And really, no one in the past five years bought an Apple because of the PowerPC processor. They bought one despite it, because the hardware was great otherwise, and because the OS was great.
I think that it is worth pointing out that is notquitetrue.
Dilbert: "I agree with my company's policy of discouraging illegal drug use, but their random drug testing program is a violation of my rights. What should I do, Dogbert?"
Dogbert: "Hack into your company's computer and change your boss's test results."
Dilbert (at computer): "Sometimes, the straightest path is through the mud."
Dogbert: "Good, now rationalize this with an obtuse metaphor."
People (at least some of them) want to think that they're getting something of worth. If something costs less, then it it must be inferior somehow. Really? I keep seeing this claim spread as fact. It doesn't make sense. If cheap == bad, then how does WalMart stay in business, hmmm?
I suspect this will backlash against RIAA in a way they didn't expect. People, formerly willing to spend $1 on a track are unwilling to spend $2.50, and start rummaging around the "bargin bin" of 50, 60, 70 cent tracks, and find a great deal of off-label, quality music that the industry didn't think useful to cram down our throats.
Of course, people are still stupid, and still like to be told what music they need to like to be cool. So, maybe not.
People will buy one format, not two. So there's very likely to be a winner and a loser in this format war unless dual HD-DVD/Blu-ray players come out.
Yes, exactly. And because HD/BR disks fit in the same-sized tray, it will be seamless to the consumer. Really, putting in an extra laser is probably not *that* hard. Thus, the de-facto standard device will, in the tradition of DVD/CD and DVD +- RW, become HD/BR.
Consumer: "Which of these will let me play all the movies I want to see?"
Salesperson: "well, this one lets you play 70% of the content you want to buy, this one lets you play 80%, but this one lets you play 100%."
Which do you really think is going to be more popular?
Of course, Sony/Toshiba COULD then license their technology selectively, killing dual players -- but that hardly makes sense. Allowing dual-players guarantees that your technology will eventually be in nearly 100% of all players sold, with no extra effort on your part. Dual players are a no brainer.
"So apparently Sony violates your privacy to create a backdoor onto your machine using code that violates an Open Source license..."... from a project that may be[1] in violation of patent law! Woohoo!
So if LAME violates patent law, and Sony is redistributing LAME... does that mean Sony is violating patent law as well?
Next slashdot headline: "Sony rootkit allegedly violates patent laws."
This is also kind of why they support HD-DVD as opposed to Blu-ray, apparently the Blu-Ray copy protection prevents streaming video like this.
Well, not quite. "Managed Copy", which allows streaming, ripping to hard drives, and limited duplication, is a part of both HD-DVD and BluRay specs. However, in HD-DVD, "Managed Copy" is a mandatory feature of every disk, while in BluRay it is (as of right now) merely optional. MS & Intel claim their support for HD-DVD is primarily because of this feature.
From Grandparent: no money went to SCO from MySQL, so MySQL is not supporting SCO financially
From you: Since SCO paid money to MySQL and offered development assistance to MySQL
did you READ the GP post?! Let me reiterate. no money went to SCO from MySQL.
Say it with me, you and all the other people who posted the exact same claim below:
no money went to SCO from MySQL
Also, NO CODE was shared. No development assistance is being shared. The ONLY thing the companies are sharing are marketing, training, and end user support. That's it.
Please stop spreading FUD against MySQL. the product and company have done a fantastic job of spreading FLOSS into areas where it was previously unknown, such as such as windows, solaris, and other "big iron unix" web servers. They should be applauded that they are, like a good company, continuing to support their end users, even the ones who run an unfortunate choice of OS.
From The official Press Release: As part of the agreement, the companies will work together on a range of joint marketing, sales, training, business development and support programs that will benefit customers throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. Additionally, SCO will include a trial subscription to the MySQL Network enterprise database service with each new copy of SCO OpenServer -- and offer full MySQL Network subscriptions through its reseller channel.
So neither MySQL nor SCO is writing any special code -- they're just cooperating on marketing and training support.
From a Cnet article on the subject: Part of the bad blood in the suit stems from a flopped partnership called Project Monterey under which IBM, SCO and now-extinct Sequent agreed to create a version of Unix for Intel's Itanium processors. SCO shared expertise with IBM about how best to run Unix on Intel processors for that project, the suit said.
So, Project Monterey was a joint venture to rewrite an operating system for a new ISA. I fail to see any significant similarities between Project Monterey and the MySQL/SCO deal.
Exactly what has NTP done with these patents? The USPTO keeps striking them down (see here). Did NTP actually use or license the patents to make a product? I can't think of any
That's what really, really whigs me out about this whole case.
Here, we have one company that has developed an innovative, unique, and popular device that sells well, thus stimulating the economy. There, we have one company that merely owns the "intellectual property", and has done NOTHING to develop it, and is now trying to use that property to shut down the economically successful (and therefore, arguably socially beneficial) RIM.
This is clearly damaging to the public good, as now jobs will be lost, shareholder value will be lost, captial will be lost, and tax revenue will be lost.
Thus, by extension of the recent SCOTUS Kelo v. New London ruling, should not the patent be taken from NTP and given to RIM, via Eminent Domain?
He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Revelation 13:16-17
Creepy, eh?
Yeah, I'm a Christian, and yeah, RFID freaks me out.
than a soccer mom driving her only child in an SUV it's an SUV driving no one.
*eyeroll* Oh, dear goodness, that is one of the most rediculous +4 insightful posts I've ever read.
Right, because using an SUV chassis for a project that advances our knowledge and technological capabilities in the Computer Science fields of robotoics and AI is such a major problem in the US. Scientific research... bah! It's a perfect example of conspicuous consumerism! After all, using an SUV for it's original design specification -- offroad travel -- to advance the knowledge of the human race is definitely the cause of our dependance on fossil fuels.
After all, our oil usage has NOTHING to do with aircraft, ships, pleasure craft, air conditioning our houses, heating our pools, running our 1000w gaming rigs, or the creation of the countless disposable plastic objects you use each day. No, simply getting rid of SUVs, especially SUVs used in scientific research, will unilaterally free us from fossil fuel dependence!
( end sarcastic rant)
seriously, DARPA is stimulating AI & robotics research into a pragmatic problem. I can't even begin to fathom your rejection of this, MERELY because they used the most pragmatic tool -- an offroad vehicle -- for the problem -- offroad travel.
I guess I could just say, "I fucking hate integration!" Who's with me?
No way!
I'm betting you just had a bad teacher... integration is a beautiful, powerful, and elegent tool. Derivatives and integrals are to math what pipes are to UNIX -- they are the building blocks that let you build powerful tools that so brilliantly model our universe.
I don't have a Revolution controller (obviously), but I have experience with a similar device . It is a gyroscopic mouse, not dissimilar from Nintendo's new controller.
I am not convinced the technology can live up to our expectations. The video looked cool, but those actors weren't actually controlling anything, and those are game concepts, not actual games. This type of technology has always been rather fiddly when you use it in real life. It will live or die based on how good Nintendo's tracking technology is, and I'm not convinced good enough tracking can be put into a durable consumer product. People's kids are going to be slamming these things, and it has to be reasonably cheap too.
They have excellent tracking, are highly intuitive, and are quite durable. You don't have to point it at a screen to work, since it uses RF, not infrared. I believe the Revolution uses a bluetooth Piconet like the PS3 and 360, but don't know for sure. The GyroRemote doesn't drift, and can be used in a lot of positions. And it's designed to be used while the user walks around and waves his hands.
Your concerns are very valid. Fortunately, none of them are insurmountable technical issues. Nintendo has a reputation for putting some good thought into most of their product design. This is probably one of the most important products they've had to design in 15 years or so, and I would believe that they are working their asses off on this.
I hope and believe your concerns will be addressed by the time the Revolution makes it to market...
If it does have a Gyro like you say, I'm pretty pleased. I've used the GyroMouse fairly extensively, and knew a few people who used them quite regularly, and they are VERY intuitive. After about 30 seconds of "What the hell?", you suddenly say, "ahhh, I've got it!"
It's surprisingly immersive, too... you really begin to feel that you are directly controlling the pointer. Quite a fantastic device. I recommend them strongly for anyone who needs a wireless mouse for presentations.
I'm actually thrilled by the new controller. Looking at it, I thought, "WHAT?! you're shiting me." But reading its capabilities, I'm suitably impressed.
I wonder how long before MS and Sony offer gyro motion control on THEIR controllers...
actually, Sony and Microsoft *loose* money each time they sell you a console. They expect to make up the loss on the game sales. Thus, if you really want to hurt Microsoft, you should buy TWO xboxen.
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I think that it is worth pointing out that is not quite true.
That reminds me of an old Dilbert comic strip:
Dilbert: "I agree with my company's policy of discouraging illegal drug use, but their random drug testing program is a violation of my rights. What should I do, Dogbert?"
Dogbert: "Hack into your company's computer and change your boss's test results."
Dilbert (at computer): "Sometimes, the straightest path is through the mud."
Dogbert: "Good, now rationalize this with an obtuse metaphor."
Eerily appropriate, no?
This from someone with the first post on a slashdot story. :-)
You know, denial is the first sign of addiction. The first step to healing is admitting you have a problem.
FWIW, when they form Slashdotter's Anonymous, I'll be there, too. "Hi, my handle is AnObfuscator, and I refresh Slashdot every 5 minutes."
I suspect this will backlash against RIAA in a way they didn't expect. People, formerly willing to spend $1 on a track are unwilling to spend $2.50, and start rummaging around the "bargin bin" of 50, 60, 70 cent tracks, and find a great deal of off-label, quality music that the industry didn't think useful to cram down our throats.
Of course, people are still stupid, and still like to be told what music they need to like to be cool. So, maybe not.
Let me think about this for a second.
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Yes, exactly. And because HD/BR disks fit in the same-sized tray, it will be seamless to the consumer. Really, putting in an extra laser is probably not *that* hard. Thus, the de-facto standard device will, in the tradition of DVD/CD and DVD +- RW, become HD/BR.
Consumer: "Which of these will let me play all the movies I want to see?"
."
Salesperson: "well, this one lets you play 70% of the content you want to buy, this one lets you play 80%, but this one lets you play 100%
Which do you really think is going to be more popular?
Of course, Sony/Toshiba COULD then license their technology selectively, killing dual players -- but that hardly makes sense. Allowing dual-players guarantees that your technology will eventually be in nearly 100% of all players sold, with no extra effort on your part. Dual players are a no brainer.
So if LAME violates patent law, and Sony is redistributing LAME... does that mean Sony is violating patent law as well?
Next slashdot headline: "Sony rootkit allegedly violates patent laws."
Well, not quite. "Managed Copy", which allows streaming, ripping to hard drives, and limited duplication, is a part of both HD-DVD and BluRay specs. However, in HD-DVD, "Managed Copy" is a mandatory feature of every disk, while in BluRay it is (as of right now) merely optional. MS & Intel claim their support for HD-DVD is primarily because of this feature.
Hopefully, BluRay will make Managed Copy mandatory as well -- and there seems to be some movement in that direction.
From you:
Since SCO paid money to MySQL and offered development assistance to MySQL
did you READ the GP post?! Let me reiterate. no money went to SCO from MySQL .
Say it with me, you and all the other people who posted the exact same claim below:
no money went to SCO from MySQL
Also, NO CODE was shared. No development assistance is being shared. The ONLY thing the companies are sharing are marketing, training, and end user support. That's it.
Please stop spreading FUD against MySQL. the product and company have done a fantastic job of spreading FLOSS into areas where it was previously unknown, such as such as windows, solaris, and other "big iron unix" web servers. They should be applauded that they are, like a good company, continuing to support their end users, even the ones who run an unfortunate choice of OS.
The BSD-licensed PostgreSQL is actually *more* powerful than MySQL. Depending on your needs, it's worth looking into.
there are others, but Postgre is MySQL's primary FLOSS competitor.
uhhhh...
From GrokLaw's interview with Marten Mickos:
no money went to SCO from MySQL, so MySQL is not supporting SCO financially
So, MySQL isn't accepting SCO money.
From The official Press Release:
As part of the agreement, the companies will work together on a range of joint marketing, sales, training, business development and support programs that will benefit customers throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. Additionally, SCO will include a trial subscription to the MySQL Network enterprise database service with each new copy of SCO OpenServer -- and offer full MySQL Network subscriptions through its reseller channel.
So neither MySQL nor SCO is writing any special code -- they're just cooperating on marketing and training support.
From a Cnet article on the subject:
Part of the bad blood in the suit stems from a flopped partnership called Project Monterey under which IBM, SCO and now-extinct Sequent agreed to create a version of Unix for Intel's Itanium processors. SCO shared expertise with IBM about how best to run Unix on Intel processors for that project, the suit said.
So, Project Monterey was a joint venture to rewrite an operating system for a new ISA. I fail to see any significant similarities between Project Monterey and the MySQL/SCO deal.
Nice FUD, though.
That's what really, really whigs me out about this whole case.
Here, we have one company that has developed an innovative, unique, and popular device that sells well, thus stimulating the economy. There, we have one company that merely owns the "intellectual property", and has done NOTHING to develop it, and is now trying to use that property to shut down the economically successful (and therefore, arguably socially beneficial) RIM.
This is clearly damaging to the public good, as now jobs will be lost, shareholder value will be lost, captial will be lost, and tax revenue will be lost.
Thus, by extension of the recent SCOTUS Kelo v. New London ruling, should not the patent be taken from NTP and given to RIM, via Eminent Domain?
He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Revelation 13:16-17
Creepy, eh?
Yeah, I'm a Christian, and yeah, RFID freaks me out.
Dude, they invented C#! Well, sort of...
Actually, after I spewed my rant, I reread your post, and thought, "wait, uh... Oh, he's joking. Ah. uh... oops. :-}"
I hearby unflame you. Sorry about that, heh, I've got this flamethrower and an itchy trigger finger sometimes.
Of course, whoever modded you insightful instead of funny is still on crack. ;)
Really? I didn't even know UF had a DARPA team. Well, that fills me with some serious school pride. :)
After searching UF's website, I found some more info about the UF team, Team CIMAR: http://cimar.mae.ufl.edu/grand_challenge/
Go Gators. :)
*eyeroll* Oh, dear goodness, that is one of the most rediculous +4 insightful posts I've ever read.
Right, because using an SUV chassis for a project that advances our knowledge and technological capabilities in the Computer Science fields of robotoics and AI is such a major problem in the US. Scientific research... bah! It's a perfect example of conspicuous consumerism! After all, using an SUV for it's original design specification -- offroad travel -- to advance the knowledge of the human race is definitely the cause of our dependance on fossil fuels.
After all, our oil usage has NOTHING to do with aircraft, ships, pleasure craft, air conditioning our houses, heating our pools, running our 1000w gaming rigs, or the creation of the countless disposable plastic objects you use each day. No, simply getting rid of SUVs, especially SUVs used in scientific research, will unilaterally free us from fossil fuel dependence!
( end sarcastic rant)
seriously, DARPA is stimulating AI & robotics research into a pragmatic problem. I can't even begin to fathom your rejection of this, MERELY because they used the most pragmatic tool -- an offroad vehicle -- for the problem -- offroad travel.
Did I just see... a Coral Cache... for... GOOGLE?!
Dude... it's fucking GOOGLE. I think they have a liiiitle bit of bandwith. And by liiiitle I mean a lot. and by a lot, I mean a metric fuckton.
Seriously, I think Google can handle a little slashdot traffic.
I know, what is the world coming to when even P2P networks have security flaws?
Well, I guess I'll head back to safe, secure kazaa.
No way!
I'm betting you just had a bad teacher... integration is a beautiful, powerful, and elegent tool. Derivatives and integrals are to math what pipes are to UNIX -- they are the building blocks that let you build powerful tools that so brilliantly model our universe.
Integration is a beautiful thing.
I don't have a Revolution controller (obviously), but I have experience with a similar device . It is a gyroscopic mouse, not dissimilar from Nintendo's new controller.
I am not convinced the technology can live up to our expectations. The video looked cool, but those actors weren't actually controlling anything, and those are game concepts, not actual games. This type of technology has always been rather fiddly when you use it in real life. It will live or die based on how good Nintendo's tracking technology is, and I'm not convinced good enough tracking can be put into a durable consumer product. People's kids are going to be slamming these things, and it has to be reasonably cheap too.
They have excellent tracking, are highly intuitive, and are quite durable. You don't have to point it at a screen to work, since it uses RF, not infrared. I believe the Revolution uses a bluetooth Piconet like the PS3 and 360, but don't know for sure. The GyroRemote doesn't drift, and can be used in a lot of positions. And it's designed to be used while the user walks around and waves his hands.
Your concerns are very valid. Fortunately, none of them are insurmountable technical issues. Nintendo has a reputation for putting some good thought into most of their product design. This is probably one of the most important products they've had to design in 15 years or so, and I would believe that they are working their asses off on this.
I hope and believe your concerns will be addressed by the time the Revolution makes it to market...
If it does have a Gyro like you say, I'm pretty pleased. I've used the GyroMouse fairly extensively, and knew a few people who used them quite regularly, and they are VERY intuitive. After about 30 seconds of "What the hell?", you suddenly say, "ahhh, I've got it!"
It's surprisingly immersive, too... you really begin to feel that you are directly controlling the pointer. Quite a fantastic device. I recommend them strongly for anyone who needs a wireless mouse for presentations.
I'm actually thrilled by the new controller. Looking at it, I thought, "WHAT?! you're shiting me." But reading its capabilities, I'm suitably impressed.
I wonder how long before MS and Sony offer gyro motion control on THEIR controllers...
Or? What kind of nerd ARE you?! Duh, it's BOTH!
In fact, a good case could be made that it looks so damn cool BECAUSE it is a solution in search of a problem!
Future Storage.
and technically, GP is right -- WinFS is an organisational system overlayed onto NTFS.
Before you call someone else an idiot, try reading this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
actually, Sony and Microsoft *loose* money each time they sell you a console. They expect to make up the loss on the game sales. Thus, if you really want to hurt Microsoft, you should buy TWO xboxen.