Ironically,short term Treasury securities are paying around those rates recently. And if you want to get something a bit longer than a year, it's there. And the risk is much lower than a 3 percent default rate. You can purchase these as well online from TreasuryDirect. For free. Don't even have to participate in competitive bidding if you have less than like 5 million to invest. Sounds like a crappy deal indeed.
Hey, it might be worth it to take over the credit card's role in these idiot's lives. Except, the CC has nifty legal ways of circumventing things like defaults and bankruptcies.
While I do enjoy the overall complaint, I must point out that A, B, X, Y, L, R only makes reasonable sense in English (or maybe general european) langauges. For the rest of the world, they're just wierd english letters. Like if they used Cyrillic for the keys, really. Of course, many people world over know English. But Triangle works about as well. The only benefit is for those of us who speak english, ABXYLR is eaiser to type than XOSTLR.
Mostly, I think it was a marketing gimmick to differentiate themselves from the crowd, by putting in colors and shapes instead of unimaginative, otherwise indistinguishable buttons. The Cube controller took these two concepts to the next level, by making the buttons themselves (instead of their labels) distinguishable. When the screen says press A, you dont have to look down and think, "which one's A." You see the big green button on the screen, look down, and there's a big green button same goes for B, Z. L/R and X/Y are a bit tricky; their orientation can distinguish themselves, but I'd say the name information on screen is equally helpful in these cases.
Ever notice how rarely Torvalds responds to slashdot? In fact, I believe he's even suggested that kernel developers should pay no heed to it. Probably a pretty intelligent move, assuming aruging on lkml is less like "arguing on the internet" than slashdot.
Earth to reality: reverse engineering, while not simple, is feasible. If there's such a tremendous competitive demand for that information, what makes you think their competitors aren't already looking at it?
Does anyone besides open source zealots care about open drivers? I think so. Perhaps if Nvidia and ATi had open sourced their drivers, Xgl wouldn't have taken so long to exist (Xgl requires a certain level of driver support, and aiglx even more so). I'm pretty sure you'd have liked this just as much 4 years ago, when I first saw people talking about things like openGL accellerated gtk widgets, and otherwise imagining how to use 3d to its best. But 4 years ago, you were writing off a large group of people by doing that.
Furthermore, installing drivers for your ethernet, cd drive, etc is very simple on linux, because the drivers are open source and in kernel. Attempting to maintain a glue between the kernel and your driver is painful and prone to failure; unlike in tree drivers, when someone else breaks code you depended on, you have to fix it, not them. Recall that nvidia's nforce2 boards are better supported in the kernel than by nVidia itself! With no documents to support them in their efforts, even. I hear they even now recommend the reverse engineered driver over their own, but don't distribute or improve, oddly. If nvidia's drivers were GPL'd, installing them would be as simple as installing anything else.
It's pretty naive to think that their IP is so valuable that the source code would disclose it any more than the underlying binary code does. Their IP is already in jeopardy by distributing the software. One of the many reasons I suspect they have no intention of participating in OSS is that there's a number of speed over quality decisions written into it that would be exposed, perhaps even application specific optimizations. While this could be neat to have optimized drivers on a per game basis, this is never disclosed to the public (and when revealed sparks not applause but public humiliation). Furthermore, it means that optimizations are done on their terms, not the public's. Any application specific optimizations are given only to a specific application, with no cross over improvement in other applications, or the ability to make the change. If NVIDIA really wanted to share their drivers with the public and gain all the benefits often touted, they'd stop pointing at other people's IP they own and begin to change it. They haven't, and they won't. What nefarious secrets lie within? Perhaps just a case of "this stuff is really hard, and we don't do it very well?"
Just a thought -- if you dislike the open source spirit as embodied by the GPL, why not do something productive about it, like make a liveCD based on BSD running Xgl. There's nvidia drivers for BSD too, ya know. And for all the talk about pressuring vendors to open their code, they have no qualms about giving it away reguardless with no expectation of anything in return. Linux needs to focus on being Linux, not beating Redmond.
The good news is that I suspect the person who wrote to Kororaa doesn't actually have any basis for the claim. While nvidia's legality has been on shady grounds, the message published doesn't provide any insightful evidence in either direction. Anyone seriously familiar with the kernel and binary objects should be familiar with the recurring arguments and whatnot. It's clear to me that if the drivers themselves were in violation, nvidia would have been sued some time ago.
Clearly a secret identity is insufficient to protect your money. Debit cards are widely accepted; I wonder what motivates a retailer or credit company to allow signatures as authentication in this day and age, if not to profit from fraudulent purchases.
It makes the news in America, but it's only ever presented in in one form: Gas Prices. That's about the extent of financial knowledge in America. Start to bring up inflation into the picture and nobody cares anymore, too damn hard to figure out.
"Core inflation is low, but overall is high." "Doesn't that just mean the cost of oil is going up?" "Who cares, Deal or No Deal is back on."
Do game developers need a union? The market appears to have set the standard for health, time off and other benefits quite low. Nobody doubts these employee's abilities to 'deliver value to the boss and the company' but surely 80 hour work weeks are something the unions put a long struggle against. I wonder how much longer these practice can be quarantined to the game development industry before seeping into the rest of the software development community.
Bringing up the constitution in a civil matter is nonsense. That's like saying the NDA you signed is invalid because of the first amendment. The Constitution is a set of rules (and limits) to our government. Fedex, not being part of the legislative, judicial or executive branches is not subject to that. Basically, Fedex has to sign a contract or make some statement that they WONT search your goods or turn them over to the feds before you can even claim to be harmed by the action.
It doesn't matter where they start out, as long as they all end up in the US. With that in mind Americans should be careful that their state remains as free and attractive as it's been in the past.
If we're going to switch over to what is essentially a food burning system, then we can't be playing games about which farmer is more important--every one of them will be needed. What we should do is, worldwide, encourage the best use of land. It appears that the US is better suited to produce lots of grains and corn, and Brazil (and many other equatorial states) sugar cane. What should happen then is that Brazil produces more cane, and imports food goods like corn and beef. Tarriffs distort this optimal usage by discouraging these sorts of trades.
American farmers will likely feel a crunch if foreign competition is their domestic market isn't compensated by a new foreign market. So the tricky part is getting Brazil to reduce their own tarriffs at the same time. The WSJ article is desperately short on this aspect of the bill, and how the Brazil market currently stands tarriff wise.
If the referees are allowing anecdotal evidence, allow me to offer a rebuttal to your argument: apparently the biggest add-in with the japanese launch of the ps2 wasn't any of the games, but the Matrix DVD. Some local rental places had "PS2 compatible" stickers on their DVD offerings (seems the initial revision had some playback problems, or some initial disks weren't very DVD-like). Clearly some amount of demand was brought to market was linked with the PS2. I might suggest that UMD was simply a stupid idea. A portable that's barely able to play back a movie on a single charge on a small screen just doesn't appeal to many people. I suspect the video ipod is doing equally poorly.
In contrast, videogames consoles are typically played on large home screens, and are already driving demand for some of the components HD-DVD and bluray need to make a difference over regular DVDs. Yes, DVD represented an uncharactaristic pick for Sony: DVD was broader, capable of playing on computers and other devices, and not controlled by them. This is in contrast to miniCDs, memory sticks, UMD and a couple other brilliant marketplace innovative abortions. That people might consider using the ps3 to watch a movie is a bit more likely than a PSP, I believe.
You're partly right, I dont think adults will go out and purchase a ps3 to play movies with it. But I don't think its because they're afraid of digital convergence, but rather because they don't play games. It's not like you're gonna see people in line at best buy with a ps3 and a standalone player, because they don't get convergence. Or people listening to a walkman in their automobile. And I don't think you'll have the VHS deathgrip problem because there's no technical reason you can't use the same device to play DVDs that you do blue ray / hddvd.
Again, drawing on my own experience working on a team project for class, there's considerable need for practice crafting good sentences. Clear, concise, unambiguous sentences that further some goal. As our team's editor, I saw copious amounts of butchered verbiage, but it tended to follow the standard essay format. The problems were that individual sentences needed two or more readings to clarify, and some resisted my best efforts entirely.
When my technical writing instructor wanted to get this across, she used a simple, oft repeated phrase "If it can be interpreted in more than one way, it's wrong."
There's a lot of "Eva sucks" posts here at the moment. They're right of course; Eva featured some pretty awful characters, crashed and burned on the ending etc. But the point of the article isn't that Eva was a fantastic work of literature. Rather, Eva was the genesis of a new form of shows, unafraid of losing the children's audience in the pursuit of creating something wonderful. Whether Eva itself accomplished this is moot; the point is that it inspired a broad following within the author's community to create new and wonderful things.
Think of it this way: without Eva, FLCL couldn't have been made.
I donno about NYSE, but Nasdaq is shooting for guarenteed transaction times in under 100 ms. Guarenteed, not "as long as you're not idling in ironforge / trading in Treasury Bonds." And they don't have the luxury of dividing the accounts up into trading groups / Realms. Yes, WoW is larger than your average video game system, more complex, and provides a high degree of interaction. But it's really not so far beyond everything else that they appear as ants. Moreover, many of the actors in the system are incredibly simple rules based automata, easily scalable or transferrable to a seperate process / computer.
Your response indicates a grave miscommunication of the difference between the way financial transaction systems operate and the amount of actual work done by a video game server.
Your thinking is entirely wrong here: lets hope its not too late for urban driving! Watching cars move on a road at high speeds is boring. Watching those nascars hit the wall and spin around at 200 mph however, entertainment!
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I'm pretty sure your SSN is linked to your Credit Report from the big 3. That said, an authentication it is not. More like a numerical name.
Ironically,short term Treasury securities are paying around those rates recently. And if you want to get something a bit longer than a year, it's there. And the risk is much lower than a 3 percent default rate. You can purchase these as well online from TreasuryDirect. For free. Don't even have to participate in competitive bidding if you have less than like 5 million to invest. Sounds like a crappy deal indeed.
Hey, it might be worth it to take over the credit card's role in these idiot's lives. Except, the CC has nifty legal ways of circumventing things like defaults and bankruptcies.
Ironically, when SNES9x was harrassed by lawyers, that all stopped the day they GPL'd the code.
Of course, all the drivers in MINIX2 are built into the kernel, and user programs dont have direct hardware access.
While I do enjoy the overall complaint, I must point out that A, B, X, Y, L, R only makes reasonable sense in English (or maybe general european) langauges. For the rest of the world, they're just wierd english letters. Like if they used Cyrillic for the keys, really. Of course, many people world over know English. But Triangle works about as well. The only benefit is for those of us who speak english, ABXYLR is eaiser to type than XOSTLR.
Mostly, I think it was a marketing gimmick to differentiate themselves from the crowd, by putting in colors and shapes instead of unimaginative, otherwise indistinguishable buttons. The Cube controller took these two concepts to the next level, by making the buttons themselves (instead of their labels) distinguishable. When the screen says press A, you dont have to look down and think, "which one's A." You see the big green button on the screen, look down, and there's a big green button same goes for B, Z. L/R and X/Y are a bit tricky; their orientation can distinguish themselves, but I'd say the name information on screen is equally helpful in these cases.
Ever notice how rarely Torvalds responds to slashdot? In fact, I believe he's even suggested that kernel developers should pay no heed to it. Probably a pretty intelligent move, assuming aruging on lkml is less like "arguing on the internet" than slashdot.
With modules, you don't get a warm fuzzy feeling inside, telling you that microkernels are truly superior.
Earth to reality: reverse engineering, while not simple, is feasible. If there's such a tremendous competitive demand for that information, what makes you think their competitors aren't already looking at it?
Does anyone besides open source zealots care about open drivers? I think so. Perhaps if Nvidia and ATi had open sourced their drivers, Xgl wouldn't have taken so long to exist (Xgl requires a certain level of driver support, and aiglx even more so). I'm pretty sure you'd have liked this just as much 4 years ago, when I first saw people talking about things like openGL accellerated gtk widgets, and otherwise imagining how to use 3d to its best. But 4 years ago, you were writing off a large group of people by doing that.
Furthermore, installing drivers for your ethernet, cd drive, etc is very simple on linux, because the drivers are open source and in kernel. Attempting to maintain a glue between the kernel and your driver is painful and prone to failure; unlike in tree drivers, when someone else breaks code you depended on, you have to fix it, not them. Recall that nvidia's nforce2 boards are better supported in the kernel than by nVidia itself! With no documents to support them in their efforts, even. I hear they even now recommend the reverse engineered driver over their own, but don't distribute or improve, oddly. If nvidia's drivers were GPL'd, installing them would be as simple as installing anything else.
It's pretty naive to think that their IP is so valuable that the source code would disclose it any more than the underlying binary code does. Their IP is already in jeopardy by distributing the software. One of the many reasons I suspect they have no intention of participating in OSS is that there's a number of speed over quality decisions written into it that would be exposed, perhaps even application specific optimizations. While this could be neat to have optimized drivers on a per game basis, this is never disclosed to the public (and when revealed sparks not applause but public humiliation). Furthermore, it means that optimizations are done on their terms, not the public's. Any application specific optimizations are given only to a specific application, with no cross over improvement in other applications, or the ability to make the change. If NVIDIA really wanted to share their drivers with the public and gain all the benefits often touted, they'd stop pointing at other people's IP they own and begin to change it. They haven't, and they won't. What nefarious secrets lie within? Perhaps just a case of "this stuff is really hard, and we don't do it very well?"
Just a thought -- if you dislike the open source spirit as embodied by the GPL, why not do something productive about it, like make a liveCD based on BSD running Xgl. There's nvidia drivers for BSD too, ya know. And for all the talk about pressuring vendors to open their code, they have no qualms about giving it away reguardless with no expectation of anything in return. Linux needs to focus on being Linux, not beating Redmond.
The good news is that I suspect the person who wrote to Kororaa doesn't actually have any basis for the claim. While nvidia's legality has been on shady grounds, the message published doesn't provide any insightful evidence in either direction. Anyone seriously familiar with the kernel and binary objects should be familiar with the recurring arguments and whatnot. It's clear to me that if the drivers themselves were in violation, nvidia would have been sued some time ago.
Then I guess it's even more Rumpelstiltskin-y than I imagined.
Clearly a secret identity is insufficient to protect your money. Debit cards are widely accepted; I wonder what motivates a retailer or credit company to allow signatures as authentication in this day and age, if not to profit from fraudulent purchases.
It makes the news in America, but it's only ever presented in in one form: Gas Prices. That's about the extent of financial knowledge in America. Start to bring up inflation into the picture and nobody cares anymore, too damn hard to figure out.
"Core inflation is low, but overall is high."
"Doesn't that just mean the cost of oil is going up?"
"Who cares, Deal or No Deal is back on."
Do game developers need a union? The market appears to have set the standard for health, time off and other benefits quite low. Nobody doubts these employee's abilities to 'deliver value to the boss and the company' but surely 80 hour work weeks are something the unions put a long struggle against. I wonder how much longer these practice can be quarantined to the game development industry before seeping into the rest of the software development community.
Bringing up the constitution in a civil matter is nonsense. That's like saying the NDA you signed is invalid because of the first amendment. The Constitution is a set of rules (and limits) to our government. Fedex, not being part of the legislative, judicial or executive branches is not subject to that. Basically, Fedex has to sign a contract or make some statement that they WONT search your goods or turn them over to the feds before you can even claim to be harmed by the action.
It doesn't matter where they start out, as long as they all end up in the US. With that in mind Americans should be careful that their state remains as free and attractive as it's been in the past.
If we're going to switch over to what is essentially a food burning system, then we can't be playing games about which farmer is more important--every one of them will be needed. What we should do is, worldwide, encourage the best use of land. It appears that the US is better suited to produce lots of grains and corn, and Brazil (and many other equatorial states) sugar cane. What should happen then is that Brazil produces more cane, and imports food goods like corn and beef. Tarriffs distort this optimal usage by discouraging these sorts of trades.
American farmers will likely feel a crunch if foreign competition is their domestic market isn't compensated by a new foreign market. So the tricky part is getting Brazil to reduce their own tarriffs at the same time. The WSJ article is desperately short on this aspect of the bill, and how the Brazil market currently stands tarriff wise.
If the referees are allowing anecdotal evidence, allow me to offer a rebuttal to your argument: apparently the biggest add-in with the japanese launch of the ps2 wasn't any of the games, but the Matrix DVD. Some local rental places had "PS2 compatible" stickers on their DVD offerings (seems the initial revision had some playback problems, or some initial disks weren't very DVD-like). Clearly some amount of demand was brought to market was linked with the PS2. I might suggest that UMD was simply a stupid idea. A portable that's barely able to play back a movie on a single charge on a small screen just doesn't appeal to many people. I suspect the video ipod is doing equally poorly.
In contrast, videogames consoles are typically played on large home screens, and are already driving demand for some of the components HD-DVD and bluray need to make a difference over regular DVDs. Yes, DVD represented an uncharactaristic pick for Sony: DVD was broader, capable of playing on computers and other devices, and not controlled by them. This is in contrast to miniCDs, memory sticks, UMD and a couple other brilliant marketplace innovative abortions. That people might consider using the ps3 to watch a movie is a bit more likely than a PSP, I believe.
You're partly right, I dont think adults will go out and purchase a ps3 to play movies with it. But I don't think its because they're afraid of digital convergence, but rather because they don't play games. It's not like you're gonna see people in line at best buy with a ps3 and a standalone player, because they don't get convergence. Or people listening to a walkman in their automobile. And I don't think you'll have the VHS deathgrip problem because there's no technical reason you can't use the same device to play DVDs that you do blue ray / hddvd.
Holographic media's been "ready to hit the shelves next year" for 5. Keep waiting.
Again, drawing on my own experience working on a team project for class, there's considerable need for practice crafting good sentences. Clear, concise, unambiguous sentences that further some goal. As our team's editor, I saw copious amounts of butchered verbiage, but it tended to follow the standard essay format. The problems were that individual sentences needed two or more readings to clarify, and some resisted my best efforts entirely.
When my technical writing instructor wanted to get this across, she used a simple, oft repeated phrase "If it can be interpreted in more than one way, it's wrong."
Sociopathic, is what it is. No other rational explaination for why everyone else's employee's resumes should be searchable and their's shouldn't.
There's a lot of "Eva sucks" posts here at the moment. They're right of course; Eva featured some pretty awful characters, crashed and burned on the ending etc. But the point of the article isn't that Eva was a fantastic work of literature. Rather, Eva was the genesis of a new form of shows, unafraid of losing the children's audience in the pursuit of creating something wonderful. Whether Eva itself accomplished this is moot; the point is that it inspired a broad following within the author's community to create new and wonderful things.
Think of it this way: without Eva, FLCL couldn't have been made.
I donno about NYSE, but Nasdaq is shooting for guarenteed transaction times in under 100 ms. Guarenteed, not "as long as you're not idling in ironforge / trading in Treasury Bonds." And they don't have the luxury of dividing the accounts up into trading groups / Realms. Yes, WoW is larger than your average video game system, more complex, and provides a high degree of interaction. But it's really not so far beyond everything else that they appear as ants. Moreover, many of the actors in the system are incredibly simple rules based automata, easily scalable or transferrable to a seperate process / computer.
Your response indicates a grave miscommunication of the difference between the way financial transaction systems operate and the amount of actual work done by a video game server.
However, the compiler does bleat when you compare a constant to a function pointer. Because everyone uses -Wall, right?
Your thinking is entirely wrong here: lets hope its not too late for urban driving! Watching cars move on a road at high speeds is boring. Watching those nascars hit the wall and spin around at 200 mph however, entertainment!