One company doesn't own the license. The MPEG-LA is a 3rd party clearinghouse for people to set up patent pools. They don't own H.264 or the patents. H.264 is 'owned' by the ISO/MPEG standard boards and the companies that hold the essential patents.
Yes, you already posted the story about this in March. Which is the same month when the linked article is from. Good to see timithy is still at the top of his game!
No, I don't. Get back to me when EA, Activision, Ubisoft etc. provide any official plans to release their big budget titles on Linux. I won't hold my breath, though. Plus it's funny since all the Valve games being wanked over are all 'already-released games'. Most of them over 4 to 5 years old.
That's because you're misinterpreting that statement. It's saying that the States cannot make a form of tender to pay back debts unless it is a gold or silver coin. It is not saying that you have to pay your debts to the state in gold or silver.
Unfortunately, even if every Steam user switched entirely to Linux it would still only have a few percentage points of market share. Linux users waaaay overestimate how much of an impact ths will have. Especially when the Windows version will have 1000+ more games to choose from.
Huh? By force of law I was referring to the legal requirement that dollars be accepted as tender for debts. The 'and' was there to combine two distinct reasons. It's value to holders of dollars is backed by the output of our eonomy and it has value as an exchange through force of law requiring it be accepted as legal tender of debt.
Bitcoin is only untraceable if you only ever hold bitcoin and never cash out or you've never bought any bitcoins with money. As soon as you cash in/out you'll be traced.
The output of the US economy and through force of law. Your buttcoins are backed up by.... ? Not any precious metal. Not by the econmic output of any country, business, etc. It's not backed by anything but the promise of scammers.
Sure but you left of the last part 'and are widely accepted by businesses' and in the case of dollars this is also true on a global scale. So, yes, if you ignore my last part your statement is somewhat true but is misleading. Your buttcoins on the other hand have less acceptance than junky Zimbabwe dollars which s een more pathetic for the buttcoin cause.
Yes, the fact that it is a scam is most of the hate. Keep wasting money minng your buttcoins so others get rich off of you. I'm sure 'the man' is really getting it stuck to.
But unlike your buttcoins my dollars are legal tender to pay debts and are widely accepted by businesses. Your buttcoins are only accepted by shady websites selling drugs and by people in money laundering schemes.
It's not revolutionary. It's a scam so a couple of people get rich whilst idiots waste countless amount of money on electricity and GPUs in vain hope of getting rich. It's a rather run-of-the-mill scam at that.
But...but...Buttcoins are like totally secure and like totally not fiat currency. How dare you besmirch the fine name of Buttcoins! Just last week I bought 50 pills of e with my buttcoins!
It's worth billions... because he says so? Sorry, buddy, but your word is not evidence especially when it's in your interest to overstate the value. The saddest part is that they found people dumb enough to give them money.
Instead of theorizing why not look at their measured stats? The phone was pretty much as power efficient as current OMAP4 phones. Secondly, Intel is using static binary translation for native ARM NDK apps so there is no emulation layer running on the phone itself for that. In those cases Intel pushes an x86 binary out to the user that has been translated and validated on their side. For most things, though, they are straight Dalvik apps and so there is no more translation overhead than Dalvik on ARM.
They are doing a static binary translation before you download the app. Sure, that won't be as efficient as something compiled natively, but according to their power stats it seems to make little difference as it is just as efficient as the OMAP4 SoC.
Games like CoD, Mass Effect, the Blizzard games are more popular and will have no Linux versions. Even if all The people who play Valve games switched that wouldn't even be 1% of all PC users. It would at best be a tiny blip not the mass exodus the loony Linux people think it'll be.
Yes, the version that has only 7% of the content available on Windows. Also, mac people never tried to claim that Steam for Mac was going to cause some mass exodus from Windows like the delusional Linux users believe. Why would anyone who is a heavy Steam purchaser switch exclusively to a platform that will at best have less than 10% the content that is currently available to them on Windows?
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That's not what the clause means. It is a clause stating it overwrites any other existing provision that might disallow what it is now allowing.
One company doesn't own the license. The MPEG-LA is a 3rd party clearinghouse for people to set up patent pools. They don't own H.264 or the patents. H.264 is 'owned' by the ISO/MPEG standard boards and the companies that hold the essential patents.
Yes, you already posted the story about this in March. Which is the same month when the linked article is from. Good to see timithy is still at the top of his game!
We were waiting on you to implement it since it's so easy of a change to make.
No, I don't. Get back to me when EA, Activision, Ubisoft etc. provide any official plans to release their big budget titles on Linux. I won't hold my breath, though. Plus it's funny since all the Valve games being wanked over are all 'already-released games'. Most of them over 4 to 5 years old.
That's because you're misinterpreting that statement. It's saying that the States cannot make a form of tender to pay back debts unless it is a gold or silver coin. It is not saying that you have to pay your debts to the state in gold or silver.
Unfortunately, even if every Steam user switched entirely to Linux it would still only have a few percentage points of market share. Linux users waaaay overestimate how much of an impact ths will have. Especially when the Windows version will have 1000+ more games to choose from.
You couldn't wait much more than 4 hours before duping? Good to see samzenpus upholding these great standards as an editor.
Yes, it can.
Huh? By force of law I was referring to the legal requirement that dollars be accepted as tender for debts. The 'and' was there to combine two distinct reasons. It's value to holders of dollars is backed by the output of our eonomy and it has value as an exchange through force of law requiring it be accepted as legal tender of debt.
Bitcoin is only untraceable if you only ever hold bitcoin and never cash out or you've never bought any bitcoins with money. As soon as you cash in/out you'll be traced.
The output of the US economy and through force of law. Your buttcoins are backed up by.... ? Not any precious metal. Not by the econmic output of any country, business, etc. It's not backed by anything but the promise of scammers.
Of course you can make money with buttcoins. You bilk idiotic libertards out of their hard earned money by selling them worthless bits.
Sure but you left of the last part 'and are widely accepted by businesses' and in the case of dollars this is also true on a global scale. So, yes, if you ignore my last part your statement is somewhat true but is misleading. Your buttcoins on the other hand have less acceptance than junky Zimbabwe dollars which s een more pathetic for the buttcoin cause.
Yes, the fact that it is a scam is most of the hate. Keep wasting money minng your buttcoins so others get rich off of you. I'm sure 'the man' is really getting it stuck to.
Blah blah fiat currency blah blah. Yeah, yeah I've heard this libertard and buttcoin nonsense before. Get some original material for once.
But unlike your buttcoins my dollars are legal tender to pay debts and are widely accepted by businesses. Your buttcoins are only accepted by shady websites selling drugs and by people in money laundering schemes.
It's not revolutionary. It's a scam so a couple of people get rich whilst idiots waste countless amount of money on electricity and GPUs in vain hope of getting rich. It's a rather run-of-the-mill scam at that.
But...but...Buttcoins are like totally secure and like totally not fiat currency. How dare you besmirch the fine name of Buttcoins! Just last week I bought 50 pills of e with my buttcoins!
It's worth billions... because he says so? Sorry, buddy, but your word is not evidence especially when it's in your interest to overstate the value. The saddest part is that they found people dumb enough to give them money.
Instead of theorizing why not look at their measured stats? The phone was pretty much as power efficient as current OMAP4 phones. Secondly, Intel is using static binary translation for native ARM NDK apps so there is no emulation layer running on the phone itself for that. In those cases Intel pushes an x86 binary out to the user that has been translated and validated on their side. For most things, though, they are straight Dalvik apps and so there is no more translation overhead than Dalvik on ARM.
They are doing a static binary translation before you download the app. Sure, that won't be as efficient as something compiled natively, but according to their power stats it seems to make little difference as it is just as efficient as the OMAP4 SoC.
Wait, so because I don't buy into the loony claims of mass Windows exodus over a product that has a niche market at best then I'm a troll? Haha, ok...
Games like CoD, Mass Effect, the Blizzard games are more popular and will have no Linux versions. Even if all The people who play Valve games switched that wouldn't even be 1% of all PC users. It would at best be a tiny blip not the mass exodus the loony Linux people think it'll be.
Yes, the version that has only 7% of the content available on Windows. Also, mac people never tried to claim that Steam for Mac was going to cause some mass exodus from Windows like the delusional Linux users believe. Why would anyone who is a heavy Steam purchaser switch exclusively to a platform that will at best have less than 10% the content that is currently available to them on Windows?