and to agree with you, and negate with the other response... Microsoft gives out money or helps poor schools/communities for these reasons: Stock pump pushing the product out further tax writeoff license renewal 5 years down the road.
either way they win, and the people they "help" pay up or are mere pawns and arent helped too much at all.
I was just thinking about this the other day. how, since SEGA (who have been the leg-up for innovation in the gaming industry) stopped making consoles, we havent seen any attempts towards any next-generation systems, only little plastic boxes that hook up to the TV.
Now the DS is coming out, which may start a future of systems that can easily replace the systems that hook to TV's (though I dont see it happening) but it throws the handheld market out of the repetitive 2d-only market. Now there's the PSP, but I honestly wouldnt want to buy that, it's neither innovation, or really something that can be called handheld or portable. all it is is a PSone with games that are incompatible with all of sony's other products. the only selling point is the mp3 player, which will attract the sony fanboys right away. but you can just buy a psone with a monitor, and you got a fairly portable system, with pre-existing games.
The DS will have its own games, yes, but they'll have their own unique features that take advantage of the DS' power, people may make fun of the DS, but it's a system with a hell lot more innovation and potential than anyone has done to date, and is something nintendo hasnt done before to date.
but with all that, we need more innovation, and the only real innovator left is nintendo, really.. Sony just copies the innovation and adds a tacky feature here or there to make it sell like hotcakes. and Microsoft.. well we dont need to go there. Sega and nintendo used to be the main innovators back in the 90's and now that Sega no longer makes systems, it's really up to nintendo now to do it, or else we're facing a dark age for console gaming. Because if Sony and Microsoft get their way with the industry, console gaming will mostly die for the most part. and any innovations will be minor details, nothing new, since they wouldnt have competition except each other, and they leech, so nothing would really come up. I say, go nintendo.
when HAVENT they been grabbing for straws? I thought this whole ordeal was about them grabbing for straws, really.
All they've been doing is litigating, lying, and trying to force IBM and others to reveal confidental information for no reason, and namely IBM's source code from its own technologies, so they can turn around and do what they've been accusing others of doing, or feed the data to M$ for future server software.
More than likely, they want this info because Microsoft wants it, all bundled up in a nice package for them to find out all the info on their competitors, then proceed to steal, or sue them, patent some of their ideas, or get their buddies in DC to pass some laws making their competitors existing features or activities highly illegal.
hence is why I chose nintendo titles, such as Metroid Prime, Smash Brothers melee, and the zelda games, because they're more straightfoward on their controls.
many other games have you do all these complicated menus to change weapons, or whatever, can be very annoying when you're getting your ass shot at.
you know how it showed that the US was the #1 spam country? well that's prolly not because they're located here, (and this has rolly been said before, but hey, let me say my thing) but becase of all the trojans that relay the spam to hide the original senders, namely ones based in China and India.
all that statistic showed a few months back is how incompetent the average US computer user really is. and also the fact we're also the majority computer users, and RR doesnt have good spam/trojan protection for its users.
the problem though is, China and India and other countries that allow this wont lift a finger to fix this, so it's gonna have to be the jobs of the isp's to install some aggressive anti-virus and spam filters (earthlink's are pretty strong when it comes to spam already) to start slowing the flow of spam. and up to corporate offices to install filters on their gateways to slow the flow of spam and virii.
That is the only think I can think of to slow the flow of spam from those countries, that and blacklisting.
ist he fact commercial distros will overshow the real distros that think of opensource and the user before money. They'll sell their product in stores, but will provide it free of charge also.
Sadly the way the US economy is, the commercial ones will be the representatives to linux to joe average and mr. common businessman
and they're not necessarily the best, they offer some good features, but are too narrow in what they provide, much like microsoft.
MEPIS and Mandrake 10.0 are the best for users IMHO, and if a company has some good techs on hand who want to get down and dirty to make some good low-end servers, use debian, and of course, give a nice donation:P
I've mentioned that before, he looks like the school yard blly who lies and uses deciet to get his way, and prolly was, he sued his way up in life, (bullying others to succeed where he would prolly fail without the courts) and now he has a great position for himself, pushing around the nerds and geeks he picked on in the industry, except now, it's more of an even match. where the geeks can push back harder, because unlike school, they can now use their intelligence to kick his ass. even if he uses lying decietful ways to fight them back.
I'm working for my CCNA, and this crap keeps happening? hell we learn how to make sure events like this dont happen.
the source code should have been on a server on a separate subnet than the rest of the network, or on its own private network that has no access to the internet..
putting internet access to anything is a sure fire way of getting hacked at one point or the other. so if you have really sensitive data, NEVER put it on a network that's connected to the net. it's like having a screen door on a vault filled with raw meat with a hungry bear on the other side.
this bullshit has been going on for years, my Science teacher worked for a contractor that dealed with NASA, he left because of the spending cuts even within the company he worked for, because of the NASA higher ups cutting money to the contractors, and within their own company, he pointed out the reason why columbia ended the way it did was because what he used to do was cut (checked the launch frame by frame for like 5 hours each day) to check for anything odd, and to monitor any mishaps in orbit.... there was even a time with columbia that it faced a threat like that, but the broken panel was ok enough to survive the landing.
So this is nothing new. NASA abuses its position in power to get a lot of cash for doing a whole lot of nothing.
because even though caldera might have litigation power from all this, all it did was make their credibility get worse, in the end, they're still a fucked company, a pawn for the big guys.
Honestly, that out of the three in question,CoLinux is the only one that is deserving of any credits. David is obviously a rip of crossover office and wine. and ignium linux doesnt have a running site anymore, which is kinda shady.
CoLinux is the only one that has tried to make any effort to prt one type of system to another out of the 3, though it might be in the exact opposite direction, they did it well. because now windows users can play with linux without having to repartition, and then do the hard stuff once they're familiar with the system.
all this is, is the european union trying to say "hey look america! we can be like you too!"
in all honesty, it is, they unite together to make their economy like the US', they try to make copyright laws like the US, and now they're trying to make us feel less superior by making a space program that will prolly never reach orbit.
FUD? I think so.
honestly, as much as europe hates the US, they sure like to become like us in a lot of ways.
Nintendo is the Apple of the gaming industry, might get pushed under the rug and trampled on and often hated,and has proprietary hardware/software but manages to survive regardless.
I like my gamecube. and the games and the quality of the graphics, I also like the fact it can play GBA games with an addon that connects to the bottom of a system (wouldnt that make it a gamesquare?) (and there is a 3rd party connector that connects to the memcard port) and the fact it can go online, and can be portable itself (can hook up in the the car, and you can get a little lcd monitor addon) makes it a winner.
I want a gaming console, not a wannabe computer that was made in a marketing meeting. I'm not impressed with most of the ps2 games, namely because half of the games look like 1st generation sega dreamcast games (games that were mostly programmed on other dev kits and ported to dreamcast) and it's slow loading.
nintendo has many good points, sadly, they're not well liked because the average gamer nowadays wants mostly naked women who kill people and rip them apart, etc.. and want blood flying.
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and to agree with you, and negate with the other response...
Microsoft gives out money or helps poor schools/communities for these reasons:
Stock pump
pushing the product out further
tax writeoff
license renewal 5 years down the road.
either way they win, and the people they "help" pay up or are mere pawns and arent helped too much at all.
"Apple has previously announced they would be entering the European market by the end of the year with rumors of singles priced at 1.49 Euro."
I thought they had to watch that because of the record company, apple.
"The Minimo authors believe Minimo will become the browser of choice on embedded Linux devices with 64MB of RAM."
64 mb of ram? what about the majority of embedded systems with less than this?
I was just thinking about this the other day.
how, since SEGA (who have been the leg-up for innovation in the gaming industry) stopped making consoles, we havent seen any attempts towards any next-generation systems, only little plastic boxes that hook up to the TV.
Now the DS is coming out, which may start a future of systems that can easily replace the systems that hook to TV's (though I dont see it happening)
but it throws the handheld market out of the repetitive 2d-only market.
Now there's the PSP, but I honestly wouldnt want to buy that, it's neither innovation, or really something that can be called handheld or portable.
all it is is a PSone with games that are incompatible with all of sony's other products.
the only selling point is the mp3 player, which will attract the sony fanboys right away. but you can just buy a psone with a monitor, and you got a fairly portable system, with pre-existing games.
The DS will have its own games, yes, but they'll have their own unique features that take advantage of the DS' power, people may make fun of the DS, but it's a system with a hell lot more innovation and potential than anyone has done to date, and is something nintendo hasnt done before to date.
but with all that, we need more innovation, and the only real innovator left is nintendo, really.. Sony just copies the innovation and adds a tacky feature here or there to make it sell like hotcakes. and Microsoft.. well we dont need to go there. Sega and nintendo used to be the main innovators back in the 90's and now that Sega no longer makes systems, it's really up to nintendo now to do it, or else we're facing a dark age for console gaming. Because if Sony and Microsoft get their way with the industry, console gaming will mostly die for the most part. and any innovations will be minor details, nothing new, since they wouldnt have competition except each other, and they leech, so nothing would really come up.
I say, go nintendo.
when HAVENT they been grabbing for straws? I thought this whole ordeal was about them grabbing for straws, really.
All they've been doing is litigating, lying, and trying to force IBM and others to reveal confidental information for no reason, and namely IBM's source code from its own technologies, so they can turn around and do what they've been accusing others of doing, or feed the data to M$ for future server software.
More than likely, they want this info because Microsoft wants it, all bundled up in a nice package for them to find out all the info on their competitors, then proceed to steal, or sue them, patent some of their ideas, or get their buddies in DC to pass some laws making their competitors existing features or activities highly illegal.
hence is why I chose nintendo titles, such as Metroid Prime, Smash Brothers melee, and the zelda games, because they're more straightfoward on their controls.
many other games have you do all these complicated menus to change weapons, or whatever, can be very annoying when you're getting your ass shot at.
you know how it showed that the US was the #1 spam country?
well that's prolly not because they're located here, (and this has rolly been said before, but hey, let me say my thing)
but becase of all the trojans that relay the spam to hide the original senders, namely ones based in China and India.
all that statistic showed a few months back is how incompetent the average US computer user really is. and also the fact we're also the majority computer users, and RR doesnt have good spam/trojan protection for its users.
the problem though is, China and India and other countries that allow this wont lift a finger to fix this, so it's gonna have to be the jobs of the isp's to install some aggressive anti-virus and spam filters (earthlink's are pretty strong when it comes to spam already) to start slowing the flow of spam. and up to corporate offices to install filters on their gateways to slow the flow of spam and virii.
That is the only think I can think of to slow the flow of spam from those countries, that and blacklisting.
The porn industry enters the videogaming market
the writer of this story needs to be dubbed "Captain Obvious"
it's a joke. laugh.
ist he fact commercial distros will overshow the real distros that think of opensource and the user before money. They'll sell their product in stores, but will provide it free of charge also.
:P
Sadly the way the US economy is, the commercial ones will be the representatives to linux to joe average and mr. common businessman
and they're not necessarily the best, they offer some good features, but are too narrow in what they provide, much like microsoft.
MEPIS and Mandrake 10.0 are the best for users IMHO, and if a company has some good techs on hand who want to get down and dirty to make some good low-end servers, use debian, and of course, give a nice donation
I've mentioned that before, he looks like the school yard blly who lies and uses deciet to get his way, and prolly was, he sued his way up in life, (bullying others to succeed where he would prolly fail without the courts) and now he has a great position for himself, pushing around the nerds and geeks he picked on in the industry, except now, it's more of an even match. where the geeks can push back harder, because unlike school, they can now use their intelligence to kick his ass. even if he uses lying decietful ways to fight them back.
too many times have I accident mispronounced that as fuckruckers.
which would also suit sco.
I'm working for my CCNA, and this crap keeps happening? hell we learn how to make sure events like this dont happen.
the source code should have been on a server on a separate subnet than the rest of the network, or on its own private network that has no access to the internet..
putting internet access to anything is a sure fire way of getting hacked at one point or the other. so if you have really sensitive data, NEVER put it on a network that's connected to the net.
it's like having a screen door on a vault filled with raw meat with a hungry bear on the other side.
wonder what will happen in a hundred years or so when people look back on chat logs and are like
"what the dilly fuck does wtf mean?"
this bullshit has been going on for years, my Science teacher worked for a contractor that dealed with NASA, he left because of the spending cuts even within the company he worked for, because of the NASA higher ups cutting money to the contractors, and within their own company, he pointed out the reason why columbia ended the way it did was because what he used to do was cut (checked the launch frame by frame for like 5 hours each day) to check for anything odd, and to monitor any mishaps in orbit.... there was even a time with columbia that it faced a threat like that, but the broken panel was ok enough to survive the landing.
So this is nothing new. NASA abuses its position in power to get a lot of cash for doing a whole lot of nothing.
because even though caldera might have litigation power from all this, all it did was make their credibility get worse, in the end, they're still a fucked company, a pawn for the big guys.
also, this was CALDERA that was funded, not sco.
but in the end, it still doesnt matter.
what happens when someone wants to start a new station and they cant because all of the open frequences are taken up?
Honestly, that out of the three in question,CoLinux is the only one that is deserving of any credits.
David is obviously a rip of crossover office and wine.
and ignium linux doesnt have a running site anymore, which is kinda shady.
CoLinux is the only one that has tried to make any effort to prt one type of system to another out of the 3, though it might be in the exact opposite direction, they did it well. because now windows users can play with linux without having to repartition, and then do the hard stuff once they're familiar with the system.
all this is, is the european union trying to say "hey look america! we can be like you too!"
in all honesty, it is, they unite together to make their economy like the US', they try to make copyright laws like the US, and now they're trying to make us feel less superior by making a space program that will prolly never reach orbit.
FUD? I think so.
honestly, as much as europe hates the US, they sure like to become like us in a lot of ways.
it died in '99 .com bust
I think that's why they said
http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.thespot.com
they need to add --shakeys
screw papa john's.
Shakeys makes the best damn pizza you'll ever eat
Hell must be frozen over...
hey, they need those hot amd processos to heat the place you know...
Nintendo is the Apple of the gaming industry, might get pushed under the rug and trampled on and often hated,and has proprietary hardware/software but manages to survive regardless.
I like my gamecube. and the games and the quality of the graphics, I also like the fact it can play GBA games with an addon that connects to the bottom of a system (wouldnt that make it a gamesquare?)
(and there is a 3rd party connector that connects to the memcard port)
and the fact it can go online, and can be portable itself (can hook up in the the car, and you can get a little lcd monitor addon) makes it a winner.
I want a gaming console, not a wannabe computer that was made in a marketing meeting.
I'm not impressed with most of the ps2 games, namely because half of the games look like 1st generation sega dreamcast games (games that were mostly programmed on other dev kits and ported to dreamcast) and it's slow loading.
nintendo has many good points, sadly, they're not well liked because the average gamer nowadays wants mostly naked women who kill people and rip them apart, etc.. and want blood flying.
Who's behind the Shower Curtain?
Better be a hot naked woman.
because today on the news, they said there are signs of a second dotcom boom happening again soon.