The point being that X should be the same for all the customers
There is no statutory or regulatory rules that says you can't give certain customers better prices. Companies do it all the time and face no legal issues by doing so.
If it is not it only means that they are making you pay Intel because you sell many AMDs.
If one was selling so many AMDs why would they care about losing their deal with Intel? If it was really as lucrative to sell AMD chips as people like to claim it would have been everyone would have just been exclusively using or heavily selling on AMD chips.
Part of the problem is that when AMD did have competitive high-end parts (Athlon/Thunderbird/64) Intel was using these practices to keep OEMs from offering them.
If those chips were really that competitive the OEMs wouldn't have cared about losing their deals with Intel and would have been selling exclusively those AMD chips. But apparently the OEMs had a differing opinion on how well they would have sold since they stuck with Intel.
Your rant is nice except that it isn't the TSA doing this nor has anyone shown that the TSA is or has stored images. The complaint is about the Marshal Service who is also using a completely different model of scanner from a completely different company than the TSA uses. But don't let such facts get in the way.
The U.S. Marshals, apparently using the same equipment, *are* storing images.
See that's your problem. The Marshals and the TSA aren't using the same equipment. Maybe you should do a little more research (like reading the summary in full) before shooting off?
The TSA was only talking about the machines that they use. Their statement wasn't all encompassing to all body scanners in use by all federal agencies. You're really having to stretch on that rebuttal.
Neither the summary or the article say the TSA are storing images. This story is about the Marshal Service storing images. These two groups are distinct from each other.
1) Virus has no plural form in Latin and as such viruses is the most accurate pluralization in English. 2) The only way virii would be correct is if virus was a masculine second declension term which it is not.
but I think the maturity of hard disk technology and the minimum cost posed by the complicated mechanical design will make hard disks obsolete for most applications in a few more years.
Such has been the claim for easily more than a decade and yet HDDs are still around.
Hey, people thought 3.5" disks would be here forever, too.
It's just that the notion that ownership of swimming pools would be restricted like carrying concealed firearms, or operating motor vehicles on public roadways, or practicing medicine seemed a bit... out there.
But that's not how it is. They are talking about people who didn't obtain permits. There is nothing remotely analogous to a concealed handgun license in the meaning. As the first sentence says:
A town on New York's Long Island is using Google Earth to find backyard pools that don't have the proper permits.
Yeah, but the difference is that type of aerial photography is mostly coincidence (unless of course, you're the subject of discussion). It wasn't catalogued and archived in such a way that provides immediate and _selective_ retrival.
Doesn't mean it wasn't still public information.
With regards to aerial imagery pre-google, I'm aware it's been around for a long time as well, but it's not been as easily accessible, accurate, or detailed as it is now. I'm not just Google hating here.
Gee, no shit? It's almost as if I already said that:
The only difference now is that Google has made it easy for you to access this information from their website.
It was always public information. People have had their backyards filmed from helicopters and shown on TV or in newspapers for years. The only difference now is that Google has made it easy for you to access this information from their website. But it was never anything private.
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The point being that X should be the same for all the customers
There is no statutory or regulatory rules that says you can't give certain customers better prices. Companies do it all the time and face no legal issues by doing so.
If it is not it only means that they are making you pay Intel because you sell many AMDs.
If one was selling so many AMDs why would they care about losing their deal with Intel? If it was really as lucrative to sell AMD chips as people like to claim it would have been everyone would have just been exclusively using or heavily selling on AMD chips.
Part of the problem is that when AMD did have competitive high-end parts (Athlon/Thunderbird/64) Intel was using these practices to keep OEMs from offering them.
If those chips were really that competitive the OEMs wouldn't have cared about losing their deals with Intel and would have been selling exclusively those AMD chips. But apparently the OEMs had a differing opinion on how well they would have sold since they stuck with Intel.
Oops, nm it seems they have gotten back together after Dell canceled a line of AMD computers back in 2006.
Does this mean an AMD Dell is on the horizon? Oh my.
Probably not. Dell already used AMDs at some point in the past and canceled the line due to poor sales.
While I always build my own computers, this could herald a huge increase in funding for AMD's research.
It could and also it could not. This ruling doesn't obligate any OEM to stop exclusively using Intel chips in their computers.
You just have to give up the idiotic notion that you can strip-search me randomly for no cause whatsoever just because I want to board an airplane.
Who says I ever held such a notion nor why would I ever want to see your sweaty, obese body naked to begin with?
I think you need to get your sense of humor fixed. It appears to be broken.
Nothing anyone can say will prove anything to you. You will just never admit to being wrong and constantly move the goalposts.
Your rant is nice except that it isn't the TSA doing this nor has anyone shown that the TSA is or has stored images. The complaint is about the Marshal Service who is also using a completely different model of scanner from a completely different company than the TSA uses. But don't let such facts get in the way.
Yes. The TSA uses machines from L3 not Brijot.
The U.S. Marshals, apparently using the same equipment, *are* storing images.
See that's your problem. The Marshals and the TSA aren't using the same equipment. Maybe you should do a little more research (like reading the summary in full) before shooting off?
The TSA was only talking about the machines that they use. Their statement wasn't all encompassing to all body scanners in use by all federal agencies. You're really having to stretch on that rebuttal.
Neither the summary or the article say the TSA are storing images. This story is about the Marshal Service storing images. These two groups are distinct from each other.
Whoosh?
They aren't much into grannies.
Nothing intrinsically holds any value. That something carries any value is purely in the eye of the beholder.
Because that's the way it's used in the article? The summary is nothing but sentences yanked straight out of it.
Yes.
1) Virus has no plural form in Latin and as such viruses is the most accurate pluralization in English.
2) The only way virii would be correct is if virus was a masculine second declension term which it is not.
I guess he was more like Xzibit of his time.
FTFY.
but I think the maturity of hard disk technology and the minimum cost posed by the complicated mechanical design will make hard disks obsolete for most applications in a few more years.
Such has been the claim for easily more than a decade and yet HDDs are still around.
Hey, people thought 3.5" disks would be here forever, too.
Since when did they leave? Floppy drives and floppy disks.
Did you bother to even read the 2nd sentence of the summary?
The survey is not rigorous, based as it was on 7,500 online questionnaires submitted to Retrevo, a website for tech shoppers.
It's just that the notion that ownership of swimming pools would be restricted like carrying concealed firearms, or operating motor vehicles on public roadways, or practicing medicine seemed a bit... out there.
But that's not how it is. They are talking about people who didn't obtain permits. There is nothing remotely analogous to a concealed handgun license in the meaning. As the first sentence says:
A town on New York's Long Island is using Google Earth to find backyard pools that don't have the proper permits.
No you wouldn't. You're a pasty, sweaty obese nerd jacking off to furry porn in your parent's basement. No one buys the macho act.
Yeah, but the difference is that type of aerial photography is mostly coincidence (unless of course, you're the subject of discussion). It wasn't catalogued and archived in such a way that provides immediate and _selective_ retrival.
Doesn't mean it wasn't still public information.
With regards to aerial imagery pre-google, I'm aware it's been around for a long time as well, but it's not been as easily accessible, accurate, or detailed as it is now. I'm not just Google hating here.
Gee, no shit? It's almost as if I already said that:
The only difference now is that Google has made it easy for you to access this information from their website.
It's public information... now.
It was always public information. People have had their backyards filmed from helicopters and shown on TV or in newspapers for years. The only difference now is that Google has made it easy for you to access this information from their website. But it was never anything private.
How can it be snooping when it's public information?