Someone else responded to this in a rather clear and efficient way:
YOU ALREADY HAVE TO PAY A FUCKING MONTHLY FEE!
And isn't that why the ads are optional?? To me this is kind of like DVDs that don't force you to watch previews from other movies but gives you the option to under the Extras menu. You paid for the DVD so it shouldn't interfere with your movie experience but I see no harm is just having an option. If the ads are targeted well enough they might even be beneficial to you as well. Those previews of other movies on the DVD have led me to find other movies I've liked.
"Centuries ago, sailors on long voyages used to leave a pair of pigs on every deserted island. Or they'd leave a pair of goats. Either way, on any future visit, the island would be a source of meat. These islands, they were pristine. These were home to breeds of birds with no natural predators. Breeds of birds that lived nowhere else on earth. The plants there, without enemies they evolved without thorns or poisons. Without predators and enemies, these islands, they were paradise. The sailors, the next time they visited these islands, the only things still there would be herds of goats or pigs..... Does this remind you of anything? Maybe the ol' Adam and Eve story?.... You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?"
There is also about a $100 price difference between those two chips. I imagine they are manufactured to different quality standards. The mobile chip probably has less leakage or something to that effect.
I think it would be a far simpler solution if patent examiners just enforced the rules already in place, that is you aren't allowed to patent ideas. Then you wouldn't be able to patent "A program that translates text from one language to another" but instead would be able to patent the code that does do that. Obviously you would have to release your code so other people can learn from and build upon it, which is why you get protection. Isn't that the whole point of the patent system? If you expose your trade secrets we grant you a limited time for a monopoly on it.
I don't see how getting rid of software patents would keep that from happening. Last time I checked most for profit software companies don't release the source code. Even then it would still be a non-trivial task to understand it. I don't believe the End Software Patents Project goals are to make all software free, it's just to get rid of things like Amazon's One-Click Patent. Companies would still have trademarks, copyrights, and the other multitude of protections.
If someone figured out the formula for Coca Cola Classic and released it for half the price but with a different name, would Coke feel it? Probably not. NyQuil hasn't gone out of business and yet Equate sells something exactly the same for cheaper. The name is more important to most people than the product itself.
Let me know how many decades you figure it'll be before I can download 25GB reliably.
How about right now? Fios offers up to 50 Mbps down. And since Blu-Ray at 1x is 36 Mbps that should be enough.
I do agree with you though that Blu-Ray will be more than just a stop gap, but not for the same reasons. People like to have tangible property that is easy to take places with them.
Killed undead. Everyone is complaining how they busted in the wrong house but at least they had the decency to finish the job. All we need is an 80 year old grandmother zombie on our hands...
Which kind of puts in perspective just how long Duke Nukem Forever has been in development. It's almost getting to the point where the CPU alone meets the minimum requirements for RAM.
Really? I could be mistaken then. I would have assumed the pedal on a bicycle based generator would have been bigger than the whole unit for a hand-crank one.
I think it was a fair comparison. How portable is a bicycle based generator? That and I imagine more people have been exposed to hand crank generators than they have bicycle based ones. It also doesn't say the device takes in less than one watt for every watt it puts out. It says the device required less than one watt of extra effort on the part of the wearer to get one watt out. In other words it's capturing some of the energy that would have been wasted anyways.
Read the summary:
"The Linux version receives a GUI and independence from the kernel internals, and a Mac version is at last available too."
Re:A physics card is just dual-core for the idiot
on
NVIDIA To Buy AGEIA
·
· Score: 1
This might make the game really cool for people with a PPU, but it would really suck for those without one.
Kind of like how games are really cool for people with GPUs but sucks for those without them.
Yeah, Fusion should do wonders for the integrated GPU market but we'll always have the dedicated graphics card segment for the enthusiast. The more things we can get on a single chip the better for applications where size is important.
Heck, fewer and fewer PC's come with dedicated GPUs. Integrated video can now handle dual monitor output and HDTV decoding. It's only gamers and graphics designers who need them now.
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't integrated video use an embedded GPU to do the bulk of the work? You can't run Vista with Aero turned on without a GPU so all the Vista PCs shipping with Aero enabled have GPUs in them. I think you meant fewer and fewer PCs come with dedicated graphics cards or high end GPUs. Which is the same reason fewer and fewer PCs require NICs or audio cards. It's getting to the point where embedded solutions are good enough for most people.
Re:A physics card is just dual-core for the idiot
on
NVIDIA To Buy AGEIA
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
I don't think you are thinking grand enough. I remember the days where you didn't need a dedicated graphics card to play games and I'm only 21. You really didn't get improved game play per say but it did look a heck of a lot better. A dedicated physics processor though has the potential to vastly improve game play and realism.
Imagine instead of designers creating models of buildings they actually built them. That is a brick building had individual bricks all stacked on each other. Whenever you hit it with an explosive it would actually crumble like a real building or burn like a real building. That is a lot of calculations which a general CPU isn't the best at.
The thing is not enough people have PPUs in their computers so you can't include it into core game play yet. Hopefully nVidia acquiring Ageia will allow them to start bundling it with their GPUs or even better yet offer it embedded on their motherboards. While graphics are easily scaled, game play elements are not. I wouldn't be surprised if you see PPUs being crucial to the game on consoles before PCs.
And perhaps setting aside a TLD for personal websites that would have a cheap fee and punishing anyone who used them for anything else.
My dad set up a server for our family, immediate and extended, that we all use for e-mail, to share pictures or videos, and anything else that you would want a server for. It would suck to have to add an extra $100 to the server costs.
Couldn't you just make it progressive? Have the first cost the normal rate and then have it go up with each new one you register until you hit a predefined limit. That way people like you and I who only have a few domains wouldn't get hurt.
The only problem that I could see with this is web firms that created websites for other people/companies and register it in their name. I imagine to solve that you could just have the count reset after so long. I imagine these drop catchers register a lot of names all the time.
Slashdot Mirror
Someone else responded to this in a rather clear and efficient way:
YOU ALREADY HAVE TO PAY A FUCKING MONTHLY FEE!
And isn't that why the ads are optional?? To me this is kind of like DVDs that don't force you to watch previews from other movies but gives you the option to under the Extras menu. You paid for the DVD so it shouldn't interfere with your movie experience but I see no harm is just having an option. If the ads are targeted well enough they might even be beneficial to you as well. Those previews of other movies on the DVD have led me to find other movies I've liked.
That reminds me of a quote from Chuck Palahniuk:
.... Does this remind you of anything? Maybe the ol' Adam and Eve story? .... You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?"
"Centuries ago, sailors on long voyages used to leave a pair of pigs on every deserted island. Or they'd leave a pair of goats. Either way, on any future visit, the island would be a source of meat. These islands, they were pristine. These were home to breeds of birds with no natural predators. Breeds of birds that lived nowhere else on earth. The plants there, without enemies they evolved without thorns or poisons. Without predators and enemies, these islands, they were paradise. The sailors, the next time they visited these islands, the only things still there would be herds of goats or pigs.
Go where no man has gone before...
There is also about a $100 price difference between those two chips. I imagine they are manufactured to different quality standards. The mobile chip probably has less leakage or something to that effect.
I think it would be a far simpler solution if patent examiners just enforced the rules already in place, that is you aren't allowed to patent ideas. Then you wouldn't be able to patent "A program that translates text from one language to another" but instead would be able to patent the code that does do that. Obviously you would have to release your code so other people can learn from and build upon it, which is why you get protection. Isn't that the whole point of the patent system? If you expose your trade secrets we grant you a limited time for a monopoly on it.
I don't see how getting rid of software patents would keep that from happening. Last time I checked most for profit software companies don't release the source code. Even then it would still be a non-trivial task to understand it. I don't believe the End Software Patents Project goals are to make all software free, it's just to get rid of things like Amazon's One-Click Patent. Companies would still have trademarks, copyrights, and the other multitude of protections.
If someone figured out the formula for Coca Cola Classic and released it for half the price but with a different name, would Coke feel it? Probably not. NyQuil hasn't gone out of business and yet Equate sells something exactly the same for cheaper. The name is more important to most people than the product itself.
Let me know how many decades you figure it'll be before I can download 25GB reliably.
How about right now? Fios offers up to 50 Mbps down. And since Blu-Ray at 1x is 36 Mbps that should be enough.
I do agree with you though that Blu-Ray will be more than just a stop gap, but not for the same reasons. People like to have tangible property that is easy to take places with them.
Killed undead. Everyone is complaining how they busted in the wrong house but at least they had the decency to finish the job. All we need is an 80 year old grandmother zombie on our hands...
Which kind of puts in perspective just how long Duke Nukem Forever has been in development. It's almost getting to the point where the CPU alone meets the minimum requirements for RAM.
So, 16MB L3 + 3 (pairs of 2 cores) * 3MB L2 = 25 MB total cache.
Which is more memory than RAM of my first computer and I'm only 21 years old.
Really? I could be mistaken then. I would have assumed the pedal on a bicycle based generator would have been bigger than the whole unit for a hand-crank one.
I think it was a fair comparison. How portable is a bicycle based generator? That and I imagine more people have been exposed to hand crank generators than they have bicycle based ones. It also doesn't say the device takes in less than one watt for every watt it puts out. It says the device required less than one watt of extra effort on the part of the wearer to get one watt out. In other words it's capturing some of the energy that would have been wasted anyways.
Or just let the loggers in after it's been flooded. Underwater Logging
European or African Swallow?
Reliable Tires (or that fail gradually) - Tires are still based on air-filled balloon technology, making them problematic.
Michelin is working on that, they call it a Tweel and it should be on production vehicles by 2016.
Popular Science wrote an article about this plane: Article
Read the summary:
"The Linux version receives a GUI and independence from the kernel internals, and a Mac version is at last available too."
This might make the game really cool for people with a PPU, but it would really suck for those without one. Kind of like how games are really cool for people with GPUs but sucks for those without them.
That's what I figured just wanted to make sure.
Yeah, Fusion should do wonders for the integrated GPU market but we'll always have the dedicated graphics card segment for the enthusiast. The more things we can get on a single chip the better for applications where size is important.
Heck, fewer and fewer PC's come with dedicated GPUs. Integrated video can now handle dual monitor output and HDTV decoding. It's only gamers and graphics designers who need them now.
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't integrated video use an embedded GPU to do the bulk of the work? You can't run Vista with Aero turned on without a GPU so all the Vista PCs shipping with Aero enabled have GPUs in them. I think you meant fewer and fewer PCs come with dedicated graphics cards or high end GPUs. Which is the same reason fewer and fewer PCs require NICs or audio cards. It's getting to the point where embedded solutions are good enough for most people.
I don't think you are thinking grand enough. I remember the days where you didn't need a dedicated graphics card to play games and I'm only 21. You really didn't get improved game play per say but it did look a heck of a lot better. A dedicated physics processor though has the potential to vastly improve game play and realism.
Imagine instead of designers creating models of buildings they actually built them. That is a brick building had individual bricks all stacked on each other. Whenever you hit it with an explosive it would actually crumble like a real building or burn like a real building. That is a lot of calculations which a general CPU isn't the best at.
The thing is not enough people have PPUs in their computers so you can't include it into core game play yet. Hopefully nVidia acquiring Ageia will allow them to start bundling it with their GPUs or even better yet offer it embedded on their motherboards. While graphics are easily scaled, game play elements are not. I wouldn't be surprised if you see PPUs being crucial to the game on consoles before PCs.
Don't worry, they'll fix it in the dupe.
And perhaps setting aside a TLD for personal websites that would have a cheap fee and punishing anyone who used them for anything else.
My dad set up a server for our family, immediate and extended, that we all use for e-mail, to share pictures or videos, and anything else that you would want a server for. It would suck to have to add an extra $100 to the server costs.
So should I be concerned that when mine expired no one picked it up? I'll just have to let my wife name any kids I might have...
Couldn't you just make it progressive? Have the first cost the normal rate and then have it go up with each new one you register until you hit a predefined limit. That way people like you and I who only have a few domains wouldn't get hurt.
The only problem that I could see with this is web firms that created websites for other people/companies and register it in their name. I imagine to solve that you could just have the count reset after so long. I imagine these drop catchers register a lot of names all the time.