You cite Microsoft as having patented "virtual desktops" but that is not actually what the patent application covers. The patent claim begins "A method for a user to preview multiple virtual desktops in a graphical user interface..."
In short and quite specifically, your claim that Microsoft patented or tried to patent virtual desktops is bullshit. In general, you do not seem to have any real grasp about what patents can actually cover.
Also, there is no patent! Its a patent application, and in said application there is plenty of prior art being cited by Microsoft itself. If you had read the patent application, you would know that its for methods of improvement over the prior art.
Finally, that is a design patent not a utility patent. Do you know the difference?
It appears that Google isnt so sure any more about how much of WebM it owns. While there have been no public statements about what patents VP8/WebM infringes on, there have almost certainly been cases of patent holders making specific claims in private. How many of those claims are valid remains to be seen, but it sure looks like at least a few of them are being considered by Google as too risky to fight, so here we are with a patent pool proposal that offers a win-win for all involved rather than patent fights.
Discovery, History, National Geographic and the Science Channel.
In the past 3 years, even these channels have gone way downhill. The history channel is now known for "doomsday" documentaries and National Geographic is the Border Patrol channel. I believe Discovery is now the Chopper and Logging channel,..
The Science Channel did buy the rights to Firefly recently... so maybe there is hope for that one channel.
I mostly want it to be comfortable and habitable as possible for humans.
So maybe warmer then now? What exactly is the "ideal" CO2 level?
It is this question that turns AGW alarmist into rational beings, but only if they arrive at the question on their own. If you ask them directly then they will respond with tripe about sea level rise, displaced people, and the extinction of some endangered species (as if these points have anything to do with what the ideal temperature is.)
There is never a better time than now to come closer to whatever the ideal is, but the question remains: whats the ideal temperature? I blieve that the odds are good that its greater than current temperatures.
The base unit does not have its own name. Its in 1000's of another unit.
IN A SYSTEM OF UNITS, THATS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE
Once you get over your hate for the english system.. once you get passed the emotion of it.. you might then be able to think rationally about what is wrong with SI. SI's problems are not related to the english system so when you bring that hate to the table, YOU HAVE FAILED.
You are clearly not aware that even metric folks disagree on base units. MKS vs CGS vs SI and so on.
1000 times the base unit of length in SI is the kilometer.
1000 times the base unit of mass in SI is the kilokilogram.... right? no? Its not a kilosomething? really? its the metric ton?
Do you know of anyone using the only system that makes sense, meters-grams-seconds?
And they *will* be met. Which means we owe China a shitload of money, while they send us all the crap we buy in Wal*Mart.
What are they going to do with it? Seriously.. you are just acting likes its a bad thing, but not actually justifying the theory that it is.
You are a Chinese businessman running a factory. You are trading 10 hours of local labor for 1 hour of foreign labor using an intermediary currency, the greenback. Now you have greenbacks that are worth about 1 hour of foreign labor or 10 hours of local labor.
What now?
You wouldn't consider buying foreign labor with it, right? Wouldn't it be completely stupid to buy foreign labor with it when you can get 10 times as much locally in China for the same greenback?
Maybe instead you buy stuff from foreign lands and ship them to china? Well then the trade imbalance disappears, right?
You might want to convert it back into the local currency.. but you need to find people with yuan's that want dollars, but who has yuan's that want dollars in such quantities as represented by the trade imbalance? If you really insisted on this, then you would inflate them into worthlessness in the process, destroying your whole business model.
Your only choice, really, is to invest the greenbacks into American companies or lend them to the American government while you continue to try to figure out what the fuck to do with all these stupid worthless pieces of paper that only have imaginary value.
Microsoft makes most of their money from two closely linked software products - Office and Windows. Both of which are losing market share.
You are making one of the mistakes the poster was talking about.
iOS is losing market share to Android, yet Apple is still printing money hand-over-fist at an ever-increasing rate in those very markets its "losing share" in.
The same is true for Microsoft. Even though Office and Windows are "losing share", they are still setting profit and revenue records nearly every year.
Apples problem is that the revenue streams are too tightly integrated with each other. If Apple doesnt sell any iPhones or iPads, then the App Store also loses all of its value. The same just isnt true for Microsoft which is at its core a software company that enters and leaves markets as they grow and shrink. If the desktop market collapses, Microsoft will be putting out Office for Tablets (in a sense, they already are with Office 365.)
When Microsoft dies, it will be after a very long slow death with slowly shrinking profits. When Apple dies again, it will begin with a very rapid collapse of the tower.
I dont get why people think the wages imbalance is tilted in China's favor.
We are right now trading 1 hour of our labor for 10 hours of theirs. After that its just pieces of paper that have no intrinsic value themselves. When push comes to shove, they have worthless pieces of paper and we have things traded at a 10:1 ratio.
Take a good look at the graph. I real good look. Draw some conclusions that fit it please, without simply looking for a "confirmation" of what you already think.
The graph does not "clearly" show what you claim. Thats just wishful thinking..
A plain-as-day observation is that if we are supposed to heave peaked again, it was at a temperature less than all the other times..
Another plain-as-day observation is that the only other similar region is the one on the right that leveled-off for about 12,000 years before peaking.. and we right now at about 12,000 years of level-off...
It is clear that the claim that this period should have peaked cannot be substantiated by that graph, let alone that it did in fact did peak. Thats just not in the graph.
If you had taken a quick look at the link you provided, you'd have seen this graph that shows how temperatures rise very quickly after an ice age and then slowly creep down over millennia.
The graph shows temperature rise takes between thousands and tens of thousands of years, and you have disingenuously declared that to be "very quickly"
Furthermore, the Amazon model pretty much destroys any possibility for a developer to promise actual support for his or her product. Support/infrastructure costs are not a percentage of revenue, but instead some factor of the installation base. When Amazon decides to give your application away, the percentage of your revenue going to your support/infrastructure instead of to your profit coffers goes way up.
To defend yourself, you simply cannot allow support/infrastructure costs to be more than 20% of your asking price (or else Amazon could put you out of business by giving your app away) yet that asking price may significantly deter business (Amazon may elect to sell your app at your 500% markup price, dooming your business to a niche mediocrity)
Consider applications that connect to a server to retrieve new content that costs the developer money to collect/produce (an electronic magazine, a mapping service, sports statistics, etc..).. many of these cannot operate effectively under an Amazons-first policy, for Amazon's success may be their failure.
Those questions are not fair, I also submit neither is enabling governments to read my customers email.
Ah, but suppose you gave one government one-time access to a benign part of your database? (ex: part of an accounts connection logs in an extraordinary situation)
Suddenly the question "Have you ever given any governments access private data?" becomes unfair. Answer truthfully and you are the evil company that lets governments snoop, even though it could of been that the intent was to help find a kidnapped government official, something you wouldn't mind them doing if you yourself were kidnapped.
He said he addressed these questions before. He probably did so many times. At some point enough is enough.
The fact that he wont answer the question anymore is not damning evidence of anything.
Remember that nVidia is going head-to-head in the portable space with AMD/ATI and those folks have just released "Bobcat", which is surely going to push nVidia right out of the netbook market. nVidia had been doing OK in this market by offering cost-competitive GPU's but that is no longer possible for portables based on AMD processors, and the situation is very serious because AMD's APU solution also beats the pants off of Intels Atom chips.
For mobile/portable nVidia only has an ARM market now, and there isnt anything nVidia can do about it even if they had the best damn GPU's in the world.
..they need to get certified for each product that they want to claim is certified.
If Google Widget is certified, that doesnt mean that Google Sprocket is also certified. In this case, Google did not receive certification for the product that they were selling (they received certification only for a product similar, but distinctly feature-different, to what they were selling)
It works for me.. it works for the other guy.. it must be something specific to your situation, and I think I know what it is...
Clearly you are experiencing the notorious PEBKAC bug.
But the other poster is right.. you dont generally want turbo features on servers. This 10 core Intel server chip is in the same boat as AMD's 12 core server chips, as it will under-perform for single threaded tasks. These chips simply arent made for single-threaded performance.
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You cite Microsoft as having patented "virtual desktops" but that is not actually what the patent application covers. The patent claim begins "A method for a user to preview multiple virtual desktops in a graphical user interface..."
an actual citation instead of a forum thread full of crap (only one guy in that forum thread seems to know anything about patents)
In short and quite specifically, your claim that Microsoft patented or tried to patent virtual desktops is bullshit. In general, you do not seem to have any real grasp about what patents can actually cover.
Also, there is no patent! Its a patent application, and in said application there is plenty of prior art being cited by Microsoft itself. If you had read the patent application, you would know that its for methods of improvement over the prior art.
Finally, that is a design patent not a utility patent. Do you know the difference?
It appears that Google isnt so sure any more about how much of WebM it owns. While there have been no public statements about what patents VP8/WebM infringes on, there have almost certainly been cases of patent holders making specific claims in private. How many of those claims are valid remains to be seen, but it sure looks like at least a few of them are being considered by Google as too risky to fight, so here we are with a patent pool proposal that offers a win-win for all involved rather than patent fights.
Discovery, History, National Geographic and the Science Channel.
In the past 3 years, even these channels have gone way downhill. The history channel is now known for "doomsday" documentaries and National Geographic is the Border Patrol channel. I believe Discovery is now the Chopper and Logging channel, ..
The Science Channel did buy the rights to Firefly recently... so maybe there is hope for that one channel.
I mostly want it to be comfortable and habitable as possible for humans.
So maybe warmer then now? What exactly is the "ideal" CO2 level?
It is this question that turns AGW alarmist into rational beings, but only if they arrive at the question on their own. If you ask them directly then they will respond with tripe about sea level rise, displaced people, and the extinction of some endangered species (as if these points have anything to do with what the ideal temperature is.)
There is never a better time than now to come closer to whatever the ideal is, but the question remains: whats the ideal temperature? I blieve that the odds are good that its greater than current temperatures.
That went right over your head.
The base unit does not have its own name. Its in 1000's of another unit.
IN A SYSTEM OF UNITS, THATS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE
Once you get over your hate for the english system.. once you get passed the emotion of it.. you might then be able to think rationally about what is wrong with SI. SI's problems are not related to the english system so when you bring that hate to the table, YOU HAVE FAILED.
Reply when you stop failing.
You are clearly not aware that even metric folks disagree on base units. MKS vs CGS vs SI and so on.
.. right? no? Its not a kilosomething? really? its the metric ton?
1000 times the base unit of length in SI is the kilometer.
1000 times the base unit of mass in SI is the kilokilogram..
Do you know of anyone using the only system that makes sense, meters-grams-seconds?
And they *will* be met. Which means we owe China a shitload of money, while they send us all the crap we buy in Wal*Mart.
What are they going to do with it? Seriously.. you are just acting likes its a bad thing, but not actually justifying the theory that it is.
You are a Chinese businessman running a factory. You are trading 10 hours of local labor for 1 hour of foreign labor using an intermediary currency, the greenback. Now you have greenbacks that are worth about 1 hour of foreign labor or 10 hours of local labor.
What now?
You wouldn't consider buying foreign labor with it, right? Wouldn't it be completely stupid to buy foreign labor with it when you can get 10 times as much locally in China for the same greenback?
Maybe instead you buy stuff from foreign lands and ship them to china? Well then the trade imbalance disappears, right?
You might want to convert it back into the local currency.. but you need to find people with yuan's that want dollars, but who has yuan's that want dollars in such quantities as represented by the trade imbalance? If you really insisted on this, then you would inflate them into worthlessness in the process, destroying your whole business model.
Your only choice, really, is to invest the greenbacks into American companies or lend them to the American government while you continue to try to figure out what the fuck to do with all these stupid worthless pieces of paper that only have imaginary value.
Microsoft makes most of their money from two closely linked software products - Office and Windows. Both of which are losing market share.
You are making one of the mistakes the poster was talking about.
iOS is losing market share to Android, yet Apple is still printing money hand-over-fist at an ever-increasing rate in those very markets its "losing share" in.
The same is true for Microsoft. Even though Office and Windows are "losing share", they are still setting profit and revenue records nearly every year.
Apples problem is that the revenue streams are too tightly integrated with each other. If Apple doesnt sell any iPhones or iPads, then the App Store also loses all of its value. The same just isnt true for Microsoft which is at its core a software company that enters and leaves markets as they grow and shrink. If the desktop market collapses, Microsoft will be putting out Office for Tablets (in a sense, they already are with Office 365.)
When Microsoft dies, it will be after a very long slow death with slowly shrinking profits. When Apple dies again, it will begin with a very rapid collapse of the tower.
I dont get why people think the wages imbalance is tilted in China's favor.
We are right now trading 1 hour of our labor for 10 hours of theirs. After that its just pieces of paper that have no intrinsic value themselves. When push comes to shove, they have worthless pieces of paper and we have things traded at a 10:1 ratio.
Take a good look at the graph. I real good look. Draw some conclusions that fit it please, without simply looking for a "confirmation" of what you already think.
The graph does not "clearly" show what you claim. Thats just wishful thinking..
A plain-as-day observation is that if we are supposed to heave peaked again, it was at a temperature less than all the other times..
Another plain-as-day observation is that the only other similar region is the one on the right that leveled-off for about 12,000 years before peaking.. and we right now at about 12,000 years of level-off...
It is clear that the claim that this period should have peaked cannot be substantiated by that graph, let alone that it did in fact did peak. Thats just not in the graph.
If you had taken a quick look at the link you provided, you'd have seen this graph that shows how temperatures rise very quickly after an ice age and then slowly creep down over millennia.
The graph shows temperature rise takes between thousands and tens of thousands of years, and you have disingenuously declared that to be "very quickly"
Dishonest much?
Furthermore, the Amazon model pretty much destroys any possibility for a developer to promise actual support for his or her product. Support/infrastructure costs are not a percentage of revenue, but instead some factor of the installation base. When Amazon decides to give your application away, the percentage of your revenue going to your support/infrastructure instead of to your profit coffers goes way up.
.. many of these cannot operate effectively under an Amazons-first policy, for Amazon's success may be their failure.
To defend yourself, you simply cannot allow support/infrastructure costs to be more than 20% of your asking price (or else Amazon could put you out of business by giving your app away) yet that asking price may significantly deter business (Amazon may elect to sell your app at your 500% markup price, dooming your business to a niche mediocrity)
Consider applications that connect to a server to retrieve new content that costs the developer money to collect/produce (an electronic magazine, a mapping service, sports statistics, etc..)
Those questions are not fair, I also submit neither is enabling governments to read my customers email.
Ah, but suppose you gave one government one-time access to a benign part of your database? (ex: part of an accounts connection logs in an extraordinary situation)
Suddenly the question "Have you ever given any governments access private data?" becomes unfair. Answer truthfully and you are the evil company that lets governments snoop, even though it could of been that the intent was to help find a kidnapped government official, something you wouldn't mind them doing if you yourself were kidnapped.
He said he addressed these questions before. He probably did so many times. At some point enough is enough.
The fact that he wont answer the question anymore is not damning evidence of anything.
Some questions really arent fair. Yes or No questions that imply things, for instance.
Were you raping that underage transvestite midget crack whore last night?
So you are saying that it wasnt rape.
Remember that nVidia is going head-to-head in the portable space with AMD/ATI and those folks have just released "Bobcat", which is surely going to push nVidia right out of the netbook market. nVidia had been doing OK in this market by offering cost-competitive GPU's but that is no longer possible for portables based on AMD processors, and the situation is very serious because AMD's APU solution also beats the pants off of Intels Atom chips.
For mobile/portable nVidia only has an ARM market now, and there isnt anything nVidia can do about it even if they had the best damn GPU's in the world.
And anyone who thinks the lack of the above features is a good thing should pack it all in and become a VB programmer, so not to hurt themselves.
Even VB supports operator overloading these days. Seriously..
I would love something new and fresh, or even an update of OLD titles that were great but weren't from the same 4 or 5 different type of game.
Its time for a modern remake of Elite.
..they need to get certified for each product that they want to claim is certified.
If Google Widget is certified, that doesnt mean that Google Sprocket is also certified. In this case, Google did not receive certification for the product that they were selling (they received certification only for a product similar, but distinctly feature-different, to what they were selling)
Being wrong is not the same as lieing.
Being wrong on purpose is.
Furthermore, I would imagine it is very difficult to prove someone deliberately lied.
Thats another matter entirely. This allows people to be wrong on purpose without you (apparently) thinking that they are a liar.
No it doesn't.
It works for me.. it works for the other guy.. it must be something specific to your situation, and I think I know what it is...
Clearly you are experiencing the notorious PEBKAC bug.
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The odds are that you dont even understand that you are claiming to be able to beat entropy, so we will forgive your ignorance on that matter.
However, you also dont know how to use html tags properly. This is slashdot. Get off our lawn.
There are other relevant and unanswerable questions, such as would they have gone extinct without our help.
100% of all living things will go extinct, without question.
Slashdot featured a comparison of Intel's vs AMD's "Turbo" features just about a year ago now.
But the other poster is right.. you dont generally want turbo features on servers. This 10 core Intel server chip is in the same boat as AMD's 12 core server chips, as it will under-perform for single threaded tasks. These chips simply arent made for single-threaded performance.
AMD has been king of the multi-CPU solutions for awhile now so we will have to wait and see how Intels new line will stack up in 4xCPU (40 cores / 80 threads) configurations vs AMD's current king 4xCPU (48 cores) solution.
DSL goes up to 7 Mbit these days. Thats enough for HD movie streaming.
You wave your hands but say nothing. How fast is the DSL in your area?