I don't think you've thought this through all the way...you have 3 movies at your house with Netflix, all the time. You've basically got a permanent rental of 3 movies. If you want "pay as you go" that would mean selecting a movie and then they mail it to you, it arrives 1-2 days later for you to watch. I guess its possible thats what you're asking for, but I doubt it. Probably what you're saying is that you want to pay by the number of discs you return each month. But that isn't a feasible business model, Netflix needs to hold the same amount of inventory to have 3 discs out to a certain number of customers whether those customers never watch them or return them frequently.
It isn't Google's responsibility to complain that Firefox doesn't have MSN search in their search box. Microsoft is the one that should bring up that issue. Furthermore, there is a difference in that Microsoft is both the manufacturer of the browser and the search engine. Google doesn't own Firefox.
All that said, I don't see any problem with Microsoft doing this as long as the browser isn't bundled with the OS.
Man, there have a been a ton of edits to that page since it went up on Slashdot. Almost all of them trying to "fix" the article to match the slashdot summary. I guess it shouldn't be surprising, slashdot is kind of like a flock of birds...any old claim in some guys blog will cause the entire group to shift towards that line of though.
These new processors are for servers anyway, so its not worth worrying about the socket. The 939 pin socket was released in 2003, so by the time AM2 is mainstream its going to have had a reasonable lifetime.
While I was thinking the exact same thing at first, check out one of the first few threads on this story, which reiterates how old this patent is. Maybe it's obvious to us now in 2006, since that's "just how things are always done," but you probably have to look at whether it was an obvious step to take then.
I don't even know why I click on patent links at slashdot anymore given the mindless groupthink that goes on in these threads. But honestly, I can't believe how often I read comments along the lines of "this is obvious, I totally learned this in my networking classes!" That sort of suggests it ISN'T obvious, since someone had to develop the knowledge and teach it
Well what the fuck do you expect them to do? Dispatch a guy the moment you press the delete button to find all backups and remove that one message from them?
If you don't want there ever to be evidence of a communication don't send it in a stored electronic medium. This is just a fact of email and it applies to a lot more than just GMail, don't send anything by email that you don't want someone to be able to subpoena.
As of right now, he's been singled out for violations to the agreement that he didn't commit, and has been unfairly kicked out of the service he paid for. (Presumably without a refund.) Because of this, he has suffered the loss of virtual property (his characters/accounts) that he has a paid significant amount of time and money to obtain. This just isn't okay, neither in a moral sense, nor in a legal sense.
He admitted committing the violations, he was fairly kicked out (since botting is considered a serious violation in their tier of punishments), and he owns no virtual property. Blizzard didn't break a law and as a gamer who actually follows the rules I'm prefectly happy to see cheaters banned.
He has been ignored and treated poorly by the other party at every step of the way. As a result, he has an honest grevience to bring against Blizzard.
What are you talking about? He admitted violating the terms of service, and blizzard treated him politely in every piece of correspondence. They even did multiple reviews of his case.
Even if he didn't take the class-action path, a judge may note several reasonable complaints occurring around the same period and decide to combine them into a single suit himself.
Now you're just making yourself look stupid by pretending like you know the law. I'm sure a judge will notice your wanton disrespect of the law and sentence you to the lethal injection you deserve.
If Blizzard then decides to turn around and unjustly harrass its customers in violation of the contract entered into, it can expect that its customers will seek to reverse the business transaction and/or force Blizzard to uphold its contractual obligations.
Um, ok. So here's what you clearly refuse to accept. He violated the TOS. He even admits it! And it was not blizzard that broke the contract it was HIM. I don't know why on Slashdot there is this prevalent view that if you CAN do it you should be allowed to. Its their game, its their rules, and if I have to spent hours working on my weapons skill myself I am very pleased to know that they're not tolerating botters doing it while they watch TV.
To follow up here, I wonder if he would be as accepting of player collusion in street fighter tournaments (he apparently has won several national SF tournaments). If other players were paying or otherwise arranging for their opponents in the tournament to lose so they could get an advantage or advance more easily?
There's no programming in street fighter that prevents someone from not trying to win. How dare any street fighter tournament have a rule outlawing collaboration, collusion, or fixing of events!
This may be the dumbest editorial I've ever read. He complains about everything. Even collusion with the opposite faction to "fix" games in battlegrounds is not the players fault, its their duty. He claims that it is outrageous that they have rules on genre-appropriate character names. He claims that any loophole, exploit, or ability you can find is legitimate until prevented by hard code. This guy has no credibility and just looks like an idiot making these kinds of claims.
I'm not familiar with the G5 architecture, but on x86 chips the 64-bit extensions include doubling the number of GPRs, which is useful on many applications.
Believe it or not there is a video from some guys on Mannoroth of them 3-manning UBRS (up through the Beast, I guess they couldn't take the general 3-man). To give you an idea of how long this takes I saw him use a field repair bot TWICE during rend's event. Warrior, priest, pally.
AMD has no compelling reason to rush to 65nm. Right now they have a new fab with plenty of capacity and their 90nm process is very mature with high yields. When they go to 65nm they'll probably have yields drop about in half. My guess is that they'll try to grow their volumes a bit more and transition at their convenience.
Actually, it doesn't reflect well on intel architecture. I'm sure everyone by now knows that AMD processors run faster and are not as hot. Apple's switch had more to do with Intel agreeing to do other work on things like chipsets and board design than processors, IMO. Otherwise, why would Apple have chosen Intel as their supplier?
Thats essentially correct, but it isn't really done because they don't want to show an 80M loss on the balance sheet...its because it is a "balance sheet" and obviously things must balance. If I pay $100 million for your company, then obviously it is worth $100 million. So I need to record $100M of assets. Since there are specific depreciation rules for things like physical assets and other rules for things like contracts and whatnot, I record those as I normally would. But you have to record the premium over book value somehow, because otherwise the transaction doesn't balance and your accounting system breaks down. And that is where good will comes from. It is the plug that makes the transaction balance. Now in theory you should eventually depreciate your goodwill as well, though that is a very complicated subject in accounting terms because the period of time isn't obvious at all.
Maybe subsribers should be allowed to edit and post alternate text for stories, which can then be moderated by other subscribers. If a certain threshold is hit, the change is assumed to be good and is automatically used on the main-page posting. That way the editing will get done by your users since you've decided it isn't worth the time to do by the paid staff.
Intel has larger caches because they were forced to throw an extra hundred million transistors into the cache to make up for their shitty pipeline architecture and poor memory interface.
And one of the big costs of this is the heat and power issue. SRAM cells are densely packed and generate a lot of heat.
What people need to realize is that overcompensating for poor design is not a good thing. A large cache isn't necessarily a good thing just like a fast frequency isn't, and just like having hyperthreading isn't.
I've actually heard that in Japan garbage disposals are illegal because it takes too much water and additional wastewater processing to handle the food (as opposed to trash...which is also a problem for Japan, they incinerate almost everything because there isn't space for landfills). I also seem to recall that disposals are not permitted in NYC because the sewer system is old and couldn't handle the additional solid waste there.
Given the kiss of death that is AO, I've always wondered why they don't invent a higher level of baddness so that AO games are more legitimate. So you have M, AO, and Seriously Fucking Sick. Hopefully retailers will then ban the SFS rating to appear like they actually care about something besides profit and sell the AO games.
Don't they harvest organs from "living" donors as well? I guess if you take out someones heart there is little chance of them making a recovery anymore, but the potential for the miracle recover was always the same...the only difference is whether you know about it.
If they're really worried about this, only do face donations from people also donating everything else. After all, if you'll donate a relatives face you'll probably be cool with giving all their other organs too.
The ethical implications would come from the process of removing the identity from someone who may or may not be dead and effectively erasing the identity of the recipient when the transplant is complete and he looks like someone different.
Actually, I read about them considering doing this a few months back. Apparently your face looks like your face mostly due to the particular's of your underlying bones...so if you get a face transplant you actually look pretty much like you did before. Obviously some details are different...lips, etc. But its just skin, your face is still your face regardless of whose skin is on top of it.
The ethical concerns are related to the somewhat high risk of rejection, which could very well result in death. As this is considered a cosmetic procedure, doctors are wary of doing anything too risky.
In general I am pleased to see this. Sometimes medicine is a bit too concerned with keeping people alive at any cost.
This thread is like an exhibit of "the worst of slashdot." I see people bitching because they might someday have to view an ad to compensate for the many thousands of dollars expended by this service. I see people bitching because it might select songs that are too diverse, and not in the same genre. Then people start bitching that this will pidgeonhole people into a genre and not expose them to anything new. Then there are people bitching because the web site design is not how they would prefer it. Finally we have people bitching that it doesn't consider other user's tastes when THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT...it is supposed to be based off of the actual music and not the tastes of people who have different tastes than me.
What I haven't yet seen is anyone who actually seem to have tried it out and seen what they think. Fortunately this is probably because all the asshats have posted first, and the actual people that are trying it will post 20-30 mins later as they've listened to a few songs. But jesus, its like watching a train wreck here so far.
Remember that any 64-bit operating system running on a 64-bit x86 processor can run 32-bit code just fine. Thats the big advantage of the AMD64 architecture. The OS and drivers must be 64-bit, everything else can be mixed and matched.
So while these OSs require 64-bit capable processors, it has no impact on your software assuming the software doesn't include a driver.
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I don't think you've thought this through all the way...you have 3 movies at your house with Netflix, all the time. You've basically got a permanent rental of 3 movies. If you want "pay as you go" that would mean selecting a movie and then they mail it to you, it arrives 1-2 days later for you to watch. I guess its possible thats what you're asking for, but I doubt it. Probably what you're saying is that you want to pay by the number of discs you return each month. But that isn't a feasible business model, Netflix needs to hold the same amount of inventory to have 3 discs out to a certain number of customers whether those customers never watch them or return them frequently.
All that said, I don't see any problem with Microsoft doing this as long as the browser isn't bundled with the OS.
Man, there have a been a ton of edits to that page since it went up on Slashdot. Almost all of them trying to "fix" the article to match the slashdot summary. I guess it shouldn't be surprising, slashdot is kind of like a flock of birds...any old claim in some guys blog will cause the entire group to shift towards that line of though.
These new processors are for servers anyway, so its not worth worrying about the socket. The 939 pin socket was released in 2003, so by the time AM2 is mainstream its going to have had a reasonable lifetime.
I don't even know why I click on patent links at slashdot anymore given the mindless groupthink that goes on in these threads. But honestly, I can't believe how often I read comments along the lines of "this is obvious, I totally learned this in my networking classes!" That sort of suggests it ISN'T obvious, since someone had to develop the knowledge and teach it
If you don't want there ever to be evidence of a communication don't send it in a stored electronic medium. This is just a fact of email and it applies to a lot more than just GMail, don't send anything by email that you don't want someone to be able to subpoena.
As of right now, he's been singled out for violations to the agreement that he didn't commit, and has been unfairly kicked out of the service he paid for. (Presumably without a refund.) Because of this, he has suffered the loss of virtual property (his characters/accounts) that he has a paid significant amount of time and money to obtain. This just isn't okay, neither in a moral sense, nor in a legal sense.
He admitted committing the violations, he was fairly kicked out (since botting is considered a serious violation in their tier of punishments), and he owns no virtual property. Blizzard didn't break a law and as a gamer who actually follows the rules I'm prefectly happy to see cheaters banned.
He has been ignored and treated poorly by the other party at every step of the way. As a result, he has an honest grevience to bring against Blizzard.
What are you talking about? He admitted violating the terms of service, and blizzard treated him politely in every piece of correspondence. They even did multiple reviews of his case.
Even if he didn't take the class-action path, a judge may note several reasonable complaints occurring around the same period and decide to combine them into a single suit himself.
Now you're just making yourself look stupid by pretending like you know the law. I'm sure a judge will notice your wanton disrespect of the law and sentence you to the lethal injection you deserve.
If Blizzard then decides to turn around and unjustly harrass its customers in violation of the contract entered into, it can expect that its customers will seek to reverse the business transaction and/or force Blizzard to uphold its contractual obligations.
Um, ok. So here's what you clearly refuse to accept. He violated the TOS. He even admits it! And it was not blizzard that broke the contract it was HIM. I don't know why on Slashdot there is this prevalent view that if you CAN do it you should be allowed to. Its their game, its their rules, and if I have to spent hours working on my weapons skill myself I am very pleased to know that they're not tolerating botters doing it while they watch TV.
Not true at all. There are many dozens of epic items that you can get from world drops, crafting, quests, etc.
There's no programming in street fighter that prevents someone from not trying to win. How dare any street fighter tournament have a rule outlawing collaboration, collusion, or fixing of events!
This may be the dumbest editorial I've ever read. He complains about everything. Even collusion with the opposite faction to "fix" games in battlegrounds is not the players fault, its their duty. He claims that it is outrageous that they have rules on genre-appropriate character names. He claims that any loophole, exploit, or ability you can find is legitimate until prevented by hard code. This guy has no credibility and just looks like an idiot making these kinds of claims.
I'm not familiar with the G5 architecture, but on x86 chips the 64-bit extensions include doubling the number of GPRs, which is useful on many applications.
Believe it or not there is a video from some guys on Mannoroth of them 3-manning UBRS (up through the Beast, I guess they couldn't take the general 3-man). To give you an idea of how long this takes I saw him use a field repair bot TWICE during rend's event. Warrior, priest, pally.
AMD has no compelling reason to rush to 65nm. Right now they have a new fab with plenty of capacity and their 90nm process is very mature with high yields. When they go to 65nm they'll probably have yields drop about in half. My guess is that they'll try to grow their volumes a bit more and transition at their convenience.
Actually, it doesn't reflect well on intel architecture. I'm sure everyone by now knows that AMD processors run faster and are not as hot. Apple's switch had more to do with Intel agreeing to do other work on things like chipsets and board design than processors, IMO. Otherwise, why would Apple have chosen Intel as their supplier?
Thats essentially correct, but it isn't really done because they don't want to show an 80M loss on the balance sheet...its because it is a "balance sheet" and obviously things must balance. If I pay $100 million for your company, then obviously it is worth $100 million. So I need to record $100M of assets. Since there are specific depreciation rules for things like physical assets and other rules for things like contracts and whatnot, I record those as I normally would. But you have to record the premium over book value somehow, because otherwise the transaction doesn't balance and your accounting system breaks down. And that is where good will comes from. It is the plug that makes the transaction balance. Now in theory you should eventually depreciate your goodwill as well, though that is a very complicated subject in accounting terms because the period of time isn't obvious at all.
Maybe subsribers should be allowed to edit and post alternate text for stories, which can then be moderated by other subscribers. If a certain threshold is hit, the change is assumed to be good and is automatically used on the main-page posting. That way the editing will get done by your users since you've decided it isn't worth the time to do by the paid staff.
And one of the big costs of this is the heat and power issue. SRAM cells are densely packed and generate a lot of heat.
What people need to realize is that overcompensating for poor design is not a good thing. A large cache isn't necessarily a good thing just like a fast frequency isn't, and just like having hyperthreading isn't.
Damn, my homeowner's insurance deductible is 1% of my purchase price....games sure are getting expensive!!
I've actually heard that in Japan garbage disposals are illegal because it takes too much water and additional wastewater processing to handle the food (as opposed to trash...which is also a problem for Japan, they incinerate almost everything because there isn't space for landfills). I also seem to recall that disposals are not permitted in NYC because the sewer system is old and couldn't handle the additional solid waste there.
Given the kiss of death that is AO, I've always wondered why they don't invent a higher level of baddness so that AO games are more legitimate. So you have M, AO, and Seriously Fucking Sick. Hopefully retailers will then ban the SFS rating to appear like they actually care about something besides profit and sell the AO games.
If they're really worried about this, only do face donations from people also donating everything else. After all, if you'll donate a relatives face you'll probably be cool with giving all their other organs too.
Actually, I read about them considering doing this a few months back. Apparently your face looks like your face mostly due to the particular's of your underlying bones...so if you get a face transplant you actually look pretty much like you did before. Obviously some details are different...lips, etc. But its just skin, your face is still your face regardless of whose skin is on top of it.
In general I am pleased to see this. Sometimes medicine is a bit too concerned with keeping people alive at any cost.
What I haven't yet seen is anyone who actually seem to have tried it out and seen what they think. Fortunately this is probably because all the asshats have posted first, and the actual people that are trying it will post 20-30 mins later as they've listened to a few songs. But jesus, its like watching a train wreck here so far.
So while these OSs require 64-bit capable processors, it has no impact on your software assuming the software doesn't include a driver.