Let's start with your first example. Firefox only went 1.0 about 9 months ago. At that point, there were already 8 million downloads. I would say it was pretty dammed released before 1.0! Ah, but it's not finished, they had been saying,
"Firefox 0.8 is a Technology Preview. While this software works well enough to be relied upon as your primary browser in most cases, we make no guarantees of its performance or stability. It is a pre-release product and should not be relied upon for mission-critical tasks."
So basically for Firefox, not having 1.0 was a big CYA in case someone finds a nasty bug. Other than the bug report, all other comments >>/dev/null.
You see, here is the problem. Linux people want the Linux OS and Linux software to be more widely accepted, especially on the desktop. However having version 0.8 sends a message that, 'we're not worthy', when I know dam well that some of these programs are better than 6.0 of some commercial programs.
Debian got it right, screw numbers, use names.
If you release a version to the public, you need to call it 1.0. I'm not suggesting going crazy with versions like closed source software driven by marketing, I'm just saying you have a version out there in the wild, call it #1. Add a few minor features, call it 1.1. Fix a bug, call it 1.01, same as everyone else, just start at 1.0. Numbers are free, and I'm pretty sure what my calculus teacher was saying is that you'll never run out of them.
I can understand you have put some artificial goal on yourselves to be 100% SVG compliant before it's done, but there is no software god that will strike you down for being 50% SVG compliant, and still calling it 1.0. You even call them 'releases', and have testing that goes on before a 'release'.
Only reason I bring it up, and I'm not saying you guys do this, but I have seen FOSS developers hide behind 1.0 for several years, and every bug, crappy UI, or anything wrong, the excuse is, 'Well it's beta software, if you don't like it you can wait for 1.0'.
Nice looking program and all, but WTF is it with all these 'less than 1.0' releases?
I mean jesus, enough with the beta mentality. You've let this program out into the wild, so it's released. Number it appropriately.
Seems like every other FOSS project out there is too gun shy to finally call it 1.0
If some don't believe we should go and habitate/terraform other planets, then they shouldn't be the ones to go. Those that do believe it's the right thing to do, should go for it. Evolution|God|Nature|Aliens have put us in a position to replicate and propogate, so why should our tiny little brain's 'ethics' center be preventing that? If you 'ethics' are preventing you from spreading your seed around the planet and universe, then your kind will die.
If I were a jealous wireless service provider, I would sponser such bills. If I couldn't stop Texas form providing wireless, make if expensive for them to operate.
It's because that is the deal they offered you. They didn't have to. If you don't like it, go buy your own commercial glass door refer, and then pay repair bills on that too!
1)Dump the concept of the album. 2)Songs are released over time as they are conceived and recorded. 3)Music on the website is free, however copyrighted and owned by the band. 4)You can order a custom compilation on DVD or CD for $5 plus shipping. 5)Band's main revenue stream is from performing their music, and merchandise at the venue and on the website. Tickets cost $50-$200, depending on the artist.
Remeber that music is a performance art. Most of what you pay for and not ironically the biggest whiners about downloading, are the distributors/middlemen in the music business. With this model, the artist end up making more money, and creativity is rewarded by direct market forces.
Anytime someone writes something with abosultes, like saying everyone, all, etc., they're asking for trouble. However this guy is fairly close to accurate with the 'unqualified amatuers' comment. First, understand that there is no required certification to call yourself a computer repair technician. You just print up some Avery inkjet business cards and get a magnetic sign for your car, and you're in business. In order to get a job in IT or call yourself a tech for some larger outfits, maybe they will require an A+ cert of an MSCE. You can take a high school drop out and get them an A+ in under 6 weeks, no experience necessary. With another 3 months you can have an MSCE, and even then you know one OS, albeit the most common one. And you're still not schooled in the art of spyware removal. Compare this to the path to call yourself a licensed electrician or plumber (years as an apprentice, then state level testing). And also consider that the body of knowledge to become and electrician or plumber is much smaller. Or perhaps see how long it takes you and how much money it costs to become I-Car certified for the automotive world. And these are just the blue collar trades of the world, not something that requires 2 to 4 years of actual college. So even with what the computer repair industry considers 'qualified', I consider to be minimum knowledge to 'open the hood' and poke around. If PC repair was similar to the auto industry, a PC tech would have various certifications like ATA-66, ATA-100, ATA-133, SCSI, SATA, and the old grey haired guys in the shop would still have their patches for MFM and RLL. A hard drive swapout would pay a book time of 1.5 hours at $55/hr. But in reality the PC repair biz is learn on the fly by way of making mistakes, and charge by the hour.
I think the general business plan of selling Wi-Fi service is flawed. The inevitable is that private parties, organizations, and governments will offer their excess bandwidth over the air for free as long as they can be indemified for doing so. As long as there is excess bandwidth, anyone can give it away. So to go into the business of selling over the air bandwidth when there are so many willing to give it away, is not too bright. Verizon and others will spend much money to try and legislate their business plan into reality, but it is doomed to failure.
So if I pay $3500 for this super cat. is there a EULA? Can I make a backup copy of him: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/8/prweb15 1519.h tm or would this violate the DMCA?
I would like to point out that the picture from CNN shows that these power supplies have just about ever safety a regulatory approval known to man, including UL, CE, and many others I can't identify.
This supports my belief that regualtory and test agencies have absolutely no control of products coming from the far east. In my position, I regularly see AC adapters that have UL file numbers stolen from other products, or even revoked numbers. Not to mention AC adpaters that have UL and CE marks that won't pass when tested by a reputable test lab.
Another unseen victim of this is US manufacturers that try and use these supplies, only to find out that they are all crap. Dell has the budget to go to Delta in Tapei and inspect the factory, but most do not.
The big problem is that there are no US federal laws on product safety. UL is a private company, and is heavily corrupt and inconsistant.
For UL to fix this, they need to:
Have consistant enforcement worldwide
Stop letting AC adapter manufacturers put 200 different models under one file #
Start revoking file numbers for known violators
Make the US Customs stop products at the ports that have the mark and shouldn't (copyright violation)
Anything short of a revolution inside UL is not going to get the job done.
Most of your home automation ideas are already handled by Crestron. As far as all your CE deives self configuring by talking over bluetooth, that will never happen. The reality is that there is no reason for someone like Sony to want to communicate and integrate with Samsung or Motorolla, or anyone else. They would rather see a all Sony solution to the problem, therefore any automatic configuration solutions will always be proprietary. The only CE manufacturers that would be interested in something common are small manufacturers that can't offer a total solution. But then you have the overbearing licsening of Bluetooth. Won't happen.
So now I can take a virus, embed a secret message, and unleash it. The virus may get through virus scanners since it's signature changed, and my secret message gets distributed worldwide in a few hours. The existance of the secret message would not be common knowledge, so the virus scanners would get updated quickly to stop it, but those expecting the message would allow it in, and then decode the secret message. Totally anonymous mass distributed communications. Now who would use something like that?
I wouldn't blame it on anybody but the person that coordinated the switch-over. Switching to new hardware, new software, on multiple platforms all at once is just dumb. It should have been a soft switch-over running both systems in parallel until proven. At least these bozos weren't upgrading anything affecting life or limb!
A separate global study published Thursday by the Motion Pictures Association found that about one in four Internet users had already downloaded a movie. Most said they would pirate more if they took less time to download.
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2) Yes, I do think they should regulate content, for now. If they don't, who will?
Believe me, I'm not into government censorship or anything like that, nor am I religious, but corporations without any restrictions will quickly drive media beyond even what I can tolerate.
The article's author suggests selling spectrum permanently, as in real estate. However even when you buy real estate, there are laws that govern what you can't do with your own property. I can't setup a brothel on my block due to local and state laws. The same would need to happen for radio spectrum, and then you would need an agency to enforce that.
The main problem I see is that it is impossible with today's broadcasting to control who gets to see what. There is no stopping your impressionable kids from exposure to the mainstream broadcasting, whether it be your local FM carrying Stern or cable/MTV. As long as those guys are on the soap box for all to hear, they need to mind what they say. We do have a community, although the comunity standards are not well defined, and the FCC gets to try and enforce them. Yes we all do have rights of free speech and the right to choose what we want to see/hear, but we can't do that while infringing on the rights of the next guy that doesn't want his kids to see that.
However, in the future, the access can be controlled better, login and password to watch your cable box or something. At that point I see no need for restriction. Each individual or guardian can choose what level of programming is accessable. In reality we are halfway there. You have porn on digital pay-per-view, and no one's complaining about that (OK, I'm sure someone has). But when Janet Jackson's boob pops out in primetime with no access control or warning, people get upset. The FCC is merely responding to the complaints from the public.
So who 'buys' the spectrum for low power unlicsened devices like radio control? Whoops, some big telecom just bought 72MHz, buh-bye radio control toy industry.
How about that 144-146MHz band? OK it's up for auction. I see the amatuers came up with $132.78 between them, and looks like FedEx came up with $15 million for the same band. We have a winner.
Oh, and that 100W FM station you wanted. There used to be a thing called low power FM, available cheaply to non-profits and average people, but under the new rules, you will have to buy it from Clear Channel for $26 million. Too bad.
The guy who wrote that article is a bofoon that has no real concept of the variety of services the FCC provides. The FCC, in spite of all thier pad press, is a great equalizer, making wireless spectrum available to great large audience, big and small organization alike. Next time you key up you FRS radio to find your kids, say 'thank you' on prime real estate in the UHF band.
The rulemaking from the U.S. Copyright Office is perfectly clear. If you have rights to the game (as in you own a broken one, bought ROMs from StarROMs, etc), AND you the machine isn't made anymore, you can emulate the machine, even if it has anti-copying built in.
So, the rest of us that have 2000 ROM sets for games we haven't ever seen in person, let alone own a broken original, then we are 'breakin the law'. But you know what else... NO ONE CARES!
No one cares because there is no money involved. The people that own the rights to all the classic arcade games know that it's not worth there time and effort to try and sell old stuff. They're never going to make another Defender machine. They tried to sell Defender and other classics on CD, but that was hardly worth thier time and effort. They will sit on those old rights forever. I have approached a few of the owners and tried to buy the IP from them, and secure the rights for what I felt was some biz-ops, but they have some lazy ass lawyers that are not even sure what games they have right to (becasue of all the mergers), and they weren't willing to look into it.
So if they aren't even willing to figure out what games they have the right for, how willing do you think they are to sue individuals over small time infrinement cases? Not very willing at all.
As long as MAME keeps their distance from ROM distribution, they have nothing to worry about as there are legal and legitimate ways to use MAME.
As long as you're not selling turn-key MAME cabinets fully loaded will all ROMs, you have nothing to worry about. Your not profiting from having and emualtor in your living room, and people that aren't making any money (from their illegal activity) generally don't get sued.
Not sure why the poster required bluetooth. May becasue he thinks it cool or something, but no one building home theater PCs is using it, and for good reason.
If you must do RF for one reason or another, get this one: Logitech
Don't be afraid of the seperate mouse. If you really need a mouse, you will regret using anything but a real mouse. An optical mouse works very well on the arm of a sofa.
However IR is the way to go for a couple reasons.
Range - Easily get 10-20 feet with IR vs. 5-10 feet with RF. Bluetooh may be even worse
Repeaters - In the scope of a home theater, one thing that is noce to do is pipe the video throughuot the home with a channel modulator (ChannelPlus). Then you can take the IR keyboard into another room, and use an IR repeater to get the keystokes back to the HTPC. This keyboard: The Airboard
has a built in weiner mouse that is usable, but not at all the fastest mouse in the west.
IR code capturing I also use a Philips Pronto remote. I have captured several keystokes into the Pronto, so now I can run programs, Automate changing video outputs with my ATI card, and other thing I would like the wife to be able to do, all from the Pronto remote.
Personally, I do both RF and IR. The IR keyboard I linked to has a IR receiver that plugs into the PS2 KB and Mouse ports, but the Logitech KB I linked to uses USB. I am actuall able to use both keyboards, although I mainly use the RF logitech, and leave the IR receiver for the Pronto to talk to. If I had to choose only one though, I would use the IR keyboard.
Acadamia and thier holyier than thou attitude can always come up with a reason why metric is better, but they fail to see the practicality of switching the worlds largest economic force to a new system of measurement.
Attempting to mix the two is not healthy. I seem to recall a space shuttle disaster that was the result of a conversion from SI to SAE.
Engineering is not on board with metric either. Most stuff designed in the US uses inches, mils, etc.
The paper size thing is a joke. Only valid argument I have read here is when scaling down an A3 to an A4, it fits a little better. The cost to retool the entire US paper industry, packaging, and printing for one small 'neato' benfit does not make sense.
The only beef I have with X-Arcade is when people try and play vector games like Asteroids, Tempest, Battle Zone, etc on it's raster monitor. Just not the same!
I might just have to build my own vector only cabinet based on this vector generator and and old Tempest vector monitor
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Let's start with your first example. Firefox only went 1.0 about 9 months ago. At that point, there were already 8 million downloads. I would say it was pretty dammed released before 1.0! Ah, but it's not finished, they had been saying, "Firefox 0.8 is a Technology Preview. While this software works well enough to be relied upon as your primary browser in most cases, we make no guarantees of its performance or stability. It is a pre-release product and should not be relied upon for mission-critical tasks." So basically for Firefox, not having 1.0 was a big CYA in case someone finds a nasty bug. Other than the bug report, all other comments >>/dev/null. You see, here is the problem. Linux people want the Linux OS and Linux software to be more widely accepted, especially on the desktop. However having version 0.8 sends a message that, 'we're not worthy', when I know dam well that some of these programs are better than 6.0 of some commercial programs. Debian got it right, screw numbers, use names.
If you release a version to the public, you need to call it 1.0. I'm not suggesting going crazy with versions like closed source software driven by marketing, I'm just saying you have a version out there in the wild, call it #1. Add a few minor features, call it 1.1. Fix a bug, call it 1.01, same as everyone else, just start at 1.0. Numbers are free, and I'm pretty sure what my calculus teacher was saying is that you'll never run out of them.
I can understand you have put some artificial goal on yourselves to be 100% SVG compliant before it's done, but there is no software god that will strike you down for being 50% SVG compliant, and still calling it 1.0. You even call them 'releases', and have testing that goes on before a 'release'.
Only reason I bring it up, and I'm not saying you guys do this, but I have seen FOSS developers hide behind 1.0 for several years, and every bug, crappy UI, or anything wrong, the excuse is, 'Well it's beta software, if you don't like it you can wait for 1.0'.
Nice looking program and all, but WTF is it with all these 'less than 1.0' releases? I mean jesus, enough with the beta mentality. You've let this program out into the wild, so it's released. Number it appropriately. Seems like every other FOSS project out there is too gun shy to finally call it 1.0
If some don't believe we should go and habitate/terraform other planets, then they shouldn't be the ones to go.
Those that do believe it's the right thing to do, should go for it.
Evolution|God|Nature|Aliens have put us in a position to replicate and propogate, so why should our tiny little brain's 'ethics' center be preventing that? If you 'ethics' are preventing you from spreading your seed around the planet and universe, then your kind will die.
If I were a jealous wireless service provider, I would sponser such bills. If I couldn't stop Texas form providing wireless, make if expensive for them to operate.
..before these kids burn the place down. Cool floor though.
It's because that is the deal they offered you.
They didn't have to.
If you don't like it, go buy your own commercial glass door refer, and then pay repair bills on that too!
1)Dump the concept of the album.
2)Songs are released over time as they are conceived and recorded.
3)Music on the website is free, however copyrighted and owned by the band.
4)You can order a custom compilation on DVD or CD for $5 plus shipping.
5)Band's main revenue stream is from performing their music, and merchandise at the venue and on the website. Tickets cost $50-$200, depending on the artist.
Remeber that music is a performance art. Most of what you pay for and not ironically the biggest whiners about downloading, are the distributors/middlemen in the music business.
With this model, the artist end up making more money, and creativity is rewarded by direct market forces.
Anytime someone writes something with abosultes, like saying everyone, all, etc., they're asking for trouble. However this guy is fairly close to accurate with the 'unqualified amatuers' comment.
First, understand that there is no required certification to call yourself a computer repair technician. You just print up some Avery inkjet business cards and get a magnetic sign for your car, and you're in business.
In order to get a job in IT or call yourself a tech for some larger outfits, maybe they will require an A+ cert of an MSCE.
You can take a high school drop out and get them an A+ in under 6 weeks, no experience necessary.
With another 3 months you can have an MSCE, and even then you know one OS, albeit the most common one. And you're still not schooled in the art of spyware removal.
Compare this to the path to call yourself a licensed electrician or plumber (years as an apprentice, then state level testing). And also consider that the body of knowledge to become and electrician or plumber is much smaller.
Or perhaps see how long it takes you and how much money it costs to become I-Car certified for the automotive world.
And these are just the blue collar trades of the world, not something that requires 2 to 4 years of actual college.
So even with what the computer repair industry considers 'qualified', I consider to be minimum knowledge to 'open the hood' and poke around.
If PC repair was similar to the auto industry, a PC tech would have various certifications like ATA-66, ATA-100, ATA-133, SCSI, SATA, and the old grey haired guys in the shop would still have their patches for MFM and RLL. A hard drive swapout would pay a book time of 1.5 hours at $55/hr.
But in reality the PC repair biz is learn on the fly by way of making mistakes, and charge by the hour.
I think the general business plan of selling Wi-Fi service is flawed. The inevitable is that private parties, organizations, and governments will offer their excess bandwidth over the air for free as long as they can be indemified for doing so. As long as there is excess bandwidth, anyone can give it away.
So to go into the business of selling over the air bandwidth when there are so many willing to give it away, is not too bright.
Verizon and others will spend much money to try and legislate their business plan into reality, but it is doomed to failure.
So if I pay $3500 for this super cat. is there a EULA?5 1519.h tm
Can I make a backup copy of him:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/8/prweb1
or would this violate the DMCA?
This supports my belief that regualtory and test agencies have absolutely no control of products coming from the far east. In my position, I regularly see AC adapters that have UL file numbers stolen from other products, or even revoked numbers. Not to mention AC adpaters that have UL and CE marks that won't pass when tested by a reputable test lab.
Another unseen victim of this is US manufacturers that try and use these supplies, only to find out that they are all crap. Dell has the budget to go to Delta in Tapei and inspect the factory, but most do not.
The big problem is that there are no US federal laws on product safety. UL is a private company, and is heavily corrupt and inconsistant.
For UL to fix this, they need to:
Anything short of a revolution inside UL is not going to get the job done.
Most of your home automation ideas are already handled by Crestron.
As far as all your CE deives self configuring by talking over bluetooth, that will never happen.
The reality is that there is no reason for someone like Sony to want to communicate and integrate with Samsung or Motorolla, or anyone else. They would rather see a all Sony solution to the problem, therefore any automatic configuration solutions will always be proprietary.
The only CE manufacturers that would be interested in something common are small manufacturers that can't offer a total solution. But then you have the overbearing licsening of Bluetooth.
Won't happen.
The cost of implementing Bluetooth vs. the benefit of using it was waaay out of whack.
It was always a solution looking for a problem.
So now I can take a virus, embed a secret message, and unleash it. The virus may get through virus scanners since it's signature changed, and my secret message gets distributed worldwide in a few hours. The existance of the secret message would not be common knowledge, so the virus scanners would get updated quickly to stop it, but those expecting the message would allow it in, and then decode the secret message. Totally anonymous mass distributed communications.
Now who would use something like that?
I wouldn't blame it on anybody but the person that coordinated the switch-over.
Switching to new hardware, new software, on multiple platforms all at once is just dumb.
It should have been a soft switch-over running both systems in parallel until proven.
At least these bozos weren't upgrading anything affecting life or limb!
A separate global study published Thursday by the Motion Pictures Association found that about one in four Internet users had already downloaded a movie. Most said they would pirate more if they took less time to download.
The problem is right there.
No, you just have to wait for Walmart to adopt it, which is as good as the whole retail industry
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2) Yes, I do think they should regulate content, for now. If they don't, who will?
Believe me, I'm not into government censorship or anything like that, nor am I religious, but corporations without any restrictions will quickly drive media beyond even what I can tolerate.
The article's author suggests selling spectrum permanently, as in real estate. However even when you buy real estate, there are laws that govern what you can't do with your own property. I can't setup a brothel on my block due to local and state laws. The same would need to happen for radio spectrum, and then you would need an agency to enforce that. The main problem I see is that it is impossible with today's broadcasting to control who gets to see what. There is no stopping your impressionable kids from exposure to the mainstream broadcasting, whether it be your local FM carrying Stern or cable/MTV. As long as those guys are on the soap box for all to hear, they need to mind what they say. We do have a community, although the comunity standards are not well defined, and the FCC gets to try and enforce them. Yes we all do have rights of free speech and the right to choose what we want to see/hear, but we can't do that while infringing on the rights of the next guy that doesn't want his kids to see that.
However, in the future, the access can be controlled better, login and password to watch your cable box or something. At that point I see no need for restriction. Each individual or guardian can choose what level of programming is accessable. In reality we are halfway there. You have porn on digital pay-per-view, and no one's complaining about that (OK, I'm sure someone has). But when Janet Jackson's boob pops out in primetime with no access control or warning, people get upset. The FCC is merely responding to the complaints from the public.
So who 'buys' the spectrum for low power unlicsened devices like radio control? Whoops, some big telecom just bought 72MHz, buh-bye radio control toy industry. How about that 144-146MHz band? OK it's up for auction. I see the amatuers came up with $132.78 between them, and looks like FedEx came up with $15 million for the same band. We have a winner. Oh, and that 100W FM station you wanted. There used to be a thing called low power FM, available cheaply to non-profits and average people, but under the new rules, you will have to buy it from Clear Channel for $26 million. Too bad. The guy who wrote that article is a bofoon that has no real concept of the variety of services the FCC provides. The FCC, in spite of all thier pad press, is a great equalizer, making wireless spectrum available to great large audience, big and small organization alike. Next time you key up you FRS radio to find your kids, say 'thank you' on prime real estate in the UHF band.
The rulemaking from the U.S. Copyright Office is perfectly clear. If you have rights to the game (as in you own a broken one, bought ROMs from StarROMs, etc), AND you the machine isn't made anymore, you can emulate the machine, even if it has anti-copying built in.
So, the rest of us that have 2000 ROM sets for games we haven't ever seen in person, let alone own a broken original, then we are 'breakin the law'. But you know what else... NO ONE CARES!
No one cares because there is no money involved. The people that own the rights to all the classic arcade games know that it's not worth there time and effort to try and sell old stuff. They're never going to make another Defender machine. They tried to sell Defender and other classics on CD, but that was hardly worth thier time and effort. They will sit on those old rights forever. I have approached a few of the owners and tried to buy the IP from them, and secure the rights for what I felt was some biz-ops, but they have some lazy ass lawyers that are not even sure what games they have right to (becasue of all the mergers), and they weren't willing to look into it.
So if they aren't even willing to figure out what games they have the right for, how willing do you think they are to sue individuals over small time infrinement cases? Not very willing at all.
As long as MAME keeps their distance from ROM distribution, they have nothing to worry about as there are legal and legitimate ways to use MAME.
As long as you're not selling turn-key MAME cabinets fully loaded will all ROMs, you have nothing to worry about. Your not profiting from having and emualtor in your living room, and people that aren't making any money (from their illegal activity) generally don't get sued.
Now if only Dr Atkins had one of these in his office, he would still be alive today.
Not sure why the poster required bluetooth. May becasue he thinks it cool or something, but no one building home theater PCs is using it, and for good reason.
If you must do RF for one reason or another, get this one:
Logitech
Don't be afraid of the seperate mouse. If you really need a mouse, you will regret using anything but a real mouse. An optical mouse works very well on the arm of a sofa.
However IR is the way to go for a couple reasons.
Range - Easily get 10-20 feet with IR vs. 5-10 feet with RF. Bluetooh may be even worse
Repeaters - In the scope of a home theater, one thing that is noce to do is pipe the video throughuot the home with a channel modulator (ChannelPlus). Then you can take the IR keyboard into another room, and use an IR repeater to get the keystokes back to the HTPC. This keyboard:
The Airboard
has a built in weiner mouse that is usable, but not at all the fastest mouse in the west.
IR code capturing I also use a Philips Pronto remote. I have captured several keystokes into the Pronto, so now I can run programs, Automate changing video outputs with my ATI card, and other thing I would like the wife to be able to do, all from the Pronto remote.
Personally, I do both RF and IR. The IR keyboard I linked to has a IR receiver that plugs into the PS2 KB and Mouse ports, but the Logitech KB I linked to uses USB. I am actuall able to use both keyboards, although I mainly use the RF logitech, and leave the IR receiver for the Pronto to talk to. If I had to choose only one though, I would use the IR keyboard.
Acadamia and thier holyier than thou attitude can always come up with a reason why metric is better, but they fail to see the practicality of switching the worlds largest economic force to a new system of measurement. Attempting to mix the two is not healthy. I seem to recall a space shuttle disaster that was the result of a conversion from SI to SAE. Engineering is not on board with metric either. Most stuff designed in the US uses inches, mils, etc. The paper size thing is a joke. Only valid argument I have read here is when scaling down an A3 to an A4, it fits a little better. The cost to retool the entire US paper industry, packaging, and printing for one small 'neato' benfit does not make sense.
The only beef I have with X-Arcade is when people try and play vector games like Asteroids, Tempest, Battle Zone, etc on it's raster monitor. Just not the same!
I might just have to build my own vector only cabinet based on this vector generator and and old Tempest vector monitor