what's your point? He was pointing out the inaccuracy of the Napster marketing...it's not an MP3 player, it's a WMA with DRM player.
IPods aren't mp3 players either. But Apple doesn't call them mp3 players. They are portable music players. The fact that they use DRM is NOT the point.
As far as I know, you can't get on XBox Live with a mod chip enabled. If you want to get online, you need to deactivate the chipset and have the original hard drive in the xbox. After that, make sure you use a real game...otherwise it won't work.
If you log into XBox Live with an active Modchip, you get banned. Always has been that way.
Now...I fail to see how that will change with the 360. Having a mod chip does not mean you get to cheat others out of their online gaming experience
why would you think that? Doesn't matter if an OS is as secure as possible, as intuitive as possible, as fun as possible...someone will think differently. You can't appease everyone...Microsoft can't do it, Apple can't do it nor can any linux distro.
Linux is a competitor just as much as Sun, IBM, Apple...they probably have labs devoted to all of them as well.
konqueror is a frontend for its kio-slaves. kio-slaves can be accessed by any kde application (ftp, fish[ssh], etc). One of these kio-slaves happens to be KHTML.
And how is this different than the Com object for MSHTML? Any Windows software can use the same DLL for web browsing.
Actually, just because Konqi does more than IE in terms of "modules" doesn't make the fact that IE doesn't work on the same idea. It wouldn't be difficult to write a "ssh module" for Explorer. In fact, there was once a company that wrote something very similiar for the iPod. It was a plugin for Explorer.
Just because you find it less than useful does not make it any less innovative.
IE isn't even part of the OS. IEXPORE.exe is a shell that wraps around a browser object. The os does the same thing, just like KDE. Konqueror and Explorer are very similiar in concept.
Microsoft was the first company to utilize intelligent agents in their Software. Yes, that little stupid dog and clippy are annoying, but they are not available elsewhere.
Failure != lack of innovation.
Microsoft was the first to integrate a browser into the OS. While this does include some very bad concepts and potentially opens it up to more security problems, it's innovative.
I'd gladly vote for a program to subsidize PCs and Internet access for everyone, but TV?
WTF? How is the internet any more educational than PBS? A lot of schools have deals with cable companies that offer educational television shows during school. Do you realize how much I learned from shows like Nova, and others on Science or The Discovery Channel?
Why should I pay taxes so some fat lazy slob to sit at home all day and jerk off to porn? Why should I pay for their computer, their internet access?
No! Gov't subsidized PCs and Internet Access is not any better than subsidized television. Do you go out and play while browsing the internet? Do you go jogging and blogging?
Yeah, let's teach our children that instead of sitting in front of a television watching junk that they should sit in front of a computer reading slashdot! What a perfect solution.
I thought subscribers had a little dot or something next to their name. Maybe I'm wrong, or do you just not find slashdot useful?
Hmm. I was actually responding to this post. Not of games, not of entertainment software. I am bombarded with slashdot ads. I "pay" for my right to use this site by looking at those ads. If OSDN didn't want me to not pay, they would force people to pay, not give them a choice.
people aren't going to shell out for things they don't really need.
Let's see:
Nintendo DS XBox PSP Ferraris Televisions Cable TV Satellite TV DVRs Pez Porn Music Movies
is that enough of a list? Do you need more?
Leather jackets $3000 a month Loft apartments XM radio McDonalds Pot Cigarettes Liquor Gasolin e Cellular Telephones Blackberry PDAs "Teach yourself Anything in 21 days"
Slashdot Mirror
and what version of firefox are you running?
0.8? Come on man, swallow the 8 megs of bandwidth and download the new build...
A better analogy
Lexus vs Toyota
Scion vs Toyota
Acura vs Honda
same chasis, different style
what's your point? He was pointing out the inaccuracy of the Napster marketing...it's not an MP3 player, it's a WMA with DRM player.
IPods aren't mp3 players either. But Apple doesn't call them mp3 players. They are portable music players. The fact that they use DRM is NOT the point.
Just had to through in that extra slam huh?
As far as I know, you can't get on XBox Live with a mod chip enabled. If you want to get online, you need to deactivate the chipset and have the original hard drive in the xbox. After that, make sure you use a real game...otherwise it won't work.
If you log into XBox Live with an active Modchip, you get banned. Always has been that way.
Now...I fail to see how that will change with the 360. Having a mod chip does not mean you get to cheat others out of their online gaming experience
why would you think that? Doesn't matter if an OS is as secure as possible, as intuitive as possible, as fun as possible...someone will think differently. You can't appease everyone...Microsoft can't do it, Apple can't do it nor can any linux distro.
Linux is a competitor just as much as Sun, IBM, Apple...they probably have labs devoted to all of them as well.
konqueror is a frontend for its kio-slaves. kio-slaves can be accessed by any kde application (ftp, fish[ssh], etc). One of these kio-slaves happens to be KHTML.
And how is this different than the Com object for MSHTML? Any Windows software can use the same DLL for web browsing.
Actually, just because Konqi does more than IE in terms of "modules" doesn't make the fact that IE doesn't work on the same idea. It wouldn't be difficult to write a "ssh module" for Explorer. In fact, there was once a company that wrote something very similiar for the iPod. It was a plugin for Explorer.
Just because you find it less than useful does not make it any less innovative.
IE isn't even part of the OS. IEXPORE.exe is a shell that wraps around a browser object. The os does the same thing, just like KDE. Konqueror and Explorer are very similiar in concept.
Microsoft was also the first to have a flight sim inside a spreadsheet programme. Is that innovation too?
so you're not going to answer? Instead you'll take a "easter egg" as an example?
Wow, you're terrible at debating.
Microsoft was the first company to utilize intelligent agents in their Software. Yes, that little stupid dog and clippy are annoying, but they are not available elsewhere.
Failure != lack of innovation.
Microsoft was the first to integrate a browser into the OS. While this does include some very bad concepts and potentially opens it up to more security problems, it's innovative.
So innovative that the KDE crew does it as well.
Wow, you must have aced your Drama Class.
M$ - 5 points on maturity!
The use of the word evil - 10 points (+ karma!)
Reference to hokey 90's movie (GB 2 by the way) - 10 points
You're awesome!
According the the Wired article on Jim Allard of the XBox team, the XBox is profitable and was profitable in less time than the PS2 was for sony.
I'd gladly vote for a program to subsidize PCs and Internet access for everyone, but TV?
WTF? How is the internet any more educational than PBS? A lot of schools have deals with cable companies that offer educational television shows during school. Do you realize how much I learned from shows like Nova, and others on Science or The Discovery Channel?
Why should I pay taxes so some fat lazy slob to sit at home all day and jerk off to porn? Why should I pay for their computer, their internet access?
No! Gov't subsidized PCs and Internet Access is not any better than subsidized television. Do you go out and play while browsing the internet? Do you go jogging and blogging?
Yeah, let's teach our children that instead of sitting in front of a television watching junk that they should sit in front of a computer reading slashdot! What a perfect solution.
I thought subscribers had a little dot or something next to their name. Maybe I'm wrong, or do you just not find slashdot useful?
Hmm. I was actually responding to this post. Not of games, not of entertainment software. I am bombarded with slashdot ads. I "pay" for my right to use this site by looking at those ads. If OSDN didn't want me to not pay, they would force people to pay, not give them a choice.
How is it greed if you are paying for it? I paid for the food, if I want to eat more than I need, I pay for it. I don't see that as greed.
If it was a communal living situation and I ate more than I was supposed to eat, that's greed...
I don't find it useful, I find it entertaining. Very rarely do I walk away from slashdot knowing something new. I just come here for the laughs...
And aren't Player Theaters owned by Sony?
Ok thanks for the information :)
I forgot that RotT was after Wolfenstein, which I had on my tandy...
Broken? No.
Retarded? Yes. Why upload the entire site again just because you changed one piece of text in your 'template'?
It's never failed, it has never made sense to me either.
Try building a big site without DreamWeaver templates? Ha Ha Ha.
Try updating that template after it's been applied to hundreds of pages without DreamWeaver! HAHAHA
Apparently templates are dreamweaver specific, aren't linked and are actually just embedded in the HTML file. How the hell is this useful?
are you thinking of:
Rise of the Triad
people aren't going to shell out for things they don't really need.
n e
Let's see:
Nintendo DS
XBox
PSP
Ferraris
Televisions
Cable TV
Satellite TV
DVRs
Pez
Porn
Music
Movies
is that enough of a list? Do you need more?
Leather jackets
$3000 a month Loft apartments
XM radio
McDonalds
Pot
Cigarettes
Liquor
Gasoli
Cellular Telephones
Blackberry PDAs
"Teach yourself Anything in 21 days"
Can we stop the goatse.cx links now?
:)
The domains been suspended for a while now
..about you people, yeah you bet we care...YEAH!
Wow! India has a Fry's?!?!
Even Rochester NY doesn't have a Fry's.
I'm so jealous.
Isn't ActiveState's Perl and Python distrubtions forks? They implement functionality that isn't by default in the original perl source.
If i'm wrong, I apologize.