Every password-protected site requires a separate registration process. Wouldn't it be simpler to cache registration information on a central server?
The obvious disadvantage to this is that a poorly designed system could release personal info to unscrupulous businesses. A well-designed system could show you which fields a particular site wanted and ask for your approval. Better yet you could configure your account to release different levels of info to sites based on their privacy policy.
Good question. I remember reading that a good lip-reader can only interpret 50% of what someone else is saying. So even a crappy speech to text system shouldn't have too much trouble beating that.
Yes, these Earthlings are highly irrational. They will be no match for our emotionless clone warriors, who have not been exposed to useless frivolities like music and relationships.
Exactly which graphics card manufacturer do you work for? The only reason you would say this is to sell video cards, because cutting production of the Ti4600 makes no sense. What would Nvidia sell someone who wants to pay more than $100 for a Ti4200 and less than $400 for a GeForce FX? Are you proposing that Nvidia is just conceding that market to ATI?
This reminds me of my old job. At the time memory prices were steadily dropping. We were told to recommend that customers buy memory now because the trend towards lower prices could reverse tomorrow. I guess it is hard to come up with a good excuse for someone to pay more now rather than less later.
Way back in the day I could buy a joystick and it would work for my Commodore 64, an Atari 2600, and even my Sega Genesis (with only one button though). Any of these machines could be hooked up to a TV using the same RF box with a slider switch to send the console/computer signal on channel 3/4. Even the power supplies for several of my old consoles are interchangeable.
Nowadays the console makers are so greedy everything is proprietary. There isn't a single connection on a Dreamcast, PS2, GameCube or XBox that is interchangeable with a rival unit. The PS2 is reasonably compatible with the PSOne, which probably means that Sony puts the accessories for both platforms in the same accounting bucket.
It seems like companies are only sued for price dumping if they have already succeeded in driving their competitors out of that business. If (and it is a very big if indeed) Microsoft actually wins the console wars then Sony may be able to sue them after its too late.
The real problem is that we continue to let Microsoft spend less than a billion dollars "improving" Windows (the client version) and Office and earn more than 5 billion dollars from that paltry investment. They can afford to corner the market in platinum boat anchors with that kinda cash. They could put 3 billion dollars in big trash bags and just burn it and still be the darling of American business. There has to be something illegal about that.
The trade rags may be sycophantic pole-smokers, but I'd like to think the Slashdot population is more fair than that. We have been kicking Microsoft square in the nuts about their lack of security for years now, so does it make sense to flipflop and start kicking them for taking security seriously?
Now if the article was more like "Microsoft breaks apps to implement security, offers expensive upgrades" then we could continue kicking M$'s family jewels guilt-free.
The whole ROM licensing issue is a game of pretend. The users pretend that they have a license for the ROMs they download. They do this using a click-through disclaimer during the download process. Meanwhile the copyright holders pretend that their ROMS have commercial value.
The reality is that the vast majority of users are stealing ROM data. But this is countered by the fact that the ROMs can't be monetized by the license holders anyway. Which brings up an interesting question: how can you steal something that isn't worth anything?
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How about just GAME? I guess that would get confusing pretty quickly.
There have always been a lot of crappy one-hit wonder artists. We selectively remember the good artists from the past and forget the mediocre ones. There is still good music being made.
I would instead contend that people are spending more of their dollars on DVD movies and less on CDs. Why?
Your average DVD costs 15-20 dollars. So does the average premium CD. A movie is generally at least an hour and a half long, plus bonus materials. A CD is usually not much more than an hour long. And a movie is a much more engaging experience with video and surround sound. If consumers have limited dollars to spend on entertainment they will pick the better value.
The problem is that the music industry is operating from the premise that they are entitled to ever-increasing revenues on a mature technology that is being overtaken by something more exciting. The music industry needs to either spice up the product or get used to making less money.
I agree that it is unreasonable to expect services for free. But that does not undermine the value proposition of the GPL.
One major problem with closed-source software vendors is that they get bought or go out of business. If you are a customer then generally you are stuck with a package of binaries that cannot be supported or upgraded. If your vendor was using open-source then you would have the option to pay someone else to maintain that code.
Another problem is getting new features added. If a closed-source vendor doesn't want to add your feature then that is tough luck for you. If your product is open-source then you can pay someone else or some other company to add the feature.
Open-source products give you more options because you are not tied to a particular vendor. At this time there aren't very many open-source vendors, but it seems like there is demand for commercially supported open-source software, and demand generates supply.
Clueless multinational fortune 500 music companies keep paying for them, and they have cash to burn when they are selling millions of albums for $17.99.
Copy protection is alive and well in the game industry. In fact the last time I checked there are two copy protection schemes for computer games that no one has broken yet.
This doesn't necessarily translate to the music CD market. A music CD is basically just data, and it must continue to work with some extremely old devices. This eliminates many of the hooks that a software protection scheme can use.
You mean president@whitehouse.com is not Bush's email address? From the replies I got I thought we finally had a president I could relate with. He had nothing but optimism for the economy and seemed supportive of personal rights. Although I never understood why the President needed my credit card number...
PCI-X will be a high-frequency serial interface, like RAMBUS. Isn't AGP a dedicated parallel port to the north bridge? It seems likely to me that the latency of AGP is lower than that of PCI-X, and latency is very important for graphics.
Not that it matters. Every new MB will have AGP8x built-in whether you want it or not, which means it is basically a free feature.
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Too bad most sport bikes look like ass. It's hard to look cool riding a bright neon toy.
Every password-protected site requires a separate registration process. Wouldn't it be simpler to cache registration information on a central server?
The obvious disadvantage to this is that a poorly designed system could release personal info to unscrupulous businesses. A well-designed system could show you which fields a particular site wanted and ask for your approval. Better yet you could configure your account to release different levels of info to sites based on their privacy policy.
Good question. I remember reading that a good lip-reader can only interpret 50% of what someone else is saying. So even a crappy speech to text system shouldn't have too much trouble beating that.
Yes, these Earthlings are highly irrational. They will be no match for our emotionless clone warriors, who have not been exposed to useless frivolities like music and relationships.
Only one CM5? I've got two, one for each channel since I like to listen to music in stereo.
I didn't know Benadryl was slang for weed. Someone should tell her that smoking pot is actually bad for her allergies.
Thanks for stealing my comment! How am I going to be funny now?
Exactly which graphics card manufacturer do you work for? The only reason you would say this is to sell video cards, because cutting production of the Ti4600 makes no sense. What would Nvidia sell someone who wants to pay more than $100 for a Ti4200 and less than $400 for a GeForce FX? Are you proposing that Nvidia is just conceding that market to ATI?
This reminds me of my old job. At the time memory prices were steadily dropping. We were told to recommend that customers buy memory now because the trend towards lower prices could reverse tomorrow. I guess it is hard to come up with a good excuse for someone to pay more now rather than less later.
Way back in the day I could buy a joystick and it would work for my Commodore 64, an Atari 2600, and even my Sega Genesis (with only one button though). Any of these machines could be hooked up to a TV using the same RF box with a slider switch to send the console/computer signal on channel 3/4. Even the power supplies for several of my old consoles are interchangeable.
Nowadays the console makers are so greedy everything is proprietary. There isn't a single connection on a Dreamcast, PS2, GameCube or XBox that is interchangeable with a rival unit. The PS2 is reasonably compatible with the PSOne, which probably means that Sony puts the accessories for both platforms in the same accounting bucket.
It seems like companies are only sued for price dumping if they have already succeeded in driving their competitors out of that business. If (and it is a very big if indeed) Microsoft actually wins the console wars then Sony may be able to sue them after its too late.
The real problem is that we continue to let Microsoft spend less than a billion dollars "improving" Windows (the client version) and Office and earn more than 5 billion dollars from that paltry investment. They can afford to corner the market in platinum boat anchors with that kinda cash. They could put 3 billion dollars in big trash bags and just burn it and still be the darling of American business. There has to be something illegal about that.
The trade rags may be sycophantic pole-smokers, but I'd like to think the Slashdot population is more fair than that. We have been kicking Microsoft square in the nuts about their lack of security for years now, so does it make sense to flipflop and start kicking them for taking security seriously?
Now if the article was more like "Microsoft breaks apps to implement security, offers expensive upgrades" then we could continue kicking M$'s family jewels guilt-free.
The whole ROM licensing issue is a game of pretend. The users pretend that they have a license for the ROMs they download. They do this using a click-through disclaimer during the download process. Meanwhile the copyright holders pretend that their ROMS have commercial value.
The reality is that the vast majority of users are stealing ROM data. But this is countered by the fact that the ROMs can't be monetized by the license holders anyway. Which brings up an interesting question: how can you steal something that isn't worth anything?
How about just GAME? I guess that would get confusing pretty quickly.
There have always been a lot of crappy one-hit wonder artists. We selectively remember the good artists from the past and forget the mediocre ones. There is still good music being made.
I would instead contend that people are spending more of their dollars on DVD movies and less on CDs. Why?
Your average DVD costs 15-20 dollars. So does the average premium CD. A movie is generally at least an hour and a half long, plus bonus materials. A CD is usually not much more than an hour long. And a movie is a much more engaging experience with video and surround sound. If consumers have limited dollars to spend on entertainment they will pick the better value.
The problem is that the music industry is operating from the premise that they are entitled to ever-increasing revenues on a mature technology that is being overtaken by something more exciting. The music industry needs to either spice up the product or get used to making less money.
Seems more likely that it is a weather baloon.
I agree that it is unreasonable to expect services for free. But that does not undermine the value proposition of the GPL.
One major problem with closed-source software vendors is that they get bought or go out of business. If you are a customer then generally you are stuck with a package of binaries that cannot be supported or upgraded. If your vendor was using open-source then you would have the option to pay someone else to maintain that code.
Another problem is getting new features added. If a closed-source vendor doesn't want to add your feature then that is tough luck for you. If your product is open-source then you can pay someone else or some other company to add the feature.
Open-source products give you more options because you are not tied to a particular vendor. At this time there aren't very many open-source vendors, but it seems like there is demand for commercially supported open-source software, and demand generates supply.
That is sad. Death is definitely considered harmful.
Clueless multinational fortune 500 music companies keep paying for them, and they have cash to burn when they are selling millions of albums for $17.99.
Copy protection is alive and well in the game industry. In fact the last time I checked there are two copy protection schemes for computer games that no one has broken yet.
This doesn't necessarily translate to the music CD market. A music CD is basically just data, and it must continue to work with some extremely old devices. This eliminates many of the hooks that a software protection scheme can use.
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You mean president@whitehouse.com is not Bush's email address? From the replies I got I thought we finally had a president I could relate with. He had nothing but optimism for the economy and seemed supportive of personal rights. Although I never understood why the President needed my credit card number...
PCI-X will be a high-frequency serial interface, like RAMBUS. Isn't AGP a dedicated parallel port to the north bridge? It seems likely to me that the latency of AGP is lower than that of PCI-X, and latency is very important for graphics.
Not that it matters. Every new MB will have AGP8x built-in whether you want it or not, which means it is basically a free feature.
I didn't know Bill Gates posted on Slashdot! He's the only one that could afford that kind of setup.
...And you can get three times as much hex dump on the same BSOD spread across 3 screens :)
You might as well quote benchmarks for AMD's new 8Ghz Unobtaineron; neither it nor any Athlon faster than the 2400+ are actually available.