While soda can and used to be made using real sugar, they haven't from the big corps in quite awhile.
Early 1980's, import tariffs, import limits, and a mandatory price floor even for sugar produced locally were established by our "its for your own good" government. The upshot of all this is that Americans need to spend 3 to 4 times as much for sugar as the rest of the world does.
The only solution is to make it illegal to try to legislate new victim-less crimes into existence, because unlike the "crimes" they are trying to prevent.. these legislations arent victim-less.
I find it rather amusing to read all this libertarian commentary treating the patent system as some form of "government regulation" as if it were some afterthought tacked on by politicians not as wise as the Founding Fathers.
The original patents were utility patents, not design patents. You are uninformed and you need to come to terms with that, such as not spitting ignorant bullshit at others thats based completely on incomplete information.
One thing genetic algorithms, when applied to entities in simulations, always seem to find are the flaws in the simulation. Those flaws are exploited to increase their "fitness" measure. Example, if your fitness measure is how far the thing moves over a period of time but your simulation doesnt have absolutely perfect conservation of energy , the GA will always find a way to exploit that lack of perfect conservation of energy (by smashing into walls, etc..)
Ever notice the drug commercials? None of them address the underlying cause -- they address only the symptoms.
Every notice that lawyers buy commercial for essentially the same time slots? "Have you or someone you loved taken _____? You may be entitled to financial compensation! Call now!"
You arent very well informed. AMD doesn't fab processors, so cannot possibly fab ARM processors. AMD is like ARM now and only designs processors, but unlike ARM they do not license the design out (probably they cannot, thanks to IP deals with Intel.)
AMD spun off their fab business in 2009, which is named Global Foundries, divesting their last shares in the company earlier this year.
Please go cry some where else. Requirements are there to be met
In this case, the requirements are there as a barrier to entry, and seem to be used as a tool for exactly that. Given the arbitrary nature of the requirements, its pretty clear that if he had $50K in donations, the requirement would quickly be adjusted to $100K.
Portal 2 is source engined and came out less than a year ago.
Running on an 8-year old engine.
he fact that a specific game was recently released is just more dishonesty about the situation. Angry birds and Farmville were also recently released. Oh, they use old rendering technology? Exactly.
Free markets cannot exist while the government distorts them. This isnt about regulation, because regulation does not need to distort the markets.
Market distortions perpetrated by government are often characterized by government money, but that isnt the whole story. The patent system is most certainly a market distortion, which seemed like a beneficial trade-off when it was only manufacturing techniques that were being patented. Clearly its not a free market if you arent free to also do what someone else is succeeding when doing. You shouldn't be guaranteed to succeed, but you should be free to try.
The patent system, as it stands, is a gross violation of liberty. The society does not benefit when information that was naturally (going to be) public information is given exclusive use. Society only benefits in the case where what would have been trade secrets is made public through these government enforced incentives of limited exclusiveness. This kind of would-have-been-a-trade-secret patent is rare these days. Companies like Intel and Global Foundries certainly are involved in that kind of 'good' patent (not exclusively, see instruction set patents), but companies like Apple patent information that would by definition become public through the sale of millions of devices which demonstrate it.
Its about time people stood up for technological liberty. End the 'design' side of the patent system, and reform the 'utility' side of the patent system.
Thanks to some anti-MS dipshit yesterday, I looked up the facts.
Microsoft is posting record revenue. Thats record as in, they have never posted numbers as high as they are posting now. Thats the exact opposite of "less now" like you claim.
You made it up, its something we honest people call a lie. We honest people also know that dishonest fucks such as yourself never contribute positively to anything. Its in your nature to deceive, and are willing to do so even when there is ample amounts of truthful ammunition that you could have chosen to use to express those beliefs. You blew right past the truthful anti-MS stuff and went right for a lie. You arent much value to anyone that isnt intent on deceiving. Have you considered Obama's campaign?
Because I think social conservatives are busybody prudes
You are proving the point. You ignore the fact that Romney is liberal, a fact supported by both the voters of Massachusetts as well as the policies he implemented once in office in that State. Romney is a liberal based on his actions, not a conservative based on your assurances that he is. You are just repeating the standard Democrat mud-slinging used against actual conservatives, and it clearly proves that you dont ever bother to think for yourself.
They already good enough for Source engined games.
Some of the pre-teens that played Source games are now in college. Why not be even more intellectually dishonest and say that Intels Ivy GPU can run Wolfenstein 3D just fine?
The source engine was several years old even when it debuted with Half-Life 2 in 2004, since that games release was significantly delayed by the development of Steam.
According to Intel and fanboys, sure. Not according to benchmarks.
My current video card was released in late 2007 and was ~$250 upon release so wasnt even top notch at the time, and I significantly down-clock it to keep its fan quiet.
It still delivers nearly twice the FPS as Intels flagship HD 4000 Ivy. So we are talking about a down-clocked 5 year old mid-range video card that is still beating up Intels greatest offering ever.
He was liberal enough for the people of Massachusetts, which is saying a lot. Not many States are bluer than that one.
This is why I don't support him. Romney is a liberal. Meanwhile, idiots like you are calling him a conservative. Its laughable how you just say the stuff Democrats have been programmed to say for so many years, even when they clearly and obviously do not apply. The guy implemented Obamacare before it was known as Obamacare, even before Pelosi adopted it. He is fill-blown liberal, an opinion I base on his track record.. his actions, not on his words.
Please don't vote. People that get even the obvious stuff wrong shouldn't be allowed to.
It is precisely your sort of careless haphazard thinking that keeps businesses away from Google products.
"What do you mean we can't run our business until Google pushes out a patch for the patch? GeekBoy, your advice to switch to chrome just cost us 10 million dollars! You are fired! Get out now!"
This isnt even really the scary bits that have gone on since 9/11
In a world where the U.S. government gets access to all of the E.U. members banking data, what sort of in-country data could possibly be off limits?
Lets face it, not only have they recorded every phone call since sometime shortly after 9/11, they also have direct access to every database of every major corporation. That includes your banking data, your credit data, your email, and what articles you posted upon on slashdot.
Last I checked, the guy was actively defending Steve Ballmer. Guess where Mr. Ballmer works?
Well, last I checked, he should have been defending Ballmer. The reason I know this is because the last time I checked was a few minutes ago when you motivated me to do so. Microsoft is doing quite well financially, so apparently Balmer isnt doing such a bad job. Thanks for making sure that we all knew what you didn't.
So government X is extorting money from you to pay from grandma Y
Grandma Y voted for and supported government X giving her all these social guarantees. Social Security, Medicare, etc.
Government X and Grandma Y didnt want to pay for it, instead choosing to decide that people that had not even been born yet should foot those bills when the time comes. Government X and grandma Y also conspired to get immediate benefits at the expense of those unborn people through the miracle of deficit spending, so not only does grandma Y get a retirement that she doesnt deserve, she benefited throughout here entire life in ways that she did not deserve.
George Carlin was right. We should kill all the baby boomers and loot their pensions and estates.
and food prices are volatile, but steadily increasing:
Why not just say fuel prices are rising? Food is so cheap as to have become nearly ubiquitous. Its not a hard sell to get even staunch free-market folks on board with a food-providing social program due to its low costs and high benefits. However, the delivering of the food to where its needed, well thats still quite expensive. It would not be so easy to get those same staunch free-market boys on board to pay for that, especially since THAT cost is going up.
After all, why did you reach back to April for MSFT numbers?
I didnt reach back any length of time. I provided a link to a google search for "microsoft record revenue"
Meanwhile, in spite of eating a larger ($12.5bn) write-down on their part from buying Motorola
Umm, no. Motorola is down as an asset on Googles books. Are you suggesting the Google is already marking down their Motorola purchase as a $12.5bn loss?
Stop being an idiot.
Why are you so infatuated with Microsoft being labeled a failure, when talking to the guy that didnt bother mention Microsoft at all? All you have accomplished is that you got me to look into the veracity of your claims. You made it up, just assumed it to be true, and are now scrambling to save face with a guy that didnt even mention Microsoft. You are fucking amazing.
Most of them faltered at the first hurdle (providing the same level of stability and support as they do with Windows)
Thats what costs money. Do I really have to spell this stuff out for you zealots?
The large part of windows "support" is done by the consumer going to google without involving the OEM, with ready-made answers in a majority of those cases, and forums handling the rest.
Linux does not have the same level of readily available no-cost help. Even the ready-made answers for Linux are beyond the average user, and they forget about hitting the forums.. Linux folk tend to be very intolerant of grandma.
When you sell a windows PC to grandma, support costs mainly deal with bad hardware. When you sell a linux PC to grandma, even a perfectly functioning unit has significant support costs. Thats just the way it. It might be different in the future, but its not different right now.
Assuming they were willing to stick fingers up at Microsoft (this fantasy situation assumes they're using Linux as a lifeboat to escape competing with their biggest supplier), the support and stability thing is just a matter of persistence.
Just a matter of persistence? Thats called money. Its just a matter of lots of money.
China broke 100 million factory workers in 2008. Thats 4 years ago. Only 11 countries had more citizens in total than china had factory workers at that time.
If you pick a container ship at random from all the oceans, the odds are very good that its full of stuff made in China.
I'm going with Bayes on this one.. the priori probability that an item selected at random is made in China is quite high. That we then we learn that its a counterfeit.. that makes it almost a certainty. Thats exactly what a spam filter would say.. and those are damn good these days.
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While soda can and used to be made using real sugar, they haven't from the big corps in quite awhile.
Early 1980's, import tariffs, import limits, and a mandatory price floor even for sugar produced locally were established by our "its for your own good" government. The upshot of all this is that Americans need to spend 3 to 4 times as much for sugar as the rest of the world does.
The only solution is to make it illegal to try to legislate new victim-less crimes into existence, because unlike the "crimes" they are trying to prevent.. these legislations arent victim-less.
I find it rather amusing to read all this libertarian commentary treating the patent system as some form of "government regulation" as if it were some afterthought tacked on by politicians not as wise as the Founding Fathers.
The original patents were utility patents, not design patents. You are uninformed and you need to come to terms with that, such as not spitting ignorant bullshit at others thats based completely on incomplete information.
Its happening, but in the form of simulated annealing.
That's like saying "why buy insurance, you rarely ever get in a car accident!"
Buying car insurance is like going to a bookie and betting against your favorite sports team in order to ease your suffering when they lose.
One thing genetic algorithms, when applied to entities in simulations, always seem to find are the flaws in the simulation. Those flaws are exploited to increase their "fitness" measure. Example, if your fitness measure is how far the thing moves over a period of time but your simulation doesnt have absolutely perfect conservation of energy , the GA will always find a way to exploit that lack of perfect conservation of energy (by smashing into walls, etc..)
Ever notice the drug commercials? None of them address the underlying cause -- they address only the symptoms.
Every notice that lawyers buy commercial for essentially the same time slots? "Have you or someone you loved taken _____? You may be entitled to financial compensation! Call now!"
Have a foot in both x86 and ARM.
You arent very well informed. AMD doesn't fab processors, so cannot possibly fab ARM processors. AMD is like ARM now and only designs processors, but unlike ARM they do not license the design out (probably they cannot, thanks to IP deals with Intel.)
AMD spun off their fab business in 2009, which is named Global Foundries, divesting their last shares in the company earlier this year.
Please go cry some where else. Requirements are there to be met
In this case, the requirements are there as a barrier to entry, and seem to be used as a tool for exactly that. Given the arbitrary nature of the requirements, its pretty clear that if he had $50K in donations, the requirement would quickly be adjusted to $100K.
Portal 2 is source engined and came out less than a year ago.
Running on an 8-year old engine.
he fact that a specific game was recently released is just more dishonesty about the situation. Angry birds and Farmville were also recently released. Oh, they use old rendering technology? Exactly.
Free markets cannot exist while the government distorts them. This isnt about regulation, because regulation does not need to distort the markets.
Market distortions perpetrated by government are often characterized by government money, but that isnt the whole story. The patent system is most certainly a market distortion, which seemed like a beneficial trade-off when it was only manufacturing techniques that were being patented. Clearly its not a free market if you arent free to also do what someone else is succeeding when doing. You shouldn't be guaranteed to succeed, but you should be free to try.
The patent system, as it stands, is a gross violation of liberty. The society does not benefit when information that was naturally (going to be) public information is given exclusive use. Society only benefits in the case where what would have been trade secrets is made public through these government enforced incentives of limited exclusiveness. This kind of would-have-been-a-trade-secret patent is rare these days. Companies like Intel and Global Foundries certainly are involved in that kind of 'good' patent (not exclusively, see instruction set patents), but companies like Apple patent information that would by definition become public through the sale of millions of devices which demonstrate it.
Its about time people stood up for technological liberty. End the 'design' side of the patent system, and reform the 'utility' side of the patent system.
are to share what this $250, 2007-era GPU is? Or are you just pulling this out of your ass?
The 8800 GT
You would know that if you had anything of value to offer.
However you're talking about a $250 card vs an entire laptop costing $500.
I am comparing to 5-year old $250 card. Why are you ignoring this fact? There is only one answer to that. You don't intend to be honest.
Although, less now.
Thanks to some anti-MS dipshit yesterday, I looked up the facts.
Microsoft is posting record revenue. Thats record as in, they have never posted numbers as high as they are posting now. Thats the exact opposite of "less now" like you claim.
You made it up, its something we honest people call a lie. We honest people also know that dishonest fucks such as yourself never contribute positively to anything. Its in your nature to deceive, and are willing to do so even when there is ample amounts of truthful ammunition that you could have chosen to use to express those beliefs. You blew right past the truthful anti-MS stuff and went right for a lie. You arent much value to anyone that isnt intent on deceiving. Have you considered Obama's campaign?
Because I think social conservatives are busybody prudes
You are proving the point. You ignore the fact that Romney is liberal, a fact supported by both the voters of Massachusetts as well as the policies he implemented once in office in that State. Romney is a liberal based on his actions, not a conservative based on your assurances that he is. You are just repeating the standard Democrat mud-slinging used against actual conservatives, and it clearly proves that you dont ever bother to think for yourself.
They already good enough for Source engined games.
Some of the pre-teens that played Source games are now in college. Why not be even more intellectually dishonest and say that Intels Ivy GPU can run Wolfenstein 3D just fine?
The source engine was several years old even when it debuted with Half-Life 2 in 2004, since that games release was significantly delayed by the development of Steam.
The Ivy Bridge GPUs are pretty serious.
According to Intel and fanboys, sure. Not according to benchmarks.
My current video card was released in late 2007 and was ~$250 upon release so wasnt even top notch at the time, and I significantly down-clock it to keep its fan quiet.
It still delivers nearly twice the FPS as Intels flagship HD 4000 Ivy. So we are talking about a down-clocked 5 year old mid-range video card that is still beating up Intels greatest offering ever.
Try again, fanboy.
He was liberal enough for the people of Massachusetts, which is saying a lot. Not many States are bluer than that one.
This is why I don't support him. Romney is a liberal. Meanwhile, idiots like you are calling him a conservative. Its laughable how you just say the stuff Democrats have been programmed to say for so many years, even when they clearly and obviously do not apply. The guy implemented Obamacare before it was known as Obamacare, even before Pelosi adopted it. He is fill-blown liberal, an opinion I base on his track record.. his actions, not on his words.
Please don't vote. People that get even the obvious stuff wrong shouldn't be allowed to.
It is precisely your sort of careless haphazard thinking that keeps businesses away from Google products.
"What do you mean we can't run our business until Google pushes out a patch for the patch? GeekBoy, your advice to switch to chrome just cost us 10 million dollars! You are fired! Get out now!"
This isnt even really the scary bits that have gone on since 9/11
In a world where the U.S. government gets access to all of the E.U. members banking data, what sort of in-country data could possibly be off limits?
Lets face it, not only have they recorded every phone call since sometime shortly after 9/11, they also have direct access to every database of every major corporation. That includes your banking data, your credit data, your email, and what articles you posted upon on slashdot.
Last I checked, the guy was actively defending Steve Ballmer. Guess where Mr. Ballmer works?
Well, last I checked, he should have been defending Ballmer. The reason I know this is because the last time I checked was a few minutes ago when you motivated me to do so. Microsoft is doing quite well financially, so apparently Balmer isnt doing such a bad job. Thanks for making sure that we all knew what you didn't.
So government X is extorting money from you to pay from grandma Y
Grandma Y voted for and supported government X giving her all these social guarantees. Social Security, Medicare, etc.
Government X and Grandma Y didnt want to pay for it, instead choosing to decide that people that had not even been born yet should foot those bills when the time comes. Government X and grandma Y also conspired to get immediate benefits at the expense of those unborn people through the miracle of deficit spending, so not only does grandma Y get a retirement that she doesnt deserve, she benefited throughout here entire life in ways that she did not deserve.
George Carlin was right. We should kill all the baby boomers and loot their pensions and estates.
and food prices are volatile, but steadily increasing:
Why not just say fuel prices are rising? Food is so cheap as to have become nearly ubiquitous. Its not a hard sell to get even staunch free-market folks on board with a food-providing social program due to its low costs and high benefits. However, the delivering of the food to where its needed, well thats still quite expensive. It would not be so easy to get those same staunch free-market boys on board to pay for that, especially since THAT cost is going up.
After all, why did you reach back to April for MSFT numbers?
I didnt reach back any length of time. I provided a link to a google search for "microsoft record revenue"
Meanwhile, in spite of eating a larger ($12.5bn) write-down on their part from buying Motorola
Umm, no. Motorola is down as an asset on Googles books. Are you suggesting the Google is already marking down their Motorola purchase as a $12.5bn loss?
Stop being an idiot.
Why are you so infatuated with Microsoft being labeled a failure, when talking to the guy that didnt bother mention Microsoft at all? All you have accomplished is that you got me to look into the veracity of your claims. You made it up, just assumed it to be true, and are now scrambling to save face with a guy that didnt even mention Microsoft. You are fucking amazing.
Most of them faltered at the first hurdle (providing the same level of stability and support as they do with Windows)
Thats what costs money. Do I really have to spell this stuff out for you zealots?
The large part of windows "support" is done by the consumer going to google without involving the OEM, with ready-made answers in a majority of those cases, and forums handling the rest.
Linux does not have the same level of readily available no-cost help. Even the ready-made answers for Linux are beyond the average user, and they forget about hitting the forums.. Linux folk tend to be very intolerant of grandma.
When you sell a windows PC to grandma, support costs mainly deal with bad hardware. When you sell a linux PC to grandma, even a perfectly functioning unit has significant support costs. Thats just the way it. It might be different in the future, but its not different right now.
Assuming they were willing to stick fingers up at Microsoft (this fantasy situation assumes they're using Linux as a lifeboat to escape competing with their biggest supplier), the support and stability thing is just a matter of persistence.
Just a matter of persistence? Thats called money. Its just a matter of lots of money.
There are other sources for crap besides China.
China broke 100 million factory workers in 2008. Thats 4 years ago. Only 11 countries had more citizens in total than china had factory workers at that time.
If you pick a container ship at random from all the oceans, the odds are very good that its full of stuff made in China.
I'm going with Bayes on this one.. the priori probability that an item selected at random is made in China is quite high. That we then we learn that its a counterfeit.. that makes it almost a certainty. Thats exactly what a spam filter would say.. and those are damn good these days.