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But are there any good submarine games for it? Tairan writes: "In an effort to sell off 2 million Dreamcasts before jumping out of the hardware business, Sega has lowered the prices of Dreamcasts to $99.00. If you don't already have one, better get down to your local gaming store now!"
Frankly, I'd really rather have an Aeron chair The tri-voweled reader nettdata writes: "Remember this old article that talked about a dot-commer including a Lego desk in his contract? Well, I think I've found the guy! Sun's Dot Com Builder page is doing a feature article on Blue Nile, and the picture in the article shows their CTO sitting at a Lego Desk.
Look here[1][, then look here[2] and tell me they aren't the same!"
Mr. Harshbarger's work continues to amaze, astound and befuddle. Where are all the Lincoln Log sculptures, and desks made of bright yellow Tonka truck metal?
Tell me again how sheep's bladders may be used to prevent earthquakes ... Geoffrey S. Zub of Vistaource passed on that company's Official Word on the Applix spinoff, which he says "can be attributed to Allison Antalek, Marketing Communications." It reads thus:
Pop quiz, no cheating: Would you be likely to buy a new car from a company that had just "discontinued operations"?"In December 2000 the Company entered into discussions with several possible buyers and expects to consummate a divestiture or otherwise discontinue the business in the first quarter of 2001.If you have consistently followed VistaSource through 2000, you will recall two key announcements:
VistaSource has been on a path to divest from Applix throughout the year 2000. In December, this culminated in discussions with possible buyers. The term 'discontinued operations' is a common legal and finance term used in these situations and should not raise concern about VistaSource's long term viability. Our Anyware offering is a leading technology from which we offer customizable, web-enabled, server centric, real-time solutions, and we will continue to focus our business to grow in this market segment. The exercises over the past twelve months have further focused our business on our key differentiators as we look to grow to prominence in 2001. We look forward to your continued support and to your business in the future.
- April 24th press release launching VistaSource as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Applix.
- October 19th press release announcing the engagement of FAC/Equities to explore strategic alternatives for VistaSource, including its possible divestiture.
Best Regards,
Allison Antalek
Marketing Communications
VistaSource, Inc."
Please don't throw another penguin on the barbie, 'K, mate? Last but not least, the indefatiguable Marc Merlin posted word of his newest wrap-up / conference report, with pictures, of the recent linux.conf.au 2001. Marc braved jetlag, the dangers of flying, and proximity to dangerous creatures like kangaroos and awful jellyfish to bring you these pictures and words, but he's dedicated. (Check out his license plate for proof.) As his report puts it, "If you noticed the absence of Showfloor pictures, it's simply because there was no Showfloor. This was a hacker's conference, not a tradeshow, and I'd say that it was just as well." Some great pix in here! Thanks, Marc.
Re:Cutting Back Prices? (Score:1)
Re:The Gaming Business (Score:2)
License Plate? (Score:1)
Re:Fact checking at its best (Score:1)
Common Marketing Terms (Score:2)
The sentence:
The term 'discontinued operations' is a common legal and finance term used in these situations and should not raise concern about VistaSource's long term viability.
is a common marketing term called putting a good spin on bad news. Sheesh, I know this is what marketers do, but sometimes I'm still amazed at the crap these people can spew with a straight face.
Blue Nile is a great company! (Score:1)
Of course that's all great for me. If blue nile is giving away diamonds and losing money then that's obviously a poor way to do business, but if they're profitable enough to stick around until I need to buy aniversary shtuf, I would definitely buy from them again.
NON-DISCLAIMER: I do NOT work for blue nile or anyone associated with them.
If you want to see the ring and how I presented it (i.e., if you want to sniff at the nuclear bomb of cute I threw at this girl to make sure she'd marry me) click the link below and look for the engagement story.
Re:The Gaming Business (Score:1)
not fact checking problem, US==world problem (Score:2)
Regarding furniture (Score:5)
And I do find it terribly ironic, that Sun implies that the CTO built it himself, given that Eric worked for Sun for several years out here in CA.
Re:An extra Slashback (Score:2)
I know I can delve all I want into biases here, but I honestly don't think Wired has anything against Apple. Hell, they were the ones who published the "pray" cover story for Apple a few years ago, prompting people to help it return.
Re:An extra Slashback (Score:2)
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Todays Game Systems (Score:1)
Re:I wanna be your timebomb (Score:1)
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010131/tc/sega_
Re:GOATSE.CX LINK in the story (Score:1)
Toys as building materials (Score:1)
Good luck. Most of Tonka's products [tonka.com] these days are made out of plastic. And they talk [tonka.com].
Re:Sega Abandon Dreamcast (Score:1)
One word: (Score:1)
Re:Todays Game Systems (Score:1)
Re:Good for Sega (Score:2)
Dreamcast is not dead yet!! It's a set-top box now (Score:1)
EE Times Story [eetimes.com]
Beans
Re:An extra Slashback (Score:3)
The MacNN article [macnn.com] only seems to contest the statement from Wired News that Mr. Jobs used profanity in every sentance. Obviously this isn't true, we all know this. It's called hyberbole, the stretching of the truth to emphasize your point. Hyberbole is a fairly common device that writers use to make their writing more vivid and we should all know when it is happening and how to interpret it. When Wired News says in an editorial piece "Every sentence he uttered -- every single one -- contained an expletive" we should be able to interpret that as "Mr. Jobs used profanity in quantities that many would consider excessive." The fact that Mr. Jobs may have uttered a sentance during the session which did not contain an expletive is neither news nor grounds for discrediting Mr. Kahney's article on Wired News.
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Re:More Info on NetBSD-Dreamcast? (Score:1)
Re:Now... (Score:1)
Rock on, Blue Nile (Score:3)
where to buy (Score:1)
The Gaming Business (Score:1)
However, if I was going to bet on one, I would choose the Gamecube. Nintendo proved they can reach a mass audience by ditributing their own game content. Sony may have Square....but beyond that their does not seem to be many Playstation/2exclusive titles anymore. For all the marketing Hype MS's Xbox content will be made up of PC Ports.
So who do you think will win the next console race? Who will win?
-Angreal
Sega Abandon Dreamcast (Score:1)
Chronic (Score:2)
Chronic the Hemphog [tripod.com]'s brother, perhaps?
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Fact checking at its best (Score:4)
One analyst said the company sold 4.5 million game units in the United States since its introduction -- well off the company's goal of 7.5 million systems sold by March 2001. Another analyst said North American sales were even more anemic, amounting to a mere 3.9 million units.
Appears they had to buy back 600,000 units from Canada and Mexico. That *is* pretty bad.
Re:DON'T BUY THE RACIST DREAMCAST! (Score:1)
So I guess that homosexuals would be another non-slandered group?
Seriously, do you ever watch anime? How are orientals depicted in that genre, and do you protest that?
300 Pictures from Linux.Conf.Au (Score:2)
http://www.rcpt.to/~james/2001/lca-2001/ [www.rcpt.to]
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Re:Now... (Score:1)
In fact, I was tempted to try to dissassemble the one in my room and smuggle it out in my garment bag...too bad I forgot that metric allen wrench. Be sure to bring one along if you visit the Wyndham Franklin hotel up in Philly.
47.5% Slashdot Pure(52.5% Corrupt)
Good for Sega (Score:1)
It's definitely time to focus on the kickass games and let someone else churn out the hardware.
I can't wait to see Sega's racers and Sonic on the PS2... I might actually buy one
-Gabe
Re:Blue Nile is a great company! (Score:1)
no DMCA! (Score:2)
NEW YORK: Eight Amici or "friend of the court" briefs were filed today in support of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's appeal of an injunction against 2600 Magazine, which banned the media site from publishing and linking to information under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) last August.
Warning the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals of the danger to free expression posed by the DMCA, diverse groups including the American Civil Liberties Union, Association for Computing Machinery, American Library Association and others asked the appellate court to overturn a lower court's ruling. Last year, a district court in New York barred 2600 Magazine from publishing or linking to DeCSS, the computer code that was at the heart of a controversy the magazine was covering. Other groups filing briefs with the appellate court include journalists, law professors, educators, cryptographers, computer programmers and academics -- all warning the appellate court of the impingement upon First Amendment freedoms that result from the lower court's dangerous interpretation of the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions and broad elimination of fair use rights.
Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig, who co-sponsored an amicus brief with NYU's Yochai Benkler, explained the harm to freedom of expression posed by the lower court's broad granting of rights to the movie studios under the DMCA. "The First Amendment limits the scope of copyright. It should also limit the scope of code that protects copyright. That is the core issue in this case," Lessig said.
DMCA the next generation (Score:1)
Issues Raised: Dangerous First Amendment implications in district court's ban on linking and publishing information on information about DVD copy restrictions. The lower court's interpretation of the DMCA broadly eliminates the public's fair use rights through its banning of fair use tools.
Brief Author: Ann Beeson of ACLU
Available from http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/2001012 6_ny_aclu_pressrel.html [slashdot.org]
(ACLU press release; includes link to PDF file of brief).
Amicus Brief Sponsors: Journalists and publishers -- Online News Association, Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press, Newspaper Association of America, Student Press Law Center, Wired, Pew Center on the States, Silha Center for Media Ethics and Law, College of Communications - CSU, Fullerton
Issues Raised: The chilling effect the district court's ban on linking to DeCSS has had on the press' ability to report truthful information of important public concern. Holding media liable for readers' possible future illegal acts, as the lower has done, does great damage to freedom of press and expression.
Brief Authors: David Greene of First Amendment Project and Jane Kirtley
Available from http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/2001012 6_ny_journpub_amicus.html [slashdot.org]
Amicus Brief Sponsor: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Issues Raised: The lower court's elimination of traditional reverse engineering rights under the DMCA imperils science, innovation, and free expression.
Brief Authors: ACM President Andrew Grosso with Eddan Katz
Available from http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/2001012 6_ny_acm_amicus.html [slashdot.org]
Amicus Brief Sponsors and Authors: Noted law professors Lawrence Lessig of Stanford and Yochai Benkler of NYU
Re:Cutting Back Prices? (Score:1)
You can't have a 3 company monopoly. Neither Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft will have a commanding control over the industry.
Personally, I think the GameCube will be more successful then the Nintendo 64 was, the PS2 will not reach the same heighs as the orginial but still be successful, and the Xbox will either to extremly well, or extremly poorly.
But that's just my view :)
Re:Cutting Back Prices? (Score:1)
Now... (Score:1)
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Re:License Plate? (Score:1)
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Marc Merlin (Score:2)
Honestly, brother... I love Linux too (I administer Linux boxen), but isn't that perhaps a tad too much lovin'?
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Cutting Back Prices? (Score:2)
A car? (Score:1)
I dunno. It depends on what kind of deal I could get. If I could pick up a top-of-the-line Ferrarri for $10 if they were to ever go out of business (desperate to liquidate their assets), sure. If it doesn't have a use/gets trashed/stolen/etc., I'm not out much money. If I like it, I got a great deal.
I want a lego Chair (Score:1)
rr
Re:you are the stupid one (Score:1)
Those desks are one and the same! (Score:1)
O Slashdot, Where Art Thou? (Score:3)
Slashdot | Sega Announces Dreamcast Sucessor [slashdot.org]
This is starting to get to become like the MIR issue. Are they in the devel business, or are they out? In, or out? Please, please please, Oh All Powerful Editors, make up your mind.
As for a good Dreamcast game, an upcoming one (according to IGN) [ign.com] is based on the hugely popular Blue Submarine 6 series, which is also one of my favorite. If you haven't seen the anime, go rent/buy/download it somewhere.
An extra Slashback (Score:5)
Remember the Wired article [wired.com] talking about how profane Steve Jobs was at a recent reseller meeting? We even talked [slashdot.org] about it just the other day. Well, MacNN has a different take [macnn.com] on the subject after talking to some of the attendees.
Er, if you care.
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More from the Lego Desk guy... (Score:2)
Tux (Score:1)
Laine Walker-Avina