First off, the nintendo power glove from the 80's used ultrasonic positioning to determine x,y,and z axis orientations so positioning via sound is not only not new....but not something sony did first.
Second, how exactly does the camera "see" sound? What is it tripping on acid? The wiimote uses a camera to see the the as you put it...primitive IR strip. Frankly I think it was a stroke of genius to make it so simple. Many times the simpler implementation turns out to be the most robust and reliable. With complexity comes additional vectors for failure.
Unfortunately, it doesn't matter if the consumer plays by the rules.
Most DRM issues are caused by interoperability problems between devices when manufacturers interpret the spec differently (THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME).
So now you have a consumer that can't access legally obtained content, has no option for recourse short of returning the offending hardware, or turning to gray market software to break or remove said DRM.
An individual has NO INFLUENCE on a corporation manufacturing hardware.
I like many consumers have been bitten bad by drm and other content "protection" schemes.
From my experience its not so much the DRM itself, but rather difference of opinions between the implementation and interpretation of the spec among the various hardware vendors.
Case in point. My home theater receiver is HDCP compliant, however it doesn't play nice with Vista. This forces me to use gray market software just so I can watch video on my projector. For the record I am not talking about just DVDs and HD disc based content. I can record an AVI with my digital camera and I will still get errors trying to play that content on my projector.
My main point is that its not necessarily the DRM itself that is the problem. HDCP "looks okay" on paper. However when you have a multitude of manufacturers interpreting the spec and the logistical impossibility of unit testing against everything else out there, ultimately its left up to the consumer to do the testing which will ALWAYS end up bad for the little guy. And there is NO WAY an individual user is going to have any teeth when a manufacturer doesn't play by the rules.
My last point is this.
DRM doesn't prevent piracy.
again...let me repeat that for the industry folks who are a little slow.
DRM DOESN'T PREVENT PIRACY.
It's kind of like network security.
The only truly secure computer is one that is sealed in concrete, has no keyboard, no monitor, no mouse, no network, and no power. If someone wants in bad enough, they will get in. Period.
The only truly secure content is that which is never distributed.
This is not a toy. It was actually designed by the same guy that created those professional star machines that look like some weird alien thing.
It uses an LED so its efficient. It will run you about 300US on ebay. I don't have one, Have never used one. But as a real amateur astronomer I am extremely interested because unlike the cheap "star projectors" the homestar puts white stars on a black background instead of the other way around like most of the cheapies.
It also has timer settings and can do a shooting star if you wish.
Obligatory YouTube Link gadgeteer review
I have also read that there is a new version coming out soon that will have stars in the correct colors for stars brighter than magnitude 4
My company has been using topographic and ground clutter data for years to calculate signal propagation. Is this news because they want to use the process for a different frequency range?
Amen. Don't get me started.
It seems to me that for the last 10 years CES has been preaching "Convergence Convergence Convergence".
Before now the largest problem has been the complete disparity between computer monitors and televisions. That line is quickly blurring and in many cases being destroyed all together.
Now we finally have HDMI switching receivers yet whenever you connect through them, Vista throws COPP errors and refuses to let you play despite the fact that you have gone out of your way to make sure that all your devices are HDCP compliant. This is my fundamental argument against blu-ray and DRM in general. I am willing to bet that I could take a sony VAIO, sony projector and sony receiver and still have problems with DRM. At least in that case they can't blame some other company. I am also getting a little tired of being told that my configuration is not supported. What the hell is the point if these devices aren't playing nice and what recourse does the consumer have.
The only reason blu-ray outsold hd-dvd is because of the PS3. If microsoft included HD-DVD things would be very different right now. The format war would still be waging. Personally I think Toshiba gave up too soon. I don't think blu-ray adoption is going to pick up that much. Everyone who wants it already has it and everyone else has their trusty dvd player and digital set top converter. I'd rather buy up the HD-DVDs at 12 bucks a pop, Rent the blu-rays from netflix and wait for the DRM to either get cracked wide open so I don't have to use gray market software to enjoy my legally purchased movies or DRM becomes outmoded and despised by the consumer.
Frankly I think there aren't enough people pissed off about it and until there are, we won't see it change.
I have 10-15 DS games. Traveling with them is a real PITA. Either I am hauling around a manpurse or pockets full of cartridges.
The ARRRR4 would allow me to load all of my games to a single cartridge thus reducing the risk of theft, loss, or damage. Sure I can always lose it too but I find its generally easier to keep track of one thing, especially when that one thing "lives" in a larger one thing than it is to keep track of lots of little ones.
For the record I am not deluded. I know that one of the primary uses for these things is piracy, however that is not their ONLY use. Further arguments on that subject would be semantics.
Sure M$ lowered the requirements to provide a little backscratching to Intel, a company which has historically given a tremendous amount of support to them. It makes business sense to keep your partner companies happy. They should have held back vista another year at least. This would have given them more time to make sure its right, allowed Intel to have an extra year on the 915 chipset and might have prevented this current backlash.
That being said, its not like someone at M$, or Intel for that matter, spec'd that machine for Toshiba.
If you're looking for reimbursement for having to pick up the slack from toshiba's poor design, you aren't going to get it from M$ and seeking it from them is misguided.
And lastly, who the hell buys a computer with less than at LEAST a gig of ram if not 2? Personally I would never purchase a machine that came with less than 2 gigs of ram these days, laptop or desktop irregardless of what OS I plan on running.
I don't think historically there has ever been a comet that has "eaten the sky".
Old drawings show them as huge things in the sky, however we can't really accept that as a true measure of scale.
Based on observations that have been made since photography was in widespread use, I doubt there has ever been a comet that has "swallowed the sky".
Some impressive displays no doubt(Halley's, Hale-Bopp, McNaught) but thats about the extent.
Sure, but my epic gear is on my character and soul bound, I can't sublet it.
I draw no income from owning said gear(which as we have established via the EULA, I do not actually own).
In fact, if they really wanted to tax me on it, they would end up owing me since my Wow habit is a total loss.
In which case I would deduct my monthly fees for my account, the electricity to run my machine for the hours I played that year(statistics which are easily obtainable), then theres the matter of the costs of my internet connection.
How about depreciation? The gear I got a year ago is not worth the same as the gear you can get today. Do I get to claim deprecation losses?
They can't have it both ways. If you want to tax my virtual possessions, make sure that I am actually gaining income otherwise I get to claim it as a loss.
We (my sister and I ) recently introduced her to the wonderful world of emulation....I get this phonecall from her one day because she can't figure out to play some strange platformer that my sister threw on there.....I made the comment about how I need to get her zelda or one of the other RPGs and she says "Yeah I am kind of interested in playing the warcraft game...." Go figure.
Sony wants to be number 1.
Sony also wants to control completely the technology, the media, and the content.
They have been agressively persuing this since the betamax days and they have yet to really figure it out.
Can someone name one benefit to memory stick that made it better than existing flash standards?
How about why it took so long for them to make an mp3 player, but not first without creating a new compression standard.
Or the battle for Blu-Ray? I am pretty sure that Sony sees the PS3 as the key to "beating" HD-DVD.
UMD....lets sell lower quality, proprietary format for more than the price of a DVD(umm DUH?)
Sony wants you to listen to your sony cds on your sony cd player and watch sony movies with your sony dvd player on your sony tv through your sony stereo. If they could get away with preventing you from using a non-sony approved product with any of thier products I whole heartedly believe they would. Thankfully even the most developmentally challenged of consumers wouldn't have this....I hope.
I like most of sony's products, but I agree that they are completely arrogant and do not consider the customer to be the primary driving force behind product development. They have this attitude of we are sony and can do what we want and everyone will still buy our stuff because we are sony no matter how much we crap all over our customers.
Now I don't doubt that Sony would love to be able to do this, but technically it would be very difficult and I think that the consumer backlash would really suprise sony.
Okay....heres the deal. MMO's force you to group to tackle quests and monsters that you can't handle alone. Some of these encounters are extremely complex requiring some form of gameplan in order to ensure survivability.
Personally I don't care where you from or what language you speak or how old you are. I DO however care whether or not you can understand enough to be a contributing member of the group. If I can't count on you to follow instructions because you don't understand....I can't count on you to not steal someone elses item that they have been working for. With some items taking upwards of 50 runs through the same dungeon, thats just not a chance I am willing to take.
I don't have hours and hours to play all the time so you can be damn sure that I am going to do a communication check at the beginning of a large run to make sure everyone understands thier part and the loot rules. Some people call this a farmer check and I can't say I don't disagree, but it is not designed to discriminate because they are chineese or french or mexican. If you can't communicate effectively then you are liability.
I have knowingly grouped with people from Japan and while thier english was broken they could communicate enough to get the job done and they played an active part in our group.
As far as dumping ads from gold selling services, I say good. Its kind of sketchy for a any publication to host ads for services which violate the terms of service for the games/services they review. They don't have banner ads for companies that will sell you a downloadable copy of autocad, windows xp or OfficeXP, how is gold selling any different?(yeah I guess theres the whole stolen and then sold vs bought and then sold, but if its not technically yours to sell in the first place....bah. I don't want to go down that road.)
Many legal precedents are started with similar but not identical cases.
This case sets a precident not only for Telemarketing but it could also be applied to SPAM. How many spammers have used the "The company I hired broke the law not me" argument? I could care less about the actual particulars of the ruling (How many violations and how much its going to cost them that is).
I am more interested in the ways that this can be used to take people like Soloway and any new wannabe Ralsky's out of the SPAM business. So many of them have been hiding behind the ignorance defense and hopefully this ruling will negate that tactic.
RTFA and look at the examples.
There are at least three different B&W versions which IMHO look pretty slick yet retain the style of the "fancy" version you so despise.
I feel that the monochrome versions are exactly what you cited as good examples. They would look good on a business card or letterhead.
Word of PDF take your pick. Good thing OpenOffice opens docs.(another discussion alltogether)
Essentially this is going to screw us all and the FCC really pisses me off lately. I would like to know just who our government really represents because lately it sure as hell doesn't feel like the people.
So basically all us outlaw DSL users that don't opt for the telco sponsored service have a year, after which who knows what will happen. The actual release is very vague and uses lots of references to common and non-common carrier wording. This kind of crap is really getting out of hand with the FCC.
Check out the statements from the people that made the descision. I understand the logic but the implimentation seems backwards. Heres the basic gist, cable companies get protection from leasing thier lines(which is why my cable bill is 120 bucks with no premium channels) Telcos do not currently have the same luxury.
Some choice quotes:
Kevin J Martin said: "I believe that, with the actions we take today, consumers will reap the benefits of
increased Internet access competition and enjoy innovative high-speed services at lower prices.
There is, however, more to do to stimulate infrastructure investment, broadband deployment, and
competition in the broadband market. I intend to tackle these challenges in the upcoming
months." Wow this guy makes some big claims....I wonder what those challenges are and how they intend to handle that.
Kathleen Q. Abernathy states:"And let there be no doubt: competition among broadband providers is flourishing. The
Commission's most recent statistics show that over 80% of zip codes in America are served by
two or more high-speed providers, about two-thirds are served by three or more, and over half are
served by four or more." Idea for the next slashdot poll. How many broadband providers serve you? If I cut out thirdparty ISPs like Speakeasy I have Qwest and Comcast. Thats two services run by a bunch of monkeys charging whatever the hell they want for thier service.
all of the statements made by the people that made the decision are full of "facts and figures" with no references to sources. The real driving force behind this decision is those peer to peer music stealing communist evil pirates that are taking the food from artists childrens mouth. The short statement likes the use of "legal devices" what is a legal device to access the internet? Is that defined somewhere? Children like Jermajesty(no I am not kidding lookit up)! THINK OF THE CHILDREN! This goes hand in hand with CALEA which is cited in the release as well.
I would run away to another county but thats not much better
The link is to the court documents pertaining to a larger anti-trust and anti-competitive lawsuit.
The first several pages are a very interesting history of the AMD - Intel relationship. I learned a few things that I didn't know before like AMD was one of the original companies vying for the IBM PC crown. The lawyers for AMD draw several similarities between Intel and some of the more famous monoplies from the industrial revolution like Standard Oil and Alcoa Aluminum...kinda ballsy actually.
The compiler isn't mentioned until page 40 of a 48 page doc so this is alot bigger than just a problem with a compiler.
I am going to play devils advocate here. Not that Intel isn't guilty as sin, but it seems that reading the court document that AMD has already won a lawsuit against them of a similar nature previously. IANAL but isn't this just the same thing re-heated and re-hashed or is this Intel using a different method to unfairly inhibit AMD's ability to market thier products and AMD fighting back as it has in the past?
Slashdot Mirror
First off, the nintendo power glove from the 80's used ultrasonic positioning to determine x,y,and z axis orientations so positioning via sound is not only not new....but not something sony did first.
Second, how exactly does the camera "see" sound? What is it tripping on acid? The wiimote uses a camera to see the the as you put it...primitive IR strip. Frankly I think it was a stroke of genius to make it so simple. Many times the simpler implementation turns out to be the most robust and reliable. With complexity comes additional vectors for failure.
Most DRM issues are caused by interoperability problems between devices when manufacturers interpret the spec differently (THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME).
So now you have a consumer that can't access legally obtained content, has no option for recourse short of returning the offending hardware, or turning to gray market software to break or remove said DRM.
An individual has NO INFLUENCE on a corporation manufacturing hardware.
From my experience its not so much the DRM itself, but rather difference of opinions between the implementation and interpretation of the spec among the various hardware vendors.
Case in point. My home theater receiver is HDCP compliant, however it doesn't play nice with Vista. This forces me to use gray market software just so I can watch video on my projector. For the record I am not talking about just DVDs and HD disc based content. I can record an AVI with my digital camera and I will still get errors trying to play that content on my projector.
My main point is that its not necessarily the DRM itself that is the problem. HDCP "looks okay" on paper. However when you have a multitude of manufacturers interpreting the spec and the logistical impossibility of unit testing against everything else out there, ultimately its left up to the consumer to do the testing which will ALWAYS end up bad for the little guy. And there is NO WAY an individual user is going to have any teeth when a manufacturer doesn't play by the rules.
My last point is this. DRM doesn't prevent piracy.
again...let me repeat that for the industry folks who are a little slow. DRM DOESN'T PREVENT PIRACY.
It's kind of like network security. The only truly secure computer is one that is sealed in concrete, has no keyboard, no monitor, no mouse, no network, and no power. If someone wants in bad enough, they will get in. Period.
The only truly secure content is that which is never distributed.
There will always be a better mouse.
This is not a toy. It was actually designed by the same guy that created those professional star machines that look like some weird alien thing.
It uses an LED so its efficient. It will run you about 300US on ebay. I don't have one, Have never used one. But as a real amateur astronomer I am extremely interested because unlike the cheap "star projectors" the homestar puts white stars on a black background instead of the other way around like most of the cheapies.
It also has timer settings and can do a shooting star if you wish.
Obligatory YouTube Link
gadgeteer review
I have also read that there is a new version coming out soon that will have stars in the correct colors for stars brighter than magnitude 4
Here's a link to the homepage for the messenger mission. http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/
And here's a link for the flyby 2 page http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/mer_flyby2.html
The software is called Decibel Planner
All the data we use is publicly available(although not free and definitely NOT cheap).
Before now the largest problem has been the complete disparity between computer monitors and televisions. That line is quickly blurring and in many cases being destroyed all together.
Now we finally have HDMI switching receivers yet whenever you connect through them, Vista throws COPP errors and refuses to let you play despite the fact that you have gone out of your way to make sure that all your devices are HDCP compliant. This is my fundamental argument against blu-ray and DRM in general. I am willing to bet that I could take a sony VAIO, sony projector and sony receiver and still have problems with DRM. At least in that case they can't blame some other company. I am also getting a little tired of being told that my configuration is not supported. What the hell is the point if these devices aren't playing nice and what recourse does the consumer have.
The only reason blu-ray outsold hd-dvd is because of the PS3. If microsoft included HD-DVD things would be very different right now. The format war would still be waging. Personally I think Toshiba gave up too soon. I don't think blu-ray adoption is going to pick up that much. Everyone who wants it already has it and everyone else has their trusty dvd player and digital set top converter. I'd rather buy up the HD-DVDs at 12 bucks a pop, Rent the blu-rays from netflix and wait for the DRM to either get cracked wide open so I don't have to use gray market software to enjoy my legally purchased movies or DRM becomes outmoded and despised by the consumer.
Frankly I think there aren't enough people pissed off about it and until there are, we won't see it change.
I have 10-15 DS games. Traveling with them is a real PITA. Either I am hauling around a manpurse or pockets full of cartridges.
The ARRRR4 would allow me to load all of my games to a single cartridge thus reducing the risk of theft, loss, or damage. Sure I can always lose it too but I find its generally easier to keep track of one thing, especially when that one thing "lives" in a larger one thing than it is to keep track of lots of little ones.
For the record I am not deluded. I know that one of the primary uses for these things is piracy, however that is not their ONLY use. Further arguments on that subject would be semantics.
The gist is that you load in the roms to flash memory and then insert the cartridge in your DS and then you can access and play the games as normal.
The R4 takes this a step further and allows you to use a microSD card.
While I think they have a case, the lack of action of previous iterations of flash carts might end up hurting them in the long run.
I think they need to do a little research first.
I got excited thinking someone presented a new form factor for powerbricks. I wish I could rate stories -5 lame.
Sure M$ lowered the requirements to provide a little backscratching to Intel, a company which has historically given a tremendous amount of support to them. It makes business sense to keep your partner companies happy. They should have held back vista another year at least. This would have given them more time to make sure its right, allowed Intel to have an extra year on the 915 chipset and might have prevented this current backlash.
That being said, its not like someone at M$, or Intel for that matter, spec'd that machine for Toshiba. If you're looking for reimbursement for having to pick up the slack from toshiba's poor design, you aren't going to get it from M$ and seeking it from them is misguided.
And lastly, who the hell buys a computer with less than at LEAST a gig of ram if not 2? Personally I would never purchase a machine that came with less than 2 gigs of ram these days, laptop or desktop irregardless of what OS I plan on running.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_McNaught
I don't think historically there has ever been a comet that has "eaten the sky".
Old drawings show them as huge things in the sky, however we can't really accept that as a true measure of scale.
Based on observations that have been made since photography was in widespread use, I doubt there has ever been a comet that has "swallowed the sky". Some impressive displays no doubt(Halley's, Hale-Bopp, McNaught) but thats about the extent.
I must have misread that because I thought it said fast mirrors..... :-)
Sure, but my epic gear is on my character and soul bound, I can't sublet it. I draw no income from owning said gear(which as we have established via the EULA, I do not actually own). In fact, if they really wanted to tax me on it, they would end up owing me since my Wow habit is a total loss. In which case I would deduct my monthly fees for my account, the electricity to run my machine for the hours I played that year(statistics which are easily obtainable), then theres the matter of the costs of my internet connection. How about depreciation? The gear I got a year ago is not worth the same as the gear you can get today. Do I get to claim deprecation losses? They can't have it both ways. If you want to tax my virtual possessions, make sure that I am actually gaining income otherwise I get to claim it as a loss.
We (my sister and I ) recently introduced her to the wonderful world of emulation....I get this phonecall from her one day because she can't figure out to play some strange platformer that my sister threw on there.....I made the comment about how I need to get her zelda or one of the other RPGs and she says "Yeah I am kind of interested in playing the warcraft game...." Go figure.
Interactive entertainment is where its at.
I had kicked my HSR Habit.....I was clean for 6 MONTHS!!!!
Strongbad 1
Office Productivity 0
They have been agressively persuing this since the betamax days and they have yet to really figure it out.
Can someone name one benefit to memory stick that made it better than existing flash standards?
How about why it took so long for them to make an mp3 player, but not first without creating a new compression standard.
Or the battle for Blu-Ray? I am pretty sure that Sony sees the PS3 as the key to "beating" HD-DVD.
UMD....lets sell lower quality, proprietary format for more than the price of a DVD(umm DUH?)
Sony wants you to listen to your sony cds on your sony cd player and watch sony movies with your sony dvd player on your sony tv through your sony stereo. If they could get away with preventing you from using a non-sony approved product with any of thier products I whole heartedly believe they would. Thankfully even the most developmentally challenged of consumers wouldn't have this....I hope.
I like most of sony's products, but I agree that they are completely arrogant and do not consider the customer to be the primary driving force behind product development. They have this attitude of we are sony and can do what we want and everyone will still buy our stuff because we are sony no matter how much we crap all over our customers.
Now I don't doubt that Sony would love to be able to do this, but technically it would be very difficult and I think that the consumer backlash would really suprise sony.
Personally I don't care where you from or what language you speak or how old you are. I DO however care whether or not you can understand enough to be a contributing member of the group. If I can't count on you to follow instructions because you don't understand....I can't count on you to not steal someone elses item that they have been working for. With some items taking upwards of 50 runs through the same dungeon, thats just not a chance I am willing to take.
I don't have hours and hours to play all the time so you can be damn sure that I am going to do a communication check at the beginning of a large run to make sure everyone understands thier part and the loot rules. Some people call this a farmer check and I can't say I don't disagree, but it is not designed to discriminate because they are chineese or french or mexican. If you can't communicate effectively then you are liability. I have knowingly grouped with people from Japan and while thier english was broken they could communicate enough to get the job done and they played an active part in our group.
As far as dumping ads from gold selling services, I say good. Its kind of sketchy for a any publication to host ads for services which violate the terms of service for the games/services they review. They don't have banner ads for companies that will sell you a downloadable copy of autocad, windows xp or OfficeXP, how is gold selling any different?(yeah I guess theres the whole stolen and then sold vs bought and then sold, but if its not technically yours to sell in the first place....bah. I don't want to go down that road.)
This case sets a precident not only for Telemarketing but it could also be applied to SPAM. How many spammers have used the "The company I hired broke the law not me" argument? I could care less about the actual particulars of the ruling (How many violations and how much its going to cost them that is).
I am more interested in the ways that this can be used to take people like Soloway and any new wannabe Ralsky's out of the SPAM business. So many of them have been hiding behind the ignorance defense and hopefully this ruling will negate that tactic.
I feel that the monochrome versions are exactly what you cited as good examples. They would look good on a business card or letterhead.
Which I might add is already running re-runs.....in a friday timeslot. For Shame!
20 things any geek worth his salt already knows
Word of PDF take your pick. Good thing OpenOffice opens docs.(another discussion alltogether)
Essentially this is going to screw us all and the FCC really pisses me off lately. I would like to know just who our government really represents because lately it sure as hell doesn't feel like the people.
So basically all us outlaw DSL users that don't opt for the telco sponsored service have a year, after which who knows what will happen. The actual release is very vague and uses lots of references to common and non-common carrier wording. This kind of crap is really getting out of hand with the FCC.
Check out the statements from the people that made the descision. I understand the logic but the implimentation seems backwards. Heres the basic gist, cable companies get protection from leasing thier lines(which is why my cable bill is 120 bucks with no premium channels) Telcos do not currently have the same luxury.
Some choice quotes: Kevin J Martin said: "I believe that, with the actions we take today, consumers will reap the benefits of increased Internet access competition and enjoy innovative high-speed services at lower prices. There is, however, more to do to stimulate infrastructure investment, broadband deployment, and competition in the broadband market. I intend to tackle these challenges in the upcoming months." Wow this guy makes some big claims....I wonder what those challenges are and how they intend to handle that.
Kathleen Q. Abernathy states:"And let there be no doubt: competition among broadband providers is flourishing. The Commission's most recent statistics show that over 80% of zip codes in America are served by two or more high-speed providers, about two-thirds are served by three or more, and over half are served by four or more." Idea for the next slashdot poll. How many broadband providers serve you? If I cut out thirdparty ISPs like Speakeasy I have Qwest and Comcast. Thats two services run by a bunch of monkeys charging whatever the hell they want for thier service.
all of the statements made by the people that made the decision are full of "facts and figures" with no references to sources. The real driving force behind this decision is those peer to peer music stealing communist evil pirates that are taking the food from artists childrens mouth. The short statement likes the use of "legal devices" what is a legal device to access the internet? Is that defined somewhere? Children like Jermajesty(no I am not kidding lookit up)! THINK OF THE CHILDREN! This goes hand in hand with CALEA which is cited in the release as well.
I would run away to another county but thats not much better
The first several pages are a very interesting history of the AMD - Intel relationship. I learned a few things that I didn't know before like AMD was one of the original companies vying for the IBM PC crown. The lawyers for AMD draw several similarities between Intel and some of the more famous monoplies from the industrial revolution like Standard Oil and Alcoa Aluminum...kinda ballsy actually.
The compiler isn't mentioned until page 40 of a 48 page doc so this is alot bigger than just a problem with a compiler.
I am going to play devils advocate here. Not that Intel isn't guilty as sin, but it seems that reading the court document that AMD has already won a lawsuit against them of a similar nature previously. IANAL but isn't this just the same thing re-heated and re-hashed or is this Intel using a different method to unfairly inhibit AMD's ability to market thier products and AMD fighting back as it has in the past?
Discuss....