A tree sprouts from the forest floor and grows to majestic height. For awhile it stands tall and massive, blocking the sunlight from other sprouts. Then eventually it falls over and becomes a log.
You forgot the part where the Native American comes by and sets fire to the trees so that the excess shade is gone and the grasses can grow again thereby bringing back the wild life they hunt... In that light, Ford is a giant Native American wielding a very large torch...
How many gameboy clones have we seen come and disappear, doomed to sit in the back pages of children's catalogs?
Excuse me, but what handhelds are you pointing to as "GameBoy clones"? Surely not the Atari Lynx, the TurboExpress, or the Sega GameGear...all of them were superior to the GameBoy in one way or another. Can you reverse the GameBoy to better accommodate left-handed players like the Atari Lynx did back in 1989? How about backlighting? That didn't become standard in the GameBoy Advanced until, what, 2002? Try 1989 for the Atari Lynx. Yes, cloning indeed...
Speaking as someone who works for a very large government institution, I think the only way to get off the Microsoft train is to go with Macs. And I'm not being a troll when I say this. #1, the computer and the OS come from the same supplier. This is where Linux fails because none of the reputable hardware companies will offer real support for the OS if you run into troubles; nor will they indemnify the institution from the frivolous claims by the likes of SCO. If you buy the HP line, what are you going to have to do, install Mandrake on your own? Won't you still be paying the Microsoft tax unless you buy the PCs from Mitec, a mom-and-pop whitebox store, or purchase a Dell line with that DOS'ish OS on a bundled disc? Or, if you want support, you have to pay extra to Red Hat, IBM, or Sun? #2 the Microsoft apps won't run natively on Linux. You have to run Wine or Codeweavers software, and I'm sure if a government agency does that, Microsoft will be on the phone with the various elected officials to start investigations on software purchases as well as EULA violations (and a BSA audit wouldn't be too far down the road too). I've been thinking about all of this because we run Win2K on Dell P3 800mhz machines, and its time to start upgrading. But each of these concerns is enough to kill any suggestion for switching to Linux, especially when everyone who has a hand in deciding IT issues has MCSE certification to justify their jobs. Whereas if an agency becomes a Mac OS X shop, you have the Microsoft Office apps, but the hardware upfront costs more. Granted, you can shave off 1/3rd of your IT staff if you go Mac, but the political party that would be most interested in saving government monies in such a manner (through layoffs and eliminating redundancies) would probably not be inclined to help Apple out since Jobs and others are left-of-center in their political affiliations, not to mention Al Gore is on their board of directors even if it is in a ceremonial position... And the taxpayer suffers, not to mention us employees that have to use this *poodoo*...
"You truly are north american;) There are cars sold in europe with half the Horse Power (think Smart or Lupo)."
Hey, if Europeans want to spend the same amount of money on a car as an American and get half the horsepower, then it sounds like most on the Continent (and dare I utter the term "rip-off Britain"?) are more than *penny wise/pound foolish*. Just for the record, if our national government had the political courage to adopt California's smog laws universally throughout the States (and I'm not even advocating Smog Check II levels), we'd probably qualify for the Kyoto Treaty targets without renegotiating; even more so if our government made SUVs meet the smog requirements of automobiles vs. light truck classification.
To date, the automanufacturers have offered *krap* in terms of hybrids in the American market. If you buy one today, you get underpowered things like 3-cylinder Hondas that look, for a lack of better terms, butt-ugly. It really annoys me to the core because having been an undergraduate student at UC Davis back in 1996, I saw better functioning hybrid vehicles than have been brought to market to date. In 1996, the engineering program at UC Davis (under funding from the U.S. Air Force of all sources) had a Ford Taurus that featured the typical 6 cylinder engine combined with hybrid technology that offered 66Mpg without sacrificing horsepower. 66Mpg in such a large vehicle as the Taurus (a gunboat of a car). Compare that with the ugly shoebox designs from Honda and Toyota and they don't even come close to 66Mpg yet they have small wheels and *wimpy* engines. What gives? Talk about suppressing technology! Perhaps VW can bring to market a hybrid Beetle that will capture the attention of the general public. Or perhaps we can hope the hybrid 2005 Ford Escape won't disappoint. Just think about the fact that the Geo Metro when first introduced scored 59/65 Mpg and quickly dropped in fuel efficiency as the years ticked away. And that wasn't even a hybrid...
Not long ago, Apple came close to buying Universal Music from Vivendi Universal. Perhaps its time Apple makes a serious attempt at acquiring EMI wholly. The big music companies will inevitably consolidate again, quite possibly Warner Music and BMG if enough European Commissioners can be paid off this time 'round. With Warner/BMG together, that cuts out EMI's two choice merger partners. This whole lawsuit is an attempt by Apple Records/EMI to get a stake in future proceeds Apple makes off iTunes because they've been the only company with enough moxi (not to be confused with the PVR platform) to create a sensible commercial download distribution model. Although there could be a complication in the future. If Apple acquires EMI/majority stake in AppleCorps., Apple will still have to deal with Sony over their eventual ownership of the Beatles publishing rights. Sony probably doesn't have a strong desire to aid Apple in any endeavor as of this point...
the middle one was codenamed "Carl Sagan," with the other two being the "Cold Fusion" and "Piltdown Man" - so the three were named after a scientific fraud, another scientific fraud, and... Carl Sagan.
You will not get me to believe Cold Fusion was a fraud. That's the oil industry putting crude in your mouth...:) Plus, Hollywood is on my side...did you ever watch the big-screen version of *The Saint*? Cold Fusion is the choice of the new generation...:)
This occured long before the Carl Sagan scandal. What a putz! I'd be honored to have someone CODENAME a project after me (not a marketable name, a CODENAME).
Would you really want your name to be the codename on an eMachines computer? How about a 2004 Yugo? Or even better. How about your name being used for a state-of-the-art tampon?
"As long as the devices talk reliably and with low enough latency to the receivers, why would the name of the technology matter? The only "advantage" i can think of with Bluetooth is that it can communicate with a whole range of different devices, but that just doesn't make sense for a keyboard and mouse -- are you going to control your cell phone from your mouse? What, exactly, does Bluetooth give you that other wireless technologies don't?"
Hi, Art. The trend for simple input devices is to use Bluetooth to reduce clutter. It is an open-standard, unlike a lot of proprietary RF based solutions. If all the input device companies used Bluetooth properly, then if you wanted to mix and match items such as keyboards and mice or even joysticks from different manufacturers, then you wouldn't have to waste all your available USB ports on the plug-in receivers. This is what you'd currently experience using regular RF wireless solutions from Logitech, Microsoft, and the rest. I don't want that, do you? Nor do I want Microsoft restricting their Bluetooth keyboard and mice solutions to only working with their own receiver(s). It should be as simple as on the (forgive me for bringing it up) Mac platform; for the existing Macs that lack built in Bluetooth receivers, you simply plug in the D-Link USB Bluetooth dongle and then your mobile phone and all other devices communicate through that. And of course, Apple just announced iMacs with Bluetooth built in standard. Hopefully the PC market will follow...
As for crisscrossing signals with your Palm PDA (is that for hot-sync or for web browsing?), I just don't think that would be an issue. If that were to happen, then I guess you'd have to get a Wifi card to separate the signals...
And to continue, look how long AOL has bankrolled Mozilla development (up until recently). They [AOL] helped get TiVo out the door. They've [AOL] paid for projects to make Linux more end-user friendly (although that failed). So how exactly is AOL bad?
AOL is Sony's preferred online partner for whatever partnership they signed almost a year and a half ago. This is contingent upon Sony bringing out the hard-drive for the PS2. I'm sure it entails having a branded AOL Instant Messenger bundled as well as a web browser based upon the Gecko engine. Personally, I'm tired of everyone bashing AOL. AOL is the company that has consistently beat Microsoft. In that retrospect, it should be rewarded kudos from the/. community. Broadband access kills the ping argument for having AOL as your ISP anyway...
"I used then for hours on end every day to draw under Degas Elite and Spectrum 512. I'd say that's more heavy usage than apps and gaming. Sure they were okay to do this and that, take your hand off it and back on it, but for heavy use, they weren't adequate."
If you were using Degas Elite and Spectrum 512, why weren't you using a Waacom graphics tablet? I forget the name of the Electronic Arts paint program, but several Sacramento programmers ported it over to the ST... (it was originally an Amiga program, was that Deluxe Paint? I forget)...
...going to Infogrames/Atari and asking them to license the Atari Lynx. So much time has gone by that the whole design chipwise could've been compressed into a single modern chip which would've cut the costs down significantly. They could've added the chip to several of their mobile phone offerings and then spent some money into beefing up the networked games for the Lynx so that they'd work over the mobile network to find other players to compete against. Say what you want but *Todd's Adventure in Slime World* was a great game when you were playing against 7 other players. The same goes for *Battlewheels,* *Warbirds* and several other titles. The problem with the Atari Lynx was, compared to the Gameboy, it was difficult finding other friends/acquaintances that owned them so you could benefit from the network gaming unless several members of a local Atari Computer Users Group also owned Lynxes (like S.T.A.R. here in Sacramento did). But with the compressed Lynx chip spread over the whole Nokia mobile phone product range, that would never be a problem.
"They were uncomfortable (square shape), the buttons felt light and cheap (and they were), the plastic eroded with sweat in no time, the button switches would fail over time, the rollers would clog up more and more often (well, okay, that's all mechanical mice), and using it long enough to draw made my hand stuffy and hot."
Funny. I had my 1040ST in 86 and I used it daily until 1992. I used the same mouse throughout that time, both for applications and gaming. The plastic on mine never eroded, nor on any of my friends' machines. The only maintenance I ever did on it was clean the mouse roller...
I think its time Logitech brought out a decent wireless mouse that uses Bluetooth and does not require its own branded USB-to-Bluetooth adapter like the Microsoft products. And while we're at it, a Bluetooth based wireless keyboard that matches the Microsoft Elite series, again without requiring the use of their own branded adapter.
"I thought the GEM desktop and mouse for my Atari were pretty damn cool...even though they didn't really do much, made me feel like I was on a "big computer"
Yeah, isn't it scary that the PC market didn't catch up to the Atari ST in terms of GUI until Windows95? 1 megs of RAM with a functioning GUI on a great microprocessor with great graphics and sound in 1986. And I would refute your idea that the Ataris didn't do much; they were big machines for their time...
"The Atari ST mouse your favorite mouse all categories? Tell me : you don't happen to love the ZX81 keyboard too by any chance?"
I bet you've never even used an Atari ST mouse. The Atari ST was not a contemporary machine from the era of the ZX81. That would be the Atari 400. Contemporaries of the Atari ST would be the Apple Macintosh, the Commodore Amiga, and a little later down the road, the Apple IIGS. You might try some of these websites for a historical checkup:
http://www.atari-history.com
or
http://www.atari.st
"Theres no contradiction here. It's true that Europeans can't emigrate unless they can show they're more intelligent, productive, hard-working, open minded, better educated and just more damn sexy than Americans."
I assume you are speaking of Monica Bellucci, and if so, I agree with you 100%. Monica my dear, if you are reading this, please come to the U.S. Someone in the Administration will invalidate your marriage to Vincent Cassell on the grounds of a humanitarian hardship and then we can live in bliss... That's my version of The Matrix...:)
Well, duh... As a dutchman it's also not possible for me to relocate to the USA. Unless I prove that there's no way my skills can be found in the States.
What are you talking about? Europeans are everwhere in America, and I don't mean white-bread European-descended Americans (European Americans) either. They are in the universities and in the job market. The U.S. is not the problematic party in terms of open job opportunities. It is the European Union's cradle-to-the-grave mentality for their job market that prohibits better agreements. In truth, there should be free trade and free job opportunities between the U.S., our subsidiary named Canada, and the European Union. While Britain would most likely sign on in a heartbeat (the Scottish National Party would complain though), the other backward viewing countries, ahem "member (nation) states" like Germany and France (especially) wouldn't.
"By analogy it's as if the Allies had decided to proscute individual Axis soldiers instead of the Nazi leaders that were actually held accountable."
Ah, you mean like how the U.S. Government treated ex-Confederate soldiers after the Civil War? The ex-soldiers had to sign Loyalty Oaths and couldn't vote for 12 years. Or, even better, how the U.S. Government exiled the Loyalist families after the American Revolutionary War, confiscated all their property and auctioned it off, never to make reparations even though the government stated it would by signing the Treaty of Paris that granted American Independence. 200+ years is a lot of interest on that debt... Wait, what were we discussing again? Oh yes, Damage Studios...:0
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A tree sprouts from the forest floor and grows to majestic height. For awhile it stands tall and massive, blocking the sunlight from other sprouts. Then eventually it falls over and becomes a log.
You forgot the part where the Native American comes by and sets fire to the trees so that the excess shade is gone and the grasses can grow again thereby bringing back the wild life they hunt... In that light, Ford is a giant Native American wielding a very large torch...
I love being right... :)
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Check this out:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid
and then this one (although AOL Time Warner would be stupid to go ahead with this):
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid
Step 3) Release game
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You forgot a step:
Step 4) PROFIT!!!
Say what you want, but they have a better track record than the Bitmap Bros. in releasing chipsets...
How many gameboy clones have we seen come and disappear, doomed to sit in the back pages of children's catalogs?
Excuse me, but what handhelds are you pointing to as "GameBoy clones"? Surely not the Atari Lynx, the TurboExpress, or the Sega GameGear...all of them were superior to the GameBoy in one way or another. Can you reverse the GameBoy to better accommodate left-handed players like the Atari Lynx did back in 1989? How about backlighting? That didn't become standard in the GameBoy Advanced until, what, 2002? Try 1989 for the Atari Lynx. Yes, cloning indeed...
Speaking as someone who works for a very large government institution, I think the only way to get off the Microsoft train is to go with Macs. And I'm not being a troll when I say this. #1, the computer and the OS come from the same supplier. This is where Linux fails because none of the reputable hardware companies will offer real support for the OS if you run into troubles; nor will they indemnify the institution from the frivolous claims by the likes of SCO. If you buy the HP line, what are you going to have to do, install Mandrake on your own? Won't you still be paying the Microsoft tax unless you buy the PCs from Mitec, a mom-and-pop whitebox store, or purchase a Dell line with that DOS'ish OS on a bundled disc? Or, if you want support, you have to pay extra to Red Hat, IBM, or Sun? #2 the Microsoft apps won't run natively on Linux. You have to run Wine or Codeweavers software, and I'm sure if a government agency does that, Microsoft will be on the phone with the various elected officials to start investigations on software purchases as well as EULA violations (and a BSA audit wouldn't be too far down the road too). I've been thinking about all of this because we run Win2K on Dell P3 800mhz machines, and its time to start upgrading. But each of these concerns is enough to kill any suggestion for switching to Linux, especially when everyone who has a hand in deciding IT issues has MCSE certification to justify their jobs. Whereas if an agency becomes a Mac OS X shop, you have the Microsoft Office apps, but the hardware upfront costs more. Granted, you can shave off 1/3rd of your IT staff if you go Mac, but the political party that would be most interested in saving government monies in such a manner (through layoffs and eliminating redundancies) would probably not be inclined to help Apple out since Jobs and others are left-of-center in their political affiliations, not to mention Al Gore is on their board of directors even if it is in a ceremonial position... And the taxpayer suffers, not to mention us employees that have to use this *poodoo*...
"You truly are north american ;) There are cars sold in europe with half the Horse Power (think Smart or Lupo)."
Hey, if Europeans want to spend the same amount of money on a car as an American and get half the horsepower, then it sounds like most on the Continent (and dare I utter the term "rip-off Britain"?) are more than *penny wise/pound foolish*. Just for the record, if our national government had the political courage to adopt California's smog laws universally throughout the States (and I'm not even advocating Smog Check II levels), we'd probably qualify for the Kyoto Treaty targets without renegotiating; even more so if our government made SUVs meet the smog requirements of automobiles vs. light truck classification.
To date, the automanufacturers have offered *krap* in terms of hybrids in the American market. If you buy one today, you get underpowered things like 3-cylinder Hondas that look, for a lack of better terms, butt-ugly. It really annoys me to the core because having been an undergraduate student at UC Davis back in 1996, I saw better functioning hybrid vehicles than have been brought to market to date. In 1996, the engineering program at UC Davis (under funding from the U.S. Air Force of all sources) had a Ford Taurus that featured the typical 6 cylinder engine combined with hybrid technology that offered 66Mpg without sacrificing horsepower. 66Mpg in such a large vehicle as the Taurus (a gunboat of a car). Compare that with the ugly shoebox designs from Honda and Toyota and they don't even come close to 66Mpg yet they have small wheels and *wimpy* engines. What gives? Talk about suppressing technology! Perhaps VW can bring to market a hybrid Beetle that will capture the attention of the general public. Or perhaps we can hope the hybrid 2005 Ford Escape won't disappoint. Just think about the fact that the Geo Metro when first introduced scored 59/65 Mpg and quickly dropped in fuel efficiency as the years ticked away. And that wasn't even a hybrid...
Not long ago, Apple came close to buying Universal Music from Vivendi Universal. Perhaps its time Apple makes a serious attempt at acquiring EMI wholly. The big music companies will inevitably consolidate again, quite possibly Warner Music and BMG if enough European Commissioners can be paid off this time 'round. With Warner/BMG together, that cuts out EMI's two choice merger partners. This whole lawsuit is an attempt by Apple Records/EMI to get a stake in future proceeds Apple makes off iTunes because they've been the only company with enough moxi (not to be confused with the PVR platform) to create a sensible commercial download distribution model. Although there could be a complication in the future. If Apple acquires EMI/majority stake in AppleCorps., Apple will still have to deal with Sony over their eventual ownership of the Beatles publishing rights. Sony probably doesn't have a strong desire to aid Apple in any endeavor as of this point...
the middle one was codenamed "Carl Sagan," with the other two being the "Cold Fusion" and "Piltdown Man" - so the three were named after a scientific fraud, another scientific fraud, and... Carl Sagan.
:) Plus, Hollywood is on my side...did you ever watch the big-screen version of *The Saint*? Cold Fusion is the choice of the new generation... :)
You will not get me to believe Cold Fusion was a fraud. That's the oil industry putting crude in your mouth...
This occured long before the Carl Sagan scandal. What a putz! I'd be honored to have someone CODENAME a project after me (not a marketable name, a CODENAME).
Would you really want your name to be the codename on an eMachines computer? How about a 2004 Yugo? Or even better. How about your name being used for a state-of-the-art tampon?
"As long as the devices talk reliably and with low enough latency to the receivers, why would the name of the technology matter? The only "advantage" i can think of with Bluetooth is that it can communicate with a whole range of different devices, but that just doesn't make sense for a keyboard and mouse -- are you going to control your cell phone from your mouse? What, exactly, does Bluetooth give you that other wireless technologies don't?"
Hi, Art. The trend for simple input devices is to use Bluetooth to reduce clutter. It is an open-standard, unlike a lot of proprietary RF based solutions. If all the input device companies used Bluetooth properly, then if you wanted to mix and match items such as keyboards and mice or even joysticks from different manufacturers, then you wouldn't have to waste all your available USB ports on the plug-in receivers. This is what you'd currently experience using regular RF wireless solutions from Logitech, Microsoft, and the rest. I don't want that, do you? Nor do I want Microsoft restricting their Bluetooth keyboard and mice solutions to only working with their own receiver(s). It should be as simple as on the (forgive me for bringing it up) Mac platform; for the existing Macs that lack built in Bluetooth receivers, you simply plug in the D-Link USB Bluetooth dongle and then your mobile phone and all other devices communicate through that. And of course, Apple just announced iMacs with Bluetooth built in standard. Hopefully the PC market will follow...
As for crisscrossing signals with your Palm PDA (is that for hot-sync or for web browsing?), I just don't think that would be an issue. If that were to happen, then I guess you'd have to get a Wifi card to separate the signals...
And to continue, look how long AOL has bankrolled Mozilla development (up until recently). They [AOL] helped get TiVo out the door. They've [AOL] paid for projects to make Linux more end-user friendly (although that failed). So how exactly is AOL bad?
AOL is Sony's preferred online partner for whatever partnership they signed almost a year and a half ago. This is contingent upon Sony bringing out the hard-drive for the PS2. I'm sure it entails having a branded AOL Instant Messenger bundled as well as a web browser based upon the Gecko engine. Personally, I'm tired of everyone bashing AOL. AOL is the company that has consistently beat Microsoft. In that retrospect, it should be rewarded kudos from the /. community. Broadband access kills the ping argument for having AOL as your ISP anyway...
UnixWare? Ha ha ha...
"I used then for hours on end every day to draw under Degas Elite and Spectrum 512. I'd say that's more heavy usage than apps and gaming. Sure they were okay to do this and that, take your hand off it and back on it, but for heavy use, they weren't adequate."
If you were using Degas Elite and Spectrum 512, why weren't you using a Waacom graphics tablet? I forget the name of the Electronic Arts paint program, but several Sacramento programmers ported it over to the ST... (it was originally an Amiga program, was that Deluxe Paint? I forget)...
...going to Infogrames/Atari and asking them to license the Atari Lynx. So much time has gone by that the whole design chipwise could've been compressed into a single modern chip which would've cut the costs down significantly. They could've added the chip to several of their mobile phone offerings and then spent some money into beefing up the networked games for the Lynx so that they'd work over the mobile network to find other players to compete against. Say what you want but *Todd's Adventure in Slime World* was a great game when you were playing against 7 other players. The same goes for *Battlewheels,* *Warbirds* and several other titles. The problem with the Atari Lynx was, compared to the Gameboy, it was difficult finding other friends/acquaintances that owned them so you could benefit from the network gaming unless several members of a local Atari Computer Users Group also owned Lynxes (like S.T.A.R. here in Sacramento did). But with the compressed Lynx chip spread over the whole Nokia mobile phone product range, that would never be a problem.
"They were uncomfortable (square shape), the buttons felt light and cheap (and they were), the plastic eroded with sweat in no time, the button switches would fail over time, the rollers would clog up more and more often (well, okay, that's all mechanical mice), and using it long enough to draw made my hand stuffy and hot."
Funny. I had my 1040ST in 86 and I used it daily until 1992. I used the same mouse throughout that time, both for applications and gaming. The plastic on mine never eroded, nor on any of my friends' machines. The only maintenance I ever did on it was clean the mouse roller...
I think its time Logitech brought out a decent wireless mouse that uses Bluetooth and does not require its own branded USB-to-Bluetooth adapter like the Microsoft products. And while we're at it, a Bluetooth based wireless keyboard that matches the Microsoft Elite series, again without requiring the use of their own branded adapter.
"I thought the GEM desktop and mouse for my Atari were pretty damn cool...even though they didn't really do much, made me feel like I was on a "big computer"
Yeah, isn't it scary that the PC market didn't catch up to the Atari ST in terms of GUI until Windows95? 1 megs of RAM with a functioning GUI on a great microprocessor with great graphics and sound in 1986. And I would refute your idea that the Ataris didn't do much; they were big machines for their time...
"My favorite mouse was for the Swedish computer ABC800..."
Wasn't ABC really Atari Business Computers? They used that name for their PC clone business in several European countries in the early 90s...
"The Atari ST mouse your favorite mouse all categories? Tell me : you don't happen to love the ZX81 keyboard too by any chance?" I bet you've never even used an Atari ST mouse. The Atari ST was not a contemporary machine from the era of the ZX81. That would be the Atari 400. Contemporaries of the Atari ST would be the Apple Macintosh, the Commodore Amiga, and a little later down the road, the Apple IIGS. You might try some of these websites for a historical checkup: http://www.atari-history.com or http://www.atari.st
"Theres no contradiction here. It's true that Europeans can't emigrate unless they can show they're more intelligent, productive, hard-working, open minded, better educated and just more damn sexy than Americans."
:)
I assume you are speaking of Monica Bellucci, and if so, I agree with you 100%. Monica my dear, if you are reading this, please come to the U.S. Someone in the Administration will invalidate your marriage to Vincent Cassell on the grounds of a humanitarian hardship and then we can live in bliss... That's my version of The Matrix...
Well, duh... As a dutchman it's also not possible for me to relocate to the USA. Unless I prove that there's no way my skills can be found in the States.
What are you talking about? Europeans are everwhere in America, and I don't mean white-bread European-descended Americans (European Americans) either. They are in the universities and in the job market. The U.S. is not the problematic party in terms of open job opportunities. It is the European Union's cradle-to-the-grave mentality for their job market that prohibits better agreements. In truth, there should be free trade and free job opportunities between the U.S., our subsidiary named Canada, and the European Union. While Britain would most likely sign on in a heartbeat (the Scottish National Party would complain though), the other backward viewing countries, ahem "member (nation) states" like Germany and France (especially) wouldn't.
Truly? the US Military is refusing to hire ex-SCO employees? /me ducks :o)
Ha ha! Good one. Teaches me to quote instead of merely posting...
"By analogy it's as if the Allies had decided to proscute individual Axis soldiers instead of the Nazi leaders that were actually held accountable." Ah, you mean like how the U.S. Government treated ex-Confederate soldiers after the Civil War? The ex-soldiers had to sign Loyalty Oaths and couldn't vote for 12 years. Or, even better, how the U.S. Government exiled the Loyalist families after the American Revolutionary War, confiscated all their property and auctioned it off, never to make reparations even though the government stated it would by signing the Treaty of Paris that granted American Independence. 200+ years is a lot of interest on that debt... Wait, what were we discussing again? Oh yes, Damage Studios... :0