Because Intel was willing to charge say $200 for a chip that had those capabilities, but won't let you make full use of the chip without paying extra for the privilege of using the full capacity of the chip.
Intel sold you the processor for $200 and it happens to be the same chip as the one that costs say $300.
I'd say that it's a scam and that the DoJ ought to come down hard on them.
Because Intel was willing to charge say $200 for a chip that had those capabilities, but won't let you make full use of the chip without paying extra for the privilege of using the full capacity of the chip.
Intel sold you the processor for $200 and it happens to be the same chip as the one that costs say $300.
I'd say that it's a scam and that the DoJ ought to come down hard on them.
Basically Intel is offering a supported method of overclocking here. So long as they aren't claiming that overclocking on your own is a DMCA violation or something and threaten to sue anyone that dares to overclock in an unapproved manner into oblivion I don't have a problem with it. For a system builder it would be great, you could offer several different models at different price points and would only have to stock a single CPU.
doing things such as: reading books on relationships
Whilst some things can be learned from books (law being a reasonable example), and many things can be improved through learning from books, I'm not wholly convinced that one can become an expert on relationships by reading books about relationships - it strikes me as a field in which expertise would require actual, real world experience?
Why is it that most of the books on relationships have been written by people who have been divorced multiple times?
Samsung: not jerks, make good products (possibly not as good as Apple but still pretty good) Successful
Motorola; Jerks, Make OK hardware sometimes but cripple it with DRM and sucky software. Getting lunch eaten by Apple, Samsung, HTC, LG, and others.
My guess that being jerks might be a contributing factor to Motorolla's failures but having sucky products (and having sucky software on the occasion when their hardware doesn't suck) is the main reason they are doing so poorly.
"If anything, the list raises serious doubts that the PROTECT IP Act will even put a dent on copyright infringement online"
Let's be honest here... I doubt even the asshats who wrote the legislation thought it would do that. At best its real purpose is to create a mechanism the government can use to shut down websites.
=Smidge=
DHS/ICE seems to be doing fine even without PROTECT-IP
Precisely. Because piloting a small RC aircraft for fun is entirely safe. Piloting one for commercial gain turns them into unstoppable killing machines.
It's derived from experimental Soviet era jet fighter technology, so you have to think 'Stop' in Russian. But I hear Clint Eastwood is getting one installed in his car.
(If you don't get it search for 'Firefox' on imdb.com)
Well, you can always cancel your service. You might even be able to get out of the cancellation fee since they broke the contract. But then again, that's exactly what they want you to do. They don't want anyone to keep the unlimited plan.
Well, you can always cancel your service. You might even be able to get out of the cancellation fee since they broke the contract. But then again, that's exactly what they want you to do. They don't want anyone to keep the unlimited plan.
Sprint still has unlimited plans, at least for now.
you may skip the prevention and, if lucky enough, you may succeed;
That sure worked out well for BP
Because BP is all about software.
*context*, it's all about context ! People are talking about software here.
Really, is there any difference between writing code and building an oil rig? When you have the capacity to Royally F*$& things up you had better not cut corners.
Yes there is. Plenty actually.
Remind me not to hire you for any software project. At least not for anything important.
you may skip the prevention and, if lucky enough, you may succeed;
That sure worked out well for BP
Because BP is all about software.
*context*, it's all about context ! People are talking about software here.
Really, is there any difference between writing code and building an oil rig? When you have the capacity to Royally F*$& things up you had better not cut corners.
Ideally, we want companies like MS to make money from the
success of free software. The more they do so, the more they will understand
the opportunities they are missing. The more they rely on our success, the
more everyone benefits.
I disagree. MS isn't some company building physical widgets who could benefit from a better set of IT tools, MS is a company whose primary purpose is to wall off a part of the IT universe and make it accessible only against payment. That's a pretty strong antimatter to the FSF's matter or vice versa. Suppose the free software ecosystem helps MS to make money, then what? That money is just going to go into expanding their walled garden. It's basically shooting ourselves in the foot.
My guess is that a significant number of enterprise customers have requested that Hyper-V play nice with Linux under threat of migration to VMware (or VMware customers who were considering migrating to Hyper-V but would not with the current level of Linux support)
She wasn't arrested for refusing to allow the screening, she was [...]"belligerent and verbally abusive to security officers"[...]"After the woman refused to calm down, airport police said, she was charged with disorderly conduct and taken to jail"
Short version, she got her knickers in a twist and threw a hissy-fit without even a modest attempt at politely refusing. I'd be right behind someone with calm and rational objections, but immediately going on the offensive hardly qualifies.
I think she showed a great deal of restraint. If it were me I may have been arrested for assault.
Yeah, I mean you have to buy yourself a 4 dollar screwdriver to unscrew it. OH THE HUMANITY!!!!!
Plus $25 (just a guess, too lazy to look it up) for overnight shipping. Waiting 5-7 days for a screwdriver isn't an option when you have a crashed hard drive.
"The solution is apparently for content providers to 'compete with piracy and get their content out there themselves as easily and as quickly and as cheaply as possible'"
I agree. Let me rent it online right after it's theater run, instead of waiting 3 to 5 months to wait for the DVD release!
We all know the torrents are available immediately in some cases....some of us don't mind paying if we are given the chance!
Baby steps here, there is no way that the movie companies would ever take that big of a leap of faith.
I'd be happy if they would make movies available for streaming on Netflix at the same time they are available on disk.
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Because Intel was willing to charge say $200 for a chip that had those capabilities, but won't let you make full use of the chip without paying extra for the privilege of using the full capacity of the chip.
Intel sold you the processor for $200 and it happens to be the same chip as the one that costs say $300.
I'd say that it's a scam and that the DoJ ought to come down hard on them.
Because Intel was willing to charge say $200 for a chip that had those capabilities, but won't let you make full use of the chip without paying extra for the privilege of using the full capacity of the chip.
Intel sold you the processor for $200 and it happens to be the same chip as the one that costs say $300.
I'd say that it's a scam and that the DoJ ought to come down hard on them.
Basically Intel is offering a supported method of overclocking here. So long as they aren't claiming that overclocking on your own is a DMCA violation or something and threaten to sue anyone that dares to overclock in an unapproved manner into oblivion I don't have a problem with it. For a system builder it would be great, you could offer several different models at different price points and would only have to stock a single CPU.
doing things such as: reading books on relationships
Whilst some things can be learned from books (law being a reasonable example), and many things can be improved through learning from books, I'm not wholly convinced that one can become an expert on relationships by reading books about relationships - it strikes me as a field in which expertise would require actual, real world experience?
Why is it that most of the books on relationships have been written by people who have been divorced multiple times?
I entered all my info and now all it ever responds with is "Outlook not so good" every time I ask it for advice on improving my love life.
Are you sure you didn't acidentially go to the Magic 8 Ball site instead?
Wait, isn't homeland security currently in charge of defining evil? Or was that outsourced to Fox News?
They both are, different departments.
Apple: jerks but make good proudcts. Successful.
Samsung: not jerks, make good products (possibly not as good as Apple but still pretty good) Successful
Motorola; Jerks, Make OK hardware sometimes but cripple it with DRM and sucky software. Getting lunch eaten by Apple, Samsung, HTC, LG, and others.
My guess that being jerks might be a contributing factor to Motorolla's failures but having sucky products (and having sucky software on the occasion when their hardware doesn't suck) is the main reason they are doing so poorly.
The unabomber used wooden boxes If was a scanner after seeing some like that would tell some one that I have some thing that looks like a bomb.
TSA Training Lession 1: If it's not a flag, it's a bomb.
"If anything, the list raises serious doubts that the PROTECT IP Act will even put a dent on copyright infringement online"
Let's be honest here... I doubt even the asshats who wrote the legislation thought it would do that. At best its real purpose is to create a mechanism the government can use to shut down websites. =Smidge=
DHS/ICE seems to be doing fine even without PROTECT-IP
Precisely. Because piloting a small RC aircraft for fun is entirely safe. Piloting one for commercial gain turns them into unstoppable killing machines.
Next on FOX; "When Drones Attack"
A low-budget remake of "The Maltese Falcon" perhaps?
But, but, but... Piracy!
No, I mean Child Molesters and Terrorists! Think of the children!
this message brought to you by the MPAA, RIAA, and BSA.
It's derived from experimental Soviet era jet fighter technology, so you have to think 'Stop' in Russian. But I hear Clint Eastwood is getting one installed in his car.
(If you don't get it search for 'Firefox' on imdb.com)
Well, you can always cancel your service. You might even be able to get out of the cancellation fee since they broke the contract. But then again, that's exactly what they want you to do. They don't want anyone to keep the unlimited plan.
Well, you can always cancel your service. You might even be able to get out of the cancellation fee since they broke the contract. But then again, that's exactly what they want you to do. They don't want anyone to keep the unlimited plan.
Sprint still has unlimited plans, at least for now.
McCain is a moderate republican. We don't have many of those out there any more...
Moderate Republicans aren't hard to find, however most of them call themselves 'Democrats'.
you may skip the prevention and, if lucky enough, you may succeed;
That sure worked out well for BP
Because BP is all about software. *context*, it's all about context ! People are talking about software here.
Really, is there any difference between writing code and building an oil rig? When you have the capacity to Royally F*$& things up you had better not cut corners.
Yes there is. Plenty actually.
Remind me not to hire you for any software project. At least not for anything important.
you may skip the prevention and, if lucky enough, you may succeed;
That sure worked out well for BP
Because BP is all about software. *context*, it's all about context ! People are talking about software here.
Really, is there any difference between writing code and building an oil rig? When you have the capacity to Royally F*$& things up you had better not cut corners.
you may skip the prevention and, if lucky enough, you may succeed;
That sure worked out well for BP
Oh, yeah - nothing makes you look more incompetent than having your project be ahead of schedule.
I take it you've never worked in the Government sector? On time/under budget is the last thing you want because next year's budget will be cut.
I disagree. MS isn't some company building physical widgets who could benefit from a better set of IT tools, MS is a company whose primary purpose is to wall off a part of the IT universe and make it accessible only against payment. That's a pretty strong antimatter to the FSF's matter or vice versa. Suppose the free software ecosystem helps MS to make money, then what? That money is just going to go into expanding their walled garden. It's basically shooting ourselves in the foot.
My guess is that a significant number of enterprise customers have requested that Hyper-V play nice with Linux under threat of migration to VMware (or VMware customers who were considering migrating to Hyper-V but would not with the current level of Linux support)
Or, could be that she's a self-entitled prat.
She wasn't arrested for refusing to allow the screening, she was [...]"belligerent and verbally abusive to security officers"[...]"After the woman refused to calm down, airport police said, she was charged with disorderly conduct and taken to jail"
Short version, she got her knickers in a twist and threw a hissy-fit without even a modest attempt at politely refusing. I'd be right behind someone with calm and rational objections, but immediately going on the offensive hardly qualifies.
I think she showed a great deal of restraint. If it were me I may have been arrested for assault.
Its not the PC police.
The game is still sold as as "Snakes and Ladders" in many places from other vendors, even in the US.
Its "Chutes and Ladders" to many because that's what Milton Bradley called his version when he "introduced" the game to the United States in the 40s.
I expect it was probably done for copyright and / trademark / marketing reasons not PC reasons.
They probably thought that a game without 'snakes' in the title would sell better.
the real money comes from doing it wrong
The longer I stay in the software industry the more this fact depresses me.
If I were a little better at programming and were a LOT less honest I could get stinking rich writing enterprise software.
I take that back, my programming skills, though weak, are better than a lot of the enterprise software developers I've encountered.
Yeah, I mean you have to buy yourself a 4 dollar screwdriver to unscrew it. OH THE HUMANITY!!!!!
Plus $25 (just a guess, too lazy to look it up) for overnight shipping. Waiting 5-7 days for a screwdriver isn't an option when you have a crashed hard drive.
How many customers will they be forced to ban before they realize how much this hurts them and helps their competition?
What is this competition that you speak of?
"The solution is apparently for content providers to 'compete with piracy and get their content out there themselves as easily and as quickly and as cheaply as possible'" I agree. Let me rent it online right after it's theater run, instead of waiting 3 to 5 months to wait for the DVD release! We all know the torrents are available immediately in some cases....some of us don't mind paying if we are given the chance!
Baby steps here, there is no way that the movie companies would ever take that big of a leap of faith. I'd be happy if they would make movies available for streaming on Netflix at the same time they are available on disk.
I've never used their service, but I do know that I refuse to support any business whose advertising is as dumb and pandering as theirs.
I take it you aren't a beer drinker.