Would that stop MS from using this "feature" outside the US though? Couldn't the implementation still be illegal as pointed out in the parent post even though it's only patented in the US?
In no way do the instructions say "swing with all your might and then let go". Quite to opposite in fact. If the user thinks the strap is intented for anything other than a little bit of extra safety, that's stupidity.
On the other hand... naming one half of the controller "Nunchuck"...
We swedes generally don't mind that people don't speak Swedish as long as they know at least some English. The younger generations usually even welcome the opportunity to polish their language skills.
Yeah, and in this case (Battlefield 1942 and expansions), Electronic Arts are hosting a number of pretty decent servers themselves, although the server settings could be better. But hey, at least they are out there.
I'm no financial genius either, but yeah, basically a stock split puts twice as many stocks on the market. Each stock will be worth half as much, but the stockholders will own twice as much stock in the company.
But I don't think the main reason is marketing. I think that when they lanch a product such as this they want to free up some stocks that can increase in value. Or at least, they're hoping they will. Betting it all on one card...
It's a gutsy move if there ever was one, but the timing is pretty good, not to say perfect. Just take a look at the competitors. Both the X-box and the Nintendo Dolphin are falling behind and won't be out until who knows when. There's a lot of money to be made if they put themselves on the market at the right time.
However, they might meet some resistance from the Dreamcast. If that happens and the resitance is enough to shake Sony up a bit, then they are in dangerous waters with everything riding on a single product. This will be exiting to watch.
His timing couldn't have been better. His leadership began on that russian tank 9 years ago and in two days (or so) he's going down to Israel to visit the birthplace of Christ. Nice way to round off his career.
Maybe he should have stepped down earlier, but then again, the world is already filled with "what if:s". We must not forget that in the beginning of his leadership, he was a very strong political figure with a lot of political courage, but in the end his goals were set too high even for him to cope with.
I'm convinced that his people are happy to get some new leadership, but I'm also sure that they feel great sympathy for Jeltsin.
I really hate to send a reply just to agree, but yes, they certainly do. Linus himself had stated that he's gotten his "well paid job at Transmeta" because of his success with Linux.
The point he was trying to make while saying it (in an interview last summer) was that even though he hasn't made any money off the actual Linux source, Linux and the fame it brought him has gotten him a nice paycheck at Transmeta.
I first thought, who the hell cares about a bunch of punks cheating in a shoot-em-up? For me, when I first heard it about it I thought, hey, let them cheat, it's not relevant to the Open Source community anyway.
ESR proves me wrong. Again. He sees things that would normally escape the naked eye. I guess that's why he's our No.1 spokesman, right?
I'm not going to claim that I'm a specialist or anything like that, but didn't it say that he worked "free for Transmeta" and not "for free for Transmeta"? One can debate the difference of course, but the point the editor is trying to make I guess is that Linus isn't bound to Linux or any of the distributions.
Yeah, that would be cool. Again, ignoring the "getting there" problem, we could use these zones to relive the turn of the Millennium over and over again... (Imagine the pain...)
Well, I guess that a reverse-time zone could be useful in other situations as well. I know a few times in the past where I could have made great use of one.
No it's not, but it is under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) and the Netscape Public License (NPL). Although it's not GPL, both means free software as far as I can tell.
I agree with most of the things you say. Of course there are exceptions such as those you pointed out.
It is ridiculous to try to push off responsibility to manufacturers when products are misused. If a product is reasonably safe when used as intended, the manufacturer shouldn't be held liable. In the case of products like guns and knives, if they are safe for the operator when used properly, then I'd say the manufacturer is blameless. If a gunmaker builds guns that blow up and injure the user, or a knife that broke and injured the user, then obviously that would be different, and a reasonable person would be expected to hold the manufacturer liable.
What's the intended use of a Virus? Who's to blame when a virus is spread? Like I said, your points are more than valid, but I don't think that the manufacturer can be completely without blame in all cases.
But still, a gun is manufactured with a single purpose and that is to hurt or kill. If one makes a tool with a specific purpose there's no way he/she can say: "Hey, it's not my fault."
Same thing with Software. One can't make a password crack program and then claim that he/she didn't think anybody would use it to crack passwords and do nasty things with it.
The Borg rules although "Q" is pretty cool as well. There probably won't be any more Borg movies since they got kinda waxed in "First Contact". Sad though since they were one of the few enemies that really had the Enterprise on the run.
A very good read. Nice to see that he still has such wit at 81. I especially liked this one:
"I have difficulty remembering names. But I feel as long as I can spell "Alzheimer," I'm in good shape."
I agree that the article was a bit short. I would have liked to hear a bit more about what he thinks of the future.
"I think we have a 51 percent chance of survival. I would say the next decade is perhaps one of the most crucial in human history, though many people have felt that in the past. But it's real now."
That's a pretty pessimistic view, but that doesn't mean that it's far from the truth. He might very well be right. We are living in a crucial era. The choices we make in the next decade will be of great importance.
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Would that stop MS from using this "feature" outside the US though? Couldn't the implementation still be illegal as pointed out in the parent post even though it's only patented in the US?
In no way do the instructions say "swing with all your might and then let go". Quite to opposite in fact. If the user thinks the strap is intented for anything other than a little bit of extra safety, that's stupidity.
On the other hand... naming one half of the controller "Nunchuck"...
You'll probably have to forgo pants.
Doesn't sound all that bad.
You're thinking about France methinks... ;)
We swedes generally don't mind that people don't speak Swedish as long as they know at least some English. The younger generations usually even welcome the opportunity to polish their language skills.
Yeah, and in this case (Battlefield 1942 and expansions), Electronic Arts are hosting a number of pretty decent servers themselves, although the server settings could be better. But hey, at least they are out there.
If you're having problem with the link, try this one intead:
http://www.recordstore.com/wuname/
- JoJo
I'm no financial genius either, but yeah, basically a stock split puts twice as many stocks on the market. Each stock will be worth half as much, but the stockholders will own twice as much stock in the company.
But I don't think the main reason is marketing. I think that when they lanch a product such as this they want to free up some stocks that can increase in value. Or at least, they're hoping they will. Betting it all on one card...
- JoJo
It's a gutsy move if there ever was one, but the timing is pretty good, not to say perfect. Just take a look at the competitors. Both the X-box and the Nintendo Dolphin are falling behind and won't be out until who knows when. There's a lot of money to be made if they put themselves on the market at the right time.
However, they might meet some resistance from the Dreamcast. If that happens and the resitance is enough to shake Sony up a bit, then they are in
dangerous waters with everything riding on a single product. This will be exiting to watch.
- JoJo
Where is the CD-player remote conrol on this list? It's the greatest thing ever invented.
;)
It's too late for me to write a serious comment
- JoJo
Sensei's working hard with Linuxnewbie.org to teach us newibes to ropes. He should get this award. That's sensei@linuxnewbie.org
- JoJo
His timing couldn't have been better. His leadership began on that russian tank 9 years ago and in two days (or so) he's going down to Israel to visit the birthplace of Christ. Nice way to round off his career.
Maybe he should have stepped down earlier, but then again, the world is already filled with "what if:s". We must not forget that in the beginning of his leadership, he was a very strong political figure with a lot of political courage, but in the end his goals were set too high even for him to cope with.
I'm convinced that his people are happy to get some new leadership, but I'm also sure that they feel great sympathy for Jeltsin.
- JoJo
I really hate to send a reply just to agree, but yes, they certainly do. Linus himself had stated that he's gotten his "well paid job at Transmeta" because of his success with Linux.
The point he was trying to make while saying it (in an interview last summer) was that even though he hasn't made any money off the actual Linux source, Linux and the fame it brought him has gotten him a nice paycheck at Transmeta.
And yes, very odd wording indeed.
- JoJo
What, in your opinion, what will it take for the Linux OS to establish itself on the desktop market as we are moving into the next century?
Will the release of Win2000 affect Linux's quest for "world domination"? If so, what should the Open Source community's counter strategy be?
- JoJo
I first thought, who the hell cares about a bunch of punks cheating in a shoot-em-up? For me, when I first heard it about it I thought, hey, let them cheat, it's not relevant to the Open Source community anyway.
ESR proves me wrong. Again. He sees things that would normally escape the naked eye. I guess that's why he's our No.1 spokesman, right?
- JoJo
I'm not going to claim that I'm a specialist or anything like that, but didn't it say that he worked "free for Transmeta" and not " for free for Transmeta"? One can debate the difference of course, but the point the editor is trying to make I guess is that Linus isn't bound to Linux or any of the distributions.
- JoJo
Yeah, that would be cool. Again, ignoring the "getting there" problem, we could use these zones to relive the turn of the Millennium over and over again... (Imagine the pain...)
Well, I guess that a reverse-time zone could be useful in other situations as well. I know a few times in the past where I could have made great use of one.
No it's not, but it is under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) and the Netscape Public License (NPL). Although it's not GPL, both means free software as far as I can tell.
I agree with most of the things you say. Of course there are exceptions such as those you pointed out.
It is ridiculous to try to push off responsibility to manufacturers when products are misused. If a product is reasonably safe when used as intended, the manufacturer shouldn't be held liable. In the case of products like guns and knives, if they are safe for the operator when used properly, then I'd say the manufacturer is blameless. If a gunmaker builds guns that blow up and injure the user, or a knife that broke and injured the user, then obviously that would be different, and a reasonable person would be expected to hold the manufacturer liable.
What's the intended use of a Virus? Who's to blame when a virus is spread? Like I said, your points are more than valid, but I don't think that the manufacturer can be completely without blame in all cases.
But still, a gun is manufactured with a single purpose and that is to hurt or kill. If one makes a tool with a specific purpose there's no way he/she can say: "Hey, it's not my fault."
Same thing with Software. One can't make a password crack program and then claim that he/she didn't think anybody would use it to crack passwords and do nasty things with it.
- JJ
The Borg rules although "Q" is pretty cool as well. There probably won't be any more Borg movies since they got kinda waxed in "First Contact". Sad though since they were one of the few enemies that really had the Enterprise on the run.
-- J J
What about:
"We are the world's greatest search engine."
Says who?
A very good read. Nice to see that he still has such wit at 81. I especially liked this one:
"I have difficulty remembering names. But I feel as long as I can spell "Alzheimer," I'm in good shape."
I agree that the article was a bit short. I would have liked to hear a bit more about what he thinks of the future.
"I think we have a 51 percent chance of survival. I would say the next decade is perhaps one of the most crucial in human history, though many people have felt that in the past. But it's real now."
That's a pretty pessimistic view, but that doesn't mean that it's far from the truth. He might very well be right. We are living in a crucial era. The choices we make in the next decade will be of great importance.
-- J J
"There's always a bigger fish."
Hehe, that's a point of course, but it still seems like a very nice initiative from the guys at the BSD Driver Database.
Every journey has a first step and all of that, and this is a good example of one. Hopefully this will start a trend.
- JJ