Your snide comment is predicated on the idea that I would know of every package created for Windows. That's not the case. It would be ludicrous to assume one person knows of every software package available for Windows. I spoke about an area I have first hand knowledge in. An area where 64 bit Windows software is readily available. If other people have knowledge of other areas of Windows software that have, or don't have, 64 bit availability they are free to mention it.
Just because games don't support 64 bit (outside of Crysis and UT) that doesn't mean the ecosystem is dead. In the digital content creations space practically all of big packages support 64 bit; Photoshop. 3ds Max, Maya, SoftImage, etc...
Games don't need >4GB memory addressing most of the time. The extra 8 or so registers that the CPU can use in 64 bit mode are nice, but it's an advantage that is easily overshadowed by properly multithreaded code to support multiple cores or processors.
Maybe in your haste to spew out your idiotic response you missed the part where the poster logically mentioned that he does not work alone. Have you ever tried to open a 16bbp, LAB color, layered, Photoshop CS3 document in GIMP? The second the poster gets a PSD file from a client or a coworker he's screwed if WINE can't load the correct version of Photoshop. Before you come back and say "Well he should just teach his clients and coworkers to use a more open format" please provide a list of open formats that store layers, adjustments, filters, etc.. - all of the tweakable settings you would need to properly adjust source art. A collapsed PNG is great for final delivery, but it sucks as a source art storage/collaboration format.
Whether you took the code or not they will sue you. They'll assume you *did* take the code and will want the discovery phase of a trial to see if you really are clean or not. If you didn't they will still have deeper pockets than a small startup and will work to extend the pre-trial aspects of the suit as long as possible so as to win by attrition. And, during all of these they could easily have a judge put an injunction on the sale of your project. Even if the judge didn't not very many customers would want to purchase a new, unproven, program that is starting life with uncertainty about it's longevity.
Microsoft wouldn't respond because they understand that:
* Most people don't care about the W3C
* Most people don't pay attention to commercials
* Even more people don't pay attention to dry, boring, preachy commercials.
* Of the hundreds of millions of people who use Windows such an infinitesimally small number care about the web in a form other than "Does it work on my machine?" that rebutting your ad would be a colossal waste of time and money.
If company wants to have the computers shut down at night then the IT department should configure boot on LAN across the organization to boot the computers 30 minutes before the employees are supposed to arrive.
The city probably has a legally binding franchise agreement with the telco that says that for certain concessions, most usually guaranteed quality levels for service to residents and competitive prices, that the telco may maintain a legal monopoly in the city. Once the telco said they would finally build the fiber network the city was more than likely in violation of an agreement they signed.
How about something really catchy and descriptive like, "Ogg VobisFS"
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But, in a roundabout way the financial market simulator will ultimately help the weather simulator's performance. Everyone knows that business apps are written in VB. That means the financial simulator folks need MUCH more powerful supercomputers to run their code at anything close to appreciable speed. That same machine will run well coded weather apps blazingly fast!
The inclusion of CSS on DVDs didn't stop the masses from purchasing it. There's a severe disconnect on sites like Slashdot, people on technology sites think that their views are shared by the majority of people. They're wrong. The techy views of a lot of things don't resonate much outside of small, insular, circles. The majority of people probably don't even know what DRM really is or if BluRay discs have it.
What is keeping BluRay back is people not wanting to spend $300+ for a new piece of hardware when they don't see the benefit. That combined with the convenience of NetFlix, the various on-demand systems cable and sat providers offer, and downloadable movies is enough to keep BluRay down.
Close, but your bad analogy is slightly flawed. You purchased your car. It isn't something you made and need to sell in order to generate income. Try this modified thought experiment instead.
You come home and your neighbor tells you he saw someone stealing your . Your is very important to you, as it is your unique idea that you have been perfecting for years. You plan to bring to market and use the proceeds to provide for you and your family - keep a roof over their heads, food on the table, clothes on their back, education, etc... You look, but your is still there. The neighbor explains that it was a new kind of "theft" that doesn't cause you to lose the "stolen" item. As he's saying this your neighbor is walking back into his house carrying a brand new under his arm. You look around and notice that there are s in everyone's garage. Dejected, you decide to get the mail before you go back inside. On the top of the stack of mail is a 2nd late notice from your mortgage company...
Would you feel robbed?
Put the pictures on an iPod Touch. Put the iPod Touch and a wall charger in the time capsule. The world will not be performing a 100% wholesale change of wall outlet formats or electrical current standards in the next quarter century.
>> No assets, no point suing.
Right, because no one has ever had a court mandated garnishment of their wages until such a time as a debt was repaid in full.
PEX has been validated for fresh water supply plumbing for at least five or six years. I know that because I plumbed a church with it about six years ago. While my new (2+ years old) house has copper plumbing I haven't seen any new construction in my area with copper plumbing in at least 9-12 months. Everything is PEX now. I can only assume it's because of the cost of copper and the labor to install it.
PEX is awesome. You bring one cold water supply into the house, split that so one line goes to your hot water heater, put the cold and hot lines into a big manifold, and then run hot and cold lines direct from there to each faucet. No more plumbing in large cold and hot supply lines with branches to each faucet. Plus, with no soldering required and the ability to bend PEX pretty tightly, installation goes really fast. One guy with a cutter/crimper tool, supply of crimping rings, and a roll of PEX can plumb out a house in less than a day.
That's the problem, at least for the IHVs. DX9/10 or OpenGL2.x with programmable pixel pipelines and gobs of stream processors on the GPU are quite enough to get movie CGI quality games at sufficiently high framerates, resolution, and image quality for years. That does nothing to help sell the next uber video card at $600+ a pop, though. Raytracing would start the IHVs down a path of all new technologies to invent and exploit on 6 month release schedules.
Currently the released nVidia drivers don't support the 2xx series and the beta drivers that do support the 2xx series don't have.inf file entries for anything but the 2xx series. Until unified drivers are released that support and install on the entire nVidia product line it will be problematic to produce comparisons with the same drivers.
That reasoning bodes well for copyright freedom as well...
Reason has no place in a legal proceeding. Sad, but true. This ruling doesn't have any direct implications on copyright issues. Any perceived reason the justices showed with this ruling can only be tested against copyright if and when a similar dispute regarding copyright makes it to the Supreme Court. Until a person or organization has deep enough pockets to push/appeal a court case to the SC we'll never know if the justices' reason extends to copyright or not.
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Your snide comment is predicated on the idea that I would know of every package created for Windows. That's not the case. It would be ludicrous to assume one person knows of every software package available for Windows. I spoke about an area I have first hand knowledge in. An area where 64 bit Windows software is readily available. If other people have knowledge of other areas of Windows software that have, or don't have, 64 bit availability they are free to mention it.
Games don't need >4GB memory addressing most of the time. The extra 8 or so registers that the CPU can use in 64 bit mode are nice, but it's an advantage that is easily overshadowed by properly multithreaded code to support multiple cores or processors.
Maybe in your haste to spew out your idiotic response you missed the part where the poster logically mentioned that he does not work alone. Have you ever tried to open a 16bbp, LAB color, layered, Photoshop CS3 document in GIMP? The second the poster gets a PSD file from a client or a coworker he's screwed if WINE can't load the correct version of Photoshop. Before you come back and say "Well he should just teach his clients and coworkers to use a more open format" please provide a list of open formats that store layers, adjustments, filters, etc.. - all of the tweakable settings you would need to properly adjust source art. A collapsed PNG is great for final delivery, but it sucks as a source art storage/collaboration format.
So to combat the illegal download of games you think EA should stop using online vendors because some people can't get games from online?
The first XBox 360 development kits seeded to ISVs were dual processor PowerPC G5 towers with ATI video cards.
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Whether you took the code or not they will sue you. They'll assume you *did* take the code and will want the discovery phase of a trial to see if you really are clean or not. If you didn't they will still have deeper pockets than a small startup and will work to extend the pre-trial aspects of the suit as long as possible so as to win by attrition. And, during all of these they could easily have a judge put an injunction on the sale of your project. Even if the judge didn't not very many customers would want to purchase a new, unproven, program that is starting life with uncertainty about it's longevity.
* Most people don't care about the W3C
* Most people don't pay attention to commercials
* Even more people don't pay attention to dry, boring, preachy commercials.
* Of the hundreds of millions of people who use Windows such an infinitesimally small number care about the web in a form other than "Does it work on my machine?" that rebutting your ad would be a colossal waste of time and money.
If company wants to have the computers shut down at night then the IT department should configure boot on LAN across the organization to boot the computers 30 minutes before the employees are supposed to arrive.
The city probably has a legally binding franchise agreement with the telco that says that for certain concessions, most usually guaranteed quality levels for service to residents and competitive prices, that the telco may maintain a legal monopoly in the city. Once the telco said they would finally build the fiber network the city was more than likely in violation of an agreement they signed.
Really? How fascinating!
How about something really catchy and descriptive like, "Ogg VobisFS"
But, in a roundabout way the financial market simulator will ultimately help the weather simulator's performance. Everyone knows that business apps are written in VB. That means the financial simulator folks need MUCH more powerful supercomputers to run their code at anything close to appreciable speed. That same machine will run well coded weather apps blazingly fast!
What is keeping BluRay back is people not wanting to spend $300+ for a new piece of hardware when they don't see the benefit. That combined with the convenience of NetFlix, the various on-demand systems cable and sat providers offer, and downloadable movies is enough to keep BluRay down.
You come home and your neighbor tells you he saw someone stealing your . Your is very important to you, as it is your unique idea that you have been perfecting for years. You plan to bring to market and use the proceeds to provide for you and your family - keep a roof over their heads, food on the table, clothes on their back, education, etc... You look, but your is still there. The neighbor explains that it was a new kind of "theft" that doesn't cause you to lose the "stolen" item. As he's saying this your neighbor is walking back into his house carrying a brand new under his arm. You look around and notice that there are s in everyone's garage. Dejected, you decide to get the mail before you go back inside. On the top of the stack of mail is a 2nd late notice from your mortgage company... Would you feel robbed?
Put the pictures on an iPod Touch. Put the iPod Touch and a wall charger in the time capsule. The world will not be performing a 100% wholesale change of wall outlet formats or electrical current standards in the next quarter century.
>> No assets, no point suing. Right, because no one has ever had a court mandated garnishment of their wages until such a time as a debt was repaid in full.
I have DirecTV. That gives me something like six hundred channels which have zero intellectual capacity but yet still manage to carry data.
PEX has been validated for fresh water supply plumbing for at least five or six years. I know that because I plumbed a church with it about six years ago. While my new (2+ years old) house has copper plumbing I haven't seen any new construction in my area with copper plumbing in at least 9-12 months. Everything is PEX now. I can only assume it's because of the cost of copper and the labor to install it. PEX is awesome. You bring one cold water supply into the house, split that so one line goes to your hot water heater, put the cold and hot lines into a big manifold, and then run hot and cold lines direct from there to each faucet. No more plumbing in large cold and hot supply lines with branches to each faucet. Plus, with no soldering required and the ability to bend PEX pretty tightly, installation goes really fast. One guy with a cutter/crimper tool, supply of crimping rings, and a roll of PEX can plumb out a house in less than a day.
That's the problem, at least for the IHVs. DX9/10 or OpenGL2.x with programmable pixel pipelines and gobs of stream processors on the GPU are quite enough to get movie CGI quality games at sufficiently high framerates, resolution, and image quality for years. That does nothing to help sell the next uber video card at $600+ a pop, though. Raytracing would start the IHVs down a path of all new technologies to invent and exploit on 6 month release schedules.
The GPL stipulates that the source should be printed on the sheathing of a cat-5 cable? That's odd.
Um, OldBar? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227
Currently the released nVidia drivers don't support the 2xx series and the beta drivers that do support the 2xx series don't have .inf file entries for anything but the 2xx series. Until unified drivers are released that support and install on the entire nVidia product line it will be problematic to produce comparisons with the same drivers.
Reason has no place in a legal proceeding. Sad, but true. This ruling doesn't have any direct implications on copyright issues. Any perceived reason the justices showed with this ruling can only be tested against copyright if and when a similar dispute regarding copyright makes it to the Supreme Court. Until a person or organization has deep enough pockets to push/appeal a court case to the SC we'll never know if the justices' reason extends to copyright or not.