No, not yet. But it looks like in a not so distant future it might be cheaper to use one standard air-conditioning system for the whole case than one for each of the 10 processors on various video, audio and processing boards (most of which you will absolutely need in order to play the next [Doom|HL|Halo|...]).
From the article: That agreement, amongst other things, stated that I could only play back the content for a period of five days, on the computer I installed the InterActual Player application onto, after which I had to re-acquire a license.
Plenty of time to make a "fair use" DivX copy. And share it on BitTorrent just out of spite.
This decision can (and will) be attacked in court by Microsoft. The BIG part of this decision is not the WMP. Quote: "Microsoft must make more of its software code available to competitors to help them create competing products to run on servers. [...]The software maker would comply with Wednesday's ruling in the meantime and would immediately launch a website at which competitors could start the process of applying to license Microsoft's communications protocols for server compatibility."
I'd say that's bigger than WMP being unbundled. Especially since "Microsoft may still offer PC manufacturers a version of Windows with the media player but that it must not offer any commercial, technological or contractual terms that render the stripped-down version less attractive."
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Nr. of sports titles > nr. of MS WinXP patches: CHECK!
Break employee burn-out world record: CHECK!
Take over competition shares and become largest monopoly in gaming industry: CH
If you want to have a prayer of success on the "home user" market, you must be able to read CDs. Even for the simple fact that most of the music on the planet is (still) sold on a CD support. So I don't think you need to worry. Yet;)
IMHO, as long as plasma TVs are trendy, Sony can't afford NOT to make them. There are people who buy Sony just because they see it as a high-tech company, and I don't believe they can afford to loose that. Their speed in denying this report prooves it.
During our history as a self-aware and (persumably) intelligent species, we had quite a few doomsday scenarios, in spite of which we survived to this day. It is one thing to claim the end of a civilization (like Mycene), and quite another the end a species as a whole. Human beings are able to survive conditions varying from a night on the ice caps to a day in the desert. And I'm not refering to scientists with plenty of air conditioning available. There are human beings that were able to adapt to these conditions.
Humans have been known to be some of the toughest and most resilient bastards Mother Nature ever birthed. (I apologise for the strong word, but given what we've put her through, I guess we deserve it.) Humans will only dissapear if a truly catastrophic event will manage to change the living conditions on the whole Earth so radically and so quickly that this wonderful capacity to adapt won't have enough time to kick in.
Ok, so I can't imagine surviving a month in the tundra or the Amazonian forest or the icecaps - I can't even imagine surviving for long without electricity - but that doesn't mean all the human beings out there are the same. We will survive even if technology fails us. And if it does, we'll only have a better fighting chance.
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No, not yet. But it looks like in a not so distant future it might be cheaper to use one standard air-conditioning system for the whole case than one for each of the 10 processors on various video, audio and processing boards (most of which you will absolutely need in order to play the next [Doom|HL|Halo|...]).
... will they also include in the exhibit the Hollywood studio where they shot the lunar landing?
Turion: A thick fleshy young shoot or sucker, such as an emerging stem of asparagus. (Source:The American Heritage Dictionary)
If I want to see flawless hi-tech presentations, I watch Bill Gates.
Oh wait... Damn!
From the article: That agreement, amongst other things, stated that I could only play back the content for a period of five days, on the computer I installed the InterActual Player application onto, after which I had to re-acquire a license.
Plenty of time to make a "fair use" DivX copy. And share it on BitTorrent just out of spite.
This decision can (and will) be attacked in court by Microsoft. The BIG part of this decision is not the WMP. Quote: "Microsoft must make more of its software code available to competitors to help them create competing products to run on servers. [...]The software maker would comply with Wednesday's ruling in the meantime and would immediately launch a website at which competitors could start the process of applying to license Microsoft's communications protocols for server compatibility."
I'd say that's bigger than WMP being unbundled. Especially since "Microsoft may still offer PC manufacturers a version of Windows with the media player but that it must not offer any commercial, technological or contractual terms that render the stripped-down version less attractive."
Source here
Leaked copy of Larry Probst's TO DO list:
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Nr. of sports titles > nr. of MS WinXP patches: CHECK!
Break employee burn-out world record: CHECK!
Take over competition shares and become largest monopoly in gaming industry: CH
Quote from the article: If you're considering a home Apple, think different. Buy a Dell.
I click on the link to their Desktop Product Guide and discover an ad:
Shop for products from our partners: Dell Home, Dell Business, IBM, Toshiba.
Balanced view?
If you want to have a prayer of success on the "home user" market, you must be able to read CDs. Even for the simple fact that most of the music on the planet is (still) sold on a CD support. So I don't think you need to worry. Yet ;)
IMHO, as long as plasma TVs are trendy, Sony can't afford NOT to make them. There are people who buy Sony just because they see it as a high-tech company, and I don't believe they can afford to loose that. Their speed in denying this report prooves it.
During our history as a self-aware and (persumably) intelligent species, we had quite a few doomsday scenarios, in spite of which we survived to this day. It is one thing to claim the end of a civilization (like Mycene), and quite another the end a species as a whole. Human beings are able to survive conditions varying from a night on the ice caps to a day in the desert. And I'm not refering to scientists with plenty of air conditioning available. There are human beings that were able to adapt to these conditions.
Humans have been known to be some of the toughest and most resilient bastards Mother Nature ever birthed. (I apologise for the strong word, but given what we've put her through, I guess we deserve it.) Humans will only dissapear if a truly catastrophic event will manage to change the living conditions on the whole Earth so radically and so quickly that this wonderful capacity to adapt won't have enough time to kick in.
Ok, so I can't imagine surviving a month in the tundra or the Amazonian forest or the icecaps - I can't even imagine surviving for long without electricity - but that doesn't mean all the human beings out there are the same. We will survive even if technology fails us. And if it does, we'll only have a better fighting chance.
I guess that makes him a (future) moderator?
Didn't he burned some fossil fuel to complete this research?