Nintendo has never entered into the bullshit that Sony and MS have so leave them out of it;p And why should Nintendo develop for PCs when they will have the cheapest most affordable console out of the whole lot? Nintendo will be the only one this generation whose console is cheaper than a decent non-gaming PC so why shoot themselves in the foot and tell their customers they have to get a $1000 minimum PC to play their games?
If his unit is defective, he should take it back and get his money back or a replacement. If electronics manufacturers could not sell a product unless they could guarantee 100% that no units would turn out to need a replacement, technology could not exist.
Save the EU perhaps, the US is the world's largest and most lucrative single market for foreign goods. That is why we get our way when dealing with industrialized powers. You might notice that most of the countries that have the balls to flip us the bird are the ones that don't need to sell their stuff to us to keep themselves from collapsing.
I'm pretty sure the Supreme Court has had to make dozens if not hundreds of decisions regarding such things as video, internet communications and the like were covered under the first amendment so I'd say that the Constitution never really covered them until the Supreme Court felt it should (and rightfully so). I doubt the framers ever intended for DVDs of hardcore pornography to be protected...and would probably be the ones making the laws againsts them today if they were alive.
So only the rich with insurance would be able get their loved ones back? Like it or not the military, FBI, DOJ all exist because they are necessary. This country would fall apart without a central authority. I think the civil war proved that.
Even worse is the fact that all browser vendors MUST know about this case now and would be *willfully* infringing if they don't work around the patent and Eolas decides they don't like the direction they're taking with their browsers.
VS 2003 was first available at Amazon.com in November of 2003 so it's just about 2 years old. Not that old considering the fact that it's such a huge product and quite expensive and a lot of people still use the truely ancient Visual Studio 6.
Are we talking about tearing here? Windows doesn't support VSync on the desktop yet AFAIK. That is supposed to be coming in LongVista or whatever it's called now.
In CS courses below 300, we were told that goto was evil and should NEVER be used. They didn't even teach its use. In 300+ courses, we were given examples of why goto is sometimes the best approach producing easier to understand code that was also faster. In fact, a lot of time was spent by professors that did real work deprogramming brainwashed students who were taught that global variables should never EVER be used, goto is Satan, dynamic memory is for terrorists and all kinds of god awful ideas.
That is one of the problems with academia. There are too many Java hugging professors teaching the C/C++ courses and trying to push their own agenda. A Java loving professor completely deprived his students of an entire semester of C++ file/data structure instruction because of his Java pimping agenda. When the term project of "File and Data Structures in C and C++" is a Java project, you know there's a problem...
It's quite simple actually. You give them candy. That's it. That is Halloween. I have no idea where you got the idea that there was culture behind it. We bastardized someone else's culture to produce Halloween. It's just an excuse to sell shit and eat junk food. The problem is you have corporations and retailers that saw how their American brethren were making piles of money on superficial holidays and they decided they wanted a piece of the action;)
Why would it have been appropriate to interfere in European affairs back then when the international community thinks it's inappropriate for us to interfere with just about anything today? If a war broke out between France and Germany today, would the US be expected to go in and put a stop to it tomorrow?
Only a developer who has ownership of copyright to 100% of a codebase can refuse to license someone if they've been distributing binaries under the GPL. However, that does not stop someone they have distributed binaries and sources to from sharing the GPLed sources and thus licensing the third party.
The purpose of recycling is not having to rip more material out of the ground in a destructive process just to make another Coke or Pepsi can. We recycle the old cans.
Smoking in public is obnoxious. If it is causing any kind of lung damage (not even cancer) in non-smokers, then it should not be allowed in public. Even if it doesn't cause cancer (not even all smokers get cancer for years), second hand smoke will carry agents which cause damage (not cancer!) to the lungs. Even if I never get cancer from a smoker, I also don't want to be breathing in even a cut down version of the stuff that is rotting their lungs out to clog mine as well.
"Secondhand tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemical compounds. More than 60 of these are known or suspected to cause cancer."
I find it hard to believe you think people should be able to spew that stuff into the air for all to breath...
My god, no. The problem is that people are so used to seeing things that they think CSI investigators (supposedly) really do In Real Life(tm). CSI bombards people with science "facts" all the way through the show. People will see them investigating videogame induced crime sprees and murders and they'll assume that such a thing must be backed up with fact just like other things on the show. When CSI causes juries to stop accepting evidence that isn't a forensic smoking gun, it's hard to tell what it can do to the typical couch potato voter who will gladly vote for the next guy that wants to ban video games cause CSI says they cause crime.
My god, you're retarded! A guy can walk outside with nothing but a pair of shorts on if he wants. Guess who can't do that in most places? That's right, the full half of population that happens to have functioning mammaries. A fat man with bigger tits than some women can do it too. It's only indecent if it can squirt milk I suppose.
There are a few things Apple could do to cripple the Intel iBooks initially. Low clock speeds and small caches (if Intel will give them custom cripple chips and risk their reputation) to claim longer battery life, low maximum installed memory (say 1.0 GB vs the the PB's 1.25(15")/2.0(17")) and claim that is for battery life. Crappy slow hard disks for battery life. Small screens to keep the 17" PB safe. These things are supposedly going to be entry-level anyway so it doesn't necessarily have to beat the current fastest iBook. They could hold that off till they have the new PBs ready to introduce along with the faster iBook if they wanted.
I sure hope I haven't correctly guessed any bit of Steve's plan. He might sue me for the identity of my non-existant source!
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Nintendo has never entered into the bullshit that Sony and MS have so leave them out of it ;p And why should Nintendo develop for PCs when they will have the cheapest most affordable console out of the whole lot? Nintendo will be the only one this generation whose console is cheaper than a decent non-gaming PC so why shoot themselves in the foot and tell their customers they have to get a $1000 minimum PC to play their games?
Odd, they seem to do massive recalls or advisories all the time and don't get sued. What happy fun world are you living in?
If his unit is defective, he should take it back and get his money back or a replacement. If electronics manufacturers could not sell a product unless they could guarantee 100% that no units would turn out to need a replacement, technology could not exist.
Save the EU perhaps, the US is the world's largest and most lucrative single market for foreign goods. That is why we get our way when dealing with industrialized powers. You might notice that most of the countries that have the balls to flip us the bird are the ones that don't need to sell their stuff to us to keep themselves from collapsing.
If fairly quickly you mean crash the world economy in the communication confusion, you're correct.
I'm pretty sure the Supreme Court has had to make dozens if not hundreds of decisions regarding such things as video, internet communications and the like were covered under the first amendment so I'd say that the Constitution never really covered them until the Supreme Court felt it should (and rightfully so). I doubt the framers ever intended for DVDs of hardcore pornography to be protected...and would probably be the ones making the laws againsts them today if they were alive.
So only the rich with insurance would be able get their loved ones back? Like it or not the military, FBI, DOJ all exist because they are necessary. This country would fall apart without a central authority. I think the civil war proved that.
Even worse is the fact that all browser vendors MUST know about this case now and would be *willfully* infringing if they don't work around the patent and Eolas decides they don't like the direction they're taking with their browsers.
VS 2003 was first available at Amazon.com in November of 2003 so it's just about 2 years old. Not that old considering the fact that it's such a huge product and quite expensive and a lot of people still use the truely ancient Visual Studio 6.
Are we talking about tearing here? Windows doesn't support VSync on the desktop yet AFAIK. That is supposed to be coming in LongVista or whatever it's called now.
most of the security improvements are bound to be invisible so wtf are you talking about?
In CS courses below 300, we were told that goto was evil and should NEVER be used. They didn't even teach its use. In 300+ courses, we were given examples of why goto is sometimes the best approach producing easier to understand code that was also faster. In fact, a lot of time was spent by professors that did real work deprogramming brainwashed students who were taught that global variables should never EVER be used, goto is Satan, dynamic memory is for terrorists and all kinds of god awful ideas.
That is one of the problems with academia. There are too many Java hugging professors teaching the C/C++ courses and trying to push their own agenda. A Java loving professor completely deprived his students of an entire semester of C++ file/data structure instruction because of his Java pimping agenda. When the term project of "File and Data Structures in C and C++" is a Java project, you know there's a problem...
Nobody cares about marketshare for a bunch of 386 Linux boxes in someone's parents' basement..
This is an expensive piece of hardware to have sitting on the floor. It's supposed to be on a shelf in an entertainment center.
I hope you're at least talking about NT 4.0, but even then you're talking about software released nearly a decade ago.
It's quite simple actually. You give them candy. That's it. That is Halloween. I have no idea where you got the idea that there was culture behind it. We bastardized someone else's culture to produce Halloween. It's just an excuse to sell shit and eat junk food. The problem is you have corporations and retailers that saw how their American brethren were making piles of money on superficial holidays and they decided they wanted a piece of the action ;)
Why would it have been appropriate to interfere in European affairs back then when the international community thinks it's inappropriate for us to interfere with just about anything today? If a war broke out between France and Germany today, would the US be expected to go in and put a stop to it tomorrow?
Only a developer who has ownership of copyright to 100% of a codebase can refuse to license someone if they've been distributing binaries under the GPL. However, that does not stop someone they have distributed binaries and sources to from sharing the GPLed sources and thus licensing the third party.
The purpose of recycling is not having to rip more material out of the ground in a destructive process just to make another Coke or Pepsi can. We recycle the old cans.
Smoking in public is obnoxious. If it is causing any kind of lung damage (not even cancer) in non-smokers, then it should not be allowed in public. Even if it doesn't cause cancer (not even all smokers get cancer for years), second hand smoke will carry agents which cause damage (not cancer!) to the lungs. Even if I never get cancer from a smoker, I also don't want to be breathing in even a cut down version of the stuff that is rotting their lungs out to clog mine as well.
"Secondhand tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemical compounds. More than 60 of these are known or suspected to cause cancer."
I find it hard to believe you think people should be able to spew that stuff into the air for all to breath...
My god, no. The problem is that people are so used to seeing things that they think CSI investigators (supposedly) really do In Real Life(tm). CSI bombards people with science "facts" all the way through the show. People will see them investigating videogame induced crime sprees and murders and they'll assume that such a thing must be backed up with fact just like other things on the show. When CSI causes juries to stop accepting evidence that isn't a forensic smoking gun, it's hard to tell what it can do to the typical couch potato voter who will gladly vote for the next guy that wants to ban video games cause CSI says they cause crime.
My god, you're retarded! A guy can walk outside with nothing but a pair of shorts on if he wants. Guess who can't do that in most places? That's right, the full half of population that happens to have functioning mammaries. A fat man with bigger tits than some women can do it too. It's only indecent if it can squirt milk I suppose.
and risk losing containment on the anti-matter that is powering the beast?
um, if Europeans want regular XP, what business is it of the EU to stop them from getting it?
There are a few things Apple could do to cripple the Intel iBooks initially. Low clock speeds and small caches (if Intel will give them custom cripple chips and risk their reputation) to claim longer battery life, low maximum installed memory (say 1.0 GB vs the the PB's 1.25(15")/2.0(17")) and claim that is for battery life. Crappy slow hard disks for battery life. Small screens to keep the 17" PB safe. These things are supposedly going to be entry-level anyway so it doesn't necessarily have to beat the current fastest iBook. They could hold that off till they have the new PBs ready to introduce along with the faster iBook if they wanted.
I sure hope I haven't correctly guessed any bit of Steve's plan. He might sue me for the identity of my non-existant source!
The name is probably related to it being part of the Windows 2003 line of operating systems...