They cant win by competing because Microsoft is a giant slow moving behemoth
They already lost an anti-trust case in the past
Patent trolling is their last desperate hope before they go extinct
I hated Diablo 2, the story was too far fetched and over complicated compared to the original
The first Diablo was perfect and Diablo games are only going to get more and more messed up as they keep tacking on more junk
If youre running a stand only data center Unix would be great
But some computing environments requires Windows Server for things like RIS / Active Directory / Group policy updates
Unless there is some way for a Linux server to push Windows updates to Windows PCs that I have never heard of
Thats the dumbest patent Ive ever seen
Its basically formating a document with pointers or some database-type garbage, who in their right mind would ever use it
Graphics rendering has the same exact problems
It's an n^2 problem to do raytracing each light has to cast a ray to each object
you can apply the techiquies to make ray tracing faster, like space partition, limits on how many rays, and making computaiton parallel
these concepts also work when mmo players interact
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I mean buying domain names for much more than what they are worth worth? I havent visited sun.com in like ever.. nor will i ever
They cant win by competing because Microsoft is a giant slow moving behemoth They already lost an anti-trust case in the past Patent trolling is their last desperate hope before they go extinct
I hated Diablo 2, the story was too far fetched and over complicated compared to the original The first Diablo was perfect and Diablo games are only going to get more and more messed up as they keep tacking on more junk
If youre running a stand only data center Unix would be great But some computing environments requires Windows Server for things like RIS / Active Directory / Group policy updates Unless there is some way for a Linux server to push Windows updates to Windows PCs that I have never heard of
Because chewing gum versus operating systems/jet planes are totally apt comparisons, sounds like salesperson non-sense
Sure ill get right on that and ask my boss to install Linux on 500000 PCs
Until the day I dont see the windows logo every time I boot my PC, then I will consider Microsoft dead I dont see that happening in many years
Thats the dumbest patent Ive ever seen Its basically formating a document with pointers or some database-type garbage, who in their right mind would ever use it
Graphics rendering has the same exact problems It's an n^2 problem to do raytracing each light has to cast a ray to each object you can apply the techiquies to make ray tracing faster, like space partition, limits on how many rays, and making computaiton parallel these concepts also work when mmo players interact