These people honestly look like they are just having fun.
Just like the people in those "I have congenital herpes" commercials I bet. Of course reality may not match what you see in videos or ads. Marketing droids would have multiple orgasm daily if all consumers thought exactly like you about promotional videos and the products they are trying to sell.
And a greatly changed play mechanic. Does Mario Kart DS play anything like New Super Mario Bros.?
Maybe you should compare New Super Mario Bros. to the [b]endless[/b] line of Super Mario platform clones that Nintendo has released and continues to re-release. And what makes Mario Kart DS different than the previous incarnations of Mario Kart on their other systems?
When you adjust the amount of exclusive games on the Xbox 360 for its one year head start, the Wii has more original games coming out for it.
Uh, when did exclusive mean that a game is original? And I hope we don't think that Wii versions of the same old Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Pokemon, and StarFox games are original? Funny that people complain about EA and their sports games being unoriginal, but Nintendo has a tendancy to use the same characters with a slightly different plot and no one criticizes them for a lack of innovation in games. Mario has been whored out into every possible genre that you can think of.
I would expect it to just have permenant storage (hard drive, possibly based on future technology) and use an internet conneciton to get games.
Unless by games you mean Solitaire and Minesweeper most consumers are not going to tolerate waiting several days to download massive next-gen games. Optical is not going no where not when--as reported earlier--devs have already claimed to have stuffed a 25GB Blu-Ray disc full of content and game data.
And the first comment in the linked KernelTrap reports that this problem was fixed. I'm not sure if that is true though as I haven't verified it myself.
In addition, Sony said it has the capability to upgrade the PS3's OS after the console launches through its online network, memory stick files or Blu-ray discs.
Let us hope that the only stuff that Sony will attempt to "upgrade" is additional game content, bug fixes, online store, and other similiar positive features. No rootkits on my PS3, Sony!;)
And you don't suppose that GTA 3, GTA: Vice City, and GTA: San Andreas being exclusively released on the PS2 first (months to a year before the Xbox/Xbox360 version) didn't sell alot of PS2s also? I bet that GTA alone helped sell more PS2s then FFX or FSXI in the US.
Lockyer would have sued the Sun for being the ringleader of the global warming cartel conspiracy, but no one has been able to reach the Sun yet to complete the service of process.:)
What goes on in Sacramento I want no apart of. Why doesn't Lockyer just go ahead and sue the Sun for bringing California "global warming" ~12 hours a day since the beginning of time. Surely he can prove that now.
Yes it is the Mozilla Public License. From the "GPL-Incompatible, Free Software Licenses" section of one of the links posted in the summary/article:
Mozilla Public License (MPL)
This is a free software license which is not a strong copyleft; unlike the X11 license, it has some complex restrictions that make it incompatible with the GNU GPL. That is, a module covered by the GPL and a module covered by the MPL cannot legally be linked together. We urge you not to use the MPL for this reason.
However, MPL 1.1 has a provision (section 13) that allows a program (or parts of it) to offer a choice of another license as well. If part of a program allows the GNU GPL as an alternate choice, or any other GPL-compatible license as an alternate choice, that part of the program has a GPL-compatible license.
I refuse to touch Linux unless and until its license explicitly states that I can develop, run, and sell my software without having to give away its copyrighted source code and PATENTED technology
I swear you must be trolling. If you don't license your software under the GPL then you can do all that stuff you want to do in regards to your software. You are not forced to use the GPL to release software for Linux. It is obvious that you are misinformed in regards to the GPL and Linux in general.
Please explain why companies like Google, id software, Epic Games, Macromedia (Flash plugin), and many other companies have released non-GPL, closed proprietary software for Linux? Please educate yourself on the current Linux community and software landscape before commenting with error-filled crap.
Bring me games to Linux and Vista will go away. Unless you do that I am buying Vista and MSFT.
It's obvious that you want to use Linux for the wrong reasons then. If you like your OS to be DRM-heavy, artificially restricted (unless you purchase the most expensive "Ultimate" version), with a side of multiple activation annoyances, then continue down the road to Vista--Microsoft will be happy to control your operating system for you while still treating you like a criminal.
Apple at one time built to last with good solid parts and also by patronizing good facilities.
T,FTFY. Todays Apple >> http://www.appledefects.com/. Geez, one wonders what happened between then and now. Apple is just another PC maker that gets its good manufactured from the same South Asian companies.
As MS Windows restricts what can and can't be done on their OS, Linux should get their crap together
I was unaware that Linux was one entity or a company with one agreeable goal. Here I thought the Linux community was a mix of users and developers all with various and sometimes conflicting goals.
and work on hardware support
Maybe you should direct that question toward the hardware vendors.
and on making an user friendly distribution to get the average joe on board
There have been many user friendly distros over the years: Red Hat/Fedora, Suse, Xandros, Linspire, PCLinuxOS, Ubuntu, etc. I would hardly classify Windows as user friendly with its multitudes of malware, totaltarian activation procedures, and DRM.
We generally won't get the older Mom and Pops to install Linux but the average Joe is all we need.
Linux preinstalled, already working out the box is all they need. Big OEMs like Lenovo, PCs sold at Walmart, and many smaller companies already do this. Those that care about Linux reaching mainstream acceptance just need to spread the word (marketing) more.
Seems some minds at Intel are falling back to the dubious position they held regarding home users never needing 64 bit CPUs.
And most home users still don't need a 64-bit processor. How many home users are even running 64-bit OS? Very few. The reason AMD64 has been selling over the past few years was due more to its price/performance ratio then it actually being 64-bit. What is the percentage of home users that even understand what 64-bit is let alone why the need it to to browse the web, get their email, play solitaire, or type up a report in their word processor? Very few I bet.
working towards a 'food and shelter for every child' program first
And how do you know that they don't already have such programs (smaller scale) in place already? And let us be realistic here. Not even first-world countries can provide food and shelter for every single child within their borders so how likely would developing countries be able to do so? The cycle of poor people depending on their governments and interal/external organizations to help feed them will continue unless people can gain an education. And as the first-world moves further into the information age, the developing countries need to play catchup; these laptops would help them narrow the growing divide between the first-world and the developing countries.
As was stated before and if you bothered to read the man page for mount you would realize that this problem has been resolved--a few years ago!
From mount man page:
(Until recently it was possible to run binaries anyway using a command like/lib/ld*.so/mnt/binary. This trick fails since Linux 2.4.25/2.6.0.)
Could also be the sound of hundreds of thousands of Slashdot geeks rushing to quickly type out a housand variations (there will be dupes of course) of the "Ballmer Tossing Chairs" jokes. Each starting with "And in Redmond...".
...but I've stopping thinking of IE7 as a competitor to all of the other browsers. Instead, I see it as what a baseline browser that's integrated into the OS should be.
What is this? Bizarro World? Baseline for what an integrated browser should be? Would that be a bug infested, automatic "leave the door and windows to my house wide open" type of baseline? As already mentioned, a baseline for an integrated browser into OS should be NONE!
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Actually Nvidia updated the driver last week and it is now at 9626.. 0-9626.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1
And the first comment in the linked KernelTrap reports that this problem was fixed. I'm not sure if that is true though as I haven't verified it myself.
Someone get this man a towel.
And you don't suppose that GTA 3, GTA: Vice City, and GTA: San Andreas being exclusively released on the PS2 first (months to a year before the Xbox/Xbox360 version) didn't sell alot of PS2s also? I bet that GTA alone helped sell more PS2s then FFX or FSXI in the US.
Lockyer would have sued the Sun for being the ringleader of the global warming cartel conspiracy, but no one has been able to reach the Sun yet to complete the service of process. :)
What goes on in Sacramento I want no apart of. Why doesn't Lockyer just go ahead and sue the Sun for bringing California "global warming" ~12 hours a day since the beginning of time. Surely he can prove that now.
Well, lets hope that it returns by Nov 7th as it's down right now.
Please explain why companies like Google, id software, Epic Games, Macromedia (Flash plugin), and many other companies have released non-GPL, closed proprietary software for Linux? Please educate yourself on the current Linux community and software landscape before commenting with error-filled crap.
Could also be the sound of hundreds of thousands of Slashdot geeks rushing to quickly type out a housand variations (there will be dupes of course) of the "Ballmer Tossing Chairs" jokes. Each starting with "And in Redmond...".
chairs chairs chairs chairs...