Perhaps he was moreso referring to other countries like Sweden. In the US there is a huge difference between the rich and the poor. In Sweden the majority earn a very comfortable living, everyone gets the benefit of world leading education and a top notch healthcare system. Sweden as a country doesn't screw anyone, and everyone gets a fair chance at a good life.
[UPDATE] Phantom console maker makes good on its threats and initiates legal action in a Florida court.
Shacknews is reporting that Infinium Labs has finally made good on its threats to hardware site HardOCP and has initiated legal action. According to the report, the makers of the yet-to-be-launched Phantom PC game console filed suit in a Florida court this week over a corporate profile the hardware site ran last fall.
As of press time, calls to Infinium president Kevin Bachus had not been returned. However, HardOCP owner Kyle Bennett confirmed the company's legal action. "Yes, [but] I have not gotten all of the paper work yet," he told GameSpot. However, what Bennett has seen does not bode well for a short legal battle. "It seems as though Infinium Labs and [CEO] Tim Roberts personally have filed suit against us," he said.
The legal maneuvering started last month when Infinium sent HardOCP a letter saying they would sue the site for defamation if it did not retract the article, which painted a less-than-flattering portrait of several executives. HardOCP promptly refused, then filed a preemptive suit in a Texas court against Infinium.
GameSpot will have more information on this breaking story as it becomes available.
don't you think any body of laws represents a moral code? Every law legislates morality in some form or another. Killing a man, stealing what he earned, etc are all wrong because we believe them to be morally reprehensible and thus created laws to punish those who do it.
These laws are there to protect peoples freedom. If I kill someone, it removes thier right to life, so we protect thier freedom with a law. Its the same for most laws, they are there to protect peoples right to have be safe and do what they want within reasonable constraints. A law that prevents gambling doesn't protect anyone, it can only be defended by saying it protects people from what they shouldn't do. But If I want to gamble, I (as an adult) will take the moral risk and do it.
I don't need politicians to dictate which hobbies I can do or can't do in my free time. This is why its so much fun to live in Amsterdam (for example). All moral decisions are left up to the user.
Very smart, leave what is soon to be an economy of about 500 million people accounting for over a third of thier business. I for one wouldn't mind if they did go, I don't think DC++ would have trouble importing their latest releases.
Wow you really don't know??, why not suggest M$ give up the US market while you're at it, man do you have any idea just how big (people/ecconomy wise) the EU is?? hmm I guess you don't.
around 500 million people after june when we get a few more member states.
Thats (lets be conservative here), maybe 50 millions copies of a MS operating system.
Thats a lot of money. And thats excluding MS's REAL market, large corporations like Airbus or Mercedes.
All Apple machines use US keyboards anyway. This is why UK customers have email addresses like toomuchmoney"mac.com.
My two powerbooks have Irish keyboards, the Swedish G5s i've used have swedish keyboards, and the '' symbol is where it belongs, over the number 2.
10 euro per moth for the last 3 years. Its not much, but I have no job.
All I mean is, To me, that money could be better used elsewhere. Such a lot of money can save a lot of lives. such a load of radio telescopes prbbaly won't find many aliens.
I am not too excited about this for two reasons.
Firstly, its seen as a good philantropic action, which the other MS founder Gates is famous for. He donates the most cash in the world to the poor. Except its not cash, a lot of it is in the form of software, CDs of Office and XP for the poor that cost nothing to make, and have a huge tax back cost for Microsoft. And its a nice way to get the poor locked into windows and not free OS like Linux.
Secondly, This much money can buy a lot of equipment to help find life on other planets. Meanwhile on Earth we still have millions of preventable deaths every year. And by preventable I mean deaths of children or the very poor from malnourishment or lack of clean water supplies.
If this much money was given to the poor in developing countries, it could save insane amounts of lives. To give so much cash to look for aliens that might not even exist, While members of our own species die in vast numbers for want of clean water, is disgusting.
(sorry if that is a bit "High Horse"-like, but its SO MUCH MONEY!
And its done by someone with a new technology to get people talking about it. Look at all the debates and forum chatter that got sparked off by intels "Bluetooth is dead". "C is dead", "CISC is dead".... ,"Apple is dead". When technologies really do die, its when noone gives a damn about them, and so noone will be writing a story about it.
Flash is not as crap as it used to be, and I like it because it is (sort of:) the equivalent of a PDF.
If I do a word doc and send it to someone else with a different version of word, it generally loses most of the formatting. If I print it to PDF, its safe and harder for others to alter.
Flash is a little like that, it is the same in all browsers, and its hard to steal.
ome of the biggest players in the mobile industry, including Nokia, Vodafone and Microsoft, have got a joint bid in to the Internet regulator ICANN for a top level domain aimed at mobiles. But they could be in for a nasty surprise in the form of competing proposals.
According to the big guns, who announced their bid today, what might become the ".mobile" domain (its name, as well as its existence, is up to ICANN) would "streamline" the mobile Internet experience and the group has promised to set up a joint venture to manage the domain if ICANN grants it.
However, there are worries that the group may be too dominated by mobile operators who might try to ring-fence parts of the mobile domain, controlling and profiting from it.
Applications close for this round of new TLDs - the first since 2000 - on Monday 15 March, and ICANN expects to issue the new domains in about six months. The process is explained on the ICANN site, and promises to allow more public discussion than the previous round, which issued info,.biz,.museum,.aero,.coop,.name and.pro after a month's deliberation.
Spokespeople for the NokiFoneSoft bid seemed blissfully unaware that anyone might have any problems with the bid: "We would expect to be the only bid for a mobile domain," said Vodafone spokesperson Janine Young. "We have been talking with the rest of the industry with regard to this. This is a broad industry initiative, with nine companies involved, and we expect more to join over the coming months. It's about getting the industry together."
Although she was unaware of other bids, there is every likelihood that there will be one or more. One could come from the mTLD Alliance, which issued a proposal in July 2003, and has gone rather quiet since. [Its site vanished earlier today but you can still see the Google cache here.]
The bid would most likely involve Telnic, a company which put together a bid for a mobile domain last time round, in 2000. This bid proposed "the exclusive use of text addressing in the mobile communications name-space", and Telnic has plugged away since then as chair of the UMTS Forum's Mobile TLD Working Group, working with, among others, Nokia.
The application could turn out to be more politically charged than its proponents hope, because the mobile domain is not just another Internet domain like.biz, extending the address space. Instead, it is a new text-based user friendly addressing scheme for phones and mobile devices, which could replace and extend the power of phone numbers - just as the current Internet domain scheme did for numeric Internet addresses, replacing 207.46.245.214 with "microsoft.com", for instance.
The details of the NokiFoneSoft bid, or any competing bids, are not available yet, although the Nokia group has set its stall out here. The full proposals will be published on ICANN's site and discussed. Things to watch for are whether the joint venture operates independently of the operators, and whether domains can be bought freely or only in certain ring-fenced areas (say "name.vodafone.mobile" for instance). It should also allow the development of Wi-Fi based networks, and services that operate in both fixed and mobile worlds.
Any counter-bid is going to be a serious one, and not a "save it for the hippies" attempt to put a spanner in the works. ICANN charges a non-refundable $45,000 for an application, and the total cost of developing a proper bid is reckoned to run into millions.
So intel is not releasing the necessary documentation for the hardware, but has set up a SF project for "The Open Source Community" to figure it out?
Perhaps this is intels retaliatory snub to MS. It has seemed to me that there have been a few cracks appearing in the wintel alliance, not least the adoption of the G5 succesor for the Xbox2. perhaps intel will start helping out the open source community a bit in order to piss of Gates and co.?
I do this before a series of long flights which i occasionally must make.
I mount the full DVDs of a few films with Toast (on OSX), or i rip them if I have a lot of free time. Battery life is well extended, I get no hastle of changing discs, I don't have to bring the discs on a journey, and I can skip the opening blurb about not watching the film on an oil rig.
It would be nice if people could actually use the damn products they HAVE PAID FOR in a free manner. If I buy a film, or an album on vinyl, i should be allowed to make copies for myself, or rip it and watch it on a PDA, or do whatever.
Generalisations are GENERALLY right. There are ALWAYS exceptions.
I used to work in a cafe, and I learnt quick when an american asks for an espresso he wants a small shot of coffee. When an italian asked for an espresso he wanted the first teaspoon of water out of the machine, which was black as night and as strong as tar. My GENERAL experience with Italians and coffee is that they like it strong enough to strip paint. Just like GENERALLY Irish prefer tea, or nerds prefer jolt.
Up until now the viruses and worms have gone for the plebs, people with a Dell they use to surf and mail. 'Knowledgeable' Users could just install a filter, patch thier PC and keep an anti virus and firewall running.
But these methods are now hitting the masses, and virus authors and spammers are going to have to start getting around these standards.
I have never had more than maybe 20 spam mails in my life, with 6 accounts (1 of which is even a yahoo account). This is due to my e-mail being a picture on my website, it never being used for crap, and my machine always being virus free (My PC box, my OSX powerbooks i don't have to worry about)
But this is probably going to change in the next few years, either the spammers get smarter, or perhaps Bill gates will carry out his promise to end spam by next year.
I don't know about you, but I have well over 20 gigs of MP3s/AACs at the moment, and I still have a few thousand CDs and Vinyl albums that I have to download. What kind of insane amount of work will my PC have to do to examine that much audio?
Anderson also hints that there are more alliances in the works (beyond Pepsi, HP and AOL), but that there is nothing to announce yet.
A previous rumour doing the rounds was a 100 million free song deal with McDonalds, Which you can find here. McDonalds later said there 'Was no deal to announce', but did not actually deny the rumour. The revenue and publicity from such a deal would certainly put iTunes further in the lead in the online music store biz. But perhaps Coke might not be so happy with that.
you get a nice capture of all your PC noise, which even for a high quality PC is fairly noticeable. You can stick in your headphones and crank up the volume with nothing actually playing, and havea listen to your capacitors charging and transformers humming.
One better solution would be to use something like Rogue amoeba's "Audio Hijack to 'capture' the program playing the stream and get a noise free high quality MP3 of it directly.
the problem is Hijack is for OS X only, and Napster have decided to snub Mac users by keeping thier service windows only.
I am sure there are similar programs though.
I buy only vinyl, which has exceptional sound quality and very light DRM. So when i want to have some formality i dig out my 12" of AFX or whatever and listen to that. For most of the time I just listen to my MP3s which i download with DC++ which are also DRM free. Or, i rip CDs i copy from Tower (via a friend/worker) into AAC.
but always CDs that I own on vinyl:D DRM free, and the best of analouge and digital sound.
This is also something that I think is very cool, i get the handyness of MP3s/CDs but without having to pay cash for CDs, which are stupidly overpriced pieces of plastic. If you sell your entire CD collection of a few thousand CDs, you'll be lucky to get 10% of what you paid for them. Vinyl however does hold its value very well, and is generally a better bet for long term investments. the hassle of putting on (or changing sides) on your vinyl is foregone if you have a copy on MP3 to though, for when you just want to have some background music and hardcore sound quality isn't neccesary.
The emulation of VPC is ok for sheer number crunching apps like Photoshop or whatever, especially if your running a nice pair of G5s.
But it doesn't play well with your video hardware, which you may realise is a big factor in frames-per-secong when your playing games.
If you messs around with your VPC set up you can see that a 2d graphics card is also being emulated, your own hardware isn't listed.
OS X uses your lovely 128 meg video card to render the GUI, with "Quartz extreme".
Read on it here.
It doesn't mean that you need some 3d paperclip annoying the hell out of you though ("It looks like you're looking for a file, would you like to...").
It does mean productive tools like Expose can be pretty without slowing the system down, and the CPU gets some of its load removed.
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Perhaps he was moreso referring to other countries like Sweden. In the US there is a huge difference between the rich and the poor. In Sweden the majority earn a very comfortable living, everyone gets the benefit of world leading education and a top notch healthcare system.
Sweden as a country doesn't screw anyone, and everyone gets a fair chance at a good life.
This Scandinavian fairness is best reflected in the fines here for speeding, they are given as a percentage of income, so when a bigwig in Nokia was fined for speeding he recieved a 100,000 euro fine.
Thats fairness.
"All these worlds are yours except Europa - do not attempt a landing there" Signed, God
Perhaps it was because " Bioinformatics star Jeffrey Skolnick said his Dell computer was prone to problems, including crashes "
Infinium sues HardOCP
[UPDATE] Phantom console maker makes good on its threats and initiates legal action in a Florida court.
Shacknews is reporting that Infinium Labs has finally made good on its threats to hardware site HardOCP and has initiated legal action. According to the report, the makers of the yet-to-be-launched Phantom PC game console filed suit in a Florida court this week over a corporate profile the hardware site ran last fall.
As of press time, calls to Infinium president Kevin Bachus had not been returned. However, HardOCP owner Kyle Bennett confirmed the company's legal action. "Yes, [but] I have not gotten all of the paper work yet," he told GameSpot. However, what Bennett has seen does not bode well for a short legal battle. "It seems as though Infinium Labs and [CEO] Tim Roberts personally have filed suit against us," he said.
The legal maneuvering started last month when Infinium sent HardOCP a letter saying they would sue the site for defamation if it did not retract the article, which painted a less-than-flattering portrait of several executives. HardOCP promptly refused, then filed a preemptive suit in a Texas court against Infinium.
GameSpot will have more information on this breaking story as it becomes available.
don't you think any body of laws represents a moral code? Every law legislates morality in some form or another. Killing a man, stealing what he earned, etc are all wrong because we believe them to be morally reprehensible and thus created laws to punish those who do it.
These laws are there to protect peoples freedom. If I kill someone, it removes thier right to life, so we protect thier freedom with a law.
Its the same for most laws, they are there to protect peoples right to have be safe and do what they want within reasonable constraints.
A law that prevents gambling doesn't protect anyone, it can only be defended by saying it protects people from what they shouldn't do. But If I want to gamble, I (as an adult) will take the moral risk and do it.
I don't need politicians to dictate which hobbies I can do or can't do in my free time. This is why its so much fun to live in Amsterdam (for example). All moral decisions are left up to the user.
Very smart, leave what is soon to be an economy of about 500 million people accounting for over a third of thier business. I for one wouldn't mind if they did go, I don't think DC++ would have trouble importing their latest releases.
Wow you really don't know??, why not suggest M$ give up the US market while you're at it, man do you have any idea just how big (people/ecconomy wise) the EU is?? hmm I guess you don't.
around 500 million people after june when we get a few more member states.
Thats (lets be conservative here), maybe 50 millions copies of a MS operating system.
Thats a lot of money. And thats excluding MS's REAL market, large corporations like Airbus or Mercedes.
All Apple machines use US keyboards anyway. This is why UK customers have email addresses like toomuchmoney"mac.com .
My two powerbooks have Irish keyboards, the Swedish G5s i've used have swedish keyboards, and the '' symbol is where it belongs, over the number 2.
how much have YOU donated to clean water funds?
10 euro per moth for the last 3 years. Its not much, but I have no job.
All I mean is, To me, that money could be better used elsewhere. Such a lot of money can save a lot of lives. such a load of radio telescopes prbbaly won't find many aliens.
but hey, its his money. I guess its better than spending it on hookers or paying for a lesbians virginity.
I am not too excited about this for two reasons. Firstly, its seen as a good philantropic action, which the other MS founder Gates is famous for. He donates the most cash in the world to the poor. Except its not cash, a lot of it is in the form of software, CDs of Office and XP for the poor that cost nothing to make, and have a huge tax back cost for Microsoft. And its a nice way to get the poor locked into windows and not free OS like Linux. Secondly, This much money can buy a lot of equipment to help find life on other planets. Meanwhile on Earth we still have millions of preventable deaths every year. And by preventable I mean deaths of children or the very poor from malnourishment or lack of clean water supplies. If this much money was given to the poor in developing countries, it could save insane amounts of lives. To give so much cash to look for aliens that might not even exist, While members of our own species die in vast numbers for want of clean water, is disgusting. (sorry if that is a bit "High Horse"-like, but its SO MUCH MONEY!
Ctrl-alt-Command and 8 (if you have the help options on), will turn your display to reverse colour mode.
And its done by someone with a new technology to get people talking about it. Look at all the debates and forum chatter that got sparked off by intels "Bluetooth is dead". "C is dead", "CISC is dead"....
,"Apple is dead".
When technologies really do die, its when noone gives a damn about them, and so noone will be writing a story about it.
Flash is not as crap as it used to be, and I like it because it is (sort of :) the equivalent of a PDF.
If I do a word doc and send it to someone else with a different version of word, it generally loses most of the formatting. If I print it to PDF, its safe and harder for others to alter.
Flash is a little like that, it is the same in all browsers, and its hard to steal.
ome of the biggest players in the mobile industry, including Nokia, Vodafone and Microsoft, have got a joint bid in to the Internet regulator ICANN for a top level domain aimed at mobiles. But they could be in for a nasty surprise in the form of competing proposals.
.biz, .museum, .aero, .coop, .name and .pro after a month's deliberation.
.biz, extending the address space. Instead, it is a new text-based user friendly addressing scheme for phones and mobile devices, which could replace and extend the power of phone numbers - just as the current Internet domain scheme did for numeric Internet addresses, replacing 207.46.245.214 with "microsoft.com", for instance.
According to the big guns, who announced their bid today, what might become the ".mobile" domain (its name, as well as its existence, is up to ICANN) would "streamline" the mobile Internet experience and the group has promised to set up a joint venture to manage the domain if ICANN grants it.
However, there are worries that the group may be too dominated by mobile operators who might try to ring-fence parts of the mobile domain, controlling and profiting from it.
Applications close for this round of new TLDs - the first since 2000 - on Monday 15 March, and ICANN expects to issue the new domains in about six months. The process is explained on the ICANN site, and promises to allow more public discussion than the previous round, which issued info,
Spokespeople for the NokiFoneSoft bid seemed blissfully unaware that anyone might have any problems with the bid: "We would expect to be the only bid for a mobile domain," said Vodafone spokesperson Janine Young. "We have been talking with the rest of the industry with regard to this. This is a broad industry initiative, with nine companies involved, and we expect more to join over the coming months. It's about getting the industry together."
Although she was unaware of other bids, there is every likelihood that there will be one or more. One could come from the mTLD Alliance, which issued a proposal in July 2003, and has gone rather quiet since. [Its site vanished earlier today but you can still see the Google cache here.]
The bid would most likely involve Telnic, a company which put together a bid for a mobile domain last time round, in 2000. This bid proposed "the exclusive use of text addressing in the mobile communications name-space", and Telnic has plugged away since then as chair of the UMTS Forum's Mobile TLD Working Group, working with, among others, Nokia.
The application could turn out to be more politically charged than its proponents hope, because the mobile domain is not just another Internet domain like
The details of the NokiFoneSoft bid, or any competing bids, are not available yet, although the Nokia group has set its stall out here. The full proposals will be published on ICANN's site and discussed. Things to watch for are whether the joint venture operates independently of the operators, and whether domains can be bought freely or only in certain ring-fenced areas (say "name.vodafone.mobile" for instance). It should also allow the development of Wi-Fi based networks, and services that operate in both fixed and mobile worlds.
Any counter-bid is going to be a serious one, and not a "save it for the hippies" attempt to put a spanner in the works. ICANN charges a non-refundable $45,000 for an application, and the total cost of developing a proper bid is reckoned to run into millions.
So intel is not releasing the necessary documentation for the hardware, but has set up a SF project for "The Open Source Community" to figure it out?
Perhaps this is intels retaliatory snub to MS. It has seemed to me that there have been a few cracks appearing in the wintel alliance, not least the adoption of the G5 succesor for the Xbox2.
perhaps intel will start helping out the open source community a bit in order to piss of Gates and co.?
I do this before a series of long flights which i occasionally must make.
I mount the full DVDs of a few films with Toast (on OSX), or i rip them if I have a lot of free time.
Battery life is well extended, I get no hastle of changing discs, I don't have to bring the discs on a journey, and I can skip the opening blurb about not watching the film on an oil rig.
It would be nice if people could actually use the damn products they HAVE PAID FOR in a free manner. If I buy a film, or an album on vinyl, i should be allowed to make copies for myself, or rip it and watch it on a PDA, or do whatever.
Generalisations are GENERALLY right. There are ALWAYS exceptions.
I used to work in a cafe, and I learnt quick when an american asks for an espresso he wants a small shot of coffee. When an italian asked for an espresso he wanted the first teaspoon of water out of the machine, which was black as night and as strong as tar.
My GENERAL experience with Italians and coffee is that they like it strong enough to strip paint. Just like GENERALLY Irish prefer tea, or nerds prefer jolt.
Up until now the viruses and worms have gone for the plebs, people with a Dell they use to surf and mail. 'Knowledgeable' Users could just install a filter, patch thier PC and keep an anti virus and firewall running.
But these methods are now hitting the masses, and virus authors and spammers are going to have to start getting around these standards.
I have never had more than maybe 20 spam mails in my life, with 6 accounts (1 of which is even a yahoo account). This is due to my e-mail being a picture on my website, it never being used for crap, and my machine always being virus free (My PC box, my OSX powerbooks i don't have to worry about)
But this is probably going to change in the next few years, either the spammers get smarter, or perhaps Bill gates will carry out his promise to end spam by next year.
I don't know about you, but I have well over 20 gigs of MP3s/AACs at the moment, and I still have a few thousand CDs and Vinyl albums that I have to download. What kind of insane amount of work will my PC have to do to examine that much audio?
Anderson also hints that there are more alliances in the works (beyond Pepsi, HP and AOL), but that there is nothing to announce yet.
A previous rumour doing the rounds was a 100 million free song deal with McDonalds, Which you can find here.
McDonalds later said there 'Was no deal to announce', but did not actually deny the rumour.
The revenue and publicity from such a deal would certainly put iTunes further in the lead in the online music store biz.
But perhaps Coke might not be so happy with that.
you get a nice capture of all your PC noise, which even for a high quality PC is fairly noticeable. You can stick in your headphones and crank up the volume with nothing actually playing, and havea listen to your capacitors charging and transformers humming.
One better solution would be to use something like Rogue amoeba's "Audio Hijack to 'capture' the program playing the stream and get a noise free high quality MP3 of it directly. the problem is Hijack is for OS X only, and Napster have decided to snub Mac users by keeping thier service windows only. I am sure there are similar programs though.
I buy only vinyl, which has exceptional sound quality and very light DRM. So when i want to have some formality i dig out my 12" of AFX or whatever and listen to that. /worker) into AAC.
:D
For most of the time I just listen to my MP3s which i download with DC++ which are also DRM free. Or, i rip CDs i copy from Tower (via a friend
but always CDs that I own on vinyl
DRM free, and the best of analouge and digital sound.
This is also something that I think is very cool, i get the handyness of MP3s/CDs but without having to pay cash for CDs, which are stupidly overpriced pieces of plastic. If you sell your entire CD collection of a few thousand CDs, you'll be lucky to get 10% of what you paid for them. Vinyl however does hold its value very well, and is generally a better bet for long term investments.
the hassle of putting on (or changing sides) on your vinyl is foregone if you have a copy on MP3 to though, for when you just want to have some background music and hardcore sound quality isn't neccesary.
The emulation of VPC is ok for sheer number crunching apps like Photoshop or whatever, especially if your running a nice pair of G5s. But it doesn't play well with your video hardware, which you may realise is a big factor in frames-per-secong when your playing games. If you messs around with your VPC set up you can see that a 2d graphics card is also being emulated, your own hardware isn't listed.
+5 insightful? damn it, i have 3 macs and all i do is read /.
OS X uses your lovely 128 meg video card to render the GUI, with "Quartz extreme". Read on it here. It doesn't mean that you need some 3d paperclip annoying the hell out of you though ("It looks like you're looking for a file, would you like to..."). It does mean productive tools like Expose can be pretty without slowing the system down, and the CPU gets some of its load removed.