that MS is an abusive monopoly and that the DoJ rolled. I also believe that the States blew the retry of the penalty phase.
I haven't seen too much of that from Sony, just from Philips, and then only because CDDA on non-Red Book silver disks with music on them would be a trademark violation. Trademarks are "defend it or lose it", unlike other forms of IP.
The copyright expired, so the Evil Content Pirates(tm) just thought they could take it!
Seriously, I hope they find this thing soon. It's got to be priceless.
I thought Dirk Pitt saved us from this already?
Actually, while I think they're stupid for banning stuff like that, that's fine.
If they want to block US web content, so be it, so long as THEY do it. Don't make US ISPs or websites censor themselves to fit your stupid censorship.
And now, a man with a hard drive up his nose!
It doesn't. It simply means that the standard rules of the game do not apply, that you are working under different rules.
No mod points here, but someone mod this one up!
More importantly, what is a sound business model, and who gets to decide what a sound business model is?
As the OP pointed out, section III.J.2 says that a sound business model is whatever Microsoft decides it is.
Nintendo, Sony, Sun, and IBM are not convicted monopolists working under a consent decree.
In the settlement it talks about MS having to disclose information only to companies with a sound business model that meats critera set out by MS. Where does OSS fall?
Ah, yes. The infamous section III.J.2. Well, in the past, Microsoft has made its opinion of Open Source quite clear.
I became a Republican because I believe in the values of rugged individualism, less government, and more personal responsibility.
May I suggest the Libertarian Party?
Yep. The CA Libertarian Party has rescinded it's endorsement of the ballot candidate, and recommended a write-in for Art Olivier instead.
s/Panama/USA/g
s/VoIP/P2P/g
s/C&WPA/{MP,RI}AA
I haven't seen in any Linux distribution yet is no cost, easy to install security patches.
Two words: Mandrake Update
Reminds me of an old story...Sounds like our Congress.
Next they will be telling us about CPUs and HDs that require MS to work correctly.
Sure, and I bet you'll be telling us about modem that need MS too... Oh wait, that really happened...