That is exactly what the story is about, they rolled that right into the OS this time (technically, into Windows Defender, which is enabled by default).
Of course there are fewer suits per patent, because there are literally 5 times the number of patent applications as there were 30 years ago. That means nothing. Deceitful bastard of a lawyer... but I repeat myself.
And of course I don't need to address the "if it wasn't a good idea, we wouldn't be succeeding", around here, do I? So damned fallacious. It's like saying being fat isn't bad for you because people now live longer than they did 100 years ago. A does not follow from B.
Holy shit, what is that, 2 FPS in that Haswell demo? That's a slide-show, not a demo. Sure, it can run Unigine at 8 watts, but if you need 80 watts to actually make that smooth, I'm not impressed. Merely being able to run a demo like that isn't impressive. Plus, you know, CPU performance != graphics performance, so you are comparing the proverbial apples to oranges anyways.
Not exactly. Audio CDs are fundamentally digital, which means that you are representing a smooth curve with a (non-infinite) series of square blocks. It'll never be perfect no matter what you do. The only sound you can record digitally with perfection is from a digital source... which you will note is typically looked down on in most kinds of music (at least, most music that you would consider listening to on vinyl), and for good reason. Music is almost always fundamentally analog, so recording it using an analog technique makes a lot of sense, from a purist point of view.
If China doesn't want to have open communication with the rest of the world, oh well. The internet isn't for everybody, however I've got to ask where are the Chinese people in all this if they truly care?
The ones who actually do something are either in the ground, in prison, or at the business end of an AK-47 in a "fun-time all-day (and all-night) exercise party" in fields or factories, or, if lucky, simple unemployed. The ones who care but don't do anything are, well, not doing anything, for fear of ending up in the first group. That's why Internet access is useful, it allows them to speak out with less fear of getting caught.
Yes, yes we do. We have the right to say "that is wrong, you should stop that." Everyone does, about the actions of any political group (although they may be wrong, they have the right to say it). That's one of the things that "freedom of speech" and it's very very close partner "freedom of conscience", is all about.
It has nothing to do with what Apple does or does not think. In fact, the court wasn't even forcing them to "lie" or even apologize, properly speaking, it is forcing them to publicly set the record straight about the facts of the case, which is that Samsung was found to not be copying them after Apple claimed they were. It's a correction of the public record, not an apology.
Guns, assault rifles, knives, mace spray, tazers, baseball bats, and realistic 3rd person shooters... good.
I'm thinking one or two of these things are not quite like the others (hint: it's the last things on your list, seriously how is a wooden stick even close to the same as a gun?). However, there is a radical difference between a gun, which is not marketed as a toy, and a magnet set, which is. Like the difference between a toy oven and a real one: the former is subject to regulation about temperature and ability to touch the heating element, because it is likely to be used by a child, while the latter is not, because children are rarely bought full-size ovens for their 8th birthday.
And the fact that you can't make that distinction is part of the problem in the first place.
This has nothing to do with graphics drivers at all, those were completely unaffected. It might impact implementation of some new server features on Linux, but it is strictly about CPU and related features, not APU or GPU stuff.
That's what I'd do. Calculate first to make sure that after taxes what I got was enough to live moderately comfortably for the rest of my life, with some margin for error, then sell for that if I could. Too much risk when building a business to assume it'll work, especially given the size of the players in the field. If you can't sell for enough, well then try to build the company up.
The fact that he has a server business at 19 says he is pretty motivated, though, which means he probably won't sell. He'll try to build it to get more money or a constant stream, motivated types usually do. Might work out, might not.
The Kinect has (and would probably use for identification anyways) an infrared camera. I doubt a photo would work on that very well. Better idea is just don't use the damned XBox for movies if it does this.
Newtonian physics. This will *suck*. This has been tried many times. It usually makes for a painful game to play. Its realistic but usually makes for a pinball machine sort of gameplay. I have played several of these games all the way thru. With a story as good as the original WC. But they were a horrible exercise of fuel management and strafing.
Depends, if he was going full 100% real physics I'd agree, but he isn't. He's going mostly accurate, but with enough leeway to actually make it fun, which is very much possible (I've played several games that have done it). And it isn't a full-on MMO, it's more of an instanced persistent set of servers, so griefing is unlikely to be an issue, and even if it is a "ghost town" you can still play the single-player story without caring. Besides, a game like this, the players themselves will be able to band together to shut down griefers, which is itself pretty awesome.
Not really. The kickstarted is currently trending towards 1.6 million alone, about double what it is now. Getting 5-6$ million is impossible, I'd expect them to hit around $4m based on the usual patterns for these games. If it trends like Project Eternity did, it'll hit around $5.5m, but that would take a large last minute rush... which an announcement of Linux support might do.
Yes? Why not? The loss of those mice sets back some research half a decade. That might mean 5 years when we could have saved people from cancer, which means a lot more deaths than Sandy caused directly. Maybe. Or maybe not. It's still relevant.
Does this mean that all of those copyrighted works I am hosting "in the cloud" are no longer the property of their respected copyright holders? I can see this being argued in all sorts of funny ways.
No no, see, because those rights holders have lots of very expensive lawyers on retainer. Do you? Thought not.
It says the first sentence of what the OP says, but not the second, which is false: the jamming issue was solved by re-arranging the keys, not by slowing down typists, in fact the arrangement allowed faster typing. So it doesn't say exactly what the OP said.
I have. There was a wolf in it, it ate the little boy.
Crying wolf a bit too early doesn't mean there's no wolf out there.
Right. So if you want to convince people of that fact, stop making claims you either a) can't back up, or b) simply aren't true (i.e. don't try to claim that weather=climate if and only if it supports your position, which both sides do all the time). Is the Earth getting warmer? Yes. Is human activity aiding that process? Yes. Is Sandy the result of human activity? We have no idea. Statistics doesn't work like that, you can't predict individual events. And global warming (all weather and climate, for that matter) is purely statistics. So stop attributing individual events to global warming (or "climate change", which I believe is the current trendy term for it).
It's one thing to do that. It's totally another to try to file a trademark suit against someone who already existed and has been using the mark for years before you. That isn't just intentional ignorance, that's deliberate dickishness. The correct practice is to use a different name in that region. Other very major companies do exactly that (I forget which, but at least one major chain store goes by a different name in one state due to this exact issue), but Apple doesn't want to follow the rules.
It's a good thing that they demand this of Microsoft. I mean, without setting this precedent, how else could we be offered the chance to freely and without jumping over hurdles obtain Firefox (or Chrome, for that matter) on our iPhones?
The iPhone is, in the US at least, at ~33% market share. Come back when they have a 80-90% and I (and the regulators) might start listening.
Why would anyone in their right mind place generators and tanks below ground where flooding would be an issue?
Lets see how you feel with a few thousand gallons of highly flammable liquid suspended above your head, in a building with lots of electricity running through it, where an earthquake is more likely than flooding in the basement. And that is ignoring the possibility of deliberate sabotage. A building with fuel stored above ground level where something went wrong would turn rather quickly into a giant pillar of flame. If one of the tanks gets ruptured, all it takes is a single spark to kill hundreds or thousands.
Below ground, however, fire-fighters can deal with it relatively easily, and the flames won't descend to engulf the entire building in a matter of a few minutes.
After reading the article, I really think that SurfCast is right in suing Microsoft. It seems to be the same thing and it's a novel way of doing things.
It doesn't even matter how valid the patent is, really (although given it is software and... well, a tile display is not novel no matter how you dress it up), what really makes a troll a troll is that they have no products. Surfcast has none, and from what I understand, never did. Therefore, they are patent trolls.
And consider yourself fortunate. In my country, it's three strikes, and it's enshrined in law thanks to your fucking government.
No, it's enshrined in law thanks to your government. Presuming you live in anything like a democracy, it's your (and your compatriots) fault you elected a government that bows down to another government, if in fact that is what happened. Much more likely is that they bowed down to the corporations directly, of course, likely a local branch, possibly even, completely unconnected to "his" government, such as BREIN.
On a side note, why do you presume to know what government he lives under? Non-US citizens bitch about Slashdot assuming their readers live in the US, and yet it seems even the non-US readers do so. Interesting, that (or maybe you know the OP lives in the US from another source, in which case ignore this paragraph).
If a 3.8% advantage is "massive", what words do you reserve for things that have advantages/improvements on the order of 50%+?
That's 3.8% after Valve improved the OpenGL version using what they'd learned from Linux. It's 20% going from DirectX Windows to OpenGL Linux. That's pretty close to massive, considering the vast amounts of work and money MS has poured into developing DirectX and Windows in general.
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That is exactly what the story is about, they rolled that right into the OS this time (technically, into Windows Defender, which is enabled by default).
Of course there are fewer suits per patent, because there are literally 5 times the number of patent applications as there were 30 years ago. That means nothing. Deceitful bastard of a lawyer... but I repeat myself.
And of course I don't need to address the "if it wasn't a good idea, we wouldn't be succeeding", around here, do I? So damned fallacious. It's like saying being fat isn't bad for you because people now live longer than they did 100 years ago. A does not follow from B.
Holy shit, what is that, 2 FPS in that Haswell demo? That's a slide-show, not a demo. Sure, it can run Unigine at 8 watts, but if you need 80 watts to actually make that smooth, I'm not impressed. Merely being able to run a demo like that isn't impressive. Plus, you know, CPU performance != graphics performance, so you are comparing the proverbial apples to oranges anyways.
Not exactly. Audio CDs are fundamentally digital, which means that you are representing a smooth curve with a (non-infinite) series of square blocks. It'll never be perfect no matter what you do. The only sound you can record digitally with perfection is from a digital source... which you will note is typically looked down on in most kinds of music (at least, most music that you would consider listening to on vinyl), and for good reason. Music is almost always fundamentally analog, so recording it using an analog technique makes a lot of sense, from a purist point of view.
If China doesn't want to have open communication with the rest of the world, oh well. The internet isn't for everybody, however I've got to ask where are the Chinese people in all this if they truly care?
The ones who actually do something are either in the ground, in prison, or at the business end of an AK-47 in a "fun-time all-day (and all-night) exercise party" in fields or factories, or, if lucky, simple unemployed. The ones who care but don't do anything are, well, not doing anything, for fear of ending up in the first group. That's why Internet access is useful, it allows them to speak out with less fear of getting caught.
You have no right to judge.
Yes, yes we do. We have the right to say "that is wrong, you should stop that." Everyone does, about the actions of any political group (although they may be wrong, they have the right to say it). That's one of the things that "freedom of speech" and it's very very close partner "freedom of conscience", is all about.
It has nothing to do with what Apple does or does not think. In fact, the court wasn't even forcing them to "lie" or even apologize, properly speaking, it is forcing them to publicly set the record straight about the facts of the case, which is that Samsung was found to not be copying them after Apple claimed they were. It's a correction of the public record, not an apology.
Guns, assault rifles, knives, mace spray, tazers, baseball bats, and realistic 3rd person shooters... good.
I'm thinking one or two of these things are not quite like the others (hint: it's the last things on your list, seriously how is a wooden stick even close to the same as a gun?). However, there is a radical difference between a gun, which is not marketed as a toy, and a magnet set, which is. Like the difference between a toy oven and a real one: the former is subject to regulation about temperature and ability to touch the heating element, because it is likely to be used by a child, while the latter is not, because children are rarely bought full-size ovens for their 8th birthday.
And the fact that you can't make that distinction is part of the problem in the first place.
This has nothing to do with graphics drivers at all, those were completely unaffected. It might impact implementation of some new server features on Linux, but it is strictly about CPU and related features, not APU or GPU stuff.
Nvidia's announcement also indicated the Steam beta for Linux should be out today
I think Valve's announcement kinda indicated that too.
That's what I'd do. Calculate first to make sure that after taxes what I got was enough to live moderately comfortably for the rest of my life, with some margin for error, then sell for that if I could. Too much risk when building a business to assume it'll work, especially given the size of the players in the field. If you can't sell for enough, well then try to build the company up.
The fact that he has a server business at 19 says he is pretty motivated, though, which means he probably won't sell. He'll try to build it to get more money or a constant stream, motivated types usually do. Might work out, might not.
The Kinect has (and would probably use for identification anyways) an infrared camera. I doubt a photo would work on that very well. Better idea is just don't use the damned XBox for movies if it does this.
Newtonian physics. This will *suck*. This has been tried many times. It usually makes for a painful game to play. Its realistic but usually makes for a pinball machine sort of gameplay. I have played several of these games all the way thru. With a story as good as the original WC. But they were a horrible exercise of fuel management and strafing.
Depends, if he was going full 100% real physics I'd agree, but he isn't. He's going mostly accurate, but with enough leeway to actually make it fun, which is very much possible (I've played several games that have done it). And it isn't a full-on MMO, it's more of an instanced persistent set of servers, so griefing is unlikely to be an issue, and even if it is a "ghost town" you can still play the single-player story without caring. Besides, a game like this, the players themselves will be able to band together to shut down griefers, which is itself pretty awesome.
Not really. The kickstarted is currently trending towards 1.6 million alone, about double what it is now. Getting 5-6$ million is impossible, I'd expect them to hit around $4m based on the usual patterns for these games. If it trends like Project Eternity did, it'll hit around $5.5m, but that would take a large last minute rush... which an announcement of Linux support might do.
Yes? Why not? The loss of those mice sets back some research half a decade. That might mean 5 years when we could have saved people from cancer, which means a lot more deaths than Sandy caused directly. Maybe. Or maybe not. It's still relevant.
You can encrypt cloud storage as well. You should, in fact, if the data is even moderately private.
Does this mean that all of those copyrighted works I am hosting "in the cloud" are no longer the property of their respected copyright holders? I can see this being argued in all sorts of funny ways.
No no, see, because those rights holders have lots of very expensive lawyers on retainer. Do you? Thought not.
It says the first sentence of what the OP says, but not the second, which is false: the jamming issue was solved by re-arranging the keys, not by slowing down typists, in fact the arrangement allowed faster typing. So it doesn't say exactly what the OP said.
I have. There was a wolf in it, it ate the little boy.
Crying wolf a bit too early doesn't mean there's no wolf out there.
Right. So if you want to convince people of that fact, stop making claims you either a) can't back up, or b) simply aren't true (i.e. don't try to claim that weather=climate if and only if it supports your position, which both sides do all the time). Is the Earth getting warmer? Yes. Is human activity aiding that process? Yes. Is Sandy the result of human activity? We have no idea. Statistics doesn't work like that, you can't predict individual events. And global warming (all weather and climate, for that matter) is purely statistics. So stop attributing individual events to global warming (or "climate change", which I believe is the current trendy term for it).
It's one thing to do that. It's totally another to try to file a trademark suit against someone who already existed and has been using the mark for years before you. That isn't just intentional ignorance, that's deliberate dickishness. The correct practice is to use a different name in that region. Other very major companies do exactly that (I forget which, but at least one major chain store goes by a different name in one state due to this exact issue), but Apple doesn't want to follow the rules.
It's a good thing that they demand this of Microsoft. I mean, without setting this precedent, how else could we be offered the chance to freely and without jumping over hurdles obtain Firefox (or Chrome, for that matter) on our iPhones?
The iPhone is, in the US at least, at ~33% market share. Come back when they have a 80-90% and I (and the regulators) might start listening.
Why would anyone in their right mind place generators and tanks below ground where flooding would be an issue?
Lets see how you feel with a few thousand gallons of highly flammable liquid suspended above your head, in a building with lots of electricity running through it, where an earthquake is more likely than flooding in the basement. And that is ignoring the possibility of deliberate sabotage. A building with fuel stored above ground level where something went wrong would turn rather quickly into a giant pillar of flame. If one of the tanks gets ruptured, all it takes is a single spark to kill hundreds or thousands.
Below ground, however, fire-fighters can deal with it relatively easily, and the flames won't descend to engulf the entire building in a matter of a few minutes.
After reading the article, I really think that SurfCast is right in suing Microsoft. It seems to be the same thing and it's a novel way of doing things.
It doesn't even matter how valid the patent is, really (although given it is software and... well, a tile display is not novel no matter how you dress it up), what really makes a troll a troll is that they have no products. Surfcast has none, and from what I understand, never did. Therefore, they are patent trolls.
And consider yourself fortunate. In my country, it's three strikes, and it's enshrined in law thanks to your fucking government.
No, it's enshrined in law thanks to your government. Presuming you live in anything like a democracy, it's your (and your compatriots) fault you elected a government that bows down to another government, if in fact that is what happened. Much more likely is that they bowed down to the corporations directly, of course, likely a local branch, possibly even, completely unconnected to "his" government, such as BREIN.
On a side note, why do you presume to know what government he lives under? Non-US citizens bitch about Slashdot assuming their readers live in the US, and yet it seems even the non-US readers do so. Interesting, that (or maybe you know the OP lives in the US from another source, in which case ignore this paragraph).
If a 3.8% advantage is "massive", what words do you reserve for things that have advantages/improvements on the order of 50%+?
That's 3.8% after Valve improved the OpenGL version using what they'd learned from Linux. It's 20% going from DirectX Windows to OpenGL Linux. That's pretty close to massive, considering the vast amounts of work and money MS has poured into developing DirectX and Windows in general.