Atari was a licensee (sic) of Unix System V. directly from AT&T when they wanted to offer a Unix option for the TT030 computer systems (Motorola 68030 based). Perhaps someone should check with the current Atari (ie. Infogrames) to see what the terms of that license was. Maybe Atari/Infogrames could transfer the rights to another company, and they could sell a Unix System V. package with Linux bundled with it dirt cheap and thereby beat SCO at its own game just in case IBM and Red Hat lose... The end user would actually be buying a Unix System V. package and all the IP rights with it for certainly a lot less than the direct $699 SCO bribe...
If I recall correctly (no pun intended since I live in California), the SEC nailed several Nvidia employees over insider trading regarding selling their options after Microsoft announced Nvidia had won the contract for the important chips in the Xbox. Considering SCO's behavior is far more blatent (and from the top of the corporate pyramid versus a few peons) than Nvidia's, I would bet money the SEC will throw the book at them [SCO]. I'd also bet on it since so many high tech companies have historically been the allies of the Republican Party (unlike Apple Computer), crucial for getting the Administration to act on anything (or not to act as in Microsoft)... Finally, since the Defense Department seems so gung-ho on Linux for security purposes these days, I don't think Uncle Sam is going to be happy shelling out $699+ per CPU just so SCO can make a profit off someone else's intellectual property especially when the OS is supposed to be free...
weird, but highly informative. I thought the intention of the PAL standard was to match motion-pictures at the same frame rate, not to beat it by 1fps... So I guess the moral of the story is if you have a 1080i HDTV, you really want to purchase PAL region DVDs to get the highest resolution possible... So, what I'd really like to know is if Doctor Who looks sharper on PAL than it does in NTSC...:)
Commodore was officially an international corporation whose headquarters was in the Bahamas for tax purposes (and avoiding shareholders at the annual meeting). That had been happening long before Commodore's eventual demise...
Mexico will extradite (sic) Americans accused of crimes in the U.S. What the SCO executives need to do is flee to a country like Greece, Italy, or if any of them [SCO executives] are Jewish, to Israel... In those countries, they'd be tried in the courts there, and at most, imprisoned in their homes there... However, if they are captured, I vote to send the SCO executives to Camp X-Ray...
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Hopefully the future HD DVD standard will be 1080p, NOT 1080i. What really chaps my hide is the fact that digital HDTV resolution is no better (in terms of lines) than the various flavors of analog HDTV the Japanese wanted us to adopt in the mid-80s (MUSE system, anyone?). AT&T and Zenith both developed systems that had 2000+ lines of resolution in the early 90s but somehow we got stuck with the lower resolutions *standards* (this was before the divesture of AT&T's hardware company that became Lucent and before the Zimmerman [?] family ruined Zenith with endless shareholder battles before the company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Korea's Goldstar). It was probably a mix on storage capacity as well as Hollywood being very wary of any standard that came too close to the resolution of virgin film stock as well as companies like Compaq pushing for PCTV. They'll surely want to sell us HD DVD versions and then 10 years later sell us HD2 DVDs with even higher resolution specs...
As far as I know, PAL broadcast standards top out at 625i at 24fps. Of course, actual broadcasting is far less than that. NTSC tops out at 525 but the standard is 480i tops at 30fps. And from all the gripes I've heard, DVDs encoded for PAL also only top out at 480p.
Without a doubt, my favorite non-Atari Inc. coin-op of all time...the soundtrack, the graphics, the gameplay. Much better than Galaxian, Galaga, or Gorf... I would follow that up with any Pac-Man arcade machine with the "Zoom" button installed. Or that rip-off game called "Pop-Man" (Pac-Man with a corn pipe like Popeye)... I played that in Arizona (or New Mexico?) at a *7-to-11" convenience store when I was 8 or so... Ode to the glory days of Chuck E. Cheese and Pistol Pete's Pizza...
Nah. Commercial software should take frequent breaks and then your screen is then inundated with video of various software personalities asking you to contribute money to their cause. You know, like how PBS does it! And then after awhile, you get tired of watching the video so you send in your donation via PayPal and then the video stops...
Go even further back in history. Radio. RCA was the "Radio Corporation of America." RCA got its big break with a very generous contract to provide the U.S. Navy with (what else?) radios...
Uhm....America's Army is a cheap form of recruitment...think of the millions of dollars the military spends on commercials people zap through on their TiVos and VCRs, or they simply visit the restroom when the commercial is playing. It is a far better allocation of recruitment dollars to spend the money on developing a highly addictive videogame that is pro-military than mindless commercials... Now if only the Air Force would bring out a decent multiplayer flight sim on some of their fighters since the flight sim market has collapsed... Falcon VI anyone?
The McDonald's trademark itself is weak in the eyes of the court. McDonald's in Europe has been very aggressive over its trademark, suing all sorts of businesses that have "Mc" in them. This outraged Lord McDonald, the clan chief of the McDonald clan, whose family has operated a restaurant called McDonald's since the late 1700s. Lord McDonald then sued McDonald's. I laughed so hard when I saw that on 60 Minutes a few years back. If anyone has any updated history on this case, I'd definitely appreciate an update... Although I'm sure whatever verdict will eventually be appealed to the European Court of Justice...
People on Slashdot were so quick to bring up Cliff Clavin, but nobody seems to remember that other famous USPS employee, Newmann from Seinfeld. In the last season, (I believe it was the "Backwards" episode) Newmann revealed to a supermodel the secret that Zip Codes were meaningless...:)
Did they *privatise* Royal Mail yet? There hasn't been a quasi-serious move to privatize the USPS since the Reagan Administration. And yes, I realize that the USPS is actually considered a corporation, but when I say "privatize", I mean the U.S. Government spinning it off and no more revenue going towards it, and abolishing its monopoly. Why they deserve to receive $20 million to give a facelift to the USPS logo or actually run commericals and sponsor Lance Armstrong is beyond me. It boggles my mind how many Slashdotters complain about spam when the real inconvenience is physical junkmail delivered by the USPS and telemarketers... If only I could press a delete button and be rid of both of those groups of communication...
If the RIAA and SCO were Daleks, we could just lock them in a basement somewhere since they cannot climb staircases (I'm ignoring the Sylvester McCoy episode)... The more appropriate analogy would be that both of these entities are Cybermen, and all we'd then have to do is inject them with gold dust to wipe them out. Wouldn't that be fitting? (or stuff Mr. McBride and Ms. Rosen with all the SCO stock certificates and pirated CDs)...
Its an old quote from the classic British sci-fi comedy series *Red Dwarf* (now on DVD)... No, it means that 6,000 P.E. teachers have the collective I.Q. of 6,000.
Exactly how was this comment "flamebait"? It was a statement of fact. The Gateway MP3 player is cheaper than the iPods (and other hard drive solutions), but not by much, and it obviously lacks a hard drive. To me, that is not *flamebait.* *Flamebait* would be me going off and saying "Gateway has sucked ever since they decided to be a Dell *me-too* operation in being Intel exclusive and offering unimaginative PC products." Or "when Ted Waitt first returned to the helm of the company, he said Gateway's problem was having too large of a product line and he'd return the company to profitability by focusing on its core business - selling computers...but that didn't work so Mr. Ted recently pulled a 180 and decided Gateway's problem really was that it focused too much on PCs and decided to expand into consumer electronics to return Gateway to profitability." See, that's more of a *flamebait* comment...even if it is accurate about the company's strategies over the past few years...
SuperKendall, what's the price on the lamps for those projectors when they burn out? I had no idea Gateway's plasma TV's resolution was less than 480p. I was under the impression that most plasma tv's were capable of 1080i at this point in the ballgame... I have an acquaintance who works for Gateway in Denver, and he claims the plasma tv's won't even work at their altitude...
Print out the source code; modify it line by line; set up a corporation in Nevada; claim your close relative wrote it all as an employee and then send it to the Copyright Office to copyright it. Check and see if your former company had filed for any patents on the original product. If not, file for patents. If the creditors won't transfer the rights to the sourcecode cheaply to you, just wait to see who they sell the products to and then inform them your Nevada corporation owns related patents. Or you could go the altruistic route and GPL your modified code and then in 15 years we could have a repeat over the SCO/Linux war... Perhaps your former company's management team were either enlightened (or stupid) and they didn't copyright/patent anything...you could be the next Lotus to their Visicalc... or MSDOS to C/PM... This is just idle speculation on my part and no way should it be construed as a viable business model I advocate, patent or not on the model...:)
I have a feeling the Apple Store employees are going to have a field day over this. Ugly, underpowered and overpriced. Kinda makes you wonder about the quality level of that Gateway Plasma TV...
...following that logic, the Linux community should ensure that Java applets won't work on Linux based machines... Or, perhaps the Linux community should use something else besides OpenGL because heaven forbid something gets ported over to OS X from it...
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Atari was a licensee (sic) of Unix System V. directly from AT&T when they wanted to offer a Unix option for the TT030 computer systems (Motorola 68030 based). Perhaps someone should check with the current Atari (ie. Infogrames) to see what the terms of that license was. Maybe Atari/Infogrames could transfer the rights to another company, and they could sell a Unix System V. package with Linux bundled with it dirt cheap and thereby beat SCO at its own game just in case IBM and Red Hat lose... The end user would actually be buying a Unix System V. package and all the IP rights with it for certainly a lot less than the direct $699 SCO bribe...
If I recall correctly (no pun intended since I live in California), the SEC nailed several Nvidia employees over insider trading regarding selling their options after Microsoft announced Nvidia had won the contract for the important chips in the Xbox. Considering SCO's behavior is far more blatent (and from the top of the corporate pyramid versus a few peons) than Nvidia's, I would bet money the SEC will throw the book at them [SCO]. I'd also bet on it since so many high tech companies have historically been the allies of the Republican Party (unlike Apple Computer), crucial for getting the Administration to act on anything (or not to act as in Microsoft)... Finally, since the Defense Department seems so gung-ho on Linux for security purposes these days, I don't think Uncle Sam is going to be happy shelling out $699+ per CPU just so SCO can make a profit off someone else's intellectual property especially when the OS is supposed to be free...
Although he answers to the name "Jared" (the antithesis of "Jared the Subway Guy")... you can see him at: http://www.theredmonkey.com
weird, but highly informative. I thought the intention of the PAL standard was to match motion-pictures at the same frame rate, not to beat it by 1fps... So I guess the moral of the story is if you have a 1080i HDTV, you really want to purchase PAL region DVDs to get the highest resolution possible... So, what I'd really like to know is if Doctor Who looks sharper on PAL than it does in NTSC... :)
Commodore was officially an international corporation whose headquarters was in the Bahamas for tax purposes (and avoiding shareholders at the annual meeting). That had been happening long before Commodore's eventual demise...
Mexico will extradite (sic) Americans accused of crimes in the U.S. What the SCO executives need to do is flee to a country like Greece, Italy, or if any of them [SCO executives] are Jewish, to Israel... In those countries, they'd be tried in the courts there, and at most, imprisoned in their homes there... However, if they are captured, I vote to send the SCO executives to Camp X-Ray...
Hopefully the future HD DVD standard will be 1080p, NOT 1080i. What really chaps my hide is the fact that digital HDTV resolution is no better (in terms of lines) than the various flavors of analog HDTV the Japanese wanted us to adopt in the mid-80s (MUSE system, anyone?). AT&T and Zenith both developed systems that had 2000+ lines of resolution in the early 90s but somehow we got stuck with the lower resolutions *standards* (this was before the divesture of AT&T's hardware company that became Lucent and before the Zimmerman [?] family ruined Zenith with endless shareholder battles before the company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Korea's Goldstar). It was probably a mix on storage capacity as well as Hollywood being very wary of any standard that came too close to the resolution of virgin film stock as well as companies like Compaq pushing for PCTV. They'll surely want to sell us HD DVD versions and then 10 years later sell us HD2 DVDs with even higher resolution specs...
As far as I know, PAL broadcast standards top out at 625i at 24fps. Of course, actual broadcasting is far less than that. NTSC tops out at 525 but the standard is 480i tops at 30fps. And from all the gripes I've heard, DVDs encoded for PAL also only top out at 480p.
Without a doubt, my favorite non-Atari Inc. coin-op of all time...the soundtrack, the graphics, the gameplay. Much better than Galaxian, Galaga, or Gorf... I would follow that up with any Pac-Man arcade machine with the "Zoom" button installed. Or that rip-off game called "Pop-Man" (Pac-Man with a corn pipe like Popeye)... I played that in Arizona (or New Mexico?) at a *7-to-11" convenience store when I was 8 or so... Ode to the glory days of Chuck E. Cheese and Pistol Pete's Pizza...
Nah. Commercial software should take frequent breaks and then your screen is then inundated with video of various software personalities asking you to contribute money to their cause. You know, like how PBS does it! And then after awhile, you get tired of watching the video so you send in your donation via PayPal and then the video stops...
Go even further back in history. Radio. RCA was the "Radio Corporation of America." RCA got its big break with a very generous contract to provide the U.S. Navy with (what else?) radios...
Uhm....America's Army is a cheap form of recruitment...think of the millions of dollars the military spends on commercials people zap through on their TiVos and VCRs, or they simply visit the restroom when the commercial is playing. It is a far better allocation of recruitment dollars to spend the money on developing a highly addictive videogame that is pro-military than mindless commercials... Now if only the Air Force would bring out a decent multiplayer flight sim on some of their fighters since the flight sim market has collapsed... Falcon VI anyone?
The McDonald's trademark itself is weak in the eyes of the court. McDonald's in Europe has been very aggressive over its trademark, suing all sorts of businesses that have "Mc" in them. This outraged Lord McDonald, the clan chief of the McDonald clan, whose family has operated a restaurant called McDonald's since the late 1700s. Lord McDonald then sued McDonald's. I laughed so hard when I saw that on 60 Minutes a few years back. If anyone has any updated history on this case, I'd definitely appreciate an update... Although I'm sure whatever verdict will eventually be appealed to the European Court of Justice...
People on Slashdot were so quick to bring up Cliff Clavin, but nobody seems to remember that other famous USPS employee, Newmann from Seinfeld. In the last season, (I believe it was the "Backwards" episode) Newmann revealed to a supermodel the secret that Zip Codes were meaningless... :)
Did they *privatise* Royal Mail yet? There hasn't been a quasi-serious move to privatize the USPS since the Reagan Administration. And yes, I realize that the USPS is actually considered a corporation, but when I say "privatize", I mean the U.S. Government spinning it off and no more revenue going towards it, and abolishing its monopoly. Why they deserve to receive $20 million to give a facelift to the USPS logo or actually run commericals and sponsor Lance Armstrong is beyond me. It boggles my mind how many Slashdotters complain about spam when the real inconvenience is physical junkmail delivered by the USPS and telemarketers... If only I could press a delete button and be rid of both of those groups of communication...
If the RIAA and SCO were Daleks, we could just lock them in a basement somewhere since they cannot climb staircases (I'm ignoring the Sylvester McCoy episode)... The more appropriate analogy would be that both of these entities are Cybermen, and all we'd then have to do is inject them with gold dust to wipe them out. Wouldn't that be fitting? (or stuff Mr. McBride and Ms. Rosen with all the SCO stock certificates and pirated CDs)...
Its an old quote from the classic British sci-fi comedy series *Red Dwarf* (now on DVD)... No, it means that 6,000 P.E. teachers have the collective I.Q. of 6,000.
Only Tivo Series1 has a PowerPC processor. The Series2 uses a 200mhz non-PowerPC processor...
Exactly how was this comment "flamebait"? It was a statement of fact. The Gateway MP3 player is cheaper than the iPods (and other hard drive solutions), but not by much, and it obviously lacks a hard drive. To me, that is not *flamebait.* *Flamebait* would be me going off and saying "Gateway has sucked ever since they decided to be a Dell *me-too* operation in being Intel exclusive and offering unimaginative PC products." Or "when Ted Waitt first returned to the helm of the company, he said Gateway's problem was having too large of a product line and he'd return the company to profitability by focusing on its core business - selling computers...but that didn't work so Mr. Ted recently pulled a 180 and decided Gateway's problem really was that it focused too much on PCs and decided to expand into consumer electronics to return Gateway to profitability." See, that's more of a *flamebait* comment...even if it is accurate about the company's strategies over the past few years...
technically, wouldn't he be Clippy's grandson?
SuperKendall, what's the price on the lamps for those projectors when they burn out? I had no idea Gateway's plasma TV's resolution was less than 480p. I was under the impression that most plasma tv's were capable of 1080i at this point in the ballgame... I have an acquaintance who works for Gateway in Denver, and he claims the plasma tv's won't even work at their altitude...
Print out the source code; modify it line by line; set up a corporation in Nevada; claim your close relative wrote it all as an employee and then send it to the Copyright Office to copyright it. Check and see if your former company had filed for any patents on the original product. If not, file for patents. If the creditors won't transfer the rights to the sourcecode cheaply to you, just wait to see who they sell the products to and then inform them your Nevada corporation owns related patents. Or you could go the altruistic route and GPL your modified code and then in 15 years we could have a repeat over the SCO/Linux war... Perhaps your former company's management team were either enlightened (or stupid) and they didn't copyright/patent anything...you could be the next Lotus to their Visicalc... or MSDOS to C/PM... This is just idle speculation on my part and no way should it be construed as a viable business model I advocate, patent or not on the model... :)
I have a feeling the Apple Store employees are going to have a field day over this. Ugly, underpowered and overpriced. Kinda makes you wonder about the quality level of that Gateway Plasma TV...
$666.66 was the MSRP on the Apple I computer...just thought I'd throw that bit of trivia into the ether...
...following that logic, the Linux community should ensure that Java applets won't work on Linux based machines... Or, perhaps the Linux community should use something else besides OpenGL because heaven forbid something gets ported over to OS X from it...