Bullshit1 If you don't want people "stealing" it, then don't publish. Keep it to yourself and get all the pleasure that gives you from it.
Thats an interesting point of view. If I understand you, you don't believe that a creator should have any say in how his work is redistributed. Once it's published and you have legally attained a copy, you think the creator should have no say in how or if you copy and redistribute it?
I assume then, you would be OK with me using modified GPL'd code in a closed source app, without making the source code available? After all, if they didn't want it stolen, they shouldn't have published it, right?
Actually, by European standards most US Democrats are pretty comfortably to the right of the center in politics.
I've been saying this for years. During the last US election I was talking to an american friend who thought Kerry was far too left wing to win over the centre ground of US politics. He refused to believe me when I told him Kerry would be on the right wing of our Conservative party.
So let's introduce this new console in Japan after it's been introducd everywhere else on Earth. That'll warm them up to us.
I am so sick of hearing this. I hate MS as much as the next good little slashdotter, but this almost psychotic need some people have to claim every single thing they ever do is a mistake is beggining to get on my nerves. Claiming the XBox 360 will be hurt in Japan by launching a week or two after the rest of the world is frankly nuts.
I'm going to assume you live in the US or Europe. Do you own any console other than an X-Box? GASP! you mean you bought it even though it launched in your country after it launched in Japan?
If anyone can show me real evidence of any Japanese gamer saying "well, I was going to buy a 360, but since it's launching in the US two weeks earlier, fuck it I'll wait for the PS3" then I will be amazed.
No-one was tortured at Abu Ghraib - not while it was under American control
So, if your mother is ever arrested, you'll be perfectly happy for the cops to strip her naked and threaten her with dogs?
If not, explain why it's different for Iraqis.
SELL LIKE HOT CAKES - "Hot cakes cooked in bear grease or pork lard were popular from earliest times in American. First made of cornmeal, the griddle cakes or pancakes were of course best when served piping hot and were often sold at church benefits, fairs, and other functions. So popular were they that by the beginning of the 19th century 'to sell like hot cakes' was a familiar expression for anything that sold very quickly effortlessly, and in quantity." From "Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins" by Robert Hendrickson.
Well, my brother has a flash based MP3 player that cost him much less than the same shuffle would have. It works correctly, and has more features than the shuffle.
So, I guess the only viable reason for buying a shuffle is the itunes lock in.
A quick search on Aria.co.uk shows them selling a 1gb flash player for £46. The 1gb ipod shuffle costs £89. Almost double. That is a pretty big difference if you ask me.
I really don't understand the attraction of the shuffle. I have an ipod myself, but the shuttle is more expensive than comparable flash players, and has fewer features.
Pay more, get less. What exactly is the attraction?
So you're going to walk around with your MP3 player, your DVD player, and your DS all in your pocket? That, my friend, is the lure of the PSP.
So you're going to walk around with a PSP in your pocket? I have to ask, because my DS only just fits in my pocket, and I thought PSP's were bigger than DS's?
a new super mario bros sidescroller with 3D stuff mixed in (watch the movies, it looks very stylish)
It is. I got to play a three level demo of it at a Nintendo show last week. not only does it look superb it plays great too, reminded me a lot of Super Mario World. I will definatly be buying it when it comes out.
I also got to play Mario Kart DS, the new Mario football game (I forget its name) and Twighlight Princess. And yes, they all rock.
Really? Which UK do you live in? Because I live in the one where the Labour party just won a 66 seat majority with only 35% of the vote. Thats right, 65% of the electorate voted against Labour, and they were still handed a comfortable win.
By contrast, the Conservatives got 33% of the vote, just 2% less than Labour, but won 198 seats to Labours 356.
No, it helps it only if it's far in advance of the Playstation release. the PC gaming market is very different to the console one. The X-Box 360 will not really be competing for those gamers.
No one who was thinking of buying an X-Box 360 is going to change their and buy a PC 3 or 4 times the price instead. Half life 3 or not. It's a weapon against Sony, not Alienware.
Well then when you say a 3.5 inch screen isn't small you should go ahead and calculate the size after the borders are taken into account.
OK, hang on, just let me grab my calculator.
Now, lets see, screen is 3.5 inches wide.
Borders would be at top and bottom, so border width at the sides is 0.
OK 3.5...minus...0...=3.5
Screen width after borders, 3.5 inches.
Phew! hard work this maths stuff.
Microsoft will be forced to push up the rollout of similar lockdowns for Shorthorn because if they don't Apple will have all the video over net business locked up and Hollywood won't let Bill play.
Wrong, wrong wrong. Content providers will never, ever, target the Mac to the exclusion of windows. Windows has over 90 per cent of the desktop market. No matter how good the DRM on the Apple may be, I think most content providers would rather sell to the larger market. Hell, even apple don't just target the Mac (itunes).
You realize that the screen is larger, right?
And since you mentioned ripping DVDs you are also aware that the GP has a 4:3 screen whereas the PSP has a 16:9 screen... Unless you want to squash them into frame you'd probably be better off with a PSP.
To be honest, for a device I would be holding at about 15-20 inches from my eyes, 3.5 inch is a big enough screen. 4.3 inches is not much bigger any way.
And borders on my screen don't bother me. Hell, I still don't even have a widescreen TV.
For me, the fact it uses SD cards and an 8 hour battery life beats an extra 19 millimetres of screen, but thats just me. Choice is a wonderfull thing.
Looks as though the games for this thing will be based around SDL. With a bit of luck, we might see games developed for this being ported to Linux. The only thing stopping me from ditching windows completly is games.
The specs do look very impressive too. Over 8 hours of video playback is far better than a PSP, plus it supports Xvid, so I can rip my DVDs to an SD card for when I'm on the train.
New XP machine and a new HP9050 printer on the network with an IP of 192.168.0.100.
To be honest, most home users don't add networked printers. The sort of hardware I'm talking about is cameras, TV cards, video cameras, the fun stuff. People on this thread have talked about researching what you're buying, but the point is that with windows I don't have to research compatibility, I know it will work. For sure. And I know that for any piece of hardware I buy in PC world and plug into the back of a windows box, hardware installation will consist of "insert disk, next next next finish" and maybe a reboot.
I agree, up to a point. Ubuntu installs on my PC, and every piece of hardware is detected and configured properly, including networking. In contrast it takes well over an hour post install to get everything running and configured in XP. But when people talk about hardware compatability, thats not what they mean.
I can walk into a store and buy any piece of hardware, and it will work under XP. Digital cameras, USB TV tuners, MP3 players, anything. The same cannot be said of Linux. My girlfriend has a creative Zen Micro MP3 player. I love it,and I'd like one myself, but I just can not get it to run under Linux.
I know this is really a problem with the manufacturers not supporting Linux, but they no doubt believe it's not worth the effort.
simple solution - have two versions of OS X that you release. One that only installs on apples, another that installs on anything but costs $X more.
Problem: Tiger costs $130. XP home edition costs $80 (prices from the Apple store and CompUSA respectivly), So the Mac OS already costs $50 more than windows. How much more expensive could they make it and still hope to sell any, especially given that anyone who buys an X86 box will probably already have a copy of windows?
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Still, credit where credits due, it is a good rant.
Bullshit1 If you don't want people "stealing" it, then don't publish. Keep it to yourself and get all the pleasure that gives you from it.
Thats an interesting point of view. If I understand you, you don't believe that a creator should have any say in how his work is redistributed. Once it's published and you have legally attained a copy, you think the creator should have no say in how or if you copy and redistribute it?
I assume then, you would be OK with me using modified GPL'd code in a closed source app, without making the source code available? After all, if they didn't want it stolen, they shouldn't have published it, right?
Actually, by European standards most US Democrats are pretty comfortably to the right of the center in politics.
I've been saying this for years. During the last US election I was talking to an american friend who thought Kerry was far too left wing to win over the centre ground of US politics. He refused to believe me when I told him Kerry would be on the right wing of our Conservative party.
So let's introduce this new console in Japan after it's been introducd everywhere else on Earth. That'll warm them up to us.
I am so sick of hearing this. I hate MS as much as the next good little slashdotter, but this almost psychotic need some people have to claim every single thing they ever do is a mistake is beggining to get on my nerves. Claiming the XBox 360 will be hurt in Japan by launching a week or two after the rest of the world is frankly nuts.
I'm going to assume you live in the US or Europe. Do you own any console other than an X-Box? GASP! you mean you bought it even though it launched in your country after it launched in Japan?
If anyone can show me real evidence of any Japanese gamer saying "well, I was going to buy a 360, but since it's launching in the US two weeks earlier, fuck it I'll wait for the PS3" then I will be amazed.
No-one was tortured at Abu Ghraib - not while it was under American control
So, if your mother is ever arrested, you'll be perfectly happy for the cops to strip her naked and threaten her with dogs?
If not, explain why it's different for Iraqis.
combined IQ of a single McDonalds worker
If you're so smart, explain how you combine a single item with itself?
It's certainly not valid in the UK, since it would force you to sign away certain rights which the Law of the Land says you cannot sign away.
In general UK law does not allow you to sign away any statutory rights.
They'll probably just change the name.
SELL LIKE HOT CAKES - "Hot cakes cooked in bear grease or pork lard were popular from earliest times in American. First made of cornmeal, the griddle cakes or pancakes were of course best when served piping hot and were often sold at church benefits, fairs, and other functions. So popular were they that by the beginning of the 19th century 'to sell like hot cakes' was a familiar expression for anything that sold very quickly effortlessly, and in quantity." From "Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins" by Robert Hendrickson.
Seriously who is going to waste money on more than one plastic faceplate for these things?
Question: Do you actually know any 13 year olds?
Trust me, those things will sell like hot cakes.
Well, my brother has a flash based MP3 player that cost him much less than the same shuffle would have. It works correctly, and has more features than the shuffle.
So, I guess the only viable reason for buying a shuffle is the itunes lock in.
A quick search on Aria.co.uk shows them selling a 1gb flash player for £46. The 1gb ipod shuffle costs £89. Almost double. That is a pretty big difference if you ask me.
I really don't understand the attraction of the shuffle. I have an ipod myself, but the shuttle is more expensive than comparable flash players, and has fewer features.
Pay more, get less. What exactly is the attraction?
So you're going to walk around with your MP3 player, your DVD player, and your DS all in your pocket? That, my friend, is the lure of the PSP.
So you're going to walk around with a PSP in your pocket? I have to ask, because my DS only just fits in my pocket, and I thought PSP's were bigger than DS's?
a new super mario bros sidescroller with 3D stuff mixed in (watch the movies, it looks very stylish)
It is. I got to play a three level demo of it at a Nintendo show last week. not only does it look superb it plays great too, reminded me a lot of Super Mario World. I will definatly be buying it when it comes out.
I also got to play Mario Kart DS, the new Mario football game (I forget its name) and Twighlight Princess. And yes, they all rock.
At least democracy is still intact here.
Really? Which UK do you live in? Because I live in the one where the Labour party just won a 66 seat majority with only 35% of the vote. Thats right, 65% of the electorate voted against Labour, and they were still handed a comfortable win.
By contrast, the Conservatives got 33% of the vote, just 2% less than Labour, but won 198 seats to Labours 356.
Very fucking democratic.
No, it helps it only if it's far in advance of the Playstation release. the PC gaming market is very different to the console one. The X-Box 360 will not really be competing for those gamers.
No one who was thinking of buying an X-Box 360 is going to change their and buy a PC 3 or 4 times the price instead. Half life 3 or not. It's a weapon against Sony, not Alienware.
"You know, we've wrestled with standards and security and perhaps we should exit the browser market given the great alternatives out there."
They have a 90 percent share of the browser market. They are winning. Why on earth would they exit the market?
Well then when you say a 3.5 inch screen isn't small you should go ahead and calculate the size after the borders are taken into account.
OK, hang on, just let me grab my calculator.
Now, lets see, screen is 3.5 inches wide.
Borders would be at top and bottom, so border width at the sides is 0.
OK 3.5...minus...0...=3.5
Screen width after borders, 3.5 inches.
Phew! hard work this maths stuff.
Now thats sarcasm.
Microsoft will be forced to push up the rollout of similar lockdowns for Shorthorn because if they don't Apple will have all the video over net business locked up and Hollywood won't let Bill play.
Wrong, wrong wrong. Content providers will never, ever, target the Mac to the exclusion of windows. Windows has over 90 per cent of the desktop market. No matter how good the DRM on the Apple may be, I think most content providers would rather sell to the larger market. Hell, even apple don't just target the Mac (itunes).
You realize that the screen is larger, right? And since you mentioned ripping DVDs you are also aware that the GP has a 4:3 screen whereas the PSP has a 16:9 screen... Unless you want to squash them into frame you'd probably be better off with a PSP.
To be honest, for a device I would be holding at about 15-20 inches from my eyes, 3.5 inch is a big enough screen. 4.3 inches is not much bigger any way.
And borders on my screen don't bother me. Hell, I still don't even have a widescreen TV.
For me, the fact it uses SD cards and an 8 hour battery life beats an extra 19 millimetres of screen, but thats just me. Choice is a wonderfull thing.
Looks as though the games for this thing will be based around SDL. With a bit of luck, we might see games developed for this being ported to Linux. The only thing stopping me from ditching windows completly is games.
The specs do look very impressive too. Over 8 hours of video playback is far better than a PSP, plus it supports Xvid, so I can rip my DVDs to an SD card for when I'm on the train.
Just hope it gets a european release.
New XP machine and a new HP9050 printer on the network with an IP of 192.168.0.100.
To be honest, most home users don't add networked printers. The sort of hardware I'm talking about is cameras, TV cards, video cameras, the fun stuff. People on this thread have talked about researching what you're buying, but the point is that with windows I don't have to research compatibility, I know it will work. For sure. And I know that for any piece of hardware I buy in PC world and plug into the back of a windows box, hardware installation will consist of "insert disk, next next next finish" and maybe a reboot.
I did try using Gnomad, but after hours of tweaking just could not get the damn thing to work reliably.
And you're right about sony stuff. Why can't manufacturers just make MP3 players mount as removeable hard disks?
Debian is more PnP for me than Windows XP.
I agree, up to a point. Ubuntu installs on my PC, and every piece of hardware is detected and configured properly, including networking. In contrast it takes well over an hour post install to get everything running and configured in XP. But when people talk about hardware compatability, thats not what they mean.
I can walk into a store and buy any piece of hardware, and it will work under XP. Digital cameras, USB TV tuners, MP3 players, anything. The same cannot be said of Linux. My girlfriend has a creative Zen Micro MP3 player. I love it,and I'd like one myself, but I just can not get it to run under Linux.
I know this is really a problem with the manufacturers not supporting Linux, but they no doubt believe it's not worth the effort.
simple solution - have two versions of OS X that you release. One that only installs on apples, another that installs on anything but costs $X more.
Problem: Tiger costs $130. XP home edition costs $80 (prices from the Apple store and CompUSA respectivly), So the Mac OS already costs $50 more than windows. How much more expensive could they make it and still hope to sell any, especially given that anyone who buys an X86 box will probably already have a copy of windows?