...and did nothing? I mean that patent sounds so disturbingly vague that surely a lot of massively parallel architectures could potentially be sued by this? Like, nearly every supercomputer and workstation processor architecture of the last decade? You know, the whole superscalar thing?
Not to mention the Playstation 2 with the two vector units of what the Cell is sort of spiritual sucessor to...
Umm, isnt that the whole purpose of the Xbox Live Arcade? You know, to get you access to short, sweet games for just a few bucks?
Why dont you get your quick gaming fix from there? Because the demos are not designed for that, they are supposed to fix you on to the big, long game for the big bucks, so clearly not what you wanted...
I think it is odd because Etoile is build upon and heavily relies on GNUstep, which is licensed under the LGPL (I think).
This has nothing to do with any sort of ideology (as I personally hate ideologic zealotry), but I think maybe it could be impractical in the future to use a different license as there may be legal ramifications they (and especially me) may not be aware of.
It certainly would be easier if Etoile and GNUstep would use the same license because you do not have different licenses with different legal aspects and issues that may even be interacting with each other. It does not mean that the BSD license is inherently better or worse than the (L)GPL.
The reference is to WorldWideWeb, the first web browser that Tim Berners-Lee actually made for NeXTSTEP, not NCSA Mosaic, which came later.
Wikipedia has an entry about WorldWideWeb: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb
...maybe they should pay up for it?
Interesting quote in the article:
In engineering programs, the additional money often goes toward costly laboratory equipment, because students and the companies that will employ them expect graduates to be able to go to work immediately using state of the art tools, said Mr. Lariviere of the University of Kansas.
"In many instances," he said, "industry itself is demanding this."
So if the industry demands students to work with state of the art equipment, surely they can pony up the cash to support universities to pay for it? Otherwise, why should the universities cave in to their demands?
AFAIK Another advantage is that the actual DisplayPort connector is a good bit smaller than a DVI connector, which makes it easier to build DisplayPorts into small portable devices.
It also helps on graphics cards, where two DVI connectors take up a lot of space and do not leave much room for other connectors. Maybe with DisplayPort it would be possible to get graphics cards with more connectors for Multiscreen Environments.
Well, I think the problem with Madden last year was that the Wii was just released for the holiday season, whereas Madden traditionally gets released in August or so (just before the start of the season). So I guess a lot of people who needed their Madden fix already had the game for a different platform and did not want to shell out money again for the Wii version (what is also a problem is that Madden on the Wii (AFAIK) does not have an online roster update function yet, so it came late to the party and is not even upgradable.
Lets see how Madden fares this year on the Wii. I think it will do very well, since last years version showed that the controls work surprisingly well and are a lot of fun (as you mentioned yourself) and this year the Wii version should be out simultaneously to the other platforms.
To get an even deeper look into the beginnings of the Linux Kernel, I like the book that Linus wrote which is called Just for Fun - The story of an accidental revolutionary (ISBN 1-58799-080-6, google the rest).
It contains the entire back history how Linux began as a side project and of course the famous spat with Andrew Tanenbaum over Minix and Linux and I found it to be a good (if very nerdy) read.
But the pictures in the article? Just sad, he reminds me so much of myself;-)
Yeah, but that would only affect people like me who like to buy their external enclosures and harddrives seperately and also would possibly like to change the drives into something bigger someday.
For the majority of those external harddisk buyers, it doesnt matter though. They buy the complete Disk from one vendor and dont care what is inside. If they need more storage, they will buy another one. And as SATA drives get even more popular, I would guess that new internal controllers with SATA will quickly replace the previous ones in the current enclosures.
So although at the moment the majority of external enclosures still use PATA, I think this will not be a big stumbling block and they will adapt to SATA pretty quickly. Pity though, as those enclosures tend to be quite robust (at least for me) and I would like to keep them around for a quite a bit longer, as I have quite a few of them...
Also, they use molex connectors which tend to be like teen pussy: so tight that once you get in you can't get out. That has to be one of the weirdest analogies I have ever seen on slashdot;-)
Remember when a specially modified version of Musicmatch was the official software for the Windows version of the iPod?
Apple did that because the had no port of iTunes for Windows yet and so they bundled a special version of the Musicmatch software with their Windows iPods. I remember reviews of that time comparing Musicmatch with iTunes and at that point Musicmatch was actually halfway decent (still couldnt hold a candle to iTunes though).
Even though such a prototype takes more than a few months to design and thus neither Apple nor LG are likely to steal the design from each other, consider the following:
Both devices use a huge touchscreen, which covers nearly the entire front of the device. What design can you rip off if your entire phone design only consists of one giant f***ing touchscreen with a speaker on top and a button underneath it? Well, the LG one has three buttons, but thats not the point;-)
See, there is only so much design you can do with those elements and this is the most obvious layout you can think of. And since every other phone on the planet is either silver or black even the similar color is a moot point. Maybe Apple can bring out another, beefier version in silver later and call it iPhone Pro or something;-)
Whoah, slow down here man. While I would agree that not all Asian tech industries are highly innovative and especially China has a lot of catching up to do (because frankly, China is only just starting to build a tech industry of their own), I think your examples are not that good and that Asian tech industries are indeed quite innovative nowadays.
Take your Japanese auto industry as an example. Do you realize that the first mass produced Hybrid cars (which is an innovation in my opinion) came frome Japan (like the Toyota Prius)? Or that Samsung, one of those Korean flat panel fabs you mentioned also has a big (one of the biggest in the world in fact) memory chip division and just unveiled a new type of RAM technology, the PRAMhttp://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06 /09/11/1446234?
And what about the cell phone makers in Asia, who always seem to be ahead a few years in terms of technlogy in cell phones? Or the game companies in Asia like NCSoft (Korea) or Nintendo and Sony (duh!)? Or Toshiba and Sony (again) as the drivers for the design of HD-DVD and Blue-Ray, respectively? Or Koreas broadband initiatives?
Dont dismiss Tech Innovation in Asia, theyve become pretty good at that.
Man, I loved the first one and the second one looks to be mighty good as well:)
Now I hope the second one will get ported to the Mac as well (the first Lego Star Wars has a Mac version), I think it would do well on the Mac platform and seems to be a good title for the Mac as it has a wide family and casual appeal and is not too demanding on system specs.
With the record number of games (and the apparently continuing interest of publishers), maybe the Tokyo Game Show will be the real successor to the E3?
I mean, I would guess that a booth at an expo in Tokyo would not be that much cheaper than an LA based one, but who knows? Maybe it could even help to keep the "amateur gaming bloggers" in check, because travelling to Tokyo is quite expensive, yknow?
And it would be possible to show nearly completed games to build up pre-christmas buying hype instead of wasting precious development time on a demo for a game that wont be seeing the shelves for several months...
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What the summary forgot to mention was a confirmation of the prices for additional controllers:
$40 for additional Wii Remotes and $20 for additional Wii Nunchucks
Well, thats not really cheap, especially the Remote+Nunchuck Combo, but about what I expected. It will be quite expensive to buy the full set for four players, I guess...
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...and did nothing? I mean that patent sounds so disturbingly vague that surely a lot of massively parallel architectures could potentially be sued by this? Like, nearly every supercomputer and workstation processor architecture of the last decade? You know, the whole superscalar thing?
Not to mention the Playstation 2 with the two vector units of what the Cell is sort of spiritual sucessor to...
Umm, isnt that the whole purpose of the Xbox Live Arcade? You know, to get you access to short, sweet games for just a few bucks?
Why dont you get your quick gaming fix from there? Because the demos are not designed for that, they are supposed to fix you on to the big, long game for the big bucks, so clearly not what you wanted...
...why Apples laywers are always so quick to slam down rumors sites and issue cease-and-desist letters and be generally pricky and foul-mannered.
;-)
I would be constantly pissed off as well if stupid lawsuits such as this one would land on my desk every time
I think it is odd because Etoile is build upon and heavily relies on GNUstep, which is licensed under the LGPL (I think).
This has nothing to do with any sort of ideology (as I personally hate ideologic zealotry), but I think maybe it could be impractical in the future to use a different license as there may be legal ramifications they (and especially me) may not be aware of.
It certainly would be easier if Etoile and GNUstep would use the same license because you do not have different licenses with different legal aspects and issues that may even be interacting with each other. It does not mean that the BSD license is inherently better or worse than the (L)GPL.
Argh, formatted the link wrong, so here it goes:d ex.php?title=EtoileWiki:About
http://www.etoile-project.org/etoile/mediawiki/in
The reference is to WorldWideWeb, the first web browser that Tim Berners-Lee actually made for NeXTSTEP, not NCSA Mosaic, which came later.
Wikipedia has an entry about WorldWideWeb: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb
Interestingly, the Etoile developers seem to want to avoid the GPL and prefer the BSD License (as seen on their about page here: http://www.etoile-project.org/etoile/mediawiki/ind ex.php?title=EtoileWiki:About/), which I find a bit odd...
So if the industry demands students to work with state of the art equipment, surely they can pony up the cash to support universities to pay for it? Otherwise, why should the universities cave in to their demands?
Yeah, thats it. Stupid crappy German translation ruined my joke :-(
the new production run has the flux compensator as standard issue now ;)
AFAIK Another advantage is that the actual DisplayPort connector is a good bit smaller than a DVI connector, which makes it easier to build DisplayPorts into small portable devices.
It also helps on graphics cards, where two DVI connectors take up a lot of space and do not leave much room for other connectors. Maybe with DisplayPort it would be possible to get graphics cards with more connectors for Multiscreen Environments.
No flying genitalia in IBM business attire then, eh?
EA - Wii got caught by surprise? ;-)
Well, I think the problem with Madden last year was that the Wii was just released for the holiday season, whereas Madden traditionally gets released in August or so (just before the start of the season). So I guess a lot of people who needed their Madden fix already had the game for a different platform and did not want to shell out money again for the Wii version (what is also a problem is that Madden on the Wii (AFAIK) does not have an online roster update function yet, so it came late to the party and is not even upgradable.
Lets see how Madden fares this year on the Wii. I think it will do very well, since last years version showed that the controls work surprisingly well and are a lot of fun (as you mentioned yourself) and this year the Wii version should be out simultaneously to the other platforms.
To get an even deeper look into the beginnings of the Linux Kernel, I like the book that Linus wrote which is called Just for Fun - The story of an accidental revolutionary (ISBN 1-58799-080-6, google the rest).
;-)
It contains the entire back history how Linux began as a side project and of course the famous spat with Andrew Tanenbaum over Minix and Linux and I found it to be a good (if very nerdy) read.
But the pictures in the article? Just sad, he reminds me so much of myself
Yeah, but that would only affect people like me who like to buy their external enclosures and harddrives seperately and also would possibly like to change the drives into something bigger someday.
For the majority of those external harddisk buyers, it doesnt matter though. They buy the complete Disk from one vendor and dont care what is inside. If they need more storage, they will buy another one. And as SATA drives get even more popular, I would guess that new internal controllers with SATA will quickly replace the previous ones in the current enclosures.
So although at the moment the majority of external enclosures still use PATA, I think this will not be a big stumbling block and they will adapt to SATA pretty quickly. Pity though, as those enclosures tend to be quite robust (at least for me) and I would like to keep them around for a quite a bit longer, as I have quite a few of them...
Remember when a specially modified version of Musicmatch was the official software for the Windows version of the iPod?
Apple did that because the had no port of iTunes for Windows yet and so they bundled a special version of the Musicmatch software with their Windows iPods. I remember reviews of that time comparing Musicmatch with iTunes and at that point Musicmatch was actually halfway decent (still couldnt hold a candle to iTunes though).
Sadly, it all got downhill after that...
...of this little comic:
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http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/
If Vista was that beautiful, this Mac user here would be unfaithful too! (rawwwrr...)
Even though such a prototype takes more than a few months to design and thus neither Apple nor LG are likely to steal the design from each other, consider the following: Both devices use a huge touchscreen, which covers nearly the entire front of the device. What design can you rip off if your entire phone design only consists of one giant f***ing touchscreen with a speaker on top and a button underneath it? Well, the LG one has three buttons, but thats not the point ;-)
See, there is only so much design you can do with those elements and this is the most obvious layout you can think of. And since every other phone on the planet is either silver or black even the similar color is a moot point. Maybe Apple can bring out another, beefier version in silver later and call it iPhone Pro or something ;-)
Whoah, slow down here man. While I would agree that not all Asian tech industries are highly innovative and especially China has a lot of catching up to do (because frankly, China is only just starting to build a tech industry of their own), I think your examples are not that good and that Asian tech industries are indeed quite innovative nowadays.
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Take your Japanese auto industry as an example. Do you realize that the first mass produced Hybrid cars (which is an innovation in my opinion) came frome Japan (like the Toyota Prius)? Or that Samsung, one of those Korean flat panel fabs you mentioned also has a big (one of the biggest in the world in fact) memory chip division and just unveiled a new type of RAM technology, the PRAMhttp://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0
And what about the cell phone makers in Asia, who always seem to be ahead a few years in terms of technlogy in cell phones? Or the game companies in Asia like NCSoft (Korea) or Nintendo and Sony (duh!)? Or Toshiba and Sony (again) as the drivers for the design of HD-DVD and Blue-Ray, respectively? Or Koreas broadband initiatives?
Dont dismiss Tech Innovation in Asia, theyve become pretty good at that.
Man, I loved the first one and the second one looks to be mighty good as well :)
Now I hope the second one will get ported to the Mac as well (the first Lego Star Wars has a Mac version), I think it would do well on the Mac platform and seems to be a good title for the Mac as it has a wide family and casual appeal and is not too demanding on system specs.
Man Taco, I still dont have any mod points! Obviously, this discussion 2 thingy is still broken! ;)
With the record number of games (and the apparently continuing interest of publishers), maybe the Tokyo Game Show will be the real successor to the E3?
I mean, I would guess that a booth at an expo in Tokyo would not be that much cheaper than an LA based one, but who knows? Maybe it could even help to keep the "amateur gaming bloggers" in check, because travelling to Tokyo is quite expensive, yknow?
And it would be possible to show nearly completed games to build up pre-christmas buying hype instead of wasting precious development time on a demo for a game that wont be seeing the shelves for several months...
What the summary forgot to mention was a confirmation of the prices for additional controllers:
$40 for additional Wii Remotes and $20 for additional Wii Nunchucks
Well, thats not really cheap, especially the Remote+Nunchuck Combo, but about what I expected. It will be quite expensive to buy the full set for four players, I guess...