True but you SHOULD copyright it, if just to be able to prove that you DID write it. Even poor man's copyright (seal in envelope, mail to yourself certified mail, never open envelope) works for this, but you need to do at least something so you're able to prove legally that you wrote it.
I'm not a developer per se, I'm rather on the techie/admin/etc. side of the computer fence. Either way, I had previously reconfigured the whole thing from clean CMOS about 3 times before when I initially got it up and running, could've done it better and faster than the guy who was here. However by the time I wandered back around and figured out what he was doing (I had been watchin cartoon network, I figured if he screwed it up too bad I could come back and fix it) he was already well into reconfiguring and totally ignored me anyway. And I gathered it would be smart to let him do it if he wanted - that way if ANYTHING goes wrong, it's totally 100% their fault and they'll be fixin it and/or I'll be gettin money back:)
damn I'm tired...someone remind me not to stay up this late...tends to make you see things like my angry wife over there...oh wait she's real...oh shit...
I was using Qwest for DSL in Minnesota when I signed up, back in June of last year. I did this because the other ISP was VERY vaguely documented (even on their own web site) and Qwest ppl sort of seemed to know nothing about how to do it. Which goes along with the discussion below here, about how most DSL/cable customers really DON'T know what's best for them, just take what's offered right away and leave it at that.
Anyway back with the story, THE day I found out about the whole Qworst/MSN deal, I called their customer service and DEMANDED to be switched, which got me some verbal equivalent of blank stares and a number of supervisor conferences (while I was nicely put on hold, of course). That was scheduled to take 3 days, go down one day and be back up by the next morning.
Well I went down and didn't come back up...not the next day...or the next...after 3 days of this I called Qwest and my new ISP and asked what the hell was wrong. Qwest replied that everything was looking great on their end and all was perfect, while my new ISP said they couldn't see me at all. I had DSL carrier signal but no traffic at all. I called Qwest back and told them things were NOT perfect and fix it dammit! Anyway to make a long story short (too late) the ISP and Qwest went back and forth for ANOTHER week and finally Qwest sent a tech out...who promptly discovered (after about an hour of phone calls) that nobody had bothered to check my modem config and realized that Qwest used PPP and the new ISP used bridging to ATM. 2 1/2 more hours on the phone allows this guy to reconfigure the modem by HAND and things start working again. By now he's been on overtime 1 1/2 hours and doesn't want to see me ever again;)
Moral of the story: Choose the local ISP first. Since I moved there I've been extremely happy with their service, support, and uptime. Actually better than qworst's uptime by a long shot. Still not up to the quality I had from Speakeasy when I was on them in Boston but hey, these guys are local.
Hate to burst your bubble but in my experience, the programmers with the degrees are FAR worse at programming for at the very least the first 5-7 years of their employment. After that the ones who are truly interested in programming and computers get enough experience to catch up with the true enthusiasts who code as their hobby and profession. I'm not saying that all CS majors are just in it for the money, but it seems that a lot of them are. I've lost count of the number of degreed programmers I've worked with who could ONLY write in C++ and VB and considered themselves hot stuff. The saddest thing I think I ever saw was the day the Anna Kournikova worm hit us. The company I was at at the time had 30 people open it. TWENTY ONE of these ppl were programmers!!! They all said they opened it because they wanted to see what it would do, not realizing that, oh wait, this is code I've never seen before, maybe I should at least open it up and read it before running it. And this company paid very good money for their programmers too, so it's not like they had the bottom of the barrel. But SO many professional programmers out there today have intensely narrow CS degrees in which they were taught C++, VC++, VB, and some Java only. The ones that are truly interested in computers already know half of it before they start the program anyway AND go and learn other languages for the simple sake of knowing more.
Anyway that's my experience, flame me if you want =)
Point taken, however you're missing some critical pieces of info in your argument.
The biggest one is that the Win32 API has not changed since it came out with Win95. The system organization and a number of other things have, but that's stayed the same. That's why all the stuff that says "Reuqires Windows 98 or higher" on the box will all still run in Win95. There are a number of applications out there that require NT or 2000, but I believe that's more for organizational/security reasons rather than API incompatability and many of them you CAN get to work on Win95 with a bit of hacking. Linux, however, has had MANY feature changes, evern major revision of the kernel, and therefore supporting new apps on the old version would become increasingly difficult.
The other point is that Microsoft is a HUGE worldwide monolithic monopolistic corporation (not slamming, just using the words that best describe it) and also has great profit margins and INCREDIBLE sales. The amount it would cost them to support old OS'es compared to the profit they make on new sales is fairly insignificant, especially considering that to have a support contract with M$ is prohibitively expensive for any OS they make/have made. Linux is supported and developed by a worldwide loosely knit group of developers and hackers that has constantly shifting membership. Many OSS/Linux projects do make at least some attempt to support multiple kernel revisions/etc. but for many of them the effort would be just way too much, i.e. grokking 10,000 lines of code someone else wrote 3 years ago and didn't comment at all.
Ummmmmm...only one teensy weensy problem with your solution. I know a LOT of Canadians who have moved to the US in order to get a job (including my wife) and I know a lot more IN Canada who would like to do the same. Something about in many fields you'll be either unemployed or working a casual shift job for an average of 7 YEARS before you finally land a permanant, full time position! Sorry, but I'd rather stay here, deal with some annoying politicians, and have a job. Even with the recession here, it's still a lot better than it is in Canada in most areas.
Isn't that a bit like saying "If you are into computers and aren't using [insert favorite OS]"...etc or "If you are into programming and don't use [insert Vi or EMACS or whatever crap you use]"...you get the picture.
The issue is whether or not those who use only OSS can find software with which they can do pro audio editing.
No, the issue is that all of the hardware is already purchased for PC's and the studio is a heavily Windows studio. To switch to Mac would be a HUGE outlay of cash, something that almost no studios want to get into. However, to switch to Linux would only take getting some cd's and a little time (probably not much more time altogether than putting in a whole new Mac system).
SoundForge is used at many of the top studios around and has what are generally considered the ABSOLUTE best noise reduction, hiss remove, etc. plugins. You must be thinking of SoundForge XP, the cheap little home version that sux rocks when even compared to stuff like GoldWave.
But none of this answers the actual question. Can you successfully run SoundForge in WINE, say with a digital audio card with native Linux ALSA drivers (there have been several mentioned in this story) and have the sound come out correctly?
The economy has nothing to do with it. The recording studio side of the business is busier than it's ever been before and they're burning cd's as fast as they can fill the burner towers. And no, actually he just doesn't like Macs proprietary-ness (at least from what I know). However, your point about tossing perfectly good hardware is well put. Most of the pc equipment IS fairly new. He's just getting tired of Windoze crashing and instability and M$ crap, etc.
If we take on the tactics of our attackers all we will do is feed the cycle of violence and hatred -- leading only to more death and destruction.
What was the original quote? Something like "When you adopt the dishonorable tactics of your enemy, you become one with them." You may differ as to motivation and ideals, but the result remains the same. Sinking down to their level might be easy, as a downward slope always is; rising back up to resume your former place is next to impossible.
Break the circle. Stop violence against (innocent) civilians.
Well put. To say "stop violence against all civilians" may be too hasty. An army wages war against an opposing army. However, all too often there is a grey line between soldier and civilian. Look to the things that went on in Vietnam. The US Army waged war against the North Vietnam army but all too often the civilians would be aiding the army, either spying or planting explosives. With this kind of activity going on, it becomes increasingly difficult to sort out the true civilians from those who are aiding or involved with the military.
Let us all pray that we are able to rise above this and show the world and those who would wish us ill that we will not be taught to fear. Reprisal, as you said, needs to be strong and swift, yet we must temper our actions with wisdom and control.
Sorry, that's all I can think of to write right now.
I heartily agree - the article is long on how to interconnect everything around you but short on how to actually GET to the net to use all that insane bandwidth. You'll have insane bandwidth to your neighbor but probably nothing going out. If you connect to the phone company, they'll probably charge you the equivalent of a T-1 line. If you connect to your office or school, you're illegally stealing bandwidth, which is something I don't think very many people want to get into long term, especially if you're opening an ISP. Word would get around pretty darn fast and people would definitely be checking you out. What it DOES seem he is proposing in the article is something like an alternate internet. The phrase
What if everyone got a dry pair, made an Internet connection, then offered wireless service to their neighbors. It's a beautiful thing.
seems to imply that, instead of connecting to the existing net, why don't we make our own? Which would be cool except that not 1/10000% of the people have the needed expertise, money, or even desire to do such a thing.
I agree with the general analogy, however you've missed one crucial point here. Your point is well made that the GNU project had the compiler, assembler, linker, C library, shell, etc but not a kernel. However, we've been waiting what, 10 years now for the kernel? I believe that credit is due in the appropriate places. With that said, Linus took the aforementioned tools and put the Linux kernel and several other important pieces (a good number of which were custom written) and produced an OS with it, which somewhat unwittingly spawned a world community and became at least the public spearhead of Open Source/Free Software/Whatever The Hell You Call It. The GNU project STILL has yet to produce a fully functional operating system of its own. In fact, if you go to the software list on www.gnu.org and look, the HURD isn't even listed in the list of GNU software packages. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to flame or knock anybody. Like I said, credit where credit is deserved. The GNU project has produced some really great stuff, used VERY widely on Linux (bite me you name nazis), Sun, BSD, HP/UX, even Windoze (I know a lot of NT sysadmins who use some GNU tools in their jobs). The Linux community has taken pieces of different GNU projects and put it together with a kernel and other stuff into a high quality, stable operating system. They all deserve credit, as well as all the people who don't fall under either community and just write code. So get off your damn high horse and get your ass down here in the mud with the rest of us. =D
Thank you, that's a MUCH better analogy than the one supplied earlier. As all of us realize this is and will be a fairly highly charged issue among the GNU/Linux/Open Source/Free Beer/Alcoholic Programmers Anonymous community, it's very nice to see some actual intelligent discourse on here:)
Quite coincidentally, that's exactly what my OTHER post to this topic said, in response to a comment much the same as the one preceding yours;) We need more ppl around like us who actually READ the article:P
This is actually rather old news. It was featured in an article in the Jan 2000 issue of Discover Magazine. The article had everything the Chicago Trib says and a LOT more details as to how it's done.
Actually you're both right. For instance, in the Rochester, MN area the only choice for DSL is Qwest and the only choices for ISP are qwest.net and a single other ISP. Covad I believe has tried to move into this area but had no luck, even though I know the demand is there. Anyway just my $.02 for the record. I hate telcos...
GODDAMIT I just got Qwest DSL installed a few weeks ago because it's the only broadband other than Cable in the area. Qwest doesn't want to work with other DSL companies and keep the pie all to themselves. And getting cable broadband sux because then you have to be on their digital cable and get the goddamn converter box that will only let you record on a single channel unless you're there to manually change it. This sux ASS! There goes my $200 for a DSL modem down the drain...could've spent it on that damn cd burner I want instead:( *sigh* Corporate America reams me up the ass once again...
*sigh* You've definitely come to the right place to find sympathy about THAT particular type of problem. The public schools, even today after technology is pervasive and it's generally known that kids are MUCH better at computers than most adults, you still end up with all the teachers (adults) assuming the kids are stupid and such. Case in point, one of the worst ones was our old computer lab "admin", although in those days administration was something done by a secretary. I think he was just "the guy who runs the computer labs". He, like so many other teachers, spent a lot of time and learned the first batch of computers pretty well (Apple IIe's for us) and then never moved on. That's where their skills died and still are to this day. Even when they brought in a lab of Macintoshes (wow they had real sound and graphics - amazing!) he almost didn't bother with them. Every maintainence that was done was by an Apple tech, which was pretty often since they were treated like IIe's:(
The real problems came when they were getting computers decent enough for people to DO things with them. This led to kids like me and several friends of mine MUDding and other such tripe (ahh the glory days...when you could lag for 4 minutes and it was considered "normal"):P The reaction by the adults, who didn't understand what it was that we were doing and didn't WANT to, was to put on "security software" which basically hid the desktop. Well you can imagine how long THAT was effective. Then someone got smart (sort of) and decided to form a tech team of students to hep with the computers. Problem is, all of us geeks were now labeled as troublemakers and they didn't even allow us to take the "test" to get on the tech team. It was quite funny because I'm pretty sure they were worried we would show how really little they knew about what they were talking about, right after they got done convincing the schoolboard that they're extremely knowledgeable.
And then we had a kid send a joke email threat letter to the president and all hell broke loose;) Anyway that's my semi-amusing anecdote/rant for this week! Tune in next week for the same dose of crap!
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and of course the worst part of the movie.. no one cast a 'fire3' spell dammit!:)
Nah...I was waiting for either Ultima or Knights OF The Round.;) Although to me the biggest downfall: NO CHOCOBOS! I was heartbroken:~(
I'll put in my two bits for LiveLink as well. We're just rolling out where I work but already people are loving it. Our Documents and Publishing department no longer has to worry about multiple versions or not knowing who's in the locked file or any of other large numbers of problems they have. It's been an absolute godsend to them. Now here in support we're starting to use it for all of our documentation so we can track what changes were made to what documents when and by who, so if someone puts in something stupid we can string them up by their b@lls:) It's pricey but a great product =)
What can I say? No matter which side of the argument you're on, it's pretty obvious (at least IMHO) that RAMBUS has brought this upon themselves. With their constant legal harrassment of the Dramurai and rather unholy licensing agreements with Intel supposedly aimed at reducing their competition to nothing through technology royalties, it's not a big shock. I really do hope this can be resolved reasonably but I have a feeling that RAMBUS will fight with the ferocity that tasmanian devils and Microsoft lawyers are traditionally known for. I hope they choke on it their own paperwork...
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True but you SHOULD copyright it, if just to be able to prove that you DID write it. Even poor man's copyright (seal in envelope, mail to yourself certified mail, never open envelope) works for this, but you need to do at least something so you're able to prove legally that you wrote it.
I'm not a developer per se, I'm rather on the techie/admin/etc. side of the computer fence. Either way, I had previously reconfigured the whole thing from clean CMOS about 3 times before when I initially got it up and running, could've done it better and faster than the guy who was here. However by the time I wandered back around and figured out what he was doing (I had been watchin cartoon network, I figured if he screwed it up too bad I could come back and fix it) he was already well into reconfiguring and totally ignored me anyway. And I gathered it would be smart to let him do it if he wanted - that way if ANYTHING goes wrong, it's totally 100% their fault and they'll be fixin it and/or I'll be gettin money back :)
damn I'm tired...someone remind me not to stay up this late...tends to make you see things like my angry wife over there...oh wait she's real...oh shit...
I was using Qwest for DSL in Minnesota when I signed up, back in June of last year. I did this because the other ISP was VERY vaguely documented (even on their own web site) and Qwest ppl sort of seemed to know nothing about how to do it. Which goes along with the discussion below here, about how most DSL/cable customers really DON'T know what's best for them, just take what's offered right away and leave it at that.
;)
:)
Anyway back with the story, THE day I found out about the whole Qworst/MSN deal, I called their customer service and DEMANDED to be switched, which got me some verbal equivalent of blank stares and a number of supervisor conferences (while I was nicely put on hold, of course). That was scheduled to take 3 days, go down one day and be back up by the next morning.
Well I went down and didn't come back up...not the next day...or the next...after 3 days of this I called Qwest and my new ISP and asked what the hell was wrong. Qwest replied that everything was looking great on their end and all was perfect, while my new ISP said they couldn't see me at all. I had DSL carrier signal but no traffic at all. I called Qwest back and told them things were NOT perfect and fix it dammit! Anyway to make a long story short (too late) the ISP and Qwest went back and forth for ANOTHER week and finally Qwest sent a tech out...who promptly discovered (after about an hour of phone calls) that nobody had bothered to check my modem config and realized that Qwest used PPP and the new ISP used bridging to ATM. 2 1/2 more hours on the phone allows this guy to reconfigure the modem by HAND and things start working again. By now he's been on overtime 1 1/2 hours and doesn't want to see me ever again
Moral of the story: Choose the local ISP first. Since I moved there I've been extremely happy with their service, support, and uptime. Actually better than qworst's uptime by a long shot. Still not up to the quality I had from Speakeasy when I was on them in Boston but hey, these guys are local.
Anyway that's my story
Hate to burst your bubble but in my experience, the programmers with the degrees are FAR worse at programming for at the very least the first 5-7 years of their employment. After that the ones who are truly interested in programming and computers get enough experience to catch up with the true enthusiasts who code as their hobby and profession. I'm not saying that all CS majors are just in it for the money, but it seems that a lot of them are. I've lost count of the number of degreed programmers I've worked with who could ONLY write in C++ and VB and considered themselves hot stuff. The saddest thing I think I ever saw was the day the Anna Kournikova worm hit us. The company I was at at the time had 30 people open it. TWENTY ONE of these ppl were programmers!!! They all said they opened it because they wanted to see what it would do, not realizing that, oh wait, this is code I've never seen before, maybe I should at least open it up and read it before running it. And this company paid very good money for their programmers too, so it's not like they had the bottom of the barrel. But SO many professional programmers out there today have intensely narrow CS degrees in which they were taught C++, VC++, VB, and some Java only. The ones that are truly interested in computers already know half of it before they start the program anyway AND go and learn other languages for the simple sake of knowing more.
Anyway that's my experience, flame me if you want =)
Point taken, however you're missing some critical pieces of info in your argument.
The biggest one is that the Win32 API has not changed since it came out with Win95. The system organization and a number of other things have, but that's stayed the same. That's why all the stuff that says "Reuqires Windows 98 or higher" on the box will all still run in Win95. There are a number of applications out there that require NT or 2000, but I believe that's more for organizational/security reasons rather than API incompatability and many of them you CAN get to work on Win95 with a bit of hacking. Linux, however, has had MANY feature changes, evern major revision of the kernel, and therefore supporting new apps on the old version would become increasingly difficult.
The other point is that Microsoft is a HUGE worldwide monolithic monopolistic corporation (not slamming, just using the words that best describe it) and also has great profit margins and INCREDIBLE sales. The amount it would cost them to support old OS'es compared to the profit they make on new sales is fairly insignificant, especially considering that to have a support contract with M$ is prohibitively expensive for any OS they make/have made. Linux is supported and developed by a worldwide loosely knit group of developers and hackers that has constantly shifting membership. Many OSS/Linux projects do make at least some attempt to support multiple kernel revisions/etc. but for many of them the effort would be just way too much, i.e. grokking 10,000 lines of code someone else wrote 3 years ago and didn't comment at all.
Ummmmmm...only one teensy weensy problem with your solution. I know a LOT of Canadians who have moved to the US in order to get a job (including my wife) and I know a lot more IN Canada who would like to do the same. Something about in many fields you'll be either unemployed or working a casual shift job for an average of 7 YEARS before you finally land a permanant, full time position! Sorry, but I'd rather stay here, deal with some annoying politicians, and have a job. Even with the recession here, it's still a lot better than it is in Canada in most areas.
Isn't that a bit like saying "If you are into computers and aren't using [insert favorite OS]"...etc or "If you are into programming and don't use [insert Vi or EMACS or whatever crap you use]"...you get the picture.
SoundForge is used at many of the top studios around and has what are generally considered the ABSOLUTE best noise reduction, hiss remove, etc. plugins. You must be thinking of SoundForge XP, the cheap little home version that sux rocks when even compared to stuff like GoldWave.
But none of this answers the actual question. Can you successfully run SoundForge in WINE, say with a digital audio card with native Linux ALSA drivers (there have been several mentioned in this story) and have the sound come out correctly?
I was waiting for someone to say that! (btw I fixed your typo)
The economy has nothing to do with it. The recording studio side of the business is busier than it's ever been before and they're burning cd's as fast as they can fill the burner towers. And no, actually he just doesn't like Macs proprietary-ness (at least from what I know). However, your point about tossing perfectly good hardware is well put. Most of the pc equipment IS fairly new. He's just getting tired of Windoze crashing and instability and M$ crap, etc.
Let us all pray that we are able to rise above this and show the world and those who would wish us ill that we will not be taught to fear. Reprisal, as you said, needs to be strong and swift, yet we must temper our actions with wisdom and control.
Sorry, that's all I can think of to write right now.
I agree with the general analogy, however you've missed one crucial point here. Your point is well made that the GNU project had the compiler, assembler, linker, C library, shell, etc but not a kernel. However, we've been waiting what, 10 years now for the kernel? I believe that credit is due in the appropriate places. With that said, Linus took the aforementioned tools and put the Linux kernel and several other important pieces (a good number of which were custom written) and produced an OS with it, which somewhat unwittingly spawned a world community and became at least the public spearhead of Open Source/Free Software/Whatever The Hell You Call It. The GNU project STILL has yet to produce a fully functional operating system of its own. In fact, if you go to the software list on www.gnu.org and look, the HURD isn't even listed in the list of GNU software packages. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to flame or knock anybody. Like I said, credit where credit is deserved. The GNU project has produced some really great stuff, used VERY widely on Linux (bite me you name nazis), Sun, BSD, HP/UX, even Windoze (I know a lot of NT sysadmins who use some GNU tools in their jobs). The Linux community has taken pieces of different GNU projects and put it together with a kernel and other stuff into a high quality, stable operating system. They all deserve credit, as well as all the people who don't fall under either community and just write code. So get off your damn high horse and get your ass down here in the mud with the rest of us. =D
Thank you, that's a MUCH better analogy than the one supplied earlier. As all of us realize this is and will be a fairly highly charged issue among the GNU/Linux/Open Source/Free Beer/Alcoholic Programmers Anonymous community, it's very nice to see some actual intelligent discourse on here :)
Quite coincidentally, that's exactly what my OTHER post to this topic said, in response to a comment much the same as the one preceding yours ;) We need more ppl around like us who actually READ the article :P
Fyi the article I linked to is an abridged web version. Get the hard copy for the whole thing.
That's not real Damascus steel. Please see comment #131 for the explanation.
This is actually rather old news. It was featured in an article in the Jan 2000 issue of Discover Magazine. The article had everything the Chicago Trib says and a LOT more details as to how it's done.
Actually you're both right. For instance, in the Rochester, MN area the only choice for DSL is Qwest and the only choices for ISP are qwest.net and a single other ISP. Covad I believe has tried to move into this area but had no luck, even though I know the demand is there. Anyway just my $.02 for the record. I hate telcos...
GODDAMIT I just got Qwest DSL installed a few weeks ago because it's the only broadband other than Cable in the area. Qwest doesn't want to work with other DSL companies and keep the pie all to themselves. And getting cable broadband sux because then you have to be on their digital cable and get the goddamn converter box that will only let you record on a single channel unless you're there to manually change it. This sux ASS! There goes my $200 for a DSL modem down the drain...could've spent it on that damn cd burner I want instead :( *sigh* Corporate America reams me up the ass once again...
*sigh* You've definitely come to the right place to find sympathy about THAT particular type of problem. The public schools, even today after technology is pervasive and it's generally known that kids are MUCH better at computers than most adults, you still end up with all the teachers (adults) assuming the kids are stupid and such. Case in point, one of the worst ones was our old computer lab "admin", although in those days administration was something done by a secretary. I think he was just "the guy who runs the computer labs". He, like so many other teachers, spent a lot of time and learned the first batch of computers pretty well (Apple IIe's for us) and then never moved on. That's where their skills died and still are to this day. Even when they brought in a lab of Macintoshes (wow they had real sound and graphics - amazing!) he almost didn't bother with them. Every maintainence that was done was by an Apple tech, which was pretty often since they were treated like IIe's :(
:P The reaction by the adults, who didn't understand what it was that we were doing and didn't WANT to, was to put on "security software" which basically hid the desktop. Well you can imagine how long THAT was effective. Then someone got smart (sort of) and decided to form a tech team of students to hep with the computers. Problem is, all of us geeks were now labeled as troublemakers and they didn't even allow us to take the "test" to get on the tech team. It was quite funny because I'm pretty sure they were worried we would show how really little they knew about what they were talking about, right after they got done convincing the schoolboard that they're extremely knowledgeable.
;)
The real problems came when they were getting computers decent enough for people to DO things with them. This led to kids like me and several friends of mine MUDding and other such tripe (ahh the glory days...when you could lag for 4 minutes and it was considered "normal")
And then we had a kid send a joke email threat letter to the president and all hell broke loose
Anyway that's my semi-amusing anecdote/rant for this week! Tune in next week for the same dose of crap!
I'll put in my two bits for LiveLink as well. We're just rolling out where I work but already people are loving it. Our Documents and Publishing department no longer has to worry about multiple versions or not knowing who's in the locked file or any of other large numbers of problems they have. It's been an absolute godsend to them. Now here in support we're starting to use it for all of our documentation so we can track what changes were made to what documents when and by who, so if someone puts in something stupid we can string them up by their b@lls :) It's pricey but a great product =)
What can I say? No matter which side of the argument you're on, it's pretty obvious (at least IMHO) that RAMBUS has brought this upon themselves. With their constant legal harrassment of the Dramurai and rather unholy licensing agreements with Intel supposedly aimed at reducing their competition to nothing through technology royalties, it's not a big shock. I really do hope this can be resolved reasonably but I have a feeling that RAMBUS will fight with the ferocity that tasmanian devils and Microsoft lawyers are traditionally known for. I hope they choke on it their own paperwork...