Regardless of whether you're correct or not, these historical events happened to coincide with mass extinctions here on Earth. Forgive me for sounding conservative here, but if I'm about to witness my own mass-extinction, I'd like to be REALLY sure that I'm not causing it myself. And despite Mars and Jupiter looking a bit cozier these days, something tells me that I wont be escaping there anytime soon.
I'm just wondering what the general opinion on this is - I got the feeling that the interviewer asked J. Allard a lot of easy questions, almost putting words in his mouth for most of them. By contrast, Kaz Hirai seemed to get quite a grilling on Sony's rather more megar online offerings, among other things.
PlayStation magazine certainly couldn't be accused of pro-PS bias anyway.
The story the other day seemed to indicate they were just going to try to protect their customers from litigation. I read that as "providing legal backing" etc., as opposed to actually buying all the patents!
To be honest, the TNG box set that came in the Borg cube a couple of years back looked a hell of a lot nicer. If I go and spend $2400 on a box set, I'd better be getting a nice looking box as part of the deal!
I find myself wondering whether a single unifying style is a good idea. Regardless of what OS I'm running, I normally change the style significantly to suit my tastes. KDE 3 really went a long way towards profiding a consistent theming interface, but all too often I still find myself installing various add-ons and extras just to get specific styles to work properly. I think a focus on eradicating these problems in KDE would be a better use of people's time. Then the artists and designers can get on with making all the eye-candy they want. Having said that, a standard look & feel as a default setting on most distros might make it easier for people to migrate.
Really, when it comes down to it, everyone has a different preference for what is best. I think it will be very difficult for the entire community to reach a consensus on what looks nicest.
Word has it that Rambus' new technologies (Yellowstone and Redwood IIRC) will show vast improvements in this area, and hence are used in the Cell design.
Quite frankly, the german library already has a legal mandate to index these works which conflicts with this new EU law. I think the article is exaggerating a little when they say "crack the DRM" - more likely they'll ask the relevant copyright holder for the decryption key, and under the terms of their deal, the copyright holder will give it to them.
Not quite the same thing as cracking the DRM wrapper.
On the contrary, if the US actually invested in photovoltaic arrays in the desert, wind farms in the mountains, and employed hydroelectric power stations along its coast, it could easily produce enough electricity to power the splitting water molecules. Of course, thats easier said than done, but the end of the oil-based economy is coming anyway, so you might aswell invest now and save yourself a lot of hassle in the future.
Of course, nuclear fusion is also another potential energy provider that may be available to the world in 50 years time.
Hmmm. If you put it in a certain light, this is the massive AOL Time Warner corporation killing off one of the few major media players that doesn't support DRM particularly well, and does support mp3 and Ogg. Co-incidence, or well-planned strategy from a corporation with links to the MPAA?
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Regardless of whether you're correct or not, these historical events happened to coincide with mass extinctions here on Earth. Forgive me for sounding conservative here, but if I'm about to witness my own mass-extinction, I'd like to be REALLY sure that I'm not causing it myself. And despite Mars and Jupiter looking a bit cozier these days, something tells me that I wont be escaping there anytime soon.
I'm just wondering what the general opinion on this is - I got the feeling that the interviewer asked J. Allard a lot of easy questions, almost putting words in his mouth for most of them. By contrast, Kaz Hirai seemed to get quite a grilling on Sony's rather more megar online offerings, among other things. PlayStation magazine certainly couldn't be accused of pro-PS bias anyway.
The story the other day seemed to indicate they were just going to try to protect their customers from litigation. I read that as "providing legal backing" etc., as opposed to actually buying all the patents!
To be honest, the TNG box set that came in the Borg cube a couple of years back looked a hell of a lot nicer. If I go and spend $2400 on a box set, I'd better be getting a nice looking box as part of the deal!
Heh. Don't worry. When I went to the site using Opera, it was virtually non-existent. Normal service resumed.
I find myself wondering whether a single unifying style is a good idea. Regardless of what OS I'm running, I normally change the style significantly to suit my tastes. KDE 3 really went a long way towards profiding a consistent theming interface, but all too often I still find myself installing various add-ons and extras just to get specific styles to work properly. I think a focus on eradicating these problems in KDE would be a better use of people's time. Then the artists and designers can get on with making all the eye-candy they want. Having said that, a standard look & feel as a default setting on most distros might make it easier for people to migrate.
Really, when it comes down to it, everyone has a different preference for what is best. I think it will be very difficult for the entire community to reach a consensus on what looks nicest.
Word has it that Rambus' new technologies (Yellowstone and Redwood IIRC) will show vast improvements in this area, and hence are used in the Cell design.
Quite frankly, the german library already has a legal mandate to index these works which conflicts with this new EU law. I think the article is exaggerating a little when they say "crack the DRM" - more likely they'll ask the relevant copyright holder for the decryption key, and under the terms of their deal, the copyright holder will give it to them. Not quite the same thing as cracking the DRM wrapper.
On the contrary, if the US actually invested in photovoltaic arrays in the desert, wind farms in the mountains, and employed hydroelectric power stations along its coast, it could easily produce enough electricity to power the splitting water molecules. Of course, thats easier said than done, but the end of the oil-based economy is coming anyway, so you might aswell invest now and save yourself a lot of hassle in the future. Of course, nuclear fusion is also another potential energy provider that may be available to the world in 50 years time.
Are the replicators offline again? Tsk...
Hmmm. If you put it in a certain light, this is the massive AOL Time Warner corporation killing off one of the few major media players that doesn't support DRM particularly well, and does support mp3 and Ogg. Co-incidence, or well-planned strategy from a corporation with links to the MPAA?