That would be fine, because then Intel would no longer be obstructing other vendors from entering the market.
A company offering a product under certain terms is not ever obstructing anyone else from entering the market. It may be more difficult, but that's due to the behavior of the buyers, not the seller. The buyers ALWAYS have the ability to stop buying from Intel and buy from anyone else. It's really disappointing how little respect people have for property rights here on Slashdot.
Would it be illegal if Intel just decided to close up shop and stop selling processors, and sell other kinds of chips? This is effectively raising the price of their processors to infinity, so that nobody can get them anymore.
these machines have alot of components on one die now. (for instance GPU and CPU are in one chip as opposed to seperate chips)
so how does this work out?
no i didnt read tfa
erm and i thought i removed that last line... it wasn't in the preview 0_o
It's OK; we know that nobody here reads TFA anyway.
It was suggested that if one of these OEMs was rumored to be in talks to offer an AMD proc system Intel would send a rep to advise them that they could no longer offer them preferred OEM pricing and the OEM would need to find a third party supplier to purchase their Intel chips in the future. Basically making the OEM buy their chips at retail prices. If you are looking at 20-30% increase in the cost of your primary component in an already tight margin product or shuttle your plans it's not hard to make that decision.
So you're saying Intel, being the owner of the merchandise, cannot rightfully decide for how much and under what terms they're sold?
The Itanium was Intel's attempt to lock AMD out of the "clone" market because AMD didn't have a cross license to use the Itanium architecture. If the Itanium had succeeded there would no longer be a choice of processor for Intel based systems.
Using a government-created monopoly, I might add. Without that, nothing would have stopped AMD from making clones.
Yes, tab represents the intent, rather than the implementation. And before anyone complains that the code will format wrong if you do view it with the wrong tab spacing, that's because you're using tabs wrong. Where horizontal alignment between lines is important, you should be sure they align no matter what the tab spacing.
But I think this discussion is about putting spaces after the period that ends a sentence, not whether to use one or two spaces for indention. Applying the above here, you should represent sentences in a way that your typesetting program can apply its stylesheet to sentences, rather than individual characters.
The only contract is that between the buyer and seller. If the seller misrepresents the product as genuine, then the buyer is defrauded. The company making the genuine article never enters into the picture. As I said, they have no property claim on a potential sale, or loss thereof. Sure, they are affected negatively by it, but so is a gas station when another opens across the street.
What is now being called "Gorilla Glass" is currently worth $170M/yr.
What is this supposed to mean? If I have a piece of it, it's worth $170M per year? What, does money grow on it, or do I have to rent it to someone, huh?
A portion of the wild boar population in Germany was irradiated after the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown
I don't think merely being exposed to radiation would make the boars radioactive. If that were the case, we'd all be radioactive since we're exposed to it every day. Now, if the boars ingested radioactive material, I could understand.
I actually found this far more interesting. Apparently the sunspot that created the intial flare is large enough it can be spotted with the naked eye. This sunspot is huge.
Do not attempt to look at huge sunspot with remaining eye.
Weird, I had a dream this morning involving this theme, and I hadn't seen this story until after I woke up. In the dream, my game console was making a weird noise that wouldn't stop. I disconnected it, but it kept making the noise. Then I went into another part of the house and everything was making that noise, and there was no power. I thought it was an EMP or something from a nuclear blast, but then realized that would be very short, not continuous.
If the buyer knows the product is a "counterfeit", then there's no problem. It's only counterfeit if the buy thinks he's getting the genuine article. And in that case, the buyer is defrauded, not the manufacturer. In other words, the buyer has had something taken from him. The manufacturer of the genuine article has lost nothing he ownned. The lost potential sale wasn't something he owned in the first place.
I tried this, but in fine print at the top of the list was Brain Slugs. Oh well, for some reason I think they're worth voting for, and I think you should vote for them too.
So I would say out of the 15 or so hybrid owners that I know of, maybe 10-15% meet the articles assumptions about hybrid car purchasers, or plug in hybrids.
I have Verizon FIOS at home and my Verizon-supplied Actiontec router had the password 'password1' that the tech assigned to it when he set it up three years ago. [...] I looked in the router's settings and I see port 4567 goes to the router and is labeled 'Verizon FIOS Service.' Is this port for anything useful other than Verizon changing settings on my router? What security measures does Verizon have to protect that port from unauthorized access?
Dude, this is what a firewall is for! Just put one between the line and your Actiontec rou... oh, wait. Hmmm.
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Malware is malware, no matter who wrote it or what they name it.
A company offering a product under certain terms is not ever obstructing anyone else from entering the market. It may be more difficult, but that's due to the behavior of the buyers, not the seller. The buyers ALWAYS have the ability to stop buying from Intel and buy from anyone else. It's really disappointing how little respect people have for property rights here on Slashdot.
Would it be illegal if Intel just decided to close up shop and stop selling processors, and sell other kinds of chips? This is effectively raising the price of their processors to infinity, so that nobody can get them anymore.
It's OK; we know that nobody here reads TFA anyway.
No, this is good, because their worseness will wrap around (two's complement overflow) and make them really good.
So you're saying Intel, being the owner of the merchandise, cannot rightfully decide for how much and under what terms they're sold?
Using a government-created monopoly, I might add. Without that, nothing would have stopped AMD from making clones.
Oh damn, that's where I went wrong. I thought I was supposed to find a dog and adopt a girlfriend. The latter encounter didn't end well.
But I think this discussion is about putting spaces after the period that ends a sentence, not whether to use one or two spaces for indention. Applying the above here, you should represent sentences in a way that your typesetting program can apply its stylesheet to sentences, rather than individual characters.
Someone hacked the article title, it seems. That's a bigger threat right there.
Going to that page, this "Fluke 125 Portable Oscilloscope Scopemeter MultiMeter Meter Tester Test Equipment" looks interesting. Long name though.
There, fixed that for you.
The only contract is that between the buyer and seller. If the seller misrepresents the product as genuine, then the buyer is defrauded. The company making the genuine article never enters into the picture. As I said, they have no property claim on a potential sale, or loss thereof. Sure, they are affected negatively by it, but so is a gas station when another opens across the street.
Wait, you're telling that Wikipedia isn't a federal agent? Next you'll be telling me that anyone can edit pages on the site...
Good thing you won't be supporting them anymore.
Well, except working for them.
What is this supposed to mean? If I have a piece of it, it's worth $170M per year? What, does money grow on it, or do I have to rent it to someone, huh?
No, but if I take a small amount of money from a lot of people, I can pay for it. But I'm not he government, so it would be illegal for me to do so.
I don't think merely being exposed to radiation would make the boars radioactive. If that were the case, we'd all be radioactive since we're exposed to it every day. Now, if the boars ingested radioactive material, I could understand.
Do not attempt to look at huge sunspot with remaining eye.
Weird, I had a dream this morning involving this theme, and I hadn't seen this story until after I woke up. In the dream, my game console was making a weird noise that wouldn't stop. I disconnected it, but it kept making the noise. Then I went into another part of the house and everything was making that noise, and there was no power. I thought it was an EMP or something from a nuclear blast, but then realized that would be very short, not continuous.
If the buyer knows the product is a "counterfeit", then there's no problem. It's only counterfeit if the buy thinks he's getting the genuine article. And in that case, the buyer is defrauded, not the manufacturer. In other words, the buyer has had something taken from him. The manufacturer of the genuine article has lost nothing he ownned. The lost potential sale wasn't something he owned in the first place.
I tried this, but in fine print at the top of the list was Brain Slugs. Oh well, for some reason I think they're worth voting for, and I think you should vote for them too.
Sampling bias much?
There, corrected that for you.
Yeah man, you should have changed it to password2, or for even more security, password3. Sheesh.
Dude, this is what a firewall is for! Just put one between the line and your Actiontec rou... oh, wait. Hmmm.