Well, I think a huge problem denotes something that engineers are working around the clock to fix. Transistor leakage has always been a technical issue, and obviously as you get smaller processes it's more of a problem. But to think that Transmeta is going to able to revive its company on it is a little optimistic.
hey're still working on putting out a chip based on LongRun2 [transmeta.com], which reduces transistor leakage [semiconduc...ossary.com]. This is very important for cutting power consumption
So once again they're trying to solve problems that aren't serious enough for anyone else to care. Nobody has really cared that much about power consumption. No, they really haven't.
And transistor leakage may be a problem down the road, but honestly Intel or AMD will be in a much better position to address the problem because they have a hell of a lot more expertise than TM.
You're kind of ignorant here. Technology is a lot more important than sheer numbers, and who the hell cares if someone has a club if you're in a bomber 50,000 feet above them? Just look at the past, China has always had a population advantage and that didn't keep Japan from just rolling over Manchuria, or the various Western powers from grabbing whatever cities they felt like.
The question is "Who should handle the funds, not who should recieve them."
Obviously, I should receive them. But maybe I should disburse them too, that way we can cut out the middleman.
The best option for handling them is someone who is financially secure, has the proper legal ability to act as trustee, and no personal interest in their own project over another.
I guarantee I have no interest in placing one project over another. All come a distant second to my relocation to Bali project.
I suspect that an increase in patents on game software features might promote innovation in games, since it might be harder to just spit out yet another first-person shooter without getting sued.
I just patented WW2 FPSes. Nobody's allowed to make any more. No, I will not license the patent out.
They also show a certain social apathy, not showing appropriate interests in other people.
But still expecting other people to show interest in them. That's what's really annoying about people with it, they're kind of hardwired to be hypocritical. At least with a schizoid guy, he doesn't give a damn about you, but he doesn't care if you don't give a damn about him.
how nobody spends their money in ways that could help others. Microsoft alone could solve the world's hunger problems. They could cure all the curable diseases. They could save the 33,000 kids that are dying every day because they're hungry.
Okay, okay, we all know MS doesn't give a flying piece of bird crap about people, no matter who they are. But still, it's really sick to see some of the things on which they spend their money...
Bill Gates has personally spent more on charity than everyone who reads slashdot combined. He spent $28 billion endowing his foundation, and they do a lot of good work in, for example, third world health issues.
Whatever Bill Gates' flaws, and he has a lot, he has been very generous with his money.
Anyway, I'd like to see games made out of stories that don't exactly sound like gaming material. The classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber would make a unique game.
Ooh, could it drag on interminably like the book?
Another idea of mine is a game based upon the Phantom of the Opera, which seems to have been adapted into just about every entertainment medium except for videogames (yes, there was even a pinball table).
Actually Microprose (I think it was them) had a phantom game.
You're throwing in weird distinctions that make no sense. You're saying that because Microsoft doesn't pay federal taxes and its employees don't pay state income taxes then the company provides no revenue to any branch of government?
Let's break it down:
Microsoft pays state taxes, both income and state property taxes.
Microsoft sells a lot of products in 50 states. Those states will get the sales tax from the purchases.
Their employees pay federal income tax, payroll taxes, state property taxes, and state sales tax (which Washington does have).
Not all their employees live in Washington. Those in other states will pay any state income taxes there.
The government also gets to charge Microsoft's stockholders for dividend payouts. Plus export fees for things sent overseas.
it doesn't seem too improbable that the MPAA purposely leaked the print just so they could make a big deal about it.
Actually, it's very improbable. The slight benefit they'd gain from having the ROTS leak as lobbying ammo would be minute, and far outweighed by the damage that would occur if they were caught doing it.
These guys are basically corporate types. They tend not to care about the issue as much as all you reading this do. They do their job, then they go home. It just wouldn't be worth the hassle for them to come up with convoluted plans like that.
Yes it would be really cold in the nighttime and really hot in the day, but I am from Minnesota, kinda use to that.
Would you be able to handle the crushing loneliness, the bleak emptiness, and the lack of human culture? Oh wait, right, Minnesota, you probably would...
You know, I kind of wish it did come out and was just a phenomenal platform, just to see slashdotters' response. Though the people who trashed the Xbox didn't really say much after it came out and turned to be a decent system...
Yes, I know this is different, yes I'm aware that Infinium is a very dodgy company and the chances of a working living breathing console coming from them are very very remote.
BUT. In SEC filings companies are required by law to give worst-case scenarios for their business. The original article was somewhat dishonest in portraying this as anything major regarding the Phantom. It doesn't matter how successful the company, if they're registering with the SEC they will have to say things that can go wrong.
When will slashdotters stop assuming every piece of legislation is passed quickly and thoughtlessly?
I think it's the right decision, if the VoIP companies are advertising themselves as phone service replacements maybe they should actually be made to comply with their advertising.
I don't know, it's not just Microsoft, every other company that tried a sort of webtv kind of device has failed dismally. If this is really their strategy I think they're going to die on the market.
Which is a shame; I LIKE the Xbox, it's one of the only things that Microsoft has done right.
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Well, I think a huge problem denotes something that engineers are working around the clock to fix. Transistor leakage has always been a technical issue, and obviously as you get smaller processes it's more of a problem. But to think that Transmeta is going to able to revive its company on it is a little optimistic.
hey're still working on putting out a chip based on LongRun2 [transmeta.com], which reduces transistor leakage [semiconduc...ossary.com]. This is very important for cutting power consumption
So once again they're trying to solve problems that aren't serious enough for anyone else to care. Nobody has really cared that much about power consumption. No, they really haven't.
And transistor leakage may be a problem down the road, but honestly Intel or AMD will be in a much better position to address the problem because they have a hell of a lot more expertise than TM.
You're kind of ignorant here. Technology is a lot more important than sheer numbers, and who the hell cares if someone has a club if you're in a bomber 50,000 feet above them? Just look at the past, China has always had a population advantage and that didn't keep Japan from just rolling over Manchuria, or the various Western powers from grabbing whatever cities they felt like.
Invasion, partition, and occupation would probably do it. No, not a good idea, just saying it's not really inevitable.
The question is "Who should handle the funds, not who should recieve them."
Obviously, I should receive them. But maybe I should disburse them too, that way we can cut out the middleman.
The best option for handling them is someone who is financially secure, has the proper legal ability to act as trustee, and no personal interest in their own project over another.
I guarantee I have no interest in placing one project over another. All come a distant second to my relocation to Bali project.
I remember playing simcity as a lab assignment in a college economic geography course. And this was years and years ago.
This is the most exciting news regarding third party manufacture I've seen all day. I think I'm going to have to go lie down.
(In addition, kids can be very lazy, particularly when they are unmotivated).
Why SHOULD they be motivated? They're being forced to do it.
I suspect that an increase in patents on game software features might promote innovation in games, since it might be harder to just spit out yet another first-person shooter without getting sued.
I just patented WW2 FPSes. Nobody's allowed to make any more. No, I will not license the patent out.
They also show a certain social apathy, not showing appropriate interests in other people.
But still expecting other people to show interest in them. That's what's really annoying about people with it, they're kind of hardwired to be hypocritical. At least with a schizoid guy, he doesn't give a damn about you, but he doesn't care if you don't give a damn about him.
how nobody spends their money in ways that could help others. Microsoft alone could solve the world's hunger problems. They could cure all the curable diseases. They could save the 33,000 kids that are dying every day because they're hungry.
Okay, okay, we all know MS doesn't give a flying piece of bird crap about people, no matter who they are. But still, it's really sick to see some of the things on which they spend their money...
Bill Gates has personally spent more on charity than everyone who reads slashdot combined. He spent $28 billion endowing his foundation, and they do a lot of good work in, for example, third world health issues.
Whatever Bill Gates' flaws, and he has a lot, he has been very generous with his money.
Anyway, I'd like to see games made out of stories that don't exactly sound like gaming material. The classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber would make a unique game.
Ooh, could it drag on interminably like the book?
Another idea of mine is a game based upon the Phantom of the Opera, which seems to have been adapted into just about every entertainment medium except for videogames (yes, there was even a pinball table).
Actually Microprose (I think it was them) had a phantom game.
You're throwing in weird distinctions that make no sense. You're saying that because Microsoft doesn't pay federal taxes and its employees don't pay state income taxes then the company provides no revenue to any branch of government?
Let's break it down:
Microsoft pays state taxes, both income and state property taxes.
Microsoft sells a lot of products in 50 states. Those states will get the sales tax from the purchases.
Their employees pay federal income tax, payroll taxes, state property taxes, and state sales tax (which Washington does have).
Not all their employees live in Washington. Those in other states will pay any state income taxes there.
The government also gets to charge Microsoft's stockholders for dividend payouts. Plus export fees for things sent overseas.
They pay state taxes, then, huh? And their employees pay income taxes, right? His point is still valid.
If so you're a schmuck!
But...but...would a schmuck be posting on slashdot? SLASHDOT?
it doesn't seem too improbable that the MPAA purposely leaked the print just so they could make a big deal about it.
Actually, it's very improbable. The slight benefit they'd gain from having the ROTS leak as lobbying ammo would be minute, and far outweighed by the damage that would occur if they were caught doing it.
These guys are basically corporate types. They tend not to care about the issue as much as all you reading this do. They do their job, then they go home. It just wouldn't be worth the hassle for them to come up with convoluted plans like that.
Give me a beachside cottage in Bali, two beautiful female promiscuous lab assistants, 500 bottles of tequila, and I WILL FIND THE ANSWER.
P.S. I am not a crank.
Yes it would be really cold in the nighttime and really hot in the day, but I am from Minnesota, kinda use to that.
Would you be able to handle the crushing loneliness, the bleak emptiness, and the lack of human culture? Oh wait, right, Minnesota, you probably would...
You know, I kind of wish it did come out and was just a phenomenal platform, just to see slashdotters' response. Though the people who trashed the Xbox didn't really say much after it came out and turned to be a decent system...
Yes, I know this is different, yes I'm aware that Infinium is a very dodgy company and the chances of a working living breathing console coming from them are very very remote.
BUT. In SEC filings companies are required by law to give worst-case scenarios for their business. The original article was somewhat dishonest in portraying this as anything major regarding the Phantom. It doesn't matter how successful the company, if they're registering with the SEC they will have to say things that can go wrong.
When will slashdotters stop assuming every piece of legislation is passed quickly and thoughtlessly?
I think it's the right decision, if the VoIP companies are advertising themselves as phone service replacements maybe they should actually be made to comply with their advertising.
Most of the software I buy is games. There are open source and free software alternatives to commercial games but they tend to suck.
Did you hear about the special edition of Raiders of the Lost Ark? The guy with the scimitar shoots first.
I don't know, it's not just Microsoft, every other company that tried a sort of webtv kind of device has failed dismally. If this is really their strategy I think they're going to die on the market.
Which is a shame; I LIKE the Xbox, it's one of the only things that Microsoft has done right.
Odd, I can run every DOS program I've tried on Windows XP.
I did. Well actually watched the first episode, and was sufficiently unimpressed so as not to watch any more.