I'm not sure, I've looked at wikipedia and some other links from there on, but all state that Gallium's toxicity isn't established, and should be handled with care. I sure hope they've checked their facts, before some kid takes it apart and starts playing with the T-1000 inside his videocard.
Did you know the Dutch are allready paying this type of tax on Cassete tapes, DVD-ROMS and CD-ROMS? Effectively, if you are just using DVD's as storage space, part of your money still goes to the movie industry (or so the dutch taxes make you beleive).
I guess they still don't have enough money, so now they'll blindly start taxing storage space as well. In a few years you could actually be paying taxes on your harddrive because you potentially could store music or movies on it. It is allready going there.
On top of it all, the music industry is trying to cripple discs to keep you from copying them, and by doing so also keep some customers from actually playing the music. Also: Legal movies have 3 minutes of warning screens before the thing starts. Most illegal copies are stripped of these screens (thank god) and start immediately. "Nice way" to reward people for buying legal DVD's...
And do you like the WMA DRM scheme where you can only play the music you bought on just the PC with which you bought it? You own it, and still you can't play it
It just shows how much feeling the dutch governement, and the music/video industry has with the real world...
Meanwhile, the players which take smartmedia cards or alike are the way to avoid these taxes, until Apple starts selling iPods and their drivers seperately:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000 04RG6K/102-6743478-3663353?v=glance
Well, it was time you stopped feeling like God. I think so called "geeks" have been hiding the simplicity of their jobs to their customers long enough now.
It's just a job. Get over it.
Don't get me wrong, I like my job as a programmer, but I want to be thanked for the REAL accomplishments, not for just entering a room.
Once, patents were meant to protect the originators of an idea. Nowadays, it seems that it's more used as a "fishing rod" by filing some vague and/or stupid patent, and then wait for some company to "infringe" it.
Isn't it time that the patent rules are updated so that patents only can contain "sensible" and "specific" text, including maybe the marketing intent of the device/product/idea? With millions and millions of patents, it's hard to do business without infringing any one of them.
Besides, why is Immersion comming with this just as they "happen" to need money? The first foce feedback controller by Sony was sold before 2000, why didn't Immersion do it then? I'd say they're too late.
If you can't do business properly, don't sue others for the fact that they can.
War has no ethic. Wether it's free or not, if some party thinks he's going to win using it, you bet they do! They just don't tell the world about it later on...
Nice looking dumb hardware is what we want...
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The general customer wants nice looking devices which connect to the internet. Philips has "tricked" them into buying this music device which you could build in a single ARM Linux board.
But hey, don't we want nice looking mp3 players? I know I would want my PS2 to play MP3's (which I've bought the Linux kit for...:-) Saves 1 noisy PC.
Post the Perl script everywhere, so we can still have it when Philips sues you;-)
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I'm not sure, I've looked at wikipedia and some other links from there on, but all state that Gallium's toxicity isn't established, and should be handled with care. I sure hope they've checked their facts, before some kid takes it apart and starts playing with the T-1000 inside his videocard.
Did you know the Dutch are allready paying this type of tax on Cassete tapes, DVD-ROMS and CD-ROMS? Effectively, if you are just using DVD's as storage space, part of your money still goes to the movie industry (or so the dutch taxes make you beleive). I guess they still don't have enough money, so now they'll blindly start taxing storage space as well. In a few years you could actually be paying taxes on your harddrive because you potentially could store music or movies on it. It is allready going there. On top of it all, the music industry is trying to cripple discs to keep you from copying them, and by doing so also keep some customers from actually playing the music. Also: Legal movies have 3 minutes of warning screens before the thing starts. Most illegal copies are stripped of these screens (thank god) and start immediately. "Nice way" to reward people for buying legal DVD's... And do you like the WMA DRM scheme where you can only play the music you bought on just the PC with which you bought it? You own it, and still you can't play it It just shows how much feeling the dutch governement, and the music/video industry has with the real world... Meanwhile, the players which take smartmedia cards or alike are the way to avoid these taxes, until Apple starts selling iPods and their drivers seperately: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000 04RG6K/102-6743478-3663353?v=glance
Do you want your serach queries to be on (inter)national television? Think not. Small step to adding ip-addresses to it:
"The people in L.A. are searching for Banananas, whereas people in Amsterdam are searching for Strawberries. Detailed street statistics follow."
Well, it was time you stopped feeling like God. I think so called "geeks" have been hiding the simplicity of their jobs to their customers long enough now.
It's just a job. Get over it.
Don't get me wrong, I like my job as a programmer, but I want to be thanked for the REAL accomplishments, not for just entering a room.
I mean, come on. Is there really a patent which describes an excentric weight on an axle of a motor? It almost sounds as stupid as the amazon's shopping cart licence thing: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/print/?TYPE=story&AT=391474 08-39020372t-10000024c
Isn't it time that the patent rules are updated so that patents only can contain "sensible" and "specific" text, including maybe the marketing intent of the device/product/idea? With millions and millions of patents, it's hard to do business without infringing any one of them.
Besides, why is Immersion comming with this just as they "happen" to need money? The first foce feedback controller by Sony was sold before 2000, why didn't Immersion do it then? I'd say they're too late.
If you can't do business properly, don't sue others for the fact that they can.
Think. What's next month? Do you think Sony will sell PS3 even if they had it? PS2 is still running strong.
The trick is to stay with the things you know inside your company, and sell the new stuff to your customers.
Low "innovation" costs, high profits.
Added benifit: When customers like and adopt it, you can follow later on, having your customers discover problems so you can circumvent them.
"Plain text" is the standard I beleive in... ;-)
War has no ethic. Wether it's free or not, if some party thinks he's going to win using it, you bet they do! They just don't tell the world about it later on...
The general customer wants nice looking devices which connect to the internet. Philips has "tricked" them into buying this music device which you could build in a single ARM Linux board.
But hey, don't we want nice looking mp3 players? I know I would want my PS2 to play MP3's (which I've bought the Linux kit for... :-) Saves 1 noisy PC.
Post the Perl script everywhere, so we can still have it when Philips sues you ;-)