That's forgivable. That's just jargon incompatibility. Disk memory and chip memory are both types of memory, and there's even an argument to call a hard disk RAM (after all, hard disks are randomly accessible, and Compact disks are referred to as CD-ROMs).
It's possible that this is a good idea badly implemented in Windows. Microsoft tends to do that sort of thing a lot.
It's certainly an annoyance for me that I have so many icons in the taskbar (atm, 5 explorer icons 2 command prompts and a selection of applications). If these applications were tabbed it would probably be a little nicer for me.
If a report said, for example, that people prefer digital distribution over physical media, or vice versa, they'd simply make sure that their distribution model was optimised for the market. They wouldn't continue to commit resources to the distribution method that doesn't work.
Logically they should look at this report, realise that DMCA like legislation doesn't work and divert resources elsewhere. Why do I think they're not going to do this?
3D Realms don't have $12 million. If they did they wouldn't have gone belly up. A game developer has virtually no tangible assets. Computers will add up to the tens of thousands at most, devkits are owned by the console manufacturers, offices are leased. The IP is typically not going to have anyone wanting to buy it.
The only exception to that last point is Take Two. They have a vested interest in making this game a reality. Presumably the point to this is that they become creditors and so will have a claim on the aspects of DNF that have been completed.
The majority opinions here range from it being daft to charge for so called "intellectual property", to the more conservative view that you can't practically do anything about it so you might as well make the best of it.
You can't afford to sue, doing so probably isn't going increase sales as much as it costs anyway.
And personally I wouldn't pay $40 for that. I have no idea how useful it is. I know I can get some useful information from online resources. I have no idea whether this would give me details to implement a decent arithmetic compression scheme, design a full lossy media compression format, or just give an overview of the types of compression that are available.
I'd be tempted to download a copy just to see if it did solve my problem. Having downloaded it I'd find it hard to justify buying it.
Give a couple of chapters away for free. People can use that to determine if the book is worth buying.
Honestly, if they're using something as unreliable as breathalyzer for a conviction, that's where the problem is. While that's a pretty substantial difference, two people with the same blood alcohol level can have these readings. It's unlikely but not impossible.
I think it has to due with the massively parallel operations. You can't pipeline stuff as far. Of course, I'm just guessing.
That can't be it. Graphics cards can have vast pipelines. Pipelines' main problems are with branches, and graphics cards don't need to be able to branch.
So we know it's buggy and inaccurate, to a moronic degree. If that wasn't enough:
Not really. It actually ultimately has 3 bits more than are needed. What they need from the device is for it to tell you whether you're above or below the legal limit.
The design sucks, but it's still possible that it never provides a false positive.
What is the typical variance of the readings? Does the division use the simple built-in rounding down or have they added rounding? What range of values can the breathalizer represent? Is this device used as the only device to determine intoxication level?
Ultimately the question boils down to has anyone been convicted directly as a result of one of these when their blood alcohol level was within legal limits?
Dr No is probably a bad example. They had no idea whether it was going to be a success. Contemporary films To Kill a Mockingbird and Lawrence of Arabia had 2 times and 15 times the budget respectively.
If I wanted to produce something that used two pieces of music, charged at 10% of gross each, 10 different images charged at 5% of gross each, and some animation charged at 40% of gross, I need to pay 110% of my gross to the make this.
I guess the hardcore gamers are going to buy a 360 no matter what. They're already being marketed to.
Casual gamers might not own a Wii yet, (they are still selling after all) and the XBox 360 is cheaper. Also a better choice if you like to dabble in online gaming but can't quite justify the price for that alone.
The 360 has a particular set of users that are unlikely to be that enthused about a motion capture camera. They can already go out and buy a Wii if they prefer to make their input without using a normal controller.
That's kinda the point. MS want people to buy an XBox when they might buy a Wii instead.
Yeah, and then he could blog about his experience filing for unemployment. Oh, not eligible because he was fired.
They're not going to fire him over this. The company doesn't pay him a salary as a favour to him. They pay him a salary because he does work which is valuable to them. Replacing him will cost them money.
If they censor any of the content then they have to censor ALL of the content,
No. Just that which they know or should know is infringing. A letter from the copyright holders should be reason or them to at least investigate and most of the complaints were for media that was pretty obviously not distributed with the copyright holders consent. The reasonable man test would suggest they knew or should have known this.
It's the reason why the postal service isn't blamed for letter bombs and death threats, and why phone companies aren't blamed for harassing calls.
The reason they're not blamed for these actions is that this is not the primary purpose, and nobody can make an argument that this is the primary purpose. If a substantial number of people used the postal service to mail bomb threats or used telephones to make harassing calls, then it would be up to the operators to do something about that as well. If I make a complaint to my telephone company about harassing calls they will assist me in preventing them.
Anecdotally all I've used the Pirate Bay for is to get independent films,
Statistically you're in the minority.
If you have used TPB, then based on your argument you have used it for illegal activity, and thus you are far more guilty of copyright infringement than TPB operators are by your own admission.
I sure am. I'm guilty as hell and don't try to defend myself. I just don't care.
The term "heretic" has been around for a while too, but I prefer to call myself a Physicist. What's your point?
The point is that if someone pointed out the inherent heresy of contradicting religious doctrine, an argument that you're not a heretic on account of agreeing with the orthodox findings of established scientific principles would be an illogical red herring. One word, several meanings.
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That's forgivable. That's just jargon incompatibility. Disk memory and chip memory are both types of memory, and there's even an argument to call a hard disk RAM (after all, hard disks are randomly accessible, and Compact disks are referred to as CD-ROMs).
It's possible that this is a good idea badly implemented in Windows. Microsoft tends to do that sort of thing a lot.
It's certainly an annoyance for me that I have so many icons in the taskbar (atm, 5 explorer icons 2 command prompts and a selection of applications). If these applications were tabbed it would probably be a little nicer for me.
If a report said, for example, that people prefer digital distribution over physical media, or vice versa, they'd simply make sure that their distribution model was optimised for the market. They wouldn't continue to commit resources to the distribution method that doesn't work.
Logically they should look at this report, realise that DMCA like legislation doesn't work and divert resources elsewhere. Why do I think they're not going to do this?
T2 has a claim against whoever they bought the distro rights from...who probably took the 12 mil and ran.
They bought the distribution rights from 3DRealms.
(the latter is slightly slower and handles overlaps)
Considering the trivial overhead of testing for overlap I'm surprised we still have memcpy.
3D Realms don't have $12 million. If they did they wouldn't have gone belly up. A game developer has virtually no tangible assets. Computers will add up to the tens of thousands at most, devkits are owned by the console manufacturers, offices are leased. The IP is typically not going to have anyone wanting to buy it.
The only exception to that last point is Take Two. They have a vested interest in making this game a reality. Presumably the point to this is that they become creditors and so will have a claim on the aspects of DNF that have been completed.
Yeah. It's kinda irritating. The replies are interesting, and sure as hell not "flames".
But hey it's Slashdot. You get used to it.
The majority opinions here range from it being daft to charge for so called "intellectual property", to the more conservative view that you can't practically do anything about it so you might as well make the best of it.
You can't afford to sue, doing so probably isn't going increase sales as much as it costs anyway.
And personally I wouldn't pay $40 for that. I have no idea how useful it is. I know I can get some useful information from online resources. I have no idea whether this would give me details to implement a decent arithmetic compression scheme, design a full lossy media compression format, or just give an overview of the types of compression that are available.
I'd be tempted to download a copy just to see if it did solve my problem. Having downloaded it I'd find it hard to justify buying it.
Give a couple of chapters away for free. People can use that to determine if the book is worth buying.
Honestly, if they're using something as unreliable as breathalyzer for a conviction, that's where the problem is. While that's a pretty substantial difference, two people with the same blood alcohol level can have these readings. It's unlikely but not impossible.
I think it has to due with the massively parallel operations. You can't pipeline stuff as far. Of course, I'm just guessing.
That can't be it. Graphics cards can have vast pipelines. Pipelines' main problems are with branches, and graphics cards don't need to be able to branch.
So we know it's buggy and inaccurate, to a moronic degree. If that wasn't enough:
Not really. It actually ultimately has 3 bits more than are needed. What they need from the device is for it to tell you whether you're above or below the legal limit.
The design sucks, but it's still possible that it never provides a false positive.
What is the typical variance of the readings? Does the division use the simple built-in rounding down or have they added rounding? What range of values can the breathalizer represent? Is this device used as the only device to determine intoxication level?
Ultimately the question boils down to has anyone been convicted directly as a result of one of these when their blood alcohol level was within legal limits?
Oh thats right the greedy fucks don't get any money from that.
Uhm... What do you think tax revenue gets spent on?
Dr No is probably a bad example. They had no idea whether it was going to be a success. Contemporary films To Kill a Mockingbird and Lawrence of Arabia had 2 times and 15 times the budget respectively.
If I wanted to produce something that used two pieces of music, charged at 10% of gross each, 10 different images charged at 5% of gross each, and some animation charged at 40% of gross, I need to pay 110% of my gross to the make this.
I guess the hardcore gamers are going to buy a 360 no matter what. They're already being marketed to.
Casual gamers might not own a Wii yet, (they are still selling after all) and the XBox 360 is cheaper. Also a better choice if you like to dabble in online gaming but can't quite justify the price for that alone.
Because it's illogical.
The 360 has a particular set of users that are unlikely to be that enthused about a motion capture camera. They can already go out and buy a Wii if they prefer to make their input without using a normal controller.
That's kinda the point. MS want people to buy an XBox when they might buy a Wii instead.
The Eyetoy may not be an absolute killer ap, but games for the device do actually sell pretty well. They're popular with kids and kinda fun.
Why the odd 60 million tacked on the end? VAT?
Yeah. The difference is about a billion Euros
I never realised the eyetoy was a 3D camera.
Stop offering free Wi-fi.
Seems that it's a net cost. The extra custom doesn't cover the increased cost of requiring more tables. Not quite sure what the point is.
Yeah, and then he could blog about his experience filing for unemployment. Oh, not eligible because he was fired.
They're not going to fire him over this. The company doesn't pay him a salary as a favour to him. They pay him a salary because he does work which is valuable to them. Replacing him will cost them money.
If they censor any of the content then they have to censor ALL of the content,
No. Just that which they know or should know is infringing. A letter from the copyright holders should be reason or them to at least investigate and most of the complaints were for media that was pretty obviously not distributed with the copyright holders consent. The reasonable man test would suggest they knew or should have known this.
It's the reason why the postal service isn't blamed for letter bombs and death threats, and why phone companies aren't blamed for harassing calls.
The reason they're not blamed for these actions is that this is not the primary purpose, and nobody can make an argument that this is the primary purpose. If a substantial number of people used the postal service to mail bomb threats or used telephones to make harassing calls, then it would be up to the operators to do something about that as well. If I make a complaint to my telephone company about harassing calls they will assist me in preventing them.
Anecdotally all I've used the Pirate Bay for is to get independent films,
Statistically you're in the minority.
If you have used TPB, then based on your argument you have used it for illegal activity, and thus you are far more guilty of copyright infringement than TPB operators are by your own admission.
I sure am. I'm guilty as hell and don't try to defend myself. I just don't care.
The term "heretic" has been around for a while too, but I prefer to call myself a Physicist. What's your point?
The point is that if someone pointed out the inherent heresy of contradicting religious doctrine, an argument that you're not a heretic on account of agreeing with the orthodox findings of established scientific principles would be an illogical red herring. One word, several meanings.