On the other hand, having the operating system actually capable to deal with (and configure, the real biggie) RAID is very nice.
I hate that firmware level fussing you have to do with hardware RAID, and then the operating system is pretty clueless/helpless aboout dealing with any failures itself.
That's the problem with congress these days, they only measure their progress against whether or not they're passing laws. Never mind the damage they cause.
This is a very dangerous situation. More laws = less freedom, plain and simple. If you need a law to defend you're freedom, its only because the idiots in congress are looking at taking that freedom away. Hell sometimes there are laws (constitutional amendments even) that should protect us, but they just IGNORE those.
The Supreme Court should start to exercise a policy of immediate judicial review of any bills that they think are unconstitutional, no waiting on a challenge. Congress is openly thumbing its nose at very many of our rights, the court should begin to smoke any of the unconstitutional crap they're coming up with before we the people even have to deal with it.
It's a pity I have to look this far down in this story for a metion of the totally, completely worthless company that is taking this action.
As someone who makes software purchasing decisions, I will be sure to never buy any software from this company ever.
Any company that does this kind of things doesn't deserve to exist.
Salary cuts -> low morale -> people leaving -> poor future products, since the best and brightest leave first -> no support whatsoever -> less income for company -> eventual demise of company.
I give them 18 months to live, maybe less.
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I think you're wrong on a couple of fronts. At work my group supports about 50-60 palm users. These people alomst all use the palm exclusively for scheduling their appointments and to-do lists. Games are pretty much a sideshow. My palm is used for (in order), my schedule, to do list, contact list, notes, and then for games.
My son also has both a pixter and a gameboy. Both devices are remarkably different. The pixter focuses mostly on educative games and in actuallity hoing the skills necessary for using a PDA. The games are fairly interesting an centered on learning mostly. The anamation cartrige enables the creation of simple cartoon style animation. The gameboy is a pure gaming machine and pretty nice at that. My son uses the gameboy more. But depending on his mood and what kind of activity he wants to do will judge which device he picks. The gameboy is definately the higer energy more intense device, but the pixter is the more engaging thinking and creativity toy.
Yeah, but maybe if the kids in school use linux, they won't be so afraid to touch a computer that doesn't have windows on it.
It's amazing how much Microsoft relys on users being absolutely scared to death to use something other than windows. If kids learn its not really all that different to use a windows machine as it is to use an Apple or Linux w/ Gnome or KDS, then thats a good thing. Maybe all those single GUI arguments will go by the wayside, too. We should be teaching our kids how to run a computer not exactly what button to click. GUI environments are alike enough that you should be able to teach students the basic concepts that make any GUI workable.
A) Not give into PC and make Greedo shoot first in the special edition.
or
B) Make damn sure everything's all PC in all the movies.
Note: My belief is that having Greedo shoot first ruined the scene completely. I agree with the other posts on this topic, a completely PC movie would entail staring a big blank screen for two hours.
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Yeah, we espicallly like breaking treaties..... WE DIDN'T EVEN RATIFY.
Yes but if DRM isn't mandated by law Microsoft has nothing to go on.
Their PR would be "Buy our great software with new feature to protect Hollywood and big record lables." vs. their competitors "Buy our software to listen to music and watch DVD's" or to put it another way "rip, mix, burn";-)
You've got a point here. When I was a kid and first saw Empire, I didn't go, "well wow, this is like an epic greek tragedy, what an amazing omage to that genre," I just thought it was a really cool movie, and that I should probably go out and get some of those new Empire Strikes Back toys.
I don't know if anyone here would know this, but wasn't Carrie Fisher called in to do some script docotring for Episode II, I know she's done it for other films.
For me trailers don't count, as I'm one of those twisted people who actually like movie trailers. And product placement doesn't bother me, what does kind of bug me is generic labeling like a can that has "pop" printed on the side that the actor is drinking, sure its not product placement, but it looks dumb.
As for TV that is exactly the issue, people will not pay for the show AND the commercails.
As long as the samba team uses no documents from Microsoft, they can make samba interact with Microsoft file systems.
Compaq did this with the PC Bios, it is well established practice.
The DMCA might make reverse engineering illegal, though, but I think when push comes to shove on this the Supreme Court should help reverse engineering make the DMCA illegal.
Joe Sixpack might not be as stupid as you think. It sure doesn't sound like he's out there in force pluking down $ 2000 for a TV.
Consumers may be stupid, but their not that stupid, and word of mouth on HDTV is that they're only good for DVD's and that there is no HDTV out there to watch.
Government got involved just enough to make HDTV a collosal failure.
If they get their way with the CDB??FDAEDD?? or whatever the hell its called now. They're going to make the economy a collosal failure. As other posters have noted if Hollywood had gotten what they wanted in the past, they'd be making a whole lot less money now, this new push to control digital is no different, only now they will take the computer industry down with them.
It doesn't have ENOUGH value. Cringely wrote an article a couple of week ago and stated an axiom about how "Creating something 10X cheaper that does what you current equipment does or creating something 10X faster for the same price will enable you to take over the market."
HDTV fails both these principles, it is orders of magnitude more expensive, and the quality is not the same orders of magnitude better. It can't use price or quality as leverage, because its too expensive and although better quality, not enough to justify the expense for most people.
Look for digital TV to fail and for increasing consumer unrest until Digital TV's are only twice as expensive, or less, than regular TV's. Then expect a big blow up over pay-per-view. The only way to add enough value for me to pay per show it to 1. Allow me to watch it anytime and pause and resume it. 2. If I pay for it it will have NO COMMERCIALS, the public will not pay for the privelege of watching commercials. 3. It better be good, a lot of TV nowdays it background noise, or whatevers on, people won't pay unless they really want to see the show.
I feel your pain, quite literally. I to work at an FDA audited location and we are delving into the EVIL realm of "Computer Validation".
The part I like the most, is that apart from creating all your own apps, its almost impossible to validate. Almost all (by that I mean I that there might be one that does) purchased software doesn't meet the Validation requirements. For stuff you make yourself you still have to cover the OS, the Language and processes you use, any minisucle change to the machine, etc. ad naseum.
To the other reply to this message, it doesn't matter if you try to validate Open Source vs. Closed Source, you're pretty much screwed either way.
This is way the proposed CDBTPA scares the hell out of me. Congress is actually suggesting that if Hardware and Software makers can't come up with workable copy protecttion schemes one will be forced on them. Judging by what the FDA has come up with for Software Validation, I am deathly serious when I say that what they would come up with in the CDBTPA's case would probably destroy civilization as we know it.
Yeah, they're free to do whatever they want with the standard, but... As someone who has the task of integrating Mircosoft's Stuff with RedHat's stuff with HP's HP-UX, I'd sure as hell want an open accepted uniform authentication standard.
But there are too many people out there (and within my company as well) that just put the blinders on and let Microsoft tell them what the standard is (oh and it doesn't work with anyone elses stuff). Then these same people ask why the hell we need so many logons for stuff.
The really neat thing about the Jai Alai scene is that Flynn's competitor Pete Jurasick the same guy who would go on to play Londo Mollari in Babylon 5. It really hard to recognize him without Londo's trademark hair.
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Nope, just saw the movie. In Episode III 3PO HAS to have his memory wiped. R2 on the other had appears to remember stuff in ANH that 3PO doesn't.
On the other hand, having the operating system actually capable to deal with (and configure, the real biggie) RAID is very nice.
I hate that firmware level fussing you have to do with hardware RAID, and then the operating system is pretty clueless/helpless aboout dealing with any failures itself.
I've got Unix servers serving up X displays to over a 100 users, with less power than this machines got.
True the full Mac GUI is more power hungry, but I would love to see one of these capable of serving up X style desktops to users.
This is beyond badmouthing. They are "punishing" companies that help Linux.
They have been found to be a monopoly. Monopolies are not supposed to do that.
This whole case is about Microsoft forcing its will on other companies in the Computer industry because they have no choice.
Boy do I wish I still had some mod points.
The above post is exactly right, and very instightful.
This isn't really an ENRON, its more of a raising of the bar for the Beaurcratic Incompetence of Government.
That's the problem with congress these days, they only measure their progress against whether or not they're passing laws. Never mind the damage they cause.
This is a very dangerous situation. More laws = less freedom, plain and simple. If you need a law to defend you're freedom, its only because the idiots in congress are looking at taking that freedom away. Hell sometimes there are laws (constitutional amendments even) that should protect us, but they just IGNORE those.
The Supreme Court should start to exercise a policy of immediate judicial review of any bills that they think are unconstitutional, no waiting on a challenge. Congress is openly thumbing its nose at very many of our rights, the court should begin to smoke any of the unconstitutional crap they're coming up with before we the people even have to deal with it.
No law in this case would be a good law.
It's a pity I have to look this far down in this story for a metion of the totally, completely worthless company that is taking this action.
As someone who makes software purchasing decisions, I will be sure to never buy any software from this company ever.
Any company that does this kind of things doesn't deserve to exist.
Salary cuts -> low morale -> people leaving -> poor future products, since the best and brightest leave first -> no support whatsoever -> less income for company -> eventual demise of company.
I give them 18 months to live, maybe less.
I think you're wrong on a couple of fronts. At work my group supports about 50-60 palm users. These people alomst all use the palm exclusively for scheduling their appointments and to-do lists. Games are pretty much a sideshow. My palm is used for (in order), my schedule, to do list, contact list, notes, and then for games.
My son also has both a pixter and a gameboy. Both devices are remarkably different. The pixter focuses mostly on educative games and in actuallity hoing the skills necessary for using a PDA. The games are fairly interesting an centered on learning mostly. The anamation cartrige enables the creation of simple cartoon style animation. The gameboy is a pure gaming machine and pretty nice at that. My son uses the gameboy more. But depending on his mood and what kind of activity he wants to do will judge which device he picks. The gameboy is definately the higer energy more intense device, but the pixter is the more engaging thinking and creativity toy.
Oh my God, you're right!! Full House ripped of Star Wars!!
Yeah, but maybe if the kids in school use linux, they won't be so afraid to touch a computer that doesn't have windows on it.
It's amazing how much Microsoft relys on users being absolutely scared to death to use something other than windows. If kids learn its not really all that different to use a windows machine as it is to use an Apple or Linux w/ Gnome or KDS, then thats a good thing. Maybe all those single GUI arguments will go by the wayside, too. We should be teaching our kids how to run a computer not exactly what button to click. GUI environments are alike enough that you should be able to teach students the basic concepts that make any GUI workable.
Ok, then pick one.
George Lucas should either....
A) Not give into PC and make Greedo shoot first in the special edition.
or
B) Make damn sure everything's all PC in all the movies.
Note: My belief is that having Greedo shoot first ruined the scene completely. I agree with the other posts on this topic, a completely PC movie would entail staring a big blank screen for two hours.
Yeah, we espicallly like breaking treaties ..... WE DIDN'T EVEN RATIFY.
Yes but if DRM isn't mandated by law Microsoft has nothing to go on.
;-)
Their PR would be "Buy our great software with new feature to protect Hollywood and big record lables." vs. their competitors "Buy our software to listen to music and watch DVD's" or to put it another way "rip, mix, burn"
You've got a point here. When I was a kid and first saw Empire, I didn't go, "well wow, this is like an epic greek tragedy, what an amazing omage to that genre," I just thought it was a really cool movie, and that I should probably go out and get some of those new Empire Strikes Back toys.
I don't know if anyone here would know this, but wasn't Carrie Fisher called in to do some script docotring for Episode II, I know she's done it for other films.
For me trailers don't count, as I'm one of those twisted people who actually like movie trailers. And product placement doesn't bother me, what does kind of bug me is generic labeling like a can that has "pop" printed on the side that the actor is drinking, sure its not product placement, but it looks dumb.
As for TV that is exactly the issue, people will not pay for the show AND the commercails.
Reverse engineered is not a copy, you idiot!
As long as the samba team uses no documents from Microsoft, they can make samba interact with Microsoft file systems.
Compaq did this with the PC Bios, it is well established practice.
The DMCA might make reverse engineering illegal, though, but I think when push comes to shove on this the Supreme Court should help reverse engineering make the DMCA illegal.
Joe Sixpack might not be as stupid as you think. It sure doesn't sound like he's out there in force pluking down $ 2000 for a TV.
Consumers may be stupid, but their not that stupid, and word of mouth on HDTV is that they're only good for DVD's and that there is no HDTV out there to watch.
Government got involved just enough to make HDTV a collosal failure.
If they get their way with the CDB??FDAEDD?? or whatever the hell its called now. They're going to make the economy a collosal failure. As other posters have noted if Hollywood had gotten what they wanted in the past, they'd be making a whole lot less money now, this new push to control digital is no different, only now they will take the computer industry down with them.
It doesn't have ENOUGH value. Cringely wrote an article a couple of week ago and stated an axiom about how "Creating something 10X cheaper that does what you current equipment does or creating something 10X faster for the same price will enable you to take over the market."
HDTV fails both these principles, it is orders of magnitude more expensive, and the quality is not the same orders of magnitude better. It can't use price or quality as leverage, because its too expensive and although better quality, not enough to justify the expense for most people.
Look for digital TV to fail and for increasing consumer unrest until Digital TV's are only twice as expensive, or less, than regular TV's. Then expect a big blow up over pay-per-view. The only way to add enough value for me to pay per show it to 1. Allow me to watch it anytime and pause and resume it. 2. If I pay for it it will have NO COMMERCIALS, the public will not pay for the privelege of watching commercials. 3. It better be good, a lot of TV nowdays it background noise, or whatevers on, people won't pay unless they really want to see the show.
I feel your pain, quite literally. I to work at an FDA audited location and we are delving into the EVIL realm of "Computer Validation".
The part I like the most, is that apart from creating all your own apps, its almost impossible to validate. Almost all (by that I mean I that there might be one that does) purchased software doesn't meet the Validation requirements. For stuff you make yourself you still have to cover the OS, the Language and processes you use, any minisucle change to the machine, etc. ad naseum.
To the other reply to this message, it doesn't matter if you try to validate Open Source vs. Closed Source, you're pretty much screwed either way.
This is way the proposed CDBTPA scares the hell out of me. Congress is actually suggesting that if Hardware and Software makers can't come up with workable copy protecttion schemes one will be forced on them. Judging by what the FDA has come up with for Software Validation, I am deathly serious when I say that what they would come up with in the CDBTPA's case would probably destroy civilization as we know it.
Yeah, they're free to do whatever they want with the standard, but...
As someone who has the task of integrating Mircosoft's Stuff with RedHat's stuff with HP's HP-UX, I'd sure as hell want an open accepted uniform authentication standard.
But there are too many people out there (and within my company as well) that just put the blinders on and let Microsoft tell them what the standard is (oh and it doesn't work with anyone elses stuff). Then these same people ask why the hell we need so many logons for stuff.
I concur, GLTron is awesome. Espically the latest versions with the split screen multi-player.
The really neat thing about the Jai Alai scene is that Flynn's competitor Pete Jurasick the same guy who would go on to play Londo Mollari in Babylon 5. It really hard to recognize him without Londo's trademark hair.
No, you're not the only one. It was truly a great game.