This assumes the patent office employees know jack about the patent's applicable field, that they actually take the time to properly research it, etc, etc..
But can intel pull that off? Their 600's are really OC'd 550's, running 0.05 (or is it 0.5?) V higher than normal:) and unstable as Taiwan from what I've heard:)
once you've written a product, you don't need to pay the programmers anymore (not true actually, bugfixes and all that - but the development cost for that version is almost fixed at the current amount at the time).
There is a fixed cost for production overall, plus a fixed cost per copy produced. If you sell enough of these products, at whatever price, to cover both of these fixed costs, AND pay your employees, bills, etc, then you are in the clear.
Having some extra is good - safety net for screwing up or source of cash for new projects.
After you've reached this point, only one form of software piracy can hurt you in any reasonable way - dilution of the market by fraudulant copies.
Those who wouldn't have paid full price anyways, have no effect on all this. Those who might have, but have now pirated the software, might have effect - but since we've already made enough dough, it doesn't matter more than increasing the bottom line. Also, their effect is almost nothing, because they didn't steal an ALREADY PRODUCED legit copy, they made a copy of one.
Therefore, no loss in the form of unpaid for units. Those units produced but not sold, do incur a loss, as their production cost is not directly recouped. This is usually handled by making sure your selling price is high enough you can absorb these occurances.
So we have say, 1,000,000 copies installed that were not paid for - if these one million copies were never physically produced, they create no loss. Therefore they can't count against the total revenue.
So... lesse.. somewhere I was going to mention that the average warez'er has no or almost no effect on the actual loss to piracy. Only where people who would have bought it if they couldn't warez, or those who wanted to buy the real thing but were sold an illegal copy, would affect the loss of income, but only as a loss in potential sales - if you produced enough units to serve them and they weren't sold as a consequence, you have a loss, but if you didn't produce enough for those you expected not to buy, then there is no loss except in potential, assuming they would have bought it from you and not the illegal copy from someone else pretending to offer a legal copy.
I hope this made sense..
I'm not sure, cause I'm not entirely awake and there's no caffeine sources around.. argh, grocery trip time!
"Should" in the sense that it's morally correct, is a sticky situation.
However since they are interested in money, if they decide that the backlash from gambling is too great, they might do it anyways to save themselves some money.
On the other hand, having a credit card could save you in the event that some emergency came along and you didn't have enough in the bank.
Of course, some (at least my) banks have "Overdraft Insurance" or something like that for debit cards, so for instance, with my bank, I can withdraw up to $100 over what I have in my checking account. They'll slap $25 on me for it plus however much I overdrew, but the transaction will go through, potentially saving my ass for the time being. A Credit Card has is more useful for emergency situations, in that you can slap a lot more deniro on one of them w/o paying right away. You still have to pay, plus interest, but once again, it could save you.
I think that while the credit card companies may not be exactly operating in their user's interests (more in their investor's intrests), they can still be useful. They get next to nothing for instance if you never put anything on the cards or at least pay up before it rolls over into next month (thus increasing their revenue from interest).
I myself just have a VISA checking card, from my bank.. I hope I never have to use that overdraft protection, but its there, which is good:)
Pretty soon everyone will read everyone else's package format, and then it won't matter. Pick a package format, then on whatever system type "install package" and whatever install is linked to (rpm, apt, whatever) does the work..
Someone hack out the 'G2' bus on that thing, and I'll design a Lan interface:) Of course, finding someone interested in manufacturering them would be another story alltogether:)
Looking at the Trisignal sight, it appears they have something called a T-Soft Modem, which might be (with some changes?) what the DC uses. the T-Soft Modem uses AT command set, as well as their own proprietary command set and comes w/ an API for porting stuff.. sounds like something the DC would use eh?
So could maybe make a small plugin to replace the modem that would have a Lan interface & uP that would interpret the AT commands and pretend to connect to an ISP so the DC would talk to the net.. and hence its game place..:)
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This assumes the patent office employees know jack about the patent's applicable field, that they actually take the time to properly research it, etc, etc..
chicken and egg...
Athlon always supported SMP, so to speak. But the chipset has to - as the CPU has nothing to do with it. Each CPU has its own bus..
*splooge*
Wrong again! HE said 640K! hehehe :)
Maybe he meant like "why'd the chicken cross the road?" :)
Actually, the PII/Celeron are more like P6 MMX, and the PIII is P6 MMX/KNI :)
If only the MoBo wasn't $200.. doh!
Hey! I was running a 4x86/133 AMD system, and overclocked it to 160 fine!!! (Gotta love motherboards with 40MHz as an option)
:)
If I ever get a peltier I might try for 200 (50MHz)... It would boot but lock up pretty fast, too much heat (had to crank the voltage a bit more)
But can intel pull that off? Their 600's are really OC'd 550's, running 0.05 (or is it 0.5?) V higher than normal :) and unstable as Taiwan from what I've heard :)
That's not a bug, it's a feature. :)
If you're gonna troll, at least make up your mind on which conspiracy to blame it on! :) Or do you mean its Wintel combined? hehe
Somehow, I don't think ZD would be the best either.. heh heh heh..
iD, if you're listening (watching, whatever), then... PLEASE RELEASE COMMAND KEEN FOR THESE !! WOOO.. hehe. heck with color gameboy :)
LOL.. If I had watched it, this would have prolly
;)
been obvious too, but...
Heh, serves the morons right.
MTV is NOT a news station anyways - they're entertainment (tho the same could be said about most 'news' stations too.. hah) !
So... thats what you get when you don't check your sources
Yes, "clear product" strategies have been popular lately :)
.nu is a country? I thought it was one of the recent addedd 'made-beleive' TLDs, just FOR doing stuff like theres.something.nu etc .. :)
OK, lets think about this:
once you've written a product, you don't need to
pay the programmers anymore (not true actually, bugfixes and all that - but the development cost for that version is almost fixed at the current amount at the time).
There is a fixed cost for production overall, plus a fixed cost per copy produced. If you sell enough of these products, at whatever price, to cover both of these fixed costs, AND pay your employees, bills, etc, then you are in the clear.
Having some extra is good - safety net for screwing up or source of cash for new projects.
After you've reached this point, only one form of software piracy can hurt you in any reasonable way - dilution of the market by fraudulant copies.
Those who wouldn't have paid full price anyways, have no effect on all this. Those who might have, but have now pirated the software, might have effect - but since we've already made enough dough, it doesn't matter more than increasing the bottom line. Also, their effect is almost nothing, because they didn't steal an ALREADY PRODUCED legit copy, they made a copy of one.
Therefore, no loss in the form of unpaid for units. Those units produced but not sold, do incur a loss, as their production cost is not directly recouped. This is usually handled by making sure your selling price is high enough you can absorb these occurances.
So we have say, 1,000,000 copies installed that were not paid for - if these one million copies were never physically produced, they create no loss. Therefore they can't count against the total revenue.
So... lesse.. somewhere I was going to mention that the average warez'er has no or almost no effect on the actual loss to piracy. Only where people who would have bought it if they couldn't warez, or those who wanted to buy the real thing but were sold an illegal copy, would affect the loss of income, but only as a loss in potential sales - if you produced enough units to serve them and they weren't sold as a consequence, you have a loss, but if you didn't produce enough for those you expected not to buy, then there is no loss except in potential, assuming they would have bought it from you and not the illegal copy from someone else pretending to offer a legal copy.
I hope this made sense..
I'm not sure, cause I'm not entirely awake and there's no caffeine sources around.. argh, grocery trip time!
"Should" in the sense that it's morally correct, is a sticky situation.
However since they are interested in money, if they decide that the backlash from gambling is too great, they might do it anyways to save themselves some money.
On the other hand, having a credit card could save you in the event that some emergency came along and you didn't have enough in the bank.
:)
Of course, some (at least my) banks have "Overdraft Insurance" or something like that for debit cards, so for instance, with my bank, I can withdraw up to $100 over what I have in my checking account. They'll slap $25 on me for it plus however much I overdrew, but the transaction will go through, potentially saving my ass for the time being. A Credit Card has is more useful for emergency situations, in that you can slap a lot more deniro on one of them w/o paying right away. You still have to pay, plus interest, but once again, it could save you.
I think that while the credit card companies may not be exactly operating in their user's interests (more in their investor's intrests), they can still be useful. They get next to nothing for instance if you never put anything on the cards or at least pay up before it rolls over into next month (thus increasing their revenue from interest).
I myself just have a VISA checking card, from my bank.. I hope I never have to use that overdraft protection, but its there, which is good
my problem is I'm always typing 'dir' when in linux, and 'ls' in DOS..
:)
DOH!
Pretty soon everyone will read everyone else's package format, and then it won't matter. Pick a package format, then on whatever system type "install package" and whatever install is linked to (rpm, apt, whatever) does the work..
Not only do I cut off minivans, but everything up to and including 18-wheelers too! :)
Feer my baby-sized S10! For it is tiny!
Someone hack out the 'G2' bus on that thing, :) Of course, :)
:)
and I'll design a Lan interface
finding someone interested in manufacturering
them would be another story alltogether
Looking at the Trisignal sight, it appears they
have something called a T-Soft Modem, which might
be (with some changes?) what the DC uses. the T-Soft Modem uses AT command set, as well as their own proprietary command set and comes w/ an API for porting stuff.. sounds like something the DC would use eh?
So could maybe make a small plugin to replace the
modem that would have a Lan interface & uP that would interpret the AT commands and pretend to connect to an ISP so the DC would talk to the net.. and hence its game place..
uh, not true with ISDN or ADSL, these are one to one connections, but true with cable, which is a one to many..