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FTC Dismisses Complaint Against Rambus

swordboy writes "A federal judge just threw out the FTC lawsuit against Rambus. This has been discussed at length here before but this changes the landscape yet again. An interesting, possibly coincidental item is that Intel just today announced a new and very powerful DRAM interface that bypasses Rambus IP altogether."

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  1. Re:pirst fost. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Your post is not first Your nothing but a troller Hang your head in shame

  2. Both news items are exciting by ObviousGuy · · Score: -1, Troll

    Rambus, long an innovator in memory designs has been virtually sued to death by JEDEC members over their IP rights to the RDRAM designs. With this ruling finally telling those JEDEC members to pay up the licensing fees to the Bus, Rambus now stands to gain a better foothold in the memory design space. More money should allow them more room to invent and innovate further, pushing the limits of memory speed past all bounds.

    But! Now we have a new design by Intel which seeks to dethrone the Rambus design as speed king. I don't know too much about the new design, but it is exciting to finally see someone come up with a design that isn't a cheap kludge on top of slow SDRAM. Hopefully this extra competition will allow the entire memory market not only more room to grow but also bring prices down for high end memory like RDRAM and the new Intel DRAM.

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    1. Re:Both news items are exciting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      The difference between Rambus and SCO being that Rambus actually holds the patents and has been entirely forthcoming with documentation that shows that they are the true IP owners of the RDRAM designs.

      SCO has done little more than huff and puff about their supposed stolen IP in Linux without giving the general public a chance to take a look at it.

      Any time you have this discussion on Slashdot, you will hear the same opinion: that IP owners who sue violators are evil 'litigous bastards'. The fact of the matter is that those companies who hold the patents, trademarks, and copyrights should be suing to maximize their investment in obtaining those intellectual properties.

  3. QUIT REPLYING TO YOUR OWN POST, DIPSHIT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    HOW GAY!

    1. Re:QUIT REPLYING TO YOUR OWN POST, DIPSHIT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Dumb stupid shithead
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      Now shut the fuck up

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  19. Re:Quality... by whoever57 · · Score: 1, Troll
    My R0mbu0 RAM works f1aw1ess01

    Not much of a joke to me. One of the servers at work recently trashed its boot disk. Running Memtest86 shows memory errors throughout its 4GB of RAMBUS memory.

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  20. DUDE, YOU BROKE SRASHDOT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And pissed people off.

    Hey, here's a great wheat-free, vegan recipie that made the best damned muffins I've had in a while, I discovered it tinkering:
    1 cup rice flour (brown or white)
    1/2 cup soy flour
    1/2 cup garbanzo bean flour
    1/4 cup topioca flour
    6 Tbsp sucrose
    2 Tbsp canola oil1 tsp Xanthan gum
    3 1/2 tsp non-aluminum baking powder
    2 tsp vanilla flavoring
    1/2 tsp salt
    2 1/4 cups soy milk
    1 cup frozen, wild blueberries (the non-wild are two big and make it smushy - if you can't find wild, try to find the dried ones)

    Pre-heat oven to 360Mix everything together except blueberries. Once the batter is nicely mixed, add blueberries, mix those in.Get a muffin tray, put batter in, and bake for about 25 minutes. At the end of that time, take a look, you may need a little more time (every oven is different) maybe 4 minutes more.When done, take muffins out of tray immediately and put on a cooling rack. Let cool... eat... enjoy.

  21. THIS IS IMPORTANT - TIM IS GAY TOO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    SO IS MICHAEL!
    #That's #important, #its #a #reply #to #your #thread, #i #dont #think #its #totally #been #duplicated #yet #and #i #think #the #subject #hints #at #exactly #what #i #am #about #to #say #.

  22. EXCUSE ME YOU RAMPANT FAGGOT DIPSHIT, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    some of us are just bored and hate faggot karmawhores so we're flooding his faggy thread. Fuck you shit-for-face.

  23. DANCE YOU FUCKER DANCE YOU FUCKER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  24. MOD PARENT'S PARENT'S CHILDREN'S +1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hi,

    My name is Juan Soulie, I'm a self-taught programmer born in 1977 in the Mediterranean island of Mallorca belonging to the Kingdom of Spain.

    Before bumping into C and subsequently C++ I used to program in Pascal and when I was a child with Basic in my Spectrum and MSX-16kB machines. I also have some respect for unix shell scripting and nowadays Perl. Right now I'm specialized in Windows' API Programming and internet-related technologies.

    The aim that pushed me to write this tutorial was to share with everyone interested in learning this amazing and versatile programming language what I've learnt here and there throughout the years using what seems to me simple and understandable explanations and avoiding useless (or slightly useful) theory. I've tried to explain what you can do with C++ instead on emphasizing what you should do (I'm not saying that that is not important, it is simply not covered in this tutorial).

    Finally, I want to thank these people that have found some typos in previous versions of the tutorial: Mike H, Proto, Anderson Fabiano, Alex Hoover, Jose Castaneda , nameless person, Scott A. Fanjoy, Mr. Venom, Weilan W Wu, Vern Hamberg, Brian Agbay, Thomas Texier, Cory Wheeler, Jay, Hugo Lavalle, Joshua Smith, Jaime Tenorio, sassi, Bruce Bertrand, Nikolai Shevchuk, Devrim Ersanli, Guillermo, Luke Kurach, Nick Malden, Hans Verbrugge, mikeg, Chouputra, Anna Grishkan, Patrick Seafield, Fede, Samuel Schultz, Mitchell Markin, and some others whose names were not disclosed in their messages.

    There are probably some other errors to find. If you find one please use the contact form to notify me. Please notice that I don't know all about everything related to C++ and that I am not a volunteer programming consultant, so if you have a particular programming question you will probably get a better result posting your question in a programming forum, mailing list or newsgroup rather than sending it to me.

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  25. Re:Conspiracy, conspiracy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    qtp is a ignorant sack of shit. don't mod him insightful, mod him "-1 shitbag".

  26. All your IRIX are belong to SCO ?? by bani · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is great, now they're claiming IRIX is their property as well. Specifically targeting XFS as "improperly" transferred to linux.

    Which begs the question, is there any operating system or code anywhere, written by anyone, which SCO doesn't claim ownership of? Is there any limit to their claims?

    Next thing you know, they'll go after CMU for "illegally contributing coda filesystem to linux".. oops, just gave them ideas! sorry :-o

  27. MOD PARENT +2 ORTHOGONAL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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