Sounds to me like sour grapes for someone whose business plan is to utilize and undermine an infrastructure that he has no plans to invest in. Who'd have thunk it that a telecommunications company might have a problem with other competing companies freely using a network that they pay to upgrade and maintain?
Well, I was born on a hot August morning. The early years are cloudy, but at the age of 2, I took a great deal of satisfaction in defecating in a porcelain bowl....
Oh. Is that right? Nevermind, he wants free BIOS, not autobios...
Combine a mac mini with a TiVo and connect it with one of those small footprint projectors that was a topic of discussion here about a month ago, and you have a computer system/entertainment center that takes up less desk space than your keyboard.
Just put the system on the end table next to the couch and hook up some surround sound, and you've got an instant home theater for about 1200 bucks. Plug in some wireless USB video game controllers and install an emulator or 4, and you've got an instant arcade. And with an 80 gig iPod, you should be able to store a few shows for viewing on the go.
Then use your TiVo and click on yesterday's headlines, whydoncha?
An editor would have enough sense to know that the same subject was discussed yesterday. Besides, how hard can it be to skim over an article without actually reading it and type up a misinformed summary blurb?
(a) Dave is getting his ass beaten into dust by competing against a free technology in the marketplace.
(b) Dave then decides that since the product (which was the driving force for creating Ultracade) is the key to getting his ass beat, he decides to file for a trademark to try and regulate who does what with software which isn't his and which he doesn't contribute to.
(c) He wants this trademark so that he can litigate and get courts to specify damages from a bunch of hobbyist kids who are selling homebrew cabs.
(d) Profit???
If I were the MAME folks, I would contest the trademark and then come up with a better licensing plan. He's gonna sue them anyway.
I need to build a brick fireplace but I am a fervent hammer user. I realize that a hammer might not be the right tool to lay down the mortar, but I believe very strongly in the hammer and believe that ultimately, the trowel is an inferior tool designed only for trogladytes and people who actually know the definition of "trogladytes." What is the best way to use my hammer to accomplish my goal?
Some people go mountain climbing, some people skydive, and some people even get into boxing and martial arts.
But to me, nothing says manly man like booting into Linux without the splash screen. That, and I can get the same BO that they can by just not bathing for a few days. People don't tease me for my Super Mario tattoo anymore.... well, they seem to avoid me as a general rule so they probably couldn't determine what it is anyway... maybe a big mole or something... but hey, that's the studly vibe I wanted to portray anyway!
For the same reason "Hello World" isn't written as a multi-threaded client/server based program.
You gotta understand the concepts before you understand the dangers associated with them.
If Apple's marketing team has any brains...
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... they'll start selling these things in college bookstores with a low monthly payment.
In high school, kids play with their computers, maybe do some instant messaging and gaming and email. But they don't have to USE their computer very much. Heck, many schools still allow kids to either write or type their reports.
College, however, is a whole new ballgame. Students are supposed to start acting more like professionals and they're expected to spend quite a bit of time researching topics and using their PCs for class related activities. THAT is when you get them. Offer packages with the mini along with a 15 inch flat panel monitor, wireless mouse and keyboard, external floppy, 128mb thumbdrive, and a small black and white printer for less than 20 bucks a month, and watch their parents flock to buy em.
Seriously, who needs a big, loud PC in college unless you're dealing with 3d software or autocad?
And even then, you're likely to use the school's computers for that anyway.
Sure, if you don't want support on any of those boxes. Businesses do, and for every 20 minutes that you're without support on that nice network you just invisioned, you've just lost your savings.
If you take a look at the size of the Linux desktop market, and compare it to the size of the Windows PC market while assuming that percentage of game sales is going to remain constant, you're talking about a miniscule number of purchases. They'd be better off spending their times on the next expansion pack or sequel.
When you're talking about killer apps for Windows, there ain't much of a better one than Direct X.
The IT sector is not the economy. It is a small portion of the overall pie and all the small portions grow and shrink over time.
What is the IT sector going to recover from? If anything, it's still way too bloated and needs to continue to shrink so that companies can become profitable again doing what they do instead of constantly sinking their cash into the next neat server or ERP application.
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Or maybe they could just educate the ignorant masses who believe that SS is a trust fund in the first place. You don't "contribute" to anything. It's an income tax used undert he guise of supporting people who otherwise wouldn't have the means to support themselves, ie, the elderly, poor children, and the disabled.
If the feds were forced to keep their grubby little paws out of SS, guess what they're going to do? That's right, they're going to raise the hell out of our taxes to make up for it.
Since it IS a tax and not a contribution to a retirement account, it makes more sense to eliminate the limit on the amount of income that can be taxed for this program. I view income taxes as a tax on time as opposed to wealth... the percentage of my time spent earning money to keep the government running is no more or less important than the billionaire or the fry cook.
Software development is no more lofty or special an ambition than dreaming to clean out the elephant poop cages at the zoo. Some people don't have an interest in any particular thing until they reach college, and many have just never been bitten by the bug. I know PhDs in multiple fields who wanted to do mundane things like being electrical techs and process operators at chemicalrefineries. Then they took a college level course in Physics or Chemistry, and the rest is history.
One of the best programmers I've ever met started out wanting to be a math teacher. He took up computer science and learned to program only after he got into college and he makes a nice 6 figure income doing it.
It seems to me that you're speaking about things you know nothing about because you've heard it parrotted by other uneducated people who can toss 10 lines of Python together with sticky tape and call it a program.
I've personally never believed that whole "our ancestors invented the wheel" baloney. I mean, we went around carrying objects in bags and on our backs for millenia, and suddenly they invent a wheel AND an axel?!? Give me a break! They clearly reverse-engineered alien tech to get that working.
... that quite a few fansub groups no longer have a website or an IRC channel. They simply sub the files and distribute them to a few trusted individuals.
Once they're distributed, they're virtually impossible to eliminate because they're sent over bittorrent, usenet, p2p networks, and online storage services like Streamload. There are still tons of copies of Ranma 1/2 encoded in old Realplayer files floating around.
I would imagine that in the long run, the companies' crackdown on these groups is going to make the groups change their stances from simply subbing until US licensing to subbing until completion regardless of the licensing. The companies might be right in their defenses of their abilities to distribute their products, but Americans don't have the ability to watch a show to completion and then decide they want to purchase the DVD like the Japanese do (OVAs not withstanding).
And if YOU were a real professional, you'd likely be able to spell the word 'professional.'
You'd also understand that support usually doesn't come to people who decide to go out and roll their own distros unless they're prepared to be their own support line. There are reasons why businesses purchase Linux distros as opposed to just downloading them, and this is one of them.
How much are you willing to spend and how many mouse traps do you think that will buy? You could simply cover all his counters, cabinets, sitting areas, and floor with them.
Only with an Open Source zealot can he look a gift horse in the mouth, and after inspecting each and every gold cap, yell at the giver for not putting in platinum with extra dental service for life like he wanted.
Puzzle Bobble got way too easy once I beat it the first time or two... though I did make a fair amount of money by betting the arcade denizens of my university money that I could beat the game by using my right hand only.
Of course, these were the same goofballs that supplied me with lunch money after I whupped them in SF2 using the left only. Did I mention I gots me some big hands?
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Sounds to me like sour grapes for someone whose business plan is to utilize and undermine an infrastructure that he has no plans to invest in.
Who'd have thunk it that a telecommunications company might have a problem with other competing companies freely using a network that they pay to upgrade and maintain?
Well, I was born on a hot August morning. The early years are cloudy, but at the age of 2, I took a great deal of satisfaction in defecating in a porcelain bowl....
Oh. Is that right? Nevermind, he wants free BIOS, not autobios...
Combine a mac mini with a TiVo and connect it with one of those small footprint projectors that was a topic of discussion here about a month ago, and you have a computer system/entertainment center that takes up less desk space than your keyboard.
Just put the system on the end table next to the couch and hook up some surround sound, and you've got an instant home theater for about 1200 bucks. Plug in some wireless USB video game controllers and install an emulator or 4, and you've got an instant arcade. And with an 80 gig iPod, you should be able to store a few shows for viewing on the go.
Then use your TiVo and click on yesterday's headlines, whydoncha?
An editor would have enough sense to know that the same subject was discussed yesterday. Besides, how hard can it be to skim over an article without actually reading it and type up a misinformed summary blurb?
Have you actually considered how long Java has been around compared to C#?
C# is NOT a Java ripoff. It's an OO language all its own and it has substantial features which are lacking in Java.
Inheritance, Encapsulation, Polymorphism. All 3 are needed for a language to be object oriented. C is definitely not polymorphic.
Let's get this straight:
(a) Dave is getting his ass beaten into dust by competing against a free technology in the marketplace.
(b) Dave then decides that since the product (which was the driving force for creating Ultracade) is the key to getting his ass beat, he decides to file for a trademark to try and regulate who does what with software which isn't his and which he doesn't contribute to.
(c) He wants this trademark so that he can litigate and get courts to specify damages from a bunch of hobbyist kids who are selling homebrew cabs.
(d) Profit???
If I were the MAME folks, I would contest the trademark and then come up with a better licensing plan. He's gonna sue them anyway.
We've had that for years. It's called Social Security.
Deer Mason's Guild,
I need to build a brick fireplace but I am a fervent hammer user. I realize that a hammer might not be the right tool to lay down the mortar, but I believe very strongly in the hammer and believe that ultimately, the trowel is an inferior tool designed only for trogladytes and people who actually know the definition of "trogladytes." What is the best way to use my hammer to accomplish my goal?
Signed,
Go Hammer, Go Hammer Go
Some people go mountain climbing, some people skydive, and some people even get into boxing and martial arts.
But to me, nothing says manly man like booting into Linux without the splash screen. That, and I can get the same BO that they can by just not bathing for a few days. People don't tease me for my Super Mario tattoo anymore.... well, they seem to avoid me as a general rule so they probably couldn't determine what it is anyway... maybe a big mole or something... but hey, that's the studly vibe I wanted to portray anyway!
Hoo-ah!
For the same reason "Hello World" isn't written as a multi-threaded client/server based program.
You gotta understand the concepts before you understand the dangers associated with them.
... they'll start selling these things in college bookstores with a low monthly payment. In high school, kids play with their computers, maybe do some instant messaging and gaming and email. But they don't have to USE their computer very much. Heck, many schools still allow kids to either write or type their reports. College, however, is a whole new ballgame. Students are supposed to start acting more like professionals and they're expected to spend quite a bit of time researching topics and using their PCs for class related activities. THAT is when you get them. Offer packages with the mini along with a 15 inch flat panel monitor, wireless mouse and keyboard, external floppy, 128mb thumbdrive, and a small black and white printer for less than 20 bucks a month, and watch their parents flock to buy em. Seriously, who needs a big, loud PC in college unless you're dealing with 3d software or autocad? And even then, you're likely to use the school's computers for that anyway.
Sure, if you don't want support on any of those boxes. Businesses do, and for every 20 minutes that you're without support on that nice network you just invisioned, you've just lost your savings.
If you take a look at the size of the Linux desktop market, and compare it to the size of the Windows PC market while assuming that percentage of game sales is going to remain constant, you're talking about a miniscule number of purchases. They'd be better off spending their times on the next expansion pack or sequel.
When you're talking about killer apps for Windows, there ain't much of a better one than Direct X.
The IT sector is not the economy. It is a small portion of the overall pie and all the small portions grow and shrink over time.
What is the IT sector going to recover from? If anything, it's still way too bloated and needs to continue to shrink so that companies can become profitable again doing what they do instead of constantly sinking their cash into the next neat server or ERP application.
Or maybe they could just educate the ignorant masses who believe that SS is a trust fund in the first place. You don't "contribute" to anything. It's an income tax used undert he guise of supporting people who otherwise wouldn't have the means to support themselves, ie, the elderly, poor children, and the disabled. If the feds were forced to keep their grubby little paws out of SS, guess what they're going to do? That's right, they're going to raise the hell out of our taxes to make up for it. Since it IS a tax and not a contribution to a retirement account, it makes more sense to eliminate the limit on the amount of income that can be taxed for this program. I view income taxes as a tax on time as opposed to wealth... the percentage of my time spent earning money to keep the government running is no more or less important than the billionaire or the fry cook.
Child, please.
Software development is no more lofty or special an ambition than dreaming to clean out the elephant poop cages at the zoo. Some people don't have an interest in any particular thing until they reach college, and many have just never been bitten by the bug. I know PhDs in multiple fields who wanted to do mundane things like being electrical techs and process operators at chemicalrefineries. Then they took a college level course in Physics or Chemistry, and the rest is history.
One of the best programmers I've ever met started out wanting to be a math teacher. He took up computer science and learned to program only after he got into college and he makes a nice 6 figure income doing it.
It seems to me that you're speaking about things you know nothing about because you've heard it parrotted by other uneducated people who can toss 10 lines of Python together with sticky tape and call it a program.
I've personally never believed that whole "our ancestors invented the wheel" baloney. I mean, we went around carrying objects in bags and on our backs for millenia, and suddenly they invent a wheel AND an axel?!? Give me a break! They clearly reverse-engineered alien tech to get that working.
... that quite a few fansub groups no longer have a website or an IRC channel. They simply sub the files and distribute them to a few trusted individuals.
Once they're distributed, they're virtually impossible to eliminate because they're sent over bittorrent, usenet, p2p networks, and online storage services like Streamload. There are still tons of copies of Ranma 1/2 encoded in old Realplayer files floating around.
I would imagine that in the long run, the companies' crackdown on these groups is going to make the groups change their stances from simply subbing until US licensing to subbing until completion regardless of the licensing. The companies might be right in their defenses of their abilities to distribute their products, but Americans don't have the ability to watch a show to completion and then decide they want to purchase the DVD like the Japanese do (OVAs not withstanding).
And if YOU were a real professional, you'd likely be able to spell the word 'professional.' You'd also understand that support usually doesn't come to people who decide to go out and roll their own distros unless they're prepared to be their own support line. There are reasons why businesses purchase Linux distros as opposed to just downloading them, and this is one of them.
How much are you willing to spend and how many mouse traps do you think that will buy? You could simply cover all his counters, cabinets, sitting areas, and floor with them.
Rent a portable construction garbage bin and fill it with popcorn and then blow it in with an insulation blower.
or
Buy about 20 bales of hay and fill it floor to ceiling with the stuff
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rent 10 cotton candy machines and fill it with fluff.
I'd have also suggested finding about a hundred chinese refugees and giving them a nice place to stay, but I hear that's not PC anymore.
Only with an Open Source zealot can he look a gift horse in the mouth, and after inspecting each and every gold cap, yell at the giver for not putting in platinum with extra dental service for life like he wanted.
Puzzle Bobble got way too easy once I beat it the first time or two... though I did make a fair amount of money by betting the arcade denizens of my university money that I could beat the game by using my right hand only.
Of course, these were the same goofballs that supplied me with lunch money after I whupped them in SF2 using the left only. Did I mention I gots me some big hands?
Make that Puzzle Bobble....