Oh well, it was worth it at least. It was kind of hard to get it to work because the green 'bled' through the red side of the glasses, giving me somewhat of a double image, but when I did get my eyes to focus it was pretty cool.
Even with the 3D I couldn't find any lost dogs though.
OK, you're just way off here. First off, Hard Drives do not run at 7200 and 5400 x, they run at 7200 and 5400 revolutions per minute (RPM). CD-ROM speeds, are measured in X's, but these X's don't correspond (directly) to a certain RPM, they refer to the speed of the drive where 1x is the regular play speed of an Audio CD. 1x for data is considered to be 150 Kbps (Kilo BITS per second). Based on this, a 52x CD-ROM would get 7.8 Mbps, or just under 1 Megabyte a second.
Hard Drives using the the latest IDE can get 133 Megabyters per second BURST transfers, but even good ones usually only get 50 Megs SUSTAINED transfer.
Despite your screwy numbers, Hard Drives really are much faster for loading operating systems. But the other place you screw up is that you forget what Knoppix is all about - A bootable linux distro would be a lot less convienient if you had to carry it around on a hard drive and open up computers you wanted to use it on.
The newer (3.3 and up I think) versions of knoppix have a cool feature where the entire knoppix CD is loaded into ram. My friends computer has 1024 megs of ram, so we tried it out. It was so incredibly fast; Open Office barely took any time to load.
I don't know if his top of the line, hyperthreaded P4 had a big impact, because I don't know hard it is to decompress the cloop compression knoppix uses. But if you have a computer with a gig or more of ram you should give it a try.
Maybe, but my fucking mother fucking swore all the fucking time when I was fucking growing up, and I turned out just fucking fine. So fuck off motherfucker.
Final Fantasy X-2 can't be that bad. It's the only game that CmdrTaco is playing according to the What We're Playing tab on the right side of Slashdot Games page.
And Yuna's damn sexy.
ReiserFS is good because it uses advanced algorithms and such that I will never understand to increase the speed at which harddrives (or usb solid state devices...) can read and write data at the cost of processor utilization. This is good because
A) Processors have been increasing in speed much more quickly than hard-drives, so this tradeoff can lead to a more balanced system.
B) Hard-drive read/write speeds can have a lot more impact on the speed of a computer than people realize. When large programs (Open Office, etc.) take a long time to load up it makes a computer seem slow, and the general mentality is that the solution to a slow computer is to get a faster processor. Sometimes when I'm booted in Windows XP i'll be running a lot of programs simultaniously and the computer will seriuously bog down, so I'll three finger salute and look at my running processes, only to find that my cpu is idle. I'll then look over to see my HD activity LED constantly lit.
On the other hand, one of the Cons of using ReiserFS is that it eats up CPU cycles. It probably doesn't make sense to use it on an older (Pentium I/II) computer because the gain in Hard Drive speed will be overshadowed by the lost processor cycles, although 2.6's new kernel pre-empting code would probably help a lot with this problem.
There are also reports of file corruption, so it might not be a good idea on a server that can't afford down time to restore a backup.
My Christmas was pretty good. I got a new ATI Radeon 9600 SE (the budget 9600) from my cousin, and my parents got me Prince of Persia for the PS2. I like the way the original Prince of Persia is included as a bonus.
If the voting machines were properly regulated then the US (or state) government wouldn't be able to dictate the outcome of votes, as we have all seen that they can; George Bush did win the popular vote, it was 5 to 4.
The federal government is clearly willing to break the law to influence votes in Nevada.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters Health) - A group supporting marijuana legalization filed a federal complaint Wednesday against the White House's drug policy director, alleging that he violated the law by campaigning against a Nevada marijuana ballot initiative in November.
The compliant, lodged with the US Office of Special Counsel (OSC), accuses Office of National Drug Control Policy Director John Walters with breaking a law preventing federal officials from using their office to campaign for or against state ballot initiatives.
It accuses Walters of visiting several Nevada cities on October 10 and 11, 2001, and advocating for the defeat of a marijuana legalization initiative there during press briefings and television appearances.
Walters' office dismissed the complaint, calling it a political stunt and maintaining that the director, President Bush's chief advisor on drug policy, acted within the law.
A federal law known as the Hatch Act prohibits federal officials from using their offices to influence elections.
The ballot measure, which failed 61% to 39%, would have decriminalized possession of less than 3 ounces of marijuana by adults.
The OSC is a independent agency set up to investigate whistle-blower complaints and alleged wrongdoing by administration officials.
Officials found guilty of Hatch Act violations can be permanently removed from office or suspended for not less than 30 days, according to the OSC Web site.
"We want him out of the picture. We want him excommunicated from the federal government forever," said Robert D. Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, the group that filed the complaint.
The complaint cites press reports quoting Walters in Nevada commenting directly on the marijuana initiative, calling it a "con" and "insulting to the voters of the state."
"Walters used the authority and influence of his official title to its full advantage," the complaint alleges.
Steve Fox, an attorney for the Marijuana Policy Project, said that OSC told him their initial investigation would take 2 to 3 months.
The group also complained to Susan Bilyew, the Nevada Deputy Secretary for Elections, that Walters had not filed election expenditure reports detailing political activities as state law requires.
ONDCP spokesperson Jennifer DeVallance called the complaint "nothing more than a cheap political stunt."
DeVallance said that Walters made 15 visits to 10 states in the months before the November elections, some which had marijuana initiatives on the ballot and some which did not.
DeVallance also said cited the 1998 federal legislation creating ONDCP, which requires the director to "take such action as necessary" to oppose attempts to legalize illicit drugs.
"When he goes out and does morning news shows, he talks about the fact that legalization efforts are a bad idea," she said.
Kampia said that the instructions do not give the director permission to violate the Hatch Act and other federal laws.
A statewide initiative similar to Nevada's failed in Arizona failed in November, as did an Ohio initiative calling for drug treatment and not incarceration for users of cocaine and other drugs.
Voters approved some local drug initiatives in Massachusetts, California, and Washington, including one directing San Francisco city officials to begin growing marijuana for medical use in violation of federal drug laws.
I looked at the comics section of my newspaper (The Boston Globe) this morning, and Opus was in the middle of the front page. This wounldn't have frightened me, except that that's where Doonesbury usually is.
I was like "those bastards, they finally cancelled it!" Then I found it on another page, read Opus and was slightly confused and amused.
I agree with you. I would also like to make this comment before someone starts a thread about how robots are going to take over the world (although this is slashdot and that will happen anyway). Even in a few years when computers will be able to easily beat human players, actually moving the pieces on a real board, even if the pieces are large, designed to be easily picked up by robotic arms, and weighted to resist falling over, will still be above the computers.
On the other hand, launching nukes doesn't require physical dexterity, just access codes. Time to build a bomb shelter.
Nobody made an OS yet that runs on the same range of hardware and has the same capabilities.
I call shenanigans (see SouthPark). Now I don't want to sound like too much of a linux zealot, and technically that is true. No other Operating system runs on the exact same set of hardware and has the exact same capabilities. But that doesn't mean the Windows is the best OS.
As far as the hardware goes, Windows only runs on x86 processors (with the exception of some old NTs, which ran on one other thing, which I don't remember). Now Linux may not support all of the hardware that Windows supports but: "Linux was first developed for 32-bit x86-based PCs (386 or higher). These days it also runs on (at least) the Compaq Alpha AXP, Sun SPARC and UltraSPARC, Motorola 68000, PowerPC, PowerPC64, ARM, Hitachi SuperH, IBM S/390, MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Intel IA-64, DEC VAX, AMD x86-64 and CRIS architectures." Quoted from the What is Linux? section of kernel.org.
It is also true that Linux, as an OS, doesn't have nearly as many capabilities as Windows. Windows, the Operating System, has a web browser, a media player, an E-mail client... - wasn't there some lawsuit about this, antitrust something or other? But, with the help of X windows, KDE, Mozilla... (replace any of those with your favorites), Linux can do as much as Windows, and more.
Am I the only one thats increased an increase in the use of the word Ergo since the architect scene in the Matrix? Is therefore not good enough anymore?
Obviously its strategy is to try giving Kasparov a virtual-boy sized headache and throw off his game.
A watched a little bit of the match on ESPN today, and that is honestly what it looked like. The only actualy reason to do this (that I could see) was that in the past the computer would need a human player to make the moves for it, wasting a few seconds per move, and the games are timed.
Aside from that it was just a PR stunt. Kasparov did not look like he liked the system, although he probably always looks that way when he's concentrating. I also agree with another comment, the ESPN commentary was very funny. I particularly liked 'Do you think that this VR setup is going to give Garry any trouble?' 'Well it shouldn't, because he's demonstrated on several occasions that he can play the game blindfolded.' If I were in that position, I would not want my imagination to be the only alternative if the glasses did give me a headache.
Also, I didn't care for the angle at which the game was shown. It was down pretty low on the board, and while I have no idea whether Garry wanted it that way, it would make the game a lot harder for me.
IBM Subpoenas SCO Investors, Analysts
Daniel Lyons, 11.11.03, 2:53 PM ET
NEW YORK - The legal battle between SCO Group and IBM is widening, as IBM has sent subpoenas to investors and analysts who have supported SCO.
On Oct. 30, IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) issued subpoenas to Baystar Capital, Deutsche Bank (nyse: DB - news - people ), Renaissance Ventures and Yankee Group, companies that have either invested in SCO (nasdaq: SCOX - news - people ) or published reports suggesting that SCO's claims against IBM could be legitimate.
"I view this as an attempt to bully and intimidate analysts--to try to cow them into silence," says Christopher Sontag, executive vice president at SCO, in Lindon, Utah.
In a lawsuit filed in March, SCO claims IBM put derivative code from Unix System V--an operating system for which SCO holds copyrights--into Linux, the free operating system developed collaboratively by programmers around the world.
SCO aims to collect $3 billion in damages from IBM and wants Linux customers to pay licensing fees to SCO.
IBM will not say why it issued the subpoenas. But a company spokesman says IBM is frustrated by SCO's reluctance to produce proof of its allegations. "It is time for SCO to produce something meaningful. They have been dragging their feet and it is not clear there is any incentive for SCO to try this in court," he says.
IBM has filed two motions to compel discovery, the most recent one on Nov. 6.
Sontag says SCO has provided 1 million pages of documents to IBM and that IBM in return has provided only 100,000 pages to SCO. "The foot-dragging is on the part of IBM," he says.
One legal expert says the subpoenas may be IBM's way to get at information that SCO will not provide. "If you're having trouble compelling discovery, you go to outside sources," says Brian Ferguson, an attorney at McDermott, Will & Emery, a Washington, D.C., law firm.
Ferguson, who is on the advisory board of a Linux enthusiast magazine and has published an article declaring SCO's case a long shot, points out that in its counter-claim IBM alleges SCO has unjustly enriched itself through the lawsuit.
Investors and analysts have participated, perhaps unwittingly, in that enrichment, Ferguson says. SCO shares, which traded at less than $1 before the suit was filed, now change hands at nearly $16 per share. Some insiders have sold shares.
"IBM needs to get answers from analysts about why they wrote positive reports and from Baystar about why they invested," Ferguson says.
The subpoenas, issued by Cravath, Swaine & Moore, IBM's law firm, present a broad request for all documents related to SCO and the Canopy Group, a Utah investment company that is SCO's biggest shareholder. One subpoena provided to Forbes requests all material related to communication with SCO or Canopy and any agreements that outsiders may have made with SCO or Canopy.
Baystar, Deutsche Bank and Yankee Group acknowledged receipt of the subpoenas but declined to comment on them. Baystar in October invested $50 million in SCO. Deutsche Bank analyst Brian Skiba in October issued a "buy" recommendation on SCO stock and said the stock could more than double in value. Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio has advised corporate customers who use Linux that they should take SCO's claims seriously.
"We expected IBM to conduct a fishing expedition at some point," says Herbert Jackson, managing director of Renaissance Ventures, a small investment company in Richmond, Va., that first bought SCO shares 18 months ago, before SCO filed its lawsuit, and it has bought more since the suit was filed. In April of this year Renaissance published a research report stating that the SCO lawsuit was "well founded."
Jackson, who also has invested alongside Canopy in other companies, says he has complied with the IBM subpoena, sending a 15-inch stack of paperwork to IBM's lawyers.
Meanwhile, Linux enthusiast Web sites and blogs are buzzing with the
The phone will have 'digital camera, video player, MP3 player...
Anyone know (or have reason to guess) if this thing will play Ogg Vorbis or FLAC audio files? Despite my decided lack of money I would buy an iPod if it had Vorbis support, and while I don't need a walkman, I do need a cell phone.
1. un-install ms word - you've just reduced your chances of being infected by foughly 50%
My friend doesn't have MS-Word, Norton was just being thorough. In a sort of ironic twist however, he uses the laptop to do Bioinformatics work with viruses; like comparing SARS with other viruses to try to figure out how it works.
Yes, we're in highschool. But we go to a vocational school, and we're both enrolled in Biotech.
Because of the regular virus infections that take down half of the network at my Highschool (half of the computers are Macs, the rest are windows), all students that want to bring in laptops have to go the the computer lab and get a copy of Norton Antivirus installed. This rule applies to both Mac and Windows computers, despite the fact that we haven't gotten any Mac viruses. Because of this my friend got a copy of Norton on his nice new Powerbook.
Now the point of my story - My friend looked into exactly what Norton was checking for, and it turns out that almost half of the viruses it was checking for were actually Microsoft Word macros. Now, I don't know that much about Word macros, but I'm assuming that most of the ones that would mess up a Windows box are different from those that would mess up an OS X box. So before anyone says that virus only show up for windows because it is the most popular, also realize that Micro$oft can't even write a secure word processor.
One of the best things about the original game was the one hour time limit and unlimited lives system. Almost all of the games back then had a system where you got X number of lives and sometimes Y number of continues and that was it. The system isn't much different today, except that in many games you get one life, but you can reload your saves until you get carpel-tunnel syndrome. In prince of persia you have unlimited lives; you respawn at the start of the level, of which there are 12, but you only have 60 minutes to complete the game. And I must say that getting to the last boss with a minute and a half left on the clock is much more nerve racking that getting to the end of a FPS with 15 health, because even with 15 health you can always shoot dodge save, shoot dodge save...
Other aspects of the ingenuity of the game also stand out. You could do an amazing number of things with just the four arrow keys and shift, which are the only controls in the game. I won't bore you with all of them, but the system is truely ingenius, although the sword fights could have been a little more complicated.
I also loved the doppleganger; it took me so many tries to figure out how to defeat him at the end of the game. Ever time you hit him it hurts you, if you have more health than him then you die when you kill him anyway, all of the ledges nearby are fatal falls (so you can't just knock him down to a lower level), and if you try to run past him he'll just kill you.
I still have Prince of Persia (the original DOS version) on my laptop, and I play it when I'm bored and I have ~45 minutes to kill.
What's the big deal? I imagine bullet-time will just have sort of a radius of effect. If you're not in the same room, you won't slow down, and if you're watching it from a distance, you will see people moving in slow-motion but the rest of the game is moving normally.
That would be very hard to implement. My idea is much simpler; just add 500ms to the ping of anyone not using bullet time. Have it be area/zone wide and go away if noone has used bullet-time in a minute or so.
This method would be very easy to implement, and would also be very effective - I grew up using AOL, and it is very hard to shoot anything with a ping >500 (unless you have a BFG9000). This method would be annoying as hell, but I don't see many other solutions that work and aren't annoying.
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Even with the 3D I couldn't find any lost dogs though.
Damn it, I was almost being productive. But now I have to run around looking for my red and blue glasses.
Hard Drives using the the latest IDE can get 133 Megabyters per second BURST transfers, but even good ones usually only get 50 Megs SUSTAINED transfer.
Despite your screwy numbers, Hard Drives really are much faster for loading operating systems. But the other place you screw up is that you forget what Knoppix is all about - A bootable linux distro would be a lot less convienient if you had to carry it around on a hard drive and open up computers you wanted to use it on.
I don't know if his top of the line, hyperthreaded P4 had a big impact, because I don't know hard it is to decompress the cloop compression knoppix uses. But if you have a computer with a gig or more of ram you should give it a try.
Maybe, but my fucking mother fucking swore all the fucking time when I was fucking growing up, and I turned out just fucking fine. So fuck off motherfucker.
Final Fantasy X-2 can't be that bad. It's the only game that CmdrTaco is playing according to the What We're Playing tab on the right side of Slashdot Games page. And Yuna's damn sexy.
ReiserFS is good because it uses advanced algorithms and such that I will never understand to increase the speed at which harddrives (or usb solid state devices...) can read and write data at the cost of processor utilization. This is good because
A) Processors have been increasing in speed much more quickly than hard-drives, so this tradeoff can lead to a more balanced system.
B) Hard-drive read/write speeds can have a lot more impact on the speed of a computer than people realize. When large programs (Open Office, etc.) take a long time to load up it makes a computer seem slow, and the general mentality is that the solution to a slow computer is to get a faster processor. Sometimes when I'm booted in Windows XP i'll be running a lot of programs simultaniously and the computer will seriuously bog down, so I'll three finger salute and look at my running processes, only to find that my cpu is idle. I'll then look over to see my HD activity LED constantly lit.
On the other hand, one of the Cons of using ReiserFS is that it eats up CPU cycles. It probably doesn't make sense to use it on an older (Pentium I/II) computer because the gain in Hard Drive speed will be overshadowed by the lost processor cycles, although 2.6's new kernel pre-empting code would probably help a lot with this problem.
There are also reports of file corruption, so it might not be a good idea on a server that can't afford down time to restore a backup.
Check out Ambrosia Software. They've made a lot of great Mac games (Escape Velocity Series), and they are starting to port them to Linux (Maelstrom).
I set up a mac emulator on my Windows box just so I could play some of their games.
My Christmas was pretty good. I got a new ATI Radeon 9600 SE (the budget 9600) from my cousin, and my parents got me Prince of Persia for the PS2. I like the way the original Prince of Persia is included as a bonus.
Damn it, and I thought my Tri-boot was cool.
The federal government is clearly willing to break the law to influence votes in Nevada.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters Health) - A group supporting marijuana legalization filed a federal complaint Wednesday against the White House's drug policy director, alleging that he violated the law by campaigning against a Nevada marijuana ballot initiative in November.
The compliant, lodged with the US Office of Special Counsel (OSC), accuses Office of National Drug Control Policy Director John Walters with breaking a law preventing federal officials from using their office to campaign for or against state ballot initiatives.
It accuses Walters of visiting several Nevada cities on October 10 and 11, 2001, and advocating for the defeat of a marijuana legalization initiative there during press briefings and television appearances.
Walters' office dismissed the complaint, calling it a political stunt and maintaining that the director, President Bush's chief advisor on drug policy, acted within the law.
A federal law known as the Hatch Act prohibits federal officials from using their offices to influence elections.
The ballot measure, which failed 61% to 39%, would have decriminalized possession of less than 3 ounces of marijuana by adults.
The OSC is a independent agency set up to investigate whistle-blower complaints and alleged wrongdoing by administration officials.
Officials found guilty of Hatch Act violations can be permanently removed from office or suspended for not less than 30 days, according to the OSC Web site.
"We want him out of the picture. We want him excommunicated from the federal government forever," said Robert D. Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, the group that filed the complaint.
The complaint cites press reports quoting Walters in Nevada commenting directly on the marijuana initiative, calling it a "con" and "insulting to the voters of the state."
"Walters used the authority and influence of his official title to its full advantage," the complaint alleges.
Steve Fox, an attorney for the Marijuana Policy Project, said that OSC told him their initial investigation would take 2 to 3 months.
The group also complained to Susan Bilyew, the Nevada Deputy Secretary for Elections, that Walters had not filed election expenditure reports detailing political activities as state law requires.
ONDCP spokesperson Jennifer DeVallance called the complaint "nothing more than a cheap political stunt."
DeVallance said that Walters made 15 visits to 10 states in the months before the November elections, some which had marijuana initiatives on the ballot and some which did not.
DeVallance also said cited the 1998 federal legislation creating ONDCP, which requires the director to "take such action as necessary" to oppose attempts to legalize illicit drugs.
"When he goes out and does morning news shows, he talks about the fact that legalization efforts are a bad idea," she said.
Kampia said that the instructions do not give the director permission to violate the Hatch Act and other federal laws.
A statewide initiative similar to Nevada's failed in Arizona failed in November, as did an Ohio initiative calling for drug treatment and not incarceration for users of cocaine and other drugs.
Voters approved some local drug initiatives in Massachusetts, California, and Washington, including one directing San Francisco city officials to begin growing marijuana for medical use in violation of federal drug laws.
Call me paranoid - I enjoy it.
I was like "those bastards, they finally cancelled it!" Then I found it on another page, read Opus and was slightly confused and amused.
What do they calculate wrong? (I'm just currious, and I'm not sure what you're refering to.)
You're now on my friends list, because I need a lawyer - and I'm thinking of moving to Canada because of it. Life is full of connections.
On the other hand, launching nukes doesn't require physical dexterity, just access codes. Time to build a bomb shelter.
I call shenanigans (see SouthPark). Now I don't want to sound like too much of a linux zealot, and technically that is true. No other Operating system runs on the exact same set of hardware and has the exact same capabilities. But that doesn't mean the Windows is the best OS.
As far as the hardware goes, Windows only runs on x86 processors (with the exception of some old NTs, which ran on one other thing, which I don't remember). Now Linux may not support all of the hardware that Windows supports but: "Linux was first developed for 32-bit x86-based PCs (386 or higher). These days it also runs on (at least) the Compaq Alpha AXP, Sun SPARC and UltraSPARC, Motorola 68000, PowerPC, PowerPC64, ARM, Hitachi SuperH, IBM S/390, MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Intel IA-64, DEC VAX, AMD x86-64 and CRIS architectures." Quoted from the What is Linux? section of kernel.org.
It is also true that Linux, as an OS, doesn't have nearly as many capabilities as Windows. Windows, the Operating System, has a web browser, a media player, an E-mail client... - wasn't there some lawsuit about this, antitrust something or other? But, with the help of X windows, KDE, Mozilla... (replace any of those with your favorites), Linux can do as much as Windows, and more.
The music for the invitation demo is in Ogg Vorbis format.
I for one welcome the repeal of our old MP3 overlords!
Am I the only one thats increased an increase in the use of the word Ergo since the architect scene in the Matrix? Is therefore not good enough anymore?
A watched a little bit of the match on ESPN today, and that is honestly what it looked like. The only actualy reason to do this (that I could see) was that in the past the computer would need a human player to make the moves for it, wasting a few seconds per move, and the games are timed.
Aside from that it was just a PR stunt. Kasparov did not look like he liked the system, although he probably always looks that way when he's concentrating. I also agree with another comment, the ESPN commentary was very funny. I particularly liked 'Do you think that this VR setup is going to give Garry any trouble?' 'Well it shouldn't, because he's demonstrated on several occasions that he can play the game blindfolded.' If I were in that position, I would not want my imagination to be the only alternative if the glasses did give me a headache.
Also, I didn't care for the angle at which the game was shown. It was down pretty low on the board, and while I have no idea whether Garry wanted it that way, it would make the game a lot harder for me.
NEW YORK - The legal battle between SCO Group and IBM is widening, as IBM has sent subpoenas to investors and analysts who have supported SCO.
On Oct. 30, IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) issued subpoenas to Baystar Capital, Deutsche Bank (nyse: DB - news - people ), Renaissance Ventures and Yankee Group, companies that have either invested in SCO (nasdaq: SCOX - news - people ) or published reports suggesting that SCO's claims against IBM could be legitimate.
"I view this as an attempt to bully and intimidate analysts--to try to cow them into silence," says Christopher Sontag, executive vice president at SCO, in Lindon, Utah.
In a lawsuit filed in March, SCO claims IBM put derivative code from Unix System V--an operating system for which SCO holds copyrights--into Linux, the free operating system developed collaboratively by programmers around the world.
SCO aims to collect $3 billion in damages from IBM and wants Linux customers to pay licensing fees to SCO.
IBM will not say why it issued the subpoenas. But a company spokesman says IBM is frustrated by SCO's reluctance to produce proof of its allegations. "It is time for SCO to produce something meaningful. They have been dragging their feet and it is not clear there is any incentive for SCO to try this in court," he says.
IBM has filed two motions to compel discovery, the most recent one on Nov. 6.
Sontag says SCO has provided 1 million pages of documents to IBM and that IBM in return has provided only 100,000 pages to SCO. "The foot-dragging is on the part of IBM," he says.
One legal expert says the subpoenas may be IBM's way to get at information that SCO will not provide. "If you're having trouble compelling discovery, you go to outside sources," says Brian Ferguson, an attorney at McDermott, Will & Emery, a Washington, D.C., law firm.
Ferguson, who is on the advisory board of a Linux enthusiast magazine and has published an article declaring SCO's case a long shot, points out that in its counter-claim IBM alleges SCO has unjustly enriched itself through the lawsuit.
Investors and analysts have participated, perhaps unwittingly, in that enrichment, Ferguson says. SCO shares, which traded at less than $1 before the suit was filed, now change hands at nearly $16 per share. Some insiders have sold shares.
"IBM needs to get answers from analysts about why they wrote positive reports and from Baystar about why they invested," Ferguson says.
The subpoenas, issued by Cravath, Swaine & Moore, IBM's law firm, present a broad request for all documents related to SCO and the Canopy Group, a Utah investment company that is SCO's biggest shareholder. One subpoena provided to Forbes requests all material related to communication with SCO or Canopy and any agreements that outsiders may have made with SCO or Canopy.
Baystar, Deutsche Bank and Yankee Group acknowledged receipt of the subpoenas but declined to comment on them. Baystar in October invested $50 million in SCO. Deutsche Bank analyst Brian Skiba in October issued a "buy" recommendation on SCO stock and said the stock could more than double in value. Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio has advised corporate customers who use Linux that they should take SCO's claims seriously.
"We expected IBM to conduct a fishing expedition at some point," says Herbert Jackson, managing director of Renaissance Ventures, a small investment company in Richmond, Va., that first bought SCO shares 18 months ago, before SCO filed its lawsuit, and it has bought more since the suit was filed. In April of this year Renaissance published a research report stating that the SCO lawsuit was "well founded."
Jackson, who also has invested alongside Canopy in other companies, says he has complied with the IBM subpoena, sending a 15-inch stack of paperwork to IBM's lawyers.
Meanwhile, Linux enthusiast Web sites and blogs are buzzing with the
Anyone know (or have reason to guess) if this thing will play Ogg Vorbis or FLAC audio files? Despite my decided lack of money I would buy an iPod if it had Vorbis support, and while I don't need a walkman, I do need a cell phone.
My friend doesn't have MS-Word, Norton was just being thorough. In a sort of ironic twist however, he uses the laptop to do Bioinformatics work with viruses; like comparing SARS with other viruses to try to figure out how it works.
Yes, we're in highschool. But we go to a vocational school, and we're both enrolled in Biotech.
Now the point of my story - My friend looked into exactly what Norton was checking for, and it turns out that almost half of the viruses it was checking for were actually Microsoft Word macros. Now, I don't know that much about Word macros, but I'm assuming that most of the ones that would mess up a Windows box are different from those that would mess up an OS X box. So before anyone says that virus only show up for windows because it is the most popular, also realize that Micro$oft can't even write a secure word processor.
One of the best things about the original game was the one hour time limit and unlimited lives system. Almost all of the games back then had a system where you got X number of lives and sometimes Y number of continues and that was it. The system isn't much different today, except that in many games you get one life, but you can reload your saves until you get carpel-tunnel syndrome. In prince of persia you have unlimited lives; you respawn at the start of the level, of which there are 12, but you only have 60 minutes to complete the game. And I must say that getting to the last boss with a minute and a half left on the clock is much more nerve racking that getting to the end of a FPS with 15 health, because even with 15 health you can always shoot dodge save, shoot dodge save...
Other aspects of the ingenuity of the game also stand out. You could do an amazing number of things with just the four arrow keys and shift, which are the only controls in the game. I won't bore you with all of them, but the system is truely ingenius, although the sword fights could have been a little more complicated.
I also loved the doppleganger; it took me so many tries to figure out how to defeat him at the end of the game. Ever time you hit him it hurts you, if you have more health than him then you die when you kill him anyway, all of the ledges nearby are fatal falls (so you can't just knock him down to a lower level), and if you try to run past him he'll just kill you.
I still have Prince of Persia (the original DOS version) on my laptop, and I play it when I'm bored and I have ~45 minutes to kill.
(/Nostalgia)
What's the big deal? I imagine bullet-time will just have sort of a radius of effect. If you're not in the same room, you won't slow down, and if you're watching it from a distance, you will see people moving in slow-motion but the rest of the game is moving normally.
That would be very hard to implement. My idea is much simpler; just add 500ms to the ping of anyone not using bullet time. Have it be area/zone wide and go away if noone has used bullet-time in a minute or so.
This method would be very easy to implement, and would also be very effective - I grew up using AOL, and it is very hard to shoot anything with a ping >500 (unless you have a BFG9000). This method would be annoying as hell, but I don't see many other solutions that work and aren't annoying.