I am really disgusted with your ignorance. I further find it revolting how you managed to be moderated at 5.
You talk about how taxes are essential. Let's discuss this further.
states to pay for basic services such as roads
Look at the piss poor condition of the roads. You really think they need MORE money? No, they need to manage it better.
rail (ditto)
Railroads are owned by railroad companies. They are not like telephone lines, or roads.
airports
Airports have landing fees. And often this is enough to keep them running.
police, jails, courts
(see roads)
You spoke about UPS. That's an example of how commercialization has IMPROVED the mail system. If your job depended on a package reaching it's destination by a certain time, would you really send it using the US Postal Service?
In many areas, commercialization of public services has improved those services.
Remember the FSF story concerning the Right to Read? The SPA had sued an ISP for not allowing them to monitor them for warez. Well, here's a little tidbit from ORBS:
It also tracks networks that prevent ORBS from verifying whether or not their SMTP servers continue to permit third-party relay - it is fairly common for inept administrators to try blocking the ORBS testers rather than to actually fix their security problems.
I myself am going to block all ORBS testers from testing any of my email servers or forwarders. I really think these people are anti-free speach.
I never liked the SPA, and I don't like these people. They aren't held accountable for their database, nor are they held accountable for the resources they might be stealing.
I'd like to see a model of public access television go satellite. And not public access in the reference we're used, but rather public access meaning FREE access.
Imagine a network of satellites, sending down satellite television for free. Suddenly, all you need is a television and a receiver, and you're set. No fees.
Such a system would work, if we had advertisers to back us up, and take care of the overhead.
Further, imagine the quality of television we could receive. Suddenly, the entire network depends solely on advertising, which requires quality programming. No more Celine Dion! (sorry).
What it boils down to is, would I end my cable service for free satellite? Yes.
Although, I agree with your assertion that 3com NICs are overpriced, I disagree that they are underpowered.
The company I work with has been using 3com NICs, Hubs, and Switches, and to be honest, you can't get anything better.
Just the NICs themselves are wonderfull. You mentioned the 3C-905tx,... this model has a wake-on-lan function which IMHO, is the best you can find.
Funny you should mention DEC Tulip based NICs. One of the contractors for my company brought in some HP servers which were equipped with such cards. One card fried, and started sending out high-voltage electricity across the ethernet cable. Least I say more?
The other cool thing about this service: If you have a license or the software is free and does not require root, you can install it!
I remember back in the day when there were a lot of free Linux systems around, and a lot of problems with people bringing over Eggdrop bots. I'm wondering if they'll address this issue. Because to be honest, I think they'll get a lot of people who will have no desire other than set up IRC bots.
And on an even more important note. What's really stopping people from using this site as a launchpad for DoS attacks?
Other then the few foreseeable problems with people abusing this company's generosity, I think this is a really cool project. I think for myself, it could be a great teaching tool. I mean, imagine if you could hop onto Windows 2000 from a web browser, and learn it. Would be a lot cheaper then attending a class.
I'm in complete disagreement with you. I think the means of the commitance of a crime have a relevant bearing of the consequences that crime should carry. If you break in with lock picking tools, then you've violated the trust that was bestowed upon you for having such tools. Thus, your punishment should be severe.
Such is the case with pepper spray use in Michigan. If you use a normally defensive weapon in an offensive way, you've violated the public trust, thus your punishment should be more extreme.
I understand the previous example was a bit crude at least. But I think it stands that the same object can be legal or illegal based on it's use. Another example would be prescription drugs, another would be fireworks.
In my most very humble opinion, I feel this man did something wrong, and should be punished for it.
Further I agree with the damages stated by Epicor. I think the damages of $12,500 required to issue new user IDs and passwords is fair. Assuming that's a realistic estimate, I believe that the cost of total recovery is a fair price.
But one thing I would dispute, is that Epicor claims that the cost of losing their customer list would be in the amount of $2.5 million per year. All the article stated was that Bell has an email with the list as an attachment. In this case, they are claiming unrealistic damages, in where they didn't REALLY lose the list. So to these damages I would disagree.
IBM has them keyboards going for $75, and yes, they are the king of all keyboards.
Of course, their standard machine keyboards are available for much less.
But if you're looking for that old "throw it across the room and kill the cat because it's so heavy" IBM keyboard. I've seen plenty at swap meets for about $2 a dozen.
I've fallen into the pit of endless work at a fixed income,... aka, the salary. Basically, my overtime has to be approved before I can be compensated for it. If I come in a half hour early without my boss's permission, I don't get to tack on that extra time. so I found a way to circumvent it.
I have a wordpro document sittin on in my computer. Every time I work over a little bit, I put it down. Every time I learn something new, or finish a project for the man, I put it down. I put in my day-to-day complaints; suggestions; and ideas, and when it comes time for my year-to-year review, I pull up the old document, edit her up, hand it over with a statement as to why my increase in performance and loyalty justifies a large raise.
I'm sure your boss like mine is going to say something like "Well, most of this is what you're supposed to do anyway". Then pull out that piece of paper you got at your interview explaining your responsibilities. I bet the list you kept is longer.
I think also the quantity of laws are showing to have an adverse effect on us. We blindly state that "ignorance is not a defense", yet we continue to pass law after stupid law.
So now it becomes the responsibility (more like burden) of the citizen to learn the laws. In the US, we have city laws, county laws, state laws, and Federal laws,... then we have acts which give certain agencies power to enforce arbitrary laws that they create, without little help from legistlation (OSHA, FCC, FAA, US Treas).
People, they have been passing laws for 200 years! If they don't have it right yet, then something is desperately wrong. We don't need our legistlators in office making new laws. They should be sitting back, and making sure everything is running smoothly.
And these legistlators aren't even representing us. I know a few of you touched on how "we need to change the opinion of the majority". I ask you, what will this do? Here in Michigan, the majority wants our roads fixed,... there are still potholes in my street.
These legistlators are crooks. They are going after the business of corporations. After all, who pays for their campaigns? I think we can say, with great validity, that there exists taxation without representation. This was a large motivation of our first Revolution.
The issue is clear. We need to become more vocal, and i'm not just saying that either. Here is what I am willing to do. I will write my state representative, senator, and congressional representative and inform them of my opinions, further, I will write letters to editors of a few major newspapers and request they run a story on this.
And I urge you to do the same. Because it isn't until we do something that will get The Man's attention, that we can ever expect our opinions to be heard.
In some respect, all of those technologies you've mentioned were invented before 1901, making them ineligible for consideration.
There really haven't been a lot of inventions since the 1920s or so, just improvements on existing technology. I mean, dude, back in the 20s, they had airships the size of city blocks flying around and stuff. That's some real cool stuff.
But to a certain degree I'd agree with you. The Internet has shaped our forms of communication like nothing else. When you can pass a message around the world in seconds, it makes for increased cultural exchanges.
Myself personally, I look to our Biology and Medical advances we've made in the last century. Because if you look at the medical techniques that existed a little over a hundred years ago,... you'll probably see them as barbaric.
"Do you really believe the Gulf War had *anything* to do with the boom of the 90's."
HELLO?
Of course it did. If Bush Sr. had not sent us to the Gulf, oil prices would be out of control because a multitude of oil producing nations would be under the control of one leader.
We got involved right when we had to.
Oh, and the comment about cutting back on the crack? That was just low (aka -1: Troll).
Absolutely not. This is not like stealing. It's like finding a '71 Hemicuda, in mint shape for $1,200,... buying it, and then having the seller get angry because he didn't pay enough attention. You go with the good deals, and you stray from the bad. You know?
Basically, it really doesn't matter. Keep in mind, according to the Federal Government, you are a resident of the state you claim you're a resident in. Basically, if you claim to be a resident of California, you're a resident of california.
But there's an ugly side to this. That being, you can only be a resident of one state at a time. And your residency effects things like automobile titles, as well as income tax returns. I think this stems from a case where an individual who lived and worked in two seperate states was found able to choose which state he owed income tax to.
Here's my problem with this. First off, the home "workspace" is also used for non-work activities. Which makes it also a personal workspace.
So, now it comes down to two options. Either your boss can pay for your home office, or you can. There are obvious advantages and disadvantages to this. I mean, if you get fired, then basically your boss will come over and take away your nice new leather office chair.
Or you can pay. Furnishing a room in your home to be used as a home office comes with tax breaks. Simply purchase the furnature, and claim it on your taxes. And if you get fired, you keep your chair.
Besides, if your boss pays for your home office, then shouln't you subsidise some of that? After all, you do use it for other purposes. Here's an example:
Joey's boss buys him a new office chair for his office at the company. I think it reasonable to expect this chair to have a life expectancy of roughly 3 years.
But if Joey's boss buys the same office chair for his home office, then I think the life expectancy drops to around 1.5 years. The chair is going to be worn out a LOT faster. So, the fair thing to do, is require the home user to pay half of the price of the chair. But then who gets the chair when he's fired?
As far as the insurance question goes, what ever happened to home owner's insurance? I mean, I have automobile insurance, and I use my car for work (at a very fair and non-taxable rate of $.31 per mile). But all the while I am uing that car, my original insurance is what's protecting me.
So what now? Is my employer required to provide me with a vehicle? Using this analogy, they're supposed to hand me the keys to a car, as well as an unlimited gas card, just because I drive as part of my job. And as much as I would enjoy that, I don't find it practical.
Bringing the two together, my work pays me a premium rate for using my own vehicle, and providing my own insurance. An employer usually provides an at-home employee a premium rate as a result of the savings from reduced office space. So why can't an employer with at-home workers claim that the premium wage is THEIR way of providing a safe work environment?
I really wonder where this guy gets off not mentioning the printing press. I mean, most of what he named was either convenience oriented, or essential to human survival.
But the printing press. Allowed for the spread of ideas. It allowed the communication of common man. And gave society a tool to fight "untouchable" governments. Ever since it's conception, it's been a thorn in the sides of dictatorships, communism, and yes'm even the USA.
"Neat gadget"? Perhaps,... but I'd much rather have the printing press around than them stupid hand dryers (paper towell for everyone!@#$%^%).
The photographer/artist's picture of the book is in itself property, hence the copyright You see, while some people may find this perfectly fine, I'm one to wonder how this "I'm not copyrighting the work, I'm copyrighting my copy of the work" could be abused in the real world. Basically, are screenshots of copyrighted computer programs in themselves under the same copyright? If I took a photograph of a printed sheet of code, do I then own my photograph, with full rights of copyright? If I take a picture (or photocopy, of which there is no difference) a book, do I then own full rights to the picture? And even further, if I use a microphone connected to my computer to record a copyrighted song being played on the air, do I then have full rights to my recording? Do you see where the role of original copyright falls into play?
If you follow that link, you'll find that whoever took the photo of the book (The British Library Board), has slapped a 1997 copyright on it. This in itself brings up an interesting question.
If I wrote a book, and marked it as "universal free distribution", could someone make a copy it, then copyright their copy, and possibly sue me for infringment?
To me, "universal free distribution" would seem like as loose a GPL as you can get. Basically, you are setting absolutely no limits on it's distribution.
So here come the brits (no offense), who reproduce Mr. Wang Jie's (if that's a female name, forgive me) work. And they copyright their work?
Either way this could be good or bad. If you had some copyrighted software you wanted to use, you can just copy it, and copyright your copy.
When it comes down to it, I honestly believe that the original copyright stands. Thus, the British Library Board's claim at copyright is invalid, and I can copy this picture and put it up on my homepage.
The stories about working countless hours without compensation, for bosses who don't know anything about the field, are stories that exist EVERYWHERE. I know someone who works in the IT department at a community hospital, and his director has a degree in law. In fact, not one of the board of directors there are even doctors.
I also know people who are salaried employees of Wal-Mart. And as a salaried employee, they are not only subject to uncompensated overtime, but are also subject to national relocation at a moment's notice.
If you want a dream job, then go after it. I found mine,... working for a small community bank doing PC/Lan work. 40 hours a week, holidays paid time off, and great benefits. And I'm 4 months out of High School.
The main idea is that people are exploited because they allow it to happen.
If you're given more responsibility, ask for more pay.
If you have to work longer, ask for more time off.
But conventional wisdom says that at most only two systems can coexist at any one time.
Only two systems? And what is this conventional wisdom? In all of my experience, the gaming industry has been the most unconventional of all "high-tech" industries.
And how can their only be two systems? IMHO, it's either like Highlander(tm) "There can be only one", or there can be a limitless number of systems.
After all, I've seen multiple platforms for new games. You can get the PC version, or the Sega version, and etc. The end customers will simply pick the best system which suits them, based on price, extra functions, and features (probably in that order).
More games means more customers means more games -- a virtuous cycle
This statement is rather ambigious. Does it state that the more customers, the more money, thus more games? Or perhaps, customers are hooked on games, and want to buy the next version (look at Final Fantasy, and many Flight Simulator games).
And you're also finding a trend that sequals are coming out on new gaming systems. Look at Mario, which started on your basic NES, and has evolved to N64, and will probably go on from there.
I guess what it comes down to, is if somebody wants a PC, they're going to buy a PC. And if somebody wants a gaming console, that's what their going to buy. And in each industry, there needs to be sufficient competition to kep quality up, and price down.
So this new PalmOS will include networking? Or so it says,...
Does this mean that later versions can be upgraded without a Desktop computer? According to the page, you need a desktop computer to upgrade the ROM. I'd like to see a self-sustaining Palmtop (computer), and not a overclocked digital rolex.
I'd like to see slashdot set up a gaming interface, perhaps Kasparov Vs. Slashdot (and we won't stuff votes!). Now, if we can't get Kasparov, let's start a Slashdot Vs. Slashdot game. One white team, one black team. Each turn wll be majority vote. Since slashdot accounts are limited to email addresses, vote stuffing would significantly be reduced.
Slashdot Mirror
You talk about how taxes are essential. Let's discuss this further.
states to pay for basic services such as roads
Look at the piss poor condition of the roads. You really think they need MORE money? No, they need to manage it better.
rail (ditto)
Railroads are owned by railroad companies. They are not like telephone lines, or roads.
airports
Airports have landing fees. And often this is enough to keep them running.
police, jails, courts
(see roads)
You spoke about UPS. That's an example of how commercialization has IMPROVED the mail system. If your job depended on a package reaching it's destination by a certain time, would you really send it using the US Postal Service?
In many areas, commercialization of public services has improved those services.
It also tracks networks that prevent ORBS from verifying whether or not their SMTP servers continue to permit third-party relay - it is fairly common for inept administrators to try blocking the ORBS testers rather than to actually fix their security problems.
I myself am going to block all ORBS testers from testing any of my email servers or forwarders. I really think these people are anti-free speach.
I never liked the SPA, and I don't like these people. They aren't held accountable for their database, nor are they held accountable for the resources they might be stealing.
Imagine a network of satellites, sending down satellite television for free. Suddenly, all you need is a television and a receiver, and you're set. No fees.
Such a system would work, if we had advertisers to back us up, and take care of the overhead.
Further, imagine the quality of television we could receive. Suddenly, the entire network depends solely on advertising, which requires quality programming. No more Celine Dion! (sorry).
What it boils down to is, would I end my cable service for free satellite? Yes.
The company I work with has been using 3com NICs, Hubs, and Switches, and to be honest, you can't get anything better.
Just the NICs themselves are wonderfull. You mentioned the 3C-905tx,... this model has a wake-on-lan function which IMHO, is the best you can find.
Funny you should mention DEC Tulip based NICs. One of the contractors for my company brought in some HP servers which were equipped with such cards. One card fried, and started sending out high-voltage electricity across the ethernet cable. Least I say more?
I remember back in the day when there were a lot of free Linux systems around, and a lot of problems with people bringing over Eggdrop bots. I'm wondering if they'll address this issue. Because to be honest, I think they'll get a lot of people who will have no desire other than set up IRC bots.
And on an even more important note. What's really stopping people from using this site as a launchpad for DoS attacks?
Other then the few foreseeable problems with people abusing this company's generosity, I think this is a really cool project. I think for myself, it could be a great teaching tool. I mean, imagine if you could hop onto Windows 2000 from a web browser, and learn it. Would be a lot cheaper then attending a class.
Dude, you're from Lambertville? I'm from Monroe. I didn't know tere was another Slashdot reader within 100 miles of here!
Such is the case with pepper spray use in Michigan. If you use a normally defensive weapon in an offensive way, you've violated the public trust, thus your punishment should be more extreme.
I understand the previous example was a bit crude at least. But I think it stands that the same object can be legal or illegal based on it's use. Another example would be prescription drugs, another would be fireworks.
In my most very humble opinion, I feel this man did something wrong, and should be punished for it.
Further I agree with the damages stated by Epicor. I think the damages of $12,500 required to issue new user IDs and passwords is fair. Assuming that's a realistic estimate, I believe that the cost of total recovery is a fair price.
But one thing I would dispute, is that Epicor claims that the cost of losing their customer list would be in the amount of $2.5 million per year. All the article stated was that Bell has an email with the list as an attachment. In this case, they are claiming unrealistic damages, in where they didn't REALLY lose the list. So to these damages I would disagree.
Of course, their standard machine keyboards are available for much less.
But if you're looking for that old "throw it across the room and kill the cat because it's so heavy" IBM keyboard. I've seen plenty at swap meets for about $2 a dozen.
I've fallen into the pit of endless work at a fixed income,... aka, the salary. Basically, my overtime has to be approved before I can be compensated for it. If I come in a half hour early without my boss's permission, I don't get to tack on that extra time. so I found a way to circumvent it.
I have a wordpro document sittin on in my computer. Every time I work over a little bit, I put it down. Every time I learn something new, or finish a project for the man, I put it down. I put in my day-to-day complaints; suggestions; and ideas, and when it comes time for my year-to-year review, I pull up the old document, edit her up, hand it over with a statement as to why my increase in performance and loyalty justifies a large raise.
I'm sure your boss like mine is going to say something like "Well, most of this is what you're supposed to do anyway". Then pull out that piece of paper you got at your interview explaining your responsibilities. I bet the list you kept is longer.
I think also the quantity of laws are showing to have an adverse effect on us. We blindly state that "ignorance is not a defense", yet we continue to pass law after stupid law.
So now it becomes the responsibility (more like burden) of the citizen to learn the laws. In the US, we have city laws, county laws, state laws, and Federal laws,... then we have acts which give certain agencies power to enforce arbitrary laws that they create, without little help from legistlation (OSHA, FCC, FAA, US Treas).
People, they have been passing laws for 200 years! If they don't have it right yet, then something is desperately wrong. We don't need our legistlators in office making new laws. They should be sitting back, and making sure everything is running smoothly.
And these legistlators aren't even representing us. I know a few of you touched on how "we need to change the opinion of the majority". I ask you, what will this do? Here in Michigan, the majority wants our roads fixed,... there are still potholes in my street.
These legistlators are crooks. They are going after the business of corporations. After all, who pays for their campaigns? I think we can say, with great validity, that there exists taxation without representation. This was a large motivation of our first Revolution.
The issue is clear. We need to become more vocal, and i'm not just saying that either. Here is what I am willing to do. I will write my state representative, senator, and congressional representative and inform them of my opinions, further, I will write letters to editors of a few major newspapers and request they run a story on this.
And I urge you to do the same. Because it isn't until we do something that will get The Man's attention, that we can ever expect our opinions to be heard.
There really haven't been a lot of inventions since the 1920s or so, just improvements on existing technology. I mean, dude, back in the 20s, they had airships the size of city blocks flying around and stuff. That's some real cool stuff.
But to a certain degree I'd agree with you. The Internet has shaped our forms of communication like nothing else. When you can pass a message around the world in seconds, it makes for increased cultural exchanges.
Myself personally, I look to our Biology and Medical advances we've made in the last century. Because if you look at the medical techniques that existed a little over a hundred years ago,... you'll probably see them as barbaric.
HELLO?
Of course it did. If Bush Sr. had not sent us to the Gulf, oil prices would be out of control because a multitude of oil producing nations would be under the control of one leader.
We got involved right when we had to.
Oh, and the comment about cutting back on the crack? That was just low (aka -1: Troll).
Absolutely not. This is not like stealing. It's like finding a '71 Hemicuda, in mint shape for $1,200,... buying it, and then having the seller get angry because he didn't pay enough attention. You go with the good deals, and you stray from the bad. You know?
Basically, it really doesn't matter. Keep in mind, according to the Federal Government, you are a resident of the state you claim you're a resident in. Basically, if you claim to be a resident of California, you're a resident of california.
But there's an ugly side to this. That being, you can only be a resident of one state at a time. And your residency effects things like automobile titles, as well as income tax returns. I think this stems from a case where an individual who lived and worked in two seperate states was found able to choose which state he owed income tax to.
So, now it comes down to two options. Either your boss can pay for your home office, or you can. There are obvious advantages and disadvantages to this. I mean, if you get fired, then basically your boss will come over and take away your nice new leather office chair.
Or you can pay. Furnishing a room in your home to be used as a home office comes with tax breaks. Simply purchase the furnature, and claim it on your taxes. And if you get fired, you keep your chair.
Besides, if your boss pays for your home office, then shouln't you subsidise some of that? After all, you do use it for other purposes. Here's an example:
Joey's boss buys him a new office chair for his office at the company. I think it reasonable to expect this chair to have a life expectancy of roughly 3 years.
But if Joey's boss buys the same office chair for his home office, then I think the life expectancy drops to around 1.5 years. The chair is going to be worn out a LOT faster. So, the fair thing to do, is require the home user to pay half of the price of the chair. But then who gets the chair when he's fired?
As far as the insurance question goes, what ever happened to home owner's insurance? I mean, I have automobile insurance, and I use my car for work (at a very fair and non-taxable rate of $.31 per mile). But all the while I am uing that car, my original insurance is what's protecting me.
So what now? Is my employer required to provide me with a vehicle? Using this analogy, they're supposed to hand me the keys to a car, as well as an unlimited gas card, just because I drive as part of my job. And as much as I would enjoy that, I don't find it practical.
Bringing the two together, my work pays me a premium rate for using my own vehicle, and providing my own insurance. An employer usually provides an at-home employee a premium rate as a result of the savings from reduced office space. So why can't an employer with at-home workers claim that the premium wage is THEIR way of providing a safe work environment?
But the printing press. Allowed for the spread of ideas. It allowed the communication of common man. And gave society a tool to fight "untouchable" governments. Ever since it's conception, it's been a thorn in the sides of dictatorships, communism, and yes'm even the USA.
"Neat gadget"? Perhaps,... but I'd much rather have the printing press around than them stupid hand dryers (paper towell for everyone!@#$%^%).
The photographer/artist's picture of the book is in itself property, hence the copyright You see, while some people may find this perfectly fine, I'm one to wonder how this "I'm not copyrighting the work, I'm copyrighting my copy of the work" could be abused in the real world. Basically, are screenshots of copyrighted computer programs in themselves under the same copyright? If I took a photograph of a printed sheet of code, do I then own my photograph, with full rights of copyright? If I take a picture (or photocopy, of which there is no difference) a book, do I then own full rights to the picture? And even further, if I use a microphone connected to my computer to record a copyrighted song being played on the air, do I then have full rights to my recording? Do you see where the role of original copyright falls into play?
If you follow that link, you'll find that whoever took the photo of the book (The British Library Board), has slapped a 1997 copyright on it. This in itself brings up an interesting question.
If I wrote a book, and marked it as "universal free distribution", could someone make a copy it, then copyright their copy, and possibly sue me for infringment?
To me, "universal free distribution" would seem like as loose a GPL as you can get. Basically, you are setting absolutely no limits on it's distribution.
So here come the brits (no offense), who reproduce Mr. Wang Jie's (if that's a female name, forgive me) work. And they copyright their work?
Either way this could be good or bad. If you had some copyrighted software you wanted to use, you can just copy it, and copyright your copy.
When it comes down to it, I honestly believe that the original copyright stands. Thus, the British Library Board's claim at copyright is invalid, and I can copy this picture and put it up on my homepage.
The stories about working countless hours without compensation, for bosses who don't know anything about the field, are stories that exist EVERYWHERE. I know someone who works in the IT department at a community hospital, and his director has a degree in law. In fact, not one of the board of directors there are even doctors.
I also know people who are salaried employees of Wal-Mart. And as a salaried employee, they are not only subject to uncompensated overtime, but are also subject to national relocation at a moment's notice.
If you want a dream job, then go after it. I found mine,... working for a small community bank doing PC/Lan work. 40 hours a week, holidays paid time off, and great benefits. And I'm 4 months out of High School.
The main idea is that people are exploited because they allow it to happen.
Only two systems? And what is this conventional wisdom? In all of my experience, the gaming industry has been the most unconventional of all "high-tech" industries.
And how can their only be two systems? IMHO, it's either like Highlander(tm) "There can be only one", or there can be a limitless number of systems.
After all, I've seen multiple platforms for new games. You can get the PC version, or the Sega version, and etc. The end customers will simply pick the best system which suits them, based on price, extra functions, and features (probably in that order).
More games means more customers means more games -- a virtuous cycle
This statement is rather ambigious. Does it state that the more customers, the more money, thus more games? Or perhaps, customers are hooked on games, and want to buy the next version (look at Final Fantasy, and many Flight Simulator games).
And you're also finding a trend that sequals are coming out on new gaming systems. Look at Mario, which started on your basic NES, and has evolved to N64, and will probably go on from there.
I guess what it comes down to, is if somebody wants a PC, they're going to buy a PC. And if somebody wants a gaming console, that's what their going to buy. And in each industry, there needs to be sufficient competition to kep quality up, and price down.
So this new PalmOS will include networking? Or so it says,...
Does this mean that later versions can be upgraded without a Desktop computer? According to the page, you need a desktop computer to upgrade the ROM. I'd like to see a self-sustaining Palmtop (computer), and not a overclocked digital rolex.
I'd like to see slashdot set up a gaming interface, perhaps Kasparov Vs. Slashdot (and we won't stuff votes!). Now, if we can't get Kasparov, let's start a Slashdot Vs. Slashdot game. One white team, one black team. Each turn wll be majority vote. Since slashdot accounts are limited to email addresses, vote stuffing would significantly be reduced.