How would you feel if something you'd spent 6-months of your life creating was being given away free?
See Linux. Ten years free, and still going strong.
What if someone (i.e. Microsoft) downloaded Linux for free, then included parts of it in the next version of Windows, violating the GPL? Do you believe that only certain Copyrights should should be enforced?
"The Game Boy Advance is turning the handheld unit on its side -- for the first time, Nintendo is using a horizontal alignment for its handheld game. The screen is in the middle of the device, with the A and B buttons on the right side of its face and the start and select buttons on the left side. This design is similar to Nintendo's competitors and was first used on the now-obsolete Atari Lynx in 1989."
My Celeron has been running with a 100mhz bus for several years. (Celeron300A OCed to 450) The Celerons have been capable of the 100mhz bus for a long time, but Intel has purposely crippled them for marketing reasons. Bad Move.
MS has done the same thing sort of. They used to include only notepad in their OS. Now they include notepad and Wordpad. Why not get rid of notepad? Choices!
You forgot EDIT, the best text editor that comes with Windows. Notepad and Wordpad suck when compared to Edit.
Since you'd assume that at any time about 1/2 of your bits are up or down, then there wouldn't be too much cumulative effect.
Future virus:
11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1111111111111111111111......
Alaska, Hawaii, and Wyoming are ignored not because they are small, but because they lean heavily to one party--Alaska and Wyoming are heavily Republican, and Hawaii is heavily democrat. No amount of campaigning will change that.
Which is exactly why the Electorial College is not perfect.
When a state leans heavily to one party, it is a waste for the other party to campaign there. The original poster said "Small states and areas with low population density are not ignored". My homestate of Georgia was ignored. Texas was ignored. The E.C. focuses the campaigning to the states where the E.V. is up for grabs. Why should the residents of Texas (and other states) be ignored because the Electorial Vote in that state is a forgone conclusion?
In a Popular Vote election, Gore might campaign in Texas, hoping to gain 500k votes (while having no shot at the Texas Electorial Vote).
* Small states and areas with low population density are not ignored
I'll disagree with you there. How many times did a candidate campaign in Alaska, Hawaii or Wyoming? A state has 3 out of 540 EV's or 600k out of 100 million voters, either way, the state is not that important in the overall scheme.
Also, the Electorial College made my vote useless in Georgia. As predicted, Bush won by some 400k votes. My vote actually made more difference in the nationwide tally (200k difference).
Many people use the same username/password on every system they use. A hacker who gained access to these files could try to login as you at ecommerce sites. Instead of changing your/. password, you should be changing your password on your other systems.
You should use different passwords on different accounts, just like passwords should not be stored in plaintext. Sometimes it just doesn't happen.
Neural Implant Decoders (NID)... Encrypted music is played through your speakers. Only the people who have the NID implanted on the nerve from the eardrum to the brain will be able to understand the music.
And don't even think of trying to break the super-secret encryption (XOR) that I have patented.
Look at their stockprice and earnings for the last year or so. Where is the Voodoo5-6000 that was announce last year and still doesn't have a release date?
And their next-gen card, code name RAMPAGE, has been in development for 3.5 years and $50mill R&D, and it doesn't have a release date.
Sounds like the only freedom that the BSD license provides over that of the GPL is the ability to keep good ideas to yourself when you ship your closed-source product.
BSD gives you freedom from all the annoying license incompatibilities caused by the GPL. If all software was GPL, there would be no license problems. This is the goal of the viral nature of the GPL
Erm, but RAMBUS's patents (the ones in question) are INVALID.
As far as the law and courtrooms are concerned, the patents are valid until they can be proven otherwise. Micron may very well get the patents overturned, but until they do, rambus has every right to defend them.
It's pretty clear that microsoft has broken certain laws
It's also pretty clear that NEC (and others) have broken certain laws by infringing on the rambus patents. NEC has come to terms with rambus instead of letting the courts handle this.
Okeys, I've read the article. Yes, some people could get upset. But I understand economics and can understand the desire for Amazon to make money. Plus this might result in lower prices for me.
Amazon's experiment may show that a lower price will result in many more sales and a bigger total profit. Or conversly, Amazon may find out that most DVD shoppers are not price-sensitive, and raise the price to make more profit.
For me, it is a win-win situation. If Amazon has a lower price, I save money. If Amazon has a higher price, I'll buy from somewhere else cheaper. I typically use some kind of price comparison tool before I purchase. Only an idiot would make a purchase for one price and get mad when they found out they could have bought it cheaper somewhere else.
Your example quote shows exactly why this is a Good Idea for companies. Most companies are in business to make money. This sounds like the perfect tool for companies.
Necromancers can't solo dragons or anything close. Necros used to take advantage of certain areas where they could charm an undead to do their fighting while they feigned death. This has been fixed. Necros still are powerful, but not anything like you stated.
Verant didn't choose to put in Hell Levels. Some of the parameters in the Exp-needed formula get changed every five levels to require more experience at higher levels. As a side effect, this caused a big jump in the needed experience for the hell levels. Yes, it should have been a continuous curve, but the hell levels were not done on purpose.
Enemies attacking through a stonewall is not a bug. This is a design choice made by Verant. Early in the beta, monsters couldn't attack thru walls, but players were exploiting this by shooting thru windows and such. Instead of designing a proper pathing alog, Verant just let the monsters walk thru walls.
A bug is when a program doesn't work as it intended to work. The designers/programmers have explicitly chosen to allow monsters to walk thru walls. Call it a bad design choice, but not a bug.
IIRC, Tom's Hardware already did this in their first review of the chip. His review chip worked the best on a special Intel motherboard, with only a few failures. The chip had serious problems on other standard motherboards. Once he underclocked the chip (800mhz?) it worked perfectly on all motherboards.
It was speculated that Intel's special mb purposely underperformed to keep the chip from crashing due to the overclocking.
The product of two odd numbers will be an odd number. Adding 1 will always result in an even number, divisible by 2.
The most interesting "pattern" is the Prime Spiral. Get a sheet of graph paper. Write a "1" in the center square. Go one square to the right and write a "2". Move down and write "3". Continue in a clockwise pattern incrementing each number by one until you get to 100-200. Now circle all the prime numbers and you will see an interesting pattern. (or better yet, search for prime spiral on Google and see someone else do the hard work)
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See Linux. Ten years free, and still going strong.
What if someone (i.e. Microsoft) downloaded Linux for free, then included parts of it in the next version of Windows, violating the GPL? Do you believe that only certain Copyrights should should be enforced?
Did you think that only MS participates in FUD? /. loves to promote FUD about MS and/or your privacy.
"The Game Boy Advance is turning the handheld unit on its side -- for the first time, Nintendo is using a horizontal alignment for its handheld game. The screen is in the middle of the device, with the A and B buttons on the right side of its face and the start and select buttons on the left side. This design is similar to Nintendo's competitors and was first used on the now-obsolete Atari Lynx in 1989."
My Celeron has been running with a 100mhz bus for several years. (Celeron300A OCed to 450) The Celerons have been capable of the 100mhz bus for a long time, but Intel has purposely crippled them for marketing reasons. Bad Move.
You forgot EDIT, the best text editor that comes with Windows. Notepad and Wordpad suck when compared to Edit.
Since you'd assume that at any time about 1/2 of your bits are up or down, then there wouldn't be too much cumulative effect. Future virus: 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1111111111111111111111......
Would you compare a Porshe against 5 Escorts?
Which is exactly why the Electorial College is not perfect.
When a state leans heavily to one party, it is a waste for the other party to campaign there. The original poster said "Small states and areas with low population density are not ignored". My homestate of Georgia was ignored. Texas was ignored. The E.C. focuses the campaigning to the states where the E.V. is up for grabs. Why should the residents of Texas (and other states) be ignored because the Electorial Vote in that state is a forgone conclusion?
In a Popular Vote election, Gore might campaign in Texas, hoping to gain 500k votes (while having no shot at the Texas Electorial Vote).
I'll disagree with you there. How many times did a candidate campaign in Alaska, Hawaii or Wyoming? A state has 3 out of 540 EV's or 600k out of 100 million voters, either way, the state is not that important in the overall scheme.
Also, the Electorial College made my vote useless in Georgia. As predicted, Bush won by some 400k votes. My vote actually made more difference in the nationwide tally (200k difference).
You should use different passwords on different accounts, just like passwords should not be stored in plaintext. Sometimes it just doesn't happen.
And don't even think of trying to break the super-secret encryption (XOR) that I have patented.
Look at their stockprice and earnings for the last year or so. Where is the Voodoo5-6000 that was announce last year and still doesn't have a release date?
And their next-gen card, code name RAMPAGE, has been in development for 3.5 years and $50mill R&D, and it doesn't have a release date.
BSD gives you freedom from all the annoying license incompatibilities caused by the GPL. If all software was GPL, there would be no license problems. This is the goal of the viral nature of the GPL
based on a core that is GPLd
Now I'm suprised no one yet has asked if it can run Linux. Hoe about getting 20 of these and run a Beowolf cluster?
As far as the law and courtrooms are concerned, the patents are valid until they can be proven otherwise. Micron may very well get the patents overturned, but until they do, rambus has every right to defend them.
It's also pretty clear that NEC (and others) have broken certain laws by infringing on the rambus patents. NEC has come to terms with rambus instead of letting the courts handle this.
and you just create another IP address whenever you need one also?
You mean like this???
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Amazon's experiment may show that a lower price will result in many more sales and a bigger total profit. Or conversly, Amazon may find out that most DVD shoppers are not price-sensitive, and raise the price to make more profit.
For me, it is a win-win situation. If Amazon has a lower price, I save money. If Amazon has a higher price, I'll buy from somewhere else cheaper. I typically use some kind of price comparison tool before I purchase. Only an idiot would make a purchase for one price and get mad when they found out they could have bought it cheaper somewhere else.
If you don't like it, then shop elsewhere.
This is standard practice for many businesses. Banks offer bonuses for new accounts, magazines give teaser subscription rates to new subscribers.
Do you also blame people for putting locks on their doors?
Necromancers can't solo dragons or anything close. Necros used to take advantage of certain areas where they could charm an undead to do their fighting while they feigned death. This has been fixed. Necros still are powerful, but not anything like you stated.
Verant didn't choose to put in Hell Levels. Some of the parameters in the Exp-needed formula get changed every five levels to require more experience at higher levels. As a side effect, this caused a big jump in the needed experience for the hell levels. Yes, it should have been a continuous curve, but the hell levels were not done on purpose.
Enemies attacking through a stonewall is not a bug. This is a design choice made by Verant. Early in the beta, monsters couldn't attack thru walls, but players were exploiting this by shooting thru windows and such. Instead of designing a proper pathing alog, Verant just let the monsters walk thru walls.
A bug is when a program doesn't work as it intended to work. The designers/programmers have explicitly chosen to allow monsters to walk thru walls. Call it a bad design choice, but not a bug.
It was speculated that Intel's special mb purposely underperformed to keep the chip from crashing due to the overclocking.
The most interesting "pattern" is the Prime Spiral. Get a sheet of graph paper. Write a "1" in the center square. Go one square to the right and write a "2". Move down and write "3". Continue in a clockwise pattern incrementing each number by one until you get to 100-200. Now circle all the prime numbers and you will see an interesting pattern. (or better yet, search for prime spiral on Google and see someone else do the hard work)