It seems to me that Scientists should consider the words of the holy bible when designing technology that exploits animals, for although man is given dominion over all creatures, he is also instructed not to inflict 'undue suffering'.
Just because they use organic materials doesn't mean that they torture the animals to death. In fact, I'm not even sure they use animals... the article didn't give any mention of where the organic material for the new displays comes from (the old LCD technology, they said, used "fish glue"). The organic material for the new displays could just as easily be coming from plants (plants which were not doubt tortured to death).
It's also possible that if they were to use something like "fish glue," that they would aquire the needed material via the cheapest means possible, like buying waste material (heads, tails, skin) from a food processing plant (e.g., VanDeKamps).
Apparently, Nintendo was in talks to buy Sega for $2 billion. This article is from late December, but I assume that it's still relevant given that Sega's troubles seem to be deepening.
Also keep in mind that Nintendo has had a better working relationship with LucasArts than any other console maker has had. The N64 has gotten all of the cool Star Wars games, and the Playstation has gotten all the crappy ones.
1) Have the payments sent directly from the users to Sealand or to a Swiss bank account via credit card, Paypal, or whatever.
2) There are, what, 50 million Napster users? Go to a fee-based model; $1 for a LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP would keep the service running for decades if only 1/50th of current Napster users paid in the first year. You could even set up a trust fund at that point, and pay Sealand out of the interest.
3) DON'T GIVE OUT YOUR FRIGGEN NAME AS THE PERSON WHO IS ORGANIZING THIS. (Duh!)
Pornography has driven early adoption, but I think you're way off base to say that the future of broadband adoption is closely tied to it.
The price of DSL is still too high -- $40-50/month. I remember when dial-up was that high; everybody was talking about this internet thing, but unless you were a student at a good-sized university, you probably didn't know too many people that had home access.
For DSL to take off, it needs to come down to where non-tech enthusiasts can afford it -- $20-30/month. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much incentive for the ILEC's to drive the price down, and cable companies similarly don't have any incentive to lower the cost of cable modem access when they are already matching or beating the price of DSL.
The district court correctly recognized that a preliminary injunction against Napster's participation in copyright infringement is not only warranted but required. We believe, however, that the scope of the injunction needs modification in light of our opinion. Specifically, we reiterate that contributory liability may potentially be imposed only to the extent that Napster: (1) receives reasonable knowledge of specific infringing files with copyrighted musical compositions and sound recordings; (2) knows or should know that such files are available on the Napster system; and (3) fails to act to prevent viral distribution of the works. See Netcom, 907 F. Supp. at 1374-75. The mere existence of the Napster system, absent actual notice and Napster's demonstrated failure to remove the offending material, is insufficient to impose contributory liability. See Sony, 464 U.S. at 442-43.
Conversely, Napster may be vicariously liable when it fails to affirmatively use its ability to patrol its system and preclude access to potentially infringing files listed in its search index. Napster has both the ability to use its search function to identify infringing musical recordings and the right to bar participation of users who engage in the transmission of infringing files.
It sure sounds to me like Napster is screwed, if they have to monitor their servers for copyrighted material.
The finding seems to be that Napster can stay, but they've got to actively purge copyrighted songs from their servers. Not good.
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Raising genetically altered mammals for industrial purposes is cool, but growing industrial hemp is a crime. Custom-designing living beings is all good, but ingesting RU486 in the first trimester is murder.
What are you arguing? To allow all of it? To disallow all of it? Your post makes no sense whatsoever.
You would have a VERY hard time trying to convince me that the groups that are against hemp and RU-486 would also gleefully condone genetically altering mammals for industrial use.
Oh wait, I forgot...this is Slashdot. We moderate up every anti-conservative jab, whether or not it makes sense.:(
If they had kept on plodding with newton, not only would they be ahead of game with the likes of Palm, but since their Newton OS was that much more beefier that the Palm it could have been the platform of choice for the wireless information device market.
This is a market in which Microsoft and it's primary competitor Symbian are going after, and to many it would appear to be the future of computing.
The funny thing is, it took a long time for the Newton division to turn a profit. And shortly after it did, Steve killed it.
One of Steve's character flaws seems to be that he is willing to let personal feelings interfere with business decisions. Newton was a pet project of John Sculley, his old adversary, so the general consensus is that he wanted to eradicate any legacy Sculley left behind.
Steve also killed the Claris software division, which I believe was also started by Sculley. Claris had been very profitable during its run. If one of the main criticisms of your platform is that you don't have enough software apps, does it make sense to kill off a profitable software division? Of course not. Now we see, though, that Steve is interested in building more killer apps in-house. What a novel idea (glad he thought of it!).
Apple needs Claris again, if for no other reason than to have a major software publisher that is keenly interested in Mac-only and Mac-first software titles. Could it be any more plain how Microsoft has built a fortune from acquisitions and publishing? Apple has much to learn. I've said this before, just imagine if Apple had acquired Bungie instead of Microsoft and released Halo on the Mac a couple of months ahead of other platforms...it would have had a big impact.
And speaking of games, no tier-one game publisher is interested in releasing Mac-first titles. Until the Mac starts getting tier-one Mac-first and Mac-only games on a regular basis, gamers will always scoff at the Mac. Claris was in a perfect position to make that happen for Apple.
Steve has done a tremendous job since his return, but of all the cutbacks he made, those are the two that gripe me the most. Steve needs to learn how to swallow that massive ego of his when it's in the best interest of the platform.
meanwhile Be moved over to x86 and instead of being a great operating system on a great chip in a small market, became swamped in the sea of x86.
That's a great point, and I don't think that it can be emphasized enough.
Gasse's original marketing plan at Be, much like Jobs's plan at NeXT, was to target a Mac stronghold with his OS. For NeXT, it was education; for Be, it was creative professionals.
Be surged in popularity in the mid-nineties because of the Mac clone market; they were able to cut a deal with Power Computing to bundle their OS alongside the Mac OS. One of the exaggerated "benefits" of a Mac clone market was that Macs would be able to run multiple operating systems now, so suddenly Be was front and center. Even Mac magazines were bundling beta versions of BeOS on CD's.
Be had a fairly strong marketing plan for invading Apple's market; what they didn't have was a similarly strong plan for invading the PC market, where variety is the norm, not the exception. And on top of that, they squandered the 4 years that Apple took to get OS X out the door.
"Apple won't give us the information we need to sink the Mac OS!" Oh, boo hoo! What were you expecting?
We're talking about a digital ID that the HDTV reads off of the VCR, right? So, if this thing comes to pass, some enterprising young geek will market a little black box that goes between your VCR and your TV and will mask the ID. Simple but effective. Best Buy and Radio Shack will make a ton of money on it, the MPAA will not have changed anything, and HDTV manufacturers will eventually drop this silly idea.
One other thing about iTunes that knocked my socks off--it never skips a beat. I was working in QuarkXPress today with iTunes streaming a jazz station in the background; things like launching QXP and printing a large, graphics-intensive document, two tasks that are guaranteed to bring ANY background task to a screeching halt under OS 9, didn't even cause iTunes to hiccup.
He showed that OS 9 (9.1?) and OS X will be be able to burn CD-R/CD-RW's directly from the Finder. When you insert a blank CD-R, it is mounted on the desktop, and you can drag files and folders to it. It doesn't actually rip the CD until you go to unmount it.
Steve mentioned having 1000 MP3's on his computer...hmm, hope there were no federal law enforcement officers in the audience. I can just see them confiscating that brand spankin' new G4/733.
Too bad he didn't rip a few Metallica CD's and pass 'em out!:-)
Don't forget that totally lame scene where Han Solo talks to Jabba. Jabba's supposed to be this big-time underworld figure, but Solo verbally pushes him around like he's just some young street punk.
If ever there was a scene that didn't need to be added in, that one was it.
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Come on...I don't know what planet you guys are on, but here on earth, getting a degree in order to get a better job is a big factor with most people.
The fact is, the two degrees offer two distinctly different paths. The business classes provided by the CIS degree will help him if he ever wants to do more than just program. Look at how many "former programmers" are leading major software companies. In many cases, once their businesses took off, they didn't have time to go back to school and get an MBA.
If there's one lesson we should have learned from Microsoft over the last 20 years, it's that superior marketing will always win out over superior technology. Perhaps that's why Be is not manufacturing the units themselves, because they know they suck at marketing.
Yes, the console market is going to contract and shake out some players, and here's why:
1) Licensing - As I understand it, Microsoft is throwing out the traditional video game licensing model. Forget paying royalties, and forget about having to get a game approved by the console manufacturer.
2) DVD - Sega and Nintendo are missing the boat on this one--big time. DVD is going to be a strong selling point for X-Box and PS2.
3) TV Set-Top Box - We are just now coming to a place technologically where it's possible for a game console to become the mythical set-top box. The question is going to be, "How many peripherals do you want to connect to your TV?" Not only will the PS2 and the X-Box be game consoles, but they will be the DVD player in most homes. And they might even replace the TiVo (PS2 has an available hard drive bay, and the X-Box will have a hard drive standard).
...when you consider that the Sega Dreamcast hit the market over a year ago, and the X-Box is at least a year away; the Dreamcast is priced for the low-end of the console market, and the X-Box will be priced for the high-end at it's introduction. Essentially, they won't be competing any more than the PS1 is competing with the PS2. An added bonus would be that Microsoft would be able to use Sega's original code to write a DC emulator for the X-Box.
It would also give Microsoft an automatic entry into the arcade market, though I don't know how valuable that is these days.
I think we are reaching a point in the console market, though, where it's feasible to address a high-end segment and a low-end segment with two separate products.
How often does a PC title sell more then 1 million units? Not very often - Just the half dozen blockbuters or Deer Hunter/Millionare of the year.
Good point...a majority of PC's are installed in businesses, where game playing is at a minimum or non-existant. Consoles, OTOH, are exclusively game machines.
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Just because they use organic materials doesn't mean that they torture the animals to death. In fact, I'm not even sure they use animals... the article didn't give any mention of where the organic material for the new displays comes from (the old LCD technology, they said, used "fish glue"). The organic material for the new displays could just as easily be coming from plants (plants which were not doubt tortured to death).
It's also possible that if they were to use something like "fish glue," that they would aquire the needed material via the cheapest means possible, like buying waste material (heads, tails, skin) from a food processing plant (e.g., VanDeKamps).
http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/news/content_item.asp?c ont_id=18773
Also keep in mind that Nintendo has had a better working relationship with LucasArts than any other console maker has had. The N64 has gotten all of the cool Star Wars games, and the Playstation has gotten all the crappy ones.
Nintendo has a few strong alliances, too....
1) Have the payments sent directly from the users to Sealand or to a Swiss bank account via credit card, Paypal, or whatever.
2) There are, what, 50 million Napster users? Go to a fee-based model; $1 for a LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP would keep the service running for decades if only 1/50th of current Napster users paid in the first year. You could even set up a trust fund at that point, and pay Sealand out of the interest.
3) DON'T GIVE OUT YOUR FRIGGEN NAME AS THE PERSON WHO IS ORGANIZING THIS. (Duh!)
This is, after all, a temporary inconvenince and should be fixed within a few months, according to reports.
The price of DSL is still too high -- $40-50/month. I remember when dial-up was that high; everybody was talking about this internet thing, but unless you were a student at a good-sized university, you probably didn't know too many people that had home access.
For DSL to take off, it needs to come down to where non-tech enthusiasts can afford it -- $20-30/month. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much incentive for the ILEC's to drive the price down, and cable companies similarly don't have any incentive to lower the cost of cable modem access when they are already matching or beating the price of DSL.
Yaaaay! Now I get to send my tax money to some blood-sucking lawyers instead of to the struggling school system!
Conversely, Napster may be vicariously liable when it fails to affirmatively use its ability to patrol its system and preclude access to potentially infringing files listed in its search index. Napster has both the ability to use its search function to identify infringing musical recordings and the right to bar participation of users who engage in the transmission of infringing files.
It sure sounds to me like Napster is screwed, if they have to monitor their servers for copyrighted material.
The finding seems to be that Napster can stay, but they've got to actively purge copyrighted songs from their servers. Not good.
What are you arguing? To allow all of it? To disallow all of it? Your post makes no sense whatsoever.
You would have a VERY hard time trying to convince me that the groups that are against hemp and RU-486 would also gleefully condone genetically altering mammals for industrial use.
Oh wait, I forgot...this is Slashdot. We moderate up every anti-conservative jab, whether or not it makes sense. :(
No, it's a $50 price drop TO $99.
Had me looking all over the web for a $50 Dreamcast, too. :-p
This is a market in which Microsoft and it's primary competitor Symbian are going after, and to many it would appear to be the future of computing.
The funny thing is, it took a long time for the Newton division to turn a profit. And shortly after it did, Steve killed it.
One of Steve's character flaws seems to be that he is willing to let personal feelings interfere with business decisions. Newton was a pet project of John Sculley, his old adversary, so the general consensus is that he wanted to eradicate any legacy Sculley left behind.
Steve also killed the Claris software division, which I believe was also started by Sculley. Claris had been very profitable during its run. If one of the main criticisms of your platform is that you don't have enough software apps, does it make sense to kill off a profitable software division? Of course not. Now we see, though, that Steve is interested in building more killer apps in-house. What a novel idea (glad he thought of it!).
Apple needs Claris again, if for no other reason than to have a major software publisher that is keenly interested in Mac-only and Mac-first software titles. Could it be any more plain how Microsoft has built a fortune from acquisitions and publishing? Apple has much to learn. I've said this before, just imagine if Apple had acquired Bungie instead of Microsoft and released Halo on the Mac a couple of months ahead of other platforms...it would have had a big impact.
And speaking of games, no tier-one game publisher is interested in releasing Mac-first titles. Until the Mac starts getting tier-one Mac-first and Mac-only games on a regular basis, gamers will always scoff at the Mac. Claris was in a perfect position to make that happen for Apple.
Steve has done a tremendous job since his return, but of all the cutbacks he made, those are the two that gripe me the most. Steve needs to learn how to swallow that massive ego of his when it's in the best interest of the platform.
R/W Optical Disk = CDRW, DVD-R
UNIX = Linux, OS X
Postscript was actually a big winner in the 90's. Desktop publishing may have started in the late 80's, but it hit its stride in the 90's.
Add to that the fact that PDF is a variant of postscript, and it looks like PS has fared very well.
Digital Sound = MP3
Multimedia email = trying to imagine..."Hey, send me a big multimedia email attachment over my smokin' hot new 2400 bd modem!"
Object-oriented / visual development = yup.
The other three? How about...
* Networking in general (including the internet)
* The web (born on a NeXT computer)
* 3D animation
That's a great point, and I don't think that it can be emphasized enough.
Gasse's original marketing plan at Be, much like Jobs's plan at NeXT, was to target a Mac stronghold with his OS. For NeXT, it was education; for Be, it was creative professionals.
Be surged in popularity in the mid-nineties because of the Mac clone market; they were able to cut a deal with Power Computing to bundle their OS alongside the Mac OS. One of the exaggerated "benefits" of a Mac clone market was that Macs would be able to run multiple operating systems now, so suddenly Be was front and center. Even Mac magazines were bundling beta versions of BeOS on CD's.
Be had a fairly strong marketing plan for invading Apple's market; what they didn't have was a similarly strong plan for invading the PC market, where variety is the norm, not the exception. And on top of that, they squandered the 4 years that Apple took to get OS X out the door.
"Apple won't give us the information we need to sink the Mac OS!" Oh, boo hoo! What were you expecting?
We're talking about a digital ID that the HDTV reads off of the VCR, right? So, if this thing comes to pass, some enterprising young geek will market a little black box that goes between your VCR and your TV and will mask the ID. Simple but effective. Best Buy and Radio Shack will make a ton of money on it, the MPAA will not have changed anything, and HDTV manufacturers will eventually drop this silly idea.
One other thing about iTunes that knocked my socks off--it never skips a beat. I was working in QuarkXPress today with iTunes streaming a jazz station in the background; things like launching QXP and printing a large, graphics-intensive document, two tasks that are guaranteed to bring ANY background task to a screeching halt under OS 9, didn't even cause iTunes to hiccup.
He showed that OS 9 (9.1?) and OS X will be be able to burn CD-R/CD-RW's directly from the Finder. When you insert a blank CD-R, it is mounted on the desktop, and you can drag files and folders to it. It doesn't actually rip the CD until you go to unmount it.
Steve mentioned having 1000 MP3's on his computer...hmm, hope there were no federal law enforcement officers in the audience. I can just see them confiscating that brand spankin' new G4/733.
:-)
Too bad he didn't rip a few Metallica CD's and pass 'em out!
Don't forget that totally lame scene where Han Solo talks to Jabba. Jabba's supposed to be this big-time underworld figure, but Solo verbally pushes him around like he's just some young street punk.
If ever there was a scene that didn't need to be added in, that one was it.
Come on...I don't know what planet you guys are on, but here on earth, getting a degree in order to get a better job is a big factor with most people.
The fact is, the two degrees offer two distinctly different paths. The business classes provided by the CIS degree will help him if he ever wants to do more than just program. Look at how many "former programmers" are leading major software companies. In many cases, once their businesses took off, they didn't have time to go back to school and get an MBA.
There's probably a ton of qualified people here who would gladly take the position.
Not true!
If there's one lesson we should have learned from Microsoft over the last 20 years, it's that superior marketing will always win out over superior technology. Perhaps that's why Be is not manufacturing the units themselves, because they know they suck at marketing.
Yes, the console market is going to contract and shake out some players, and here's why:
1) Licensing - As I understand it, Microsoft is throwing out the traditional video game licensing model. Forget paying royalties, and forget about having to get a game approved by the console manufacturer.
2) DVD - Sega and Nintendo are missing the boat on this one--big time. DVD is going to be a strong selling point for X-Box and PS2.
3) TV Set-Top Box - We are just now coming to a place technologically where it's possible for a game console to become the mythical set-top box. The question is going to be, "How many peripherals do you want to connect to your TV?" Not only will the PS2 and the X-Box be game consoles, but they will be the DVD player in most homes. And they might even replace the TiVo (PS2 has an available hard drive bay, and the X-Box will have a hard drive standard).
I want to know how the future President plans to combat the impending Independence Day invasion by aliens!
Is Apple gonna be around long enough for us to shoot a scientist into space with a PowerBook?
It would also give Microsoft an automatic entry into the arcade market, though I don't know how valuable that is these days.
I think we are reaching a point in the console market, though, where it's feasible to address a high-end segment and a low-end segment with two separate products.
Good point...a majority of PC's are installed in businesses, where game playing is at a minimum or non-existant. Consoles, OTOH, are exclusively game machines.