Why are they coming out with a new, "luggable" version of the venerable PS1, when the marketing blitz is going to be on for the PS2?
it's a tradition for electronics companies to release "updated" versions of their old consoles when a new platform is released. they are trying to squeeze every last dollar from their investments in the technology.
nintendo released an updated nes when the snes was released, and an updated snes when the n64 came out. sega made a portable genesis when the saturn came out.
it's also a hook of theirs; they hope that if someone get hooked on the cheaper old platform, they will spend the cash to get the current model afterwards.
it is interesting that it will be out before the ps2 though.:)
it should have been split into at least three companies. msft has their fingers in _many_ pies here:
1. apps (office, ie, money, blah) 2. operating systems 3. media/service (msn et al) 4. hardware 5. certification
...and so on. two companies is not enough to get a fair division of all their arms. where will hardware go? operating systems or apps? won't that allow that company to tie their software to the hardware?
anyone have a quick rundown of what goes where with the split?
[ note to moderators: this is not flamebait or a troll. it's a genuine opinion of a genuinely pissed-off person. so at least read it before you moderate it, ok? ]
i love how this always happens; "x is _way_ too big to download with y speed, therefore nobody will ever pirate it! duh!" - then new technology pops up, and every 14-year-old kid and his brother are sucking gigs and gigs of copyrighted material off usenet/napster/gnutella/freenet/whatever.
people said this about audio cd pirating. now we have mp3. people said this about data cds. now we have dsl and cablemodems capable of tossing a few gigs around with ease. people said this about dvd movies. hey, have you checked usenet out recently? go look at alt.binaries.vcd and count the number of movies ripped from dvd.
and think about it; 2 gigs (compressed from a 4gb game) isn't all that hard to download with dsl or cable. no more difficult than people who download 4 cds worth of final fantasy psx games.
and honestly, the availability of dsl/cable is much more widespread than many people think. i live in tacoma, a mid-sized city, and the first thing i did when i moved was transferred my phone service and order dsl. same goes for many of my geek friends.
here is a busier screenshot of gnome 1.2, with a neato background, the `blue' gtk theme, netscape, xmms, a gnome terminal, the gnome control center, blah blah blah
anyways - it shows you a bit more than the other screenshots.
i have it running on an amd k6-2 500mhz box with 192mb of ram. from `startx' to having the whole desktop up took less than 5 seconds.
i've also got it running on an amd k6-3d 266mhz box with 32mb ram. much faster than 1.x
it really makes gnome 1.x look like a pig. and don't even get me started on enlightenment. good god, what a heinous piece of crap that is. gnome 1.2 comes with sawfish (formerly known as sawmill. am i the only one who thinks that `sawfish' sounds stupid?) which is waaaay faster. and it's customizable with lisp-scripts. very cool, but all the themes i've seen for it are ugly.
i had the panel crash on me once, when i was adding a bunch of applets. i'm sure it will get worked out soon though. there are a _lot_ of eyes on gnome right now...
the link provided was to the openbsd-specific source. there is a port for other unixes here - source is here , a diff against the `official' openbsd version (for those who downloaded from the incorrect link) is here
well, i think my example still holds water. the fact that gun manufacturers are being sued for crimes committed with their product is just as wrong as napster being sued. and in any case, the gun manufacturers aren't the ones who gave u.s. citizens the right to bear arms. the people who wrote and passed the second amendment are.
my point was that napster is a liberator. the founding fathers of the usa were liberators. they were both seen as criminals by the powers of the day, though all they wanted to do was give people more freedom. it's just that that freedom conflicts with the beliefs of the powers that be.
of course, napster is also in it for the money. so it's not a perfect example, but i'm sure you understand.
there were a few good points in there. but i still feel that metallica is wrong to sue napster. napster isn't pirating metallica's music. and i don't think it's right that metallica is laying responsibility for the actions of their own fans at napster's feet.
napster gives music fans a freedom they didn't have before. it's not their fault if that freedom gets abused. think of the second amendment; do we curse the writers of the constitution and the government whenever a person is killed with a gun? no. we punish the _individual_ who commited a _crime_. not the person/people/company who gave that person the freedom/ability to commit the crime. i don't see how this is any different with music. if you pirate music, the legal consequences are _your_ responsibility.
even though i can feel for the band's position - the bit about the book club, though muddled, did have merit - i'm still glad to see 30,000+ people who got kicked off napster fight back.
is is just me or is the alpha dying? i haven't seen anything _really_ new happening with the alpha since the 21164 was announced - excepting smp alpha systems with more and more cpus - and that was a _long_ time ago. 21164s hit the market even before compaq bought it.
the alpha is far superior to the current intel offerings, but intel at least goes through the motions of improving and releasing new cpus. even if the improvements aren't all that great (kni anyone?) they at least let their customer base know that they aren't being left up a creek.
so- has there been anything really new and exciting in the alpha world, or is compaq letting it languish?
just because they lack the rights for some portions of qt does _not_ mean they can't release it for linux/*bsd, unless their license for the technology specifically excludes platforms other than mac/win32 - which is pretty unlikely.
besides which, they could release most of the source under the lgpl or similar liberal license and the codecs as object code. realplayer does this, with the exception that _no_ code is released.
personally, i don't give a rats ass if qt is open-sourced or not. i just want something to play the qt 4 & 5 files that are all over the 'net now.
i've been a 100% linux user since 1995, so i can't say how it compares to agent. i can tell you that it has an extremely kick-ass feature set (>1 nntp server, multi-part binary decodes, multithreaded, blah blah blah) - and weighing in at around 520k, it's a great choice for those without the latest software-monoploy-induced inflated hardware spec.
according to the apt changelog, the 0.0.1 release was made Tue, 31 Mar 1998. so scratch apt as prior art.
however, the older `dselect' method used by debian 1.3 (and earlier, i think; i haven't used 1.3) does the same thing; you give it a ftp or http address to a package server. it gets a package list, presents it and you choose to upgrade everything (default), not upgrade some packages, remove some, or add others.
the release date for debian 1.3 was 5 Jun 97; 1.2 was 12 Dec 96 - both providing solid prior art.
well, the website is hosted at goddard space flight center, which has the 128.183.0.0/16 network. assuming that it's not blocked (which it most certainly is) and is in the same subnet (somewhat likely), someone with some time, bandwitdh and nmap could just scan through the/16, logging all the high-latency links along the way.
need for speed: high stakes _has_ a drunk mode. the controls are horrible, you drift and slide, and everything on the screen blurs horribly. you need a gameshark, and the codes are here.
this is nothing compared with the "water effect" in nitrus oxide - it's a trippy effect where everything on the screen is warping and moving.
of course, unless you've got some mad hax0ring sk1llZ and/or are sleeping with keanu reeves, you don't know what happens in the next two parts of the matrix trilogy. so it's really not that accurate of a comparison.
of course, if you _are_ sleeping with keanu reeves... please seek psychiatric care immidiately. oh, and let us know what happens in the next two movies.
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'course, it would be even cooler if it could be done with contacts... but that's pretty unlikely.
it's interesting how it can correct for defocusing (near/far sightedness) with a single deformable mirror... i wonder how they manage that.
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it's a tradition for electronics companies to release "updated" versions of their old consoles when a new platform is released. they are trying to squeeze every last dollar from their investments in the technology.
nintendo released an updated nes when the snes was released, and an updated snes when the n64 came out. sega made a portable genesis when the saturn came out.
it's also a hook of theirs; they hope that if someone get hooked on the cheaper old platform, they will spend the cash to get the current model afterwards.
it is interesting that it will be out before the ps2 though.
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it should have been split into at least three companies. msft has their fingers in _many_ pies here:
1. apps (office, ie, money, blah)
2. operating systems
3. media/service (msn et al)
4. hardware
5. certification
...and so on. two companies is not enough to get a fair division of all their arms. where will hardware go? operating systems or apps? won't that allow that company to tie their software to the hardware?
anyone have a quick rundown of what goes where with the split?
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[ note to moderators: this is not flamebait or a troll. it's a genuine opinion of a genuinely pissed-off person. so at least read it before you moderate it, ok? ]
i love how this always happens; "x is _way_ too big to download with y speed, therefore nobody will ever pirate it! duh!" - then new technology pops up, and every 14-year-old kid and his brother are sucking gigs and gigs of copyrighted material off usenet/napster/gnutella/freenet/whatever.
people said this about audio cd pirating. now we have mp3. people said this about data cds. now we have dsl and cablemodems capable of tossing a few gigs around with ease. people said this about dvd movies. hey, have you checked usenet out recently? go look at alt.binaries.vcd and count the number of movies ripped from dvd.
and think about it; 2 gigs (compressed from a 4gb game) isn't all that hard to download with dsl or cable. no more difficult than people who download 4 cds worth of final fantasy psx games.
and honestly, the availability of dsl/cable is much more widespread than many people think. i live in tacoma, a mid-sized city, and the first thing i did when i moved was transferred my phone service and order dsl. same goes for many of my geek friends.
so give it a break and get a clue.
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does it vibrate too?
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anyways - it shows you a bit more than the other screenshots.
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i have it running on an amd k6-2 500mhz box with 192mb of ram. from `startx' to having the whole desktop up took less than 5 seconds.
i've also got it running on an amd k6-3d 266mhz box with 32mb ram. much faster than 1.x
it really makes gnome 1.x look like a pig. and don't even get me started on enlightenment. good god, what a heinous piece of crap that is. gnome 1.2 comes with sawfish (formerly known as sawmill. am i the only one who thinks that `sawfish' sounds stupid?) which is waaaay faster. and it's customizable with lisp-scripts. very cool, but all the themes i've seen for it are ugly.
i had the panel crash on me once, when i was adding a bunch of applets. i'm sure it will get worked out soon though. there are a _lot_ of eyes on gnome right now...
it gets a big thumbs-up from me...
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my point was that napster is a liberator. the founding fathers of the usa were liberators. they were both seen as criminals by the powers of the day, though all they wanted to do was give people more freedom. it's just that that freedom conflicts with the beliefs of the powers that be.
of course, napster is also in it for the money. so it's not a perfect example, but i'm sure you understand.
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napster gives music fans a freedom they didn't have before. it's not their fault if that freedom gets abused. think of the second amendment; do we curse the writers of the constitution and the government whenever a person is killed with a gun? no. we punish the _individual_ who commited a _crime_. not the person/people/company who gave that person the freedom/ability to commit the crime. i don't see how this is any different with music. if you pirate music, the legal consequences are _your_ responsibility.
even though i can feel for the band's position - the bit about the book club, though muddled, did have merit - i'm still glad to see 30,000+ people who got kicked off napster fight back.
anyways, enough rambling. back to work.
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core is an independent registrar organization. whatthefuck.com is registered by one Nick Melnick of 2550 Long Lake Road, New Brighton, MN 55112.
he registered it through domainbank.net, a core member.
as soon as core popped up, i went and grabbed sickfuck.org, a domain i had long lusted for, but which my requests for had been previously denied.
down with nsi.
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the alpha is far superior to the current intel offerings, but intel at least goes through the motions of improving and releasing new cpus. even if the improvements aren't all that great (kni anyone?) they at least let their customer base know that they aren't being left up a creek.
so- has there been anything really new and exciting in the alpha world, or is compaq letting it languish?
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besides which, they could release most of the source under the lgpl or similar liberal license and the codecs as object code. realplayer does this, with the exception that _no_ code is released.
personally, i don't give a rats ass if qt is open-sourced or not. i just want something to play the qt 4 & 5 files that are all over the 'net now.
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i've been a 100% linux user since 1995, so i can't say how it compares to agent. i can tell you that it has an extremely kick-ass feature set (>1 nntp server, multi-part binary decodes, multithreaded, blah blah blah) - and weighing in at around 520k, it's a great choice for those without the latest software-monoploy-induced inflated hardware spec.
and while i'm plugging pan, let me also plug my pan 0.8.0beta8 debian package for potato. the off icial debian package is still at version 0.7.6.
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so take it easy...
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so, even if she does get naked soon, i'm not gonna be the one to see it.
didn't spend much time on it, so it looks somewhat less than real - but here's a blue-eyed version.
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too bad she has brown eyes, blue or green would have been better.
damn, i hope she gets naked soon.
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however, the older `dselect' method used by debian 1.3 (and earlier, i think; i haven't used 1.3) does the same thing; you give it a ftp or http address to a package server. it gets a package list, presents it and you choose to upgrade everything (default), not upgrade some packages, remove some, or add others.
the release date for debian 1.3 was 5 Jun 97; 1.2 was 12 Dec 96 - both providing solid prior art.
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"uh, yeah... i'd like to... integreate myself..."
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could be interesting.
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this is nothing compared with the "water effect" in nitrus oxide - it's a trippy effect where everything on the screen is warping and moving.
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of course, if you _are_ sleeping with keanu reeves... please seek psychiatric care immidiately. oh, and let us know what happens in the next two movies.
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